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CS enrollment breaks 600

Intro computer science class 106A breaks records,dept-wide growth continues
By KATHERINE NABEL Enrollment in the introductory computer science (CS) course CS106A has exceeded 660 students for autumn quarter 2011, a record high for all courses in the CS Department and a continuation of the class enrollment growth, which has been accelerating since 2007. Mehran Sahami B.S. 92 M.S. 93 Ph.D.99,associate professor in computer science and associate chair for education in the department, is teaching CS106A this fall. Sahami said the department is welcoming this growth. The fall class has been growing consistently, but this year it grew more than we expected, he said. For us, its pretty exciting to have this many students going through the program. We have seen our introductory CS106 series as an indicator of the number of students who will declare a CS major, which has also been increasing rapidly. CS106A set a record for enrollment during the height of the dotcom bubble in the 1999-2000 academic year, with 762 students taking the class over the course of the year. This record was nearly broken in the 2009-10 school year. Sahami estimates that nearly 1,100 students took the class last year,including 500 during fall quarter. This year, that fall quarter enrollment record has already been exceeded by 30 percent and is on track to beat the yearlong record. Despite these growing numbers, Sahami and other CS106A professors, including Jerry Cain, Steve Cooper and Eric Roberts, continue to strive to accommodate all of the students who enroll in the course. Its great for more students to actually get experience with computing and to get the empowerment of working with programming, Sahami said. A large number of students go through the class every year, and we want to serve all the students who want to take it. This quarter, high demand for the course may mean students foregoing seats, even though the class is hosted in Stanfords largest lecture hall: Hewlett 200. The next largest venue for the class would be Dinkelspiel or Memorial Auditorium. The CS Department itself has been expanding to accommodate this spike in interest. We hired a new lecturer and teaching faculty member last year, Sahami said. There is definitely a need for growth within the department. Especially for introductory classes, a large undergrad-

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Construction is progressing on the Arrillaga Outdoor Education and Recreation Center, located on what was the west half of Roble Field. The 75,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to be completed by winter quarter 2013.

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West campus gym breaks ground

By JOSH HOYT Construction on the Arrillaga Outdoor Education and Recreation Center is set to be completed by winter quarter 2013, administrators predict. The new gym will closely resemble the existing Arrillaga Center for Sports and Recreation (ACSR) from the outside and will have the same 75,000-square-foot size, but will not include the same facilities for Stanford athletic teams. Workers broke ground for the new gym in August. Instead, the new facility is aimed at providing more comprehensive and accessible recreation to encourage health and wellness for all students. It serves the west side of campus which has not had its own weight-room facilities since most of the equipment was moved to the ACSR in 2005 and aims to bring together recreational opportunities that go beyond the basics. It is a prime location because we have the golf course there and the Red Barn and other recreational opportunities, said Deputy Athletic Director Ray Purpur.But currently the pool is inadequate, [like] the facilities in general. The building will have two floors, similar to the ACSR, with the upper featuring a large space for Stanfords strong outdoor education programs. It will be the new home of Stanford Outdoor Gear (SOG), which is currently based out of shipping containers on Stock Farm Road. There is also the possibility of a retail area that will sell outdoor equipment. The entry level will have three

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By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF The Kirkland & Ellis Law Firm pledged $2.75 million to the Stanford Law School over the next five years through several initiatives funded by the firm, as well as by matching gifts from its partners. The pledge will fund expanded clinical programs, new student awards and a series of panels and symposia on the legal profession, according to an article by The National Law Journal. This generous support from Kirkland & Ellis will enable Stanford Law School to continue to transform legal education and prepare the next generation of leaders through innovative, interdisciplinary and international programs,new and expanded forms of clinical education and a renewed commitment to public service, said Dean of Stanford Law School Larry Kramer in the article. The donation will establish the Kirkland & Ellis Scholars Program, acknowledging the six top-performing first-year law students each year. It replaces the coif designation, eliminated in 2008 when the school stopped awarding letter grades. The program awards performance across the board,unlike book awards which reward individual course mastery. The Law School will also establish the Kirkland & Ellis Law Forum, which will feature discussions about issues in law affecting the business community, with panelists coming from academia and the firm. The opportunity to recognize student excellence and to provide a forum for sharing thought leader-

Living-wage
line sales as expected
Alta Gracia clothing line performs well at bookstore
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Inside linebacker Chase Thomas applies pressure on UCLA quarterback Richard Brehaut in a 45-19 Cardinal victory. Thomas had three tackles, a forced fumble and a sack to extend Stanfords winning streak to 12.

