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Stanford Med School ahead of the ethics curve
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Stanford’s School of Medicine has distinguished itself in its research and its medical care.
Consider limiting wireless access in class
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Green hours extension shows process working
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Maintain vigilance to retain privileges
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Admitting mistakes
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Draw confuses more than necessary
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Why we love Stanford Part 2: Student life
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Take Admit Weekend with a grain of salt
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Love it or hate it, Admit Weekend is once again upon us.
A fresh start for a fresh set of faces
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Editorial: Elections Commission needs reexamination
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Last week’s ASSU elections were marred by accusations of dirty politics.
Thinking twice about dismantling Meyer
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Forty-one years ago next month, architect and Stanford alumnus John Carl Warnecke oversaw the dedication of a new building on campus.
The role of Title IX in Row housing decisions
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With the recent unveiling of a gender-neutral housing pilot program, the role of gender in housing decisions is on the minds of many students.
Promising attention given to mental health
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Last year, Stanford witnessed four campus deaths related to mental health.
An open letter to the incoming ASSU executives
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The Daily recently interviewed all candidates for ASSU Executive and was greatly impressed by the talented and genuine pool of those running for office.
Arrogance about IHUM
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Special fees burden distorted by measure A
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GO GO Gobaud Goldgof for ASSU Executive
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After half-hour interviews with five of the six ASSU Executive slates and more than an hour of subsequent deliberation, the Editorial Board believes that David Gobaud and Greg Goldgof are the candidates that will best represent the entire student body during the 2008-2009 school year.
More power to PWR
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The Daily would like to take the opportunity at the beginning of Spring quarter to commend Stanford’s often-maligned first year “Program in Writing and Rhetoric” requirement.
On-campus dining options too few during break
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Students who spent this year’s spring break here at Stanford quickly learned that all the dining halls were closed for the entire week from Friday evening to the following Sunday evening, and that options outside of the dining hall system were slim.
Assigned reading: quality, not quantity
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As another quarter begins, students will flock to the Bookstore to collect textbooks mandated by their professors.
BeWell a positive force
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From Wellness Week to Eat Local Week to an entire series on the ethics of food, Stanford offers a wide variety of health-related events.
Editorial: A de-lightful solution
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Workers from Stanford Facilities are currently spraying trees around campus with high-pressure water hoses.
The joy of a syllabus
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Students would benefit from service-based "bridge year"
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Editorial: Create more ASSU undergrad positions
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The Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) Undergraduate Senate includes only 15 elected members, excluding class officers.
Editorial: ASSU executive slate evaluation
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Last year, the ASSU executive election was decided by a total of 38 student votes, and a subsequent vote by the Undergraduate Senate and the Graduate Student Council (GSC) in a run-off between the top two slates.
Editorial: Studying abroad: more options needed
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The Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) at Stanford offers students wonderful opportunities to experience many countries around the world.
Petitioning the special fees process
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This year’s student groups are already looking ahead to next year as they establish budgets and search for funding.
The harm of diversity
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Evaluating the new Old Union
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It has been about six months since Old Union was completed after years’ worth of ongoing — and sometimes frustrating — construction.
Editorial: Follow DNC rules on seating delegates
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Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) has suggested seating the Michigan and Florida delegates at the Democratic National Convention, even though the Democratic National Committee (DNC) stripped them of their status.
Editorial: Rethinking 'Tree Week'
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What if, instead of a series of dangerous stunts, rumored backroom deals and the bribing of Dollies — all elements that characterize the darker side of Tree Week — our mascot selection had more to do with the skills candidates perform upon being selected?
Editorial: Staff reforms needed on the Row
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Autumn quarter may seem like it is worlds away, but eager applicants across campus have begun the Row’s annual manager selection process.
Superdelegates threaten democracy
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In this tight primary season, hitherto unknown “superdelegates” have suddenly become important.
Editorial: Berkeley City Council: crossing the line
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In late January, the Berkeley city council voted 8-1 to declare the Marines working at a local recruiting office “uninvited and unwelcome intruders,” proceeding to express wishes to have said office removed from the city.
Silencing speakers
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Anyone recognize a pattern? Someone at Stanford invites a speaker to talk. The speaker, however, happens to be a particularly controversial figure, with views that offend certain groups on campus.
Editorial: Time to take the lead on financial aid
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As the Board of Trustees plans to unveil its new financial aid policy next week, students are paying renewed attention to Stanford’s sizable endowment, which ranks third in the country among universities.
The future of the vice presidency
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The United States has never had, and possibly will never have again, a vice president as powerful as Dick Cheney.
Elegy for the CoHo
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To borrow liberally from ee cummings: Where did you go, little CoHo?
Elegy for the CoHo
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To borrow liberally from ee cummings: Where did you go, little CoHo?
Editorial: A motion in favor of a centralized debate forum
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This editorial board believes that Stanford would greatly benefit from a centralized, debate society, similar to the Oxford Union, where speakers and students could gather to debate pressing issues of the day.
Editorial: Revamp the CDC Web site
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Instead of accelerating our leap forward, the CDC’s oft-impenetrable Web resource often leaves us flat-footed.
Editorial: Meet the Editorial Board
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Finding a solution to the housing crunch
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From the stuffy, textbook-lined makeshift room in the basement of Crothers to the one-room quad on the bottom floor of 717 Dolores, “housing crunch” has taken on a whole new meaning.
No on props 94 through 97
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Voting “yes” or “no” on any of California’s perplexing ballot propositions always feels like a gamble.
