The Stanford Daily
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The Stanford Daily is the student-run
, independent daily newspaper
serving Stanford University
. The Daily is distributed throughout campus and the surrounding community of Palo Alto, California
, United States
. It has published since the University was founded in 1892.
The paper publishes weekdays during the academic year. Unlike many other campus publications, it enjoys a wide circulation
of 8,000 and is distributed at 500 locations throughout the Stanford campus, including dormitory
dining hall
s, and in the city of Palo Alto. In addition to the daily newspaper, the Daily publishes two weekly supplements: Intermission, a weekly pullout entertainment section, and Cardinal Today, a weekly sports "outsert" during football and basketball seasons. The Daily also 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.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, as baby boomer
college students increasingly questioned authority and asserted generational independence, and Stanford administrators became worried about liability for the paper's editorials, the paper and the University severed ties. In 1973, students founded The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation, a non-profit corporation, to operate the newspaper. A significant event leading to the paper's independence was its initiation of a legal battle to protect the identities of unnamed Vietnam War
protesters pictured in photos printed in the paper. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court
, where the newspaper faced off against the Palo Alto Police Department in Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
. The Court ruled 5–3 against the paper.
A volunteer group of alumni incorporated The Friends of The Stanford Daily Foundation in 1991 to provide support for the newspaper.
In 1982, after the Stanford football team officially lost the Big Game
against cross-bay rival University of California at Berkeley ("Cal") due to what has become known as "The Play
," The Daily published a fake edition of The 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 Daily distributed 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 Stanford undergraduates Tony Kelly, Mark Zeigler, Adam Berns and Daily editor-in-chief Richard Klinger.
The Stanford Daily is an affiliate of UWIRE, which distributes and promotes the paper's content to its network.
Student newspaper
A student newspaper is a newspaper run by students of a university, high school, middle school, or other school. These papers traditionally cover local and, primarily, school or university news....
, independent daily newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
serving Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. The Daily is distributed throughout campus and the surrounding community of Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It has published since the University was founded in 1892.
The paper publishes weekdays during the academic year. Unlike many other campus publications, it enjoys a wide circulation
Newspaper circulation
A newspaper's circulation is the number of copies it distributes on an average day. Circulation is one of the principal factors used to set advertising rates. Circulation is not always the same as copies sold, often called paid circulation, since some newspapers are distributed without cost to the...
of 8,000 and is distributed at 500 locations throughout the Stanford campus, including dormitory
Dormitory
A dormitory, often shortened to dorm, in the United States is a residence hall consisting of sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students...
dining hall
Cafeteria
A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or canteen...
s, and in the city of Palo Alto. In addition to the daily newspaper, the Daily publishes two weekly supplements: Intermission, a weekly pullout entertainment section, and Cardinal Today, a weekly sports "outsert" during football and basketball seasons. The Daily also 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
The paper began as a small student publication called The Daily Palo Alto serving the Palo Alto area and the University. It "has been Stanford's only news outlet operating continuously since the birth of the University."In the late 1960s and early 1970s, as baby boomer
Baby boomer
A baby boomer is a person who was born during the demographic Post-World War II baby boom and who grew up during the period between 1946 and 1964. The term "baby boomer" is sometimes used in a cultural context. Therefore, it is impossible to achieve broad consensus of a precise definition, even...
college students increasingly questioned authority and asserted generational independence, and Stanford administrators became worried about liability for the paper's editorials, the paper and the University severed ties. In 1973, students founded The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation, a non-profit corporation, to operate the newspaper. A significant event leading to the paper's independence was its initiation of a legal battle to protect the identities of unnamed Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
protesters pictured in photos printed in the paper. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...
, where the newspaper faced off against the Palo Alto Police Department in Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
Zurcher v. Stanford Daily 436 U.S. 547 is a United States Supreme Court case from 1978 in which The Stanford Daily, a student newspaper at Stanford University, was searched by police after they suspected the paper to be in possession of photographs of a demonstration that took place at the campus'...
. The Court ruled 5–3 against the paper.
A volunteer group of alumni incorporated The Friends of The Stanford Daily Foundation in 1991 to provide support for the newspaper.
