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May 27, 2009
The Stanford Daily An Independent Publication
www.stanforddaily.com Volume 235
Issue 66

STUDENT GOV’T BUSINESS SCHOOL

Senate GSB appoints

confirms new
Exec.cabinet
By ELIZABETH TITUS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Vice Provost for Student Affairs Greg
Boardman, Vice Provost for Undergraduate
Education John Bravman and Vice Provost for
Budget and Auxiliaries Management Tim Warner
will be on hand tonight to answer students’ budg-
ets questions at the ASSU Executives’ town hall, 5
p.m. in Old Union Room 200.
Vice President Jay de la Torre ‘10 said at last
night’s Undergraduate Senate meeting that
administrators are set to address budget issues
with students, following on recent controversial
cuts.
“It’d be really great if we get a good turnout,”
de la Torre said. “After all three have made pre-
sentations, we’ll open the floor for questions.”
Following the meeting, a student forum will go
new dean
Garth Soloner Ph.D. ‘82 replaces Dean
Robert Joss, begins term Sept. 1
By JOANNA XU
MANAGING EDITOR
Economist Garth Saloner Ph.D. ‘82 was named the ninth
dean of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) yes-
terday. Saloner, who is currently a professor of Electronic
Commerce, Strategic Management and Economics at the
GSB, and a director of the University’s Center for
Entrepreneurial Studies, will begin his term on Sept. 1.
Current GSB Dean Robert Joss announced in
ALEX YU/The Stanford Daily
September of last year that he would be stepping down after
Students hold a candlelight vigil in White Plaza after a day of demonstrations against the California Supreme 10 years at his post. A search committee was then formed to
Court’s decision to uphold Prop. 8, which passed in the November 2008 election, banning same-sex marriage. consider candidates that could replace Joss.
Search committee co-chair and GSB Prof. John Roberts
said that Saloner was chosen in part due to his understand-

live on the ASSU Web site, de la Torre added.
The Senate also unanimously confirmed an
expanded, 20-member Executive cabinet, an
increase from the 15-member cabinet of a year
ago.
Senators questioned de la Torre on the rea-
soning behind an expanded cabinet, to which
President David Gobaud ‘08 M.S. ‘10 said he
would transfer $2,000 of his salary at last week’s
meeting.
“You guys have assembled a really exceptional
team, but it’s going to be a big, big brood,” said
Senator Zach Warma ‘11. “There have been times
I’ve heard from past administrations, even with
moderate-sized cabinets, things get lost.”
“We felt [for] issues that required a little bit
more work, we felt the need for there to be co-
chairs,” de la Torre said.
The Executives have added two cabinet posi-
tions to address disabilities and accessible educa-
tion, while Andy Parker ‘11 and Bennett Hauser
‘10 will serve as co-chiefs of staff.
Senators also asked how the Executives would
keep their salaried cabinet members on task.
“Just thinking how much money is being given
to cabinet members, how are you going to hold
them accountable?” asked Senator Brian
Wanyoike ‘12.
“We do attempt to keep them accountable
using our platform as a means of saying,‘These are
the things we want to accomplish,’” de la Torre
said.
Senator Adam Creasman ‘11 reported on a
meeting he attended with representatives from
the Native American Cultural Center and the
OSA.
“They brought up some concerns I wasn’t real-
ly aware of concerning party themes, particularly
fraternities, regarding cultural identity,” Creasman
said.
“I responded to their concerns from the point
of view of social chairman,” he continued. “I said
it’s kind of a matter of freedom of speech. One
thing I said is there might be some senators inter-
ested in working on some sort of cultural sensitiv-
ity aspect of the AlcoholEdu program.”
Senator Zachary Johnson ‘10 agreed there
was an issue, but questioned the AlcoholEdu
connection.
“There are some things that are clearly messed
up,” he said. But addressing the issue through
AlcoholEdu seemed “kind of random,” he added.
In other business, outgoing Senator Luukas
Please see ASSU, page 6
PROP. 8 UPHELD BY
SUPREME COURT
Students disappointed; rally blocks intersection
By MARISA LANDICHO
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Waving rainbow flags and “No on Prop. 8” signs,
over 100 students blocked the intersection of Campus
Drive and Palm Drive for roughly 20 minutes during
lunchtime yesterday. Rally-goers, some donning wed-
ding veils, denounced the 6-1 verdict released by the
California Supreme Court this morning, which upheld
the ban on same-sex marriage as ratified in the
November elections.
Aided by a blow horn and shouting,“Out of the lec-
tures, into the streets,” protestors marched up Lasuen
Mall, past the Oval, to the intersection. Following the
brief sit-in, the group trekked back to White Plaza
through the Main Quad, finally ending more than an
hour later at the Claw.
The atmosphere was filled with both disappoint-
ment and determination, as attendees expressed dis-
pleasure with the ruling, but pledged to overcome the
setback.
Although many were personally outraged at the
decision, the rally and sit-in progressed peacefully.
Stanford police followed the protesters throughout
their march and made no attempts to break up the
demonstration.
Event organizers, however, viewed the rally as a
commitment to future action, rather than a one-time
event. Various LGBT groups will be hosting related
events in the coming days to plan the next steps of the
campaign.
The Ruling
Tuesday’s decision, written by California Supreme
Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George, defended the
will of the electorate.
Last November, in one of the most expensive cam-
paigns and closely contested battles of the election, 52
percent of voters approved Proposition 8, restricting
the definition of marriage to heterosexual couples.
Immediately afterwards, opponents challenged the
measure on the grounds that it was an illegal revision
to the California Constitution, rather than an amend-
ment. Measures that are considered revisions — or
ones that change fundamental rights — require a more
tedious approval process involving the state legislature.
But the Court disagreed.
“Contrary to petitioners’ assertion, Proposition 8
does not entirely repeal or abrogate the aspect of a
same-sex couple’s state constitutional right of privacy
and due process,” George wrote in the court’s opinion.
Therefore, the Court concluded that the measure was
an amendment, only requiring the majority vote of the
electorate.
Law Prof. Jane Schacter told The Daily she was not
surprised at the Court’s ruling.
“[The judges] telegraphed their intentions very
clearly at the oral argument in March,” she said. “I
think the decision was largely expected.”
Campus minister Geoff Browning, with the United
Campus Christian Ministry, thought the Court could do
little to change the ruling at this juncture.
“I think [the Court] backed themselves into a cor-
ner because they refused to hear this argument initial-
ly, before the November vote,” Browning said.
Supporters of same-sex marriage, though, counted a
small victory from the second half of the decision. The
Court ruled to uphold the 18,000 same-sex marriages
between June and November, during the brief window
when gay marriage was recognized in California.
“I think it’s going to create a very odd situation
Please see PROP 8, page 2
ing of the GSB, leadership in reviewing and overhauling the
MBA curriculum and strong business community ties, par-
ticularly with the entrepreneurial community in Silicon
Valley.
“In the last couple of years, we’ve made a lot of big
changes, re-vamped our curriculum, making it distinct from
anyone else’s, creating a new campus, and we’re sort of
halfway through a lot of things, many of which Prof. Saloner
has been integral in,” Roberts told The Daily. “We felt the
need not for external connections as much as for someone
who understood the school and what was happening.”
Saloner earned a Ph.D. in Economics, Business and
Public Relations from Stanford in 1982, then went onto
become a tenured professor at MIT at both the Sloan
School of Management and the economics department. He
has been teaching at Stanford since 1990.
Despite his academic background, Saloner said his pro-
gression towards managerial positions has been steady.
“I’ve taken a variety of administrative challenges at
Stanford, as associate dean and leader of the curriculum task
force,” he said. “This feels like a natural progression in my
career.”
The selection process for a new dean occurred mostly
over the course of December to March.
“We spent a long time talking to various constituents
from the school, alumni, staff, students, to get their input on
how they thought the school was doing,” Roberts said. “We
sought nominations. At one point, we had around 100 nom-
inations.”
However, the search committee did not make the final
selection. After deliberation, the committee submitted a list
of candidates to President Hennessy and Provost John
Etchemendy, who made the final decision.
“Many of the nominees were business leaders, not aca-
demics,” Roberts said. “Other schools usually only consider
faculty as candidates for deans. But it’s been a long tradition
in business schools to select business leaders as deans.”
This was true of Joss, who was a global banker prior to
becoming dean of the GSB.
One of the largest challenges that Saloner will face upon
becoming dean, himself, is the budget.The GSB endowment
has shrunk roughly 30 percent in the past year, and annual
giving from alumni is also decreasing.
“Dean Joss jumped on the problem very quickly, and
we’ve already taken significant reductions in our budget that
involved staff reductions,” Saloner said. “Those will carry on
into next year. We have already brought our budget in line
with what we expect our funds to be, even taking into
account the endowment drop.”
Saloner also hopes to advance research and curriculum
changes at the GSB.
“A big challenge for business schools right now is, how do
we create the kind of frameworks that are necessary for
Please see DEAN, page 2

