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Students celebrate Lohri

By Li Tao
NEWS| About 400 Stanford students and community members gathered at a bonfire next to Lake Lagunita last Saturday evening to celebrate Lohri, the Punjabi harvest festival.

Textbook prices on the rise

By Li Tao
NEWS| Skyrocketing costs. Accusations of gouging. Sounds like the oil market?

Faculty unveil International Initiative

By Li Tao
NEWS| Standing Committee Co-chairs Chip Blacker, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, and Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, a senior fellow at the Institute, unveiled details for the new University-wide International Initiative at the Faculty Senate meeting yesterday afternoon.

Mahmoud compares Islam and Christianity

By Li Tao
NEWS| Lecturer Hisham Mahmoud, a doctoral candidate of Islamic Studies at UCLA, spoke last Saturday afternoon about the role of Jesus in Islam to an audience of approximately 50 Stanford students and members of the surrounding community.

Extra Dalai Lama tickets released

By Li Tao
NEWS| Incoming freshmen, transfers, and returning students who missed the chance to purchase advance tickets in June for the Dalai Lama’s November visit to Stanford will have another opportunity this month.

STAND, Angelides encourage CalPERS divestment effort

By Li Tao
NEWS| Members of the group Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND) spoke at a meeting of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) in Sacramento on Sept.

GSC approves panel, welcome parties

By Li Tao
NEWS| The Graduate Student Council (GSC) convened last night for the first time since the start of classes to approve requests from various groups and to discuss details for a welcome party for new graduate students.

LivelyArts presents author Eggers

By Li Tao
NEWS| “Normal people write but crazy people have ‘writings,’ “ said Dave Eggers, author of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” and “You Shall Know Our Velocity,” on Wednesday night during his talk on the link between art and politics.

NYU named top dream school

By Li Tao
NEWS| As thousands of high school seniors consider their college options in the coming weeks, the very lucky ones will attend their dream schools.

Cantor group visits New York

By Li Tao
NEWS| Twenty-five members of the Contemporary Collectors’ Circle, or CCC, of the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts traveled to New York last weekend for the opening of Christo and his wife Jean-Claude’s “The Gates,” a temporary work of art on exhibit in Manhattan’s Central Park for just two weeks.

Taherian named executive director of Stanford Dining

By Li Tao
NEWS| By LI TAO After serving as associate director of residential dining for six years, Rafi Taherian officially replacing former executive director of dining, Nadeem Siddiqui, on Jan.