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Back Issues 1992–2012

	Nov/Dec 2012 Vol. 76, No. 2		Exit Rick Levin, Smiling Working vacation in Ghana A bipolar novelist makes art from her life Freshman Address

	Sept/Oct 2012 Vol. 76, No. 1		Jon Stewart’s right-hand man Bart Giamatti’s classic baseball essay The first seven women with Yale PhDs A guide to student fashion

	July/August 2012 Vol. 75, No. 6		The Cass I’ll Never Forget Cutler’s record store says goodbye The highly unlikely opera company Commencement 2012

	May/June 2012 Vol. 75, No. 5		Rap. Unwrapped. Trial by fire in a Shakespeare sonnet slam God and White Men at Yale

	Mar/Apr 2012 Vol. 75, No. 4		Eden at Yale: Marsh Botanical Garden Quarterback Patrick Witt ’12 and the Rhodes Scholarship Accidential advice columnist Philip Galanes ’84, ’91JD

	Jan/Feb 2012 Vol. 75, No. 3		Taligating: the problems & the pleasures Thornton Wilder’s essay about Yale A Blue-themed crossword puzzle Midcentury design: the making of modern

	Nov/Dec 2011 Vol. 75, No. 2		The Bird-Filled World of Richard Prum Did Louis’ Lunch invent the hamburger? How tailgating began A playwright finds sobriety and a (very) different career

	Sept/Oct 2011 Vol. 75, No. 1		Cold Case: Dinosaur Edition Yale’s Civil War memorial How the US can get more bang for its health-care buck

	July/Aug 2011 Vol. 74, No. 6		Is Yale a “hostile environment” for women? A brief history of free speech at Yale A doctor whose patient is the health care system

	May/June 2011 Vol. 74, No. 5		Mortality & the Black Yale Man Buddhism & the Bhutanese Forests The Annual Lumberjack Mustache Contest

	March/April 2011 Vol. 74, No. 4		Holy Eli, Batman! Power Balance bracelets Yale’s architectural archives

	Jan/Feb 2011 Vol. 74, No. 3		The Brain Cutter How I Stole a Yale Chair Anonymous Was a Woman The 127th Yale-Harvard Game

	Nov/Dec 2010 Vol. 74, No. 2		Singapore Spinoff Mory’s, reincarnated Highs and lows in 200 years of medical education Meet the Class of 2014

	Sept/Oct 2010 Vol. 74, No. 1		The Velázquez in the basement Egyptologists find a lost city in the desert West Campus, Yale’s deal of the century

	July/Aug 2010 Vol. 73, No. 6		Your summer reading assigment from the Yale faculty Master T, professor of mambo Andrew Solomon on the suicide of a friend

	May/June 2010 Vol. 73, No. 5		Politician Tom Perriello ’96, ’01JD Mutant medical mice—now, by mail order “Prose whisperer” Anne Fadiman Senior suites go coed

	March/April 2010 Vol. 73, No. 4		The “artificial pancreas” A soon-to-be-famous playwright Book review: should single women settle?

	Jan/Feb 2010 Vol. 73, No. 3		The passions and privations of the start-up entrepreneur Michael Cunningham on Walt Whitman’s glasses Anne Applebaum on Thucydides The mystery of the missing Tiffany window

	Nov/Dec 2009 Vol. 73, No. 2		Life at Yale during the Great Depression A murder on campus Yale prof wins Nobel The cartoons that shook Yale

	Sept/Oct 2009 Vol. 73, No. 1		They called him “Mr. Bubble” When the college went coed The environment school’s new building How kids can ace reading tests

	July/Aug 2009 Vol. 72, No. 6		Why they call Yale the “Gay Ivy” The Newberry Memorial Organ “America’s worst mom” Our summer reading list

	May/June 2009 Vol. 72, No. 5		Not the New Haven you remember No strike! Yale and unions make a deal Geronimo’s descendants sue Obama, Skull & Bones, and Yale

	March/April 2009 Vol. 72, No. 4		Financial wisdom from David Swensen The author of On Writing Well, William Zinsser This is your brain on estrogen Mory’s closes, for now

	Jan/Feb 2009 Vol. 72, No. 3		God & Tony Blair What Obama should do for the economy Endowment loses $5.9 billion Bin Laden’s “library” comes to Yale

