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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.
Rising costs drive grads off-campus
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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
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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
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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.
Harvard up next for No. 1 Card
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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
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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
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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.
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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.

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