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Yeah, from the article it sounds like people started taking selfies in front of her door and posting them on social media. Even though they took down the names, there was enough identifying information in the background of the photos that her room could be located even without the name.

BC

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And I have to say, I find Eileen Gu too perfectly represents the Stanford of today — financial riches, responses to questions in corporate doublespeak that’s been polished by PR firms, a sort of manufactured to be perfect champion with marketing. And Eileen Gu’s alma mater of today — trying to control things to be a little too perfect, it feels like the lawyers, investors and PR machine run Stanford now.

 I miss the old Stanford.

Absolutely agree that Alysa Liu was inspirational to watch skate so well with such joy. 
Her family story also inspirational.
Dad fleeing Communist persecution in China. When Alysa a top skater being deceitfully recruited to ditch USA and represent Team Red,
He told their agents (spy’s) No Way!
Possibly with more colorful language, like Alysa expressed in joy after her win.
To me, that spirit, as Alysa said, that’s what I’m talking about (w/o her extra emphasis).

I too found Liu’s story compelling and Gu’s left me feeling a bit colder.
That being said, I want to caution against dichotomizing people into heroes or villains on the basis of a media narrative.  What we get to see/read represents just the very tip of the iceberg of who a person really is (and often a somewhat selective view of that person colored by the reporter’s “angle”.  For better or for worse, “humans are complicated and contain multitudes” doesn’t typically sell papers, even though it is usually more accurate.  So, yeah, based on what I know now, I would much rather spend an afternoon talking to Liu than Gu, and certainly rooted for Liu… but that doesn’t mean that if I did have a chance to get to know each of them that I am certain that I’d feel the same way.

BC

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Yeah, from the article it sounds like people started taking selfies in front of her door and posting them on social media. Even though they took down the names, there was enough identifying information in the background of the photos that her room could be located even without the name.

BC

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And I have to say, I find Eileen Gu too perfectly represents the Stanford of today — financial riches, responses to questions in corporate doublespeak that’s been polished by PR firms, a sort of manufactured to be perfect champion with marketing. And Eileen Gu’s alma mater of today — trying to control things to be a little too perfect, it feels like the lawyers, investors and PR machine run Stanford now.

 I miss the old Stanford.

Absolutely agree that Alysa Liu was inspirational to watch skate so well with such joy. 
Her family story also inspirational.
Dad fleeing Communist persecution in China. When Alysa a top skater being deceitfully recruited to ditch USA and represent Team Red,
He told their agents (spy’s) No Way!
Possibly with more colorful language, like Alysa expressed in joy after her win.
To me, that spirit, as Alysa said, that’s what I’m talking about (w/o her extra emphasis).

I too found Liu’s story compelling and Gu’s left me feeling a bit colder.
That being said, I want to caution against dichotomizing people into heroes or villains on the basis of a media narrative.  What we get to see/read represents just the very tip of the iceberg of who a person really is (and often a somewhat selective view of that person colored by the reporter’s “angle”.  For better or for worse, “humans are complicated and contain multitudes” doesn’t typically sell papers, even though it is usually more accurate.  So, yeah, based on what I know now, I would much rather spend an afternoon talking to Liu than Gu, and certainly rooted for Liu… but that doesn’t mean that if I did have a chance to get to know each of them that I am certain that I’d feel the same way.

BC