No. 9 UC-San Diego swam rapidly down the pool, much like a pack of sharks in search of wounded prey, as they battled Santa Clara at the Sullivan Aquatic Center. Mitch Klipa, a senior defender on Santa Clara's water polo team, dropped back in order to curb UCSD's rush.

Drug abuse is a serious problem, not just in the United States, but all over the world. Among the worst victims of this global plague are the children born to drug-addled parents. A woman named Barbara Harris could tell you all about this, as she adopted and raised four children born to the same crack-addicted woman.

Santa Clara's EMTs are teaming up with students in the Leavey School of Business to raise money for purchasing emergency light bars for the EMT carts. This addition will increase efficiency on calls and aid nighttime visibility with an overall goal of improving driver and pedestrian safety.

"I run to be." To be what exactly was for each individual to choose. "I run to be strong," chose senior Kristen Stieger. I run to be are four small words, but when combined they create a very powerful statement, which is why Nike chose it as their slogan for its Women's Marathon this year.

The fourth-annual Treasure Island Festival felt more like two festivals rolled into one; electronic music kicked off the first day while indie bands rocked the second. Treasure Island, a man-made island located between Oakland and San Francisco, provided breathtaking views of the San Francisco skyline as electronic-oriented artists DeadMau5, LCD Soundsystem, and Miike Snow headlined Saturday, bringing in rowdy, party-ready fans.

Student Senate welcomed eight new members Thursday night, the same night they announced the temporary loss of another key Associated Student Government contributor. Eight freshman students were sworn-in to their new positions for ASG by Chief Justice Justin Gilio.

When I first heard about coral bleaching, I was shocked. The beautifully colored, living habitat I loved to watch repeatedly on my worn set of Planet Earth DVDs was struggling for survival. But even more shocking was that this wasn't the first time either.

It's a Saturday night and you're all dressed up, coming back from a party on Bellomy Street. You pass a student, clearly intoxicated on the grass by the sidewalk. Do you call for help? The answer is yes. In any situation, you should call to help a fellow student.

"Where do you go to school?" "I'm a junior at Santa Clara University." "Where is that..Oh wait, I know, you guys are the ones who threw trash onto the court during that basketball game." "Yes, that would be us..." As unfortunate as the above conversation sounds, I have gotten that reaction more than once when telling someone where I go to school.

This weekend, Santa Clara will be hosting the 2010 Western Conversations conference. The six Jesuit institutions of higher education on the west coast will encourage discussion between faculty members about the changing role of Jesuit education in a transforming society.

Alongside their work as educators, many professors at Santa Clara lead not-so-secret second lives. This can come in the form of consulting work for corporations and non-profits or through giving speeches at conventions. More recently however, professors have been seen in newspapers around America and the world, writing op-ed articles.

"Nothing makes me feel dumber than shopping here," said junior Timothy Fong, currently studying abroad in Lund, Sweden. "Today I tried to buy cookies, and ended up with crackers." Experiences like these are not atypical of life abroad, according to many Santa Clara students.

The problem, according to Ballen, is that students aren't really attracted to using virtual reality software. "They want it to be a game. They expect to shoot at each other and crash their cars into each other," said Mike Ballen, who initiated the use of Second Life at Santa Clara. "Students just view it as one more thing on top of their workload."

It is only week five of the fall quarter, and not only am I reading 100+ pages a day, but I am also writing a paper, working on a project and studying for two midterms; and it's been this way for the past two weeks. Sounds like fun, right? But for Santa Clara students, this is the norm.

Video games are played almost universally across campus, and recently from EA sports one of the biggest international games was released: FIFA Soccer 11. In the United States, (American) football is of the most popular sport, and the Madden NFL series has been amongst the most successful franchises sales-wise over the past two decades.

Ernie O'Banion, '50, was impressed with the campus expansion that he noticed since his time as an undergrad. "When I was here there were three buildings," he said. "Now every time I come back, there is a new building and each time I turn around a new one is being built."

Terry Beers is the current chair of the English department here at Santa Clara. What defines his career however, is not only his position in the department, but his work with the California Legacy Project. The CLP is a partnership formed between Santa Clara and Heyday Books, which began in the spring of 2000.

On Tuesday, October 12th, His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet held two public events at the Event Center Arena at San Jose State University. In the morning, he addressed the Tibetan and Himalayan communities in a special audience in the San Jose Convention Center, which was adjacent to the hotel he was staying at, and in the afternoon the Dalai Lama gave a commentary on the Eight Verses for Training the Mind to a capacity crowd of 12,000 people at the Convention Center.