January/February 2009

Features

COVER STORY

'At the Hands of the Radicals'

In an excerpt from his new memoir, Stanford in Turmoil, former provost and president Richard Lyman analyzes the events surrounding a student takeover of Encina Hall in 1969, and reflects on a divisive era.

View Finder

Gliding a few hundred feet above the African continent in a contraption of his own design, photographer George Steinmetz produces images of beauty and wonder. And once in a while he goes headfirst into a sand dune.

The Human Whisperer

In an age when lab tests and diagnostic protocols dominate, doctor/author Abraham Verghese has opened a new chapter on an old practice: bedside medicine. His students are listening, one patient at a time.

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

A Campus in Crisis

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

What Leadership Looks Like

1,000 WORDS

Banner Moment

END NOTE

Turn, Turn, Turn

Red All Over

Farm Report

Planet Cardinal

BRIGHT IDEAS

The Mixtape Master

Hit lists get personal

BEING THERE

A School Rises

Tough lessons in the Big Easy

DEPARTMENT OF GOOD WORKS

Baby, It's Cold Outside

A blanket solution for preemies

Showcase

Modern Dance Masala

Moving toward hybrid dance

Envisioning Chinatown

Chinatown, the long view

A Class Act

FDR, working man

Class Notes

Profiles

TIME CAPSULE: AL ZELVER, '41, MA '49

I Think I'm Speaking Japanese

SNAPSHOT: ANNA MONTENEGRO DAL PINO, MS '88

A Different Perspective

SPOTLIGHT: FRITZ STAHR, '81

Into the Deep

TIME CAPSULE: SUMMER MOORE BATTE, '99

E-Baby

Farewells

The Trail Blazer

Nancy Alene Hall Hicks Maynard

Champion of the Arts

Ruth Levison Halperin

The Lifesaver

Joan Elizabeth Hodgman