	Nov/Dec 2008 Vol. 72, No. 2		The A&A Building The Yale University Press The Infamous Yale-Harvard Game of ’68

	Sept/Oct 2008 Vol. 72, No. 1		Will Mory’s survive? The missionary & the gorilla GoCrossCampus

	July/Aug 2008 Vol. 71, No. 6		Who wrote the Serenity Prayer? Brek-ek-ek-ex! A grand—but silly—Yale tradition returns What they do on their summer vacations

	May/June 2008 Vol. 71, No. 5		William F. Buckley Jr. and Yale: three views Extreme makeover: the Peabody’s Age of Reptiles mural How Prozac became prosaic

	March/April 2008 Vol. 71, No. 4		The patriarch: Vincent Scully at 87 Lux et privacy: Yale’s campus police force The Doodle dies … or does it? Yale drops its prices

	Jan/Feb 2008 Vol. 71, No. 3		Sociologist Elijah Anderson The Bass Library (R.I.P., CCL) A Brief History of Groupthink The Game (aka The Disaster)

	Nov/Dec 2007 Vol. 71, No. 2		Yale’s Big Green Experiment The real writers of “nattering nabobs” and “axis of evil” Why Yale president Rick Levin drives a Prius

	Sept/Oct 2007 Vol. 71, No. 1		Yale on Stamps Indiana Jones and the Tower of Ivory Political Correctness: A Liberal Speaks Out

	July/Aug 2007 Vol. 70, No. 6		How a handful of doctors found one of the deadliest kinds of TB in the world The Sterling Map Collection The Yale Political Union

	May/June 2007 Vol. 70, No. 5		Yalies Who Rock Revamping the MBA Looking for Lady Jane

	March/April 2007 Vol. 70, No. 4		The Birth of Birth Fictional Yalies Martin Bresnick, a Maestro from the Bronx

	Jan/Feb 2007 Vol. 70, No. 3		The Milgram Experiments Revisited Students and Plagiarism Rebirth of the Art Gallery Why Yale College Will Keep Early Admissions

	Nov/Dec 2006 Vol. 70, No. 2		Yale Divinity School & the Future of Protestantism How to Get Out of Beiruit in a Hurry

	Sept/Oct 2006 Vol. 70, No. 1		Yale Dictionary of Quotations The Rise, Fall, and Rise of New Haven’s Elms The Rediscovery of Architect Eero Saarinen

	July/Aug 2006 Vol. 69, No. 6		The Bulldog and the Panther: May Day 1970 Shakespeare’s Will Extreme Eating: The Doodle Burger Challenge

	May/June 2006 Vol. 69, No. 5		Should Former Taliban Spokesman Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi be at Yale? Did Skull and Bones Rob Geronimo’s Grave?

	March/April 2006 Vol. 69, No. 4		The Baby Gamble: Can Mothers Succeed in Academia? The Central Power Plant Stalking the Killer Mosquito

	Jan/Feb 2006 Vol. 69, No. 3		Yale Under Construction Brundibar at the Yale Rep Man & Myth at Yale: Charles Hill

	Nov/Dec 2005 Vol. 69, No. 2		Half Full and Half Empty: Drinking at Yale Aural History: Yale’s Collection of Early Vocal Recordings Comfort Food: Claire’s Corner Copia

	Sept/Oct 2005 Vol. 69, No. 1		Breaking the Tantrum Cycle: Child Psychologist Alan Kazdin Louise Bryant’s Long-Lost Papers Mission to Guantanamo: Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh

	July/Aug 2005 Vol. 68, No. 6		Yale’s $8 Billion Man: David Swensen Why the Liberal Arts Are Good for Business

	May/June 2005 Vol. 68, No. 5		Gods & Man at Yale The World Fellows Program Campus Clocks

	March/April 2005 Vol. 68, No. 4		John Pepper Wants to Bring Corporate Culture to Yale Are You Charlotte Simmons? William Clark’s Master Map of the Lewis & Clark Expedition

	Jan/Feb 2005 Vol. 68, No. 3		Biomedical Engineer Erin Lavik 35th Anniversary of the Afro-American Cultural Center The Game