Editorial: Defining 'the Stanford editorial'
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As Stanford students writing for Stanford students, we on the Editorial Board incorporate the many facets of our identity when we write about issues that interest us and issues we believe will interest you.
Editorial: A dubious solution to an impending recession
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And as the government’s rhetoric has already done its damage to the American psyche, we must ensure that the implementation of any plan prompts a gentle landing.
Editorial: California's 2008 Propositions
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Students have been drawn into California’s electoral process by the big names contending for presidential nominations; however, they should also extend their new-found political interest to the California propositions.
Editorial: Political paparazzi
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Cleavage, fashion shoots and catfights have long been staples of tabloids and gossip magazines. What’s troubling, however, is the recent migration of such trivial matters into serious publications.
Editorial: Find an alternative to alternative energy
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Although the corn ethanol phenomenon has been propelled by environmental concerns and fear of foreign-oil dependency, the editorial board feels that corn ethanol is not a viable solution to the recent concerns over fossil fuel depletions.
Editorial: Status update: Stanford is politically engaged
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Facebook should be commended for incorporating political issues onto its walls, and we young adults should take advantage of such easy access to political information and become seriously engaged in this critically important political season.
Editorial: Choose your battles, don’t construct them
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Unnecessary faux violence is a grotesque twist of events that exemplifies just how far some have strayed from the non-violence of the civil rights era.
Editorial: Gendering the new American dream
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In fact, while tracking the fuzzy concept of “prestige” as it flits between professions, applying a gendered perspective establishes the ideals of the American Dream in stark realities.
Editorial: Professional preferences: Entrepreneurs emerge
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The new dream, however, seems to be not as much about logging the long hours as it is about finding a career that offers excitement, room for creative thinking and spiritual completeness.
Editorial: Redefining financial aid
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Stanford should welcome this challenge [of Harvard's new financial aid policy] and rise to the task.
Editorial: New showerheads an unfriendly initiative
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If the showerhead installations had been announced publicly in the weeks before winter break, portrayed as an important instrument in the battle to preserve natural resources, the reaction would have been less fierce.
Editorial: Shopping for class, online
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It should be the responsibility of the University to help students in this matter, by mandating faculty to provide students with the crucial knowledge they need to make informed decisions.
Editorial: Feel Good, Inc.
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While misguided volunteering is better than no public service at all, the worry remains that when students are lulled to believe that a brief service stint represents genuine work and change, the original purpose of the education is defeated and the service is rendered altogether worthless.
Cramping our style
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Perhaps it is time for our teaching faculty to see that if they really want the best demonstrated results, they should allow students to type, rather than handwrite, their exams.
Editorial: Priming for primaries
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With the vast amount of attention paid to the residents of these early primary states, we can rest assured that these voters will make relatively well-informed decisions.
Editorial: CourseRank a long overdue success
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Stanford students have entered a new era of course selection. Students can now plan out their weekly schedule, construct a four-year plan, track their GERs and access official evaluation information from other students all in one place.
Editorial: Amends and amendments
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The implications of the new Judicial Charter amendments may be more symbolic than material, but they nonetheless deserve student attention.
Women's health, wallets suffer under new bill
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The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which came into effect last January, was designed to prevent Medicaid abuse, but its deleterious effect on women’s health nationwide demands the attention of Congress.
Editorial: Rekindling FLiCKS
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With the program’s long-awaited return on Dec. 2 nearly upon us, there are still a handful of issues that have yet to be resolved in efforts to revitalize FLiCKS.
Editorial: Victory for science
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The moral quandary over stem cells appears to have been rendered irrelevant. A new procedure called "nuclear reprogramming" has changed the field of stem cell research.
Editorial: Going with the grain
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FreeRice is the very kind of technologically innovative and socially conscientious endeavor that Stanford students have long sought.
Imagining a longer Thanksgiving
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The week-long Thanksgiving is generally beloved amongst Stanford students, especially those (Class of ‘08 and older) who remember the days before its institution.
Editorial: Rankings and grades
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Creating a grading system that ranks law firms based on something other than profits is a neat way of capitalizing on America’s passion for rankings while changing traditional paradigms of prestige.
Editorial: Green is the new black
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We’re past the days of considering environmentalism an exclusive issue of granola-crunchers from the Pacific Northwest. The planet’s problems affect everyone; so much the better if the concerns begin to appeal to everyone.
Editorial: Disillusioned by brilliance
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But at this moment, we at Stanford, like the many Chinese who admire Yang’s success after emigrating to America at age 10, can only turn our heads away in disillusioned shame.
Editorial: Create happier homes with healthy debate
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While many of us passionately engage in individual interests and pursuits, we are better known for our general apathy of our surrounding condition, especially when compared with our cross-Bay counterparts.
Editorial: Planes, trains and automobiles
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While it is true that America’s geography is wholly unlike that of rail-laden Europe or Japan, there is evidence that disappointing consumer preferences have left an underrated U.S. rail system cold and dead.
Editorial: Senior Night takes to the lanes for a worthwhile change of pace
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However, tonight’s scheduled ‘80s-themed bowling event shows that the planners are now growing from being simply successful executors to becoming innovators in keeping things interesting.
Editorial: Poor reception for Stanford's field hockey champions
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What was conspicuously lacking from Saturday's field hockey championship game - any sort of institutional support from other Stanford organizations that could give the team the recognition it deserves - was more significant than the Card's victory.
Editorial: Starving artists of department honors
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Despite Stanford’s good overall track record, however, when it comes to departmental honors programs, too much of the University remains securely locked in the ivory tower.
