Spar over divestment at ASSU

No resolution passes at SCAI-inspired meeting
By megan maass
NEWS| The ASSU Undergraduate Senate heard from the Jewish Student Association (JSA) and Students Confronting Apartheid in Israel (SCAI) last night for and against a bill authored by Senator Nabill Idrisi ‘09 calling for the University to selectively divest from “companies that violate international law and abuse human rights in Israel and Palestine.”

Grad student dating blues

By Niraj Sheth
NEWS| Why are so many single graduate students unlucky in love? In interviews conducted by The Daily, students blamed a number of factors — including insular graduate programs that make it hard to meet others, a large chunk of already married students who shrink the dating pool and unbalanced male-female ratios in several departments that make finding someone to go out with on a Friday night that much more difficult.

Tree hopefuls vie to avoid first cuts

By Loren Newman
NEWS| Who will be the next Tree? That’s the question on the minds of people across campus as Tree Week stunts came to a conclusion yesterday with a flurry of activity during which candidates vied to become the next mascot of the Stanford Band.

Car of Future developing

By Allison Dedrick
NEWS| Ever wished your car could drive itself?

$33 million for stem cells

By Lia Hardin
NEWS| Stanford’s Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine will soon be housed in its own facility, thanks to a $33 million donation to the School of Medicine from Lorry I. Lokey.

What's on your iPod?

By Laura Chang
NEWS| The Daily asked eight administrators, faculty members and students what they have on their playlists.

Opening Gates

By Vaughan Meyer
NEWS| Classics Professor and Department Chair Richard Martin has thick curly hair, a graying beard and a calm presence — you get the sense that he has some perspective on the world around him, perhaps from his deep study of Homer, Aristophanes and the rest of Greek literature.