Photo
credits
From top to bottom: Linda Cicero (2); Sociology
Department; Adam Tow; Adam Tow/Stanford Daily;
Rod Searcey; HOPES; Charles Schoonover; Peter Fox;
Linda Cicero. Right: Diane Thornton.
Religious
denominations with student groups at Stanford: 50
Percent
of college students who say they have discussed
religion or spirituality with friends: 78
Requests
in 2003 by incoming freshmen to be contacted by
the campus Catholic group (the most-requested denominational
group): 234
Bibles
distributed worldwide by the Gideons every week: 1,000,000
Year
that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang “Hail,
Stanford, Hail,” leading to the popular acceptance
of the Stanford Hymn: 1902
Sources:
Office for Religious Life, Higher Education Research
Institute at UCLA, U.S. Department of State, The
Gideons International, A Chronology of Stanford
University and its Founders.
