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New J-Ro RFs to bring diversity
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“They don’t talk about our relationship being interracial, they don’t talk about Aaron being trans, but they do talk about Aaron’s septum piercing,” Mitchell said.
Baboons, beards and Sapolsky
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Biology Professor Robert Sapolsky teaches the wildly popular class “Human Behavioral Biology,” offered every other spring.
Students discuss gay marriage
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After California’s Supreme Court struck down a law banning same-sex marriage last Thursday, Stanford’s LGBT community was jubilant.
Emergency alert system tested on students
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Wednesday at 4:45 p.m., phones rang and email programs beeped all over campus as Stanford officials tested the University’s emergency mass alert system.
Stem cell research gets major boost
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Despite federal bans on certain types of stem cell research, Stanford is forging ahead in the field. The University took home $43.5 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine last week and has plans in the works for a new research facility.
Annual Cook-Off sizzles
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It’s just after 5 p.m.
Grad student grants promote community
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Stanford’s Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education awarded seven grants to graduate students in different departments to foster discussion and collaboration.
No change in store for med school aid
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Stanford has no plans to revamp financial aid in response to new policies at Harvard and Yale.
GAME ON
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Every spring quarter, Stanford dorm staff honors a Bay Area tradition that relies on cryptic clues — and the thrill of competition — to send students on a 24-hour treasure hunt.
Women’s health program tackles female sexual issues
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About 43 percent of women aged 18 to 49 suffer from sexual dysfunction, according to Millheiser.
Students follow torch in San Fran
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Busloads of Stanford students headed to San Francisco on Wednesday, but spectators and protesters alike were unable to see the Olympic torch. At the last minute, the procession’s route was cut in half as the torch was taken on an alternate route, and the waterfront closing ceremonies were canceled.
Chalk art sparks LGBT response
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Students coming back from spring break this week may have noticed these phrases and others written in chalk on the pavement outside their dining halls. The writings were a project by members of Stanford’s Queer-Straight Alliance.
Stanford soul line dancers
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Stanford women’s basketball team’s at-home winning streak may be due to a lucky halftime show, according to members of a Stanford dance class.
Speed dating event allows same-sex matches
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Over 50 people packed into Lyman lounge this Saturday for Stanford’s sixth annual grad student speed-dating event.
She Bangs, She Moans
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“My vagina has something to say.”
So begins one of the vignettes in “The Vagina Monologues,” Eve Ensler’s award-winning play about femininity, sexuality and genitalia.
Thurs. revelry continues despite Fri. classes
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Sleeping late on Fridays may soon become a thing of the past for students at the University of Iowa, thanks to a new university policy designed to curb Thursday night drinking.
Hitchens knocks intelligent design
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Atheist Christopher Hitchens and intelligent design advocate Jay Richards clashed over the evidence for God’s existence in an animated debate yesterday in Dinkelspiel Auditorium.
Senate debates Rumsfeld title once again
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The Faculty Senate had its first meeting of winter quarter yesterday, with issues from fall quarter still taking center-stage.
Separated twins head back home
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Formerly conjoined twins Fiorella and Yurelia Rocha-Arias are ready to go home.
Drell talks SLAC, budget challenge
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Physicist Persis Drell was named director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in December 2007. She is the center’s fourth director and the first woman to hold its top job.
Lab verifies Einstein theory
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Class looks at healthy dining
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Whether they dine at Wilbur, Late Nite or the Axe & Palm, students who want to make healthy eating choices this quarter can sign up for a new, student-initiated course.
Textbooks for rent online
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Thrifty students now have a new way to get those expensive textbooks: They can opt to rent books online at a site called Chegg.com instead of buying them.
Meeting covers gender-blind housing plans
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More than 20 students packed into a room at a Nov. 17 meeting to discuss gender-neutral housing, and Housing officials opened a sliding glass door to allow students to spill onto the Student Housing Central Office’s front porch.
Operation separates twins
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When Fiorella Rocha-Arias next opens her eyes, the first thing she sees won’t be her sister Yurelia.
