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
The Distorted Stanford Research Behind California's New Ethnic Studies Requirement California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed AB 101, a bill requiring high school students in California to take an ethnic studies course to graduate high school. This has been a Neelay Trivedi 22 Oct 2021
Opinion To the Daily: Lost in Translation is not a racist movie Last week, the Stanford Daily published a movie review that criticizes the 2003 film Lost in Translation for “reinforcing a racist worldview” and “contributing to systemic racism.” Lost in Translation, Neelay Trivedi 25 May 2021
Opinion Stanford Should Disclose The Names of Chinese Donors American universities are bad at disclosing foreign funding from China, and Stanford is no exception. The University has received over $64 million from anonymous Chinese donors since 2010. Only a Neelay Trivedi 20 May 2021
Opinion Freshmen Should Not be ASSU Senators In next month’s Stanford ASSU election, students will vote on a bill called “The Freshman Senators Act,” which proposes allowing freshmen to serve as ASSU Senators. It’s a Neelay Trivedi 16 Apr 2021
Opinion Every Child Left Behind: How California is Failing Students During The Pandemic California’s leaders have been busy talking up the effects of the pandemic on minority and underserved communities. But ironically, they refuse to address the most important engine of reducing Neelay Trivedi 10 Mar 2021
Opinion Science is about Evidence, not Consensus On December 8, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom instituted the country’s strictest statewide lockdown, citing experts who warned the pandemic would grow out of control if urgent measures were Neelay Trivedi 25 Feb 2021
Opinion Reinstate Classified Research at Stanford Classified research at Stanford has a complicated history. Though the University permitted professors to conduct classified work in the early decades of the Cold War, Vietnam protestors successfully lobbied for Neelay Trivedi 17 Nov 2020
Opinion Repeal the Conformity Tax Cancel culture is a potent and dangerous force that harms individuals who share contrarian ideas. But while cancellation punishes what has already been said or done, self-censorship preemptively punishes what Neelay Trivedi 28 Oct 2020
Opinion Hands Off Hoover! Over a hundred Stanford faculty recently signed an open letter titled “COVID-19 and the Hoover Institution: Time for a Reappraisal.” The letter, which you can read in its entirety here, Multiple authors 26 Sep 2020
Opinion The Start of the Stanford Century In the 20th century, the basic unit of American foreign policy was the Harvard-educated missionary diplomat, who ventured the world spreading Veritas and the virtues of Western liberalism. But the Neelay Trivedi 14 Sep 2020
Review Recommends To SLE or not to SLE? Apologies for the terrible pun. It was just too easy… or should we say “SLEezy.” SLE (Structured Liberal Education) is one of Stanford’s signature humanities programs, but is also Multiple authors 2 Jun 2020
Breaking News BREAKING: Stanford Student Publishes Anonymous, Unverified Allegations Forum on Instagram A new Instagram account called @namingcreeps, created by a Stanford undergraduate on Tuesday invited Stanford students to anonymously name “creeps” on campus using a Google form. The first post on Multiple authors 30 Apr 2020
Opinion Don't Let China Get Away With Coronavirus The Chinese regime is in large part responsible for aggravating the coronavirus pandemic: Chairman Xi has blood on his hands. Now, China is taking steps to erase all evidence of Neelay Trivedi 7 Apr 2020
Opinion Will Stanford Denounce Fudan University's Ending of Academic Freedom? One of China’s top-ranked universities recently revoked academic freedom from its governing charter and adopted Communist propaganda from the Chinese education ministry. Fudan University’s revised constitution places it Neelay Trivedi 26 Feb 2020
Opinion Why Stanford protestors are wrong about India’s citizenship bill Recently, the Indian government passed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which provides fast-track citizenship to religiously persecuted minorities from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh belonging to six groups: Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Neelay Trivedi 20 Jan 2020
Opinion In Defense of Unit Decreases: Reversing Stanford's Vocational Slide When I first got to Stanford, I expected an environment characterized by relentless risk taking and exploration of the unknown. Yet while navigating my first quarter, I’ve experienced something Neelay Trivedi 19 Nov 2019
