The Daily's Vol. 259 executive team is committed to making The Daily a more accessible and inclusive organization and to ensuring our coverage reflects the needs of our community.

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This moment presents an opportunity to step back and scrutinize the gap between reality and promised ideals — and to perhaps do better.

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Last month, we wrote that the point of The Daily’s opinions section is to provide a forum for Stanford community members to discuss what matters and why. As we expressed then, we are committed to publishing a range of opinions, and we never decline an article only because we disagree with its position. But our…

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We do not pretend to fully understand the experiences of Stanford’s Black community, but we know we can do more to diversify our coverage, engage with our community respectfully and make our organization as welcoming to Black community members as possible.

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Ultimately, Drell and Brubaker-Cole’s email belies where their priority lies: proving Stanford is a balanced arbitrator of free speech to outside stakeholders and media outlets over the safety and security of its own, most vulnerable students.

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Allan Bakke, an engineer and former Marine Corps officer, applied to UC Davis Medical School twice — once in 1973 and once in 1974. Both times, he was denied. In the same special program to which he applied, a number of minority applicants with significantly lower test scores were admitted. As his interviewer for medical…

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I was 12 years old, on my way to a wrestling tournament, when I first discovered Kanye West. I struggled to keep my earbuds in, but the sound still managed to flow into my ears over the roar of the bus engine. What was lost in the transmission of bass and beats that night I…

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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. -Zadie Smith, White Teeth. Earlier this week, I found myself watching Brett Kavanaugh’s swearing-in ceremony. I watched as the congregation in the East Room sat silently in anticipation, as silence turned to applause when the current justices on the Supreme Court filed…

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