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Kal Penn talks Hollywood stereotypes

By ELLEN HUET
STAFF WRITER
He’s been to White Castle. He’s made it to
Guantanamo and back. But yesterday, he came
to Kresge Auditorium on a more academic mis-
sion. Actor Kalpen Suresh Modi, commonly
known as Kal Penn, spoke on campus yesterday
about his experiences as an Asian-American
actor in the film industry, focusing on a sociology
perspective interspersed with humorous remi-
nisces.
One of the best-known Indian-American
actors today, Penn is also an adjunct lecturer at
the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches
media studies, and the incoming associate direc-
tor of the White House Office of Public
Engagement (OPE) for the Obama administra-
tion.
Penn opened up his lecture with an analytical
look at the way ethnicity shaped his time in
Hollywood. A few minutes into the talk, he
recalled once being referred to as “Kal Penn, the
Indian-American actor.”
“I’m the Indian-American actor?” he asked
with a laugh. “Why do we feel the need to signify
that?”
As one of the few Indian-American actors to
break into Hollywood, Penn offered a unique
perspective on the way media can both reinforce
and break stereotypes. He used his background
in sociology, the subject he majored in at UCLA,
to explain the social forces at work behind
minority roles in Hollywood.
“People talk about race, ethnicity and gender
because the media focuses on it,” he explained.
“The media play a role in socializing us into our
own culture.”
Since the media so rarely portrays minorities
in leading roles, Penn pointed out that any media
portrayal of a minority is often seen as a repre-
sentation of that ethnic group instead of purely
entertainment. That is, while most audiences will
view a white character as simply a character in a
film, audiences often see minority characters as
representative of their entire ethnic group.
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between Penn and community groups.
After the release of “Harold and Kumar Go Kal Penn, perhaps best known for his role as Kumar in “Harold and Kumar
Go to White Castle,” speaks about the growing problem of Asian-American
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SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Lofgren promotes immigration reform
By ELLEN DANFORD
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren ‘70
of the 16th District of California paid
her alma mater a visit yesterday to
speak to the Stanford Immigrant
Rights Project (SIRP), a newly
formed student group which focuses
on raising awareness on immigrant-
related issues.
Lofgren addressed her work as
the chair of the Immigration
Subcommittee in the House of
Representatives, as well as her hopes
for future immigration law reform.
PROP 8
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where you have 18,000 gay couples,
where they are married, and others
are domestic couples,” Schacter said.
“I think what it ultimately is going to
do is help smooth the way to change
this outcome over the next couple
years.”
She predicted that Prop. 8 would
be undone at the ballot box within
the next six years, saying it was “only
a matter of time.”
Reactions
Same-sex marriage supporters
met the decision with varying levels
of shock. Some, like sociology co-
term Aubrey Munoz ‘08 and Nina
Calantone ‘12 expected the Court’s
ruling.
“Part of me was expecting so
much more, but given the battle
before Prop. 8 was passed, I guess
that the ruling is not that surprising,”
Munoz said. “I had really hoped it
would be overturned.”
Calantone had hoped the Court
would “go the other way,” but recog-
nized that it was an uphill battle.
Others hoped the Court would
make their decision based on person-
al ethics. Retired History Prof. Joel
Roberts, who founded the Stanford
Gay People’s Union and taught gay
history, said he believed the Court
would overturn Prop. 8.
“I know the corporate media kept
“We did some things in the ‘96 act
that were truly dysfunctional,”
Lofgren said, citing the Illegal
Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act of 1996.
According to Lofgren, the act,
which precluded immigrants from
obtaining a visa for three years if
they had been in the country illegal-
ly for six months, or for 10 years if
they had been in the country for 10
years, encouraged law-breaking and
the separation of families.
“President Bush lacked the polit-
ical skills to do anything about it,”
saying it would end this way, yet I
didn’t think they would go with this
crazy ruling,” he said. “I’m shocked.”
Fourth-year chemistry graduate
student Eric Hall, though, was less
upset with the judge’s ruling.
“I personally disagree with Prop.
8, but I respect the rule of law and
the jackass initiative process,” he
said. “Judges can only do so much.”
The Rally
Before the decision had been
released, the Emma Goldman
Society for Queer Liberation and the
National Marriage Boycott had
planned to have a rally at noon yes-
terday, regardless of the ruling.
Depending on the Court’s verdict,
the rally would have either been a
celebration or a nonviolent protest.
By 11 a.m., organizers knew it
would have to be the latter, planning
their route around the Quad accord-
ingly, along with a sit-in to block traf-
fic at the intersection of Campus and
Palm Drive.
Amanda Gelender ‘10, one of the
planners of the event, said they were
“anticipating not to win” and pointed
to the challenges of mobilizing peo-
ple a second time around.
Students wearing purple anti-
Prop. 8 shirts began to congregate in
White Plaza at noon. At 12:30 p.m.,
the group set off towards the Oval,
followed by campus police. Some
spectators clapped as the group
passed, while a few students walked
out of class to join the rally.
When protesters blocked off the
intersection, the police made no
she said.
Lofgren, who said her grandfa-
ther immigrated to the U.S. with only
$20, firmly believes that immigrants
played a key role in shaping the
nation.
“One of the things that occurred
to me as I grew up was how much
immigrants have really made this
country,” Lofgren said. “The things
that people think are the best things
about America — hard work, deter-
mination — came from immigrants.”
Yet despite the immigrant foun-
dation, Lofgren believed that about
move to remove the students, though
one policeman, armed with a cam-
corder, filmed the sit-in and subse-
quent march back to the Quad. The
police stationed themselves up Palm
Drive to redirect traffic away from
the intersection.
In contrast, San Francisco police
arrested around 175 protesters who
blocked off the major intersection of
Grove Street and Van Ness Avenue
yesterday morning.
For 20 minutes, the group refused
to let cars pass in either direction,
prompting one driver to yell, “Go to
Hell,” as he made a U-turn. A few
other cars honked in support.
What’s Next
While they differed in their reac-
tions to the Prop. 8 decision, most
attendees promised to see the fight
out until the end.
“I’m pretty sure the next step is to
get another ballot measure,” said
Jordan Price, a second-year
immunology graduate student. “The
issue is whether or not it will be 2010
or 2012. I think there is great
momentum right now.”
Roberts said the struggle needed
“to move forward and not go back
into the past.”
Next time around, though, he said
there needed to be more education
and attempts to raise awareness.
Browning agreed with that strate-
gy, saying that friendships with gay
people would make it easier for the
population to see that everyone
deserved the same rights. Browning,
as a minister, also combats the
30 percent of the population is wary
of immigration. She attributed this
