This report covers a selection of crimes from April 19 to April 25 as reported in the Stanford Police Department Public Bulletin.
Wednesday, April 19
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At 11:30 a.m. a construction employee digging with a backhoe accidentally hit a natural gas line at the intersection of Panama Street and Via Ortega, breaking it.
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Around 1:30 p.m. an unknown suspect [...]

The Stanford Women’s Leadership Conference, to be revived this Saturday as an annual tradition by the Women’s Community Center, will focus on “Defining Success” for aspiring young professionals.
This year’s event is the first time that the Stanford community — undergraduate, graduate, faculty and staff — will be invited to convene and synthesize their opinions on [...]

At a packed Cubberley Auditorium yesterday, Linguistics Prof. Geoffrey Nunberg addressed students and members of the community on the development, uses and paradoxes of political language. His talk touched on the issues of propaganda, euphemisms and the L-word (“liberal”) among other topics.
According to Charles Junkerman, dean of Continuing Studies, which hosted the event, part of [...]

Today over 200 students, faculty, staff and alumni will reach out to the surrounding cities as part of Stanford’s first Community Partnership Day. Organized by the Office of Public Affairs, the event will consist of numerous projects touching on a variety of community service opportunities — including food drives, habitat restoration and tutoring.
Participants will be [...]

As dusk settled on campus yesterday, an estimated 125 students and community members gathered to partake in “Take Back the Night,” an annual march around campus to show solidarity against sexual assault.
Fraternity and sorority members, past, current and future Peer Health Educators (PHEs) and other interested students and community members convened in White Plaza before [...]

A group of students dressed in identical T-shirts screamed aloud at the LGBT center just after 8 p.m. yesterday as they gathered to “break the silence” after not speaking for an entire day. Sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, the 10th annual National Day of Silence — which attracted more than 500,000 [...]

On Tuesday morning, several Toyon residents were infected with a contagious illness. Since then, more than 14 students in the dorm have come down with the unidentified disease. Symptoms include nausea, drowsiness and a general feeling of malaise. While the specific nature of the disease has yet to be determined, Toyon staff has attributed the [...]

It’s hard catching up with student-athletes. Stanford keeps its students busy enough, and participating in Division I athletics certainly doesn’t make it any easier. But the Daily is perseverant, and not even the fastest woman on campus — Chauntae Bayne-Hackett — could escape a personal interview. And once we got her talking, Chauntae was more [...]

The Stanford Canoe and Kayak team might just be the best Stanford sport you’ve never heard of.
Consider this: from the time the team was formed five years ago, they’ve won the national competition every year. How’s that for a sport that the university doesn’t even really consider to be… well, a sport.
The kayakers are currently [...]

Running into trouble after a strong start, the men’s golf team was unable to keep up with the other teams and its own expectations at the Pac-10 Championship this week on the Bighorn Golf Course in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The Cardinal placed sixth, while sophomore Rob Grube led the team, tying for sixth.
No. 5 UCLA [...]