For the first time ever, candidates running for the Associated Students of Stanford University are campaigning online.

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The slate consisting of Martin Altenburg ’21 and Jennalei Louie ’21 has withdrawn from the race for ASSU Executive, leaving it all but certain that Munira Alimire ’22 and Vianna Vo ’21, the only other slate, will clinch the top spot in Stanford’s student government.

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In its weekly meeting, the Graduate Student Council discussed the effects of social isolation on graduate student mental health.

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Amid a remote spring quarter, some students face extra pressures while attempting to learn. FLI students, those who are in the first generation of their family to go to college and/or come from low-income families (FLI) report a number of challenges, including taking on familial obligations, coping with financial stress and navigating their identity.

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When selecting classes for the spring, six students interviewed by The Daily considered a variety of new factors, including how courses would adapt to a virtual setting and the Satisfactory/No Credit (S/NC) grading policy.

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Candidates will campaign virtually from May 11-17. Students will vote from May 18-19, and election results will be released to the student body on May 22.

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As Stanford prepares for a fully online spring quarter, instructors of highly interactive courses are running up against the limits of video conferencing software.

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“[We] recognize that the country remains under a national emergency and that our world may remain uncertain for weeks to come,” wrote ASSU Elections Commissioner Christian Giadolor ’21 in an email to candidates on March 16.

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This week, a mass email from “Native Lands” appeared in the inbox of Stanford freshmen. The email is a long form letter and reminds students that they currently live on Native land and did so in their United States hometown as well. The letter intones that “by virtue of living on an indigenous people’s homelands,…

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Meditation, by its quiet, solitary nature, does not tend to be a visible facet of a school community. It still exists at Stanford, however, at least from what I can tell. I wanted to hear a sample of the wide variety of student experiences with mindfulness meditation at Stanford, as well as share the advice…

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When I got a concussion while playing Ultimate Frisbee during fall quarter, I realized how much the proper functioning of my brain shaped my everyday experience. After my concussion, thinking took longer, and doing schoolwork, especially readings, became extremely unpleasant. My brain just wanted to stop and be still. My everyday experience was akin to…

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At this time last April, I was in the midst of a whirlwind of college visits, class sit-ins and long deliberations over which school to ultimately attend. There were several factors to compare schools with which seemed impossible to reconcile, and I hoped that talking to students would give me a more intuitive sense of…

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On the first Monday of winter break, I felt excited as I logged onto Axess to check my course grades. That excitement soon turned into remorse as I realized I had bombed the final exam of PSYCH 1, and my grade was much lower than I had expected. I started to question my personal philosophy…

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Last week, in a rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s derision over her self-proclaimed Native American ancestry, senator and Democratic Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren published the results of a DNA test strongly suggesting Warren had a Native American ancestor between six and 10 generations ago, the equivalent of having 1/64 to 1/1024 ancestry. The test was…

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