concern to the belief that immigrants
take away jobs in the already shrink-
ing job market.
Lofgren has dedicated her time to
changing these impressions, which,
according to her, were fostered by an
administration that failed to act.
“We started to see a situation
where the Democrats made further
concessions to the Republicans,”
Lofgren said of the Bush administra-
Please see LOFGREN, page 6
stereotype that all religions are hos-
tile to same-sex marriage.
To his opponents, he said, “I say
it’s not about sex, it’s about love.”
Organizers themselves aren’t sure
what the next step is, though they
promoted the National Marriage
Boycott during the rally. Already
having spread to seven other cam-
puses, the boycott is supposed to be
adopted in solidarity with same-sex
couples denied the right to marry.
Other events planned included a
night candlelit vigil in White Plaza
last night and an open forum in the
Women’s Community Center at 9
p.m. tonight.
ASSU Executives David Gobaud
‘08 M.S. ‘10 and Jay de la Torre ‘10
also attended the rally and pledged
their support of future initiatives. De
la Torre said he would work with leg-
islative bodies and VSOs to find the
best course of action.
“Prop. 8 is an issue that specifical-
ly affects the rights of Stanford stu-
dents on campus,” de la Torre said.
“Our responsibility is to protect
those rights as elected officials.”
De la Torre, who has an uncle that
married during the interim period
when same-sex marriages were legal,
said that advocacy and awareness
were necessary for Prop. 8 to be
overturned.
“I feel that when people find out,
when they know someone that’s
affected by this, it’s something that’s
very powerful,” he said.
Contact Marisa Landicho at landi-
cho@stanford.edu.
PENN
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to White Castle,” Penn received an
open letter by an Asian-American
group who was offended by the
film’s portrayal of the two main
characters, Harold and Kumar, who
are Asian-American and Indian-
American, respectively.
The group complained that
Harold’s and Kumar’s characters
were misogynistic and negative
portrayals of Asian-Americans. Kal
Penn read aloud the letter at the
lecture, and then read his response
to it, which emphasized that minor-
ity characters shouldn’t be defined
by their ethnicity.
“[Kumar] smokes ganja because
he likes it, not because he’s Indian,”
he quipped.
Although Penn was ultimately
optimistic about the growing pres-
ence of minorities in the media, he
noted that there were still stereo-
types to overcome regarding ethnic
diversity and equality.
“The fact that we still add modi-
fiers to the word ‘American’ to
make ‘Asian-American’ and
‘Indian-American’ means that
we’re still defined ethnically and
not nationally,” he said.
During the following question-
and-answer session, Penn
addressed more casual questions
about his film work and his upcom-
ing job with the Obama administra-
tion.
When Penn was accepted for the
position within the White House
OPE, his character Lawrence
Kutner had to be written out of the
show “House.” When asked if he
had a say in how his character died,
Penn explained with a laugh that he
had no input, and that the charac-
ter’s death was unfortunately per-
manent.
“It’s not like on ‘Lost’ where you
can still come back to the show,” he
joked. “I can’t say, ‘Hey! Write me
back in as a ghost!’”
In regards to his upcoming job
with the Obama administration,
Penn was very careful to avoid
speaking as a representative for the
President or his administration, but
explained that he was inspired by
Obama’s campaign and, after work-
ing on the campaign for two years,
applied for the position within the
The Stanford Daily
OPE.
He’ll be starting work later this
year.
“[OPE] is the proverbial ‘front
door’ to the White House, designed
to assure that every American has a
seat at the table, and the opportuni-
ty to have her or his voice heard,”
Penn wrote in a later email to The
Daily. “I’m going to be the point
person for the Arts Community and
Asian Pacific Islander Americans.”
Penn assured the audience that
he wasn’t interested in running for
office and didn’t have any higher
political aspirations, and even
expressed an interest in teaching
again in the future — though he
doesn’t have any concrete plans
yet, something many undergradu-
ates can appreciate.
“I really don’t have a master plan
— I don’t know if I’ll be returning
[to acting] in one, two, five years,”
Penn said with a laugh. “It’s really
ill-thought-out, and my parents just
hate that.”
Contact Ellen Huet at ethuet@stan-
ford.edu.
DEAN
Continued from front page
leaders of managed organizations to
better perform their functions?
That’s the research challenge,”
Saloner said. “On the teaching side,
the last few years have shown us that
future leaders will have to be really
principled, analytical thinkers on top
of being masters of disciplinary and
functional areas. That’s what we’re
trying to achieve in the new GSB
curriculum.”
Saloner is also confident in a
smooth transition, as he considers
his family — which includes a
daughter in the Class of 2013 and
another daughter who is a current
GSB student — and himself to be
fully nested at Stanford already.
“The advantage of being some-
body who’s taking this job from the
inside is that I’m already here and
I’ll be here through the summer,
when I’ll have time to think about
what I want to accomplish in the first
few months,” Saloner said.
Contact Joanna Xu at joannaxu
@stanford.edu.
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A
sion to deny President Barack
Obama an honorary degree for
speaking at commencement on the grounds
that “his body of work is yet to come” was
widely ridiculed. “The Daily Show” took to
the hallowed halls of ASU, where several
inept students offered their opinion that
while President Obama was undeserving,
“Presidents Benjamin Franklin and Alexan-
der Hamilton” most certainly were. Lost in
the uproar was an important question —
what purpose does an honorary degree
serve?
The practice of awarding degrees honoris
causa dates back to medieval times. In 1470,
Lionel Woodville — subsequently the Bish-
op of Salisbury — was supposedly the first to
receive such a degree when he received one
from Oxford. In modern times, honorary de-
grees are typically awarded to visiting digni-
taries on occasions such as the one President
Obama was invited to speak at, namely com-
mencement exercises. Unless a degree is
awarded to a particularly controversial fig-
ure — as was the case in 2008 when Washing-
ton University in St. Louis bestowed one
upon conservative activist and Equal Rights
Amendment opponent Phyllis Schlafly —
they typically cause hardly a ripple.
But David Starr Jordan, Stanford’s first
president, offered another perspective. Jor-
dan wrote in his memoirs,“I still believe that
every academic degree should represent
work actually done in or under the direction
of the institution governing it . . . It seems to
me to give the university a certain dignity as
existing for purposes of instruction, not for
conferring honors on outside persons.” From
the perspective of the editorial board, Jordan
is exactly right.
We at Stanford — as well as students at
countless other institutions — spend a great
deal of time and effort immersed in our aca-
demic studies.When we graduate,our degrees
are a testament to caffeine-fueled, late-night
papers,complex problem sets and group proj-
ects, in addition to juggling extracurricular
and social commitments. To hand a piece of
paper to a visiting speaker, however impres-
sive, diminishes the significance of a Stanford
degree. It is not a matter of elitism, but one of
