Stanford: Where Does the Money Go?
The Stanford Fund is at it again. I recently received a copy of the Fund's Report of Annual Giving, a glossy publication filled with pictures of smiling students and slick graphs that show how desperately Stanford needs our financial support. The 96-page booklet also contains a roll of donors that spans 83 pages and is alphabetized by graduating class, making it easy to determine who's chipped in and who's been stingy. ....Full story in Front Page.....by Eric M. Jackson

Breaking the Inertia
Stanford is a surprisingly easy place to become conservative -- or at least more conservative. ....Full story in Front Page.....by Brooke Brody-Waite

Skepticism of Habit
Our undergraduate years at Stanford contribute greatly to our ultimate identities, as it is here that we morph from adolescent to adult. During our time at The Farm, our minds begin to accustom themselves to certain habits of thought and action. Our algorithmic responses to conflicts, politics, surprising news, stupidity, kindness, failures, and successes become more deeply encoded in the psyche, as the mind swaps its strikingly pliant heaps of SRAM for pre-coded hardware and less flexible storage devices. ....Full story in Front Page.....by Joe Lonsdale

Confessions of An Academic Libertarian
Commencement is an occasion particularly meet for pleasant reminiscences, for confident assertions that the content of higher education is improving, for assurances that the future of our university is secure. It would seem appropriate to drop lightly into history, to review the problems of the present, and to appeal then to the ideologue's ceaseless yearning for the ideal life by saying something like, "But I believe in the future." ....Full story in Alumni Thoughts.....by Aman Verjee

Why We Remember Reagan
Ronald Reagan was President during the years in which most of today's undergraduates were born. Reagan was largely dismissed by liberal elites both in the 1980s and today. Yet, measured by his accomplishments, Reagan was an extraordinarily successful President - taming inflation, fostering an enterprise culture and victory in the Cold War. I was an undergraduate when Reagan was President. These are my memories of politics in the 1980s and how Reagan did it. ....Full story in Alumni Thoughts.....by David Cavicke

Daily Censorship Hits Popular Column
This week, the leadership of the Stanford Daily refused to publish a column by two of their most popular columnists. The columnist-romantic duo, consisting of conservative Elizabeth Madjlessi and liberal Alexander Kendall, was selected at the beginning of the volume to write a weekly Monday column. Throughout the volume, Madjlessi and Kendall have written stinging critiques on controversial issues. The duo's past columns include indictments of the ASSU, University academic requirements, fraternity parties, and faculty ideological bias. According to the duo, however, this week's column proved too controversial. ....Full story in Current Issues.....by Piotr H. Kosicki

Guest Column: Start Spreading the News
"I hate the two of them and their column! I hope they break up. " Contrary to what you might think, these words were not spoken by a protestor, an English major, or a Dolly. A Daily staff member, who will remain anonymous, decided to make this declaration in front of one of our friends. ....Full story in Current Issues.....by Alexander Kendall and Elizabeth Madjlessi

So What's The Job Market for Grads?
Given the current state of the US economy, employment prospects for this year's crop of graduates aren't what they were when I left Stanford in 1995. With that in mind, the Review's staff has asked me to present graduating seniors with some employment alternatives until the economy picks up and you can latch onto something better. ....Full story in The Last Page.....by Michael V. Petras

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