BRUINS BASHED
STANFORD ROLLS OVER UCLA AT HOME
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In another dominant performance, the Stanford football team stayed undefeated on the season and extended the nations longest winning streak to 12 games dating back to last season by topping Pac-12 foe UCLA 45-19 on Saturday night. In front of just the fifth sellout crowd since the new Stanford Stadium opened in 2006, the No. 7 Cardinal (4-0, 2-0 Pac-12) had little trouble pushing its way past the struggling Bruins (2-3, 1-1), but that isnt to say there wasnt excite-

ment and intrigue like star quarterback Andrew Luck splitting wide out to snag a pass.

FOOTBALL UCLA 19 STANFORD 45 10/1, Stanford Stadium

On the Cardinals first drive of the night, Luck tossed the ball to junior halfback Tyler Gaffney, who then flipped the ball back to junior wide receiver Drew Terrell, who wound up and fired a high pass to Luck,who snagged the ball with his right hand and tapped his left foot inbounds in perfect succession for

a 13-yard completion. I just hoped I had a foot inbounds, Im sure it was incomplete on the next level, Luck said afterward, referring to the NFLs twofoot rule. Theres about five positions the guy could play receiver, tight end, outside linebacker, said head coach David Shaw. We just put him in position to make plays, and he never disappoints. Luck certainly did not disappoint on Saturday,playing his regular position flawlessly as well. The Heisman candidate completed 23

The Alta Gracia clothing brand, a living-wage line launched at the Stanford Bookstore last September, has performed as expected, according to bookstore director Janet Gawley. Alta Gracia is a subdivision of the Knights Apparel, Inc., which sources its clothing from the La Altagracia province of the Dominican Republic. The brand pays all of its workers a living wage approximately three times the countrys minimum wage which covers adequate food, clean water, clothing, shelter, health care, child care and education for themselves and their families, according to the companys website. According to Alta Gracia Commmunity Education Coordinator Rachel Taber, the brand is performing well this year. It launched in 250 bookstores and is already carried in 400. [Weve had] a ton of student support nationally, tons of local newspapers have covered it and a lot of students have engaged their communities in it, teaching about it in their classes, she said.Its totally unsolicited, a lot of it. At independent bookstores alone it more

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tephanie Liou 13 began volunteering at a Cardinal Free Clinic as a way to convince her mother that she wasnt cut out for the medical field, but soon realized that she was wrong. Within a few months, Liou had found her calling. Organized by the Stanford School of Medicine, the Cardinal Free Clinics provide free and immediate health care to low-income adults who would otherwise not be able to receive it. The Pacific Free Clinic, founded in 2003, was created in response to the success of the Arbor Free Clinic, founded in 1990. Both clinics also give aspiring health care and public service students a chance to interact directly with underinsured patients and learn from physicians. Liou, an aspiring medical care professional, now volunteers at the Pacific Free Clinic on a regular basis. Through volunteering at a clinic, I realized that there is absolutely nothing else I would rather do with my life, Liou said.We believe that everyone has the right to quality medical care and that there is nothing more meaningful than learning through hands-on experience and serving others. Free services at the clinic range from health screenings and medications to specialty care and health education. Students, including undergraduates, graduates and post-doctoral scholars,are largely responsible for running the services. Through the effort and commitment of these students, the clinics are able to reach out to underserved adults in several locales, including San Jose and the South Bay. Our volunteers understand the very real need for high-quality health care for low-income patients, said David Purger, a second-year medical student and manager of the Pacific Free Clinic.It is wonderful to see new volunteers mature in their roles at the clinic and realize that

