Police believe that a Santa Rosa man, who recently stabbed himself with a homemade spear just seconds before the fuzz burst through his front door early Sunday morning, is possibly connected to last Thursday's carjacking and rape incident involving a 29-year-old mother. According to the Gate, "Aristotle Quadra, 30, faces charges of carjacking, kidnapping, sexual assault and attempted murder. He is being held at a Santa Rosa hospital while being treated for self-inflicted stab......

Hey, everyone loves a list, right? Especially those ranking institutions of higher learning. The yearly U.S. News & World Report list is out -- any wagers on how local schools did? And, really, how much would it affect your choices? We remember mulling the 1991 list saying "can't get in there, can't get in there, nope, not there either . . ." But it's still fun to see how stuff measures up, we suppose. Unshockingly, Stanford University was high on the list, reaching No. 4 this year, undoubtedly driving the next generation of Azia Kims....

This story is awesome. Stanford University has caught a girl who's been pretending to be a student at the school for the last eight months. The girl, named Azia Kim, showed up on campus the day before freshman orientation this school year, and told two freshmen she was a freshman having temporary housing problems due to some kind of administrative snafu and that she didn't like the roommate she'd been assigned, and could she crash......

-Mirkarimi has a hearing over public housing. -If you were stuck on some serious traffic on the Bay Bridge this morning, that's because there was a collision. ...

These are not good days for the Stanford University Cardinal. In an upset with all sorts of subtext, the Cardinal lost to San Jose State University, 35-34 as SJSU came from 20 points behind. This is a huge victory in the same way it was a huge victory when all the slobs beat the snobs in those early 80's teen comedies. Stanford turned the ball over three teams in the second half-- one of them being an interception in the end zone-- and were completely unable to stop a rampaging Spartan running game. With two minutes left in the game, Stanford drove down the length of the field only to have Spartan defender Rakine Toomes knock the ball from WR Evan Moore's hands. SJSU is now 1-1 and Stanford is 0-2. ...

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...

Tomorrow night sees the kick off of the the eighth annual United Nations Association Film Festival at Stanford University. With screenings in several buildings across campus (we love college campus maps, it makes us feel like a hopeful freshman all over again), the festival runs from Wednesday through Sunday. We love that the festival is broken up into "sessions," so for one low ticket price we can see multiple films at one sitting. Our......

Just a few minutes ago, Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow published an excerpt and link to a Toronto Globe and Mail article that describes how a classic documentary on the civil rights movement, Eyes on the Prize, can no longer be sold or broadcast because the filmmakers, including John Else of Cal Berkeley's school of journalism, can't afford to re-up all the usage fees for the copyrighted material the film uses to illustrate it's story.......

Stanford Prison Experiment Lecture...