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Stanford reports 26 student cases, row house outbreak COVID-19 outbreak largest since start of fall quarter

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The Stanford College Republicans’ plans to bring former Vice President Mike Pence to campus follows a string of controversial speakers that the group has invited, including Ben Shapiro and Dinesh D’Souza.

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SCR invites Mike Pence to campus in winter quarter

By CAMERON EHSAN DESK EDITOR

The Stanford College Republicans (SCR) has invited former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence to speak on campus during winter quarter.

SCR’s invitation to Pence follows a string of controversial speakers invited by the group, including selfproclaimed Islamophobe Robert Spencer, far-right author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza and Turning Point USA conservative activists Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens.

Each invitation has underscored the tension between free speech and community inclusion on campus.

It is not clear whether Pence has accepted SCR’s invitation. An SCR

The University reported 26 new student and 15 new faculty, staff and postdoc COVID-19 cases during the week of Nov. 8, according to the COVID-19 dashboard. With six student cases in a row house, some row houses and student organizations canceled or postponed their social events.

This week’s case count marks the largest spike in COVID-19 cases since the week of Sept. 20, when in-person classes resumed.

The case count is also a rise from the 11 student and five employee

cases reported in last week’s COVID-19 dashboard, though last week’s count for faculty, staff and postdocs only included those who tested within Stanford’s surveillance testing system. Stanford’s seven-day positivity rate has more than doubled from last week’s, rising from 0.08% to 0.18%. The University’s seven-day positivity rate continues to remain lower than the county’s 1.3% positivity rate and the state’s 2.0% positivity rate.

Of the 15 positive cases for faculty, staff and postdocs, eight are included in the University’s reported testing count, and the other seven either tested outside of the University’s surveillance testing system or tested positive prior to last week and recently reported it

representative did not respond to a request for comment, though SCR Financial Officer Stephen Sills wrote in a message to a group chat obtained by The Daily that it would be hosting Pence in Memorial Auditorium on Feb. 17.

Student Affairs spokesperson Pat Harris confirmed in a statement to The Daily that “The Stanford College Republicans have proposed hosting former Vice President Mike Pence and are working closely with the Office of Student Engagement to complete the necessary processes. The group is securing funding, and after funding is secured, OSE will review SCR’s event request.”

Students to return after break Stanford will resume in-person learning despite rising cases

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Senate presses R&DE on row meal plan concerns

By JACKIE LIU Undergraduate senators raised concerns about potential changes to row house meals to Stanford Dining Executive Director Eric Montell during their Tuesday meeting.

Building more consistent menus is among the prospective changes to row house dining, Montell said.

Due to a new vendor system, high chef turnover and technological difficulties with ordering ingredients, Montell said the changes are needed to “elevate some of the houses that are struggling.”

Residential and Dining Enterprises (R&DE) hopes to facilitate better communication and ingredient planning between row house chefs, Montell said. He added that the menus would also incorporate more “student favorites” and allow residents to be better informed about what is being served ahead of time.

However, “we have no intent to fully standardize the houses,” Montell said.

Senator Darryl Thompson ’23 broached concerns about the limited options available to those with dietary restrictions, especially vegans and vegetarians, in row house dining.

Montell responded that while R&DE works with a vegan sous chef, Jay-Ar Pugao, to ensure that vegan options are available, it is difficult to provide the same variety in row houses as in traditional dining halls.

“We recognize that it’s hard to replicate all of the options in a very large dining hall and compress that down into a smaller house,” Montell said.

Senator Cayla Withers ’23 raised the issue of Suites dining’s limited mealtime hours, which often conflict with students’ class schedules, potentially leaving them without food. R&DE has already expanded the mealtime window from 45 minutes to two hours, Montell said. Chefs also prepare refrig-

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to the University, according to the dashboard.

University spokesperson Karla Hudson wrote that there was “some spread among six students living in a row house.” Though Hudson did not specify which row house had the six student cases, an email was sent to students living in Xanadu on Thursday, informing residents that three students tested positive for COVID-19 within the previous 14 days. According to Xanadu resident and Daily staffer Defne Genc ’24, the reported cases doubled over the weekend to a total of six.

The University has already taken action to contain cases, ac-

The discrimination and harassment disproportionately faced by individuals from marginalized communities were widespread throughout campus, resulting in feelings of ostracization.

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Campus discrimination pervasive, survey finds

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Widespread discriminatory and harassing behaviors disproportionally affect communities of color as well as non-binary, trans and disabled communities on campus, according to the findings of the University’s first campus-wide Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) survey released on Wednesday.

The survey, which was conducted in May, asked questions about inclusion and belonging on campus and collected data about race, ethnicity and other identities. Around 15,000 students, postdocs, faculty and staff members completed the survey — approximately 36% of the campus population, according to Vice Provost for Institutional Equity,

Access and Community Patrick Dunkley.

Approximately 63% of Black respondents reported experiencing at least one microaggression, according to the survey results, based on discriminatory scenarios presented to survey respondents, which ranged from racially-charged remarks to someone crossing the street as they walked.

Nearly half of the survey’s transgender respondents reported suffering from harassing behaviors, and a nearly identical proportion of undergraduates with a disability reported experiencing measures of discrimination. The experiences described in the survey are limited to the two-year timeframe from 2019 to 2021, and in many cases do not encompass a community mem-

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Amid rising campus cases, Stanford still plans to resume in-person operations after many students and faculty travel nationwide and beyond for Thanksgiving break, according to an email from Vaden Health Services Executive Director James Jacobs and Stanford Occupational Health Center Medical Director Rich Wittman.

Masking, testing and getting booster shots are important measures to take when leaving and returning to Stanford’s campus, the email read.

Jacobs and Wittman also reminded those leaving campus to ensure they adhere to the testing requirements of their travel destinations.

Vaccinated people traveling domestically over Thanksgiving break will not be subject to additional restrictions when they return to campus, while vaccinated people returning from international travel will need to restrict their activity until they receive a negative test.

Unvaccinated students and employees returning from international travel will need to fully restrict inperson activity until testing negative five days after their return to campus.

Students remaining at Stanford will need to turn in their weekly test at any of the University’s drop boxes before Wednesday, Nov. 24 at 10 a.m. or after Friday, Nov. 26 at 10 a.m. Tests will not be collected from drop boxes on Thursday or Friday of Thanksgiving week.

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What to do if you recieve an exposure notification Everything students need to know about contact tracing

By ANNE LI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Since the start of the quarter, many members of the Stanford community have received emails informing them that they may have been in close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. Here is a breakdown of what this email means

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How does contact tracing work on campus?

Contact tracing is a process that involves tracking and notifying people of potential COVID-19 exposures in order to contain the spread of the virus. Students, faculty, staff and postdoctoral scholars who have COVID-19 or are at risk of getting

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Stanford-developed smart cane prompts accessibility concerns

By KRISTEL TJANDRA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Stanford researchers developed a smart cane to help the visually impaired navigate their surroundings.

While the cane was designed to offer improvements over traditional white canes, questions surrounding its usability have surfaced.

The Augmented Cane is fitted with sensors that are commonly found in cell phones and self-driving cars. According to the study, these sensors consist of a two-dimensional light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system, a camera, a GPS and a device that measures acceleration and velocity.

The cane was developed in the lab of Mykel Kochenderfer, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics. Patrick Slade Ph.D. ’21, the lead author in the study and a former student of Kochenderfer, wrote that witnessing the work done in Kochenderfer’s lab made him realize that the same sensor and algorithmic work used in autonomous driving research could help people with impaired vision overcome similar navigation problems.

“A lot of my work is around human-robot systems so I’m always thinking about ways we can use robotics to assist people’s mobility,” Slade wrote in an email to The Daily.

According to Kochenderfer, the cost and usability of the Augmented Cane were the focus of the design.

The Augmented Cane weighs two to three pounds and costs around $400 — considerably lighter and cheaper than many other smart canes, which can weigh anywhere from 12 to 50 pounds and cost as much as $6,000.

Bhavya Shah ’24, a fully blind

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The Augmented Cane’s sensors detect light and measure acceleration and velocity to assist the blind, but usability concerns have been raised. mathematics and computer science sophomore at Stanford, said he thinks the cane is an interesting concept. Yet, while he appreciates the fact that the researchers “cared about scalability and driving down

cost,” he said he is concerned that “the design may be based on a misconception about cane travel.”

According to Arjun Tambe ’19, the co-developer of the cane, the LIDAR is incorporated to sense a

distanced obstacle and steer users away from the object.

However, Shah, who uses a white cane on a daily basis, explained that this feature could be counterproductive to cane travel. “When I hit an

object, my cane makes a certain sound, and that’s precisely what its job is — for me to gain tactile and auditory information so that I know

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Anti-doxxing proposal punted Campus climate committee members resign after vote

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Haas Center keeps high school tutoring remote

By KARSEN WAHAL Despite the return of in-person Bay Area High Schools to in-person learning this fall, Stanford policies require local tutoring programs to remain fully online. Among the impacted programs is the Haas Center for Public Service’s High School Support Initiative (HSSI), which provides Stanford tutors, mentors and academic support to high school students from historically marginalized local communities.

In a typical year, Stanford students would take buses to local high school, where they would tutor students. But for the last academic year, tutors and students had to transition to an online system which still remains fully in place — even though all parties are currently attending school in person.

According to the HSSI Program Director Priscila Garcia, program heads were ready to make the necessary adjustments when the University’s policies requiring HSSI to remain online came out.

“We always had a Plan A, of returning in-person, but plan B was this hybrid model,” Garcia said.

“There was always the knowledge that either community partners or situations at Stanford could dictate could shift depending on community needs.”

HSSI connects Stanford tutors with high school students from East Palo Alto Academy and MenloAtherton High School. For Helena Zhang ’22, an HSSI fellow since her frosh year, the program has always been one of her most fulfilling experiences at Stanford.

“These students always have these doubts at the beginning, where they just don’t understand the concepts,” Zhang said. “But the second you lightly explain something to them, it clicks, and it’s so cool to see them grow within a short period of time and hear their stories.”

For tutors, the online setting has provided opportunities for more unique approaches to teaching through the use of Zoom games and features, although connecting with students through a screen has proved to be more difficult than working with them in person.

“With online tutoring, we meet students in Zoom breakout rooms and tailor our lessons to a student’s needs by using a whiteboard so they’re able to annotate and show their work,” said HSSI fellow Estefania Ramirez ’23. “However, it’s a little difficult to connect with students since sometimes their cameras are off or their Wi-Fi isn’t stable.”

Many HSSI fellows agree and said they acknowledge that online tutoring comes with both pros and cons.

“Being with someone physically in person feels a lot more natural and is a lot more fun, since it helps everyone get to know each other,” Zhang added. “At the same time, there’s a cool novelty to Zoom in that we can explore the best ways to teach other people by drawing on a board or sharing a screen.”

One of the most significant costs associated with maintaining online programs while school is in person has been declining recruitment and retention amongst Stanford students.

“Stanford students are trying to deal with what it means to be back on campus, and priorities have shifted,” Garcia said. “We have to grapple with where students are in terms of mental health, and figure out how to have a strong tutoring program as we transition to in-person. We’re still looking for more tutors.”

The programs are likely to become fully in-person in winter quarter, Garcia said, as long as case numbers continue to improve locally and restrictions are eased.

At a heated Faculty Senate meeting on Thursday, senators voted to table recommendations that would make doxxing a violation of the Fundamental Standard. The decision drew outrage from some faculty senators who questioned the Senate’s inaction on doxxing that has threatened the safety of students and faculty.

The anti-doxxing recommendations were made by the Planning and Policy Board (PPB) Subcommittee on Campus Climate. The subcommittee’s members — faculty members Richard Ford ’98, David Palumbo-Liu, Stephan Stedman and Elaine Treharne, and students Grace Lee and Megha Parwani — resigned from their posts when the motion was tabled.

The vote to table the recommendations comes after Stanford reported the results of its first diversity, equity and inclusion survey, which found that widespread discrimination and harassment disproportionally affect marginalized groups on campus. Just last week, the University denounced a paid advertisement campaign funded by a conservative group

that targeted political science professor Hakeem Jefferson.

