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Students felt quake in Chengdu
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Students studying in Beijing were visiting the Panda Breeding Center in Chengdu when a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit southwestern China.
Expansion in progress for medical school, hospitals
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The construction project expected to be completed first is the School of Medicine’s Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge.
Endangered salamanders to be protected
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Stanford currently houses four kinds of protected species.
Study cites prevalence of hazing at colleges
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A study released last month surveyed 11,000 students from 53 schools about hazing.
Former Daily news editor wins Pulitzer
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“The story was, at the beginning of the day, very unclear and very far away,” Anderson said.
Student wins award, will travel Africa
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Stanford students are frequently rewarded for their hard work, but it is a rare recognition that sends a young woman on an eight-day trip to Africa.
Original Fiction: Mrs. Kirkpatrick
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The Crying Game
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ASSU Shuttle makes successful run, few kinks
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The ASSU Airport Shuttle service ran at an occupancy rate of 88 percent during the two-day Thanksgiving Break operation, with 591 of the 672 available seats sold.
Stanford alumnus takes risky spacewalk
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Situated at the end of a long robotic arm in outer space, Scott Parazynski ‘83, M.D. ‘89 completed an abnormally risky spacewalk earlier this month to repair a damaged solar panel on the International Space Station.
Stanford Store selling Rainbows
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The shelves at the Stanford Student Store are a little more colorful this year, now that the student-owned and operated retail outlet is selling Rainbow sandals.
Prof. puts gaming to work
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After studying the virtual worlds in games like “Second Life” and “World of Warcraft,” a question naturally arose for Communication Prof. Byron Reeves: can these complex and immensely popular interaction systems be used for anything other than entertainment?
Popularity of PWR service project slows
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The Community Writing Project (CWP) in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) Department, which integrates service learning programs into writing courses, is one of the oldest programs of its kind nationwide, according to PWR Director Andrea Lunsford.
SHPRC offers pregnancy tests
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Pregnancy tests will be available starting Monday at the Sexual Health Peer Resource Center, located on the second floor of Vaden Health Center.
Admins review Gaieties
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Gaieties has exercised complete freedom to playfully offend student groups since its 1911 inception. But this year, administrators saw the entire script of the show before production began.
Emergency plan for campus crisis expanded
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Nearly six months after the Virginia Tech shootings, university officials have had time to reflect on the tragedy and determine how best to prevent a similar incident from occurring at Stanford.
By Merlin's Beard! "Deathly Hallows" Foretold
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The end: Or at least music that says it is
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In direct support of society’s desire to mimic the media it produces, students may as well begin casting about for the best song to play in their own mental montages of the inevitable, the impending, the next week (!): the end.
Stanford, Cal recruits battle at Google
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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.
Piot gives grim AIDS appraisal
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“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.
Stanford lab makes it a reality
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McClatchy Hall’s room 453 houses a treadmill, a 30-foot pit, a dark alley, a conference room, a highway and a police station in a space not much larger than two dorm rooms squeezed together. How?
“Taking back the night”
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More than 100 people are expected to gather tonight in White Plaza for the annual Take Back the Night march that aims to protest violence against women. During the international event, participants walk by candlelight in a show of solidarity against the symbolic darkness of domestic violence.
Admit Weekend deemed success
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Nearly 1,400 red-folder-toting, name-tag-wearing high school seniors flooded campus for this year’s version of Admit Weekend.
Int’l report: Dire warnings on climate
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“In North America, there will be heat waves, intensified hurricanes, melting snow and glaciers, and the redistribution of plants and animals with the threat of endangerment,” said biological sciences Prof.
Roosevelt sponsors policy SIC
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The course is focused on engaging students in the policy process by putting their ideas into practice.
FACES connects U.S., China
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Forty students from China and across the United States arrived on campus Sunday for a student conference on U.S.-China relations.
Parents rank Stanford No.1
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Moms and dads nationwide may love Stanford even more than their kids do, a national survey shows. In the Princeton Review’s 2007 Annual College Hopes and Dreams Survey, Stanford was voted as parents’ number one “dream school” — that is, the top choice for their children if acceptance and money were non-issues.
Sexual violence Web site launched
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The Sexual Violence Advisory Board and Vice Provost for Student Affairs Greg Boardman unveiled a new Web site last week that aims to centralize information about the resources available for student victims of sexual attacks.
Study bloats egos of students
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Jean Twenge, associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University, along with researchers from the University of Georgia, the University of Michigan and the University of South Alabama, examined the results of 1.3 million personality surveys taken by college students over the last 25 years and came to the conclusion that the current generation is the most self-centered in history.
Tree makes final cut
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John Whipple ‘10 was selected early Thursday as the Band’s new Tree after more than a week of pranks, shenanigans and general irreverence. Whipple will ease into his new role and will replace current Tree Tommy Leep ‘07 over the next few weeks, making appearances as early as tomorrow.
