March/April 2008

There’s Good News and Bad News Persis Drell takes the helm at SLAC amid harsh budget cuts—and an exciting breakthrough technology. The Way We Read Now News that Meyer Library will be demolished, and that the loss of space for some 600,000 volumes will be partly addressed by off-campus storage and digitization, has sparked debate on the pros and cons of the digital library. Scholars Matt Jockers and Helen B. Brooks offer their opinions. Pyongyang Probe North Korea joins the curriculum. Campus Confidential Everything she wanted to know about campus coupling—and wasn’t afraid to ask. Finding Their Voices Native American poets flourish on the Farm.       Photo credits Left column, top to bottom: L.A. Cicero, Courtesy Stanford Archives Right column, top to bottom: Associated Press, L.A. Cicero, Rod Searcey          Privacy Policy ©2008 Stanford Alumni Association