Departments
President’s Column - On Making Choices |
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University students frequently are called upon to make choices. The
very concept of choice suggests deliberateness. For that, one needs the foundation
in learning and experience that a student gains by seizing the initiative, and seeking
out the incredible range of opportunities that Stanford has to
offer.
By Gerhard
Casper
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Campus News
Sophomore Success Story |
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Designed to combat the phenomenon known as “sophomore
slump,” Sophomore College has just completed its second year. In the
current format ten students are selected for each of eight seminars, which
meet for two hours every morning over two and one-half weeks in early
September, before regular classes begin. In the afternoons sophomores learn
about the resources that are available to
undergraduates. By Diane Manuel
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Minority Alumni |
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The overwhelming majority of Stanford’s alumni of color
who participated in a recent survey look back fondly at life on the Farm.
But those same alumni feel that after graduation they are essentially out
of sight and out of the university’s
mind.
By Elaine Ray
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Campus
News Digest |
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Newest Nobel - Douglas D. Osheroff has won the Nobel
Prize in physics. 
Fundraising Record - The university raised nearly $313 million in the
1995-96 fiscal year.
Biddle Suit Dismissed - A private lawsuit alleging that the university had
overbilled the federal government has been dismissed by a federal
judge.
Korean Studies - Two Korean leaders have pledged $3 million to endow a
new professorship and Korean Studies program at
Stanford.
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Science & Medicine News
Fourth Rock from the Sun |
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Richard Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of
Chemistry and professor of physics, is one of the nation’s most influential
scientists. Since the news broke in August that he had played a role in the
discovery of possible life on Mars, he has gotten used to clamoring reporters,
endless television appearances and requests to testify before
Congress.
By Janet Basu
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Scientific
Serendipity |
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Professor Richard Zare and generations of graduate students have
devised ways to use lasers to detect substances stuck to the surface of
objects. As part of that work, the researchers built a “two-step laser
mass spectrometer” that is the most sensitive instrument of its kind in the
world. By Janet Basu and David Salisbury
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Science &
Medicine News Digest |
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Nearsighted No More - Trials of a new outpatient laser
surgery to correct nearsightedness combined with astigmatism are under
way on campus.
New Cancer Drug - An experimental cancer drug is being tested to determine
whether it might eliminate the need for debilitating head and neck cancer
surgery.
Better Ways to Test Chips - Stanford’s Center for Reliable Computing and
LSI Logic Corp. seek to improve computer chip testing methods.
Novel 3-D Display - Prototype video display developed at Stanford that can
produce 3-D images in a whole new way.
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Sports News
A Cardinal for All Seasons |
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Chad Hutchinson, one of the nation’s best high school
pitching prospects in 1995, turned down a lucrative offer from the Atlanta
Braves baseball organization to become a starting pitcher and starting
quarterback at Stanford. By Jeff Brazil
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Sports
News Digest |
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Tiger Turns Pro - Tiger Woods wins third consecutive U.S.
Amateur Golf Championship, marking the end of his amateur career.
Tennis Goes World Class - Tennis facilities are being expanded in a $5.2
million project.
W-hoop-ing It Up - Women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer returns to
Stanford after leading USA Women’s National Team to gold medal in
Atlanta.
Women’s Tennis Gets Lift - Three stellar freshmen are joining Coach Frank
Brennan’s women’s tennis
team.
Parking Lot Paved - Stanford Stadium’s closest parking lot has been
paved and landscaped.
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Features
Genetic Roulette |
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The human genome project is ushering in a biotech
revolution. Who is watching out for your future in this brave new
world?
By Janet Basu
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Learning Curve |
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The first in an ongoing series highlighting some of
Stanford’s most thought-provoking
courses.
By Diane Manuel
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Class of 2000 |
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Members of the Class of 2000 arrive at The Farm and embark
on their collegiate odyssey.
By Marisa Cigarroa
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‘We Almost Wept’ |
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Professor Yamato Ichihashi was a respected scholar and member of the
Stanford community, but that wasn’t enough to spare him the humiliation of
internment.
By Gordon Chang
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A Personal Journey |
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Biographer Gordon Chang feels a kinship with
his subject.
By Diane Manuel
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