Stanford Magazine > January/February 2000

Features

Ready for Takeoff
For an elite group of students, the much-hyped world of Silicon Valley is hardly theoretical. They're getting hands-on exposure to start-ups before they even finish college.

Divided They Stand
A messy academic scuffle drove the Stanford anthropology department to split in two. The story behind the unusual breakup reflects a widening schism in the field.

First, Take 14,000 Chicken Breasts
No longer content to merely feed 3,800 students 19 times a week, University Dining Services wants to reinvent itself as a restauranteur. The result? Hello artichokes, good-bye glop. Plus: Guess Who Came to Dinner? San Francisco magazine food critic Tori Ritchie reviews the fare at Florence Moore Hall.

Falling Apart
He was a Marshall scholar, a college president and, finally, a top Stanford administrator. But mental illness changed everything. A victim of depression remembers his breakdown.

Into Africa
She's young, she's impatient, she's blunt. Susan Rice is a different kind of diplomat.

Was It Murder?
In a case that gripped the nation, David Lamson was charged with killing his wife in their campus home. Despite four trials and intense media coverage, the 1933 death remains a mystery.

Farm Report

Digest

Yalies on the Farm
The First American 'Test-Tube Baby' Grows Up
A Sporting Legacy
In This November Election, a Stanford Candidate
When Annie Leibovitz Calls . . .
For Cable Viewers, 'Jerry Springer With Brains'

Follow-Up Will Casey Ride Into the PGA Tour?

SPORTS

Football A diehard fan's reflections on the 28-year wait for the Rose Bowl
Cross Country Top-ranked Cardinal comes up short
Basketball Fast break for a young squad
Sports Notebook

NEWS

Top Jobs Help Wanted: Major Research University Seeks . . .
Medicine The Anatomy of a Failed Hospital Merger
Head of the Class
Endowment Riding the Bull Market
Hoover Institution Guess What? There Are Democrats in This Think Tank
Gaieties '99 -- Armed and Ready
Inquiring Minds
Psychology He's Focusing on the Positive
Sleep Research A Dream Come True
Campus Notebook
Speakers' Corner
Psychiatry A Cure for Shopaholics?
Admissions Try Answering This
Student Life Missed Class? No Worries -- the Notes Are Online
Syllabi
Amenities For Nursing Moms, a Haven
Essentials What's In My Bookbag?
Health Research The Science of Smell
Reunions A Supreme Experience

Shelf Life

Review Outing the Pentagon's anti-gay policy

Excerpt Through Navajo eyes

Bestsellers

Book Blurbs

Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition, by Richard K. Simon, PhD. '77
24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas, by Andrès Martinez, MA '89
Fool, by Frederick G. Dillen, '70
Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy, by Irvin D. Yalom

Columns and Departments

First Impressions Department of Complaints

President's Column

Who's Who

Letters to the Editor

1,000 Words

On the Job with Joelle Tanguy

Cardinal Numbers

Being There The 180-mile, 4 1/2-hour daily commute