Approximately 100 students crowded into the Packard Electrical Engineering Building last night to attend the kickoff event for the Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students.
BASES is a non-profit, student-run organization that works to provide Stanford students with entrepreneurship skills, resources and experience that they will be able to apply to their future.
Founded in 1996, the [...]

Stanford placed sixth in The Atlantic Monthly’s first annual ranking of the top 50 schools, falling behind MIT, Princeton, Cal Tech, Yale and Harvard, in that order.
The magazine based its rankings solely on “selectivity,” which included data such as simple admission rates and the academic achievement of each school’s freshman class.
“I don’t think that rankings [...]

The campus had two vice provosts of student affairs yesterday, and one of them was a student.
Anna Ho, a Burbank resident assistant, shadowed Vice Provost of Student Affairs Gene Awakuni yesterday in the first a series of shadowings for RAs.
“This is for RAs to see what the role of a vice provost is, what the [...]

Cardinal Cogen workers were wrapping up their fifth round of contract re-negotiations with upper-level management as of press time last night. Their three-year contract comes to an end today.
Owned by General Electric Corporation, Cardinal Cogen is the company subcontracted by the University to operate the power plant located on Stanford campus. The power plant is [...]

While many Stanford students have been preparing their Halloween costumes for a night of partying, some campus Greek organizations have planned community service events, including trick-or-treating for cans and a haunted house for local community members.
Tonight, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority will be visiting 500 homes in the community, [...]

The senior class has chartered four buses to bring 200 students to the Castro tonight and hundreds of Stanford students will make their own treks to San Francisco’s annual Halloween gathering in Castro, facing not only hordes of strangely costumed urbanites but also a multitude of new city-imposed regulations aimed at increasing the safety [...]

The UCLA football team isn’t doing too poorly for a team that only scored 17 total points in its first two games and surrendered 59 points in its third.
Since losing to No. 1 Oklahoma on Sept. 20, the Bruins (6-2) have reeled off five straight wins to put themselves atop the Pacific 10 Conference standings [...]

When some guy named Schimmelman led the Stanford football team in tackles in the first game of the season, fans were scratching their heads: Where did this guy come from, and why hadn’t we heard of him?
He came from Marietta, Ga., and if fans hadn’t heard of him before this year, it’s because he recorded [...]

The Cardinal football team is 2-4 (0-4 Pacific 10 Conference) entering its mid-season homestand. Having lost four games in a row in conference play, the next two weeks will go a long way toward setting the tone for the rest of the year.
Last October, Stanford scratched out a painful 16-6 win over Arizona, to reach [...]

Is Stanford really as bad as it played last week?
Has the rejuvenated defense completely lost its swagger? Is the offense really unable to convert in the red zone?
The answer to these questions and more should come tomorrow as the Cardinal (2-4, 0-4 Pacific 10 Conference) plays host to red-hot UCLA (6-2, 4-0) at 12:30 p.m.
The [...]