their work, whether that means checking in patients at the front desk in the morning, drawing blood for lab tests or counseling on diet and exercise, can and often does mean the difference between sickness and health for our patients. Due to limited funding, the clinics operate only one day a week, but most of their success takes place outside open hours.And in the face of scant supplies, both clinics try to deliver more comprehensive patient care. We are fortunate to have grants, but that said, we are still a free clinic, said Amrapali Maitra, a medical student and manager of the Arbor Free Clinic. We generally strive to provide immediate care of acute conditions,but we also look toward the larger goal of overall, long-term health improvement and to ensure access for our patients to primary-care homes or referrals if needed. Although the program is relatively small Free Clinics has left an undeniable impact on the lives of both the patients and the volunteers, including to students like Liou. Liou says she continues to be humbled by the gratefulness and optimism of her patients, including one woman who had not seen a doctor in more than six years before she stepped into the Pacific Free Clinic. I will never forget one patient who had to wait over half an hour for a blood test due to an unfortunate paperwork error on our part, Liou said. Instead of complaining or expressing any impatience, she smiled. In the Stanford bubble, it can be so easy to get caught up in the little stressors poor performance on a midterm, pulling an all-nighter to finish a paper, getting rejected from an internship but the clinic is where I go to remind myself of the more important things in life. Contact Leslie Nguyen-Okwu at lvonkwu1@ stanford.edu. University fees, which include costs such as permitting and architects, will come from the Universitys general funds. Cost estimates

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basketball courts, a space for the club cycling team, a 3,200-squarefoot climbing wall and a 1,700square-foot dance studio. The facility emphasizes flexible usage space to accommodate the diverse and changing recreational activities of the students. Part of it is we dont yet know what the demand is, Purpur said. At one time, everybody wanted racquetball courts and now nobody does, although there has been a surge lately. The basement floor has even more flexible space, with four smaller classrooms and two larger spaces, one 3,500 square feet and the other 3,300 square feet, all designed for general-purpose use.The basement will also feature a large weight room. It will be quite a bit bigger than the one we have now, Purpur said. It will have mens locker rooms and womens locker rooms and showers and everything, and it will be attached to the pool. The pool will be 50 meters, Olympic sized and will only be used for recreation. One end of the pool will have a zero-entry feature that allows people to enter and exit without using the standard ladders. The pool construction will be funded by the Avery family, the family that funded the Avery Aquatic Center, while the Arrillaga family is again covering the majority of the costs for the gym facilities. The construction costs will come from the two families, while the

We dont yet know what the demand is.

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range between $30 and 40 million. Construction will mean a reduction in the size of Roble Field, which decreases the amount of open space on west campus. However, by eliminating the existing Roble Pool and some temporary buildings, there will be space for a full-size soccer field between Roble Gym and the new recreation center. I know the University is very good at making sure there is plenty of green space, Purpur said. That is what the Farm is. Contact Josh Hoyt at jwghoyt@stanford.edu.

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Improving Governance and Combating Drugs

The Honorable K arl Eikenberr y
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than tripled last year, which is a direct result of students going in and asking their bookstores to carry it more. For example, Taber noted, New York Universitys $200,000 order of Alta Gracia apparel sold out within two weeks thanks to instore promotions. Wherever students have really spoken up and vocalized that they want Alta Gracia to come to their campus, weve seen a lot of very good improvements, Taber said. Students on campus have shown substantial support for Alta Gracia, with student groups such as the Stanford Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) promoting the brand on campus. The bookstore has also done its share of in-store and online promotion. We promote Alta Gracia through in-store posters and our website, Gawley wrote in an email to The Daily. When a customer selects the apparel section of our website Alta Gracia is the first option available to them on the drop-down menu. No other vendor is listed within the apparel drop-down menu. Gawley called the price of Alta Gracia clothing comparable to

other brands at the bookstore. For example, a basic short-sleeve tshirt at the bookstore starts around $13. An Alta Gracia t-shirt is $18. Follett Corporation, which runs bookstores across the country, including at Stanford, doubled its order from Alta Gracia in the last year, Taber said. She also highlighted support from progressive and businessoriented groups across the country, among them the microfinance organization Campus Kiva, the United States Student Organization, United Students Against Sweatshops and various Dominican student groups. Its really been a process across a spectrum, she said. Gawley said the Stanford Bookstore will continue to carry the brand given a positive consumer reception. Its products are of high quality, and the message they convey to the consumer is a positive one, Gawley said.We have seen steady sales of this merchandise, and I would expect that trend to continue. We will continue to purchase apparel from Alta Gracia and bring in new product as it is available, she continued. We are very proud to be able to bring this product to the Stanford community. Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stanford.edu.

