Senate leaves office with mixed record
As the 14th ASSU Undergraduate Senate leaves office, many of the body’s accomplishments are some that a majority of students may already take for granted.
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Al Gore calls on audience to reclaim “hacked” democracy
Former Vice President Al Gore pulled no punches in a 45-minute speech at Memorial Auditorium on Tuesday evening, calling on students to “change the conversation” around climate change and reclaim a democracy that has been “hacked” by the wealthy and special interests.
The Best of Coachella
With Coachella 2013 having just come to an end, The Daily sat down with Stanford students in attendance to get the inside scoop on celebrities, tent shortages, lightning machines and, of course, the music.
Ashton/Gallagher elected as ASSU Executive
Dan Ashton ’14 and Billy Gallagher ’14 have been elected as the 2013-14 ASSU Executive after two rounds of balloting, beating out Najla Gomez ’14 and Elizabeth Patino ’14.
Adam Johnson, professor of English, wins fiction Pulitzer
Adam Johnson, associate professor of english, has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel “The Orphan Master’s Son,” a story set in North Korea under Kim Jong-Il. The Pulitzer Prizes, which were announced Monday morning, are awarded annually to the best in American arts and journalism.
ASSU elections see higher grad student turnout
While graduate student voter turnout increased slightly this year compared to 2012, fourteen graduate students were elected to Graduate Student Council (GSC) seats in this year’s ASSU elections, with the Graduate School of Business (GSB)’s seat still pending because of a five-way tie — with one write-in vote each — for first place.
Policy debate team revitalized by new coach
Stanford’s policy debate team turned some heads at the 67th National Debate Tournament (NDT) as a freshman-sophomore team led by a new full-time policy coach entered the elimination rounds as the 22nd best team in the country.
School of Medicine’s Shapiro and CISAC’s Drell receive National Medal of Science
Lucy Shapiro, a biology professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, and Sidney Drell, professor emeritus at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, were honored by President Barack Obama in the White House today as recipients of “America’s Nobel Prize”– the National Medal of Science.