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• Preface
• First letters home
• Beat Cal
• History at the Farm
• Student life in the main
• Letters from the overseas campuses
• Resilience
• Ruminations
• Final letters home
• Snapshots from the Quad.

"[This book], a collection of the hand-written and electronic correspondence of generations of Stanford students, recalls the common human experience of breaking out and trying to find our way as we observe the world around us and look over a shoulder toward home. From first letters home freshman year and firsthand accounts of historical events to questions about self and questions about laundry, these letters, emails, and texts evoke a sense of the heritage, history, and shared experience common to college students everywhere, and Stanford students in particular. Walk the Quad with Lucy, member of the Pioneer Class, who headed west to Stanford in 1891, and Laine, feisty member of the Class of 2016. Live history as Hope celebrates the end of World War l, throw snowballs in the Quad with Elaine in 1962, celebrate with Burnham when he makes the newspaper staff on his second try in 1923, root for the Cardinal-er, Trees? at yet another Big Game, name the year. [This book] asks us to explore what Stanford is, has been, and can be to ourselves and to others and to reflect on how it matters to us still. From desks, benches, and patches of grass across campus and the decades, Stanford's students challenge, engage, and inspire you just like the gang back in the dorm. One person's correspondence tells one Stanford story. Together, they tell all of ours."-- Book jacket.

• Transmittal letter
• Santa Clara County application forms
• Project description
• Background conditions report
• Anticipated changes to population
• Housing
• Transportation impact analysis
• Transportation : vehicle miles traveled
• Greenhouse gases and energy technical analyses
• Air quality and health risk assessment
• Historic resources
• Archaeological resources
• Water supply assessment
• Biological resources
• Wetlands delineation
• Parks and recreational facilities analysis
• Outreach
• List of linked background documents.

• Spring 1965 : an analytic and autobiographical account (2008)
• Berkeley in crisis and change (1973)
• Surprises at Berkeley : anticipating, understanding, and coping with them (2004)
• The politics of ambivalence : diversity in the research universities (1994)
• Problematics of affirmative action : a view from California (1999)
• California : a multisegment system (1993)
• Governing the University of California (1994)
• Report of the Commission on Education (1981)
• Report of the Task Force on Lower Division Education (1986)
• Intercollegiate athletics at Berkeley : a report of the Chancellor's Blue Ribbon commission on Intercollegiate Athletics (1991)
• Thanksgiving Dinner Report (1977).

These invaluable essays offer an insider's perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds new light on a full range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth century. Smelser considers student activism - in particular the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley - political surprises, affirmative action, multiculturalism and the culture wars, and much more. As one of the leading sociologists of his generation, Smelser is uniquely qualified to convey and analyze the complexities of administrating a first-rate and very large university as it encounters a highly politicized environment.
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• The Sterling-Terman era
• Early Vietnam stirrings, Dean Allen's departure, David Harris's arrival, and Stanford's first sit-in
• How I became provost
• The stage is set
• The Martin Luther King Jr. crisis
• The first Old Union sit-in
• Classified research, SRI, and the coming of Ken Pitzer
• AEL, Encina, and calling the police
• Ken Pitzer's departure
• My presidency begins, and the Franklin Case is initiated
• The Franklin Case and after
• Trying to make sense of the campus unrest.

Stanford in Turmoil is a rare insider's look at one school's experience of dramatic political unrest during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It provides a unique perspective on the events that roiled the campus during this period-a period in which the author, Richard Lyman, served as the university's vice president, provost, and then president. In a cross between memoir and history, the book guides us through major cases of arson, including the destruction of the president's office, the notorious "Cambodia Spring" of 1970-when dozens of students and police were injured-and the forced resignation of another Stanford president after just nineteen months in office. Remarkably, Stanford's prestige and academic strength grew unabated throughout this time of crisis. How this came to pass is the central theme of Stanford in Turmoil.
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Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco. The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her death in Hawaii led to a coroner's jury verdict of murder - by strychnine poisoning. Stanford University President David Starr Jordon promptly issued a press release claiming that Mrs. Stanford had died of heart disease, a claim that he supported by challenging the skills and judgment of the Honolulu physicians and toxicologist. Jordan's diagnosis was largely accepted and promulgated in many subsequent historical accounts. In this book, the author reviews the medical reports in detail to refute Dr Jordan's claim and to show that Mrs Stanford indeed died of strychnine poisoning. His research reveals that the professionals who were denounced by Dr Jordan enjoyed honorable and distinguished careers. He concludes that Dr Jordan went to great lengths, over a period of nearly two decades, to cover up the real circumstances of Mrs Stanford's death.
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Summary available via the World Wide Web, http://www.cpec.ca.gov/Publications/ReportSummar y.ASP?1047

