The current issue of Stanford magazine has an article looking back at the (in)famous Stanford prisoner study, in which students were assigned to play the role of guards and prisoners for two weeks and took to their roles so completely that the experiment had to be shut down prematurely. One of the "prisoners" was a community college student named Richard Yacco who is now an Oakland school teacher and describes a connection between that time and the present: "One thing that I thought was interesting about the
