Michal Leibowitz – The Stanford Daily https://stanforddaily.com Breaking news from the Farm since 1892 Mon, 14 May 2018 09:12:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://stanforddaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-DailyIcon-CardinalRed.png?w=32 Michal Leibowitz – The Stanford Daily https://stanforddaily.com 32 32 204779320 Q&A: Philosophy professor Ray Briggs on politics’ role in modern poetry https://stanforddaily.com/2018/05/14/qa-philosophy-professor-ray-briggs-on-the-role-of-politics-in-modern-poetry/ https://stanforddaily.com/2018/05/14/qa-philosophy-professor-ray-briggs-on-the-role-of-politics-in-modern-poetry/#respond Mon, 14 May 2018 07:01:43 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/?p=1140966 Ray Briggs is a professor of philosophy at Stanford, and has published two books of poetry: “Free Logic” and “Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined,” in addition to the zine “Modern American Gods” (in collaboration with artist Anna Zusman). “Free Logic” won the 2012 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for emerging poets in Queensland and was shortlisted for a 2014 Queensland Literary Award.

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Ray Briggs is a professor of philosophy at Stanford, and has published two books of poetry: “Free Logic” and “Common Sexual Fantasies, Ruined,” in addition to the zine “Modern American Gods” (in collaboration with artist Anna Zusman). “Free Logic” won the 2012 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for emerging poets in Queensland and was shortlisted for a 2014 Queensland Literary Award. 

Q&A: Philosophy professor Ray Briggs on politics' role in modern poetry
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In conversation with The Daily, Briggs discussed the relationship between poetry and philosophy, the role of politics in arts and rats that masquerade as small dogs.

The Stanford Daily (TSD): Your first book of poetry is titled “Free Logic.” Is there a connection between the logic of poetry and the logic of philosophy?

Ray Briggs (RB): I think so. I like to write a lot of poems about philosophy. The title of the book is because one of the poems is called “Free Logic,” which is a kind of logic where you can introduce dummy or real names for things that don’t really exist. So I wrote about a poem about reasoning about things that don’t exist and lists of things that don’t exist.

I think that philosophical puzzles are a really great source of poetic material and I think that poetry helps me to write better philosophy articles because it’s really easy to write in a style that nobody wants to read if you don’t think about what you’re doing.

TSD: How does that influence manifest itself in your writing? Are there specific things you pay attention to while writing philosophy articles?

RB: I pay attention to using concrete examples, the cadence of my sentences and the structure of the thing I’m writing. I think a lot of the skills are transferable back and forth between poetry and philosophy.

TSD: Are there any philosophers that you think are especially poetic, or poets that you think are especially philosophical?

RB: What do we want to classify Audre Lorde as? Maybe both, because she wrote both poetry and essays (which don’t always get taught in the philosophy department, but sometimes do). She’s just a really good writer. I remember some poor guy gave a paper on Audre Lorde and he wrote as reasonably well as any of us do, but had to include block quotes from her which is unfortunate for anybody because she writes so much better than the average academic. So I think that she’s sort of good at both the poetic skills and the philosophical skills.

I also like this poet — I’m going to butcher her name — Szymborska? She has a wonderful poem about preferences that I read a lot when I was writing about preferences. It’s just a list of things that she prefers and is sort of a self-portrait.

TSD: What work were you doing on preferences?

RB: I’m interested in a bunch of things. At the time, I was working on this project about what the relationship is between getting what you prefer and being well-off — so preference-satisfaction theories of well being. I think [the theories] get something fundamentally right but have some obvious problems that need to be overcome.

TSD: What are the obvious problems?

RB: One obvious problem is that you can have a preference intuitively because you have a mistaken belief. So there’s this example by Bernard Williams of somebody who wants a glass of gin, and mistakes a glass of petrol for a glass of gin. And forms […] the desire to drink what’s in that particular glass [although] it looks like that wouldn’t be good for them, and they only have the desire because they made a mistake.

TSD: Switching gears a bit, do you have any poetic projects currently in the works?

