“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
–Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, p. 333
Stanford has its fair share of wacky traditions: Senior Pub Night, fountain hopping and Full Moon on the Quad–sorry swine flu, but only a Hungarian Horntail could stop Stanford students from publicly swapping spit. [...]

First day of school: the intrepid Stanford student rises, ready to take on the world. She grabs her coffee and muffin and heads off to class, excited for a year of new knowledge, friends, and frolicking.
After successfully navigating the morning schedule, she eagerly heads to the dining hall with her comrades to enjoy fine Stanford [...]

On a team that’s stacked with underclassmen — 17 of the 27 players on the Stanford women’s soccer roster are freshmen or sophomores — redshirt senior Hillary Heath offers leadership to a group that is long on talent and potential, but somewhat shorter on experience…

While many Stanford students were taking well-earned time away from the Farm this summer, some of the world’s most respected sports medicine physicians and orthopedic surgeons were flocking to it…

It is not often that I agree with one of the Stanford Athletic Department’s decisions, but I have to tip my hat to its most recent one…

Parity is running amok in college football, and it’s just claimed its first off-field casualty: the Associated Press (AP) and USA Today Top 25 polls…

When the campus eatery first opened its doors this year, it did so as a changed space.

Count it as another effect of the digital age: Long-distance relationships are common for many Stanford students.

Early Saturday morning, while Stanford students were fast asleep, Typhoon Ketsana inundated Luzon, the main island of the Philippines. It was the largest typhoon to hit the island since 1967. Now, some Stanford students are saying their friends and family on the island cannot be reached.

It started with a “big nudge” to the Stanford Tree and ended with three Cal fans, dressed as lumberjacks, arrested Friday night as the Stanford band played them off to The Tubes’ “White Punks on Dope.” Eyewitnesses disagree about what happened in between.