Firefighters brought a 177-acre brushfire near the Stanford Dish under control on Monday afternoon, but flames still threatened other Stanford affiliates: the raging Angora Fire in South Lake Tahoe forced guests and staff at Stanford Sierra Camp to evacuate the same day.
The Palo Alto blaze, which broke out about a half-mile north of Frenchman’s Gate [...]

The Stanford Band is finally “All Right Now” after a dramatic year of silence in the stands. The band was suspended last August and later placed on indefinite provisional status after the Band Shak was vandalized.
Vice Provost of Student Affairs Greg Boardman announced Jun. 14 that he had lifted the indefinite provisional status of the [...]

IT IS THE END of an era for the approximately 37 seniors who opted not to go to grad school or take a job on campus, and summer is in the air. The vegetation has turned a pleasant brownish color and because we’re in California, temperatures less than 70 degrees Fahrenheit are a distant memory. [...]

Normally my drives through the Mojave Desert are fairly uneventful. I roll up my windows against the super-heated air, crank up the A/C and step on the gas. Perpetually speeding toward a wavy water mirage on the road’s surface always just out of reach, I know that if my car breaks down — even if [...]

“Your dad is loving his band. I think he’s going to quit his job,” said my mom. I laughed. My dad is a professor of economics at a highly respected university. “I’m not joking,” she said.
For as long as I can remember, we’ve had a drum set (rock and roll variety, purchased circa 1960) in [...]

Joel Stein ‘93 is a narcissist. But if I were anything like him, I’d be obsessed with myself too. It’s unlikely that any past Daily columnist has fashioned his Stanford soap box into a bona fide fortress quite the way Stein has. And if someone else has, chances are he isn’t as cute.
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The Café: California Bistro and Wine Bar, located in the Arrillaga Alumni Center, describes itself as a “gathering point for alumni, students, faculty and staff — whether for espresso in the morning, a quick bite for lunch, a mid-afternoon snack or a glass of beer or wine in the evening.” I very rarely see a [...]

In her book “On Photography,” Susan Sontag writes, “there is something predatory in the act of taking a picture. To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.” “Bare Witness,” [...]

Stanford Lively Arts recently announced its 2007-2008 season, and several prominent performances highlight a higher “star power” quotient for next year. This is the first full season led by new director Jenny Bilfield, who was previously president of Boosey and Hawkes, a music publisher. She has promised to make Lively Arts programs, which has always [...]

Watching all those cute little ProFros last weekend reminded me of a different, more innocent time. A time when we actually bothered wearing high heels to classes, when we all seriously cared about the SAT scores of virtual strangers, when we feared there might actually exist a mythical permanent record of every time we got [...]