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Sound bytes
SPORTS|
“They left before they even shook our hands. I mean there was nothing else to do.”
— Wide receiver Richard Sherman
Students celebrate in Quad, at Maples
NEWS|
Thousands of Stanford fans descended on Maples Pavilion at midnight Saturday to welcome the football team back from its shocking 24-23 upset of second-ranked USC in Los Angeles.
Clicking through the years
NEWS|
What is Day In The Life?
INTERMISSION|
In April 1971, a powerful bomb explosion tore a jagged two-foot hole in the office ceiling of then-University President Richard Lyman.
Bedbugs infest East Flo
NEWS|
More than 20 sealed plastic bags filled with notebooks, textbooks and linens sat outside two quarantined East Florence Moore doubles last night; their four occupants had been sent to live in other dormitories around campus after University officials discovered their rooms had been infested by bedbugs earlier this week.
Dispelling on versus off-campus housing myths
NEWS|
As students across campus prepare to move out of the room they have been living in for the last nine months, many might wonder what determines the rates they pay, and whether it is worth it.
Squatters’ stints not isolated incidents
NEWS|
Although Azia Kim and Elizabeth Okazaki might have campuswide name recognition for their extended and uninvited stints on campus, they’re hardly the first people to deceive their way onto the nation’s top campuses, and they wreaked relatively little havoc compared to some others who have had more sinister intentions at other places.
Attacking with body and mind
NEWS|
During his youth, Josh Waitzkin was widely regarded as a chess prodigy.
SLAC claims victory as hunger strike comes to close
NEWS|
After nine days and dozens of missed meals, the eight remaining participants of the hunger strike organized by the Stanford Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) broke fast after the student group reached an agreement with the University Friday afternoon regarding Stanford’s living wage policy.
News Reader Program loses, Go-Pass fails
NEWS|
The two measures on the ballot for graduate students failed to pass, even though they were supported by majorities.
A new dynamic for the Senate
NEWS|
Hershey Avula ‘08 and Mondaire Jones ‘09 ran as ASSU insiders, talking up their experience in the Senate this year throughout the campaign.
Avula by 38
NEWS|
In one of the closest elections in memory and with the highest voter turnout in ASSU history, Hershey Avula ‘08 and Mondaire Jones ‘09 were chosen as the new ASSU executives over their top rivals Brett Hammon ‘08 and Lakshmi Karra ‘08 by a margin of a mere 38 votes.
Breaking news: News Readership Program, Comedy Club are only special fee requests defeated
NEWS|
All but one student group on the ballot received undergraduate or joint special fees in the ASSU elections.
In a surprise to the crowd gathered at the CoHo Friday night, the Stanford News Readership Program’s request for funds to deliver the New York Times and San Jose Mercury News to students was rejected.
The two measures on the ballot for graduate students failed to pass, even though they were supported by majorities. The GO-Pass advisory referendum would have continued a controversial program to pay for off-campus graduate students' transportation. Its failure to win a super majority likely means the end of the program.
Breaking news: Victorious Avula/Jones will face divided Senate
NEWS|
Hershey Avula '08 and Mondaire Jones '09 ran as ASSU insiders, talking up their experience in the Senate this year throughout the campaign. They have pledged to attend all the chamber’s committee meetings and work more closely with the Senate than their predecessors.
But the Senate that will be sworn in next month could be very different than the one they led this year.
BREAKING NEWS: Avula/Jones wins by 38 votes
NEWS|
In one of the closest elections in memory, by a margin of a mere 38 votes, and with the highest voter turnout in ASSU history, Hershey Avula '08 and Mondaire Jones '09 were chosen as the new ASSU executives over rivals Brett Hammon '08 and Lakshmi Karra '08.
Prof parses prisons
NEWS|
Levinthal Hall was packed last night as Brown University Economics Prof.
Abolishing paper
NEWS|
CafeScribe’s ambitious goals include cutting into the $7 billion textbook market while helping students sharto digitalize content, relieving students of heavy backpacks and saving them money. While the pilot version of the program, rolled out two years ago at institutions including Stanford’s Law School, drew praise from administrators for its technological features, they cited its limited popularity in questioning whether the program would catch on.
Q&A: Romesh Ratnesar
NEWS|
Romesh Ratnesar ‘96 was a reporter, news editor and columnist at The Daily during his years on the Farm. After graduation, he joined The New Republic, and then was hired at TIME, where he worked as a foreign correspondent in London and Iraq before returning to New York to become TIME’s World Editor.
Driven to the Nobel Prize
NEWS|
There was no single “Eureka!” moment in the work leading to Structural Biology Prof. Roger Kornberg’s Nobel Prize. But today, six years after that key refinement was completed and two months after he traveled to Sweden to accept the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Kornberg is sanguine about his accomplishment.
Turning the page
PAGE TWO|
With the beginning of Volume 231, we’re proud to introduce a new section of The Daily. Page Two will run Tuesday through Friday (Monday will be home to Intermission’s Monday Mayhem) and will, we hope, be the place to turn to when you’re looking to get a quick read on the Stanford scene.
Former homeless veterans share life experiences
NEWS|
“Here’s a guy that slept in a park, and a year later he’s on his way to Europe!” That’s how Irwin Goodwin described his own journey from drug addiction and homelessness to his current job running the Homeless Veteran Emergency Housing Facility (HVEHF).
