5% tuition increase imminent

Board of Trustees approves $1,800 spike; grad schools also affected in rising trend
By Amit Arora
NEWS| Citing rising costs and expanded financial aid for middle-income families, the University’s Board of Trustees approved a 5.46 percent increase in tuition and a 4.25 percent increase in room and board expenses.

Initiatives aim to boost grad diversity

By Jennifer Liu
NEWS| In a continuing effort to bolster graduate student diversity, the University announced several initiatives last week designed to recruit and retain underrepresented minority students in its graduate programs.

Valentine's Day sweeps campus

By Daisy Chen
NEWS| Graduate and undergraduate students alike are tapping into the Valentine’s Day spirit to help fundraise for charitable causes and boost turnout for annual events.

Parking tickets frustrate drivers

By Cassidy Deline
NEWS| In fact, more than 35,000 tickets are doled out yearly to parking offenders at the University, according to Tom Dairy, head of parking affairs at the Stanford Police Department.

ASSU talks sweatshop labor

By megan maass
NEWS| The ASSU Undergraduate Senate passed two significant advocacy bills at their weekly meeting last night.

GSC to unveil new Web site

By Andrew Valencia
NEWS| The Graduate Student Council (GSC) will soon unveil a newly updated and revamped Web site to replace the existing outdated version.

Tour guides pave their own path

By Janet Kim
NEWS| You’ve seen them before — or at least the crowd surrounding them. They are the gregarious, well-groomed, name-tagged Stanford student tour guides, who routinely walk the walk and talk the talk — backwards the whole way.

Applying Academia to the Real World

By Vaughan Meyer
NEWS| Sociology Professor David Grusky describes himself as an “academic’s academic” and speaks passionately of “intellectual puzzles” that captivate the academic audience.