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‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ (1974) is a cleverly-written horror classic

Mason Barrett
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Jan. 21, 2025
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How About Now: ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ preemptively rebels against teen-comedies

Mason Barrett
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Nov. 18, 2024
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A Cactus in the Arizona Garden.

Demon haunting campus found to actually be a pretty chill dude

Garrett Khatchaturian
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Nov. 4, 2024
The Grind
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TTYL: What ‘The Giver’ gives

Sonnet Xu
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May 30, 2024
The Grind
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TTYL: Glory and Gilgamesh

Sonnet Xu
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May 7, 2024
The Grind
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TTYL: Machiavelli today

Sonnet Xu
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April 4, 2024
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Sarah Muller wrote ‘a poem of herself’

Judy N. Liu
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March 7, 2024
Campus Life
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Bicyclist killed in Palo Alto identified as visiting student researcher Sarah Muller

Judy N. Liu
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Feb. 29, 2024
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Richard Saller gives a talk to students

Richard Saller inaugurated as president

Jessica Zhu and Kaushikee Nayudu
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Oct. 19, 2023
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The SLEcret History: How a classics education took root at Stanford

Carolyn Stein
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April 29, 2022
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Classics for quarantine: Immobility in ‘Molloy’

Lily Nilipour
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March 3, 2021
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Do we still need to read and teach the classics?

Joelle Chien
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Aug. 30, 2020
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One proposal for class' location is a plan to build a temporary colosseum on Meyer Green. (Photo Edit: AMY LO/The Stanford Daily)

Stanford offering new course ‘How to be a Gladiator’

Dagny Carlsson
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May 4, 2020
Arts & Life
The newly-dead Eurydice (Skylar Adams) does not recognize the shade of her father (Carter Duncan) as the jeering chorus of Stones (Emma Lenza, Juliet Kulusic, Alexa Standridge) look on. (Photo: Stan Olszewski/SCU•Presents)

Language is the food of love in SCU’s ‘Eurydice’

Natalie Francis
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Nov. 13, 2019
Richard Saller gives a talk to students

Saller to step down as dean of School of Humanities & Sciences

Claire Wang
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Oct. 9, 2017
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At archaeology field schools, students excavate Byzantine church, a shipwreck and human bodies

Jessica Xing
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Aug. 15, 2016
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Code.org video causes controversy among students, professors

Olivia Moore
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April 2, 2013
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Bursting the Bubble: Lamenting the loss of IHUM

Edward Ngai
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Feb. 15, 2012
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