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M. Volleyball: Surging into home stretch

M. Volleyball: Surging into home stretch

In spite of having its historic, six-game winning streak abruptly snapped by Cal Baptist, the Cardinal proved itself unwavering in its determination to engineer a late-season surge…

March 31 2009 | By Jeff Lu | Posted in Men's Volleyball, Sports, Top Headlines | Read More »

Men’s Tennis suffers spring slump

Men’s Tennis suffers spring slump

Spring break wasn’t kind to the Stanford men’s tennis team, as the Cardinal lost three matches in the past week, all to highly ranked teams and all by scores of 4-3…

March 31 2009 | By Danny Belch | Posted in Men's Tennis, Sports | Read More »

Track and field switches gears

Track and field switches gears

Freshman Chris Derrick highlighted the Cardinal performance at the NCAA National Indoor Championships in College Station, Texas, with a fourth-place finish in the 5,000 meters…

March 31 2009 | By Anarghya Vardhana | Posted in Sports, Track & Field | Read More »

Synchronized Swimming: Women win silver at Collegiate Nationals

Synchronized Swimming: Women win silver at Collegiate Nationals

This past weekend in San Antonio, Texas proved to be a nail-biter for the Cardinal, as it competed against every collegiate synchronized swimming team in the nation…

March 31 2009 | By Claudia Preciado | Posted in Sports, Synchronized Swimming | Read More »

Bohm: Don’t sleep on Appel, Cardinal

Bohm: Don’t sleep on Appel, Cardinal

It would seem almost criminal to write about anything other than Jayne Appel and the Stanford women’s basketball team this week…

March 31 2009 | By Daniel Bohm | Posted in Sports | Read More »

W. Basketball: Fourplay

W. Basketball: Fourplay

Jayne Appel shot her way into the record books on Monday, leading the No. 2 Cardinal to its second straight Final Four appearance by dismantling No. 4 Iowa State in a 74-53 Stanford victory…

March 31 2009 | By Wyndam Makowsky | Posted in Sports, Top Headlines, Women's Basketball | Read More »

M. Swimming: Bringing home the hardware

M. Swimming: Bringing home the hardware

The Stanford men’s swimming and diving team fought a tight race for the top spot at the NCAA men’s swimming and diving championships, March 26-28. The Cardinal finished third, behind only champion Auburn and runner-up Texas…

March 31 2009 | By Christian L. Tom and Kenan Jiang | Posted in Men's Swimming & Diving, Sports, Top Headlines | Read More »

SLAC given $68 million

SLAC given $68 million

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced last week that SLAC will receive $68.3 million in funding from President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. These stimulus funds are part of $1.2 billion total allocated to the DOE’s Office of Science by the Recovery Act…

March 31 2009 | By Salone Kapur | Posted in News, Top Headlines | Read More »

Students break safely in Mexico

Students break safely in Mexico

Despite a travel advisory put into effect by the U.S. State Department in February, several Stanford students traveled to Mexico over spring break without experiencing any problems…

March 31 2009 | By Julia Brownell | Posted in News, Top Headlines | Read More »

Number of ASSU candidates drops

Number of ASSU candidates drops

At the end of last quarter, a record 60 students declared their intent to run for the Undergraduate Senate, and five slates announced that they would run for Executive. But after the petition deadline, just 39 Senate candidates and three Executive slates made the ballot…

March 31 2009 | By Fatima Wagdy | Posted in News, Top Headlines | Read More »