The Stanford Daily Vol. 263 Issue 4 (2.24.23) - Independence Special Edition

LETTERS/A3 THE EDITORS

Daily leaders past and present reflect on the paper’s role and mission.

REFLECTIONS/A8 THE MEMORIES

70 years of Daily alumni share why they loved working for the paper.

TIMELINE/B1 THE STORIES

A timeline of the top 50 stories written by The Daily since independence.

By JUDY LIU BEAT REPORTER JAYNE ABRAHAM

For 50 years, The Stanford Daily has been an independent, self-sustaining, student-run news publication. But it wasn’t always this way.

The Daily, like many university publications, has a long, complex history. Beginning as a campus bulletin associated with the University, The Daily has evolved into an independent news organization publishing daily pieces about current events and topics, from club activities to international news. And it is this independence that has allowed The Daily to prosper, weathering 263 volumes in its 131year history.

The Daily’s Origins

The Daily began as a small pamphlet known as The Daily Palo Alto in 1892 under the Legislature of the Associated Students of Stanford University (LASSU, now known as the ASSU). John C. Capron ’1893, Carl S. Smith ’1893

L.L.B. ’1894 and John A. Keating ’1894 served as its first editors.

A year after its founding, the first editors expressed their vision for The Daily: “This is not a paper by a few individuals, acting in a private capacity. It is the organ of the students of Stanford University.”

In a 2017 Daily article, Alexa Philippou ’18 noted that Capron, Smith and Keating imagined The Daily Palo Alto as a collective campus bulletin board meant to highlight the work of professors and student groups at Stanford. However, bringing this vision to life was not without its difficulties.

Stanford’s founding president David Starr Jordan and others affiliated with the newly founded University rejected the necessity of a student publication, arguing that Stanford was not yet old or large enough to support one. Having opened its doors on Oct. 1, 1891, Stanford was just a year old, with around 600 students making up its undergraduate population, when the publication was founded.

Despite the administration’s opposition, the Legislative Associated Students of Stanford University (LASSU) approved the creation of The Daily Palo Alto, facilitating a relationship between the two organizations which allowed the student government a degree of sway over publication. In fact, the approval of The Daily Palo Alto was one of the first authorizations made by the LASSU, which approved The Daily before it had even drafted its own constitution.

The Daily Palo Alto’s earliest editors often reached out to faculty and students to build content based on community feedback. The publication avoided direct criticism of the University, instead often lauding the accomplishments of the University, its then President Jordan, faculty members and athletes. The earliest iteration of the paper fulfilled its original vision as a collective “bulletin board” for the University.

In early 1906, Editor in Chief

(EIC) Ben Allen ’1907 wrote a piece criticizing drunken, belligerent behavior among student monitors in Encina Hall. Six days after the piece was published, Allen was expelled and forced to forfeit his role at The Daily Palo Alto, as University officials took issue with the

article’s content.

Jordan offered Allen an opportunity to stop his expulsion if he agreed to a few conditions that Jordan had set out, including collecting signatures from students at Encina Hall confirming that they agreed that the hall monitors were necessary, which would have contradicted the article’s criticisms of

these student monitors. Had Allen agreed, he would have been readmitted to the University, but he declined and withdrew from the University on Feb. 5.

In an interview with The Daily published on the day he withdrew, he asked, “How is the student press of this University to be governed?” This question would prove

increasingly pressing in the years to come. For Allen, refusal of Jordan’s offer came from a place of principle. Although he eventually returned to Stanford, he wanted to take a stand for The Daily’s ability to criticize the University.

The Daily fights for free press in SCOTUS

By ANDREW GERGES MARK ALLEN CU BEAT REPORTER

On Monday April 12, 1971, officers of the Palo Alto Police Department raided The Stanford Daily’s office, looking for photographs they believed were in the building. They had entered the office with the goal of finding photos that would incriminate protestors from a violent confrontation a few days prior.

The confrontation involved demonstrators from the Black United Front and the Chicano student group MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan) who organized a sit-in at Stanford Medical School. Members of these groups were protesting two incidents that they believed were racially motivated: the firing of a Black hospital janitor and the denial of tenure for a Latino neurosurgeon.

The protestors participated in the sit-in for 30 hours, Felicity Barringer ’72, editor in chief of The Daily at the time, recalled. When Stanford eventually called the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Deputies to put an end to the demonstrations, violence ensued. Demonstrators, in anticipation of the police’s arrival, made makeshift clubs out of broken-off table legs with nails on the ends and attacked the police. The Daily’s photographers attended and captured photographs of the event.

13 police officers were hurt, with two sustaining serious injuries, and two dozen demonstrators were either hurt from the clash or while fleeing the hospital from the second floor hallway. Additionally, 23 people were arrested on a number of charges, including assault with a deadly weapon, unlawful assembly and failure to disperse.

In an era of protests during the ’60s and ’70s, The Daily was often the subject of both public anger and acclaim, Barringer explained. Student activists wished for The Daily to become a medium for their protests, and the police sought The Daily’s photographs, which contained incriminating information about protestors. Students were fearful that The Daily’s photographers were going

to send their incriminating photos to the police, or that the photographers at protests were working for, and reporting incriminating photos for, the University’s administration or the police.

Barringer also recalls instances where staffers were demanded to print op-eds as they were written, without editorial overview. Protests outside The Daily building began when the demands were refused.

“There were going to be people who were very angry at us, they could break into our offices, they could break into our windows,” Barringer said. “It was what it was.”

The Daily however, wished to remain a neutral propagator of news. The Daily adopted a policy that safeguarded them from public ire

and legal entanglements: they would run any photo they saw as newsworthy regardless of the consequences it may have on individuals. This strategy was adopted a year prior to the sit-in and had become standard practice in many Bay Area papers.

“Photos that we chose not to run, however, we chose not to save because we did not want to be used as evidence gatherers for either the prosecution or the defense,” Barringer said. “This policy led the sherrifs to be sure that we had pictures of the attack on the deputies, and that we were also going to destroy them.”

That Sunday, The Daily printed a special edition with the photos they used and discarded the rest of the photos. On Monday, the police

obtained a warrant and raided The Daily office with the goal of obtaining any incriminating photos of the sit-in to identify demonstrators. Although the Palo Alto Police Chief, James Zurcher, did not authorize the raid on The Daily offices, he stood by his officers’ actions to conduct the raid and became the namesake of the Zurcher case.

Barringer remembered going to The Daily office after class that day to find a senior editor waiting for her by the door.

“I couldn’t do anything, they had a search warrant,” the editor quickly told her.

The police had searched their desks, the photo room and every part of the building, but could not find the photographs they were looking for. Whatever photographs that The Daily still had in possession were “moved.” Even Barringer did not know where they were.

Charlie Hoffman ’73 MBA ’76, who eventually succeeded Barringer as editor in chief, was in The Daily office when the raid took place.

“Palo Alto Police came diving in late at night,” Hoffman said in an interview with The Daily in November 2017 with Katie Keller ’19. “They were flying through [the files on the desks]. There was paper everywhere.”

“My editors and I got together and said, ‘what the hell do we do,’” Barringer said. “If what is in our offices is essentially open to becoming evidence in court [ ... ] we cease

From the editor: Celebrating 50 years

Likemost students in the class of 2024, I began my time as a Stanford student online, living not in my dorm room but my bedroom. During the early phases of the pandemic, it was The Daily that initially bound me to Stanford. It was island in a sea of Zoom rooms and Canvas posts. At that time, I understood The Daily to be simply a club. It was a place to make friends and do so while reporting the news.

But I quickly learned that The Daily is so much more than just a student organization. Unlike nearly any other student-run operation on campus, The Daily is its own business — a fully-independent California public benefit corporation with 501(c)(3) status.

That independence was solidified a halfcentury ago this month, and we’ve created this special edition of The Daily to commemorate our journey since then. At The Daily, we value our independence. It allows us to dive fearlessly into stories of great risk and importance. It gives us the freedom to define our own journalistic and business objectives, grow and learn, and improve. For as much as The Daily’s mission is journalistic, it is also educational. Many staffers enter The Daily having never written journalism before and graduate to work at the top newsrooms in the world.

Our position as an independent student newspaper is unique in that all of our staff are direct members of the community we report on. We sit across from our readers at dining halls. They are classmates in our courses and hallmates in our dorms. Our readers are our professors, our administrators, our parents and our alums. When we tell a story well, it has the opportunity to get the people around us thinking, to turn heads and start conversations. And if we tell a story poorly, it is our own community we may hurt; the one we care about so dearly, for it is our own.

At The Daily, we don’t take the responsibility of reporting on our own community lightly. To be fully ingrained within the Stanford community puts us closer to the stories we tell, but it also means there is additional pressure to do a great job telling them. At the risk of being cliche, I feel inclined to quote the first edition of The Daily, then called “The Daily Palo Alto.”

“True it is that The Daily will not make a great university, but just as true is it that The Daily is one of the signs of a great university. This is not a paper by a few individuals, act-

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ing in a private capacity. It is the organ of the students of Stanford University.”

This issue hopes to celebrate this important legacy and mission with exciting stories. The articles vary: one historicizes our independence and another details The Daily’s Supreme Court case against the Palo Alto Police Department. One piece recounts our printing of a fake Cal paper following the infamous 1982 Big Game, and another celebrates Daily joy by chronicling the history of our crossword. We let alums take the mic, recounting their own experiences in the issue’s opinions and Grind pieces.

As we celebrate the anniversary of The Daily’s independence from Stanford, I hope you will join us in reflecting on The Daily and its core mission. Most importantly, I hope the Stanford community will continue to hold us to account for our words, push us to improve, and assist us in maintaining our independence for as long as there is a Stanford for The Daily to report on.

Sam Catania ’24 is the Vol. 262 and 263 editor in chief of The Stanford Daily.

What does Daily independence mean?

FELICITY BARRINGER

The difference The Daily made to me

First impressions matter. My first impression of the workings of The Stanford Daily was not propitious. When I sought to join the staff early in winter quarter of my freshman year, I was assigned to do a piece on Stanford’s mausoleum, the shrine to its namesake, Leland Stanford Jr., where he and his parents, the university’s founders, are buried.

I went there in the rain, took my soggy notes back to the office, sat down at the latest technological innovation — an electric typewriter — wrote the piece and turned it over to the news editor. A day or two later, I called, wondering why it hadn’t appeared. The editor hemmed, hawed, then said, “Umm, we lost it. (Long pause.) Can you redo it?” I said a few unprintable things, sat down and rewrote it; it was published a day later.

The first lesson in journalism provided by The Daily: Journalists are fallible. Over the coming months, I realized journalists are also essential. Stanford was bursting at the seams with anger. The root causes were one, the Vietnam War and Stanford’s work on military research and two, racism. Over the years anti-war demonstrations turned increasingly violent; a tenured faculty member found to have incited one was eventually dismissed. And racist incidents, on campus and off, led to simmering fury among students of color.

Accurate reporting on issues fraught with emotion was essential. In the maelstrom, I learned more about how to find facts, evaluate them and reflect a variety of viewpoints than any classroom could have taught. I also learned how to meet deadlines (sort of). And if I hadn’t had to face angry students, or the lawyers for students trying to block stories, or demonstrators wanting to control the narrative of the news, I would have been less equipped in later years to cover Washington or Moscow for the Washington Post and The New York Times.

For all the emotional events I covered — and the lighter features and commentary I used to paint a picture of Stanford culture — there were two overriding events, for me and for The Daily. First was the lawsuit that gave The Daily a permanent place in the laws of the United States. Second, the decision by the University and The Daily to arrange an amicable separation, leaving The Daily an independent publication two years after my editorship.

The lawsuit began for me when I was returning from an April class in English Restoration literature and was greeted at the

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door of the Storke Student Publications building by a top editor saying, “They had a search warrant. There was nothing I could do.” Several Santa Clara County Sherriff’s deputies were looking through our desks and our photo files, seeking pictures of assaults on police officers who were clearing student protestors out of a medical building. That was in April 1971. We brought a lawsuit trying to prohibit police searches of newspaper offices. It failed in the Supreme Court, but Congress subsequently enshrined the protections into federal law.

The push for The Daily’s independence was something I supported; the heavy lifting was done by others. For me, the essential principle was eliminating the threat of censorship or control by the University. Not too long ago, that threat reemerged as a lowerlevel official threatened Daily journalists if they published secret information. The independent newspaper stood strong; the threat evaporated.

My Daily experiences were integral to my entire career as a journalist. They were integral to something else. The editor in chief I first worked with — not the editor who lost my mausoleum story — has been my husband for 51 years. We’ve been to many places but have never forgotten where we came from.

Felicity Barringer ’72 was the Vol. 159 editor in chief of The Daily. She went on to report for the Washington Post and The New York Times.

The founding of the‘Friends’ of The Daily

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The Stanford Daily celebrates 50 years of independence from Stanford University. The years leading up to the separation in 1973 were tumultuous, with violent protests and strident arguments over social policies, the Vietnam War and a sheriff’s raid on The Daily. The parting was by mutual agreement: The Daily wanted freedom from University control, and the University wanted insulation from controversies and liabilities flowing from the Daily’s work.

The publisher is The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation, a California public benefit corporation and an IRS 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Each editor in chief is the president and CEO. A Board of Directors governs the corporation: four members are current students, one (the COO) is a recent graduate, and four are seasoned professionals in the fields of journalism, business, academia and law. Apart from the COO, an allstudent staff manages and operates The Daily.

The Daily occupies a dedicated building, under a long-term lease with the University, built with donations from Daily alumni, principally Lorry Lokey ’49. The Daily and the University also negotiated a contract, the Memorandum of Understanding, which protects The Daily as an exceptional student organization with carefully demarcated boundaries of University control. Thus, the University and the Daily are contract counterparties.

What does independence mean in practice? Typically, student newspapers have numerous pressure points: access to facilities, finances, university discipline against student organizations or individual students, intimidation by faculty and staff and alumni complaints to the university. Thanks to its legal status, contracts, corporate board, outside advisors and lawyers, The Daily can live by the maxim “without fear or favor.” The Daily does not answer to any University officer, faculty member or administrator for its publishing activities. Some faculty and staff are surprised at the response when they threaten or try to intimidate The Daily’s personnel. If the University or an employee encroaches on The Daily’s independence, direc-

HISTORY

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Rising tensions

Twenty years later, in a 1926 LASSU student vote, The Daily Palo Alto morphed into The Stanford Daily. This change established a direct affiliation with the University and allowed the paper to distinguish itself from The Daily Palo Alto Times, a non-Stanfordaffiliated publication founded in 1905. This shift solidified The Stanford Daily’s association with the University. However, this name change did

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tors will show up in support if necessary, and lawyers are available to enforce the Memorandum of Understanding.

All this allows The Daily to publish articles that discuss or challenge powerful University figures, as several recent articles have done. Reporters can follow the news wherever it leads them, focusing without distraction on the hard work of great news sourcing, writing, and editing.

I was a Daily staffer in the mid-1970s, shortly after independence. I joined The Daily’s Board four years ago, and I have been amazed at how complex the operation has become since my undergraduate days.

The advent of digitization, reader engagement channels, transformation of the advertising marketplace and greater prominence of the University, as well as the social and political pressures of this era create nearly unfathomable challenges in the lives of reporters and editors who are full-time students. Freedom from the additional pressure and limitations of University control or oversight gives breathing room for The Daily’s staffers to develop skills and provide the best possible service to the community.

Andrew Bridges ’76 is chair of The Stanford Daily’s Board of Directors.

not eliminate the fundamental question of the paper’s level of autonomy.

The degree of independence that The Daily desired from the student body government and administration would soon once again become a point of controversy.

In the late 1950s, tensions briefly rose between the student government and The Daily.

On March 6, 1957, members of The Daily staff led a walkout in protest of the LASSU’s approval of a bylaw change that would allow it to appoint The Daily’s EIC.

While the LASSU wanted to prioritize local- and campus-centric news, members of The Daily wanted to produce national and international coverage. The University sided with the LASSU, and

Independence from Stanford was a scary proposition in 1973 from a financial perspective. There was no big brother to bail us out. So, in 1975, we began hosting dinners around the Big Game. We would contract with restaurants in North Beach for Cal away Big Games and at the Faculty Club for home games. Two groups dominated the attendance: the first consisted of alumni from the 1970s, while the second was a group from the 1950s and 1960s, spearheaded by Harry Press ’39, longtime editor of the Stanford Magazine, and his good friend Lorry Lokey ’49.

The thought was that a safety net was needed for an independent Daily at some point in the future. It became obvious that The Daily was the most formative part of the Stanford experience for these alumni. The numbers grew from 30 per year coming to the dinner to as many as 150 in recent years. Friendships and professional collaborations grew across the decades from 1945 to 1980.

The need for a financial safety net and a new building became obvious in the late 1980s and the Friends of The Stanford Daily was formed in 1991. Press, Elna Tymes ’61 and I embarked on a 14-year struggle to secure Stanford approval for a new site for the Daily, as the University was going to tear down the old Daily building to make way for the Engineering building. Lorry Lokey became the lead donor, and with the help of his challenge grants, Daily alumni came up with the funds for the new Lorry Lokey Building on Panama Mall.

Over the years journalists, primarily from the 1950s, established small endowments to fund summer internships for current Daily staff. Christy Wise ’75 began and managed an effort that has led to over 100 summer internship opportunities with newspapers such as The San Jose Mercury and the Washington Post. Over the years, older Daily alumni have provided guidance, education and collaborations with younger Daily alumni. Alumni at large daily metro papers and national magazines have provided many workshops to current Daily staff.

In 1973, we did not know what an independent Daily would face in the future. The

the LASSU maintained significant control over publication content.

According to Steve Tallent, who was the assistant to the president of the University at the time, because Tallent was unable to get a ruling on the constitutionality of the proposed bylaw from the Law School or the Department of Political Science, the LASSU had complete jurisdiction to decide the constitutionality of the clause. Therefore, the University had to side with the LASSU.

In a Daily article published on March 7, 1957, Tallent said, “The only thing that permits freedom of the press on this campus is the Legislature’s good judgment.”

In response, Stanley Gross ’57, who was a night editor at the time,

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oil recession of 1973 to 1975 hit immediately. There were small recessions in the early 1980s and 1990s. The dot com collapse of 2000 hit the paper hard, followed by the 2008 housing bubble recession. The shift away from printed papers and the departure of 90% of revenue from print advertising has been especially difficult. The Friends of The Stanford Daily has provided financial help to the Daily several times since 1991 and to date has largely accomplished its goal: to allow The Stanford Daily to remain independent and provide journalistic education and career opportunities to hundreds of Stanford students. What began as a social lark around Big Game has grown into an effective support organization. Most importantly, it has provided a forum where Stanford alumni some 20 to 40 years apart in age, can gather and exchange memories and wisdom from their student years. The organization has proven to be a critical resource in accomplishing its primary goal, to keep the Daily independent over the last 50 years, and hopefully for 50 years into the future.

Charlie Hoffman ’73 MBA ’76 was the first editor in chief of the newly-independent Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation founded in 1973.

said many members voted to go on strike to protest “the [student] government trying to take over the newspaper and ... take advantage of [The Daily].”

Former EICs wrote letters to the editor arguing that the actions of the LASSU violated the principle of freedom of speech.

“This issue of The Daily marks the end of an era; the shutting off of the only organized voice of independence which has ever existed at Stanford University,” wrote Dick Meister ’56 M.A. ’57.

Even editorial staffers from other colleges, like the University of San Francisco’s San Francisco Foghorn and Washington State University’s Daily Evergreen, backed The Daily’s actions against

the LASSU’s move for more control.

However, staffers at other college papers, like Berkeley’s The Daily Californian and the UCLA Daily Bruin, sided with the LASSU.

The walkout proved successful and a referendum among the student body was called on The Daily’s behalf, which The Daily won by a 500-vote margin.

According to sources from Philippou’s article, some people saw the walkouts and protests from The Daily as a premonition of what was to come in 1971 — The Daily’s independence from the University. In fact, former manag-

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Top Headlines

Headline highlights: 50 years of ‘funny’ puns

By GRETA REICH

One of the great and often overlooked challenges of journalistic writing is crafting a headline for an article. Finding those five to 10 words that simultaneously pique the readers’ interest, accurately depict the story and

sound catchy and fun is no easy task. The Daily has come a long way in headline-writing since it gained independence in 1973. From humor to sports to news articles, the headlines have been funny, punny and unique. We gathered some of our favorite headlines that show off this skill, spanning the full 50 years of Daily independence.

Who Has Lots of Problems? The Ombudsman, Of Course

April 13, 1973 — NEWS | an article about the Ombudsman: a committee created in 1969 that dealt with student issues of injustice and complications with the administration.

