An Elite Stanford Education: How "Disadvantaged" Are We? William Deresiewicz’s article “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” is currently making its way around Stanford’s email lists just in time for finals. In the article, I believe aacarter 6 Dec 2009
Fencing Seeks to Remain Varsity Faced with the daunting task of raising over $5 million in operating costs and an endowment, Stanford Fencing looks to preserve its history and ensure its future as a Division aacarter 19 Nov 2009
Stanford-in-Cape Town Opening in Winter 2010 ![In addition to academics, Stanford students in Cape Town will volunteer and research in the local community.](/content/images/South-Africa_AP.jpg "South Africa_AP")In addition to aacarter 5 Nov 2009
News Insiders Discuss Future of Journalism On the evening of October 22nd, some of the most prominent names in the news industry gathered in Cubberley Auditorium to discuss “New Times: The Future of Journalism.” The members aacarter 5 Nov 2009
Ebrahim Moosa to Lead Pricey Egyptian Adventure for Alums Here at Stanford, we believe that an education never has to end. In fact, Stanford has a “Travel/Study” program aimed at Stanford alumni in particular. As its name indicates, aacarter 22 Oct 2009
Favoritism for Stanford Alums on U.S. Olympic Committee Board? Philip Hersh, a blogger for the LA Times, recently blogged about his suspicions [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2009/10/what-the-us-olympic-committee-would-rather-keep-silent.html] that nepotism and self-interests are playing roles aacarter 9 Oct 2009
International Impact from Right at Home You may be entering the Stanford bubble for the first time or re-entering the blissful bubble after a short break. Eventually, many Stanford students come to realize that their lives aacarter 8 Oct 2009
Iran’s Nuclear Facilities and Missile Tests More Surprises Out of Iran “They have cheated three times,” a senior Obama Administration official asserted two weeks ago, referring to the regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The remark aacarter 8 Oct 2009
climate change Stanford Protects Stephen Schneider from Public Embarrassment Stanford recently moved to protect one of its own from embarrassment. The University prohibited filmmakers of the upcoming documentary [http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/] “Not Evil Just Wrong” from using the aacarter 6 Oct 2009
Election Website Reports Iranian Towns Saw Voter Turnouts Over 100% Yesterday, the Guardian wrote that the website Ayandeh.com is reporting that some Iranian towns experienced extremely high voter turnout with some percentages topping 100%. > In the most specific aacarter 18 Jun 2009
Daniel Hannan: Brit Con with Int’l Audience ![Hannan has been especially critical of Prime Minister Brown. (Press Association via AP Images) ](/content/uploads/Westminster.jpg)Hannan has been especially critical of Prime Minister Brown. (Press Association via aacarter 28 May 2009
Thomas Fingar: "Another BRIC Hits the Wall" ![The last decade has seen the economic rise of four large nations, but these are still unlikely to approach the power of the United States in the near future. (AP aacarter 16 Apr 2009
U.S.-China Relations in the Obama Administration ![Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, listens to Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi during a joint press conference, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009 in Beijing, China. Secretary Clinton is likely to have aacarter 26 Feb 2009
American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi Review ![Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gestures during her last briefing at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)](/content/uploads/CondiRice.jpg)Secretary aacarter 12 Feb 2009
Blagojevich and the Democrats’ Inconvenient Truth ![The face of Democratic corruption. (Seth Perlman/The Associated Press)](/content/uploads/Blago.jpg)The face of Democratic corruption. (Seth Perlman/The Associated Press) Since mid-December, a saga has played aacarter 22 Jan 2009
GOP Needs a Return to Reagan ![Past, present, future? (National Archives)](/content/uploads/Reagan.jpg)Past, present, future? (National Archives) When Ronald Reagan stepped forward, he espoused conservative principles in a way that has hardly been aacarter 8 Jan 2009