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Individuals who fail to comply with the vaccine mandate by Dec. 8 and are not granted medical or religious accommodations will no longer be allowed to perform work for the University. Drell, Minor and Furr wrote that they will share more information on requesting accommodations during the week of Oct. 18.

They wrote that for employees that need to be vaccinated, “the process needs to begin well in advance for someone to be fully vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination on Health Check by Dec. 8.”

The University provided a timeframe to meet this deadline based on each vaccine manufacturer: the first dose of the

“Everything I love about America, I found in our friend, George Shultz,” said General James Mattis during his speech at former Secretary of State George Shultz’s memorial service at Memorial Church on Thursday afternoon.

Mattis joined a host of other University and national dignitaries in recognizing Shultz and his extensive accomplishments.

Shultz, a distinguished former fellow at the Hoover Institution and former professor emeritus at the Graduate School of Business, served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and played a critical role in ushering in the end of the Cold War. He died in February at the age Courtesy of Drew Alitzer of 100.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken The memorial and former Secretaries of State service, hosted by the Henry Kissinger, Condoleezza Shultz family, featured prominent speakers Rice and James Baker attended such as Secretary of the memorial service for George State Antony Blinken Shultz in Main Quad. and former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice, James Baker and Henry Kissinger.

Remembrance speeches ranged from moments of respect for the selfless, accomplished life that Shultz lived to appreciation of the improvements and life lessons he bestowed on the Stanford community.

“No words said here today will ever capture George’s 100 years here on earth,” Rice said. “He was the consummate public servant, serving our country with dignity and skill.”

Rice described Shultz’s immense achievements during his time in national government and military service, but she spent the majority of her time highlighting his contributions to the organization that became a large part of his life: Stanford’s Hoover Institution.

“George and Stanford University, it was a terrific match,” Rice said.

Shultz joined the Stanford community in 1968 after graduating from Princeton University in 1942 and obtaining a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949. He was a steady and prominent mentor for fellow Stanford faculty and students, even during his brief hiatuses during which he served in Presidential cabinets, according to Rice. Shultz was also a fervent fan of Stanford Athletics, particularly the University’s football and basketball teams, Rice added.

Rice recalled Shultz’s ceaseless dedication to nuclear disarmament, environmental sustainability, energy policy and defending the values of democracy. His actions and stories always inspired younger people, because “he loved and respected them,” she said.

While most of the remembrances focused on Shultz’s legacy, those who knew him well shared light-hearted memories of their favorite moments with him. Kissinger recalled making a pact with Shultz to speak at each others’ memorial services some years ago.

“I’m not sure how George will carry out his end of the

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A Stanford touchdown in the final seconds of regulation and a subsequent trip to the endzone in overtime helped the Cardinal stun the No. 3 Ducks on Saturday. It was Stanford’s first victory over Oregon since an overtime win in 2018.

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On a 90-degree day in Palo Alto, unranked Stanford (3-2, 2-1 Pac-12) knocked off No. 3 Oregon (4-1, 1-1 Pac-12), 31-24, in an overtime thriller.

Sophomore quarterback Tanner McKee delivered when it mattered most — closing out regulation with a beautiful touchdown drive to tie the score and piecing together another clutch shot to the end zone in OT. He finished 20-for-36, with 230 yards and three touchdowns. McKee has yet to throw his first career interception.

For the second time this year, the opening kickoff featured a targeting ejection on an opposing player. It wasn’t as bizarre as last time at USC, where the kicker (a much more integral player) was ejected, but this time it was Oregon redshirt freshman cornerback Trikweze Bridges who would miss the entirety of the game.

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Junior wide receiver Elijah Higgins (6, above) reeled in a touchdown pass from sophomore quarterback Tanner McKee (18, above) as time expired to tie the score at 24 and send the teams to an unexpected overtime.

HEALTH

Vaccination required for employees Full COVID-19 vaccination required by Dec. 8

By ORIANA RILEY Stanford will require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 8, it announced in a Wednesday email to the campus community. The policy maintains an exception for employees with religious or medical accommodations.

The change in policy follows an executive order announced by President Biden on Sept. 9 that requires all employees of federal contractors to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Due to Stanford’s many federal contracts, Biden’s executive

order applies to almost every Stanford employee, according to the email, which was signed by Provost Persis Drell, Dean of the School of Medicine Lloyd Minor and Associate Vice Provost for Environmental Health and Safety Russell Furr.

Employees who have already submitted proof of their vaccination status are not affected by the new policy. However, the University’s previous “additional allowance for those who chose not to get vaccinated for any reason” will no longer be valid. All Stanford faculty, staff and postdoctoral scholars without medical and religious exemptions now need to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8.

The requirement applies to employees who work on campus as well as University employees working remotely in the Unit-

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New UG2 package centers face scrutiny Students stress over long wait times, lost packages

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By CAMERON EHSAN DESK EDITOR

As a Type 1 diabetic patient, fourth-year Ph.D. student Delaney Miller requires regular intake of insulin. She relies on a package center on the Stanford campus for medication delivery, but when she ordered her first shipment of insulin after the package center operator changed in September, the doses were nowhere

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When Miller finally received her insulin — two days and multiple frantic emails later — the doses were unrefrigerated and at risk of spoiling.

“I’ve been receiving these deliveries through the mail at Stanford for the past three years and have never had an issue with delivery before this,” Miller said. “There was no reason for me to suspect that it would be a problem.”

The issue is rooted in Stanford’s decision to switch its mail service provider from FedEx to UG2, a facilities and custodial management company with which the University contracts. Miller’s story is not an isolated

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one — following the switch to UG2, undergraduates and graduate students alike have experienced difficulties with the new package center operator.

Students have reported delayed and lost packages, as well as hourlong wait times. While undergraduate students still rely on the package center at Tresidder Union, graduate students must pick up their packages from the new Graduate Package Center (GPC) — a change for Escondido Village Graduate Residences (EVGR) residents who used to be able to get packages delivered to

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Students lining up at the package center at Tresidder Memorial Union.

Many have reported long wait times and delayed packages, though package processing has improved in recent days.

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BOSP puts Kyoto on hold Winter quarter program suspended due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns

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8 student COVID cases reported Case count is the lowest since students returned to in-person instruction

By LOGAN GAINES The University reported eight new student and seven new employee COVID-19 cases for the week of Sept. 27, according to the COVID19 dashboard.

This week’s count is a significant decline from last week’s 26 new student cases and marks the lowest student case count in six weeks. The decline in cases comes even as COVID-19 restrictions on student activities have continued to loosen, with registered outdoor gatherings and parties permitted as of Oct. 1. Indoor student parties, however, are still prohibited until Oct. 8.

The case count also marks a decrease in the University’s seven-day positivity rate, which fell to 0.06% from last week’s 0.14%. This percentage is lower than Santa Clara County’s 1.1% positivity rate and California’s 2.6%.

The University did not immediately respond to a request for comment on how the low case count may affect safety precautions and rules moving forward.

Over the past 57 weeks, Stanford has completed over 390,000 student and 219,000 faculty, staff and postdoc tests via the University’s surveillance testing program, resulting in 345 total positive student cases and 262 faculty cases.

With a 95% vaccination rate across all Health Check users, many of the new COVID-19 cases are breakthrough cases, with affected individuals experiencing mild symptoms, according to the dashboard. Since students were required to turn in two swabs to a drop-off site in Week 1, the total is higher despite the same number of students.

Weekly COVID-19 testing and indoor masking are still required, regardless of vaccination status. The University continues to reinforce that “vaccines, especially when combined with wearing a face-covering, provide strong protection against serious illness,” as on the dashboard.

This article has been updated to include that the University required double testing in Week 1 (Day 0 and Day 5), which is why the total is higher, notwithstanding that the number of students remains the same.

The Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) suspended its winter study abroad program in Kyoto on Monday. The program announced its decision to participants through email.

“Due to ongoing COVID concerns in Japan, entry into the country for non-resident foreigners remains highly restricted and is expected to impact the ability of winter quarter participants to obtain visas in time to join the program,” wrote University spokesperson E.J. Miranda to The Daily.

BOSP encouraged the 15 participants in the Kyoto program to consider applying for the spring program in Kyoto or another winter quarter program still accepting applications. Those still hoping to study abroad during the winter quarter can still apply to Cape Town and Florence by Nov. 15, according to the BOSP website.

The first round of applications to study abroad in spring 2022 to Berlin, Cape Town, Florence, Kyoto, Madrid, New York, Oxford, Paris and Santiago is open until Oct. 10.

“We currently anticipate that all other BOSP Winter Quarter programs will continue as planned,” Miranda wrote.

Programs in Berlin, Florence, Hong Kong, Madrid, New York and Paris resumed this fall quarter after being canceled for six consecutive quarters beginning in spring 2020.

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Stanford suspended the Bing Overseas Studies Program in Kyoto, Japan for the 202122 winter quarter.

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Stanford launches sustainability minor

By ADITYA BORA The Earth Systems Program will offer a new Environmental Justice (EJ) minor beginning this year, announced Earth Systems Deputy Director Richard Nevle in a press release on Sept. 14.

The new minor is designed to provide students with “opportunities to study how and

why environmental inequities occur, and learn from community-led efforts to redress these inequities,” Nevle wrote. The new minor comes after nearly six years of collaboration between students, faculty and activist communities. Student advocates, faculty and staff at Stanford’s Environmental Justice Working Group played a key role in the formation of the minor, according to the press release.

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In the new minor, students will go beyond traditional education about the environment and learn about the role that race, class and gender have played in environmental inequities.

As part of the minor, students will begin by taking an introductory environmental justice course to gain insight into the overarching ways in which “race, class, and gender have shaped environmental battles being fought today,” according to the course description.

Students will also take classes in three different subject areas, or “streams.” The first stream includes coursework that teaches students about the history of socio-environmental movements. The second stream revolves around ethical frameworks, and students will learn the theory behind creating morally conscious solutions to environmental justice issues. The third stream focuses on the realworld implementation of environmental justice principles through advocacy training and collaboration with communities impacted by environmental injustices. After fulfilling these requirements, students will be eligible for the Cardinal Service Notation, which is a formal recognition of their commitment to public service that will appear on their transcript.

The minor is meant to bring together people who care about environmental justice on Stanford’s campus and combine technical solutions with policy considerations, historic context and public service, according to Dr. Emily Polk, Advanced Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric.

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Admin sound alarm after 10 undergrad transports

By MALAYSIA ATWATER MANAGING EDITOR

Stanford administrators are concerned about the safety of students after 10 undergraduates were transported to Stanford Hospital for alcohol poisoning in September, according to a Friday email from Vice Provost for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole, Senior Associate Vice Provost and Dean of Students Mona Hicks and Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of Vaden Health Services Jim Jacobs.

This number represents an increase in transports in comparison to previous years. There were two, four, eight and three transports in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively, according to the email.

“We are writing this evening with concern about over-intoxication during the first two weekends of fall quarter,” Brubaker-Cole, Hicks and Jacobs wrote. “This has been a challenging start to our academic year and a dangerous trajectory.”

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Ten undergraduates were transported to Stanford Hospital in the month of September for alcohol poisoning. This is a increase from previous years.