Old Rocks Learn New Tricks: Pet Rocks Craze Gathers No Moss

Feb. 2, 1976 — NEWS | an article about the then-newest fad of owning a rock and treating it as a pet.

What state is this? The state of confusion!

Feb. 6, 1976 — NEWS | an article about the second time it snowed on campus since the 1800s.

Tankmen hope to sink USC, UCLA

Feb. 15, 1980 — SPORTS | an article about the men’s and women’s swim teams competing against USC and UCLA respectively.

Nuclear Reactors? Here? At Stanford?

Oct. 27, 1983 — COLUMN | an article clearing up rumors about the nuclear reactors kept in a barn just outside campus from 1959 to 1973.

Dean Jean discusses admission machine

May 14, 1986 — FEATURES | an article about a speech the Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jean Fetter gave, in which she explained how Stanford looks at applications.

Little brilliance in ‘Einstein’

Aug. 10, 1989 — FILM | a review of the film “Young Einstein.”

Chicks, man, chicks

Feb. 8, 1991 — HUMOR | an article about the many and vast differences between men and women.

Forget midterms, get spiked in L.A.

Oct. 29, 1992 — SPORTS | an article highlighting an upcoming women’s volleyball match against USC in Los Angeles.

The Adventurous Experiment of Sir Real, the Benighted

Dec. 1, 1995 — HUMOR | an article that makes almost no sense because each individual paragraph looks like it was lifted from a different person’s diary page.

Heated debate rages over incinerator

Nov. 5, 1999 — NEWS | an article following up on a meeting held in Oakland about whether or not the Bay Area Air Quality Management District should be allowed to continue burning Stanford’s medical waste in an incinerator.

‘The Mummy Returns’ to fumble under lavish effects

May 10, 2001 — FILM | a review of the film, “The Mummy Returns.”

New line of drugs to blow away coke addiction

Sept. 30, 2002 — FEATURE | an article about the development of the new drug, Nocaine, that would help cocaine addicts to stop using cocaine.

Blahnik’s ‘Drawings’ will tickle footwear fetishist

May 16, 2003 — BOOKS | a review of shoe designer Manolo Blahnik’s sketchbook/coffee table book. We’re French. We are le tired.

Feb. 27, 2004 — MUSIC | a review of the French band Air’s newest album, “Talkie Walkie.” Guess? pulls offensive shirt

June 1, 2005 — NEWS | an article about a racially offensive shirt released by fashion company Guess?

This tragedy is sponsored by Yahoo

Nov. 28, 2006 — OPINIONS | an article about the decline of Stanford student spirit in favor of not being embarrassed online.

Night at the Meyer ‘Museum’

June 12, 2009 — FEATURE | an article about the students who spend dead week at Meyer library (regulars, one-timers and everyone in between).

When Muggle Meets Magic

Oct. 15, 2010 — FEATURE | an article about Stanford’s new quidditch team. Be a M.A.A.N.

Feb. 16, 2012 — NEWS | a spotlight article on the Men Against Abuse Now (M.A.A.N) club who performed at CoHo.

An open letter to anonymous opinions: Sit your ass down

May 26, 2015 — OPINIONS | an article on the stupidity and dangers of anonymous posting websites.

The intersectional slut(walk)

Feb. 21, 2016 — OPINIONS | an article about the upcoming Stanford “SlutWalk,” a grassroots movement to protest rape culture that had a history of being mainly white.

Even Michael Fassbender can’t save ‘The Snowman’ from its cold, lifeless narrative

Oct. 27, 2017 — FILM | a review of “The Snowman” film.

Sand-witchery: Voodoo, murder and the return of the Popeyes’s magical chicken sandwich

Nov. 15, 2019 — CULTURE | an article rating the Popeyes’s chicken sandwich and Voodoo Tenders, which had recently returned to the Popeyes menu.

The perks of being an invisible gorilla

March 4, 2020 — THE GRIND | an article about details we fail to notice in everyday life, inspired by the “invisible gorilla video” where viewers fail to notice a gorilla in the back of a video because they are mesmerized by people passing a basketball back and forth.

What I’ll miss about the pandemic now that I’m pretending it’s not happening May 4, 2021 — HUMOR | an article about students who are partying as if the pandemic is over (or as if it never happened).

Karty Party: Five field goals help Cardinal edge Sun Devil

Oct. 23, 2022 — SPORTS | an article about junior kicker Josh Karty and his five field goals at a recent football game against Arizona State.

Lake Lagunita Lives!

Jan. 31, 2023 — PHOTO GALLERY | a photo gallery of a full Lake Lagunita and the students around it.

Infamous Corrections 50 years of ‘The Daily regrets this error’

By ORIANA RILEY DESK EDITOR

In the past 50 years, The Daily has inevitably made some mistakes.

Even with a typical four rounds of edits on every article, publishing around 2,000 pieces per year means, on occasion, errors make it through to print or The Daily’s website.

The Daily makes corrections when we find an error in something we’ve published or a reader brings an error to our attention. When requests for a correction are received, they are forwarded to the piece’s editors and, assuming the request is correct, whoever can respond the most quickly will make the correction, changing the article online, transparently stating the error and adding what News Managing Editor Cassidy Dalva ’25 calls The Daily’s “infamous correction line”:

“The Daily regrets this error.”

In her role, Dalva is the point person for many of these requests. The first action she takes when a correction is suggested is re-reading the relevant part of the story to fact-check the proposed correction. If the correction is necessary and accurate, it will be made and the line will be added.

Although she admits that it is “natural to strive for perfection,” Dalva wrote that she feels “grateful that the person proposing a correction cares enough about disseminating accurate journalism enough to loop us in about possible mistakes.”

She acknowledged that corrections also have an impact on the publication’s legitimacy as a whole.

Daily Editor in Chief Sam Catania ’24 elaborated.

“If we do get something wrong, it’s critical that we set the record straight,” he wrote in a statement. “The Daily’s relationship with the community is built on trust and the truth. That starts with getting things right the first time, but it also means transparently alerting the community if we get something wrong.” Catania added that “admitting mistakes is never easy or fun, but it is as important how we respond to our errors as the errors themselves.”

Without further ado, here is one correction

The Daily has made for every year it has been independent.

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2023: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Elon Musk dropped out of Stanford. That portion of the article has since been removed, and The Daily regrets this error.

2022: A previous version of this article inaccurately described the direction of traffic in a roundabout as clockwise instead of counter-clockwise. The Daily regrets this error.

2021: The article has been updated to reflect that TAP closes at 1 a.m. on weekdays. The Daily regrets this error.

2020: This article has been corrected to reflect that the study measured GPA declines by standard deviations, not by points. The Daily regrets this error.

2019: This article has been corrected to reflect the fact that the ResX recommendations aim to re-envision residential life over the next quarter-century, not century. The Daily regrets this error.

2018: Correction: a previous version of this article incorrectly stated that The Wall Street Journal offered the University “complementary”, not complimentary, subscriptions. The Daily regrets the error.

2017: A previous version of this article reflected Jungreis’s statements that Robison’s parents also provided starting capital, which Robison refuted. Jungreis also said that he imagined SolTat becoming as popular as “Silly Bandz,” not “silly string.” The Daily has corrected these errors as well as clarified a sentence about legal “help” SolTat received to specify that SolTat paid Robison’s father and others for legal services.

2016: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Coldplay, Bruno Mars and Beyonce were present at the Jan. 31 rehearsal. The Daily regrets this error.

2015: An earlier version of this article underestimated the number of students who enroll in Math 51 each year. The Daily regrets this error.

2014: In a previous version of the article, the enrollment of the introductory CS classes was underestimated. The Daily regrets this error.

2013: Correction: A previous version of this article misstated Stanford, MIT and Caltech’s Departments of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ rankings by the U.S. News and World Report. In fact, Stanford is ranked first while MIT and Caltech are tied for second. The Daily regrets the error.

2012: A previous version of this article stated that the CoHo replaced the bowling alley. In fact, the bowling alley and the CoHo existed simultaneously. The bowling alley was replaced by the fitness center area, student store and part of union square. The Daily regrets the error.

2011: Correction: An earlier version of this article reported that the study claimed that individuals “who act in their own self-interest are more likely to gain prestige and leadership recognition”; in fact, the study concluded that individuals who act in their own self-interest are more likely to gain

“dominance” and leadership recognition, not “prestige.” Also, the study concluded that individuals who show self-interest are more likely to be perceived as showing “dominance,” not exemplifying “prestige.”

2010: In “Student proposes streetcar plan” (July 15), The Daily incorrectly reported that Daniel Jacobson believed the city of Oakland could have a streetcar system implemented in 15 years. In fact, he believes it could happen in five years.

2009: On page 821 of the June 12, 2009 issue of The Daily, an advertisement that read, “When boundaries are seen as opportunities, the world becomes a limited place” should have read, “When boundaries are seen as opportunities, the world becomes a limitless place.” The Daily’s advertising staff, which was under different management at the time, processed the advertisement and regrets the error.

2008: In Monday’s article “Dorsey-Harris beats GO GO,” The Daily inaccurately stated that Dorsey-Harris defeated GO GO by a margin of 370 votes. In actuality, Dorsey-Harris won by a margin of 270 votes.

2007: The Daily regrets the factual inaccuracies but stands by its reporting of Perata’s campaign contributions from gambling interests, which can be found in readily available public records.

2006: The Daily would like to retract the article “Leftist speaker sparks debate” (April 7). The allegations that speaker Biju Mathew or the Friends of South Asia are linked in any way to communism, terrorism or the Unabomber should not have been based on information provided by an anonymous source. The Daily regrets this error and the uncorroborated statements contained in the article.

2005: Due to editing errors, The Daily’s frontpage article yesterday about the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center had two mistakes. The headline, “SLAC shut down by feds,” was misleading: the original decision to shut down the accelerators was made by SLAC director Jonathan Dorfan.

2004: An infographic on the front page of The Daily yesterday incorrectly stated that Proposition 66 passed. With 46.6 percent “yes” votes and 53.4 “no” votes, the proposition failed. The same infographic also incorrectly stated that Proposition 71, which would provide funding for stemcell research, did not pass. With 59 percent “yes” votes and 41 percent “no” votes, the proposition passed. The Daily regrets the error and any confusion it caused.

2003: I’ve been informed that it’s actually: “Profro weekend: where three days of shame leads to four years of fun!” The horoscopes regret the error.

2002: An article in The Daily on March 8, “Athletes start petition,” said that Stanford was a member of the Fair Labor Association. Two editorials in The Daily on March 13, “Should Stanford join the Workers’ Rights Consortium,” (Pro and Con) also stated that Stanford is a member of the association. Stanford is not a member of the association. The Daily regrets the error.

2001: A Nov. 16 story, “Med School grad joins sex discrimination suit,” contained a number of significant factual errors. Contrary to the implication in the headline and the statement in the lead paragraph, the American Association of University Women’s Legal Advocacy Fund has not filed a sexual discrimination lawsuit against Stanford. Instead, 1996 Medical School graduate Barbara Zylbert is the individual plaintiff of a lawsuit filed against the University.

2000: The feature picture in yesterday’s Daily erroneously stated that the Arabian Nights Party was hosted by Theta Chi. The party was co-hosted by Theta Xi.

1999: Due to a copy editing error, an article in yesterday’s Daily reported that Everyday People won best album, best song and best soloist at the 1999 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards. In fact, the group won runner-up positions in all three categories. The Daily regrets the error.

1998: A column in last Wednesday’s science section inaccurately stated that the weight loss drug “Phen-Fen” had been withdrawn from the market. The “Phen-Fen” treatment is actually made up of two drugs, one of which, fenfluramine, has been withdrawn at the request of the Food and Drug Administration. The other component drug, phentermine, is still on the market and is still used to treat obesity. The article also stated that people with “prolonged exposure” to the drug should consult a physician. In fact, the government recommends that anyone who has been exposed to fenfluramine or the related drug dexfenfluramine have an echocardiogram before having surgery or dental work.

1997: An article in last week’s Intermission misspelled the name of a chef, calling him Steven Reuben. His real name is Steven Rubin.

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Clinton coverage controversy

By RANI CHOR BEAT REPORTER

In the fall of 1997, the face of a smiling, striped-shirted Stanford student named Jesse Oxfeld ’98 was plastered across national media outlets. The headline? “Stanford Daily reporter spiked after writing a column about Chelsea Clinton.”

On Monday of orientation weekend in 1997, The Daily’s front page story went to First Daughter Chelsea Clinton’s arrival at Stanford, accompanied by a sizable group of aides, attending press corps — and, of course, former president Bill Clinton.

In response to the Clintons’ presence on campus, long-time paid Daily columnist Oxfeld wrote a column that was slated for publication on Sept. 26, 1997. The spiked column criticized Clinton ’01, the First Family and the University and said, “why are we all expected to bend over backward to give Chelsea and her family a ‘normal’ Stanford experience while the First Family is under no similar obligation?”

In Oxfeld’s spiked column, he quoted The Daily alumnus, Philip Taubman ’70 of The New York Times, who wrote in an opinion piece that “if the long-term goal is to discourage a preoccupation with Chelsea Clinton, the White House should have considered a less flamboyant way of getting her to school.”

Carolyn Sleeth ’98 — The Daily’s editor in chief at the time — provided Oxfeld with an ultimatum: “write something else or just publish nothing tomorrow,’” Oxfeld told The Daily. He said he refused to write an entirely new piece at 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, the night before print. According to Oxfeld, Sleeth responded, “We’re not going to publish anything by you for the rest of the volume.”

By drafting that column, Oxfeld violated an editor’s rigid policy: do not write about Chelsea Clinton in The Stanford Daily unless she does something newsworthy. As Sleeth wrote of the reporter’s dismissal in

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ing editor Jim Palmer ’57 L.L.B. ’59 thought that the walkout was evidence of a rift forming between The Daily and the University.

“Part of the staff’s concern that they be independent was that they be uncontrolled by the administration or the student administration of the school,” Palmer said in Philippou’s article. “There was an evident desire to protect the freedom of the press that I think still exists today.”

The Daily becomes independent

The conflict in the 1950s was largely resolved with the LASSU, but the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early 1970s led to a volatile political atmosphere for the Stanford community and the rest of the country. These changes created the conditions under which the newspaper would experience yet another shift.

According to managing editor Joseph Rosenbloom ’66 in Philippou’s article, the campus was extremely charged. “There was this whole zeitgeist against the war and against the establishment — against President [Lyndon B.] Johnson and against the government.”

Across the country, students protested on their campuses. Among the most famous protest movements were the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, the Mississippi Freedom Summer and the start of the feminist movement.

The impetus for The Daily’s ultimate independence came in the footsteps of a controversial antiVietnam War op-ed published on Oct. 2, 1970. Titled “Snitches and Oppression” and written by Diarmuid McGuire M.A. ’72, the piece opposed the Vietnam War and, more specifically, students who exposed anti-war protesters to the police during a time when anti-war riots were spreading across Stanford’s campus.

At the time, The Daily provided extensive coverage of campus political activity and recorded pivotal events that provided a glimpse into the campus’s highly charged environment. Many faculty members announced their endorsements of certain movements and protests, especially the protest surrounding the resumption of U.S. bombing in North Vietnam. In fact, several faculty

an open forum editorial, Oxfeld’s termination was not merely a result of covering Chelsea, but was the “culmination of a series of work-related issues that constituted cause for dismissal.”

Oxfeld told The Daily over the phone that the incident and resulting media attention didn’t change his life. Instead, Oxfeld said that the story was a “silly little gossipy thing ... that prompted no larger national conversation.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever regretted trying to publish that column,” Oxfeld said. “I argued then and argue now that what I wrote and submitted was legitimate questions about the newsworthy events concerning [Chelsea’s] parents.”

National media outlets used Oxfeld’s dismissal to contextualize broader discussions surrounding their own coverage of the junior Clinton’s schooling, prompting scrutiny about how the famous daughter should be covered. Clinton is a public figure, and as the Washington Post wrote at the time, “if a columnist cannot write about the effects of a public figure’s presence on a campus known for its openness, not only he or she will be silenced.”

Now, over 25 years later, journalists still hold similar conversations about how to decide what is deemed newsworthy. There is no shortage of public figures on Stanford’s campus, including Olympic athletes, children of billionaires and, currently, disgraced cryptocurrency company owner Sam Bankman-Fried. Although there is currently no coverage rule as rigid as Sleeth’s at The Daily, the Clinton column controversy prompts a modern conversation about who gets covered and why.

Two sides of an untold story

The Chelsea Clinton column controversy, contrary to much of what the media was publishing at the time, wasn’t instigated because of a First Amendment or censorship issue. Instead, it was rooted in interpersonal challenges, according to Sleeth.

Sleeth told The Daily that most

members had speeches in front of massive crowds at White Memorial Plaza and Cubberley Auditorium in response to Johnson’s decision to resume bombing.

In 1966, students held sit-ins outside of Stanford President Wallace Sterling’s office over the University’s administration of selective service exams on Stanford’s campus. These exams would have allowed students to defer the draft based on their intellectual ability.

By 1969, the Vietnam protests at Stanford had shifted focus from the U.S. government’s actions to the University’s own participation in classified defense research for the Defense Department via the Stanford Research Institute. Students actively lobbied the University to ban classified research at Stanford, participated in sit-ins at Old Union and blocked CIA recruiters from coming to campus. The members of Students for a Democratic Society staged a nineday sit-in at the Applied Electronics Laboratory on April 3, 1969. They were conducting classified research there and the faculty ultimately voted to end that research.

The following year saw evenmore protests against the war. More than 8,000 students, faculty and staff gathered to participate in the Vietnam Moratorium, which was a nation-wide movement that called for the end of the war. Considered one of the largest political gatherings in the University’s history, community members engaged in rallies, panel discussions and leafleting campaigns to protest the war.

Eventually, the protests turned violent and police arrested several individuals, including McGuire. He had allegedly broken lights outside of the ROTC building during a protest and had penned the “Snitches and Oppression” op-ed during his 30-day jail sentence.

In his op-ed, McGuire listed Roger Reed ’70 and Ray White M.A. ’71 Ph.D. ’73 as two conservative students that had testified against him. In response to their opposition to McGuire and the anti-war movement, McGuire wrote, “It is no exaggeration to say that snitches like Roger Reed and Ray White are accomplices to mass murder.” However, he did note that he was not advocating for any form of vengeance against the two men.

In the op-ed, McGuire also wrote that, during his time in

national media coverage at the time, including a gossip column piece written by a Daily alum, largely centered on Oxfeld.

“He told his side of the story, and I didn’t tell mine,” Sleeth said.

Rather than an isolated instance where The Daily fired a staffer, Sleeth said the controversy really unfolded in two parts within a week and a half of each other. The controversy began when Sleeth taped a letter to the door. The single piece of paper came to represent much more than a simple notice to The Daily staff.

Opening with the line, “To Daily staff ... ,” Sleeth’s policy was neatly partitioned into two points: first, cover Clinton like a normal student, and second, paid staffers are prohibited from covering Clinton’s campus activities for other news agencies.

The latter policy, Sleeth said, was drafted with the intention of protecting Clinton’s privacy and preventing news outlets from taking advantage of Daily reporters.

The first wave of national media attention came after a San Francisco

prison, he observed how “snitches” were treated. “One common method is to cover the snitch with a blanket and beat him until he has the consistency of chocolate pudding or jello.”

He ended the piece with, “Snitches put people in jail. Snitches help kill Vietnamese. Take care of snitches.” The University interpreted McGuire’s words as a promotion of violence which could have resulted in lawsuits against the school.

According to an article from Oct. 7, 1970, written by Felicity Barringer ’72, the Stanford president at the time, Richard Lyman, called the column “highly offensive and irresponsible” and its publication “a journalistic atrocity.” On Oct. 8, 1970, Donald Kennedy, a chairman of the Department of Biology in the School of Humanities and Science and Stanford’s future eighth president, ran a full page ad in The Daily that was signed by more than 150 people expressing disdain towards The Daily for running the column.

In Philippou’s article, McGuire acknowledged that the language of the piece was more “explosive” than he meant it to be. He said that he had never intended to threaten anyone, but instead aimed to warn his fellow protesters of the potential danger they could face. However, his piece ignited enough controversy that he was jailed a second time for inciting violence, although this decision would be ruled unconstitutional after he had spent 30 days in jail.

The Daily staff was split over the decision to publish the op-ed, with co-editor Marshall Kilduff ’71 defending the publication and Freivogel writing a dissenting editorial.

“I wrote, with the backing of almost all of the rest of the staff, that it was a mistake to publish the column because it amounted to an actual threat of violence and incitement to violence,” Freivogel said in an interview.

Once again, the question of The Stanford Daily’s independence came center stage.

An independent Stanford Daily had potential benefits for both the publication and the University. The University would have no influence over the paper’s coverage, but also could not be held liable for anything published by the paper. It was a situation both parties desired.

