Editing Stanford University (section)

=== Dormitories and student housing ===
{{Main|Stanford University student housing}}

By 2013, 89% of undergraduate students lived in on-campus university housing. First-year undergraduates are required to live on campus, and all undergraduates are guaranteed housing for all four undergraduate years.<ref name="CDS" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/dept/rde/cgi-bin/drupal/housing/apply/apply-housing |title=Stanford University—Student Housing—Apply for Housing 2013–14 |publisher=Stanford.edu |access-date=February 2, 2014 |archive-date=June 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140624014137/http://web.stanford.edu/dept/rde/cgi-bin/drupal/housing/apply/apply-housing |url-status=dead}}</ref> Undergraduates live in 80 different houses, including dormitories, co-ops, [[Stanford Row House Program|row houses]], and [[#Greek life|fraternities and sororities]].<ref name="ugradres">{{cite web |url=https://resed.stanford.edu/residences |title=Stanford Housing—Undergraduate Residences |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=November 27, 2008 |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611010444/https://resed.stanford.edu/residences |url-status=live }}</ref> At Manzanita Park, 118 [[mobile home]]s were installed as "temporary" housing from 1969 to 1991, but have become the site of newer dorms Castano, Kimball, Lantana, and the Humanities House, completed in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.stanford.edu/pr/91/910724Arc1246.html |title=Manzanita trailers to house Webb Ranch workers |publisher=News.stanford.edu |access-date=July 9, 2010 |archive-date=July 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729084308/http://news.stanford.edu/pr/91/910724Arc1246.html |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Chelsey |first1=Kate |title=Manzanita residence hall aims at humanities |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/humanities-house-dorm-032015.html |access-date=October 24, 2015 |work=Stanford Report |publisher=Stanford University |date=March 20, 2015 |archive-date=September 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920041527/http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/humanities-house-dorm-032015.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Most student residences are just outside the campus core, within ten minutes (on foot or bike) of most classrooms and libraries. Some are reserved for freshmen, sophomores, or upper-class students and some are open to all four classes. Most residences are co-ed; seven are all-male [[fraternity|fraternities]], three are all-female [[sorority|sororities]], and there is also one all-female non-sorority house, Roth House. In most residences, men and women live on the same floor, but some have single-gender floors.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/dept/rde/shs/ugrad/wilbur.htm#junipero |archive-date=October 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20151009205734/https://rde.stanford.edu/studenthousing/#junipero |url-status=dead |title=Stanford University—Student Housing—Tour Undergraduate Housing |publisher=Stanford.edu |access-date=July 9, 2010}}</ref>

Several residences are considered "theme" houses; predating the current classification system are Columbae (Social Change Through Nonviolence, since 1970),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://resed.stanford.edu/residences/find-house/columbae |title=Columbae House |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=April 10, 2012 |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611034746/https://resed.stanford.edu/residences/find-house/columbae |url-status=dead}}</ref> and Synergy (Exploring Alternatives, since 1972).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/synergy/ |title=Synergy House |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=April 10, 2012 |archive-date=November 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102100407/http://web.stanford.edu/group/synergy/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> The Academic, Language, and Culture Houses include EAST (Education and Society Themed House), Hammarskjöld (International Themed House), Haus Mitteleuropa (Central European Themed House), La Casa Italiana (Italian Language and Culture), La Maison Française (French Language and Culture House), Slavianskii Dom (Slavic/East European Themed House), Storey (Human Biology Themed House), and Yost (Spanish Language and Culture). Cross-Cultural Themed Houses include Casa Zapata (Chicano/Latino Theme in Stern Hall), Muwekma-tah-ruk (American Indian/Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Themed House), Okada (Asian-American Themed House in Wilbur Hall), and Ujamaa (Black/African-American Themed House in Lagunita Court). Focus Houses include [[Freshman-Sophomore College]] (Academic Focus), [[Branner Hall]] (Community Service), Kimball (Arts & Performing Arts), Crothers (Global Citizenship), and [[Toyon Hall|Toyon]] (Sophomore Priority).<ref name="ugradres" /> 

[[File:Stanford-bikes.jpg|thumb|left|Many students use bicycles to get around the large campus]]
[[housing cooperative|Co-ops]] or "Self-Ops" are another housing option. These houses feature cooperative living, where residents and eating associates each contribute work to keep the house running, such as cooking meals or cleaning shared spaces. These houses have unique themes around which their community is centered. Many co-ops are hubs of music, art and philosophy. The co-ops on campus are 576 Alvarado Row (formerly Chi Theta Chi), Columbae, Enchanted Broccoli Forest (EBF), Hammarskjöld, Kairos, Terra (the unofficial [[LGBT]] house),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/coop/cgi-bin/public/wiki.php?wikiid=1&pagename=Terra |title=About Terra |work=ResEd |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=February 8, 2016 |archive-date=February 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216121632/http://web.stanford.edu/group/coop/cgi-bin/public/wiki.php?wikiid=1&pagename=Terra |url-status=live }}</ref> and Synergy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/dept/resed/Staff/StaffResources/StudentMgmt/CoOps.html |title=Residential Education—Cooperative Houses |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=November 27, 2008}}{{Dead link|date=June 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Phi Sigma, at 1018 Campus Drive was formerly [[Phi Sigma Kappa]] fraternity, but in 1973 became a Self-Op.<ref>This chapter had voiced concern that women were being treated unfairly due to the campus ban on sororities. ''Nu Deuteron Chapter'' voted to become co-ed in 1973, [https://archive.org/stream/signet6465phis/signet6465phis_djvu.txt relinquishing its charter over the matter], according to fraternity records (accessed November 17, 2016). This occurred just four years before the ban on sororities was ended by the Regents.</ref> By 2015, 55 percent of the graduate student population lived on campus.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lapin |first1=Lisa |last2=Chelsey |first2=Kate |title=New graduate housing proposed for Escondido Village |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/october/grad-housing-proposal-102215.html |access-date=October 24, 2015 |work=Stanford Report |publisher=Stanford University |date=October 22, 2015 |archive-date=October 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151023090314/http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/october/grad-housing-proposal-102215.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Stanford also subsidizes off-campus apartments in nearby [[Palo Alto]], [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]], and [[Mountain View, California|Mountain View]] for graduate students who are guaranteed on-campus housing but are unable to live on campus due to a lack of space.<ref>{{cite web |title=Off Campus Subsidized Apartments |url=https://rde.stanford.edu/studenthousing/off-campus-subsidized-apartments |website=Student Housing |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=October 24, 2015 |archive-date=October 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009212655/https://rde.stanford.edu/studenthousing/off-campus-subsidized-apartments |url-status=dead}}</ref>