As the executive team, we’re hoping to make progress on two fronts: improving our digital presence and promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in our coverage and among our staff.

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The two-week program will offer incoming frosh from backgrounds underrepresented in journalism the chance to work one on one with editors before the school year starts.

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This summer, we’ll be reaching out to members of the community to have one-on-one conversations about how we can better report on Stanford.

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This week marks one year since Stanford students left campus due to the pandemic. The Daily collected photos taken by students from around March 2020 and revisited those locations one year later to recreate the photos. Below are selected highlights of Stanford campus taken this March.

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The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team is tasked with spearheading the push to improve diversity and equity within the paper’s newsroom, as well as supporting The Daily's community outreach effort.

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The pandemic sent many queer students who were able to be out at Stanford back into the closet. This is how they're doing one year later.

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Only seven of about 5,000 doses in Stanford Medicine’s first wave of COVID-19 vaccinations were allocated to its front-line residents and fellows.

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Rice, whose time at Stanford was characterized by service and activism, worked closely with Biden during the Obama administration as the ambassador to the United Nations and later as the national security advisor.

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About 60 of the 80 workers laid off by campus contract service UG2 did not receive pay continuation over the summer, according to Service Employees International Union (SEIU) leadership.

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The ultimate rejection and winding nature of the cases’ trajectory exemplify difficulties students face in pursuing sexual violence cases, according to students and faculty.

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Ambulance services will replace police in transporting “most” students to an emergency room who are on a 5150 hold, according to a Tuesday Student Affairs message.

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Stanford has until Jan. 1, 2022 to align its sexual violence policies and procedures with the “common-sense” provisions of SB 493, a piece of legislation aimed at addressing sexual violence at California universities.

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Stanford Missed Connections posted an anonymous message Monday night alleging that Stanford told The Daily in a statement that it was unlikely most students would return to campus during the 2020-21 academic year. Neither The Daily nor the University have any knowledge of such a message.

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Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE) also raised the prospect of moving the location of its food pantry pop-ups closer to Escondido Village Graduate Residences (EVGR), and the Council discussed graduate student retirement plans.

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Dozens of Stanford students, faculty and alumni called on Santa Clara County to conduct a review of educational institutions’ sexual violence policies at the county’s board of supervisors meeting on Tuesday night.

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“The number of students planning to live on campus was much lower than expected,” wrote Assistant Vice Provost for Residential Education Cheryl Brown in a Tuesday email, notifying the seven students who had been slated to fill staff positions in Mirrielees that their staff roles would not be honored for fall quarter.

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Stanford will permanently lay off 208 workers and furlough 30 more in light of the University’s “serious budgetary challenges,” wrote Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne in a Wednesday email to the campus community.

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Only 56.4% of East Palo Alto residents had completed the census as of June 6. To increase the city's response rate, community organizations like Nuestra Casa and One East Palo Alto are conducting outreach to hard-to-count communities.

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Stanford’s Student Title IX Investigation & Hearing Process (Student Title IX Process) outlines the University’s policies and process in reviewing and adjudicating sexual violence allegations made against students. The policy has been criticized by students and faculty on multiple grounds, including those surrounding counseling, attorney time, the definition of sexual assault and expulsions.

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Several female School of Medicine faculty blame a culture of sexual harassment and sexism for what they say is an inadequate University response to allegations ranging from inappropriate touching to inaccurate, career-undermining rumors.

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This non-exhaustive timeline compiles just some of the events occurring in the last ten years which make up Stanford’s history with sexual assault and Title IX.

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The Undergraduate Senate discussed five pieces of legislation, ranging from one calling on the University to implement a universal pass in classes to one calling for a comment period on Title IX policy changes, at its Tuesday meeting. The Senate also elected Emily Nichols ’23 as communications chair.

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Former Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) President Erica Scott ’20 and Vice President Isaiah Drummond ’20 highlighted contributions from various bodies of the ASSU in improving campus affordability and equity in their End of Term Report, which was released on Wednesday.

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The Undergraduate Senate unanimously approved a resolution condemning police violence on and off campus at its Tuesday meeting. The Senate also elected its Faculty Senate representative, treasurer, appropriations chair, parliamentarian and appropriations committee members.

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