The campus climate subcommittee, chaired by comparative literature professor PalumboLiu, was tasked in 2019 with preparing a report on “the issue of free speech and academic freedom” amid the perceived “eroding” of campus climate, according to the subcommittee’s report.

Members of the subcommittee stressed the importance of protecting students and faculty members who have faced harrassment and discrimination, especially in the form of online doxxing.

Multiple Stanford students and faculty members have fallen victim to doxxing and online harassment campaigns in recent years. Earlier this year, Emily Wilder ’20 was fired from The Associated Press after the Stanford College Republicans (SCR) publicly attacked her in targeted social media posts for her past involvement in Palestinian activism.

Palumbo-Liu himself was sent death threats in 2018 after two SCR members wrote an article in The Stanford Review.

“We have found there’s a politically motivated campaign across various organizations that has gone after precisely the students, staff and scholars who embody

the diversity that Stanford wishes to celebrate and advance,” Palumbo-Liu said. “I want to stress this is not a matter of free speech. It’s a matter of purposeful, malicious acts designed solely to deprive others of their free speech rights and to create fear and distrust among us.”

The subcommittee recommended that Stanford establish an anti-doxxing policy that makes it a violation of the Fundamental Standard “to feed information, by any means, to an outside organization or individual affiliated with such an organization, including media outlets, with the intent to harm.”

In its report, the committee also called for Stanford to interpret its disciplinary rules “in such a way that any malicious attack on any individual will be punished, and especially if the perpetrator has enlisted others to that attack.”

After the presentation of the report, some senators clashed in an impassioned debate.

Political science professor Judith Goldstein, a former chair of the Senate, underscored that doxxing is already against University rules, but cautioned that any measures enacted by the University must be done so with care

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The Faculty Senate voted on Thursday to table reccomendations that would make doxxing a Fundamental Standard violation. Multiple Stanford affiliates have fallen victim to doxxing in recent years.

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of climate change since the 1980s yet chose not to share their research with the rest of the world. This track record indicates that these companies’ claims to support unbiased, objective research are laughable.

Stanford’s partnerships with these companies have not prevented them from targeting Stanford researchers. ExxonMobil has repeatedly attempted to attack and discredit the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN body on which Multiple Stanford climate scientists have served, including Paul N. Edwards, a lead author of the IPCC’s 2021 6th Assessment Report, and Chris Field, a co-chair of Working Group II of the IPCC. Stanford’s decision to not only invest in but also receive research funding from companies that directly attack its own scholars is baffling.

This concerted misinformation campaign demonstrates that the research funding these companies provide is not intended solely to help with emissions reductions. Indeed, top oil and gas companies jointly spent only around one percent of their 2018 budgets on clean energy. To the extent that opponents of divestment are concerned about funding for further research on emissions reductions, relying on the fossil fuel industry to support this research is counterproductive.

Secondly, opponents of divestment argue that because Stanford invests so little — only 1.5% — of its endowment in the oil and gas industry, its divestment would not materially impact those companies. As such, divestment would only serve to sever research ties with the oil and gas industry, while doing nothing to change industry practices.

This argument ignores the important social effects of divestment.

Stanford’s continued financial investment gives social license to operate to the fossil fuel industry by throwing the university’s intellectual weight behind the industry’s actions. Indeed, divestment rarely materially impacts companies’ profits. Instead, as University of Oxford philosopher William MacAskill argues, divestment’s primary utility is its ability to generate social stigma.

Historical divestment campaigns, such as the one against South Africa, may not have financially decimated the companies involved, but they nonetheless played an important part in the broader social movement against the apartheid regime.

Stanford recognizes this logic.

Its decision to divest from the genocidal Sudanese regime in 2005 and

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espite unanimous votes in the Undergraduate Senate and the Graduate Student Council, two referenda showing 83% student approval and a 600-signature petition, Stanford University still refuses to divest from fossil fuels. Stanford most recently demonstrated its intransigence in the face of the climate emergency last June, when the Board of Trustees and Faculty Senate voted against a resolution calling for divestment.

Yet Fossil Free Stanford remains heartened by the outpouring of student and alumni support for divestment. We believe that as the brutal reality of the climate crisis becomes even more clear, and as peer institutions like Harvard divest, Stanford’s position on divestment becomes even less justifiable.

None of the arguments on which opponents of divestment relied included a discussion of the impact of climate change on marginalized communities. Instead, opponents referred to two arguments, neither of which withstand scrutiny: 1) the necessity of maintaining oil and gas industry-funded research and 2) the small impact of divestment.

The first argument runs as follows: Oil and gas companies are responsible for funding significant amounts of environmental research at Stanford. If Stanford were to divest, it could signal to these companies that the university does not support them, leading these companies to withhold further funding.

Stanford claims the loss of that funding would inhibit Stanford researchers’ further investigation into emissions reductions strategies.

This argument presumes that oil and gas companies are interested in research on emissions reductions.

Greenwashed marketing strategies aside, the historical record demonstrates the opposite. Since the 1980s, fossil fuel companies have sought to discredit research on the scope of the climate crisis in any way they could. Between 2015 and 2018, the five largest publicly traded oil and gas companies reportedly spent $1 billion promoting their climate disinformation campaign through “branding and lobbying.” ExxonMobil, which contributes at least $250,000 per year to Stanford’s Natural Gas Initiative, contributed almost $16 million to advocacy organizations which spread climate misinformation. Shell, another member of the Natural Gas Initiative, donated nearly $500,000 to Dutch climate denialist Frits Bottcher. Both companies have known about the reality

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In 2016, Fossil Free Stanford held a protest rally in front of Memorial Church, where former University President John Hennessy was giving a speech. Today, the group continues to push for the University to divest. from the coal industry in 2013 prove that Stanford recognizes that certain industries are responsible for such abhorrent social and ecological consequences that it cannot ethically justify its continued investment in them. As the year and a half since

the Board’s vote demonstrates, fossil fuel companies’ continued role in climate change makes them one such industry.

I will not use this space to restate the multitude of reports that lay out the fossil fuel industry’s ongoing

role in the climate crisis. Nor do I need to remind the reader of the scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic climate change. But given new developments since the

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International students face In solidarity with Hakeem Jefferson decision over break travel

THE EARLY CAREER BLACK FACULTY GROUP

Editor’s Note: The Daily is not including the group’s membership out of the group’s concerns that revealing the individuals’ identities could subject them to reprisal from the University and undue harassment. You can read more about The Daily’s opinions section policies here. ear President Tessier-Lavigne, Provost Drell, Dean Satz and the broader Stanford Community, In light of recent attacks on our colleague, Dr. Hakeem Jefferson, we, the Early Career Black Faculty Group at Stanford University, write this letter in solidarity with Dr. Jefferson, an assistant professor of political science at Stanford.

We bring Dr. Jefferson’s recent attack to your immediate attention for two reasons. First, it provides the opportunity for Stanford to condemn the racist attacks that Dr. Jefferson has faced. We all contend with the reality that such forceful attacks against those whose identities and scholarship involve Black communities have, unfortunately, become common. Second, we write with urgency about the need for the University to develop a strategic response to an increase in attacks on Black faculty due to their scholarship. Dr. Jefferson’s situation exposes the gap between the University’s ideals and the lived realities of Black faculty members.

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vides an opportunity to close this gap by committing substantive material action toward the aspirations of the campus-wide IDEAL initiative so that all community members, including those who identify as Black, can thrive.

Professor Jefferson, as a public intellectual, consistently challenges white supremacy and systemic racism. Recently, Professor Jefferson has come under attack for his powerful scholarship and commentary, including ads targeting him by a well-funded hate group (as classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center). The coordinated attacks against Dr. Jefferson, though they highlight his impact as a scholar and public intellectual, are unacceptable. As a Black untenured scholar, his career, well-being and family’s safety are all threatened by these attacks. Yet, his intellectually robust work is why Stanford hired him. To this end, we call on Stanford to do more than state its support for academic freedom, generally, as it did in its public statement issued on Nov. 9, 2021. Instead, we ask that the University acknowledges the importance of Professor Jefferson’s powerful scholarship on systemic racism and justice and specifically and forcefully condemn these recent attacks.

Having observed the University’s response in the last several days, we are concerned that the University does not have a strategic, comprehensive plan to support Black faculty who face racist attacks in the public or private sphere. Further, we believe there is

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Rules restricting activity complicate travel choices

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well-being and family’s safety are all threatened by these attacks.” not a plan in place that reduces the likelihood of these attacks taking place in the future. This is worrying for several reasons, not least because specific aspects of this political climate heighten the precarity of the intellectual pursuits of many Black faculty at this institution. The ease with which hate groups can find out our personal information, target our loved ones and fund coordinated attacks that misrepresent our academic agendas and ideas is incredibly concerning. We cannot stress enough the importance of being proactive — not merely reactive — in this regard.

Our safety and livelihoods are at stake.

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With Thanksgiving less than a week away, many Stanford students plan to travel back to their home cities for the week-long break. But international travelers — even those who are vaccinated — will face COVID-19 travel protocol upon their return, including restricted activity until they receive negative results from a test taken on the day of their return to campus. Vaccinated, domestic travelers, however, face no period of restricted activity upon their return to campus.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Student Affairs first sent an email to students detailing Thanksgiving break travel protocols for international and unvaccinated students on Oct. 13. The policy calls for students returning from international travel and unvaccinated students to take COVID-19 tests on the day they return to California (day zero) and three to five days later (day five).

While awaiting day zero test results, vaccinated international students are required to adhere to restricted activity protocols. For unvaccinated students, this restricted activity period extends until the day five test results are received. According to Stanford’s policy, these individuals cannot attend in-person classes and may only leave residences for COVID-19 testing, medical care, laundry and trash, solo

outdoor exercise and meal pick-up.

This policy could pose challenges for students traveling internationally over Thanksgiving break, as week 10 classes begin on Nov. 29 and no special arrangements will be in place to accommodate students unable to attend class due to Thanksgiving travel.

“We discourage international travel during the Thanksgiving Break so that you can continue your studies in week 10,” wrote University spokesperson Pat Harris. While week 10 studies may be inhibited, the Office of Student Affairs wrote that they “anticipate students will receive results for both tests before exams begin Dec. 6.”

Chloe Romero ’25, an international student from Uruguay, is not returning home for Thanksgiving break — a decision she explained was not influenced by the COVID19 travel policy.

“The biggest reason I didn’t go home is just because it’s too expensive and not that much time,” Romero said. She did, however, state that the policy could have implications that unfairly target international students. “I don’t think it really makes sense to say international students have to do this versus domestic students ... you don’t know what the COVID situation is in each country, maybe you’re traveling to a place with no COVID.” Armando Borda ’25 plans to return home to Chile for Thanksgiving break. He booked his plane tick-

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The stars behind AATP’s ‘Among the Dead’

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ince its creation in 1978, the Asian American Theater Project (AATP) has been a well-established space on campus for students to uplift the stories and voices of Stanford’s Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community.

For its 2021-2022 season, AATP has chosen the theme of the “Future Perfect Continuous,” based on an essay by Olia Sosnovskaya that focuses on the power of revolution, the present as a source of overwhelming tragedy and the potential for imagination to be used as a tool for political movement.

According to a statement written by artistic director Chloe Chow ’23, AATP draws upon the idea of the “Future Perfect Continuous” to “bridge together who we were and who we aspire to be, both as individuals and as the community of the Asian American Theater Project.” The theme provides AATP the opportunity to explore normalcy in the post-quarantine world as well

as the themes of self and community growth.

“Among the Dead” will be a production that takes its audience into a space of self-reflection and growth.

AATP executive producer Evelyn Kuo ’23 shared her reflections on this theme and the organization’s experience coming back to campus after a “lost year.”

“We at AATP are embracing the feeling of linear disjunction and exploring the ways the past, present and future are all connected,” she said. “With regards to our season theme, ‘Among the Dead’ spans across multiple timelines and places, and it really highlights the way the past influences the present, but also the way depictions of history in the present influence the way we view the past.”

“Among the Dead” by Hansol Jung will be the first AATP production of the year and its first in-person play since the University’s pandemic closure. It explores the themes of intergenerational trauma, war and identity through Ana, a young Korean American woman who ventures into the past and finds

herself in the shoes of a Korean “comfort woman” for the Japanese imperial army, who is known only by the name Number Four.

