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Silliman College is a residential college at Yale University. It opened in September 1940 as the last of the original ten residential colleges, and consists of buildings that were constructed as early as 1901. It is the largest college in terms of area, consisting of a full city block in New Haven, Connecticut, bordered by College, Wall, Grove and Temple Streets.

The older, Indiana limestone portion of the college consists of the Vanderbilt-Sheffield dormitories and Byers Hall, both originally component of the Sheffield Scientific School. The Van-Sheff portion of Silliman was built between 1903 and 1906 by architect Charles C. Haight in the Collegiate Gothic style. Byers Hall was built in 1903 and was created by Hiss and Weekes architects in the modified French Renaissance Style.

The newer, Georgian brick portion of the college, which consists of most of the core facilities and the Master’s home, was completed in 1940 when the college was opened. Architect Eggers &amp Higgins developed this component of the college.

Due to Silliman’s size, the college is able to home its freshmen in the college instead of on Yale’s Old Campus, allowing first year students to instantly grow to be immersed in the vibrant student life in Silliman.

The College has links to Harvard’s Pforzheimer Home and Dudley Home, as properly as Trinity College, Cambridge and Brasenose College, Oxford. Its rival college at Yale is Timothy Dwight College, situated directly across Temple Street.

Contents

1 Silliman College Shield and Mascot

2 Physical Facilities

three Renovations

four Activities and Traditions

four.1 Intramural Sports

4.2 Other Activities and Traditions

five Silliman Fame

6 Well-known alumni

7 References

8 External links

9 See also

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Silliman College Shield and Mascot

Silliman College’s shield has a white background, three curving red lines emerging from near the bottom of the shield (representing salamander tails), and a green crossing bar containing three acorns. In heraldic terms, the shield is described as “Arms argent. 3 piles wavy, gules. On a fess vert, three acorns gold.” The colors represent the four ancient elements: red for fire, white for air and water, and green for earth. The acorns are an element taken from the family members crest of Frederick Vanderbilt, 1876, who funded the college’s construction.

The college’s mascot is the salamander. Students in the college refer to themselves as Sillimanders. Silliman also owns a salamander costume suit recognized as “Sally” produced by Michael Mackenzie SM ’03 that is worn to intramurals and Yale-wide events.

Physical Facilities

The college courtyard, which covers almost an whole city block, is the largest enclosed courtyard at Yale and is 1 of the glories of the old college. Students can be observed playing a variety of sports or lounging in the sun. Due to the fact of the size of the courtyard, sports such as stickball, wiffle ball, football, and frisbee are usually enjoyed.

Unique facilities inside Silliman consist of Yale’s only undergraduate art gallery, referred to as Maya’s Room (named for Maya Tanaka Hanway, ’83), a large-screen movie theater (Silliflicks), a dance studio, a half-court basketball facility referred to as the Sillidome, computing facilities, a student kitchen, multiple music practice rooms, and a state-of-the-art sound recording studio. The college’s library, situated in the third floor of Byers Hall, is generally referred to as the Sillibrary. The Buttery, a student-run eatery in the basement that serves greasy goodness on weekday nights, is created in the style of the 50′s and its surrounding region includes games such as ping pong, air hockey, and pool.

The Silliman Cupola (Silliman Room 1810) gained notoriety in the early 1980s as the web site of the John Lennon Memorial Phoenix Triplex, a three-story meeting place for the Yale Mutants (a group of Yale eccentrics, bohemians, artists, anarchists, libertarians, and totally free-thinkers). It was spot-lit externally in emerald green, and featured a powerful internal strobe light which could be seen across the Yale campus. The Cupola nowadays is still accessible to Mutant alumni throughout Reunions via a series of secret passwords and entry strategies. Mutants had been usually connected to the New Haven underground music scene and/or WYBC, Yale’s radio station. One Mutant resident from the late ’80′s is said to have created the Yale building that terminates the other end of Hillhouse Avenue.

Renovations

In August 2007, after three years of on and off construction, students moved back into a newly renovated Silliman College. Students now appreciate a reconfigured dining hall and servery, a stadium-seating movie theater, and a huge student activities space that includes a new art gallery, dance studio, gym, basketball court, weight room, buttery, game room, and television entertainment space. The Silliman College courtyard was also restored to its former glory, with new patio spaces, benches, and grass. The renovation cost some million, by far the most spent on any residential college renovation at Yale.

Due to the fact of the size of Silliman College, the renovation function on the college was completed in numerous phases instead of the 15-month renovation completed on other colleges:

In the summer of 2004, the roof and windows had been replaced on the brick section of the college. Additional dormers were also added to the roofs so that student rooms could later be installed in the former attic spaces.

In the summer of 2005, the Silliman Tower underwent a complete interior renovation.

The entire college was shut down in the course of the 2006-2007 school year for the rest of the renovation. All students from the college moved into either Swing Space (a new dormitory built especially to house students during college renovations), the Elm Street Annex or into independent off-campus housing until the renovations had been completed.