RB: I actually just finished a collaboration with my friend Anna Zusman, called “Modern American Gods.” We visualized concepts that Americans are fixated on collectively, as though they were gods in some kind of polytheistic pantheon. So she draws icons of them — I think she doesn’t really want them to be icons, I think pictures is what she says — and I write prayers to them.

TSD: What are examples of these gods?

RB: Lets see, so we’ve got a god of cultural appropriation and a goddess of political correctness. I insisted on the god of firearms. We’ve also got a god of terrorism. So they’re not necessarily things that Americans think are good — they’re all meant to be ambivalent rather than all good or all bad. Just things that are important. So we’ve got a god of freedom and a god of comfort and a god of family values and a goddess of fame. There are 26 in all.

TSD: This project sounds a little bit political. What do you think the roles of politics is in poetry?

RB: Anna and I talked a lot about the role of art and politics and it’s hard to do political poetry, I think, because you don’t want to be didactic and you can really spoil the aesthetics of it. And actually having a collaborator was really good for preventing me from getting didactic, because we disagreed about all kinds of things and so it was a conversation, and one of the things we wanted to model was how do you disagree and have a conversation about it that captures both sides of the disagreement.

I actually really like poetry as a place to talk about politics because I’ve found that … I can reach [people I can’t talk to otherwise] if we both do art, even if we disagree. And it opens up a realm of possibility and empathy that are really hard to get if you’re just yelling at each other across the table.

TSD: Do you know what’s next?

RB: So I know what’s next with Anna. This is much less political. We were walking around one day and looking at small dogs and sort of spun out this story about rats. There’s sort of the urban legend of the small dog that turns out to be a rat, and we thought what would it look like from the rat’s perspective? And we talked about a family of poor rats, whose only hope was to send their child out to dog finishing school to be adopted as a rich person’s dog. We’re going to probably make an illustrated zine about that of some kind.

TSD: What poem are you most proud of?

RB: I’m still really fond of this thing I published in the Canadian journal “Arc” called “Questioning Your Masculinity.” As is so often the case, I wrote it because I found something in the world that upset me and wanted to process it. So somebody else on a poetry forum … had written what I thought was a really sad poem about being threatened by his wife’s ability to parallel park. And I thought, what kind of human being does this? And I wanted to write something about that but I didn’t want to just sound angry, because that bores people. And I was sort of sad, I was sort of angry — I wanted the world to deliver up something better than that — and so I wrote a series of questions about what masculinity is.

And [the questions] were making it much more concrete than I think it actually is, so I asked about its color, and where you keep it, and its texture and can you teach it to sing. And I’m proud of that because I managed to turn this very closed set of feeling that I was experiencing into a very open list of questions, and there’s not a set of right answers presupposed to any of the questions. The reader kind of gets to answer them for themself.

 

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In wake of reported drugging at Sigma Chi, some Row houses change alcohol policies https://stanforddaily.com/2018/05/08/in-wake-of-sigma-chi-drugging-some-row-houses-change-alcohol-policies-and-others-dont/ https://stanforddaily.com/2018/05/08/in-wake-of-sigma-chi-drugging-some-row-houses-change-alcohol-policies-and-others-dont/#respond Tue, 08 May 2018 07:30:14 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/?p=1140637 The alleged drugging of several Stanford students by a non-Stanford student at the Sigma Chi fraternity house in January has motivated some Row houses to institute new practices to prevent future drugging incidents. Others, however, have not made such changes.

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The alleged drugging of several Stanford students by a non-Stanford student at the Sigma Chi fraternity house in January has motivated some — but not all — Row houses to institute new practices to prevent future drugging incidents.

After the alleged drugging, which occurred at a party and led to several hospitalizations, the Alpha Omega Housing Corporation, the Sigma Chi alumni organization that owns the Stanford chapter’s residence, banned alcohol from the Stanford chapter’s house and began an investigation that prevented the fraternity from participating in spring recruitment. As a result,  the house became a tier-three “self-op” for the 2018-2019 year.

One house that has made changes is the self-operating Haus Mitteleuropa, which instituted new practices at all-campus events, including the popular Beer & Pretzels. According to Haus Mitt theme associate Michael Spelfogel ’18, although large-scale drink spiking is not necessarily prevalent on campus, the new measures at Haus Mitt were instated in direct response to the alleged drugging at Sigma Chi.

