[Feature on pumpkin carving assignment in professor of art Matt
Kahn"s
Fundamental Visual Language class. Quotes David Kelley, professor of
mechanical engineering (design) and former student of Kahn.]
[Quotes Debra Satz, professor of philosophy, who organized last
year"s "Ethics
of Food and the Environment" lecture series; and Rob
Reich,
associate professor of political science, who teaches the "Food
and Politics" course.]
[Mentions that Stanford is one of two musical institutions in the
world
that has the technology to do the computer analysis that the
Spectralists require.]
[Franco Moretti, professor of English and of comparative
literature,
provides brief comment on the recent statement by the permanent
secretary of the Swedish Academy that U.S. literary culture is too
insular.]
[Mentions that "Princeton and Stanford both have major
university-wide initiatives to create new homes for creative arts
and
bring them closer into the curriculum."]
