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stanford class of 2023 will arrive on campus in less than a month! we'd like to welcome students of all ages back to school with our [dis]orientation guide. THREAD:
don't get lost around the farm! carry this map with you to find your way. this map highlights locations historically and recently where students have organized direcet actions. (1/?) map of stanford. starting 11am clockwise: off-campus - silicon shutdown; main quad - sit in for divestment from s africa, mecha hunger strike, sleep out for food service workers, scope family weekend; mem aud - take back the mic; president's office - takeover of '89; hoover tower - banner drop; junipero serra - renaming campaign; ethnic theme dorms; community centers; white plaza & brown plaza - may day, tdor
it's a common sight around campus to see tour groups learning about the institution's history. check out our activist tour to learn about student-led collective action that stanford won't tell you about (2/?) activist tour. note: this is not a comprehensive timline of all the activism that has occurred on campus. these are the larger scale, more documented actions: black lives matter protests - #moralmonday october 27 2014, silicon shutdown nov 25 2014, hands up walk out dec 1 2014, highway 101 shutdown dec 3 2014, apis4blacklives dec 4-5 2014, #stanford68 jan 19, 2015images are of groups of students shutting down the highway. they hold signs taht read main quad - sit in for divestment from S Africa 1984-85; sleep out for food service workers - sprin 2002; scope family weekend - feb 24, 2018. comparative studies in race and ethnicity (csre): take back the mic - apr 8 1968; rainbow agenda demonstration 0 may 14, 1987image is of take back the mic, a group of students on stage in front of the podium. end of western culture requirement - march 1988; takeover of '89 - may 15, 1989; mecha hunger strike - may 4-7, 1995; concerned students for asian american studies - may 18, 1994; comparative studies in race and ethnicity - nov 1996; ethnic studies majors - 1997
continuing the timeline, these events include the who's teaching us campaign, renaming the junipero serra dorm, and events in white plaza. who's teaching us: professor steven sohn denied tenure apr 2014; town hall on faculty diversity may 5, 2014; WTU demands dropped mar 27, 2016; changes implemented 2016-17. junipero serra: renaming campaign 2016-18; white plaza: living wage campaign - 2003, 2007, 2010white plaza: may day march - may 1, 2006; carry that weight - oct 20, 2014; stanford out of occupied palestine 2014-15; indigenous people's day - oct 14, 2015; admit weekend apr 23-24, 2015; transgender day of remembrance - nov 20, 2015top image: person holds a sign saying hoover tower & institute: banner drop - feb 21, 2018; rally against white supremacy - feb 22, 2018; racism lives here - feb 2018. memorial auditorium - admit weekend apr 27, 2017
timeline events at the mitchell earth sciences building and the history of our community centers (4/?) mitchell earth sciences: rally against islamophobia - nov 14, 2017. in response to anti muslim author of the a crowd of people at the rally against islamophobia, facing the right and listening to someone speak. someone holds a sign that says an auditorium is full of mostly empty seats, with only about 20 seats filled.community centers: asian american activities center (a3c) founded 1972; black community services center (bcsc) founded 1969. diversity & first gen (dgen) office founded in 2011 to support first gen and/or low income students. el centro chicano y latino founded 1978. markaz (muslim resource center) founded 2013, native american community center (NACC) founded 1974. qspot (lgbtq+ resource center). women's community cen
finishing up the timeline posts with events at the ethnic-theme dorms, we move on to a brief history of the white supremacists stanford and its buildings are named after. (5/?) ethnic theme dorms: casa zapata - chinacx/latinx theme house established 1972. murals on the walls.;muwekma-tah-ruk history of stanford building names: jordan hall-named for david starr jordan, eugenicist whose writings formed nazi eugenics. knight management center - phil knight, cofounder of nike who used sweatshop labour. terman engineering foundain - frederick terman, lewis terman (eugenicist). serra street & dorm - junipero serra, administrator of california mission system,enslaved california indians. stanford himself.
