StanfordJULYToAUGUST d a 1997 y From the discovery of evidence for life on Mars and six national sports championships – not to mention a Nobel and a Pulitzer – to scientific research that will revolutionize the study of molecules and the way we relate to nature’s services, Stanford had a year to remember. Here’s a look at the main news stories.

ON CAMPUS INCLUSIVENESS FOR HUMANITIES Two years after a committee was appointed to study MORE THAN HALFWAY THERE and revise the program in Cultures, Ideas and Val- President Casper announced it during a press con- ues, the Faculty Senate on May 15 unanimously ference in April: In only 11 months, $108 million approved legislation for a new Introduction to the had been pledged as part of a campaign to raise $200 Humanities that will replace CIV as a year-long million for 300 new graduate fellowships in the sci- freshman requirement. After a two-year period of ences and engineering. transition, the program is scheduled to be fully The news got immediate national attention and implemented by the 1999-2000 academic year. for obvious reasons: The money will fund an Two new prototype courses, offered in autumn unprecedented project to insulate graduate educa- quarter 1997, will be team-taught and focus on tion from the uncertainties of federal funding. between three and five primary texts. Each course Already dwindling, federal support for research is will be limited to 250 students who will hear two projected to decline between 14 and 18 percent in lectures and meet twice weekly in small discussion real dollars by the year 2002. The program will help sections of no more than 15 students each. In a Stanford attract the best students by assuring at least departure from the CIV legislation that mandated three years of financial support in the sciences, engi- “substantial attention to the issues of race, gender neering and some social sciences. Nominated by and class,” Introduction to the Humanities will their departments and selected by faculty commit- affirm “the spirit and principle of inclusiveness.” tees, the students will receive a tuition voucher of $12,000 and a stipend of $16,000 annually. CROSSING BORDERS IN RACE AND ETHNICITY Texas businessman Robert Bass and Cisco Sys- Almost before the ink had dried on legislation for a tems Chairman John Morgridge each gave $10 mil- new program in Comparative Studies in Race and lion. President Casper urged more entrepreneurs to Ethnicity (CSRE) last November, the faculty who join in. “We are looking for help from those who designed it were fielding phone calls from other uni- benefit from our students and faculty to ensure the versities hoping to establish similar programs.

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dates from the early 1970s, when students began STANFORD MBAs SITTING PRETTY asking for programs in ethnic studies. Almost 170 Early last year the Business School mailed a long courses will be available under the CSRE umbrella questionnaire to 4,000 of its 1965 through 1989 MBA and students can major in one of four areas: Asian graduates. The results were encouraging: Stanford American studies, comparative studies in race and MBAs are professionally itinerant, financially com- ethnicity, Native American studies and Chicano/a fortable and generally pleased with their place in life studies. Al Camarillo, professor of history, was and with the preparation they got at the university. appointed head of the program. A research institute, Their median salary-plus-bonus range is $150,000 co-directed by professors of history and psycholo- to $200,000. At the 75th percentile the range is gy, will be available to graduate students. $300,000 to $500,000. One of the trends was the migration to smaller companies. The full career sur- SILICON GENEROSITY vey report can be seen on the web at http://www- The inventors of Yahoo!, the first online directory gsb.stanford.edu/ under “Employment Survey.” for the World Wide Web, donated $2 million to establish a new endowed chair in the School of CHANGING OF THE GUARD Engineering. At ages 28 and 30, Chih-Yuan “Jer- James Montoya, dean of undergraduate admission ry” Yang and David Filo, who earned master’s and financial aid, will be taking over as vice provost degrees in electrical engineering at Stanford in 1990, and dean of student affairs at the end of the acade- are the youngest individuals to have endowed a mic year. Montoya will succeed Mary Edmonds, chair at Stanford in more than two decades. The who retires after five years. Edmonds will continue founding of Yahoo! is a legend of Silicon Valley to manage a study of Stanford’s athletic department style: Yang and Filo started the guide to the web as required for National Collegiate Athletic Associa- a hobby while working toward their doctorates in tion certification. Montoya, who has been at the the Computer Systems Laboratory. The company university for five years, said he will explore “new that grew out of that lark reported revenues total- technologies to improve our services to students.” ing $8.6 million for the fourth quarter ending Dec. 31, 1996. The Yahoo! chair is one of 12 endowed TOBIAS WOLFF COMES BACK TO THE FARM professorships established this academic year, the It’s been a long time coming, but acclaimed author biggest collection since the middle of the centenni- Tobias Wolff finally has agreed to move west. He al campaign. will begin work as a tenured professor of English at