“They didn’t have any opposition to that. They were glad that we wanted to be independent,”

Chronicle reporter discovered the paper at The Daily house, subsequently publishing an article which described Sleeth’s letter as “taking the privacy policy a firm step further.”

According to Sleeth, the only place someone would have seen the paper would be the door of The Daily’s old building. Sleeth said she didn’t consult with The Daily’s Board when she posted the letter, because she didn’t think it would be that big of a deal.

“With the advice of managing editors, I typed out this policy in Word and printed it out. I didn’t think it was a big deal before it was picked up in The Chronicle,” Sleeth said.

The resulting media attention of the first story covering the ‘don’t cover Chelsea policy’ was largely positive, Sleeth said, and most outlets commended The Daily’s efforts to protect a fellow student. According to Sleeth, it wasn’t until Oxfeld’s dismissal for the Chelsea Clinton column broke into national news that The Daily’s reputation as a paper or the motives of its staffers

Freivogel said in an interview. “They didn’t want responsibility for us.”

On Sept. 28, 1972, Don Tollefson, a former co-editor, announced The Daily’s independence. However, to separate from the University, a general student election took place to approve the proposed resolution put forth by The Daily to the LASSU. Under the proposed resolution, the LASSU would release “all rights, titles and interests in the assets of the Stanford Daily” to a non-profit corporation to be known as the “Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation.”

After a 1737-344 vote, The Stanford Daily became the Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation and was incorporated in Santa Clara County as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 1973. This meant that the LASSU and University would no longer have to share legal responsibility for anything published by The Daily.

The transition into independence was not without complications for the paper.

“I think that some of us felt what a great adventure this would be to try to actually run a journalistic business, you know, we have to go out and sell advertising,” Tollefson said in an interview with The Daily. “That didn’t happen when we were getting free money from the administration. But it was just such a big undertaking.”

For many of The Daily’s staff, being independent was also an important stepping stone into professional journalism.

“We took pride in our independence and our frequently adversarial relationship with authorities. Remember that these were the Watergate years, when the reporting by Woodward and Bernstein inspired a lot of us to pursue journalism as a career. The independent Daily felt like an opportunity to do real journalism at Stanford,” said Terry Anzur ’76, who wrote for The Daily during her time at Stanford before becoming a TV News anchor and reporter for CBS, NBC and KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.

By 1973, The Stanford Daily had become officially independent from the university.

Today’s Daily Separation and independence did not put an end to The Daily’s challenge of balancing criticism of the institution while maintaining a working relationship with the University administration.

The Daily is now legally and fi-

were called into question.

Column controversy

During what both parties called a “hotly contested election,” both Oxfeld and Sleeth ran for the position of editor in chief in fall of 1997. Sleeth won. Per tradition, Oxfeld, a senior staffer at the time, was given a weekly opinions column — where the spiked Chelsea Clinton was originally meant to be published. Instead, Sleeth said, an advertisement filled the space of the spiked column that Friday.

Sleeth recalled that the spiked column had three sections, focusing on critiquing the Clintons in the first, followed by Oxfeld’s critique of “a stop sign that was annoying him,” and a third section also filled with non-Clinton-related commentary.

“Of course there was animosity. For him to write that column challenged the policy — it was a challenge,” Sleeth said.

A week after being dismissed, Oxfeld said national media outlets

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nancially independent from the University. Financially, it operates through a combination of advertising and circulation revenues, as well as annual printing subsidies from the ASSU. The ASSU had also separated from the University in 1995.

The Daily’s independence has granted the paper the ability to undergo in-depth investigations, like a 1992 investigation by EIC John Wagner ’92 that uncovered an embezzlement scandal in the Stanford Bookstore.

Wagner’s articles from February to May of that year revealed that the managers of the Stanford Bookstore, which was a nonprofit at the time, had created a private consulting firm to lease a vacation house to employees and embezzled funds from the bookstore to support the house. Ultimately, his reporting led Stanford to examine the bookstore and for California’s attorney general to open an investigation into the scandal.

However, The Daily has not always been the first publication on campus to break significant news, such as Brock Turner’s sexual assault of a woman outside the Kappa Alpha fraternity house in January of 2015. Allegations of Turner’s assault were instead first published by Fountain Hopper, an anonymously written e-newsletter that has historically challenged The Daily’s practices.

In 2017, the Fountain Hopper criticized The Daily in a series of newsletters, especially in terms of its administration and its reporting on Title IX issues. However, The Daily’s Editorial Board has disputed many of the Fountain Hopper’s allegations of obscuring facts and relationships with administration officials.

The Fountain Hopper had taken issue with The Daily’s administrative perspective. In 2012, EIC Billy Gallagher ’14 announced that The Daily wouldn’t accept email interviews; however, this decision would later be reversed. Now, The Daily strives for phone and in-person interactions with sources, but also accepts email interviews, especially in cases where a story needs a comment on a quick turnaround or for more factual queries.

There have been times when the paper has cited its own journalistic priorities over the administration’s wishes. In April 2000, The Daily was the first publication to report that John Hennessy was going to

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The Stanford Daily Archive

The front page of the Sept. 22, 1997 issue of The Daily featured the Clinton family’s visit to campus during move-in weekend, when First Daughter Chelsea Clinton moved into campus.

The Stanford Daily Archives

Diarmuid McGuire M.A. ‘72 wrote the controversial op-ed ”Snitches & Oppression” that was one catalyst to The Daily’s independence.

Obituary

Diarmuid McGuire, former Daily editor, dies

By JUDY LIU BEAT REPORTER

Diarmuid McGuire M.A. ’72, who served as the opinions editor for The Stanford Daily between 1968-1970, died at the age of 80, his family announced on Feb. 6. At the time of his death, McGuire ran the Green Springs Inn & Mountain Cabins in Oregon, and he was most known at Stanford for writing the controversial “Snitches and Oppression,” a piece which served as the catalyst for The Daily’s independence. His passing was confirmed by his wife, Oregon State Rep. Pam Marsh. In a statement to Fox 26, Marsh wrote: “Diarmuid never gave up his passion for righting the world. Although he would expound on climate tumult, ecosystem destruction, right wing politics and fascism, he remained fixated on hope — most recently, in the form of beavers, which he viewed as a practical and metaphorical answer to a world in crisis. His final instruction to all of us was to save the beaver.”

McGuire attended Princeton University for his undergraduate education before attending Stanford to receive a masters in communication. After graduating, he spent ten years at Lucile Salter Packard Children’s and El Camino hospitals as Director of Community Affairs in the Bay Area before moving to Oregon to work with numerous groups to protect the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Towards the end of his life, he worked with The Beaver Coalition to restore beaver habitat throughout the US, specifically in Oregon.

As a graduate student, he worked at The Daily as the opinions editor and wrote nearly 20 opinion pieces during his time.

Barbara Louchard ’70, who served as the Assistant Editorial Page Editor alongside McGuire, described him as a kind and professional man that supported her

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rectly announced the date of the Big Game Bonfire to be Nov. 22. The bonfire is on Nov. 21.

1995: The caption identified the person as Humphries, while the photo in fact showed Cardinal tennis player Paul Goldstein. The Weekly regrets the error.

1994: Because of an editing error, yesterday’s editorial “Read the handbook” incorrectly implied that — under a proposed amendment to the ASSU Constitution — student groups would not receive any of their special fee if they were not approved by a majority of both undergraduate and graduate student bodies. The amendment actually would allow student groups to receive part of their fee if just one of the bodies passed the measure.

1993: An article printed in the Nov. 12 issue of Diversions contained an inaccurate quote by fieldhockey player, Sarah Hallock, stating that she “liked Popeye’s forceps, though.” Hallock actually said, “forearms.”

1992: On Feb. 24 and 25, The Daily mistakenly reported that Neurosurgery Prof. Gerald Silverberg had been accused by Neurosurgery Prof. Frances Conley of making sexist and demeaning comments, and fondling. Silverberg has not been accused of fondling. The Daily regrets the error.

1991: Due to a computer error while putting together the Directory (humans don’t make mistakes anymore), the names on this insert page were not included in the Directory’s Faculty/Staff

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to be a journalistic organization and become an information gatherer [ ... ] for legal proceedings.”

Gearing up for a legal battle, they reached out to a prominent Stanford law professor at the time, Anthony Amsterdam. The Daily staff talked with the head of the communications department, and the university administration itself lended some support behind The Daily by recognizing the legal ambiguity behind the raid. The team was left to grapple with the decision of whether or not to pursue legal action.

“We felt that all our private sources, all of our notes on our desks, even our friend’s tax return, were violently perceived,” Barringer said. “It was invasive of the journalistic product, because of the possibility of revealing sources, [ ... ] even though they didn’t suspect us of having anything to do with the attack itself.”

throughout her time at The Daily.

“He just was like a big brother,” Louchard said. “He was very caring and supportive of my writing. And he gave me these incredible assignments.”

She recounted a specific instance when McGuire gave her a wooden music box after she shared challenges she was going through at the time.

“I mean just out of the blue, he comes to [me] with this,” Louchard said. “I would have to say what stands out about him to me is his kindness. He had kindness and honesty ... he put himself on the line for a lot of things.”

Among these instances was the publication of “Snitches and Oppression” in 1970 after McGuire’s brief stint in jail for breaking glass during a protest against the Vietnam War. The op-ed garnered backlash from the administration and divided some members of The Daily over its publication due to the possible implication of violence against two people that testified against him. The backlash from the op-ed eventually led to The Daily’s pursuit of independence from the University.

However, he wasn’t without critics and controversy, especially after the publication of “Snitches and Oppression.”

“Most of us on The Daily — including me — also thought publication was a terrible mistake,” said William Freivogel ’71, a co-editor for The Daily at the time. “We certainly didn’t see [McGuire] as any sort of a hero for press freedom or Daily independence.”

Despite the mixed responses to the op-ed, Louchard admired him for his integrity and his willingness to fight for the right thing, something he continued to do until the end of his life.

“This is a guy who stands up for his beliefs,” Louchard said. “And, you know, you have to admire that kind of, you know, integrity of people who will do this.”

Listings. They should have been. So here they are. Put them in. Now.

1990: In a letter to the editor in the May 31 issue, The Daily inadvertently left out brackets in a quote by coterminal student Perry Friedman. Sairus Patel’s letter should have quoted Friedman: “Stanford has a stick so far up its ass it can’t even see straight, pun (hopefully) not intended.” The Daily regrets the error.

1989: A story in yesterday’s Daily reported that SPY magazine publisher Tom Phillips said his magazine consistently refers to Donald Trump as the “shortfingered Bulgarian.” The term Phillips actually used was “short-fingered vulgarian.” The misquotation was not intended as a slur against Bulgarians. The Daily regrets the error.

1988: Because of an editor’s error, a story in yesterday’s Daily misquoted Otero Resident Assistant Jeff Sloan as saying that freshman Kenny Ehrman helped make a T-shirt that said “WASP by popular demand.” Ehrman did not make the shirt, and Sloan did not say that he did. The Daily apologizes for the error. Also, Ehrman vandalized the Otero lounge on May 15, not March 15.

1987: An article in Friday’s Daily said the University was ordered to clean up two parcels of Stanford-owned land contaminated by toxic chemicals. In fact, Stanford is only responsible for tracing the source of the contamination and overseeing its eventual clean-up. The University has been involved because it is the owner of the land. The Daily regrets the error.

1986: In a Dec. 4 restaurant review, The Daily listed an incorrect

the Supreme Court to pick up the case. The Stanford Daily community, as well as the press community at large, held their breath.

In a Jan. 1978 interview with The Daily, months before the Supreme Court decision, Palo Alto Police Chief James Zurcher himself commented on the case.

When asked his thoughts about the Supreme Court’s possible reversal of the lower courts’ decision, he said, “I recognize the First Amendment problem and I truly understand what newspapers have to do. I would certainly give a lot of thought to any third-party searches in the future.”

The petitioners, led by Zurcher, had believed that there should be no additional requirement beyond probable cause for the police to obtain a search warrant against The Daily, and that they had operated in conduct with existing laws.

Steven Ungar Ph.D. ’72, a Daily editor who was also one of the infamous photographers at the time of the raid, had said that he was “optimistic” and believed in the power of the First Amendment.

Amsterdam put The Daily in touch with San Francisco-based lawyers, including Jerry Falk and Robert Mnookin, who carried the case through to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The students, along with the legal team, now had to decide how to approach the case. They believed that the police’s actions may have violated the First and Fourth Amendments. But success wasn’t guaranteed.

“My first reaction... was that it was outrageous, that they never would have done to The San Francisco Chronicle, much less The New York Times, what they did to The Daily,” Falk said in Keller’s article. He remembers thinking that they “had a winning case for a subpoena-first rule.”

Mnookin, however, was more doubtful. “I was offended by what [the police] had done, but I did not think it would be an easy case.”

The team filed a suit in May 1971 and won in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, where the court adopted all of The Daily’s claim.

“The court told the police, ‘If you need the evidence, get it someplace else,’” Barringer said.

The police department appealed the decision, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision to side with The Daily. Additionally, the appellate court charged the police with The Daily’s attorney fees, which were in part accrued with donations. This became an important factor in SCOTUS’ later ruling against the Daily.

“The appellate decision embraced the idea that infringing on the press’ ability to do its job, and giving them fear that by doing their job they may be called into court was totally against First Amendment protections,” Barringer said.

The verdict was overwhelmingly in The Daily’s favor, which led

address for Jan’s Manhattan West Deli. The correct address is 420 Emerson St., Palo Alto, located next to the Aquarius Theatre. The Daily regrets the error.

1985: In Tuesday’s article on a foul odor at Tresidder Union, a comment attributed to Kim Kelly, one of the Corner Pocket managers, should have been attributed to Tandy Voget, another manager at the Corner Pocket. The Daily regrets the error.

1984: Due to editing errors in yesterday’s Daily, Marvin Jackson, one of the students who assisted in Saturday’s containment of a suspected thief at Roble Hall, was reported as having been taken to jail on burglary charges. The Daily meant to report that the suspect, Matthew Gereer, was taken to the jail. The Daily regrets the error.

1983: In The Daily’s Orientation issue, it was stated that some students use the University’s steam tunnels as an underground playground. However, University officials warn that the practice is both extremely dangerous and illegal. The Daily regrets any inconvenience caused by the error.

1982: In the page one story on toxic wastes published yesterday, it was reported that in a proposed waste disposal system, wastes would be transported to an interim disposal site on campus. In fact, the proposal does not call for the disposal of wastes on campus, but rather for the storage of wastes on campus and their subsequent disposal off campus. That article also stated that new incineration facilities are needed to dispose of the chemicals properly. The University has stated a need for new incineration facilities for

perspective on cases like Zurcher, said in Keller’s Daily article that “some [justices] thought, ‘Well, it’s only reasonable that if there’s evidence showing who those [protestors] were, [the police] should be able to find it’ — especially since they went to the magistrate and were authorized to search.”

He further explained that the justices in the majority were concerned with the appellate court’s award of attorney’s fees against the police, a precedent that they believed might inhibit police from trying to enforce the law.

“The police seemed to have conducted themselves very well. They didn’t mess up the offices of The Daily, they put everything back, they didn’t find anything,” Percival said. “The justices thought this [was] kind of an overreach to punish the police for what they, in good faith, thought was lawful behavior and when they acted reasonably.”

Then-former Daily staffers found this decision horrifying. The case had set a precedent against journalistic privacy.

Fred Mann ’72, a managing editor at The Daily at the time of the raid and one of the plaintiffs of the case said in a Jan. 1978 interview, “I’m happy being there, before the Supreme Court, but realistically, with the makeup of the court, it’s not very favorable for us.”

In May 1978, the Supreme Court ruled against The Stanford Daily in a 5-3 decision. They held that the police reserved the right to search any newsroom when the warrants were approved by a court, and that such searches did not violate the Fourth Amendment. The majority argued that The Daily’s insistence on the police needing a subpoena, as opposed to a warrant, could only result in a disappearance of the evidence in question.

“A search warrant allows police officers to ransack the files of a newspaper, reading each and every document until they have found the one name in the warrant,” wrote Justice Byron White in the majority opinion.

Justice Potter Stewart sided with The Daily. “Policemen occupying a newsroom and searching it thoroughly for what may be an extended period of time will inevitably interrupt its normal operations,” he wrote in the dissenting opinion. “Protection of those sources is necessary to ensure that the press can fulfill its constitutionally designated function of informing the public.”

Additionally, Stewart believed that protection of documents goes beyond news organizations.

“Countless law abiding citizens — doctors, lawyers, merchants, customers, bystanders — may have documents in their possession that relate to an ongoing criminal investigation,” he said. “The consequences of subjecting this large category of persons to unannounced police searches are extremely serious.”

Bob Percival JD ’76 A.M. ‘78, who clerked for White in 1978 and became very familiar with White’s

the biological wastes produced by the Stanford Hospital. The University does not burn toxic chemicals. The Daily regrets the errors.

1981: The birthday extravaganza honoring Donald Tresidder tonight will feature the Claude Monet Band only, not the Griffin Family Band as The Daily reported yesterday. The Daily regrets the error.

1980: In David Miller’s column on Feb. 25, “Abandon two-party system,” the word “never” was omitted from the first paragraph. The correct version should have read, “Historian T.S. Kuhn once pointed out that bad ideas are never rejected simply because they are known to be false or inadequate ... ” The Daily regrets the error.

1979: A typographical error in yesterday’s Daily quoted Cecile Quaintance, clinical nursing coordinator of the Medical Center neonatal nursery, as saying the nursery once saved a 15pound, 24-week-old infant. The article should have read that the nursery saved a 1.5-pound, 24-week-old infant. The Daily regrets the error.

1978: In an article in yesterday’s Daily, the time of this week’s senior happy hour was reported incorrectly. The senior happy hour will be held today from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Zot’s. The Daily regrets the error.

1977: The movie “If ... ” will be shown Saturday night at 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. at Kresge Auditorium, not last night as incorrectly reported in yesterday’s Spectrograph.

1976: A caption in yesterday’s Daily incorrectly stated that the Quad was “in the red a year ago.” The Quad that year did not run at a deficit, as stated in

Marie Freivogal ’71, who preceded Barringer as editor in chief, recalled the reaction of the staff: “Oh Gosh, what have we done?”

“The last thing we wanted was a judicial decision to the negative on this issue,” said Hoffman.

Following the court’s decision, and a national outcry from the public and large media organizations, then-President Jimmy Carter asked Congress in April 1979 to reach a legislative solution to the issues raised in Zurcher v. Stanford Daily

Some members of the public believed that the Palo Alto Police Department had acted wrongly in the raid of the office, while others believed that the injury of the 13 officers at Stanford hospital warranted the raid to punish the attackers.

A Los Angeles Times editorial from the time said, “The U.S. Supreme Court has taken a narrow, crabbed, suspicious view of the First Amendment and has given exuberant, indulgent, and trustful approval to a sharp extension of police power.”

Howard K. Smith, a renowned reporter of ABC News, called the Zurcher decision, “the worst, most dangerous ruling the Court has made in memory.”

Jack C. Landau, a renowned journalist, attorney, and free speech activist, spoke before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, and said the Zurcher decision granted the police a power “alien” to American free society.

Congressional reactions to the court decision began while the case was being processed in the Supreme Court, and hearings in committees related to press freedoms were held in the House and Senate almost immediately.

Additionally, in Oct. 1978, the Supreme Court rejected a request for a rehearing of the 31st verdict.

A year after the court decision, Congress passed The Privacy Pro-

Please see SCOTUS, page A15

the story. Also, editor Jeff Cerecke’s statements regarding “poor financial management” were directed only at the years 1960-71.

1975: A typesetting error in Monday’s Daily story on the campus speech by William Buckley last week resulted in an incorrect assertion that Buckley approved of the government plan to bail out the Penn Central railroad. Buckley stated that he opposed this and other government subsidies to private businesses. The Daily regrets the errors.

1974: Thursday’s Daily incorrectly reported the comparative advertising rates of the Daily and Live Oak, a weekly student newspaper which appeared for the first time Friday. The statement by Daily advertising manager Lee Hanley that Live Oak rates were “noticeably lower than ours” was based on the quoted rates for the two publications. The Daily charges $3.15 per column inch, while Live Oak lists a rate of $2.85. However, the latter publication prints on a smaller column width than the Daily — l.67 inches as opposed to 2.00 inches. In terms of actual advertising space, it costs $1.71 per square inch to advertise in Live Oak. The Daily charges $1.58 for the same amount of space.

1973: Yesterday’s Daily article about fraternity Rush included two major factual errors which require correction. First, Kappa Alpha will not be coed next year. Second, it will not require male residents to pay a $100 national membership fee. The Daily regrets these errors and any inconvenience they might have caused.

