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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

They called it the Monster: a two-mile linear accelerator designed to study the basic building blocks of matter. Forty years later, physicist Wolfgang Panofsky recalls the drama surrounding the creation of SLAC.

by Bernard Butcher