Let’s get focused: Stick it to Cal
To the Editor:
Who among us does not realize that the young woman we intended to use for our Big Game t-shirt was troubled, and may be troubled still. The phrase “TOO SOON” would have been appropriate long before this latest attempt to make use of this woman’s plight as [...]

Editor’s note: This column was mostly inspired by Ziv’s time spent at UC-Berkeley. While acknowledging that the bathrooms at Stanford are generally a considerable improvement, he warns that the conditions described could be present in any public restroom.
As I lay my bare ass across cold porcelain every night, a lot of questions run through my [...]

Hillary Clinton is not the inevitable, unstoppable candidate some make her out to be. She is pulling away from the others in polls and her fundraising numbers are better than ever, but two months is an eternity in politics and Barack Obama still has a colossal amount of money. Anyone who thinks 60 days of [...]

There is another adage that reads, “It’s not how long it is, it’s what you do with it,” which, unlike the “longer is better” philosophy that my colleagues adhere to, actually truly does apply to Introduction to Humanities (IHUM) sections.
IHUM is notoriously boring, a reputation it has earned over many years of student complaints. So [...]

There’s an old adage, “longer is better,” that is often misapplied or incorrect. When it comes to the length of Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) sections, however, longer truly is better.
Last year’s IHUM self-study evaluated student input from five informal focus groups, 1,283 online survey respondents and a number of IHUM professors and Teaching Fellows. [...]

I really didn’t want to write this article, I swear. The last thing I wanted to do was to turn this column into a forum for venting my deep despair. But last week, I was pushed over the edge.
Many of you probably read the two baseball columns written last week. One, by Wyndam Makowsky, detailed [...]

For years, the Stanford women have been a fixture at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Indoor Championships, which start today at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Junior Jessica Nguyen will be the Cardinal’s lone representative at one of the toughest tournaments of the season. A week ago, Nguyen earned a bid at the Indoors [...]

Nearly a month ago, there were no Stanford men set to compete at the ITA National Indoor Championships. But after four weeks of solid play, four Cardinal tennis players have qualified for the tournament and will be opening play today in Columbus, Ohio.
The Indoor Championships is, perhaps, the toughest tournament in the country after the [...]

The Stanford men’s swim and dive team begins its season this Saturday with a Pac-10 match against Washington. The Cardinal is currently ranked No. 3 in the preseason College Swimming Coaches Association (CSCAA) rankings, behind perennial powerhouse, No. 1 Texas, and last year’s NCAA champion, No. 2 Auburn.
Stanford has won an amazing 25 Pac-10 titles [...]

The Stanford women’s swimming and diving team is gearing up for the first conference meet of the season this Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Avery Aquatic Center against the University of Washington. The competition will be the first dual meet between the Cardinal and Huskies in over a decade.
Although still early in the season, the [...]