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The Stanford Dailyis thestudent-run,independent dailynewspaperservingStanford University.The Dailyis distributed throughout campus and the surrounding community ofPalo Alto, California,United States.It has published since the university was founded in 1892.[2]

The Stanford Daily
Front page of The Stanford Daily for April 29, 2011.
The front page ofThe Stanford Dailyon April 29, 2011, announcing the Faculty Senate's vote to inviteROTCback to campus.
TypeDailystudent newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation
Editor-in-chiefLinda Liu[1]
Founded1892
HeadquartersLorry I. Lokey Stanford Daily Building
456 Panama Mall
Stanford,CA94305
United States
Circulation4,000
Websitestanforddaily

The paper publishes weekdays during the academic year.The Dailyalso published several special issues every year: "The Orientation Issue", "Big Game Issue", and "The Commencement Issue". In the fall of 2008, the paper's offices relocated from the Storke Publications Building to the newly constructed Lorry I. Lokey Stanford Daily Building, near the recently renovated Old Student Union.

History

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The paper began as a small student publication calledThe Daily Palo Altoserving the Palo Alto area and the university. It "has been Stanford's only news outlet operating continuously since the birth of the University."[3]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, asbaby boomercollege students increasingly questioned authority and asserted generational independence,[4]and Stanford administrators became worried about liability for the paper's editorials, the paper and the university severed ties.[5]In 1973, students founded The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation, anon-profit corporation,to operate the newspaper.

A significant event leading to the paper's independence was the 1970 publication of an opinion piece entitled "Snitches and Oppression." The author of the piece named two witnesses to the protests that led to his arrest and concluded "take care of snitches." The university president, Richard Lyman, called the piece a "journalistic atrocity" and indicated concern that the university could be held liable for the content of the newspaper and its consequences.[6]During the fall of 1970, the newspaper also announced an editorial policy of destroying unpublished photographs of demonstrations so they could not be used as evidence in court.[5]

In April 1971, little more than a year thereafter, the newspaper's policy led Palo Alto Chief of Police, James Zurcher, to initiate a search of theDailyoffices. This occurred shortly after the occupation of a Stanford Hospital building had been broken up by police, some of whom were attacked and injured by the demonstrators. Believing that photographs of these assaults existed inDailyfiles, detectives spent hours searching the darkroom and staff members' desks.

The newspaper, aided by the noted constitutional expertAnthony Amsterdam,filed suit claiming a violation of the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution.Zurcher v. Stanford Dailywent all the way to theSupreme Court,which ruled against the paper, holding that a state may issue a warrant to search and seize evidence from a third party who is not a criminal suspect (although "particular exactitude" must be exercised whenFirst Amendmentconsiderations are at play).[7]This ruling caused the legislative branch to respond with thePrivacy Protection Act of 1980,which increased protections for nonsuspect third parties in legal cases.[8][9]

In 1991, a volunteer group of alumni incorporated The Friends ofThe Stanford DailyFoundation to provide support for the newspaper.[10]

In 1982, after theStanford footballteam officially lost theBig Gameagainst cross-bay rivalUniversity of California at Berkeley( "Cal" ) due to what has become known as "The Play,"The Dailypublished a fake edition ofThe Daily Californian,Cal's student newspaper, announcing officials had reversed the game's outcome. Styled as an "extra," the bogus paper headlined "NCAA AWARDS BIG GAME TO STANFORD".The Dailydistributed 7,000 copies around the Berkeley campus early in the morning, before that day's Cal student paper was released. The prank has been credited to four Stanford undergraduates: Tony Kelly, Mark Zeigler, Adam Berns andThe Daily's editor-in-chief at the time, Richard Klinger.[11][12]To cover printing costs,The Dailymade souvenir copies available on the Stanford campus for $1 apiece.[13]

The Stanford Daily's journalism has sometimes had far-reaching consequences; in the early 1990s aDailystaff member, John Wagner, '91, reported and published an investigative series uncovering significant corruption in the management of the Stanford Bookstore. According to Joanie Fischer's 2003 article about the newspaper inStanford Magazine,"Managers of the independent nonprofit had formed a consulting firm that then leased a vacation home to the Bookstore and embezzled Bookstore funds to furnish it."[14]

