Flipping the Bird

A freak accident takes a physicist

Saying no to stadium ads

Magnetic, soft-spoken and hypercompetitive, head football coach Tyrone Willingham now has a Rose Bowl to his credit. So why isn't this man smiling?

by Kelli Anderson

Four years after the controversy over Ebonics, a professor of linguistics and his journalist son explain why black English thrives -- and why it should be celebrated.

by John Russell Rickford and Russell John Rickford

As the son of a New Deal icon, Harold Ickes once wanted nothing to do with politics. Yet he ended up as one of the most influential Democrats of his generation. His latest assignment: getting Hillary Clinton elected to the U.S. Senate.

by John F. Harris

Four dozen Stanford athletes hope to swim, run and jump their way to Olympic gold in Sydney. Meet a cyclist who lives in a van, a sprinter running for president and a fencer who carries a stuffed frog.

by Sherri Eng

We unveil our definitive list of 101 things -- from fountain-hopping to library-napping -- that students must do to fully experience life at Stanford. How do you score?

Just call her the anti-mom

by Susan Caba

A Dickens of a reading group

by Irene Noguchi