Professors Lawrence Zaroff and Allen Weiner and student group Stanford Organizing Committee for the Arts (SOCA) received highly prestigious honors from the ASSU last week.
The ASSU awards are the only student-nominated teaching awards, said ASSU Awards Commission Co-Chair Mondaire Jones, a freshman.
In deliberations that took “many hours” and “several rounds of deliberations,” the Commission selected [...]

Bioethics is a field largely condemned to the backburner of scientific thought, often overshadowed by more eye-catching technological advancements. But thanks to prominent pioneers like Stanford’s David Magnus, whose daily dealings with life-and-death decisions with critical patients has received national attention, the field has recently entered the spotlight.
“[Bioethics] is a multidisciplinary field with people from [...]

“It is time for you to settle down and begin thinking about your future. You have led a very carefree, idle, happy life up to the present — the life of a child. But it is time now to put away childish things and take on adult responsibilities. We would all like to sail through [...]

I almost didn’t write this column. I didn’t want to subject my editors to more suffering, since I knew exactly what they were going through. But as both of them seemed to be holding up well, even after I ran away from their job four months ago glad that I had suckered someone into taking [...]

I just retired my fifth pocket-sized notebook in two years. This one was the color of kelp, measured four inches by three, and for the last six months rested cozily in my back-right pants pocket. The spinecover peeled off two months ago, and the Japanese manufacturer’s italicized promise — “Most advanced quality! Gives best writing [...]

There are two things that I really learned in college — how to parallel park and how to lie, mostly to myself. I am now a master parallel parker. I can back my CRV into a space that a Tercel shouldn’t fit into, even on a massive San Francisco hill. This is one real-world skill [...]

If you count the hours I’ve spent at the office, at Sunken Diamond, and in my room slaving on my computer, it is entirely possible that I’ve spent more time working for The Daily than I have spent on school (Don’t tell my parents). And now, at the end of it all, I almost wonder [...]

As I’m hopping through fountains with my dorm on the first night of Freshman Orientation, I’m feeling pretty awkward. I am in my swimsuit, running alongside some girl whose name I’ve forgotten, even though she just told it to me minutes ago. Ahead of me, my RAs are leading the mob of eager freshmen, soaking [...]

As the year approached its close, our intrepid quasi-vegetarian culinary critics sought out a final destination for their Daily dining: the 750. What with Liebner becoming a sketchy grad student next year, and Louk sure to return to graduate school in a year or two, the dining duo figured it was time to transition from [...]

Ten weeks isn’t a very long time to make your mark on something. That was all the time I had in Oxford and, by the end, it looked like I was going out “The Hollow Men” route, not with a bang but a whimper. I spent my time reading plays and books in cafes and [...]