Activities and Traditions

Intramural Sports

In 2006, Silliman College ended Ezra Stiles College’s 3-year Tyng Cup winning streak and was crowned Tyng Cup Champions for having the best intramural record of Yale’s 12 residential colleges in the course of the 2005-2006 academic year. Silliman beat Ezra Stiles by slightly over 100 points (1186.5 to 1082.5). This championship marked Silliman’s sixth Tyng Cup win and the 1st given that 1972. Silliman was also Tyng Cup Champion in 1941, 1943, 1968, 1969. Silliman has won the cup twice more for a 3 year streak, edging out Timothy Dwight by over 200 points in 2007, and Ezra Stiles by about 100 points in 2008.

Silliman’s Recent Intramural Secretaries: Michael Mackenzie ’03, Kira Goldman ’04, Alejandro Bribriesco ’04, Conor O’Toole ’04, Matthew Lynch ’06, Miguel Agrait ’06, Zachary Turnbull ’07, Brett Andrews ’08, Angel Enriquez ’08, Katrina Preston ’08, Sarah Keesecker ’09, Matthew Bressler ’09, Kelly Livingston ’09, Tsegazeab Bekele ’10, Alexandra Andrews ’11, Quyen Slotznick ’11, Dong Won Lee ’12, Josh Howard ’12 McKaye Neumeister ’12

Other Activities and Traditions

Every fall, Silliman hosts a Yale-wide 80s theme party known as the Safety Dance, the largest dance at Yale. For its own students, Silliman has an annual Freshman Olympics where students from its different entryways compete in teams for the “Clean Sweep” broom and Richfest (named in honor of Rich Marshall, a member of the Silliman class of 1996), an outdoor day of fun total with a dunk tank, cotton candy, and a moon bounce, thrown as classes end in the spring. A short-lived winter edition of Richfest, called Rachfest (right after Rachel Wasser ’04), featured an inflatable jumping castle in the snow.

In the course of Halloween week, Silliman hosts Yale’s largest haunted home in the Silliman basement featuring student actors. This event, began by Mo Nasr ’04 and which is totally free to the student body, has drawn hundreds of students each year, with lines stretching well into the Silliman courtyard. Silliman also hosts a number of other Halloween week events such as a “Halloweenie Roast,” pumpkin carving competitions, and a costume contest hosted by the Master.

Silliman also celebrates the Kentucky Derby with an annual Derby Party that functions standard dishes such as burgoo, derby pie, and bourbon candy.

All through the year, the Silliman Activities Committee hosts a lot of other events such as quite common Karaoke Nights at Naples Pizza, the Silliman Screw, and trips to NYC, the movies, and to ski resorts.

Each and every winter, on the night of the initial snowfall, Silliman and its rival college, Timothy Dwight, fight each and every other in a massive snowball fight that takes place in the courtyards of the two colleges.

The Silliringers, a group of students using hand bells donated by a former master, perform every year at the college’s Christmas Party. The college has its own newspaper, College and Wall, named for two streets that border it.

In 2007, Silliman College was renovated. A room formerly in the Master’s Home, N21, became the room of five juniors. With a large, two level common room, two doubles, and a single, N21 became identified as the Hotel Lobby for its (largely imagined) debauchery at night and rigorous debate during the day.

Silliman hosted numerous creative events organized by the Yale Mutants in the 1970s and 80s, culminating in the Festival of Life in 1982.

Silliman Fame

Silliman gained fame when the popular movie Mona Lisa Smile featuring Julia Roberts, Julia Stiles and Kirsten Dunst, was partly filmed in the Silliman College courtyard and frequent room. The Temple Street facade of Silliman was utilized to represent Harvard University, and the Wall Street Gate and the typical room had been utilized to represent Wellesley College.

Many Silliman students were used as extras in the film and those who had been not gathered in the courtyard to watch the filming.

When Indiana Jones 4 was filming in New Haven (summer 2007), Dean Hugh Flick and many other Silliman students had been cast as extras. A vehicle/motorcycle scene was also filmed along the College Street side of the college, even even though it was still under renovations.

Renowned alumni

George Roy Hill, 1943, movie director

Rene Richards, 1954, transgendered tennis player

James Jeffords, 1956, Independent U.S. senator from Vermont

Strobe Talbott, 1968, Brookings Institution president, former Time correspondent

Daniel Yergin, 1968, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and energy consultant

Stone Phillips, 1977, newscaster

Evan Wolfson, 1978, activist

David Hyde Pierce, 1981, actor, greatest known for playing the role of Niles Crane on “Fraiser”

Anthony A. Williams, 1982, the fifth mayor of the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2007

Elizabeth Kostova, 1988, author

Nerissa Nields, 1989, of the band The Nields

Ben Greenman, 1990, author

References

^ Yale Daily News – Expansion Projected at Million

External links

Silliman College, Yale

See also

List of residential colleges

Residential Colleges of Yale University

Berkeley College | Branford College | Calhoun College | Davenport College | Ezra Stiles College | Jonathan Edwards College

Morse College | Pierson College | Saybrook College | Silliman College | Timothy Dwight College | Trumbull College

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