written by @ehaknox, these pages cover stanford's role in the bay area housing crisis. stanford is a major contributor to gentrification and to the displacement of Black and Indigenous, low-income communities. (6/?) page 1. stanford and the bay area housing crisis (by erica knox & stasnford coalition for planning an equitable 2035) - stanford is an epicenter of wealth in the bay area. stanford's welath is not shared by all bay area community members. this means that stanford forces the lower income community members to enter the bay area housing market. (dm for a full accessible image caption)page 2. (dm for a full accessible image caption)page 3. find out more at our website: scope2035.weebly.com. (dm for a full accessible image caption)image is a drawing black and white highrise buildings, in front there is a rectangular label that says
@ehaknox about the hoover institution and all its evil. (7/?) page 1. hoover institution. adapated and updated from the 1996 - 1997 campus disorientation guide article page 2 of the article. on the bottom of the page is a black and white picture of the front of stanford's main quad, with the hoover tower to the left. the tower is broken in half with a cartoon
stanford's contribution to imperialism (8/?) stanford imperialism: stanford sells itself as being a progressive place since its inception. which is interesting, considering the fact that leland stanford personally solicited volunteers for civil war-era army campaigns against califiornia indians and, as governor, signed into law appropriation bills to fund those killing expeditions. (dm for full accessible transcript)image of the front of stanford's main quad, with arches and a mission style roof
stanford's history of anti-Indigeneity, written originally by Denni Woodward in the 1996 disorientation guide (9/?) when the continued. in february of 1972, 55 native american students and staff at stanford presented a petition to the university ombudsperson who, in turn, presented it to president lyman. the 1972 petition urged taht
a brief background of the dining hall and service worker campaign-- how stanford exploits its workers (10/?) page 1. dining hall and service worker campaign. service workers are defined as hourly paid workers and members of the SEIU 2007 union - our local union here on campus! Many of these workers, in fact most, have worked for stanford for decades. [image of purple circle that says page 2. requirements for jobs such as lead custodians have been altered to include a GED or equivalent, disquialifying any custodian without a high school education from being promoted, even if they have been working for Stanford in that role for years. [images of an hourglass]. (dm for full transcript)page 3. stanford has set its own workers up to fail in order to avoid paying for the training necessary for them to progress. (dm for full transcript)page 4. [image of purple circle that says
who makes up stanford's board of trustees? white supremacists. (11/?) page 1. it is important to know who the stanford board of trustees is, because they are in charge of appointing the president who appoints the faculty. please note the absurd length of the board of trustees. please also note how many are ceos of corporations.page 2. list of board of trustees. dm for full transcript.
this page is a reminder to recognize your privileges and use them to destabilize oppressive structures. the next page debunks a stanford review article, a publication which upholds white supremacy and neocolonialism in the name of conservatism. (12/?) part 1. [in comic book lettering] HEY, GET OVER YOURSELF. dm for full transcriptpart 2. comic book style cartoon of someone slapping another person, saying part 3. you come into stanford thinking that it's worthwhile for you to pretend to care about issues that you have never cared about. (dm for full transcript).next page: lies and deceits of the stanford review. the purpose of this guide is to highlight the ideas we think are important, the people we love, and the change we want to see. however, we also must take a quick break to say, DO NOT TRUST THE STANFORD REVIEW. dm for full transcript.
tips on how to finesse this instution for first-generation, low-income (FLI) students. (13/?) page 1. finessing stanford. i am a FLI student here at stanford. for those of you who do not know, it stands for Finessors of Legal Income (jk, it actually means first generation or low income student). 1. read your emails. 2. pocket money from studies. 3. art grants every quarter. 4. other small grants 5. ELF fund from your RFs(dm for full transcript)page 2. 6. vso's can assist organizers in many ways. 7. jane stanford fellowship. 8. lathrop and the lending library. 9. the opportunity fund. (dm for full transcript)
a statement submitted by SU Prison Divest in 2016 to stanford's board of trustees regarding prison divestment. page 2. prison should not be profitable, and there should be no state-sanctioned incentives that make it so. (dm for full transcript)image by cairo mo and funded by an ida minigrant. the image is an overlay of a grpah the us state and federal prison population since 1925, showing a sharp increase, on top of a map of the united states of where the prison population is larger than the college population. on top is an ink painting of chinese railroad workers, and behind in white text is the stanford board of trustee's response to the prison divest.
stanford's silence and lack of support for survivors of sexual assault (15/?) part 1. sexual assault -- who are we fighting for? to be real, sexual violence affects way too many people as they pass through stanford. the question is, how can we best respond? the answer is complicated and hard to imagine wihtin a dominant society that discredits survivors and upholds a racist patriarchy. (dm for full transcript)part 2. from a survivor-centered perspective, whether sexual violence happened on or outside the campus, before or during college, there is trauma that takes different forms for every person. the confidential support team is a great support resource for those who have gone through sexual violence. (dm for full transcript)
how the ideologies of "liberalism" and "conversatism" are two sides of the same neocolonial coin. (16/?) liberalism vs conservatism: the two-headed ass. here we invite you to take a look at Liberalism, the culmination of Europe's enlightenment and the pillar of Stanford's academic discourse, and Conservatism, the idea that institutions should change gradually to accomodate the society they exist in, rather than actively interfere in society. (dm for full transcript)image is art by peter mukuria, incarerated in red onion state prison, virginia. at the bottom is the statue of liberty with a snake intertwined around her. on the left is a split face of trump and obama. the quote on the top reads
how to land *the perfect* tech internship (17/?)
thoughts on "free speech." free speech 101. stanford is the stronghold of conservatism in california. it should come as no surprise that the university would repeatedly invite isaslmophobists and white supremacists. what other institution would welcome them as warmly? (dm for full transcript)
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