features5 cars. 12 Yale grads. 10,000 miles to Ulaanbaatar.After Yale, and before the rest of your life, sometimes you need an adventure. featuresCountering false narrativesIn this year’s Freshman Address, President Peter Salovey ’86PhD urges each new student to “become a more careful and critical thinker.” featuresHappy birthday to usThe Yale Alumni Magazine celebrates 125 years of keeping alumni connected. From the EditorYale’s first black studentHe wasn’t allowed to speak in the classroom. Now there’s a classroom named for him. Letters to the EditorReaders weigh in on the First Amendment, Yale’s mission, and more
Where They Are NowDoctoring in a different cultureDamon Tweedy ’03JD talks about race-related health disparities—and his own experience as an African American physician. Scene on CampusBeinecke is backAfter a year of renovations, the rare book and manuscript library looks . . . awfully familiar. Old YaleA firebrand from the Class of 1778Abraham Bishop was a noisy Republican in a Federalist state—and an early advocate for women and African Americans. Sporting LifeYale hoops star explores his European rootsMakai Mason ’18 spent the summer trying out for the German national team. Last LookAmazing GraceA theater piece by Carrie Mae Weems explores the current cultural moment in America’s racial history. |