Editorial: Thinking twice about dismantling Meyer
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But now that the issue has been raised in the community at large, a small group of voices is starting to murmur in opposition to the plan, especially concerning the displacement of the East Asian Library, located on the fourth floor of Meyer.
Editorial: For he's a jolly good fellow
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The importance of RFs in every dorm, however, must not be overlooked. Quite simply, they are the lifeblood of ResEd.
Editorial: Short and sweet: IHUMs that work
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There is another adage that reads, “It’s not how long it is, it’s what you do with it,” which, unlike the “longer is better” philosophy that my colleagues adhere to, actually truly does apply to Introduction to Humanities (IHUM) sections.
Editorial: Longing for IHUM
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There’s an old adage, “longer is better,” that is often misapplied or incorrect. When it comes to the length of Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) sections, however, longer truly is better.
Editorial: Boo on the Halloween ban
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The Castro’s Halloween festivities, celebrated since the 1950s, are being thwarted by the efforts of the municipal authorities. For next Halloween, however, the Castro’s festivities should not be tainted by the events of 2002 and 2006, but inspired by what could have been in 2007.
Editorial: Email: The enemy of action?
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Cranky, condemning emails from students who are just passionate enough in their opinions to disapprove of what others have worked hard to create are a phenomenon that is familiar to most campus groups.
Editorial: Fix Fix-it!
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It is a tragicomic situation when the systems set in place to fix simple problems are themselves a broken mess. Such was the case with Student Housing programs during the past couple weeks.
Editorial: Questioning Nobel authority
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We should show serious reservations if our 17 Nobel laureates misapply their legitimacy to advance reprehensible opinions.
Editorial: Rethinking research restrictions
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Thanks to the Provost’s International Travel Policy, Stanford cannot fund research trips to countries where a State Department Travel Warning has been issued. No exceptions.
Editorial: Praising the unsung heroes of the Nobel Peace Prize
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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was split equally by Al Gore and the 2,000-member International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We applaud the Nobel Committee on their decision and commend each Peace Prize winner.
Editorial: Commendable stewardship
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Stanford has an excellent program of fund stewardship; through postcards, letters, and thank-you notes, administrators create relationships with sponsors who could just as easily become anonymous checkbooks.
Editorial: Orhan Pamuk: One night only
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Why aren’t more students attending these world-class events, taking place less than ten minutes from a typical dorm-room? Are these events inaccessible to students who are too busy to go or to even seek out what’s going on? We hope not.
Editorial: Flexibility requires responsibility
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Instead of two weeks, students had three to add classes, instead of three, they had four to drop. This change is a good thing for students as it allows us more time to plan and thus more flexibility — as long as students understand that the deadlines are policies of the Registrar and not necessarily of professors.
Editorial: Change in China
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“China will never have a Western-style democracy,” touts Li Dongsheng, the spokesman for the 17th Congress of the Communist Party. Does this statement imply continued human rights abuses for Chinese workers? Or that freedom of speech will continue to be suppressed?
Editorial: Bush's veto blunder
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President George W. Bush’s veto of the proposed expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program is a catastrophic bungle, with far-reaching implications for him and for children desperately in need of free health care. The veto should never have happened. Now that it has, Congress needs to act swiftly and in unity to override it.
Editorial: Maintain Red Zone momentum
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Just as Stanford Football is rebuilding itself under the guidance of Coach Jim Harbaugh, so, too, do the members of the Red Zone need to keep rebuilding the student fan base.
Editorial: Training ourselves not to forget
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While there is indeed a rich legacy for this great university to celebrate, it is also important that we accept, address and embrace the uncomfortable and tragic truths of our institution’s history.
Editorial: Elegy for the CoHo
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Last year, students were told that the Axe & Palm would add to eating options on campus, but swapping the cozy, worn-in CoHo for the sterile Old Union eatery doesn’t equal a net gain.
Editorial: Full Moon delay worth the wait
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Despite miscommunication about the news of the change which left many upperclassmen confused, the postponement was ultimately a good move in light of the early timing.
Editorial: It's not about the bike
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The Daily feels that this work of art is symbolic of the mess that is campus biking and believes steps should be taken to rectify the chaotic and dangerous state of affairs that exists at the Farm.
Editorial: The fall career fair: an imperfect process
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While so many organizations pitching themselves to students in the same place and for the same amount of time may look and feel like a free market of laborers and firms, the savvy know that the playing field is, in fact, tipped.
Editorial: Praise for USA PATRIOT Act rulings
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The Editorial Board applauds a verdict reached Sept. 26 when a district judge from Oregon, Ann Aiken, ruled that two provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act were unconstitutional.
Editorial: Backup for Burma
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If a people want change and are willing to risk their lives to produce it, then shouldn’t we help? The answer is that we must help, and that we may have to use force.
Meet the Editorial Board
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The Stanford Daily has selected a group of six students to sit on its Editorial Board.
Editorial: Reconsidering college, again
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[A]s our school year begins with management consulting firms and high-tech start-ups already hegemonizing landscapes once reserved for student-led student life, the issues analyzed by Perlstein and Handler deserve sustained consideration.
Roundabout misses the point
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The new roundabouts at White Plaza and the intersection of Panama Mall and Lasuen Mall, better known as the “Intersection of Death,” are a positive step toward slowing down cyclists, but considerations for pedestrians and precedent seem to have been left out of the roundabout planning picture.
Editorial: The joy of a syllabus
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The Stanford Syllabus site is an excellent but underused resource for both professors and students.
