September/October 2002

Features

Holding On

While parents wait and hope, doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital perform delicate operations on the world's smallest humans, seriously ill infants as much as four months premature. The success of their efforts has pushed neonatal medicine into a new frontier.

Tales from the RF Apartment

After 16 years of living in an all-frosh dorm, Linda Paulson still marvels at the peculiar rhythms and revelations of student life. This longtime resident fellow ruminates on freshmen's relationship to Proust, the rebellions they foment late at night and the 3 a.m. knock on the door.

Hats Off

Here's to that most essential collegiate accessory, the baseball cap, and a few devoted owners whose cherished headwear goes way over the top.

Family Man

David Chase never wanted to be a TV guy. But these days his mob drama The Sopranos is one of the most influential, talked-about series of all time—and he has a lot to say about what's on television.

Food Fight

Nutrition experts can't seem to agree on what kind of diet is best for a healthy heart. To help sort it out, the Medical School invited three of the nation's leading authorities to a no-holds-barred debate

Columns and Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

The Latest on Early Arrivals

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

'The First Great American University'

So far, so fast

1,000 WORDS

Easy Rider

STUDENT VOICE

Madagascar and Me

Mad about Madagascar

ON THE JOB

Looking Out for Liberty

The right stuff

BEING THERE

Return Passage

Prisoners, past and present

END NOTE

A Blonde's Bombshell

Perfectly normal

Red All Over

A Buoyant Idea

A real corker

Miranda Rules

Pinning her hopes

FOLLOW-UP

Here to Stay?

Visa worries

Farm Report

News

BIOENGINEERING

A New Department Fuses Medicine and High Tech

Scientific melting pot

HEALTH RESEARCH

Halting the Hormone Study

Hold the hormones

FRESHMEN

Branner Shuts!

MUSIC

Boom Times for Taiko

Just yell

ECONOMICS

What to Tell High-Schoolers

Making it real

FACULTY

Settling In, Stanford Style

A business briefing

MARINE BIOLOGY

Fishing for Global-Warming Clues

Testing the waters

TECHNOLOGY

'Total Access' for the Disabled

Very personal computers

MEDICINE

Simulating a Difficult Exam

Introducing the e-Pelvis

Sports

PREVIEW

The Playmakers

What's up for fall

ATHLETICS

What Do Faculty Have to Do with the NCAA?

Faculty enforcer

Showcase

COLLECTIONS

Jane Stanford and the Glass Menagerie

Jane's glass menagerie

NOTEWORTHY

Tuned to a Different Pitch

This pitcher rocks

SHORT TAKE

Tracking Lucidity

REVIEW

Not Mentioned in Dispatches

Covering Vietnam

Shelf Life

New books by Stanford authors

Class Notes

Profiles

SPOTLIGHT: LOIS, '55, AND JON FOYT, '53, MBA '55

The Two Faces of Loisette

Loisette, unveiled

SPOTLIGHT: HENRY Z 'HANK' JONES JR., '63

Returning to His Roots

Genealogy on a hunch

TURNING POINT: KAY, '69, AND RANDY MORRIS, '70, MD '76

Science and Recycling, Swiss Style

Basel bound

TURNING POINT: CONNIE HOWARD, '91

All for a Song

Networking in Nashville

Farewells

REMEMBERING RICHARD SPENCER 'DICK' BULLIS, '37

Our Fiercest Watchdog

"Go get 'em!"