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Michele Judd finds a way to keep Altadenans together.
Battered by cystic fibrosis, she had her first surgery at age 7 and a lung transplant at 13. Although she was in and out of hospitals for all of her 21 years, Leslie Hotson didn't let the struggle to live get in the way of having a life.
by Jocelyn Wiener
While there is little argument about the need to teach humanities to first-year students, there is plenty of disagreement about how to do it. After five years of tweaking, the latest pedagogical approach, Introduction to the Humanities, has begun to win converts.
by Diane Rogers
Squirt-gun assassins. Go-naked rituals. Dorms nicknamed after aging Scottish actors. Here are 19 examples of surprising, delightful and outrageous Stanford phenomena that keep life interesting.