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Eliminate needaware admissions for internationals

Board of Directors Kathleen Chaykowski President and Editor in Chief Anna Schuessler Chief Operating Officer Sam Svoboda Vice President of Advertising Theodore L. Glasser Michael Londgren Robert Michitarian Nate Adams Tenzin Seldon Rich Jaroslovsky

arly October. For us its a time of sunny weather, Stanford football and the promise of a new year. For high school seniors around the world, though, its a time to start the stressful college application process. In recent years, Stanford has alleviated much of the financial stress inherent in the process by increasing the breadth of its financial aid program. But despite these gains, international applicants with financial need still face discrimination in the admissions process. While Stanford is needblind for domestic applicants, international admissions is needaware, meaning an international applicants financial status is factored into his admissions decision. Last year,The Dailys Editorial Board criticized this practice primarily on the issue of fairness; it is not fair to deny admission to qualified international applicants solely because of their financial status. But this Board recognizes that other concerns may trump this ideal. In admissions, what it often comes down to is benefits versus costs to the University as a whole. Accordingly, in examining the merits of a need-blind policy for internationals, we must ask how said policy would benefit the University. In this case, the benefits are clear. Under the current needaware system, qualified applicants who would otherwise be accepted are instead denied admission.Stanford thus misses out on their academic and extracurricular talent, instead having to settle for less qualified applicants who can afford the tuition. Furthermore, the needaware policy discourages many internationals from applying to begin with.Stanford has developed a reputation for not accepting internationals with significant financial needs. Whether this reputation is deserved or not is beside the point. The reality is that Stanford loses international applicants to its needblind peer schools Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Dartmouth and Amherst. Although Stanford does admit exceptionally qualified international applicants in spite of financial need, it cannot admit

those who do not apply. In short, continuation of the need-aware policy results in a less qualified applicant pool and a less qualified student body. The need-aware policy also detracts from diversity on campus. With the current policy, students primarily interact with wealthy internationals. Often these students have relatively Western perspectives; many attended international schools, others travelled extensively, some have spent considerable time in the United States. Although wealthy international students do bring valuable perspectives to campus, there are more voices to be heard. In an increasingly globalized age, it is important for all students to encounter peers with upbringings radically different than their own. Many students have some conception of what it means to be poor in America. But how many have an idea of what its like to grow up in a rural Chinese village or a lower class area of Mumbai? This University is committed to the notion of education outside the classroom, and as such puts great effort into creating a student body populated with members from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. This effort should not stop at the U.S. border. Of course, there is always the cost of accepting more students with financial need. A need-blind policy for internationals would likely require a 10-percent increase in the financial aid budget. But with Stanfords multi-billion dollar endowment, it is more a question of willpower and prioritizing than resources. Princeton University,for instance,was able to institute a need-blind policy despite enrolling more international students than Stanford, even while having only a slightly larger endowment. As it stands, there are no immediate plans to change the current need-aware policy for internationals. That must change. A needblind policy would result in a more diverse and talented student body, and it would confirm the Universitys ideal of providing access to students who deserve admission, regardless of background.

