After dropping Sunday’s rubber match of a three-game series against reigning national champion Oregon State, Stanford baseball will resume its cross-peninsula rivalry with Santa Clara tonight at Sunken Diamond. The Cardinal, having fallen short against the Broncos twice to start the season, is looking for a pick-me-up, even if outside the conference.
Stanford (18-23, 3-12 Pacific-10 [...]

In the days running up to the highly anticipated Pacific-10 Conference Championships, the Cardinal team had an action-packed weekend with two track meets — one across the Bay in Berkeley and one on its home turf at Cobb Track and Angell Field.
Sunday proved the most exciting with the Stanford-hosted Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational. In a [...]

In its last competition before this month’s NCAA Championships, Stanford women’s tennis didn’t capture any individual titles in singles or doubles action at the Pacific-10 Conference Championships in Ojai, Calif. However, the Cardinal did manage to accumulate more individual wins than any other Pac-10 school this past weekend.
Stanford sent two players to the singles semifinals [...]

SophomoreMatt Bruch may be outside the top 125 in the national collegiate tennis rankings, but his opponents in last weekend’s Pacific-10 Conference Individual Championships might have guessed otherwise.
At the 107th tournament in Ojai, Calif., Bruch mowed down the field in the men’s singles championship competition, winning the title without dropping a single set in [...]

Give credit to sustainability efforts
We are writing in response to Ruth McCann’s April 24 column regarding the recently concluded Energy Bowl and Water Derby. We applaud her efforts as the “Queen of Green” to champion sustainable causes among Stanford students.
We agree with the author that publicity and participation can be improved, and we are committed [...]

Like all useful things, corn can be used for both good and evil. Good ways in which corn can be used include popcorn, corn bread, corn on the cob and corn starch biodegradable utensils. Evil ways in which corn can be used include Cracker Jacks, corn dogs and corn-based ethanol fuel.
At this moment, this alternative [...]

Lake Lag was a real lake in the winter of 2005. It was not very deep. You could walk straight through it, if you didn’t mind taking a disinfectant shower or suffering mutant syphilis. The water was dirty, but from the porch of Lambda Nu (before it was Jerry), all you could see was a [...]

This week, many students are eagerly awaiting to find out whether they got their priority preferences. Priority applications, due last Friday, range from short essays on particular house themes to language requirements and house visits. Yet, for many, priority becomes a way for students to game the system and secure desirable housing with an otherwise [...]

Close to 100 Stanford students participated in the Global Day for Darfur rally in San Francisco yesterday. Organized partly by Students Take Action Now: Darfur (STAND), the rally was one of dozens held across the nation to mark the fourth anniversary of the Darfur genocide, which has claimed about 400,000 lives and displaced more than [...]

Graduate students will soon have a voice in the nation’s capital, when the Graduate Student Council (GSC) sends representatives to Washington, D.C. to lobby on their behalf.
The GSC has approved one legislative representative — applied physics student Dirk Englund — to lobby for tax cuts. Another representative, who would advocate reforming regulations governing international students, [...]