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ASSU launches bystander campaignBy CALLA SHENG

The ASSU recently launched the I AmNot a Bystander campaign in an effort toinvolve the greater student body in address-

ing mental health, sexual assault and othercommunity issues on campus.

The campaign seeks to improve thewellbeing of Stanford students by correct-ing the attitude of those unaware, unsureor unconcerned about how to help others indifficult situations, according to the cam-paigns Web site, bystander.stanford.edu.

[Our goal is] to create a campus culturewhere it is the norm to look out for eachother instead of standing by,said Lila Kalaf10, Health co-chair for the ASSUExecutives and initiator of the campaign.This kind of change can only come fromwithin the student body.It cant come fromsomeone else prescribing our attitudechange.

Through the campaign, students take anonline pledge to no longer act as bystanders.They can wear the I Am Not a Bystanderpin, or put up posters on their doors to letothers know about their willingness to helpwith difficult problems.

The campaign concerns itself with issues

of relationship abuse,sexual assault,intoler-ance,alcohol abuse,eating disorders,stress,depression and physical violence on cam-pus.

The two [barriers to taking action]

were trying to target is the lack of aware-ness of the problem and the lack of knowl-edge of what you can do, said JasmineDobbs-Marsh 10, and ASSU Executivehealth fellow and one of the organizers ofthe campaign.

The campaign Web site takes studentsthrough a series of harmful situations. Foreach of them,it details four helpful ways toreverse the bystanders inaction.At the end,the students are invited to electronicallysign the pledge to no longer act as abystander.

For students to act on their new aware-ness and implement the anti-bystandermessage in their everyday lives, the Web sitealso connects them to various campusresources. Organizers are working withResidential Education to plan dorm discus-sions, as well as put up a talk by nationallyrenowned activist Jackson Katz on violenceagainst women next Tuesday.

With collaborators ranging from VadenHealth Center to Stanford Theatre Activist

Mobilization Project (STAMP), the cam-paign has garnered wide-ranging support.Kalaf said that the organizers have beenfortunate enough to have a lot of differentkinds of people involved and excited about

this message, and to have come up with aunified way of dealing with these issues.

According to Kalaf,the campaign focus-es students attention on problems thatwere kind of flipped under the rug.

A lot of people dont know what a bigproblem relationship abuse or sexualassault is on campus,she said. Last year,there were 14 reported sexual assaults.Thatis not close to what might actually be goingon, on campus. With eating disorders, weonly have the national stats of about fourpercent incidence rate. But as anyone wholives on Stanford campus can tell,theres amuch more prevalent rate of disorder eat-ing.

Lauren Peate 09 has been volunteeringwith the Center for Relationship Abuse forseveral years. She said that she took thepledge to keep standing up for the issuesshe has been involved in, and to be more

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CAMPUS LIFE

Row move-into be delayed

By JULIE KLEINSENIOR STAFF WRITER

At a meeting for Row managers last night,Stanfords Alcohol Advisory Board (AAB)announced its recommendation to change the Rowhouse move-in date, starting fall 2009, in hopes ofdecreasing alcohol-related incidents prior to thestart of the academic year.

The AAB, which is comprised of students, facul-ty and staff, submitted a proposal for all upperclass-men to return to campus on the same date afterNew Student Orientation (NSO) begins. ViceProvost for Student Affairs Greg Boardmanapproved the recommendation, which comes on theheels of several alcohol-related incidents on theRow during this past years NSO.

According to Vaden Substance AbusePrevention Program Manager and AAB co-chairRalph Castro, the recommendation was basedupon theory and research.If students spend fewerdays on campus prior to the start of classes,high-riskalcohol-related incidents could be reduced.

The Alcohol Advisory Board took its time in

systematically reviewing the issue and listened care-fully to the concerns and viewpoints of the studentswho sit on the Board, Castro wrote in a releasedmemorandum. The Board discussed and debatedthe pros and cons of the current Row opening dateand its relationship to the inappropriate use andmismanagement of alcohol. In the end, the Boardvoted unanimously to recommend that the Rowmove-in date be changed to best ensure the healthand safety of the campus community during NSO.

In past years, Row house residents were allowedto move in before NSO began, while other upper-classmen could not move in until the Thursdaybefore classes started.In addition,under a provisionof the NSO alcohol policy, students of legal drinkingage are allowed to privately consume alcohol inmoderation and Row houses without freshmen ortransfer students may host up to two closed, resi-dent-only gatherings where alcohol may be served.

When the AAB convened in October,it plannedto conduct an annual review of the NSO alcoholpolicy, especially in response to the recent alcoholincidents.The board instead spent the quarter eval-uating the move-in date for Row houses.

Koren Bakkegard, assistant dean of freshmenand co-chair of the AAB, acknowledged how theboard unexpectedly spent the quarter addressing anissue other than the NSO alcohol policy.

There was an elephant in the room,Bakkegardsaid. Row move-in date was different from allother upperclass residences, and it was an importantissue to address separate from the policy reviewitself.

Bakkegard explained, however, that the Row

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Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson spoke at a GCEP talk at the Arrillaga Alumni Center on energy challenges. He addressed a fullhouse on energy sources, and discussed his companys surprising support of a carbon tax.

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Profs.speakon stimuluspackage

By AN LE NGUYENSENIOR STAFF WRITER

President Barack Obama signed his$787 billion stimulus plan into law onTuesday, calling it the beginning of thefirst steps to fix the nations ailing econ-omy. The plan, once enacted, willstrengthen the social safety net, providetax breaks and allow for investment ineducation, energy research and infra-structure, among other categories.

The bill is a critical piece of govern-ment efforts to pull the economy out ofthe current recession, and PresidentObama has said its success will deter-mine his success as president. But ininterviews with The Daily, MedicalSchool Prof. Jay Bhattacharya andBusiness School Prof. Neil Malhotrawere cautious about the bills prospects.

Bhattacharya M.D.97 Ph.D.00 is anassociate professor of medicine and, bycourtesy, a professor in health researchand policy and economics.

Its sort of funny to call it a stimu-lus,Bhattacharya said. Its more like apackage aimed at shielding people fromthe worst problems resulting from job-lessness.

Malhotra, assistant professor of polit-ical economy at the Graduate School ofBusiness, said the proposal has a combi-nation of both stimulatory and non-stim-ulatory undertakings. The overallapproach, however, is firmly rooted ingovernment spending.

You approach this difficult policyand theres only sort of two ways to stim-ulate the economy: fiscal policy andmonetary policy, Malhotra said.Giventhat interest rates are basically zeroalready and that consumption is very lowin the United States, government spend-ing is the only way to stimulate the econ-omy.

Malhotra noted that public supportincreased as the president traveled fromcity to city to advertise the recoverypackage to the American public.

In general, people like the Obamaadministration its very popular,Malhotra stated. They want to sort ofget behind Obama and give him the

By JENNY REMPELSENIOR STAFF WRITER

ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO RexTillerson spoke to a packed McCaw Hallyesterday about the future of the worldsenergy supply and his companys surpris-ing support of a carbon tax.

The Global Climate and EnergyProject (GCEP) at Stanford hostedTillerson for a talk on global energy andenvironmental challenges.

The best and brightest minds gath-ered here at Stanford and throughoutGCEPs international network ofresearch institutions have the potentialto help lead a long-term technologicaltransformation of the global energy sys-tem,Tillerson said.

As University President JohnHennessy noted in his introduction,ExxonMobil is the leading sponsor forGCEP and it intends to invest up to $100million in the projects research over 10

years.We are deeply grateful for the gener-

ous support given to us at Stanford byExxonMobil in allowing us to pursue thisgoal through the Global Climate andEnergy Project and for recognizing thecritical role that fundamental science andtechnology breakthroughs will play inmeeting these opportunities and chal-lenges, said Sally Benson, director ofGCEP.

One of Tillersons most striking state-ments was his support for a carbon tax.

Its rare that a business person likemyself gives support for a new tax,Tillerson noted, but in this case, giventhe risk management challenges that weface,and the alternatives under consider-ation,it is my judgment that a carbon taxis the best source of effective policyaction.

He still maintained that oil and natu-ral gas are vital for our worlds energyfuture, describing them as abundant,

available, versatile and affordable. Healso stressed that his primary loyalty is tohis company.

I dont have being in alternative fuelsas an objective . . . my objective is to pre-serve and grow shareholder values, hesaid.

However, Tillerson also noted thatnew and alternative forms of energyshould be explored.

GCEPs research is high-risk; fail-ures will likely outnumber successes, hesaid.But the research conducted here isalso potentially high-yield.It may containthe seeds of a true technological transfor-mation.

Following the lecture, both Hennessyand Jeffery Koseff, director of the WoodsInstitute for the Environment,expressedtheir surprise and pleasure at Tillersonscomments on a carbon tax.