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suck at sharing. Even though Im not an only child, Ive never really gotten used to the whole this object belongs to both of us, and we are both allowed to use it concept. So it really should come as no surprise that I am slightly (read:very) disturbed by Stanfords communal bathroom situation. You know how on TV, college bathrooms are these steamy places where mostly naked students stand around and flirt? Apparently TV writers never actually attended college. Because if they did, I guarantee bathrooms on television would look a helluva lot different. First, lets get rid of this co-ed is sexy idea.At least in Stern, there are separate facilities for men and women.And I thank dear old Leland and Jane for that fact at least 10 times a day. (Even if they didnt, you know, directly have a say in the construction of the bathrooms.) Because really,nobody looks cute at 3 a.m.Do you really want the guy youve been hooking up with for the entire quarter to see you puking your guts up after too many shots? Or first thing the next morning when your smoky-eye makeup has smeared down to your chin and your hair would make Amy Winehouse step back and say,Whoa girlfriend, thats a little too trashy? Didnt think so. And Ive never seen floor-mates

hold full-on conversations in the bao, either. Sure, people say Hey, but were in there for a reason, you know? No need for superfluous talking. Also, Im not quite sure how to converse with someone clad only in a too-small towel; my crappy public high school must have skipped that lesson. (But we totally spent three weeks learning how to divide fractions. Which lesson seems like the more important life skill?!? Clearly some educators need to get their priorities ironed out.) My aversion to the sight of ass cheeks first thing in the morning is part of the reason why I am such a huge proponent of bathrobes.Theyre also soft and fluffy sort of like slipping on a cuddly kitten after a shower. And most importantly, I guarantee a trusty robe will save you from at least one dreadfully awkward situation per year. In my book, that makes it a $14.99 well spent. I suppose I would be a lot more comfortable with communal bathrooms if everyone else using them had obsessive-compulsive cleaning habits. But somehow, I always manage to jump in the shower just after That Girl steps out. You know, the bitch down the hall who wastes all the hot water and leaves copious amounts of hair in the drain. The Chewbacca living on the first floor of Twain has recently taken it one step further; she makes

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lovely murals out of drain hair and leaves them for all to see. As much as they may scare me, communal bathrooms have taught me two lessons. Number one: things are not always going to be ideal. Wouldnt it be nice if we each got our own marble bathroom with a built-in Jacuzzi? And at night, maybe little Keebler elves could come and scrub them clean. Instead, we get mildew-y shower stalls and abstract art made of hair.The trick is to make the best out of less-than-ideal situations, and when all else fails, laugh. Laugh at yourself, laugh at the ridiculous predicaments you find yourself in, laugh until your stomach hurts.When youre done, things usually look at least a little brighter. The second lesson that Stanford bathrooms have taught me? Always and I do mean always wear shower shoes. Think its too soon to be making Amy Winehouse jokes? Tell Bianca at blchavez@stanford.edu.

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The Red Zone and student football tickets
Dear Editor: The Red Zone serves as the heart of Stanford Stadiums energy and passion on game day, driving our football team to greater heights in every home game. The Department of Athletics firmly believes students represent the core of our fan base,both today and in the future. For the 2011-12 season, Stanford Athletics has transitioned to a new student ticketing procedure for football games in anticipation of recordsetting student demand.The capacity of the Red Zone has been increased for this season to include an additional three sections and now stretches from section 102 to 111.Unfortunately, there are simply not enough seats to meet the demand from a passionate and dedicated student body and fan base. For example, the full allocation of student tickets for the UCLA game was claimed within five hours of becoming available last Tuesday evening.The strong turnout and energy in the Red Zone was overwhelming on game day. Our intention has been to create a simple and equitable system that fairly serves all parties,but we welcome your feedback as we continue to refine the process. For complete information on the student ticketing process, the Red Zone Loyalty Point Program and other student-related questions, please visit www.gostanford.com/redzone.All students are also encouraged to sign up for the Red Alert, Stanford Athletics weekly e-newsletter containing ticketing updates, promotions, giveaways,highlights and more,by visiting http://www.gostanford.com/ot /redalert.html. Please Note: student tickets for the game against Colorado will be released at 9 p.m.on Tuesday,Oct.4.
JIM YOUNG Senior Assistant Athletic Director of Communications & Media Relations

Unsigned editorials in the space above represent the views of the editorial board of The Stanford Daily and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Daily staff.The editorial board consists of eight Stanford students led by a chairman and uninvolved in other sections of the paper.Any signed columns in the editorial space represent the views of their authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the entire editorial board.To contact the editorial board chair, e-mail editorial@stanforddaily.com.To submit an op-ed, limited to 700 words, e-mail opinions@stanforddaily.com.To submit a letter to the editor, limited to 500 words, e-mail eic@stanforddaily.com.All are published at the discretion of the editor.