emphasizing the hard work and dedication
that a degree symbolizes.
Jordan’s decision to adopt “the Cornell
rule that no honorary degree or degrees for
studies carried on in absentia should be
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places for learning, not degree factories. Es-
tablished at Stanford’s founding, this rule
continues to uphold the importance of an ac-
tual university degree.
Moreover, Jordan, who noted that “this
regulation has saved us much pressure from
various quarters,”would no doubt appreciate
being spared the public relations nightmare
ASU has had to face. Many irate ASU alum-
ni are currently withholding donations and
mailing their own degrees to President
Obama; one alumnus is even writing ASU
out of her will. Likewise, Notre Dame’s deci-
sion to bestow an honorary degree on
Obama — whose pro-choice stance is anath-
ema to many of the nation’s Catholics — in-
furiated many of their alumni as well. The
politics that accompany such degrees are
simply that — politics. The editorial board
believes that an academic degree should be
untainted by political considerations.
Stanford has developed another method
of honoring those “who have rendered
unique and outstanding service to the Uni-
versity.” The Degree of Uncommon
Man/Woman, created in 1953, has been spo-
radically bestowed on such Stanford pillars
as Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel, Herbert Hoover,
Frederick E. Terman, William R. Hewlett,
David Packard, Peter S. Bing and, most re-
cently, John Arrillaga.
By creating an alternative means of recog-
nizing Stanford luminaries, Stanford is able
to simultaneously honor achievement and
service to the University, without devaluing
an academic degree. Moreover, the Uncom-
mon Man/Woman degree is given to alumni,
who naturally possess their own Stanford de-
grees.
The University should be honored for re-
specting the “dignity” of a Stanford degree
and eschewing the pettiness of honorary de-
grees.When Supreme Court Justice Anthony
Kennedy ‘58 addresses our graduating sen-
iors in a few weeks and leaves degree-less, let
us remember what President Obama told
ASU, “that despite having achieved a re-
markable milestone, one that you and your
families are rightfully proud of, you too can-
not rest on your laurels.Your body of work is
yet to come.”
Let the Class of 2009 depart Stanford,
hard-earned diplomas in hand, and do them-
selves, their families and the University
proud.It is what we do with ourselves,not the
honors we rack up, that matters.
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Happy campers
onsistent with my recent trend towards
C bodily imperilment for the sake of
“journalism,” I decided to spend a day
enrolled in Camp Stanford and see what hap-
pened.
If you’re unfamiliar with Camp Stanford,
it refers to the lifestyle of those lucky bastards
among us who have finished all, or most, of
their required classes a quarter prior to grad-
uating.
In many ways, Camp Stanford is exactly
what you’d think — naps, beer and mayhem.
However, when high-achieving people com-
mit wholeheartedly to doing nothing, it
makes for a strange situation. Mere hours
after confirming the date of my planned in-
vestigation, I received an email from the
Camp Stanford listserv announcing my itiner-
ary for the day, which ran from noon to mid-
night.
I was excited, but somewhat incredulous:
Were even Campers too wound up from
years of jam-packed schedules to know how
to actually relax? Also, was this really a viable
way to spend an entire quarter at one of the
best universities in the world?
The next day, I arrived at Tresidder for
lunch at exactly 11:59 a.m., out of breath from
an inspired sprint down the Row. James Bar-
ton ‘09 (as is everyone quoted in this column),
one of Camp Stanford’s three self-appointed
“Head Counselors” and my guide for the day,
sauntered in at 12:09.
Clearly,“itinerary” was a much more rela-
tive term than I’d thought.
Like many “full-time campers,” those 148
seniors who are enrolled in no academic
classes this quarter, James chose to do Camp
Stanford because his job, with Teach for
America, begins almost immediately follow-
ing graduation. For him, Camp Stanford was
his equivalent of a summer vacation.
“Day campers,” those students who are
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taking a reduced course load (read: a final
PoliSci class and fencing), do so for a variety
of reasons. Some are finishing honors theses,
some are already working and some are just
plain burned-out.
In any event, Camp Stanfordians are
rarely completely inert; the main difference
between them and the rest of us, James noted,
is frame of mind. Like us, they still have things
to do; unlike us, they refuse to get frazzled.
After lunch, we played racquetball, which
James described as the perfect Camp Stan-
ford activity because it requires just enough
effort to leave you with a sense of accomplish-
ment, but not so much that you feel drained.
“It’s not too run-y,” he said, wrinkling his nose
in distaste.
James won all three of our games handily.
Jack Cackler, who was also present, held his
own despite being forced (by me) to play with
his off-hand. I talked a lot of trash and scored
a total of two points.
Were I a camper, maybe I would have less
rage and more hand-eye coordination.
After racquetball, we continued onto the
Claw, where we were met by a group of
campers bearing inflatable rafts,speakers and
beer.There’s nothing quite so Camp Stanford
as drinking in a fountain while your friends
scurry between classes.
A successful Claw experience requires si-
multaneously drinking and floating between
pithy conversations, while looking complete-
ly nonchalant.
I, however, kept spilling my beer (cardinal
sin), then collided with the Claw itself in at-
tempts to recover it (ouch).
Only after I resigned myself to clutching
the edge of the fountain was I able to actually
socialize with the other campers in atten-
dance. For a while, we talked about Camp
Stanford: the perils of the 3 a.m. to noon sleep
schedule and the spring-quarter hookup fren-
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Jenna
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zy — were you aware?
Somehow, our conversation shifted to the
topic of community centers and diversity.
“You see,” James proclaimed sagely, cracking
open another beer as he glided by,“When you
have down time, you can actually have inter-
esting conversations. When you’re working
too hard, you just complain about work.”
Point taken.
After a much-needed nap break, we re-
convened at Rose & Crown Trivia Night,
where my confusing Dispatch for Phish de-
nied my team a free round of beer. Then
James invited me to a party, but it was all I
could do to drag myself home.
It’s easy to dismiss Camp Stanford as a
waste of time.There are so many great classes
to be had here, and let’s be honest, you can be
drunk anywhere.
Still, I value Stanford just as much for my
peers as for the formal education I’ve re-
ceived. As graduation approaches, I’m in-
creasingly aware that I will never be in such
uniformly brilliant and entertaining company
ever again.
I’m not up to round-the-clock socializing,
but I enjoyed my Camp Stanford day
nonetheless. Even more importantly, howev-
er, I realized that the Camp Stanford mental-
ity of cheerful capriciousness isn’t limited to
campers alone.
I may be enrolled in 21 units, but there’s
nothing wrong with a little carpe diem now
and then.
Jenna would like to thank James and the rest of
the Camp Stanford community for a lovely day.
She apologizes for almost killing James multiple
times during racquetball. You can email her at
jreback@stanford.edu.

