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October 2001
Volume 65, Number 1

Feature stories:

States of a Union
by Bruce Fellman
For the past ten years, a group of graduate students has led a determined movement to create a union. This effort has been strongly opposed by an administration that sees graduate student unionization as anathema. The result is a struggle over values as labor issues and higher education policies collide.

America the Beautiful
by Bruce Fellman
The renovation of the American wing of the Yale University Art Gallery has uncovered a historic building’s architectural past. In addition to offering students and scholars alike an updated way to examine paintings, sculpture, and the decorative arts, the project provides a glimpse of the venerable institution’s future.

Freshman Address
by Richard Levin ’74PhD
The lengthy correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams reveals qualities in the writers that serve as models for the experience the Class of 2005 will find at Yale.

Letters

Light & Verity
+  Yale copes with terrorist tragedy
+  colleges agree on aid
+  slavery and Yale’s past
+  Mother’s accolades for activism
+  a pitcher goes pro

College Comment
When it’s Halloween, Yalies haunt the Symphony.

Faces
A royal shutterbug; Venus shines; Bobby Seale finally sees Yale; rhythm and blues on the Green.

From the Archives

Calendar
British masterpieces; a silversmith for the Colonies.

In Print
Rescue mission; art poems.

Details
Students find a way to learn less-taught languages.

News from Alumni House

Old Yale
The first master of bringing together town and gown.

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