By CASSIDY DELINE
STAFF WRITER
A biomedical debate has consumed the Native-American Havasupai village located in the depths of the Grand Canyon. The tribe has alleged that researchers, including several at Stanford, duped the Havasupai into giving blood under the pretense of alleviating the tribe’s diabetes epidemic, and instead used it to study schizophrenia and inbreeding among [...]

Stanford alumnus Marcus Mabry will author a biography of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for Rodale Publishers entitled “Twice as Good: The Souls of Condoleezza Rice.”
Mabry told The Daily his intent is to “give readers insight into one of the most interesting and least known figures in Washington.”
The book will span Rice’s life thus far, [...]

For several years, Stanford in Government, or SIG, has offered paid, competitive fellowships for students to gain work experience in government offices nation- and world-wide, from Sacramento, Calif., to Washington D.C. to Brazil. The application deadlines for nine of the fellowships were extended this year due to a dearth of interested candidates and two spots [...]

During its first meeting of the quarter, the Graduate Student Council last night voted 5-3 against a motion to overturn the recommendation from the ASSU Elections Commission to place The Stanford Daily on the upcoming special-fees ballot. Two voting members abstained and several non-voting members expressed concerns about the petition process.
While the outcome of the [...]

Economics Prof. Emeritus Victor Fuchs has combined his intellectual interests in healthcare and economics to craft a proposal for an innovative universal healthcare voucher system in an article that appeared in the March 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The proposal, which Fuchs developed with co-author Ezekiel Emanuel, an expert on end-of-life decision-making [...]

If drug addiction can be linked to a person’s genes, how can we blame addicts for their crimes, and how should this genetic information be handled among scientists, the state and the public at large?
A panel of scientists, policy experts and journalists discussed these and other questions yesterday at the inaugural event of the Stanford [...]

Although it has somewhat faded from the public memory, I still feel that a proper decomposition of the congressional hearing on steroids in Major League Baseball is in order.
The setup of the whole scene was downright ridiculous. Their ranks are stuffed with some rotten scalawags. (I’m referring to the Congress.) But they made some great [...]

Nearly three weeks after topping its previous season-best score by six points to upset No. 7 California at home to end the regular season, the Stanford men’s gymnastics team placed third at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship in Norman, Okla., last weekend. The hometown Sooners dominated the competition to win first-place team honors with [...]

A lot can happen to a team’s record over the span of nine games.
Over the past two weeks, the Cardinal softball team saw its share of ups and downs, as Stanford went on a small roller-coaster ride from No. 3 to No. 6 and finally back up to No. 5 in the rankings. While two [...]

The emotional pendulum swung in full force for the women’s lacrosse team over the past two weeks, as the squad experienced the joy of victory and the agony of defeat on successive weekends. A four-game split moves Stanford to 5-4 overall and 3-0 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation on the eve of its tilt [...]