Escondido water main bursts

Branner, Kimball nearly flooded before water turned off shortly after midnight
By Kamil Dada
NEWS| A water main burst on Escondido Road at approximately 10:30 p.m. yesterday, causing water to gush out onto the street for more than 90 minutes late last night.

Center for Poverty creates magazine

By Laura Rumpf
NEWS| Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards are among the policy experts contributing essays to the inaugural issue of Pathways magazine, the new Stanford Center for Poverty and Inequality publication due out in print this week.

Student develops anti-spam program

By Andrea Sy
NEWS| If regular filters can’t stop spam from taking over your inbox, computer science graduate student David Erickson has got your back with Default Off Email (DOEmail).

Prof. Zimbardo receives volunteer service award

By Roxna Irani
NEWS| Emeritus Psychology Prof. Philip Zimbardo, famous for leading the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, received the Stanford Alumni Association’s 2007 Richard W. Lyman Award for “enthusiastic participation” in volunteer service for the University.

Rumsfeld debate rages on

By Devin Banerjee
NEWS| The heated debate over the appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution continued at last night’s ASSU Undergraduate Senate meeting following the introduction of a bill to invite the former Secretary of Defense to speak on campus.

Documentary screening honors MLK

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| In honor of the upcoming holiday on Monday, participants celebrated the dream and messages of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. yesterday at Arrillaga Alumni Center.

Engineers win award for blood circulation device

By The Daily News Staff
NEWS| A team of eight Stanford undergraduate and graduate students designed an electrical device to prevent blood clots during air travel, leading to a first place finish at the 31st annual Advancing Hispanic Excellence in Technology, Engineering, Math and Science (AHETEMS) Design Competition at the end of autumn quarter.

The Real World: Crothers Hall

By Mike Ding
NEWS| For perhaps the first time in Stanford residential history, an unexpected twist of fate has brought two tribes, two sets of sworn enemies, together.