• Traditions

    The administration has eliminated popular and important traditions:

    • Full Moon on the Quad

    • Secret Snowflake

    • Exotic Erotic

    • Eurotrash

    • Greek Week

  • University Offerings

    • Cardinal Nights, the university’s most popular and effective tool for a sober-friendly campus, lost much of its funding and agency

    • Weekend Marguerite Service was discontinued, as was the shopping line

    • Faculty with high satisfaction rates were fired for budget savings

    • Stanford drained the lake

  • Houses

    • Theme houses (French House, Casa Italiana, Slav, Haus Mitt)

    • Greek houses are constantly in flux

    • Co-ops will risk losing their houses starting in 2025

    • Houses have lost staff (row houses now only have 2 or 3 RAs) and agency (they no longer set their own menus, must jump through hoops to host events, and are asked to not have a culture that carries on beyond years)

  • Organizations

    • Band has had a figurehead installed, and over 30 “reforms” have eliminated all history and culture

    • Student organizations are unable to limit membership (e.g. through interviews)

    • The reorganization of the office of student engagement has added bureaucratic bloat without giving students the resources to navigate it

  • Safety

    • Student deaths are through the roof

    • Parties have shifted off-campus, unsupervised, and overcrowded

    • Rent-a-cops patrol white plaza for speeding bikers

    • Organizations who handle overdoses and alcohol poisoning properly by calling 911 now get months of probation in return

    • The open door policy has been eliminating, encouraging secret unsafe drinking

  • Student Events

    • Sororities and fraternities were almost entirely placed on probation over the course of 3 days, without due process. This eliminated most student parties on campus.

    • Greek houses are incentivized to not hold all-campuses, resulting in almost all parties having restricted guest lists and wristband-only entry

    • Eliminated theme houses no longer hold events such as Crepe Night, Oktoberfest, Pizzeria, which were popular alternatives to greek-hosted parties

    • “There were just 45 parties registered on campus during the first four weeks of the fall quarter, compared with 158 in the same period in 2019.”

  • Equity and Inclusion

    • As a result of university imposed restrictions, many parties are only open to those in greek life

    • The first open party of the year had a cover charge and was held a 30 minute Uber ride away from campus

    • Culture and identity based organizations face the same hurdles to hosting events as other organizations

  • Athletics

    • The university attempted to discontinue 11 sports teams

    • Club sports teams are on probation for unproven and unimportant allegations

    • Students don’t attend athletic events, partially due to administrative tightening of rules at games - students were kicked out of football games for standing on bleachers

  • Retaliation

    The university responded to a simple protest against the war on fun by suspending the Stanford Tree. Nothing screams fun like a suspension!