The Stanford Daily swings into Day 2 of its wall-to-wall coverage coverage about Azia Kim, the fake Stanford student. This story is AWESOME. more ›

Remember the folks in Atherton whose high-quality wine was stolen from their cellar (about $145K worth)? Turns out it was their maid and her boyfriend. (For many reasons, this crime would never have happened to us, we'd just like to say.) The police set up a sting operation where the owners asked the maid to clean the house, and saw her on a hidden camera run into the cellar (where there was no cleaning to be done) and take some bottles. Later, the boyfriend figured out there was a camera, but not before they got some clear footage of his face. The cops got a warrant and found the missing bottles in the boyfriend's house. The owners are still looking for "a highly prized and difficult to assemble set of Red Bordeaux representing an unbroken line of more than 20 years in harvests," which was stolen in the first heist. Also: there's a wine insurance business now, and the Merc News informs us that "stolen wine is hard to track because bottles do not typically have serial numbers and there is not a central registry of brands." more ›

It's official down on The Farm. In a story that we broke more than two months ago, ESPN.com and others are reporting that Stanford has fired head football coach Walt Harris. Hate to say it Main Stream Media, but we told you so.

Security is a "top priority" for tomorrow's Mausoleum Party, hosted by the Stanford frats. You gotta love an article that starts with the splash headline "Police: Stanford not the place to go for free beer on weekends." As one officer tells the Stanford Daily, "I’ve had experiences where a high-school student from Palo Alto has gotten a hold of a Stanford ID card, made copies of it and put it over their own ID. Then, before you know it, we have 42 kids presenting cards that say they are Susie Smith.” Go Susie, go! more ›

Time is a fungible concept when you're deep in trascendental meditation pondering koans, hence we're a tad late. But not too late, as Bears fans in Berkeley will probably be humming om and pondering the unknowable ("What in the hell is a Sun Devil?") until just minutes before the 12:30pm kickoff against Arizona State today. Which brings to question, "With two good offenses, is the best offense still defense?" Cal fell like a tree in the forest on Portland State last week, to the sound of 42 points. But the schedule going forward is patsy-free as they begin conference play. more ›

Alas, Stanford University is currently mascotless, after the debacle involving a tree drinking a little too much of its own sap. We're not Stanford folks, so we can't explain to you why their mascot is a tree when they're called the Stanford Cardinal -- Cardinals/Trees, please feel free to provide the story in the comments. So it's Tree Week, where the Stanford band picks next year's tree. Today, the Stanford paper reports that psych professor William Dement's "Sleep and Dreams" class was interrupted by a tree aspirant wearing ripped tights and a green shirt busting a move to "Come Sail Away," with a backup team in bunny tails, who then laid out a bed of leaves for the tree to fall asleep in. The sports editor of the Stanford Daily paper performed a striptease in White Plaza, at which point, two people known as The Chicken and The Rabbit then proceeded to wax him down, like in the 40 Year Old Virgin. And a junior walked down Palm Drive wearing nothing but green body paint. We're not even getting into the Kool-Aid and the medieval torture stunts, they're too hard to describe. You know, we write a number of odd posts (Chris Daly said what? Gavin Newsom's dating whom?) but this one has got to be the weirdest post ever. The Chicken and the Rabbit? New Tree gets named March 4. The winner is being encouraged not to drink. Picture of this year's deposed Tree by Rod Searcey from the Stanford Alumni Magazine more ›

“Showering is always an everyday activity, so I think, ‘Why not?’” she said. “It wasn’t so special the next time around when there were no lights and no cameras.” more ›