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Library holds first JEDI Fair

By CAMILA FERMIN

By BENJAMIN ZAIDEL DESK EDITOR

This report covers a selection of incidents from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4 as recorded in the Stanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) bulletin. Learn more about the Clery Act and how The Daily approaches reporting on crime and safety here.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 28

" Between

1:30 and 2:30 p.m., a vehicle burglary occurred at the Stanford Visitor Center.

"Between 9 and 11:30 p.m., a bike was stolen from Wilbur Hall.

"At 11:52 p.m., someone was loitering on private property at a Pine Hill Road residence.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29

" Between

11 a.m. and 1:10 p.m., a bike was stolen from the Shriram Center for Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 30

" Between 11:40 a.m. and 1:20 p.m.,

a vehicle burglary occurred at Tresidder Memorial Union parking lot. " Between 12 and 12:47 pm., a vehicle burglary occurred at the Stanford Golf Course. " Between 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 29 and 9 a.m., grand theft of over $950 occurred at the law school. " Between 10:30 and 10:50 p.m., grand theft of over $950 occurred at Toyon Hall. " Between 1:22 and 8 p.m., someone was reported for false pretenses at Quillen Highrise.

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their building.

Stanford and UG2 have attributed the initial confusion to an unexpectedly large volume of deliveries.

The number of packages arriving to students on campus has seen a threefold increase in contrast to before the pandemic, according to a University spokesperson.

Residential and Dining Enterprises (R&DE) spokesperson Jocelyn Breeland said in a statement that though UG2 has processed more than 27,000 packages for students in the past two weeks, “there is no space on campus where this volume of mail and packages can be sorted, scanned and delivered efficiently.”

Alternate locations for package processing and storage are being considered, she added.

In recent days, UG2 has managed to clear the backlog of packages and developed the capacity to process packages more efficiently, in part because of an expanded workforce and a new inventory management system. But some problems still remain.

Undergraduate package center at Tresidder The issues associated with the early days of the quarter — like package delays and long wait times — stemmed from a lack of preparedness for the unprecedented number of packages that inundated the package center, according to UG2 employees.

While the start of the academic year is a busy time for the package center, the fact that the incoming undergraduate class, with 2,131 firstyears and 66 transfer students, was the largest in Stanford’s history compounded the problem. The University’s target class size in previous years has been around 1,700 students.

“In the beginning, we weren’t quite set up to be able to take in that many packages,” said Jose Gonzalez, a project manager for UG2. “The space that’s down there is not enough to handle the volume of the packages.”

At the start, when packages were delivered by parcel carriers, they would be sorted by UG2 employees in alphabetical order based on last name. As packages were processed and ready for pick up, students received an email notification. The email, however, would often take days to come. And when the physical space began to overflow with packages, UG2 parked large Enterprise trucks and portable containers in the visitor lot at Tresidder Union.

The facilities and services company also had to recruit out-of-state employees to help staff the package centers. According to Gonzalez, more than 20 UG2 out-of-state employees have been brought to the

FRIDAY, OCT. 1

" At

1:17 p.m., someone was found driving under the influence of alcohol at Museum Way. " At an unknown time and location, petty theft occurred. " Between 7:19 p.m. and 8:19 p.m., a bike theft occurred at the Center for Clinical Sciences Research. " Between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m., a bike was stolen from Durand Building. " At 11:30 p.m., a battery with serious injury occurred at 680 Lomita Drive.

Green Library housed the first Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fair on Thursday, giving a platform to historically marginalized communities at Stanford to enhance their activism and advocacy efforts while allowing Stanford Libraries to present a wide range of justice-related resources. The event, coordinated by Racial Justice and Social Equity Librarian Felicia Smith and User Experience Designer Astrid Usong, featured speakers, art exhibits and collections from Stanford Libraries highlighting diversity and social justice.

“The idea of the fair arose from the desire to show the library as a

place that supports and stands in solidarity with students of color,” Usong said. The project aimed to illustrate stories of student activism by sharing resources such as archives, book collections, visual art and software like the KNOW Systemic Racism (KSR) Project.

At one of the fair’s booths, Course Reserve Specialist Brianna Ramirez welcomed guests to visit the online spotlight exhibit on the history of Stanford’s Latinx community.

At an adjacent table, Caelin Marum ’21, an intern for the Native American Cultural Center, presented a project on which she had collaborated.

“Stanford has celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Stanford

American Indian Organization over the last academic year,” Marum said. The project showcased this history through a collection of photos, timelines and maps.

Smith emphasized the fair’s wide range of topics, including racial justice, LGBTQIA+ justice, mapping collections and a Black Lives Matter banner that spanned the length of the library’s facade, emblazoned with “Know Justice, Know Peace.”

“You put justice before EDI [Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion] initiatives. As a racial justice librarian, I really want to focus on putting justice first,” Smith said. “This is a place where people can start their research and then be inspired to take action on their own.”

SATURDAY, OCT. 2

" At

some time after 4:55 a.m., a bike was stolen from Hoskins Highrise. " At 7:04 a.m., a bike was stolen from Rains Apartments. " Between 3 p.m. on Oct. 1 and 12 p.m., a bike was stolen from Hulme Highrise. " At an unknown time, a bike was stolen from Spruce Hall. " Between 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 18 and 11:50 p.m., over $950 in property was stolen from a vehicle at Escondido Village Graduate Residences Building D.

SUNDAY, OCT. 3

" Between

8 p.m. on Oct. 2 and 4 p.m., a bike was stolen from Wilbur Hall.

MONDAY, OCT. 4

" Between

6:30 p.m. on Oct. 2 and 11 a.m., a bike was stolen from Munger Graduate Residences. " Between 11 a.m. on Sept. 27 and 11:30 a.m., vandalism and property damage occurred at Lake Lagunita.

Stanford campus, mostly management-level staff from the company’s corporate office in Boston.

The early blunders at the UG2 undergraduate package center caused lines to wrap around the building, forcing some students to wait hours to pick up their packages.

When Roberto Lama ’22 went to the package center on Sept. 27, he was faced with an hourlong wait time.

“I’ve come three times to pick up packages and each time I’ve had to wait an hour,” Lama said. “It seems ridiculous to have 7,000 undergraduates pick up mail at this one location.

It’s bound to cause delays,” he said, adding that having multiple package centers could help alleviate the bottleneck.

Lou Lanzillo, the CEO of UG2, said “We’ve been knocking ourselves out to try to get the problem fixed.”

“I hope that you appreciate that we are as frustrated and concerned and disappointed as you are. We certainly can empathize and we are very apologetic for what we have gone through to get to where we are. But we feel like we have turned the corner,” he said.

The University said that UG2 has added staff shifts during the late evenings and weekends, hired new employees to focus on addressing student questions and revamped its notification technology. The company is also providing disability accommodations, which includes delivering packages directly to student residences in some instances, Breeland said.

When UG2 officials realized that the alphabetized sorting was unsustainable, they switched their package processing to a barcode system that allows package center employees to track packages as soon as they

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Attendees visit booths at the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fair outside of Green Library. The library presented a a variety of justice-related resources.

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tember transports, which is consistent with previous years despite the increase in class size. However, more upperclass students were transported for alcohol poisoning in September 2021 than in the first weekends of 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, according to the email. While sophomores are technically upperclassmen, for many of them, this is their first time being on Stanford’s campus due to the pandemic.

“Ten cases overall may seem like a small number to you, but it’s worrisome to us: this is just what we can see and measure,” Brubaker-Cole, Hicks and Jacobs wrote.

Brubaker-Cole, Hicks and Jacobs remindeded students of the gravity of alcohol poisoning through prompting students to

“imagine what it would be like for you, or someone you love and respect, to be violently ill, vomiting, having seizures, having trouble breathing, and experiencing a heart rate so low that death is a possibility.” They also wrote that research shows excessive binge drinking can have deleterious effects on cognitive function within the developing brain.

The three encouraged students to think about their plans and expectations for alcohol consumption as they entered the weekend. They provided a diagram of various drinks’ alcohol contents and encouraged students to understand the alcohol content of alcoholic beverages if they choose to drink.

Brubaker-Cole, Hicks and Jacobs encouraged students to call 91-1 in an emergency. They added that students should reach out to their resident assistants, Ethnic Theme Associates, Resident Director or Resident Fellow for support.

They also assured students that those “seeking medical treatment for themselves or others, or victim survivors who report a sexual assault, will not be subject to disciplinary action with respect to their alcohol or drug use.”

The new Student Alcohol and Other Drugs Policy was drafted “to help facilitate a path for students to get education, get help, and get care,” the three wrote. They also reminded students that they can meet one-on-one with a Substance Abuse Educator, a Well-Being at Stanford Coach and the Dean of Students Office, and they can connect with Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS).

“We know that you’re excited to be here. We ask that you remember your long-term goals after college,” Brubaker-Cole, Hicks and Jacobs wrote. “We call upon you to take care of yourselves, your friends, and everyone else around you.”

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The University is requiring vaccines for all employees who are not granted medical or religious accommodations. The measure brings the University in line with President Joe Biden's executive order.

Moderna vaccine must be administered by Oct. 27 and the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine by Nov. 3. The second dose of Moderna and Pfizer, or a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, must be administered by Nov. 24 in order for employees to meet the deadline.

Drell, Minor and Furr reminded employees that the University has extended “COVID Flex Hours” through Dec. 17. They wrote that Flex Hours, an interim policy that provides eighty hours of paid leave to employees who need to address COVID-19 related needs, “may be used for vaccinations and common side effects.”

“Thank you for your understanding, flexibility and resolve in adjusting to COVID protocols. Together, we can maintain our momentum and keep one another as safe as possible,” Drell, Minor and Furr wrote.

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Smartphone addiction and ambition

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erhaps, like me, you instinctively reach for your phone.

Standing in line to buy cupcakes this summer, I scrolled on my phone. Waiting for my dentist appointment several weeks later, I scrolled on my phone. I plug in every crack of empty time by reading news articles, emails and Tweets.

I overuse my phone partly because smartphones and social media are designed to be addictive. Like a potent gas, technology can dull our senses as it expands into the smallest crevices of our daily lives. But the fear of idle moments that makes us turn to our digital devices predates the digital age. Smartphone usage reflects a longstanding uneasiness with silence that we should try to overcome.

Time has long been thought of as something that must be spent wisely and never taken for granted. The Roman poet Horace suggested that we must “pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one,” a phrase we know today by its shorthand carpe diem. Robert Herrick’s famous 1648 poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” tells us to “gather ye rosebuds while ye may.”

Do stuff now, Horace and Herrick said. Who knows how much time you have left? Every second you’re not doing something is an opportunity.

Every moment you do nothing is a sin. Go, go, go! Chase the horizon, even though the sun will set regardless.

When time is characterized as a scarce resource, we become obsessed with extracting as much value from it as possible. That’s true regardless of different perceptions of what constitutes value.

Ambitious people are scared of wasting time by being complacent.

For example, the 14th-century epic poem “Inferno” warns that “the man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life will drift past him like a dream.”

Alexander Hamilton, we are told in the famous Broadway musical, “[writes] day and night” like he’s “running out of time.” Ambition in these cases seems like an attempt to conquer time by effectively using it — as if one can spite the clock by working around the clock.

Other people are scared of wasting time by being overly ambitious.

