The Pen Pal President

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

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 Charles J. Ogletree Jr.