Woke Watch Woke Watch: Stanford Trains Faculty to “Recognize and Address” Microaggressions What do you think of when you hear the statements: “America is the land of opportunity” and “Everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough?” Most people Mimi St Johns 1 May 2022
Woke Watch Woke Watch: Stanford Engineering’s DEI Bureaucracy Some careers have it all… a job in the heart of Silicon Valley, laundry machines at work, a lucrative salary, and responsibilities that are vague at best. But if you Mimi St Johns 27 Apr 2022
Mainstreaming a Murderer: Newsom and Progressive DAs Reduce Homicide Sentences Sirhan Sirhan (Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin), Charles Manson, and Leslie Van Houten (a Manson follower) were all, at one point, condemned to death for their crimes. However, all eventually Mimi St Johns 11 Mar 2022
BLM and Theranos: A Tale of Two Frauds In the past decade, there have been a startling number of individuals and organizations who went from being darlings of corporate media and elites to subjects of criminal investigations. Such Mimi St Johns 11 Feb 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
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
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
Opinion Why San Francisco needs an Austin-style Public Camping Ban In 1949, the legendary musician Hank Williams Sr. sang the words: He was some mother’s darling, he was some mother’s son Once he was fair and once he Mimi St Johns 6 Oct 2021
Opinion Instead of Defunding the Police: Modernize Them In the wake of the George Floyd protests and a nationwide conversation about the role of law enforcement, the country seems deadlocked on how, or if at all, to reform Mimi St Johns 17 Dec 2020
Opinion In 2020, Populism was the Real Winner There is a clear winner in this election: populism-- a political philosophy aimed at working-class people. While voters may have rejected Trump’s rhetoric and coronavirus policy, they did not Mimi St Johns 19 Nov 2020
Review Recommends Classes for the College Contrarian 2020-2021 Every year Stanford releases its vast course list on ExploreCourses, but gives very little guidance for students to choose which classes they should spend their 12 to 22 units on. Multiple authors 10 Sep 2020
Opinion The ASSU Should Confront History Rather Than Punish its Tellers In late April, Professor Rose Salseda of the art history department gave a guest lecture in CSRE 196C: “Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.” In that lecture, she Mimi St Johns 25 May 2020
Opinion Black Conservatives are Still Black I am black and gay. I am also a conservative-libertarian. Stanford welcomes all different races and sexual identities with openness and acceptance. The same cannot be said for all political Mimi St Johns 14 May 2020
Opinion Why California is a Model of Economic Nationalism Conservatives routinely point out the benefits of economic nationalism: self-reliance and security. Yet, California, a liberal stronghold, has benefited from Trumpian economic nationalism. Compared to other liberal states with large Mimi St Johns 15 Apr 2020
Satire 5 Innovative Ideas for Hacking Hate On January 25, Stanford’s best coders will be teaming up to tackle racial injustice in a five-hour “hate hackathon.” The winners get funding and resources from the offices of Mimi St Johns 17 Jan 2020
Opinion View from the Rust Belt: How Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party Abandoned Me I volunteered for Bernie Sanders for about nine months during the 2016 Democratic primary elections, working almost ten hours a week to support his grassroots campaign. I handed out flyers, Mimi St Johns 4 Nov 2019