Artistic director Tiger Zhou ’22 explained that the play will be exploring the contemporary issue of “comfort women” as well as “social and political themes that resonate across generations” of Asian American families. Comfort women were women, predominantly from Korea, China and the Philippines, who were forced to serve in brothels for the Japanese military. Today, survivors such as Lee Young-Soo continue to seek justice for the abuse and trauma forced on them.

Less than 24 hours after their initial Instagram announcement, “Among the Dead” sold out. Hope Yoon ’24, director of the production, was surprised by this news.

“AATP has always been a sort of alternative theater space on campus. It’s never really been a huge show that stays in MemAud (Memorial Auditorium). It’s always been [in] the smaller venues and about the lesser-

heard voices in theater,” Yoon said. “So to see that the interest level at Stanford to witness [‘Among the Dead’] was so huge [and] a really nice surprise to me and also probably a testament to the fact that folks are more and more willing to listen to the stories that have historically been untold.”

The storytelling aspect of the show is crucial to understanding the impact of history and the way it is told to subsequent generations. Yoon’s vision for the play is to show how history and certain events in time continue to impact an individual’s identity and inflict intergenerational trauma even long after their occurrence.

“It’s up to us to continue to tell that story first of all, but also to recognize that how we tell these stories is going to continue to influence whether that history repeats itself in the future,” Yoon said.

Alison Rogers ’25, who portrays Ana, found she was able to relate to her character because they share the identity of being half

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CULTURE

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Avant-garde work at onenight show

TAPS comedy portrays all types of love

Student art focused on the theme of growth

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he sounds of avant-garde experimental lo-fi and a looping animation of a Na’vi woman from James Caemron’s “Avatar” riding atop a motorcycle set the scene at Roble Arts Gym this past Saturday. The video was part of a onenight-only student art exhibition entitled “Synth” that was installed and taken down within the span of five-and-a-half hours. The show featured pieces from an open call to on-campus artists.

“It was just this crazy roller coaster of moving pieces and parts. We hung the last piece around five. We even lined the exhibition walls with this black trash bag wrap. I wanted this to look like we did it, like it was something that students actually did independently,” said exhibition curator and creator of the “Avatar” animation Gunner Dongieux ’22.

The show’s overall theme was exploring the return to life after quarantine, and its multimedia curation featured works including small-scale paintings, an upcycled corset, a life-sized oil portrait, experimental photographs, a satirical collage of world maps and a four-foot tall cardboard sculpture.

While reviewing student submissions for the exhibition, Dongieux noticed “motifs of growth [and] fracture” that he hoped to highlight to the post-pandemic Stanford community. The scrappy backdrop and diverse media on display seemed appropriate

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Curator Gunner Dongieux ‘22 talks to a gallery visitor. Dongieux organized the exhibition in order to facilitate the return of the visual arts scene at Stanford. given the current state of campus: fragmented, artificial interactions experienced during isolation are being replaced with the communal and organic realities of an in-person quarter.

At the exhibition, Bhumikorn “Bhu” Kongtaveelert ’25, who is a writer at The Daily, displayed a trio of gouache paintings showing greenery growing between cracks in the street.

“I started it in Thailand,” Kongtaveelert said. “At the time, it was politically turbulent, and people were very polarized. I finished it here. I thought it was a funny parallel — because America is very fragmented, and as an international student, it’s like, ‘wow, okay, [America is] progressive, but also so divided as well.’”

Kongtaveelert hopes to submit more pieces to upcoming student shows, and to future gallery visitors he suggests: “instead of asking ‘how did you make this,’ ask ‘why do you make this?’ The why is important, as well.”

One of Dongieux’s goals for the exhibition aligned with the broader charge of fostering a flourishing and interconnected arts community at Stanford — from frosh to

seniors, art practice to computer science majors. Synth brought together an interdisciplinary and intergenerational body of work.

As a staff member in Burbank, which houses Stanford’s arts immersion program ITALIC, Dongieux was able to spread the word to new artists on campus and help them kickstart their arts career at Stanford by participating in the show. Burbank resident Eli Arguello ’25 whose piece — a corset upcycled from a pair corduroy pants — was on display, appreciated the exhibition as an opportunity to learn about the ins and outs of being an artist at Stanford.

“I got to hear about the art practice major and what studio spaces are like here.

It was really eye-opening,” Arguello said.

Dongieux will be following up this project by curating another open call exhibition next quarter. He encourages all artists to submit their works, and he hopes the entire Stanford community will come see the show.

“This one was definitely the scrappy first round, but hopefully showing the university that we’ve done this and that it went really well, they’ll let us get a better space for more time,” Dongieux said.

he Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS) department’s first in-person production since the pandemic, “As Soon As Impossible,” directed by TAPS Professor Samer Al-Saber, is a warm “Welcome Back!” to live performance at Stanford.

The campus show is the play’s debut, and all Playwright Betty Samieh needs to tell a compelling story of love and forgiveness is a simple set-up of two trailers and four actors.

“As Soon As Impossible” features two best friends: Ramsey, an intelligent Arab-American professor, and Arthur, a hard-working “brawn over brains” WASP. Along with Arthur’s timid yet smart grandson Drew, they live together in neighboring trailers during the summer’s fishing season when they are unexpectedly greeted

by Ramsey’s boisterous and unapologetic granddaughter Layla.

Though love bonds the characters in unspeakable ways, a heavy feeling of isolation weighs upon them all. Ramsey struggles ongoingly with the loss of his wife. Drew suffers the burden of hiding a facet of his identity, Layla desires immediate independence and Arthur grows suspicious of Ramsey — though unable to articulate the words aloud, he finds himself suspecting his best friend of being a terrorist.

“As Soon As Impossible” makes us witnesses to the web of interactions the four characters have with each other but, more importantly, forces the audience to confront their loneliness. We understand Ramsey’s irreconcilable grief that no other character can aid; we see how Layla’s one-track plan to her idealized version of womanhood jeopardizes her welfare, we bear witness to the tension that a strong sense of resoluteness and self-awareness undermined by

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Re-release of ‘Red’ satisfies Taylor Swift’s most recent smash-hit

By BHUMIKORN KONGTAVEELERT CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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n the cozy Alondra lounge, precisely one hour after the album dropped, Stanford students gathered to celebrate the rerelease of the pop-country phenomenon that is Taylor Swift’s “Red.” Although the music and composition are largely identical to the original, the production quality of the songs in “Taylor’s Version” is noticeably improved. The percussive elements are significantly more polished and orchestral, while the clarity of the strings and guitars further enhances the listening experience; the improved quality in recordings is especially apparent in “The Last Time [feat. Gary Lightbody],” as the instrumentation neatly complements the more refined vocal performance from both artists.

“I can’t go back to the old ‘Red,’” said listening party attendee Yared “Yayo” Avalos ’25.

The new album is still an emotional rollercoaster, just like the

original. By the time the listening party reached “22,” people couldn’t help but abandon the sofas to jump around the room and shout the classic, coming-of-age lyrics. The cathartic adrenaline rush of fastpaced pop-bops was punctuated with heartbroken cries as listeners reflected on powerful ballads like “All Too Well,” “I Almost Do” and “Sad Beautiful Tragic.”

“Despite the lack of coherent narrative, the album was able to capture the complex feeling of growing up and falling in and out of love. The messiness is kind of the point, isn’t it?” said Alondra resident and party attendee Vernita Zhai ’25.

Sentimentally, the re-release was an opportunity to reflect on how far we, the listeners, have grown since the last edition. While we find ourselves surrounded by new environments, friends and uncertainties, “Red (Taylor’s Version)” transports us back to our childhood bedrooms.

“When ‘Red’ came out the first time, my friends didn’t listen to Taylor Swift, but now I’m surrounded by people who really appreciate the songs as I do,” said Sylvia Gabriel ’25. “I was embarrassed to even like her, you know. The tides have kind of turned — I’m able to let go of that self-consciousness now.”

Swift has clearly grown right

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Students gathered to celebrate the re-release of the pop-country phenomenon. Listening to the new version of “Red” allowed students to reflect on their own growth, writes Bhumikorn Kongtaveelert. along with her audience. The songs “From The Vault” were great additions to the album — the maturity in their content was probably why the songs didn’t make it in the initial cut, but their current release feels right.

Of the vault songs, “Ronan” is particularly affecting; the listening party fell silent while reflecting upon the life of Ronan Thompson, who succumbed to cancer and

passed away too soon. “What if I kept the hand-me-downs you won’t grow into?” sang Swift. “What if the miracle was even getting one moment with you?”

Both “Better Man” and “Babe,” now sung by Swift, sounded better than the room anticipated, given the incredible initial releases of the songs by Little Big Town and Sugarland, respectively. “Message In A

Bottle” was an unexpected 2010’s bop that I can foresee growing into a summer hit, with its carefree, liberated chorus; “Run” was a masterpiece and a glimpse into the exquisite delicacy of “+”-era Ed Sheeran.

The cutting lyrics of “Nothing New” and the perfect collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers signaled another

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THE GRIND

THE GRIND

Best pizza in Palo Alto, part 4

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Rating: 6.5/10 Price: $14 for a 16” pie

By MARK HUERTA STAFF WRITER

Some of you may want me to stop publishing these articles because you are concerned about my health. Some of you may want me to stop writing these articles because you think my opinions are horrible. Well, I’m still going to eat pizza, and I will continue to share my findings with The Stanford Daily until I keel over.

Everyone knows the rules. I will rate plain cheese pizzas from greater Palo Alto area pizza joints on a scale from 1 to 10 based on integrity of crust, flavor of sauce and quality of cheese. The ambiance of the restaurant and the price of the pizzas are also considered in these ratings.

Here are four pizza spots in the vicinity of Stanford and my takes on the them.

Treehouse This Tresidder Union spot serves food with origins in virtually every corner of the earth, and Italy is represented by the joint’s pizza offerings. The crust is slightly doughy and lacking in seasoning. There is a nice crunch and a slight pillow-like-texture to the crust, though. This is a floppy pizza; the crust can’t handle the cheese that sits atop it. The strength of this pie comes from the cheese: a low-moisture, perfectly blistered mozzarella. The pie has the perfect quantity of cheese as well. Any more and it would have become overwhelmingly cheesy. The sauce is disappointing, though. The tomatoes here lack flavor or much sweetness. However, Treehouse is a great on-campus spot to watch some sports on the large flatscreen TVs and eat some ‘za.

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Pizz’a Chicago The portions are big and the pies are deep at this Windy City-themed pizza shop on El Camino Real. The crust on their signature deep-dish pie is flaky with a little bit of crunch. Despite this, the crust is still nice and pillowy. Overall the crust reminds the palate of focaccia, the salty, doughy Italian bread. The pie’s sauce is sweet with a little tang. There is no flop on the pie with a hefty — but not overwhelming — amount of cheese. My party also ordered the thin crust pizza, and that was very crackery. If you go to Pizz’a Chicago, get a deep dish pizza. The thin crust scores about a point and a half lower than the rating I gave the deep dish below. The joint is expensive, but I only managed to eat one and a half slices after skipping breakfast. There was a thirtyminute wait for pizza, but the several TVs in the dining room make this a good place to watch sports while you wait.

Rating: 6/10 Price: $25.50 for a 14’’ deep dish pizza EVGR Pub Pizza is one of several menu options at this new Serra Street location on Stanford’s campus. The dough on this pie has the chewy texture and consistency of a dense sourdough bread. Whether this is a good thing or not comes down to individual preference; I personally prefer a less dense and chewy crust, although I will say that this is good for its category. The flop on the pie is minimal, and the crust maintains the pizza’s structural integrity well. The sauce is of decent quality and slightly

sweet, but there is barely any on the pie.

This pizza’s main weakness is the quantity and quality of its cheese. There is way too much overly processed cheese on this pie, and it detracts significantly from the eating experience. Bites of the pie contain more cheese than dough. The pizza is dehydrating to eat because there is no sauce to counteract the saltiness of the cheese.

However, there is a fire in the restaurant’s patio seating area, which makes it a nice place to eat this overly-cheesy pie.

