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
