After an intense rehearsal period that began in January, the cast and crew of the spring musical “Kiss Me Kate,” presented by the Ram’s Head Theatrical Society, is fine-tuning the last-minute details before the show opens April 9. “Kiss Me Kate” is also playing April 10, 15, 16 and 17 at 8 p.m. in [...]

Susan Moller Okin, a well-known feminist thinker and Ethics in Society professor, died on March 3 at age 57 in her home in Lincoln, Mass. Although the cause of death was not released, her ex-husband, Bob Okin, said that possibilities of suicide and foul play have been eliminated.
A memorial service will be held at 4 [...]

In an effort to expose what it describes as the U.S. presidential administration’s misrepresentation of scientific research, a group of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows have created an online petition to bring the issue to the public’s attention. The group is urging environmental scientists nationwide to sign the petition.
The petition — located at http://scienceinpolicy.org — [...]

This spring, Student Initiated Courses (SICs) will once again serve as the last bastion for students interested in learning about subjects such as bicycle repair, U.S. cybersecurity and Western U.S. fire policy. Designed and run by students, the one- to two-unit SICs cover topics that are underrepresented or nonexistent in Stanford’s curriculum. Other SICs for [...]

The new 150,000-square-foot Stanford Cancer Center, which opened at the beginning of March, will welcome its first director, Steven Leibel, on July 1. Leibel currently serves as chairman of the department of radiation oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He has worked to develop new methods of radiation therapy for prostate [...]

With campaigns for the ASSU spring election set to begin today, the Undergraduate Senate last night attempted to wrap up the loose ends associated with the special-fees group ballot.
One of the issues the Senate addressed in its meeting was a loophole in its constitution that gives it the power to approve or reject groups that [...]

Alcohol sanctions address
liability, not safety
In reference to the recent alcohol suspension administered to the Stanford Band, The Stanford Daily’s editorial board asserts that “the larger issue here is underage alcohol consumption, an offense for which the Band is notorious” (“Band sanctions are reasonable,” March 30).
This may be true; I know little about the current student [...]

Even when reason is not on its side, The Stanford Review seems willing to stand by its party line at all costs.
In the March 9 article “Taking the Next Step,” Christopher Fish writes that if we issue marriage licenses to gay couples, we should also issue them to people desiring to wed “The State of [...]

There are fans and there are fanatics. I must have been of the second category to jump in a car with two complete strangers and drive thirteen hours to Seattle to watch our boys in the first and second round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The final outcome destroyed my tournament brackets — in [...]

Stem cells, derived from human fetuses, have the potential to develop into any other type of human cell. For this reason, they hold unique promise for medical research. Stem cell research may help to treat or cure everything from cancer and heart diseases to Alzheimer’s to diabetes and AIDS.
Last year, the Bush administration made a [...]