It reflects how a lot of things have

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The campus has been plastered with signs for the ASSUs I Am Not a Bystander campaign, which hasstudents take an online pledge to help others with serious wellness issues on campus.

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Hello, hello, hello, hello. Test, test, asmooth voice reverberates over themicrophone.Is that really loud? Itsa little feedbacky.

Two musicians with dark, scruffy facial hair, button-down shirts and jeans fiddle with the sound system andtheir instruments a bass and a guitar.

Aside from the sound checks onstage, the hummingof coffee drinks being made, and the occasionalannouncement of completed sandwich orders,the CoHois quiet on this Thursday night,circa eight in the evening.

A focused blond boy does work on his MacBook inthe corner.An older man sitting at the counter quietlyreads a novel.A couple sits close together,sharing a pas-try.

And then the overhead lighting is dimmed.Pleasant,acoustic music fills the shop.

The CoHo emits a cozy aura with its mismatchedsofas and rustic tables.The walls are covered by smatter-

ings of whimsical artwork close up paintings of facesthat resemble the cover of Super Size Me,a still life ofa coffee mug and caricatures of famous Stanford-affili-ated people, from Reese Witherspoon to Robin Lopez.

A television in the background blares theNorthwestern-Illinois basketball game. On the other set,Anderson Cooper is discussing the Rihanna and ChrisBrown saga.

The duo onstage finishes their first song, a numberabout being free, being everything. They chuckle

to each other and sip from their bottled water.Four of their friends have arrived one girland three boys and sit at a table directly infront of the stage.

Hows everybody doing tonight?asks the guitarist/lead singer, speaking in araspy voice.Are we distracting you or is this

good for studying? Thats what were here for, toup that GPA.

No one responds.The two converse for a briefmoment,and then begin to play a cover of DontLet Me Down by the Beatles. The bassist scans

the crowd slowly while the guitarist closes his eyes,feeling the music.It appears that the concert is merely a backdrop to

the bustle of the CoHo workers and relative distracted-ness of the clientele. Twenty or so people are sprinkledthroughout the shop, and only a handful seems to bepaying attention to the live music.

An eclectic mix of people comes through the door.Four students carrying red cups walk in a straight linethrough the shop. Another group wearing neon Velcro

reflectors and flashing red bike lights enters. Graduatestudents, perhaps?

The band onstage plays several original pieces, a fewLed Zeppelin covers, and closes with a rendition of theBee Gees To Love Somebody. They announce thatthey are Tom and Rick, collectively known as thePernikoff Brothers, and begin to pack up their instru-ments.

The Northwestern-Illinois game has long ended in anarrow 60-59 victory for the Fighting Illini. Conferencerivals St. Marys and Gonzaga now occupy the ESPNscreen, and it is 36-36 at halftime. CNN breaking newsannounces that a plane has crashed in Buffalo, NewYork.

There is a nine oclock rush at the CoHo,and a linefive or six deep has formed at the register. The fronttables have filled in anticipation for the next act.

A group of chipper students works on a problem setwhile eating pizza. A man returns to another group withwhat appears to be a deliciously rich slice of chocolatecake.A girl sitting alone looks around anxiously, clearlywaiting for someone to arrive.

By EMILY RIALSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Making the most of your Stanford expe-rience is no easy task. The campus isbig, the pressure to perform well aca-demically can feel overwhelming andthere are so many events that its near-

ly impossible to take advantage of every opportunitythat presents itself.

Consider, for a moment, what it might be like tonavigate Stanfords campus if you cant use your legsto push the pedals.Consider trying to find a classroomif you cant see signs on the doors, or trying to attendsocial gatherings if you cant hear the words yourpeers are speaking.

Stanford is a university openly committed todiversity.There are theme houses,student groups andcommunity centers dedicated to providing resourcesto those interested in talking about issues of sex,reli-gion and race. Discussion of disability, however, israrely as open.

Regardless of discussion, the issue remains thatthere are students and faculty on campus who workand study, and also happen to have physical and/orsensory disabilities.Consider this story a step toward amore open dialogue about this oft-overlooked area ofdiversity:

The Office of Accessible Education (OAE) is theplace from which disability-related resources are dis-tributed and accommodations are allotted. Servicesoffered by the OAE vary based on a students partic-ular set of needs, and different services are providedthrough different resource centers.

The Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC),for example, has the stated goal of provid[ing] stu-dents with equal access to all facets of university life:education, housing, recreation and extracurricularactivities.

Through the SDRC,students can arrange for any-thing from exam accommodations to housing accom-modations, from note-taking service to oral or signlanguage interpretation.The SDRC is also responsiblefor the student-run DisGo golf cart service, whichgives free rides to students whose mobility is limitedbecause of permanent disability or temporary injury.

The Schwab Learning Center, the AssistiveLearning Technology Center, and the Center forUniversal Design in Education are other OAE-runcenters for students, offering accessible technologyand learning resources for those who need them.

How do these resources and services,then, help thestudents and faculty who use them? What otherresources and services might be missing?

Classes are relatively straightforward, saidRachel Kolb 12.Social events are more difficult .

Kolb hails from New Mexico and is interested inpursuing a major in English. She is also Deaf; shewears a hearing aid in each ear, but relies on lip read-ing and interpreters to understand spoken English.

Kolb uses sign language interpreters in all her classesand to help her in her extracurricular activities sherides for the equestrian team.

The [S]DRC is really great,she said, noting howthe center is responsible for arranging for the interpre-tation services she needs. The challenge is whensomething comes up last minute, and its hard to getinterpreters. People dont always understand I needadvance notice.

Still,Kolb described her freshman experience so faras fairly typical.

I think sometimes my Deafness makes it harder,she admitted. Lip reading works fine in one-on-oneinteractions, but the problem comes when more thantwo people are talking.

I cant follow whats going on, she added. This

can make attending parties and other extemporane-ous social events difficult.

And while she feels the Stanford community hasbeen very open to her, Kolb acknowledged that someare less receptive.

[Some] dont think beyond the normal,she said.They want me to do things their way, but this is theway it is for me, and I need to do things my way.

Julia Feinberg 11, an ethics in society major, getsaround campus using a power wheelchair. She wasborn with Type II Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a neuro-muscular disease that has affected her muscle devel-

opment.Awareness about disability resources on campus is

extremely low, Feinberg said.Whenever people saydiversity, [disability] is not really included.

In her senior year of high school,Feinberg complet-ed a massive research project focused on assessing theaccessibility of 15 universities and colleges in andaround Philadelphia. She based her evaluation oneverything from access to dormitories to the height atwhich lab equipment was stored to the presence ofstaircase alternatives, like ramps.

Stanford is very good for a private school, shesaid.Its a big campus,so its spread out. . . and its aflat campus.

Stanfords physical size, she explained, allows theUniversity space to build new, accessible buildings space that physically smaller colleges lack.

Feinberg mentioned a few areas in whichStanfords accessibility could be improved for her andothers in similar situations.

Automatic doors are put in on an as-neededbasis,she said. Even when you do request it,it takesat least four to six weeks.

And sometimes when automatic doors are addedto a building, the accessible entrance is in the back.

People are always more than willing to open adoor, Feinberg said, [but] I shouldnt have to goaround to the back entrance or be dependent on oth-ers to simply enter a building.

Other structural barriers, like a lack of ramps orelevators, make things difficult for those in wheel-chairs. Some public spaces, like the upper level ofMemorial Auditorium, remain unreachable by thosein wheelchairs.Even the residential buildings with ele-vators are not necessarily fully accessible, either. TheBranner elevator, for example, only moves betweentwo of the dorms three floors.

The problem is that there shouldnt solely beaccess to academics, but also socializing and being apart of your dorm community,Feinberg said.This isa clear example of where structural barriers can take ahuge toll in ones interactions with others if the dormresidents are not conscious of this limitation and[dont] make an additional effort to include the personin dorm activities.

Overall, one of Feinbergs main concerns seems tobe awareness of issues surrounding disability onStanfords campus.She noted that there is a group forstudents with disabilities on campus that is looking formembers.She also finds hope in the creation of a com-

mittee to look into disability issues and resources oncampus.Theres starting to be growing awareness in the

[Stanford] administration,Feinberg said.

Lecturer Cathy Haas is one person who has playedan integral role in increasing administration awarenessabout disability-related issues. Haas,who lost her hear-ing following a bout of scarlet fever when she was two,has been teaching American Sign Language (ASL) atStanford for over 30 years. She also serves as theAdvisor for the Disability Staff Forum, which helpsfacilitate communication between individuals at

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Ken Scott 56, professor emeritusof law and business,is a leading schol-ar in the fields of corporate financereform and corporate governance,and he has commented widely on thefinancial crisis. The Daily spoke withScott about the reasons behind thefinancial crisis,who is at fault and howthe government should react.

