Coach suspended

Kenney did not accompany team to this week’s NCAAs
By Patrick Fitzgerald
NEWS| Men’s head swimming coach Skip Kenney has been suspended with pay pending an investigation into his decision to delete the names of former athletes from record books, Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby announced Friday afternoon.

International student aid lacks

By Amit Arora
NEWS| The low number of foreign students on financial aid reflects the University’s inability to extend its need-blind admissions program — which all American applicants enjoy — to the international community. The University recently announced expansions to financial aid packages for middle-income domestic families. Similar changes in the financial aid system for international students, however, have not yet been made, nor are they planned for the near future.

Task force eyes mental health issues

By Lia Hardin and Niraj Sheth
NEWS| Amid rising concern for mental health on campus, a select group of faculty, administrators and students have been working behind the scenes to better understand and improve mental health at Stanford. The Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Task Force, as it is known, was organized by Vice Provost for Student Affairs Greg Boardman last fall and reports directly to his office.

Roosevelt localizes policy

By Patrick Fitzgerald
NEWS| At 3 a.m.

Bing annuls gift due to ExxonMobil ties

By Niraj Sheth
NEWS| Bing — a Hollywood movie producer and son of prominent donors Helen and Peter Bing ‘55 — has also said that he will not make any future gifts to the University, The San Jose Mercury News reported Sunday.

New technology enables mouse-free Web surfing

By Kelsey Mesher
NEWS| Imagine surfing the Internet using only your eyes and a keyboard.

Univ, contractor to reach settlement

By Lia Hardin
NEWS| Citing the destruction of sensitive DNA technology in a Medical School facility, Stanford sued contractor Rudolph & Sletten at the end of January for negligence and breach of contract.

Campaign to preserve historic house fails

By Jenny Baer
NEWS| When Palo Alto city officials voted last week to allow the destruction of the Juana Briones House, a handful of students in History Prof.

Green dorm project moves forward

By Annie Jia
NEWS| Row houses are usually associated with parties and good food, not with environmentally-friendly features like solar panels, low-flow shower heads and a plug-in hybrid car station.

SLAC director to step down this fall

By Stanford Daily Staff
NEWS| “Jonathan Dorfan’s tenure at SLAC has been characterized by exceptional scientific vision and foresight,” said President John Hennessy in the press release.

Flamed

By Marissa Miller
NEWS| "Maybe you enjoyed the hell out of it, but does that justify what it does to everyone else? I’m finding it hard to understand why your special little experience requires that I get woken up at 7:30,” snapped one student.

Abolishing paper

By Sam Bhagwat
NEWS| CafeScribe’s ambitious goals include cutting into the $7 billion textbook market while helping students sharto digitalize content, relieving students of heavy backpacks and saving them money. While the pilot version of the program, rolled out two years ago at institutions including Stanford’s Law School, drew praise from administrators for its technological features, they cited its limited popularity in questioning whether the program would catch on.

Pi enthusiasts break into song

By Jennifer Chin
NEWS| Today is Pi Day, an unofficial holiday for math fans worldwide that is chosen for the significance of the numerical date (3/14). At 1:59pm, the approximation of the mathematical constant pi will be drawn out to 3.14159 — the first few of a never-ending sequence of digits.