PENSION TAXES MAY these high rates, Shoven said, checks and other federal S. Lillick Professor of Law, an SOCK IT TO YOU “but the households that are spending programs by the expert on copyright law in Diligent savers beware – you affected probably account for a index. In March the Clinton cyberspace; Gretchen Daily, the can get hit with very high taxes significant portion of total administration agreed on a Bing Interdisciplinary Research if you save too much for your personal savings.” framework budget accord that Scientist in the Department of retirement in tax-deferred takes some of Boskin’s Biological Sciences, who pension plans, magazines and TALKING ABOUT TRILLIONS recommendations to reduce the studies the economics of the federal deficit into account. For environment; former student newspapers have warned their Americans may be better off Boskin, that’s not enough. “The Tiger Woods, now a pro golfer readers in the past few months. financially than they think accord did little to deal with who is turning the sport on its All were quoting from a new because the consumer price long-run budgetary problems head; Jerry Yang, MSEE '90, study of taxation on 401(k) index is overstating price that amount to trillions of one of the founders of the accounts by economists John inflation by about 1.1 percent a dollars . . . that will be driven by Internet search engine Yahoo!; Shoven, Stanford’s dean of year, a congressional upcoming demographic and Paul Romer, professor of humanities and sciences, and commission headed by Stanford transitions when the baby economics at the business Harvard’s David Wise, who and Hoover economist Michael boomers retire in the year school, whose theory on growth spends summers on campus at Boskin concluded last Names in the News 2001,” he recently wrote. argues that new ideas and high- the Hoover Institution. Shoven December. The commission’s tech innovation are key and Wise say they were report caused an uproar among production components. surprised to find that marginal retired persons’ groups and put OUR MOST FAMOUS ONES Romer also made Time’s tax rates could reach above 90 Boskin, the Tully Friedman Newsweek magazine raided list of “The Most Influential percent on inherited pensions Professor of Economics and Stanford for its “100 Americans People in America in 1997.” and 60 percent or more when senior fellow at Hoover, at the for the Next Century.” The list “His answers may just retirees or their spouses take center of national attention. The included six faculty and alumni revolutionize the study of distributions from tax-deferred Advisory Commission to Study names: Condoleezza Rice, economics,” the magazine pension accounts that have the Consumer Price Index Stanford provost and professor wrote. accumulated $1.5 million or recommended that Congress of political science, a special- more. Only a small portion of and the president act to stop ist in Soviet affairs; Paul the American work force faces annual automatic adjustment of Goldstein, the Stella W. and Ira tax brackets, Social Security

