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Football: It’s go time
(JONATHAN YORK/The Stanford Daily) Big Game is here. The Stanford-Cal rivalry commenced with the first Big Game on March 19, 1892 in San Francisco’s Haight Street Grounds. Stanford holds a slight lead in the series, 55-45-11. In recent years, however, the rivalry has been dominated by Cal: the Golde …
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Football: Red rum
Big Game is here. The Stanford-Cal rivalry commenced with the first Big Game on March 19, 1892 in San Francisco’s Haight Street Grounds. Stanford holds a slight lead in the series, 55-45-11. In recent years, however, the rivalry has been dominated by Cal: the Golden Bears have won six of the past se …
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W. Soccer: Bay battle, take two
The No. 1 Stanford women’s soccer team may be playing in the national championship tournament, but tonight’s Sweet Sixteen match will be a local affair, as the Card takes on Peninsula rival Santa Clara University for a spot in the national quarterfinals. The game is a rematch of this season’s earlie …
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M. Soccer: Moving on
On a freezing-cold night at Cagan Stadium, Stanford beat Saint Mary’s in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament in its first appearance since 2002. Both teams came into this match looking strikingly similar in their statistics. They had each notched 10 wins over the regular season, had scored some …
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Univ. regularly sends more women abroad
National averages show that more women study abroad than their male peers, and Stanford’s Bing Overseas Studies Programs (BOSP) has been no exception. “Stanford reflects a national trend in study abroad that has been this way for some time,” said David Boyer, BOSP associate director. The trend has l …
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Palo Alto welcomes four new council members
Palo Alto City Council, the nine-member governing body of Stanford’s neighboring suburb, added four non-incumbents to its ranks in the November elections. Among them were two UC-Berkeley alumni, an accounting consultant and a former transportation and planning commissioner. On Nov. 3, the citizens o …
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Free books ignite Darwin debate
Hundreds of students, faculty and staff were surprised Wednesday as they were handed a free copy of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species.” Opening the book, they found an even bigger surprise: a new forward written by Evangelical Christian minister Ray Comfort that attempts to refute the central …
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Learning from Papa
The 112th Big Game will be quite a spectacle. Both Cal and Stanford are well regarded, the stakes are as high as the Rose Bowl and theres a legitimate Heisman contender involved. Cue the media invasion. As reporters from across the nation descend on the Farm, Greg Papa and his local Comcast TV show …
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Campus Conversation: Resignations, ASSU Shenanigans and Daily Coverage
Zack Warma: JCarr- Since you are most certainly not a man to beat around the bush, let’s have at it, shall we? Ten days ago, Jay de la Torre shocked the University by resigning as vice president of the ASSU, admitting that his decision was a result of his violation of the Honor Code in CS106A last f …
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W. Basketball: Riding the Waves
Fresh off a pair of solid victories on the East Coast to start the season, the Cardinal returned to the Farm in top form Thursday night, kicking off its home season with a 99-50 win over Pepperdine. Five players posted double-digit point totals for the No. 2 Cardinal (3-0), led by junior forward Kay …
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W. Volleyball: Tough road ahead
After hosting the Oregon schools, the No. 6 Stanford womens volleyball team travels south to Arizona to take on No. 18 Arizona and unranked Arizona State. The Cardinal enters the weekend in a three-way tie for first place in the Pac-10, so this weekend will be crucial for the conference title race. …
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M. Water Polo: Making a Big Splash
It will be a Cardinal-Golden Bear showdown this weekend at the Avery Aquatic Center as No. 2 Cal takes on No. 3 Stanford. Cal is currently on a nine-game winning streak, while Stanford is emerging from a bitter loss last weekend against No. 1 USC. The Trojans edged out an overtime win over Stanford …
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Phenomenal Phish
How many bands can put on a multi-day festival in the middle of nowhere, with no other bands playing and have tens of thousands show up anyway? Not many, but theres only one band that would Phish. So on Halloween weekend, a horde 40,000 strong descended on the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif. to …
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Modern Warfare 2: It’s Like The First One, Only Better
To put it simply, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is fantastic. Sure, the single player could be longer and the graphics could have been improved from the first one, but as a whole, there is so much that this game offers that the little issues just lose their significance after the 10th straight hour …
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STAMP shines light on the lives of death row inmates
Eight strong actors managed to transform the Nitery Theater into a prison cell last weekend with STAMPs fall performance of The Exonerated. The show, put on by the Stanford Theatre Activist Mobilization Project (STAMP), focused on the stories of six men and women who were sentenced to death row and …
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Vital Organ: Intermission checks out the famed Skinner Organ
One hour north of The Farm is a small gem with a big sound. On a hilltop overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge and the Pacific Ocean is the California Palace of the Legion of Honor museum. If you drive up the hilltop, amid the stunning views, at 4 p.m. on a Saturday or Sunday, you will likely hear the …
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A Thanksgiving Break TV Survival Guide
For the average TV consumer (i.e. not me), Thanksgiving Break presents the perfect opportunity for catching up on all the TV youve abandoned in favor of frat parties and MS&E problem sets. This also applies to the person who wants to protest Macys Day Parade without the cast of Glee (i.e. me). Y …
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Flechas y Pedradas: The turkey makes me reconsider…
One day, a few weeks ago, I exited the metro. After leaving the mouth of the underground tunnels, the air by the bus station always feels crisp. The feeling fades a bit after you walk by the ever-present, slowly-circulating river of cabs winding by the bus stationthe smell coming off in waves from t …
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Unfashionable Nonsense: The Art of Love, Revised 2009 Edition with Interactive CD-ROM
Sometimes, guys ask me how to impress women, as if women were complicated. Truth is, there is one way, and one way onlyit’s called Facebook. You might protest that you don’t even need a Facebook. Sure. I guess you don’t need to shower either, but I’m not trying to help the helpless; I’m trying to au …
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Full financial aid picture released
When the University announced earlier this year that the endowment had fallen 27 percent for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, administrators vowed to uphold student financial aid policies — despite the fact that the endowment payout supporting financial aid was decreasing while a greater number of st …
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