Worth a Glam

With campuses in Russia, Japan and Chile, the University is putting (almost) the whole world in students' hands.

by Theresa Johnston

In a speech to the Faculty Senate last October, Stanford President Gerhard Casper defended affirmative action. Excerpts:

In 1965, a son of the famous Maytag washer-dryer family bought an ailing beer company and found his calling.

by Robert Sullivan

Dreading his 20th reunion, a cynical alum is surprised to discover how much common ground he shares with his former classmates -- and how much he learns about himself.

by Matthew Soyster

A look at the history of race and gender-based preference programs at Stanford and how they work today.

by Bob Cohn

by Charles J. Ogletree Jr.

The University has increased the number of female and minority students but has had less success changing the composition of the faculty.

If, after 25 years, affirmative action has not succeeded in ending discrimination, perhaps it is time to try something else.

by David Sacks and Peter Thiel

by Bruce Anderson

In October 1994, Stephen Breyer took his seat as the newest justice on the Supreme Court. A proven consensus builder, Breyer brings to the nation’s highest court a belief that the law requires both a “heart and a head.”

by Bob Cohn