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March/April 2004
Volume 67, Number 4

Feature stories:

Crisis of Conscience
by Warren Goldstein ’73, ’83PhD
William Sloane Coffin Jr., pastor and protester, turned Yale into a center of resistance to the Vietnam War. Most remarkable of all was that the university let him do it.

The Belly of the Beast
by Jennifer Kaylin
Don’t blame Americans for being fat. Blame the American Dream. We’ve built our land of milk and honey, and now, says a controversial Yale psychologist, it’s doing us in.

An Engineer for the Avant-Garde
by David Case
Natalie Jeremijenko makes robotic dogs, remote-controlled geese,genetically identical trees—and social commentary. It’s art, all right. But is it engineering?

from the editor

letters
The Law School and the military; the magazine’s new look.

light & verity
+  a typeface called Yale
+  Catholic center looks for elbow room
+  visa troubles for international students
+  what’s YTV?

milestones

A CEO takes a turn as VP; Robert Arnstein remembered.

scene on campus

Russian invasion at the Yale Rep.

q&a: rick levin
The president on U.S. intelligence.

forum
Environment school dean Gus Speth assesses the planet.

findings
Sweat and skeeters; why faith matters.

arts & culture
Harold Bloom on The Waste Land; spoofing Scientology; new song for Woolsey’s organ; people-eaters.

where they are now
Ming Tsai ’86 on East-West cuisine.

sporting life
Women’s squash beats the best; men’s basketball struggles to find a groove.

news from alumni house

old yale
When Yale went to the fair.

last look

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