To them, limited time should impel us to fill up our schedule with what’s truly important. That means climbing a mountain instead of a corporate ladder. That means spending more time among family and friends. This mindset reflects a different view of how time should be optimized. But it shares a common thread with the outlook of the ambitious that time is

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are delivered to Tresidder.

Gonzalez said that the new system is far more efficient: “Now we’re good. We scan them in, it produces a label, and that label is assigned to a shelf ” in the package center. Since the start of last week, UG2 has cleared the backlog of packages and has been processing packages for student pick-up in less than 24 hours, according to Breeland.

But still, Gonzalez said, holding packages in trucks is unsustainable.

“It shouldn’t be like this — not from one truck to another and finally inside,” he said. “It’s a waste of time.”

Since R&DE and UG2 have so far been unable to identify a location on campus large enough to manage package delivery logistics, the University is considering alternate sites, Breeland said.

Issues for graduate students persist While the undergraduate package center is quickly adapting to the increased package volume, graduate students reported continued issues surrounding accessibility concerns and other inconveniences. Graduate students who have previously lived on campus said the situation this year is not new.

For over a year, graduate students living in EVGR have been unable to order packages to their suite addresses. They have repeatedly reported finding their packages in piles in common rooms and outside the buildings. Some were also unable to register to vote in the 2020 presiden-

something to be optimized.

All optimization means is that people who see time as something valuable will theoretically spend that time on things they think are important. In reality, however, most of us would acknowledge there are frequent mismatches between what we say we value and the things we actually do.

Smartphone usage is one such mismatch. Spending hours on our phones mocks any view of time optimization. If we really wanted to make the most of our time — whatever we believe that entailed — we probably wouldn’t endlessly binge TikToks.

But in other ways, digital addiction is the perfect fulfillment of a mentality that abhors empty time. The fear of doing nothing is greater than the fear of doing the wrong thing. We are happy to waste time so long as we feel we are spending it.

Eight centuries ago, the poet Rumi wrote that “your entire life was a frantic running away from silence.”

Before the printing press, before the Industrial Revolution, before the internet, Rumi lauded the value of emptiness even as he expressed humans’ general discomfort with it.

That discomfort can be heard when we feel compelled to break the silence of a dinner table or when someone eventually answers a professor’s question after a long lapse.

That discomfort can be seen in Stanford students’ tendency to take on more classes and commitments than we can handle: we’re more afraid of empty time than we are of a bloated schedule. And that discomfort is articulated when we take out our phones during any unplanned free moment.

Silence, I agree, is scary. I run from it often. Silence forces us to “endure our thoughts,” to borrow a phrase by the poet Wallace Stevens.

It asks what is left of us when we stop trying to fill space and time — a particularly worrisome question for Stanford students who often think of ourselves in terms of our accomplishments.

But as the new academic year begins, as the excitement and stress of our frenetic quarter system gradually pick up, I think it’s worth embracing the occasional silent moment. We do not need to become ascetics. We do not need to stop challenging ourselves intellectually. But we should try to not fill up every second of our daily schedule.

That might mean taking a lighter course load (don’t be afraid to drop a class Week 3!) or not continuously reaching for our phone. Empty time is not a crack we always need to plug.

If anything, it’s a fissure we should welcome and even strive to create.

tial election with their EVGR addresses.

The switch to UG2 package management has been a mixed bag. Some graduate students living in EVGR have noticed an improvement in flat mail delivery, and many have reported that the implementation of the new Graduate Package Center (GPC) makes it easier to track package deliveries. Still, graduate students feel that the delivery system is incompatible with the promise of a permanent residence that students expected when they signed their EVGR leases.

Unlike most undergraduates, graduate students rely on Stanford to be a full-functioning home, with many living on campus year-round. Billed as a residential community that can accommodate 2,400 graduate students, EVGR highrise apartments are among Stanford’s most expensive graduate residences. But to retrieve packages, graduate students cannot list their “home address.” Instead, they must travel approximately one mile between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to get their mail from the GPC. “We’re getting immigration documents, paychecks, insurance billing, government IDs,” said Stephen Galdi, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering.

“We’re not being treated like an apartment complex, we’re being treated like a dorm and that just feels like false advertising. It’s just sad.”

According to Breeland, this issue stems from United States Postal Service (USPS) policies that distinguish between buildings on college campuses and apartment buildings.

Despite engaging with USPS executives with the help of U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Breeland said Stanford has been unable to change the

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Senators question alcohol policy Undergrate Senate approves nomination to council

Undergraduate senators continued their ongoing conversations about the controversial new alcohol policy and began to address pressing housing and academic questions posed by the pandemic in Tuesday’s business-as-usual Undergraduate Senate meeting.

Although the proposed Ubuntu bill was poised to move forward with a vote, the Senate held off on finalizing the bill until all senators could be present to deliberate. The bill, proposed by Senator Joshua Jankelow ’24, is meant to expedite the process through which student groups and representatives can get face time with members of the Undergraduate Senate. The Senate is slated to move forward with the bill during its meeting next Tuesday.

Senate Chair Alain Perez ’23 was also hopeful that representatives

from the Department of Student Affairs would be in attendance to discuss the rationale behind the new alcohol policy and hear senators’ concerns at next week’s meeting.

Senator Jaden Morgan ’24 spoke to begin the process of presenting the Faculty Senate with a motion to standardize hybrid-learning options across classes, an idea that was warmly received by his fellow senators.

Given the uneven variations between in-person, partially recorded and entirely online course offerings this fall, Morgan noted that a student who had to self-isolate faced potentially devastating academic repercussions if their classes were unable to accommodate distanced learning. A student-led petition campaign advocating for guaranteed remote learning options has garnered 270 signatures of support since the beginning of the school year. The Senate hopes to move forward with such a proposal in the coming weeks.

The Senate additionally reviewed and unanimously approved

funding requests from student groups across campus for a variety of workshops and events. They also unanimously voted to confirm the nomination of DeAndre Johnson ’24 to the ASSU Constitutional Council.

“I’m very interested in policy, and the implications that a decision can have for students in the years to come,” Johnson said. “I’m excited to explore what that work looks like in practice.”

agency’s position. The disagreement has led to accessibility concerns for disabled and injured students who cannot easily travel to GPC. Since undergoing knee surgery, Faisal As’ad M.S. ’20, a second-year Ph.D. student in aeronautics and astronautics, has been unable to order packages, including a new government I.D., to the GPC. “There are always alternatives, I can always carry around my passport while I travel,” As’ad said. “ But these are things I didn’t even think would ever be an issue. How is it possible that I’m living at an address that is not even considered to be a residential address?”

Those who live closer to the package center, in Escondido Village Lowrise Apartments, face a different set of problems.

Due to a lack of capacity for the

package volume, UG2 has resorted to storing deliveries in package containers and trucks that line the residential roads outside of the lowrise apartments. Dan Muise, a third-year Ph.D. student, said that in addition to making noise and shining lights in the middle of the night, the trucks and package containers pose a safety concern to residents biking at night.

“I’m sure these workers are working extremely hard, I see them there all the time. And I get to listen to them all the time as well,” Muise said. “I really have no problem with them, but I have a huge problem with whoever thought this was a spot to set up business operations. It’s just fundamentally not.”

Breeland said that when R&DE learned of student concerns, they asked UG2 to bring members of its senior leadership team to campus.

The executives, including UG2’s chief operating officer, came to Stanford in mid-September and are still on campus. She added that R&DE has held town hall meetings with students to address concerns and that UG2 will hold weekly office hours starting Oct. 7. So far, students have not been hesitant to share their thoughts on the situation during meetings with R&DE. “I just want to know why students are neglected so much until we actually face issues that are completely inconveniencing us. I shouldn’t be dealing with this,” said Ajay Singhvi, a Ph.D. student and EVGR resident, at a town hall with R&DE and UG2 executives on Sept. 29. “Why is student input only taken into account when things blow up, rather than to make sure that this does not happen in the first place?”

Working Group Dr. Sibyl Diver. The focus on community engagement and environmental justice theory is meant to prepare students to engage in more responsible community engagement, according to Diver.

Many students, including Earth Systems major and member of the Environmental Justice Working Group Keoni Quon Rodriguez ’22 MA ’23, are excited about the minor’s interdisciplinary nature.

“You can’t separate human systems of oppression and justice from the environmental impact that humans have,” Rodriguez said. “As Stanford looks to be an innovator in the space of environmental sciences, we have to do the same for environmental justice.”

Another benefit of the new minor is that students can become a part of the supportive, close-knit

group of faculty and staff. Within the Earth Systems Program, “there are always people looking out for you and it’s a very collaborative space,” said Earth Systems major Kavya Varkey ’24.

The new minor is paving the way for a larger Environmental Justice presence at Stanford in the future.

In the fall of 2022, Stanford will be opening a new school for the study of climate and sustainability. This effort is intended to position Stanford at the forefront of climate change research. Nevle hopes the Environmental Justice minor is just the start of a new movement. “[The Environmental Justice minor] provides a way for beginning to create a home for what I hope will be a larger cohort of faculty who are engaged with environmental justice,” he said.

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Continued from page 2 and earth systems major, you can take these skills and use them in any job you have,” Polk said. “So that’s what I think for me is what’s so exciting about this minor is how relevant and applicable it is, to all students because of the skills that we focus on.”

Outside of teaching students important skills, the minor also gives students the chance to consider “how we give back to communities when we partner, and also how we respect autonomy, which is extremely important,” said Earth Systems Research Scientist and co-lead of the Stanford Environmental Justice

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CULTURE MUSIC

Ram’s Head at Tonys

A Gaieties clip was screened at the event

By CHLOE MENDOZA

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fter more than a year and a half of darkened theaters and virtual performances, Stanford’s famous student production “Gaieties” celebrated the revival of in-person theater in a very special way: by sharing a video at the 74th annual Tony Awards Show.

One of Stanford’s oldest student theatrical societies, Ram’s Head, is the thespian hand behind highly anticipated annual productions like “Big Game Gaieties,” an original student-written and produced musical parody showcased in Memorial Auditorium during Big Game Week, right before the football game against the University of California, Berkeley. Each year, details about the show remain a mystery until just before it opens.

“Gaieties 2021” was approached by Tonys’ creative consultant and Stanford alumna Sammi Cannold ’16 — who was hailed in the 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 — to create a video to be shown at the live ceremony at the Winter Garden on Sept. 26.

“I laughed immediately because I knew how we would do it. I knew that we would not be sitting down calmly to explain what Gaieties is,” said Johnny Rabe ’23, head director of Gaieties 2021. “I knew I would tell people that I was on the screen at the Tonys wearing a cow print onesie.”

The short clips submitted by the Gaieties team were accompanied by a string of videos from three other college theater groups across the country: Pace University, University of Michigan and The Governor’s School for the Arts.

Regan Lavin ’22, executive producer of Ram’s Head and cast member of Gaieties

Courtesy of Regan Lavin

Stanford alumna and Tonys creative consultant Sammi Cannold ‘16 reached out to the 2021 cast to create a video for the Sept. 26 awards show. Stanford was featured alongside three schools with prestigious BFA programs.

2021, thinks this performance puts Stanford on the performing arts map in a way it hasn’t been before.

