Features
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?
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Al Bello/Allsport
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.
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Photo: Max Hirshfeld
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.
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Linda Cicero
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.
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Photo: Glenn Matsumura
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?