50 STANFORD TODAY July/August 1997 Trading the Beltway for Farm

everal top-ranking 1997-98 academic year, Stanford on Sept. 1. Wolff, an award-winning Washington, D.C., splitting his time between writer and one of the country’s premier short sto- insiders left the Stanford and the University of ry writers, is best known for his memoirs This nation’s capital to offer Maryland. At Stanford’s Institute for International Boy’s Life, which was made into a movie starring Stanford students their S Studies, he will deliver five Robert DeNiro, and In Pharaoh’s Army: Memo- take on government. The public lectures, which will then ries of the Lost War, an account of his experiences trappings of power left behind, be edited for publication. Payne in Vietnam as a Green Beret. For the last 17 years, they now can share their professors also typically Wolff has taught at Syracuse University in New invaluable experience: participate in the institute’s seminars, honors programs and York, where he was the university’s creative writ- William J. Perry returned in research forums. ing program director. Wolff taught at Stanford February as the Michael and from 1976 to 1978 and last visited the Farm in Barbara Berberian Professor in Michael S. Wald, the Jackson Eli December, when he taught a graduate seminar in the School of Engineering and Reynolds Professor of Law, returns to Stanford in creative writing. at the Institute for International Studies. He had been secretary September after three years as of defense since early 1994. deputy general counsel of the MEDICAL MEGA-MERGER Perry had co-directed Stanford’s Department of Health and After months of negotiations, Stanford Universi- Center for International Security Human Services and a brief and Arms Control before going stint as general manager of San ty Medical Center and the University of Califor- to Washington. Francisco’s Department of nia-San Francisco Medical Center last November Social Services. Wald is an decided to merge to create UCSF/Stanford Health Coit D. Blacker, senior fellow and expert in the areas of family Care. An overload of administrative work and deputy director of the Institute and juvenile law. pending legislation has delayed the completion of for International Studies, returned to campus in fall 1996 Deval L. Patrick, former assistant the mega-venture, scheduled for mid-July, until after a two-year stint as special attorney general for civil rights Sept. 1. The new hospital system will include Stan- assistant to the president for at the U.S. Justice Department, ford University Hospital and Clinic, Lucile Salter national security affairs and didn’t exactly take a sabbatical senior director of the Office of when he left Washington in Packard Children’s Hospital, UCSF Medical Cen- Russian, Ukrainian and January. Patrick commuted from ter and UCSF/Mount Zion Hospital. Packard and Eurasian Affairs (the same post Boston to Stanford each week Stanford hospitals merged in January. held by Provost Condoleezza teaching “Current Issues in Civil UCSF/Stanford Health Care will be “a classic Rice at the National Security Rights Law” as the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor during high-tech company,” said Peter Van Etten, the new Council during the Bush administration). Blacker is the the law school’s winter term. chief executive officer. Van Etten, the top admin- author of books and istrator at the Stanford Health Services, was monographs on security issues, Former Ambassador James appointed after UCSF’s chief executive turned down including Hostage to Revolution: Goodby, the U.S. negotiator for nuclear security and disarm- the job in February. Gorbachev and Soviet Security Policy. ament in 1995 and 1996, spent two quarters at Stanford Bill Bradley, a former New Jersey as the Payne Distinguished IN THE LABORATORY senator, will be the Payne Professor at the Institute for Distinguished Professor for the International Studies. POSSIBLE LIFE ON MARS It was the biggest science story of the year in the solar system. In August, a team of scientists, includ- uct of living organisms. Images of tiny ovals and ing several Stanford chemists, led by Richard Zare, worm shapes, about a thousand times smaller than the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Chem- most terrestrial bacteria, appeared in the press. istry, announced that they had found microscopic In addition to the news coverage, the researchers’ evidence in a Martian meteorite that strongly sug- results were met with a healthy combination of gests microbial life once existed on the Red Planet. excitement and skepticism by the global scientific In a paper published in the journal Science and community. Since then many papers have been pub- in a news conference televised around the world, the lished, attacking and supporting their conclusion. scientists explained that while they did not have a “smoking gun” or actual organism, they had enough THE SMALLEST OF THE SMALL evidence to build a compelling case that the mete- Stanford scientists helped redefine the concept of a orite had been inhabited by microscopic life when small force. Imagine a force that is roughly a bil- it was blasted from the surface of Mars about 3.6 lionth of a billionth of a pound. Until now, forces billion years ago. in this range have been undetectable, but Stanford The evidence: tiny grains of magnetite that are mechanical engineers, working with scientists at shaped identically to those created by earthly IBM’s Almaden Research Center, successfully mea- microbes, as well as other mineralogical evidence sured the so-called atto-newton forces for the first that could most easily be explained as the by-prod- time last March.

