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The Beatles’ “Love Me Do” and Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out” echoed from boom-box speakers as several dozen LGBT students and their supporters gathered in White Plaza yesterday to celebrate the California Supreme Court’s decision to allow same-sex marriages in the state. The event followed the tradition of Stanford Queer-Straight Alliance’s annual “Freedom to Marry Day,” which includes mock wedding ceremonies in White Plaza. Organizers unfurled a banner in White Plaza that read, “Freedom to (Actually) Marry.” #gallery http://daily.stanford.org/image/full/9226
Jeff Keacher

The Beatles’ “Love Me Do” and Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out” echoed from boom-box speakers as several dozen LGBT students and their supporters gathered in White Plaza yesterday to celebrate the California Supreme Court’s decision to allow same-sex marriages in the state. The event followed the tradition of Stanford Queer-Straight Alliance’s annual “Freedom to Marry Day,” which includes mock wedding ceremonies in White Plaza. Organizers unfurled a banner in White Plaza that read, “Freedom to (Actually) Marry.”

Hoover photo error found

American soldier mislabeled 10 photographs, mistake discovered after used in alumnus’ book
By Eric Messinger
NEWS| Ten photographs housed at the Hoover Archives purported to show the aftermath of the 1945 atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. Only one problem — the photographs actually depicted devastation following the 1923 Kanto Earthquake.

CFO explains handling of University debt

By Kamil Dada
NEWS| With the recent U.S. economic decline, scores of colleges and universities across the nation have been facing a sharp rise in interest payments on their large debts.

Green dorm faces delay

By S. Werner
NEWS| Stanford’s innovative Green Dorm project is slated to be designed in detail later this summer, after a two-year delay in fundraising.

Senate delays making funding decisions

By Nikhil Joshi
NEWS| Tuesday night’s Undergraduate Senate meeting lacked the fireworks of last week’s meeting, which featured a leaked strategy email and ten consecutive roll call votes used as stalling tactics.

Exotic Erotic, Part 1: Naked

By Marissa Miller
NEWS| It’s late Friday afternoon, the day of Exotic Erotic, but the temperature still hovers around 95. Already, the landscape is a mosaic of flesh: bare, brown arms toss a frisbee across the Oval; pink, freckled shoulders peer from beneath black bikini straps. Bowing to the heat wave, students take the night’s dress code — one piece of clothing for men, two for women — to heart.