DAILY LIFE

PILLAR OF STABILITY

A LOOK AT HIRAM DURAN ALVAREZ’S TIME AT THE DAILY

BY ADA STATLER

When I ask how long he’s been at The Daily, Hiram Duran Alvarez — known to most as just Duran — shrugs and then looks up at the collection of framed front pages on the wall, carefully curated to represent significant moments in the paper’s history. He points to the “7.0 quake rocks Stanford” headline from 1989.

“Around then. That quake was crazy.”

It’s his typical way of speaking: short and to the point, in soft but slightly laughing tones. Duran’s laid-back presence in the office is something students in the newsroom have come to expect like clockwork. He is most often in his corner workstation, eyes flitting from one monitor to another and fingers alternating between the keyboard and tablet-mouse, his wrist in a carpal tunnel prevention brace.

Officially, Duran’s role is listed as “production manager” in the paper. This means that he uses special software to format and place all of the articles, pictures and advertisements into the paper each day before editors fill in blank headline and caption spots. In addition to this role, however, he has also been a guide and mentor to generations of Daily staffers.

When Duran started at The Daily, the paper was laid out by hand each night. It was his job to manually cut and paste stories, setting column sizes and arranging them to fit together. Each page would then be set onto a cookie sheet-like tray in order to be copied. Photos were processed by hand, and an AP wire machine sat in a nook in the wall making mechanical clicking noises as national and world news was tapped out onto a rolling sheet of paper.

Duran laughs about all the changes that have happened since then. Throughout all the changes in the newsroom — physical, technological and otherwise — Duran has been the lone constant.

In an organization where student editors turn over twice a year, Duran is the primary source of accessible institutional knowledge.

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be selected as the University’s 10th president, violating the search committee’s explicit request.

More recently, last November, The Daily broke the news of alle-

And yet, Duran was reluctant to be featured and even more reluctant to be photographed when I told him about the upcoming magazine issue themed around the history of The Daily. He has a calm and quiet demeanor, tending to shy away from the spotlight.

In keeping with these traits, Duran’s method of sharing his knowledge is more hands-off than a typical teacher might be.

As former Editor in Chief (EIC) and COO Margaret Rawson ’12 described it, “Duran has a way of not needing to tell you that something looks bad but still somehow making sure that you know, and you learn it for yourself.”

Duran himself said he enjoys teaching students but that he also knows it’s important to give new editors the time to make their own mistakes and learn that way, too. Some volumes, he says, it takes more time than others. But eventually the new team figures it out.

“It’s just his simple observations that pack a punch and can really make you reevaluate what you’re doing,” Rawson said. “It has been years since I’ve seen him, but I can hear his voice perfectly in my head.”

In all my conversations with former Daily staffers, there was one description of Duran that everyone came to at one point or another: patient. Patient, but still dedicated to getting the work done and done well.

“What stands out most, even now, is the uncanny ability he had to infuse everything with that unmistakeable easygoing energy of his, making even an obsessive like me feel calm and, more importantly, like what we were doing deserved exactly that much time and care,” wrote former EIC Nadira Hira ’02. “It’s a lesson — in both staying centered and taking our work deeply to heart — that’s never left me.”

As one might imagine, nights in a newsroom frequently go late, with deadlines ranging from midnight to one or two o’clock in the morning. But when a photo doesn’t come in or an error in an article is caught at the last minute, these nights can quickly turn even later. For students, this often causes escalating stress levels.

Duran’s response?

gations that research co-authored by University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne contains manipulated images.

Early on, The Daily’s troubles dealt largely with its ability — or lack thereof — to criticize the University, but today, The Daily enjoys its independent freedom to report openly and honestly about the University while upholding

“He’d always just say something like, ‘Woah dog, what happened?’ but never get mad or anything like that,” said former EIC Victor Xu ’17.

Another way Duran teaches is by making personal and lasting connections with the students that cycle through The Daily each volume.

When I talked with Xu, he proudly reminded me that he won he “Duran’s Favorite” award at three end-of-volume banquets, a record. He also fondly recalled engaging in lengthy discussions about sports at Duran’s favorite taco joint in San Jose.

Xu is not the only staffer to have bonded with Duran over sports. Former editors told me numerous stories about venting over games or speculating on boxing matches with him. In one of the periods when Duran wasn’t working at The Daily, he ran his own exercise gym and boxing studio. Even now, he trains boxers in addition to his work with the paper.

According to former sports editor and EIC Joey Beyda ’15, who also presented Duran with the Spirit of The Daily award in 2015, football or boxing are easy go-to topics when he returns for visits.

“I’m not a big NFL fan, but I keep rooting for the Raiders for Duran,” Beyda said.

In Beyda’s time, it was fairly common for sports editors to gather in the office at night and toss around a football. Duran would occasionally join in — but only when the game was far away from the layout computers.

“Once we hit one of Duran’s monitors, and he got pretty protective, understandably,” Beyda said. “I think that was the only time I ever saw Duran get mad.”

In many ways, Duran is the muscular, tothe-point guy wearing basketball shorts and a sweatshirt that you might expect from a boxing trainer — one popular entry on the office’s quote board featured Duran’s sarcastic comment about watching his “girlish figure” — but he also builds relationships with the less sports-inclined members of the office.

When former staffers come back to visit the office, Duran is sometimes one of only a few faces Daily alumni will know on staff. With current staffers, he has little rituals with different students, whether it is twohanded high fives or barking “arts!” after he’s finished laying out the section and ready for the editors to add headlines.

On particularly laid-back evenings in the office, Duran will share battle stories from Daily deadlines of past. Sometimes it is laughing about a physical fight that nearly broke out between staffers; other times it is recounting late production nights when the power went out and everything had to be redone.

More rarely, Duran will talk about his personal life. Rawson remembers how Duran’s face lights up when talking about his kids. Sure enough, Duran’s smile widens as he tells me his youngest daughter is now studying to become a graphic designer, too.

When the paper is finished and sent to the printer each night, it’s typically just one editor left and, of course, Duran. According to Duran, this is one reason why he has forged such strong connections with each set of EIC and executive editors.

On one memorable night, Duran showed me all the files uploaded to the shared print server, with publications ranging from high school zines to The University of California,

principles of quality journalism.

However, time and time again, The Daily’s independence has proven to be an integral part of the publication, allowing it to extensively cover all aspects of campus life under the protection of freedom of speech.

“When we became independent in the ’70s, it was by mutual agreement,” said Sam Catania ’24, The

Berkeley’s Daily Californian. He opened up the PDF, pointing to a headline or a photo and suggesting a potential change or two in the spirit of the front-page-switch following The Play. (For the record: This is not an opportunity we plan to take advantage of.)

When I asked Duran if after all these years he still reads all the articles he lays out, he laughed a bit and hid his face under his hands.

“Sometimes I read them, I guess — especially sports and opinions.”

He laughs a bit more before adding that even without reading the articles, it’s pretty easy to know their content just from being around the office.

“I hear a lot of conversations,” he told me.

I pressed him, of course, on how much student gossip that also includes.

“Oh, there’s always gossip or Daily politics, but I try to stay out of that. That’s not for me.” But that doesn’t mean Duran doesn’t appreciate the fresh faces and constantly changing conversations at The Daily. He says he enjoys the intergenerational aspect and the high energy of the office.

In addition to the time he spent on the gym venture, Duran took a couple of years away from The Daily early on to make fundraising graphics for Stanford. He learned quickly that this type of isolated, high-stress environment wasn’t what he wanted.

“When you’re made to feel you can’t make a mistake, when the deadlines are always one after the other, that’s just not a good place to work,” he said.

It didn’t take long before he was back with the paper.

“The Daily’s been loyal to me, and I’ve been loyal to it,” Duran said. “After being in a situation where that wasn’t appreciated or present, that means a lot to me. It’s the culture I come from.”

Duran’s loyalty hasn’t gone unnoticed in the office, where he hasn’t missed a single day of work. But for many readers, his work goes unattributed. As former Daily staffer Kelley Fong ’09 wrote in her senior farewell column, “when the paper looks particularly good, people praise the (certainly deserving) students who write and edit it, overlooking the man whose behindthe-scenes labor and creativity make everything possible.”

Fong concluded her column by thanking the people in her life that she called “Durans,” the unsung heroes that have supported her and countless others through the Stanford experience.

Indeed, Duran’s job doesn’t sound the most appealing on the surface: late nights in the office, with a commute from the East Bay, to boot. Duran says he’s got the night owl sleeping schedule down by now, though, and jokingly declines to tell me exactly how fast he drives on his way home.

“It’s all worth it,” Duran told me as we wrapped up our interview after production one night. It was 2:45 a.m., but he was as energized as ever. “You know, it’s cool to see all the students come through here with this drive and a want to take on challenges and the talent to take on the challenges. When I see people who really want to be a part of The Daily, I want to be a part of them.”

Duran told me that nothing at The Daily feels permanent, but it’s hard for me to doubt that his legacy will be a lasting one.

Daily’s current EIC. “But The Daily and Stanford are inextricably linked as an inherent function of the fact that we are members of the community we report on. To that end, independence has been something that we’ve had to continue to defend and protect over the years.”

Independence is critical to The Daily, continued Catania. He said that it has allowed The Daily to

publish countless stories that may not have seen the light of day had the newspaper been managed by the University.

“I believe that the legacy of independence over these last 50 years — for which we have made our duty to be careful custodians — shall and must continue for as long as there is a Stanford University,” Catania said.

The Stanford Daily

Hiram Duran Alvarez has been a lone constant in The Daily’s ever-changing newsroom while at the publication, working to lay out each print issue of The Daily.

DAILY ALUMS REFLECT ON THEIR

GREATEST HITS

A LOOK DOWN MEMORY LANE AT LIFE AT THE NEWSPAPER

By THE STANFORD DAILY STAFF AND ALUMNI

Since 1882, Daily staffers have been making a paper, but they have also been making memories. In this article, Daily members from the last 70 years share their favorite experiences with the paper.

Pranks and hijinks

Adam Berns ’84 — Sports Editor and Editor of Cardinal Today

I masterminded the “Fake Daily Cal” following “The Play.” After the infamous ending to the game, I got The Stanford Daily to fund my prank where we put approximately 12,000 fake papers on the Berkeley campus saying the NCAA had given the Big Game back to Stanford. I wrote the bulk of the paper in one night with fellow Daily staffer Mark Zeigler ’85 and then organized a team of Daily staffers to distribute on the Berkeley campus. The prank worked amazing well, aided by the fact that the Cal Berkeley paper was around eight hours late that day. The prank not only made national headlines at the time but to this day continues to receive press. It’s in the College Football Hall of Fame and recently was featured on ESPN. It’s been called by both Sports Illustrated and ESPN as one of the top three sports pranks of all time.

Gary Cavalli ’71 — Sports Editor

I was Sports Editor during a period of great political unrest on the campus.

The week before the Big Game in 1968, The Daily ran an editorial entitled “Big Game Dying,” which was basically a sermon on how irrelevant sports was. No one gave me a heads up. It just appeared. So I was more than a little ticked off. The next day I ran a column in The Daily entitled “Big Game Living,” essentially defending college football and declaring the sports department’s independence from the rest of The Daily. The editors got the last laugh on me, though. The following day they ran a short note asking if I still wanted my paycheck.

Jon Sherman ’90 — Friday Columnist

I remember proposing to features editor Andy Berke ’90 that my photo change with each column I wrote. I still can’t believe he approved it. Photo editor Kai Keasey ’89 was a friend from high school and went all in on a photo shoot with multiple wardrobe changes.

I can’t remember if I knew ahead of time what the subjects of my columns would be about or if I ended up with ideas based on the outfits I happened to have been wearing in the photos. Either way, it was worth the effort.

Jason Cole ’84 — Sports Editor

The week before the 1981 Big Game my friends and I built a 12 1/2-foot “football” to put under the finger of the statue of Father Junipero Serra on I-280 to make it look like he was a holder on field goals. The picture made the top half of The Daily. Fantastic fun, and I have a framed picture to this day.

Glenn Alford ’63 — Sports Editor I wrote the headline for my advance on the 1961 Big Game: “95,000 to attend Big Game.” The next day, a fellow staffer pointed out that Stanford Stadium’s capacity was 90,000. Oops!

Bruce Handy ’81 — Arts Editor

I was Arts Editor in the fall of 1980 when John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Double Fantasy” album was released. I assigned a review to a pair of writers I knew who were going out, thinking it would be very clever to have a couple do a “he said, she said” review of a record that alternated songs between husband and wife. The writers hated the album (as did I) and turned in an eviscerating piece. But a few days before the review was scheduled to run, Lennon was shot. The writers begged me to can the review, or at least let them soften it, but I felt journalistic integrity required me to print it as is — after all, Lennon’s murder didn’t make “Double Fantasy” a better record. That was the decision of 22-year-old me; at the time I saw the world as more black and white than I do today. I think we did run a disclaimer saying the piece had been written before the shooting, but the writers still got a lot of blowback. Somehow, they forgave me.

Hugh West ’68 — Sports Reporter

In the days of a typeset paper, the Managing Editor would post a marked-up copy of the previous day’s issue on the main bulletin board, scolding us for what we’d done wrong. I’ll never forget the the big red letters screaming “NO

MORE ALLITERATIVE HEADLINES!”

Patricia Fels ’75 — Features Editor and Columnist

In late fall quarter of ’74, I broke my foot while walking in Dr. Scholl’s sandals on the sloping walk that led down to the Quad. For the first week I was on crutches, waiting for my cast to dry. That same week, I was assigned a profile article on a professor’s class, so I hobbled to the Daily office to work on my article. I was used to being there at night when deadline pressures made the atmosphere exciting but tense. However, in the early afternoon, I realized, it was a pretty chill place to be. Bev, our amazing typesetter, was relaxed and cracking jokes; I’d never seen her that way! The section editors were just hanging out, having fun. It ended up being a compare-and-contrast story of The Daily office at two very different times of the day. I used that story in the high-school journalism classes I taught for many years to demonstrate that a determined reporter can create a story out of practically nothing, no matter what the obstacles are. Most importantly, I made my three hour deadline!

Alan Senze ’67 — Headline Editor I enjoyed working on the Stanford Daily as a headline editor for Mike Roster ’67 JD ’70. I captured the essence of most articles successfully in succinct headlines. Unfortunately, I got a key headline wrong concerning a Proposition on the 1964 California ballot, and Mike was not amused! He was a great editor and never missed anything!

On the job

Ward McAfee ’61 — Paper Boy

In the late 1950s, I was The Daily’s only paper boy, delivering stacks to the Quad and bundles to residences and even off-campus to the Stanford Research Institute. Each day, rain or shine, I enjoyed seeing the beginning of a new day on the farm. As I had to be on the job at 4 a.m. each day, I was very well paid. I enjoyed that as well.

Camille de Campos ’61 — Sports Photographer

It was the fall of 1957, pre-registration week, and somehow I found The Daily Shack. I asked to see the sports editor. I don’t recall if either was editor, but I met Steve Baffrey ’60 and Dick Barnes ’60. I, a 5’2 female freshman, announced that I was a sports photographer and proceeded to show them my portfolio of action shots. For the first home game of the year, I was on the field on my first assignment for The Stanford Daily.

Judith Vollmar Torney-PurtaI ’59 — Radio Engineer

I worked for KZSU when it was associated with The Daily. I was the first female student who filled the role of Engineer at the station. That involved cueing up and playing recordings. On some programs, I was both the Engineer and the Announcer. I also read news stories, which I chose and edited from the teletype.

Margie Freivogel ’71 — Editor in Chief

The country was fractured over Vietnam and civil rights. The campus was fractured as protesters broke windows. We at The Daily were exhausted —

covering the action each night, then putting out the paper by dawn. Amidst the chaos, we forged a bond as we tried to make sense of a world turned upside down. We found our footing in vertiginous times. We found friendships that would last a lifetime.

John Freed ’77 — Vol. 170

Editor in Chief

One of my favorite memories is publishing The Daily’s first color photograph ever, in the last edition of my term as editor in chief on Jan. 28, 1977. My dear friend and managing editor, the late Dave Smith, chose the quote from Emerson: “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”

Chris Drake ’03 — Vol. 21618 Contributing Writer I remember the first time an article I wrote appeared on the front page and above the fold. I’ll never forget holding a copy of the paper and seeing the story I worked so hard to get just right. I felt proud that I had a hand in delivering what the editorial staff felt was newsworthy news. Thinking back on it now, it feels like a bygone era, with print newspapers fading away as they have since. Not knowing if I would ever write a front-pager again, I held onto that edition of the paper — and I still have it, carefully stashed away for safekeeping!

Vincent Ho ’93 — Vol. 202-205 Photo Editor I remember being told this: “36-exposure roll of film costs a tiny fraction of what it takes to produce an issue of The Daily. Take the shots you need to get the right one.” We’d race back from football games and process one to two dozen rolls of film at a time in dunk tanks in the darkroom of the then publication building, the Storke Publications Building. We would then scour contact sheets with a loupe before making half-tones to do lay out by hand with our layout artist, Duran Alvarez. In the early ’90s, the transition to scanning film was particularly exciting — I sent digitized photos back via 14.4k modem with a Mac PowerBook from some NCAA championship events — that was cutting edge in those days.

J.T.S. Moore ’92 — Vol. 197-198 World & Nation co-editor, Vol. 197-198 and Vol. 196-199 Writer I remember sitting in the super-neat central room of The Daily’s offices in the Storke Publications Building reading Associated Press wire stories on the green-screen computer terminal. Before the worldwide web, the ability to read wire news stories as they were filed was a rare experience. As co-editor of the World & Nation section, I had access to the green-screened computer terminal and loved learning the news of the day before almost anyone else on campus. I would then select serious news stories and write irreverent headlines like: “Bush keeps mum about taxes, says, ‘Read My Hips.’”

John Coonrod ’73 — Vol 156 Reporter and Photographer I was in the darkroom the day the Palo Alto police raided the office and seized our negatives of anti-war protests. This led to a Supreme Court case.

Late nights

Rich Jaroslovsky ’75 — Vol. 165 Editor in Chief

During freshman year, we’d often finish work on the paper at around 3:00 a.m., drop it off at the printer in Menlo Park and go have breakfast at an allnight place on El Camino. Sometimes, though, we’d drop it at the printer and then hit the all-night bowling alley — and then go to breakfast. I don’t believe I made an awful lot of 8 a.m. classes that year. Or 9 a.m., come to think of it.

Lori Matsukawa ’78 — Reporter

One of our favorite rituals was going out for Jack Steak sandwiches after sending the paper to the printer. Jack in the Box was the only place open that late. It made the newsroom smell like greasy onion rings the next day. Pretty gross.

Hall Daily ’73 — Section Editor, Managing Editor and Executive Editor

One of my favorite memories is playing night football under the streetlights in front of the Storke Publication Building and, of course, going bowling with backshop Bev after dropping off the paper at the printer at 2 a.m.

Michael Roster ’67 — Executive editor

We were located in “The Daily Shack,” that is, a WWII Quonset hut. A year later, the palatial Storke Publications Building was built across the street. It was definitely a ramshackle operation, including the overhead heater that sounded like a jet engine taking off when it started. And across the street was the Stanford Press, which still used linotype machines and hot type. It published something like 10,000 print copies of The Daily every night on site.

thing I was never afraid of — that I’d get pressure to see it the University’s way when all these students had been arrested. The editors always stood by me, and I felt no pressure to write anything but what we observed. I only later realized what a luxury that was, and what an independent institution

The Daily is.

Winston Shi ’16 — Vol. 245 Opinions Managing Editor

Shortly after graduation, I jotted down a joke article for my graduate school’s student newspaper where I just talked about how great Stanford was. It was a rousing success. The undergrads were so upset, they wouldn’t even put it in the print edition. About two years later, The Daily’s public relations team was feeling frisky and tweeted a screenshot of my article asking, “Why are you so obsessed with us?” I mentioned the tweet in passing to some Daily friends, figuring that I’d already been forgotten. But as it turns out, I never really left.

Karen Springen ’83 — Editor-in-Chief

It’s impossible to pick one! More than any dorm, the Storke Publication Building was my Stanford home. The student editors there gave me my first assignment, an article on breakaway bollards. The building’s vending machine there gave me my beverage of choice, Tab. The 1 a.m. closing times gave me the greatest gift, lifelong friends. The entire experience gave me my two passion professions, journalist and journalism teacher.

James (Jim) Madison ’53 — Vol. 123 Editor My favorite Daily memory is the day my future wife of 60-plus years (now deceased) arranged my election as editor instead of her, because, as a journalism major, she preferred the job of managing editor. We celebrated the results that evening at our favorite make-out spot on campus.

