BREAKING NEWS: Fires threaten Farm, Sierra Camp

177-acre fire at Dish contained, Tahoe camp is evacuated
By Jennifer Liu
NEWS| Firefighters brought a 177-acre brushfire near the Stanford Dish under control on Monday afternoon, but flames still threatened other Stanford affiliates: the raging Angora Fire in South Lake Tahoe forced guests and staff at Stanford Sierra Camp to evacuate the same day.

BREAKING NEWS: Band's provisional status lifted

By Kelley Fong
NEWS| The Stanford Band is finally “All Right Now” after a dramatic year of silence in the stands. The band was suspended last August and later placed on indefinite provisional status after the Band Shak was vandalized.

UPDATE: Gioia challenges students' artistic appreciation, creativity

By Christian Torres
NEWS| About 1,600 students became Stanford alumni Sunday, as graduation festivities were held in the Stanford Stadium for the first time since last year’s almost $100 million renovation. With the blaring sun reflecting onto an estimated 27,000 onlookers, commencement speaker Dana Gioia ’73 implored graduates to move beyond materialism and rediscover the beauty of art in a stinging critique of modern popular culture.

Imposter caught

By Daniel Novinson
NEWS| Azia Kim, an 18-year-old from Orange County who graduated from Fullerton's Troy High School, lived in Kimball throughout fall and winter quarter. She lived in Okada, the Asian-American theme dorm, until late May, when University staff finally caught onto her ruse.

Coach deletes stats

By Patrick K. Fitzgerald
NEWS| Men's swimming head coach Skip Kenney intentionally removed the times of five swimmers from the team's media-guide record books, the University confirmed yesterday, following an investigation by The Daily.

Hennessy launches Stanford Challenge

By Kelley Fong
NEWS| President John Hennessy unveiled "The Stanford Challenge" yesterday, a five-year, $4.3 billion fundraising campaign aimed at three broad areas: seeking solutions to pressing global problems, educating students to become effective leaders and sustaining a foundation of excellence.

Missing graduate student found dead

By Niraj Sheth
NEWS| Santa Rosa police announced last night that the body of missing second-year doctoral student in electrical engineering Mengyao "May" Zhou, 23, was found in the trunk of her car. Zhou had been missing since Saturday when she left her residence in Rains House to run errands.

Task force eyes mental health issues

By Lia Hardin
NEWS| Amid rising concern for mental health on campus, a select group of faculty, administrators and students have been working behind the scenes to better understand and improve mental health at Stanford.

Election questioned

By Andrea Fuller
NEWS| The ASSU Undergraduate Senate voted 12-1 tonight against holding a runoff between the two top executive slates of last week's elections, overruling a motion brought to the council by Elections Commissioner Bernard Fraga '08.

Panel judges Band vandals

By Jenny Allen
NEWS| Nine students charged with Fundamental Standard violations stemming from the vandalism of the Band Shak last July have been held "not responsible" by the Office of Judicial Affairs, the Band said yesterday.

Gioia to give Sunday Commencement address

By Emma Vaughn
NEWS| (Note: This story was originally published on Jan. 30.) The surprise choice of Dana Gioia '73 as Commencement speaker had students scratching their heads and searching Wikipedia for more information about the poet and chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. As University and student leaders praised the Bush appointee, immediate reaction from the senior class was mixed.

SLAC claims victory as hunger strike comes to close

By Niraj Sheth
NEWS| After nine days and dozens of missed meals, the eight remaining participants of the hunger strike organized by the Stanford Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) broke fast after the student group reached an agreement with the University Friday afternoon regarding Stanford's living wage policy.

11 arrested in Hennessy's office

By Maneesha Limaye
NEWS| Eleven students were arrested late yesterday afternoon outside of President John Hennessy's office after they participated in a five-hour sit-in to protest what they allege is the University's refusal to join organizations that would curb sweatshop labor in factories that produce Stanford apparel.

Students air concerns at OSA meeting

By megan maass
NEWS| The Dean of Students Office and the ASSU sponsored a town hall meeting last night to allow students the chance to share their views about the Office of Student Activities (OSA), Old Union and Tresidder Union.

Police ban bikes from Main Quad

By Niraj Sheth
NEWS| Starting this fall, Stanford police will enforce a no-wheels policy in the Main Quad arcades, prohibiting students from riding or parking bicycles, skateboards and rollerblades in the covered walkways.

Bedbugs infest East Flo

By Sam Bhagwat
NEWS| More than 20 sealed plastic bags filled with notebooks, textbooks and linens sat outside two quarantined East Florence Moore doubles last night; their four occupants had been sent to live in other dormitories around campus after University officials discovered their rooms had been infested by bedbugs earlier this week.

Grad formal has steep price tag

By Niraj Sheth
NEWS| This year's Graduate Student Formal promises to be a one-of-a-kind event - at least in how much it costs.

Dependent care cut

By Lia Hardin
NEWS| When Stanford's Dependent Health Care Plan was cut in September 2006, finding health insurance transformed from a simple process into an ordeal that took nearly half a year for the Shemwells and a few other graduate student families.

What's on your iPod?

By Laura Chang
NEWS| John L.

Animal style, like you've never seen it before

By Shelby Martin
NEWS| Spiders are kinky creatures.

Spell check: setting the record straight

By Kelley Fong
NEWS| Despite claims of grade inflation, there’s one area in which students might receive a failing score: spelling.

Where the livin' is easy

By Laura Chang
NEWS| Hey seniors, hoping to fine tune your leisure skills this quarter?

Giant "ice cube" cools campus

By Linus Liang
NEWS| Buried deep beneath the Jordan Quad Parking Lot is a tank so massive that it can hold 4 million gallons of water.