	Nov/Dec 2004 Vol. 68, No. 2		Benoit Mandelbrot, the Father of Fractals When Men Were Men and Football Was Brutal Yale & China

	Sept/Oct 2004 Vol. 68, No. 1		The African Art Collection of Charlie Benenson ’33 Why We Hate Midwife Helen Varney Burst ’63MSN

	July/Aug 2004 Vol. 67, No. 6		Fencer Sada Jacobson Lux, Veritas, and Sexual Trespass Linsley Pond, the Place Where Ecology was Born

	May/June 2004 Vol. 67, No. 5		The (Second) Great All-Blue Presidential Race Why a Couple of Yale Professors Advise Eating Bananas Upside Down The Campus During WWII

	March/April 2004 Vol. 67, No. 4		William Sloane Coffin Jr. Obesity & the American Dream Robot Dogs on a Mission

	Jan/Feb 2004 Vol. 67, No. 3		Underground Yale: The Hidden Collections The Quest to Cure Dyslexia What Does an Undergrad Need to Know?

	Nov/Dec 2003 Vol. 67, No. 2		East Timor Genocide How Yale Got its Groove Back David Gelernter vs. Goliath

	Sept/Oct 2003 Vol. 67, No. 1		The Second Coming of the Divinity School Flight to Glory: WWI Gilmore Girls

	Summer 2003 Vol. 66, No. 8		The Books that Made the Writers The Golden Hours of the Romanovs ’68 Reunion at the White House

	May 2003 Vol. 66, No. 7		Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty YUAG Renovation & Expansion The Political Science Department

	April 2003 Vol. 66, No. 6		Larry Kramer Yale Bologna Festival Urban Design Workshop

	March 2003 Vol. 66, No. 5		Studies in Grand Strategy The Medical School’s Congress Avenue Building Deane Keller’s WWII Papers

	February 2003 Vol. 66, No. 4		The 10 Greatest Yalies Who Never Were Astronomy & the End of the World New BAC Director Amy Meyers

	December 2002 Vol. 66, No. 3		Yale Entrepreneurial Society Rediscovering Machu Picchu

	November 2002 Vol. 66, No. 2		Inside Autism Finding Franklin Secrets of the Maya Temple School Days in the West Bank

	October 2002 Vol. 66, No. 1		The Trouble with Frogs The Duke & I Ulysses S. Grant Foundation

	Summer 2002 Vol. 65, No. 8		Making Music Matter Considering Free Speech A Lower Key Commencement

	May 2002 Vol. 65, No. 7		The Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center How ’Bout That Men’s Basketball Team? Charles Lindbergh in New Haven

	April 2002 Vol. 65, No. 6		Review of the University by the Committee on Yale College Education Rebuilding Engineering

	March 2002 Vol. 65, No. 5		New Drama Dean James Bundy School of Management Dean Jeffrey Garten

	February 2002 Vol. 64, No. 4		Leading the Libraries The Slavery Legacy Learning from September 11 by John Lewis Gaddis

	December 2001 Vol. 65, No. 3		A Festive Finale: Yale Tercentennial The Past & Future University by President Levin Gender Matters: Where We Stand

	November 2001 Vol. 65, No. 2		A More Global Yale Belief, Bricks & Beyond: The Yale Divinity School An Alumna on the Mommy Track Thinks About Priorities

	October 2001 Vol. 65, No. 1		America the Beautiful at the YUAG States of a Union: GESO

	Summer 2001 Vol. 64, No. 8		Commencement Gerhard Casper, Eli’s Stanford Man Sticking with China

	May 2001 Vol. 64, No. 7		New Haven: Biotech City? Student Drinking Urban Planner Alexander Garvin

	April 2001 Vol. 64, No. 6		The Gilder Boathouse The Impact of Athletic Excess Paul Mellon’s Personal Best

	Special Tercentennial Edition Vol. 64, No. 5		“Quarrels with Providence” by Lewis Lapham Yale’s Lost Landmarks Distinguished Graduates & Dropouts

	February 2001 Vol. 64, No. 4		Technology & Privacy George W. Bush ’68 by Carter Wiseman ’68 The University’s $70 Million Windfall from an Unorthodox Class Gift

	December 2000 Vol. 64, No. 3		The New Art School Building Yale Egyptologists “The Selectivity Squeeze” by Robert Reich Tercentennial Kickoff

	November 2000 Vol. 64, No. 2		Deciphering the Admissions Map Kurt Schmoke, the Yale Corporation’s First African American Senior Fellow

	October 2000 Vol. 64, No. 1		Sherwin Nuland: A Matter of Life & Death 100 Years of Drama at Yale Who Wrote “Boola Boola”?

