Stanford Athletics Guilty of Discrimination? President Hennessy recently announced that Stanford has begun a year-long study of its athletics programs, paying particular attention to academic integrity, governance and commitment to rules compliance, and the institution’ Christopher Fish 6 Dec 2007
A Book Review Saga: Professor David Kennedy Takes on Paul Krugman Paul Krugman’s new book, The Conscience of a Liberal, is named after Barry Goldwater’s 1960 book, The Conscience of a Conservative. Like Goldwater’s seminal expression of conservatism, Christopher Fish 29 Nov 2007
World News in Brief Pakistan in the Balance US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte arrived last Friday in Islamabad to help coordinate a power-sharing arrangement between President Musharraf, opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and Christopher Fish 29 Nov 2007
Reminiscent for Koizumi Junichuro Koizumi was a tough act to follow. As Prime Minister of Japan, this charismatic conservative greatly strengthened his country’s alliance with America through a personal friendship with President Christopher Fish 29 Nov 2007
Editor’s Note: Unsettling Settled Questions At Stanford, one of the virtues of our education is getting to know people from myriad walks of life. We meet and talk with people from all over the country Christopher Fish 29 Nov 2007
The Real Difference Gore Made After having a spectacular year culminating in the Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore faced a wave of negative responses regarding his most recent accolade. Some questioned the validity of climate Christopher Fish 29 Nov 2007
Stanford Hosts Conference on Ethnicity in Europe The culmination of nearly two years of planning, the Ethnicity in Today’s Europe conference concluded Veteran’s Day weekend. The conference brought together scholars from Spain, Germany, and across jgelbart 29 Nov 2007
Campus Activism Peaks Few consider Stanford University an activist school, especially when compared to our rival across the Bay, the University of California at Berkeley. Students and staff have attempted to change this tford 29 Nov 2007
A Straightforward Film is None the Worse For It The Kingdom, released on September 28, stars Jamie Foxx as an FBI agent investigating an act of terrorism in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, a residence facility for American oil workers is Christopher Fish 8 Nov 2007
The State of the Nation: “Lions for Lambs” On Tuesday, October 30th Stanford Film Society held an advanced screening of the Rodert Redford movie, “Lions for Lambs” in Cubberly Auditorium. The movie is a star-studded and nakedly political Christopher Fish 8 Nov 2007
China and India In late September, Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel spoke at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). He said: “I believe that growth in the developing world will offset slowing seck 8 Nov 2007
How Are We Doing in Iraq? I have a fairly simple question, though few people seem to want to ask it the way I do. I do not want to know how “George W. Bush’s Christopher Fish 8 Nov 2007
Keep Stanford Small On October 17, 2007, the Stanford Report revealed that President Hennessy was appointing a task force to “explore the idea of increasing the size of the freshman class—and, as seck 8 Nov 2007
SIEPR Tackles International Security On November 2, economists and security experts, including a Treasury undersecretary, went to the Bechtel Conference Center for a high-level talk, discussing a wide range of issues ranging from computer Christopher Fish 8 Nov 2007