During the holiday season, “Nutcracker”-viewing veterans and newcomers alike can shop a variety of productions, from the strictly traditional to the most contemporary stagings of the ballet based on the E.T.A. Hoffman story and performed to Tchaikovsky’s familiar musical score. Matthew Bourne’s “Nutcracker!”, which opened last weekend at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, is one with [...]

The Stanford Daily is on hiatus for finals week and winter break. The paper will return, both online and in print, on Jan. 4.

You don’t have to travel to a big city for a reality check — it only takes a 10-minute drive to some of Stanford’s neighboring communities, or even a walk down University Avenue. During the holiday season many people volunteer in soup kitchens, collect goods for toy and food drives. But for many Stanford [...]

Turkey Day. There’s so much to give thanks for, it’s hard to know where to begin. We’d definitely like to give thanks for all the great responses we received to last week’s column (“Go Bears!”). You have all provided us with so much entertaining material that we just don’t know where to start or end.
Apparently, [...]

Stanford’s newest museum, the Matthias K. Rath Museum of Destruction and Resurrection, opened to the public in October. Its collection includes a shrine dedicated to its namesake, European cardiologist and political activist Matthias K. Rath, ancient Obsidian tools and a Shaman rug pinned to the ceiling.
But to get to the exhibits, you may have to [...]

About 30 Stanford students are preparing to embark on an all-expense-paid 10-day trip to Israel during winter break.
Because the trip is free, it marks a rare opportunity for Jewish students to visit a place of unique cultural and religious importance without the financial burdens usually associated with overseas travel. Also, because the focus of the [...]

Pastries flew through the air and landed on students’ feet as a University-sponsored pie-eating contest turned into a food-fight frenzy in under 10 seconds Tuesday night.
The event, sponsored by Stern Dining, Cyber Café and the ASSU, was just one of the zany study breaks planned by campus groups in an attempt to de-stress students during [...]

Stanford is one of four testing sites for a clinical trial of a new smallpox vaccine from biopharmaceutical company VaxGen Inc., though it is unclear whether the University will profit from the trial.
Stanford was chosen, company officials said, because of its track record of groundbreaking research and reputability.
“The study seeks to evaluate the efficacy of [...]

After 24 years on the U.S. mainland, Vice Provost for Student Affairs Gene Awakuni will return home in the spring. Awakuni, who graduated from the University of Hawaii’s main Manoa campus, recently accepted the post of chancellor at the University of Hawaii-West O’ahu campus. He will begin his three-year term on March 1, 2005.
During his [...]

On Tuesday, the British Consulate General in San Francisco announced that current Stanford seniors Sheena Chestnut and Ross Perlin, co-terminal student Clara Shih, and recent graduates Tarun Chhabra and Joe Shapiro have been selected for the 2005 Marshall Scholarship.
Started in 1953, the Marshall Scholarship provides American students the chance to pursue their academic interests at [...]