Peer academic advising needs rethinking

By Editorial Board
OPINIONS| Freshmen in the class of 2009 will be greeted by Peer Mentors, or PMs, instead of Peer Advising Assistants, or PAAs. The new Peer Mentor position combines the responsibilities previously held by PAAs and Orientation Volunteers, eliminating the need for two large groups of volunteers to do perform largely similar tasks over the course of freshman orientation.

Caught out there

By Seth Shamban
OPINIONS| That’s it. No more. I have had with The Stanford Review. I wasn’t going to say anything about it here, in the sacrosanct world of literature that is my column.

Loving your courses

By Andrea Runyan
OPINIONS| I love my classes, and I’ll bet many of you reading this do (or did), too. I love classes in general, but especially those statistics and math, my major.

Stanford must divest from Sudan

By Elissa Test and Nikki Serapio
OPINIONS| The situation in Darfur, Sudan is dire: one person dies every three minutes, 2 million out of 6 million Darfurians have been driven from their homes and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan describes the situation as “little short of hell on earth.

Letters to the Editor

By The Stanford Daily Staff
OPINIONS| Playboy editorial is sexist I am writing to voice my concern about the attitudes expressed in The Daily’s editorial, “Calling All Stanford Playboy Models” (May 11).

Site for the lonely

By Priya Jayachandran
OPINIONS| This week I thought I’d write about love and relationships. I feel a little awkward approaching this subject because it is not my field of expertise and I don’t consider myself an especially social person.