Sanaya Robinson-Shah

1 month ago | stanforddaily.com | Sanaya Robinson-Shah

Stanford Libraries recently adopted iThenticate, a program that detects AI-generated text in research papers and manuscripts, to help Stanford faculty members check work before publication.

Dec 4, 2024 | stanforddaily.com | Sanaya Robinson-Shah

Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although book banning has always existed and occurred in the country, there has been an unprecedented rise in bans in the last three years, and even more so in the last year.

Nov 22, 2024 | stanforddaily.com | Sanaya Robinson-Shah

The Faculty Senate rejected the motion to rescind the censure of Hoover Institute fellow Scott Atlas in the senate’s last meeting of the quarter on Thursday. President Jon Levin ’94 and Provost Jenny Martinez also addressed the ongoing cases against student activists who occupied the president’s office in June and commented on the Stanford Graduate Workers Union’s bargaining with the University.

Nov 21, 2024 | stanforddaily.com | Sanaya Robinson-Shah

Israel’s actions since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks have been unwarranted and extreme, argued Bailey Ulbricht, executive director of the Stanford Humanitarian Program, and Allen Weiner, Stanford Law School senior lecturer, in a Tuesday talk sponsored by the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Forty attendees, mostly graduate students and fellows, crowded into the William J. Perry conference room in Encina Hall to hear the talk.

Nov 5, 2024 | stanforddaily.com | Sanaya Robinson-Shah

Admittedly, I know nothing about U.S. politics. I only know the buzzwords — the House, the Senate, the Electoral College and, of course, democracy — but not what they do or mean. The U.S., as we all know, is a democracy (something they don’t let us forget). But what does that really mean? What does this word, which we hear in almost every history class and political science lecture — a word so oversaturated that we may actually take it for granted — actually entail?