***Correction 8/6/08: The Weekly should have disclosed that Tommy Tobin ‘10, quoted in this article, writes for the Entertainment section of this paper.***
Aside from all the obvious activity on campus this summer — students doing research, taking classes and participating in sports camps — some student groups active during the year have continued to function [...]

Finals are over, seniors have graduated and many students, faculty and staff have packed their bags for summer vacation. But the Stanford campus, currently home to a diverse range of summer programs, is anything but dead.
High-school students from various programs — including the Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), High School Summer College (HSSC), Junior [...]

This report covers a selection of crimes reported from July 23 to July 28 as recorded in the Stanford Police Department Public Bulletin.
A series of bike thefts were reported during this time.
July 27
At Roth Way and Campus Drive between 9:30 and 11 p.m., an unknown suspect broke into a car via the passenger-side window and [...]

Genetics, not wear and tear, may be the true cause of aging, according to a study by School of Medicine researchers.
Led by Developmental Biology and Genetics Prof. Stuart Kim, the study looked at 20,000 genes in C. elegans, a millimeter-long worm. Researchers monitored discrepancies in gene function over the course of the worms’ lives. They [...]

Law School Prof. Jeff Fisher, who appeared before the Supreme Court three times this year, is batting above .300 in front of the highest court in the land. Although he didn’t fare as well representing plaintiffs in the Exxon Valdez oil spill case and a defendant in a smaller drug distribution case, Fisher scored a [...]

Law School Prof. Barbara Olshansky is representing a journalist who ran into trouble while reporting from the Middle East: Jawed Ahmad, a 22-year-old Afghani working for Canada’s CTV, didn’t run into the usual threats, though, that are faced by war-zone journalists, such as kidnapping or roadside bombs. Rather, Ahmad was detained by the U.S. government.
On [...]

Stanford has the best classroom experience amongst the nation’s colleges, according to rankings published this week by The Princeton Review. Rankings were based on surveys of 120,000 students nationwide.
The Princeton Review cites Stanford’s supportive staff and student body, a lack of cutthroat competition and a wide variety of interdisciplinary study options as reasons for the [...]

Stanford Hospital and Clinics and the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital announced Tuesday that they will no longer recognize the union that represents 1,450 non-technical employees at the medical center, because the union was allegedly not directly elected by the workers.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 715, which has long represented the Stanford employees, merged with [...]

Stanford Medical Center announced last week that it would lay off 200 workers at its 3375 Hillview Ave. outreach laboratory — just a year and a half after hundreds of workers were moved into the brand new lab.
Stanford’s outreach business is being acquired by Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp); executives from LabCorp told analysts that [...]

A recent struggle between University officials and the U.S. Department of Energy over the famed Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) will likely result in SLAC’s renaming, so that ‘Stanford’ is no longer part of the name.
According to SLAC insiders, the controversy may indicate tension between the physicists who work at SLAC and the Department of [...]