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July 12, 2022
Seo-Young Chu said she never received justice after being sexually abused by a Stanford Professor in 2000. After more than 20 years searching for accountability, and amid revelations of misconduct by Stanford professor Vincent Barletta, she is calling on Stanford to make a change.
May 26, 2016
Prompted by Kumar’s denial of tenure on March 30, “What is Intellectual History?” questioned Stanford’s commitment to global intellectual history.
Feb. 16, 2016
After nearly calling it quits three times throughout the TreeHacks, all-sophomore team Recon was awarded "Most Technically Challenging Project" for their search and delivery hacks on consumer drones at the end of the weekend. The award was one of the three hackathon final prizes.
By Irene Hsu
Dec. 10, 2015
Poet Dana Gioia ’73 MBA ’77, was appointed Poet Laureate of California by Governor Jerry Brown on Dec. 5. During his two-year term, Gioia will serve as an advocate for the education and practice of poetry by giving public readings, educating civic and state leaders and bringing poetry to students less acquainted with the arts through a cultural project.
By Irene Hsu
Nov. 24, 2015
Ertharin Cousin, the twelfth Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, came to campus Nov. 20 as part of the Freeman Spogli Institute’s Food and Nutrition Policy Symposium Series, giving a talk about “Food and nutrition security in an era of conflict and climate change.”
By Irene Hsu
Nov. 20, 2015
Jason Mayden, a native of Chicago’s South Side and former global design director for Nike’s Jordan Brand, faced 44 East Palo Alto residents the morning of Nov. 14. They ranged from elementary school students to adults, most of whom had never worked with code before -- until that weekend.
By Irene Hsu
Jan. 20, 2015
Annual Asian American issues conference Listen to the Silence (LTS) saw an increased number of attendees this past Saturday. This event is the largest event of the year hosted by Stanford Asian American Students’ Association (AASA). This year, the theme of LTS was “Towards Healing: Letting Go, Lifting Up,” centralized around “anger as a process of healing,” according to this year’s mission statement.
By Irene Hsu
Oct. 9, 2014
One mishap had led to the next—first, a delayed Caltrain, then, an inexperienced Lyft driver—but we were here. Irene and I raced up the stairs, bypassed the refreshments stand and thrust open the doors to the sanctuary—and there stood Damien Rice, crooning “Greatest Bastard” under the sweeping frescoes of San Francisco’s Congregation Sherith Israel.
Oct. 1, 2014
Reality is merely an illusion, as Einstein said, but illusion is merely a reality, as Bay Area artists Betsy Kendall and Larry Morace show. Their works are part of a current Stanford Art Spaces (SAS) exhibit open until Oct. 31. Their works are on display in the CIS building, several rooms in Jordan Hall, and the second and third floors of David W. Packard Electrical Engineering.
By Irene Hsu
Oct. 30, 2014
Triple CCRMAlite reopened our ears to music. It was a reminder that music could be as simple as the static popping of applause, that all we had to do was listen a little harder to the wind swirling in our ears and to the clinking of bottles at the dining table, to be reminded that elements of music are all around us — that music is what we make of it.
By Irene Hsu
Aug. 29, 2014
FYF Fest held its 11th annual music festival this past weekend at Los Angeles State Historic Park.
April 30, 2014
“Sinful,” “voluptuous” and “sexy” are all words used to describe the food at expensive restaurants while “addicting,” “crack” and “drug” are used to describe the food at cheaper restaurants, according to a paper published by Professor of Linguistics Dan Jurafsky and several other professors from Carnegie Mellon University.
By Irene Hsu
April 21, 2014
Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” is about a utopian community whose happiness depends on the suffering of one child. Every year, the community is informed of the child — and every year, while the rest of the community is able to come to terms with the atrocity, some members leave the utopia.
By Irene Hsu
April 24, 2014
To take a better look at the different special interest fraternities on campus, The Daily sat down with officers from three different fraternities: Alpha Chi Sigma, Alpha Phi Omega and Alpha Delta Phi.
By Irene Hsu
March 5, 2014
Stand-up comedian Tig Notaro performed last night in Cubberley Auditorium to a full audience. Her show featured audience interaction towards the second half and was followed by a Q&A session moderated by Dan Klein '91, instructor of improvisation.
By Irene Hsu
July 15, 2014
For band like Paper Void in a place like Stanford, it isn’t far-fetched to refer to the project as “entrepreneurial” or “like a startup.”
By Irene Hsu
May 8, 2014
The story of Paper Void’s creation began in the summer of 2013 when guitarist Gavin Leeper ‘13 M.S.’14 completed the Jazz Guitar Intensive at the Jazz School at Berkeley.
By Irene Hsu
Feb. 11, 2014
The Stanford Arts Institute will host an Art In Your Dorm program for the entire campus in March 2014, allowing students to showcase their artwork and participate in workshops as part of the University’s growing efforts to support the arts.
By Irene Hsu
Feb. 4, 2014
Sigma Nu and Kappa Kappa Gamma co-hosted the fifth annual Snowchella benefit concert on Feb. 1, raising more than $5,000 to assist HIV/AIDS charity Support for International Change (SIC).
By Irene Hsu