In 1982, after the Stanford football team officially lost the Big Game
Big Game (football)
The Big Game is an American college football rivalry game played by the California Golden Bears football team of the University of California, Berkeley and the Stanford Cardinal football team of Stanford University. It is typically played in late November or early December...
against cross-bay rival University of California at Berkeley ("Cal") due to what has become known as "The Play
The Play
The Play refers to a last-second kickoff return during a college football game between the and the Stanford University Cardinal on Saturday, November 20, 1982...
," The Daily published a fake edition of The Daily Californian
The Daily Californian
The Daily Californian is an independent, student-run newspaper that serves the University of California, Berkeley campus and its surrounding community. It is published Monday through Friday during the academic year, and twice a week during the summer...
, 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 Daily distributed 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 Stanford undergraduates Tony Kelly, Mark Zeigler, Adam Berns and Daily editor-in-chief Richard Klinger.
The Stanford Daily is an affiliate of UWIRE, which distributes and promotes the paper's content to its network.
Notable alumni
- Lorry I. LokeyLorry I. LokeyLorry I. Lokey is an American businessperson and philanthropist. A native of Portland, Oregon, he founded the company Business Wire in 1961 and has donated in excess of $400 million to charities, with the majority of the money given to schools...
(1949) – founder of Business WireBusiness WireBusiness Wire is a company that disseminates full-text news releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences. The company distributes news via its own patented...
, a news release service that was later bought by Berkshire HathawayBerkshire HathawayBerkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies. The company averaged an annual growth in book value of 20.3% to its shareholders for the last 44 years,...
; philanthropist. - Maynard Parker (1962) – former editor of Newsweek MagazineNewsweekNewsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
- Philip Taubman (1970) – former WashingtonWashington, D.C.Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
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- Peter Bhatia (1975) – executive editor of The OregonianThe OregonianThe Oregonian is the major daily newspaper in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. west coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 1850...
in PortlandPortland, OregonPortland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
and former president of the American Society of Newspaper EditorsAmerican Society of Newspaper EditorsThe American Society of News Editors is a membership organization for editors, producers or directors in charge of journalistic organizations or departments, deans or faculty at university journalism schools, and leaders and faculty of media-related foundations and training organizations... - Stephen L. CarterStephen L. CarterStephen L. Carter is an American law professor, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and best-selling novelist.-Education:...
(1976) – law professor and science fiction writer - John Arthur – Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
executive editor - Doyle McManusDoyle McManusDoyle McManus is an American journalist, columnist , who appears often on Public Broadcasting Service's Washington Week.-Early life:...
– Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau chief - Daniel PearlDaniel PearlDaniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and killed by Al-Qaeda.At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between...
(1985) – The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
foreign correspondent who, during the War on TerrorismWar on TerrorismThe War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...
, was kidnapped and murdered while reporting from Pakistan - Troy EidTroy EidTroy A. Eid, a former United States Attorney now in private law practice with Greenberg Traurig LLP in Denver, CO, is the Chair of the Indian Law and Order Commission This all volunteer blue-ribbon advisory panel was created by the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 to recommend changes to the...
(1986) – former United States AttorneyUnited States AttorneyUnited States Attorneys represent the United States federal government in United States district court and United States court of appeals. There are 93 U.S. Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands...
for ColoradoUnited States District Court for the District of ColoradoThe United States District Court for the District of Colorado is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Colorado. The United States Congress organized Colorado as a single judicial district on June 26, 1876, by 19 Stat. 61... - June CohenJune CohenJune Cohen is Executive Producer of TED Media for the TED Conference. She led the effort to bring the conference online, launching the in 2005, the podcast series TEDTalks in 2006, the redesigned in 2007, and the TED Open Translation Project in 2009. Cohen joined the TED staff in 2005...
(1992) - Director, TEDTED (conference)TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading"....
Media - Joel SteinJoel SteinJoel Stein is a journalist who wrote for the Los Angeles Times and is a regular contributor to Time.-Early life:Stein grew up in Edison, New Jersey and attended J. P. Stevens High School, where he was a writer and entertainment editor for Hawkeye, the student newspaper...
(1993) – Los Angeles Times columnist
External links
- The Stanford Daily
- Friends of The Stanford Daily – listing of Daily alumni
- Read All About It – history of the Daily in Stanford Magazine, March–April 2003