The Stanford Daily (SD): Who inyour opinion got us into this mess?The media has been ragging on thefinance industry and blaming themfor taking too many gambles and notdoing proper risk management. Butmany economists are saying that thegovernment is at fault too for keepinginterest rates so low for so long andnot regulating the finance industryenough.Where do you think the spec-trum of fault lies?

Ken Scott (KS): Well, when you startasking why, it can be infinite regress.You can go back almost indefinitely;to pick a starting point, I would picktwo events: one would be theresponse of the Fed to the dot-combubble burst in 2001. Then, the stockmarket dropped and there was a fearthat this [might lead onward]. TheFed was looking at what happened inJapan from 1989,the Japanese bubbleburst. It lasted the better part of 10years. They actually moved into aperiod of deflation,no lending and nogrowth and so on. The Fed reactedvery strongly to that fear.They moved

the Fed Funds Rate from 5.5 percentto one percent in a year and a half.The real cost of money was negative,once you factored in inflation.

So guess what? Banks borrowed

from the Fed. Money supply expand-ed and the grounds were laid for laterinflation. But the grounds were alsolaid for flooding the entire economywith liquidity. Everybody was gettingcheap money and leverage was goingup all across the economy becausedebt was so cheap cheaper thanequity, obviously. The debt-to-equityratio moved; everything got moreleveraged and risky.That was true ofhousing as well.

The other factor is that the formu-la for prosperity around the world,inAsia in particular, was changing.Countries such as China, Japan andKorea were exporting to the U.S.Thiswas great for our consumers, whowere paying for those goods in dol-lars.But the Asian governments,par-ticularly the Chinese, had this hugeinflow of dollars,which was sustainingeconomic growth in their country.They used their dollar reserves to buyU.S. Treasury debt and that too kept

interest rates low in this country.So you had a period of very lowinterest rates, and one of the productsthat is most sensitive to the cost ofmoney is housing, because most peo-ple are buying houses with largeamounts of debt and small amountsof equity. The result was that as theprice of money went down, as theprice of mortgages went down, thedemand and price for housing wentup.If you look at the data for the firstpart of this century, from say about2001, the value of houses just startedclimbing. From 2001 to 2006, thehousing market increased by 50 per-

cent. Thats a hell of a rate of return.But when you see an exponential

growth curve one thing you can besure is that it cant keep going.Its gotto level off somewhere.

Then you had a government policythat was making it worse, which wascalled promote home ownership,which was translated into promoteaffordable housing,which was trans-lated into little or no down payment.So Fannie and Freddie were constant-ly being pushed by Congress to makemore and more affordable housingloans. This has been going on for 15years or so by the time the housingmarket burst. By then, 40 percent ofyour loans that were securitized wereaffordable housing loans, whichmeant from very low or zero downpayment to not placing much empha-sis on income and ability to repaywhen evaluating home buyers.

Eventually, the private sector jumped in too and was also makingsub-prime loans in competition withFannie and Freddie. But where wasthe money coming from in the privatesector? Now you get into securitiza-tion.You securitize by putting several

thousand mortgages into a pool.Youdont sell the pool directly toinvestors you create tranches.Andthe triple-A tranches are now sup-posed to be very safe even thoughthey are based on crummy mortgages because they have the first claim topayment flow.SD: Lets move to government reac-tion and bailout plans. Many ideashave been thrown around the bad-banks plan,mailing checks to the con-sumer, insuring the mortgages ofhomeowners. Which in your opinion

STUDENT GOVT

Senate stalls on election bills

By MARISA LANDICHOSENIOR STAFF WRITER

By the third hour of last nights UndergraduateSenate meeting,the session sputtered to a halt as atten-

dees contested the legislative legitimacy of two ASSUelection bills.Budget concerns and financing colored allaspects of the meeting as the Senate struggled to furtherspecify funding priorities.

At the center of debate were two bills intended toreform the election process. Senators Luukas Ilves 09and Stuart Baimel 09 questioned the constitutionalityof the bills.

Revived from a meeting two weeks ago,the first billproposed making ASSU public funds available to stu-dents campaigning for office. The second bill, with con-siderable backing from the Graduate Student Council(GSC), called for the institution of a cap on electionsspending.

Baimel, who serves as columns editor for The Daily,felt that the Senate was given insufficient notice of thespending cap bill, and said he was blindsided by theproposal.

Citing the two-month time frame, Ilves, a Dailycolumnist,argued that the bill was poorly conceived andcould not be instituted as written.

[The bill] isnt something you introduce a monthand a half before the elections,he said. This is reckless,this is irresponsible, and its cavalier with how we con-duct the democratic process.

Chemical engineering graduate student and GSCmember Ryan Peacock was frustrated with what heviewed as stalling over technicalities.

Your job is to legislate,he said. If we are not goingto bother to vote on bills for all these different reasons,its ridiculous.

Because the spending cap bill is to be voted on by theGSC tonight, Peacock was against drawing out debateover the bill for another few weeks.

After half an hour,both sides agreed to hold a meet-ing before the GSC meeting to amend the bills lan-

guage, as suggested by ASSU Vice President FaganHarris 09.

In the midst of election reform, election season for-mally began on Monday night and 31 people havealready registered their candidacies for UndergraduateSenate on the election petitions website, according toElections Commissioner Briana Tatum 11.

With the much-reduced budget nearing finalization,the rest of the night focused on budget advocacy. Thenight opened with a combined plea from community

center s upporters.Members of student groups in support of the Asian

American Activities Center, the Black CommunityServices Center, El Centro Chicano, the LGBTCommunity Resources Center, the Native AmericanCultural Center and the Womens Community Centergave a presentation highlighting the purpose and bene-fits of the centers.

Besides cultural programming and academicresources,the group emphasized the role of communitycenters in promoting mental health.Their argument wasbacked by the Mental Health and Well-Being TaskForce Report released in October 2008, which includedrecommendations for providing sufficient resources toethnic and community centers.

Notably, community centers have already beenincluded in the ASSUs broader budget advocacy slatesince the end of January.

ASSU President Jonny Dorsey 09 emailed a petitionto the student body on Jan.28 publicizing the four pillarsto be lobbied: community centers, academics, mentalhealth and frontline staff. The executives presentedthese areas to the administration, which has taken theadvice into consideration.

Even with this assurance,the community center sup-

porters felt a presentation to the Senate was necessaryto cement student support.Having institutional memory of how budget cuts

work,we just wanted to make sure to advocate this timeso that we dont get left behind, said Ashley Anderson09, co-president of the Black Student Union (BSU).

Referencing cuts from previous economic downturnsin the 70s and early 90s, Anderson and Melissa Morales09 stated fears of additional cuts above and beyond the

Election and fiscal policies occupySenate for three-hour meeting

A conversation onObamas stimulus

house move-in date and the NSOalcohol policy are certainly not unre-lated.

We look at these discretely,shesaid,but they are connected.

The AAB will begin its review ofthe NSO alcohol policy in particularnext week.

Assistant Director of ResidentialEducation Nate Boswell, who over-sees the Row, explained that reasonsfor the Rows early move-in date arenow obsolete.

There was no operational needto have the Row open to all upper-class students [before NSO],Boswell said.

In a released statement,Boardman similarly noted there isno compelling reason for the Rowsearly opening. Postponing the Rowmove-in date makes it consistentwith all other upperclass dorms andwill reduce the number of alcohol-related risks.

Row house staff members, inaddition to residents who gain uni-versity approval, will still beallowed to move in early. The policy

applies to all university-ownedhouses. There is currently no con-clusion, however, for private titlehouses, including Sigma Chi andChi Theta Chi.

When asked if Santa ClaraCountys new ordinance for under-age drinking from whichStanford was exempt for the timebeing because of its own oversight influenced the AABs recom-mendation, Castro acknowledgedthat there was some correlation.

Its not a direct influence, hesaid, but its definitely somethingthat is on our minds.

It is an opportunity to show duediligence on Stanfords part,Bakkegard added.

At last nights meeting,the AABshared its recommendation withRow managers.The managers wereinformed in part so they couldshare the new policy with residents.The co-chairs admitted, however,that the recommendation will notlikely have a significant effect onthe Draw,especially due to the newDraw policies this year.

I would think it would havevery little impact,Bakkegard said.The landscape for housing will bevery different next year anyway.

Lindsay Caldwell 09, a residen-tial assistant (RA) in Durand, said

most students in attendance did notreact strongly to the announcement.

I think people understand therationale,Caldwell said. The ques-tion was: Is this the start of a lotmore changes?

Nate Hardison 09,who currentlylives in Casa Italiana,said he has notalways taken advantage of the earlymove-in date, even though it wasavailable.

The only years I came backearly were when I was a peer mentorand a residential assistant, he said.Under the new policy,peer mentorsand RAs will still be able to move inearly.