“I’m really proud of it because I think a lot of the other colleges that were in the video have BFA [Bachelor of Fine Arts] programs and are known for them, but Stanford doesn’t have that,” Lavin said. “In that sense I am proud we were included and we were able to represent our community.”

This Tonys was not like those of the past; it signals Broadway’s September 14th return to the stage after the coronavirus forced the famous New York pillar to shut down.

Gaieties members say that the minutelong video was shared at the awards show in order to inspire the world and to express excitement for the future of Broadway in a light-hearted manner. Ram’s Head board member and writer of Gaieties 2021, Sameer Jha ’24, thinks that Gaieties was also featured because of its tenets of inclusivity, safety and community.

“I think the idea behind the clip we were part of was to show that theater is coming back. For many people, theater is their livelihood. It’s so refreshing to see all these people

from around, feeling united and coming back together through theater,” Jha said. “Gaieties, being as big of a tradition as it is and being such an integral part of the Stanford experience, a lot of people feel very comforted and at home in the theater community here. I think that’s why we were invited.”

For many Gaieties members, an electric magic hangs heavy in the air during live performances. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced all student organizations to operate remotely, the theater community resorted to unique measures to feed their passion for all things acting, singing, scripting, producing and directing. To Ram’s Head, after a digital year, this moment in time feels all the sweeter and makes the difficult past just a little more worth it.

“At the core of this Tony awards ceremony was the idea that Broadway is back.

Every week more and more shows are reopening. I think the Tony awards are really celebrating that and having these videos was a great way to remind people that in-person theater is going to be an option again,” Rabe said. “It’s the fact that a group of people can come together again to make art.”

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CULTURE

‘Never Have I Ever’ stars Uni employee

KZSU members fear for future of radio station

By ROSANA MARIS ARIAS STAFF WRITER

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hen not assessing risks for the University as Stanford’s Internal Audit Department Director, Ranjita Chakravarty is performing on Netflix’s hit show “Never Have I Ever.” In the teen dramedy, Chakravarty plays the protagonist’s grandmother, Nirmala.

Comedians Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher who created “Never Have I Ever” first released the show in April 2020. The series reached 40 million households across the globe within the first four weeks of its season one debut. The show follows Devi Vishwakumar, a firstgeneration Indian-American teenager, as she endures the trauma induced by the passing of her father.

Chakravarty joined the cast of “Never Have I Ever” for the show’s second season. In October 2020, a friend told her about the show’s open call auditions. The actress was initially hesitant about auditioning for the series due to concerns about the logistics of flying to Los Angeles, but she later learned that auditions would take place virtually. Chakravarty decided to give it a shot.

When she was later offered the role, Chakravarty had to balance her job at Stanford with filming for the show.

“It actually worked out pretty well,” Chakravarty said. “Because I’m not a main character, I was only shooting one to two days a week, so I took vacation on those days. The other days I was working from my hotel in L.A. So actually, my colleagues didn’t miss me at all.”

During the COVID -19 pandemic, however, Chakravarty performed her work with the internal audit department from her hotel room for five months, because the show’s crew did not want her to fly back and forth between Los Angeles and the Bay Area.

Chief Audit Executive Henry Gusman said he was proud to see his colleague on the Netflix series. Having previously seen Chakravarty perform in a theater, Gusman said that he “saw a different side of her” on screen because she was performing for a global audience.

Lavin also added that for them, it felt “like we were finally able to do what we love again. Theater is such a live art. It’s such a community-based practice that it was hard to do that on Zoom.”

Moving forward, Gaieties members recognize that more obstacles are inevitable, pointing to Broadway’s recent cancellation of “Aladdin” shows.

“It’s still a little bittersweet because obviously things are not totally back to normal.

Things like that will continue to happen, and we know that this is not over. But the message behind the video is a nice landmark, letting us know that we’re hopefully through the worst of it,” Rabe said.

In the aftermath of their Tonys debut, Gaieties looks to the future with exhilaration and in anticipation of the in-person showcase of “Big Game Gaieties” this November.

“We want to showcase that theater is diverse, it is about everyone coming together,” said Jha. “It’s for people of color, queer people, trans people and that’s the most exciting thing about theater. Being back is to see all these developments continue to grow and I can’t wait for everyone to see Gaieties this year.”

By CHLOE MENDOZA Courtesy of Ranjita Chakravarty

Chakravarty worked in Stanford’s Internal Audit Department remotely while filming for teen dramedy “Never Have I Ever” in Los Angeles.

Rick Moyer, who is Stanford’s Senior Associate Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, as well Chakravarty’s colleague of fifteen years, shared a similar sentiment.

Chakravarty looked very “natural” on screen, Moyer said. He knew of Chakravarty’s performance work but was particularly excited about the show’s large reach.

“It’s pretty cool that she got this opportunity to be in a Netflix TV program that is seen around the world,” Moyer said.

Chakravarty is no stranger to the stage and is active in the Bay Area theater scene. She has performed in upwards of twenty plays and more than ten films and television shows. She has also directed five productions.

Chakravarty’s first experience as an actress took place in college, but she always knew she liked to act — she enjoys being someone else and telling stories.

Even with her extensive performing experience, Chakravarty said that working on “Never Have I Ever” was a “surreal experience” because she is usually involved with local projects.

“Everyone had worked together on season one, so I was the new person,” Chakravarty said of the Netflix series. “But I was so welcomed.”

The creativity Chakravarty brings to her acting also shines in her work with the Audit Department. “She likes to try different approaches to how we conduct an audit or how we report the results, and I see that in her more than any other member of my team,” Moyer said.

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urrent University COVID-19 safety protocols do not allow for socalled “external community members” in KZSU production spaces unless they are escorted by a student. As campus activities gradually return to in-person operations, student members of the radio station say they feel frustrated with a perceived lack of University support and guidance.

KZSU is Stanford’s FM noncommercial radio station, which broadcasts across the Bay on 90.1 FM and across the world at kzsulive.stanford.edu. With a hodgepodge staff of students, faculty, alumni and community affiliates, the station is facing challenges given the current COVID19 guidelines on-campus barring non-Stanford individuals from campus spaces. KZSU’s staff claim that these external members are crucial to their production — providing resources, knowledge and mentorship — and that the current ban hampers the station’s ability to operate.

“What they do really runs the gamut, from creating the programming schedule, helping to train new deejays and creating new relationships with music ven-

ues,” said Omar El-Sabrout ’22, co-general manager of KZSU. “They have all the relationships with labels that send us music that we play on air. The community members are indispensable to the operation of the station; they are these huge stores of knowledge that students can tap into freely.”

KZSU student staff members say that they have repeatedly voiced their concerns about allowing community members to access their spaces, but claim that they have not received any substantive support or guidance from the University, even as COVID-19 restrictions continue to loosen.

“The radio would not have existed without them remotely and so now that we’re all back on campus, they are being completely dismissed by the University. Now that we’re back in person, it doesn’t matter that they maintained connections remotely because they can’t come back,” said Sarah Panzer ’22, KZSU deejay and publicity director.

In response to these concerns, Senior Director of the Office of Student Engagement Snehal Naik said that the University is gradually restoring community

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MUSIC

Julia Segal ’25 releases new EP

By NIKOLAS LIEPINS

By PEYTON LEE

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efore starting her frosh year, vocalist and entrepreneur Julia Rose Segal ’25 had already formed her own band, started a nonprofit and made a guest appearance on the Kelly Clarkson show.

Then, just one week into her first quarter at Stanford, she released her debut EP, “Staring at Ceilings.”

With over 1,000 streams in the first week after its release, “Staring at Ceilings” is already making waves.

The inspiration for the EP’s six tracks ranges all the way to Disney’s “Moana” and Eminem.

“In my very first collection of released songs, I explore all of the feelings and emotions I went through during a seemingly endless quarantine,” Segal said. “I hope that whether it’s the feeling of not being content with your life in the title song, ‘Staring at Ceilings,’ the feeling of replaying scenes from a night out over and over, in ‘What I Did Last Night’ or the feeling of wanting someone to be a person they’re not, in ‘3 a.m.,’ everyone can find a song or emotion that they can relate to.

And maybe the songs in this EP can make it a little easier for someone to get through something that I went through.”

Segal, who grew up in Palo Alto, was introduced to music at the age of

four when she started piano lessons.

She also sang with iSing Silicon Valley Girl Choir for eight years.

“Choir actually shaped a lot of my sound as a musician, and shaped the way that I layer harmonies and assemble a choir using my voice, which is something that comes up in a few songs,” Segal said.

Though the EP is Segal’s first collection of released music, she has been writing songs for years. It wasn’t until the summer before her sophomore year of high school, however, that she claimed this identity of a singer-songwriter at Interlochen, a summer arts camp in Michigan.

Throughout the camp, Segal was prompted to write from her own experiences and emotions. “Before Interlochen, my songs were often based on fictional things because I didn’t think I had anything to write about,” Segal said. “But I started to understand how I can tell my stories through music, and also see viable paths forward.”

Soon after the arts camp, Segal’s friend invited her to a concert in Palo Alto where several local bands were performing. “The energy in the air was so high,” Segal recalled. “The venue was filled entirely with musicians, and there was just such a cool energy radiating around the room.”

There Segal discovered the city’s underground music scene: “Although Palo Alto isn’t New York City or Los Angeles, there’s still a pretty

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Segal performed at the release event hosted at Florence Moore Hall on Sept. 23. Before COVID-19 hit, Segal performed at various Bay Area venues, including CoHo at Stanford. big music scene. It’s just a bit hidden.”

At that concert, Segal met Greg Kochnev (stage name Citxzzen), who would soon become a collaborator and bassist in Segal’s newly formed band, Reverie. Kochnev also introduced Segal to Nicco Sanchez, who produced “Staring at Ceilings.”

“My first impression of Julia was that she’s hella funny and a lot of fun to hang with,” Kochnev said.

Until COVID-19 hit, Segal and Reverie performed every weekend at venues across the Bay Area. “ We actually performed at CoHo!” Segal said. “That was one of my first experiences collaborating with other musicians on music that was mine. I’ve been in choirs and groups before, but it was totally different when they were performing my music.”

Through these performances, Segal quickly formed a prodigious network of musicians, which went on to become the foundation for Segal’s nonprofit organization, QuaranTunes.

Founded at the start of quarantine, the group pairs teen musicians with children for virtual music lessons. The charity has expanded beyond its original purpose, now also offering instrument donations, group art lessons and summer camps.

From a hometown operation to an international organization with thousands of contributors, QuaranTunes would be an enormous time commitment on anyone’s plate. Still, Segal found yet another creative outlet in the meantime: writing her debut EP. Now, having met new friends-

turned-collaborators at Stanford, Segal looks forward to producing her latest song “Rain” with fellow student and award-winning film scorer Caleb Liu ’25.

“I saw a song in Julia’s Notes app that I could play the chords for,” Liu said. “I went over to the piano, played the chords, and she started singing. I’d never worked with a singer before, and it was really cool.

Right after that, she said, ‘We should make this a real song.’ I was like, ‘Oh, this is something special.’”

When asked how she plans to move forward with her career, Segal said she’ll always return to her roots: “Songwriting has been therapy for my whole life. Instead of writing out my thoughts in a diary, I’ll just write them into a song.”