Rating: 5/10 Price: $16 for a 14’’ pie 7/11 I have had many pizzas in my life. I have eaten pizza in all corners of the country and even overseas. I have become something of a micro-expert on pizza because of this column. This is by far the worst pizza I have ever had in my life. No, it is the worst thing I have ever put in my mouth, and that includes all the dirt I ate as a kid. Let’s start with the positives. The Waverly Street location of America’s most famous convenience store offered a quick turn-around. It took two minutes from the time I ordered to having a box with a hot pizza in my hands. The pizza was only $7, making it by far the cheapest pizza that Stanford Daily Pizza Review has sampled. However, this only proves the old maxim that you pay for what you get. The pizza has virtually no flop, so at least the wood-grain-textured cheese stays on the pie. The crust tastes like a wet sponge with absolutely no crispness or crunch. And the sauce tasted like ketchup. I took one bite and had to throw the rest out.

Rating: 1/10 Price: $7 for a large pizza

An exploration of a peculiar and ongoing relationship

By ERIC LIU When I was five years old, I lived with my mother and grandma in a tiny, old apartment. My dad worked in another city, and my mother was never home — her newly-started company was on the rim of falling apart. So, my life mostly consisted of two things: strolling around with grandma on a college campus near our crowded apartment building and hanging out with kids around my age that lived in my building.

During the day, our apartment room was lovely. It contained everything my five-year-old-self ever wanted: a sofa that could serve as a trampoline in the living room, a soft carpet under the sofa for crawling and rolling around, a marshmallowy bed to sink myself in afternoon naps and an assembly set of train station toys that covered the entire living room floor.

However, when the night fell, the apartment shapeshifted into a monster, lurking and waiting to swallow me alive. I could not stay in the dark by myself. I would scream if my grandma left my side. In my mind, there were always some scary, evil things hiding in the shadow-drowned corners. I would always face my back toward the well-lit walls and fix my eyes nervously on the corners.

One night, my grandma missed a stair going up to our room and hurt her ankle. So, she asked me to pick up the medicine in the drawer near the kitchen. However, a long, shadowy corridor lay between the living room and kitchen. The corridor connected two other rooms, and their ajar doors always offered exceptional subjects of imagination for an active, curious mind.

Like the doors in the movie “Monster Inc.,” where

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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.

Stanford students have a clear aversion to wearing bike helmets. Much like putting on sunscreen and brushing your teeth, helmet use is a loose suggestion old people give us, rarely based on actual practice. However, Stanford’s administrators have noticed the low rates of helmet usage, and the higher-ups are determined to help us prioritize our safety.

Those of you who filled out Stanford Transportation’s annual survey might remember a question about how to encourage students to

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Frosh Formal naming coopted by Big Agriculture

By CASSIDY DALVA STAFF WRITER

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A typical “entrepreneur” poses in front of their few remaining personality traits. A reputable study has found that you can’t have it all.

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Startup or personality? Pick one.

By DEFNE GENC SENIOR 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.

The GSB Behavioral Lab has just published its findings from a study polling Stanford students who self-identify as “entrepreneurs.” The results have found that many participants’ answers in varying categories were shockingly similar.

Surveys on social media habits have revealed that an average of 97% of participants follow either Elon Musk or Evan Spiegel on LinkedIn, while 100% have reported having liked at least one tweet

by Naval on Twitter.

Only 9% of participants reported having complaints about a lack of diversity in the founder space, of which 90% are women. 76% of founders report asking a friend to sign an NDA. When polled on their favorite pastimes, it was revealed that many respondents shared eerily similar hobbies, with “Networking” and “The Pomodoro Technique” being the most popular among student entrepreneurs.

Other notable responses have been in reference to the “Museum/Museum-like activity” category, namely visiting “VCs on Sand Hill Road” and “The Google HQ.” Patagonia and Verve Coffee Roasters were also locations referenced by respondents as places they frequent, preferred by 55% and 34% of participants, respectively.

When generating a breakdown of participants’ majors, researchers weren’t surprised to see that 69% of respondents were majoring in Computer Science and 20% in MS&E, while 11% reported that they were more likely to drop out and that declaring a major was not worth their time.

As for the favorite classes of student entrepreneurs, Stanford freshmen and sophomores repeatedly referenced CS106A and CS106B, while upperclassmen preferred Peter Thiel’s class, GERMAN 277, and MS&E 149: Hedge Fund Management.

When asked for a description of their business, 82% of responders referenced an app created with other Stanford students, while the remaining 18%’s responses cannot

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This past week, the Stanford Class of 2025 prepared to partake in a beloved campus tradition: the annual Frosh Formal. While the Frosh Council initially planned the formal’s theme to be “Enchanted Forest,” special interest groups in the agricultural industry offered to hedge the financial cost of the formal in exchange for representatives’ promise to re-theme the formal as “Enchanted Commercial Agriculture Zone.”

The unlikely partnership emerged several weeks ago, as representatives of Frosh Council were scrambling to raise enough money to cover the hefty costs of catering and decor. Fake shrubs and evergreen decorations, essential for any forestthemed event, were particularly expensive. Frosh Council representatives began emailing alumni, asking for donations or financial support.

By a stroke of luck, Gretchen Woods ’83, the public relations coordinator for Global Farming Industries, co., responded with an offer.

Global Farming would donate $4,000 to Stanford’s Frosh Formal planning efforts, with only one string attached — that the event’s theme “reflected Global Farming Industries’ values and mission for change in the 21st century.”

“This partnership is helping to dismantle harmful anti-agricultural stigma by aestheticizing productivity and industry as a force for change,” explained Woods, who personally recommended swapping the formal’s tree-lined entry for an upscaled cattle headgate. “Everyone thinks forests are dreamy, but until you stand in the middle of acres of

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Meteors are devastating, but trust us when we say that they wouldn’t be enough to cancel Big Game.

The show must go on!

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Big Game can’t be stopped 8 disasters that don’t merit cancellation

By BEN LEES 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.

1. The mass-extinction-causing meteor impact It might seem like a 300-ton celestial object hurtling through the atmosphere at 12 kilometers a second, destroying every structure in half of California and creating a dust cloud that will block out the sun for months, would result in the cancellation of the Big Game, but the NCAA seems unconcerned.

RELEASE Continued from page 5 remarkable moment of maturity for Swift, especially considering that she wrote this song back in 2012.

“How can a person know everything / At eighteen but nothin’ at twentytwo?,” she sings, offering a dreadful insight into what we might lose

2. The rain of blood from the sky Ancient civilizations might have looked at the millions of gallons of human blood pouring from the heavens and seen it as some sort of ill omen of the future. Fortunately, we live in more enlightened times.

3. Arrillaga lunch It’s just never really all that good.

I’m surprised they’re letting the Big Game go forward alongside such a disappointment.

4. The alien invasion It would be completely reasonable if the alien spaceships hovering over the Earth, eliminating monuments with careless precision, were considered enough of a threat to at least postpone the Big Game.

Yet, absent any official announcement to date, the game is still set to proceed.

5. Jack West’s Homework Quarterback Jack West, a senior majoring in American Studies, has a ton of homework that week. Are

you sure we can’t, like, push it back a couple days?

6. The Big One Not to be confused with the Big Game. You know what I mean. The long-anticipated earthquake that’s supposed to wipe out half the West Coast? One might expect it to be mutually exclusive with the Big Game, but it turns out nobody cares about this either.

7. The sound of crickets They don’t have these things in Seattle, and they really get on my nerves. It’s like they’re judging me or something.

8. The fact that Cal will lose We’ve all read the writing on the wall. You know it, I know it — heck, every Cal student knows it too. Why do we even bother going through this charade every year? It would be more humane simply to spare them, but alas, the NCAA has once again failed to show even a modicum of mercy. Oh, well — maybe next year.

through chasing our goals.

The final track, “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)”, turned out to be the favorite of many at the listening party. “You kept me like a secret / but I kept you like an oath” — Swift’s brutal honesty and lyricism left everyone in the room an emotional wreck in the best way possible. This new version of “All Too Well” is 10/10 worthy of your 10 minutes, a true must-listen.

Overall, the album, and the event, was a success; the chanting of lyrics, little giggles and energy in the room made my first listening of this album a heartwarming experience. The listening party brought everyone together as each audience member worked to find a piece of themselves in the music and the community, “even if it makes us feel happy, sad or [like dancing],” said Jun Yang Ang ’25.

Asian and half white. Rogers views the role as a meaningful opportunity to use theater as a tool for exploring her identity.

“Ana spends the play discovering a lot about her identity, her past and her parents’ history. Ana grew up in the United States as a half Asian, half white girl, which can be confusing for someone,” Rogers said. “It was confusing for me growing up, and getting to play a character that struggles with those same aspects of identity is the first time I’ve ever gotten to do that and that’s really big for me.”

Unlike Rogers, David Mazouz ’23 does not personally identify with his character Luke. Instead, he has had to endeavor toward “understanding his cowardice, selfishness, the human choices and from a certain perspective, namely the perspective of Number Four.”

While Mazouz may be ambivalent about his character, he hopes to portray him “authentically.” Mazouz hopes for the audience to reflect on their journey with Luke and their own socio-political positions during his monologue towards the end of the show.

Similarly focused on stewarding her role with authenticity is Junah Jang ’24, who stars as Number Four. Jang explains the historical significance of her character’s role as a “comfort woman”: “ The biggest challenge is making sure that I’m able to represent the character true to how real girls were treated during that time. That means giving her a lot of emotional depth and agency.”

Jang is no stranger to the play script, having played a different role in her high school’s production of “Among the Dead,” and she looks forward to the new perspective she will gain through her role as Num-

BIKE Continued from page 5 wear helmets. Well, the results are in, and it looks like the only way is to adopt a planned bike crash program. Of the options given, 25% of respondents reported they would wear a helmet if it was more socially acceptable, 35% said they would if MTL made a TikTok about the danger of concussions and an impressive 95% of students would wear a helmet if they got in a crash.

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soybeans and picture the two or three beautiful cattle that they will feed, you don’t know what you’re missing.”

Students across campus, including Frosh Council representatives, have expressed their views on the formal’s new theme.

“Forests are just so 2008,” pointed out Frosh Council representative Ellen Wright ’25, who has spearheaded the organization and planning of the formal. “With the disappearance of millions of hectares of forest per year, dancing under stars and utility tractor attachments is just a more hip and fresh take.”

“There’s also the added bonus of donated decorations,” added fellow representative Danny Luong ’25, while securing leftover fertilizer sprayers in a bouquet-like arrangement on a nearby table.

Environmental activist groups on campus have released statements criticizing Frosh Council’s partnership with Global Farming, calling it a “dangerous precedent” which “romanticizes environmental degradation and deforestation” catalyzed by cattle farming and agriculture in the world’s rapidly shrinking forests.

Nevertheless, representatives of Frosh Council insist that the move was the only cost-effective option at their disposal. “The only danger here is dangerously lit moo [sic],” said Wright. ber Four.

Ahmed Abdalla ’22, on the other hand, will make his stage debut as Jesus, a divine character with a modern twist, in “Among the Dead.” Abdalla decided to give acting a try because he hopes to engage in critical and experiential manners with the play and with acting as a discipline.

“This is one of the last times I’ll have the opportunity to do something in an environment where learning is a thing that is possible.

It just seemed like the perfect time,” Abdalla said.

Though Abdalla has enjoyed his rich learning experiences in the theater, he expressed some nervousness over performing for such a large audience.

“After realizing that the show was sold out, we were all visibly more nervous and stressed,” Abdalla said. “For weeks you practice this just in the context of like four or five people and you feel like it lives in that space ... it really hit [us] that over hundreds of people are going to be seeing this and sharing this experience with us. There was a new energy in the room.”

Yoon hopes AATP’s audience will “feel like they’re a very active part of that storytelling and of that act of framing and reframing.” Similarly, Zhou hopes the audience walks away with an understanding of the issues explored by the show and a “deeper curiosity about themselves and their own family history.”

“Among the Dead” has a waitlist open and will be giving out unclaimed tickets at Nitery Theater beginning at 7:50 p.m. each night for the three shows spanning Nov. 18-20.

