09 Nov, 2024
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San Francisco’s robotaxis drive debates amongst college students and college

San Francisco metropolis officers and residents are divided on whether or not they need to permit robotic taxis to function throughout daytime. Autonomous automotive corporations Waymo and Cruise insist that their vehicles are secure sufficient — however some college students and college are apprehensive. The California Public Utilities Fee votes Aug. 10 on a referendum […]

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SLS college analyze Supreme Court docket determination to strike affirmative motion

Stanford Legislation professors held a panel to debate the historical past of the affirmative motion course of and emphasised the necessity for a complete strategy that goes past race-based affirmative motion to make sure equal alternatives and a richly various instructional expertise for all college students. “This ruling, though not surprising, has attracted extraordinary consideration, […]

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Billionaires, school and donors headline Doerr College’s new advisory council

The Doerr College of Sustainability introduced a 22-member advisory council on Tuesday, composed of researchers, billionaires and a single Stanford pupil. In response to the announcement, the advisory council can be co-chaired by John Doerr — the enterprise capitalist who donated $1.1 billion to the varsity in 2022 — and former College president John Hennessy. […]

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College students and school really feel CSRE program stretched skinny, name for departmentalization

Final yr, the Heart for Comparative Research in Race and Ethnicity (which helps run the CSRE applications) was given the inexperienced mild and funds by the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences to rent an affiliate director for 3 of its applications. This place was created to foster neighborhood among the many varied tutorial applications in […]

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Navigating the Institutional Freeway: college on approaching politics at Stanford

Many college students did protest towards the College’s ties to Vietnam, doing all the pieces from shutting down the Utilized Electronics Laboratory to blocking site visitors to the SRI. The Vietnam Warfare demonstrated the facility directors, college and college students all have in setting the tone for his or her campus on urgent points. However […]

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From the Neighborhood | The School Senate’s shortsighted Honor Code energy seize

I used to be considerably disenchanted when the Undergraduate Senate (UGS) declined to undertake the C-12’s well-considered Honor Code revisions, which might have allowed examination proctoring below the auspices of a examine. As a five-time TA throughout three departments, I personally see no worth to the Honor Code’s prohibition on proctoring. However my disappointment with […]

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From the Neighborhood | College Senate decides to take us again to 1955

Final Thursday, the College Senate handed a decision which begins: “The College Senate finds that the present mechanisms are inadequate to make sure the tutorial integrity of our diploma applications and, consistent with the Articles of Group of the Tutorial Council, re-assumes last accountability for the upkeep of educational integrity.” That to me is a […]

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Editorial Board | The School Senate has damaged undergraduate belief

On April 28, the School Senate authorized modifications to the glory code to permit examination proctoring starting subsequent educational yr. The choice overrode objections from the Undergraduate Senate and would enable proctoring at Stanford for the primary time since 1921. The Editorial Board stands in opposition to dishonest, and we wish to acknowledge that Stanford […]

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From the Group | What directors and college ought to find out about graduate pupil unions

I learn with curiosity the e-mail that the President and Provost despatched to the Stanford neighborhood with regard to the efforts of Stanford graduate college students to unionize. Sadly, it accommodates some primary misunderstandings concerning this exercise. I’m penning this piece as a result of I imagine that if Stanford goes to maneuver towards a […]