I’ve highlighted the most current of my news and features reporting under the following categories: ‘Mental Health & Crises’; ‘Fadi Quran’; and ‘Student Features.’ Please click on one of these categories in the tab above to see my work on these subjects.
Otherwise, below are select older clips from my News writing volumes at The Stanford Daily.
News Senior Staff Writer & News Desk Editor
(July 2011 – Present)
February 3, 2012
“The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation — the result of a $30 million gift to the Stanford School of Engineering and the Columbia School of Journalism (J-School) from former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown — will be up and running on both campuses by the start of the 2012-13 academic year.
Stanford and Columbia will each receive $6 million to sustain a director on each campus and a fellow on each location to support the director. Each school will have an additional $6 million endowment to support “magic grants” — collaborative student projects related to technology and digital journalism…”
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January 30, 2012
“Kappa Sigma fraternity will be reinstated to its former house at 1035 Campus Drive for the 2012-13 academic year, announced Deborah Golder, Dean of Residential Education (ResEd), Friday afternoon.
The decision comes nine months after ResEd removed Kappa Sigma from the house, following two years of behavior that Golder called “dangerous,” in an interview with The Daily last March…”
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October 17, 2011
“This year’s number of alcohol-related transports, thirteen as of Friday, Oct. 14, is on par so far with the number that occurred last year, according to Ralph Castro, director of the new Office of Alcohol Policy and Education (OAPE).
This year, all of the cases were caused by excess consumption of hard alcohol and resulted in emergency room entrance at the Stanford Hospital & Clinics. This year’s cases help demonstrate the increasing prevalence of “pre-gaming” with hard alcohol, or consuming hard alcohol before going out to parties, Castro said…”
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September 30, 2011
“Stanford has devoted increasing attention to its campaign addressing sexual violence on campus since the formation of the Office of Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse (SARA) Education & Response last June.
In June, the University appointed Angela Exson as the new Assistant Dean of SARA…”
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August 11, 2011
Congress’s Aug. 2 approval of a last-minute debt ceiling increase marked the beginning of at least a week of instability in the U.S. economy, which included Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgrading the country’s credit rating, volatility in the stock markets and the Federal Reserve Bank’s announcement that it will maintain low federal interest rates.
American economists, including those at Stanford, have a variety of theories as to how the situation came to be, as well as how it will play out.
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August 4, 2011
“Stanford Overseas Seminars are returning to the University for the 2011-12 academic year.
The program, which is run by the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP), will accommodate between 60 and 75 students in five three-week long seminars during summer 2012. The program should then expand to its peak size of 10 seminars for 150 students in 2013. Specific details on the programs offered have not yet been announced…”
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Two recent reports from Stanford Security Lab (SSL) researchers have fueled an ongoing debate over privacy issues in the largely self-regulated online advertising industry.
The findings, released June 12 and June 19, respectively stated that some online advertising companies contradict their privacy policies after consumers choose to “opt-out” of tracking and that Epic Marketplace, another online advertising firm, was “history stealing” from users. All the agencies involved participate in the Network Advertising Initiative, a cooperative of online advertisers that has self-regulated the industry since 1999.
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July 21, 2011
“As a result of a recent student-led campaign to extend alumni access to Stanford email addresses, the classes of 2009, 2010 and 2011 will have access to their @stanford.edu accounts until May 31, 2012. After this date, email sent to those addresses will be forwarded to an @alumni.stanford.edu account for an additional year.
Under the prior system, alumni were given email addresses at an @stanfordalumni.org domain. Their @stanford.edu accounts were terminated 120 days after graduation, with no subsequent email forwarding. The change in policy is the result of collaboration between members of the ASSU Senate and Executive, Information Technology Services, the Stanford Alumni Association, Vice Provost for Student Affairs Greg Boardman, Provost John Etchemendy and students…”
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July 14, 2011
“Researchers from the Department of Electrical Engineering recently released open-source code to their ClassX program, which allows online streaming of lectures and public access to recordings that would otherwise require expensive classroom equipment to produce.
ClassX, used in nine Stanford classrooms this past spring, allows streaming in high resolution and lets students zoom in, tilt and pan to any specific area of the room. It also provides video synchronization with lecture slides and allows students to review the videos as long as the professor chooses to keep them online — without the large storage requirements typically associated with high-resolution video…”
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Opinions Fellow & Managing Editor of Opinions
(November 2010 – May 2011)
- “Home Sweet Home” – description of my first trip home after leaving for college (11/28/10)
- “Mid Year Evaluation” – some academic anxieties I had (and still have) after my first quarter of college (1/18/11)
- “In Defense of Being a Pack Rat” – my obsession with sentimentality and inability to throw away memories (2/4/11). The first of my Daily column, “Obsessive Kompulsion”
- “I Believe I Can Fly?” – my conflicting love/fascination and fear of planes/flying (2/11/11)
- “Poking Holes In The Illusion” – essentially this bubbled out of sexual frustration, but marked a real attempt on my part to be honest and clear about my emotions internally and for others (2/25/11)
- “In Memoriam” – grief is something I’ve been dealing with for three years now. An ode to my aunt and a lost classmate. (3/4/11)
- “The Advantages of a Liberal Education” – This is the column most similar to the kinds of posts I’d like to make here (4/15/11)
- “Baby’s Got The Bends (Oh No)” – AHH! (4/22/11)
- “(Wel)COME TO STANFORD” – My pitch to prospective students on Admit Weekend about why Stanford’s the greatest place to be as an undergrad. (4/29/11)
- “Pop Goes The Weasel” – Trying to evaluate the sadness/emptiness/angst I felt spring quarter (5/6/11)
- “Escape” – Continuation of the prior column’s theme (5/13/11)
- “Synthetic Synthesis” – This was unintentionally my last column of the volume. I wanted (and did) to resolve the issues in a non-public setting. (5/20/11)