This article has been updated to reflect that Alison Rogers shares her half Asian, half white identity rather than a half Korean, half white identity with the character she plays, Ana. The Daily regrets this error. don’t think anything could make me wear it again except getting tboned by an 18-wheeler. Turns out, Stanford Transportation has our backs. An anonymous whistleblower from within the administration reported last week that beginning next quarter, Stanford Transportation will begin rolling out a comprehensive bike crash program to encourage helmet use. Students who indicated on their form that getting in a crash would make them wear a helmet can anticipate a near-death experience sometime during winter quarter. For students like me who just need a little nudge (or a little head-on collision, as the case may be) to begin wearing a helmet, help is on the way!

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STUDY Continued from page 6 be disclosed due to the signing of NDAs. Though this information was not shared with The Daily, we were able to deduce that 85% of these apps do the exact same thing.

The other 15% are probably dating apps.

Lastly, results in the “Personal Life” category revealed that 72% of respondents have heard from a friend or family member that they have “controlling tendencies” or “trouble with authority.” 96% reported that they are single, while 100% said that they have three or less close friends, at least two of which are involved in their business.

DIVEST Continued from page 3 Board’s vote, it is now even more apparent that Stanford must divest.

The climate crisis has only continued to escalate. This summer’s wildfires killed at least 22 people and impacted air quality across the Bay Area. The threat of wildfires and heat-related illnesses near Stanford are expected to increase as the temperature rises. Alongside the physical threat to Stanford’s community, climate change magnifies existing socioeconomic disparities in the Stanford area and around the world. Low-income communities and communities of color lack access to quality healthcare or amenities like air conditioning, placing them at greater risk of climate-change related health threats.

Fossil fuel investments have become even more risky, as well. The recent energy price shock has underscored the vulnerability of energy supply chains and the potential for increased oil price volatility moving forward, as a recent Wall Street Journal piece argues. Because of this price volatility, as well as tightening regulations and reduced profits, credit rating agency S&P informed thirteen oil & gas companies in January 2021 that it might downgrade their credit score, a sign that fossil fuel investments are becoming riskier. Moreover, multiple studies of past divestments and socially responsible investment strategies indicate that divestment from fossil fuels would have no negative effect on the endowment’s return. Stanford’s fossil fuel investments, therefore, are not only ethically bankrupt — they are financially unsound.

Finally, peer institutions’ recent divestments demonstrate that Stanford is simply not the leader it claims to be. Harvard University’s September announcement of its decision to divest has been followed by a wave of divestment announcements from institutions like Dartmouth College, Boston University and the University of Minnesota.

These decisions prove that other institutions have found ways to deal with the potential for a loss of research funding and reflect the new reality that fossil fuel investments have become harder to socially and ethically justify. If Stanford does not wish to fall behind other universities, now is the time for it to reconsider divestment.

Stanford, as an educational institution, cannot fulfill its responsibilities to its students and community while continuing to finance an industry that has made a business strategy of attacking academic research and is actively poisoning the planet on which Stanford’s students will have to live. Fossil Free Stanford will continue to organize until Stanford, like so many of its peers have done, puts its money where its mouth is and divests.

SENATE Continued from page 1 erated meals, such as sandwiches and salads, available to students between meal hours. Withers also brought up the food insecurity faced by some first generation and/or low income (FLI) students, especially those in the Mirrielees dorm, who are struggling to afford groceries.

Montell said that R&DE is working to address these “systemic issues that have been on the road for a long time.” He pointed to progress in that the Suites’ meal plan is no longer the most expensive plan on campus — it now costs the same as the dining hall plans.

Several students are also calling for late-night study spaces, according to Montell. This demand comes while several libraries are operating with limited hours due to staffing shortages. According to Montell, R&DE is working to keep dining halls open longer so that

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Margarita Belle Jamero ‘24 (left) and Morgan Gwilm Tso ‘22 (right) as Layla and Drew in TAPS’ most recent production, “As Soon As Impossible.” The comedic yet poignant show also features drama and classics professor Rush Rehm and esteemed actor Kal Naga.

TAPS Continued from page 4 timidity and fear can have upon a person such as Drew and we ultimately see how Arthur’s unspoken stereotype-based suspicions can ruin even the closest of relationships.

In order to balance these emotionally heavy themes, Shamieh wittily embeds humor throughout the play, giving the audience room to laugh through the discomfort rather than turn away, to transform difficult topics into a lighthearted yet productive conversa-

tion. The play’s humor causes viewers to leave the show in uplifted spirits and with a greater resolution to address the core issues of our unjust society that are reflected in the play.

Shamieh brings her characters to life with dialogue that gives equal insight into what is deliberately unspoken. The conversations give the audience room to peer into the depths of each character, to sympathize with their hidden desires, fears, worries and motivations and to find pieces of themselves in each of the characters’ psyches. It leaves us wanting more — to follow the characters and see how their relationships grow after the play’s conclusion.

Professor of Drama and Classics Rush Rehm and esteemed actor Kal Naga playing Ramsey and Arthur are a sight to behold — their dynamic masterfully conveys the unlikely friendship between two older men of different backgrounds. Student actors Margarita Belle Jamero ’24 and Morgan Gwilym Tso ’22 bring the play to full completion. Jamero plays Layla wonderfully, creating a character with a burning desire for the center spotlight, evoking laughter from the audience with her witty dialogue. Tso masterfully portrays the timid yet strong-willed Drew, whose character (that albeit lacks the rambunctious ver ve of Layla’s), has strong stage presence

and nonetheless brings the audience to a few tears (out of both laughter and sympathy). Credits must also be given to Scenic Design Lecturer Nina Ball, whose set in the Roble Arts Gymnasium had audience members “oo”-ing and “aah”-ing during set changes.

‘As Soon As Impossible’ is a must-see. With its striking balance between culturally relevant content and feel-good humor, it is a galvanizing start to the TAPS department’s return to live performances. The rest of the play’s performances run from Thursday to Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Harry J. Elam, Jr. Theater, located in Roble Gymnasium. Tickets can be purchased here.

DARK Continued from page 5 monsters collect horrified children’s screams and use them as an energy source, behind the doors were some imagined unimaginable behemoth prowling, waiting to scare me. Occasionally, the blinking of dots of the charging electric devices manifested as their eyes, converting that imagination into reality ...

So I stood, facing the abyss of darkness. Behind me in the well-lit living room, my grandma sat on a heating bag, unable to walk.

I must go.

I took my first step. The orange glow from the living room faded significantly, and darkness crept up on me. The back of my head tightened like a stretched elastic band — I could feel the cold sweat sticking my shirt onto my back. My eyes looked around, seeing nothing but a dim contour of the door leading to my bedroom, and next to it, where the dining table used to be, four long-legged, Daliesque creatures awaited.

My hands left the wall, and I became completely ungrounded in the dark, shaking.

My grandma is watching me.

I said to myself. Nothing will happen.

I went in, hearing my own heartbeat, seeing my vein pulsating with the little blue dots in my peripheral vision. I stopped feeling — dissociating from the present and becoming a mechanical stranger, completing the order step by step — - until I reached the kitchen, grabbed the medicine and turned around. students can use them as study spaces. While late night dining would still not be available, students could potentially do their work in dining halls beyond current operating hours as early as Week 10, Montell said.

Senator Marion Santo ’23 asked why restaurants in the Tresidder Student Union no longer accept meal plan dollars.

Montell explained that retail restaurants in Tresidder — like Subway and Panda Express — were previously managed by R&DE but are now managed by third-party vendors.

Senators also unanimously passed the Frosh Representation Act, which will allow up to three members of Frosh Council to serve as ex-officio members of the Senate starting winter quarter. As ex-officio members, the frosh will have all powers afforded to senators except the ability to vote. If the winter pilot program is successful, the Undergraduate Senate may also extend formal ex-officio status to the sophomore, junior and senior class cabinets in the spring.

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An eon had passed.

I found myself facing the same corridor, but this time, the other end was light. Without a thought, my body started running and dashed toward the light source.

The next thing I knew was light.

That was the first time I faced darkness alone.

Many years have passed, and now that I am reflecting on my relationship with the dark, I noticed that it has changed drastically.

However, no matter how it changed, the feeling of uneasiness has imprinted on my deepest psyche, stimulating peculiar alertness

at night. I once was afraid of the dark perhaps because it hosted a lack of vision, a deprivation of familiar senses or a loss of agency. It meant that something in the dark can take advantage of my disadvantage and potentially do harm to me because of my vulnerability. Perhaps being vulnerable to unknown things was what horrified me. Not realizing that I’m being taken advantage of was scary.

But as I grew older, I noticed that it happens in the daylight, all the time.

Perhaps also, I once was afraid of the dark because it isolated me

from the surroundings. It meant that I would only hear my heartbeats indulge in my own thoughts and nothing else; it meant going astray without knowing so and without help in the bleak darkness.

It meant that confusing thoughts would blur my vision, echoing noises that I could not understand.

Drown by wave after wave of things to do from all directions, lost in the immediacy of life.

I noticed that it, too, happens in the daylight, all the time.

So, it wasn’t the dark that I was afraid of.

What is it, then?

OUTBREAK

vide residents with rapid tests. Instead, the University allowed residents to use their dorm funds to purchase rapid tests, and a rapid test was used to detect one of the cases, according to Xanadu Resident Advisor Casi Cobb ’22. The University recommends that students use the Color Genomics COVID-19 testing kits, which, according to Color Genomics, are as accurate as PCR tests, as opposed to rapid tests, which have lower accuracy.

The University encouraged Xanadu residents to continue testing and to “take out food in dining,” Cobb wrote. The University also mentioned the potential addition of fans in the hallways with the caveat that Xanadu residents pay for the fans with their dorm funds, according to Cobb. In the residence, dining switched from dine-in to graband-go, and communal food, such as certain cereals, were removed, according to Genc.

As news spread of increasing COVID-19 cases on the row over the weekend, some row houses and student organizations canceled or postponed their social events.

Members of Sigma Epsilon announced that they canceled a Friday night event through group chat messages, Instagram story posts and anonymous forums. The Stanford Pre-Business Association (SPBA) also postponed their fall masquerade that was originally set to take place on Saturday.

“Due to an alarming number of positive cases on campus, board has elected to postpone our fall masquerade for a later date, tbd,” wrote Donya Sarrafian ’23 in a Saturday email to members of the organization. “We were all looking forward to this night but our commitment to keeping our community safe and healthy comes first.”

Stanford Health Care continues to offer COVID-19 booster vaccinations to eligible, at-risk individuals, and the University continues to monitor COVID-19 variants and enforce weekly COVID-19 testing and indoor masking requirements, regardless of vaccination status.

Stanford also continues to emphasize that vaccination, testing and masking can prevent serious illness, according to the dashboard.

Continued from page 1 cording to Hudson. “ Students who tested positive have been isolated, and those at high risk for exposure have been quarantined per our safety protocols,” she wrote.

A town hall was held in Xanadu with Vaden representatives and Associate Vice Provost of Environmental Health and Safety Russell Furr on Friday. During the town hall, residents raised concerns about the amount of time that it takes to get test results through Color Genomics, according to Genc.

“We had to argue that the Color turnaround was way too slow and we all needed to get rapid tested on Friday since that’s when we heard about the last 3 cases,” she wrote, referring to the testing company Stanford is using.

However, according to Genc, Vaden representatives and Furr said the University would not pro-

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TRACING Continued from page 1 COVID-19 must notify Stanford via Health Check, according to the Health Alerts website. This includes those who are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, those who have tested positive for COVID-19, close contacts of someone with COVID-19 or those who are awaiting test results due to symptoms or exposure.

When an individual who was on campus during their infectious period tests positive, the University initiates contact tracing, according to Health Alerts. For students, this means that Vaden requests a list of close contacts and initiates exposure notification to inform the close contacts of their potential risk, according to University spokesperson E.J. Miranda. Contact tracing for faculty, staff and postdocs is conducted through the Occupational Health Center (OHC).

What is a close contact?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines a “close contact” as an individual

TRAVEL Continued from page 3 et home a few months ago, prior to the announcement of the policy.

Still, Borda plans to arrive back on campus a few days before break ends so his classes will not be significantly inhibited by the period of restricted activity. Upon arrival back to campus, he said he anticipates “going straight to doing the COVID test.”

