Many miffed over Facebook feeds

By Sam Bhagwat
INTERMISSION| It isn’t often that three-quarters of a million people gather together to demand change. On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 5, Facebook underwent a massive overhaul, adding two completely new features: Mini-Feed, which appears on each user’s profile and tracks everything public that each user does, and News Feed, which appears on each user’s home page and integrates all information in each of that user’s friend’s mini-feeds, each friend of that user and displays it all, sorted by time. Users met these changes with a barrage of angry criticism, on a variety of fronts. Some were concerned about how easy News Feed made stalking — and how much News Feed made them feel like a stalker.

Frosh protest gets Facebook response

By Sam Bhagwat
INTERMISSION| Igor Hiller is an incoming UC-Santa Barbara freshman who organized a protest at The Facebook.com’s headquarters in opposition to their new Mini-Feed feature. The demonstration was scheduled for Monday, Sept. 11, but Hiller called it off when Facebook rolled back the changes.

Art exhibits education past

By Sarah Douglas
INTERMISSION| As students across the country head back to school, it’s unlikely any of them feel the weight of a burgeoning democracy’s future on their shoulders.

Doing Stanford - all year long

By Devon Maylie
INTERMISSION| There was a time at Stanford when corduroys were restricted to seniors; students from different graduating classes were distinguished by the kind of hat they wore; freshmen were dunked in tubs in Encina Hall — then an all-male dorm — and students soaked up the sun on Lake Lagunita.

5 road trips from Stanford in 1 hour or less

By Johanna Sophie Santos Bassetti and Bonnie Swift
INTERMISSION| Expansive as the Stanford campus may be — and busy bees that we sometimes are — it can be nice to leave the Farm for the wide world that exists outside Stanford’s palm-tree-lined walkways. The following is a chronological log of the road-trips I took with a friend this summer — with destinations boasting driving times of an hour or less from campus.

Frosh frequently asked questions

By Tam Vo
INTERMISSION| Despite all the staff members who have been hired to make your life easier, all the “informative” presentations scheduled for your benefit and all the advice given to you about everything by just about everyone, you may still have some unanswered questions.

Choice classes for confused frosh

By Mandy Kovach
INTERMISSION| Feeling overwhelmed by the number of classes to choose from freshman year?

The Farm from A to the Zoo, and a little Kairos too

By Julie Lein
INTERMISSION| ASSU. An acronym for the Associated Students of Stanford University, the undergraduate student government. New ASSU President Elizabeth Heng and Vice President Lauren Graham will take the helm and try to fulfill campaign promises like making Dead Weak dead and reviving the Mausoleum Party.

Ten things to know as a freshman

By Betsy Congdon and Tam Vo
INTERMISSION| 1. SAE - Ask your PHE about this acronym.

Three's Company

By Roxy Sass
INTERMISSION| You know the old adage: Two’s company, three’s a crowd.