Making a Splash Down Under Four dozen Stanford athletes hope to swim, run and jump their way to Olympic gold in Sydney. Meet a cyclist who lives in a van, a sprinter running for president and a fencer who carries a stuffed frog. Glory Years From a 1924 sweep of the diving medals to Kerri Strug's legendary vault in Atlanta, the Cardinal has been an enduring Olympic power. Bringing the Games Home Two graduates are leading the effort to lure the 2012 extravaganza to the Bay Area.

In Praise of Spoken Soul Four years after the controversy over Ebonics, a professor of linguistics and his journalist son explain why black English thrives&emdash;and why it should be celebrated.

The Tyrone Zone Magnetic, soft-spoken and hypercompetitive, head football coach Tyrone Willingham now has a Rose Bowl to his credit. So why isn't this man smiling? Plus: A 325-Pound Pianist (and Lineman) from Delaware Freshman Kwame Harris joins a promising 2000 squad.

Odd Man In As the son of a New Deal icon, Harold Ickes once wanted nothing to do with politics. Yet he ended up as one of the most influential Democrats of his generation. His latest assignment: getting Hillary Clinton elected to the U.S. Senate.

How Many Have You Done? We unveil our definitive list of 101 things -- from fountain-hopping to library-napping -- that students must do to fully experience life at Stanford. How do you score?

Digest

• Chelsea stops out
• Mentoring an NYPD Blue star
• An unlikely plaque for Leland Stanford

Follow-Up After decades of slow growth, colleges gear up to hire humanities PhDs

SPORTS

• Baseball When championships slip away
• Sailing Breezing into a new season

NEWS

• Athletics Saying no to stadium ads
• Faculty A freak accident takes a physicist
• Genetics Stanford's page in the book of life
• Head of the Class
• Ethnicity Three decades of American Indian solidarity
• Events A U.N. film festival finds a campus home
• Drama Amy Freed, comic playwright with a twist
• Inquiring Minds
• Philosophy Making logic homework rational
• Biology The sticky truth about geckos
• Campus Notebook
• Student Life Renewed pride at the gay center
• Syllabi
• Top Jobs Changing the administrative guard

Imprints The little e-book that couldn't

Author, Author From Russia's avant-garde, with love

Bestsellers

Book Blurbs

• Memoirs of a Cold War Son, by Gaines Post Jr., PhD ’69
• Breaking the Earthenware Jar: Lessons from South Asia to End Violence Against Women and Girls, by Ruth Finney Hayward, ’61
• The Men of Secession and Civil War, 1859-1861, by James L. Abraham, MA ’74, PhD ’77
• Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market, by Alexandra Chasin, MA ’87, PhD ’93

First Impressions The more things change…

President's Column

Who's Who

Letters to the Editor

1,000 Words

On the Job with Henry Muller
The exec who downsized himself

Cardinal Numbers

Bright Ideas Unearthing Cuba's lost art schools

Student Voice The truth behind Parents' Weekend

Endnotes What's blue and gold and red all over?

The Notes: Tidings from classmates near and far

Whatever Happened to . . . football player Ken Shropshire

Spotlight Mary-Christine Sungaila has friends in high places

Spotlight Bob Tyson, born photographer

Grad Notes

Obituaries

Remembering June Schnacke, California's first female DA