COVER STORY The
Far Side of the Farm
Squirt-gun assassins. Go-naked rituals.
Dorms nicknamed after aging Scottish actors.
Here are 19 examples of surprising, delightful
and outrageous Stanford phenomena that keep
life interesting.
What Freshmen
Need to Know
While there is little argument about the need to teach
humanities to first-year students, there is plenty of
disagreement about how to do it. After five years of
tweaking, the latest pedagogical approach, Introduction
to the Humanities, has begun to win converts. BY
Diane Rogers
The Full
Monty
Embracing rather than lamenting Stanford’s unflinching
admissions policies, men’s basketball coach Mike
Montgomery has built what nobody thought was possible:
a powerhouse program. Not bad for a guy who expected
to be a high school P.E. teacher. BY
Kelli Anderson
Fifteen
Scenes
This year’s fiction contest winner traces a son’s
gradual realization of loss—one episode at a time.
BY Sam Warren
