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Baseball: Down with the Dons

By : On Tuesday night, the No. 17 Stanford baseball team came from behind to beat the University of San Francisco, 6-3.…

May 16, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

Track & Field: Women take second, men fifth, at Pac-12s

By : Five individual titles highlighted a successful trip to the Pac-12 Championships for the Stanford track and field teams. The women placed second while the men tied for fifth,…

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Zimmerman: Preserve Oakland’s finest

By : Five years ago, if I had made a list of the top American cities in which I would least like to run out of gas, Oakland may have…

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Softball: Card receives at-large bid to NCAA tournament

By : On the heels of a dominant sweep over Washington a week ago, the Cardinal softball squad closed out the regular season this past weekend with an impressive series…

May 15, 2012 / No Comment / Read More
FEATURES

Water in the West

By : Water in the West, formed in January 2010, is a joint program by the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Bill Lane Center for the American West. It aims to engage in research and…

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NEWS

Transfer class cut by nearly half to compensate for high yield rate

By : Thirty-three transfer students received offers of admission this year out of a pool of more…

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Freshman dies from leukemia

By : Akash Dube, a freshman from Dubai, died Friday, May 11, due to complications from Acute…

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Bike crash highlights helmet use

By : Stanford’s Bicycle Program, in conjunction with the Department of Public Safety, is working to improve…

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ASSU seeks to fill Univ. committee spots

By : The ASSU Undergraduate Senate addressed Tuesday a pressing need to form an interim commission to…

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Brown critiques identity framing

By : Graham Brown, director of the Center for Development Studies at the University of Bath, warned…

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Caterpillar outbreak prompts Tuesday night spray

By : In response to an outbreak of oak moth and tussock moth caterpillars, Buildings and Grounds…

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Palo Alto approves retail and affordable housing structure

By : After rigorous debate, the Palo Alto City Council voted 7-2 on Tuesday to approve the…

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XOX supporters march

By : Proclaiming that “we will not forget and we will not go quietly,” approximately 70 Chi…

May 15, 2012 / 3 Comments / Read More
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Director Tanya Wexler on ‘Hysteria’

By : You’ve probably heard this story before: An uptight but well-meaning professional slowly but surely falls in love with his boss’ sharp-tongued, fiercely independent daughter. Such is the premise…

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In Good Taste: Taste of Palo Alto takes the cake

By : Last Sunday marked the third annual “A Taste of Palo Alto” event. Hosted at Stanford by the brothers of Phi Kappa Psi and the sisters of Alpha Epsilon…

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Reviews: ‘Monsieur Lazhar’

By : If you’ve seen the trailers for the new Canadian film “Monsieur Lazhar,” you might be tempted to characterize it as just another “Dead Poets Society” or “To Sir…

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UnCommon Apps

By : With the market flooded with hundreds of thousands of mobile apps for every conceivable purpose, how is a busy consumer to know what’s worth downloading and what’s not?…

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OPINIONS

Ravalations: The Facebook fallacy

By : We are all aware that Facebook is not real life, yet the idea that things need to be made "Facebook official"…

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Bursting the Bubble: Get me to the Greek

By : But if there's one Greek system that I feel does a pretty good job, it's the one here at Stanford.…

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Op-Ed: Tony Blair is a war criminal

By : Without legal justification for the Iraq War, Tony Blair is implicated in the death of over 1,000,000 Iraqis and the displacement…

May 16, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

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Football: A look back at Stanford’s other No. 1 picks

A look back at the days that Garrett, Plunkett…

Football: Bowlsby offered Big 12 commissioner job

According to multiple sources, Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby…

Blanchat: Grading Stanford’s NFL draft fits

While a lot of people like to give grades…

Football: Twelve former Cardinal players taken by NFL teams, as Fleener and Whalen join Luck in Indy

While Andrew Luck and David DeCastro might have stolen…

M. Basketball: Cardinal captures second NIT, sends seniors off with rout of Minnesota

After finishing seventh in the Pac-12 during the regular…

M. Basketball: Stanford clobbers Minnesota to take home NIT championship

The Stanford basketball team wasn’t dancing on the postseason…

M. Basketball: Cardinal defeats Cleveland State, stays alive in NIT

The Stanford men’s basketball team captured its first postseason…

M. Basketball: Andy Brown and the high price of a single free throw

After three years and three ACL tears, junior Andy…

W. Basketball: Nnemkadi Ogwumike selected No. 1 in WNBA draft

The LA Sparks selected senior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike, the…

Blanchat: How women’s basketball fell short five straight years

But the whole time the Bears were cutting the…

W. Basketball: Stanford loses in Final Four for fifth straight season, falls short against Griner and Baylor

Five straight Aprils, five straight heartbreaks. Last night, the…

W. Basketball: Baylor, Griner stand in Cardinal’s way in Final Four showdown

Playing in its fifth consecutive Final Four, the Cardinal…

BRIEF: Men and lightweight women head to New Jersey for IRA nationals

Today marks the start of the IRA National Championship…

BRIEF: Men’s and women’s rowing teams medal at Pac-10s

Seven of the eight boats medaled, with the women’s…

BRIEF: Rowing teams have mixed success in early season

While the Stanford women’s rowing teams have been successful…

W. Rowing: Varsity eight, four win in Oklahoma

The women’s rowing team kicked off the fall season…

BRIEF: Women’s rowing earns NCAA berth

Stanford was one of 16 schools invited to the…

W. Rowing: Just off the stand

The Stanford women’s rowing team narrowly missed out on…

BRIEF: Women’s rowing headed to NCAA Championships

This weekend, the women’s crew team will begin competition…

Academics

Arts Intensive apps increase, SoCo numbers remain constant

By : Applications for Arts Intensive, one of three September Studies seminar-based programs offered in the weeks leading into autumn quarter, have risen for the coming academic year, according…

May 11, 2012 / No Comment
Crime & Safety

Police blotter

By : This report covers a selection of incidents from April 30 through May 8 as recorded in the Stanford Department of Public Safety bulletin.…

May 11, 2012 / No Comment
Student Life

XOX supporters march

By : Proclaiming that “we will not forget and we will not go quietly,” approximately 70 Chi Theta Chi (XOX) residents and members of the Stanford community marched on…

May 15, 2012 / 3 Comments
Local

Report on state education shows little progress

By : Five years after a study by Stanford researchers called for reform and increased investment in California’s public education system, progress has been at best underwhelming and inconsistent,…

May 10, 2012 / No Comment
University

Transfer class cut by nearly half to compensate for high yield rate

By : Thirty-three transfer students received offers of admission this year out of a pool of more than 1,500 applicants, according to Assistant Director of Admission Kate Shreve. This…

May 16, 2012 / No Comment
Research

Study finds learning outlook affected by environment

By : Students’ outlook toward learning is strongly influenced by their environment, according to a recent study…

May 14, 2012 / No Comment
Student Government

ASSU seeks to fill Univ. committee spots

By : The ASSU Undergraduate Senate addressed Tuesday a pressing need to form an interim commission to solicit applications, interview and nominate student representatives for more than 40 University…

May 16, 2012 / No Comment
World & Nation

Student veteran policy OK

By : A recent executive order aimed at preventing institutions of higher learning from aggressively recruiting veterans will have minimal effect at Stanford because the University does not profit…

May 7, 2012 / No Comment