Any girl in California under the age of 18 can legally obtain a taxpayer-funded abortion — or be coerced into one — without the knowledge of those responsible for her.
Such a legal environment fosters the willful ignorance of possible abuse and grants sexual predators and profiteering strangers the power to preempt parental rights, to pocket [...]

Litcrawl is SF’s annual literary night of readings, where instead of crawling to bars and getting progressively drunker, you crawl to coffee shops and get progressively pretentious-er. By night’s end, you are convinced that the only people worth knowing are this one guy you saw reading about how his potato salad is a microcosm of [...]

Easy, portable, and delicious, chips and dips are the ultimate party foods. While canned salsas taste pretty good when you’re drunk, and fine as long as you can keep your mind from wandering down that whole I’m-really-just-eating-soggy-vegetables path, making fresh dips is so easy that there’s no reason not to do it every once in [...]

I can recognize an athlete anywhere. The big guy that sits in the corner of my Art History section? Athlete. That blonde girl in the third row of my English class? Athlete. And it’s not because they are necessarily freakishly tall or abnormally broad-shouldered — I can pick out the fencers and the javelin [...]

Proposition 83 is a measure that could only pass as a referendum. Lawmakers have repeatedly refused to consider it because of its massive infeasibility and questionable logic. The proposal, known as “Jessica’s Law,” would make sweeping changes to California’s penal code with the intention of cracking down on repeat offenses by sex offenders and attempting [...]

Spanning three performance dates starting tomorrow, dance legend Anna Halprin will recreate her mold-breaking “Ten Myths,” an audience-participatory theater event that has not been performed since its premiere in 1967. Ten Myths helped launch some of the twentieth century’s most radical participatory theatre and dance experimentation.
Halprin, 86, has danced and choreographed for more than 60 [...]

The Academic Council approved revised policies and procedures on Stanford’s definition of research misconduct last week, a move that brings the University up to national standards.
Presenting to the Academic Council on Tuesday, Management Science and Engineering Prof. Elisabeth Pate-Cornell reported on the actions of the Committee on Research and the Academic Council during the 2005 [...]

One day last spring, the Stanford Community Farmers came to their individual plots to find that the quiet setting on the outskirts of West Campus had changed. Bulldozers were churning up the open oak woodland surrounding the farm to clear the way for a new golf course. Grasses and low shrubs gave way to a [...]

“One Man Wrecking Machine” won’t just refer to a UC-Berkeley linebacker this Big Game weekend.
The folk-rock band Guster will visit Memorial Auditorium to perform in the annual Big Game Show Sun., Dec. 3, the day after Big Game.
The Stanford Concert Network, responsible for booking Guster and running the show, announced the news last night. SCN [...]

At a Friday screening of the documentary “9/11: Press for Truth” at Gunn High School, Stanford grad Paul Thompson and Berkeley English Prof. Peter Dale Scott charged the Bush administration of failing to make Americans safer and pointed to a governmental cover-up at the film’s Palo Alto debut.
Much of the content, which traces the events [...]