While the new policy may seemmore of a logistical issue withregard to move-in, administratorsacknowledged its contributiontoward reducing poor drinkingbehavior during NSO.Castro recog-nized, however, that the change inthose few days of orientation is onlyone step toward addressing alcoholabuse on campus throughout theyear.

Do I think it will cure all ourproblems? Castro asked of theAAB recommendation.No, but itsa step in the right direction.

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Ken Scott speaks on economic crisis

changed in the past few years aboutthe acknowledged importance ofdealing with the issue and makingforward progress, and a realizationthat the carbon tax would be themost effective tool to really addressit,Hennessy said.

But Koseff was less enthusiasticin his analysis.

The fact that he recognized theimportance of doing something

about it . . . that recognition is prob-ably the most important and promis-ing thing Ive heard today, he said.

Another point that resonatedwith Koseff was Tillersons emphasison the long-term nature of findingsolutions for global energy prob-lems.

What we need is a nationalenergy policy that transcends gov-ernments, that transcends the periodof time of people in the legislature,Koseff said. We have to think long-

term and we have to follow throughon it. But on the other hand, long-term doesnt mean we can procrasti-nate. We have to start now.

Hennessy was also pleased with along-term approach.

Its not a 10- or 20-year prob-lem, which is why we got involvedwith GCEP and started the PrecourtInstitute [for Energy],he said. Wedont start an institute for a one-yearproblem; we start an institute for a50-year problem.

Following the lecture, FranklinOrr, director of the Precourt Institute,led a question-and-answer session.Several audience members asked

sharply pointed questions regardingExxonMobils role in the failed U.S.signing of the Kyoto Treaty.

One question regarding drillingin the U.S.brought some disgruntledstares from the audience but seemedto motivate the Exxon CEO.

The U.S. has a rich resourceendowment that has not been fullyexplored or tapped, and it seemsirresponsible to me if our govern-ment at a time when were havingthese energy issues to withhold

these resources from the Americancitizens, Tillerson said. Theybelong to you and me.

Tillerson focused extensively onthe need for continued research anddevelopment in the area of global

energy resources. He emphasizedthat Exxon carried out extensiveresearch in the field both within thecompany and through donations togroups such as GCEP.

Theres one element that shouldunite every stage of our efforts toattain our shared energy and envi-ronmental goals, he said, and thatelement is technology.

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chance to implement the proposal hewants.

But Malhotra emphasized thatpublic support for the recovery pack-age is highly sensitive to the price tag.

Unfortunately, the sensitivity tothe one-trillion-dollar threshold is apolitical reason for why the optimaleconomic policy may not have beenpassed,Malhotra said.

He suggested that Obama con-sciously decided not to push for morethan a trillion dollars because of thepossible public fall-out.

Adding to the list of weaknessesin the stimulus package,Bhattacharya noted that certain com-ponents of the bill seem to contradictone another. He was especially criti-cal of federal funding marked forhealthcare.

It is not so much [that] this partwill stimulate the economy in anyparticular way, he said.On the con-trary, its likely to result in a drag inthe sense that it will tend to increase

unemployment.What Bhattacharya refers to is the

federal governments aim to provideinsurance coverage for individuals

who have lost their jobs.According tothe professor, this goal involves twopolicies: expanding the ConsolidatedOmnibus Budget Reconciliation Act(COBRA) and providing an $87 bil-lion bailout of state Medicaid pro-grams.

COBRA is a program wherepeople who lose their jobs and havehealth insurance can continue to pur-chase health insurance from their oldemployer for up to 18 months whiletheyre unemployed, Bhattacharyasaid. Theyre going to subsidize 65percent of the premium that theseunemployed people pay . . . thats asignificant expansion of the COBRAprogram because, before, the govern-ment didnt subsidize anything.

At the same time, more individu-als will qualify for Medicaid becauseof increased health care funding.

Bhattacharya said the two pro-grams are not stimulatory in nature,but instead act as government trans-fers to people who are unemployedor not even looking for work. Andwhile providing healthcare coverageis a worthwhile pursuit,he noted thatsacrifices must be made to realize thisobjective.

If you put these together,its like-

ly to substantially decrease the num-ber of uninsured people despite therecession, Bhattacharya said. Thetradeoff is that its likely to reduce

incentives for employment. You dontwant people uninsured or withoutaccess to healthcare, but if you pro-vide them insurance conditioned ontheir not working, then that lowersthe costs of unemployment.

Malhotra added that some highlystimulatory polices got the ax duringnegotiations.According to Malhotra,a significant portion of educationfunding and direct money to thestates was stripped out, even thoughthese policies would have the desiredstimulus effect.

You see a lot of support shiftingwhen the proposal is framed as pre-venting a collapse versus boosting theeconomy, Malhotra added. Ifyouve notice what Obama is doing,hes taking on a very alarmist stance,trying to scare people. And I wouldsuggest that thats very effective.

But Malhotra contended thatObama could have very well askedfor more money during negotiations,given his popularity with theAmerican public.

He has a lot of political capital,Malhotra said.Spending political cap-ital means you dont have it anymore,but thats the dual edge . . . youve gotto spend some political capital thats

going to make you unpopular.

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In my last column,I shared a few tidbits I hadlearned in the long 10 years between col-lege and returning to graduate school.

While I continue to insist that I dont knowmuch in the grand scheme of things, I fortu-nately do know more than can fit in a single

800-word piece.And so,dear reader,I offer youmore nuggets of wisdom nuggets I know tobe solid gold because they have personallyclunked me on the head.

Some lost souls go to purgatory.Others go tolaw school.

As my college graduation approached,I re-alized I had no idea what I wanted to do. I wasmajoring in electrical engineering,which wasfun, but I didnt want to get out of school andgo right back to sitting at a lab bench.I had al-ways enjoyed history and political philosophy,and fancied going abroad a bit,so I applied tomasters programs in European intellectualhistory at Oxford and Cambridge.

Strangely enough, they both turned medown flat. I still hold fast to my belief that itmust have been because their admission com-mittees were populated with haughty,tea-sip-ping,America-hating Brits,rather than the factthat my transcript was dominated by classeswith titles like Electromagnetic Communica-tionand Advanced Processor Architecture.

Now at a complete loss,I clung to the near-

est, most obvious anchor I could find out offear and uncertainty. I decided I would go tolaw school and become a patent lawyer. Itmade sense. I had an engineering degree.Patent law was a stable,honorable professionthat would provide for my yet-to-know wifeand allow me to send my yet-to-be-born chil-dren to the right preschools.I could explain the

job to my parents! Lawyers worked in big,shiny office buildings and got invited to luxuryskyboxes at Yankee Stadium by their corpo-rate clients!

The decision was so utterly sensible it over-whelmed the fact thatI had no interest whatso-ever in actually practicing patent law, a profes-sion that involves endless hours of generatinglegal documents.I fortunately pulled out of thenosedive and swore off law school, but onlyafter taking the LSAT twice.

Please understand:I love the idea of study-ing law. I think it is a fascinating subject, andlearning it helps us understand the structure ofour society.If you want to tackle great consti-tutional issues, work for international justice,help defend the most downtrodden membersof our society or experience the challenge oflitigating in a courtroom,then law school maybe perfect for you.

The key to enjoying law school and your ca-reer afterward,however,is (shockingly) an ac-

tual interest in practicing law. This may notseem a terribly profound point,but it certainlyis lost on hordes of directionless undergradu-ates who flock to legal education like lem-mings pouring over a cliff.

The analogy is an imperfect one,however,

for the lemmings suffering is brief.The haplesslaw students, devoid of any real direction inwhich to channel their education, will die aslow death at large corporate law firms,as theypore over the documents involved in meat-packing company As acquisition of meatpack-ing company B.

The moral:Applying to law school is easy,asis following the recruiting funnel into consult-ing or investment banking. But you shouldprobably avoid the easy route unless you have,or at least strongly think you have,an actual in-terest in the field.

Now perhaps youre thinking, Ah hah, Inever planned to go to law school.Im a com-puter science type with actual skills, and Imgoing to make my fortune in Silicon Valley.Well,I have some sobering news . . .

That startup youre joining is not the nextGoogle

Okay, it might be. But the odds are smallenough that joining a startup as an employee inthe hopes of getting stock lucky is not a greatinvestment.As,say,the 20th employee at Blue-

Zoozle.com,you will be extremely fortunate toobtain 0.25 or 0.5 percent of an equity share inthe company.

Now lets say, after five years of 80-hourweeks,BlueZoozle is acquired by Rupert Mur-dochs News Corporation for $100 million, avery handsome result for a startup.(Most failor limp along as zombies. Ones like Mi-crosoft or Google that make millionaires outof ordinary employees are very,very rare).

