Opinion
Letter from the Editor: Meals
Pricey reader, I’m penning this letter from Stanford’s examine overseas program in Florence, which is to say: for the previous a number of weeks, I’ve had gelato practically each day. Meals, I suppose, has been prime of thoughts for causes past the theme of this journal. In spite of everything, meals are sacred in Italy. […]
From the Group | A word on tutorial freedom and institutional orthodoxy
There was an excessive amount of dialog in our neighborhood just lately over a movement launched within the School Senate. A number of articles have appeared in The Stanford Every day, and tensions had been excessive on the School Senate assembly on Could 11. Transferring anecdotes have been shared in response to the suggestion that […]
Editorial Board | Don’t make Stanford the following Berkeley
The way forward for racial variety in greater training at the moment hangs within the stability. Like many authorized consultants, we anticipate that the Supreme Court docket will declare race-based affirmative motion unconstitutional with their selections in College students for Honest Admissions v. College of North Carolina and, extra pertinently for Stanford, College students for […]
From the Group | Doerr College confuses wealth and fame for management and information
What group of individuals is greatest positioned to advise a brand new faculty of sustainability? On June fifth, we received Stanford administration’s reply. The Doerr College’s Dean introduced the varsity’s Advisory Council’s new membership. The Council now counts 22 members, over half of whom are both billionaires or their spouses, and half of whom are […]
From the Group | Shared Governance
I used to be happy to see that the Provostial Search Committee had illustration from the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral scholar communities. I used to be one of many voices calling for that illustration. On the threat of being accused of transferring the goalposts, I do take concern with how the choice occurred. On the […]
From the Group | After demise threats towards its Vietnamese group, Stanford stayed silent.
Content material warning: This message references anti-Asian violence/racial violence. Earlier this quarter, a person was discovered and detained on campus after threatening to enact violence towards Stanford’s Vietnamese group. After posting a sequence of on-line threats and racially charged feedback towards Stanford’s Vietnamese college students, the person bodily confirmed up on campus — and was […]
From the Neighborhood | That Good day Spirit
We don’t have to let you know will we? Since you really feel it — each time you stroll round with out your shut mates or with out your AirPods in. Do you are feeling welcome in every single place on campus? Do you are feeling like Stanford has a powerful sense of group? Universities […]
From the Group | A parable of educational freedom
Pricey Prof. Berk, Along with Prof. Lipsick, I introduced earlier than the School Senate, in its Could 11 session, the decision that requires the dissolution of the ties between our College and Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Mercer. I really feel obliged to reply to your criticism of our decision within the op-ed printed in The […]
From the Neighborhood | SEIU 2007 helps Stanford Graduate Employees Union
Our Union, SEIU 2007, has represented greater than 1200 Stanford staff since 1970. We proudly help the Stanford Graduate Employees Union marketing campaign to unionize graduate pupil staff. The continuing points they face, together with lower-than-living wages, spiraling healthcare prices and intensely excessive housing costs, are the identical points that confront all of our SEIU […]
Editorial Board | MTL is abusing the idea of Educational Freedom
President Marc Tessier-Lavigne expressed uncommon fervor in regards to the Hoover Establishment when a number of members of the School Senate proposed a decision earlier this month to take away Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Mercer’s positions on Stanford’s Hoover Board of Overseers. The transfer could be purely symbolic, for the reason that School Senate doesn’t […]