The Stanford Daily

Author: Simon Shuster

Senior Staff Writer

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Pride Parade fills streets of San Francisco

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| The 35th annual San Francisco Pride Parade filled one of the city’s main thoroughfares on June 26 in celebration of the Bay Area’s diverse and thriving gay community.

Give it the Axe: Stadium to be replaced

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| Stanford Stadium, a time-honored part of the University’s landscape, may soon have a date with a wrecking ball, as it is scheduled to be retrofitted or even replaced with a state-of-the-art arena.

Students honored for service

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| The tireless efforts of volunteers and public servants are not often rewarded with fancy cheese and live piano music. But last night, several student philanthropists were honored with these and more at the annual presentation of the James W.

Study raises questions about Teach for America

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| For some seniors, an appealing way to “save the world” right out of college has been through Teach for America, an organization that trains and places young people, many of whom are recent college graduates, to teach low-income students.

Stanford Dining amends meal-plan changes to satisfy light eaters, provide more flexibility

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| In response to student feedback and pressure from the ASSU, Stanford Dining announced to ASSU Senators last week and confirmed with The Daily this week that it will make a change to the dining overhaul that it made public almost two months ago.

UC workers go on strike

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| A massive one-day strike began this morning at all nine University of California campuses, unhinging operations and urging some professors to cancel classes in support of service workers — including cashiers, cooks and bus drivers — who are striking for higher wages, better training and more opportunities for promotion.

GSB rejects online hackers

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| Patience is a virtue, and impatience — as some Graduate School of Business applicants learned the hard way — can override one’s dreams of a Stanford Masters of Business Administration.

Addiction may be related to genes

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| If drug addiction can be linked to a person’s genes, how can we blame addicts for their crimes, and how should this genetic information be handled among scientists, the state and the public at large?

BSU wary of housing reform

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| The Black Student Union held a community meeting last night to discuss the prospect of Ujamaa’s relocation, which is proposed in the housing changes announced last month by John Bravman, vice provost for undergraduate education.

Dining services reforms meal plans

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| Stanford Dining officials unveiled a plan to restructure residential dining yesterday in what they said was an effort to make meal plans simpler, more flexible and a better value for students.

Forum discusses Russian IT

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| Last week, officials and businesspeople from around the world came to Stanford to rub elbows at the U.S.-Russia Technology Symposium, the premiere technology conference between the two nations.

Committee reviews Draw and housing

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| The Undergraduate Housing Committee, which collects housing-related information for the University, met yesterday to discuss the issues students have raised about the proposed housing overhaul announced last week by John Bravman, the vice provost for undergraduate education.

Boardman talks about his new role

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| Appointed Tuesday as the interim vice provost for student affairs, current Dean of Students Greg Boardman will soon have a handful of extra offices under his control.

Proposed housing changes spark discussion

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| Ujamaa residents worry that relocation of dorm could disrupt programming

Spam on the increase, despite new law

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| Everyone receives pesky e-mails that promote products that will enlarge various body parts or giveaways that are just too good to be true.

Business professor advises president on tax reform

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| Edward Lazear, professor at the Graduate School of Business and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, has been appointed to the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform.

Bush stresses domestic agenda

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| In his State of the Union Address before Congress last night, President George W. Bush focused largely on the Middle East and on his plan to reform Social Security.

The Debate on Stem Cell Research: Can altered nuclear transfer find a middle ground?

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| Is stem cell research bringing us closer to human cloning?

Horowitz criticizes academia as ‘leftist’

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| In his talk last night, author David Horowitz accused American academia of systematically filling university departments with “leftist” professors and barring political conservatives from gaining presence on campuses.

Classmates fight to free jailed alum

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| While students at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business lay ambitious plans for the future, the fate of Jude Shao, Class of 1993 at the Business School, stands as a reminder that life does not always unfold as planned.

Diving into a deep pit: My virtual world experience

By Simon Shuster
INNOVATION| Stepping into the lab, I encountered several computer stations manned by student researchers. One of them helped me into the heavy virtual reality headset, which had one computer screen for each of my eyes.

Step into a world where reality is not as it seems

By Simon Shuster
INNOVATION| Have you ever wondered when science would catch up with Star Trek and finally let you travel to different worlds or even assume a new identity, all before you can say, “Beam me up, Scottie”? Well, Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, VHIL, may be one step closer to realizing this sci-fi fantasy.

Cancelled ski trips could cost thousands

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| For many undergraduate residents, dreams of sleds, skis and snowmen melted away last Thursday, when severe weather prompted Stanford’s Risk Management Department to cancel all ski trips to the Lake Tahoe area scheduled for that weekend.

Sleep loss tied to weight gain

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| Could those I-HUM all-nighters be responsible for the freshman fifteen?

U.S. must get tough with Sudan, says discussion panelist

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| The United States must pursue a more aggressive policy in Sudan, including an embargo and sanctions, if the violence there is to end, according to John Prendergast, special advisor to the president of the International Crisis Group, an independent, non-profit conflict-prevention organization.

15 years later, remnants of Berlin Wall persist

By Simon Shuster
NEWS| Last night at Haus Mitteleuropa, a panel gathered to commemorate the 15-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and to reflect on the development of Germany.