This marks Karlan's second appointment to the DOJ's civil rights division, which is charged with upholding civil and constitutional rights for all Americans.
The panelists in Tuesday's conversation agreed that a test-optional system cannot alone transform a process that has long disadvantaged students from low-income families.
The first-year experience has changed dramatically in the wake of COVID-19, but frosh have found new ways to make the most of their on-campus experience.
“However the federal regulations might affect Stanford, our goal remains to provide support for our students and ensure a fair, timely, end effective Title IX process,” wrote Provost Persis Drell in response to the new regulations.
According to SUDPS spokesperson Bill Larson, despite the University's amnesty policy surrounding items reported in student dorms, students can face legal repercussions.
“You have a civic duty to participate in the caucuses, yeah, but it’s particularly easy when it is at the Haas Center,” said Trent Gilbert ’21, a first-time caucusgoer.
Protesters delivered a petition with more than 1,000 signatures calling for Stanford to make dependent care free for graduate students' children and spouses who are not covered by their employers.
“Stanford is complicit in the climate crisis” and “Dear Stanford, it’s time to prioritize our futures over your profit” were among a myriad of messages posted on large banners across White Plaza on Friday afternoon during Fossil Free Stanford’s second peaceful sit-in of the year. The group, which has been active on campus since 2012, is demanding that the University divest from fossil fuels by Earth Day 2020.
More than two decades ago, then-Stanford undergraduate Julián Castro ’96 could not hide his disdain for his peers’ indifference to politics. In an op-ed he penned for The Daily, the ambitious young Latino described his experience of watching students who hesitated to sign his petition to run for Undergraduate Senate.
Karlan’s oral argument was the first of the court’s new term. The case is a consolidation of two, Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia and Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda, both of which address the fundamental question as to whether Title VII’s prohibition of discrimination based on a person’s sex also includes sexual orientation.