Around 4 p.m. on Friday, December 9, Stanford University released a statement declaring that the LSJUMB would be temporarily suspended of all activities for the remainder of the academic year, and reformed with University oversight.
While this announcement came as a shock to the student-run organization, whose members and leaders were left grappling with this announcement in the midst of dead-week finals preparations, it is clearly the accumulation of increasing University sanctions against Stanford’s largest student group.
For the past 18 months, the LSJUMB has been operating under an alcohol suspension, a travel ban, and a requirement to make a series of culture reforms.