The University Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to divest from any directly-held investments in petroleum companies PetroChina, Sinopec, Tatneft and ABB, Ltd., whose operations support the Sudanese government. The Khartoum regime has been condemned worldwide for genocidal acts in the region of Darfur.
The decision, announced Wednesday, was made based on the recommendation of the [...]

Superfly, the Stanford women’s Ultimate team, captured its fifth title in nine years and a resting place amongst the pantheon of sports dynasties at Stanford.
“With five national championships, we are now recognized as the premier program in the nation,” Stanford junior captain MaryLyn Stein said. “We have the deepest team and every single player makes [...]

This is uncharted territory.
For the past three years, June has been a time of rest for the Stanford men’s golf team. A time to wonder what went wrong and how the next year will tell a different story. June, the month when the best teams in the country play for the NCAA Championship, has been [...]

The members of the Stanford women’s first varsity boat headed to the NCAA Championships at Rancho Cordova, Calif., looking to close their 2005 season with a flourish. They returned home after placing 11th in a competitive field of 16 boats. It wasn’t the medal-finish the Cardinal had hoped for, but it was a solid performance [...]

Junior Michael Robertson set the tone for the Cardinal track teams at the NCAA West Regionals in Eugene, Ore., last weekend, by winning the discus competition in the very first event on Friday.
By Saturday evening, the men had seven NCAA automatic qualifiers and finished sixth in the team competition. The women had 15 automatic qualifiers [...]

Without a doubt, Saturday’s NCAA Doubles Final was a Stanford affair.
The No. 1 Cardinal finished out a perfect 27-0 season and went on to send all seven of its starting players, including two tough doubles teams, to the NCAA Individual Tournament.
In the final match the season, junior Alice Barnes and senior Erin Burdette closed out [...]

It had been a season of narrowly missed opportunities for the No. 22 Stanford men’s tennis team and the NCAA Individual Tournament proved to be no different. In the team competition, the Cardinal (14-11, 4-3 Pacific-10 Conference) lost to Pepperdine in a tight match on May 15, and this past Sunday in College Station, Texas, [...]

For the first time in 10 years, Sunken Diamond will not be a regional site in the NCAA playoffs. But the Cardinal (32-23) secured a postseason bid for the 12th consecutive year as a No. 3 seed in the region hosted by Baylor, the fourth-ranked team in the nation. Stanford will travel to Waco, Texas, [...]

Stanford (32-23, 12-12 Pacific-10 Conference) and No. 21 Southern California (37-19, 15-9) met over the weekend for their final series of the season — and their last chance to make a statement before the NCAA Tournament’s field of 64 was announced Monday morning.
The Trojans’ steady pitching and effective offense carried them to two close wins [...]

Lauren Lappin’s disappointment at Stanford’s (43-16) elimination from this year’s NCAA softball tournament was evident during the post-game press conference. With her voice breaking at times, the Stanford junior shortstop tried to explain what happened in the No. 5 Cardinal’s 6-0 loss to No. 11 Tennessee (64-13).
“It was definitely frustrating today because we could not [...]