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Students honor ICE victims in Día de los Muertos vigil, demand “sanctuary campus”
A crowd of around 100 people gathered at Meyer Green on Monday for a Día de los Muertos vigil to honor victims of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Student speakers demanded that Stanford adopt “sanctuary” policies by limiting its cooperation with ICE and working to support and protect undocumented students. Students read the names of the 82 people confirmed to have been killed by ICE, telling the life stories of several.
Candlelight vigil honors Cornell Jane Doe, campus sexual assault survivors
Students gathered to honor Jane Doe — the plaintiff in the Cornell Seven sexual assault case — and campus sexual assault survivors more broadly during a vigil at Meyer Green on Monday. The event came less than two weeks after a student spoke out about her experience with the Title IX process in a Stanford Daily op-ed, writing that the University mishandled her rape case. The University has since responded, acknowledging that the case took too long.
Title IX & Title VI Office quietly changes name, programming and ‘survivor’ terminology
What used to be Stanford’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Response & Education (SHARE) Title IX & Title VI Office is now the Title IX & Title VI Office. This is one of multiple unannounced changes the office has made, allegedly without student feedback over the summer and earlier this school year.
Sexual assault prevention program Flip the Script reinstated
Flip the Script, a sexual violence prevention program cut earlier this year, has been reinstated, according to Vice Provost for Institutional Equity, Access and Community Patrick Dunkley on behalf of Provost Jenny Martinez. “After pausing to reassess the program, the University will provide funding for Flip the Script and Going off Script, a companion program for men, for the next three years,” Dunkley wrote to The Daily.
Novelist’s talk draws ideological scrutiny over background in sex work
Author Brittany Newell’s visit sparked controversy over her career as a sex worker and some students’ attempts to secretly film the event. A campus talk featuring alumna author Brittany Newell ’16 M.A. ’18 has sparked discourse over her career as a sex worker and some students’ attempts to secretly film the event. Newell is the author of “Soft Core,” a novel inspired in large part by Newell’s firsthand experience working as a dominatrix in San Francisco.
Stanford sees continuing decline in humanities majors
Humanities departments across American colleges graduated their lowest number of majors in 2025 since 1991, according to a report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. At Stanford, the popularity crisis is nothing new. The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded by the University in the humanities and arts has fallen 56% since 2003. This decline, from 324 in 2003-2004 to 143 in 2025-2026, has continued even as the overall number of undergraduate degrees granted has increased.
Stanford Energy Seminar stresses need for tribal energy sovereignty
California’s clean energy transition is as much a social justice issue as an environmental challenge, said Kelsey Freeman — a Knight Hennessy Scholar and research scholar at the Precourt Energy Institute — at the Stanford Energy Seminar on Monday.
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