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The Grind
"If we are but plates in this daily hustle, I hate to think of all the ways I may have blindly bumbled and shattered someone else’s day as a wasteful byproduct of striving for productivity," Batts admits (Photo: AVELYN BATTS/The Stanford Daily)

Why dining hall plates are beyond beautiful

Avelyn Batts
  •  
Feb. 22
The Grind
A stack of books on a red chair

On the poverty of names

Sofia Baroudi
  •  
Feb. 1
Opinions
Beauty standards in the digital age have allowed for simultaneous representation and universalization of what it means to be attractive, Lee writes. (Graphic: TOBY SHIAO/The Stanford Daily)

Beauty conformity at Stanford

Ariana Lee
  •  
Nov. 9
The Grind
(Photo: MICHAEL BYUN / The Stanford Daily)

Poem: They say

Peter McGinnes
  •  
April 28
The Grind
Photo of a girl's head looking at her phone

In Good Company: ‘Divine Feminine’

Les Ortega
  •  
Dec. 5, 2024
The Grind
Red-leafed tree

An Ode to Bowdoin Street

Jenny Ballutay
  •  
Nov. 20, 2024
Culture
Alma Cooper stands with a bouquet of flowers and a crown onstage after winning the Miss USA 2024 pagaent.

Meet newly crowned Miss USA Alma Cooper M.S. ’25

Semira Arora
  •  
Aug. 23, 2024
The Grind
Painting of a dark-skinned woman in a golden frame hanging on a white wall.

Dear Diary: LIMBS

Amanda Altarejos
  •  
Oct. 26, 2023
Magazine
An illustration of a woman with closed eyes, blowing into her open palm

Item Girl

Diya Sabharwal
  •  
Dec. 27, 2022
The Grind
Sunset over Wilbur Field. Several dorm complexes and Hoover Tower can be seen in the distance.

There is beauty in darkness

Gheed El Bizri
  •  
Feb. 7, 2022
Columnists
Columnist Vamsi Varanasi considers intellectual curiosity after observing bubbles in a cup on a flight. (Public Domain Pictures)

Bubbling questions

Vamsi Varanasi
  •  
Oct. 9, 2019
n "Her Body and Other Parties," Carmen Maria Machado discusses the debilitating effects of trauma on the female psyche (courtesy of Graywolf Press).

‘Her Body and Other Parties’ gives shape to female stories

Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Feb. 4, 2019
Virginia Woolf is the author of "Mrs. Dalloway," first published in 1925 (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

The bearable heaviness of being: reflections on ‘Mrs. Dalloway’

Carly Taylor
  •  
Dec. 10, 2018
(GIANELLA ORDONEZ/The Stanford Daily)

Volunteers maintain historic cactus garden

Gianella Ordonez
  •  
Aug. 22, 2018
The Grind
(Courtesy of Unsplash).

Confronting old age, now

Avery Rogers
  •  
April 17, 2018
The Grind
Courtesy of Pixabay.

Five makeup tips from one student to another

Courtney Clayton
  •  
Jan. 10, 2018
The Stanford Daily

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