Sweat-free tactics questionable
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Similar to the Stanford Labor Action Coalition’s campaign for a comprehensive living wage policy for on-campus workers, Sweat-Free Stanford’s motivations are clearly principled.
Where have all the campus activists gone?
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This editorial was originally published on Feb.
Stanford - A corporate beacon of clapboard and stucco
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This editorial was originally published on Feb.
Nobels’ funding fight crucial
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Of the whirlwind of events, lectures and celebrations that accompany Nobel Prize winners, few have been more important than recent testimony by Stanford’s Andrew Fire and Roger Kornberg before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology.
Lessons from Azia Kim
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What is needed is a renewed focus on communication and engagement throughout Student Housing and Residential Education, especially among those students on the front lines of dorm community — Resident Assistants (RAs).
Editorial: 2008 candidates should heed Clark
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Even if Clark is not ultimately a presidential hopeful this cycle, the other candidates would do well to integrate some of his points into their own campaign platforms.
Time to rethink ROTC
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If “don’t ask, don’t tell” is indeed the reason for the ban, this should be made explicit by a new Faculty Senate vote.
Ad campaign within Exxon’s rights
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Students, faculty and staff should be proud of the University’s recent decision to support a shareholder resolution calling on energy giant and major Stanford donor Exxon Mobil to take substantive steps to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Hitting the SPOT
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SPOT provides a rare chance to get outside of the Stanford bubble that would benefit all students, regardless of their home state.
Take this survey and love it
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It’s a rare administration survey that presents participants with an image of a “stress tree” and urges them to fill in the “branches” and “roots” with manifestations and causes of anxiety, but that’s exactly what the Campus Climate Initiative (CCI) questionnaire does.
Editorial: Vote no on tobacco ban
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This afternoon, the Faculty Senate will consider and potentially vote on a proposal that would ban Stanford researchers from accepting funding from tobacco companies. Such a policy might seem like an obvious move at first, but a more careful examination of the ban’s potential impact leads us to urge the Senate to vote against it.
Treat misdemeanor disclosure with care
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Stanford has a right and a responsibility to consider the moral character of its admitted students and to assess their likelihood of upholding the University’s Fundamental Standard. But admissions officers ought to approach lesser misdemeanors with open minds, and a bit of charity.
A league of his own: McCain and democracy
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We are honored that Arizona’s senior senator would choose Stanford as the backdrop upon which to sketch his proposals, but some of the ideas he laid out seem simplistic, pedantic and far-fetched.
The 100 days
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Student leaders who lament the apathy of the student body: This is your best chance to change our minds. More eyes are focused on you than ever before at this time of year.
Editorial: Reward teachers
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While many professors enjoy teaching, Skocpol told the New York Times, they often “don’t feel the institution values it or rewards it or cares about it.” There is more pressure on professors to perform in their academic fields, publishing articles and studies, than to make sure their teaching methods are working in the classroom.
Editorial: Stanford should help defray grad costs
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As Stanford seniors ascend the steps to the commencement stage to receive their diplomas this June, one problem they won’t have to worry about is being weighed down by heavy wallets.
Editorial: Madrid program offers new opportunities
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The opening of a Stanford program in Madrid is a superb addition to the University’s already-impressive array of study abroad options.
Editorial: A united ASSU Senate?
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With the ASSU election fiasco seemingly behind us, we were disappointed to see divisive contention rear its ugly head again—this time among members of the newly sworn in senate.
Editorial: Publicize in-house draw process
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How in-house draw is conducted is a major element in room-conscious students’ housing choices. Or at least, it would be if that information was publicly available.
ASSU Senate abstentions let students down
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Given the importance of the divestment resolution, we are perplexed by the decisions of five ASSU senators (of 13 who were eligible) to abstain from voting on divestment.
Editorial: Sell impounded bikes to new students
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The first week of school would be an excellent time for the DPS to resell the bikes it has collected, and the increased demand at the time might even allow it to charge a moderately higher price.
Editorial: Reform the priority system
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Stricter standards and greater accountability among priority residents should be instituted across the board.
Editorial: Kudos for Row composting
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The extension to the Row of a pilot composting program represents yet another sensible step in the University’s efforts to promote sustainability on campus.
Editorial: Address campus tragedies
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We do not expect a front-page story in the Stanford Report from the administration, but we do hope for a brief message to acknowledge a friend has passed away.
Editorial: Kenney suspension inadequate
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At a minimum, Kenney should be required to take actions to reconcile with the young men he tried to eliminate from the books. Even if this is ultimately impossible, his penance should go further than simply apologizing meekly and laying low.
Editorial: SLAC compromise welcome
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Although it is unlikely that either the University or SLAC are completely happy with the outcome, the most important thing to remember is that many Stanford workers will find it a bit easier to provide for themselves and for their families when the policy change is implemented Sept. 1.
Editorial: Continue improving elections enforcement
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In this year of intense competition and innovation, the ASSU Elections Commission made the right move by pressing forward with the implementation of a new “Fair Campaign” label.
Editorial: Take Admit Weekend with a grain of salt
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To members of the incoming class of 2011 who are taking the time to read this editorial, take all you see around you with a grain of salt.
Editorial: Fairness requires runoff
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The call for a runoff vote, as recommended by unbiased and principled Elections Commissioner Fraga, is not about one slate or another. It is about fairness.
Editorial: For future execs, opportunity and responsibility
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The new executives should incorporate the best parts of their opponents’ policy recommendations into their own initiatives.
