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Anne Barry (left) and other incoming residents of Slav Dom share a laugh at their in-house draw last night. Students gathered at their future residences throughout the week to jockey for the best possible rooms and to meet-and-greet future hallmates and staff. #gallery http://daily.stanford.edu/image/full/7629
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Anne Barry (left) and other incoming residents of Slav Dom share a laugh at their in-house draw last night. Students gathered at their future residences throughout the week to jockey for the best possible rooms and to meet-and-greet future hallmates and staff.

Cultural stress linked to suicide

By Lia Hardin
NEWS| Asian-American women demonstrate a high rate of suicide when compared with women of other ethnicities, California State-Fullerton researcher Eliza Noh found in a recent empirical study.

Students air concerns at OSA meeting

By megan maass
NEWS| The Dean of Students Office and the ASSU sponsored a town hall meeting last night to allow students the chance to share their views about the Office of Student Activities (OSA), Old Union and Tresidder Union.

GSC offers only half of expected funds for airport shuttle service

By Niraj Sheth
NEWS| Plans for an airport shuttle service subsidized by the ASSU hit a speed bump last night, as the Graduate Student Council (GSC) voted to contribute only half of the funding expected to be provided for the program.

Giant tank of water and ice lies underneath campus

By Linus Liang
NEWS| Buried deep beneath the Jordan Quad Parking Lot is a tank so massive that it can hold 4 million gallons of water. Every night, tubes inside the tank are filled with below-zero temperature ammonia, turning the water in the tank into a giant, 8-million-pound cube of ice.

Scientists create charitable Web service

By Emma Trotter
NEWS| Thanks to a new Web site developed by Stanford scientists, students moving out this summer will be able to donate their unwanted belongings to charity instead of throwing them away.haritopia.org was founded in March as a resource for the San Jose chapter of Habitat for Humanity to locate donors. The site has since been modified to include other charitable organizations.

Prof asks unusual biotech questions

By Adam Sowlati
NEWS| University of Toronto bioethics professor Peter A.

Stanford, Cal recruits battle at Google

By Loren Newman
NEWS| When Stanford and UC-Berkeley students get together in a competitive setting, it is usually on a football field or in some other athletic contest.

Cantor displays nomad art

By Carlee Brown
NEWS| The Cantor Arts Center’s newest exhibit, “Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World,” premiered yesterday, bringing the first major display of Tuareg art to campus.

Google licenses 3-D mapping technology from DARPA designers

By The Stanford Daily News Staff
NEWS| The new feature released gives 360 degree views of imagery from certain U.S.

The World this Week: May 31, 2007

By Peter Durning
NEWS| On Monday, Japanese Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka became the first cabinet-level official to take his own life since World War II in an episode rocking the nation’s political system.