STANFORD Magazine: July/August


JULY / AUGUST 2006

Boot camp for dads
Tips for travelers
What You Don’t Know About pirates camp
Cardinal Numbers

Fixing California’s schools
From Darfur to Stanford

On the road with the tennis team

Glenn Matsumura

Charlotte on celluloid

Summer playbill: wicked wit

The canon for kids

Shelf Life

The first words on the first page of Stanford’s history are owed to a child. When Leland Stanford Jr. died at age 15, his heartbroken parents declared that henceforth “the children of California shall be our children.” ¶ Today, work on behalf of children the world over goes on in every corner of the University. And while some of the challenges they face were unimagined 115 years ago, the children are not so different. ¶ In these pages we have tried to convey the experience of children via memoir, analysis, description and images. Who they are (and were), what they love, how they live, what they need. And how they engage Stanford people. ¶ Here’s to the kid in all of us.

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Enter STANFORD's annual fiction contest! The deadline is November 6. The first-place winner will receive $750, and the story will be published next spring.

Century at Stanford

Letters to the Editor

1,000 Words

The dish on alumni near and far

Barbara Ries

First Impressions The best age? Pick one

President's Column In athletics, the right person for the job

End Note I liked to watch

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