July/August 1997 STANFORD TODAY 51 OUR PULITZER PRIZE Douglas Osheroff, now and continuing achievements in recognized the excellence of A thoughtful historical analysis Stanford's J.G. Jackson and C.J. original research,” according to both Stanford faculty with no- on one of the most frequently Wood Professor of Physics, was the academy standards. The strings-attached “genius evoked terms, the “original a graduate student at Cornell academy, a private organization grants,” of $245,000 each over intent” of the Constitution, won then. But his work has had of scientists and engineers five years. The grants can be Stanford's American history some important consequences: established in 1863 by an act of used in any way by the professor, Jack N. Rakove, It has helped scientists to better Congress, named 60 new recipients. Block, who studies the Pulitzer Prize for history understand the basic physics of American members and 15 everything about tuna and this year. high-temperature super- foreign associates this year. related fish, from their genes to In the book Original conductors, and superfluid Currently, 105 Stanford faculty the way their muscles generate Meanings: Politics and Ideas in helium-3 has been used to test serve on the academy. heat, said she would apply the the Making of the Constitution, models of the primordial Nine Stanford faculty were funds to her work studying the fourth he has written, universe as it expanded and elected to the American schools of ocean fish. Smith, Rakove, the Coe Professor of cooled following the Big Bang. Academy of Arts and Sciences acclaimed for her one-woman History and American Studies, For that reason Osheroff and his this April to honor their shows Twilight: Los Angeles, Eyes on the Prizes said he attempts to reconstruct Cornell thesis advisers won the contributions to science, 1992 and Fires in the Mirror: what the nation's founders Nobel Prize for Physics last scholarship, public affairs and Crown Heights, Brooklyn and really intended when they October. the arts. The new members are: Other Identities, has been crafted the Constitution. It B. Douglas Bernheim, the Lewis working on a series of dramas LIGHTS, CAMERA: portrays a historically complex and Virginia Eaton Professor of called “On the Road: A Search IT'S THE ACADEMY AWARDS document defined by Economics; Steven Boxer, for American Character,” that compromises, class anxiety Each of the four Stanford faculty professor of chemistry; Uta explores the conflicts and and political necessity. members elected to the Francke, professor of genetics searing questions that are Rakove, who earned a doctorate National Academy of Sciences and of pediatrics and a Howard transforming American identity – in history from Harvard this April has spent years Hughes Medical Institute and American theater. University in 1975 and joined working to solve different investigator; Martin Perl, Stanford's Department of scientific riddles: Gerald R. professor of physics at the IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST Stanford Linear Accelerator History in 1980, said he spent Crabtree, an associate Eric Beerbohm, a junior majoring Center; Marjorie the “better part of a dozen investigator at the in political science, and Amori Perloff, the Sadie years” working on Original Howard Hughes Yee Mikami, a junior majoring in Dernham Patek Meanings with the hope that it Medical Institute psychology, each won $30,000 Professor of will be “the standard work for and professor Truman scholarships this year, Humanities; historians about the framing and of pathology bringing to 38 the number of Condoleezza ratification of the Constitution.” and develop- Stanford students to be so Rice, professor mental biology honored since 1977. The prizes of political AND ALSO THE NOBEL at the School are awarded annually to science and The discovery was made 24 of Medicine, undergraduates who are provost; Renato years ago in 1972: A rare type has focused committed to a career in Rosaldo, the of helium, called helium-3, on tracking the government or public interest Lucie Stern became a weird and wacky kind cellular messages and public service Professor of of liquid, called a superfluid, the immune system organizations. Anthropology; Paul M. when cooled to within two- uses to marshal its forces Sniderman, professor of political thousandths of a degree of against pathogens and science; and James A. Spudich, ON THE RHODE absolute zero. other invaders. David M. Kreps, the Douglass M. and Nola Superfluids act much the Paul E. Holden Professor of Olivia White, a senior majoring Leishman professor of differently from ordinary liquids. Economics at the Graduate in physics and mathematics, Cardiovascular Disease. The If it were possible for a person School of Business, has studied was named a 1997 Rhodes arts and sciences academy to jump into a superfluid, she the area of dynamic choice scholar. She is the 76th includes more than 200 would float but could not swim. behavior and economics in Stanford student to win a Stanford faculty among its No matter how hard she kicked which individuals make choices Rhodes award. On that same 4,000 fellows and honorary her feet or stroked with her through time. Robert L. day, Gabriela Teodorescu, a members. arms, she would go nowhere Metzenberg, visiting professor history major, and Robert Yeh, because the superfluid would of biological sciences, has who earned a degree in human dedicated his career to THE 'GENIUS' GRANTS: biology, each won British flow without any resistance past NO STRINGS ATTACHED her thrashing limbs. This total understanding the genetic Marshall Scholarships. Also, lack of viscosity, or stickiness, control of metabolism. And They couldn't be more different: four Stanford students were has some other strange Richard W. Tsien, the George D. Barbara Block, an assistant named Goldwater scholars: consequences. If you swirled a Smith Professor at the School of professor of biological sciences Felix Y. Feng, a junior in beaker of superfluid and then Medicine, has made critical at the Hopkins Marine Station, biological sciences from set it on a desk, the liquid contributions to understanding is the founder and co-director of Palo Alto; Michele Hwu, a junior would continue to spin how ion channels are involved in the Tuna Research and in biological sciences from indefinitely. If you left the beaker cellular signaling in heart and Conservation Center; Anna Seattle; Peter M. Kasson, a open, the super-slippery liquid brain cells. While their work Deavere Smith, the Ann O’Day sophomore in biological would appear to defy gravity by covers a wide range of Maples Professor in the Arts, sciences from Chapel Hill, N.C.; creeping up the sides of the interests, their careers have one blends theatrical art, social and Debleena Sengupta, a container and flowing down onto thing in common – they have all commentary, journalism and sophomore in chemistry from the table until none was left made “distinguished intimate storytelling to create a South Setauket, N.Y. inside. new form of theater. But the MacArthur Foundation

