SAN ANTONIO, Texas – It came down to 11.5 seconds. The women’s basketball team was down 60-59 against LSU for the San Antonio regional final. Sophomore guard Candice Wiggins got the pass in from junior center Kristen Newlin, charged down the court, and passed to senior guard Krista Rappahahn in the right corner. Rappahahn shot [...]

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Brooke had the hook – again and again, today – as junior center Brooke Smith led the women’s basketball team to its third consecutive Elite Eight appearance with an 88-74 win over Oklahoma.
Smith had a career-high 35 points, besting her 26 at UCLA earlier this season, and was 14 for 16 [...]

DENVER- Stanford may not have the greatest depth, but they reminded Florida State that their starting five still has one of the nation’s best players.
Two-time Pac-10 Player of the Year and Wooden Award finalist Candice Wiggins took over after halftime scoring 20 of her game-high 34 points in the second half en route to an [...]

DENVER, Colo.- The third-seeded Stanford women’s basketball team made up for some first-round offensive jitters with a zone defense that completely shut down 14-seed Southeast Missouri State.
The Cardinal held the Redhawks to 21.1 percent shooting for the game en route to a 72-45 blowout. Stanford is now 15-0 when the team holds their opponent to [...]

Trailing by five with one minute to go, Chris Hernandez tried to once again to put the men’s basketball team on his shoulders. He drove aggressively to the right elbow, leaned into contact, sent his Missouri State defender crashing to the floor and drew a whistle.
But the whistle was for charging, Hernandez’s game-ending fifth foul [...]

Donation for Latin American scholarships
Leading a group of 35 supporters, Alejandro Zaffaroni and his wife Lida last week helped donate $10 million to benefit financial aid for Latin American students. The new Alejandro and Lida Zaffaroni Scholarship and Fellowship Program will support both undergraduate scholarships and graduate student fellowships.
Zaffaroni is the founder of Alza Corp. [...]

Getting a head start on the upcoming November congressional elections, the Stanford Democrats recently hosted two party hopefuls for California’s 11th district, currently held by Republican Richard Pombo.
AJ Carrillo, campaign manager for Jerry McNerney, addressed 17 members of the student group Monday evening at the History Corner. McNerney himself was scheduled to speak at the [...]

Last Friday, Stanford began removing five radio antennas at Site 515 in the foothills. The antennas, smaller cousins of Stanford’s well-known landmark the Dish, each had radio dish components measuring 60 feet.
According to the Stanford News Service, the concrete mounting piers used to support the five antennas will not be destroyed. The piers, which don [...]

Every six years, California reviews the content of its social studies textbooks. On Wednesday, March 8, the State Board of Education voted 8-0, with two abstentions, to reject a series of additional changes to sixth grade textbooks co-proposed by the Vedic Foundation (VF) and the Hindu Education Foundation (HEF) that would have inaccurately skewed the [...]

The ASSU Undergraduate Senate convened last night, focusing its discussion on proposed changes to the ASSU Constitution. The Senate will vote on the revised Constitution at its next meeting on April 4.
“It’s mostly shrinking the constitution down,” said Senate Chair Chris Nguyen, a junior, describing the changes. “We’re just trying to cut it down to [...]