Admits take campus by storm

By Aimee Grace
NEWS| Greatly anticipated by prospective freshmen, parents, students, faculty and staff, Stanford Admit Weekend begins today.

Earth Week starts

By Scott Dorfman
NEWS| Earth Week 2001, an annual event sponsored by Eco-Advising at Stanford, begins today with an environmental fair in White Plaza.

Lambdas, AASA host auction

By The Stanford Daily Staff
NEWS| “At First Sight,” a charity date auction organized by Lambda Phi Epsilon and the Asian American Students Association, will be held tonight from 9 p.

Stanford remembers Holocaust

By Melisande Middleton
NEWS| A Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony was held last night in White Plaza from 7:40 p.m. to midnight, during which students took turns reading a list of the names of Holocaust victims.

Librarian goes virtual

By Lisa Mendelman
NEWS| America’s first library Webmaster, former Stanford librarian Louise Addis, was recently honored by the American Library Association for her innovative role in the creation of the United States’s first virtual library.

Band names writers, announcer

By Erin Archerd
NEWS| With spring comes the Stanford Band’s selection of field-show writers and an announcer for the upcoming year. The new writers, seniors Mark Ganek and Tanicia Perry and freshman Dara Weinberg, were announced at the beginning of this quarter.

Quiz bowl team places fourth at national tournament

By Stephanie Chiang
NEWS| Stanford sent a team to compete in the National Academic Quiz Tournament’s Intercollegiate Championship Tournament, held on Apr.

Pair of doctors sue Stanford and hospital chief for libel

By Nick Geballe
NEWS| Two Palo Alto surgeons have sued Stanford, claiming that Stanford Hospital Chief of Staff Dr. Lawrence Shuer defamed them after they criticized two Stanford gynecologists accused of malpractice and fraud.

Wolff wins literature ‘academy award’

By Scott Dorfman
NEWS| Tobias Wolff, the Melvin and Bill Lane Prof. in the Humanities, was one of eight recipients of the 2001 Academy Award in Literature, awarded April 6 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Stanford alumnus, supporter dies

By Amy Christeson
NEWS| Last week, Stanford lost a treasured alumnus, the cancer community lost a determined advocate and many people lost a valued friend.