September/October 2000

Features

COVER STORY

How Many Have You Done?

We unveil our definitive list of 101 things -- from fountain-hopping to library-napping -- that students must do to fully experience life at Stanford. How do you score?

Making a Splash Down Under

Four dozen Stanford athletes hope to swim, run and jump their way to Olympic gold in Sydney. Meet a cyclist who lives in a van, a sprinter running for president and a fencer who carries a stuffed frog.

Odd Man In

As the son of a New Deal icon, Harold Ickes once wanted nothing to do with politics. Yet he ended up as one of the most influential Democrats of his generation. His latest assignment: getting Hillary Clinton elected to the U.S. Senate.

In Praise of Spoken Soul

Four years after the controversy over Ebonics, a professor of linguistics and his journalist son explain why black English thrives -- and why it should be celebrated.

The Tyrone Zone

Magnetic, soft-spoken and hypercompetitive, head football coach Tyrone Willingham now has a Rose Bowl to his credit. So why isn't this man smiling?

Columns and Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

The More Things Change . . .

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Setting Out on the Journey

1,000 WORDS

Chute Alors!

ON THE JOB

The Exec Who Downsized Himself

with Henry Muller

BRIGHT IDEAS

Cuba's Lost Art Schools

Unearthing Cuba's lost art schools

STUDENT VOICE

Mom, Dad: Meet the Real Me

The truth behind Parents' Weekend

END NOTES

Blue and Gold and Red All Over

What's blue and gold and red all over?

Farm Report

Digest

From TV Star to Reporter

Mentoring an NYPD Blue star

Chelsea Joins the Fray

Chelsea stops out

How the West Was Fun

An unlikely plaque for Leland Stanford

FOLLOW-UP

Wanted: PhDs. Seriously.

After decades of slow growth, colleges gear up to hire humanities PhDs

News

ATHLETICS

Post No Billboards

Saying no to stadium ads

FACULTY

Physics Loses a Young Star

A freak accident takes a physicist

GENETICS

Tiny Tools for Detangling DNA

Stanford's page in the book of life

ETHNICITY

Celebrating 30 Years of Powwows and Progress

Three decades of American Indian solidarity

WEEKENDS

Advantage, Venus

EVENTS

A United Nations of Film

A U.N. film festival finds a campus home

DRAMA

The Playwright's the Thing

Amy Freed, comic playwright with a twist

PERFORMING ARTS

Jazzing It Up in Europe

PHILOSOPHY

Making Logic Homework Rational

Making logic homework rational

BIOLOGY

The Gecko's Sticky Secret

The sticky truth about geckos

TOP JOBS

All the President's Men and Women

Changing the administrative guard

STUDENT LIFE

At the Gay Center, New Pride

Renewed pride at the gay center

Sports

BASEBALL

Disappointment in the Dugout

When championships slip away

SAILING

Riding a Winning Wind

Breezing into a new season

Shelf Life

IMPRINTS

My E-Book Didn't Click

The little e-book that couldn't

AUTHOR, AUTHOR

Bard Without Borders

From Russia's avant-garde, with love

Class Notes

Profiles

TIME CAPSULE

T is for Touchdown

SPOTLIGHT: BOB TYSON, '67, MFA '86

The Lost Art of Looking

Born photographer

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO . . . KEN SHROPSHIRE, '77

Postgame Analysis

Football player

SPOTLIGHT: MARY-CHRISTINE SUNGAILA, '88

Standing Up for Women

Has friends in high places

Farewells

REMEMBERING JUNE DORIS BORINA SCHNACKE, '40, JD '42

DA with a Winning Way

California's first female DA