Editorial: Continue to improve ASSU Web infrastructure
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As California begins an overhaul of its electronic voting procedures in order to make sure elections run as smoothly as possible, it would not hurt Stanford and the ASSU to do the same.
Editorial: Reject Measure A
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The Daily urges a No vote on the stealth attack that is Measure A and a yes vote on its special fees request.
Editorial: Brett and Lakshmi for ASSU executives
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Hammon and Karra stood out for their experience in class leadership positions and dedication to an important yet achievable set of goals.
Editorial: Death to the caterpillars?
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Should students object to groundskeeping efforts to keep caterpillars at bay?
Editorial: Fill Lake Lag
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The spring-quarter filling of Lake Lag, especially in years when winter rainfall and creek diversions are inadequate, is an expensive proposition. It carries, however, significant aesthetic, recreational and ecological benefits.
Honors theses merit saving
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As senior undergraduate honors candidates enter into the final leg of the thesis writing process, it is worth taking a step back and considering how their work will be preserved for posterity.
Editorial: Stanford’s unassuming press should press on
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For an organization that claims its mission is to "extend and challenge prevailing views in the academy and society, and thereby explain and illuminate the human condition" the Stanford University Press keeps a low profile.
Editorial: Hold Kenney accountable for record deletions
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A student charged with a violation of the Fundamental Standard on par with that perpetrated by Kenney would likely face severe ramifications.
Stranded students at Caltrain: Hopefully no more
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Nothing is more frustrating than returning to campus from an amazing spring break, only to find oneself stranded at the Palo Alto Caltrain station. That situation will, hopefully, be fixed by Parking and Transportation Services' extended Marguerite schedules for the weekends of spring break.
Editorial: Tragedy of the Listserv commons
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The system is often exploited for mass postings of flyers or requests on lists with hundreds of members
Editorial: Energy Crossroads shows how it’s done
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The conference was professional, well-planned and well-attended. Moreover, it provided ample opportunity for the critical cross-pollination of ideas across sectors and disciplines.
Editorial: Wikipedia with caution
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We still love Wikipedia and admit that it can be great for a quick definition or fact, but we won’t be citing it in any papers anytime soon.
Editorial: Goodbye to psych legend Zimbardo
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From Albert Bandura and his work on social modeling to Phillip Zimbardo with his widely known Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanford’s Jordan Hall has housed quite literally the “a”-to-”z”s of psychology’s superstar public intellectuals for the last four decades.
Editorial: Framing the debate
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There are a surprisingly large number of ASSU Executive slates petitioning for a spot on the ballot this year: five, up from last year’s three.
Kudos to alumni for giving
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On Feb. 23, The Daily reported that Stanford raised a total of $911.2 million in 2006 [“Record donations received”]. While we commend the efforts to raise such an enormous sum, The Daily would like to focus on the record-breaking number of donors and alumni who contributed.
Editorial: Expand news readership program
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For only four dollars per person in annual special fees, Stanford students get access to two high-quality newspapers for which many would not pay standard newsstand prices.
Editorial: Hennessy's All Right Now
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As a scientist who has held patents, started companies and written textbooks, Hennessy is a university president without precedent, and this is not a bad thing. Yes, he is rich, but president of a major university is hardly a low-income position in the first place.
Editorial: Stop the tuition squeeze
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We are deeply troubled by skyrocketing tuition costs, and there seems to be no end in sight.
Editorial: Flawed divestment plan raises important issues
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A solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict will not be achieved by a policy of divestment which serves to punish the State of Israel alone. It will take mutual sacrifice to resolve the issues that SCAI has helped bring to the foreground of campus debate in recent months.
Editorial: IHUM board gets it right
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The Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) governance board’s suggestion last week to shorten section times and make the program worth fewer units is a welcome and admirable plan.
Editorial: Expanded engineering GER offerings needed
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For undergraduates across most academic disciplines, fulfilling Stanford’s General Education Requirements (GERs) can be a cumbersome task.
Editorial: For Old Union, transparency a must
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When the University announced plans to transform Old Union into a true student union, students across campus were ecstatic. Fast forward a few years later, and members of the ASSU have voiced complaints about the current lack of student input in Old Union construction and concerns over late, unexpected changes to the plan.
Editorial: Where have all the campus activists gone?
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The substantial number who harbor unspoken misgivings about the war should bear in mind that silence is easily mistaken for complacence, or even tacit support.
Editorial: Congratulations to the new Harvard president
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The Daily would like to congratulate Harvard’s choice for its new president, Radcliffe Institute head Drew Gilpin Faust.
Editorial: Three cheers for Sixth Man
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The Sixth Man Club has been criticized periodically for distasteful cheers about the personal lives of players on the opposing team and other rowdy behavior. But even with the occasional incident, the group provides a way for students in different dorms, majors and classes to come together without question.
Editorial Board: Metaphors and guns don't mix
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Metaphors make for good novels and great poetry. However, in her speech to a half-empty Kresge auditorium Monday night, NRA President Sandra Froman ‘71 demonstrated the ease with which a metaphor inserted into political discourse can polarize, warp and muddle a divisive issue.
Editorial: A call to action in 2008
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The 2008 race for the White House is off to an astonishingly fast start. Options for students to become involved are as remarkable as they are diverse. For the campaign, let us aspire to translate this raw passion into action.
Editorial: Keep green space alive
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We hope that preserving, refining and expanding outdoor areas for both informal and formal activities will remain a main concern of the University. We hope a commitment to green space is reflected in future developments.
