style of the 1950s and its surrounding area includes games such as ping pong, air hockey, and pool. Renovations In August 2007, after three years of on-and-off renovations, students moved back into 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 cost some $100 million, by far the most spent on any residential college renovation at Yale. 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. In 2017, a coffee shop, The Acorn, was added into the fourth floor of Byers Hall. Activities and traditions Intramural sports Silliman College has won the Tyng Cup (awarded for the best intramural record of Yale's 14 residential colleges) eight times, in 1941, 1943, 1968, 1969, 1972, 2006, 2007, and 2008. 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. The Grove 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. Notable alumni George Roy Hill, 1943, movie director Renée Richards, 1954, transgender tennis player James Jeffords, 1956, Independent U.S. senator from Vermont Wendell Mottley, 1964, Olympic silver medalist, minister of finance of Trinidad and Tobago Strobe Talbott, 1968, Brookings Institution president, former Time correspondent Daniel Yergin, 1968, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and