Pipe Dreams

Fresh out of Stanford, Herbert Hoover went Down Under in 1897 to scout Australia's goldfields. When he left the following yera, he was a rich man -- and a local legend

by William Coughlin

Yes, they played (and lost) a football game, but for Stanford's Rose Bowl team, that was only part of the story. One Cardinal player shares his diary.

by Charley Dean

Perplexed by the advice of child-rearing extremists, a young father discovers Stanford psychologist William Damon, a guru of "authoritative parenting."

by Tim Grieve

In a case that gripped the nation, David Lamson was charged with killing his wife in their campus home. Despite four trials and intense media coverage, the 1933 death remains a mystery.

by Bernard Butcher

He was a Marshall scholar, a college president and, finally, a top Stanford administrator. But mental illness changed everything. A victim of depression remembers his breakdown.

by Joel Smith

No longer content to merely feed 3,800 students 19 times a week, University Dining Services wants to reinvent itself as a restauranteur. The result? Hello artichokes, good-bye glop.

by Sherri Eng

A messy academic scuffle drove the Stanford anthropology department to split in two. The story behind the unusual breakup reflects a widening schism in the field.

by Mitchell Leslie

For an elite group of students, the much-hyped world of Silicon Valley is hardly theoretical. They're getting hands-on exposure to start-ups before they even finish college.

by Robert L. Strauss

She’s young, she’s impatient, she’s blunt. Susan Rice, ’86, is a different kind of diplomat.

by Martha Brant

It was a brilliant gimmick that sold well in Thailand. Surely it would take America by storm—and make this Business School graduate rich. Wouldn't it?

by Robert L. Strauss