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Silliman College

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Silliman College is a residential college at Yale University. Opened in September 1940 as last of the ten original residential colleges, and includes buildings that were built since 1901. It is the largest university in terms of area, which is a complete block in New Haven, Connecticut, bordered by College, Wall, Grove and Temple Streets.
Most of Indiana limestone college consists of Vanderbilt-bedrooms and Byers Hall Sheffield, both originally part of the Sheffield Scientific School. The portion of Van-Sheff Silliman was built between 1903 and 1906 by the architect Charles C. Haight in the Collegiate Gothic style. Byers Hall was built in 1903 and was designed by the whistle and architects in the French Renaissance style modified Weekes.
The latest brick Georgian side of the university, which includes most of the facilities of the base and Master's house was completed in 1940 when the school opened its doors. Eggers and Higgins Architect designed this part of the university.
Due to the size of Silliman, the university is able to accommodate students first year of college instead of the old campus of Yale, allowing freshmen to become immediately immersed in the vibrant student life in Silliman.
The College has links with Harvard University Pforzheimer House and Dudley House and Trinity College, Cambridge and Brasenose College, Oxford. His rival is Yale University Timothy Dwight College, located directly across from Temple Street.
Content
1 Shield Silliman College and Pets
2 Facilities Physical
3 Renovations
April Activities and Traditions
4.1 intramural sports
4.2 Other Activities and Traditions
5 Silliman Fame
Six famous ancient students
7 References
8 External links
9 See also
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Silliman College & Pets Shield
Silliman College shield has a white background white, three red curved lines that leave the bottom of the screen (on behalf of the tails of salamander), and a green bar crossing with three acorns. In terms heraldic shield is described as "weapons of silver. three piles wavy, gules. within a zone of Vert, three gold acorns." The colors represent the four primitive elements: red for fire, white for air and water, and green for earth. Acorns are an element taken from the crest of the family of Frederick Vanderbilt, 1876, which University funded the construction.
The university mascot is the salamander. College students refer to themselves as Sillimanders. Silliman also owns a dress suit of salamander known as "Sally" did for Michael Mackenzie SM '03 that takes intramural and events at Yale.
Physical facilities
The courtyard of the university, which covers nearly an entire block, is the largest enclosed courtyard at Yale and is one of the glories of the old school. Students can be seen playing various sports or relaxing in the sun. Due to the size of the patio, as cue sports, wiffle ball, soccer, frisbee and enjoyed.
facilities Silliman include only special Yale student art gallery, called the Board of Maya (Maya Tanaka Named Hanway, '83), a large-screen cinema (Silliflicks) a dance studio, media service called Sillidome basketball court, computer facilities, a student kitchen, several music practice rooms, and a sound state next generation in recording studios. The university library, located on the third floor of Byers Hall, commonly known as the Sillibrary. The pantry, a student-run restaurant in the basement that serves well in the evening Monday through Friday grease, is designed in the style of the '50s and its surroundings, including games like ping pong, air hockey, and pool.
The Dome Silliman (Silliman Room 1810) gained notoriety in the 1980s as the site of the John Phoenix Memorial Triplex Lennon, a three-storey place for mutants Yale (Yale a group of eccentrics, bohemians, artists, anarchists, libertarians, and free thinkers "). Externally illuminated field is emerald green color, and had a powerful strobe light inside, which could be seen around the campus of Yale. The Dome Today remains accessible to students during meetings mutant through a series of secret keys and entry techniques. Mutants were often connected to the music scene New Haven underground and / or WYBC, the Yale radio station. A resident of the mutant late '80 's is said to have designed the building to Yale ending the other end of Hillhouse Avenue.
Renewals
In August 2007, after three years of inside and outside the building, students moved again in a newly renovated Silliman College. Now students enjoy a reconfigured dining room and servery, a stadium-style theater seats, and a large space that includes activities for students with a new art gallery, dance studio, gym, basketball court, weight room, pantry, game room and entertainment space television. The court also Silliman College was restored to its former glory, with new patio areas, benches, and grass. The renovation cost about $ 100 million by far the most used in any renewal residential college at Yale.
Due to the size of Silliman College, the renovation was completed in college in phases instead of the 15-month renovation completed in other universities:
In the summer of 2004, the roof and windows were replaced in the section of brick of the university. Extra dormers were also added on the roofs rooms for students could later be installed in the attic above.
In the summer of 2005, the Silliman Torre underwent a complete interior renovation.
The school was closed throughout the school year 2006-2007 for the rest of the renovation. All College students moved to any Swing Space (a new bedroom house built especially for college students during renovations), the Elm Street Annex or independent living outside the school until the renovations were completed.
