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Author: Kat Lewin


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New CoHo better than average cup o' joe

By Kat Lewin
INTERMISSION| The much-mourned loss of the CoHo last year was the final syringe-ful of embalming fluid in Stanford’s zombified main-campus social and dining options.

SENIOR RETROSPECTIVE: Kat Lewin

By Kat Lewin
OPINIONS| You wrote yourself a letter on the second day of your freshman year, along with every other member of the great class of 2008.

Interview: The director is in: Q&A with John Poll

By Kat Lewin
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Movie Review: "Bartlett" doesn't cure blues

By Kat Lewin
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Editor's Note

By Kat Lewin
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2008 Oscar Predictions

By Kat Lewin
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In Cardinal Blood

By Kat Lewin
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Top ten things NOT to do before summer is over

By Kat Lewin
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Throw a national "Kiss and Make Up Day" Party

By Kat Lewin
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Top Viral Videos of the Summer

By Kat Lewin
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It ain't no crime to work part time

By Kat Lewin
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Britney uses couture to mop puppy poop

By Kat Lewin
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Celebrity Buzz:Paris Hilton finds God!!!

By Kat Lewin
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ProFros Profiled: Six New Faces on the Farm

By Kat Lewin
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Atomic Nectarine: The Stanford Enquirer

By Kat Lewin
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Short summer reads

By Kat Lewin
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Atomic Nectarine: Woe from wit

By Kat Lewin
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Atomic Nectarine: Heil Harry Potter

By Kat Lewin
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Dan Handler writes “Adverbs” brilliantly

By Kat Lewin
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Atomic Nectarine: Everybody cut footloose

By Kat Lewin
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Atomic Nectarine: Scooping up some soft-serve

By Kat Lewin
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Atomic Nectarine: Dante's ninth circle of Dell

By Kat Lewin
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ProFros Profiled: Six new faces on The Farm

By Kat Lewin
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Oh yes! Erotic places on campus

By Kat Lewin
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Wait, there’s sex in that movie!

By Kat Lewin
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Atomic Nectarine: Overheard in White Plaza

By Kat Lewin
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No need to ‘book’ a table at this tasty cafe

By Kat Lewin
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Flicks: Find a horse's head in your bed this Sunday

By Kat Lewin
INTERMISSION| If you don’t go to FLiCKS this Sunday, you might end up with a horse head in your bed — or at least a handful of caterpillars in your hair.

Atomic Nectarine: K@ for Sen@e

By Kat Lewin
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Atomic Nectarine: The apathy of defeat

By Kat Lewin
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Three paths to sin: a Las Vegas visitor’s guide

By Kat Lewin
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Kat

By Kat Lewin
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Quest to Spring Break

By Kat Lewin and Victoria Degtyareva
OPINIONS| Remember those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books you used to love as a child? Do you miss the thrill of turning pages, wondering what zany adventures your decision to explore the mysterious cave on Uncle Howard’s ranch will bring?

Atomic Nectarine: The woman, the wardrobe, the legend

By Kat Lewin
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'Rocky Horror Picture'--GO!

By Kat Lewin
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Atomic Nectarine: A triumph of the human spirit

By Kat Lewin
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Atomic Nectarine: Rite of passage...after passage after passage

By Kat Lewin
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Music to keep yourself company

By Kat Lewin
INTERMISSION| Although Roxy Sass may claim that Valentine’s Day is all about luring some tipsy frat boy into your room to temporarily fill your heart (and bed), the truth of the matter is that this holiday is about love.

Hayes: He’s no ‘fraud’ in the art of love

By Kat Lewin
INTERMISSION| As every intelligent, mature woman knows, many qualities go into making the ideal mate: brains, charm, genetic predisposition against male pattern baldness and, of course, money.

Atomic Nectarine: My father, the YouTube phenomenon

By Kat Lewin
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Put down the beer, get jiggly with it

By Kat Lewin
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Humanities fund for grants unveiled

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| President John Hennessy unveiled Stanford’s new Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities on Jan.

Slam poet recounts Iraq

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| Slam poet Jerry Quickley presented his multimedia program “Live From the Front” as part of the Stanford Lively Arts series.

Atomic Nectarine: You say you want a revolution

By Kat Lewin
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Out and Aboutski: Do you love me now that I can dance?

By Kat Lewin
OPINIONS| Growing up, I was an awkward, nay, an ungainly youth, prone to hovering about the fringes of social mediocrity.

Out and Aboutski: Napoleon of the stump

By Kat Lewin
OPINIONS| In case you’re not familiar with the concept, missed connections forums allow people to post about mystery figures they have glimpsed and with whom they hope to reunite.

Out and Aboutski: The surreal life - Stanford

By Kat Lewin
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Author presents fiction and film

By Kat Lewin
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Out and Aboutski: So much for the afterglow

By Kat Lewin
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Eating disorder sites increase symptoms

By Kat Lewin
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Out and Aboutski: You’re speaking my language, Baby

By Kat Lewin
OPINIONS| Say what you will about the Moscow Metro system (dirty, reeking sponge glistening with other people’s sweat — there’s a starter), sometimes it’s got excellent in-ride entertainment.