Your equity share assuming it was neverdiluted by further investments will earn you$250,000 to $500,000.A nice little payoff, ex-cept for the fact that its roughly equal to theextra salary you would have made over fiveyears if you had worked for a large companyinstead of a startup.

The moral:If you want to make it big with astartup,you probably want to try to found yourown.The odds are still against you, but if youdo succeed, chances are youll retain enoughequity five, 10,20 percent to make life-chang-ing money. Otherwise, its not worth workingfor a startup as an employee unless and thisis a recurring theme you actually enjoy thework.

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For many years, Professor William De-ments popular lecture course Sleepand Dreams (PSYC 135) has given

Stanford students a framework for under-standing how sleep affects their daily lives.Theclass which tackles everything from sleepdebt to sleep disorders, circadian rhythms tosleepwalking has a reputation for being si-multaneously engaging and undemanding.Many students who have taken Sleep andDreams say they enrolled either out of gen-uine interest or simply to satisfy the naturalscience general education requirement(GER).

As a result, the Senate Subcommittee onGERs hit a nerve among Stanford studentswhen it voted to strip Sleep and Dreamsofits GER status. This decision, which will be-come effective in fall 2009,prompted Dementto launch an email campaign urging studentsto vote in an online Stanford Daily poll thatthey would not take his course if the GER nolonger applied.When the poll closed, 679 of805 voters (or about 84 percent) had statedthat the lack of a GER would be a deal-break-er for them.And while the poll is not necessar-ily representative of the student bodys truebeliefs, due to its unscientific nature and De-ments broadly disseminated appeal, there islittle doubt that fewer students will takeSleep and Dreams if its GER status is per-manently revoked.

Since Dement has indicated his willingnessto alter some of the course content in accor-dance with GER standards, the editorialboard believes a compromise can and shouldbe reached.Dement should modify the coursematerial to make the class more substantive,and Sleep and Dreams should continue tofulfill the natural science GER.The informa-tion covered in the class is non-trivial to besure, given that sleep deprivation and disor-ders are estimated to cost Americans morethan $100 billion annually in lost productivity,medical expenses and sick leave, as well asproperty and environmental damage, accord-

ing to the National Sleep Foundation. More-over,car accidents due to driver sleepiness ac-

count for tens of thousands of crashes on U.S.highways each year.Students who take Sleepand Dreams not only benefit from a deeperunderstanding of brain function and neuro-logical controls, but may also think twice be-fore pulling an all-nighter or driving whiledrowsy.

Furthermore, it appears that Sleep andDreams has been unfairly singled out due toits popularity,not because it is unique in fa llingshort of GER standards.The editorial board isaware of several classes with reputations sim-ilar to that of Dements class that continue tosatisfy various GERs.It seems strange to drawthe line at Sleep and Dreamsonly because itserves as a glaring example of a wider phe-nomenon. The Senate Subcommittee onGERs should be more transparent about itsstandards and seek to apply them with greaterconsistency.

From the standpoint of the editorial board,a revamped Sleep and Dreams should re-tain its GER status in order to give studentsthe option of taking a science-based coursethat is not overly intimidating to fuzzies.GERs are integral to the development of thewell-rounded Stanford student,and loweringthe standard too far renders them meaning-less. Still,it is crucial to provide a broad rangeof courses that appeal to students at everypoint on the techie-fuzzy spectrum.

Many students regard Sleep and Dreamsas an academic highlight in their undergradu-ate careers, and Stanford has an obligation toensure that the class is refashioned in a waythat satisfies GER standards.After all,should-nt the maximum number of future Stanfordstudents have the opportunity to cherishmemories of their visit with the narcolepticdog and bonus points earned for falling asleepduring lecture? While revoking the GER forPSYC 135 will notpreventanyone from takingthe class, it is worthwhile to maintain an av-enue for students to fulfill the natural scienceGER while taking a class they find interestingand fun.And if increasing the rigor and scien-

tific content of the class can accomplish that,students will ultimately benefit.

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Its a new day at least, according towill.i.am. I dont know about you, butwhen someone teleports into the CNN

newsroom and starts speaking,I listen.So, even as the global economy collapses

and our planet corrodes into a noxious waste-land, the good news is that racism is over inAmerica! Baby, it doesnt matter if youreblack or white Michael Jackson has longsince evolved into his own species, and therest of us are discovering true equality in allbeing equally screwed.

Thats right, white people. Country clubsarent cool any more, and the only personlooking good in J. Crew is Michelle Obama.

Doubtless the end of white societal hege-mony is a good thing, especially consideringthat the most significant cultural contribu-tions by Caucasian Americans recently havebeen sweaters for dogs and crystal meth.

Still, there are bound to be some hard feel-ings. White people used to be a big deal inAmerica, and now theyre just like everyoneelse. Havent you seen Gran Torino?

Nowadays, white people are divided intotwo camps: those who check Stuff White

People Like on a regular basis, and thosewho throw Tupperware parties.

This first kind of white person feels con-flicted. She wants to frolic joyously into theglorious post-racial future, but even morethan that,she wants to be part of a milieu thatdoesnt celebrate chastity balls.

Hail, overzealous yuppie Caucasian, andembrace me as your true sister! But alas,weare both deluded. The authors of Stuff WhitePeople Likewant to convince us that the re-morse and ethnic longing that dictates ourhobbies and tastes is the basis of a legitimateculture, and we let them.

Its time we be honest with ourselves.To bewhite and self-respecting in America rightnow is to doubt ones self. And if you dontknow who you are, how do you know whatyou actually enjoy?

What follows is a list admittedly quiteincomplete of stuff that white people areambivalent about. I cant say its going to helpyou any,but if theres anything white peoplelove right now, its reading about themselves.Here we go.

1. Other white peopleDont worry were not like the rest of

them. Im Jewish.Youre one-fourth Scandi-

navian,three-eighths French,two-sixths Irishand 6.25 percent Cherokee.And having suc-cessfully linked your whiteness to a culturaltradition of oppression and/or socialism,youare now free to identify any remaining whiteacquaintances and treat them with appropri-ate contempt.

Kevin Webb,for instance,is one of the fewinexorably white people I know, and thoughhe owns only 50 percent of this column, he isby default 100 percent responsible for thehavoc that white people have wreaked uponAmerica.

Feel free to email him with your com-plaints about Fox News, NASCAR and thecontinued production of The Hills. He willtake a break from smoking cigars and drink-ing bourbon to smile patronizingly and prom-ise to put you in touch with his [white] peo-ple.

Because I know that none of that has any-thing to do with us.At least, Im pretty sure.

2. RussiaUninterrupted substance abuse.Artificial-

ly and unconvincingly blond women.A

rich history of bigotry against ethnic and cul-tural minorities. These are just three of themany things that rural America and Russiahave in common.Yet for some reason,the for-mer territory is our heartland,while the lat-ter remains a global nuclear threat.

There must be something to be said of acountry that manages to crank out phone-book-length tomes on a regular basis,though,right? (Or maybe they just havent discov-ered YouTube yet.) After all, white people be-lieve firmly in the transcendent power of lit-erature to really bring people together.

Still, its pretty bad how Russians goaround wearing fur all the time.On the otherhand, who are we to try to impose our ownmores on a culture we dont entirely under-stand?

3. ConsumerismOMG,have you bought the new ninja war-

rior app for the iPhone 3G? Neither have I,because buying stuff is so indulgent and need-lessly wasteful.

But in times like these, shouldnt we be

promoting technological innovation andboosting the American economy? Sure weshould, which is why I just bought the pastthree seasons of 30 Rock on Amazon. I

promise to recycle them when Im done,andto build an orphanage in a third-world coun-

try with my bare hands as penance.I still feel terrible about it, though.

4. Britney Spears/Lindsay Lohan/JessicaSimpson

The fact that these women are apparentlyour only remaining cultural exports goes farto explain the problems in America today.Still, theres something deeply appealingabout the underdog especially if yourewhite and fantasize about being one yourself and if a 20-something multi-billionairestruggling with the expectations of a demand-ing and lecherous public father isnt an under-dog, I dont know who is.

Like the current state of the economy,these starlets collective demise is undeniableproof that ours is a broken and mendacioussocial system. No one is blameless. Which iswhy Jessica Simpsons weight really matters.Apparently.

5. BipartisanshipI mean. . . it was a really great idea.Wasnt

it?

Jenna is ambivalent about both this column andsharingwith Kevin Webb.You can email herat jreback@stanford.edu.

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THE VO I C E O F EXPERIEN CE David Goldbrenner

Legal lemmings

Its time we be honest

with ourselves.

To be white and

self-respecting in

America right now is

to doubt ones self.

Stuff white people areambivalent about

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Stanford with and without disabili-ties through workshops, speakerevents and lunch meetings.

