BREAKING NEWS: Earthquake rocks Stanford

5.6 magnitude quake originated at 8:04 p.m.; no damage reported on campus
By The Daily News Staff
NEWS| The University's emergency management contingencies were launched soon after and officials say the situation is under control.

Big game shirt redrawn

By Kamil Dada
NEWS| SSE and ASSU officials decided to pull one of this year's Big Game shirts - the controversial design referencing Azia Kim, the impostor revealed by The Daily last May to be posing as a Stanford student - after student complaints of insensitivity.

Campus bikers without lights face ticketing

By Eric Messinger
NEWS| Students last week found themselves worrying about bike lights — and facing fines for missing the requisite headlight during a nighttime ride, as police targeted specific intersections on campus.

Historian examines effects of the slave trade

By Devin Banerjee
NEWS| Schama spoke on the history of the slave trade in a lecture entitled, “The Abolition of the Slave Trade Two Hundred Years On — American and Britain: Two Diverging Destinies?”

Nobel winner Kornberg dead at 89

By victor cruz
NEWS| Arthur Kornberg, a professor emeritus at the School of Medicine who was awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for test-tube replication of viral DNA, died on Friday from respiratory failure at Stanford Hospital.

Students, prof. ponder new major

By Salone Kapur
NEWS| seven students from varying academic disciplines met last night with David Grusky, professor of sociology and director of the newly launched Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (SCSPI), to discuss the possibility of a new undergraduate concentration related to the study of poverty and inequality.

Prof. tackles ethics of Rumsfeld appointment

By Susana Montes
NEWS| Ehrlich opened the event, titled “Environmental Ethics and Should Rummy Be Invited to Campus?” with a concrete answer to the question posed in the seminar’s title.

Gender balance vital in classroom

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| A recent Stanford psychology study suggests that women’s academic performance depends on the gender composition of a classroom.

Immigrants found key to tech sector

By Minh Phan
NEWS| Vivek Wadhwa, an executive-in-residence at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, led a study showing that immigrants were one of the key founders of 25.3 percent of all engineering and technology companies set up in the U.S.

Certificate program goes entirely online

By Heather Heistand
NEWS| Using VMware technology, the program teaches clients how to construct attacks and test their own defenses in isolation of real systems, according to Neil Daswani M.S.

Readin’, paintin’, playin’, buildin’

By Gea Kang
NEWS| Kanye West’s remixed “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” blasts in the background. Photographs of sunsets and waterfalls adorn the room’s desks; recreating these images by pastel, some students are listening to iPods. Others chat. This is class?