Stanford alumnus Dana Gioia appointed Poet Laureate of California Irene Hsu December 10, 2015 0 Comments Poet Dana Gioia ’73 MBA ’77, was appointed Poet Laureate of California by Governor Jerry Brown on Dec. 5. During his two-year term, Gioia will serve as an advocate for the education and practice... Read More »
Student athletes balance sports and academics Pascale Elisabeth Eenkema van Dijk December 9, 2015 1 Comment Stanford student athletes have a lot to manage with 20 hours per week of practice, weight training, conditioning and games -- plus the normal academic requirements of any other student. Though... Read More »
Madeleine Lippey ’18 leads sexual assault prevention initiatives Deepti Kannan December 8, 2015 0 Comments Madeleine Lippey '18 has surveyed students and found a lack of adequate sex education. She hopes to fill that gap with student-led conferences and prevention education initiatives. Read More »
CS office hours adapt to LaIR relocation Blanca Andrei December 7, 2015 0 Comments This quarter, LaIR hours (LaIR), or office hours for the introductory CS 106 classes, were relocated from the Tresidder LaIR to the second floor of Old Union. Students feel that the relocation to Old... Read More »
Q&A with Amr Hamzawy, visiting scholar at CDDRL Michael May December 7, 2015 0 Comments Amr Hamzawy is a visiting scholar at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and an associate professor of political science at Cairo University. Before arriving at... Read More »
Classy Classes: LAW 116N addresses policy issues in today’s society Hannah Knowles December 6, 2015 1 Comment In LAW 116N: “Guns, Drugs, Abortion, and Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy,” students learn to disentangle fact from fiction in some of society’s most controversial policy issues. Read More »
Greek life tackles sexual assault Yael Lederman December 6, 2015 0 Comments In 2011, students from a fraternity at the University of Vermont circulated an email with the subject line “who do you want to rape list?” In 2010, Delta Kappa Epsilon members at Yale paraded... Read More »
Police blotter: Nov. 18 – Dec. 1 Blanca Andrei December 3, 2015 0 Comments This report covers a selection of incidents from Nov. 18 to Dec. 1 as recorded in the Stanford Department of Public Safety bulletin. Read More »