Out and Aboutski: Chicken Kiev, Thanksgiving American

By Kat Lewin
OPINIONS| You guys, I have an embarrassing admission to make: I’m not seven years old and this isn’t Space Camp, but I’m homesick.

Out and Aboutski: Dance dance socialist revolution

By Kat Lewin
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Out and Aboutski: Moscow doesn’t believe in tears

By Kat Lewin
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Out and Aboutski: Yo, the KGB ain’t got nothing on me

By Kat Lewin
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Out and Aboutski: Russian dolls

By Kat Lewin
OPINIONS| Last Thursday night I found myself in the hottest place in all of Russia: on a couch at Russian Fashion Week, sitting between two models sipping champagne.

Out and Aboutski: In Russia, language speaks you

By Kat Lewin
OPINIONS| In the Russian language, the verbs “to smoke” and “to buy” are separated by only one phoneme. One phoneme and one look of abject horror.

Out and Aboutski: No snarl, no scowl, no service

By Kat Lewin
OPINIONS| Ladies and gentlemen, the sad story of how I acquired my Metro Face.

Breakfast soup

By Kat Lewin
OPINIONS| Babushki — officially, the Russian word for grandmothers, but used to refer to any old w---omen — have a long tradition in Slavic literature, representing the intelligence of age, typical witchipoo characters or the hermaphroditic qualities of life post-menopause. But for some reason I had a hard time appreciating all this on my first morning in Moscow as a 70-year-old woman crouched over me breathing onion in my face.

Does anyone know where my bus stop is?

By Kat Lewin
OPINIONS| When I decided to come to Moscow, I thought I was prepared for everything.

Frosh ace mandatory booze test

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| Student Affairs and the Alcohol Advisory Board studied the program<\p>--<\p>already in use at more than 350 colleges and universities<\p>--<\p>for three years as part of an effort to explore new ways to bring alcohol education to freshmen.

Push for Muslim center gains momentum

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| In an effort to further strengthen Islamic studies at Stanford, students have mounted a grassroots effort to build a Muslim Cultural Community Center on campus.

Students participate in moot court

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| The court may have been moot, but at Saturday’s final round of the Marion Rice Kirkwood Moot Court Competition, the legal know-how was very real.

Who is Nico?

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| Trivia aficionado junior Nico Martinez recently competed for the $250,000 top prize in “Jeopardy!

Energy Bowl extends deadline, efforts

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| Despite the recent cold weather, Students for a Sustainable Stanford hope that their peers will turn off the heat and don sweaters until the end of the quarter.

Student groups encouraged to cooperate

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| What’s the only thing better than a concert featuring one of Stanford’s many a cappella groups?

Stanford examines comet

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| Scientists at Stanford have been feeling a little spacey lately. On Jan. 15, NASA’s Stardust mission touched down after a seven-year excursion through space, bearing precious interstellar dust.

Islam Awareness Month kicks off

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| Islam Awareness Month kicked off last night with an evening of music, food and information titled “Islam 101: Sounds of Islam.

Under Review

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| East Campus became the site of civil disobedience on Jan. 21, when staff members of The Stanford Review distributed copies of their publication in violation of dorm distribution policies.

Asian Awareness week promotes success stories

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| Stanford’s impending third annual South Asian Awareness Week attempts to answer the question: what does it take to succeed?

Student takes Jeopardy! prize

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| “Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning ‘talker’” The correct answer is Lima — just ask junior Nico Martinez.

Students teach mock trial skills to HS students

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| Close to 150 students from 12 local high schools gathered on Saturday for the Stanford Mock Trial Team’s fourth annual High School Mock Trial Symposium.

ME student to be reality TV star

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| Sun Koo Kim, a second-year master’s student in mechanical engineering, flew to Australia to compete in the new reality show “Chasing Nature” on Thursday, Nov.

Students race for charity

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| Close to 500 Students ran Sunday morning in the 10th annual Theta Breakers race, sponsored by the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, to support Child Advocates, an organization that provides mentors and court-appointed specialists to help children who have been removed from their homes.

Students question distribution policy

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| “A number of organizations, student publications and local businesses distributed their materials in violation of some of the houses’ policies,” said Jane Camarillo, director of Residential Education.

New publication brings arts to campus

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| Most students at Stanford have probably never heard of Black Ink Review. The publication, focused on creating an intellectual community through publishing reviews of books and events in the arts, officially started last spring, but its first issue came out in extremely limited release this summer.

Bike theft tops campus crime report

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| The Stanford Safety and Security Almanac, reporting crime statistics for the years 2002-2004, was posted on Oct. 1 on the Stanford Department of Public Safety’s Web site.

Ongoing project to keep Stanford modern

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| Do people prowl around your dorm with tape measures? Have you ever seen someone staring intently at fire sprinklers in the lounge? No, it’s not a government conspiracy. Chances are, your dorm is one of those being surveyed for renovation by workers from Student Housing’s Capital Improvement Program.

Religious groups quietly thrive on campus

By Kat Lewin
NEWS| For many new students leaving home for the first time, college is a departure from home cooking, free laundry and also family-oriented religion.