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Hundreds of students attended 680 Lomita’s Exotic Erotic party on Friday. This year, attendees were required to pick up tickets for the party in the week preceding the event, and the Office of Student Activities was heavily involved in ensuring that the party ran smoothly and was safe for students. #gallery http://daily.stanford.edu/image/full/7547
Maggie Skortcheva

Hundreds of students attended 680 Lomita’s Exotic Erotic party on Friday. This year, attendees were required to pick up tickets for the party in the week preceding the event, and the Office of Student Activities was heavily involved in ensuring that the party ran smoothly and was safe for students.

Exotic Intensity, or Not?

By Andrew Valencia
NEWS| Stanford’s annual semi-nude and fully-risque Exotic Erotic party drew hundreds of students to 680 Lomita on Friday night. But unlike previous years, this year’s event was tightly monitored to ensure that the festivities did not get out of hand.

Pub night mix-up leads to discontent

By Niraj Sheth
NEWS| Mixing graduate students with undergrads usually works as well as blending oil with water. But put them together in an overcrowded Palo Alto bar hosting simultaneous events, add in long lines and missing wristbands, and voila: the mixture is a recipe for disaster.

Sarah Silverman: charmingly offensive

By Daniel Novinson
NEWS| Star comedian Sarah Silverman once again demonstrated she — and she alone — need not follow the rules of a politically-correct universe.

ASSU selects Diamond as teacher of the year

By megan maass
NEWS| The ASSU has finally found something it can agree on: over the weekend, a special ASSU commission selected Political Science Prof. and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Larry Diamond as the Teacher of the Year. The Black Student Union (BSU) was also chosen as the Voluntary Student Organization (VSO) of the Year.

Interdisciplinary fellowships created

By Niraj Sheth
NEWS| Graduate students seeking funding for their interdisciplinary research will soon be one step closer to jumping financial hurdles, as President John Hennessy announced the establishment of the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowships program at last Thursday’s Academic Council meeting.

Relay for Life raises funds, awareness for cancer research

By Julia Guth
NEWS| Forty tents dotted Roble Field this weekend, as more than 500 people participated in Relay For Life, an annual event sponsored by the Stanford Chapter of the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Colleges Against Cancer program. Although the group raised more than $55,000, the event was smaller than those held in previous years, event organizers said.

Alumni Association elects McFaul to be Class Day speaker

By The Stanford Daily News Staff
NEWS| The Stanford Alumni Association announced on Saturday that it has selected Political Science Prof. Michael McFaul ‘86 as the 2007 Class Day speaker.