THE GRIND

Courtesy of ALC Records

Boldy James and The Alchemist succeed in recent partner project, which showcases heartfelt tracks.

MUSIC

“Bo Jackson” and the return of grimy rap

By NICK SLIGH COLUMNIST

Welcome to “New Music with Nick.” In this column, I will be reviewing some of the most notable new album releases across various genres, focusing on hip-hop, R&B and pop music. Join me in exploring the ever-shifting landscape of the streaming era.

Boldy James and The Alchemist: “Bo Jackson” (Aug. 13, 2021)

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ust over a year after their 2020 collab album “The Price of Tea in China,” rapper and producer duo Boldy James & The Alchemist have already returned with another joint effort in “Bo Jackson.”

Both artists came into the release with some of the greatest momentum of their careers.

Expectations were very high but ultimately met by the duo with ease. It’s simply phenomenal hip-hop, and I’m not surprised at all to see such a great final result. Knowing anything about the producer and rapper in question here signals the potential; their chemistry is undeniable, with Boldy fitting every beat with just the right persona and skillset.

Only a couple of tracks fall short of being great, and thus the project as a whole stays consistently strong.

Boldly and The Alchemist effortlessly float through street tales with a consistent emotional vigor. Whether it is through jazz-influenced loops, soul-samples or psychedelic beats, both excel in their areas of expertise, executing the album with undeniable passion.

“Double Hockey Sticks,” the album’s intro, opens the project with a menacing narrative and a perfectly executed beat switch, leading to one of the most thrilling and well-executed verses of the entire project. Shortly after, one of the best features of the album by Benny the Butcher combines with some of The Alchemist’s production skills to create “Brickmile to Montana,” a standout track

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Coming out to my parents

By VIVEK TANNA STAFF WRITER

On Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, I came out to my parents as gay. I was also in the thick of a manic episode. In fact, I’d been avoiding drama for 21 years — just to have the most dramatic coming out I could have imagined. Even the cops were invited!

Personally, that’s the gayest shit I’ve ever heard.

Wait, what?

To be honest, the idea for this project — using my experience to describe the literally insane behavior of Grindr users — came to me by surprise. I’d been reflecting on actor-network theory, a methodology that focuses on understanding reality through relationships.

But in my awareness, my parents had nothing to do with it. I wasn’t out to them yet, but mostly because I didn’t feel like it was the right time. Either way, I wasn’t concerned about them finding out about this series, because they don’t usually Google my name.

When I came to Stanford, I hoped to meet more queer men than I had growing

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Tanna’s door in EVGR, slighlty ajar. Before coming out to his parents, he stepped out of the room, locking his ID inside, which he writes symbolized leaving his ego behind. up in Texas. Still, the thought of joining Grindr never crossed my mind, let alone having a ton of gay sex, let alone disseminating it to the wider community. Since part 1 seemed to resonate with people, I set out to investigate where it had come from. In my head, I mapped out four total parts that I imagined would “close the objective distance” from myself, challenging the assumption that the further away you are from something, the better you understand it.

In part 2, I talked about the actions of seeing and hiding, locating myself among this project as an ethnographer. In part 3, I talked about locating myself among a multidirectional totem pole of categories on Grindr. For part 4, my plan was to investigate my own reality through uncertainties in my life. Even so, though I had no prior history of mental health issues, my “hot girl summer” quickly spiraled

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HUMOR

Duck Hunt Dog is new mascot

By UCHE OCHUBA DESK EDITOR

Editor’s Note: This article is purely satirical and fictitious. All attributions in this article are not genuine, and this story should be read in the context of pure entertainment only.

In the follow-up to this excellent weekend which marks a game for the ages, the birth of the legend, the christening of a football school, we shall recognize the new Stanford Mascot: Duck Hunt Dog. His chiseled torso and bloodlustfilled eyes represent the athleticism and tenacity of our beloved football team. His black ears represent the arbitrary, ruthless death we rain unto our unsuspecting opponents.

His childlike smile represents the carefree and flippant attitude with which we strangled the Oregon Ducks. Go Card.

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All hail your new mascot. It relieves itself on the old one.

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HUMOR

HUMOR

Leak: Big Bird exposed

COVID non-FAQs

By OM JAHAGIRDAR MANAGING EDITOR

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By LORENZO DEL ROSARIO STAFF WRITER

Editor’s Note: This article is purely satirical and fictitious. All attributions in this article are not genuine and this story should be read in the context of pure entertainment only.

A: If you test positive for SARS-CoV-2, immediately quarantine inside of your room.

Drink eight bottles of Franzia wine over a 48-hour period to alleviate your symptoms and then pray to all of the Greek gods and goddesses to get rid of the viral infection.

As the alpha, delta and kappa sigma variants of COVID-19 have proliferated on campus, students have expressed concerns over what steps the university is taking to handle the situation. To address students’ confusion about COVID-19 protocols, the Stanford Administration paired up with Color Genomics to host a “Coronavirus Q&A panel” exclusive to members of The Occasionally. Here are some of the administration’s answers to frequently asked questions about COVID-19:

Q: Where can I drop off my COVID tests on campus?

A: There are several convenient locations around Stanford for students to drop off their activated SARS-CoV-2 testing kits. A few of them include MTL’s office, the third hole of the golf course and the tip of Hoover Tower.

Q: How can I guarantee that I will not get infected?

A: The only way to truly ensure that you will not test positive for COVID-19 this academic year is to buy a Stanford-issued social distancing hula hoop. They have wires that attach to your belt loops and provide a six-foot radius that will guarantee satisfactory distance from other people’s respiratory droplets. You can order them for $190.69 online by using your student ID at this link.

Q: How many times do I need to swab each orifice?

A: As a general rule of thumb, we recommend that you first swirl the Q-tip 20-30 times around the anus. Then, using the same swab, swirl 6-8 times on each of your other orifices (mouth, nostrils, etc.) once before dropping off your sample.

Q: What should I do if I test positive?

RADIO

Continued from page 5 member access to indoor spaces on campus and that many areas are being assessed on a case-by-case basis, including KZSU. He also indicated that last week, in preparation for the resumption of in-person indoor activity for student organizations, the Office of Student Engagement issued new COVID-19 guidance for community members who have a regular presence on campus.

The station representatives indicate that they are aware of current health protocols and say they are more than willing to comply with regulations, recognizing the validity of the University’s health concerns. However, for some student staff members the issue lies in what they perceive to be an undue burden placed upon station leadership despite their continual and unanswered outcries for support.

In their lengthy pursuit to restore community member accessibility, El-Sabrout says that interactions have felt as if they were “banging their heads against bureaucracy.”

For example, KZSU student

QUEER

Continued from page 6 into my “hypomanic girl summer.”

Oops!

Opening my manic episode In early August, I was struck with an idea for how to scurry back to home base with part 4. (To be clear, I still don’t know anything about sports.) I took time off from seeing people to spend all of my time writing. I was holed up in my room in EVGR, the building where I was staffing. Since I didn’t have a roommate, and since only a small handful of my friends were on campus over the summer, it was easy for me to go unnoticed.

Over the next few days, I stopped feeling the need to sleep more than three hours a night. I also stopped feeling hunger, but I instinctively grabbed fluids like chocolate almond milk from the dining hall. If I tried opening social media, I couldn’t process what I was seeing.

By the end of the week, I submitted a 7,000-word article to The Grind, entitled, “EVERYONE SHOULD GO TO THERAPY,” which was ironic and entirely unusable.

By Aug. 13, I was well-aware that something felt different. I wondered if while writing about uncertainty, I had deconstructed myself out of existence. In the middle of the afternoon, I messaged a friend that I was feeling disassociated. My friend, who has extensive research experience in neuroscience, replied that depression might be the culprit.

Am I depressed? thought my manic mind.

Fearing that I had unearthed a depression I was previously unaware of, I called 911 and explained what my friend had told me. The operator, a female voice, started to ask me a list of rapid-fire questions about myself. Presumably, she was gauging my relationship with reality. I answered them accurately,

Q: If I’m quarantined due to infection, how will I get caught up on my classes?

A: You won’t. Cry about it.

For students who still have concerns about COVID protocols on campus, feel free to attend the social distancing Q&A panel at the Quad on the next full moon.

members indicate that they were informed by Naik that community members could access the station if accompanied by a student. But some station members see this as just another example of confusing University guidance; KZSU deejay Ilinca Propescu ’22 says that she doesn’t see how COVID-19 protocols should influence a student having to supervise an adult.

“What we are dealing with are not general hurdles, but rather complete barred entry. It appears that they are using COVID as an excuse with respect to community members allowing them to participate,” Propescu said.

These individuals are increasingly worried that the future of their production is at stake. Some KZSU student staff members say that the station is a unique space that provides many opportunities for mentorship, self-expression and community building. They point to how KZSU serves the community by providing emergency broadcasting and regular coverage of Palo Alto city council meetings, while also producing diverse music shows and covering Stanford sports.

“We are a cultural institution, no doubt, but we don’t have the resources as a student staff team ouralong the lines of “I’m a below-average-height brown male, and I’m gay!”

Then, she asked me if I was alone.

Should I not be? thought my manic mind.

Fearing that I shouldn’t be left unattended, I stepped out and locked myself out of my room, slipping my ID under the door. In retrospect, this symbolized leaving my ego behind for what I was about to do. At this point, the operator decided I didn’t need to be rushed to the hospital. She sent three cops, whom I peacefully met outside before hanging up. The cops and I gathered in a shady spot by the parking lot in front of EVGR. Around that time, I received a FaceTime call from my parents.

After a short greeting, I got increasingly flustered and said, “I’M GAY!” For the next few minutes, I almost involuntarily told them what I thought I needed to. I was moving so fast that I hardly gave them a chance to react.

“We love you very much ... “ they started.

“Love is an action!” I cut them off, referring to actor-network theory. The cops around me, who had heard the entire conversation, nodded in agreement.

“I’m happy to answer questions, but I think I said enough,” I said.

After hanging up, I felt a buzz in my existence, and no fear.

“I really like what you told your parents,” one of the cops said. I met blue eyes staring at me in amazement. “I haven’t heard anything like that in 20 years.”

“Everyone helped me get here — even the cops!” I told them.

For the next 40 minutes, the cops hung out around me while I cracked jokes about campus life and asked them about their weekend plans.

I’ve interacted with cops as an RA before. I’d seen them cause a resident to panic when trying to take over control of the situation, worsening the crisis she was already in.

Editor’s Note: This article is purely satirical and fictitious. All attributions in this article are not genuine and this story should be read in the context of pure entertainment only.

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Baby Yoda This alien creature was able to evade detection through filing paperwork under the mysterious alias ‘Grogu,’ which is apparently his actual name. Although Baby Yoda may look cute, young and innocent, he is 50 years of age. In his time on this galaxy, he has filed for bankruptcy three times, and he is under investigation by the IRS (Interplanetary Revenue Service) for dodging over 20 million USD in taxes.

Peter Parker Unwittingly having eaten spiders in his sleep, Spiderman was charged for five counts of cannibalism. However, to save its extremely successful media franchise, Sony suspiciously transferred significant sums of money to various public officials, and Spidey was set free the next day. That’s showbiz for ya!