Editorial: Stanford wisdom on Iran
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Experts here at Stanford have made it clear that conflict with Iran would only strengthen Ahmadinejad’s tenuous hold on power and solidify the Iranian public’s tepid resolve to acquire nuclear weapons.
Editorial: End the Stigma on Mental Health
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When was the last time you sat down at the dinner table with your friends and had a frank discussion about mental health? It’s an unsaid fact that topics like depression and suicide are stigmatized on campus. To admit a problem with your mind — that great vehicle which got you into Stanford in the first place — is like admitting a personal failure.
Editorial: Commencement choice
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Celebrity isn’t everything. Give the man a chance.
Editorial: For open kitchens, accountability is key
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It’s hard not to wonder how kitchens with comparable board bills can differ so widely in quality.
Editorial: Stanford - A Corporate Beacon of Clapboard and Stucco
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When Leland Stanford opened the doors to his university in 1891, it was viewed as decisively different from its East Coast counterparts.
Editorial: Have some class, seniors
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Editorial: Reforming the honors system
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Reform of the honors system at Stanford will lead to a greater appreciation both of what it means to write a thesis and what it means to do exceptionally well in class.
Editorial: Aim high with public service
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While Stanford currently has a powerful public service community, we wish to encourage more students to get involved and those who are already participating to consider public service as more than a token extracurricular activity. Volunteering can and should be about more than simply making yourself look good.
Editorial: Global warming - Sooner than we think
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Even with all these weather headlines, the tragedy in New Orleans and the dire warnings of scientists, it is still sometimes difficult to relate to a problem that won’t start wreaking havoc for at least another 10 or 20 years.
Editorial: The imminent attack of technoyenta
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Rendezbook is a harbinger of technology actively negotiating human interactions. With online communities such as Facebook and MySpace, which receives more daily hits than Google, we have found a way to replace our disappearing tangible neighborhoods.
Editorial: What can Jack Bauer do for you?
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Whether you are a devoted longtime fan, or just getting into the series, it is important to pause and consider how FOX's 24 may influence the way audiences think about current events.
Editorial: Fishy business
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As open-minded students on a fairly eco-friendly campus, we tend to believe that we are doing everything in our power to promote environmental preservation.
Editorial: Reevaluating Fraga’s departure
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By chaining the conversation regarding Professor Fraga's impending departure to issues of race and diversity misses the point that we are losing a talented teacher when we already have a dearth of faculty who excel at maintaining a presence in the classroom.
Editorial: Scheduling sections can reduce chaos
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Choosing classes from the wide array of options available can be tricky, but the process is made much trickier by the existence of discussion sections. Many students don’t know if sections are offered, when they are offered and whether they are mandatory or optional.
Editorial: Ford Center expansion welcome
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The decision to upgrade the Ford Center (“Ford expansion approved,” Jan. 10) is a positive sign on several fronts.
Editorial: Cingular - Raising the (Non-Optional) Bar
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Due to a contract that Stanford has with AT&T/Cingular, cellular providers such as T-Mobile cannot offer service to campus.
Editorial: Harbaugh's challenge
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Both local and national media, including The Daily, were skeptical about Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby’s decision to hire Jim Harbaugh as the next Stanford football coach.
Editorial: The joy of a syllabus
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The Stanford Syllabus site is an excellent but underused resource for both professors and students.
Editorial: Sexual assault at Stanford
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Stanford needs to provide more comprehensive services, such as a PERK program, to victims of sexual assault.
Editorial: Mastering public policy?
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One of the most important curricular developments at Stanford this year was the Committee on Graduate Studies’ approval of a new master’s program in public policy, offering both a two-year Master of Public Policy (MPP) and a one-year Master of Arts in Public Policy (MAPP).
Editorial: Defending the Collegiate Press
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One week ago, an administrator at the University of Southern California (USC) blocked the re-election of Zach Fox to the post of editor in chief of the Daily Trojan, the campus’ student daily newspaper. As college journalists, we are deeply troubled by this decision.
Editorial: Bring back the band
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This weekend, the saddest loss at Big Game will not be our defeat to Cal, but the absence of the Stanford Band’s antics at halftime.
Editorial: This winter, give students a break
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In recent years, undergraduates have been kicked out of housing over winter break, and those who stayed on campus have had to sleep on mattresses strewn on the floor of Hammarskjold.
Editorial: Break the weekend cycle
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The average Stanford undergrad’s weekends are far too predictable. Students need to make a better effort to frequent cultural, quirky, or educational activities both on and off campus.
Editorial: The Stanford arts scene
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Stanford is renowned as a center of higher learning and world-class research, but its drama, music and art departments have long remained small and underfunded, and its arts scene has — until recently — been divided up among distinct student groups with no core community.
Editorial: Summer already?
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While fall quarter is just beginning to wrap up, next summer is already looming in the minds of many students. Yet even as the hype builds, there is no need to panic.
Editorial: The Big W
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One of Stanford’s most interesting academic options is the ability to withdraw from a class between the fourth and eighth week of the quarter.
Editorial: Rotation program for Ph. D students
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There are a few departments, such as applied physics, that have rotation policies allowing first-year graduate students to go through three labs during the course of the year before committing to one for the rest of their time at Stanford.
Editorial: Keeping up the rep
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One of the recent creeping trends of college life is the growth in the number of campus reps.
Editorial: IHUM would benefit from structural reform
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Though a significant number of students enjoy their IHUM experiences, many freshmen hate IHUM with a vengeance and are quite vocal about their hatred.
