SF News New State Bill Would Ban Legacy Admissions at California Universities A big blow to kids who hoped their family connections would get them into a prestigious college could be coming as one of Assemblymember Phil Ting’s last bills on his way out of office would ban legacy admissions at universities statewide.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Stanford Graduates Walk Out of Their Graduation A group of Stanford students walked out of their graduation in protest of the war in Gaza; an SF venture capitalist is snapping up a group of Sonoma properties from an embattled investor; and the other half of Harvey Milk Terminal 1 opens to travelers today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stanford Basketball Star Cameron Brink is Leaving the Farm for the WNBA The principal of Everett Middle School is on leave over that school’s sexual assault scandal, Bernie Sanders endorsed Dean Preston for supervisor, and Stanford basketball star Cameron Brink has declared she’s heading to the WNBA Draft.
Bay Area Sports Stanford Basketball Coach Tara VanDerveer Becomes All-Time Winningest Coach in College Basketball History Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer overtook former Duke men’s basketball coach Mike “Coach K” Krzyzewski on the all-time wins list Sunday night, as VanDerveer’s 1,203 wins make her the all-time winningest coach in the college game.
SF News Santa Clara County Authorities Release Suspect and Vehicle Description in Stanford Hit-and-Run of Muslim Student After a Muslim student was injured in a hit-and-run on the Stanford campus last Friday, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has released a suspect sketch and a vehicle description in the incident they’re calling a hate crime.
Bay Area Sports Cal and Stanford Officially Switch Conferences to the ACC; PAC-12 Is Probably Dead The Cal Bears and Stanford Cardinal just Transfer Portaled themselves to the Atlantic Coast Conference, effective in 2024, which was the best outcome possible for the two schools as the PAC-12 has turned into a dying husk over the last month.
Bay Area Sports End of an Era? Pac-12 Faces An Unprecedented Exodus As 5 Schools Leave in One Day Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah announced they were leaving in 2024, following USC and UCLA — leaving the future of the PAC-4 in question.
SF News Stanford University President Resigns Amid Probe Into Integrity of His Research Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced his resignation Wednesday after an independent review board found serious flaws in five studies he'd been a part of, triggered by the school's student newspaper reporting.
SF News Last Big Defendant Left In ‘Varsity Blues’ College Admissions Scandal to Be Sentenced Next Week The saga of million-dollar bribes, fake charities, and Photoshopped athletic photos known as the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal will soon come to a close, as the scheme’s mastermind faces a Wednesday sentencing in federal court.
SF Politics New British PM Rishi Sunak Is a Stanford Guy, Got His Master’s and Met His (Billionaire) Wife There The new British prime minister has some Bay Area roots, getting an MBA at Stanford in 2006 where he met wife Akshata Murthy, whose massive family fortune has the U.K. press dubbing him “Rishi Rich."
SF News Stanford University Issues Alert After Woman Raped on Campus It’s unknown whether the victim was a student, but there is a physical description of the suspect, who has been seen “on campus before.”
SF News Local Paper Tracks Down ‘Varsity Blues’ Scandal Mastermind, Finds Him at Florida Mobile Home Park The man who made $25 million illicitly getting kids into elite colleges — and then flipped on their parents to the FBI — now lives a life of pickleball and Rummikub at a Florida trailer park.
SF News After Star Soccer Player’s Suicide, Stanford Acknowledges It Has a Suicide Problem With four suicides in 13 months, and new details about goalie Katie Meyer’s circumstances that don’t make the school look good, Stanford promises to beef up mental health resources for students.
Bay Area Sports Stanford Women's Soccer Star Goalie Found Dead in Dorm Room, Had Been on 2019 National Championship Team Star goalie Katie Meyer won the Stanford Cardinal women the 2019 NCAA with heroic saves in a shootout, but was found dead in her dorm Tuesday. She was 22.
SF Politics Pence Spoke at Stanford, Got F-U'd a Bit, and Of Course He Talked About SF's School Board Recall Mike Pence's appearance on the Stanford University campus on Thursday evening was not as raucously protested as, say, Ann Coulter's late 2019 appearance at UC Berkeley. But it was protested!
SF Politics Mike Pence Is In the Bay Area, Invited By Stanford Republican Club; Student Protest Planned Former Vice President Mike Pence, who would have gone down in history as one of the most complicit patsies ever to hold high office were it not for a very last-minute act of defiance, is visiting the Bay Area today.
SF News Missing Stanford Nurse's Body Found on Bay Shore Near Dumbarton Bridge A 27-year-old traveling nurse who went missing earlier this week in the middle of his shift at Stanford Hospital has been found dead in Fremont, and the circumstances remain unclear.
SF Politics Stanford Backtracks, Will Allow Student Who Mocked Conservatives To Graduate Conservative cancel culture lost its latest fight at Stanford, as a law student will now be allowed to graduate after posting a very funny satirical flyer linking a right-wing group to the Capital insurrection.
SF News UC and Stanford Campus Systems Both Breached In Major Cyber Attack The rival schools have a new common enemy — the cybercriminals sending their students and faculty emails reading “Your personal data has been stolen and will be published."
Bay Area Sports ‘Last Stanford Wrestler’ Wins National Title After Program was Eliminated Stanford eliminated its wrestling program in July, but wrestlers finished out their season. Now one of them, Shane Griffith, just won the national championship.
SF News Stanford Medical Residents Revolt After Doctors Who Don't Treat COVID Patients Get Priority for Vaccine Before Them Residents working at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto staged a protest Friday to demand that they be given priority in the line for healthcare workers getting the Pfizer COVID vaccine.
Bay Area Sports Stanford, Cal Football Players Threaten to Boycott College Football Season Over COVID-19 Concerns “Hundreds” of players from across the Pac-12 say they will not take the field unless college football cleans up its safety protocols and gives them health insurance.
Bay Area Sports Stanford Announces Elimination of 11 Varsity Sports Programs, Citing Pandemic Calling the news "heartbreaking," and citing that it will impact some 240 student-athletes and 22 coaches, Stanford announced the upcoming end of almost a dozen varsity teams including men's volleyball, men's and women's fencing, and field hockey.
SF News Stanford Tells Students to 'Leave Campus' After Undergrad Tests Positive for Coronavirus In a statement issued by the hallowed academic institution Friday night, Stanford University announced a student tested positive for COVID-19. As a means of precaution, college officials have asked that "as many students as possible" vacate the campus by Wednesday, March 18th.
SF News 19-Year-Old Stanford Student Dies at Frat House A man who was found dead in an on-campus residence at Stanford University on Friday has been identified as 19-year-old undergraduate Eitan Weiner.
