With West campus, Yale excuses form for function
Although corporate site would be out of place amid Yale’s Gothic buildings, administrators tout ‘first-rate’ facilities
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Wild turkeys are a rarity on Yale’s campus in New Haven, but only seven miles away, a flock of dozens roams free across the rolling hills of the newly acquired West Campus.
The turkeys are all that inhabit the 137 acres of Yale’s newest scientific treasure, the former home of the pharmaceutical company Bayer HealthCare. Where scientists toiled just two years ago developing treatments for cancer, diabetes and obesity, there is now little more than silence. And the turkeys.
For most Yale students, the West Campus exists only in the University’s telling....
LOL, I love it. I love the fumehoods detail.
Great piece.