Editorial: A loophole in the housing system
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Before housing is assigned to returning students, it is generally first assigned to another type of student — the crafty or difficult student, depending on whom you ask.
Editorial: University should get alums online
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The University should consider extending benefits to Stanford graduates in an attempt to increase alumni participation.
Editorial: A step in the right direction
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The American people, and the world, woke up Wednesday morning with a new political landscape.
Editorial: Resuscitate common rooms
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The lounge is a vital aspect of Stanford residential housing. It is a place to socialize, have meetings, do homework and potentially have a party. Unfortunately, many common areas in Stanford dormitories are ill-equipped to provide students with anything except an open space.
Summary of Ballot positions
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Throughout the past week, The Daily’s Editorial Board took a stance on five of the propositions on this year’s ballot, as well as on the gubernatorial election.
Editorial: Go Vote!
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On the whole, students seem apathetic about the elections. This is a pity, because there are many important issues at stake.
Editorial: Vote Arnold for governor
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Unlike our national leaders, Schwarzenegger has generally been respectful of the voice of the people, and his conservative appeal presents a real opportunity to break the divisive stalemate on crucial issues like education policies and global warming.
Editorial: No on Prop. 89
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The Editorial Board urges readers to vote "no" on Prop. 89.
Editorial: Yes on Prop. 86
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The Editorial Board urges readers to vote yes on Prop. 86.
Editorial: No on Prop. 83
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Proposition 83 is a measure that could only pass as a referendum.
Editorial: Yes on Prop. 87
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The Editorial Board urges readers to vote yes on Prop 87.
Editorial: No on Prop. 85
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The Editorial Board urges readers to vote No on Prop 85.
Editorial: University should facilitate legal file sharing
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File sharing has been making big news in the US ever since the advent of Napster in June of 1999.
Editorial: Ethically unreasonable
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One year ago, the general education requirement “Education for Citizenship” was implemented to much fanfare. Today’s status of the requirement’s Ethical Reasoning option, however, is lackluster.
Editorial: Tobacco-funded research raises questions
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On September 20, the University of California’s board of regents discussed Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante’s proposal that funding from tobacco companies should no longer be accepted for research.
Editorial: Improving career counseling
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The Stanford Career Development Center (CDC) has done a good job in providing counseling, information and databases to help students decide on a career.
Editorial: Has ITSS gotten the message?
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A few weeks ago, when campus email started acting up again, Stanford Information and Technology Systems and Services (ITSS) spoke of it as an anomaly caused by unusually high message volumes.
Editorial: Women in higher ed - A constant struggle
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The same women who earn better grades, take more honors courses and complete more internships are dominated on the professional playing field by their male counterparts.
Editorial: The choice between “Fun” and “fun”
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Poor class of ‘06. They are destined to remain the only graduating class in over two decades that will not have seen a Mausoleum party during any of its four years.
Editorial: Economics department institutes new requirements, alienates students
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Editorial: Courses need to be offered regularly
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The current system of course offerings makes it difficult for us to plan our academic careers because course offerings can be unpredictable and erratic.
Editorial: A well-planned initiative
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The Stanford Challenge, an enormous fundraising campaign that President Hennessy announced on Tuesday, may look like the beginning of a sweeping new phase in the University’s development — a kind of coming-of-age, bringing Leland and Jane’s famous experiment into the 21st century.
Editorial: A well-planned initiative
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The Stanford Challenge, an enormous fundraising campaign that President Hennessy announced on Tuesday, may look like the beginning of a sweeping new phase in the University’s development
Editorial: Pub Night is back
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Stanford seniors can breathe a collective sigh of relief. After a brief hiatus Senior Night is back in business, with its traditional festivities kicking off around 10 p.m. tonight at a swanky night spot on California Ave.
Editorial: 5-Sure deserves additional funding
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Many students on campus are probably unaware of the Stanford United for Rape Elimination program.
Editorial: Revising advising
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Every year The Daily, the ASSU and individual students criticize the University’s academic advising programs — especially when it comes to freshman advising.
Editorial: Full Moon is waning
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As usual, Saturday’s Full Moon on the Quad involved a handful of arrests, hospital visits and sneaky Paly High students, but this time, something essential was missing.
No such thing as a free lunch
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Stanford Medical Center recently announced a new policy prohibiting doctors from accepting free drug samples or even small gifts from pharmaceutical sales representatives.
Time to bring back Course Guide
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University Registrar Roger Printup stated that Course Guide would be operational by winter quarter of last year. But now, nearly a year after the proposed revamping, the registrar has failed to live up to his promise to make the site available. On the contrary, Course Guide has gone from poorly functional to simply nonexistent.
Standing our ground
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It looks like Stanford just doesn’t know how to grab the headlines when it comes to admissions and financial aid.
University should justify new bike policy
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The bike ban mandated by the University and implemented by the Department of Public Safety has left students angry and confused.
Support the team
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We would like to focus on the one issue that was foremost in many Stanford minds over the weekend: the state of the football team.
Body image on The Farm: watch out for each other
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Stanford students are continually striving to improve.
More dining options and healthier food are needed
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our home kitchen, you should discover that the food here is actually pretty decent—that mystery meat from your high school cafeteria will not be resurfacing in the near future.
How does admissions really work at Stanford?
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In the next few weeks you will probably be meeting an overwhelming amount of different people - different because each one possesses such unique experiences, knowledge and talents from the next.
Student Apathy Debunked
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Those around during the 2006 Admit Weekend probably recall the frenzy created by President George Bush’s planned visit to campus on Friday Apr.
