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Campus Life
The Axe Committee's Big Game countdown tent in White Plaza.

Tree-ditions: Stanford rallies for 128th Big Game

Violet Negrette and Naina Mehrotra
  •  
Nov. 19
Campus Life
Andrew Luck ’12 M.A. ’23 delivered a speech to spare a turkey on loan from a nearby farm. (Photo: MARA HANKINS/The Stanford Daily)

Andrew Luck pardons turkey in a new Big Game week tradition

Mara Hankins
  •  
Nov. 19
Campus Life
students assemble in main quad for full moon on the quad

Full Moon on the Quad returns as a quirky but consensual tradition

Claire Wang
  •  
May 13
Humor
Main quad with students standing under lit up palm trees at night.

Full Moon on the Quad Bingo

Vol. 267 Humor Section
  •  
May 11
Speakers & Events
A lecturer stands in front of an audience.

Berkeley philosopher challenges traditional views of love and consciousness

George Porteous
  •  
May 8
News
profros and hohos waiting to be dismissed at Frost Amphitheater

Stanford welcomes 1,500 ProFros to campus for Admit Weekend

Naomi Breuer
  •  
April 28
Screen
A movie director's sign with gender symbols on it with text "HER POV."

Her POV: ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ calls to speak ill of the living before they die

Blyss Cleveland
  •  
April 21
Campus Life
Faculty and staff served students a hot buffet at Arrillaga Family Dining Commons (AFDC) during Stanford’s Midnight Breakfast Tuesday—a study break before finals. (Photo: HANNAH SHU/The Stanford Daily)

Annual Midnight Breakfast brings students together

Sam Solomon
  •  
March 11
Opinions
A logo for the ASSU featuring The Claw fountain.

Ganesan | ASSU are not party planners

Divya Ganesan
  •  
Feb. 28
Opinions
Hoover tower

Weis | Stanford has an identity crisis

Colin Weis
  •  
Feb. 27
The Grind
What happens when beloved traditions begin to feel like they no longer belong to you? (Photo: SANTIAGO AMPUDIA CASTELAZO/The Stanford Daily)

A not-so-merry Christmas

Santiago Ampudia Castelazo
  •  
Jan. 7
The Grind
Stanford students dressed in red hold the Axe trophy.

Heartbreak, hope and tradition: My Big Game journey at Stanford

Joanne dePierre
  •  
Nov. 14, 2024
Humor
The full moon behind thin clouds.

Full moon on the quad: The insider’s scoop

Eric Heng
  •  
Feb. 6, 2023
The Grind
A pair of chopsticks hold up a dumpling, framed against an orange background. A melting, blue and yellow clock dangles from the dumpling.

‘The Mirror’: The traveler’s malady

Eric Liu
  •  
Nov. 13, 2022
Opinions
A child stands carrying a plastic bag containing a newspaper.

Zhang | Rituals

Cybele Zhang
  •  
June 7, 2022
The Grind
Top-down view of braided hair.

Answering six common questions about Afro-textured hair

Ecy King
  •  
Jan. 24, 2022
Opinions
A cartoon Oski and Stanford Tree

Opinion | Big Game week: A Brief History of Axe-related Shenanigans

Julia Donlon
  •  
Nov. 19, 2021
Sports Features
The Axe, the ultimate trophy of the Stanford-Cal rivalry, became the centerpiece of a legendary 1973 heist that outsmarted tight security and sparked chaos.

Q&A: Axe Committee Chair Alex Hou ’21

Cybele Zhang
  •  
Nov. 24, 2020
News
In a Wednesday email, University leaders and officials notified the community that a committee was commissioned to evaluate and potentially modify the tradition. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Committee to review ‘Secret Snowflake’ tradition after sexual harassment complaints

Sarina Deb
  •  
Feb. 19, 2020
The Grind
Nearly every Stanford student owns some form of rally, so Richard Coca describes what someone's rally preferences may say about them. (Photo: LINDA A. CICERO / Stanford News Service)

What the rally you wear says about you

Richard Coca
  •  
Nov. 20, 2019
The Stanford Daily

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