T HE V OICE OF E XPERIENCE

You soon will be, too David

Goldbrenner
ver the last 15 weeks or so, I’ve tried to and is exploring their options. I think as long

O pass on some of the knowledge I’ve

gained working in the “real world” for
10 years before returning to grad school. I’ll
repeat what I said in my very first column,
which is that I don’t pretend to know every-
thing, or even a lot.
But I do know a few things.And I do know
what it’s like to leave college. So I wanted to
share a few last tidbits of wisdom with all the
graduating seniors, as well as with many
graduate students who perhaps haven’t spent
that much time outside academia.
Plus, it’s unlikely I’ll ever be important
enough to be asked to give a commencement
address, so this is my moment.
First, in terms of career, there are three
types of graduating college seniors: Those
who know exactly what they want and are
going to do after college, those who aren’t
sure but have picked something and those
who are completely clueless and afraid they
will end up living in their parents’ basement
at age 30, surrounded by pizza boxes and old
copies of “People” magazine.
To those of you who know exactly what
you want, congratulations. It’s a gift to have
that certainty and to be passionate about
being a doctor, teacher, investment banker or
whatever you’ve chosen. My main piece of
advice is just to have a constant awareness
that you’ve chosen your path for the right
reason, and not because of the money, or
as you’re always honestly moving toward
some goal, it’s OK to change direction once
the reasons for doing so become clear.
Finally, to those who have no clue, my
sympathies. It’s difficult to find a path if You’re not given any
there’s no clear favorite in your head. But the
good news is it’s possible to pick a job or ca-
reer and still get meaning out of it, even if it’s
not your life’s passion.And remember, every
single job or career is going to have some
guidelines.You have
lousy, tedious aspects to it, so don’t confuse
disliking part of your job with hating the job
itself. So pick something, do it and make the
best of it. It’s easier said than done, and I
to make up the
don’t mean to be glib, but there’s really no
other way.
Moving on from careers, the other thing
that can get difficult out of college is your so- problem sets and
cial life.The painful truth is it will never be as
easy to make friends as it is in college. Once
you get out of school, people tend to develop
their own lives and patterns.
Your early twenties is still a pretty social
solve them yourself.
time, but once you start getting into the mid-
late twenties, people have spouses, demand-
ing jobs and maybe even kids. I have four col- sity, for better or worse.
lege suitemates all living in New York City You’re not given any guidelines.You have
who literally almost never see each other. to make up the problem sets and solve them
So my advice is to make the effort to meet yourself. And sometimes the results don’t
new people when you get out of school, and turn out as you had expected.
don’t just rely on seeing your college friends, So I think the one single best piece of ad-
even if you’re lucky enough to be in the same vice I can give is to do your best, and let go of

