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Big Game
The competition that began more than a century ago has blossomed into an epic rivalry. In a special package, we look at the first 100 years of Big Game's history, traditions, players and coaches.
And in a pair of essays, Rice Odell, '50, recalls the losing football season that made a hero of the coach, and Leslie Gordon wonders how a Cal loyalist ended up at Stanford.
Plus, on the day Notre Dame came to town, we take you inside one day in the life of Cardinal football.

First Stitch
A fourth-year medical student discovers that suturing takes as much compassion as skill.

Late Bloomer
At 73, Harriet Doerr won a national Book Award for her first novel. Now whe's writing the story of her life.

Life After Snoopy
Lee Mendelson brought 30 years of TV experience--and a dozen Emmies-- to his students in Communication 154.



 

Nature of the Beast
What do baboons and flannel shirts tell us about "the human predicament"?

Pulse Fiction
Former physician Tess Gerritsen has turned from novels of the heart to heart-stopping medical thrillers.

Stanford Bookstore Best-Sellers

Book Blurbs
Four new books by Stanford authors:

  • Alleged Sex and Threatened Violence: Doctor Russel, Bishop Vladimir, and the Russians in San Francisco, 1887-1892 , by Terence Emmons, professor of history
  • The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law , by Constance E. Bagley, '74, and Craig E. Dauchy, JD/MBA '75
  • Cooking with Dad , by R.J. Turner, MS'70 and T.J. Turner
  • Menachem's Seed , by Carl Djerassi, professor of chemistry


 

First Impressions
Big Game has inspired heroics, creativity and sheer lunacy.

Letters to the Editor
Comments, congrats and catcalls from you. Zap us a letter while you're here.

Student Voice
For camera-toting tourists, students and faculty may just clutter up the view.

Cardinal Numbers

On the Job: Cooking up a Concept
With business sizzling, two restaurateurs are chewing over big expansion plans.

Poll
Most alums get their news the old-fashioned way.

Endnotes
Who said the family dinner is a good thing?



 

Alumni Tidings from Around the World

Class Notable:
William Bolcom, DMA '64

Class Notable:
Sally Jenkins, '82

Obituaries

Remembering:
Harlow Rothert, '30, 1908-1997