52 STANFORD TODAY July/August 1997 The secret to this delicate measurement was the has been impossible to do a tuna nose count. These fabrication of tiny silicon cantilevers that are a thou- huge ocean nomads travel thousands of miles a year sand times thinner than a human hair and invisible and scientists don’t know if the bluefins are a single to the naked eye. When a cantilever was equipped ocean-wide group or several smaller populations. with a magnetic tip and its deflection measured by Now Stanford biologist Barbara Block is leading a an optical fiber attached to an instrument called an high-tech tracking effort to find out. She is using interferometer, the silicon sliver was able to measure test-tube-size computer tags that can continuously such extraordinarily tiny magnetic forces. record a fish’s location, its temperature and other Stanford A primary reason for measuring atto-newton details about its activities. scientists and forces is to develop a new kind of microscope: a This winter, Block and colleagues from the Mon- researchers “magnetic resonance force microscope” that will terey Bay Aquarium and the National Marine Fish- grabbed headlines not only picture individual atoms in three dimen- eries Service attached tags to almost 200 tuna thanks with their dis- sions but also tell different kinds of atoms apart. The to help from Cape Hatteras, N.C. sportsfishers. The coveries: possible instrument will revolutionize the study of biologi- sportsfishers caught the giant fish, weighing 250 to life on Mars, a gene cal molecules and electronic materials. 500 pounds and pulled them on board boats where for sex in fruit flies the scientists performed a quick surgery to attach and efforts to A KNOCK-OUT STRATEGY the tags, and returned the tuna safely to the water. track tuna. Dr. Stanley N. Cohen, a professor of genetics, and ✴ Dr. Limin Li, a postdoctoral fellow, isolated a key gene involved in human breast cancer by using an innovative strategy of their invention called random homozygous knockout (RHKO). With the new method, the scientists can simultaneously inactivate, or knock out, both copies of a gene in a cell with- out knowing the gene’s identity or function. By iden- tifying the gene inactivated in cancer-forming cells, researchers can isolate genes called tumor suppres- sors, normally necessary to stop cancer. In this case, they isolated a defective gene in breast cancer that is not necessarily familial. This is significant because most breast cancers arise through spontaneous mutations rather than through inheritance. The results of their research were published Jan. 10 in the journal Cell.

SEX AND THE SINGING FLY The gene for sex was found in fruit flies, surprising even its discoverers and making headlines around the world. Geneticists had believed that no single gene could oversee a complex behavior. Then, last December, Bruce Baker’s lab at Stanford, working with scientists from three other universities, discov- ered that a gene called “fruitless” was in charge of virtually every step in the male fruit fly’s elaborate courting ritual, including his choice of a mate, his love dance and serenade, and the final sex act. Could such a gene program the rituals of human sex? The scientists don’t know yet. But they say there’s sure to be much more than genes at work shaping a human love song.

