More than two hundred humanities and social sciences graduate students strike at Yale. Undergrads are indignant. Some senior faculty revise their letters of recommendation.
Administrators lock classroom doors.
Five weeks later, the union gives up the strike. LF 's Emily Eakin discovers an institutional culture that treats graduate students with officious condescension. The trendy journal Social Text publishes NYU physics professor Alan Sokal's deliberately awful article on quantum physics and postmodernism. Sokal reveals his stunt in the pages of LF - and winds up on the front page of the New York Times. In fall 2000, LF and the University of Nebraska Press publish a dossier of news articles and essays titled The Sokal Hoax.