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MEChA: Social Justice Group or KKK?
So what exactly is MEChA? A social justice group that coordinates efforts in the fight for the rights of the underprivileged and unrepresented? An ethnic identity group that provides Chicanos/Latinos a place to feel welcome and opportunities to fraternize and take pride for who they are? Or a racist organization that advocates revolution and segregation?...Full story in Editorial.....by Editorial Board

An Investigation of Racism within MEChA
They've been called racist and worse. They claim to be a social justice group. You fund them. They are the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, or Stanford MEChA....Full story in News.....by Christine Boehm

Jackson Condemns Prop. 54, War on Terror
On Wednesday, October 1, Jesse Jackson spoke to a crowd of several hundred people in White Plaza to pro-test both the California Recall and Proposition 54. The rally itself was sponsored by the Stanford Coalition to Stop Proposition 54...Full story in News.....by Ryan Wisnesky

The News in Brief
This week's look at the latest headlines...Full story in News.....by Shawn M. Sims

Dining Monopoly Gives Back
In recent weeks, Stanford Dining has taken heat from various individuals and publications that portray its meal plans as inflexible, its costs expensive, and its food quality unacceptable. In light of these perceptions, the Review decided to sit down with Mr. Nadeem Siddiqui, Executive Director of Stanford Dining, to gauge his assessment of the current state of the dining program and his vision for future improvements...Full story in News.....by Michael Hasper

Students Honor Terror Victims with Candlelight Vigil
The Stanford Israeli Alliance organized a candlelight vigil on October 4, 2003, in memory of the 19 victims of the suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel, which had occurred earlier in the day...Full story in News...by Gary J. Raichart

Universities Selling Out to the Marketplace?
Every day, hundreds of students attend class in the Hewlett-Packard auditorium, then walk across the hall to use the computer cluster in the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation classroom. Upstairs in the Bill Gates building, their professors supplement their salaries by consulting for corporations on Fridays or sell the results of their publicly-funded research to investors in an IPO. Thanks to Nike¹s lucrative sponsorship, student-athletes wear the swoosh on their uniforms; their exertions on the playing fields netting the university around $50 million in revenues. Critics say the desert bazaar is replacing the ivory tower: everything is available for a price...Full story in Opinion.....by Bob McGrew

Abortion 101: True Pro-Choice
Dozens of Stanford co-eds will get pregnant this year. Most or all of them will have abortions. Why? In an age of supposed ³choice² for women, why are almost all of the most educated young women choosing what most of them will regret for the rest of their lives?...Full story in The Rawls Report.....by Alec Rawls

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