News & Views
Letter from the President - Uncommon Men |
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William Hewlett and David Packard are part of a small pool of
people in a class by themselves in their support of, and loyalty to,
Stanford. By Gerhard Casper
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On Campus
Opera’s Comeback |
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After a decade of absence, opera returns to Stanford in an
opulent production of Dido and Aeneas.
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Alumni & University to Merge |
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The board of directors of the Stanford Alumni Association voted
unanimously to merge the association with the university.
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A Visit to China |
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Stanford president Gerhard Casper was the keynote speaker at a
gathering in Peking of university presidents from around the
world.
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Rodin’s Intent |
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The Rodin statues of the Burghers of Calais are reunited as
their creator intended.
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Remembering Mallarmé |
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A Stanford professor emeritus of French wants the world to mark the
centenary of the death of poet Steéphane Mallarmé.
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Grad Housing Crisis |
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Stanford announced several plans to address graduate students’
frustration with the area’s shortage of affordable housing.
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It’s Over for a Bookish Lot |
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Stanford’s exuberant graduates received their degrees during
the university’s 107th annual commencement ceremonies on June
14.
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Heads Up |
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Stanford faculty and student awards and
honors.
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Campus
Briefs |
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Avner Greif awarded MacArthur Prize ’98 - Stanford
economist is among 29 MacArthur Fellows. 
Evolution in Teaching - New guidebook helps teachers reestablish evolution
as a part of science education in schools.
First Family on the Farm - President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton visit Stanford.
Business Dean Steps Down - Michael Spence will leave as dean of the
Graduate School of Business in 1999.
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Science & Medicine
Battling Over Baby Universe |
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Stanford physics Professor Andrei Linde and his Cambridge
University counterpart, Stephen Hawking, are at odds over Hawking’s new
theory for the origin of the universe.
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Anthropological Divorce |
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Stanford’s Department of Anthropology will probably split
into two separate departments.
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Architecture in the Digital Age |
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Information technologies and the construction industry are
coming together in ways once unimaginable.
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Baby Boomers’ Future: Eldernet |
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Led by Stanford medical student Meetpaul Singh, Eldernet Link
uses technology to improve the lives of seniors by decreasing their social
isolation.
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Science
& Medicine Briefs |
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New Dean for Humanities and Sciences - Malcolm Beasley has been
appointed the new dean, succeeding John Shoven.
Never Assume - A computer snafu erases years of academic work at the Graduate
School of Business.
Infested by Millennium Bugs - For millions of computer systems the millennium
bug is more Godzilla than insect.
Tiny Lenses - Stanford experts have teamed with industry to make digital
cameras so small and efficient that they could fit in a
watchband.
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Sports News
Tennis Glory |
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The Stanford men’s tennis team wins its fourth straight NCAA
championship, and women’s tennis ends its season No. 3 in the
nation.
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Athletic Board Awards |
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Stanford athletes in several different sports win honors for athletic
performance, leadership, academic achievement and community
service.
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Track and Field Crowns |
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Junior Tracye Lawyer wins consecutive heptathlon championship,
and Cardinal athletes bring home three individual titles in track and
field.
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Sports
Briefs |
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Six Championships - Stanford wins NCAA championships
in six different sports.
For the First Time - Both of Stanford’s rugby teams made it to the national
championships for the first time in their long history as club sports.
The Ultimate Best - Stanford’s ultimate teams repeated their 1997
success. Cluttering Sports
Venues - Athletic Director Ted Leland says that Stanford is not exempt from the
commercialization of athletics. Only
a Dream - The anticipation on Sunken Diamond’s field of dreams was incredibly
high at the end of the regular season, but by year’s end, it all came
apart.
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Features
Rethinking Academic Excellence |
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There has been a veritable revolution in our conception of
cognition and intelligence in the past few decades. We have moved from a
view of intelligence as fixed, to a belief that is fluid. The question we
are now asking is not who is smart, but who is smart at
what? By Elliot W. Eisner
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Learning Curve |
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A year-long course at Stanford, “Light in the Physical
and Biological Worlds,” attracts students from art, photography, literature
and political science.
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Offbeat Pursuits |
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From helping needy children to playing taiko, students find ways to
blow off some steam. By Ingrid Becker
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The Cold War Era and the Modern University |
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A Stanford Today forum on a controversial book about
Stanford’s postwar emergence as a research
powerhouse.
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The American Selfway |
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A culture heavily invested in individualism and a social
psychologist who studies it. By Kathleen O’Toole
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Profile: John Taylor |
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As a stately professor or as a wrinkled California raisin, John Taylor
likes to court disaster in the classroom. By Kathleen
O’Toole
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Can’t Sleep |
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One of America’s top experts on sleep reveals shocking facts about
your sleepless nights. By Chris Vaughan
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