Make the music stop already
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Sure, Stanford?s laid back atmosphere played a mark in bringing many of us West, away from stodgy, stuffy and staid Ivies.
Run with it
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New Student Orientation (NSO) without Band Run — actually, Stanford without Band Run — would be like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the peanut butter.
The Edit Board review
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The Editorial Board often faces a dilemma when writing editorials. Whenever we publish a piece that is edgy and controversial, readers are quick to label it as sensationalistic and inflammatory.
Yahoo’s music service deserves another listen
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Last October, the Editorial Board was enthusiastic about the Yahoo!
Late Nite: a triumph for student advocacy
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At the start of this academic year, Stanford Dining made a commitment to keeping Stern Late Nite open seven days a week (“Stern Late Night serves on weekends,” Oct.
Should Dead Week really be dead?
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In the aftermath of the ASSU elections, the Editorial Board reminded all elected candidates that their mandate was not free or unconditional (“Campaign promises: Made to be broken?
Religious theme dorms: Why not?
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Daily humorist Chris Holt first broached the idea of having religious theme dorms on campus (“That’s not a housing solution?
Attend the town meeting on Iraq
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The quagmire lies not on the battlefields of Iraq, but within the hearts and minds of the American people. Three years since it began, the war in Iraq continues to rage on with no end in sight.
Religious encounter holds promise
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Recently, the Office for Religious Life invited applications for a new Fellowship for Religious Encounter. This fellowship offers up to 16 students a $1,000 stipend and an opportunity to enter into dialogue with each other about their own religious traditions.
Robberies should up student awareness
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The two armed robberies on campus have jolted Stanford students out of the Bubble. Because we are not located in a dangerous neighborhood like some of our peer institutions, we have come to take our safety for granted.
Long Live Exotic Erotic!
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Wander down Lomita Drive this Friday, past the Knoll and Florence Moore, down toward SAE and Kappa Sig, and you will witness a spectacle.
SLE rages against the dying of the light
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Every freshman can rally around the common hatred of IHUM. Everyone enjoys cracking jokes about Branner and passing snide remarks about faraway Freshman/Sophomore College.
The CDC: A woefully underused resource
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The Career Development Center (CDC) is a campus resource all students should be familiar with. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
ResEd’s policies fall short of the mark
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At many other universities, resident assistants serve more as hall monitors who serve citations and keep to themselves. But at Stanford, we have RAs who are our friends.
Follow your heart this summer
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As spring quarter comes to a close, most students are finalizing their summer plans. In high school, summer signified no homework and no worries, but its meaning is drastically different for college students.
Thanks for everything, Mom
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This Sunday is Mother’s Day. If you are reading this and realize that you forgot to get something for your mom, it’s not too late to send a Mother’s Day card or call over the weekend.
Admissions process should be clear
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Why are we here?
Luck of the Draw: Trading spaces?
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Recently, the Editorial Board has written several pieces on the spring housing lottery. We questioned the system of priority applications (“Luck of the Draw: A matter of priorities?
Luck of the Draw: What are its drawbacks?
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In yesterday’s editorial, the Editorial Board evaluated the proposed Housing Master Plan that University administrators have developed.
Housing's master plan
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The University’s plan for revamping the housing system — named the Housing Master Plan — finally seems to be underway (“Housing overhaul gains steam,” April 25).
Cardinal must continue to attract top talent
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The Stanford athlete is an oft maligned creature. Sure, they get more than their fair share of fame and glamour. But at the same time, athletes here are blamed for sporting defeats, ridiculed at Gaieties and ostracized in I-Hum sections.
What’s wrong with Stanford's body image?
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Day or night, rain or shine, you can always count on one thing — there will always be someone exercising on campus. Whether its weight training at Arrillaga, jogging around Lake Lag or the occasional yoga or kickboxing class, most Stanford students try to take time each day to stay healthy and in shape.
Research for the public
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Stanford is home to some of the world’s best researchers, but few students know about the projects faculty outside their fields are working on.
Don’t know much about history
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As we all know, Stanford is not an Ivy League university. But this means much more than geographical distance from Harvard and its ilk.
Luck of the Draw: A matter of priorities?
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Last Friday's deadline for priority applications only added to the general anxiety that surrounds the Draw. The annual spring housing lottery already creates enough tension and drama — priority applications further complicates the complex decision making process associated with the Draw.
Protest debunks myths about student apathy
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Last Friday’s mass protest surrounding President George W. Bush’s visit is a social phenomenon the likes of which Stanford has rarely seen, at least in recent memory.
End discrimination, honor the silence
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Today, the Stanford campus celebrates the National Day of Silence, during which the LGBT community and its allies literally adopt the forced silence that many have had imposed upon them.
New immigration plan appears pragmatic
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The latest attempt to a compromise in the Senate correctly recognizes that there is no one appropriate government response to illegal immigration.
Admit Weekend needs more focused planning
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Admit Weekend has come and gone — freshman dorms have lost half their population, sexually frustrated students have abandoned futile plans to hook up with ProFros and the alcohol can be put back in the fridge.
Revisiting the SOCC controversy
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Last Monday’s editorial (“The SOCC: A blight on the democratic process?
Taking concrete steps to save the environment
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Tomorrow is Earth Day — a day for the conservationists among us to celebrate the environment, a day for the apathetic to question whether throwing that soda can in the recycling bin is really going to save the Earth.
ProFros: Don't say we didn't warn you
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To the newly-admitted; To the Class of 2010 to-be; To the freshly-minted and the impressionable and the optimistic; To the 2400’s and the 4.