Feel free to experiment, frosh

By Will Oremus
OPINIONS| We’ve all been advised never to try to be something we’re not. But what’s the alternative? Stay the same all our lives?

Readership Editor: Examining The Daily

By Jennifer Graham
OPINIONS| Whether you are a friend or foe, the simple truth is that behind every issue of The Daily, there is a small group of editors and writers making judgments about what is important enough for you to read and how they’re going to tell you about it.

Has our campus bubble grown or burst?

By Kai Stinchcombe
OPINIONS| On the fourth anniversary of a protest brutally suppressed by the British government, John Hancock declared that Americans “dread nothing but slavery.

Freshman Orientation blues

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| As I was packing my bags a few weeks ago for what will sadly be my last year here at Stanford, I kept trying to remember what it was like leaving home for the first time as a freshman.

You don’t really need Orientation

By Chris Holt
OPINIONS| Welcome, overlords. Once again, the administration has rejected my suggestions to improve Orientation. Namely, to not have it.

You complete me . . . and half the room

By Jessica Wang
OPINIONS| “Chinese and Jewish people are very similar, so we should all get along great,” my father said to my new roommate’s father.

With new faces come new friendships

By Andrew Hendel
OPINIONS| When I think back to freshman year, the usual events stand out in my mind — my first college party, Full Moon on the Quad, Big Game, Band Run, Screw Your Roommate, and so on — but more than the activities that I did, I remember the people that I shared them with.

Letters to the editor

By The Stanford Daily Staff
OPINIONS| Resident assistants speak out against Orientation alcohol rules Twenty-one resident assistants on the Row sent the following letter to Director of Residential Education Jane Camarillo last Friday.