Rani Chor

2 weeks ago | stanforddaily.com | Rani Chor

As Stanford administration moved to remove the co-ops Synergy and Terra, students pushed back through organizing, grieving and negotiating to hold onto homes built over decades of intentional living. In the midst of this resistance, a reporter and photographer from The Stanford Daily visited the communal homes facing removal, spending time with residents in their kitchens, backyards and living rooms — the spaces where day-to-day life and protest quietly coexist.

2 months ago | stanforddaily.com | Rani Chor

The Trump administration opened a federal investigation into Stanford’s admissions policies, citing concerns over compliance with the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling that struck down affirmative action, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. The probe extends to three campuses within the University of California system — UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine — and marks an escalation in the administration’s efforts to end diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in higher education.

Feb 11, 2025 | stanforddaily.com | Rani Chor

The dirt arrived first. Five and a half tons of it. At first, it simply lay there, caked across the massive dining table, quietly unsettling in its presence. Then came the platters, gleaming silver, borne aloft like offerings in a ritual. FOOD, performance artist Geoff Sobelle’s ’97 latest theatrical feast, is not a dinner party. It is a dissection. Over the course of the evening, the act of eating unspools into something grotesque, philosophical, absurd. FOOD, staged by Stanford Live from Feb.

Feb 1, 2025 | stanforddaily.com | Judy Liu |Rani Chor

The concept of Diplomatique is as much a perspective on the Stanford student’s experience within international affairs as it is Stanford’s place in the international community. Our writers don’t always agree with each other. But we felt their pieces all had one thing in common: a desire to capture fragments of a world in flux, to take a snapshot of history and diplomacy unfold before our eyes.

Feb 1, 2025 | stanforddaily.com | Rani Chor

There are many ways to judge a country’s diplomatic service, but a solid one is this question: are you representative of the people? After President Trump’s latest executive order blitz, the future of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in U.S. diplomacy hangs in the balance. On Monday, Trump signed an order to dismantle “illegal DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ mandates,” targeting policies and programs embedded across the Federal Government. He didn’t stop there.