The Stanford Cardinal You may have thought that Stanford’s team name ‘Cardinal’ referred to the color red, but

you’d be dead wrong. There is a Stanford Cardinal, and it’s not a bird. Leaked documents reveal that Stanford has been secretly paying off a select member of the Catholic Church to ensure they do not return to campus to preside over what is rightfully theirs.

Big Bird This large lovable creature has been abusing growth hormones since childhood. This should have been obvious to most as his 8’2” stature dwarfs your everyday 4-inch canary. However, the physical advantage garnered from this abuse has proven profitable, as the Sesame Street Veteran recently signed a $120 million Supermax contract with PBS conditional on his use of supplements to maintain his huge build.

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selves because we don’t know the engineering behind an FM station, how to fix a record player or code the website we use to broadcast

live,” El-Sabrout said. “Without all this overhead being taken care of there’s no way we students could make that happen. It’s deeply com-

plicated how one broadcasts to the radio. If KZSU were to go away, it would be a huge loss of opportunity for students.”

But I had no sense of rank while I was manic, so I behaved like a perfectly cheerful citizen.

In the following days, my episode didn’t cause any “community disturbance,” except among the community of healthcare professionals trying to evaluate me. I even continued working as an RA and had conversations with residents, including several from The Stanford Daily. On Sunday morning, I even shook my manic ass for my students at Zumba, and Stanford paid me for it!

By the summer, many residents had told me that EVGR feels like an asylum, especially with isolating rooms and automatic lights that follow you down the hall. I’d never minded the lights, since they made me feel important. I was also grateful to have the space, since I was on track to relocate across campus five times in nine months due to lastminute housing assignments. Still, I was so committed to my residents that I turned the building into my very own asylum.

Wrapping up To be clear, my parents are openminded, and we have a loving relationship. But like many queer people, I’d been living life on two sides.

On the one hand, I was a visible gay person at Stanford turning my vulnerabilities into a public sport, and the disgraced court jester was the Grindr app logo. On the other hand, I was enjoying a home life where the disgraced court jester would be my future wife.

It’s no one’s fault that I didn’t come out to my parents sooner. Either way, perhaps the pressure in my psyche between my two lives increased until I was *boom* manic. I’ve also seen several health professionals, who were each convinced that another such event is very unlikely to happen again. How do I say that a manic episode fixed my problems, without saying that a manic episode fixed my problems?

In lofty terms, you could say that I got lost in uncertainty to the point of mania, and then iteratively

found myself again (how’s that for commitment?). But maybe I’ve been iteratively finding myself outside the closet my whole life. After all, like many queer people, I’ve had to treat my gay identity as if it were a disease, shared on a “need to know” basis. Doesn’t that make us patients in the hospital of society?

I take responsibility for my episode. Still, by actor-network theory, it also emerged from every action around me, including the psychiatrists who eventually saw and named it “manic.” As for my own actions, I guess the cat’s out of the bag! But if I get any ideas for part 5, I’ll be sure to throw my laptop in the dumpster, because one manic episode was enough to get the job done.

ALBUM

Continued from page 6 on the album. “Flight Risk” provides another incredibly strong and dark track on a minimalist but wonderful Alchemist sample.

The album’s versatility is a large part of what makes it special; there is much more here than just hardhitting music. Beautiful soul samples and jazzy production are fused with heartfelt narrative at several points, providing a depth of character and emotion that heighten the potency of all of the tracks. “Diamond Dallas” and “Illegal Search and Seizure” portray vivid crime narratives with a level of authenticity that is hard to find. Boldy has always had a knack for portraying emotion through his deliveries without anything ever feeling forced or artificial.

Boldy’s delivery never falters.

His raw honesty in every story is genuinely captivating, despite his often monotone delivery. When rapping at such a high level, the music is sonically pleasing enough on its own as a complement to The Alchemist’s production. The lyricism and the effortless nature with which Boldy paints vivid tales are what set the album apart to make it great.

The success of the current run that both artists are on cannot be understated. Boldy has improved a great deal over the last few years.

His lyricism is the best that it has ever been, and the storytelling capabilities blend perfectly with the grimy and elaborate production of The Alchemist. Few artists have been as prolific as Boldy has been over the last two years. The same goes with The Alchemist. With such a storied legacy of production, The Alchemist has little left to prove at this point, but just keeps providing some of hip-hop’s greatest beat se-

I’m working on a book about the experiences of queer folks with family and the healthcare system.

Please reach out if you’re interested in chatting! lections that seem to always be in sync with his collaborator’s visions.

Grimy rap has made a glorious comeback over just the last couple of years, and Boldy deserves his flowers with the best of them. This duo has developed a partnership that has delivered some of the best projects in recent memory. Hip-hop is in a better place with these two working together, and we can only hope that there are more collaborations to come between these two artists.

Favorite Songs: “Brickmile to Montana,” “Double Hockey Sticks,” “Illegal Search and Seizure,” “Flight Risk,” “Diamond Dallas” Album Score: 87/100 Check out this Spotify playlist, “Best Songs of 2020” @nicholassligh, and like it to follow along with some of some of my favorite songs of 2021 as the year progresses!.

The Stanford Daily

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Students petition for

virtual class options

By TAMMER BAGDASARIAN DESK EDITOR

By NATHAN PHUONG Students have developed a petition calling on Stanford to issue a University-wide mandate that courses be made virtually accessible for COVID-19-positive students in isolation. Instructors are not currently required to record course sessions, leaving some students in isolation to rely on their peers and teaching staff to keep them up to date on course material.

The petition, which was released approximately four weeks ago, has garnered more than 200 signatures.

Organizers are also asking the University to give students the opportunity to create guidelines on how instructors can make classes more accessible for those in isolation.

The petition states that the lack of “remote access to course content for students in isolation” essentially penalizes students for contracting COVID-19.

Some students who have caught COVID-19 during the first two weeks of in-person classes have struggled to stay on top of course material.

After contracting the virus before the start of classes, Malachi Frazier ’24 said that he was forced to scramble for ways to keep up with his classes while in isolation.

Frazier said that because only two of his four classes provided class recordings, he has struggled to keep up with classwork.

“It’s been rough,” Frazier said.

“It has definitely affected me in neg-

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Continued from page 1 In great field position thanks to the targeting penalty, Stanford drove down the field on the first drive of the game but ultimately stalled near the goal line. Head coach David Shaw left the offense on the field for fourth and goal at the two-yard line, but a false start penalty compelled Shaw to kick the field goal, and sophomore kicker Joshua Karty secured the three points to put the Cardinal on the board first.

The teams traded three-andouts before the Ducks made a costly error. On a third down, senior quarterback Anthony Brown was intercepted by fifth-year linebacker Gabe Reid.

“I was dropping that play and felt like it was a quicker drop from the QB, so I took a flat angle, and the ball kind of just landed in my lap,” Reid said. “Just made sure I caught it.”

Two plays later, McKee found senior wide receiver Brycen Tremayne in the end zone for an 18yard touchdown pass. Karty tacked on the extra point, and the Cardinal found themselves up 10-0 midway through the first quarter.

Stanford was able to go for it on fourth down late in the first quar-

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Continued from page 5 Gusman also praised Chakravarty’s positive energy and creativity. “Ranjita is kind of my person if I need someone to think outside of the box,” he said.

Chakravarty has been with the University’s Internal Audit Department for 23 years. She is in

ative ways as I try to catch up on classes. But as a student I don’t feel in a place to ask my professor, ‘Can you record these lectures for me?’ I feel like an obvious answer from professors is most likely going to be no.”

The feeling of powerlessness that Frazier described is a focal point for the petition organizers, who said they believe a University mandate could ensure that students feel supported and empowered to complete course assignments and stay on track. The petition also states that the lack of a mandated online option could “disincentivize prompt reporting of COVID-19 symptoms, endangering students, faculty, and staff.”

The petition further requests that course meetings and office hours be made remotely accessible for students in isolation and that COVID-positive students be allowed to switch between letter and credit/no credit grading options until the conclusion of finals week.

It additionally calls on the University to allow COVID-positive students to withdraw from courses without having the withdrawal notation included on their transcripts and to require instructors to include the updated policies in course syllabi.

University spokesperson E.J. Miranda wrote in a statement to The Daily that “while the University remains focused on providing students with in-person instruction and interaction, faculty are encouraged to be flexible in course planning and classroom activities in light of the ongoing pandemic.”

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Masked students at in-person computer science lecture in the Sapp Center for Science and Teaching. Some students have launched a petition arguing that courses should be made virtually accessible.

Miranda also wrote that students should discuss academic concerns with their academic advisors.

Emiko Soroka, a first-year Ph.D. student in engineering and petition co-author, said that she and her fellow organizers are still pursuing their policy goals following the release of the petition.

At a Graduate Student Council (GSC) meeting on Sept. 22, co-author, council member and thirdyear Ph.D. student Emily Schell M.A. ’18 expressed her concern that students exposed to COVID-19 might still feel obligated to attend in-person classes rather than miss out on course material.

“My concerns were related to the reality that I had a positive COVID case in one of the classes I

taught last week,” Schell said. “I personally could choose to teach online until I was certain of a negative test, but my students did not have that same privilege.”

Soroka said that despite reaching out to University administrators to discuss improvements to the policy, student advocates have not been included in the decision-making process.

“At the suggestion of the GSC, I emailed [the Office of Accessible Education] to ask if they could hire student camera operators to provide remote access for quarantined students, the way they hire notetakers for students with disabilities,” Soroka said. She added that two weeks ago she “received a response that the email was passed to higherups” but has heard nothing since

then.

According to Soroka, progress has been slow for student advocates, who she said feel evaded by administrators.

“It’s been stressful,” Soroka said. “Some of us have already been notified of positive COVID cases in our classes. If a class is not recorded, we have no choice but to keep attending even if we know one of our classmates tested positive.”

Soroka is also trying to mobilize students to take action. Soroka said that she recently updated the petition with a note “encouraging students to talk to their professors and departments about COVID policy.”

“It’s very frustrating that so many students are expressing these concerns and admin doesn’t care,” she said.

ter, but a quarterback sneak by McKee was marked short of the line to gain, giving the Ducks the ball at Oregon’s 45-yard line. The play was reviewed, but the call stood, and Oregon took full advantage, marching down the field in eight plays and capitalizing on the drive with a three-yard touchdown run from Brown.

Stanford responded, piecing together a methodical, 12-play, 75yard touchdown drive that lasted over six-and-a-half minutes. After two straight handoffs on Oregon’s two-yard line for no gain to junior running back Austin Jones, Shaw turned to sixth-year quarterback Isaiah Sanders, who ran it in for the score, pushing the Stanford lead back to ten points.

But the touchdown drive came with a cost. Tremayne, a former walk-on who has been a major contributor this season, was carted off the field after suffering a gruesome left ankle injury. Tremayne finished with three receptions for 48 yards.

The Cardinal defense stood strong to close the first half. On a fourth and goal from the Stanford one-yard line, Brown was stuffed

by Reid and sixth-year linebacker Jordan Fox, preserving the Stanford lead at 17-7 heading into halftime.

The division rivals traded punts to start the second half, but on Oregon’s second drive of the half, the Ducks took advantage of a poor

punt by junior Ryan Sanborn.

Starting their drive at Stanford’s 48-yard line, Brown ran it into the endzone eight plays later, cutting the Cardinal lead to 17-14.