Spelfogel said that staff members no longer pre-pour drinks, but instead hand out beer and other beverages as they are requested.

“In the past, our house and others would have dozens of cups on our bar or our counter and people could go up and grab them, but we wanted to minimize the possibility of anyone tampering with the drinks before they were consumed,” said Spelfogel.

Additionally, Haus Mitt amended its “consent sign” to include a clause about drinking safety. The sign, which partygoers must read aloud in order to enter house events, requires attendees to “show love, kindness and respect” to others, and to recognize that Haus Mitt will not tolerate acts of bigotry. The new clause requires partygoers to also promise, “I will watch my drink and not leave it unattended.”

“We made [the] changes to better protect all of the students who come to our events,” said Spelfogel.

Other Row houses, like the fraternity Kappa Alpha, have made no formal changes in response to the events at Sigma Chi. However, Kappa Alpha President Justin Kaull ’19 reported an increase in vigilance among the group’s members and leadership.

“We’ve really just talked to our membership and said … if you see something, say something or do something and be ready to step in,” Kaull said.

New measures have not been enacted everywhere. According to Kairos resident assistant Eisa Al-Shamma ’18, the co-op has not changed practices at its events in response to the Sigma Chi drugging.

“We’ve never had reports of [drugging] happening at Kairos or at any Kairos function, so it’s not something we are so actively thinking about preventing,” Al-Shamma said.

Drinks at Kairos events are poured by house members over the age of 21 and handed directly to event-goers, according to Al-Shamma. The Kairos “consent sign” does not include a clause about drink safety.

Julie Freels ’19 said that although she believes Row houses should take steps to prevent drink-spiking, the amended consent sign at Haus Mitt “seems a little bit pointless.”

“What college student doesn’t already know [not to] leave your drink unattended?” Freels asked.

Freels also expressed concern that altered consent signs might suggest that drugging victims are responsible for their attacks.

“[The sign at Haus Mitt implies] that if I’m not watching my drink, it’s my fault, whatever happens to me,” she said.

Other residences, including the Enchanted Broccoli Forest (EBF), avoid drink-spiking by not offering drinks at all-campus parties.

“Because we don’t offer alcohol or drugs at EBF parties open to the Stanford community, I don’t know that I have much to say,” Bella Wilcox ’19, EBF’s community manager, wrote in an email to The Daily. She added that they “haven’t run into many issues regarding drugs and alcohol.”

Staff from Jerry made similar statements, noting that the self-op house generally does not throw all-campuses.

According to a 2017 study published in the journal “Psychology of Violence,” over 1 in 13 college students surveyed report being drugged at one point. Although the study relied on self-reported data, it had a large sample size, analyzing survey data from over 6,000 students at three U.S. universities.

The study stated that victims reported that their druggings most often occurred in a house or apartment (38 percent), followed by a fraternity (29.7 percent) or a bar (26.3 percent). Reports of druggings were significantly less prevalent in dorms (4.8 percent) and sororities (1.2 percent).

The Daily also reached out to the leadership of Delta Delta Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, and Theta Delta Chi for interviews regarding any changes the houses may have made in response to the Sigma Chi drugging incident. All declined to comment.

Leadership from Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Sigma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Nu, Slavianskii Dom and 576 Alvarado did not respond to requests for comment.

 

Yasmin Samrai contributed to this report.

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April 19: On this day in Stanford history https://stanforddaily.com/2018/04/19/april-19-on-this-day-in-stanford-history/ https://stanforddaily.com/2018/04/19/april-19-on-this-day-in-stanford-history/#respond Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:05:23 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/?p=1139644 The feature “On this day in Stanford history” details events that occurred on the same date in past years at Stanford.

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The feature “On this day in Stanford history” details events that occurred on the same date in past years at Stanford.

According to The Stanford Daily’s archives, on April 19 in…

1906 — In the wake of the San Francisco earthquake on April 16, University President David Starr Jordan announced that “all class work in Stanford University shall be suspended for the rest of the college year.”

