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Sociology Dept. to look for new home if colleges built

Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter
Published Friday, March 7, 2008

Undergraduates anxious to sign leases or begin room draws for next year are not the only ones at Yale with housing worries. As of right now, there are no definite plans for the Sociology Department’s future permanent home if its current one is knocked down to make room for two new residential colleges.

As Yale Corporation members grow closer to giving their final go-ahead for the construction of two new colleges, deep uncertainties have surfaced about how at least one department currently housed on or around Prospect Street will be affected.

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#1 By Hieronymus 2:06p.m. on March 20, 2008

How about Gateway CC?

#2 By (Anonymous) 3:09p.m. on March 20, 2008

How did a top research university almost scrap a sociology department in 1992? Thank god Yale is no longer living in the late 80s/early 90s. Get rid of the philosophy department if anything

#3 By ThatCoffinGuy 12:40p.m. on March 22, 2008

Strange, I thought Yale was a sociology department.

#4 By (Anonymous) 12:43p.m. on March 22, 2008

What about the buildings Sociology and Forestry now occupy? More sacrifices of architecture to the new colleges? Put sociology at Science Park, closer to thier target audience.

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