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ROSE BOWL WOES After 28 years of frustration, you would think the Rose Bowl team deserves more recognition than a two-page article (Farm Report, January/February), especially in an issue that devoted six pages to Stanford's "new and improved" Dining Service. I mean, how good can beef stroganoff cooked for thousands really get? Rod Turner, '85 Corona del Mar, California Editor's note: We would have loved to include substantial coverage of the Rose Bowl game in the January issue, but the timing made it impossible. By the time Stanford faced off against Wisconsin, the magazines had already left the post office. The March issue includes a player's five-page Rose Bowl diary.   LEARNING FROM ZEBRAS I really enjoyed Joel Smith's "Falling Apart" (January/February), having had not-quite-so-severe problems myself. I have been well-stabilized the past few years, thanks in part to reading Stanford biological sciences professor Robert Sapolsky's Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, which explains why the panic-feed foward mechanism is a more helpful response on the savanna, where animals may face immediate danger, than in modern human society. I think this book is underappreciated. Paul Golovin, Gr. '76 Tempe, Arizona   GREETINGS FROM TEXASVILLE I love the article on Larry McMurtry ("Three Days in McMurtryville," November/December). I live in a small Texas town about 35 miles from McMurtryville. Cheryl Carter Electra, Texas Address correspondence to: Letters to the Editor STANFORD Bowman Alumni House Stanford, CA 94305-4005 Or fax to (650) 725-8676; or e-mail to stanford.magazine@stanford.edu. Letters may be edited for length, clarity and civility.