CHARLIE, PHONE HOME A single Atlantic bluefin tuna may be the world’s most valuable fish – worth $10,000 to $70,000 on the Tokyo fish market. Nobody knows for sure if current international treaties are strong enough to

PHOTOILLUSTRATIONS BY STUART BRADFORD; REFERENCE COURTESY OF STANFORD VISUAL ART SERVICES VISUAL ART OF STANFORD BRADFORD; REFERENCE COURTESY BY STUART PHOTOILLUSTRATIONS protect the tunas from over-greedy fishing. So far it PAY FOR NATURE Some of these services, including pure water and How much in dollars is the environment worth? A arable soil, may be irreplaceable at any cost. In the recent study set the price at $33 trillion for the ser- book, Daily and 30 ecologists and economists pro- vices ecosystems provide humankind. pose ways to assess “ecosystems services” and place In a pioneering book, Nature’s Services, pub- a value on them so that policy makers and business lished in February, Stanford ecologist Gretchen Dai- leaders can calculate their worth in their plans. The ly reveals that national and global economies soon authors propose privatization: Why not create rev- may have to spend trillions of dollars to replace ser- enue-producing institutions that will make it prof- vices that humans now get from nature for free. itable to invest in preserving nature’s resources?

rom an all-campus D’Souza, who authored The “Planes run out there and The team had a 2-5 record blackout to Physics End of Racism and Illiberal phones work out there. E-mail midway through the fall. Professor Doug Osheroff Education, supported Prop. works out there, so we’ll be all The game, played at winning the Nobel Prize 209, California legislation right,” President Clinton said. Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium, eliminating state and local While at Stanford the weekend was never close, with the and Chelsea Clinton F government affirmative action before making her decision, Cardinal jumping out to an early choosing the Farm, students programs. It was passed by Clinton attended a dance 17-0 lead. Cal’s attempts at a had no lack of excitement this voters in November. performance and a fraternity par- comeback fell flat. school year. These are the top Jackson did not support the ty and purchased a Boysenberry Big Game, known for newsmakers of the year, measure. He emphasized the Bliss from Jamba Juice. enthusiastic crowds that according to the Stanford need for affirmative action to sometimes get out of hand, ensure equal opportunity. was not without a taste of Daily, an independent student WAVES OF HATE newspaper published on “Most of the people in the world violence once again. A Cal yell tonight are nonwhite, young, leader – eventually cleared of campus. poor and don’t speak English, More than 300 students all charges – allegedly incited Jackson said. “We must train gathered in White Plaza on an the crowd to attack Stanford’s ANOTHER WINNER our youth to live in that world.” afternoon in April to rally Tree, Chris Cary, whose against homophobia, racism For the second year in a row, a D’Souza argued affirmative costume was torn to shreds. and sexism on campus. Stanford professor shared the action is the “wrong way to go Cary raised funds in White A rash of hate crimes had Nobel Prize in physics. Physics about moving in increments to a Plaza for a new costume, which occurred on campus during the Professor Doug Osheroff, 51, race-blind society.” debuted later in the year. month, and student emotion was one of three Americans The two were part of a ran high. named as 1996 Nobel Prize series of political speakers on TITLE AFTER TITLE campus that included “Hate breeds, and so long winners this year. Stanford’s men’s and women’s appearances by all third-party as people allow things to go volleyball teams played their presidential candidates, past them, it’s going to IN THE DARK school proud this year, both including Ross Perot and continue,” said doctoral student ending the season with national In early October, the entire Ralph Nader. Suzie Walker, one the protest university suffered a four-hour organizers. She added that the championships. They added to

