You may have noticed a bright orange-and-yellow-striped addition to the Santa Clara milieu near the Safeway parking lot. For the past two weeks, Howard Gibbins has been on a quest to bring quality hot dogs to Santa Clara County.

A crowd gathered to watch as the product of a year and a half of blood, sweat and tears was lifted by crane onto the back of a flatbed truck Sunday and Santa Clara's solar-powered home was prepped for the journey to Washington, D.C., to compete in the 2007 Solar Decathlon.

Bollywood films have all the guilty pleasure of a soap opera, the aesthetic appeal of a high-budget Broadway show and the plot depth of an irresistible paperback romance novel.

Senior Adriane Puetz has her sights set on breaking the course record this week at the Bronco Invitational in Sunnyvale.

As five players watch from the sidelines, and another three are forced to play limited minutes, it seems as if injuries are beginning to get the better of the women's soccer team.

The San Jose Earthquakes officially announced their temporary home for the 2008 and 2009 seasons will be Santa Clara's Buck Shaw Stadium.

English professor Dr. Richard Osberg, who served as director of the honors program and the office of fellowships, died of unspecified neurological problems Wednesday. He was 60. Osberg had a passion for medievalism and encouraging students to follow their dreams, and was hailed by students, faculty and staff as the quintessential Santa Clara professor.

The temperature rose to triple digits beneath the giant white tent on the National Mall Friday afternoon as hundreds of college students eagerly awaited the crowning of the 2007 Solar Decathlon champion. The tension mounted during U.S.

Bucky the Bronco is one of the things at the top of Associated Students' priority list this year. AS is proposing the purchase of a large bronze statue of a bronco for the campus, said AS President Austin Woody. It would be a catalyst for a lot of realistic positive by-products, he said, including raising school spirit, giving students something to rally behind and creating a really strong campus tradition.

If any of you are as obsessed as I am with the campaign process for next year's presidential election, then you must have heard that comedian Stephen Colbert has joined the presidential race -- at least in South Carolina.

By Nicholas Pinkerton

I can say with some certainty that whether we like it or not, many of us have problems with addiction.

Medical amnesty policy lacks necessary data

By Johanna Mitchell Thirteen bicycles have been reported stolen from campus since Oct. 1, a recent bout of thefts Campus Safety believes is the work of two or three thieves working together, said Campus Safety Assistant Director Phil Beltran. Bike owners on campus have left themselves vulnerable to theft, said Beltran.

As summer fades into fall, the colors of Santa Clara become a little more neutral. But there are some who have green on the brain more than ever. Like Joe Sugg, assistant vice president for university operations, who will give a presentation on the university's strategy to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions Friday.

Al Gore will no longer be known simply as the former vice president or the man that created "An Inconvenient Truth." He will now forever be remembered as one of the 2007 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Judy Kuo, a senior accounting major, assumed her role as 2007-2008 Multicultural Center director on Monday, filling a position that had remained vacant for the first five weeks of school. The MCC Executive Board met in a closed meeting last Thursday to decide between Kuo and fellow candidate Eric Deanda.

I sit outside with a group of students and my homestay family looking at the dry, desert-like landscape. A row or two of withered cotton plants blow helplessly in the plot next to us.