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"Light & Verity” The Yale community had a rare brush with a tropical storm this fall as Hurricane Gloria swept up the East Coast on September 27, downing power, telephone, and traffic lines, toppling trees, and strewing glass and debris in its wake. Perhaps most distressing to Yale football fans was the cancellation of the Yale-UConn game. The athletic fields were relatively unscathed by the storm, but the decision to call off the game was made in the interest of public safety. This is the first time in more than 35 years that a game has been cancelled.
"Ethnic Cafes Nourish the Student Body” A “Kosher Kitchen,” launched 15 years ago by Orthodox Jewish students, has recently become so popular that its membership has necessarily been restricted to the 55 undergraduate and graduate students who must eat Kosher food because of their religious beliefs. “This is more than a place to eat,” explained Ira Gewolb '72, a Yale medical student and former president of the Kitchen. “It’s become a close-knit community. We spend a lot of time here between meals, just socializing and noshing.”
“’Neath the Elms” The next step in the University’s spring tidying up was the establishment of a student accident insurance plan, effective next fall. At a cost of $13 per man, the policy includes reimbursement of medical, infirmary, and hospital bills up to a maximum of $500 for any one accident during a twelve-month period, with no limitations as to the number of claims for separate accidents. Rumor has it that, as a result of this plan, there is a movement afoot to reestablish water polo.
"Eventually—Why Not Now?” A general education in the old form will no longer do. The War has changed all this. We think and talk in terms of admittedly utilitarian emergency. We don’t want to know how cultivated a given youth in college is; we want to know how well equipped he is going to be to do his share in the Army or Navy. We are going to need to study new things, particularly man’s environment today. We are going to need to know a lot about geology and geography, sociology, science, contemporary history, modern languages, and the science of government. We shall want to fuse our college courses with our afterlives.
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