1949— The Daily reported an escalation in a dispute involving Stanford’s fraternities and a California milk law. Protesting the law’s requirement that fraternities serve milk in individual containers, members of Theta Delta borrowed a cow from the Peninsula Creamery. The cow was photographed with fraternity members by Life Magazine.

1962 — Over 1,200 students signed a petition in support of a referendum that would allow students over 21 to purchase, consume and transport alcoholic beverages on campus without facing disciplinary action.

1968 — The Legislature of the Associated Students of Stanford University (LASSU) proposed a resolution urging the University to use its power to encourage local businesses to “adopt more positive policies toward recruitment and training of minority group members.”

1977 In a particularly lively Undergraduate Senate meeting, one senator set fire to another senator’s petition and the Senate voted to adopt a resolution stating: “Be it resolved that the ASSU Senate believes Stanford University needs a return of cheerleaders about as much as it needs more nerds, and asks the Athletic Department and others pushing for the return of this convention to let this sleeping dog lie.”

1989  The Daily reported that a Stanford research team, led by material sciences professor Robert Huggins, successfully produced energy in a jar at room temperature, lending support to the case for “cold fusion.”

2006 — University President John Hennessy and Law School Dean Larry Kramer issued statements criticizing the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which prohibited military personnel from discriminating against closeted gay, lesbian or bisexual service members while excluding openly gay, lesbian or bisexual people from military service.

2007 On the eighth day of a hunger strike, representatives of the Stanford Labor Action Committee met with administrators to demand reform to the University’s living wage policy.

A few days earlier, on April 15, 1991  The Daily reported on First Lady Barbara Bush’s visit to the gala opening of the Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital. Following a morning tour of the facilities, Bush played a game of cards with young patients and then attended the gala as the guest of honor.

 

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In its weekly meeting, 19th Senate prepares for 20th https://stanforddaily.com/2018/04/04/in-its-weekly-meeting-19th-senate-prepares-for-20th/ https://stanforddaily.com/2018/04/04/in-its-weekly-meeting-19th-senate-prepares-for-20th/#respond Wed, 04 Apr 2018 07:01:39 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/?p=1138712 In its 25th meeting, the 19th Undergraduate Senate focused on the forthcoming transition to the new class of Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) representatives. Discussion covered a change to election rules that would allow campaigning to continue up through the voting period, a bill to institute Rosenberg’s Rules of Order in Senate meetings and a bill to allocate funding for the new Senate.

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In its 25th meeting, the 19th Undergraduate Senate focused on the forthcoming transition to the new class of Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) representatives. Discussion covered a change to election rules that would allow campaigning to continue up through the voting period, a bill to institute Rosenberg’s Rules of Order in Senate meetings and a bill to allocate funding for the new Senate leadership class.

ASSU President Justice Tention ’18 reported on the Sexual Violence Coalition’s penultimate meeting, in which the group discussed Stanford’s first Annual Title IX/Sexual Harassment Report. Tention also noted that the cabinet’s current focus is on “finishing up the cabinet’s projects and transitioning it over to the next [cabinet].”

ASSU financial manager Jelani Munroe ’16 next reported that the Student Activities Fee waiver process is now open for its usual period at the beginning of the quarter. Citing cost overruns in the past quarter that led the Senate to reduce funding for annual grants groups, Munroe asked Senators to remind students to “waive responsibly.”

“The [waiver] process exists,” said Munroe, “but it can potentially impact groups that [the students waiving fees] are a part of.”

Senate Chair Kojoh Atta ’20 spoke about a key change in ASSU election rules from previous years: candidates will now be allowed to campaign from Monday, April 2, through the end of the voting period on Friday, April 13. Elections results will be announced on Saturday, April 14.

Lizzie Ford ’20, Student Life Committee chair, reported that AlertSU has agreed to a Student Life Committee request for them to restructure the format of alerts to make the content clearer, as well as to add a phrase before alerts concerning sexual violence.

The motion to fully recommend the Appropriations Committee recommendations on this week’s Quick Grant funding bills passed successfully.

Much of the Senate meeting was spent discussing bills to replace the Undergraduate Senate Rules of Order with Rosenberg’s Rules of Order and to allocate discretionary funding to the new Senate leadership class.

