Cooper Veit, Author at The Stanford Daily

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Cooper Veit

Cooper Veit '22 is a local news writer and amateur Steinbeck scholar from San Francisco. Talk to him about the work and life of John Steinbeck.

Stanford Existential Risk Initiative tackles global threats

The organization's goal is to prevent Global Catastrophic Risks (GCRs) — risks that threaten to destroy human civilization or drive the entire species extinct. Its current plans include hosting a speaker series of prominent people in the world of GCR-mitigation, as well as offering $7,500 stipends for summer undergraduate projects.

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May 20 2020

Stanford researchers turn thousands of full-face snorkel masks into reusable PPE for hospital employees

Utilizing existing supply chains and partnerships, the team hopes to distribute tens of thousands of these snorkel-based “Pneumasks” to hospital systems across the country.

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May 13 2020

School of Medicine town hall covers COVID-19, hospital capacity, research efforts

The talk was aimed at contextualizing publicly available data and news, as well as updates on Stanford Hospital, which has seen fewer COVID-19 patients than expected and is performing research in the field.

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Apr 24 2020

Condoleezza Rice criticizes Chinese authoritarianism, praises US resilience in Hoover policy webinar

Rice drew comparisons between her experience with the SARS outbreak in 2003 and SARS-CoV-2 today to describe and criticize an opaqueness in the China’s communist government's sharing of information with the media and foreign governments.

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Apr 14 2020

Grad student-organized COVID-19 response lab mobilizes teams to tackle coronavirus response

As of its website launch on Friday, the lab had around 150 grad students working on 16 active projects, from home testing to matching for mutual aid. The startups are generally tech-oriented, but not all are based in digital platforms.

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Apr 12 2020

Palo Alto further deregulates detached dwellings

The Jan. 13 meeting of City Council was a response to the new state laws, as council-members unanimously voted to do away with a host of previous requirements for new construction or renovation of ADUs.

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Jan 22 2020

Stanford Womxn’s March calls for end to ‘campus rape culture’

Stanford students and community members marched at White Plaza on Saturday to protest campus rape culture and show solidarity for global womxn’s issues.

Brooke Beyer and Cooper Veit

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Jan 19 2020

Palo Alto responds to defacement of Black church

In the wake of last week’s defacement of the historic University AME Zion Church in Palo Alto with anti-religious messages, local police have increased patrols of religious buildings, and the historically Black church has hosted a special Solidarity Sunday service to address the incident.

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Jan 10 2020

Beloved philosophy professor Ken Taylor dies at 65

Kenneth Taylor, the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy died unexpectedly in his home on Tuesday.

Cooper Veit and Michael Espinosa

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Dec 04 2019

Number of drugging reports surges though reporting policy remains the same: AlertSUs explained

Reports of druggings have required mandatory alerts to the community under the Jeanne Clery Act. The Daily looked into how exactly these Clery Act AlertSUs work.

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Nov 22 2019

Stanford Federal Credit Union to pilot new Google checking accounts in 2020

The Stanford Federal Credit Union is receiving national media attention for its partnership with Google’s quiet new financial technology project — Google Cache checking accounts. The new checking accounts will roll out in 2020.

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Nov 21 2019

Despite GUP application withdrawal, Stanford moves ahead with 75-acre housing development in Portola Valley

Despite the withdrawal of the General Use Permit application, the University is moving ahead with its plans to develop 27 faculty homes and three parcels for affordable housing units in Portola Valley on 75 acres off of Alpine Road.

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Nov 11 2019

Smoke drifts to campus as wildfires torch California, PG&E implements massive shutoffs

Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency on Sunday as the raging Kincade and Tick fires have wreaked havoc in Sonoma and Los Angeles counties, collectively torching tens of thousands of acres and displacing more than 100,000 people.

Cooper Veit and Cole Griffiths

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Oct 27 2019

Two women report potential druggings at Ujamaa

According to a Campus Security Authority, one of the individuals who suspected that they were drugged underwent a drug test at Stanford Hospital, which came back negative.

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Oct 19 2019

Drugging reported at Thursday party on the Row

A female student tested positive for a date-rape drug on Friday after losing consciousness at a party on the Row Thursday night, Stanford Police announced in an AlertSU notification sent early Saturday morning. It is unclear exactly where the incident occurred.

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Oct 12 2019

Federal judge rejects Stanford’s affordable housing complaint

U.S. District Judge Beth Freeman of San Jose has dismissed Stanford’s challenge of a Santa Clara County housing ordinance requiring 16% of units on residential developments on University land be reserved for affordable housing at a below-market rate.

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Oct 11 2019

PG&E continues power shutoffs for Bay Area counties, won’t affect Stanford

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) announced Monday and Tuesday that it will impose a new wave of public safety power shutoffs on Wednesday and Thursday in areas of high fire risk across 30 counties across northern and central California, affecting up to 800,000 customers.

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Oct 09 2019

Storage unit full of John Steinbeck personal belongings, manuscripts will soon be up for auction

A Stanford drop-out achieved widespread renown not in the startup scene or through sports championships but in bookstores and libraries across America. John Steinbeck, who died in 1968, attended the University on and off for six years beginning in 1919, before leaving without a degree.

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Oct 01 2019

AR app lets users see, hear Chanel Miller quotes Stanford rejected at site of her assault

The project’s arrival comes amid renewed calls for Stanford to place a quote selected by Miller on a plaque at the site.

Leily Rezvani and Cooper Veit

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Sep 28 2019

Palo Alto Unified School District agrees to $150K Gunn sexual harassment settlement

PAUSD’s decision to settle without admitting culpability brings an end to a yearlong legal fight over an alleged sexual assault case that has rocked the Palo Alto's Gunn High School.

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Sep 27 2019

Former director of the Humanities Center Caroline Winterer embarks on new chapter of research

“The skills of humanities thinking are less quantifiable, yes, but they are real and employable and always necessary,” says Professor Caroline Winterer, who headed the Stanford Humanities Center from 2013 until Sept. 1, 2019.

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Sep 24 2019

Lynbrook High School fires former judge Aaron Persky from new job as JV tennis coach after backlash

News of Persky's hiring had only been public for two days before public resistance called for his removal. Lynbrook High School in San Jose promptly fired him following the backlash.

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Sep 11 2019

Stanford Hospital treats victims of Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting

The attack, executed with a military-style rifle purchased in Nevada, took place late on the last day of the 41st annual Gilroy Garlic Festival, a cherished Bay Area celebration of Gilroy’s status as the "Garlic Capital of the World."

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Jul 29 2019

Escondido Village graduate housing begins summer construction, set to be be complete in 2020

The Escondido Village (EV) graduate housing project will house 2,431 additional graduate students in Fall 2020 –– increasing graduate student housing by 20 percent and bringing off-campus students onto East Campus.

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May 31 2019