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Daniel Wu

Daniel Wu '21 is a Desk Editor for News, and also contributes to Sports, Arts & Life and The Daily's Graphics team. Contact him at dwu21 'at' stanford.edu.

Undergraduate Senator Micheal Brown elected Senate Chair

Second-term Senator Micheal Brown ’22 was elected Senate Chair at Tuesday’s Undergraduate Senate meeting, the first meeting of the new Undergraduate Senate following Friday’s Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) elections. Senator Danny Nguyen ’22 and Sochima Ezema ’23 were also elected to positions as Deputy Chair and Senate Secretary, respectively.

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May 26 2020

Healthcare workers stage 2nd protest over pay, hours cuts

Healthcare workers returned to El Camino Real on Thursday to continue protests against pay cuts and furloughs from Stanford Health Care’s Temporary Workforce Adjustment (TWA) program.

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May 23 2020

Med students fundraise, offer health advice for homelessness nonprofit

When the threat of COVID-19 pulled fourth-year medical student Natasha Abadilla from her night shift at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, she found herself suddenly sidelined from her hospital work and studies as a global pandemic unfolded.

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May 13 2020

Fall Planning Committee co-chairs field students’ questions at Undergraduate Senate meeting

Students voiced concerns about student mental health, online instruction and University communication to Stanford’s Fall Planning Committee at Tuesday evening's Undergraduate Senate meeting.

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May 13 2020

Art practice senior, artist Langston Wesley dies

Langston Wesley ’20 died in San Jose on April 4, according to an announcement from Vice Provost for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole on Tuesday. Wesley was 31.

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May 07 2020

COVID-19 protections for contracted workers at Escondido Village spark safety concerns

Contracted workers on Stanford’s Escondido Village Graduate Residences (EVGR) project may have worked under inadequate safety conditions during Santa Clara County’s shelter-in-place order, union representatives and student activists say.

Daniel Wu and Grace Carroll

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May 04 2020

Senate discusses CARES funding, recognizes Denim Day

The Undergraduate Senate discussed a resolution calling for students to receive support equivalent to the $3.6 million allocated for emergency aid grants in Stanford’s CARES Act emergency funding, which the University declined last week. Senators also passed a resolution supporting Denim Day in protest against sexual violence on campus.

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Apr 29 2020

Stanford rescinds admission of football recruit involved as witness to alleged sexual assault

Stanford has rescinded the admission of incoming freshman football recruit Ayden Hector after investigating his involvement as a witness to an alleged sexual assault in 2018.

Erin Woo, Julia Ingram, and Daniel Wu

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Apr 17 2020

‘This is what we signed up for’: Stanford Hospital doctors weary but optimistic on frontlines of coronavirus response

From the outside, Stanford Hospital looks to have taken on the same somber quiet as the rest of the Bay Area. With the threat of coronavirus transmission keeping families and non-essential patients away, plazas and lobbies sit empty, and the din of conversation and activity has given way to nervous silence.

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Apr 15 2020

Undergraduate Senate discusses worker solidarity resolution, prep for new Title IX regulations

The Undergraduate Senate discussed updates to its resolution in support of Stanford workers and the implementation of new Title IX regulations in its online meeting on Tuesday.

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Apr 14 2020

The Bridge looks to Zoom for online counseling

The Bridge Peer Counseling Center will offer an adjusted online counseling service for students over spring quarter.

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Apr 08 2020

Professor and restaurateur team up to donate meals to Stanford Hospital staff

Meals of Gratitude has raised over $60,000 in donations to provide free restaurant meals to Stanford Hospital staff working amid the coronavirus outbreak.

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Apr 01 2020

Stanford can administer about 630 drive-thru COVID-19 tests per day after new site opens on campus

Stanford Health Care opened a drive-thru testing site at Galvez parking lot on campus on Wednesday, expanding Stanford Health Care’s capacity to administer tests for COVID-19.

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Mar 28 2020

Summer international programs canceled

The cancellations will affect 348 accepted and waitlisted undergraduates across BOSP's 16 summer quarter, overseas seminar and summer internship programs, according to the announcement.

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Mar 24 2020

Amid coronavirus upheaval, community support swells

Groups of students, organizing informally and as part of existing Stanford communities, have started numerous campaigns to raise funds and source donations or offers of assistance from community members.

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Mar 17 2020

County order will ‘very likely’ affect Stanford’s plans for undergraduates, University says

The county is banning public or private gatherings of more than 100 people, effective at midnight on Saturday.

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Mar 13 2020

2 more coronavirus cases confirmed at Stanford

Two more coronavirus cases — one “on the main campus” and one in Stanford Medicine — have been confirmed at Stanford, Associate Vice Provost for Environmental Health & Safety Russell Furr announced on Wednesday evening.

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Mar 11 2020

Athletics competitions closed to public

All home athletics competitions are now "closed to the public through May 15 or until further notice," Stanford Athletics announced Wednesday morning.

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Mar 11 2020

Local restaurants hurt by coronavirus

Palo Alto restaurants are facing declining sales and the threat of closure due to news of coronavirus.

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Mar 10 2020

Stanford Medicine is treating coronavirus patients, University announces

“Stanford Medicine is currently caring for a few patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 [coronavirus],” wrote University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne in an announcement on Thursday afternoon.

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Mar 05 2020

No. 6 squash falls to No. 8 Columbia to conclude season

No. 6 Stanford squash (7-7) was edged out by No. 8 Columbia (11-7) 5-4 in the fifth-place playoff match of the National Championships on Sunday to confirm a No. 6 end of season ranking.

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Feb 24 2020

Squash opens National Championships against Yale

No. 6 Stanford squash (6-5) returns to New Haven this Friday to begin its postseason campaign with a rematch against No. 3 Yale (12-3).

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Feb 20 2020

The Big Picture: Stories of the Stanford Theatre

Understanding the Stanford Theatre’s setting helps one appreciate the cinema’s undertaking: to preserve, even in the heart of Silicon Valley, the decidedly unmodern experience of a night at the movies in cinema’s Golden Age.

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Feb 09 2020

Squash unable to win against Yale and Trinity

No. 5 Stanford squash (5-5) concluded its regular season with a 1-2 split in New Haven over the weekend, beating No. 14 George Washington (4-11) before falling to No. 4 Yale (10-1) and No. 2 Trinity (11-1).

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Jan 27 2020