George Porteous

1 month ago | stanforddaily.com | George Porteous

George Porteous ’27 is a Vol. 267 News Managing Editor, staff writer and former Building 10 beat reporter. He is from New York, NY, studies History and Creative Writing, and is passionate about acting. Find him on X @georgedporteous. Contact George at gporteous ‘at’ stanforddaily.comTaber Cannon is the Vol. 267 Video Managing Editor. Originally from NYC, Taber now studies English and Film & Media Studies here at Stanford.

1 month ago | stanforddaily.com | George Porteous

“Left stomp, right stomp, grapevine, turn!” Izabella Smolnicka-Dos Santos ’26 called out, microphone in hand. “Keep going!” Dozens of students followed her lead as they practiced each dance step across the Old Union patio, standing alongside each other in rows. When Smolnicka-Dos Santos played “A Bar Song (Tispy)” by Shaboozey over a speaker, the dancers set their moves to music, stomping their feet and swiveling in the air.

1 month ago | stanforddaily.com | George Porteous

“What if consciousness, like love, is the work of making relationships?” Alva Noë, chair of the philosophy department at the University of California, Berkeley, proposed at Stanford’s annual Presidential Lecture in the Humanities and Arts on Wednesday. “Love names the work of opening up the world, the very labor of consciousness,” Noë said.

2 months ago | stanforddaily.com | George Porteous

An international student at Stanford who previously lost their visa had the revocation reversed, the University announced in a brief statement Thursday. The reversal lowers the count of visa cancellations to five affecting current students and two affecting recently graduated students. The update provided no additional details about the students’ background or situation.

2 months ago | stanforddaily.com | George Porteous

University president Jonathan Levin ’94 and Provost Jenny Martinez expressed support for Harvard after its president, Alan Garber M.D. ’83 — a Stanford Medicine professor emeritus — vowed to resist the Trump administration’s demands to end diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, cooperate with heightened immigration enforcement and undergo federal audits for “viewpoint diversity.” “Harvard’s objections to the letter it received are rooted in the American tradition of liberty, a...