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W. Basketball: Hones lost for season with knee injury

W. Basketball: Hones lost for season with knee injury

Stanford women’s basketball suffered a tremendous loss on Tuesday. Junior and starting point guard JJ Hones was diagnosed with a torn ACL and will miss the remainder of the 2008-2009 season…

November 25 2008 | By Wyndam Makowsky | Posted in Sports, Women's Basketball | Read More »

Football: Bears batter Cardinal, 37-16

Football: Bears batter Cardinal, 37-16

Stanford’s performance was uncharacteristic of its typically-solid play throughout the season: Toby Gerhart had a fumble in the red zone; Aaron Zagory missed a short field goal and a PAT; the defense was fooled on a number of key plays…

November 25 2008 | By Wyndam Makowsky | Posted in Sports, Top Headlines | Read More »

Cal architecture sucks

Cal architecture sucks

Few features of our hallowed school influence so much of our pride and spirit in this university as the architecture and layout of our campus.

November 21 2008 | By Sam Coggeshall | Posted in Intermission | Read More »

Better in every way, Big Game and beyond

Better in every way, Big Game and beyond

In the spirit of Big Game — and in case you needed any extra ego-stroking to remind you of why our beloved alma mater is far and a way a superior place to call home — I present to you some bragging rights you may not even know you had.

November 21 2008 | By Laura Rumpf | Posted in Intermission | Read More »

Cal hatred commodified

Cal hatred commodified

The earliest expression of Stanford-Cal rivalry emerged 100 years ago in the form of hand-made leather postcards.

November 21 2008 | By Julie Na | Posted in Intermission | Read More »

“Cal-fused” rails on Stanford, but all in the name of love

“Cal-fused” rails on Stanford, but all in the name of love

As predicted, Ram’s Head’s production of Gaieties is a two-hour theatrical extravaganza of Cal-bashing, gratuitous nudity, sex jokes, student group mockery, pelvic thrusts and jazz hands.

November 21 2008 | By Molly Thomas | Posted in Intermission | Read More »

Sketch comedy hits the sweet spot

Sketch comedy hits the sweet spot

Hilarious and entertaining…“The Robber Barons: IN HIGH-DEF!” is something you should be sorry you missed, if you did, as the group had their one and only performance last night in Campbell Recital Hall.

November 21 2008 | By Chelsey Little | Posted in Intermission | Read More »

From the depths of Green: suggestions for Thanksgiving break

From the depths of Green: suggestions for Thanksgiving break

…you’ve only got a week to kick back and unlearn a full quarter’s worth of knowledge in time for finals, and you want to make it count by exposing yourself to as many fun new TV shows, movies and books as possible.

November 21 2008 | By Teddy Steinkellner | Posted in Intermission | Read More »

Holiday concert puts eerie twist on poetry

Holiday concert puts eerie twist on poetry

The piece is a mixture of the Latin mass for the dead and nine poems by Emily Dickinson made for chorus.

November 21 2008 | By Eric Mefford | Posted in Intermission | Read More »

The man of “Twilight,” he’ll make your blood curdle

The man of “Twilight,” he’ll make your blood curdle

With a fairly short resume (which includes the role of Cedric Diggory in the “Harry Potter” films), Pattinson is making his star break as Edward Cullen, the vampire Romeo of the beloved, young adult “Twilight” series of novels by Stephanie Meyer.

November 21 2008 | By Annika Heinle and Julie Na | Posted in Intermission | Read More »