Professors with disabilities geton the forum and try to help increaseaccessibility [on campus], Haas saidthrough an ASL interpreter.

Haas came to Stanford in 1975 todo research with Koko the gorilla,helping to teach the ape to sign.When a medical school professor

asked Haas to teach sign language tohis students, she agreed.

The students kept pestering me[after that], she said.They wantedto learn sign language.

When Haas originallyapproached the linguistics depart-ment about a job,however, she foundthat her interviewer was resistant tothe idea of hiring a Deaf teacher forthe proposed ASL classes.

I was just in shock, she said.This is my language and my culture you wouldnt hire someone whowasnt fluent in the Swedish lan-guage to teach Swedish!

Haas persistence won out in theend, and she has been teaching ASLclasses through Stanfords SpecialLanguage Program ever since.

Weve added research and lin-guistics, Deaf awareness, Deaf clubsand activities, she said.Things real-ly started to take off.

Teaching has helped Haas devel-

op a keener awareness of thoseissues facing community memberswith disabilities, and she in turn pass-es her understanding on to her stu-dents. Teaching in a university set-ting, she explained, allows both stu-dents and faculty members torespect each others cultures andget a better education.

Nicole Torcolini 12 lost her sightwhen she was four years old. Now afreshman, she is determined to majorin computer science.

Her decision to attend Stanfordwas motivated by its accommodatingservices for the disabled.

Most important was the qualityof the Office of AccessibleEducation, she said. Some of thecolleges that I looked at had a prettygood office,but they just werent pre-pared to do the math and the science,which are my strong points.

Torcolini makes use of the OAEboth to help make class work acces-sible to her and to help her get to andfrom classes.

If the materials are not in anaccessible format, [the OAE] will

translate them into a document I canread, she said.

Torcolini and her guide dog,Lexia, also take advantage of theSDRCs DisGo golf cart service tonavigate Stanfords sprawling cam-pus.

I use [DisGo] almost every day,she said. Theyre a wonderful serv-ice.

Torcolini cites evening and week-end transportation as resources shewishes were available. DisGo ridesare only offered from 8:10 a.m. to5:10 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Anything extra, like extra studysessions, is scheduled after [those]

hours, so its hard to get there, shesaid.

Limited transportation service,however, hasnt proven too great adeterrent.

I know my way around, shesaid.If its not too far, Ill go myself.

Torcolini, like Feinberg andHaas, is also involved with trying toraise awareness of issues affectingthe blind community at Stanfordand beyond.Recently,Torcolini cre-ated an online petition, which sheintends to send to Walt DisneyPictures,asking the company to pri-oritize the distribution of extraaudio files on DVDs so blindmoviegoers can enjoy films withtheir friends.

So far, the petition has receivedover 1930 online signatures.

This winter quarter marks thethird year that Lecturer David L.

Jaffe has taught ENGR110/220,Perspectives in AssistiveTechnology. The course centers ondeveloping technology that benefitsdisabled individuals.

The course involves both lecturesand projects.

The projects have to work withpeople with a disability, Jaffe said.Students who want to work on aproject form teams to address a needof someone with a disability.

Project suggestions have comefrom many different sources.

Some of them have been sug-gested by people who live in assis-tive senior-living centers, otherscame from veterans who are at theSpinal Cord Injury Center at the VAPalo Alto Health Care System andothers come from people with dis-abilities in the local area or fromfacilities that serve people with dis-abilities, Jaffe said.

Perspectives in Assistive

Technology was originally gearedtowards mechanical engineering stu-dents. This year, Jaffe is looking toopen the class to students from otherengineering disciplines,from electri-cal engineering to computer science.

The idea would be to have adiverse group of engineers worktogether to solve some big prob-lems, he said.

Susan Nourse09 is a productdesign major who enrolled in theclass this quarter. Her groups proj-ect involves a mechanical solution toa common problem for people inwheelchairs: opening non-automaticdoors.

Education is best when its easi-ly applied, Nourse said.[This class]allows us to commit ourselves tosomething that actually looks like ithas applicability.

The experiences of students andfaculty with physical and sensorydisabilities vary greatly; there is nosingle disabled experience atStanford.Understanding even just afew of the obstacles faced by com-munity members with disabilities,however, can help broaden every-ones perspective as many noted.

And if there can be a consensusreached about the perspectives andexperiences of Stanford studentsand faculty whose lives are affectedby physical or sensory disabilities,the take-home message might bethis: be aware and be respectful ofthose around you.

You need to treat me like a nor-

mal person,because thats what I aminside, Kolb said.But also realize Ido need help sometimes.

Contact Emily Rials at ekrials@stan-ford.edu.

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is the most feasible and will be themost effective?KS:What you do forhomeowners/borrowers is a sepa-rate issue. That does not fix thefinancial system problem. So regardthat as a separate problem.

What to do for the banks: Youdont want to make capital invest-ments in institutions that are

already bankrupt/insolvent. Butsince you dont know the value ofassets, you have problems drawingthe line between banks that are stillsolvent and the ones that are not.For the banks that are insolvent if you put in capital youre just giv-ing money to stockholders that tookbets and lost. And no economywants to subsidize losing ventures.You will fund solvent banks andsome will inevitably go bust, but thepoint there is that you want to makeyour money do the most good.

When you move over to thehome borrower side of it, it seems tome that the analogy is somewhatsimilar. The people who boughthouses with other peoples money-their own down payment waszero, who were simply making betsthat the housing prices would keepincreasing should not be bailedout by the taxpayer. Theres onething you can do for them; they

were just renting a house for two orthree years and the rental paymentwas the low initial payment of themortgage. At the end of that time,they were going to either re-financeor walk away. Its essentially a call-option on a house.

But if they go through foreclo-sure, its at a cost to them and at acost to the bank. Certain states havelaws that make foreclosure a long,messy and expensive event.My sug-gestion [is for] the lender to give theborrower a contract whereby theborrower signs over the property,and the lender lends the property tothe borrower with the option ofbuying it at the end of a few years.Again, like the insolvent bank, theborrower who took a cheap gambleand lost it does not deserve to havemoney poured on him by the tax-payer.

To read the full text of The Dailysinterview with Prof. Scott,please visitwww.stanforddaily.com.

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After a 15-minute interimbetween acts, the next musician, a

jolly-looking boy wearing a blazer,begins to sing without notice. Hemakes up the lyrics on the spot.

Greetings, everyone, he saysafter the piece. My name isAndrew Plan.That was sound checksong No. 23. It will never be playedagain.

Plan 10 seems to have drawn a

sizeable crowd. Sixty-plus peoplenow fill the CoHo, many of whomappear to be there just for the con-cert.

Between songs, he banters com-fortably with the crowd, asking hisfans how they prefer his hair, anddedicating a song to the looming

Singles Awareness Day. Halfwaythrough his set, a spirited percus-sionist and willowy bass player joinhim onstage.

But similar to the earlier act,out-side activity persists. A trio oflacrosse players, still in uniform,comes in for paninis.A couple hold-ing Fraiche containers walksthrough, stopping briefly to watchthe show before turning to leave.

After an hour,the show ends andthe lights come back on. The CoHois suddenly quiet except for thenoise of scattered chatter and an oldBackstreet Boys song playing over-head. Plan fans stick around to chat

and take pictures, and others headhome.A study group is just arriving.

Troy Brant, computer scienceMA 09, regularly studies at theCoHo.

I like the atmosphere here, hesaid. The live music is great. Its abetter alternative to studying at

Meyer, which is kind of drab.Also, Ilive off-campus and its kind of hardto be motivated to study when Imat home.

And students are not the onlyones who reap the benefits of theCoHos live music; the staff mem-bers are equally fond of the shopsfunky atmosphere.

Sometimes they have prettygood concerts, said Juan Ramirez,the CoHo night shift supervisor. Itdefinitely makes the place moreexciting.

Near closing time, Gonzaga hassecured a 72-70 victory and themajority of the crowd has diffused.

But several industrious studentsstay to finish up their final prob-lems, accompanied by flowing cupsof chai tea lattes and steaming hotchocolate.

Contact Caroline Caselli at caro-linecaselli@stanford.edu.

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vocal about those issues.I realized how important it is to

speak out for the problems other peo-ple are facing,for these words will leadto actions, Peate said.

ASSU Executives Jonny Dorsey09 and Fagan Harris 09 said that thecampaign is an important effort

toward raising students awarenessand building a more supportive cam-pus culture. More importantly, theyhope it will generate momentum toadvocate for more positive changes instudent wellness.

Ive been that guy before,Dorsey said. Ive had a friend whosbeen nearing depression, and I havenot always known what to do . . . Wewanted to do something thatll get awhole bunch of people all over cam-pus involved, and making a publicstatement that theyll stand againstthese problems . . . There is behaviorchange in the pledge.It really impactson how you think about your role oncampus.It is a foot in the door to tak-ing action, and it will have biggerimpacts.

