Biology Prof. Larry Zaroff was named Teacher of the Year at last night’s meeting of the ASSU Undergraduate Senate. The Senate also confirmed the new Executive Cabinet selections and student members of the University committees.
The Teaching Awards Commission presented the award to Zaroff. Junior Priyanka Goel, co-chair of the ASSU Volunteer Student Organizations and Teaching [...]

Acclaimed fiction writer and former Stanford Prof. Gilbert Sorrentino died earlier this month, May 18, in New York City. Over the course of his expansive career, he authored a number of novels, books of poetry, short stories and criticisms.
His most critically acclaimed novel was “Mulligan Stew,” which Eaven Boland, director of Stanford’s Creative Writing Program [...]

Questions about Jesus and his life have dominated popular culture in recent weeks with the premiere of “The Da Vinci Code” film, based on the novel that alleges Christ had a child. In this climate of religious dialogue, Richard Carrier, a graduate student in ancient history at Columbia University, told members of the student group [...]

As seniors prepare to graduate in only a few weeks, many have set their sights on the job market. A new Graduate School of Business (GSB) study concludes that job prospects and early salaries for business-school students depend on stock market conditions at the time of their graduation. The study, published by GSB Economics Prof. [...]

Every year, Stanford students warily approach the housing Draw and its unsavory combination of potential conflict with roommates and looming uncertainty over numbers and assignments.
But this year, even the typically apprehensive student body got more than it bargained for. Drastic and largely unpredictable shifts in housing cutoffs left many surprised by their assignments.
But those were [...]

The Stanford canoe and kayaking club team placed second behind Georgia Tech at the Collegiate National Championships in Chula Vista, Calif. this past weekend.
The Cardinal competed in nine different types of events, divided by gender, distance and number of teammates on a boat. Points were awarded for each team’s boat placing in each race’s top [...]

Stanford’s openweight women wrapped up their season with an 11th-place finish at the NCAA regatta, held this past weekend in West Windsor, N.J. The Cardinal women qualified for the Petite Finals in each of the three varsity events, finishing 13th in the first varsity eight, and ninth in the second varsity eight and the [...]

A “love for sports and a passion for broadcasting” were all Aaron Levine, Class of 2004, needed to make being a sports broadcaster a defining experience during his tenure at Stanford. The 20 sportscasters that followed in his footsteps and made up the KZSU Sports team during this school year seem to wholeheartedly agree.
It’s not [...]

The Stanford women’s golf team traveled to Columbus, Ohio, looking to match the success of their tennis and cross-country counterparts, who brought home Championship trophies. Unfortunately, the team was unable to overcome a talented field in the effort to win their first team championship.
The Cardinal placed 13th in the four-day tournament, shooting a combined 57-over [...]

A starboard gumboot wouldn’t blush at the bow ball on a coxless pair, but that’s only because the sport of rowing — like most things born of the Ivy League — boasts quite a vocabulary. But while its lexicon names nearly every part and piece of a boat, the rowing world has [...]