The Stanford Daily Magazine
Volume VII, Issue II
Letter from the editor
Monkey business: Inside some psychedelic experiences​
Barely staying afloat: The pervasive culture of duck syndrome at Stanford
AAAS is getting departmentalized. Students and faculty question whether CSRE will have the same fate.​
Navigating the Institutional Highway: faculty on approaching politics at Stanford
What does it mean to be an arts major at Stanford?
Auden
Spectacles
Bye Bye MTL…Hello Me
Can you spot the difference?

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VOL. VII • ISSUE II • MAY 28, 2023

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INTRODUCTION

Letter from the editor

By Carolyn Stein

CAMPUS LIFE

Monkey business: Inside some psychedelic experiences

By Sarayu Pai
Photo: ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY / Wikimedia Commons
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CAMPUS LIFE

Barely staying afloat: The pervasive culture of duck syndrome at Stanford

By Oriana Riley

ACADEMICS

AAAS is getting departmentalized. Students and faculty question whether CSRE will have the same fate.

By Itzel Luna and Sophia Gonzalez-Rodriguez
Photo: THOMAS YIM / The Stanford Daily
Photo: THE STANFORD DAILY ARCHIVES

UNIVERSITY

Navigating the Institutional Highway: faculty on approaching politics at Stanford

By Sophia Artandi

OPINIONS

What does it mean to be an arts major at Stanford?

By Sebastian Hochman
Photo courtesy of Jason Lin
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FICTION

Auden

By Michelle Fu

FICTION

Spectacles

By Kristofer Nino
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FICTION

Bye Bye MTL…Hello Me

By Judy Liu

MULTIMEDIA

Can you spot the difference?

By Cameron Duran
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Editor in Chief
Sam Catania

Executive Editors
Kirsten Mettler, Aditya Shukla

Magazine Editors
Carolyn Stein, Seamus Allen

Photo & Graphics
Michelle Fu

Managing Editors
 Oriana Riley, Matthew Turk, Janelle Olisea, Kyla Figueroa, Itzel Luna, Anna Goldman, Zoe Edelman, Sofia Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Linda Liu, Michelle Fu, Gheed El Bizri, Brandon Kim, Ben Lees, Seamus Allen, Carolyn Stein, Luc Alvarez, Cassidy Dalva, Jared Klegar, Anoushka Rao, Ananya Navale, Helena Getahun-Hawkins, Ells Boone, Madeline Grabb, D’Andre Jorge

Business Team
Alexa Gold, Hiram Duran Alvarez, Anuka Mohanpuhr