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Halfway through the medical school’s student/faculty squash tournament, the students have won only five out of eleven matches. The students have the advantage of youth, but most of them stayed up pretty late last night–on clinical rotations, studying for basic science qualifying exams, or dancing at GPSCY, the Graduate Professional Student Center at Yale–and the professors are seasoned competitors, with years of practice on Yale’s many squash courts. The tournament itself is taking place in the new Brady Squash Center, part of a $3 million renovation of Payne Whitney Gymnasium, Yale’s famous “Cathedral of Sweat.” Medical students and faculty can be found there every day, playing squash or basketball, running on the beautiful indoor track, swimming laps, pumping iron, taking classes in ballet or jazz dance or judo or yoga. Beyond the gymnasium, sports facilities include tennis courts, hundreds of acres of intramural athletic fields, rowing and sailing centers, and a golf course ranked by the PGA among the 100 best in the world. The medical school community partakes of Yale’s enormous wealth of resources. The University’s art galleries, museums, theaters, religious organizations, cultural centers, and libraries are as magnificent and easily accessible as its athletic facilities. Perhaps the most exciting resource of all is the student population: 11,000 men and women from around the world are enrolled in Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and ten professional schools. They form a large, vibrant, and remarkably diverse community that complements the intense intimacy of the School of Medicine. In the end, the faculty claim a narrow victory on the squash courts. The students intend to regroup for next year, vowing to spend more time at the gym. |
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