New home proposed for dirt
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If the University has its way, the 8 million cubic feet of excavated dirt is destined for a former Christmas tree farm off Sand Hill Road.
Fire dept. quenches Terra kitchen fire
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He grabbed the kitchen fire extinguisher and hosed down the flames.
Dog genes reveal coding for specific fur color
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When Cruella de Vil tried kidnapping those 101 dalmatians for a fur coat, she also could have studied their genes to find out why they have such fashionable black spots.
Bedroom inequality
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In the college hookup scene, men are having orgasms at two and a half times the rate of their female partners.
Heart test offered to athletes
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On Mar.
Sex survey explores college romantic trends
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The lack of dating at Stanford may be lamentable, but recent research from Sociology Prof. Paula England suggests it’s hardly unique.
Caffeine pills available on campus
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LGBT community comes out for sixth year of event
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In an effort to increase campus visibility, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community members and their allies recognized Stanford’s sixth annual National Coming Out Day yesterday.
Fertilization technique for older women
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Some infertile women over the age of 35 may be able to reduce their risk of multiple births through an established in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique known as single blastocyst transfer, a recent School of Medicine study found.
Activist talks LGBT history
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New weapon against PIN theft
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ATM customers fearful of criminals who steal PIN codes by lurking behind users, may no longer have to worry about finding emptied bank accounts thanks to a new technology.
Frosh take on step-by-step fitness challenge
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From IHUM to football games to a cappella auditions, Stanford’s new freshmen have a lot of places to go.
Freshmen use Facebook more than ever
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Stanford is one of a handful of schools nationwide that does not tell incoming freshmen who their roommates will be until the first day of New Student Orientation (NSO).
Science News Roundup: Let me buy you a drink, beetle style
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Do you read your horoscope? Evidently the month you were born is supposed to influence your personality and fortune.
Science News Roundup: Red rice, obesity viruses & smart birds?
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“She was all over him like white on rice.” We might have to update the old saying, because it turns out rice wasn’t always white.
Science News Roundup: I'm not fat, just big-boned
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Ladylike female mice can act like sex-crazed males with the flip of a genetic switch.
Science News Roundup: Cancerous news
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Why don’t whales get cancer?
Science News Roundup: Nasal love
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A nasal spray to combat shyness is in the works. After a few snorts, the volunteers reportedly become less anxious and more socially engaged.
Science News Roundup: Brains, STDs and monarchs
OPINIONS|
In Marseille, France, a 44-year-old man went to the hospital.
Science News Roundup: Smoking for your health
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People who smoke and get lung cancer don’t get much sympathy. It’s their own fault they’re sick; they shouldn’t have been smoking. I hope the same doesn’t happen to Parkinson’s sufferers. It’s their own fault they’re sick; they should’ve been smoking!
Science News Roundup: New ways to make babies
OPINIONS|
Sometimes, when a man and a woman love each other very much, they hug each other in a special way and have a baby.
Science News Roundup: Pious Vitamin Deficiency
OPINIONS|
U.S. surgeons recently removed a woman’s gallbladder through her mouth. Doctors snaked surgical instruments down the woman’s throat and used them to snip a hole in her stomach. The surgeons slipped their tools through the new hole, seized the patient’s gallbladder and pulled it between her lips.
Animal style, like you've never seen it before
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Spiders are kinky creatures.
Employees, Etchemendy walk for health
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Hundreds of Stanford employees gathered at Roble field yesterday for the Cardinal Walk, a one-and-a-half mile stroll around campus. The event kicked off the 10-week “Stepping Out with Stanford” walking program, which aims to promote wellness by increasing physical activity.
Maybe I really only need half my brain...
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A radical procedure in which doctors remove an entire hemisphere of a person’s brain is sometimes necessary in cases of incapacitating epilepsy.
What you didn't know about Darwin
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Charles Darwin hated his nose.
The Petri Dish: The grisly career options for my corpse
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Would you like to be cremated after you die?
Powwow dancing
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The smell of eucalyptus trees mixed with the scent of sizzling fry bread this weekend as 30,000 people participated in the 36th Stanford Powwow.
