January/February 2002

Features

COVER STORY

Life in the Colonies

They're tiny, dimwitted and utterly unmanaged, so how do ants accomplish so much? After two decades of deep digging, researcher Deborah Gordon may be close to understanding ants' collective intelligence and what we can learn from it.

Broken Promise

Despite the poverty and neglect of his boyhood, one Salvadoran street child aimed high. But as a young ethnographer learned, 11-year-old Noe never had a chance.

Life of the Party

A confidante and friend to leading members of the left's intelligentsia in the 1920s, later a stalwart presence at the Hoover Institution, Ella Wolfe was usually found behind the scenes. Now, her personal papers reveal the remarkable woman few people really knew.

Angel Island: Breaking the Silence

Detained at a desolate outpost in San Francisco Bay, Chinese immigrants in the early 20th century faced humiliation and despair in an America eager to keep them out. Thanks to a Stanford graduate, their stories are finally being told.

Corps Curriculum

Thirty-two years ago, ROTC left campus in a firestorm of antiwar sentiment. Today, the program still attracts students from the Farm, who commute to nearby campuses to participate. Are they getting enough credit?

Columns and Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Stuck with the Sixties

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Embracing the Need to 'Learn and Relearn'

'Learn and relearn'

E-MAIL FROM SRI LANKA

A Gracious People, Living with Terror

Terror and tenacity on the other side of the world

ON THE JOB

Man on the Street

David Brancaccio, Marketplace's streetwise host

EXAMINED LIFE

What a Trip

Ken Kesey's wild ride

END NOTE

Other People's Lives

Whose life is this?

Red All Over

She's in the Money

Jeopardized

Nobel Pursuits

Swedish gold

Unwanted Exposure

Clothes-minded

FOLLOW-UP

Outlasting the Taliban

Something about Mary

Farm Report

News

SEPTEMBER 11

'Doing Something to Help Now'

Faculty get busy

TOP JOBS

At Student Affairs, the Psychologist Is In

A new face in student affairs

FACILITIES

The Law School Gets a Makeover

An upgrade for the Law School

RELIGIOUS LIFE

Ministering to the Olympics

The spirit of the Olympics

SEMINAR ROOM

Seeking Deeper Understanding of the Koran

It sounds prophetic

MEMORIALS

Remembering the Victims

Honoring five who perished

WEEKENDS

A Reunion for the Record Books

A record reunion

EDUCATION

Reinterpreting Giftedness

A new interpretation

Sports

FOOTBALL

A Bowl-Worthy Season

They deserved better

ROWING

They Call Them the Lightweights-But Watch Out

Lightweight, heavy-duty

CREW

Setting the Pace

Pint-sized pacesetters

Showcase

MOTION PICTURES

What I Saw at the Revolution

Trying to beat the system

THEATER

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Graduation

Leaving Stanford to sing

NOW PLAYING

Having His Way with Words

The word on Hwang

Class Notes

Profiles

SPOTLIGHT: RUTH V. GORDON, '48, MS '49

A Woman Unbound

Engineering change

SPOTLIGHT: LOU LIPPMAN, '62

Krazy Over Klezmer

Oy! Listen up

SNAPSHOT: NANCY GALIATA SANCHEZ, '71

Baby Talk

Hey, baby

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO . . . TONY STONE, '88

Giving Credit Where It's Due

water polo player Tony Stone

Farewells

REMEMBERING ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN, 1920-2001

Freedom Preacher

REMEMBERING THERESA LARSEN CRENSHAW, '64, 1942-2001

Sexual Revolutionary