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ake a few sticks of butter, some chocolate and a can of frosting, mix in a few hundred angry protestors, top with a dollop of racial tension and heat at high temperature until combustion, and you get the recipe for disaster that was UC-Berkeley last week. Seizing the opportunity to satirize the new pro-affirmative action legislation that was under debate in the California state legislature last week, the Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) enthusiastically held what they termed an Increase Diversity Bake Sale last Tuesday. The sale was intended to protest Senate Bill 185, which has since been passed by the state legislature and now awaits Governor Jerry Browns approval. The bill would allow the state university system to consider race and gender when making admissions decisions. Using the weapon of satire, the bake sale charged differential prices to consumers based on ethnicity and sex.White students seeking to purchase yummy cookies and cupcakes were charged $2, while Asians had to fork over a mere $1.50, Hispanics $1,African Americans $0.75 and Native Americans a quarter. Women of all races received a 25-cent discount (the noble efforts of several NativeAmerican women to abscond with truckloads of free cookies were, alas, rebuffed). If attention was the BCRs goal, then it succeeded rather brilliantly. Not surprisingly, the bake sale immediately aroused the hysteria of UC-Berkeley students and administrators alike, triggering instantaneous paroxysms of outrage from the Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion, various pro-affirmative action student groups and a horde of counter-protestors who all wore black and pretended to die en masse in front of the bake sale table all of which was, of course, precisely the kind of sensationalist response the bake sale was designed to elicit. The mainstream media soon swooped in to gleefully cherry-pick the most deliciously nasty

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quotes from the ensuing shout-fest, and voila: instant, glorious national attention for the Berkeley College Republicans. If a similar event ever occurs at Stanford, I would hope that we could be better than that that we would respond with reasoned argument rather than substance-less shouting to a provocation clearly designed to spark the latter, that we could take advantage of a rare opportunity to have a tough, painful but ultimately rewarding discussion about race and class and that we would be confident enough in the soundness of our arguments to conduct them in a civil manner. But until then, lets start by addressing the BCRs main point

(and how to begin the conversation that Cal could have had last week). Is taking account of race and gender in university admissions decisions really analogous to, and as manifestly unjust as, differential cookie pricing? It depends, I think, on what precisely affirmative action is designed to achieve. If we take at face value Justice Powells calculus in Bakke, which held that affirmative action is legal insofar as it promotes the states justified interest in improving the quality of learning within university walls, then race and gender would seem to be reasonable factors to include in a holistic admissions review. Students at a university composed solely of Asian females or Hispanic males or whites or whoever would surely suffer from an impaired ability to learn about worlds and perspectives different from their own worlds and perspectives invariably colored by race, experience and culture.

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If we consider affirmative action a vehicle for righting past wrongs or redressing the lingering effects of bygone discrimination, however, the logical landscape changes a bit. Race, I think, is not necessarily the most accurate or useful proxy for disadvantage. Some African-American, Hispanic and Native-American families have happily broken through the walls that were once (and, in many cases, are still) imposed on them by society. There are now a fair number of doctors, engineers, lawyers and businesspeople of minority descent, and many of them have provided their children with a terrific education, a happy and stable upbringing and productive extracurricular opportunities. If we consider affirmative action a means to help those in need, these children do not require the same assistance that their less fortunate minority compatriots do or, for that matter, less fortunate Caucasian and Asian ones. Stamping all racial minorities, regardless of actual need, with the same badge is thus not a particularly efficient or effective way to help. A better and more finely tuned policy, if intended to balance an unbalanced playing field, would take a familys economic condition, the employment status of the parents, the childs quality of schooling and other relevant factors into account, rather than race. Imagine a Venn diagram with two intersecting circles, one labeled minority students and the other labeled students in need. These circles would overlap, but they would not be equal in size or coterminous. Now imagine a third circle, labeled students helped by affirmative action. I would propose that a just policy must place this circle precisely over the students in need circle, capturing all minority students (and white students) who need help and leaving out those, of whichever race, who dont. Miles would welcome your comments or suggestions on this weeks column, as it is an especially controversial topic. Feel free to continue the conversation at milesu1@stanford. edu.

