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After months of advocacy by the GSC, the University announced that the Marguerite Shopping Express will temporarily return, running on weekends between Stanford campus, the Palo Alto Transit Center and the San Antonio Shopping Center in Mountain View.After months of advocacy by the GSC, the University announced that the Marguerite Shopping Express will temporarily return, running on weekends between Stanford campus, the Palo Alto Transit Center and the San Antonio Shopping Center in Mountain View.

"We need an organization," writes the Graduate Student Council, "that will endure beyond any student government’s tenure and has institutional memory of past negotiations with University leaders."

The GSC advocated for the reinstatement of discontinued Marguerite lines, explored accommodations for academic calendar conflicts with religious holidays and weighed options to reduce travel-associated greenhouse gas emissions.

Following a unanimous vote of no confidence in the University, the GSC is calling for more University action to address affordability issues faced by graduate students in a Change.org petition with over 2,000 signatures.

President Tessier-Lavigne rejected Daily’s allegations, saying, “the first publication is almost never the final word.” The Faculty Senate also discussed the topic of graduate affordability concerns and upcoming accreditation.