“I think they’re strict, but in a safe way,” Borda added, in response to Stanford’s COVID-19 policies.

Like Romero, Ashley PhordToy ’22 will not be returning home to Canada due to the brevity of Thanksgiving break.

“I didn’t think it was worth it to go home because we have Canadian Thanksgiving at a different time so

SURVEY Continued from page 1 ber’s full time at the University.

“The harmful behaviors reported in this survey have no place at Stanford and should never be tolerated,” wrote Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell in an email to the community on Wednesday. “We are deeply sorry for the experiences of those individuals who have had to endure this kind of treatment.”

The results also indicated a pattern of harassing behaviors toward University staff members. Out of the 1,313 staff who reported experiencing verbal harassing behaviors, 41% said it came from a supervisor while 26% indicated the harassing behaviors came from a faculty member.

Tessier-Lavigne and Drell stated that the discriminatory and harassing behaviors reported in the survey were widespread throughout campus and that many community members said this resulted in feelings of ostracization, a stifling of their opinions, avoidance of professional events and thoughts about leaving Stanford.

Dunkley said that while these findings were “troubling,” there were also positive aspects. Nearly 80% of community members have found at least one group where they feel welcome on campus, he said.

Though only 65% of community members said they felt valued on campus, that number rose when respondents were asked about their department or work unit.

“The headline might be about

JEFFERSON Continued from page 3 In summation, we ask that: 1. The University publicly condemns the racist, cowardly attacks Dr. Jefferson continues to endure for what they are: racist.

To date, the University has not used this language in characterizing the attacks on Dr. Jefferson. Further, we call on the University to publicly affirm its commitment to protecting the scholarship and safety of Black faculty. Specifically, we ask that University leaders issue statements that acknowledge the painful reality of coordinated, racist attacks against their Black faculty, which attend to the unique aspects of present realities. We also call on the University to provide Black faculty with resources to protect their re-

who was less than six feet away from someone with COVID-19 for more than 15 minutes cumulatively over a 24-hour period. The University classifies close contacts as high-risk and lower-risk. Individuals who have had prolonged indoor unmasked exposure to someone with COVID-19 and unvaccinated individuals who have had close contact with someone with COVID-19 are considered high-risk, according to Health Alerts. Anyone who has had masked or outdoor, unmasked and socially-distanced exposure to someone with COVID-19 is considered lower-risk.

Sally Egan ’22, a resident assistant (RA) who had COVID-19 during the first week of fall quarter, said that after testing positive, Vaden asked her to describe her interactions with potential close contacts. Vaden then made the final judgment on which of the people she named were considered close contacts, according to Egan.

Why might I receive an exposure notification?

The University notifies highrisk close contacts through Vaden and the OHC, while other contacts provided by the person who tested positive for COVID-19 will receive

everyone would be working anyways,” Phord-Toy said.

Though her flight home to Canada is shorter than many domestic flights, Phord-Toy said she understands the justification behind the University’s policy.

“The government only has so much control over what happens within its borders, and there’s no way to control what’s happening in other countries,” she added. “If there were different restrictions on different countries, I can see how that would be perceived as unfair as well.”

Though the University has not specified how students adhering to restricted activity protocols should behave if their roommates are not under the same protocols, Harris wrote that “students on restricted activity who share a sleeping space will be temporarily reassigned to isolation housing should they test positive.”

the survey results,” Dunkley said.

“But the story is about what happens next.”

While there are a number of ongoing efforts to advance the IDEAL initiative — such as DEI training and anti-bias training for faculty and a new Protected Identity Harm reporting protocol — Dunkley said that the University will be engaging with the community to develop a plan to address the issues uncovered by the survey.

“I think there have been complaints that there’s a lot of listening and not enough action,” Dunkley said. “This is the University saying we have listened, we have heard and now we are converting this into action.”

The open-ended questions of the survey will be collated by an external consultant and posted to a website, and community members will have the opportunity to post feedback, with their name or anonymously, on the survey’s dedicated website. In the near future, Dunkley added, the University will hold community forums and focus groups to ensure that the action steps Stanford takes are addressing the survey results.

“At Stanford, we strive to create an environment that welcomes, supports and celebrates people of all backgrounds, races, genders, identities, ages, religions, physical abilities and perspectives. Based on the survey results, it is clear that we are not meeting our own expectations for the kind of inclusive culture we hope to create at Stanford,” Tessier-Lavigne and Drell wrote.

“We must all work together to eliminate these behaviors that the survey showed are widespread in our community.” search, livelihood and health during such trying times.

2. Stanford develops a comprehensive plan that recognizes and reduces the prevalence and impact of attacks on Black faculty members due to their academic scholarship. After doing so, we urge the University to share its plan with members of this group for input. We also encourage the University to share its plan with other faculty of color, other marginalized faculty, and groups that feel at risk given the nature of their academic scholarship, as we imagine we are not alone. We hope the University will take this step to reduce the likelihood of attacks on faculty in the future.

We urge Stanford to take these actions to show its support of Professor Jefferson, specifically, and to make the campus safer for all faculty, staff and students.

In solidarity with Dr. Hakeem Jefferson, The Early Career Black Faculty Group at Stanford University

The Stanford Daily a “general notification,” according to Student Affairs.

Students sharing classes or dorms with individuals who test positive are also notified, according to Miranda.

When someone in a class tests positive, the Office of the Registrar sends all members of the class an email, according to Health Alerts.

The notification includes the date that the individual who tested positive last attended class and details about what students can do next, according to a contact tracing email obtained by The Daily that was sent to an affected student. Those who receive the email are not automatically considered high-risk close contacts because Stanford’s masking, vaccination, testing and classroom disinfection policies make the risk of infection in class “extremely low,” according to the email.

When someone on a dorm floor with a shared bathroom tests positive, residents on the floor are similarly notified through email, and when multiple cases occur in a dorm within 14 days, all residents are notified, according to Health Alerts. Roommates and suitemates of a person with COVID-19 are considered high-risk close contacts, according to Miranda.

Can I find out who my contact was?

Notification emails to classes and dorms with positive cases do not disclose the names of individuals who tested positive. Residential Education wrote that they are unable to share the names of the residents who tested positive in order to protect their medical privacy, according to a contact tracing email obtained by The Daily that was sent to a student living in Wilbur Hall.

Additionally, the University does not automatically disclose the names of research lab members who test positive to their principal investigator (PI) or supervisor for privacy reasons, except in cases requiring the PI or supervisor to assist with contact tracing to comply with CDC and county regulations, according to the CardinalRecovery website.

What happens next?

Vaden provides customized advice to high-risk close contacts, according to Student Affairs. Miranda wrote that this advice may vary “depending on vaccination status and underlying medical conditions.”

High-risk contacts who are fully

vaccinated for COVID-19 are not automatically required to quarantine, but they should still minimize contact with others and take a COVID-19 test immediately, three to five days after exposure and eight days after exposure, according to Student Affairs. For the first three to five days, high-risk close contacts are required to use graband-go dining and stop attending in-person classes. High-risk contacts who are not fully vaccinated are required to remain in their room and notify Vaden.

Residents in dorms with a positive case should continue to selfmonitor, test for COVID-19, wear masks and practice social distancing, according to a contact tracing email. The email also instructs residents to stagger restroom usage, comply with restroom occupancy limits and check the Student Affairs website for instructions if they believe they are a close contact.

High-risk close contacts are notified separately, according to the email.

Notification emails sent to students in classes with positive cases instruct individuals to continue attending classes and office hours unless contacted by Vaden or the Occupational Health Center.

CANE

Shah, who grew up in India, had to undergo a formal cane training when he arrived in the U.S. He said that this training was necessary for him to gain confidence in using the cane, even when he has been a cane user for more than nine years.

While Bidleman acknowledged that “the developers clearly have the energy and desire to contribute to the disability community,” she said that “it would have been a better use of people’s time to try to figure out how to reimagine, or reform, the education that currently surrounds both assistive technology and orientation and mobility.”

The inclusion of disabled individuals in the development of assistive technology is an important aspect of any design process, as failing to include those with disabilities will likely result in unfounded assumptions about their needs and priorities, according to adjunct professor in chemical engineering John Moalli.

According to Moalli, able-bodied people tend to assume that the disabled want to be like them — an assumption that is then reflected in their design.

“If you’re designing something specifically for people with a dis-

ability, don’t succumb to ability bias,” he said. “Find out firsthand what their needs are before you even design the product.”

The cane development took into account feedback obtained from a survey conducted with visually-impaired research participants, according to Slade. The cane was then evaluated by emulating everyday activity on 12 vision-impaired individuals ranging from 20 to 80 years old. This co-design process ensures that they meet the users’ needs, he said.

“It was definitely a challenge to go through a lot of different iterations before arriving at something that actually felt useful and helpful,” Tambe said.

The cane developers said that the current version of the cane is a first step towards a future product.

Still, more work is needed before it can be widely used. By publishing the design in an open-source platform, this development can be shared with a wider community, according to Kochenderfer.

“The beautiful thing is that people will take it and run with it in ways that are difficult for us as the original inventors to really predict,” he said.

“The Undergraduate Senate first wants to recognize that previous iterations of such an event by SCR have caused genuine distress and fear for the personal safety of members of the Stanford community,” the Senate wrote in an email sent by co-chair Alain Perez ’23.

“However, all campus groups, within reason, including SCR, have a right to invite a speaker of their choice to an event and seek funding from the Undergraduate Senate.”

Though the ASSU has the ability to deny a student organization’s request for funding, the Senate said in its statement that doing so could limit the ASSU’s ability to make stipulations for students’ safety.

“Community safety is our top concern,” the Senate wrote, citing rising COVID-19 cases and adding that it wants to ensure that if it funds the event, the event will only be open to Stanford students and affiliates.

“Denying their funding based solely on our disdain for the speaker would set a dangerous precedent that could hurt other communities on campus in the future, something we would like to avoid,” the Senate added.

For special events with security, Stanford policies require event organizers, including student groups registered with the Office of Student Engagement, to obtain at least 50% of funds from on-campus funding sources. Any off-campus

fundraising activities by student organizations require approval from the Office of Development.

Event sponsors requiring security must confirm their ability to fund the event and provide 50% of costs in advance before extending an invitation to a speaker, according to the policy.

According to a spokesperson for the University, SCR has “completed the approval process for off-campus fundraising” for the 2021-22 academic year.

When the College Republicans invited D’Souza to speak on campus in 2019, the Undergraduate Senate twice rejected funding for the event, before ultimately providing funds after SCR filed a complaint with the ASSU Constitutional Council. D’Souza, a policy advisor to former president Ronald Reagan and a former Hoover Institution fellow, faced criticism for controversial statements and retweeting Twitter posts that included the hashtags #burnthejews and #bringbackslavery, for which he later apologized.

SCR alleged that the Undergraduate Senate’s actions with regard to funding for the D’Souza event was unconstitutional in part because of a clause in the Constitution stating that the ASSU cannot enact legislation abridging freedom of speech. Since funding was ultimately provided, the Constitutional Council did not rule on the case.

recommendations.

Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice raised concerns over what she perceived as an asymmetrical focus on doxxing or online harassment instances involving conservative affiliates.

“We have to be very careful that every member of the community can see themselves in these conversations,” Rice said. The report “puts conservative students in a box.”

But members of the subcommittee stressed that recommendations were not directed at specific student groups.

“Nowhere in the recommendations did the word conservative or liberal show up,” Palumbo-Liu responded. “We have made that point over and over again. It doesn’t matter who does this. It’s a bad thing.”

Undergraduate senator Marion Santo ’23 shared with the Senate that current members of the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) have been victims of doxxing campaigns.

“When they were doxxed — because anti-doxxing regulations were not and still are not included in the Fundamental Standard — no recourse was taken against those who perpetrated such actions,” Santo said.

But despite the subcommittee’s report and student testimonial, computer science and electrical engineering professor Mark Horowitz moved to table the vote on the campus discourse recommendations — a move backed by the Senate in the end.

“It was unbelievable that people could shed crocodile tears over the DEI survey and then vote to torpedo the small suggestions our committee offered to begin serious action to protect minority students, staff, and faculty of all sorts,” Palumbo-Liu wrote in a statement to The Daily after the meeting.

