Departments
President’s Letter - The Launch of Stanford Today |
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With this inaugural edition,
we reclaim an old title for new purposes. For nearly 30 years, until the late 1960s, a quarterly of the
same name was sent to alumni. The new Stanford Today is a recognition of the need for a journalism of ideas.
By Douglas Foster
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Our Challenge - Standing Still Means Falling Back |
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Universities are among the most complex institutions in the contemporary world. Now placed under
great scrutiny, several concrete indicators show broad agreement about the high quality of our faculty and students.
There is much to make us proud. At the same time, there is no room - none - for complacency.
By Gerhard Casper
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News Sections
A 21st-Century Computer Lab |
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Step through the doors of the new Gates Computer Science Building --
into a laboratory of 21st-century technology. With the help of a gift from Microsoft Corp. founder William Gates in
1992, Stanford has constructed the $38.4 million laboratory to house the far-flung programs of the computer
science department under one roof. By David Salisbury
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Campus News Digest |
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Tuition Increases - Lowest rise in 30 years.
 Early Admissions - Offers go to 568 in first-ever process.
Food Research Institute - One of the few such programs
in the country is scheduled to close.
Planning in an Era of Change - Faculty panel recommends
ways to maintain high academic quality and cope with continuing financial constraints.
Byerwalter Named V.P. for Business Affairs - Alumna and trustee
becomes chief financial officer of the university.
Career Planning Center to Destroy Files - The annual purge,
this time for files last used in the 1979-1980 academic year, occurs on May 31.
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Total Access Despite Disabilities |
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Settled securely in his wheelchair before a bank of computers, J.B. Galan rattles off a sentence.
As he speaks, the correctly spelled words appear instantaneously. Project Archimedes, a research program at Stanford’s
Center for the Study of Language and Information, aims to ensure that disabled individuals are not left behind in the
computer revolution.
By David Salisbury
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Science & Medicine News Digest |
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Heart-Stopping Surgery - Unprecedented technique, port-access surgery, allows the surgical team
to stop the heart while repairing it.
Tumor Growth - Discovery of mechanism in cellular
protein p53 could lead to development of more effective cancer treatments.
Cancer Vaccine - A custom-made vaccine triggers
anti-tumor activity in pilot study of four non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients.
Glow Gene - Researchers use glowing bacteria to observe
the progress of infection and treatment inside living laboratory mice.
Auto Pilot - Aeronautics and austronautics student
demonstrates full control of model airplane using low-cost system.
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Forum
History Lessons |
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Sixties Values and Nineties Realities. Thirty years of political change and the lessons of recent history, as seen by the six
participants of a Reunion Week discussion about national politics.
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Essay
Continents Apart |
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Black Liberation in South Africa and the United States. What useful comparisons can be
made between the current situation and future prospects of blacks in the two societies? South Africa might learn
that formal citizenship rights are not enough to overcome history. The African-American freedom struggle might
learn that hope, and ideological and tactical flexibility are important in achieving a just and harmonious society.
By George M. Fredrickson
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Special Section - Creative Writing
The Big X |
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An essay on the delicate art of the Writing Workshop.
By Elizabeth Tallent
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Wallace Stegner’s Legacy |
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Remembering the writer’s life with Mary Page Stegner.
By Diane Manuel
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A Dream of Western Music |
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A short story by Stegner Fellows alumna and Stanford lecturer in undergraduate creative writing.
By Lan Samantha Chang
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