Student Groups

The students maintain a Zen-like devotion to their art. They make their own costumes and drums with funding from their annual spring concert. Members audition for the group, and once accepted, they practice up to 12 hours a week. As a result, they are a tightly knit band.

"It's the most important thing to me and in some ways it comes before my schoolwork," says group member Kris Bergstrom, a junior majoring in English. "But I feel lucky that I've come to Stanford and found my love in this group."

Stanford Taiko

Some performers among Stanford's extracurricular adherents are more irreverent. Tune in every other Friday evening to SCBN, Stanford's student-run cable channel, and you will find "The Oval," a sharp-witted 30-minute comedy sketch show that's part Saturday Night Live, part Monty Python and part Mr. Bean with a few locker-room jokes and plenty of goofy sight gags. The actors and writers, several of them English literature majors, say they do the show primarily to amuse themselves and their friends - and the few hard-core fans who show up for the tapings. Nothing is sacred on "The Oval," whose cast has poked fun at the university president's student tea

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