It was another world -— and just a stone’s throw away from campus. Smoke machines blasted plumes of dry ice at bucket-hatted bros and bikini-clad girls clutching red cups, all bouncing up and down to DJ Jai Wolf’s electronic beats pumping from the speakers.

A local Mexican restaurant will serve its last burrito on Oct. 30, closing its doors after 18 years of serving the Santa Clara community.

A visiting conservative columnist created a stir on campus when he engaged in vigorous discussions with Santa Clarans about his controversial opinions on sexual assault at college campuses.

The group, known as The Dalit Women’s Self-Respect Movement, made a stop at Santa Clara on Oct. 7 as a part of their North American Tour. The movement is looking to build transnational alliances to challenge caste-apartheid and caste-based sexual violence in India.

Santa Clara engineering students crowded around a metal table in the middle of a rural Rwandan village, putting clay into a mold and teaching the villagers how to build their innovate new machine.

Santa Clara’s housing office announced to the residents of certain properties near campus Wednesday that it will directly oversee many of the popular off-campus homes rented by students starting on July 1, 2016.

To address concerns surrounding the lack of support and programming for students living in the community surrounding campus, the Office of Student Life has created a new off-campus initiative, the Neighborhood Ambassador program.

Auto industry insiders strongly suspect the emissions cheating scandal at Volkswagen is much wider and reaches higher up the corporate ladder than the company is letting on.

Future Santa Clara students may have access to the entire Bay Area simply by crossing the street.

The airspace above Santa Clara’s campus will be a little clearer this year, due to a new policy aimed at remotely-operated flying devices.

Libation-seeking juniors and seniors are now expected to pull a little more cash out of their wallets than usual every Tuesday at the Bronco Hut, as the weekly “two for one Tuesday” special has increased from five dollars to six.

Renee Baumgartner, the university’s new athletics director who started in June, says the de-cluttering of the athletic administration office is one of the immediate changes she’s implementing.

Student tempers flared last spring as anonymous instigators posted racist and incendiary comments on Yik Yak and the immigration awareness Mock Border Wall. As a result, the university is attempting to bolster student understanding about the importance of reporting bias incidents.

Pope Francis elevated Junipero Serra, an 18th-century missionary who brought Catholicism to the American West Coast, to sainthood Wednesday.

Stephen Colbert showered Donald Trump, who stopped by his “Late Show” Tuesday, with tounge-in-cheek thanks.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio used dad jokes and his signature progressive zeal to tackle income inequality at an on-campus talk May 14.

Santa Clara prides itself on being a tolerant community, but recently, offensive comments surfaced on Yik Yak, a popular app localized to campus.