We have a responsibility that weprobably havent lived up to in thepast,Harris added.We not only havea stake in these issues, we have aresponsibility to voice our concerns.We have an obligation to work on

them.Harris also noted the importance

of the campaign in light of budget cutsto various campus resources for well-ness.

Its very easy to say we cant makeany progress on these tough issuesbecause the resources just arentthere,he said.We dont have money,we cant add a CAPS counselor thisyear, therefore theres nothing we cando.This campaign rejects this mentali-ty. Even though we are strapped ofresources as a university, now more

than ever, we need to come togetherand see that there are still areas we canmake progress.

Contact Calla Sheng at hsheng@stan-ford.edu.

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likely 15 percent cut across theUniversity.

The Senate was appreciative oftheir input, but pressed the presen-ters to provide more examples ofspecific programs to be saved or cut.

In the past three weeks, theSenate has been attempting to nar-row the original four goals into a listof valuable programs for recom-

mendation to the administration.The GSC has already compiled itsown list, including programs thatcould tolerate larger budget cuts.

From various town halls, a stu-dent expert consultation meetingand input from constituents, thebody considered whether they werein the position to draft a final letter.

We have consulted as many peo-ple as possible, but I think that wehave reached the point that we arein a position to make recommenda-tions of our own, said SenateDeputy Chair Patrick Cordova 09.

Senator Stephanie Chan 11 said

their recommendations should beready by Fridays town hall.

As a last attempt to solicit feed-back, the Senate, in conjunctionwith the Executives, will release anelectronic survey to the studentbody. Senators argued over whetherto include in the survey an opportu-nity to note areas with the potentialfor cutting with opponents citingthe potential for inappropriateattacks on certain departments andprograms but with Director ofthe Office of Student ActivitiesNanci Howe warning the Senatethat time is running out, the body

agreed to solicit all input possibleand funnel as appropriate to theadministration.

Near the close of the meeting,theSenate unanimously approvedFinancial Manager MattMcLaughlin 08 for another term,along with two nominees for theConstitutional Council.

After approving various specialfees funding bills, the Senate meet-ing adjourned, bringing the three-hour meeting to a close.

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By DANNY BELCHSTAFF WRITER

The Stanford mens tennis teampicked up some big victories this week-end at the ITA National Indoor Cham-pionships. The Cardinal left Chicagowith a 2-1 record and a semifinal ap-pearance.

Stanford (6-1) began the tourna-ment with a 4-3 victory over No. 7Florida,followed by a big upset of No.2 Texas,4-3. The Cardinals run endedwith a 4-2 loss in the semifinals againstNo. 3 Georgia. It was Stanfords bestresult at the ITA Indoors since 2004.

Our team is pretty good; we werein the conversation with the best teams

[in the country],said head coach JohnWhitlinger. It shows the guys [that]we can compete with anyone in thecountry. It really makes the guys be-lieve anything is possible now.

In the first round against Florida,Stanford lost the doubles point after atightly contested match at No. 1 dou-bles. After being down early, sopho-more Richard Wire and senior BlakeMuller pulled into a 7-7 tie with Flori-das Joey Burkhardt and Antoine Ben-neteau. Stanford had already lost atNo.3 doubles and the No.2 match wasstill ongoing,so Wire and Muller need-ed to pick up the win. But they couldnot muster enough and fell 9-8,givingthe Gators the 1-0 lead in the match.

Things would be even tighter,how-ever, in singles play. Sophomore AlexClayton and freshman Ryan Thacherpicked up straight-set victories to giveStanford a 2-1 lead. But Floridacharged back with wins at No.2 and 3singles.Wire picked up a big win at No.

5 after going down three sets and thentying the match 3-3, leaving it up toMuller to decide it all.

Muller had fallen in the first set toFloridas Eric Corace,6-4. The secondset was back and forth, and Mullerpulled it out in a tiebreaker, 7-6. Themomentum swung in Mullers favorafter the second set, and he won thethird set 6-3, giving Stanford the 4-3victory.

In Saturdays second round,Stan-ford faced No. 2 Texas. Again, thematch was a close one that would notbe decided until the final singles con-test.

Stanford lost the doubles point forthe second day in a row after Texaswon at No.2 and 3 doubles.In singles,Wire got on the board first for the Car-dinal at No.5 singles to even the match.Clayton would win next over No. 31Dimitar Kutrovsky to make it 2-1 Stan-ford.

After being the hero the day be-fore,Muller could not repeat and fell atNo.6 singles,bringing the match to 2-2.Thacher won at No.4 singles to make it3-2,but senior Matt Bruch lost a third-set tiebreaker at No. 3 singles,and theLonghorns evened it up again,3-3.

So the second day would comedown to the freshman Klahn; and the16th-ranked player in the nationshowed why he deserved his rank,win-ning a tough, three-set match. Afterdropping the first set 6-1,Klahn cameback to win the second set in a longtiebreaker. In the third, his opponentbegan to struggle and cramp, andKlahn jumped on that opportunity tocapture the set,7-5.

It was a gutsy performance,Whitlinger said of Klahns win. Hewas down a set and a break,got downmatch point in the tiebreaker.

Its never over I dont care

what the score is,he continued.Younever know what is going to happen.

In the semifinals, it was the samestart for the Cardinal:Losing the dou-bles point. Bruch and Thacher won atNo.2 doubles, while Klahn and fresh-man Ted Kelly lost at No.3, so it camedown to Wire and Muller again at theNo. 1 spot. A back-and-forth matchwas tied at 8-8,butGeorgias 40th-ranked duo of NateSchnugg and Jamie Hunt outlasted

them to secure the 1-0 advantage in thematch.

The doubles point proved to be abig momentum swing in the match,asStanford could not overcome the 1-0deficit like the two days before.Thacher and Wire won at No.4 and No.5 singles,respectively,to give the Car-dinal a 2-1 lead, but losses by Claytonat No. 1 and sophomore Greg Hirsh-

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Semifinals

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PEPPERDINE, CAL2/20Taube Tennis Center2/21Berkeley

GAME NOTES:The No. 11 mens tennis teamreturns from Chicago this week after a suc-

cessful run to the semifinals in the National

Team Indoor Championships, in which it beattwo top-10 teams. The Cardinal will host Pep-

perdine this Friday afternoon, and then travel

to Berkeley the next day to take on Cal.

Card showspower, depth

By MICHAEL LAZARUS

The Stanford womens water poloteam made the most out of a rarerespite between two tough tourna-ments, defeating Sonoma State 19-7and UC-Santa Cruz 19-4 in a Valen-tines Day doubleheader.

Coming off of a third-place finish inthe Stanford Invitational which fea-tured four top-10 teams and whilepreparing for the Irvine Invitational

this weekend,Stanford enjoyed squar-ing off against the two Bay Area teamswith a combined record of 3-7.

The doubleheader got off to an

early start with an 11 a.m.face-off, butStanford quickly blew Sonoma Stateout of the water.After two Stanfordscores to begin the match, the Sea-wolves fought their way back to withinone goal,but that would be the closestthey would come. Within a frenziedtwo-minute span stretching from theend of the first quarter to the begin-ning of the second, Stanford scoredthree goals to crush any dreams Sono-ma State had of an upset. Five more

Cardinal goals in the second quarteronly cemented the inevitable.

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SPORTS

Mens tennis exceeds expectationsby reaching national semifinals

Womens tennis suffers upsets atnational championships

By ANTHONY NGUYENSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The No.5 Stanford womens ten-nis team suffered two surprisingdual-match losses last weekend atthe 2009 ITA National Team IndoorChampionships, where the top-16collegiate programs in the nationconvened to duke it out in the firstreal test of the season.

Two years removed from theirlast Indoor title,Stanford was look-ing to reclaim the Championshipafter an auspicious 4-0 start to thedual match season.After qualifyingin early February, Stanford wasmaking its 15th appearance at the

Championships in Madison, Wis.With over 64 wins at the Indoorsand nine national titles, Stanfordhad history on its side.

However, in a surprising turn ofevents,Stanford quickly bowed outin the first round of action in a 4-3loss to No.14 Notre Dame.

Losing is always difficult,sophomore Hilary Barte said.Justseeing the top-16 teams there itsso close,its unbelievable. I knew itwould be a dogfight,and of courseits disappointing.

In their first-round match, theCardinal women took the doublespoint with wins by senior JessicaNguyen and sophomore CarolynMcVeigh,as well as sophomore Jen-nifer Yen and freshman LoganHansen. The top duo of Barte and

junior Lindsay Burdette suffered an8-4 loss at the hands of the top-ranked doubles team in the nation.