The Stanford Daily’s Top Stories Top Daily’s The Stanford men’s and women’s cross- power outage after the campus PRESIDENTIAL NOD rally’s purpose was “to combat generator, Cardinal Cogen, was all hate crimes.” country titles earlier in the year. damaged by rats in the switch Of all the schools the first daugh- Among the events that Then came men's and women's gear. The outage led to ter could have chosen, Chelsea aroused student anger were an tennis – both NCAA champions continuing disruptions in Clinton chose Stanford. incident of anti-gay vandalism in – bringing the total number of electricity, air conditioning and Clinton, 17, is a National the Bollard eating club at the championships to a record- computer access during the Merit semifinalist and standout Suites, as well as racist and breaking six. days afterward. It also shut student at Washington’s Sidwell anti-gay slogans plastered on down Internet access for a host Friends School. She hopes the door of an apartment in A STAR IS BORN eventually to study medicine. Mirrielees. of Silicon Valley companies. Kate Starbird surpassed all She will become the second The two rats found in the expectations as she led the child of a sitting president to underground conduits had been WEENIES ROASTED Cardinal women’s basketball exposed to extreme temp- attend Stanford. President On Nov. 23, the Cardinal team through a nearly flawless erature and voltage. Herbert Hoover’s son Allan, football team crushed its season this year. Starbird went The incident was the first Class of ’29, attended Stanford eternal rival, California, 42-21 on to win the Naismith Player of major power outage at Stanford while his father, himself a in the 99th Big Game. the Year award and be recruited since the generator became Stanford alumnus, was The win clinched Stanford’s by the Seattle Reign. The highly the university’s main power president. second straight bowl appear- lauded team also included source in 1988. Although Stanford was ance under head coach Tyrone seniors Jamila Wideman, always under consideration, Willingham, an accomplishment Charmin Smith and Tara Clinton was expected to study POLITICS AS USUAL the Cardinal followed with a Harrington, who helped the closer to home. In addition to victory over Michigan State New team to win after win before a In the fall, author Dinesh Stanford, more than 3,000 miles Year’s Eve in El Paso, Texas. disappointing loss in the Final D’Souza and civil rights leader away from the White House, Clin- After a dismal start, Four to Old Dominion. the Rev. Jesse Jackson locked ton also considered Princeton, football finished the season horns in a debate in Memorial Yale and Brown universities. Auditorium over affirmative with a winning record, surprising action and Proposition 209. a great many fans en route.

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IN CASE YOU WERE ON THE MOON... In case you left the planet for a few days, you might have missed the fact that Tiger Woods won the Masters golf tournament, breaking records all over the course. The youngest person (21) ever to be the champion has been likened to Jesus, Mozart and Gandhi by his admirers. The former Stanford student – and if his mother gets her way, returning student – had earlier won his third consecutive U.S. Amateur title. During Woods’ two years at Stanford, he won 10 individual tournament titles, including the 1996 NCAA individual championship. Since turning pro last August he has won three PGA events and more than $1.5 million.

MAKING HISTORY Men’s volleyball won its first-ever NCAA Champi- onship in Columbus, Ohio, this May by beating its long-time nemesis UCLA in five games. The team had reached the Final Four three times before but never gotten the final victory. The Cardinal’s Matt Fuerbringer – one of the only two players in NCAA history to be a four-year All American – and Mike Hoefer combined for a block on the championship point in a dramatic rally-scoring fifth game that fea- tured nine ties. Stanford senior outside hitter Mike Lambert, a 1996 U.S. Olympian, shook off a cold spell to score five kills in the deciding game. The vic- tory gave Stanford and its head coach, Ruben Nieves, a 27-4 overall finish.

THE FOURTH CROWN Every year the national competition gets stronger in women’s volleyball, and every year Coach Don Shaw’s recruiting gets better. Kerri Walsh, who entered Stanford a year ago, earned Freshman of the Year and All American honors and helped Stanford ✴ win the NCAA Championship for the third time. In OH, SWEET 16 Stanford made the 1996 title game in December in Cleveland, Ohio, “For a few days – the most exquisite week in Farm NCAA history when Stanford beat Hawaii in three quick games. Walsh basketball history, when both women’s and men’s it racked up six led the team in kills with 17; Kristin Folkl (who was teams had reached the third round of the NCAA championships – chosen All American for the third straight year) had championship tournaments – all things were possi- men’s and women’s 16; and Debbie Lambert had 10. Stanford’s Pac-10 ble,” wrote one of our columnists in May. volleyball, cross- Conference crown was its fourth in the last six years. For the first time in 55 years, Stanford men’s country and basketball team made it to the Sweet 16. For the tennis. BIG MEET women it was their natural place. They had won For track and field Coach Vin Lananna, it was a two national championships and been in the Final soaring day at Angell Field at the Big Meet with Cal. Four six times. After winning 25 straight games the Earlier this year, both his women’s and men’s cross- women lost in the semifinals to Old Dominion 83- country teams won NCAA Championships. And 82. The men ended the season with a 12-0 home now, for the first time in 25 years, the men beat Cal, record and a 12-6 Pac-10 record. But they lost 85-78, and the women won, 84-70, ending a three- against Utah 82-77 in the final game. Coaches Tara year losing streak. Of the 36 potential points in the VanDerveer and Mike Montgomery signed 5- and throwing events, Cardinal women won 34. 6-year extensions of their contracts. ST

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