Opinion Can Stanford Be More Than a Business? Thanks to the rise [http://time.com/108311/how-american-universities-are-ripping-off-your-education/] of conservative politics, cultural attitudes towards higher education transformed in the 1980s. Once treated as a public good that would help Berber Jin 30 May 2018
Opinion Stanford Student Government: A Facade of Democracy When we asked senior Hoover fellow Larry Diamond whether Stanford was a one-party state, he responded: “I don’t think I quite said that ASSU politics is akin to a Multiple authors 16 May 2018
Stanford’s Secret STEM Deficit With the latest innovations in AI and machine learning the chatter of campus, it is easy for Stanford students to conflate Silicon Valley entrepreneurship with US scientific leadership. After all, Berber Jin and Vamsi Varanasi, Berber Jin 15 Mar 2018
Read My Lips: No New Administrators Stanford’s bureaucracy has snowballed out of control. Accompanying the increase in university administrators, tuition has risen, student traditions from Full Moon on the Quad to the Stanford Band have Berber Jin 22 Feb 2018
First Trump, Now Spencer: How Stanford College Republicans are Redefining Campus Discourse The atmosphere surrounding last month’s Robert Spencer event was a dramatic departure from Stanford’s usual political apathy. While anti-Spencer protesters urged prospective spectators to attend the adjacent Rally Berber Jin 6 Dec 2017
Rally Against Islamophobia Exposes the Double Standards of the Campus Left Last Tuesday’s Rally Against Islamophobia was ostensibly successful -- hundreds of students walked out of Robert Spencer’s event and stood in solidarity with Muslim students at the rally. Berber Jin 17 Nov 2017
Prison Divestment Makes No Sense Two weeks ago, the Board of Trustees rejected SU Prison Divest’s September 2016 proposal [https://irsr.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/su-prison-divest.pdf] for Stanford to divest from companies Berber Jin 30 Oct 2017
World on Fire? Liberals are the New Reactionaries -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After Trump announced America’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords on June 1, fear and concern dominated my social media newsfeeds. Many Stanford students shared New York Times Berber Jin 15 Jun 2017
Stop Idolizing Politicians at Stanford -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There should be few higher honors than politics — to be elected by others to serve as their representative, and to devote one’s life to that duty. But politicians Berber Jin 30 May 2017
Stanford’s Silent Segregation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Stanford has a diverse student body representing a variety of backgrounds and identities. But most students self-segregate into racially and economically homogenous social circles. Then we reinforce that segregation Berber Jin 19 May 2017
Neither White Nor Privileged: Stanford’s Minority Trump Supporters -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Stanford campus’ reaction to Trump’s election was dominated by feelings of hopelessness and anger. Facebook newsfeeds on November 8, 2016 were filled with claims about the anti-women, Berber Jin 15 Feb 2017
Millennials and the Decline of Political Thought We accused Justice Antonin Scalia of being a homophobe after his dissent in Obergefell vs. Hodges without even taking the time to understand his decision [http://www.businessinsider.com/scalia-gay-marriage-dissent-2015-6] Berber Jin 31 Oct 2016