“The amount of calculated bad faith and lack of empathy for the most vulnerable was appalling.”

Cameron Ehsan contributed to reporting.

Continued from page 2 where I am based on the information,” he said.

Cricket X. Bidleman ’21 M.A. ’22, who is also fully blind, expressed similar concerns in an opinion piece published by The Daily in October. For her, the design of the cane raises questions about safety.

“What if the wheel gets stuck?

What happens if there’s no power?” she asked during an interview.

Both Shah and Bidleman said that they have never tested the Augmented Cane themselves and could offer judgment only based on the description of its functionality in the study. Still, they believe that a lack of general cane training will be a major barrier to the adoption of this device.

“I think people need to learn how to use a white cane properly first before they can really talk about having a smart cane,” Bidleman said. According to her, the education for people with assistive technology is, in many cases, nonexistent.

PENCE Continued from page 1 SCR also requested $6,000 through a Standard Grant application to the Undergraduate Senate on Nov. 4 for a “Winter Quarter ’22 Speaker,” according to the organization’s funding application. The Undergraduate Senate is now considering SCR’s application.

The group proposed using the entirety of the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) funds for audiovisual services.

Though the identity of the speaker was not disclosed on SCR’s application, a University official told members of the Undergraduate Senate that the speaker is Pence, according to three individuals familiar with the matter.

The Senate wrote in a statement to The Daily that it is still considering whether to fund the event. A closed session was held to discuss the funding application, according to two individuals familiar with the matter.

The ASSU Constitution states that its legislative bodies “shall retain ultimate authority over the disbursement” of funds. While the University can block ASSU funding if it finds it goes against Stanford’s educational mission, the University cannot allocate funding.

FACULTY Continued from page 2 and that the Senate should not be “quickly voting on things that sound pretty good.”

The recommendations, according to Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences Debra Satz, were “overbroad” in the way they were written.

“What does it mean to actively protect all those who are targeted?”

Satz questioned, pressing the committee to define keywords in its recommendations.

According to Ford, who is a law professor, words such as “malicious” and “harm” are typical in legal language. “It’s true that the language is general, but that’s unavoidable in a context like this before we’ve gotten to the point of actual, precise rule drafting,” he said, adding that this should not be a reason for senators to vote against the

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SPORTS TOUGH ROAD TO THE TOP Women’s hoops celebrates, regroups

By DANIEL MARTINEZKRAMS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Fifth-year Tucker Fisk (above) makes his presence known on offense and defense for the Cardinal, but off the field he is just as versatile and talented. Fisk’s love for the ocean inspired him to pursue an earth systems major.

END OF THE LINE Stanford football’s Tucker Fisk in focus

BY CYBELE ZHANG DESK EDITOR

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ost people probably know Tucker Fisk for what he does on the gridiron. Playing tight end and defensive line this season, the fifth-year is the only Stanford player to appear on both offense and defense — and he’s taken the field with special teams, too.

But outside of football, Fisk is just as unique. From his passion for the ocean to the energy (and Birkenstocks) that he brings to team meetings, Fisk has made an impact on the football program.

Despite being listed on the depth chart for Big Game twice on defense in addition to his spot at tight end, Fisk played solely on offense for the last four years. He did play on both sides of the ball in high school, but only made the collegiate switch to defense during 2021 spring ball.

Fisk first brought up the idea of playing both ways to an assistant coach during his senior year. Originally the plan was to play at D-line for a few days. But the position stuck.

“When I first came to Stanford there were rumors that I heard that people were thinking of moving me to D-line,” Fisk said, “so it wasn’t a new idea.”

Fast forward seven months, and Fisk has become a core piece of coach Lance Anderson’s defense.

Playing both ways, however, also means double the preparation behind the scenes.

“Outside of the normal meeting times, I have to be on my stuff for two different game plans, and things change week-to-week on both sides of the ball,” Fisk said. “So just learning our adjustments and what the other team does on both sides of the ball is maybe an added time commitment, but it’s been a blast. It’s been super, super fun to be out there on both sides of the ball

and to have a chance to affect the game in multiple ways.”

Fisk spends the majority of his time with the D-line because he has had less experience at the position.

“I’ll practice a couple days on offense, but for the most part I’m just given the game plan, and I talk to Coach [Morgan] Turner for a few minutes everyday,” Fisk said in a September press conference. “I think the experience on offense makes it a little easier to knock out the offense game plan each week.”

Now with two sacks, a pass break up and 13 total tackles thus far this season on defense, in addition to his first career touchdown last year, Fisk has established himself as perhaps one of the most versatile (and interesting) players on the Cardinal roster.

Football, family and fishing Tucker isn’t the only Fisk to play five years of football for the

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Sunday was supposed to be an opportunity to celebrate the magical 2021 national championship in front of the Cardinal faithful. Instead, it was a reminder of how difficult it will be to repeat.

Stanford (1-1, 0-0 Pac-12) scheduled a matchup with No. 25 Texas (2-0, 0-0 Big 12), an Elite Eight team from a year ago and a heavyweight worthy of a slot on national television. Maples Pavilion opened its doors to basketball fans for just the fourth time since March 2020. At the final buzzer, Texas upset then-No. 3 Stanford 61-56.

“I liked the ring celebration the best,” said Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer.

Stanford typically holds its Senior Day festivities postgame because VanDerveer prefers celebrations to follow the main event, and Sunday was no different, with the ring ceremony following the 40 minutes of on-court action.

Provost Persis Drell spoke.

Athletic director Bernard Muir received a ring. Stanford’s bench sat in a stunned silence only occasionally broken for an applause.

“Congratulations champions,” VanDerveer told her team.

“We missed you last year so we’re really glad to have you back,” fifth-year Alyssa Jerome told the 3,681 fans in attendance.

Before Sunday’s championship celebration, the parade was the only opportunity for most Stanford fans to celebrate the title.

On the video screen, Stanford

Head coach Tara VanDerveer (above, left) guided Stanford women’s basketball to its first NCAA title since 1992. The team celebrated with a ring ceremony after Sunday’s loss to Texas. played a message from Kiana Williams ’21, the only player from last season’s roster no longer on the team. Speaking to the Maples Pavilion audience from Australia, where she signed with the Adelaide Lightning, Williams said: “I think back-to-back champs sounds even better.”

On display Sunday, however, was just how difficult that task will be for Stanford without its threeyear starting point guard.

“We miss her a lot,” Lexie Hull said. “I texted her about a week ago saying if she was gonna be here hoping she could fly back for the game. Obviously that could not happen. We really miss her. I think her message, she’s a leader on our team, we listen to her and she believes in us, we can believe in ourselves and I think just having her support throughout the season means a lot. We obviously miss her on the court and off. It meant a lot to hear her voice, though.”

Thus far, no one has stepped up as the next Stanford lead guard.

Last year’s Final Four Most Outstanding Player, junior Haley Jones, played some point forward.

Sixth-year Anna Wilson, seniors

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

CARDINAL SAY NO WAY (SAN) JOSÉ Second half propels men’s hoops over SJSU

By GAVIN MCDONELL DESK EDITOR

ence on the field is a game-changer: the point differential in Stanford losses without McKee is a whopping 27.7 points. Vegas knows all, but this time, it seems that Vegas has underestimated how debilitating the Ari Patu/Dylan Plautz/Isaiah Sanders/Jack West quarterback rotation has been in McKee’s absence. While Vegas has acknowledged that McKee’s return will substantially impact the Stanford offense, the sportsbooks do not seem to realize that the difference between McKee and the other Cardinal quarterbacks is far more than a single score.

The over/under is currently set at 45.5.

The total has gone under in six of Stanford’s 10 games and five of Cal’s nine. With Cal sporting a respectable rush defense (fourth

Stanford men’s basketball (2-1, 0-0 Pac12) hosted San Jose State (1-1, 0-0 Mountain West) in an early season, West Coast showdown at Maples Pavilion Monday night. The Cardinal struggled in the first half but finished strong, defeating the Spartans 76-62.

Against San Jose State, head coach Jerod Haase debuted his third unique starting lineup in as many games. New additions to Monday’s lineup included redshirt junior guard Sam Beskind and freshman forward Maxime Raynaud. Veteran senior forward Jaden Delaire came off the bench, as he did in Stanford’s season-opening win over Tarleton State.

The Cardinal got off to a solid start in the opening minutes, taking a 10-7 lead following a layup from freshman Harrison Ingram.

Then, the offense fell silent.

For the next five minutes and change, the Cardinal managed just one field goal — a wide-open dunk by Delaire — as the Spartans opened a 16-12 lead.

Although Stanford got back on the board with a Delaire triple, the remainder of the first half was characterized by the Cardinal’s offensive struggles. For the period, Stanford recorded dismal shooting numbers across the board: 37.9% from the field, 20.0% from three and 35.7% from the foul line.

San Jose State’s offense simply outpaced Stanford, as the Spartans shot a scorching 60.0% from the field and 57.1% from three in the first half. When the buzzer sounded, San Jose State enjoyed a 38-29 advantage.

Delaire and Ingram accounted for the

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Though not allowed in California, sports betting is permitted in 29 states around the country. The 124th Big Game on Saturday will be another opportunity for bettors to test their luck, with Stanford and Cal facing off in another chapter of the Bay Area’s biggest rivalry.

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As Stanford and Cal fans trek from across the Bay to watch two hobbled programs clash in the 124th Big Game, money will be pouring into Vegas sportsbooks from across the country. Despite winning the Big Game last year, Stanford’s flagging program (3-7, 2-6 Pac-12) is a 1.5 point underdog against a weak Cal team (3-6, 2-4 Pac-12).

While California does not allow sports bet-

ting, we will break down the different bets that are available to those in the 29 states that do.

The standard odds for a spread bet are 110, meaning that risking $110 would return $100. After opening as a 5.5 point favorite, Cal is currently favored by only a point and a half. The drastic line change came with the announcement that Stanford sophomore quarterback Tanner McKee is probable to play. Stanford has not looked strong against the spread this season; the Cardinal have covered only three out of their 10 games so far and have done so only on wins.

Despite having started only seven games this season, McKee has been under center for all three of the Cardinal’s covers. Though McKee has been far from dominant following Stanford’s upset of No. 3 Oregon, his pres-

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SPARTANS Continued from page 9 majority of Stanford’s first half scoring, tallying 10 and 12 points, respectively. The only other bright spot for Stanford in the half was its offensive rebounding — the Cardinal exploited their size advantage to nab 11 offensive boards.

With San Jose State threatening to put the game out of reach, Stanford came out of the locker room with a burst of energy.

“We took it a little bit personal at half-time,” Delaire said. “We had to look ourselves in the mirror and try to figure out what type of team we really wanted to be. We came out in the second half and tried to be a bit more physical.”

The Cardinal’s physicality had immediate results, as Raynaud connected on a layup on the opening possession, and Ingram scored on the next.

For the following eight minutes, Stanford found its groove on offense. All five Cardinal players on the floor were in sync, passing, cutting and finding open looks in the paint. Slowly, Stanford cut into the San Jose State lead.

When Delaire knocked down a corner three, the Spartans lead had shrunk to a single point. On the following possession, Delaire cut backdoor and caught an alley-oop pass

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In the early 1990’s, Tucker’s father, Jason Fisk ’95, was an impactful defensive lineman during his five years as an undergrad, starting an impressive 42 games — 38 of which were consecutive. Contemporary Daily articles recall the elder Fisk’s

CHAMPS Continued from page 9 Lacie and Lexie Hull, and graduate transfer Jordan Hamilton alternated leading the offense. None found consistent success.

“This was throwing our young or inexperienced point guards into the deep end of the pool,” VanDerveer said. “They’re used to having Kiana out there, just getting the ball up the court and initiating and running our offense and you have people doing it that are not used to doing that job. To use a football analogy, a great running back is now playing quarterback.”

Sophomore guard Jana Van Gytenbeek did not play at all after getting 15 minutes against Morgan State, the second most of any nonstarter.

Sunday felt normal, but different. Stanford was back in Maples, but in front of fans wearing T-shirts commemorating the title.

Players’ families returned to their allocated seats opposite of the Stanford bench. Kids, and kids at heart, tried their best to get on the video screen. The media found its spot tucked away in the rafters, no longer able to access the concourse that served as the social-distanced press row.

