Though they concede Judge Samuel Alito’s conformation is inevitable, key Senate Democrats entered last week’s confirmation debates hoping to use the national stage to highlight President George W. Bush’s warrantless domestic spying program, which they call unconstitutional.
Following the Judiciary Committee’s 10-8 vote along partisan lines to recommend Alito’s confirmation, the Senate debates began last Wednesday [...]

Shopping classes can be tough when three of your options all occur during lunch, which also happens to be the time slot for your weekly meetings of the Society for Propagating Proper Facebook Etiquette and the Stanford Competitive Tiddlywinks Team. It was for situations like these that Stanford’s online Course Guide was invented.
The trouble, as [...]

Former Stanford tennis star Roscoe Tanner was recently sentenced to two years in prison for violating probation after a grand theft conviction.
Tanner, Class of 1973, was “the single most important player to the resurrection of the program,” said current men’s tennis coach Dick Gould, who instructed Tanner while he was at Stanford.
Gould said he remembered [...]

A crowd of student job-seekers, some in business attire, converged at the Tresidder Union’s Oak Room at noon yesterday for the Liberal Arts Career and Internship Fair — the first event of the Annual Stanford Career Week, a six-day informational sequence sponsored by the Stanford Career Development Center (CDC). The series culminates with Saturday’s Career [...]

Passing through White Plaza last Thursday, students may have noticed a terrible bike accident or some unfortunate fellow moaning that he shouldn’t have been wearing earphones. Returning from class, some may have wondered who left the flier to get those bike tires filled.
Or, perhaps, some saw that impromptu roundabout at Stanford’s affectionately named Intersection [...]

At 12:20 p.m. precisely yesterday afternoon, students gathered at pre-determined locations to participate in Stanford’s first ever Flashmob, “an inexplicable gathering of a group of people in a place for a short period of time,” according to the event’s Web site.
Despite this explanation, few knew what to expect. [...]

Stanford Graduate School of Business Prof. Edward Lazear was nominated yesterday by President George W. Bush to the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).
As the Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources Management and Economics at the GSB, Lazear has taught at the University since 1992. He also serves as the Morris Arnold Cox [...]

While unforeseen construction delays may postpone the opening of the renovated Stanford Stadium by one week, Stanford officials announced in a Monday morning press conference that they “expected” to complete the construction on target.
Should construction not be completed in time for Sept. 9 home-opener against San Jose State, that contest would take place in San [...]

Undergraduate and graduate students will receive discounted admission to Stanford football games in 2006, according to a stadium seating plan unveiled Monday by Athletic Department officials. Additional highlights include the creation of premium seating sections that require Buck/Cardinal Club donations, a series of community meetings to market ticket packages and a Family Fun Section in [...]

By now, you’ve heard it.
Sports pundits from across the nation have dubbed this year’s NFL Championship extravaganza the “Snore Bowl” and “Super Bore.” Supposedly, the matchup between the Steelers and the Seahawks lacks any sort of compelling reason for viewers to tune in.
Yeah. I’ll believe that when Mike Holmgren stops being the walrus to Matt [...]