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El Centro Chicano is one of the many things that Stanford offers to prospective minority students to maintain high levels of diversity on campus. #gallery http://daily.stanford.edu/image/full/5049
Jon Casto

El Centro Chicano is one of the many things that Stanford offers to prospective minority students to maintain high levels of diversity on campus.

Rising costs drive grads off-campus

By Patrick Fitzgerald
NEWS| With housing and health care costs on the rise, more graduate students are turning to off-campus housing. These issues, along with the resulting increases in on-campus rent, were highlighted in the Graduate Housing Advisory Committee’s report, presented last night to the Graduate Student Council.

UCs struggle to up minority enrollment

By Melissa Fusco
NEWS| University of California schools are always in competition with other colleges for high-achieving students, and even more so for minorities — especially now, with a growing proportion of minority students opting for private colleges like Stanford.

Conference tackles inequity

By Debashish Bakshi
NEWS| Members of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, or IRiSS, tackled issues of social, racial and gender-based inequality during a conference yesterday in the Tresidder Oak Room.

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Pac-10 Freshman of the Year Rob Grube and the Stanford men?s golf team looked comfortable on their home course at practice last week. Grube shot 66 during a practice round. #gallery http://daily.stanford.edu/image/full/5050
Peter Krutzik

Pac-10 Freshman of the Year Rob Grube and the Stanford men?s golf team looked comfortable on their home course at practice last week. Grube shot 66 during a practice round.

Harvard up next for No. 1 Card

By Mia Lee
SPORTS| No. 25 senior Erin Burdette is in. Juniors Alice Barnes and Amber Liu are in. So are sophomores Theresa Logar and Anne Yelsey.

Cardinal golf hosts West Regional

By Zach Jones
SPORTS| When Stanford was trotting out five-man squads packed with future PGA Tour players during the mid-1990s, one would scarcely have believed that the Cardinal would be an afterthought on the national scene just a few years later.

’05 NBA playoffs just like old times

By Raghav Thapar
SPORTS| The NBA playoffs have served as a blessing for those who suffer from what I call “dissatisfied fan syndrome,” or DFS. Those afflicted with DFS enjoy basketball, especially on the college level, but simply feel frustration and anxiety when watching the NBA.

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Bolton is the wrong choice for U.N.

By Editorial Board
OPINIONS| John R. Bolton should not be our next ambassador to the United Nations. His personality does not fit the job, and he would not present a good image of the United States to the rest of the world. President George W. Bush made a mistake in nominating Bolton, who has been the undersecretary of state for arms control since May 2001, and we hope that the U.S. Senate recognizes the nominee’s faults and does not confirm him for the position.

Deep ecology: No more 'people'

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