Breaking News: Whipple Chosen as Tree
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John Whipple ’10 was selected early Thursday as the Band’s new Tree after more than a week of pranks, shenanigans and general irreverence.
Tree hopefuls vie to avoid first cuts
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Who will be the next Tree? That’s the question on the minds of people across campus as Tree Week stunts came to a conclusion yesterday with a flurry of activity during which candidates vied to become the next mascot of the Stanford Band.
Tree Week continues
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John Whipple ‘10 appeared in White Plaza yesterday dressed in slacks and a tie despite frigid temperatures and the horizontal rain. Whipple was not on his way to just any interview. He was stumping to be the Band’s next tree.
Tree hopefuls exhibit 'strength'
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Imagine a freshman taped to a tree next to the Claw and covered in smaller strips of tape lined along his inner thighs, eyebrows, nipples and chest.
Campus to host Parents’ Weekend
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In preparation for this weekend, lawns have been mowed, floors have been vacuumed and rooms have been tidied: parents are coming to campus.
Tree hopefuls duel at noon
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Tree Week was in full swing yesterday as three candidates made appearances in White Plaza.
The stunts will continue through next Wednesday, and a new Tree will be announced by Thursday morning.
Tree hopefuls paintballed
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White and his Junipero dormmate John Whipple ‘10, both Tree candidates, performed a stunt on the lawn between Dinkelspiel Auditorium and Old Union yesterday.
Writing prize to honor Steinbeck family
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The award is bankrolled by David and Joan Heyler, ‘48 and ‘50 respectively.
The truth about schizophrenia
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This misunderstanding, he said, is deeply rooted in racial tensions.
Film kicks off climate change
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“We are probably the most privileged people to ever walk the planet,” Biological Sciences Prof. Terry Root said last night to a packed Cubberley Auditorium.
Got their Vans on: The Pack debuts strong
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Listening in a Winter Wonderland: Playlist 2
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Spring break: Senor Frogs or service learning?
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As students scramble to snag cheap plane tickets to such sunny, hedonistic spots as Cancun and Cabo, some Stanford students have decided to spend their spring breaks in a less traditional way, as service trips over the break have grown increasingly popular.
Kal Penn calls my cell
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All of a sudden, my phone is ringing, where the hell is the 202?
It doesn’t get ‘Wilder’
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The first thing you notice about the “Van Wilder, the Van Gone Wilder Unrated Edition,” is Tara Reid’s chest. Her breasts (pre-augmentation, that is) are emblazoned in 3-D across the cover in a jaw-droppingly emphatic display of production values.
Ceremony, speeches honor vets
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The clouds, in a welcome gesture of patriotism, did not burst yesterday until the conclusion of the Veteran’s Day Ceremony in White Plaza.
New laser welcomed at SLAC
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Last Friday, ground was broken at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) where the new Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) will be built.
Let moviegoers eat cake!
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If you were going to make a movie about the infamous Marie Antoinette, this is not the movie you should make.
Scholar offers new insight on Mideast
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Abunimeh’s discourse, “Ending Apartheid in the Holy Land: A Future of Reconciliation,” centered upon the sensitive topic of similarities between Afrikaaner-Black ethnic relations in apartheid South Africa and Israeli-Palestinian relations in the current Israel.
Download Festival
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Last Saturday, some of the hottest acts in rock took the stage beneath the twin erect nipples of the Shoreline Amphitheatre.
Dorm Daze 2 Dvd Review
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Interview with Vida Guerra
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First Gores Award given to Law prof. since 1977
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Assoc. Prof. of Law and Bernard D. Bergreen Faculty Scholar Michele Landis Dauber has been named the first Law School professor to win The Walter J.
University restricts Row block party
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Some ASSU campaign promises, such as reviving the Halloween Mausoleum Party, seem to never come to fruition. But outgoing ASSU Executives Melanie Kannokada and Aneto Okonkwo, both seniors, are making good on their promise to throw a Row block party, an ASSU-sponsored event to take place Sunday night.
I'm God Remember
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The phone rang and a bird hit my window at full speed. It struck the plate-glass with a sharp thud; it could have been a rock.
Honor code blocks new modes of cheating
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Since 1920, the Honor Code has held Stanford students to an elevated standard of academic honesty. But a recent trend of cheating using technology has placed academic dishonesty back in the national spotlight.
DARPA preparing for streets
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By LOREN NEWMAN
STAFF WRITER
Last October, Stanley, a Volkswagen Touareg R5 modified by the Stanford Racing team to drive autonomously, became the first robot ever to complete the 131-mile Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge.
