Stanford GSB: Stanford Business December 1997

Home, Sweet Home

The Schwab Residential Center puts a new slant on life at the Business School. Not since Remele Hall closed in the 1960s has the School had a residence devoted primarily to its own students. Remele, converted from a surplus military hospital, was a spartan structure. The Center is quite another matter--as you will see in the cover story of this issue.
Two years in the making, with a $32 million budget, the Schwab Residential Center was a big project that came together last August. The first MBA students moved in as construction crews scurried around painting and planting. These pioneering students earned the undying gratitude of project planners and GSB administrators by generally taking the last-minute chaos in stride. A few camped out in temporary quarters and shared bathrooms, while many coped without amenities like bathroom mirrors. No wonder one of the first public events at the Center was a thank-you barbeque--a small gesture of appreciation to people who had prepared for exemption exams while landscapers laid courtyard paving stones outside their windows.
Now that the dust is settling, the Center is fast becoming an integral part of the GSB experience. Some of you dropped by for your first close look during Alumni Weekend in October. The rest of you can have a virtual walkthrough beginning on page 14. The photographs are impressive, but they're no substitute for visiting this remarkable structure. Please stop by the next time you're on campus.

Cathy Castillo
Editor

Greg Clarke: Greg Clarke's illustrations have appeared in Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and Time. He has won awards as both an illustrator and a designer from American Illustration, Graphis, Communication Arts, and Print.

Todd Barrett, MBA '95: Todd Barrett was a reporter for Newsweek in New York, Boston, and Chicago before he entered the GSB. He is still quite happy in his first post-MBA job.

Richard Barnes: The photographs of Richard Barnes are featured in Julia Morgan: The Making of a New Museum (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art); and Bernard Maybeck, Visionary Architect, among other books. Barnes, whose work is exhibited in numerous museums, lives in San Francisco.

Jay Mathews: An education reporter for the Washington Post, Jay Mathews has been a local, national, and foreign correspondent for 26 years. From 1992 to 1997, he reported on financial markets and advertising for the New York Post. His fourth book, Class Struggle, about elite public high schools, will be published in March.