	Summer 2000 Vol. 63, No. 8		Framing the Future: The Campus “Un-Plan” Replanting Ecology President Levin on the Internet Revolution

	May 2000 Vol. 63, No. 7		Serious About the Sciences What the Deans Do Early Italian Paintings Lost & Found

	April 2000 Vol. 63, No. 6		Welcome to World Lit Cataloging Creation: Abandoning the Linnean System The Legacy of History Professor C. Vann Woodward

	March 2000 Vol. 63, No. 5		Historian John Lewis Gaddis on the Cold War The Magical Medical Mouse The Persistence of Poetry

	February 2000 Vol. 63, No. 4		All About Attitude: Athletics Under Tom Beckett Going Local: Alumni Careers in the Elm City

	December 1999 Vol. 63, No. 3		How “Inky” Clark & Kingman Brewster Transformed Yale The Birth, Near-Demise, and Comeback of “Bright College Years”

	November 1999 Vol. 63, No. 2		The Circuits of the Future Berkeley College’s $35 Million Renovation No Doctor? No Problem: Nurse Practitioners & Physician Assistants

	October 1999 Vol. 63, No. 1		New Forestry School Dean James Gustave Speth How Historian Gaddis Smith Sees Yale’s Past Levi Jackson ’50: Hometown Hero Countdown to 300

	Summer 1999 Vol. 62, No. 8		A Tribute to Paul Mellon ’29 Afro-Am at 30 GESO

	May 1999 Vol. 62, No. 7		International Adoption New YUAG Director Jock Reynolds Female Professors

	April 1999 Vol. 62, No. 6		The “New” Center for British Art The Mory’s Mystique Some Freshman Perspectives

	March 1999 Vol. 62, No. 5		The Return of Robert A. M. Stern Yale Merchandise

	February 1999 Vol. 62, No. 4		Barnes & Noble, and Mom & Pop How Sterling Professors Get That Way A More Global Yale?

	December 1998 Vol. 62, No. 3		Welcome to Yale, the Restaurant Beyond Women’s Studies

	November 1998 Vol. 62, No. 2		Renovating a Classic Campus The Yale School of Nursing Celebrates its 75th Anniversary A “Thanksgiving jubilee” that ushered in the theater

	October 1998 Vol. 62, No. 1		How Yale Handles Dual-Career Couples Frats are Ba-ack! Linguistics Keeps on Talkin’

	Summer 1998 Vol. 61, No. 8		The Spock Legacy New Vice President Bruce Alexander ’65 The Graduate School’s New Dean, Neurobiologist Susan Hockfield

	May 1998 Vol. 61, No. 7		Stephen Carter on Civility Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute An essay by Prescott Bush ’17

	April 1998 Vol. 61, No. 6		Biomedical Goes Major Squelching Student-Teacher Romance The New Center for Language Study

	March 1998 Vol. 61, No. 5		Yale’s Tallest Tales Charles Ives, Cranky Composer An essay by John Hersey ’36

	February 1998 Vol. 61, No. 4		The School of Medicine & the Healthcare Revolution The A&A Building That Won’t Go Away

	December 1997 Vol. 61, No. 3		Rewired Editor William F. Buckley Jr. ’50 Tackles Teaching The “Improv” Scene The Booking of New Haven (Barnes & Noble vs. Yale Co-op)

	November 1997 Vol. 61, No. 2		How a Course Happens Irish paintings at the Yale Center for British Art Yale College Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg

	October 1997 Vol. 61, No. 1		How Yale raised a whopping $1.7 billion Can Football Coach Jack Siedlecki “Get It Done”? A New Opening to China

	Summer 1997 Vol. 60, No. 8		The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Turns 150 Cellist Inbal Megiddo ’98, ’01MusM, ’02ArtA

