| Silliman College | |
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| Motto | ? - |
| Named For | Benjamin Silliman |
| Established | 1940 |
| Colors | Red, white, green, gold |
| College Master | Judith Krauss |
| College Dean | Hugh Flick |
| Undergraduates | 450 |
| Called | Sillimanders |
| Location | 505 College Street |
| Homepage | http://www.sillimancollege.net |
Silliman College is a residential college at Yale University. Benjamin Silliman ( 8 August 1779 &ndash 24 November 1864) was an American Chemist, one of the first American professors A residential college is an organisational pattern for a division of a University that places academic activity in a Community setting of students and faculty usually It opened in September 1940 as the last of the original ten residential colleges, and includes buildings that were constructed as early as 1901. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting 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 part of the college consists of the Vanderbilt-Sheffield dormitories and Byers Hall, both originally part of the Sheffield Scientific School. Indiana Limestone or Bedford Limestone is a common term for Salem limestone, a Geological formation primarily quarried in south central Indiana Sheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847 as a school of Yale College in New Haven Connecticut for instruction in science and engineering The Van-Sheff portion of Silliman was built between 1903 and 1906 by architect Charles C. Haight in the Collegiate Gothic style. Charles Coolidge Haight (1841 &ndash February 9, 1917) was an American architect who practiced in New York City. The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement which began Byers Hall was built in 1903 and was designed by Hiss and Weeks architects in the modified French Renaissance Style. "Neo-Renaissance" is an all encompassing style designation that covers many aspects of those 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither
The newer, Georgian brick portion of the college, which includes most of the core facilities and the Master's house, was completed in 1940 when the college was opened. Architect Eggers & Higgins designed this part of the college. Eggers & Higgins was a New York architectural firm partnered by Otto Reinhold Eggers (1882–1964 and Daniel Paul Higgins (1886–1953
Due to Silliman's size, the college is able to house its freshmen in the college instead of on Yale's Old Campus, allowing first year students to immediately become immersed in the vibrant student life in Silliman. The Old Campus is a complex of buildings at Yale University on the block at the northwest end of the green in New Haven, Connecticut consisting
The College has links to Harvard's Pforzheimer House and Dudley House, as well as Trinity College, Cambridge and Brasenose College, Oxford. Pforzheimer House, nicknamed PfoHo ( FOE-hoe) (and formerly named North House or NoHo) is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Brasenose College, originally Brazen Nose College (in full The King's Hall and College of Brasenose, often referred to by the abbreviation BNC Its rival college at Yale is Timothy Dwight College, located directly across Temple Street. Timothy Dwight College, commonly abbreviated and referred to as "TD" is a residential college at Yale University named after two university presidents Timothy
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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. 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 crest of Frederick Vanderbilt, 1876, who funded the college's construction. Frederick William Vanderbilt ( February 2 1856 &ndash June 29 1938) was a member of the financially and socially preeminent Vanderbilt
The college's mascot is the salamander. Students in the college refer to themselves as Sillimanders. Silliman also owns a salamander costume suit made by Michael Mackenzie SM '03 that is worn to intramurals and Yale-wide events.
Physical Facilities
The college courtyard, which covers almost an entire city block, is the largest enclosed courtyard at Yale and is one of the glories of the old college. Students can be seen playing various sports or lounging in the sun. Because of the size of the courtyard, sports such as stickball, football, and frisbee are often enjoyed.
Special facilities within Silliman include Yale's only undergraduate art gallery, called Maya's Room (named for Maya Tanaka Hanway, '83), a big-screen movie theater (Silliflicks), a dance studio, a half-court basketball facility called the Sillidome, computing facilities, a student kitchen, multiple music practice rooms, and a state-of-the-art [1] sound recording studio. The college's library, located in the third floor of Byers Hall, is commonly referred to as the Sillibrary. The Buttery, a student-run eatery in the basement that serves greasy goodness on weekday nights, is designed in the style of the 50's and its surrounding area includes games such as ping pong, air hockey, and pool.
