From the community | What should a university stand for?
In a recent article, a former provost lamented the loss in our university and society of “the ability to disagree,…
Category: Opinion
Editorial Board | Giving thanks at Stanford
I have three midterms this week. I slept two hours last night. Coffee doesn’t do anything for me anymore. We’ve…
Editorial Board | Revive Stanford’s student publications
Imagine it’s a sunny day at Stanford in 2018. You wake up and check your phone to see the latest…
An open letter to Jewish students at Stanford University
We write to you as Stanford Jewish alumni who have been closely monitoring with great concern the discourse on campus…
From the community | What Stanford has lost
As I walk around campus reading chalked messages and posters, and as I read The Stanford Daily, the Stanford Report…
From the community | Stanford must respect fellows’ right to unionize
On April 26, in a letter to the community, former President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and former provost Persis Drell wrote to…
Uplift undergraduate voices in the VPUE search
I am cautiously looking forward to the formation of the search committee tasked to find the University’s next Vice Provost…
From the Community | On radical pro-Palestinian voices on campus
These past three weeks have been, for me, the most stressful and painful weeks since I came to Stanford with…
From the Community | Denying the history of settler-colonialism only perpetuates suffering in Israel and Palestine
Coming of age as a Jewish-American adolescent in the late 1980s, I had seen the U.S. media coverage of the…
Editorial Board | Keeping Stanford’s speech free
Stanford is again in newspaper headlines. Most notably, The New York Times recently published a column titled “The War Comes…