The Madness of Beyond Sex Ed In September 2019, I waited outside Memorial Auditorium (MemAud) to undergo a "transformative experience:” Beyond Sex Ed. The festivities began with a presentation on the overlooked aspects of sex (“skin Lucy Kross Wallace 21 Feb 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
Stanford RAs Put Politics Over Dorm Safety It’s happened to every Stanford student: there’s a knock on the front door of your dorm. As usual, someone lacks keycard access, and they seem harmless enough, so Peyton Robertson, Lucy Kross Wallace 4 Feb 2022
ASSU Constitutional Council Overturns ASSU Decision on VP Pence In December, the ASSU Senate rejected a request from the Stanford College Republicans (SCR) to fund a speaker event with former Vice President Mike Pence. The ASSU cited Senators’ concerns Leo Spunt 1 Feb 2022
Breaking News "Racist, Triggering, Disrespectful" - Stanford RA slams unmasked white students Late Sunday night, a Stanford student RA in the EVGR dormitory emailed the building’s 2,400 residents to warn against a “gross inequity” that risked students “being killed or Stanford Review 31 Jan 2022
A Tale of Two Dormitories: EVGR-A and Mungerville After a lengthy sixteen-and-a-half months away from campus, I was ecstatic when my friends and I drew into the newly-built and much-lauded housing in Escondido Village. Escondido Village Graduate Residences, Jonah Wu 30 Jan 2022
Opinion The Case Against the No First Use Policy In October of last year, a report surfaced claiming that the White House was considering declaring a No First Use policy (NFU), a doctrine in which America would never use Taehwa Hong 26 Jan 2022
Editor's Note: Building a Resilient Society This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Stanford Review’s founding in 1987. Organizations of all kinds fail to survive this long. The Review is an exception, not the Neelay Trivedi 24 Jan 2022
Opinion Editor's Note: The Indispensable Review Dear Reader, In my opening Editor’s Note for Vol. LXIV one long year ago, I wrote about the values of the Stanford Review; today, looking back on the volume, Maxwell Meyer 23 Jan 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
Test-Optional Makes Colleges Merit-Optional In December, Harvard University announced that it will not require prospective undergraduate students to submit SAT or ACT scores for admission through 2026. The decision is the latest example of Arman Sharma 18 Jan 2022
Omicron Hysteria: Your Favorite Greek Letter Banishes Stanford Students to Zoom Purgatory In mid-December, university officials announced that while students could return to campus, the first two weeks of winter quarter classes would be held online. In their note to the University, Ari Webb 17 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