The Silliman Cupola (Silliman Room 1810) gained notoriety in the early 1980s as the 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 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 today is still accessible to Mutant alumni during Reunions via a series of secret passwords and entry techniques.
Renovations
In August 2007, after three years of on and off construction, students moved back into a newly renovated Silliman College. Students now enjoy a reconfigured dining hall and servery, a stadium-seating movie theater, and a large 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 is rumored to have cost $100 million, by far the most spent on any residential college renovation at Yale. [1]
Because of the size of Silliman College, the renovation work on the college was completed in several phases instead of the 15-month renovation completed on other colleges:
- In the summer of 2004, the roof and windows were replaced on the brick section of the college. Extra 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 during 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 were 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 during 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 first since 1972. Silliman was also Tyng Cup Champion in 1941, 1943, 1968, 1969. Silliman has won the cup twice more for a three 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, Alejandro Bribriesco '04, Conor O'Toole '04, Matthew Lynch '06, Miguel Agrait '06, Zachary Turnbull '07, Katrina Preston '07, Brett Andrews '08, Angel Enriquez '08, Katrina Preston '08, Sarah Keesecker '09
Other Activities and Traditions
Each fall, Silliman hosts a Yale-wide 80s theme party called the Safety Dance, the largest dance at Yale. For its own students, Silliman has an annual Freshman Olympics where students from its various 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 complete 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 (after Rachel Wasser '04), featured an inflatable jumping castle in the snow.
During Halloween week, Silliman hosts Yale's largest haunted house in the Silliman basement featuring student actors. This event, which is free to the student body, has drawn hundreds of students each year, with lines stretching well into the Silliman courtyard. Silliman also hosts several other Halloween week events including 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 features traditional dishes such as burgoo, derby pie, and bourbon candy. The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three year-old thoroughbred horses held annually in Louisville Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May Burgoo is a term used for many types of Stew or porridge made from a mixture of ingredients Derby pie is a pastry created in the Melrose Inn of Prospect Kentucky, USA, by George Kern with the help of his parents Bourbon is an American Whiskey, a type of distilled spirit, made primarily from Corn and named for Bourbon County Kentucky.
Throughout the year, the Silliman Activities Committee hosts many other events including very popular Karaoke Nights at Naples Pizza, the Silliman Screw, and trips to NYC, the movies, and to ski resorts.
Each winter, on the night of the first snowfall, Silliman and its rival college, Timothy Dwight, fight each 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 each 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 House, N21, became the room of five juniors. With a large, two level common room, two doubles, and a single, N21 became known as the Hotel Lobby for its (largely imagined) debauchery at night and rigorous debate during the day.
Silliman hosted many 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 common room. Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American Film that was produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures, directed by Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28 1967 is an American - Academy Award winning Film actress and former Fashion model. Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 28 1981 is an American stage and screen actress. Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30 1982 is an American actress and singer The Temple Street facade of Silliman was used to represent Harvard University, and the Wall Street Gate and the common room were used to represent Wellesley College. Wellesley College is a women's liberal arts college, in Wellesley Massachusetts, that opened in 1875 founded by Henry Fowle Durant
Many Silliman students were used as extras in the film and those who were not gathered in the courtyard to watch the filming.
When Indiana Jones 4 was filming in New Haven (summer 2007), Dean Hugh Flick and several other Silliman students were cast as extras. A car/motorcycle scene was also filmed along the College Street side of the college, even while it was still under renovations.
Famous alumni
- David Hyde Pierce, 1981, actor, best known for playing the role of Niles Crane on Fraiser
- James Jeffords, 1956, Independent U. David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is an American Actor, best known for his role as Psychiatrist Dr James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords (born May 11, 1934) is a former U S. senator from Vermont
- Strobe Talbott, 1968, Brookings Institution president, former Time correspondent
- Stone Phillips, 1977, newscaster
- Daniel Yergin, 1968, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Energy Consultant
- Nerissa Nields, 1989, of the band The Nields
- Elizabeth Kostova, 1988, author
- Evan Wolfson, 1978, activist
- Ben Greenman, 1990, author
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See also
| Residential Colleges of Yale University |
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