Opinion Editor's Note: The Indispensable Review Dear Reader, In my opening Editor’s Note for Vol. LXIV one long year ago, I wrote about the values of the Stanford Review; today, looking back on the volume, Maxwell Meyer 23 Jan 2022
There’s Nothing Brilliant about “Brilliant NYC": Why We Need Gifted Programs In October 2021, New York City announced that it was phasing out its gifted and talented programs for elementary schools. Critics argued that the entrance exam disproportionately favors Asian and Mimi St Johns, Lucy Kross Wallace 20 Jan 2022
Test-Optional Makes Colleges Merit-Optional In December, Harvard University announced that it will not require prospective undergraduate students to submit SAT or ACT scores for admission through 2026. The decision is the latest example of Arman Sharma 18 Jan 2022
Omicron Hysteria: Your Favorite Greek Letter Banishes Stanford Students to Zoom Purgatory In mid-December, university officials announced that while students could return to campus, the first two weeks of winter quarter classes would be held online. In their note to the University, Ari Webb 17 Jan 2022
Opt-Out of ASSU Fees! It’s that time of the quarter again… Stanford students: click this link to opt-out of the ASSU Student Activities Fee. The deadline is Friday, January 21st, at 5pm PT/ Stanford Review 14 Jan 2022
Opinion Data not Guesswork: How to Handle Bias in AI As artificial intelligence becomes commonplace in industries ranging from finance to medicine to defense, a revolution is underway. Research labs in both industry and academia have devoted immense resources to Arnav Joshi, Mimi St Johns 10 Jan 2022
Professors Must Act to Save Winter Quarter As the saying goes, no news is good news. On Friday, Stanford students and faculty received news. Despite the fact that, as Stanford admits, “classrooms at Stanford have been low-risk Stanford Review 8 Jan 2022
Opinion A nation of immigrants? US immigration policy needs a fresh start The Biden administration is badly mishandling immigration. That was the only thing the U.S. electorate – otherwise split along party lines – could agree on in October national opinion polling. And Frédéric Urech 21 Dec 2021
Breaking News Stanford CS Goes Woke: department slams Rittenhouse, praises Ibram Kendi, and promotes terrorist autobiography! The Department of Computer Science is the crown jewel of Stanford. It minted trillions in Silicon Valley wealth, engineered large parts of the internet, and continues to be a powerhouse Mimi St Johns, Maxwell Meyer 7 Dec 2021
Opinion The Divine Charade: Stanford’s Purgatory of Restrictions When one thinks of the word purgatory, it often conjures up thoughts of Dante or some situation of mild suffering, waiting for something to happen, good or bad. Me — I Mimi St Johns 30 Nov 2021
Breaking News Race Panic! Stanford investigates “cords with loops that may represent nooses” Two Stanford administrators, Dean of Students Mona Hicks and Vice Provost for Institutional Equity, Access and Community Patrick Dunkley, sent a panicked email to students and faculty Monday night. They Maxwell Meyer 29 Nov 2021
Opinion An Open Letter to Melinda Byerley Dear Melinda, On November 7, you posted a Twitter thread in which you criticize “rich tech immigrants” for “trying to turn America into the caste system” and call for them Neelay Trivedi 18 Nov 2021
Opinion EXPOSURE NOTICE: Stanford students strip nude for theater gag, mask up for covid Maxwell Meyer 18 Nov 2021
Stanford's Hidden Inflation Inflation has become a political football lately. Republicans have made it the focus of their attacks on President Biden, framing rising prices as the consequence of reckless spending and the Benjamin Esposito 8 Nov 2021
Opinion How to be a Conservative at Stanford After over a year of being nearly barren, Stanford’s campus burst back to life last month. For nearly half of Stanford undergraduates, this quarter is their first spent on Walker Stewart 2 Nov 2021
