SF News Victim Of Stanford Rape Releases Powerful Letter She Read In Court After Brock Turner, a former Stanford freshman, was sentenced to six months in jail following his conviction for several felonies in the rape of an unconscious woman visiting campus, that victim, whose name
SF News Former Stanford Swimmer Sentenced To 6 Months In Campus Assault Of Unconscious Woman Brock Turner was a Stanford first year student when he was arrested and charged with sexual assault in early 2015. He was found guilty this past March of multiple felonies: Assault with intent
SF News In Completely Shocking Move, Stanford Students Vote Against Dorm Booze Ban In a reaction that will surprise no one who has ever been or met a college-aged person, Stanford University students are expressing vigorous opposition to a proposal that seeks to curb on-campus alcohol
SF News In Speech At Stanford, Hillary Clinton Responds To Brussels Attack Yesterday at Stanford University's Encina Hall, former Secretary of State and current presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton once again responded to Tuesday's violent attack on Brussels, an act of terrorism claimed by ISIS that
SF News After Five-Day Sit-In, Stanford Students Protesting School's Fossil Fuel Investments Leave Quad Today is the fifth and seemingly final day of a sit- (and sleep-) in protest of Stanford students advocating that the University (endowment: $21 billion) fully divest from all fossil fuel companies, as
SF News Palantir Co-Founder's Undergrad Intern Ex-Girlfriend Drops Sexual Abuse Charges A Stanford graduate from 2004, he was to be her mentor. Soon, she was his intern. But Joe Lonsdale, a former executive at PayPal, a co-founder of Palantir Technologies, and a founding partner
SF News Videos: Intelligent Stanford, Berkeley Professors Win MacArthur Grants "One day I want to see my basic research fundamentally change the way people live in the future," says Peidong Yang, an inorganic chemist who is creating "synthetic leaves" that could represent a
SF News Stanford Band Banned From Road Games For A Year No surprise: the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band is in trouble once again. Stanford University officials announced on Friday that the infamous marching band has been banned from attending all road games
SF News New Service Turns Random Stanford Students Into 'Nerd' TaskRabbits Stanford isn't just a stellar institution of higher learning. It's a sterling brand, with amazing alums as ubiquitous as Cardinal sweatshirts. And now harnessing the school's star power is a service called Nerd,
SF News Former Stanford PhD Student Arrested For Poisoning Peers A former Stanford University med student PhD student working within the School of Medicine has been charged with four felony counts for allegedly poisoning fellow students last fall. Vice reported the story following
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tom Hanks Showed Up In Los Altos To Buy Girl Scout Cookies Come for the typewriters, stay for the cookies: @tomhanks makes the most of Los Altos! http://t.co/cvMJN3rVvY pic.twitter.com/8lXSWkkTk3— Los Altos Town Crier (@latc) March 12, 2015 The HUGE
SF News Report: Droughts Likely To Continue In California, Maybe Forever A new report by some Stanford climatologists paints a dismal picture for California's future, suggesting that our current drought is absolutely tied to human-caused climate warming, and that the frequency of these droughts
SF News Brace For Traffic Trauma: President Obama Hits SF Again Tonight Did Democratic fundraisers manage to fill all the deeply-discounted seats at the "intimate" dinner with President Obama scheduled for Friday night? We're not so sure about that, but there's one thing we do
Arts & Entertainment Salon Founder Goes Off About Bernal Gentrifiers, 'Stanford Douchebags', And The Destruction Of SF In a new, rather angry op-ed published on 48 Hills, which is actually a speech that Salon founder David Talbot recently delivered at Stanford, Talbot has no shortage of bad things to say
SF News Stanford Freshman Arrested For Raping Woman In Public A 19-year-old Stanford University student has been arrested and charged with sexual assault connected to a disturbing incident that happened in the early morning hours of January 18, on the university campus, according
SF News [Updated] Group Of Possible Stanford Students Blocks Lanes On San Mateo Bridge Protesters blocking WB lanes on San Mateo Bridge. If you're stuck in traffic, call to share your story: 415-954-7296. pic.twitter.com/cbREbFbij0— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) January 20, 2015 A group of people
SF News Allergy Sufferer Sean Parker Gives Stanford $24 Million To Cure What Ails Him Sean Parker is a lot of things. Napster co-founder. First president of Facebook. Guy played by Justin Timberlake. Next, reports the SF Business Times, he'd like to be the man behind the cure
SF News Scenes From Last Night's Peaceful Eric Garner Protests In SF, Oakland, And Palo Alto Last night, in the fourth such Oakland rally in two weeks, protesters once again called for police accountability in the deaths of black Americans. The demonstrations were spurred by a grand jury decision
SF News Stanford Students Launch New, Unpermitted Rideshare App For Late-Night Lifts To The South Bay Unhappy with paying $60 to $80 to get back to Palo Alto from the city via Uber, a couple of Stanford seniors have launched a new app called Fleet that ferries people along
SF News Suspicious Backpack Prompts Evacuations At Stanford [Updated] UPDATE: Police have determined said backpack to be harmless. Whew. Back to class, kids. Police have determined there is no threat to campus. Buildings will slowly be reopened. Please respect police perimeter in
SF News Stanford Tries To Burn Michigan State With Snapchat Logo At Rose Bowl The notoriously loopy Stanford marching band created a stir at yesterday's Rose Bowl game after (incorrectly) forming the Snapchat ghost during halftime. Why? Well, company founders, Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy, created the
SF News Stanford Prof Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize (Prompting Yet Another Humblebrag) Stanford's Michael Levitt, professor in cancer research and structural biology, nabbed this year's prize in chemistry. He shares the award with Martin Karplus, at the University of Strasbourg and Harvard, and Arieh Warshel,
SF News UC Berkeley Nobel Prize Winner Humblebrags Win On Facebook It's nice to know that even Nobel Prize winners are prone to the occasional humblebrag, superpower smarts and all. Shortly after winning the 2013 prize for medicine on Monday, UC Berkeley's Randy Schekman
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Bing Concert Hall Opening The Bing opened with a bang. It's technically the Bing Concert Hall, on the campus of Stanford University, but ushers had been instructed to greet us with a "welcome to The Bing", which
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At The Rose Bowl... Students at Stanford took time away from important things like learning and smoking mary jane to focus on the silliness and violent patriarchy that is college football. Even former Secretary of State Condoleezza
