Santa Clara University

Lost Boys of Summer: Some Ex-Ballplayers Seek Help From MLB

Undocumented Students Protest Senator Feinstein's Delay On Dream Act

​Dozens of college students - many undocumented - protested outside Senator Dianne Feinstein's Market Street office Thursday morning, urging her to act on a pending bill that would offer a path to citizenship to students who crossed the border while kids and have attended two years of college.Stud ... More >>

Elite College Hoaxer Showdown: Stanford Vs. Harvard

​News this week of Adam Wheeler, the 23-year-old who lied his way into Harvard and almost into Yale, brought back fond memories of Azia Kim, the dorm-squatter who was discovered posing as a Stanford student two years ago. We have to ask: Who's the better college hoaxer? TV movie-ready back st ... More >>

U.C. Employees' Picket Line Blocks Out Gavin Newsom

Will HarperIf ever you were looking to keep Gavin Newsom away, scare up a picket line Employees of the University of California vociferously protesting proposed fee hikes and furlough days had an unforeseen consequence on the plans of one Mayor Gavin Newsom -- who may or may not have a Santa Clara U ... More >>

Bad Omen: Bay Area Women's Pro Soccer Team Announces Reduction In Ticket Prices -- And Size of Stadium

Photo | Courtesey of Puma, the WPS, and Stuart Ramson. Used with permission. A recent announcement from the Bay Area's FC Gold Pride does not inspire confidence Don't get us wrong: We love soccer of all sorts. The final match of the 2006 World Cup haunts us to this day. We'd love to see flourish ... More >>

When a mother is tried for murder: The case of Linda Woo

Photo | Courtesey of Puma, the WPS, and Stuart Ramson. Used with permission. A recent announcement from the Bay Area's FC Gold Pride does not inspire confidence Don't get us wrong: We love soccer of all sorts. The final match of the 2006 World Cup haunts us to this day. We'd love to see flourish ... More >>

Local Schools' Fortunes Plummeting in Tournament -- The Recycling Tournament. What Tournament Were You Thinking Of?

Not everything that goes in the trash can is trash. Ask someone who knows...Pulling into the home stretch of Recyclemania, the nationwide recycling competition for colleges and universities, our local institutions appear to be flagging a bit. Ranked 12th and 13th earlier this month, San Francisco St ... More >>

San Francisco State Ranked WAY Better Than Stanford (in National Recycling Contest)

A novel manner of demonstrating one's school spirit...Finally -- a competition that rewards college students for amassing empty beer bottles.Midway through the "RecycleMania" competition, our plucky hometown schools are among the nation's leaders. San Francisco State ranks 12th, one spot ahead of Ci ... More >>

Gavin's Catholic Bashing

By Lauren Smiley Is Mayor Newsom a self-hating Catholic? The Catholic League said this week that the Mayor (and the Board of Supervisors) should be blamed for vandals scrawling the names of the pope and the San Francisco archbishop next to a Nazi symbol on Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the ... More >>

The USF Dons Have Gone from National Champs to National Chumps

By Lauren Smiley Is Mayor Newsom a self-hating Catholic? The Catholic League said this week that the Mayor (and the Board of Supervisors) should be blamed for vandals scrawling the names of the pope and the San Francisco archbishop next to a Nazi symbol on Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the ... More >>

Bones of Discontent - Andrew Galvan carves a unique, controversial role in relocating Native American skeletons

By Lauren Smiley Is Mayor Newsom a self-hating Catholic? The Catholic League said this week that the Mayor (and the Board of Supervisors) should be blamed for vandals scrawling the names of the pope and the San Francisco archbishop next to a Nazi symbol on Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Life Imitates Apatow; Moped Bitches Lash Out

The Double Life of John Leary

The New College founder is promoted as a visionary. The college should openly admit the Jesuit priest was a pedophile.

Quattrone 2.0

A judge says Silicon Valley investment titan Frank Quattrone is free to go back to work. Would you trust him?

Beat Back

An extraordinary collection of San Francisco avant-garde art is hanging in a Norwegian school. Why not here?

Discount Dynasty

After scoring big with "Two Buck Chuck," renegade vintner Fred Franzia once again has Napa Valley's wine burghers in an uproar

House of Tudor

Troubadour Jason Webley gets you singing, squirming, and maybe even doing the "gnome dance."

Innocence Arrested

Albert Johnson was exonerated for a crime he didn't commit, but not before spending over a decade in prison. Why guiltless people get jailed -- and how to stop it.

Bishop Bad Boy

Santa Rosa's charismatic Catholic bishop got busted shaking down a priest for sex. But he had friends in high places -- and they served him well.

The Rush of Victory

Under coach George Rush, City College regularly wins national football titles. But is community college really the place for big-time sports?

Girl, Interrupted

Alanna Krause believes that much of her hellish childhood could have been avoided. Now she's suing her father, her therapist, and her lawyer in an effort to prove it. How did it come to this?

Cutting Edge

With Knife Play, San Jose's Xiu Xiu carves cathartic music from traumatic experience

This is NOT a story about L.A. Lakers star Kobe Bryant

Meet John Cox, a USF swingman who is a cousin and friend to Kobe -- and quite at home with his own game and his own life

Who Owns Your Clone?

A San Francisco firm thinks it's time people started copyrighting their DNA

Mars Attacks

There's no reason to fear Red Planet -- especially if you like high energy, old-fashioned rock

Shaky Ground

Environmental activists adopt a new strategy -- playing the race card

One World, Under Gorby (Part II)

Gorbachev foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?