March/April 2002

Features

COVER STORY

Mighty Mouse

They were young, hungry and oozing talent. And when this group of product designers from Stanford developed the first Apple mouse in 1980, they also became revolutionaries.

Our Town

Is Palo Alto a college town? Was it ever? Take a jaunt down University Avenue, past and present, and a look at students' ties to the town Leland Stanford built.

The Company She Keeps

Carey Perloff rebuilt San Francisco's Geary Theater and re-energized an actor's conservatory. Ten years after she began this dramatic turnaround, gutsy artistic choices and an innovative style are again bringing down the house.

This Is the Side of the Road

Our annual fiction-contest winner features a young traveler teetering on the edge as her friend and companion slips away.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Gone are the fat paychecks and dreams of early retirement, but so are the 80-hour work weeks. In the aftermath of the latest boom-to-bust cycle, some alumni learned that getting ahead wasn't worth leaving everything else behind.

Columns and Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

The Ground Feels Pretty Good

Getting grounded

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Supporting Students' Incredible Journeys

Students' incredible journeys

1,000 WORDS

Morning Glory

STUDENT VOICE

Finding Our Groove

Just the right chord

ON THE JOB

Let's Make a Deal

Here's the deal

BRIGHT IDEAS

Wise Up, Dumb Machine

Get smart

END NOTE

Just the Nourishment I Needed

Spiritual nourishment

Red All Over

Puzzling Success

That's puzzling

Going After the Bad Guys

A vote of confidence

Hmmm . . . Where Did He Go?

Down off the pedestal

Creature Feature

Sponge-worthy

They've Been Around

Worldly travelers

Farm Report

News

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Rallying Together

Feeling protective

TECHNOLOGY

The Little Laboratory that Could

Small ambitions

EXTRACURRICULARS

'A Real Labor of Love'

Cleaning details

PHILOSOPHY

Giving 'Car Talk' Some Competition

Kant touch this

MEDICINE

A Matter of Life and Death

Death with dignity

ETHICS

Getting Past the Politics

Do you copy?

SEMINAR ROOM

Pondering Tough Questions with Madame Boyi

En français

EDUCATION

Teaching Arkansas Children Well

Internet ready

IN PRINT

Of Professors and Property

Who owns what?

PASSIONS

The Cooking Protege

Flash in the pan

Sports

FOOTBALL

Meet the Coach

Our new Buddy

VOLLEYBALL

'It Had a Fairy-Tale Sense to It'

A killer season

ATHLETICS

One Sport Isn't Enough? How About Two?

Crossover artists

TRACK AND FIELD

Building a Distance-Running Dynasty

A swift ascent

Showcase

PHOTOGRAPHY

Surreality Check

Image enhancement

NOW PLAYING

Of Brooks and Swimming

Sound waves

NOTEWORTHY

In Tune with the Times

Classical meets modern

HORIZONS

Brushing Up on History

Showing their colors

REVIEW

Strange Bedfellows

The China question

Shelf Life

New books by Stanford authors

Class Notes

Profiles

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO . . . STUART KELLNER, '69

Sharing His Story

Football player

SNAPSHOT: STEPHEN M. BROOKS, '72

Magic Moment

Sight manager

SPOTLIGHT: SEKRET TAMARA SNEED

Paperback Writer

Very romantic

Farewells

REMEMBERING W. GLENN CAMPBELL, 1924-2001

The Man Behind the Institution

Hoover stalwart