July/August 2000

Features

COVER STORY

The Vexing Legacy of Lewis Terman

He devoted his life to promoting smart kids and launched a study still under way at Stanford, but the gentle mentor also favored controlled human breeding. Looking back, what do we make of the early psychologist and his work?

Eastside Story

As a Stanford student, Chris Bischof tutored elementary school kids in East Palo Alto. As a graduate, he turned an empty lot and a few portable buildings into the city's first prep school.

'The Last Great Newspaperman'

He hunts, surfs and rides a Harley. But Otis Chandler made his name turning his family's Los Angeles Times into a journalistic powerhouse. The paper's sale this spring marked the end of an era.

The Drinking Dilemma

Stanford officials take an unusual -- and subtle -- approach to student alcohol consumption. Our reporter, a Stanford senior, goes inside the campus drinking culture.

Poet Provocateur

Former executive Dana Gioia wants to take poetry public. Down with Ivory Tower elites. Up with bootstrap culture.

Holding On

Alzheimer's devastates families. But there can be surprising consolations, as the wife of a Stanford professor discovered.

Columns and Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

That Would Make a Good Story

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

A Castle in Spain

1,000 WORDS

Algorithms Al Fresco

ON THE JOB

Sleuthing in San Francisco

With Alex Kline

E-MAIL FROM KHOROL

Finding My Inner Russian

A Peace Corps volunteer gets in touch with her inner Russian

STUDENT VOICE

It Was the Best of Times

A Dickens of a reading group

END NOTES

Confessions of an Anti-Mom

Just call her the anti-mom

Farm Report

News

FOREIGN POLICY

The Profs Behind the Pols

The profs behind the Bush-Gore Russia debate

FACULTY

The Law School Signs a Top Free Agent

Luring a cyberlaw star

SPIN-OFFS

Stanford's Slice of the Start-Up Pie

Stanford gets bitten by the start-up bug

WEEKENDS

Tribal Rites

WEEKENDS

The Class of 2000 Exits Smiling

Sending off the seniors

LAW SCHOOL

Now It's Up to the Voters

Tom Campbell's tenure trade-off

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

A New Trial Brings New Hope

A Stanford scholar awaits a new trial

CAREERS

So Many Recruiters, So Little Space

No room at the recruiting booth

VISITORS

For Alumni Volunteers, Star Treatment

A star-studded gathering

Sports

TENNIS

Serving Up Three Championships

Stanford sweeps singles titles

MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD

After 66 Years, They're No. 1

After 66 years, a national championship

Shelf Life

AUTHOR, AUTHOR

Let Us Prey

Catherine Chalmers photographs nature, red in tooth and claw

IMPRINTS

No Jacket Required

Have e-book, will travel

Class Notes

Profiles

SPOTLIGHT: GEORGE A. ULETT, '40

The Medical Mystery Tour

Revealing the medicine behind the magic

TIME CAPSULE

Calling 'All Peace-Loving Peoples'

Celebrating VJ Day

SPOTLIGHT: ROBERT KELLEY, '68

Making a Scene

All his world's a stage

SPOTLIGHT: ANNE MARTIN WEINBERG, '89

One of the Few

The very model of a modern major

Farewells

REMEMBERING KENNETH MACLEAN CUTHBERTSON, '40, MBA '47, 1919-2000

One for the Record Books

Fund-raiser extraordinaire