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Students reveled in the Quad and at Maples Pavilion following Stanford’s improbable win over USC Saturday night. After 200 people gathered in the Quad around a bonfire near Memorial Church, another 1,500 descended on Maples to greet the team as it returned to the Farm shortly after midnight. #gallery http://daily.stanford.edu/image/full/7952
Steven Puente

Students reveled in the Quad and at Maples Pavilion following Stanford’s improbable win over USC Saturday night. After 200 people gathered in the Quad around a bonfire near Memorial Church, another 1,500 descended on Maples to greet the team as it returned to the Farm shortly after midnight.

Card shocks USC in upset

Backup QB Pritchard leads 41-point underdog Stanford to stunning win at L.A. Coliseum
By Christopher P. Anderson
NEWS| In what some are calling the biggest upset in the history of college football, 41-point underdog Stanford toppled No. 2 USC on Saturday night, going into the hostile L.A. Coliseum to shock one of the nation’s most storied programs, 24-23.

Students celebrate in Quad, at Maples

By Sam Bhagwat
NEWS| Thousands of Stanford fans descended on Maples Pavilion at midnight Saturday to welcome the football team back from its shocking 24-23 upset of second-ranked USC in Los Angeles.

Cops, firefighters out in droves after win, but find little trouble

By Ben Eppler
NEWS| In the wake of Stanford’s improbable 24-23 win over second-ranked Southern California on Saturday night, student celebrations on campus were marked by repeated visits from fire engines and an increased police presence.

Rally against Burma oppression

By Susana Montes
NEWS| “If the world doesn’t act, Burma is doomed,” Nick Harmony, a human rights activist, told the assembled crowd.

CourseWork problems mar new release

By Kamil Dada
NEWS| University technicians have taken steps to alleviate problems plaguing the new and improved CourseWork system, Director of Academic Computing Lois Brooks told The Daily in an email last Friday.

Bailout keeps Times, Merc in dining halls

By Heather Heistand
NEWS| Although the SNRP received 67.57 percent of the undergraduate vote, it fell short of the requisite endorsement by 15 percent of the total student population, both graduate and undergraduate.

A tale of three books

By Tri Hung Nguyen
NEWS| For the fourth year running, new Stanford students share the same first assignment — three books to read over the summer.

Pledging hunger

By Luke Henesy
NEWS| “Go hungry for a day so that someone else doesn’t have to.” The tagline sounds simple enough, but in reality, the hundreds who took part in yesterday’s Fast-a-Thon, run jointly by the Islamic Society of Stanford University (ISSU) and the Muslim Student Awareness Network (MSAN), experienced something a bit more complex than they might have imagined when they pledged to abstain from all food and drink from sunrise until sunset.