UPDATE: The Axe is ours

Stanford wins first Big Game in six years, 20-13
By Denis Griffin
NEWS| Senior cornerback Nick Sanchez picked off Cal quarterback Nate Longshore’s pass at Stanford’s eight yard line to help seal the Cardinal’s first Big Game victory since 2001.

UPDATE: The Roots rock MemAud in Big Game Concert

By Jeff Gilliland
NEWS| The crowd in sold-out Memorial Auditorium went wild Saturday night as the hip-hop band The Roots shook the stage in the annual Big Game Concert.

Big Party to rock Row tonight

By Devin Banerjee
NEWS| Tonight, as the Stanford Football team prepares for the biggest game of the season — its annual Big Game against Cal — the ASSU and Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) are co-sponsoring what is being called “the biggest party of the year.”

AIDS vigil commemorates week

By Christian Torres
NEWS| A red and white glow emanated from the Old Union Courtyard last night — not for the ongoing Big Game Week celebrations, but for another, more serious cause: Aids Awareness Week 2007.

Students thinkBIG for event

By Patrick K. Fitzgerald
NEWS| Registration kicked off this week for the thinkBIG conference on international women’s heath and human rights, which is set to be the largest student-run conference in Stanford history and will take place Feb. 1-3. The conference is the brainchild of a group of seniors.

Returning students face housing crunch

By Joanna Xu
NEWS| Studying abroad is often one of the most memorable times in a student’s college experience, but coming back to campus can be a difficult adjustment, especially if returning students find themselves drawn into undesirable housing or, even worse, without an assignment.

Farm-made Facebook apps popular

By Kamil Dada
NEWS| The decision to launch a new Computer Science class aimed to teach students how to produce Facebook applications raised some eyebrows when the class opened in September.

Gumport presents grad diversity project

By Carlee Brown
NEWS| Vice Provost of Graduate Education (VPGE) Patricia Gumport delivered a presentation about her office’s upcoming goals and initiatives at yesterday’s Faculty Senate meeting.

Animated program looks to educate world on AIDS

By Leah Karlins
NEWS| Alarmed by the lack of HIV/AIDS awareness information available to young adults in India, second-year education graduate student Piya Sorcar M.A.

Airliner hides prizes around campus

By Nikhil Joshi
NEWS| Laura Chau ‘11 woke up early yesterday morning with a mission: to find free plane tickets.

The quest for 50,000 words

By Kelley Fong
NEWS| Each November, frenzied writers participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo; Web site at www.nanowrimo.org) and are declared winners if they complete a 50,000 word (approximately 175-page) novel between Nov.

Students sound off on popular site FreeRice

By Shruti Tibrewala
NEWS| FreeRice.com, a Web site launched last month that enables users to improve vocabulary while helping end world hunger, has become extremely popular around campus. Students, however, expressed mixed opinions about the value of the site.

Police Blotter

By Rahul Kanakia
NEWS| This article covers a selection of crimes from Nov. 20 to Nov. 28, as reported by the Stanford Department of Public Safety’s Public Bulletin.