VanDerveer sat, while the opposing coach, Texas’ Vic Schaefer, demonstratively used the entire sideline and the first few feet of the court. A new, but familiar, face joined the Stanford bench as a “coaching intern” in Jeanette Pohlen ’11. From left to right, Stanford’s coaches lined up Pohlen, Britney Anderson, Kate Paye ’95, VanDerveer, Katy Steding ’90, and Eileen Roche.

With the noise of the crowd, the voice of VanDerveer or associate head coach Paye did not stand out quite as much. Nevertheless, the voice of public address announcer Betty Ann Hagenau was as clear as it was before or during the fanless season. Both teams still wore masks on the benches, as did all the fans in the seats and bleachers.

The crowd, however, had little reason to erupt until junior forward Ashten Prechtel made a 3-pointer

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In his third collegiate appearance, freshman forward Harrison Ingram (above, right) came within four assists of a triple-double against San José State on Monday. It was Ingram’s second straight 19-point performance. from Ingram at the top of the key.

Delaire completed the play with a thunderous dunk and, with 12:30 left to play, gave Stanford its first lead since the opening minutes.

Riding high on the energy of the home crowd, the Cardinal added to their run. On the next offensive possession, Ingram nailed a three to make the score 53-49 to cap off a

10-0 Stanford dominance over three minutes.

It was all Cardinal from that point forward. San Jose State couldn’t sustain its hot shooting. In fact, the Spartans registered worse percentages (28.6% from the floor, 15.4% from three) than Stanford did in the first half. In contrast, the Cardinal shot the ball efficiently in

the second, going 59.4% from the field and 50.0% from behind the arc.

In the end, Stanford outscored San Jose State 47-24 in the period.

The scoring disparity was especially pronounced in the paint, where the Cardinal dominated the Spartans 34-8.

Aside from Delaire and Ingram

“stoic face and consistent level of play” that made him a “defensive mainstay” for the program.

Following his time with the Cardinal, Jason played professionally in the NFL for 12 seasons, spending the most time with the Minnesota Vikings (1995-1998), who drafted him in the seventh round. While with the Vikings, Tucker was born in Minnesota, but the Fisk family ultimately moved to Davis, Calif. where Tucker went to high school.

“Growing up, I played defensive

line, so our dinner conversations and after dinner conversations were often talking about how to take on blocks and how to leverage guys and where to put your hands,” Tucker said about his father with a laugh. “I’ve basically been his disciple since I was young.”

With Tucker playing defensive end once again, the Fisk family has come full circle at Stanford Stadium. Thirty years later, Jason watches from the stands as his son plays his position as his alma mater.

that ended an 0-for-10 drought to start the game. Not much changed after, as Stanford finished an uncharacteristically awful 4-for-27. It was the worst 3-point shooting performance for Stanford since going 2-for-19 against Oregon State on Feb. 2, 2018 and only slightly better than a 2-for-13 performance against Schaefer’s Missouri State in the 2019 NCAA tournament.

Unlike last season, when Stanford spread the seats on its bench out by six feet, the Cardinal returned to the traditional linear bench. A total of 16 players dressed for Stanford on Sunday, and senior guard Jenna Brown joined the bench in street clothes, making for quite a long bench.

In spite of the depth, only one player not on the 2021 national championship roster played on Sunday. That was Jordan Hamilton, the four-year starter at Northwestern who became the program’s first graduate transfer. None of the four freshmen who made up the nation’s sixth-best recruiting class saw the court. Meanwhile, Texas’ star freshmen dominated.

Guard Rori Harmon, the tenthranked player in HoopGurlz 2021 rankings, scored a game-high 21 points. The sixth-ranked player in the class, forward Aaliyah Moore, hauled in four offensive rebounds.

Finally, the Missouri State transfer Aliyah Matharu, playing in her second game at Texas, made all four of her 3-pointers, matching Stanford’s output. HoopGurlz ranked Stanford freshman forward Brooke Demetre 11th, but none of Stanford’s four freshmen broke into Sunday’s rotation.

VanDerveer, after giving credit to Texas, mentioned that Texas played without any pressure. Texas, on the other hand, put Stanford under full court pressure. Without a capable point guard, and with the added pressure of a postgame ring ceremony, Stanford struggled and Texas played spoiler.

“We were just talking about it before we came in here,” Harmon said. “It’s just an honor to be here and to play in front of all these people and on national TV and play against Stanford, the defending champions.”

“I knew this was going to be an emotional day for Stanford,” Schae-

fer said. They’re honoring a great team, a national championship.”

Where Schaefer called Stanford the same team from the championship game minus one starter, VanDerveer emphasized the importance of that one player.

“More than anything, our team is very different when you’re asking people to play different positions,” VanDerveer said. “Our lack of experience at our point guard was on full display, and we just have a lot of work to do.

Stanford turned the ball over 20 times and let Texas dictate the style of play. It turned into a physical game and Stanford converted well at the line. But for every positive, there were two negative takeaways.

The game itself was heartbreaking, but just as quickly as Stanford shifted from its loss to the celebration, it will need to again turn its attention to a difficult non-conference schedule.

“Obviously losing is not fun, but I think that there’s a lot that we can learn from it, and especially knowing that areas of our game that we need to improve are definitely areas that we saw exposed today,” Hull said. “I think later on in the season, we’ll look back on this game as a blessing in disguise as much as we don’t like it right now.”

Texas became the first non-conference opponent to beat Stanford in Maples since a Dec. 21, 2017 loss to No. 7 Tennessee. Only Wilson, the sixth-year, and Jerome, the fifth-year, carry over from that roster.

More importantly, Stanford snapped its 21-game win streak.

During that time, Stanford won a Pac-12 regular and tournament championship and a national championship. Earlier in the charmed season, VanDerveer became the winningest coach in the sport.

Maybe it is good that, besides the memories and the program’s third trophy, none of that charmed run carries over. The challenge for Stanford will be taking on the challenge of playing as the defending champion, even while moving on and not resting on their laurels.

After the weekend, Texas moved up to No. 12 in the polls. Stanford slid down to No. 7. The climb back to the top was always promised to be a challenge.

“ Honestly, I think it stresses him out because now he knows when I’m messing up,” Tucker said of playing defensive end. “But I’m sure part of him enjoys seeing me out there and seeing me do the same things that he did when he was younger.”

Beyond football, it’s clear that Jason has made an impact on Tucker, too.

In our conversations, Tucker enthusiastically recalled childhood stories about driving hours to “wherever the fish were biting” — sometimes as far north as Bodega Bay in Sonoma County, sometimes down to Half Moon Bay or anywhere in between.

“We would go out, and we’d fish for salmon and stuff in the area,” Fisk said. “We’d see whales and ocean sunfish and seals and just all these cool, cool creatures. I think that’s just imprinted on me, and I became very interested in the ocean in general.”

Now in his last quarter as Stanford, Tucker credits these fond memories of fishing together for the selection of his major, earth systems, in which he focuses on oceans and atmosphere.

“I figured why not make it my major because then, if I become a specialist in the ocean, most of the jobs that I’ll get are probably going to be by the ocean,” Tucker said with a smile. “So it was more just like a failsafe way to make sure I live by the ocean my entire life.”

For decades Stanford has touted their student-athlete ideal — someone that thrives on the field and in the classroom. Tucker fits the bill.

His plans post football? A Ph.D. to do ocean science research.

Chatting with him about ocean life, Tucker’s excitement is palpable. We discussed topics ranging from eco-friendly hair products to his favorite animal — the water bear, a microscopic but complex extremophile that can survive the most severe environments.

Filling the silence Between football and classes, Tucker has also somehow managed to find free time for his own projects. Much like how he initiated playing on defense for the Cardinal, he has dived head first into his music.

“Honestly, I just got inspired one day to learn ‘Hey There, Delilah’ on the guitar when I was in high school,” he said, “so I did. I probably sat down for like three days and learned it.”

Those impulses also prompted him to teach himself the piano and ukulele and, most recently, have led

GUIDE Continued from page 9 in the Pac-12) to defend Stanford’s paltry rushing attack (last in the Pac-12), the Cardinal will have to rely heavily on McKee’s arm. If McKee can successfully target the receiving core of senior wide receiver Michael Wilson, junior wide receiver Elijah Higgins, sophomore wide receiver John Humphreys and sophomore tight end Benjamin Yurosek, we should be able to count on the Cardinal for 20-27 points. The key here will be how well Stanford is able to defend the Bears’ rush. With both teams likely scraping the bottom of the barrel to find an edge on the ground, the Stanford defense could be due for a resurgent week against a Cal team that is likely out

residing atop the stat sheet with 19 points apiece, the Cardinal crew saw contributions from all around.

Raynaud had 11 points and six rebounds, while junior forward Spencer Jones and sophomore guard Michael O’Connell each eight to the scoreboard.

In just his third game at the collegiate level, Ingram came four assists shy of a triple-double, notching 11 rebounds and six assists to go along with his second consecutive 19-point performance.

“He’s physically ready, as we see, to play at this level,” Haase said of Ingram. “Obviously he can score the basketball and dominate the game that way, but when he’s in the game and the ball’s in his hands, he has the ability to make others better.”

Indeed, Ingram’s plus-minus of +11 for the game indicated his ability to help Stanford beyond just scoring.

Stanford’s second-half comeback against San Jose State was particularly important after the team’s tough 72-88 loss to Santa Clara last Friday.

“It didn’t sit well with us,” said Ingram. “Our main goal is to go to March Madness, to go dancing in the tournament. To do that, we needed to bounce back with a win.”

Stanford men’s basketball will look to build on this win as it hosts Valparaiso (0-2, 0-0 Missouri Valley) Wednesday night. Tip-off is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. PT.

him to songwriting.

“I rarely finish songs, but I write songs — or at least I’ll write guitar parts and melodies over the top,” he said, laughing. “I don’t know how to record very effectively, so it’s not really worth finishing the songs most of the time. I’ll have a verse for a while, and I’m like, ‘Oh, this is perfect.’ And then I play it for too long without finishing the song, and it starts sounding weird.

The words are tough.”

While his audience now is limited (just his room), Tucker said that perhaps we’ll see him at a farmer’s market or The Arbor in the future.

Aside from his 6’4”, 285-pound build, you might spot Tucker around campus because of his hair, which has grown steadily longer since his arrival on campus in 2017.

(Multiple players have told me his hair is the best on the team, and yes, he did share his hair routine — the secret is conditioner). Or you might find Tucker in line for his daily pre-meeting coffee in his Birkenstocks.

“They’re actually one of the few footwears you can wear in any environment — they’re good for ocean, they’re good for sand, they are good for hiking because they’re comfy,” Tucker said of his favorite shoe brand. “They hold your feet.”

“I’ve done walkthroughs in Birks, but I tend to run through my walkthroughs because I get too excited,” he added. “They hold up pretty well. You can play in them.

You don’t need the cleats. It’s a myth that you need the cleats.”

Despite his hesitation, you’ll find Tucker on the field this weekend for Big Game, cleats and all.

Looking back on the last five years, two games stick out for Tucker as highlights: Oregon 2018 and 2021. While neither were statistical high points for him personally, the team wins still stick with him.

“The 2018 one was crazy because it went from being so loud that you couldn’t even scream at the top of your lungs and have the person next to you hear you to dead silence as soon as we won,” he said.

“It was the most drastic change in sound I’ve ever been a part of. “ With two home games left in his career at Stanford, Tucker has just eight more days to add to his Stanford football story and memories on The Farm.

While what’s next for him at the end of this road is still uncertain, Tucker has always been up for the challenge. Whether it is learning a new playbook, patience while waiting for the fish to bite or the courage to perform his music, 88 will be ready to take the field. of shape following a COVID-19 outbreak.

Both offenses may struggle out of the gates as Cal recovers from 44 positive COVID-19 cases among players and staff and McKee takes his first snaps in three weeks. With a Stanford offense that has made its (feeble) name in the second half, the under 21.5 first half total looks appealing.

Ultimately, fans should not expect a shootout; for Stanford to retain the Axe, they will have to grind out a gritty game, digging deep for motivation in a lost season. Despite having lost five straight, McKee’s return should inspire confidence in Stanford bettors.

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