Charity Blood Drive Tainted By Tiger Blood

LOS ANGELES – A fundraising celebrity blood drive at the Cedars-Sinai medical center in West Hollywood led to a temporary lockdown on blood transfusions in the city region. Patients were exhibiting erratic behavior, ranging from breaking 100 mph in a school zone to a patient who, after receiving...

April 5th, 2011

Tooth Scandal Rocks Make-Believe World

PALO ALTO – You know the story. At six a child looses their first tooth. Their parent tells them that it’s a perfectly normal part of life, and if they leave it under their pillow the tooth fairy will exchange it for money. Excited, the child does just that. But a recent study conducted...

February 11th, 2011

Opinion: Frat Boys Have Rights Too!

Note to the reader: words that didn’t meet The Flipside’s decency standard have been replaced with *s. F**k, this has got to f**king stop! Frat boys around the world, hear my call to rise up and fight for our rights.    Rise up and unite against the looming cloud of oppression! Our...

April 26th, 2010

Editorial: Candidates Glossed Over the Important Issues

The ASSU elections are over, and though dozens of candidates moved across campus spreading their ideas of a sustainable, tolerant and united Stanford, we think they missed many of the most important problems facing students today. We would like to take this opportunity to highlight some of these issues...

April 12th, 2010

Area Man Humiliated by Hands-Free Wireless Device 

Sophomore Jim Callofax had an embarrassing experience last Wednesday. While sitting in the quad talking to his four-year-old niece on a Bluetooth “hands-free” phone, Amanda Walkins, a junior majoring in Gender Studies, walked in front of him. According to several spectators in the area, Callofax...

March 1st, 2010

Atheists Call Foul on Tree as Religious Symbol

STANFORD – We all know the Tree. Its lovably bizarre costume, its happy dancing at Stanford games, the annually recurring tales of misbehavior. All in good fun, some might say. But AHA!—Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics @Stanford—is calling foul. “Open your eyes,” said Lewish...

February 24th, 2010

Soap Running Out!

GOVERNOR’S CORNER –Fear and unrest have taken control of Apartment 205 of Suites-Jenkins after the six-man suite realized its supply of hand soap was dwindling. “We’re trying to make do,” says Cliff Crosland, one resident of the suite. “When it was like a quartery full we re-filled...

February 12th, 2010

The Flipside Exclusive Interview with Adam Savage

STANFORD – Excerpt from Scott Scotley’s exclusive interview with Adam Savage of TV’s Mythbusters SCOTLEY: Mr. Savage, rumor has it that you and the Mythbusters team have chosen Stanford University as the focus of your next episode. Can you bust this myth? SAVAGE: Ha ha, very funny Scott....

February 1st, 2010

‘Sin Explains Stanford Devil-Rain’ – Says Pat Roberton

NEW YORK – In the wake of his controversial statements on a divine motive behind the earthquake in Haiti, famous televangeslit Pat Robertson has shifted his focus to Stanford University and the seemingly unending storm that has formed above it. On Friday’s broadcast of “The 700 Club,” Robertson...

January 23rd, 2010