How well has Stanford managed COVID-19 compared to its peers? The Daily examined seven other institutions to compare their COVID-19 responses.

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On Thursday, Harvard president Lawrence Bacow issued a belated apology to Stanford professor emeritus Terry Karl for the sexual harassment she endured at Harvard in the 1980s.

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Instead of designating Election Day as a campus-wide holiday, the current resolution urges faculty members to “support civic engagement and reflection by students” by cancelling classes and recording lectures on Election Day. It also instructs the Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policy and the Committee on Graduate Studies to make a recommendation about whether national election days should be designated academic holidays in the future.

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The letter requested a response to seven questions, which ask for specific information about diversity. These range from whether Stanford has an equal opportunity statement about manager selection, to the amount of diverse-owned firms involved in the endowment.

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Mià Bahr ’22, an incumbent Undergraduate Senate member running for reelection this week, apologized on Friday for past anti-Israel tweets that the Stanford College Republicans (SCR) publicized on its Facebook page on Thursday.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton, a longtime civil rights activist, called on Stanford to release a report on the diversity of its endowment managers in a letter to University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne on April 29.

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Stanford was slated to receive almost $7.4 million in aid from the federal government through the CARES Act, which allocates nearly $14 billion to support higher education institutions during COVID-19 pandemic.

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An effort to catalogue historical assets in Stanford's San Juan residential district has raised questions about whether the University should prioritize affordability or history.

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They discussed swing-state coverage of the presidential election, voter suppression, fake news and distrust of the media.

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Located in the southeast corner of Stanford’s campus, Bing Nursery School teaches undergraduate students about child development through seminars, observation opportunities and hands-on experiences and provides a laboratory setting for research in child development. The Daily took a closer look at the history and institutional development of research at Bing.

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As part of an effort to more closely examine the relationship between academia and industry at Stanford, The Daily looked into Stanford’s Industrial Affiliates program, which facilitates a direct connection between university research and private corporations.

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LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and former U.S. chief data scientist DJ Patil gathered for the afternoon plenary session and discussed the importance of ethical decision-making in data management in the era of AI technology.  The two technologists, in conversation with Hoover Institution fellow Amy Zegart, shared visions for ethical education, concerns for data privacy and…

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“AI, Ain’t I a woman?” Tech ethics researcher Joy Buolamwini opened her talk with a 21st-century twist on a quote from Sojourner Truth, one of the most powerful advocates of abolitionist movement.  She then displayed a video showing facial recognition software failing to correctly identify the gender of notable African-American women, like Ida B. Wells,…

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In September, former Stanford math professor and ex-Google researcher Jack Poulson called on HAI to disinvite keynote speaker Eric Schmidt. In a letter co-signed by more than 40 former Google researchers, professors and tech activists, Poulson accused Schmidt of ethical misconduct during his time as CEO of Google.  HAI defended its decision to invite Schmidt,…

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Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Susan Athey Ph.D. ’95 and MIT Sloan professor Erik Brynjolfsson spoke about the effect of artificial intelligence on the economy.  Brynjolfsson remarked that “there’s no economic law that is everyone is going to benefit from all of these [technical] challenges; it’s possible for many people to have been left…

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Speaking to a crowd of 900 people on Monday morning, computer science professor Fei-Fei Li and former Provost John Etchemendy kicked off this fall’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) conference focused on “Ethics, Policy and Governance.”  The “ultimate goal of AI should be to enhance and augment our humanity, not to diminish or replace it,” Li…

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Board of Trustees Chair Jeff Raikes ’80 relayed the University’s commitment to affirming international collaboration in research and provided an update on the Board’s review of Fossil Free Stanford’s petition for divestment from large oil and gas corporations, in a Tuesday briefing on the Board’s first meeting of the year.

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A petition to instate Chanel Miller’s memoir “Know My Name” as one of next year’s Three Books has accumulated 776 signatures from the Stanford community, as of Monday. Spearheaded by Professor David Palumbo-Liu, the campaign hopes to honor Miller’s voice and identity, while also bringing awareness of her story to incoming freshmen and the broader Stanford community.

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