UPDATE: Brokaw, Gregorian selected as 2006 Commencement speakers

By Shirin Sharif
NEWS| Tom Brokaw and Vartan Gregorian were announced yesterday as Stanford’s 2006 Commencement speakers for the undergraduate and graduate student ceremonies, respectively.

Faculty defend pen-only policy despite student objections

By Courtney Weaver
NEWS| For students taking a two-hour biology or chemistry midterm, it would seem that their choice of writing utensil would be the least of their worries.

Luck of the draw

By Sal Umberto Bonaccorso
NEWS| Everyone’s heard the story of the upperclassman who, through bad luck in the housing Draw and his in-house draw, has consistently lived in the least desirable residences and rooms that Stanford’s campus has to offer.

Bush launches $13B initiative in math, sciences

By Christopher Lin
NEWS| Noting past technological innovations as balloon catheters and the Internet that have been developed through federal funding, President George W.

Prof tackles core of human cognition

By Katherine Cox
NEWS| Last night, Cubberly Auditorium was packed long before Prof. Douglas Hofstadter of Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences took the stage to lecture on his fundamental theory on human cognition in a talk entitled, “Analogy as the Core of Cognition.

Head of China Google speaks on spotlight

By Robbie Yan
NEWS| In the midst of global controversy surrounding Google’s agreement with China to censor its google.cn resuls, one of the leaders of Google’s Chinese operations visited campus last weekend.

Apple, Bookstore join forces

By Daisy Chung
NEWS| The Stanford Bookstore and Apple are launching a joint grassroots program to encourage awareness and spread the word about Apple products.

Palo Alto establishes tourism board

By Loren Newman
NEWS| Last night, the Palo Alto City Council passed a measure that effectively created a tourism board for the city. The board, which consists of representatives from businesses that stand to gain from an increase in tourism, like stakeholders, will investigate ways to entice tourism to Palo Alto.

Dancing the Night Away; First graduate student formal to be held next month

By Loren Newman
NEWS| For the first time ever, Stanford graduate students will have a formal all to themselves. The Graduate Student Council (GSC) and the Graduate Student Planning Board (GSPB) are co-planning and sponsoring this annual event, which will take place on March 3 at the Crowne Plaza Cabana in Palo Alto.

Speed dating sets up graduate students from around campus

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Graduate students are often pressed for time, as they pursue their advance degrees and research projects within their respective fields.

Uniquely grand, uniquely grad

By Hemant Adhikari
NEWS| By birth I rank above thee but be not afraid of grad students. Some are born to be grad students, some achieve the grad student status and some have grad life thrust upon ‘em by over-zealous parents.