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March 2002
Volume 65, Number 5

Feature stories:

A New Dean Takes the Stage
by Peter Hawes
The School of Drama and its Repertory Theatre have been the training ground for some of the nation’s premier practitioners of the dramatic arts. Its newest leader is James Bundy, a 1995 Drama School graduate with lengthy family ties to Yale, a long artistic career, and a vision for keeping theater at center stage.

Degree of Commitment
by Mark Alden Branch ’86
You’ll rarely find these undergraduates in common rooms or dining halls,but the handful of “degree special students” admitted to Yale each year bring fresh perspectives on life into the classroom.

Business With a Twist
by Bruce Fellman
When international banker and statesman Jeffrey Garten took command at the beleaguered School of Management in 1996, there were doubts about its viability. As he begins his second term as dean, SOM’s simultaneously humanistic and hard-edged approach to business seems made for these times. The rankings agree.

Letters

Light & Verity
+  a fresh start for labor talks
+  globalization guru moves on
+  the race for alumni fellow

Faces
Cyrus Vance recalled; Sopranos shrink; a contrarian on gender.

From the Archives

In Print
September 11 analysis; coming home; the Zen of parking.

Calendar
A century of collage; avarice on-stage; Brahms, mostly.

News from Alumni House

Details
Equal rights laws for disabled students have brought new challenges to Yale.

Inside the Blue Book
An anthropological look at our favorite things.

Old Yale
After WWI, Yale played a role in forging the peace.

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