Vlae Kershner ’76 — Vol. 169 Editor

A surprising one is how fondly I remember several members of the World War II classes who had worked for The Daily and remained helpful to the younglings. In general, they were friendly and had better manners than my generation of Boomers, but were more closed off and nursed private hurts. They sure could hold their liquor and celebrated the Cardinal by imbibing bloody marys at their tailgate before Big Game. They’re gone now, but thanks to The Daily I have a strong impression of the Greatest Generation.

Lisa Williams ’87 — Photographer

As a photographer for The Daily I was assigned to shoot a photo of two business school students who were training for the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii. I treated it as any other assignment, and met Dave and Dan as they were going on a training ride. It turns out that I ended up dating Dan for over a year, which was a highlight of my time at Stanford.

Memorable stories

Stanley Gross ’57 — Vol. 131 Night Editor

I interviewed Dean of Students Don Winbigler for a Daily article and noticed the ashtray on his desk. Around the rim were the words: “non illegitimus carborundum,” meaning “Don’t let the bastards get you down.”

Mike Vaska ’82 — Vol. 179 Co-Managing Editor

The archives say I wrote 44 articles over my two years with The Daily. Each was an adventure. From the big stage of national politics — I covered a speech by then presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and interviewed independent candidate John Anderson — to why the new bollards on campus were made of wood.

But nothing compared to the big Storey House fire, which began when I saw some smoke while getting my mail. Soon the old wood structure of the all-female dorm was crackling as the fire began to consume decades of its history.

I talked to an editor from The Daily and asked what to do, and they said something to the effect that “this is your big break” and go cover the story. It was an all day and into-the-evening adventure. If the editors were nervous that a cub reporter was not up to the task, they never let on. Many hours later, when we put the paper to bed, a huge headline over a picture of the blaze said “Fire Guts Storey House.” We reported that the six fire trucks were delayed in responding by those new wooden bollards I had previously written about. While the editors generously ran the story with my byline, it was a team effort with other reporters contributing. The front page also had wonderful reporting from Fran Miller ’82 on how the women from Storey House met with University President Richard Lyman and his wife. I often tell the young lawyers in my office that my Stanford Daily experience taught me to think and write fast, but it also inspired me to give the next generation the chance to run with a project, to have their own Storey House moment — much like the big break The Daily gave to me.

One of the early challenges when we became night editors was to go across the street to the printers and deal with Jack the foreman. Nothing was more terrifying then approaching the 11 p.m. deadline and wanting to make last minute changes in actual lines of type. Jack would truly snarl at us, indicating this was our very last chance.

Elna Tymes ’61 — Staff Editor

My favorite memories involve putting The Daily to bed at night. We were in The Daily’s old home, a dilapidated shack across the alley from the printers who went on overtime at 11:18 p.m. There was always a mad rush out the door after 11 p.m. to get stories to the typesetters before they went on overtime.

Ashwin Ramaswamim ’21 — Chief Technology Officer

I remember working with Do to file transfer protocol (FTP) into a server to edit The Stanford Daily WordPress website and thinking, “This is jank.” I shortly moved the code to version control under GitHub and have never looked back!

Daily community

Baldwin Lee ’92 — News Features Editor and Senior Staff Writer

Once a Daily staffer, always a Daily staffer. In 1991, while I was not writing for The Daily because I was a Residential Assistant, the news editor knew I had a motorcycle when the Oakland Hills firestorms started. I immediately said yes and drove The Daily photographer into the fires on my old Yamaha Seca. Pretty stupid of us, but we wanted to document what was happening, with homeowners on their roofs with hoses, trees catching blaze and fire growing all around. I had to tell The Daily photographer at least once, “Uh, don’t go away farther than five seconds from me again — we’re almost surrounded by fire.”

Another memory stands out to me. Back in 1989, when I was writing the lead article on the student takeover of University President Donald Kennedy’s office, we were still typing on green-screen terminals and manually laying out. Late at night as I was finishing the lede with the editors standing behind my shoulders waiting for this last piece — poof. A wisp of smoke, no more screen, article draft gone. We had to start over. I instantly sensed multiple editors behind me thinking, “Uh, young reporter, don’t freak out!” But we got that story out. We bonded during that stress, but I also remember one

Bill Freivogel ’71 — Co-Editor I have so many memories of The Daily: Delivering papers at dawn the morning after Kent State. A sheriff’s bus hurtling toward demonstrators near Wilbur. The smell of tear gas. Editorializing that the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) should leave campus, even as the ROTC building burned. The shock when gunshots wounded two conservatives. Police raiding The Daily photo lab leading to a fight for press freedom that lost in the Supreme Court but won in Congress. Publishing “Snitches and Oppression,” a radical’s op-ed screed urging protesters to beat conservative students — an oped we unfortunately published but which fortunately led to Daily independence. Most of all the good friends, many still journalists and still great friends. I’m married to one of them.

Jon Weisman ’89 — Sports Editor and Senior Staff Writer

In the biggest year for Stanford basketball since 1942, the Cardinal stunned No. 1 Arizona at Maples during my first week as Sports Editor in 1988. Immediately, beat writer Chris Fialko ’88 called the office and said, “We have to get the front page.” The news side didn’t realize at first how big a deal this was, but we got it. The sheer joy and energy of publishing Fialko’s frontpage story remains unforgettable. I still have the photo that I lifted off the flat (kids, ask your parents) after it went to press. Amazing night.

Ralph Kostant ’72 — Editorial Board Member, Opinions Editor and Reporter

On Sunday night, Nov. 15, 1970, Felicity Barringer ’72 and I helped the Band foil an attempt by Cal Bears to steal the Axe. We captured three raiders. Our story appeared in The Daily on Nov. 17, 1970, entitled, “Skulkers Nab Ursi.”

Deena Weisberg ’03 — News Editor I remember the night of the presidential election of 2000, where the race was called and then un-called and thrown into chaos. The Daily had actually been able to send our reporters to cover the story live from Bush’s and Gore’s campaign headquarters, so we were getting as much up-to-the-minute news as most major media outlets that night. I was in the newsroom until about 2 a.m., working with our editor in chief to try to coordinate the story from our reporters and figure out what to print. We had a different election website pulled up on every computer in the newsroom, but they were all contradicting each other, and the TV news wasn’t any better. Finally, we had to admit that we wouldn’t know the result before we had to go to print and ended up running a more accurate story than most newspapers the next day.

Fritz Stahr ’81 — Photographer

Back in our era, we celebrated a variety of events with fireworks over Lake Lag as it had water in it most of time. I covered that one night for The Daily with a fair amount of trepidation about getting a good shot, but some of my experiments with shutter speed and exposure — mostly manual then — worked out well and I got a front-page image out of that roll that I have in my scrap-book to this day! Another great memory was my photo coverage of the athletic department’s desire to make the “Griffins” the school mascot after the Trustees decided to drop the “Indians.” They found large, old griffin statues deep in the woods around the mausoleum, moved them to a prominent position in front of the athletic department, where they stayed until around 2005. By that time, it was apparent that the mascot was going to remain the color “Cardinal” for the foreseeable future. Clearly, they thought that would be a better option than the 1970’s student favorite: “Robber Barrons.”

Mary Kay Becker ’66 — News Editor and Night Editor

I remember holding down the fort an The Daily shack in Dec. 1964 to maintain contact with intrepid reporter (and future editor) Jon Roise ’67 and our brilliant photographer, Bruce Wilcox ’67, when they went to Berkeley to cover the Free Speech Movement demonstrations. They managed to climb to the top of a campus building to get the best possible view.

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What’s in a critique? CULTURE

Arts evolved significantly over 50 years. Reviews had to keep up.

By GRETA REICH

There is an art to writing about art. Like any art, The Daily’s reviews have gone through fads and phases over the years: the ’70s style of immense detail, to the ’80s trend of inserting the reader into the story, to the 2000s use of a star ranking system, landing on today’s analysis of the art. In the five decades since The Daily became independent, its reviews have generally become more generous, personal and humorous.

However, one thing that has stayed constant is the importance of these reviews. The role of The Daily’s reviews reaches further than just telling students which movies to watch over the weekend — college newspapers have the ability to spread the work of student artists and lesser-known creators. No matter what time period they were written in, reviews can give smaller artists a genuine, unbiased critique of their art, which is rare for many.

“I just think reviews on a college campus, especially when they’re focusing on the campus community, or even the Palo Alto community, can have a really tangible impact on people’s lives and how far their art gets to reach,” said Kirsten Mettler ’23, The Daily’s executive editor and a review writer herself.

Reviews from the ’70s focused on segmented features of the art, breaking the article up into sections corresponding to parts of the piece. Writers cut straight to the chase in the lede, if not the title itself, and would back up their claim with dense imagery as evidence.

They were not afraid to criticize, either. In one review from 1973, writer Marc Kaye ’74 brutally faulted a production of “King Lear” put on by The Company of the Bay Area. “There might just as well have been a robot out on stage playing Cordelia,” Kaye wrote halfway through the piece.

The 1980s marked a drastic shift in tone, most notably due to the wide use of the “you” and “I” statements accompanied by increased humor. Reviewers started inserting the readers and themselves into the piece, giving it a much more personal feeling — though it did not lack the surplus of imagery as evidence.

In his 1981 review of a Martha and the Muffins concert, writer Bruce Handy ’81 started the piece with a brief overview of the apparently decent concert before interrupting himself in the second paragraph.

“‘Wait!’ you say. ‘OK: sarcasm is

FOOD

Daily reviews in the ’70s broke down art into pieces. In the ’80s, writers brought humor to their pieces. The ’90s brought a personal approach, and in the 21st century, review writers have worked to connect art to real-world issues.

easy enough — I want a clever review that says something as well,’” Handy wrote.

Putting the reader’s voice into the story is certainly a way to get the readers’ attention, though it was not as popular as the writer using their own voice.

Stefan Malmoli ’84, for instance,

used his personal hatred of Los Angeles to intrigue the reader in his 1983 review of a concert by The Motels, which supposedly made him like the city better. “Instead of a wasteful, decadent and devoid place,” Malmoli ’84 wrote, “I now think of it as an enjoyable, wasteful, decadent and devoid place!”

CoHo’s chronology

By SOFIA GONZALEZRODRIGUEZ MANAGING EDITOR

Agreat espresso comes from coffee grounds, hot water and a pressure of about 9 bars, or 130 PSI (pounds per square inch). Just like the bitter bean of its metier, beloved student spot Coffee House (CoHo) became delicious under pressure. From the uphill battle of its inception to the uncertainty of recent pandemic years, the CoHo’s history is a rich one.

It comes as no surprise, then, that its contribution to the student body has been profound. During its 55 years of operation, the CoHo has occupied a vital niche in the fabric of campus social life as a casual space for studying, socializing and experiencing the arts. This article looks back at The Daily’s archives to track Coffee House’s evolution.

Early calls for coffee house

Discourse around Stanford’s social scene dates several decades. According to The Stanford Daily’s coverage of the Tresidder cafe’s 1968 grand opening, students demanded a coffee house, among other relaxed gathering spaces, starting during the 1960s. Students proposed this as a solution to the perceived lack of “cohesiveness in the student community,” according to another Daily article from 1966.

The ASSU had previously estab-

lished its own informal coffee house, the ASSU Coffee House or ASSUCH, in 1966. Stanford Daily writer Tim Haight ’66 Ph.D. ’78 wrote in his column that the ASSUCH “existed this summer at the International Center, proving that there is no regulation against coffee houses.” Citing the overcrowding of Tresidder Union, he argued that such a space was much needed.

However, Associate Dean of Students Joel Smith soon shut down the project, fearing that the coffee house would attract drug users and unwelcome off-campus visitors.

Take two: The Stanford Community Coffee House It was from the ashes of this short-lived endeavor that the CoHo — then known as the Stanford Community Coffee House — was born.

Stanford Daily alumnus Michael Morton ’70 recalled being right in the thick of it, beginning with his acquaintance of freshman dormmate Ted Loring ’70. According to him, Loring was something of a driving force behind the establishment of the Coffee House.

“Ted was one of the people to whom it made a difference that Stanford didn’t have a coffee house,” Morton said. “[He thought,] ‘How does a major university not have its own coffee house? This is just impossible.’ So he determined to do something about it.”

To see this vision through, Loring

joined the ASSU, eventually rising to the position of Union Board Chairman. This time, the coffee house proposal stuck. According to Morton, Loring was instrumental in energizing the complex logistical undertaking of the student-run coffee house project. He even called in his own connections to recruit the labor needed for the business — which was how Morton ended up staffing the Stanford Community Coffee House.

The cafe started off small in fall of 1968, running out of a fraction of the room it occupies in Tresidder today. Space was made in what was then a broader game area featuring billiards and pool. (There was even a bowling alley in the place Treehouse now occupies!) Morton remembered that the University brought in outside consultant Richard Elmore, who “had experience in managing restaurants and food service operations and setting them up initially,” to help start the cafe.

As the business grew in revenue, the cafe’s ownership was restructured. According to Morton, the Coffee House soon went from being entirely student run to being partially operated by outside business administrators. In 1973, Tresidder food services management was taken over by Toute de Suite, Inc. (TDS). That same year, student manager Ken Brubaker ’71 oversaw an ambitious $81,000 remodeling project. The Daily reported a co-occurring

In terms of style, the 1990s were not significantly different than the ’80s. Reviewers were still employing a more personal approach, though with less humor than the previous decade. The most notable change is in how much real analysis of the art the reviewer included.

Rather than going into great detail about the features of an artwork, writers started diving into what made a piece good or bad. In 1999, Steven Raphael’s ’00 review of Richard Avedon’s novel, “The Sixties,” describes how the book falls short in trying to appeal to the public. “It feels like the author’s interests lie in the politics of the ’60s, but they were told that a book of photographs about politics would never sell to the general public,” Raphael wrote. “So they added some random shots of musicians, artists and drag queens and tried to pass the book off as something that it’s not.”

Deep analysis is an essential part of review writing today as it allows for the audience — and the reviewer — to be aware of the art in its proper context. Arts & Life contributing writer and desk editor Shreya Komar ’26 learned this as a reviewer.

“[Reviewing is] a little mix of everything — a little opinion, a little news-y, a little Arts & Life. It’s very much a balance between a lot of different sections. It’s given me a lot of perspective when I go and see shows,” Komar said. “Now I think about every aspect of character and sound design and lighting. It’s made me more aware.”

Going into the 2000s and 2010s, reviews grew not just in how they were being written, but also in what they were about. Reviews of television shows, video games and even award shows started popping up, along with graphic ranking systems to show what the reviewer thought of a piece out of five stars.

One article from 2007 ranked the best shows on television for audiences to watch. It was titled, “So it is summer, and you have got cable,” a title that could have appropriately existed only in 2007.

Many reviewers are inspired to write a review because of how the art affected their lives. Mettler does this at The Daily today. “I went and saw ‘Morbius’ not because I was planning on doing a review. But after I saw it, I was so infuriated by how bad it was that I felt compelled to write the review,” she said.

It also became much less common to dig into the flaws of a performance the way older reviews might have. In review of the Ram’s Head’s “Winter One Acts” from 2014, writer Vanessa Ochavillo ’17 describes the show as “stimulating” and then goes on to write about what seemed to be an interesting but poorly produced show.

Today, in the early 2020s, The Daily’s reviews have regained a bit

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Graphic: MICHELLE FU/The Stanford Daily

15% price hike across the food court, which TDS president Skip McIntyre attributed to government fiscal policy driving up wholesale food costs.

More controversial, however, was the labor side of TDS management. Guckenheimer Enterprises, the parent company to TDS, earned itself a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) complaint in 1979 when it “unlawfully terminated” the employment of 39 workers due to union activities. The fired employees (some of whom were Stanford students) responded by opening a food service stand called the “True Coffee House.” Other actions they undertook included a picket line and boycott.

The Daily sided with the protesters in an editorial piece, calling on the University to take over the contract. Indeed, the students triumphed, albeit temporarily. The ASSU ran Coffee House as an independent contractor called Coffee

House, Inc. (CHI) until 1985, when Tresidder officials decided to transfer the contract to a national food service chain called Saga. They claimed that students had “ineffectively managed” the business. Boycotts started once again.

Daniel Rosen ’86 Ph.D. ’93, who helped run CHI and lead the boycott, posited that the company had fundamentally different priorities. “We never wanted to lose money on the Coffee House, but we weren’t in it for a profit. We were out to serve the students as the students wanted to be served,” Rosen told The Daily in 1985. With officials and students disagreeing over the cafe’s business model, profitability seemed to be the deciding factor at the center of this handoff — a theme that would resurface decades later.

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Graphic: SHREYA KOMAR/The Stanford Daily

Ronald Reagan and the headline battle

By CHRISTOPHER FIALKO

We heard shuffling and scraping down the hallway. Mike turned and smiled. He knew what was around the corner. A senior staff reporter emerged on his knees, hands folded in prayer, and said: “Mike, please please please let me write the story.”

The story of the year. The story that could help an aspiring student journalist land a big time job. Ronald Reagan had just announced he was not placing his future presidential library at Stanford.

It was April 23, 1987.

Editor in Chief Mike Newman ’88 and I were editing stories on the mainframe terminals in the Daily Sports department cubicle. Mike was in this quiet spot because he had decisions to make. He knew it would be an early night for the sports page. I was the co-sports editor on duty. No games or matches on this Thursday. All we had were previews and our writers submitted early. Mike asked me to stay and night edit (i.e. cold copy edit, write headlines and cutlines, troubleshoot). Mike knew (though I didn’t) that all hell would soon break loose. Newman was a man of few words. He inspired loyalty. I stayed.

I was no fan of Reagan. I grew up in a union family that revered Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. But after I put the sports section to bed, I wrote the headline: STANFORD LOSES REAGAN LIBRARY. I sent it back to the typesetter. She printed and pasted it across the front page flat, where it awaited the articles. Back then, articles were printed on sticky paper and laid out on backlit flat tables for final proofreading.

It was a cool night to be an observer. Even though we had no cell phones or email, the word got out and one by one, all the senior staff writers showed up, clamoring for a byline. It was fascinating to watch their determination and desperation. I marveled at the calm decision-making of Mike and his news editor. They assigned four stories and trucked

no dissent. Several prominent writers got shut out. I had never seen humans so angry. But everyone in the news department flew into gear, making calls and pounding the terminals.

For more than three years, a contingent of Stanford faculty had fought vocally against the likelihood of President Reagan establishing his library at the Hoover Institution. As I understood it, most presidents placed their library at the best university of their home state. I thought Stanford was the best university in California.

The writers eventually noticed the headline. Everyone but Mike and I hated it. They yelled at me. All night, they sent different headlines to the typesetter, took mine down and pasted theirs.

“Reagan Withdraws Library” — “Faculty win Reagan Battle” — “No Reagan Library at Hoover.”

I reprinted and pasted it again. STANFORD LOSES REAGAN LIBRARY.

They said “Mike won’t like this,” and returned to yell at me after Mike said he liked it.

“It’s not a loss!” — “Reagan doesn’t even read!” — “Conservatives will change Stanford if it comes!” — “[Expletive] that [Expletive].”

I said over and over again: It’s a Presidential library. It’s rare. It’s a loss. They did not agree.

At around 11 p.m., the typesetter handed me a folder with a sheet of six copies of the headline, saying “I’m tired of reprinting these.” I had to use all six.

At midnight, everything was done. We pushed everyone out. Mike himself took the roller and pressed down the STANFORD LOSES REAGAN LIBRARY headline. We placed the flats in a box and drove to the printers down near San Jose. We ate breakfast at a 24-hour diner. I always say I got my degree from Stanford, but I got my education at The Stanford Daily.

Christopher Fialko ’88 was a member of The Stanford Daily during his time at Stanford. He is now a criminal defense lawyer.

THE GRIND

How The Daily fixed a dumb narcissist like me

By JOEL STEIN

The purpose of college is to learn.

That’s the lesson of this story. Education. Growth. Progress. Go back and read this paragraph whenever you get upset at the following ones.

I spent the summer between frosh and sophomore years working up the guts to submit a column for The Daily. I dropped the sample I had re-re-re-re-revised in the metal basket outside the office and ran away as fast as I could. The opinion editors said they never asked an applicant for a second sample. They made an exception for me. My second try was good enough to get me off the waitlist and land me a Friday column.

A couple of months in, I was getting the public attention I had believed I deserved since I was 12. Then I handed in a column that my editor rejected.

I had a fuzzy understanding of journalism. I believed that an opinion column should represent my thoughts, unfettered by the restraints of my uptight bosses. This column was a response to the speech a student president delivered at frosh orientation, accusing us of white privilege. The column began “Hate. Hate. Hate. Anger. Anger. Anger. Salsa. Salsa. Salsa.” For my columnist photo, I

donned a Carmen Miranda fruit hat. In addition to a fuzzy understanding of journalism, I had a fuzzy understanding of racism.

