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September 30, 2026
All Right Now
Donors play an essential part in medical education.
Poet Provocateur
Former executive Dana Gioia wants to take poetry public. Down with Ivory Tower elites. Up with bootstrap culture.
by Cynthia Haven
The Drinking Dilemma
Stanford officials take an unusual -- and subtle -- approach to student alcohol consumption. Our reporter, a Stanford senior, goes inside the campus drinking culture.
by Jim Tankersley
'The Last Great Newspaperman'
He hunts, surfs and rides a Harley. But Otis Chandler made his name turning his family's Los Angeles Times into a journalistic powerhouse. The paper's sale this spring marked the end of an era.
by Alex Beam
Eastside Story
As a Stanford student, Chris Bischof tutored elementary school kids in East Palo Alto. As a graduate, he turned an empty lot and a few portable buildings into the city's first prep school.
by Deborah Claymon
The Vexing Legacy of Lewis Terman
He devoted his life to promoting smart kids and launched a study still under way at Stanford, but the gentle mentor also favored controlled human breeding. Looking back, what do we make of the early psychologist and his work?
by Mitchell Leslie
It's All in the Cards
Building a better ticketing system
by Christine Foster