Deadline for priority passes as Draw nears
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Students looking for an inside edge in this year’s Draw had to do so before Friday, when applications for priority status closed.
End in sight for campus renovation
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The Board of Trustees has recently released information on the Old Union renovation and the proposed Environment and Energy Building.
Intermission Roundhouse kicks it with Chuck Norris
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Last week I interviewed The Chuck Norris via conference call, and though cretins from Alabama and some creepy old guy from the Hallmark Channel kept cramping my style, it was nothing short of wondrous.
Trialers All-American
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The Stanford Mock Trial team returned from the Intercollegiate National Mock Trial Tournament in Des Moines, Iowa, last week with three new All-Americans — the best record of individual awards in the team’s seven-year history.
Textopedia book site bought by Chegg
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Textopedia, a book exchange site founded by Stanford senior Vinay Mahagaokar in 2004, has been bought by Chegg Inc.
The two companies began negotiating this January and reached an agreement in February.
Don't mess with the best...cause the best don't mess
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You are a kid; you love movies and you love sports. You’d think that all these things wrapped up into one would constitute something truly great, like an omelet or a United Nations kegger.
Alum donates $30 million to institute
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Last Thursday, University officials announced that Ward W. Woods, Class of ’64 and a Stanford trustee, plans to commit $30 million to the Stanford Institute for the Environment.
Groups fundraise on Valentine's
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For the past several days, White Plaza has turned red and pink, crammed full of various organizations trying to cash in on Valentines Day.
Palo Alto establishes tourism board
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Last night, the Palo Alto City Council passed a measure that effectively created a tourism board for the city. The board, which consists of representatives from businesses that stand to gain from an increase in tourism, like stakeholders, will investigate ways to entice tourism to Palo Alto.
Dancing the Night Away; First graduate student formal to be held next month
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For the first time ever, Stanford graduate students will have a formal all to themselves. The Graduate Student Council (GSC) and the Graduate Student Planning Board (GSPB) are co-planning and sponsoring this annual event, which will take place on March 3 at the Crowne Plaza Cabana in Palo Alto.
Female grad students get maternity time
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At last Thursday’s Faculty Senate meeting, University officials announced a groundbreaking new maternity policy for graduate students, becoming the second school — after MIT — to offer pregnant female graduate students a full spectrum of accommodations.
Faculty tackle emergency preparations
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Faculty Senate Chairs Edward Harris Jr. and Eric Roberts sat before the 38th Senate of the Academic Council yesterday to discuss an array of items.
R.I.P 'Star-Spangled Banner'; it's new national anthem time
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To say that the “Star-Spangled Banner” is overplayed would be an understatement. I mean play a song at every sporting event, Kindergarten graduation and president’s funeral and what do you expect?
Stanford sends Katrina students to home schools
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By LOREN NEWMAN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 38 students were offered admission to Stanford.
McCaffery to leave CEO position
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Last spring, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Stanford Management Company Mike McCaffery announced his intention to step down from his position at Stanford Management Company (SMC).
34th Annual Stanford World Arts Fair brings goods to campus
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Throngs of elderly citizens and jewelry hawkers rang in the holiday season with the 34th annual Stanford World Arts Fair.
OSA looking for Greenwell replacement
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Student party planners across campus felt the void when Assistant Director of the Office of Student Affairs (OSA) Joey Greenwell resigned over the summer and moved on to bigger and better things.
Architects claim new major
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After nearly 20 years as a minor or track of another department, the architecture program at Stanford has finally found a home.
Thanksgiving dinner to be served on campus
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Students staying on-campus for Thanksgiving break can look forward to a feast thanks to the Graduate Student Council (GSC).
An apple a day won't keep the flu away
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Once again, flu season is upon us. From October through early spring, the influenza virus overwhelms many Stanford students with crippling symptoms ranging from aches and pains to extreme exhaustion to high body temperatures.
ASSU recognizes student groups
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The Oak Lounge in the Tressider Student Union was filled nearly to capacity yesterday evening by student leaders for the 2005 Student Volunteer Organizations (VSO) Collaboration Dinner.
Bike shop readies for move
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After spending nearly 30 years at its Salvatierra Walk location, the Campus Bike Shop is moving 300 yards to Tresidder Student Union.
Intermission helps out our friends of yore
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Throughout history, the inhabitants of the world have tried doing a number of things, from getting rich to killing the commies.
Activism focuses on monkey business
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A string of protesters from the Animal Rights on the Farm group (ARF) stood at the corner of El Camino Road and Quarry Road last Friday, carrying signs with phrases such as “Towards Animals Humans are Nazis” and “Stanford Kills Animals.
Symposium promotes undergraduate research
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Nearly 500 people made their way to the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on Thursday afternoon for the fourth annual Symposium of Undergraduate Research in Progress (SURP).