Debates on political visits

Across nation, college campuses alive with debates on politics, free speech
By Patrick K. Fitzgerald
NEWS| Last week’s visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Columbia University brought the debate over campus politics and academic freedom to the national spotlight.

Worker steals funds from kids charity

By Andrew Valencia
NEWS| The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health reported last month that one of its former employees embezzled approximately $350,000 from the charity over the course of five years.

Bush administration author visits Hoover

By James Hohmann
NEWS| Robert Draper, the bestselling author of a new book that takes readers deep inside the bubble of the Bush White House, painted a picture of George W. Bush as determined, confident and stubborn last night for a Hoover Institution group.

Draper retells Bush’s 1998 visit to Palo Alto, Shultz’s house

By James Hohmann
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Housing handles high volume

By Salone Kapur
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Old Union to have programming board

By Joanna Xu
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Break into song

By Laura Chang
NEWS| Afternoons spent tabling in White Plaza. All-nighters stuffing audition folders. And, finally, for a new crop of baritones and altos alike, opportunity knocking loudly on the door in the wee hours of Saturday morning: roll-outs. “I’m literally eating, breathing and sleeping Mendicants,” said Mendicants president, Gus Horwith ‘10, at 6 a.m. Thursday after a night spent deciding call-backs.