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One of Stanford's Marguerite buses (BYD electric bus)Marguerite is the free shuttle service Stanford University offers to its students, faculty, staff, and the general public to get around campus or from campus to some off-campus locations such as the San Antonio Shopping Center, VA Palo Alto Hospital, Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), Stanford Shopping Center, or the Palo Alto Transit Center.
Florence Moore Hall, commonly referred to as FloMo, is an undergraduate dormitory at Stanford University. [1] Designed by Milton Pflueger [note 1] in 1956, Florence Moore Hall was initially a women's dormitory.
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) [11] [12] is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford , the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California , and his wife, Jane , in memory of their only child, Leland Jr .
Toyon Hall features a spacious lounge area which occasionally hosts campus events such as a capella shows, important speakers, and other social events. Stanford groups with an affiliation to Toyon Hall can request use of the lounge. On 24 November 2000, Toyon was the subject of a Washington Post exposé titled "Pirating of Software Rampant on ...
The original residence for Stanford women was a different building, also named Roble Hall. It was built in haste in 1891 to house the 80 women of the first Stanford undergraduate class. [3] Designed by concrete pioneer Ernest L. Ransome, it survived the 1906 earthquake but was replaced as the women's dormitory by the current Roble Hall in 1918.
At times Stanford has required undergraduate students to take core courses in various subjects in the humanities and sciences. Some of the core courses include Western Civilization ("Western Civ') taken by all freshmen—first established in 1935 and continued until the mid-1960s.
The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) is a student group at Stanford University focusing on business and entrepreneurial activities. One of the largest student-run entrepreneurship organizations in the world, BASES' mission is to promote entrepreneurship education at Stanford University and to empower student entrepreneurs by bringing together the worlds of ...
The Stanford Review (also known as The Review) is a student-run newspaper that serves Stanford University in Stanford, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was founded in 1987 by Peter Thiel and Norman Book. [ 3 ]