• Staff report, Planning Commission, Oct. 7, 1999, Item #1, file : 7165-07-81-99GP
• Staff report, Planning Commission, Sept. 2, 1999, Item #6, file : 7165-07-81-98P : Stanford University Community Plan and General Use Permit
• Exhibit A: Community Forum on Housing meeting summary / prepared by MIG Inc, July
• 1999. Community Forum on Transportation meeting summary / prepared by MIG, July
• 1999. Community Forum on Open Space & Conservation meeting summary / prepared by MIG, Inc, July
• 1999. Community Forum on Academic Trends & Land Use meeting summary / prepared by MIG, Inc., Aug. 1999
• Exhibit B. Stanford community plan/general use permit : Community Resource Group meeting summary #2
• Exhibit C: [Letter from City of Menlo Park, July 21, 1999]. Contribution to Santa Clara County's Community Planning Process for Stanford's general use permit / Stanford Campus Residential Leaseholders, Inc. [Letter from Palo Alto Unified School District, Aug. 19, 1999]. [Letter from Stanford Citizen Initative, Aug. 19, 1999]. Goals and strategy for Santa Clara County's Community Planning Process for Stanford Lands, Aug. 18, 1999 / prepared by members of the Stanford Citizens Initiative in consultation with land use experts at the law firm of Shute, Mihaly and Weinberger, San Francisco. [Memo from Committee for Green Foothills, Aug. 23, 1999]
• Exhibit D. [photocopies of newspaper articles]
• [Welcome letter, agenda, and context statement for the Community Forum on Academic Trends & Land Use, Aug. 7, 1999.

A collection of documents distributed at the Communuity forum on Academic Trends and Land Use on Aug. 7, 1999 in connection with the Stanford University community plan/general use permit, some of which summarize earlier meetings, plus a summary of the Aug. 7 meeting.

The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity" was created by military patrons on the one hand and academic scientists on the other and points instead to the crucial role played by university administrators in making their universities dependent upon military, foundation, and industrial patronage. Contesting the view that the "federal grant university" originated with the outpouring of federal support for science after the war, Lowen shows how the Depression had put financial pressure on universities and pushed administrators to seek new modes of funding. She also details the ways that Stanford administrators transformed their institution to attract patronage. With the end of the cold war and the tightening of federal budgets, universities again face pressures not unlike those of the 1930s. Lowen's analysis of how the university became dependent on the State is essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of higher education in the post-cold war era.
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• Factors affecting completion of doctoral degrees at the University of California : a report prepared in response to Senate Concurrent Resolution 66 (Hart, 1989) / University of California, Office of the President.

The Stanford Album brings together some 600 photographs, largely unpublished, and an interpretive text to tell the story of the community life of Stanford University from the University's creation in 1885 through the Second World War. It is a fitting coincident that at the same time Stanford is celebrating its Centennial Years (1985-91), the art of photography has reached its own anniversary of 150 years since the birth of the daguerreotype. The founders of the university, Jane and Leland Stanford, sat for their wedding portraits in 1850, and these daguerreotypes were just the beginning of the Stanfords' fascination with patronage of the new art form. Leland Stanford's perception of the value of the camera as a medium of documentation resulted in a superb pictorial record of the planning, construction, and dedication of the university, some of which is reproduced in The Stanford Album. By the turn of the century, technical advances in photography made possible the small, handheld camera, and at Stanford the "snapshot" image of campus life began to proliferate. Commercial photographers mainly concentrated on athletic events, drama productions, student parades, and other campus rituals; students who owned cameras intruded everywhere with the mysterious little boxes-into dormitories, fraternities and sororities, classrooms, dances, picnics, and beer busts. The book revisits a bygone Stanford. Through the magic of the cmeara lens, a vanished world of college life comes alive again, and we can see the community that existed yesterday under the same arcades where those at Stanford today study, work, and stroll.
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