Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently fired a top aide who poked fun at the Bush administration’s environmental record at a Dec. 7 Memorial Auditorium event on global warming.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Dec. 10 that the governor fired Cabinet Secretary Terry Tamminen under heavy pressure from conservative activists offended by remards he made during his [...]

The one-day work stoppage that more than 2,600 workers took part in on Dec. 12 could be a preview of a longer strike to come if the University and Stanford Hospital do not make significant concessions, union leaders said after returning to the table for talks the following day.
University and union representatives disputed the success [...]

Roughly 400 people met in White Plaza Thursday evening to hear if the University workers, part of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) Local 715, would strike to protest the disappointing results of recent contract negotiations with the University. Speakers who sat on the bargaining team, students and a professor all gave speeches before a [...]

I hope this will make you wear a bike helmet,” my father told me, an hour or so after I had regained consciousness following a nasty spill in front of Tressidder around this time last year.
I did not remember much about the accident, but the two-square-inch scrape on my temple indicated that I hadn’t been [...]

Missoula, MT — “Our team’s smarter,” chanted Montana students with four minutes to go in Stanford’s visit to Missoula last Friday. The point was hard to argue with after Montana outplayed Stanford men’s basketball in seemingly every facet of the game, notching an 88-69 victory on the strength of a 13-0 opening spurt and 43 [...]

Stanford wrestling competed in the Las Vegas Invitational over the past weekend, searching for momentum with the heart of its season rapidly approaching. But Stanford wrestling took a step back in Sin City, with just one of 10 wrestlers placing.
“We’re disappointed that we didn’t reach the goals we had,” head coach Kerry McCoy said. “We [...]

It was a bittersweet moment for the members of the Stanford men’s water polo team as they stepped together onto the second place platform to receive their NCAA Championship runners-up plaque.
Just minutes before, the Cardinal had fallen in narrow defeat, 3-2, to top-ranked Southern California in the national title game. In the penultimate game of [...]

For the first time since Dec. 27, 2003, the Stanford women’s basketball team left Maples Pavilion without a win. The streak of 23 straight home victories, which included last year’s perfect 13-0 record, ended Sunday afternoon at the hands of top-ranked Tennessee by a score of 74-67.
The Lady Vols extended a streak of their own, [...]

After falling to Montana by 19 points two days earlier, Stanford (2-3) stalled yet again on Sunday against an underdog opponent. And after yet another shocking setback — this time 64-58 at the hands of UC-Davis — Stanford’s flaws seem more serious than anyone could have predicted.
The Cardinal seemed to be on their heels [...]

With Maples Pavilion’s loudest cheers this season supporting the No. 5 women’s volleyball team last Saturday night, the Cardinal could only watch in disbelief as freshman outside hitter Foluke Akinradewo’s attack sailed over the net and landed just out of bounds. Game, set, match: Santa Clara.
Thus ended a turbulent season plagued by injuries, and thus [...]