The Vexing Legacy of Lewis Terman He devoted his life to promoting smart kids and launched a study still under way at Stanford, but the gentle mentor also favored controlled human breeding. Looking back, what do we make of the early psychologist and his work? Plus: A Tale of Two Termites Though most kids in Terman's study chose anonymity, we found two who went public -- both in Hollywood.

'The Last Great Newspaperman' He hunts, surfs and rides a Harley. But Otis Chandler made his name turning his family's Los Angeles Times into a journalistic powerhouse. The paper's sale this spring marked the end of an era. Plus: Chandler speaks out on the Times sale, East Coast elitism and motorcycle accidents.

Eastside Story As a Stanford student, Chris Bischof tutored elementary school kids in East Palo Alto. As a graduate, he turned an empty lot and a few portable buildings into the city's first prep school.

Poet Provocateur Former executive Dana Gioia wants to take poetry public. Down with Ivory Tower elites. Up with bootstrap culture.

The Drinking Dilemma Stanford officials take an unusual -- and subtle -- approach to student alcohol consumption. Our reporter, a Stanford senior, goes inside the campus drinking culture.

Holding On Alzheimer's devastates families. But there can be surprising consolations, as the wife of a Stanford professor discovered.

Digest

• Sushi-themed pajamas
• Food for peace
• A survival guide for girls

Follow-Up STANFORD as matchmaker; census on target

SPORTS

• Tennis Stanford sweeps singles titles
• Men's Track and Field After 66 years, a national championship
• Sports Notebook

NEWS

• Top Jobs A philosopher for provost
• Foreign Policy The profs behind the Bush-Gore Russia debate
• Faculty Luring a cyberlaw star
• Head of the Class
• Spin-Offs Stanford gets bitten by the start-up bug
• Health Research Is back pain all in your head?
• Weekends Tribal rites
• Weekends Sending off the seniors
• Catching Up The five frosh -- all grown up
• Inquiring Minds
• Medicine Considering the alternative
• Law School Tom Campbell's tenure trade-off
• Campus Notebook
• Look Who's Talking
• Careers No room at the recruiting booth
• International Studies A Stanford scholar awaits a new trial
• ASSU Elections Voting with their fees
• Bookmarks
• Essentials What's in my backpack?
• Visitors A star-studded gathering
• Psychiatry Sex, lies and undergrads

Author, Author Catherine Chalmers photographs nature, red in tooth and claw

Imprints Have e-book, will travel

Excerpt Diary of a child anorexic

Bestsellers

Book Blurbs

• The Binding Chair, by Kathryn Harrison, '82
• The Immortal Game, by Mark Alan Coggins, '79, MS '88
• Rescue, by Elizabeth Richards, '82
• Gravity, by Tess Gerritsen, '75

First Impressions

President's Column

Who's Who

Letters to the Editor

1,000 Words

On the Job with Alex Kline
Sleuthing in San Francisco

Cardinal Numbers

E-mail from Khorol
A Peace Corps volunteer gets in touch with her inner Russian

Student Voice A Dickens of a reading group

Century at Stanford

Endnotes Just call her the anti-mom

The Notes: Tidings from classmates near and far

Time Capsule Celebrating VJ Day

Spotlight Revealing the medicine behind the magic

Spotlight All his world's a stage

Spotlight The very model of a modern major

Grad Notes

Obituaries

Remembering Fund-raiser extraordinaire Kenneth Cuthbertson