Bugs continue their rampage in Alondra
NEWS|
“I saw a bug in my room under my bed last night and I freaked,” said Schaffer, a copy editor for The Daily.
Despite criticism, Teach for America receives positive reviews
NEWS|
Bedbugs infest East Flo
NEWS|
More than 20 sealed plastic bags filled with notebooks, textbooks and linens sat outside two quarantined East Florence Moore doubles last night; their four occupants had been sent to live in other dormitories around campus after University officials discovered their rooms had been infested by bedbugs earlier this week.
Teach For America comes under fire
NEWS|
With a Jan.
Death of a legend
NEWS|
“He’s left a deep imprint on economics and public policy, more so than any other person in the 20th century,” said Economics Prof. Michael Boskin.
Students, shots and Stanford
NEWS|
A series of extensive interviews with administrators, dorm staff and students paints a picture of a policy that is lenient relative to peer institutions and focused more on the health and safety of students than preventing underage drinking.
Online High School teaches globally
NEWS|
Stadium boosts ticket sales, morale
NEWS|
The final whistle had barely sounded on the Cardinal's season-ending 38-31 loss to Notre Dame last fall when bulldozers began tearing up the field.
Frosh protest gets Facebook response
INTERMISSION|
Igor Hiller is an incoming UC-Santa Barbara freshman who organized a protest at The Facebook.com’s headquarters in opposition to their new Mini-Feed feature. The demonstration was scheduled for Monday, Sept. 11, but Hiller called it off when Facebook rolled back the changes.
Many miffed over Facebook feeds
INTERMISSION|
It isn’t often that three-quarters of a million people gather together to demand change.
On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 5, Facebook underwent a massive overhaul, adding two completely new features: Mini-Feed, which appears on each user’s profile and tracks everything public that each user does, and News Feed, which appears on each user’s home page and integrates all information in each of that user’s friend’s mini-feeds, each friend of that user and displays it all, sorted by time.
Users met these changes with a barrage of angry criticism, on a variety of fronts. Some were concerned about how easy News Feed made stalking — and how much News Feed made them feel like a stalker.
Gaming expo offers look at upcoming Nintendo, Sony consoles
NEWS|
Last week, Los Angeles hosted the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the world’s largest trade show for the computer and video game industry. This celebration of all things gaming featured conferences on topics ranging from fighting piracy to creating interactive narratives, as well as the roll-out of many hotly anticipated games and consoles. Grabbing attention were announcements on mainstays like the Final Fantasy and Mario series, as well as newer phenomena like mobile gaming and its broadening capacities: a game for cell phones based on The Da Vinci Code will be rolled out soon. But when Nintendo and Sony rolled out plans for their new consoles, all eyes were on them.
Trading Wide Open Spaces
NEWS|
Perhaps it won’t reach the same pop-culture status, but when CNNMoney calls the new bartering service Swaptree the “eBay of swap,” you know there’s something important going on.
Boot Camp bridges divide between Windows and Mac
NEWS|
In March, hardcore geeks praying for a way to run their favorite arcane role-playing game, available only for Windows, on their Mac received their salvation from Jesus. Jesus Lopez, that is — a San Francisco programmer who won a $13,000 prize by writing a patch enabling the Windows operating system to run on Macintosh computers. Even better, Apple jumped on board and in April released a beta version of Boot Camp, a simpler program designed for the same function, enabling software designed for Windows to be run on a Macintosh.
Move over, MMORPG!
NEWS|
The online gaming world is dominated by “massive multiplayer online role-playing games” (MMORPG)’s — worlds where vast numbers of players’ characters interact, fighting each other and computerized monsters, going on quests and practicing crafts like smithing and wizardry. For those who desire the broad, interactive experience MMORPG’s provide, yet tire of fighting monsters and prefer their own space, an alternative may be forthcoming.
Wireless Internet gaining ground across nation
NEWS|
When household-name businesses like Cisco Systems and IBM submit competing bids to provide the city of San Francisco with wireless Internet access, it is clear that being plugged in is becoming a thing of the past. When the winning venture — outfitted by Earthlink and Google — offers to provide free wireless to both the city and its residents, maybe it’s time to wonder at how soon the future will be here.
Eavesdropping made easy
NEWS|
Recently, phone tapping has taken center stage due to the Patriot Act and the ongoing debate it spurred over civil liberties. Phone taps may be new to you, but its premise dates all the way back to the 1890’s. Its predecessor, telegraph tapping, was employed during the Civil War by Union generals at the battle of Vicksburg as well as on Sherman’s March to the Sea. Union soldiers would make enterprising raids into enemy territory and relay Confederate dispatches to their commanders. These operations provided important information, but attracting men to volunteer for the position was made rather more difficult by the slim likelihood that they would live to enjoy their fame. A. W. Greely, a Union general in the Civil War, wrote that there were “more than three hundred casualties among the operators.”
Pixel Advertising: Promising Start, Uncertain Future
NEWS|
When British student Alex Tew had a late-night brainstorming session for a way to finance his college education, he hardly thought he would end up a millionaire.
One computer, $100
NEWS|
In January 2005, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, world leaders discussed the possibility of computers so cheap that they could be easily available in the developing world.
Stanford alumnus-turned-adventurer sets aviation records
NEWS|
What would you do if you made a million dollars?
Internet telephony services cheap, convenient
NEWS|
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis might not be billionaires quite yet, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t had quite a run at fame and fortune.