Oregon then looked poised to take the lead after a 32-yard punt return by sophomore wide receiver Mycah Pittman, but the defense continued to hold up, and Oregon was forced to settle for a field goal.

The Ducks tied the game up at 17 heading into the fourth quarter.

Despite completed passes, a holding call on junior guard Barrett Miller stalled the offense. In response, the Oregon comeback would not let up. A 66-yard reception on third down by Pittman set up Brown for a five-yard touchdown run two plays later. Fifty minutes in, Oregon had their first lead of the game, 24-17.

On the following drive, McKee was sacked on first down. The offense struggled to recover, punting it right back to the Ducks. Oregon appeared to be about to run the ball to seal the victory — the Ducks had 228 rushing yards on the afternoon — and got within one first down of doing so. Two consecutive false starts in Stanford territory, however, gave the Cardinal an opportunity to make a stop, and they got it.

With 1:59 remaining in the game, the Cardinal got back to work on their own four-yard line.

Stanford seemed to find their foot-

charge of “planning, conducting and managing system audits and providing consulting services to various Information Systems departments.” She holds an MBA from Arizona State University, a master’s in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and a bachelor’s in Political Science from Delhi University.

Chakravarty said that she is constantly looking to improve her acting and that each experience is a learning opportunity. One of

Chakravarty’s future goals for her acting career is that she hopes to play a detective one day. More broadly, however, she wants to use her performing skills to bring more South Asian stories to the mainstream.

“I like the story [of “Never Have I Ever”] because it talks about an Indian-American teenager who has the same exact issues as every other teenager, with the added pressure of having immigrant-type parents,” Chakravarty said.

ing again with a 23-yard completion, but on the next play, McKee was sandwiched by two defenders right after he let go of the ball.

McKee laid on the field hurt.

Stanford Stadium fell silent.

“I took a shot to the ribs — kind of got the wind knocked out of me a little bit, couldn’t breathe for a little bit, so I was on the floor,” he said. “Once I got off, kind of walking around a little bit, [I] thought I was totally fine. Doctors checked my ribs out, cleared me, and I’m feeling great right now. A little sore, but I feel good.”

McKee only missed one play — a scramble by senior quarterback Jack West for no gain.

The rest was magical: McKee tossed completions to Yurosek and junior tight end Bradley Archer, driving the Cardinal down the field to the Oregon three-yard line.

After three failed attempts, Stanford faced fourth down at the Oregon four-yard line. McKee threw a fade to sophomore wide receiver John Humphreys, which fell incomplete, but a flag flew in with the clock at zero. Oregon cornerback Mykael Wright was called for holding, giving Stanford an untimed play from the Oregon two-yard line. Stanford did not miss, as McKee threw a fade to junior wide receiver Elijah Higgins, who made a fantastic catch to bring the game to within one. Shaw elected to kick the extra point to force overtime, and Karty delivered, as the game headed to the extra period knotted up at 24.The Cardinal passing game finally started to click again.

“Across the board, we’ve got two 6-foot-5 tight ends, a 6-foot-5 receiver, 6-foot-4 receiver and a 6foot3.5 receiver who’s 235 pounds,” Shaw said. “We’re going to test people outside. We’re going to test people outside.”

Stanford lost the coin toss, Oregon chose to get the ball second, and McKee went to work. Stanford got off to a nice start, but a false start on junior running back

Nathaniel Peat forced the Cardinal into a first and ten from the Oregon 18-yard line. This time penalties did not stall the Cardinal. On third and eleven, McKee found Humphreys for a 14-yard touchdown. Karty tacked on the point after, and the Cardinal were up 3124. Oregon needed seven points to send it to double overtime.

With the ball back, Oregon threw an incompletion on first down — which was initially called targeting against sophomore safety Alaka’i Gilman but was reversed after review. A short run and a pass that was completed for a loss of one yard following, put the Ducks in a fourth and eight on their first set of chains.

On fourth down, Brown felt pressure and rolled out right. Angling towards the line of scrimmage, Brown fired towards Pittman, who made the catch, but was out of bounds.

While the northwest corner of the stadium fell silent, the student section exploded and stormed the field for the first time in years.

“Can’t say enough about our crowd, our fans, our student section, the alumni,” Shaw said. “Got some juice from the ’70 and ’71 Rose Bowl teams. Heisman Trophy winner, All-American, first-round draft pick Jim Plunkett gave the guys juice on Friday.”

The Stanford win drastically alters the landscape of the Pac-12 North. With many expecting Oregon to run away with the division title, Stanford now owns the headto-head tiebreaker over the Ducks, emerging as their top challenger for a spot in the Pac-12 Championship Game come early December.

There is a long way to go until then, and the road does not get any easier next week for Stanford.

They will head down to Tempe, Arizona for a Friday-night clash with a talented Arizona State (4-1, 2-0 Pac-12) squad. Kickoff is slated for 7:30 p.m. PT on ESPN.

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Friday, October 8, 2021 ! 9

SPORTS

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS STANFORD PREPARES FOR NO. 23 SUN DEVILS

By ELLS BOONE DESK EDITOR

By JIBRIEL TAHA STAFF WRITER

By DANIEL WU

SENIOR STAFF WRITER

By CYBELE ZHANG DESK EDITOR

For the third week in a row, Stanford football is set to face a ranked opponent. The Cardinal (3-2, 2-1 Pac-12) defeated No. 3 Oregon in overtime last week, and now — just six days later in a rare Friday matchup — Stanford is scheduled to play No. 23 Arizona State (4-1, 3-0 Pac-12).

The Sun Devils currently sit atop the Pac-12 South rankings after beating No. 20 UCLA last weekend. A statement win for the Cardinal on the road win thus has the potential to push Stanford to near the top of the conference, behind only Oregon State — who is yet to play a ranked opponent.

But the road to a victory in Tempe will not be easy. The Cardinal will be missing multiple key players — namely senior wide receiver Brycen Tremayne, who went down with a gruesome ankle injury versus the Ducks.

Daniel Wu, Jibriel Taha and Ells Boone explore Stanford’s lack of ranking, key pieces on the Cardinal offense, ASU’s play makers, and Stanford’s prospects for the remainder of the season.

Cybele Zhang [CZ]: Despite having beaten two ranked teams (then-No. 14 USC and then-No. 3 Oregon), the Cardinal are still unranked. Do they deserve more than 11 votes in the AP Poll? Where would you personally place Stanford?

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Sophomore wide receiver John Humphreys (5, above) scored his first touchdown on Saturday and will now have to step up big time against Arizona State, given the absence of senior wide receiver Brycen Tremayne.

Daniel Wu [DW]: At this point in the season, no, not yet. Don’t get me wrong — Stanford is a good team that earned its marquee wins (sorry, Oregon fans complaining about bad calls: check back to the first half when the Cardinal had an Austin Jones touchdown and a fumble recovery taken away by the refs,

too). But if we’re talking AP rankings, the comfortable losses to Kansas State and UCLA hurt too much. Stanford has to do a little more to prove it’s consistent enough to join the cream of the college football crop. It’ll get the chance to, thanks to the ridiculous schedule.

Jibriel Taha (JT): I’d like to add

the quarterback sneak by McKee that was ruled short of the first down to the list of controversial calls that went Oregon’s way. But to answer the question, I think the AP has it right. Looking at where the teams Stanford has played stand now, Stanford has a win against the No. 8 team in the nation, two wins

against teams not in the poll and two losses to teams receiving votes.

That isn’t a top-25 resume, but a road win against Arizona State would make it one.

Ells Boone (EB): Beating the No. 3 team in the country normally does call for the victorious side to be ranked the next week, but in this case, I do not know who gets knocked out in favor of the Cardinal.

Talent-wise, Stanford is a top-25 team — as evidenced by its No. 25 ranking in 247sports’s 2021 College Football Team Talent Composite, a metric that averages together each school’s players’ rating out of high school. At the end of the day, Stanford just needs to win games, and the AP Poll will take care of itself.

CZ: I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: sophomore quarterback Tanner McKee has been playing lights out. Clutch throws versus Oregon won Stanford the game.

Other than McKee’s performance this season, what’s been going right for the Cardinal offense, and how do they keep the momentum going in Arizona? How will the absence of Tremayne, who leads the team in touchdowns with five, change Stanford’s game plan and/or execution?

DW: Brycen Tremayne isn’t just one of Stanford’s best players — he feels like the heart of the team. It hurts to see such an injury put his incredible story on pause for now, but Tremayne will be back. In the meantime, Stanford has plenty of towering pass-catchers to continue its signature passing attack. Sophomore John Humphreys and junior Elijah Higgins were lights out to finish the game against Oregon. Besides the receivers, it’s very encouraging that tight ends sophomore

Please see TEMPE, page 10

SAILING

CARDINAL COMPETE COAST-TO-COAST

Teams finish among top three

By MAYA SOMERS

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Stanford coed and women’s sailing teams split to attend three different regattas this past weekend: the Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference (PCCSC) Match Race Championship, the Women’s Atlantic Coast Qualifier and the Danmark Trophy. The Cardinal finished second in the Women’s Qualifier, qualifying for the ACC Championship Finals, and they dominated at PCCSCs for its fourth consecutive Match Race Championship win.

At the Arrillaga Family Row-

ing and Sailing Center in Redwood City on Saturday, Stanford hosted a triple round-robin competition against boats from the University of Hawaii, the University of California, Santa Barbara and the California Maritime Academy. The Cardinal went undefeated 9-0 under fifth-year skipper Jack Parkin, with fifthyear Matthew Hogan, senior Wiley Rogers and junior AnaClare Sole as crews.

This victory marked a continuation of Stanford sailing’s PCCSC Match Race Championship winning streak. Under new head coach Chris Klevan, who entered the position in June, Stanford has won four straight Match Race Championships. The Cardinal also qualified for the Intercollegiate Sailing Association

Please see SAILING, page 10

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Sophomore Rachel Heck (above) made her season debut at the Windy City Collegiate Classic early this week, helping Stanford to its second consecutive win. Cardinal freshman Rose Zhang captured the individual title.

WOMEN’S GOLF

STANFORD WINS BIG IN THE WINDY CITY

By GAVIN MCDONELL DESK EDITOR

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Fifth-year skipper Jack Parkin (above) led his boat to a perfect 9-0 record at the PCCSC Match Race Championship last weekend. The victory was earned on Stanford’s home territory in Redwood City.

In its second event of the fall season, Stanford women’s golf competed in the Windy City Collegiate Classic at Westmoreland Country Club in Wilmette, Ill. The Cardinal posted consistently low scores throughout the tournament to cruise to an eightstroke victory. On the individual side, freshman Rose Zhang won her second consecutive event to open her collegiate career.

In the morning round on Monday, the Cardinal got off to a quick start and ascended to the top of the leaderboard. Zhang collected three birdies en route to an even par 72. In her season debut, sophomore Rachel Heck made four birdies in a stretch of six holes as she matched Zhang’s low round. Senior Aline Krauter and junior Angelina Ye completed the Cardinal’s scoring with rounds of 74 and 75, respectively.

On Westmoreland’s difficult 6,432-yard layout, no team was able to shoot par or better for a single round. As it turned out, Stanford’s first round total of three-over-par

291 was the lowest of the week. In the afternoon round on Monday, the Cardinal nearly equaled this feat, shooting a four-over-par 292.