The Petri Dish: Fossilized skeletons in the closet
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Are you in the market for a 12,000-year-old mammoth skeleton?
The Petri Dish: Organisms to model
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Imagine a creature that changes gender to avoid same-sex mating. Or how about a creature that, when starved, thickens its skin and stays motionless for a month. These strange creatures are de rigeur for biologists
The Petri Dish: A moment of ensoulment?
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When does life begin?
The Petri Dish: The journeys of the brainwashing parasite
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It plays out like your worst nightmare.
The Petri Dish: Sort species. Battle chaos.
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Humans battle life’s chaos by sorting, organizing and cataloging. Thousands of specimens line the drawers of the Natural History Museum in quiet witness to the comfort of clear-cut categories. Knowing that species aren’t as clear-cut as we think doesn’t make it easier to let go of them. Were Linnaeus around next month to blow out his 300thbirthday candles, I think he’d understand.
Chimeric
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What happens when a marmoset fathers his brother’s son? No, it’s not a riddle — it actually happens.
The Petri Dish: Animal-style, like you've never seen it before
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Spiders are kinky creatures.
The Petri Dish: Chimps: culture and spear-slaughter
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While chimps fashioning spears is a recent discovery, chimps making tools is old news — but news that dealt a huge blow to ideas about human uniqueness.
The Petri Dish: Evolution: tinkerers not architects
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We complain about aching backs that worked better when we were quadrupeds. We harbor infection-prone appendixes that were useful only in our cud-chewing relatives. A human is, as my CS pal likes to put it, “a buggy program.”
The Petri Dish: Bacteria - our faithful companions
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From birth on, human beings are crawling with bacteria. Bacteria swim in our mouths, carpet our intestines and set up shop between our toes. Some are good, some are bad and most seem not to trouble us either way.
The Petri Dish: The Gay Science
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The Petri Dish: Not just in the movies anymore
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“The reading’s off the chart — over 20,000,” said Qui-Gon Jin in astonishment. “Even Master Yoda doesn’t have a midichlorian count that high.”
Pizza my Pineapple
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It is the epitome of pizza parlors. It’s noisy, crowded and smells greasy. The tables are full of families with gurgling toddlers tipping over their parents’ pitchers of beer and soda.
Gyros, falafel and...crepes?
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“What do you think?
Noodles on Tap
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It has not been a good day for my belongings. I started out the day with two earrings and by noon only had one. I’m not certain when I lost it, and this concerns me.
That's a wrap
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It’s the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and Betsy and I are driving to pick up Debz from the airport. Betsy’s car is small, but three people and a few suitcases should fit fine.
Neon lights and crusty serving trays—yum.
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I have three aims for the evening. 1) Obtain food for myself and my parents. 2) Obtain that food cheaply and 3) locate a restaurant interesting enough to generate an amusing review.
Indulge your inner child with artery-clogging fare
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Stacks
600 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park
Breakfast and lunch from $4.25 to $9.95
Four stars
More cluck for your buck
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We’re on a quest for cheaper, more casual restaurants, and our search lands us right next to Borders on University Avenue.
Don't tap(a) this place
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Adam is driving North on El Camino. We’re going a place in Menlo Park that serves tapas, which I fell in love with this summer.
Grab a smoothie if joints aren't your style
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Betsy and I have decided exactly what makes people cool. Based on every movie I’ve ever seen, you are definitely cool if you know of obscure ethnic restaurants.
Head Straight to Straits
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I feel like I’m eating at an elegant wedding reception. We’re sitting in the overflow section of Straits Cafe, a high-class Singaporean restaurant near campus.
Burritos so heavy, the table will sag— get dinner plus a week’s worth of leftovers
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Heading south on El Camino, my roommate’s car is packed to capacity. Ricky is discussing the Native American frat he wants to start.
Best Bites
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ZAO Noodle Bar
261 University Avenue, Palo Alto
(650) 328-1988
Entrees from $7.99-$10.99
This casual, contemporary and cheap noodle bar is exactly the kind of place you wish you could find all over Palo Alto.