A number of Stanford students who returned to campus have already received COVID-19 vaccinations, raising ethical concerns among their peers.

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Some graduate students have reported an increased and unreasonable spring break workload due to the University’s decision to eliminate finals week during the 2020-21 academic year.

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The new guidelines permit outdoor events with in-state visitors and assigned seating.

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“It was a beautiful symbiotic experience: section leaders got professional development, students got an amazing human-centered experience” wrote Chris Piech, CS professor and co-founder of Code in Place.

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Former Stanford employee Patricia Castaneda and her brother Eric Castaneda will be sentenced on June 7.

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Considering financial benefits, intellectual stimulation and remote learning, some students on gap years or leaves of absence are looking to transfer credit from other institutions.

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Bill Gates believes collaboration between the public and private sector is necessary to achieve zero emissions by 2050.

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Stanford Ph.D. student Antonio López addressed the election charges brought forth against him in a press conference on Thursday. The San Mateo Superior Court cleared all charges on March 10.

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Decreasing COVID-19 case numbers in Santa Clara County combined with the University’s testing capacities leads experts to believe that reopening campus is feasible.

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This new archive will feature the contributions of Black communities to Silicon Valley, whether it be tech or agriculture. When launched, it will be located in the Silicon Valley Archives at Green Library.

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A federal jury indicted former Stanford researcher Chen Song on three additional counts after she allegedly lied about her affiliation with the Chinese military.

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Senate survey results show that undergraduates and graduates are divided over returning to campus in the spring and that students express different priorities for reopening.

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Dylan O’Connor is set to appear at a superior court review conference on March 24.

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Following pushback to a memo from ASSU execs, the Undergraduate Senate released a survey to collect input from the undergraduate and graduate population on reopening campus in spring.

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Some students felt the ASSU memo was not representative of broader student perspectives and disagreed with the recommendation.

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Student survey reveals that students are split on whether they plan to return to campus in the spring.

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The Faculty Senate passed an amended resolution putting Persis Drell and Condoleezza Rice in charge of "increasing interaction” between the Hoover Institution and the University — at a time when many faculty and students are calling on Stanford to sever ties with Hoover altogether.

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Dylan O’Connor has since been placed on unpaid administrative leave by the University.

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Current faculty and students in the geological sciences department discuss reasons for the redesign of the major and future plans for the department.

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President-elect Joe Biden announced on Dec. 16 that adjunct professor and Precourt Energy Scholar Ali Zaidi will be appointed as his deputy national climate advisor.

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While campus survivor advocates were optimistic that the Biden administration would work to strengthen Title IX protections, many cautioned that it could take years for the Biden administration to roll back DeVos’ regulations.

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“There was too much of an emphasis on polls as a predictive tool,” said Bruce Cain, a professor of political science and director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. He said that these polls were more dependent on modeling, which can bring additional assumptions, and recommended that polls be treated as “noisy data, not as tablets from heaven.”

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Democrats are expected to retain control of the House of Representatives, while the Senate is still up for grabs, as of early Wednesday morning.

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