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A fire started in the shrubs immediately outside Crothers Memorial Hall at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. Students spilled out of nearby dorms and three fire trucks and an ambulance responded immediately to emergency calls. #gallery http://daily.stanford.edu/image/full/3624
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A fire started in the shrubs immediately outside Crothers Memorial Hall at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. Students spilled out of nearby dorms and three fire trucks and an ambulance responded immediately to emergency calls.

Fire burns on East Campus

By Camille Ricketts
NEWS| Saturday’s brush blaze on the east side of Crothers Memorial Hall drew three fire trucks, an ambulance and students from surrounding dorms.

New Graduate Student Council members face full docket

By Brendan Selby
NEWS| The newly elected members of the Graduate Student Council (GSC) say they have a host of issues affecting the entire campus to address in the coming term, including the opening of the Graduate Community Center next fall and the implementation of a CalTrain commuter plan.

Symposium celebrates 50th anniversary of Brown case

By Camille Ricketts
NEWS| Designed to both celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and analyze the decision’s legacy, last week’s symposium hosted at Stanford presented panel discussions and showcased the varied opinions of legal scholars.

Survivor Lyon gives account of Holocaust

By Chris Nguyen
NEWS| Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler killed 6,000,000 Jewish people in concentration camps as part of the “final solution” to address “the Jewish problem” during World War II.

Madrid wins Truman Award, aims to reform foster care

By Mari Suzuki
NEWS| For his commitment to reforming the U.S. foster-care system, Stanford senior Johnny Madrid is one of 77 students nationwide to receive the prestigious Harry S.

Earth Week designed to raise environmental awareness

By Ben Whaley
NEWS| Stanford’s Earth Week celebration kicks off today with cultural groups, student environmental groups, art, discussion panels and lectures designed to encourage college students to pay more attention to the environment.

Upcoming conference will allow alumni to reflect on race, ethnicity

By Jack Loveridge
NEWS| A week after the Class of 2008 gets its initial glimpse of life on the Farm, minority alumni representing 47 class years will arrive on campus to converse, interact and examine the changing role of diversity in higher education for the first time.

The [racial] dating game

By The Stanford Daily Staff
NEWS| What accounts for physical and romantic attraction?

Teacher Talk: Reflections of a middle-aged Midwesterner

By Prof. David Johnson
NEWS| I was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio in the only U.S. county never carried by FDR in any of his four victorious presidential campaigns.