The Jan. 13 meeting of City Council was a response to the new state laws, as council-members unanimously voted to do away with a host of previous requirements for new construction or renovation of ADUs.

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Stanford students and community members marched at White Plaza on Saturday to protest campus rape culture and show solidarity for global womxn’s issues.

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In the wake of last week’s defacement of the historic University AME Zion Church in Palo Alto with anti-religious messages, local police have increased patrols of religious buildings, and the historically Black church has hosted a special Solidarity Sunday service to address the incident.

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Kenneth Taylor, the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy died unexpectedly in his home on Tuesday.

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Reports of druggings have required mandatory alerts to the community under the Jeanne Clery Act. The Daily looked into how exactly these Clery Act AlertSUs work.

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The Stanford Federal Credit Union is receiving national media attention for its partnership with Google’s quiet new financial technology project — Google Cache checking accounts. The new checking accounts will roll out in 2020.

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Despite the withdrawal of the General Use Permit application, the University is moving ahead with its plans to develop 27 faculty homes and three parcels for affordable housing units in Portola Valley on 75 acres off of Alpine Road.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency on Sunday as the raging Kincade and Tick fires have wreaked havoc in Sonoma and Los Angeles counties, collectively torching tens of thousands of acres and displacing more than 100,000 people.

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According to a Campus Security Authority, one of the individuals who suspected that they were drugged underwent a drug test at Stanford Hospital, which came back negative.

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A female student tested positive for a date-rape drug on Friday after losing consciousness at a party on the Row Thursday night, Stanford Police announced in an AlertSU notification sent early Saturday morning. It is unclear exactly where the incident occurred.

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U.S. District Judge Beth Freeman of San Jose has dismissed Stanford’s challenge of a Santa Clara County housing ordinance requiring 16% of units on residential developments on University land be reserved for affordable housing at a below-market rate.

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Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) announced Monday and Tuesday that it will impose a new wave of public safety power shutoffs on Wednesday and Thursday in areas of high fire risk across 30 counties across northern and central California, affecting up to 800,000 customers.

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A Stanford drop-out achieved widespread renown not in the startup scene or through sports championships but in bookstores and libraries across America. John Steinbeck, who died in 1968, attended the University on and off for six years beginning in 1919, before leaving without a degree.

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The project’s arrival comes amid renewed calls for Stanford to place a quote selected by Miller on a plaque at the site.

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PAUSD’s decision to settle without admitting culpability brings an end to a yearlong legal fight over an alleged sexual assault case that has rocked the Palo Alto's Gunn High School.

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“The skills of humanities thinking are less quantifiable, yes, but they are real and employable and always necessary,” says Professor Caroline Winterer, who headed the Stanford Humanities Center from 2013 until Sept. 1, 2019.

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News of Persky's hiring had only been public for two days before public resistance called for his removal. Lynbrook High School in San Jose promptly fired him following the backlash.

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The attack, executed with a military-style rifle purchased in Nevada, took place late on the last day of the 41st annual Gilroy Garlic Festival, a cherished Bay Area celebration of Gilroy’s status as the "Garlic Capital of the World."

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The Escondido Village (EV) graduate housing project will house 2,431 additional graduate students in Fall 2020 –– increasing graduate student housing by 20 percent and bringing off-campus students onto East Campus.

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The d.school’s Legal Design Lab is partnering with the Stanford Law School’s Regulation, Evaluation and Governance Lab (RegLab) to pilot a new text message reminder program in the San Mateo County traffic court.

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Citing a severe and ongoing shortage of type-O blood due to high usage at local hospitals, the Stanford Blood Center (SBC) is reaching out to both its current dedicated group of donors and to all Bay Area residents to donate blood as soon as possible.

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When you think of a mythology book reading on a Tuesday night at Stanford during midterms week, you would be forgiven for imagining that event as a small and geriatric affair — one with criminally low attendance and death-of-the-humanities gravity. The storytelling event put on by the Stanford Storytelling Project on May 7 featured bestselling…

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A suit on behalf of Palo Alto resident Gustavo Alvarez is alleging that Palo Alto officers unlawfully threatened, searched, beat and arrested him while denying him medical care for injuries sustained during their assault.

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All residential staff positions other than Ethnic Theme Associates (ETAs) will be replaced with a new Resident Assistant Plus (RA+) position and paid equally, according to the ResX task force recommendations released on Tuesday.

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