	May 1997 Vol. 60, No. 7		Art and the Undergraduate

	April 1997 Vol. 60, No. 6		William Blake paintings at the Yale Center for British Art

	March 1997 Vol. 60, No. 5		The Yale of My Day

	February 1997 Vol. 60, No. 4		International Students The Push for Women’s Health

	December 1996 Vol. 60, No. 3		Campus Politics Making a Comeback

	November 1996 Vol. 60, No. 2		The Changing Face of the Campus Cop Carm Cozza’s Last Call

	October 1996 Vol. 60, No. 1		Arts & the Elm City Putting Teaching To the Test

	Summer 1996 Vol. 59, No. 8		Transcript vs. Potential On Learning to Write Well

	May 1996 Vol. 59, No. 7		The Vinland Map Resolving Psychotherapy’s Identity Crisis

	April 1996 Vol. 59, No. 6		Back to the “Killing Fields” The High Cost of Quality Science

	March 1996 Vol. 59, No. 5		The Future of the Yale Divinity School The Undergraduate Publication Proliferation

	February 1996 Vol. 59, No. 4		Scholarly Athletics SOM: Under New Management

	December 1995 Vol. 59, No. 3		Yale Law School Students in Action Yale Board Games

	November 1995 Vol. 59, No. 2		The Masters’ Touch The New Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life

	October 1995 Vol. 59, No. 1		Collecting From the Heart: Richard Brown Baker ’35 Remembering Musical Master Paul Hindemith

	Summer 1995 Vol. 58, No. 8		Bass, Yale, and Western Civ.

	May 1995 Vol. 58, No. 7		Work, Study, Study, Work

	April 1995 Vol. 58, No. 6		The Emerging Urban University “Things” at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

	March 1995 Vol. 58, No. 5		The Pathways of Pain

	February 1995 Vol. 58, No. 4		The Arts Amid Academe The University’s Five-Year Effort to Raise $1.5 Billion

	December 1994 Vol. 58, No. 3		How the Earth Works Tracking Tenure In the ’90s

	November 1994 Vol. 58, No. 2		The New A. D., Tom Beckett The Rebuilding of Engineering The Residential Colleges vs. Off-Campus Apartments

	October 1994 Vol. 58, No. 1		Finding the First Farmers And the Bands Play On Dimensions of Dying

	Summer 1994 Vol. 57, No. 8		The Changing Face of Affirmative Action Yale Provost Alison Richard

	May 1994 Vol. 57, No. 7		Not the Same Old Summertime Play Ball!

	April 1994 Vol. 57, No. 6		An Anatomy of Multiculturalism Gary Fryer, Yale’s New Office of Public Affairs Director

	March 1994 Vol. 57, No. 5		Physicist Thomas Appelquist, Dean of the Graduate School Behind the Scenes at the Yale University Art Gallery

	February 1994 Vol. 57, No. 4		University Secretary Linda Koch Lorimer ’77JD This Thing Called Love

	December 1993 Vol. 57, No. 3		The New Institute for Biospheric Studies The Attraction of Toad’s Place

	November 1993 Vol. 57, No. 2		How Computers Are Changing Academe Restoring New Haven To Its Former Self

	October 1993 Vol. 57, No. 1		A Life in Writing: John Hersey, 1914–1993 Can Need-Blind Survive?

	Summer 1993 Vol. 56, No. 8		Richard C. Levin, Yale’s 22nd President The Strange Social Life of Swallows

	May 1993 Vol. 56, No. 7		International Studies A New Dean for the College, Richard Brodhead ’68, ’72PhD The Art School’s Impact

	April 1993 Vol. 56, No. 6		What Is It About Yale Law? Mapping “Cultural Studies”

	March 1993 Vol. 56, No. 5		Getting Into Yale Forestry Goes Global

	February 1993 Vol. 56, No. 4		The University and the Unions The Children’s Hospital

	December 1992 Vol. 56, No. 3		The Old West: A New Look Fred Koetter, the New Dean of the School of Architecture

	November 1992 Vol. 56, No. 2		Should the Yale Bowl Be Bulldozed? Cole Porter, Class of 1913

	October 1992 Vol. 56, No. 1		A Century of Women at Yale Probing the Presidency Rev. Frederick Streets, Minister of Change




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