ANDREW NIELSEN
Studying at Oxford, England
“I came all the way from San Francisco to rock you guys tonight. How many of you have heard of William Shakespeare?” The crowd responds enthusiastically. “I guess he’s kind of famous,” I say, before pressing play on my laptop and rapping over my “Macbeth” homage hip hop track. It goes [...]

NATE SHOCKEY
Studying in Kyoto, Japan
It’s New Years Eve. The streets of Kyoto, Japan are packed with people upholding the time-honored Japanese tradition of the shrine visit. Everyone puts on their best, bundles up against the cold and heads off to their local shrine to pray for the next year to be a good one. [...]

Four weeks into the collegiate gymnastics season, most teams have laid out all of their cards in competition. But the No. 9 Stanford women’s gymnastics team (4-1, 1-0 Pacific-10 Conference) has a hat trick that will be revealed this weekend.
Unluckily for the Cardinal’s challengers, freshman Jessica Louie, sophomore Mandy Delgado and senior Kelsey Stillinger are [...]

This weekend at the Taube Family Tennis Center, the Stanford women’s tennis squad looks to avoid something that has never happened in program history — a loss to Fresno State.
After competing in numerous individual tournaments, such as the National Collegiate Women’s Tennis Classic two weeks ago, the Cardinal will play its first dual match of [...]

November 10, 2001.
That’s the last time Stanford wrestler Matt Gentry lost to a Pacific-10 Conference opponent in a dual meet, when he fell 6-4 to Oregon’s Tony Overstake.
To put the time frame in perspective, consider this: the Cardinal football team improved to 6-2 that same day under the direction of a guy named Willingham, and [...]

Back at the beginning of the season, Swimming World ranked the Stanford freshman swimmers as the best female recruiting class in the nation. Stanford freshman Kristen Caverly played a significant role in gaining her class that distinction, and since then, has proven her value to the Cardinal in ways she never expected.
“It’s hard switching teams,” [...]

Seven months ago, it took Cardinal ace Jeremy Guthrie 144 pitches to defeat Cal State-Fullerton and its top starter, Wes Littleton, in a 13-inning, 3-2 instant classic at the 2002 Sunken Diamond Regional. The electric evening added another chapter to the passionate rivalry between the two schools and raised the stakes of any future meetings.
This [...]

One need only look at Stanford softball’s performance against Pacific to see where this program has been, where it is now and what head coach John Rittman has meant to its success.
The Cardinal, ranked 14th in the USA Today / NFCA preseason poll, will look to continue its recent dominance over the 21st-ranked Tigers in [...]

By the end of the year, the Food and Drug Administration may approve a new birth control pill, commonly called Seasonale, that may have a dramatic impact not only on contraceptive methods but also on female lifestyles. When Seasonale is used correctly, it can effectively reduce the number of periods a woman has each year [...]

Last Thursday, East Palo Alto’s Ravenswood elementary school district extended the contract of Interim Superintendent Floyd Gonella for an indefinite period. Gonella, who has held the post for a little over two months, will continue to work without pay due to the district’s recent legal troubles and financial instability.
Charlie Mae Knight, who served as Ravenswood’s [...]