To fight for justice, I took my tale of being a political prisoner to The Stanford Review, the conservative weekly just upstairs from our office. They gave it the Fox News treatment on their front page.

The day their story came out, Brad Hayward, the wise, calm, kind Daily editor in chief, whom I had not yet met, sat me down in his office, one of many such experiences I would have in my career. Brad explained that I was part of The Daily team now. And we dealt with our issues by talking to each other. He made me feel included, which is all I wanted, from back when I spent a year working the guts up to drop off my submission and run away.

Brad also taught me something about respect and honor. And he somehow did it without using the phrase “white supremacist.”

Joel Stein ’93, M.A. ’94 was a member of The Stanford Daily during his undergraduate career. He is currently a book author and has previously written for TIME, Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times, among others.

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of their edge (see Mettler’s review of “Morbius”). The most important difference, which can be seen in some late 2010s pieces too, has been in situating an art piece in its larger context.

“I try to think beyond the thing I’m reviewing itself,” Mettler said. “Even for something like ‘Morbius,’ I ask myself, what does this say about superhero movies and the idea of mass cinema? And how is it changing the industry and how we interpret art?”

This trend is noticeable in most any recent Daily review. A 2021 review of Joan He’s novel, “The One’s We’re Meant to Find,” by high school staffer Melissa Tariq Rodriguez exemplifies it. “The book transcends the traditional sci-fi genre to become a more relevant commentary on individual agendas, artificial intelligence and the future of our planet,” Rodriguez wrote.

The changes in review writing since the 1970s are reflective of the changes at Stanford, and in the world beyond. Readers can get a sense of the importance of art and what type of art was popular by flipping through old reviews. The role of the reviewer has also changed, from more of a reporter to an active participant in the art form.

“Because of how much media is at our disposal at all times, reviewers can have a lot of impact shaping what people are watching,” said Mettler.

Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques.

ROMANCE Need free ‘sexx’ tips? Try The Daily

By LYDIA WEI

Second to having actual sex, talking about sex is one of the most important rituals of university life. Fizz, of course, is always seething with sexual posts, and for many years in The Stanford Daily’s history, the Arts & Life section, too, devoted itself to this noble task of discussing sex.

Throughout the ’90s, a column called “sexx” ran in the back cover of Intermission, a separate weekly issue that covered Arts & Life content for The Daily. The column, written under the pseudonyms Roxy Sass and Mae West Coltrane, featured articles, advice, interviews and comics all about copulation.

The articles were nothing short of adventurous. In one piece, Roxy Sass recommended nicking chocolate sauce from FloMo dining to add some extra flavor to lovemaking. One could even incorporate the fur of a kiwi or the spikes of a horned melon if one was feeling especially frisky.

Sass-Coltrane often found herself reporting back from strange locales, like San Francisco sex clubs and swinging parties, or interviewing fascinating figures, like dominatrixes and phone sex operators. Retelling a story from the phone sex operator, she wrote that a client had apparently paid the operator to describe him penetrating a block of cheese. And two separate columns were written extolling the virtues of genital piercings.

Beyond some of the more eye-catching stories, the column was also full of practical advice. Sass-Coltrane encouraged her readers to get tested for AIDS and informed them on STD prevention. There were guides to finding the female g-spot and the male anal g-spot, as well as a very detailed and thorough introduction to anal sex, complete with advice for strap-ons. And still in the realm of practical, but slightly more offbeat, was the question of what to do if one was impotent. Some of Mae West Coltrane’s suggestions were semi-rigid rods one could insert into the penis, a penis pump or a “Vacuum Erection Device.”

Even if one has no investment in reading about sex, the “sexx” columns are worth rifling through just for the sheer pleasure of reading itself. The writers behind “sexx” perfected the witty, sardonic personas of Sass-Coltrane. When advising about the workplace ethics for student-TA relationships, Roxy Sass warned: “Going at it full-steam on the table before section starts is not such a great idea, especially if your section contains that one freshman who still thinks he or she needs to arrive five minutes

early to ‘prepare’ for section.” And in a column discussing the benefits of entering an orgiastic polycule with one’s friend group, Roxy Sass observed rather sharply that “[i]t would certainly save you all the time you would have spent gossiping about who got together with whom last Saturday night.”

One of Roxy Sass’s best lines came from her wisdom to not fake the female orgasm: “Faking orgasms is like baking a cake with salt instead of sugar. It looks appealing superficially, but when you get into it, you find a world of bitterness.”

The “sexx” columns were fun and frank, filled with an openness towards all the unexplored horizons of sex. Sex is sacred, as is the sheer pleasure of just talking about it afterwards. Though Arts & Life eventually transitioned to more objective, reporting-focused content, this column reflects The Stanford Daily’s historical take of sex as an act that needed to be normalized and discussed openly.

Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques.

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All CS majors equal

By CAROLINE WEI

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

In honor of The Stanford Daily’s 50-year anniversary of independence from the University, The Daily has made its Declaration of Independence, written all the way back in 1973, available to the public. This piece of history details the newspaper’s grievances against the University, as well as its goals as a student-run entity.

Previously, The Daily’s Declaration was tightly secured in a dark closet in the basement of The Daily Building, only allowing access to viewers who jumped up and down and yelled “censorship is dictatorship!” three times in a row.

Fear not, though! The Declara-

Truth in arts journalism

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Very real actual photograph of the exact moment the editors of The Daily signed the 1973 Declaration of Independence. Behold, the original document in all of its supreme glory.

tion is now free for all to peruse, released right here for your viewing pleasure:

“We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all CS majors are created equal, that they are endowed by their University with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are High Salaries, Job Security and the pursuit of Sunlight. That to secure these rights, Newspapers are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of Students to alleviate STEM fatigue. That whenever any Form of Newspaper becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Students to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Newspaper, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Interests and Representation. Prudence, indeed,

will dictate that Newspapers long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that Student-kind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Suppression, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such an Institution, and establish a new Newspaper for their future security.”

Next time you have space in your schedule, stop by the Lorry I. Lokey Stanford Daily Building to behold the original document, which has been upgraded from a dark closet to someone’s desk somewhere, probably.

By PEYTON LEE By ADITEYA SHUKLA EXECUTIVE EDITOR By LINDA LIU MANAGING EDITOR By SOFIA GONZALEZ-RODRIGUEZ MANAGING EDITOR

Over the past 50 years, The Stanford Daily hosted a number of minutely different sections that each claimed to have a finger on the Bay Area’s cultural pulse: “Entertainment,” “Arts & Entertainment,” “Intermission.” Today we call it Arts & Life.

The commonality between all of these sections is the strong commitment to reporting and reviewing art at Stanford and beyond. Though the nature of our coverage has changed over time — as you can see with Greta Reich’s ’26 history of art reviews — the principles that guide our section remain steadfast. In particular, we strive to support artists, provide meaningful reviews to those who need them and report truthfully on events and stories in the arts. This letter argues that The Daily’s independence from Stanford is critical to the Arts & Life section’s integrity.

Arts & Life treads precariously between reporting (factual, informative news) and reviewing (opinion pieces). This flexibility is both our strength and our weakness; a blurring of the two sides is the reason we began attaching this editor’s note to the end of every review:

“Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques.”

As art critics, our job is slightly oxymoronic: we strive for the impossible goal of unbiased subjectivity. Art reviews become meaningless when their authors are swayed by the opinions of the artist, so we do our best to keep writers away from any conflicts of interest. Think of how your best friend (or worst enemy) would write about your band’s concert, or how you might review your art professor’s show, knowing they control your grade.

Stanford Live’s legacy

By LINDA LIU MANAGING EDITOR

For arts lovers on campus, the 2022-2023 season of Stanford

Live may seem like the best year yet, featuring world-class artists, including the likes of American cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Greek dancer Dimitris Papaioannou. In the midst of such a historic program, it is most enlightening to reflect on the history of Stanford Live through past reporting of The Stanford Daily.

The two have grown alongside each other throughout the past five decades, with The Daily witnessing milestones such as the inauguration of the Bing Concert Hall. The Daily’s arts reporting has transformed in company with Stanford Live, from focusing on previewing each season in the 1970s to reviewing individual performances in the current moment. Stories in The Stanford Daily archives shed light on Stanford Live’s evolution on campus.

Origin of Stanford Live

Although Stanford Live performances began drawing The Daily’s spotlight strongly in the 1970s, the organization traces its origin to the annual Stanford Summer Festival that started in 1964. Using its endowment of $100,000 from the University, the festival held a variety of music and dance programming by renowned performers, such as trumpeter Don Ellis’ 22-piece jazz orchestra and the New York City Opera. In 1967 alone, the festival hosted 126 events for an estimated 71,000 people.

However, the Summer Festival began to face the risk of discontinuation in its sixth season in 1968 due to severe budget constraints. According to Stephen Baffrey, who then worked in the University Relations Office, the program could barely break even. The deficit of the summer of 1967 was 80% higher than anticipated.

The program’s importance to the Stanford community was apparent in The Daily’s reporting, from headlines like “Festival Presents Top Musical Stars” to reporter Jenny Matthews’ comment that “Stanford University may become a culturally barren community this summer” in the event of the program’s closure.

After the Summer Festival’s programming was discontinued in 1970, its Associate Producer Tom Bachetti developed the Office of Public Events’ original Tuesday Night lecture and film series into a program titled the “Lively Arts at Stanford.”

The first Lively Arts shows featured ensembles such as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Guarneri String Quartet at affordable prices. The Lively Arts was further known for its collaboration with the Young Concert Artist Series, which offered a performance venue for talented young musicians all over the world.

The Stanford community’s excitement about the Lively Arts in the ’70s shines through headlines such as “Lively Season for Lively Arts” and feature stories on the formation of a students’ art committee to facilitate student engagement in the organization’s Community Outreach Program.

Intriguingly, the Daily’s coverage of Lively Arts’ programming prior to the 2010s is mainly composed of previews of the upcoming season’s performances, as opposed to reviews or artist profiles. There were also many advertisements of half-price tickets for students after the Lively Arts program received funding from Helen and Peter Bing ’55.

Establishment of the Bing Concert Hall

Some thirty years after its founding in 1969, the Lively Arts welcomed another milestone in its existence: the birth of the Bing Concert Hall. While current frequenters of Stanford Live performances may take for granted the venue’s grandeur and superb acoustics, the hall — inaugurated in 2013 — was one of the newest additions to the Stanford campus.

The Daily has closely followed the development of the Bing since the mid-2000s. In 2006, reporter Niraj Sheth wrote that “the University took one step closer towards being a cultural and arts hub” when it announced a $50 million gift from the Bing family to build a 900-seat, “world-class” concert hall.

Designer Nagata Toyota, who also planned the Walt Disney Concert Hall, carefully thought through the structure to be a “beacon” of the university and national arts scene.

The Daily documented that the Bing embodied the Stanford Arts Initiative, a project by the Lively Arts and Stanford administration to raise funds to expand the arts scene on campus by hiring more faculty, offering affordably priced tickets to students and collaborating with residential programming.

The groundbreaking of the concert hall on May 12, 2010 made the front page news of The Daily. To commemorate the opening concert of the Bing on Jan. 14, 2013, Katie Salmon ’15 M.S. ’18 solicited comments from the music director of the San Francisco Symphony and American composer John Adams among many others, each lauding the possibilities that the venue opened. The print issue of the same day included an additional headline “Ba-da-BING! New concert hall opens” to review the performance of ensembles, such as the Stanford Chamber Chorale, on the same night.

The erection of the Bing was accompanied by another milestone: the Lively Arts being renamed as Stanford Live. “While we continued from Lively Arts, the rebranding reflected a new identity, as we moved into our own dedicated space for the first time,” Amanda Wah, spokesperson of Stanford Live, wrote to The Daily.

“Beginning that year, we expanded our programs significantly from about 40 performances per season during the Stanford Lively Arts era to the current schedule of approximately 150 performances per year,” Wah wrote. With the expansion of the programs came a shift in the style of The Daily’s review of Stanford Live programs: away from season previews and into individualized reviews. Today in The Stanford Daily, we can rarely find an overview of the upcoming Stanford Live season. Instead, what flourishes is writers sharing their own experiences attending performances such as the opera of Joyce DiDonato and a dance show by the Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan. The reviews are more personalized and less broad-stroke. By providing detailed feedback on each show, this coverage also puts The Daily in a closer, more dialectical role within the campus performing arts scene.

of personalized opinions on institutions and artists. On the other hand — as arts journalists — we have the same duties as news reporters: seek and verify the truth, treat sources with empathy and report stories with our best judgment. The value of independence is immeasurable in this regard. If a student artist misrepresents their performance or work, we fact check them; if an arts organization has a problematic history, we provide that essential context. And if an art department suffers a scandal, we need to report independently of the University’s desired outcome — important coverage cannot be achieved if its subject controls what gets printed. We will pursue the truth to the best of our ability, regardless of the personal feelings of our subjects.

We do not always meet these ideals. Arts & Life is comprised of human editors and writers, many of whom are new to journalism. Mistakes are made: we make factual and copy corrections if needed. But we stand by the content of our reviews and reporting because, as part of an independent publication, we have the right and responsibility to defend our voice.

By the same token, our section can also provide a point of entry to the myriad sectors of the local art scene. We aim to make it a site for learning about the craft of writing, but also the rich histories behind each artist, work and genre that we cover. Visibility is an instrumental effect of journalism. As a media publication, The Stanford Daily has the power to guide the local public eye. By building conversation around the independent creative innovation that populates the Bay Area, Arts & Life plays a role in pulling together the threads of our local art scene.

Here, we can also address our section’s tendency toward positive reviews. Our recent conversation with Chicago Tribune critic Lori Waxman revealed this concise piece of wisdom: “never punch down.” As a college newspaper, we stand closer to smaller artists than most publications; still, our goal is always to support and uplift artists in their pursuits. And with so much art being made, it’s impossible to cover the good and the bad wholly!

When the production becomes organizational, however, we feel justified in leveling criticism. Institutions need real critique for change to occur, even if that change is purely artistic.

We focus our critiques on artworks only instead of their respective institutions. We distinguish ourselves from the Opinions section in that we seek to shed light on the quality of the art being produced in an unbiased manner, steering clear

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The CoHo we know and love

Fast-forward to 2007: the iPhone has just been rolled out, Britney Spears has shaved her head and the CoHo is shutting down. Over the years, students had shortened its name in classic Stanford fashion. Unable to compete with the commercial success of the shiny new Axe & Palm (TAP) eatery, though, the CoHo got the ax.

The Daily’s editorial board lamented this decision in another oped, stressing that the heart of the establishment was its important social contribution to campus and not the food.

“Perhaps most importantly, the CoHo was one of the few places on campus that felt as though it could have existed outside of Stanford land, easily found on any street corner in any city,” they wrote.

Over 830 students, alumni and staff members came to the same conclusion in January of 2008 when they signed a petition to bring back the coffee house. In addition to vocal appreciation for the menu options themselves, signatories made it known that the CoHo was an important space for the performing arts.

In the end, it seems they got their wish; food and live performance are the drivers of the current CoHo owner’s vision. Ray Klein, who also owns Treehouse and Ray’s Grill,

Stanford is an epicenter of artistic talent, from slam poets to ceramicists to contemporary electronica composers and everything in between. Admittedly, Arts & Life does not currently have the capacity to reach every corner of every scene; we acknowledge this limitation as one of our greatest shortcomings. While conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion remain at the center of our editorial meetings, we ask you — the artists and art lovers — to be vocal when our section is not fulfilling its mission. And, if you have the time, we ask you to join us in helping to realize this mission.

And, critically, we ask you to hold us to the benchmarks we’ve outlined here. It would be unfair to rely on readers for accountability, but we want to be a section that serves the arts community, not a section that uses it. We will continue to inform you of the latest in Stanford’s culture; in return, we hope you understand the importance of what we do and the standards required therein.

Peyton Lee ’24 and Aditeya Shukla ’23 were the Volume 262 managing editors of Arts & Life. Linda Liu ’25 and Sofia Gonzalez-Rodriguez ’25 are the section’s current editors.

took over CoHo and has been growing it ever since. His daughter, Jenny Mountjoy M.A. ’92, described this transition as a return to the more funky, lively space she knew in her time as a Master’s student.

The CoHo had veered in a more corporate direction in the years before its 2007 closure, she said. Now, the family’s concept for it focuses on working with students and staff to facilitate social events and bring quality foods. Notably, CoHo manager Nelly Mondragon brings her love of baking into the space, debuting new creations like the newest matcha-flavored cookie.

Among the cafe’s most wellknown social events are the Monday jazz nights. Current Ph.D. student Aris Kare ’18 M.A. ’20, who has been running CoHo jams for nearly 10 years, emphasized the long-standing legacy of music in the venue. As a musician, he said, he appreciates CoHo as a “direct interface with students and the arts” and “a little safe haven away from the busy bustle of campus life.”

The Coffee House’s role in facilitating and structuring Stanford social life is undeniable. From labor rights issues to student grievances on campus life, many threads of its history also persist in contemporary University discourse. The next time you propose a CoHo rendezvous to a friend or swing by for a treat after waiting in the Package Center line, perhaps you will ask yourself — once this present moment has become part of an archived history, which elements of it will endure?

Graphic: MICHELLE FU/The Stanford Daily

THE ‘BIG GAME’ WE ACTUALLY WON

AFTER A DEVASTATING ‘LOSS’ IN THE 1982 BIG GAME, THE DAILY PRANKED CAL

By ZACH ZAFRAN MANAGING EDITOR

Nobody in California Memorial Stadium knew exactly what had happened. With no cell phones and no instant replay, murmurs rippled through the stands. Each fan, sporting either navy and gold or cardinal red, came up with their own, often different, explanation for what had just happened on the field.

To one side of the field and its fan base, the events that had just unraveled in Berkeley, Calif. bore jubilation. In the words of the Daily Californian, it was a “miracle.”

The other side of the field felt differently. The finish was heart-shattering, concluding what the Stanford Daily’s front page headline described as “a disastrous weekend.”

“This was an insult to college football,” John Elway told reporters on Nov. 20, 1982, moments after the game. The future-Pro Football Hall of Famer’s words were etched on the front page of newspapers all over the country after he watched his team fall on the wrong side of what ESPN’s SportsCenter deemed 37 years later as the secondbest moment in sports history, now known simply as “The Play.”

The Saturday afternoon crowd bore witness to something the game of football had never seen before. While the officials halfheartedly signaled a game-deciding touchdown, spectators, having just seen a player weave through 144 band members on the field, were unsure what the outcome of the game was really going to be.

Shock and confusion followed the final whistle for minutes, until the cannon on Tightwad Hill went off. Just like that, Cal had officially claimed the Axe and defeated Stanford in the 1982 Big Game.

For many, the stunning finish was all the Stanford-Cal rivalry had to offer that year. But for one Stanford junior, who had just viewed the madness unravel from up in the press box, this was just the start.

To him, revenge was an inevitability. And he was going to make sure that it came sooner rather than later.

The Idea

The day after “The Play,” Adam Berns ’84 was back on Stanford campus. As he did on many Sunday nights, the third-year student sat in the multi-level Memorial Auditorium where the school projected films for students to view. While most people were occupied with the movie, Berns sat in the auditorium with his mind elsewhere, stuck on an idea that he couldn’t leave alone.

Berns continued on with his Sunday ritual by heading to The Stanford Daily’s offices, a place all too familiar to the junior. Having served as the student newspaper’s sports editor the two previous quarters, Berns was now editor of the weekly football issue published for every home game. But his active role didn’t require him to be in the offices — he was there for a different reason.

Tucked away in the corner of the building, Berns looked at his source of inspiration. Posted on the wall was an issue from seven years prior, which had a phony article claiming that Cal’s Chuck Muncie was ruled ineligible in advance of the Big Game.

“I always thought in the back of my head, ‘Oh, that’s really cool, it would be fun one day to do a prank. But it never happened,” Berns said. Pranks had been done before, but they never took place after-thefact. That was about to change. “After the game I thought, ‘You know what, let’s do a fake paper saying the NCAA had given the game back to Stanford.’”

The following morning, Berns walked back into the Daily’s offices where he pitched his idea to then-Editor in Chief Richard Klinger ’83 JD ’84. Out of concern with the administration’s response, plus legal and financial repercussions, Klinger met the prank with some resistance. But after discussions with the Daily’s advisory board and even a lawyer, he cautiously gave Berns the go-ahead. Berns’ next task was to recruit the team he needed to make it happen.

The Convincing Students had kept busy the previous week with annual Big Game Week traditions. But academic reality soon came back, especially for those with midterms.

Mark Zeigler ’85, who was the Daily’s feature editor at the time, was one such student. So when his close friend Berns approached him with the idea for the fake newspaper, he initially turned Berns down.

