Impeding Justice With Our Impulse to Involve Race This article is currently under review. vasantr 4 May 2012
Should College Athletes Get Paid? This article has since been taken down due to problems with its journalistic integrity. vasantr 10 Apr 2012
Newly Proposed Undergraduate Requirements are Worse than the Old Ones The recent Study on Undergraduate Education proposes “radical” changes to the course offerings, requirements, and structure of the Stanford undergraduate program. While the Study “attempts to get at the root vasantr 22 Feb 2012
A Second Look at Photo ID Requirements for Voters This article is currently under review. vasantr 9 Feb 2012
Police Brutality Needs a Reassessment Much has been made of the recent incidents of “police brutality” surrounding college campus Occupy Wall Street protests. In particular, the UC Davis pepper spraying video (which went viral) has vasantr 8 Dec 2011
The Lawlessness of Sexual Harassment Code Changes Sexual assault laws, response protocols, and avenues for recourse are meant to serve one and exactly one purpose: to empower the powerless. Traditionally, in the realm of sexual harassment and vasantr 13 Nov 2011
Conservative Prison Reform: Less Crime, Less Waste This article is currently under review for concerns of plagiarism. vasantr 16 May 2011
“Abstinence Only” Education Wrong for ROTC This article is currently under review. vasantr 17 Apr 2011
Will California Rise to the Moment on Prison Reform? This article is currently under review. vasantr 13 Mar 2011
Let’s Find the Fix for California’s Dropouts While almost all of California’s political attention this winter is focused on the state’s seemingly never-ending budget crisis and the severe cuts it will cause in most government vasantr 13 Feb 2011
Brown is Tough on Spending but May Fall on Taxes Frugality is suddenly in vogue again. And strangely enough, it is the Democrats who are trumpeting the message of fiscal responsibility here in our beloved great state of California, a vasantr 31 Jan 2011
Why Prop 19 Went Up in Smoke This California election, perhaps no other proposition on the ballot generated as much interest on Stanford’s campus as did Proposition 19, California’s biggest chance at a ”marijuana legalization” vasantr 30 Nov 2010
It’s Not Just Business. It’s Personal. California is “ungovernable.” Or so goes the popular meme. To describe the depth of the hole in which the Golden State now finds itself, our state’s political class postures, vasantr 26 Sep 2010