News from The Farm - Stalking the Stanford campus is an as-yet-unseen, but potentially dangerous mountain lion. Runners to the Dish seem nonplussed.

And in a follow-up to the post earlier this week about Sarah Ball's editorial in the Washington Post about Stanford's Admit Weekend, I have some new information to share. My college roommate (and current Stanford PhD candidate) Netty informs me that the Admit Weekend festivities have become far more stage managed and corporatized than in the past. Where prospective students used to have more flexibility in determining what to see and to do, now the weekend is highly structured with programming. Rather than attending actual lectures and classes during the week, now ProFros are encouraged to attend sessions constructed especially for prospectives on Saturday morning, with the lecturers specifically selected for ability to engage and sell the audience (clearly not one of the normal criterion in giving tenure to a professor). So maybe Sarah is more on the ball than I initially realized, but I still think that her essay demonstrated a superficial reaction rather than a considered criticism of the event.