your parents’ expectations, etc. If that little
voice starts to nag you, listen to it. It might be
painful to change directions, but it’s a lot bet-
ter than spending the next 35 years working
as an actuary when your heart is in interpre-
tive dance.
To those of you who aren’t certain but
have chosen a contingent path, good for you.
You’re certainly not married to what you
choose, and people change careers many
times these days. There are some employers
who will look down on a resume with a lot of
short jobs on it, but others will recognize it as
a sign of someone who has a lot of interests
location. You’ll be amazed at how quickly
you’ll wake up and discover your six best
friends have left the Bay Area and are now
respectively located in New York, London,
Hong Kong, the Peace Corps, the Himalayas
and somewhere in L.A. wearing a really loud
shirt and trying desperately to get into the
Viper Room.
Finally, remember that things rarely turn
out the way you plan them. This is a particu-
larly difficult lesson for high academic
achievers who have always been able to suc-
ceed by planning and managing their time
and efforts. But the world is not a big univer-
Write to us.
the results. They’re often beyond your con-
trol, anyway. Again, this is easier said than
done, but keep it in mind and I think it will
help you. Do your best, give yourself credit
for your efforts, allow yourself to feel happy
when things turn out your way, and when
they don’t, accept responsibility and learn
We want to hear from you.
from the experience, but don’t punish your-
self or wallow in regret.
Good luck to everyone; I sincerely wish
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SPORTS
Daniel
Bohm
On My Mind
Why try to
hide biases in
sports?
M
y Memorial Day Weekend
began with a moral dilem-
ma and ended with sad-
ness. I wrote last week
about how critical this past weekend
was to the Stanford sports season, and
unfortunately the weekend didn’t go
so well.
I don’t want to write a column
about the Stanford losses this past
weekend — and that is part of my
moral dilemma.
When I took a Sports Journalism
class freshman year (Comm 177S with
Gary Pomerantz — great class, I high-
ly recommend it), the first reading we
had for the course was titled There’s
No Cheering in the Press Box.
It is a pretty easy concept to grasp;
sports writers should not have a root-
ing interest in the games that they are
covering because if they do it will influ-
ence their coverage.
This is where I hit a snag this week-
end, however. As a student — and a
sports writer — at a small school, per-
sonal relationships often supersede
objective journalism.
Many of the athletes on the field are
friends and dorm-mates. In my own
case, I live with a lot of Stanford ath-
letes and truly want to see the best for
them.
I have covered the Stanford softball
team for two seasons and fostered
friendships — both from being a
writer and from outside interaction —
with many of the women on the team.
Yet when I went to cover the team’s
Super Regional game against Arizona
on Thursday,I made sure to wear a yel-
low shirt, as yellow is not a color of
Stanford or Arizona.
But to say I wasn’t rooting for Stan-
ford is ludicrous. Yes, I refrained from
clapping when Missy Penna struck out
a batter or when Maddy Coon hit a
homerun, but in my heart, I was happy
that all of that happened.
Although this idea of an inherent
bias is amplified at the collegiate level,
who’s to say it does not exist through-
out all sports coverage? I’ll bet if you
spoke candidly — and off the record
— with the Giants beat writer for the
San Francisco Chronicle,he would say
that he wants the Giants to win every
game.
It is only logical. It is easier to inter-
view coaches and players after wins.
Furthermore, readers want to read
happy stories, not stories about losses.
So why not acknowledge the root-
ing interest instead of trying to fool
readers into believing that the writer
does not care what happens?
The more I think about it, the more
I believe that as an honest writer I need
to acknowledge that. Sure, I am root-
ing for a good story more than I am
rooting for a certain team, but basic
human nature causes people to pick
sides.
I understand this is a slippery slope.
I am by no means advocating all sports
journalists to turn into Hawk Harrel-
son, the Chicago White Sox play-by-
play announcer that may as well be a
diehard drunk Sox fan sitting in the
bleachers by the way he calls the
game.
That is bad journalism. But isn’t it
also bad journalism to mask inherent
biases? Any person who can say they
have no opinion whatsoever on mat-
ters in which they are commissioned to
write on has to be lying.
This is an ethical issue that extends
beyond sports journalism.Writers who
cover important political decisions
that could impact thousands of voters
have their own political leanings —
shouldn’t readers be entitled to know
what those leanings are? Doesn’t that
simply further inform readers?
My point is one that likely will
never be put into practice, but will al-
ways be an undercurrent.
I was sad when the Stanford soft-
ball team did not advance to the
Women’s College World Series. I was
also sad when the Stanford baseball
team lost two out of three to Oregon
State this weekend. I was sad when
Alex Clayton lost in the quarterfinals
of Men’s Tennis Championships and
when Hilary Barte and Lindsay Bur-
dette lost in the Women’s Doubles Na-
tional Championship.
I want to see them all succeed, and
something tells me I’m not the only
sports writer that feels that way.
Dan Bohm is a fan and not ashamed to
admit it. Let him know if that’s cool (or
not) at bohmd@stanford.edu.
ROUGH START
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Sophomore Steve Ziegler posted Stanford’s best score for the first
day, shooting a two-over 73, which put him in a tie for 29th.
Stanford, however, still needs a big improvement to advance.
Sailing has wind
at its back
By ZACH ZIMMERMAN
DESK EDITOR
Stanford athletics are loaded with
the most talented student-athletes in
the country. The Cardinal’s often-
mentioned streak of Director’s Cups
indicates the school’s prominence in
the collegiate sports community. Due
to the wide-ranging success, however,
certain teams are overshadowed by
the larger, more popular spectator
sports.
One of these squads has been fly-
ing — or sailing — under the radar
for years,but has achieved much of the
same success as Stanford’s other ath-
letic teams.
Cardinal sailing has dominated the
West Coast. Often considered a sport
reserved only for students in the East,
Stanford is making a tremendous push
to change the public perspective.
There are two different categories
of collegiate sailing. Fleet racing is the
easier form of competition in theory.
Boats follow a marked course to the
finish. The first across the finish line
wins the race. Fleet regattas — the
term used for a sailing competition —
usually last for two days, with the tro-
phy going to the team with lowest
combined score.
Team racing appears similar, but
requires equally as much strategy.The
regatta consists of three boats against
three boats, and the lowest total score
for each team wins. Thus, boats finish
in first through sixth place and the var-
The Stanford Daily
MEN’S GOLF
5/26 NCAA Championships
T-22nd after Day One
By ROXIE DICKINSON
STAFF WRITER
rently in a tie for 75th with a five-over 76 on
the day. Lately, Kemmer has been heating
UP NEXT
In their fourth appearance at the
NCAA Championships in the past five
up, coming in a tie for fourth in the NCAA
Southwest Regional. Since this is his third
and last NCAA Championship, he will rely
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
5/26-30 Toledo, Ohio
years, the No. 5 Stanford men’s golf team is on experience in the next few days to bring
in a tie for 22nd place with No. 2 Southern
California with a 21-over 305 on the day.
Only the top eight teams to emerge from
up both his individual and team score.
Next in line in the Cardinal five is soph-
omore Sihwan Kim. Kim is in a tie for 93rd
GAME NOTES: After the first day of competition yes-
terday, the Stanford men’s golf team finds itself
tied for 22nd in the regular medal rounds of the
NCAA Championships. Sophomore No. 15
the regular medal play rounds will advance
to the match-play quarter and semi-finals
portion of the tournament.Yesterday’s per-
formance put Stanford in serious jeopardy
with a six over 77. Kim did well most of the
day, and was on par for most holes. Unfor-
tunately, double bogeys on both the third
and six holes cost him a higher individual
Steve Ziegler led the way for the Card, posting a
two-over 73 to tie for 29th. However, with only
the top-eight teams from the medal rounds ad-
vancing to the match-play quarterfinals, the Car-
of not making the top-eight cut. finish.
dinal will need a very strong finish to advance.
“That’s the way golf goes,” said coach Senior Daniel Lim and freshman David
Conrad Ray. “The guys were pretty disap- Chung were plagued with double bogeys
pointed. We played well in our first nine with Lim finishing with an eight-over 79 continued.“Luckily for us, there is still a lot
holes, but then we got to the back nine and and Chung with a 10-over finished his first of golf left.The course definitely is not play-
let a few balls go which cost us.We definite- day on the links with an eight-over 79. Lim ing easy, but I can tell you that [today] is
ly will be working hard in the next few days got two and Chung got three double bo- going to be a better day.“Our main goal is
to make the cut number.” geys, all in their final nine holes. to play our best and see where we stack up.”
After 18 holes of play, the top of the Overall, Stanford struggled on their last For the first time since 1965, the NCAA
ranks include: No. 4 Oklahoma State and nine holes of the day, which has set them Championships will not be decided by low-
No. 1 Georgia in a tie for first with a four back quite a bit. The team started off well est number of strokes, but rather, in head-
over par 288; No. 28 Chattanooga in third with an overall three-over par team score to-head match play style. With two more
with an eight over 292; and No. 6 Washing- after the first nine holes, but they couldn’t rounds of regular medal play to go,the Car-
ton and unranked San Diego in a tie for quite keep the momentum going. dinal will strive to get into the best team
fourth with a nine-over 293. “More than anything, the guys are real- rank it can in order to secure a spot in the
No. 11 sophomore Steve Ziegler came ly just trying to play the golf course,” Ray match-play portion of the tournament.The
out on top today for the Cardinal,posting a said. “This course demands mental tough- quarter and semi-finals are scheduled for