“It was just like one thing after another and I got no schoolwork done,” Zeigler said. “Friday night is in the city. Saturday, all day is at the game. Sunday, I’m putting out the paper. I’m like, ‘I’ve got no time for this, I’ve got midterms.’”

But Berns wouldn’t take no for an answer. “Fifty years from now when we’re on our yacht in the Greek Islands, we are not gonna remember the midterms that we blew off, but we’ll definitely remember this prank,” Berns told Zeigler. That was all the sophomore needed to hear.

“From then on, we pretty much lived in the Daily,” he said.

The Lead Story

The pair had their plan laid out: they crafted the framework of a four-page wraparound replica of the Daily Californian, Cal’s student newspaper. The plan was to have it ready for print on Tuesday evening so that it could be distributed on Wednesday morning. And with Thanksgiving break beginning the next day and thus no scheduled Daily Cal print until the following week, the publication would have no opportunity to respond.

Berns and Zeigler were eager to put it together, but still had their work cut out for them to produce The Daily’s regular print. On top of school, too, they knew they would need help to execute the plan. So they turned to one of the biggest supporters of the prank, who wasn’t even a Stanford student.

Thomas Mulvoy was a frequent face at the Daily’s newsroom that fall. Thirty-nine years old at the time, Mulvoy was deputy managing editor at The Boston Globe, but called The Farm home during the 1982-83 school year for a yearlong Professional Journalism Foundation fellowship (now known as the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship). He had gotten to know Douglas Jehl ’84, the Daily’s Managing Editor, who told Mulvoy about the fake newspaper.

Mulvoy offered to write up the lead story for Berns and Zeigler. His previous experience as deputy sports editor at The Boston Globe coupled with the information he gathered covering the real game that weekend, it only took the fellow five minutes to draft.

Headlined “NCAA awards Big Game to Stanford,” Mulvoy’s piece cited a made-up NCAA rule that allowed for the controversial finish to be changed, drawing upon what the article calls “many illegalities in the play” for justification.

“There were so many questionable situations that unfolded on that last play that could easily have given rise to a penalty,” said Steve Odell ’83 JD ’88, the Daily’s head sports editor at the time. “That’s what made that [fake] Daily Cal so believable.”

To supplement Mulvoy’s story, the team included a doctored photo of the game’s final moments that — after some craftsmanship from the photo department — showed a referee signaling the play dead.

“If you look at it now, you’re like, ‘That is so cheesy. That is awful,’” Zeigler said about the lead picture. The photo department used a blade to cut out a picture of an official from another picture and stuck it in the back of the fake issue. “Now with photoshop and the capacity you have in desktop publishing, you could do that in two seconds and make it look really, really good. But back then, people would accept that at first glance.”

The Layout

The rest of the paper looked like any other Daily Cal issue. At the time, The Stanford Daily was one of the only college papers in the country with a sophisticated onsite computer system, and with the help of such a resource, entertainment editor Tony Kelly ’86 was able to replicate the typeface of the Daily Californian and turn the fourpage wraparound into a reality.

With the lead story out of the way, it was up to Berns and Zeigler to fill up the other three and a half pages. Each story was given the byline of a real Daily Cal staffer — only, each name was off by one letter. Bill Bunz became Bill Kuns, Andy Altman became Andy Allman and, much to the amusement of Berns and Zeigler, Mandalit del

Barco became Mandalit Embargo. The issue included wire stories from the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. It had letters to the editor. It even contained an advertisement from Cal’s student association calling for a protest in wake of the Big Game decision. Of course, all of these were made up. The Stanford students’ favorite gimmick was a two-for-one coupon for the student bookstore.

Beneath Mulvoy’s story was one titled, “Bears shocked, appalled,” which included factitious quotes from Cal’s athletic director and many players. To its left was a story headlined, “Decision stuns Joe Kapp.” The brainchild of Zeigler, it detailed the supposed reaction of Cal’s head coach, who was not shed in a pretty light.

“One could almost see the tears brimming in his eyes on the phone,” the article read. “ ... Joe Kapp hung up the phone a new man, a broken man.”

The writing of the supplementing stories took the pair hours. Working on one article after another, they stayed up until 4 a.m. that Monday night and continued on again through Tuesday.

“It was a lot harder than I thought,” Zeigler said of writing the extra articles. “Because usually you have all the information in front of you, right. Stats, the quotes and, you know, you saw a game and you have notes. I had none of that. I had to make it all up.” The paper was all laid out by Tuesday night, and all was going to plan. Berns sent a small group headed up to Berkeley that evening to scout out where the Cal student newspaper’s physical drop boxes were around campus. At the same time, the fake paper was driven down to the printer in San Jose — the very same publishing house that the Daily Cal used.

The Next Morning

When Berns and Zeigler went to pick up the fake paper early in the morning, the prospects of successfully pulling off the stunt became a whole lot better.

“When we went to pick it up, they said, ‘By the way, the Daily Cal is really late,’” Zeigler said. “We were just like, ‘Oh my gosh, we’ve got an incredible opportunity here.’ If they’re not going to get their paper out until 10, we’re gonna have [a few] hours to a captive audience and they’re gonna think it’s the real Daily Cal... We got totally lucky on that.”

Before their five-day hiatus from printing for Thanksgiving break, the Daily Cal was set to run a particularly important 36page issue with an advertising supplement that would bring in a lot of funds for the selfsupported student newspaper. But the uncharacteristically thick paper was the likely cause for the delay as the night before it was reportedly delivered to the printer a few hours later than normal. Meanwhile, it just so happened that there was another Daily Cal issue headed for the Berkeley campus.

The Distribution

With 10,000 copies of the fake paper in hand, Berns, Zeigler, Kelly, Klinger and eight other Stanford Daily members drove up to Berkeley in a fleet of cars — including Kelly’s 1971 Plymouth Duster with a Cal Bears decal on the back window, courtesy of his brother-in-law — for a 6 a.m. arrival.

“It was like a little espionage,” Berns said.

The group, with some sporting natural colors and others even wearing Cal’s blue and gold, scurried around campus to distribute the paper. Issues were left at Sproul

Graphic: CAMERON DURAN/The Stanford Daily

Plaza, various dorms and the previouslyscouted drop-off locations, which were vacant due to the Daily Cal’s delay at the printer.

However, 40 years down the line, the other side of the operation remembers things differently.

“Our distribution was on par with any normal day,” said David Lazarus, now an award-winning columnist previously with the Los Angeles Times who was a staff writer for the Daily Cal at the time.

Members of the Stanford party recall the Cal newspaper being multiple hours late, some even stating it was eight hours delayed.

“[The paper] was later than it was supposed to be out there, but it was earlier than The Stanford Daily got there,” said Dan Woo. Woo, who was editor in chief of the Daily Cal at the time, acknowledges the papers were late, but he contends they were not far off schedule and that the original papers were tampered with as a part of the scheme. “They threw out the Daily Cal’s and substituted theirs.”

A story ran by The Oakland Tribune the following day reported that the real Daily Cal papers didn’t start appearing until 10:30 a.m.

“I saw empty boxes,” Kelly said. “So either their paper was wildly popular and people were emptying those boxes the minute it showed up, or it was a little late.”

“There’s no way in hell their paper was out,” Zeigler said.

In either case, the Stanford group’s efforts concluded shortly after sunrise, when it wasn’t long until Cal students began reading the papers.

“I just kind of went off and sat like an arsonist and watched the fire burn,” Zeigler said.

The Reaction

The sight of the paper rendered utter disbelief for many. Most paused in their tracks. Others fell to their knees. It inspired an assortment of reactions, all of which the Stanford students were there to observe.

“Almost everybody believed it. There were people crying and people pissed off,” Berns said. “It was so unbelievably funny.”

Uncertainty filled campus that morning as rumors circled and students headed to class shocked at what they believed to be true.

“We saw a cheerleader cry. We saw a football player [who] kind of looked like he was tearing up,” Zeigler said. “You could see that it was working. Everyone would pick up the paper and start walking, and then just stop. Just completely stop.”

The fake paper’s impact quickly extended past the confines of the university, and readers from the nearby area were upset by the alleged news.

The Berkeley student association received a number of calls from worried readers. The Daily Cal’s offices did too, many of which had callers described as “irate” by Marty Rabkin, general manager of the publication at the time. One such call reportedly came from Cal’s Athletic Department, but some in the department claim they didn’t bat an eye at the news.

John McCasey, Cal’s sports information director that year, told the Associated Press that he hadn’t met anyone who fell for the parody.

“We didn’t give it any time or thought whatsoever when we first heard about it,” McCasey said. “I went to my athletic direc-

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The 1982 Big Game featured a controversial Cal ‘win’ in the final seconds of the game. To set the record straight, The Daily created a fake version of Cal’s newspaper saying they’d lost and distributed it all around their campus. Cal students broke down in tears.

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Erik Hill ’79 — Photo Editor and Photographer

One day in May of 1979, my senior year, a request came in to photograph a concert to be performed by violinist Mark Gottlieb and his sister Karen — underwater in deGuerre Pool. Some combination of photo staffers Lex Passaris ’79, Jim “Spiro” Spirakis ’79, Dave Bockian ’79 and others decided I was the obvious choice for the assignment. Someone loaned me a Nikonos camera, I received a quick tutorial, and the next day found me swim trunks for the pool. Gottlieb, a graduate student, strapped on scuba gear and plunged in, as did his keyboard accompanist. They played submerged, cables connected to audio equipment on the pool deck for audience enjoyment. I got a few frames, dried off, and headed to the darkroom. As the Monty Python sketch troupe was popular at the time, and their “Fish License” bit featured a pet named “Eric the Fish,” my photo in the May 29, 1979 paper was credited “Daily underwater photo by Erik ‘the fish’ Hill.” Obvious choice.

Susan Heilmann Miller ’66 — Copy Editor and Features Editor

I transferred my junior year after graduating from community college. Since high school, I’d been working at my local paper parttime during the school year, fulltime over the summers. My first quarter at Stanford, I did a student survey for an anthropology

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class, asking men what they thought of Stanford women and what they thought Stanford women thought of Stanford men. I turned the responses into a fourpart series for The Daily that ran every day on the front page. Managing editor Jim Briscoe said, “Not bad for a cub reporter.” I just smiled.

Barbara Louchard (Ritz) ’70 — Assistant Editorial Page Editor

I had the wonderful opportunity to interview and travel to the airport with the folk group, Peter, Paul and Mary, when they performed at Frost Amphitheater, donating their performance to the Eugene McCarthy presidential campaign. Diarmuid McGuire handed me this incredible gift. I was assistant editorial page editor, and I was awestruck at this opportunity he gave to me. I had worshipped this group, as did so many, since high school. They were likely exhausted after their performance, but theu were very kind towards me. Paul was very charming and friendly. He said he would send me old copies of the Village Voice. After the piece was published, I sent him a copy of the interview and received in short notice a letter from him and the promised copies of the Village Voice.

Robert Siegel ’73 — Consumer Affairs Reporter

In the spring of 1973, sunny afternoons brought a sky filled with a deep orange haze, caused by thousands of cars traveling 101. I wrote a Daily article questioning why American car companies were resisting new environmental legislation that imposed pollution standards on ve-

hicle emissions. Meanwhile, Japanese companies had already developed new, more efficient and less polluting engines. Fifty years later, I still vividly remember using the ubiquitous yellow paper on large (and manual) Smith Corona typewriters. The editors were always wonderfully helpful.

David Georgette ’78 — Co-Sports Editor. In early Feb. 1977, I was able to experience the adventure of hitting the “Oregon Trail” when sports editors Chris Baker ’77, Paul Bauman ’77 and his girlfriend invited me to

accompany them on their drive to the Willamette Valley to cover the Stanford men’s basketball team’s Friday and Saturday night games at Oregon and Oregon State.

Hal Hughes ’69, JD ’72 — Feature Writer and Reporter

As a writer for The Daily, I had the wonderful opportunity to interview, report on and visit with author Richard Armour, who wrote “It All Started With Columbus.” I also interviewed future astronaut Sally Ride.

Rod Koon ’74 — Reporter

I enjoyed writing for The Daily, especially concert reviews. One of the most memorable was a review of what was to be a Stephen Stills and Manassas concert at Winterland in Oct. 1970. It eventually turned into a full-blown Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunion. Sadly, I only had two rolls of film and shot it all early in the concert — so I had none left when Crosby, Nash and Young joined Stills on stage. Lesson learned: Always pack more film than you think you’ll ever need! These submissions were lightly edited for concision and clarity.

tor, Dave Maggart, and we both agreed. We hadn’t heard from the Pac-10 and neither of us had heard from the NCAA... The Stanford newspaper was known for doing stuff like this a lot. It was not uncommon for them to pull off some kind of hoax.”

Other parties from that side of the Bay maintained a similar stance.

“I don’t think anyone thought it was the real Daily Cal,” Woo said, who dismissed the paper immediately and was instead occupied with locating the real paper, which contained his newspaper’s important ad supplement.

But despite not working on producing the paper, a number of other Daily Cal staffers still believed the news.

“I was mad as hell when I first saw it,” Rabkin told reporters that day. “People picking it up were thinking it was the Daily Cal, no doubt about it. Some people on campus were furious. I had one bank manager call and threaten to sue me.”

Soon enough, people located the disclaimer Berns and Zeigler included, which was tucked away on page two in fine print. But word had spread quickly before the prank

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Continued from page A13 pounded on his dorm room door. “Phone ringing off the hook. Voicemail box getting full. People Magazine knocking on my door,” Oxfeld said. “I had family members in Florida call to say that they’d read about me in The Miami Herald.”

However, Sleeth said her life became “overwhelming” after the second wave of national media attention following news coverage of Oxfeld’s dismissal.

“After the second story came out when it was framed as an ‘I censored Jesse’ issue, I got hundreds of emails — particularly hate mail — even from Stanford students,” Sleeth said, adding that there was no filter to sort emails into spam at the time.

The negative feedback, Sleeth said, could be partially attributed to gossip columns that rushed to pick up the story. For instance, Sleeth recalled the Drudge Report printing a blurb titled, “Student Reporter Fired In Chelsea Flap At Stanford Newspaper,” in their newsletter. Many news outlets framed the spiked column and Oxfeld’s subsequent dismissal as an issue of censorship — but according to Sleeth, censorship comes from a government, and The Daily is an independent, private business.

In contrast to “largely negative” portrayals of her decision in the media, Sleeth said she didn’t receive backlash for her policy within The Daily after holding a staff meeting that Friday. Gerhard Casper, the University’s president at the time, personally reached out to Sleeth to extend his support.

was debunked, and for many Cal students it was too late. The student bookstore saw an influx of people trying to use the two-for-one coupon that Berns and Zeigler included in the paper. Others gathered at Sproul Plaza to protest the NCAA’s decision after reading the call for a rally in the hoax issue.

Four decades later, pulling something off like this seems almost unfathomable.

“There’s no cell phones, TV isn’t what it is [today], there’s no way to verify that this is true. People are used to getting their information from newspapers primarily,” Zeigler said of the time period. Obviously, things have changed since then. “I don’t think you could do that in this day and age the way we did it.”

The Aftermath When the first wave of people from the operation got back to campus and at the Stanford Daily office, the phones were already ringing. Radio stations, newspapers and television channels were calling, trying to get commentary on the story that had already broken to local news outlets.

One call though, was not from a news organization. Instead, it came from someone in the Stanford administration — they wanted to speak to who was responsible for the paper.

Berns nervously picked up the phone. On the other end was Don-

Reflecting years later, Sleeth recalls feeling afraid, a feeling that stemmed both from the intense media scrutiny of her decision and relative confusion when it came to navigating the media coverage of her actions.

“I was just a student. I was so young, and I wondered, how do I manage this? I thought a piece of paper on the door was enough to make my policy clear. Knowing what I know now, that the best way to get a point across is only a few words, I would have said: this is what I believe; this is what I’m doing; and this is why. I wish I could have been clearer, simpler and louder about those three points,” Sleeth said.

Perhaps if it had been 6 p.m., there could have been a discussion that resulted in a different conclusion, Sleeth said. Instead, it was 10:30 p.m. with an 11 p.m. print deadline. In time, Sleeth was grateful for the experience. Both Oxfeld and Sleeth noted that they are currently “good friends,” having met up at a mutual friend’s wedding and at several alumni reunions.

Ultimately, Sleeth stands by her policy: protecting Chelsea and preventing The Daily from becoming a tool for other media organizations hungry for a story about the famous First Daughter.

Newsworthiness in the modern day

Determining newsworthiness has long been a crucial editorial function of news organizations. In 1997, The Washington Post defined newsworthiness as “the short answer to, ‘What determines how a story is played?’” Even as The Stanford Daily celebrates its 50th year as an independent newspaper, the concept of newsworthiness and committing to that journalistic

ald Kennedy, then-president of Stanford University, calling to personally congratulate the junior on the stunt. Not long after, Fred Hargadon, the Dean of Admissions and a popular faculty member among students, came by the Daily offices to congratulate everyone. The fake paper had quickly cemented itself among the many legends in Stanford history, and its influence rippled through not only Stanford sports fans, but the community as a whole.

“I had professors come up to me afterwards just saying, ‘Look, this was a great thing to do for the school, given it’s for spirit purposes and just rooted in cohesion,” a Daily editor recounted. “People I didn’t expect, like emeritus history professors and such.”

And yet, the prank was much more than just a campus-wide story.

The next day, the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle read: “Big Game Newspaper Hoax.” The story was picked up by The Associated Press and wired to publications all across the West Coast. USA Today ran a story on the operation. But the Stanford students didn’t digest how big of a deal it would become until the following Sunday when Brent Musburger, all the way across the country in New York City, held up a copy of the paper on CBS’s “The NFL Today.”

“He starts reading my story on Joe Kapp,” Zeigler said. “I’m just

practice in an increasingly digital climate remains an ongoing topic of interest.

Oxfeld said he “fundamentally works in public relations now,” which ushered in a new understanding of journalism for him. He quoted George Orwell, saying, “journalism is publishing what people don’t want you to know. Everything else is public relations.”

According to Oxfeld, in the context of Stanford, what would typically be thought of as news has remained constant: the job of a newspaper is to report the news and uncover what’s happening. Newsworthiness is something you “argue about in academic journalism classes,” Oxfeld added.

Ted Glasser, a professor emeritus of communication who served as a Stanford Daily Board member, taught Oxfeld in 1997 and remembers him as a “bright, very self-promotional” writer. Contrary to several news organizations at the time, who used Oxfeld’s dismissal as a chance to question Stanford’s commitment to free speech, Glasser recalls the Clinton column controversy as anything but.

“An editor firing a columnist (or any staffer) is not — and has never been — a First Amendment issue,” Glasser wrote in an email to The Daily. “The column controversy involved insubordination, defiance and spite; if it illustrates anything, it’s that personal relationships can undermine professional relationships.”

Glasser added that The Daily “took the high road” by choosing not to cover Clinton. “News organizations from all over wanted Chelsea stories of any kind: who’s her roommate, what courses is she taking, what did she have for breakfast?” Glasser wrote. “There was good rea-

like, this thing is way bigger than we ever imagined it was gonna be.”

The Response

Immediately, the paper became a collector’s item. Everyone wanted to get their hands on a copy, and issues reached commodity status. The Stanford Daily ended up doing a second press run of 1,500 papers, which they sold around campus for $1 per copy in hopes of covering the printing costs. In an effort to get back at their counterparts, Daily Cal staffers reportedly drove down to Palo Alto and resold them for $5 back at Berkeley. Cal’s student newspaper raised about $1,500 from reselling them, and the funds went towards minority journalism scholarships.

The first day back from Thanksgiving break, the Daily Cal published their own bogus article. Included in their normal Monday print was the article, authored by Lazarus, claiming that members of The Stanford Daily apologized for the prank. It contained a fake interview with Kennedy, in which the university president says: “I guess this shows once and for all that higher tuition fees do not breed higher standards.”

Lazarus was happy with how it turned out, giving his school and newspaper a chance to respond and clap back. But he knew it wasn’t anything more than just trying to “save face a little bit.”

“Make no mistake. We were playing catch up at that point. What

son to believe that at least some of the questions coming from off campus would be salacious, intrusive and contrary to the kind of discourse Stanford wants to sustain.”

A news story requires readers to take action, Glasser said — which means legitimate news is “pragmatically meaningful.” A news story is assumed to be true, which is important because news inspires readers to take action, Glasser said, adding that most publications regard newsworthiness in terms of the public interest, as opposed to merely the public’s interest.

Ultimately, Glasser said, definitions of newsworthiness are driven by the “readers’ right to know.”

