Conservatism Empowers
Two distinctly different viewpoints on the future and race relations were presented the night of Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at Tresidder Union. Shannon Reeves, Chairman of the Oakland NAACP and California Secretary of the Republican Party, and Omali Yeshitela, Founder of the African People's Socialist Party, delivered addresses to roughly 30 members each of the Stanford community. ....Full story in Front Page.....by Bob Sensenbrenner

Stanford Israel Alliance Petition Makes Its Mark
Even just the occasional reader of the Stanford Daily knows generally what to expect: the local Stanford events on the front page, a page on world news, the left-leaning editorial page, a couple of pages on sports, the usual egg-donor advertisement, and of course the funnies. This past Tuesday, February 18th provided something new on page five: a full page advertisement taken out by the Stanford Israel Alliance (SIA) that detailed a petition that has been circulating around campus for the past couple of months with the names of the over 1500 people that signed the petition. ....Full story in Front Page.....by Travis Menk

New Volume, New Editor, New Look
It feels somewhat trite to suggest that the opening of a new volume in the history of the Review is inaugurating a new personality. The Review has existed since 1987 as Stanford's lone conservative voice, offering a welcoming home to any brave soul willing to admit to being to the right of center in this den of liberality. Our proudest days have been those of weekly publication schedules focused around investigative pieces that other publications were scared to tackle. These pieces have allowed the Review to pursue major sociopolitical themes as they relate to the Stanford community, thereby bringing closer together our alumni subscribers who have departed for bigger and better things with students and community members who confront everyday life here in Silicon Valley. ....Full story in Editor's Note.....by Piotr Kosicki

Stanford Young Communists Party to Fight War on Iraq
On Saturday February 15, the Stanford Young Communist League (SYCL) threw a party in the Kimball Lounge. An ASSU recognized student group, SYCL is, according to its website, "a multiracial [sic] student group that works to create a better Stanford and a better country by fighting for the rights of youth and students, working in coalitions with other student groups, learning about current political movements, building international solidarity, fighting against all forms of racism, sexism, and homophobia, and providing a forum for discussing Marxism and socialism." ....Full story in News.....by Ryan Wisnesky

The News in Brief
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Stanford Catholics Fast for Peace in Iraq
On the night of Sunday February 16th, Father Jim Barnett and Sheila Provencher spoke at Stanford University's Tresidder Student Union. They talked to a crowd of approximately 40 people about their efforts in the anti-war movement. In addition, they implored the crowd to pray and fast in order to help prevent war with Iraq and to work peaceably to encourage our government not to declare war. This presentation, entitled "Stanford Catholics Fast for Peace in Iraq," was only one of fourteen different speeches they were to give that week alone all over northern and southern California. ....Full story in News.....by Charles Hallford

ASSU Conflicted over Affirmative Action
Last Tuesday, after many weeks of deliberation, the ASSU Undergraduate Senate passed a resolution by a vote of 11-0-1 regarding the practice of affirmative actionin university admissions. The vote was touted as an endorsement of President Hennessy's statement on affirmative action submitted to the Faculty Senate on January 23 and motivated by the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court hearing regarding the University of Michigan's system of admissions. ....Full story in News.....by Michael Hasper

We Must Always Remain Critical
I'm drowning in bias. When I came to Stanford, I was hoping to find an intellectually stimulating and diverse body of students and faculty that would challenge me to present my take on the world and then respect that opinion insofar as it would make sense. My first two years have found a diverse and brilliant student and faculty population, but one dominated by the Left. This should come as a surprise to no one -- as Dan Flynn, author of Why the Left Hates America, presented at a talk on the Stanford campus earlier this year, liberals far outnumber conservatives in nearly every discipline of academia. Here at Stanford, the liberal-to-conservative faculty ratio is greater than 9 to 1, and we should consider ourselves lucky in that regard when compared to institutions such as Dartmouth and Columbia. ....Full story in Opinion.....by William E. Hudson

Stanford Needs to Return ROTC
If Stanford wants to continue to emphasize the promotion of diversity on this campus, it must allow ROTC back on campus. ROTC students are striving to receive a military education in addition to an academic education. They are part of an organization just like any of us are able to become part of an organization such as BASES, Stanford Coalition for Peace and Justice, an athletic team, ATI, or the NAACP. The problem is that they are not accepted on this campus. ....Full story in Opinion.....by Travis Menk

No Diversity Without Diversity of Thought
Last week, as I was biking through White Plaza on the way back to my dorm, a small table littered with signs reading "STOP" and something about the Hoover Institution attracted my attention. Interested, of course, in any afternoon excitement or protest--there always seems to be something to protest--I glanced over at the signs, smiled to myself, and prepared to ride on by. ....Full story in Opinion.....by Laura Surma

Evolution, Naturalism, and a Dash of Plantinga
When my friend Joe-Joe told me that a philosopher named Plantagin was coming to Stanford, I was a bit confused. "Wait," I said, "do you mean Plantinga? Alvin Plantinga?" "Maybe," he said. "As in God, Freedom, and Evil Plantinga?" I pressed. "Um. . . ." Joe-Joe wavered. He sent me an email a couple days later: "yup. it's plantiga. february 13. mark it down." ....Full story in Opinion.....by Jeff Russell

Peace Vigil Resurrects Vietnam Against Iraq
"A Time to Break Silence: Martin Luther King, Jr. On War and Peace" was a moving tribute to the civil rights activist. However, as a "peace vigil," the program was ineffectual. Folk singer Joan Baez's performance of traditional spirituals, while heartfelt, served to illustrate the fallacy indulged by liberals drawing on residual anti-Vietnam sentiment to justify their opposition to the Bush administration's tough stance on Iraq. ....Full story in Opinion.....by Laura Billadello

Thinking Straight About Race
Racism is the failure to account properly for individual information. Suppose, for instance, that my race based expectation from past experience is that Asians are smart. If a particular Chinese person demonstrates that he is dumb, and I continue to expect him to be smart, I am a racist. Obviously, it would be dumb of me to fail to process individual information as it becomes available. Racists are dumb. ....Full story in The Rawls Report.....by Alec Rawls

Beinin Watch
Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle Eastern History, has been accused on numerous occasions of speaking out in support of terrorist organizations and of spearheading antisemitic practices at Stanford. This section is dedicated to keeping the Stanford community informed as to his actions in the hopes of forcing Professor Beinin to account for his actions....Full story in Beinin Watch

100 Years of Chinese History... in 1 Room
It was a sunny Sunday afternoon and I was restless. Though I had heaps of work on my desk, I just wanted to out and see something. As everyone else on campus was busily studying for midterms, I decided to expand my horizons and do a bit of exploring -- I decided that it was time to take advantage of the rich academic and artistic resources surrounding me. Scrolling down "today's campus events" on the Stanford homepage, one exhibit jumped out and caught my eye. . . ."Enter the Dragon: An Exhibition Documenting the History of China during the Twentieth Century. Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion." My first thought was: "Herbert Pavilion? Where in the world is that?" My second thought was, "how come I've never heard of this before?" ....Full story in Entertainment.....by Ming Zhu

Letters to the Editor
Letters about issue six and racist/sexist issues ....Full story in Letter to the Editor

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