In October 2015,The Dailywas criticized for failing to investigate misconduct at both the student and university level byVanity Fair'sDavid Margolickwho wrote "The Stanford Dailyhas proved supine "in a 7,000-word feature on the unfolding scandal at theGraduate School of Business.[15]When GSB Dean Garth Saloner resigned suddenly on September 14, 2015, amid a wrongful termination suit,[16]The Dailywas scooped byPoets & Quants,a blog that covers MBA programs around the world.[17]The lawsuit was filed by a former professor married to fellow GSB professorDeborah H. Gruenfeld,with whom Saloner was having an affair. Though the scandal was covered extensively byThe New York Times,The Washington Post,Bloomberg,and several international outlets,The Dailydid not do additional reporting beyond its initial announcement of the dean's resignation.[18]

On April 28, 2016,The Dailyreported on former Speaker of the House John Boehner's likening of 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz to "Lucifer in the flesh" at a campus event. The report was picked up by numerous major outlets, including Politico and The New York Times.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne investigation and resignation

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In November 2022,The Dailyreported claims of image manipulation in academic publications on which Stanford University PresidentMarc Tessier-Lavignewas a named author.[19]The paper followed up on this reporting the following February with further allegations.[20]Ultimately, Tessier-Levigne announced his resignation after an independent review stated, among other conclusions, that "Dr. Tessier-Lavigne took insufficient steps to correct mistakes",[19]and that he had "overseen labs that had an 'unusual frequency' of data manipulations."[20]

Notable alumni

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Current reporters

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See also

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References

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  1. ^"Our Leadership - The Stanford Daily".RetrievedOctober 18,2024.
  2. ^"About".The Stanford Daily.Archivedfrom the original on September 24, 2019.RetrievedSeptember 23,2019.
  3. ^Fischer, Joannie,"Read All About It",Stanford Magazine,March/April 2003
  4. ^Brokaw, Tom,Boom! Voices of the Sixties(Random House 2007)
  5. ^abFischer 2003
  6. ^UPI"Stanford prexy asks cut in paper support"Ellensburg (Wash.)Daily Record10/8/1970 "
  7. ^Heindel, Andrew (January 21, 2003)."Commemorating a historic Supreme Court case: Zurcher v. Stanford Daily".The Stanford Daily.Vol. 222, no. 61. p. 6 – via The Stanford Daily Archive.
  8. ^Hearing on S. 115, S. 1790, and S. 1816 Before the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate,96th Congress, 2nd Session, Serial No. 96-59 (March 28, 1980).
  9. ^Privacy Protection Act of 1980: Report together with Additional Views of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate on S. 1790,96th Congress, 2nd Session, S. Rep. No. 96-874 (July 28, 1989).
  10. ^"Nonprofit Profile for Friends of the Stanford Daily Foundation"..guidestar.org.RetrievedOctober 30,2015.
  11. ^Fimrite, Ron(September 1, 1983)."The Anatomy Of A Miracle".Sports Illustrated.Vol. 59, no. 10. pp. 227–228.
  12. ^Kuns, Bill (November 24, 1982)."NCAA awards Big Game to Stanford".The Daily Californian.Vol. 14, no. 51. Stanford, California: The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation. p. 1 – via The Stanford Daily Archive.
  13. ^"More copies".Advertisement.The Stanford Daily.Vol. 182, no. 61. January 18, 1983. p. 7 – via The Stanford Daily Archive.
  14. ^Fischer
  15. ^"Inside Stanford Business School's Spiraling Sex Scandal".Vanity Fair.October 17, 2015.RetrievedOctober 31,2015.
  16. ^"Garth Saloner to step down as dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business".Stanford University.RetrievedOctober 31,2015.
  17. ^Baron, Ethan (September 14, 2015)."Stanford Confidential: Sex, Lies And Loathing At The World's No. 1 B-School".Poets and Quants.RetrievedOctober 31,2015.
  18. ^Quach, Jeremy (September 14, 2015)."GSB dean Garth Saloner to step down at the end of academic year".Stanford Daily.RetrievedOctober 31,2015.
  19. ^abSaul, Stephanie (July 19, 2023)."Stanford President Will Resign After Report Found Flaws in His Research".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.RetrievedJuly 19,2023.
  20. ^abSvrluga, Susan; Stripling, Jack (July 19, 2023)."Stanford president will resign after questions about research".The Washington Post.RetrievedAugust 15,2023.
  21. ^Barringer, Felicity; Jehl, Douglas (February 22, 2002)."A NATION CHALLENGED: JOURNALISTS; U.S. Says Video Shows Captors Killed Reporter".The New York Times.RetrievedMay 25,2010.
  22. ^Asimov, Nanette (February 17, 2023)."Student paper: Scientists say study by Stanford president contained false data".San Francisco Chronicle.RetrievedFebruary 21,2023.
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