Historic drought conditions and warm weather have put much of the state at increased risk for wildfires. The best way to protect yourself from smoke is to stay indoors.

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The staffing vacancies are the latest challenge as Stanford rushes to implement ResX, an overhaul of residential life.

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Though restrictions to outdoor spaces will be relaxed, access to buildings and other facilities will still be carefully controlled. The precautions are necessary as more faculty, staff, postdocs and students return to campus in-person, the announcement said.

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Eliminating Residence Dean and Community Director positions will result in layoffs, but a Student Affairs spokesperson declined to specify how many or if all current RDs would be fired.

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Fall quarter will include flexible work opportunities for staff employees, involving onsite, hybrid and fully remote work.

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Former sailing coach John Vandemoer tells his side of the college admissions scandal in the new Netflix documentary “Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal."

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Stanford will proceed with plans to bring juniors and seniors back to campus for spring quarter, according to an announcement sent to students on Thursday.

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Many specifics remain up in the air ahead of ResX's planned fall implementation. The Daily sat down with Vice Provost for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Sarah Church to find out more.

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Neighborhoods would divide the campus into eight to 10 clusters of varying residence types that students would be assigned to before the start of their frosh year.

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One day after announcing that 43 students on campus have tested positive, Stanford has canceled plans to bring frosh and sophomores to campus for winter quarter. If you were planning to move to campus starting Jan. 21, you may have to change your plans. So what are your options?

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Undergraduate resident assistants and undergraduates with approved special circumstances — who have been moving in over the last few days — are allowed to stay on campus.

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Stanford says that the overall positivity rate in student testing programs remains “low.” Students are tested twice upon arrival to campus — with the option to be tested through a mailed kit before coming — and then tested twice weekly. The positive tests “are a reminder of the importance of testing,” according to the University.

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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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While Monday’s announcement was the most significant yet, the University has repeatedly reaffirmed its plan to invite students to campus for the winter quarter in spite of rising case counts in recent weeks. Stanford originally planned to bring frosh and sophomores back to campus in the fall, but ultimately reversed its decision.

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Campus support for former Vice President Joe Biden started out lukewarm, with many students preferring other contenders for the Democratic nomination. But President Trump’s 2016 election was met with anger, fear and anxiety on Stanford’s campus, and Stanford affiliates and the Trump administration have repeatedly clashed since then.

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According to six students, the zoom-bombers entered the MATH 19 Zoom lecture around 10 minutes before the class was slated to end. One student said they witnessed up to three people enter the lecture, while others reported seeing only one. One intruder set their background to a pornographic video while loudly moaning.

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The executive director of Stanford’s Biomedical Informatics (BMI) Program, Henri “Jaap” Suermondt ’87 M.S. ’89 Ph.D. ’92, was arrested and charged with multiple felonies including aggravated sexual assault of a minor under 14 years old. He was booked on July 19 and no bail is allowed, according to a county website. Upon learning on July 20 of his arrest, Stanford immediately placed Suermondt on unpaid leave and relieved him of all his duties, according to a Stanford Medicine spokesperson.

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While the current fall quarter plan to have frosh, sophomores and first-year transfers in residence (and to run a limited number of in-person classes) is tentatively still in place, the University acknowledged that, considering the worsening circumstances surrounding COVID-19, those plans might have to be rolled back. The University expects to reach a decision in “mid- to late August.”

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Tessier-Lavigne published his letter to the acting secretary of homeland security expressing “strong opposition to this order.”

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“The events of recent weeks following the murder of George Floyd have made us all painfully aware of the shameful legacy of anti-Black racism and how it endures in our communities and our country,” University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne wrote. “Unfortunately, our campus is not immune from such pernicious forces.”

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Frosh and sophomores will be invited back to campus during the fall and summer quarters, while juniors and seniors will be allowed back for the winter and spring quarters, according to an announcement made Monday afternoon by Vice Provost for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Sarah Church.

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Rep. Joseph Kennedy III B.S. ’03 (D-Mass.) announced in a Facebook live held last Thursday that he had disaffiliated from his Stanford fraternity, Kappa Alpha (KA) last year.

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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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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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