Stanford Today
November/December 1996

‘We Almost Wept’

The Sad Journey of
Yamato Ichihashi:
From Stanford
to the Internment Camps

Genetic Roulette
	The lead researchers in Stanford’s effort to map the human genome reflect on the project’s ethical conundrums.   By Janet Basu
‘We Almost Wept’
	Yamato Ichihashi was a successful and highly respected professor at Stanford during the 1920s and ’30s. But no personal achievement could spare him the humiliation of internment.   By Gordon Chang
Learning Curve
	The first in an ongoing series highlighting some of Stanford’s most thought-provoking courses.  By Diane Manuel

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