two-over 73 for the first round. Ziegler ness and high quality shots which we just Friday,May 29,and the final NCAA Cham-
struggled a little on the front nine, but couldn’t hit today. On top of that, we are pionship round will be held on Saturday,
grabbed three birdies in the back nine to facing typical Midwestern weather with May 30.
put him in a tie for 29th. windy conditions and storms blowing
Three strokes behind Ziegler is senior through.” Contact Roxie Dickinson at roxie221@stan-
captain Dodge Kemmer. Kemmer is cur- “We need to play great [today],” Ray ford.edu.
ious finishing combinations allow for
teams to sail away victorious without
putting the first boat across the finish
line.
“Team racing is really different be-
cause you’re not just sailing the course
fast, you’re also covering other boats
and covering the course,” said fresh-
man Ariane Fisher.
Sailing is often undervalued for its MATT JONES/The Stanford Daily
difficulty. Athletes must not only be
The Stanford sailing team competes in the St. Francis Invitational in a home meet in April. The team is relatively young,
able to execute complicated maneu-
vers — YouTube a video of “tacking” but has been dominant on the West Coast this year, winning the Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference title.
for proof — they must also have an
acute knowledge of atmospheric con-
has morning practice at least once sophomores,” said senior captain Tay- just want to have fun, sail my best and
ditions,as a sudden change in wind can each week.The dedication in the form lor Grimes. not put any pressure on myself, be-
completely alter race dynamics.
of nearly 20 hours of practice per week Grimes, McKenna and the other cause that’s when I sail best.”
“Sailing is a great sport because it translates into success on the water for leaders are helping to prepare a Sailing provides more drama than
truly combines mental and physical
the Cardinal. youthful bunch for the future. For meets the eye. With capsizing boats,
skills,” Fisher said. However, these triumphs have not now, the Stanford sailing team will ever-changing conditions and narrow
Stanford has been dominant this
come without other obstacles. Stan- look to advance at nationals,which the finishes, regattas can instantly sway
year as it continues to make its run ford sailing is extremely young this team is hosting this year in San Fran- opinion from that of a country-club
into the collegiate sailing postseason.
year — the team only has three sen- cisco.The young sailors will attempt to privilege to an aquatic warzone. Stan-
“Our team is performing well,” iors and two juniors. Inexperience gain valuable postseason experience, ford sailing continues to progress
said senior captain Kelly McKenna.
would haunt most teams, but the vet- while the Cardinal vets look to end through the deep waters of collegiate
“We were one of only eight teams in eran leadership demonstrated by the their careers on a positive note. athletics, making a claim that it, too,
the country to qualify for all three na-
few older members of the Cardinal “Right now I just want to enjoy my belongs in the category of the Cardi-
tional championships [which began has the team poised for success. last bit of college sailing,” McKenna nal elite.
Tuesday in San Francisco].”
“I think the team is doing very well said. “I have already accomplished a
“We won our conference champi- this year, considering how young the lot,and have worked very hard the last Contact Zach Zimmerman at zachz
onships both in the fall and in the
team is with mainly freshmen and four years, so for nationals this year I @stanford.edu.
spring, and have been the top-ranked
team on the West Coast all year,” she
added.
Like all Stanford athletes, mem-
bers of the Sailing team commit end-
less hours to the sport. Practices run
for three hours at a time, five after-
noons a week. In addition, the team
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SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Yesterday at noon, students gath-
ered in White Plaza to express their
growing concern over the cultural
insensitivity toward Stanford’s Native
community. Standing in silent protest,
the 20 or so demonstrators carried
signs reading, “I am not your party
costume” and “I am not your mas-
cot.”
Their aim was to bring attention to
the concern caused by recent party
themes, special dinners and costumes
that have inaccurately represented
Native cultures. The demonstration
was also held as an act of solidarity
with the American Indian Movement
West (AIM West), which began a
three-day protest against mascots and
racism in sports on Monday. AIM
West organized a rally and boycott at
the San Francisco Giants vs. Atlanta
Braves game, criticizing the latter
team’s use of an Indian caricature as
its mascot.
“It’s been an ongoing issue here at
Stanford and around the country,”
said Leon Peralto ‘10, co-chair of Hui
o Hawai’i.
A junior majoring in anthropology
and Native American studies, Peralto
noted that students unwittingly
encourage stereotypes of native peo-
ples when they don Pocahontas or
Lilo and Stitch costumes, and when
they attend parties that erroneously
depict indigenous cultures.
“Native peoples and other kinds
of marginalized peoples have been
represented in very inaccurate and
very disrespectful ways in the media,
in literature,” Peralto said. “These
stereotypes that are created in the
media are reinforced and perpetuated
by a lot of things that people do in
their everyday life.”
Fellow demonstrator and Stanford
American Indian Organization
(SAIO) co-Chair Erika Chase ‘10
echoed these sentiments.
“I think that the underlying
[effects] of those things aren’t really
known,” said Chase, who is majoring
in Comparative Studies of Race and
Ethnicity.“[Students don’t know] how
bothersome it actually is to attend a
party and then see someone dressed
up in a way that is supposed to mock
who you are.”
But the demonstration also high-
lighted the remedies that can happen
in the future.
“We’re hoping for a multi-level
response,” said Hui o Hawai’i co-chair
Mililani Trask-Batti ‘10. “First and
foremost, we want the students to
understand what we’re doing. We’re
not just a radical group of people who
think [that] no one can have fun at a
party.”
Trask-Batti hopes that yesterday’s
demonstration is the first step towards
an official University policy that pro-
motes cultural sensitivity when dorms
and other organizations throw parties
and special events. Speaking on behalf
of her peers, Trask-Batti stated that it
would be a reassurance to have this
policy “officially written down as part
of some kind of document or guide-
line to follow.”
Trask-Batti also cited the impor-
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Students gather in White Plaza to demonstrate against the misrepresentation
of Native Americans. Hoping to raise awareness on these false stereotypes,
students cited problems with party themes and current sports mascots. A) Yeah, I’m living exactly where I
wanted!
tance of collaborating with the Office “She was part of the protests to get B) I did not enter the Draw
of Student Affairs (OSA) and the that out of the system,” Chase said of C) I wasn’t even assigned!
ASSU’s diversity outreach branch. her mother. “[Today] I’m still doing D) Not at all, I got a terrible location.
For the native community, lapses in things like that and having to make
cultural sensitivity have been a long- the same argument to the same like-
standing problem. minded people.” Today’s Question:
“It’s just a really frustrating thing “These things shape the mindset of Do you think the California Supreme Court
ruling on Prop 8 was justified?
to see how these cycles are continu- our future leaders here at Stanford,”
ing,” Chase commented, alluding to Trask-Batti agreed. “We’re not just a) Yes, the courts can’t overrule the voters.
Stanford’s old mascot, Prince caricatures. We are a real people, with b) No, Prop 8 is unconstitutional.
c) I understand the reasoning, but am very
Lightfoot. For Chase, yesterday’s a real culture.” opposed.
demonstration brought to mind her d) I don’t care.
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tion, adding that as the reason for
why no significant immigration
reforms were passed during the
110th Congress.
“It is a big enough issue that you
need to have bipartisan support,”
she continued. “But now, we also
have a new President who says he
wants to have immigration reform.”
SIRP is currently promoting such
change. For example, the group
formed an Alternative Spring Break
(ASB) group that traveled to
Arizona to study immigration poli-
cy.
“The first step is gathering minds
around the issue,” said Andy
Cantero ‘12. “We created a group to
bring people together to learn about
it.”
With an eye to the future,
Lofgren is angling for the passage of
the Development, Relief and
Education for Alien Minors
(DREAM) Act. This legislation
focuses on helping the children of
immigrants become citizens if they
enroll in two years of higher educa-
tion or military service. She believes
that education is key in allowing
immigrants to add to the American
workforce and boost the current
economy.
“We will have a meeting on June
8 at the White House to see if we
can make progress and get the com-
prehensive reform bill done,”
Lofgren added.
The Congresswoman also plans
to tell President Obama that his
plans for universal healthcare will
not work unless the 12 million ille-
gal immigrants are allowed to work
to get their green cards and get
healthcare as well. Otherwise, the
health care would not be universal.
Lofgren was hopeful, then, that
immigration reform would pass
sooner rather than later.
“Is this the year to get it done?”
she asked. “I definitely hope so!”
Contact Ellen Danford at edanford@
stanford.edu.
ASSU
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Ilves ‘09 announced that Tim Ford
‘10 and Devin Banerjee ‘11 would be
nominated as co-directors of the
Publications Board next week;
Banerjee currently serves as Deputy
Editor for The Daily.
Senator Michael Cruz ‘12
announced that STAMP won the
ASSU’s Volunteer Student
Organization (VSO) of the Year
award and that Professor Dan Klein
of the Drama Department won the
ASSU Teacher of the Year award.
Next up for the ASSU is Sunday’s
policy summit, where Senator Alex
Katz ‘12 said 100 students and
administrators are expected to gath-
er to set an agenda on broad topics,
ranging from sustainability to mental
health. The summit will begin at 11
a.m. in the Nitery at Old Union.
Contact Elizabeth Titus at etitus@stan-
ford.edu.
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Research with a Public Purpose:

Thesis Presentations by Stanford’s Public Service Scholars
an opportunity to hear the Public Service Scholars
speak about their integration of scholarship and service
Friday, May 29, 2009 from 11: 00 AM to 4:00 PM
Jessie Liu (Human Biology)
Maternal Beliefs and Behaviors in the Prevention of Childhood Diarrhea
in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the Haas Center, Donald Kennedy Room

Anjali Dixit (Biological Sciences)

Living a Contradiction: Power Inequities and Health Attitude-Behavior
Discrepancies in the Bay Area Indian Immigrant Women’s Community
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the Career Development Center, first floor conference room

Stany Leblanc (Urban Studies)

Partnership for Success: The Effects of Parents and Parental Initiative
Programs on Student Educational Aspirations and Achievement
12:00 to 1:00 PM at the Haas Center, Donald Kennedy Room

Scott Keyes (Political Science)

Why Do States Adopt Election Day Voter Registration?
12:00 to 1:00 PM at the Career Development Center, first floor conference room

Theresa Zhen (Economics/Sociology)

Language, Social Capital and Information Channels for Chinese
Immigrant Families in Chinatown, San Francisco
1:00 to 2:00 PM at the Haas Center, Donald Kennedy Room

Meredith Bell (Peace and Conflict Studies)

“De Lawd” and the Locals: Structure, Leadership and Two Organizations’
Efforts to Develop a Grassroots Movement for Civil Rights and Equality
in the Jim Crow South
1:00 to 2:00 PM at the Career Development Center, first floor conference room

Andrea Romero (Political Science)

Cultivating Success Through Community-Based Health Initiatives in
Developing Countries: A Lesson from Mozambique
2:00 to 3:00 PM at the Career Development Center, first floor conference room

Kelley Fong (American Studies/History)

“I Do What I Can”: How Homeless Parents Interpret and Support Their
Children’s Education
2:00 to 3:00 PM at the Haas Center, Donald Kennedy Room

Oluwatomi Onatunde (Biomedical Engineering)

Preventing Brain Drain: Understanding the Key Factors That Affect a
Medical Doctor’s Decision to Practice in a Specific Community
3:00 to 4:00 PM at the Haas Center, Donald Kennedy Room