Once again, Zhang led the way for the Cardinal in the second round.

She made birdies on the second, sixth, 10th and 12th holes before making her first bogey of the day on the 14th. Ultimately, Zhang finished with a two-under-par 70, which brought her into a tie for first place individually.

Krauter and freshman Caroline Sturdza both shot even par rounds of 72, as Stanford extended its lead to nine shots over second place Texas.

In the final round on Tuesday, the Cardinal recorded its worst score of the week, a seven-over-par 295. The overnight lead proved to be insurmountable, however — only Virginia finished within 10 shots of Stanford.

Krauter put the finishing touches on a strong tournament, shooting a two-over-par 74. She closed in a tie for seventh place overall. Ye carded a 75, while Heck ended with a 76.

Chasing her second victory in as many tournaments, Zhang got off to

a mercurial start in the final round.

She birdied her opening hole before promptly bogeying the second. On the third hole, Zhang made her first double bogey of the week and her college career. Suddenly, she was back to even par for the week and out of the lead.

But Zhang fought back. The No. 1 amateur in the world played clinical golf from the fourth hole onward, making a trio of birdies on the sixth, seventh and ninth holes. A final birdie on the 16th hole allowed her to overtake Florida junior Jackie Lucena for the outright lead.

Zhang needed pars on 17 and 18 for the win, and she accomplished just that. In the end, her final round 70 led to a one-stroke victory over Lucena.

Dating back to last season, the Cardinal have won four consecutive stroke-play events. In each of these events, a Stanford golfer has also brought home medalist honors.

Stanford will look to continue its dominance next week as it returns home to host the Stanford Intercollegiate. The Cardinal will tee off at the Stanford Golf Course on Oct. 15.

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10 ! Friday, October 8, 2021

SHULTZ

Continued from page 1 bargain,” Kissinger said, sparking laughter from the attendees.

Kissinger, along with many other speakers, spotlighted the integrity, devotion and wisdom that characterized Shultz during his time working at Washington D.C. and Stanford University. He viewed Shultz as an active problem solver — one who would always seek out solutions rather than dwell on the problems at hand.

“If I could pick a president of the United States, I would choose George Shultz,” Kissinger said.

Blinken, though not on the program for the memorial, offered his remembrance near the end of the service. Though Blinken never worked with Shultz, he said he lives and works in a world that Shultz shaped.

“He went out of his way to show the building he recognized their hard work,” Blinken said. “All the way down to the thank you notes to local staff that he insisted on signing before he left a foreign country, so they could be handed over the moment he was wheels up.”

Blinken also recalled a test that Shultz often gave to each new ambassador before they flew to their new post: Shultz would call them into his office and ask them to point to their country on his globe.

When the new ambassador would wave their finger around looking for wherever they were headed, Shultzwould move their finger to the United States and remind

TEMPE

Continued from page 9 Benjamin Yurosek and junior Bradley Archer made big plays on the final drive too. Stanford’s offense sorely lacked a consistent passcatching tight end in 2020 and Yurosek finally looks ready to assume Kaden Smith and Colby Parksinson’s mantle. With the run game much improved against Oregon too, that’s more than enough firepower to keep up with the Sun Devils.

JT: With the effectiveness of the Cardinal running game varying wildly, McKee and the wide receiver core have been fantastic so far. The loss of Tremayne hurts, especially with senior Michael Wilson still sidelined, but I do not think the game plan will change that much. Sophomore Bryce Farell is the next man up, and he was explosive against UCLA, recording 80 yards on two receptions with a touchdown.

Courtesy of Drew Alitzer

Secretary Shultz's family, including his wife Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, gave readings from scripture at his memorial service at Memorial Church. them, “This is your country.” To Blinken, this story epitomized Shultz’s love for his country and how his leadership helped better those around him.

“He was a teacher. And many of us here today, in one way or another, were his students. Still

are,” Blinken said.

Af ter the ser vice, invited guests gathered outside of Memorial Church for a reception, complete with food and beverages circling on trays and live music from the 1st Marine Division Band.

Outside the church’s doors, California Governor Gavin Newsom took photos with members of the Stanford Chamber Chorale, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer spoke with friends. University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and

Provost Persis Drell embraced Charlotte Shultz, George’s widow, and other Shultz family members. California Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis, former New Jersey Gover nor Chris Christie and other notable figures also attended.

EB: Other than McKee, the wide receivers have been a bright spot for the offense. It almost seems like whoever is thrown out on the field produces. With Tremayne now out, and Wilson still recovering from his injury, Higgins and Humphreys are more than capable of carrying the load. Farrell has also impressed, showcasing his speed as a deep threat. We will see who steps in now as the fourth guy, but there is no doubt that Stanford has the horses to stay in any race — even with the injured players it has. The run game is also closer to full strength now, with sophomore Casey Filkins and junior Austin Jones returning against the Ducks. That pair, along with junior Nathaniel Peat, can do some damage behind a functioning offensive line.

CZ: Who is a player on Arizona State’s team — offense, defense or special teams — to watch and why?

JT: Junior quarterback Jayden Daniels — Yes, the Cardinal will face yet another dual-threat quarterback. Daniels is listed at 6-foot-3, 185 pounds and was No. 4 in Mel Kiper’s

2022 preseason NFL Draft rankings. In the mid-week press conference, David Shaw compared Daniels with UCLA senior quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson: “Jayden Daniels is probably the better pure passer of the two, but man, he can run as well, he’s athletic.” Daniels is the face of the ASU squad and stopping him is a tall task for the Stanford defense, as DTR walked out of Stanford Stadium with a win a few weeks ago.

EB: Since Jibriel took Jayden Daniels, I’ll go with running back Rachaad White. White’s averaging 5.1 yards per carry this season, and he also is a threat in the passing game, having recorded 23 receptions for 225 yards. The pairing of Daniels and White is a dangerous one, especially when ASU runs a read-option, so the Cardinal defense will need to be on their toes, ready to contain both the quarterback and running back.

DW: I should go with someone on defense, but I have to highlight wide receiver Ricky Pearshall, who absolutely torched the Bruins last

week with 132 yards and two touchdowns on just four passes. Oregon and UCLA took control of their games against Stanford with an explosive passing play, and ASU is better than both of those teams at stretching the field. The Cardinal cannot afford to let Pearshall or any of the other Sun Devil receivers run amok. Also, shout out to grad transfer Henry Hattis ’20, who’s starting at right guard for ASU. Here’s to hoping he didn’t take the Stanford playbook with him.

CZ: Zooming out more broadly, it feels like the Cardinal have survived their most challenging part of the season (UCLA and Oregon back-toback). Can Stanford finish the season with only two losses? Will Notre Dame or another team (or teams) destroy the Cardinal’s postseason prospects? Is a New Year’s Six game in our future?

DW: Stanford is definitely a bowl team right now, but it’s hard to say how high that ceiling is, and I don’t want to get caught looking too far ahead. With the win over Oregon, the Cardinal have a path to the Pac12 championship. But the team has to navigate the usual Pac-12 chaos and a few more top-tier teams to get there. Besides ASU and Notre Dame, don’t be surprised if Oregon State — currently on top of the Pac12 North after beating Washington and replicating Stanford’s thumping of USC — sneaks into the Top 25 by the time the Cardinal head to Corvallis.

JT: Two losses as a Pac-12 team means that the College Football Playoff is out of the question for the Cardinal barring some miracle, but a Rose Bowl appearance is certainly in play. The Cardinal control their own destiny to the conference title game.

Since the division standings (North and South) are determined by conference record overall, Stanford is at a disadvantage because it does not face Arizona or Colorado — games that would hypothetically yield wins.

Meanwhile, Oregon faces both of these squads, while avoiding USC and Arizona State — both more challenging opponents. Thus, given how inconsistent the Cardinal have been this year, winning the Pac-12 seems unlikely at the moment. Nev-

ertheless, no one in the division looks particularly great, but Oregon still is the favorite given its talent and remaining schedule. I’d give the Cardinal about a 20% chance of winning the division as of right now.

EB: If Stanford can get out of Tempe with a win, I think there is a very solid chance that the team does not lose again until its regular season finale against Notre Dame. That obviously would be considered a very successful season for a Cardinal team that was only projected to win four games this year. However, it does not do us any good to try to project out that far. There is a lot of football to play to determine postseason chances and the like, and injuries still remain a concern for the team. A healthy Stanford team can go 10-2 or 9-3 though in my opinion.

CZ: Can the Cardinal spoil another team’s hopes? Score predictions for Friday’s match up in Arizona?

JT: Arizona State 31, Stanford 27 — The Sun Devils top Stanford in Tempe during a short week. I think this one is close to a toss-up in a neutral site, but, given its location, I have Arizona State in a tight one.

The double-digit spread, however, is borderline disrespectful given what the Cardinal did last week.

EB: Stanford 38, Arizona State 28 — I also think the double digit spread is disrespectful, and I think the Cardinal win. ASU is the current favorite for the Pac-12 South title, and they are not accustomed to being in that position, so I think they will fold under the pressure. As long as Stanford’s defense can contain another dual-threat quarterback, I think the Cardinal get the win on Friday night.

DW: Stanford 35, Arizona State 31 — After how my prediction last week went, I see no reason to start picking against the Cardinal now.

This is a tough matchup, and Stanford is playing on a short week while battered with injuries. But crucial pieces of the Cardinal team were clicking against Oregon — the linebacker play, the run game and McKee’s connection with his receivers — and that should give Stanford enough momentum and confidence to pull this off.

SAILING

Continued from page 9 (ICSA) Match Race Championship on Nov. 13-14 in St. Petersburg, FL. Back east, Stanford women’s sailing took second place at the Women’s Atlantic Coast Qualifier in St. Mary’s City, MD. The Cardinal defeated Dartmouth in a tiebreak after scoring a total of 121 points across two divisions. In Division A, junior skipper Michelle Lahrkamp and junior crew Patricia Gerli reached second place with 36 points, behind only first-place Yale’s 29 points. Lahrkamp and Gerli finished each of their 13 races in the top-five boats, bringing in five second-place finishes and two first-place races for the Cardinal.

In the seventh-place Division B boat, sophomore skipper Berta Puig joined senior crew Ashton Borcherding in the first nine rounds before sophomore skipper Hannah Freeman replaced her in

round 13. The boat got off to a rough start, finishing 12th and 15th out of 16 in the first two rounds, but followed up with a first-place finish and was among the top-10 boats in each consecutive round. Earning second-place overall, women’s sailing qualified for the ACC Championship Finals, which will be hosted by Harvard on Oct. 16-17.

Finally, four more Stanford sailors placed 17th in New London, CT, at the Danmark Trophy. In Division A, senior skipper John Kirkpatrick and junior crew Abigail Tindall scored 172 points with three top-10 finishes and a 16thplace finish overall. Junior skipper Justin Lim and sophomore crew Gwendolyn Donahue also secured three top-10 finishes to place 19th in the B Division with 162 points.

For its next events, Stanford sailing will split up again on the East Coast. On Saturday, Oct. 9, the Cardinal will compete in the Women’s ICSA Stu Nelson Trophy in New London, CT, and the Coed Atlantic Coast Qualifier in Providence, RI.