David Neeleman, founder and CEO of JetBlue, one of only two profitable airlines in America, is by most accounts an unqualified business success.
But as he told an audience of 200 last night at Terman Auditorium, Neeleman didn’t get where he is today by pinching pennies and cutting corners, but rather through customer service and attention [...]

Soon, they will have mastered the ability to walk backwards while leading a tour. They will help shape the first impressions of Stanford for more than 100,000 visitors per year. And they will have all the answers. At least, this is what the 25 new tour guides chosen last week are imagining for their upcoming [...]

When senior Eugena Song applied to the coterminal master’s program in history, the department approved her application, she accepted the department’s offer of admission and she left for spring break.
When she returned, she received a telephone call from the department administrator. The department had made a mistake, and its offer of admission was rescinded.
She had [...]

Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski focused on the future of U.S-China relations last night in an amusing and analytical speech at Memorial Auditorium. He addressed the stability of relations between the powers in the context of future domestic and international conditions.
Brzezinksi broke the issue into four components: projecting the shape of the world in [...]

The Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke on campus yesterday and called on Stanford students to stand with the working poor of Silicon Valley and fight for social justice.
“We must make sure that Silicon Valley for the wealthy is not Death Valley for the poor,” he said, addressing a packed Dinkelspiel Auditorium yesterday at noon.
Jackson was originally [...]

After a disappointing 12-9 loss to Cornell on Monday, the Stanford women’s lacrosse team salvaged its trip to the East Coast with a decisive 13-2 victory over Colgate yesterday afternoon in the Cardinal’s regular season finale.
The Cardinal (12-4. 4-0 Mountain Pacific Lacrosse League Tournament) used a dominating defensive performance that held the Raiders to only [...]

After struggling throughout the regular season, the Stanford men’s golf team is adjusting quite nicely to the supposed pressures of postseason play. The team begins today’s final round at the Pacific-10 Conference Championship in third place overall, 11 strokes off the lead of No. 5 UCLA.
The format of the championship is a bit different from [...]

The No. 15 Stanford softball team (35-20, 5-10) started this year’s season without some familiar faces Cardinal fans had come to recognize and rely on to make a clutch play or produce a key hit.
The graduation of former Stanford stars Jessica Mendoza, Sarah Beeson, and Robin Walker left a void that would have to be [...]

Every guy has one. It’s that simple. Every guy has his own version, his own style, his own essence. Some say it doesn’t matter, that the whole person is much more important. Some say size matters, or how and when they use it, or how it affects their mojo.
Personally, I’m in agreement with all [...]

While No. 9 Stanford hoped to roll through a fairly easy April schedule, the Cardinal’s month ended just how it began, with a disappointing — or, as head coach Mark Marquess called it, an “embarrassing” — non-conference loss at Sunken Diamond.
Santa Clara held the Cardinal to just four hits in a 2-0 victory, marking the [...]