The purpose of the first bill, authored by ASSU assistant financial manager Luka Fatuesi ’17, is to tackle issues of clarity in Senate proceedings.

“The great thing about Rosenberg’s Rules is that it’s very direct, it’s very straightforward,” said Fatuesi.

He noted that Rosenberg’s Rules offer more structure for the meeting’s chair to address issues that often appear in current Senate debate, such as having multiple motions on the table at once. Fatuesi noted that he brought the bill to the 19th Undergraduate Senate so that they could test-pilot the rules before the 20th Undergraduate Senate is sworn in.

Senate debate also centered on a bill authored by Senator Katie Hufker ’18 that would allocate funding for a spring quarter leadership class designed to train incoming student leaders. Hufker requested $2000 to provide dinner and supplies to the participants.

The leadership class is a partnership between Student Activities and Leadership (SAL) and the ASSU. SAL will be providing partial funding, but the bill requested an allocation from ASSU’s discretionary fund to cover the remainder.

Senator Aamnah Khalid ’20 questioned the necessity of the funds, noting that other committees, such as Academic Affairs, lack funding for their initiatives. Instead of spending $2000 of discretionary funding “on food for a thing that we could arrange food for…by shifting the timing of this entire meeting,” Khalid said the funds could be spent on things like sustainable initiatives benefiting first generation and low-income students.

 

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Speak-out calls on University to use Brock Turner victim’s quote for memorial plaque https://stanforddaily.com/2018/02/25/speak-out-calls-on-university-to-use-brock-turner-victims-quote-for-memorial-plaque/ https://stanforddaily.com/2018/02/25/speak-out-calls-on-university-to-use-brock-turner-victims-quote-for-memorial-plaque/#respond Sun, 25 Feb 2018 19:32:21 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/?p=1137310 On Friday afternoon, approximately 60 Stanford community members gathered outside Kappa Alpha to demand that Stanford use a quote chosen by Brock Turner’s victim for a memorial plaque marking the site of her 2015 sexual assault.

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On Friday afternoon, approximately 60 Stanford community members gathered outside Kappa Alpha to demand that Stanford use a quote chosen by Brock Turner’s victim for a memorial plaque marking the site of her 2015 sexual assault.

The “speak-out,” organized by the Stanford Association of Students for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP), came on the heels of a controversy that began when Stanford rejected the use of two quotes selected by Turner’s victim, known publicly as “Emily Doe.”  These quotes were drawn from the statement she addressed to Turner at his 2016 sentencing. Following the University’s rejection of her proposed quotes, Doe dissociated from the memorial plaque process.

University spokesperson E.J. Miranda said that Doe’s selections “were inconsistent with a contemplative space,” and that one of them was potentially triggering to sexual assault survivors.

Instead, Stanford proposed alternative quotations from the statement – including “I’m right here, I’m okay, everything’s okay, I’m right here” — which were widely criticized by students, faculty and alumni in a petition organized by ASAP.

According to its co-authors, Stephanie Pham ’18, ASAP co-founder and speak-out organizer, and Matthew Baiza ’18, the petition called on Stanford to rescind its proposed quotes and immediately install the memorial plaque with the quote Doe originally chose.

Pham says that the petition has garnered over 600 signatures from Stanford community members. She added that she took the positive response to the petition as an indication that there would be support for an event in which students could publicly “listen to, believe and support survivors of sexual violence.”

University spokesperson E.J. Miranda wrote in an email to The Daily that Stanford embraced the suggestion from Emily Doe’s representatives to create a space for reflection. Though Doe’s representatives informed the University she is no longer interested in a quote, he said “[the garden] serves the intended purpose for our community.”

During the speak-out, students read portions of Doe’s statement, called the campus community to action and shared personal stories relating to sexual assault.

According to Pham, the speak-out was organized around Doe’s victim-impact statement to “bring the survivor’s voice back into [the] space where it was silenced.” Signs with quotations from Doe’s statement, such as “You took away my worth,” surrounded speakers at the event.

