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Meet the student who helped boot the president of Stanford

Meet the student who helped boot the president of Stanford The Stanford Daily’s Theo Baker interviews Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) after a class on Oct. 24, 2022. (Nikolas Liepins) — On Christmas Day, Theo Baker was pacing around a relative’s home in Los Angeles, mumbling to himself: “How am I going to get inside Genentech? How am I going to get inside Genentech? How am I going to get inside Genentech?” Get the full experience. Choose your plan He was a freshman at Stanford University, just a few months into his career as a college journalist, and he was already fixated on a huge reporting challenge: finding workers at a Bay Area biotech company, where Stanford’s president had once been a top executive, to scrutinize research he’d overseen. Baker’s parents were initially concerned and skeptical when he told them about pursuing allegations of research misconduct that could implicate Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist who had just completed his sixth year as the head of