Saybrook College

Saybrook College
Residential college at Yale University
Coat of arms of Saybrook College
University	Yale University
Location	242 Elm Street, New Haven, CT
Coordinates	Coordinates: 41°18′38″N 72°55′47″W / 41.3105°N 72.9296°W / 41.3105; -72.9296
Nickname	Saybrugians
Motto	Qui transtulit sustinet (Latin)
Motto in English	He who transplanted still remains Say what? Saybrook!
Established	1933
Named for	Old Saybrook, Connecticut
Colors	Blue, gold
Sister college	Adams House and Emmanuel College
Master	Thomas Near
Dean	Christine Muller
Undergraduates	484 (2013-2014)
Mascot	lion, historically seal
Website	Saybrook College

Saybrook College is one of the 12 residential colleges at Yale University. It was founded in 1933 by partitioning the Memorial Quadrangle into two parts: Saybrook and Branford.

Unlike many of Yale's residential colleges that are centered on one large courtyard, Saybrook has two courtyards—one stone and one grass, hence the college cheer beginning "Two courtyards, stone and grass: two courtyards kick your ass."

Saybrook College was one of the original Yale Residential Colleges. Its name comes from the original location of the university, Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The college has the second highest student-to-land-area ratio of any of the colleges (after Calhoun College).

Saybrook students are known on campus for "the Saybrook Strip", a ritual performed during football games at the end of the third quarter. Both male and female college residents strip down to their underwear (some seniors remove all their clothing during The Game) to accompaniment by the Yale Precision Marching Band, which formerly played "The Stripper" or "Sweet Child o' Mine" but now chooses different tunes from game to game. Saybrook is also known for its repeated wins of the Gimbel Cup, which goes to the college with the highest average GPA. Saybrook has won the cup 11 times, four more than the next most frequent winner, Ezra Stiles College. Saybrook won most recently in 2007.

The college was renovated during the 2000-2001 year.

Saybrook College was featured in a chase scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, part of which was filmed on Yale's campus in late June and early July 2007.

The building now home to as Saybrook and Branford Colleges was built as the Memorial Quadrangle on the site of what was once the old gymnasium. Designed by James Gamble Rogers, construction on the quadrangle began in 1917 and finished in 1922. In 1928, Edward Harkness, who had funded the Memorial Quadrangle project, gave Yale funding to build eight residential colleges, and administrators decided to reconfigure the building into two of the new colleges. The two northern courtyards became the center of Saybrook College, and a wall of dormitories on the college's south side was demolished to build a dining hall and common room for the new college.