With two three-set victories by

Barte and Burdette in singles,Stan-ford jumped out to a seemingly in-surmountable 3-1 lead. However,the lead was short-lived as the Fight-ing Irish stormed back with threestraight singles victories.

Nguyen would fall 7-5,6-3 to No.39 Kristy Frilling of Notre Dame.Yen also dropped her match 6-4,6-3to Shannon Mathews. Eventually,Notre Dames Kristen Rafaelclinched the match with a 7-5, 6-1victory over McVeigh to upset ahopeful Stanford squad.

They actually played prettywell, Barte said.I honestly didnt

even know we were up 3-1. I dontthink a lot of us knew that you

just go out there, try to take care ofyour match and what happens,hap-pens.That day,the cards didnt fall inour favor.

An inspired Notre Dame squadwould go on to upset No.4 Baylor inthe quarterfinals of the main drawbefore falling to the eventual cham-pions,No.1 Northwestern.

In the consolation round, Stan-ford bounced back the next daywith a 5-2 win over No. 11 NorthCarolina.To start off the match, theCardinal women were swept in dou-bles the first doubles point theyhave lost all season.

I dont think it affected us toomuch like, Whoa, this is weird;we lost the doubles point, Bartesaid.It was kind of like,We lost thedoubles point, lets get to work insingles.

Down 1-0, Stanford came backin singles with five wins to clinch thematch.At No.4,McVeigh redeemedFridays loss with a 0-6, 6-1, 6-2 winover Sophie Grabinski to even outthe score. Similarly, Nguyen foundredemption with a 6-3,6-3 win overKatrina Tsang. Eventually, Barte

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2/14 Sonoma State,UC-Santa Cruz

W 19-7, W 19-4

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IRVINE INVITATIONAL

2/21-2/22 Irvine, Calif.

GAME NOTES: The No. 2 Stanford womenswater polo team will leave Avery Aquatic

Center for the first time in February as it

participates in the Irvine Invitational Tour-nament this weekend. The Card is coming

off of two dominating victories last week-

end, beating Sonoma State 19-7 and UC-Santa Cruz 19-4, and will try to build onthat momentum to take the Irvine title.

WOMENS TENNIS

2/13-15National Team IndoorChampionships

1W, 2L

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SAINT MARYS2/19 Taube Tennis Cen ter

GAME NOTES: The No. 5 Cardinal womenfinished a disappointing 1-2 in last week-

ends National Team Indoor Champi-

onships, beating No. 11 North Carolina

but dropping matches to both No. 14Notre Dame and No. 15 Miami. The team

will try to bounce back tomorrow as it hosts

Saint Marys at Taube Tennis Center.

MENS GYMNASTICS

Card gets silver in Gold CountryBy JENNY PETER

The No.3 Stanford mens gymnastics team fell to No.2 California for the third time this season last Saturdayin San Francisco.

The Cardinal demonstrated a great amount ofprogress, however,posting its highest team score of theseason and only narrowly suffering defeat by .25 of apoint (354.25-354.00).The team greatly improved com-pared to its previous meets against Cal, who outscoredthe Cardinal by 3.8 points and 4.15 points in previousface-offs.

The University of Calgary team and the NorwegianJunior and Senior National teams were also present atthe competition.Calgary scored a 320.45 and Norwayscored 316.7,placing third and fourth, respectively, butclearly not providing a threat to Stanford and Cal,whoboth outscored them by over 33 points.

The Canadian and Norwegian teams came becausethey wanted to gain some cultural experiences, whilehaving the opportunity to compete on American soil,said senior Bryant Haddan.

The meet, the 21st annual Gold Country Classic,took place in the historic Fort Masons Herbst Pavilionnear Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco.

The Cardinal began the evening session on a highnote when sophomore Tim Gentry stuck his double-front flip vault. Gentrys personal best of 16.4 was fol-lowed by another great vault by sophomore Josh

Dixon.Dixon stuck his double full twist and placed sec-ond behind Gentry with a 15.9. Gentry is currentlyranked No.1 in the country on vault.

Stanford kept the energy going on parallel bars withthe help of Haddens high score of 14.65. Redshirt jun-ior Greg Ter-Zakhariants (14.05), Dixon (14.0) and

Gentry (13.75) also placed among the top 10 and con-tributed to the team total.

Stanford Daily File Photo

Stanford senior Blake Muller hits a backhand in a match earlier this month.Muller and his teammates turned in a great performance at last weekendsNational Indoor Championships, advancing all the way to the semifinals.

MIXED RESULTS FOR CARD

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Senior driver Kira Hillman looks for a shooting opening for the Stanford womens water polo team. The Cardinal

demolished its two opponents this weekend, beating Sonoma State 19-7 and UC-Santa Cruz 19-4.

Boring times forsports fans

Whoever invented the calendar years agohad some kind of foresight to make Feb-ruary the shortest month of the year. Orat least he or she was a sports fan.

My lack of inspiration this week,I have realized,is amanifestation of the monotony of sports throughoutthis entire month.

In past years,I have had Stanford basketball makinga run at the Pac-10 championship to hold my attentionthrough the dog days of February. But this year, it hasonly provided me with a series of heart breaks.InsteadI am left without sufficient sports to watch each week-end a hole of sorts in my life.

I almost broke down and watched the Daytona 500

this weekend. (Yeah, that was on Sunday, in case youmissed it).Dont worry, though,I didnt but that wasonly after realizing I could simply sit in a crane on cam-pus and watch cars go around the Campus Drive loopand get the same stimulation.

Come to think of it, watching cars going around theCampus Drive loop may be a little more entertaining.Seeing how they maneuver around the constructioneverywhere might have been quite a sight. Too bad itwas raining, and I was stuck inside with nothing towatch.

I can hear the naysayers now. The NBA All-Star

Daniel

Bohm

On My Mind

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2/14 Gold Country InvitationalL 354.250-354.000

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PACIFIC COAST CLASSIC2/21 Oakland, Calif.

GAME NOTES: The Cardinal posted its highest team score of the sea-son at last weekends Gold Country Classic, but narrowly lost to No.

2 Cal 354.250-354.000. The Stanford gymnasts will face-off again

with Cal this weekend, along with Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and

Air Force in the Pacific Coast Classic in Oakland.

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On high bar, Stanford had threesolid routines with scores of 15.0 andabove from sophomore AlexBuscaglia (15.15), Ter-Zakhariants(15.1) and Dixon (15.0). The threemen placed third,fourth and fifth,re-spectively.Stanford is currently No.1in the country on high bar.

Dixon is ranked second national-ly on high bar and first on floor,which was evident from his out-

standing performance and his newlyupgraded floor routine. Dixonscored a 15.75 to easily take firstplace.Great performances were alsoseen from sophomore teammateRyan Lieberman (14.9), Gentry(14.8), Hadden (14.6) and redshirtfreshman Abhinav Ramani (14.45),who was in the leadoff spot.

Ramani did an outstanding jobof starting us off with a very solid andclean routine, Lieberman said.Heset a great tempo for floor.

The team felt it made improve-ments on the fourth event, pommelhorse, though it has proven to be achallenge. Cal has consistently beat-en the Cardinal by over three pointson the event (54.35-57.75). Haddenhelped Stanford to avoid the pom-mel horse dip by performing one ofthe top three routines of the night,scoring a 14.4.

The Stanford men concluded Sat-urday evenings meet with all of its

competitors placing among the top10 on still rings. Sophomore KyleOis phenomenal strength sequenceearned him a 15.05 and a fifth-placefinish. Ter-Zakhariants (14.8),Lieberman (14.55) and redshirtsophomore Nick Noone (14.5) fol-lowed close behind with solid rou-tines as well. Hadden ended themeet with an impressive routine anda stuck dismount,scoring a 15.2 anda second-place finish behind Gen-trys 15.25. Hadden and Gentry arenationally ranked first and second,respectively, on the event.

Despite losing, it was a reallyfun meet that came down to the lastcompetitor on the last event, Had-den said. If we keep up theprogress,we will end up on the otherside of those two and a half tenths inthe future.

The Cardinals next competitionis the Pacific Coast Classic at theOakland Convention Center,Feb.21

at 7:30 p.m. Stanford will competeagainst Illinois, Michigan, Minneso-ta,Air Force and Cal for their fourthmeeting of the season.Additionally,an all-star team composed of the top

university gymnasts from Japan willbe attending the event.

We are extremely excited aboutthis weekends competition, Had-den said. All but one of the top sixteams in the nation will be there.Everyone will be loud,energetic,and

it will basically be a precursor toNCAAs this year.We are ready to

show everyone that we belong at thetop.

Contact Jenny Peter at jpeter12@stan-ford.edu.

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Classies Work!

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Redshirt senior Jason Shen competes on the pommel horse for the Stanfordgymnastics team. The Cardinal posted its highest team score of the season lastweekend, but lost a narrow decision to UC-Berkeley.

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