Piot gives grim AIDS appraisal

UNAIDS director tabulates the tragedy’s toll as HIV spreads through the developing world
By Loren Newman
NEWS| “We are still in the middle of a crisis,” Executive Director of UNAIDS Peter Piot told a crowd of about 200 people in Kresge Auditorium last night. In remarks punctuated with statistics, the United Nations’ AIDS tsar gave a sobering perspective on the fight against HIV/AIDS sprinkled with a few encouraging signs for the future.

Boge clings to win in semifinals

By Janet Kim
NEWS| Despite an up-and-down performance in yesterday’s College Jeopardy! semifinal game, Craig Boge ‘07 pulled off a convincing victory to advance to the tournament’s final round, which spans two days and will be aired today and tomorrow.

Film narrates untold civil rights tale

By Andrew Valencia
NEWS| Last night, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and El Centro Chicano sponsored a celebration of the desegregation order and showed a screening of the Emmy Award-winning documentary Mendez v. Westminster: For All the Children/Para Todos Los Ninos” in Tresidder Oak West.

GSC awash in leftover cash

By Niraj Sheth
NEWS| Apparently, swimming in cash is not always the most enviable situation to be in, especially when the money belongs to someone else. The Graduate Student Council (GSC) found itself in that position last night as it heard GSC Financial Officer Euan Robertson report that a sizeable amount of the funds it had collected from graduate students remained in the coffers, unused.

Eight named as academy fellows

By The Stanford Daily News Staff
NEWS| Electrical Engineering Prof.

Seeking blood

By Laura Chang
NEWS| By the time you finish reading this article, 30 people in the U.S.