Jesse Jackson Returns to Stanford
One-time Presidential candidate Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at Dinkelspiel Auditorium. The talk recalled Rainbow Coalition efforts of years past in Jackson's call to expand affirmative action and to speak out against the recent conflict in Iraq. ....Full story in Front Page.....by Travis Menk

Stanford Students Favor Less Government Spending
A campus-wide canvassing effort last quarter of student political viewpoints discovered that over sixty percent of Stanford students favor cutting government spending as a means of balancing the budget in lieu of raising taxes. Other topics included in the survey included students' political party affiliations, positions on abortion, and levels of support for the war in Iraq. ....Full story in Front Page.....by Gary Raichart

The News in Brief
Read about the latest news on campus ....Full story in News

Conservative Publication Outreach to Stanford Thwarted by Daily Delays
The Stanford Daily has repeatedly wavered on printing an advertisement commenting on the anti-war protests at Stanford on March 5th. The controversial advertisement, which the Daily received from the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC) headed by David Horowitz, explained the connections between the "National Youth and Student Peace Coalition," which organized the protests, and various on-campus Communist-affiliated groups. ....Full story in News.....by Harrison Osaki

Former NSA Talks US-China Relations
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President Carter, spoke at Stanford on Tuesday, April 29, on the present and future of Sino-American relations. Talking for about an hour at Stanford's Memorial Auditorium, Mr. Brzezinski described the warming in relations between China and the United States since September 11th and the increasing liberalization of Chinese society. ....Full story in News.....by Sam Shapero

ASSU May Rethink Special Fees
The ASSU Undergraduate Senate has developed four new alternative Special Fee systems in light of increases recently voted by the student body in Special Fees to be doled out to student groups. ....Full story in News.....by Ryan J. Wisnesky

Rabble-Rousing: Will We Ever Be Free of the Chaos?
By 1987, Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition had motivated the development of a Rainbow Agenda at Stanford University that, through tactics of sit-ins and insistent rabble-rousing, had forced the University to confront allegations of racism and ethnocentrism both in its employment practices and in its curriculum. Chants of "Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go" may still be fresh in the minds of a number of readers of the Review. ....Full story in Editorial.....by the Editorial Staff

Question of the Week
Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that the US and the People's Republic of China are moving toward progressively closer and deeper relations. At the same time, Brzezinski suggests that China will continue to be constrained by the totalitarian ideology of its ruling party. How compatible is the above cartoon with these suggestions?....Full story in Question of the Week

Racial Profiling: Implicit vs. Explicit
Under pressure from race activists, Palo Alto began to collect statistics in 2001 on the races of drivers stopped by the police and whether they were subjected to searches. The first 18 months of data reveal that Hispanics are searched twice as often as whites, blacks three times as often and Asians two-thirds as often. ....Full story in The Rawls Report.....by Alec Rawls

Smoke Signals
We return to the perspective offered by Smoke Signals, where the week gets put at a safe distance....

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