However, according to journalist Margaret Sullivan in “If Trump Runs Again, Do Not Cover Him the Same Way: A Journalist’s Manifesto,” the advent of the digital age rapidly called into question several key journalistic concepts, including whether traditional rules of coverage would apply to modern political figures like Donald Trump. In her piece for The Washington Post, Sullivan wrote that journalists who cover political figures must “keep a sharp focus on truth-seeking, not old-style performative neutrality.”

Photography: A human element

The shifting concept of newsworthiness doesn’t only function in reporting contexts; it also applies to a newspaper’s visuals.

“ The journalist instinct is capture and then decide,” said Geri Migielicz, a Stanford Graduate School journalism professor and award-winning photographer. Migielicz worked at the San Jose Mercury News during the Marshall Plan era, a time when journalists followed a rigid and unwritten rule: no American newspaper should run im-

the Stanford crowd had done was so ambitious and so well-executed,” he said. “I mean, they just owned us that day. There was no question.”

The Greek Islands

Since then, the stunt has gone on to live a life of its own. A copy of the paper resides in the College Football Hall of Fame. ESPN and Sports Illustrated have ranked it as a top-five sports prank of all time. The story has been included in documentaries produced by HBO, CBS and Pac-12 Network. Those involved say they’re contacted periodically by media outlets covering it for multiples of five and 10-year anniversaries.

Although Zeigler does remember the midterm he blew off, which he indeed failed, he holds no regrets in choosing to partake in the prank. As for Berns, he plans to uphold his promise by taking Zeigler to the Greek Islands — and take a copy of the fake paper with them.

The story has proven immortal from the sands of time for the duo. After his first year in law school, Berns spent an entire job interview talking about the newspaper and nothing else — needless to say, he got the job. Zeigler once spotted a fan at a Stanford game sporting a shirt with a picture of Joe Kapp. Beneath it were words from Zeigler’s article, perhaps the most famous of the fake quotes.

“Life’s not fair — I swear to God it isn’t.”

ages of deceased American soldiers. Ultimately, Migielicz believes the paper made the right choice, and said that “publications had a duty to report and document this brutal animosity toward US military presence.”

When evaluating newsworthiness, considerations surrounding whether a visual would advance the understanding of the story, as well as weighing safety risks and consequences, have remained unchanged in journalistic discussions.

Considering whether a controversial image should be published in today’s digital age can be more complex. Photojournalists have historically leaned on such things as disclaimers and editor’s notes; today, digital platforms provide readers with the option to filter, block or blur sensitive content, which was not an option back in the print-only era.

In the context of a college paper like The Daily, its photography of anti-Vietnam War protests drew concerns from University administration that the school might be held liable for any violence incited by the pieces published.

The Daily’s disentanglement from the University would make it impossible for the University to attempt to influence reporting through financial withholding or other means, and the University’s disentanglement from The Daily would release it of any potential liability for content published in the newspaper.

The American journalism industry is rapidly evolving, and the Chelsea Clinton column controversy of 1997 is not the only controversial incident in The Daily’s history. The debate has stood the test of time as a case study in the ever-present discussion of what is and isn’t “newsworthy.”

Courtesy of Baldwin Lee ’92

Crossword will have ‘no impact on your sex life’

By SAM WADDOUPS

On April 2, 1935, The Stanford Daily announced its first crossword with great fanfare. “To give students ever more service and pleasure

The Daily starts today a series of Crossword Puzzles,” it wrote. “The permanence of this feature depends on the popularity accorded their innovation.”

The crossword proved popular, but not without its changes and controversies through its 88-year history. It has been canceled and revived many times, each time with its own flavor. Paging through the archives, you discover the spirit of Stanford’s many word nerds through the ages.

For example, the prim formality of the 1930s announcement gave way to the boisterous ’70s. The Daily announced the crossword’s return in 1978 “to relieve classroom boredom and add zest” to student

life. “This will have no impact on your sex life,” they admitted cheekily, “but we hope you will enjoy it.”

A welcome distraction

For most of its history, The Daily crossword was a mindless in-class distraction for tired students. Before cell phones, the best way to entertain yourself in a dreary lecture was to pull out that morning’s edition of The Daily and work on the crossword. An informal poll in 1986 concluded that one in four Daily readers went straight to the crossword when they opened the paper and reported that many saved it for class.

The puzzle’s role in distracting and entertaining the student body may seem trivial, but the history of the crossword in major newspapers suggests that it provides a vital service. The New York Times initially refused to publish a crossword, calling it a “sinful waste,” but was convinced to do so in the midst

Crossword

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tection Act of 1980, which supplemented the Fourth Amendment and increased privacy protections for the press. It established what the district and appellate courts suggested in the Zurcher case: the requirement of a subpoena by the police in order to search newsrooms.

Despite the ultimate success of The Daily’s efforts embodied by the legislation, today some lawyers believe that applications of the Privacy Protection Act have become increasingly more difficult. The wording of the act, specifying that it defends “those who disseminate information to the public,” has become much broader today than it was four decades ago. The information age has fundamentally changed what journalism looks like.

Elizabeth Uzelac, a former assistant attorney general for the Oregon Department of Justice, raised an emblematic question in a Northwestern Law Review publication: Would courts recognize athome bloggers as information dis-

of World War II. Margaret Farrar, the first crossword editor for the Times, decided that the world needed a distraction from the tragedies.

Reader rage

The Daily crossword has changed hands numerous times throughout the feature’s history, from various companies that sell syndicated crosswords to students taking up the mantle of Crossword Editor. The changes always spur strong reactions from readers, reflecting the essential place that puzzles hold in their hearts.

Whenever the puzzle was canceled or suspended, readers complained. The first run of the crossword ended after just two months in 1935, and letters to the editor poured in. “I used to work industriously at them in my cold, cold 8 o’clocks, but since you’ve done away with them I have no incentive to scramble out of bed and wend my way to class,” one puzzler protested.

When the crossword was canceled in 1968, 39 students signed a petition “respectfully requesting of the powers that be that our educational and entertainment goals and desires be fulfilled by the inclusion of a crossword puzzle in the venerable Daily.” The Daily editors claimed the crossword was “not worth it” and canceled it again in 1974, but four years later, they began publishing syndicated New York Times crosswords every day.

At certain points, students have disparaged The Daily’s crosswords. Tribune Media Services, a provider of the crosswords, drew anger during its 11-year reign in the early 2000s. The puzzles it provided were lambasted as a “sad excuse for an inkblot.” Columnist Barrett Sheridan ’06 claimed that “The Daily crossword deserve[d] to die” for its simple but poorly worded clues, clunky formatting and lack of creative wordplay. Students longed for the creativity of the New York Times crossword, which The Daily had stopped publishing in 2003 due to its “prohibitive” cost and had replaced with the cheaper Tribune crossword.

Clever crosswords through the years Indeed, the Tribune Media puzzles were a step down from the clever puzzles of Stanford’s past. The very first Stanford crossword was published not by The Daily but by the satirical campus magazine “The Chaparral,” which made a puzzle with humorous and scandalous clues in 1925. 10 years later, The Daily followed suit.

In the first era of The Daily crosswords, clues were not very creative, primarily basing themselves in definitions and facts, such as “Son of Seth” for the answer ENOS or “Memoranda” for NOTES. The next provider, the United Feature Syndicate, incorporated variety in the late 1930s. One of the most daring was a diagramless puzzle, in which puzzlers were given a blank grid and had to ink in their own structural black squares as well as the answers to fill it.

In the 1980s and ’90s, creative and accessible puzzles became the norm, including twists like puns, anagrams and pop culture jokes. Particularly clever clues get question marks (like “Many moons?” for DERRIERES).

Some puzzles even get creative personal touches. A Stanford graduate student set the trend of using crosswords as a marriage proposal in 1991. Seven years later, a New York Times crossword helping two lawyers get engaged with a bespoke puzzle was republished in The Daily’s pages (hopefully no smitten Stanford students mistook the puzzle as a proposal for them).

The puzzle, featuring clues such as “1729 Jonathan Swift pamphlet, with ‘A’” for MODEST PROPOSAL, fed the general Stanford appetite for witty clues with double meanings.

In the 2010s, student editors changed the style of The Daily’s crossword. They abandoned the classic thick clumps of interlocking words in favor of sparse intersections of fewer words with more clever clues. As a result, Stanfordspecific clues exploded, like “Palo Alto is shorter than Palo ___” for an answer of BAJO.

However, in the process, editors abandoned fundamental features of traditional crosswords — creating symmetrical patterns, minimizing blank space and maximizing intersections and extended blocks of let-

the case inspired the Privacy Pro-

seminators?

Courts have successfully avoided applying the act in cases relating to computing environments. Law enforcement has been able to seize laptops, phones and servers without a subpoena, and there does not appear to be a legal remedy for this unforeseeable technological development in sight. Today, anyone can be a journalist — anyone can be a mass disseminator of information online.

Despite the relative gravity of the case, many Stanford undergraduates remain unaware of this piece of Stanford history.

Elijah Schacter ’25 said that he had never heard of the case. However, he found the intricacies of the case fascinating.

“Between the First and Fourth Amendment arguments, the stark differences in the opinions of the lower courts and the Supreme Court, and the general political culture in the U.S. at the time, there’s a lot of really interesting things here,” Schacter said.

“The passage of the Privacy Protection Act just two years later shows how The Stanford Daily participated in such an important case,” he said. “I’m glad that they eventually got the ability to protect

the process. They won in the end.”

This case reminded Emily Winn ’25 of UC Berkeley’s infamous protest culture of that era. She is proud of The Daily’s history and her newfound knowledge of its own protest culture.

“It shows how student journalism is so valuable for multiple reasons,” she said.

Dylan Rivera ’24, agreed with Schacter and Winn. “The fact that

ters. Only in the last year have the puzzles returned to the gold standard of crossword formatting, with current editor Peyton Lee ’24 combining clever themed clues with more standard layouts.

The Daily Crossword in the digital age

In the dawn of the internet, physical newspapers underwent a transition and their puzzles along with it. Many students in the 2000s got their crossword fix through paper copies of the New York Times provided by a campus news readership program, but when the program was defunded in 2007, puzzle enthusiasts were left without physical access to the high-quality crossword. This paralleled a nationwide transition into digital puzzles that The Daily has been slow to catch up with.

The Daily’s crossword first incorporated technology when the paper provided a phone number to get answers on particularly tough clues in the 1990s. Then, answers moved online in 2013, but the crossword was published only in hard copy.

The first interactive digital crossword, complete with autocheck and navigable by keystroke, was launched in 2021 by Matthew Turk ’24 for The Daily Magazine, mirroring the successful digital puzzles of the New York Times. Lee’s current revamp of the crossword centers around the oldfashioned appeal of pen and paper and traditional 15x15 grids. Currently, The Daily’s website can’t support a full interactive crossword, but the publication hopes to digitize the puzzle soon.

Student editors take the reins

After a long history of subscribing to syndicated crosswords, The Daily began appointing student crossword editors in 2013, with Ryan Smith ’17 inaugurating the role. The roles continue today with Lee as editor and Bella Meyn ’23, Ashley Larson ’23 and Lana Tleimat ’24 as contributors. In 2022, Meyn, Larson and Tleimat became the first women to have crossword puzzle credits in The Daily, after 87 years of men authoring the feature. There has yet to be a female editor of The Daily’s crossword. The new crossword team is the first group of student crossword creators in The Daily’s history to consistently and ambitiously combine shrewdness of clues with the standard 15x15 grid and strict rules of crossword setting.

Sheridan, the 2006 columnist who criticized the Tribune’s crossword, wrote to The Daily in praise of today’s student puzzle-makers. He advised The Daily’s crossword creators to “keep it current and whimsical.”

He argued that, unlike bigger newspapers, The Daily has the flexibility and youthfulness to use “fresh slang” and “of-the-moment cluing” that will make its crossword “relevant and timely, not eternal and placeless.”

The crossword underwent numerous transformations throughout The Daily’s history. Its appeal, though, stretches across time: there’s nothing like the thrill of understanding a certain pun and filling in the final squares. The current iteration of the crossword is published in this issue, and the clues are taken from facts from this article.

Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques.

tection Act of 1980 legitimizes The Daily, and other college newspapers, as a crucial cornerstone of [their] communities and shows they shouldn’t be disregarded just because they’re run by college students,” he said.

Samiya Rana ’25 said, “This has made The Daily way cooler and more badass.”

Barringer emphasized the beau-

ty of this case. She said that over the nine years between the raid and the Congressional Act, countless Daily editors and staffers worked on this case — both on the legal minutiae and on fundraising for legal costs — all while being full-time students and working for The Daily. It stands as a symbol of the power of student journalism and The Stanford Daily.

“I can’t help but have pride in what we did,” she said.

Aspiring cruciverbalist? The Daily is accepting new puzzle setters AND external submissions! Message plee@stanforddaily.com with all inquiries.

Solution

Years In Photos 50

APRIL 13, 1971

The Daily’s coverage of campus antiwar protests drew national attention when it led to a surprise search of The Daily’s office for photographic evidence of protestors.

OCTOBER 9, 1972

This issue marked the approval for the vote towards The Daily’s independence. In an ASSU election, students also approved a resolution to work on another ASSU judicial system.

JANUARY 29, 1973

AUGUST 9, 1974

FEBRUARY 12, 1974

During this week, Beverly Hills investment banker B. Gerald Cantor donated 88 Rodin scupltures. These pieces were described as the greatest part of his private collection.

OCTOBER 18, 1974

A person out alone, a suddent killer, police without suspects. For the fourth time in a span of less than two years, police were faced with a similar murder on campus.

This edition of The Daily featured the resignation of former president Richard Nixon and the reactions of campus students and faculty on the incident.

The Daily’s independence was finalized as the Secretary of State’s office in Sacremento approved the incorporation papers of The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation.

MAY 22, 1975

Three Stanford students were kidnapped by heavily armed persons from Tanzania’s famed Gombe Stream primate research center. Dr. Jane Goodall was the apparent target of the kidnappers but escaped to the woods in the confusion of the attack.

FEBRUARY 6, 1976

For the first time since 1962 and only the second time since 1887, residents of the Bay Area woke up to find half an inch of snow blanketing the ground. For a brief period, campus dorms became makeshift ski lodges.

MAY 10, 1977

Close to 300 demonstrators protesting the University’s investments in South Africa were arrested on trespassing and faliure to disperse charges at a 16-hour sit-in at the Old Union building.

JUNE 1, 1978

In a major defeat for newsgathering organizations, the Supreme Court ruled against The Daily, deciding that a newspaper’s offices may be searched by police wielding a search warrent even if none of its employees is suspected of a crime.

OCTOBER 15, 1980

This issue highlighted a bill signed by president at the time Jimmy Carter, which aimed to prevent unnannounced police searches of newsrooms. This bill was Congress’ response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Zurcher v. The Stanford Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 1981

The University’s mascot advisory panel agreed with an ASSU recommendation and voted by consensus to recommend to President Donald Kennedy that the color Cardinal be permanently adopted as the University symbol.

OCTOBER 13, 1982

The state of one of Stanford’s most famous landmarks, Lake Lagunita, sparked confusion as it was drained out to prevent it from becoming a health hazard.

NOVEMBER 22, 1982

More than six students were injured during the annual Big Game rally in San Francisco, including at least five students who were hit by a sports car which plowed through the crowd near the end of the march.

NOVEMBER 24, 1982

Several Stanford Daily staffers produced a fake, four-page “Extra” Daily Californian that reported the NCAA had overturned Cal’s famous, last-second, kickoff return against Stanford four days earlier.

MARCH 4, 1983

OCTOBER 14, 1985

For the second time in six months, nine students were arrested for refusing to leave Old Union in a protest against apartheid and Stanford’s investments in companies that do business in South Africa.

OCTOBER 15, 1986

The University Board of Trustees approved divestment of nearly $4.5 million in stock held in companies with operations in South Africa. Even after this decision, Stanford still had $189 million invested in 66 companies with operations in South Africa.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh were welcomed to Stanford campus during a carefully planned luncheon.

MAY 15, 1987

In the presence of the foreign ministers of North America, a crowd of 7,000 endured 100-degree heat in the Quad to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the laying of the University’s cornerstone.

MAY 16, 1989

Police arrested at least 55 students after protesters seized and occupied University President Donald Kennedy’s office for almost 10 hours, demanding a face-to-face meeting with Kennedy.

OCTOBER 18, 1989

A massive 7.0 earthquake struck Stanford’s campus leaving students trapped, buildings collapsed and other major damage.

JUNE 5, 1990

Inspiring thundering waves of applause, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev praised Stanford scholars and appealed to students as the new generation of thinkers during his visit to campus.

SEPTEMBER 24, 1990

This issue highlighted the start of the investigation by two federal agencies to determine if the University had repeatedly overbilled the U.S. government for overhead costs of federally sponsered research.

OCTOBER 1, 1990

From a postal card dedication to a blazing fireworks display, Stanford opened its Centennial Year Celebration with an impressive assembly of alumni, politicians, faculty and students.

FEBRUARY 5, 1992

In a major investigation, The Daily obtained documents showing the Stanford Bookstore leasing a vacation home in central California privately owned and operated by the Bookstore’s top managers.

APRIL 25, 1996

In an iconic profile piece, The Daily interviewed freshman Reese Witherspoon on her acting career and future goals.

MAY 1, 1997

JANUARY 5, 1998

Preseident Clinton first heard Talisman sing at Stanford at an orientation dinner and was so impressed with their performance that he expressed a desire to have the group sing at the White House Christmas festival.

MAY 3, 2000

After months of heated

AUGUST 31, 2000

John L. Hennessy, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, officially became the University’s 10th president.

debate, University President Gerhard Casper announced a conservation and use plan for the Stanford Dish area.

Chelsea Clinton became the second child of a sitting president to attend Stanford. After a brief campus visit, the office of Hillary Clinton announced this news in a press statement.

JUNE 15, 2001

FEBRUARY 22, 2002

The Wall Street Journal and U.S. State Department both announced that kidnapped reporter Daniel Pearl ’85 had been killed by his captors.

JULY 7, 2005

Delivering one of the most iconic and recognizable speeches of the 21st century, Steve Jobs addressed the ‘05 graduates at Stanford’s commencement ceremony.

NOVEMBER 7, 2005

The 14th Dalai Lama was welcomed by Stanford to spend a total of four hours discussing his views on meditation, non-violent resistance and other topics.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation made a gift of $400 million in unrestricted funds to Stanford — the largest in history of higher education.

JANUARY 13, 2006

APRIL 30, 2008

MAY 24, 2007

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

A high school graduate pretended to be a Stanford student, even living in the dorms, buying textbooks and studying for exams.

A makeshift bonfire broke out in the Main Quad on Tuesday night as Stanford students celebrated the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.

Leslie Hume Ph.D. ‘79 was elected to serve as the first female president of the Board of Trustees since Jane Stanford in 1903.

A five-year campaign launched by University President John Hennessy aiming to raise $1 billion for Stanford undergraduate education ended with a total of more than $1.1 billion

APRIL 2, 2009

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Hundreds of people gathered on a Friday outside Hillel House and along Mayfield Avenue to respond to five picketers from the Kansas-based fringe group Westboro Baptist Church

MARCH 9, 2011

OCTOBER 21, 2011

David Shaw became the coach of the Stanford football team and he has major support from all over campus.

The Daily broke the story that Stanford athletes had access to an ‘easy’ course list. The list, which had existed at least since 2001, was widely regarded by athletes as an easy class list.

The Daily got a new home in the form of the Lorry I. Lokey Stanford Daily Building. Former Editor in Chief Lorry I. Lokey ‘49 spoke at the dedication ceremony.

JANUARY 7, 2013

MAY 2, 2019

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Stanford announced the launch of a new graduate scholars program titled the ‘Knight-Hennessy’ scholarship with an associated $750 million endowment.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

After years of debate the NCAA Board of Governors voted unanimously in favor of a landmark decision that cleared the way for college athletes to begin profiting from their names, images and likenesses.

The billionaire Chinese family of former Stanford sophomore Yusi Zhao paid $6.5 million — the largest known sum in the college admissions scandal uncovered by Operation Varsity Blues — to secure her admission to Stanford.

Stanford won the 99th Rose Bowl by defeating Wisconsin 20-14 in the “Blue Collar” style of play, thanks to some creative play calling by coach David Shaw.

MARCH 11, 2020

After an undergraduate tested positive for COVID-19, nearly all undergraduates were asked to evacuate campus in a few days. Students didn’t come back to campus for another year and a half.

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Undergraduate drop-out Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty of four counts of fraud for her involvement in the infamous healthcare startup Theranos.

APRIL 22, 2022

The Stanford Daily publishes a “Mental Health’ special edition, with a letter from the editors, asking for more open dialogue focused towards mental wellbeing.

DECEMBER 2, 2022

University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne faced allegations of scientific misconduct in his research, including alleged image manipulation in major journal articles.

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