Activities & Traditions
Intramural Sports
In 2006, Silliman College streak ended Ezra Stiles College, three years Tyng Cup winners and was crowned champion of the Tyng Cup for having the best record in Intramuros, 12 homes Yale University during the academic year 2005-2006. Silliman great Ezra Stiles on more than 100 points (from 1186.5 to 1082.5). The championship marked the sixth Cup Tyng Silliman win and first since 1972. Silliman was also Tyng Cup champion in 1941, 1943, 1968, 1969. Silliman has won the cup twice more for a streak three years, Timothy Dwight beating more than 200 points in 2007, and Ezra Stiles by about 100 points in 2008.
Recent intramural Silliman Secretaries: Michael Mackenzie '03, '04 Kira Goldman, Alejandro Bribriesco '04, '04 Conor O'Toole, Matthew Lynch '06, '06 Miguel Agrait, Zachary Turnbull '07, '08 Brett Andrews, Angel Enriquez '08, '08 Katrina Preston, Sarah Keesecker '09, '09 Matthew Bressler, Livingston Kelly '09 Bekele Tsegazeab '10, Alexandra Andrews '11, '11 Slotznick Quyen, Dong Won Lee '12, '12 '12 Josh Howard McKaye Neumeister
Other Activities & Traditions
Every fall, organizing a party Silliman 80 in the whole issue of Yale called the Dance of security, the largest dance Yale. By their own students, Silliman has a freshman annual Olympics where students of different entries for teams competing in "The Broom" broom and Richfest (named in honor of Rich Marshall, a member of the class Silliman 1996), a day out of fun complete with a water tank, cotton sugar, and a soft surface, released as school finishes in the spring. A winter edition Richfest short-lived, called Rachfest (After Rachel Wasser '04), Featured a bouncy castle jumping in the snow.
During the week of Halloween, Silliman hosts the largest haunted house in the basement with Yale Silliman actors students. This event, initiated by Mo Nasr '04 and is free for students, has attracted hundreds of students each year, with lines extending to Silliman well into the courtyard. Silliman also hosts several events including a Halloween week asado "Halloweenies," pumpkin carving competitions, and a contest Costume organized by the Master.
Silliman also celebrates the Kentucky Derby with an annual festival of Derby which offers traditional dishes like Burgoa derby pie, and sweet bourbon.
Throughout the year, the Silliman Activity Committee hosts many other events such as karaoke nights very popular in Naples Pizza, screw Silliman and trips to New York, film, and ski resorts.
Each winter, the night's first snow, and his college rival Silliman, Timothy Dwight, fight each other in a massive snowball that takes place in the courtyards of the two universities.
The Silliringers, a group of students who use the bells donated by a former captain, carried out each year at Christmas party at the university. The college has its own newspaper, the College and Wall, the names of two streets that border.
In 2007, was renovated Silliman College. A room earlier in the Casa del Maestro, N21, became the fourth of five young. With a large room, two common level two double and one single, N21 was known as the lobby to their (largely imaginary) in the evening and debauchery rigorous debate during the day.
Silliman hosted numerous events organized by creative Yale mutants in the 1970s and 80s, culminating in the Festival of Life in 1982.
Silliman Fame
Silliman shot to fame when popular film Mona Lisa Smile with Julia Roberts, Julia Stiles and Kirsten Dunst, was partly filmed in the courtyard Silliman College and a common room. The facade of the Temple Street was used Silliman to represent the University of Harvard, and the Wall Street Gate and the common room is used to represent the Wellesley College.
Many students were used Silliman as extras in the movie and those who had gathered in the courtyard to see the filming.
When Indiana Jones 4 was filming in New Haven (Summer 2007), Dean Hugh Flick Silliman and several other students were released as extras. A car / bike scene was also filmed by the side of the street from the University College, even though they was under renovation.
Famous alumni
George Roy Hill, 1943, film director
Rene Richards, 1954, transsexual tennis player
James Jeffords, 1956, the independent senator from Vermont USA
Strobe Talbott, 1968, Brookings Institution president, a former correspondent for Time
Daniel Yergin, 1968-winning author Pulitzer Prize and energy consultant
Stone Phillips, 1977, news anchor
Evan Wolfson, 1978, activist
David Hyde Pierce, 1981, actor, best known for playing the role of Niles Crane on "Frasier"
Anthony A. Williams, 1982, the fifth mayor of the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2007
Elizabeth Kostova, 1988 copyright
Nerissa Nields, 1989, from the band The Nields
Ben Greenman, 1990, author
References
^ Yale Daily News - The expansion projected at $ 600 million
External Links
Silliman College, Yale
See also
List of residence halls
University Residential Colleges Yale
Berkeley College | Branford College | Calhoun Davenport | | Ezra | Stiles College Jonathan Edwards College
College Morse College | Pierson College Saybrook College | | Silliman | College Timothy Dwight College | Trumbull
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