Breaking News: Fast Ends as University promises to expand living wage

Protestors nibble on bread after one lost 19 pounds; University avoids having to require that contractors provide "living wage"
By Niraj Sheth
NEWS| After nine days, and dozens of missed meals, the nine remaining participants of the hunger strike organized by the Stanford Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) broke fast, after the student group reached an agreement Friday afternoon with the University regarding Stanford’s living wage policy.

Va. shooting prompts Univ. policy review

By Rahul Kanakia
NEWS| A new Stanford committee will conduct an evaluation of its emergency protocols in the wake of Monday’s shootings at Virginia Tech University. The protocol review, which will be led by Vice President for Business Affairs Randy Livingston, was announced in a statement concerning the massacre by President John Hennessy.

Two protesters break fast

By Lia Hardin
NEWS| The fast is over for two participants in a hunger strike organized by members of the Stanford Labor Action Coalition (SLAC), group officials announced at a rally yesterday. Yet 10 are continuing the fast — which is now in its ninth day — as part of an ongoing effort to correct what they see as shortcomings in the University’s living wage policy.

Stigma of tobacco splits faculty

By Nick Parker
NEWS| Tensions ran high at yesterday afternoon’s Faculty Senate meeting as members butted heads over a proposed resolution that would bar tobacco companies from funding University-sponsored research projects.

Students vote paper cut

By Allison Dedrick
NEWS| Every weekday, students across campus wake up to free copies of The New York Times and The San Jose Mercury News. But that will likely change after the Stanford News Readership Program (SNRP) failed to win special fees in last week’s ASSU elections.

ProFros flood campus

By Mahncy Mehrotra
NEWS| They are impossible to miss. The tell-tale nametags and Cardinal red folders are dead giveaways: Next year’s prospective freshmen affectionately known as “ProFros” are here for Admit Weekend, a three-day affair designed to impress and inform admitted students.

Stegner fellows selected from record-size pool

By Jackie Chu
NEWS| The Creative Writing Program (CWP) announced its 2007-2008 Stegner Fellows last week. Five poets and five fiction writers were chosen from among more than 1,400 applicants.

The Petri Dish: The journeys of the brainwashing parasite

By Shelby Martin
NEWS| It plays out like your worst nightmare.

The World This Week: April 20. 2007

By Peter Durning
NEWS| Since its liberation from France in 1960, the CAR was ruled by a series of military dictatorships until a decade-long period of elected civilian rule began in 1993.

Deepdish that!

By Dana Turker
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