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Exciting news here at Leland! Our second issue of Volume II is now printed and circulating campus. The issue will be launched online by the end of the week (April 26 or so). If you’re on campus and want to know how you can get your hands on a copy of the current issue, you can email Bob Borek at bborek at Stanford.
You can also find the complete issue as a PDF on our archives page by clicking the “Archive” tab above. Happy reading!
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We’re not wearing ties. We carry neither briefcases nor resumes. We wear t-shirts, plaid shirts, sweaters. We sidle up to cute recruiters and begin our job pitch, ‘Sup?’ We smile and we laugh more than anyone else at the career fair, and we like to think it’s genuine (i.e. we’re not selling out), but it’s not. We laugh, but we’re afraid, and though we form a substantial group, each of us feels very alone.
This is the community that I’ve imagined around myself. We’re the unemployable: the unpragmatic, the clueless, …
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The land ripens on Molokai. I saw it ripen once before my eyes, when we passed from the west to the east, along Route 460, the Maunaloa Highway. It ripened out of shrubland and thin, balding patches of kawelu; it gained a soft and greener luminosity as we drove, holding the shore east of Kaunakakai, rising to meet the surf, sick and high above heady cliffs; and it ripened like the most beautiful thing you have ever seen.
Our first day on the island we bought two cram-full crates of papaya …
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I heard a true war story sixth–hand, though I came close to hearing it third–hand. This is how it came to me: A friend who had recently returned from boot camp – let’s call him Jones – had met someone who had been deployed in Iraq – let’s call him Smith. Smith was temporarily the boss of a boy that he did not meet, but who went home early with a lost arm and a lost eye. Smith heard what had happened to the boy when he returned home and …
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Two hundred million years ago, tectonic conflict forced portions of the Pacific sea floor crust to the surface. Tacked on to present-day Utah and Arizona like a geological afterthought, California has never quite fit in. While states to the East were embroiled in wars of independence and slavery, California was oblivious, independent—free.
It is no accident that the event that populated California (and led to its inclusion as the 31st state) was delivered of an ancient, geological ordination. Millions of years ago, the confluence of water and molten magmas in the …