Student speakers included ASSU President Justice Tention-Palmer ’18, ASAP leader Jacqueline Lin ’18 and ASSU senators Gabe Rosen ’19 and Katie Hufker ’18. The students addressed a variety of topics related to Stanford’s sexual assault policies and rape culture.

“No one should be ignored or censored, especially those who have already experienced the disrespect of doubt and the pain of being silenced,” Rosen said during his speech. “We are here today to say that Stanford’s dismissal of Emily Doe’s chosen quote is unacceptable, especially after Stanford agreed to give her autonomy.”

Pham said that she was initially proud of Stanford’s decision to remove the dumpster near the site where Doe was assaulted and replace it with a scenic marker, seeing it as a sign the University accepted responsibility for Doe’s assault. When Stanford rejected Doe’s proposed quotes, however, Pham said she interpreted it as “an act of further silencing.”

“If the University goes forward with one of its proposed quotes, it’s just another act of the University rewriting the story for the survivor and taking away her voice,” she said.

The event comes a week after Stanford law professor and activist Michele Dauber received a written rape threat in an envelope that also included a suspicious powder. Dauber’s petition to recall Judge Aaron Persky ’84 M.A. ’85 – who, according to petition supporters, gave Turner too lenient of a sentence – has exceeded the number of valid signatures needed to qualify for the June 5 ballot.

“It’s very clear that Stanford has a problem,” said Shanta Katipamula ’19 in reference to sexual violence on campus, the University’s handling of the last Campus Climate Survey, its response to the Brock Turner case and its aftermath and recent student and faculty allegations of sexual assault and harassment.

“I think the common thread through all of this is how … Stanford handled it, and, in most situations, it’s handled it very poorly,” Katipamula added.

Commenting on the effect she hoped the speak-out would have, Alexis Kallen ’18 said, “I hope that Emily Doe feels like she is valued and she is listened to. We are here to fight for her and people like her.”

 

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Feb. 22: On this day in Stanford history… https://stanforddaily.com/2018/02/22/feb-22-on-this-day-in-stanford-history/ https://stanforddaily.com/2018/02/22/feb-22-on-this-day-in-stanford-history/#respond Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:10:37 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/?p=1137149 The feature “On this day in Stanford history” details events that occurred on the same date in past years at Stanford. According to The Stanford Daily’s archives, on Feb. 22 in….

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The feature “On this day in Stanford history” details events that occurred on the same date in past years at Stanford.

According to The Stanford Daily’s archives, on Feb. 22 in….

1911 – The Palo Alto Women’s Christian Temperance Union sponsored an essay contest with a $50 prize for the best paper on the topic of “The Relation of Individual Total Abstinence to National Prosperity.”

1944 – Concerns about “cafeteria-”style education and poor academic advising were raised at the ASSU Forum on “Education at Stanford: An Evaluation.”

1971 – The Daily printed Peter Knutson’s account of his experience testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee. During his testimony, Knutson spoke out against the extension of the selective service law and allegedly said, “This talk [of war] would cease rather quickly if men like the President and Senators were drafted, given an M-16 and told to lead the first wave.”

1972 – The Daily reported that the Navy had prohibited its officers from taking government-financed graduate programs at Stanford and other schools that had phased out the ROTC program.

1977 – Bertram Wolf, a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institute, died of severe burns after his robe was ignited by an electrical wall heater.

1980 – Plans for an underground addition to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) were unveiled. The multimillion dollar center was designed to house an energy beam three times more powerful than any other in the world.

1991 – The Associated Students of Stanford University Senate passed a bill supporting the extension of married benefits to gay and lesbian faculty and staff couples. The bill recommended that the University give employees’ same-sex partners access to the benefits already available to legally married spouses, including medical insurance, retirement annuity funds and access to University facilities.

1993 – The Daily reported on Rapper Ice-T’s speech at Kresge Auditorium, in which he told students, “Do not believe that America is so intellectual that we are beyond revolution…it can happen anywhere.”

2008 – Tree candidate Jack Cackler ’09 was disqualified from Tree Week after Band leadership determined that one of his stunts – charging through a group of friends who struck him in the chest with fluorescent light bulbs – exposed  him as “not particularly smart.”

 

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