“From Yaad to Yard” is a bi-weekly column where Breanna Burke, a Jamaican international student at Stanford, shares her unique experiences navigating life on the Farm. Through reflections on culture, identity and…
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A drink for your vote: StanfordVotes partners with On Call Cafe
Picture this: you’re walking to On Call Cafe on a Tuesday night. You hear the bustling music and see the iconic yellow flag. While you take a right, you suddenly hear a…
California bans legacy admissions preferences at Stanford, other private universities
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed state Assembly Bill (AB) 1780 into law Monday, banning the practice of preferential admissions for legacy and donor students at private California universities, including Stanford University. “In California,…
Stanford community shares concerns over Gov. Newsom’s homelessness policy
As of 2023, 28% of the nation’s homeless population resided in California, garnering nationwide media attention for what many have deemed a homelessness crisis. Through a July executive order, Gov. Gavin Newsom…
The neuroscience of campus memories
I woke up in the middle of the night, as I always do in the first days after flying back from the other end of the world, and left my room with…
Bill to end legacy admissions passes assembly
A bill to prohibit legacy and donor admissions preferences at private universities passed the California State Assembly Tuesday — an important victory for opponents of the practice. Assembly Bill (AB) 1780 has…
Oscillations of life
Passing by the Stanford Art Gallery, I tried to recall the last time I had visited this place. The doors of the gallery were open, making me feel like I was supposed…
A postcard from Ribka’s bedroom: Things I didn’t know in Autumn
“A Postcard from Ribka’s Bedroom” delivers truths — harsh and kind. Can a truth even be harsh, kind, subjective or objective, Ribka Desta asks. As she pens in her postcards, perhaps it…
California math matters: Stanford looks into complaints on professor Jo Boaler
An anonymous complaint filed with Stanford on March 20 accused math education professor Jo Boaler of engaging in “reckless disregard for accuracy” in both her individual work and her work on the…
Dear Diary: The pink house
Dear Diary, I saw it. A pink house. The middle child, squeezed between strangers whose walls whisper to damp cotton skies and khaki-coloured trench coats in a department store. A pink house….