SF News Bay Area 19-Year-Old Kristian Ipsen Scores Bronze in Synchronized Diving If you've been keeping up with the Americans' medal count thus far at the Olympics, you may have seen a pair of handsome American men who took home bronze medals the other night
SF News Forbes Top Colleges 2012: Stanford Wins Bronze, Princeton Takes Gold Forbes annual list of Best Institutes for Higher Learning and Contact Making came out today. The coveted list, compiled by Forbes and Washington, D.C.'s Center for College Affordability and Productivity, focuses
SF News Bill Gates, Bono, Rupert Murdoch Attend Steve Jobs Memorial Service On Sunday in Palo Alto, several noted folks attended Steve Jobs' memorial service at Stanford. Among the list of attendees? Rupert Murdoch, notes Gawker—Rupert, if you recall, was in San Francisco on
SF News Rapes and/or Rape Reports Rise at Stanford Tony Palo Alto school of higher learning, Stanford University, has seen a sharp increase in reports of rape on campus. Incidents of sexual assault more than doubled from 10 in 2009 to 21
Arts & Entertainment 'GQ' Declares Stanford 4th Douchiest U.S. College In a highly scientific study released by GQ, noted Palo Alto community college Stanford came in as the 4th douchiest college in the country. Notable douchbag alums include: Herbert Hoover, Mike Mussina, John
SF News Sergey Brin's Old Stanford World Wide Web Page While searching for an appropriate Sergey Brin link to use in today's "Google's Eric Schmidt Nets $100 Million" article, we came across one of Brin's old world wide web sites, a personal one
SF News Video: Cal vs. Standford Quidditch Nerd alert: The Cal Quidditch League faced the Stanford Quidditch team on Sunday at the first ever "Big Sweep" match. Quidditch, for those of you not in the know, is a fictional game
SF News Stanford Student Wins S.F. Marathon Did you run in Sunday's S.F. Marathon? How did you do? If you were 25-year-old Keith Bechtol, a graduate student in astrophysics at Stanford and first-time marathon runner, you did great. Bechtol
SF News Condoleezza Rice Put On Defensive by Stanford Student Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced a difficult audience of students at a dorm reception yesterday at Stanford, where she's lately gone back to teaching. A few awkward exchanges were caught on
SF News Condi's Back! Light the candles, get the ice out, roll the rug up, Condi's back! America's favorite high boot-wearing, Brahms-playing, weapons of mass destruction-hunting Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, is returning to the Bay Area.
SF News Stanford Administrators Accept Salary Cut Stanford University, that higher-learning institute that most of us did not get into, is feeling the economic pinch just like their public school plebeian counterparts. Senior administrators at Stanford plan on taking a
misc <i>Hot Bay Area Olympians:</i> Ben Wildman-Tobriner (By Joe Kukura) The 2008 Olympics kick off tonight, and SFist is all over it! We mean, like, really disgustingly all over it -- as in, people are going to be talking behind
SF News Day Around the Bay This year's Stanford commencement speaker? Oprah Winfrey. [SJ Merc] The Spots goes eHarmony-ish on us. [Spots] screenplay writer Dustin Lance Black looks ten-years-old. We mean that as a compliment. [BAR] A street lamp
SF News SFist Blotter 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
misc SFist Reviews... Vampire Weekend The incredibly crowded space was crawling with an audience that was brimming with excitement. Their excitement had been curtailed while Grand Ole' Party and San Francisco's own, Still Flyin' opened for this seemingly
SF News Yes, It's That Time of the Year Again Saturday is what's known around these here parts as "the Big Game," a kinda cute nickname for a game usually not of any importance to anyone other to us NorCal folks. This game,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Eugene Robinson By Frances Reade Eugene Robinson has been the leader of S.F.'s most dangerous art-rock band Oxbow since 1989. We don’t mean Oxbow is "dangerous" as in "Tipper-Gore-no-likey." We mean "dangerous"
SF News Keep It In Your Pants, Stanford Update: Now with "correct" spelling! We understand that it's common for coaches to put their game plans (strategy notes? football-y documents?) in their pants. What is strange is Standford using the following shot
SF News SFist Blotter At Pine and Divisadero on Wednesday afternoon, a man severely slashed a woman with a box cutter (some reports we saw said she might die, while others said the wounds were not life-threatening)
SF News SFist Blotter Remember the Jamba Juice hepatitis A scare? And remember how we said there were gymnasts competing in a national meet in San Jose a few weeks ago? Well -- you guessed it --
SF News Follow Ups On Blotter News In response to allegations by deceased Stanford engineering grad student May Zhou's father earlier this week that his daughter's death was a homicide and not self-inflicted, the Santa Rosa police released additional information
