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Summer 1996
Volume 59, Number 8

Feature stories

On Learning to Write Well
by Annie Murphy Paul
Brainy and ambitious as Yale undergraduates may be, many arrive at the College with problems expressing themselves in writing. Computers seem only to be aggravating the situation.

Ethics Amid Ambiguity
by Bruce Fellman
Can a sense of ethics be taught? As courses in the College and the schools of Divinity, Forestry, Law, and Medicine demonstrate, a surprisingly diverse number of faculty members think so.

Two Decades at the Gates
by Annie Murphy Paul
Director of Undergraduate Admissions Margit Dahl argues that while the competition is tougher and the “packaging” ever more intense, the goal remains unchanged.

Class Day and Commencement
by Natasha Hoehn ’96
When labor negotiations between Yale and its unions stalled this spring, the university braced itself for a tumultuous Commencement. The unions demonstrated as threatened, but the academic celebrations went forward without incident. Fresh from receipt of her BA, one of the Yale Alumni Magazine’s departing undergraduate columnists provides a front-row account of the occasion.

Letters

College Comment

Light & Verity
+  another Bass brother contributes $20 million—but for college renovations
+  a new boathouse for the crew
+  golfers clean up
+  progress shows on a downtown hotel
+  engineering sponsors a clash of robots
+  Yale Medals awarded to five Eli stalwarts
+  Jesse Jackson joins the unions’ Commencement protest
+  Co-op scofflaws settle their accounts

In Print

Faces

From the Archives

Calendar

Details

News from Alumni House

Scoreboard

AYA Assembly

Old Yale

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