Word: institutionalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Start with the palm trees -- the king palms, windmill palms and date palms by the hundreds that grace the sprawling 8,200-acre campus. Beneath their gently waving fronds lie beds of fragrant star jasmine and flowering ice plant. Then there are those strapping, clean-cut young men and women...
Add to all that a high-powered athletic department, top-flight business, law and education schools and a respectable, if not quite superlative, humanities program, and you get major headaches for recruiters at rival institutions. Moans a Yale University admissions officer: "Stanford's got everything -- great climate, great physical plant...
Attractive as it is to many students, Stanford's laid-back style is not universally admired. "They don't have a beach, but they ought to," snipes Neil Smelser, a sociologist at Berkeley, Stanford's archrival across the bay. "It's a snootsie private institution where rich white people send...
Such comments go to the heart of the question of what Stanford really is or should be. Some observers feel that it lacks the basic sense of identity that marks the older universities of the East. "I don't know what it stands for," says the president of an elite...
Another debate that has embroiled the campus in recent years focuses on the role of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Founded in 1919 with a $50,000 grant from Herbert Hoover, the semi-independent research center is officially dedicated to demonstrating the "evils of the doctrine of...