Apple promotions, cheerleading funding and possible dining hall time changes were several issues discussed last night, as the ASSU Undergraduate Senate reconvened following Thanksgiving break.
The Senate is evaluating student feedback concerning space on campus and the plans to renovate both Tresidder Union and Old Union. Additionally, the ASSU executives have begun work on centralizing [...]

In the spring of 2003, then-senior Trevor Sutton had little room in his imagination for Swiss banks, money laundering and international scandal. Instead, much of his gray matter was focused on his history thesis, which centered on Gabriel Naude, a French man of letters and librarian to Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin.
Yet a little more than [...]

“Unfortunately,” lamented sophomore Amanda Johnson. “We live in a society which says: ‘if you report a sexual assault, you’re uncool.’”
If Johnson’s observation is correct, it may partially explain why many Stanford students believe that far more sexual assaults occur than are reported.
Carole Pertofsky, director of Health Promotion Services at Vaden Health Center said that a [...]

As the price of oil skyrockets and the world’s supply of petroleum dwindles, earth scientists are scrambling to answer a timely question with heavy political and economic implications — is this the end of oil?
In the first of a three-part lecture series on energy and the environment, co-sponsored by the School of Earth Sciences and [...]

In the next few weeks, as students finish finals and campus closes, Old Union and the surrounding buildings will undergo drastic changes. Beginning mid-December, offices in Old Union will shut down and vacate, ushering in a series of moves that aim to establish a new and improved center of campus.
According to Dean of Student Affairs, [...]

Jar-Jar Binks. Lisa Simpson. Meg Griffin. Screech. Yell leaders. They are annoying. They are unnecessary. They invalidate, infuriate and offend the very reason why you exist. They are the gnats on your proverbial potato salad, the uncomfortable shirt tag rubbing against your neck and the festering wound that never seems to cease oozing its infectious [...]

The end of the regular football season has either arrived or is nearing for all 117 Division I-A college squads. But rather than lament the painful results of our own University’s team over the past few weeks, an even greater football story lies with the most successful of teams in the recent past — the [...]

The Stanford campus is certainly accustomed to hosting exciting, high-level tennis but the competition at the Northern California Regional Campus Championships on Nov.19 and 20 brought a bit of an unusual twist.
It isn’t everyday that you see a match where members of opposing teams are all Stanford athletes, going head to head in a confrontation [...]

Great teachers are just as necessary
To the anonymous freshman who suggested that Stanford students shouldn’t become elementary school teachers (“Teaching kids their ABCs,” Nov. 28):
I agree that change often happens from top to bottom in the field of education. In fact, California’s classrooms have been overhauled in recent years by top-to-bottom legislation like No Child [...]

If Stanford were to release an album of student voices, it would sound something like this: “I’m so behind,” “I just found out I’m in E40,” “I drank a forty during my Psych final,” “I never do anything.” Yeah right. Not surprisingly, Princeton Review likens Stanford students to ducks on a pond: We appear incredibly [...]