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The FLiCKS film series launched last night at 8 p.m. in Memorial Auditorium with a showing of Thor. The showings occurs on Sunday evenings and features a variety of recent releases as well as a tradition of audience members throwing balls of ripped newspaper at each other throughout the film.

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ship on emerging matters that may challenge and reshape the business and law community fits well with Kirkland & Ellis culture and mission, said Jeffrey Hammes, chairman of the firms global management executive committee, told The National Law Journal.
Ellora Israni

Palo Alto,firefighters reach agreement

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF The Palo Alto Fire Fighters Union voted Friday in approval of a new labor contract with the city that

runs through June 30, 2014.The City Council tentatively approved the contract and is set to vote on it officially Oct. 17. Many of the agreements provisions are derived from the citys budget woes.The contract is projected to save Palo Alto $1.1 million this fiscal year and $1.5 million per year starting next July. Wages for firefighters will not increase for the duration of the agreement except for a two percent, cost-of-living increase; in fact, they will decrease by nine percent to compensate for an increase in prior agreements. The contract also eliminates the staffing standard requiring that 29 firefighters be on duty at any given time. The firefighters are pleased to have worked with the city to come to an agreement on a contract that will cover our terms of employment with the city for the next three years,said Tony Spitaleri, president of the Palo Alto Fire Fighters Union, in a press

release from the union. In these tough economic times, it is important that we do what we can to make sure the city can meet its fiscal responsibilities, he continued. Like all negotiations, both sides came to compromise. We look forward to continuing to work with the city to provide the best services to the residents of Palo Alto. Compromises have also been struck with regard to the firefighters pension plans. Negotiations, which began 16 months ago,reached an impasse last February. I am pleased that we have been able to reach agreement with our Fire Fighters Union after a long negotiation period, said Palo Alto Mayor Sid Espinosa in the citys statement.The city is not out of the woods financially, but this agreement with the firefighters is a necessary step forward.
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site lectures and interact with students. Stanford is pleased to offer this program to India, said Ray Levitt, professor of civil and environmental engineering and the academic director of APM, in a statement to MarketWatch. This is an outstanding opportunity for professionals to get access to advanced education in the important disciplines of executing strategy, managing complex programs, leading change efforts and improving organization performance.
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Stanford launches center to study senior fraud

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF The Universitys Center on Longevity and the FINRA Investor Education Foundation have jointly launched the interdisciplinary Research Center on the Prevention of Financial Fraud, which will supplement work by law enforcement, the government and research groups in understanding how Americans lose money to fraud. The centers inaugural conference, The State and Future of Financial Fraud, will be held Nov. 3 and Nov. 4 in Washington, D.C. The Center on Longevity is included in the partnership as the elderly are frequent targets for fraud; however, according to the centers founding director Laura Carstensen, also a professor of psychology, all age groups and financial profiles are at risk. Even people who did everything right are finding themselves in situations where those savings are being stolen, she told the Stanford Report. In fact, the elderly are often caught in financial scams not because of their vulnerability, but because they are sometimes wea lthier than other segments of the population. According to fraud expert Doug Shadel, the profiles of those who get caught in these schemes are often counterintuitive. [A man] lost $40,000 [in an oiland-gas scheme],but what was interesting about the guy is that he was a stockbroker, Shadel told the Stanford News Service. You wouldnt think that of someone who day-in and day-out gives people advice about money. We assumed that the people who were defrauded were less financially literate wouldnt you think so? he continued. Its not the case at all. He mentioned doctors, lawyers and company presidents as common fraud victims. The center has so far enumerated three purposes: consolidating information for academic use, communicating this research to policymakers and funding research. The center is also developing psychological portraits of those who tend to fall for scams as those who are more open, according to Shadel. Theyre more likely to read every piece of mail they get, including junk mail, he said. Theyre exposing themselves to the marketplace. The center said it aims to address the concern that many individuals do not admit they are fraud victims because of shame, embarrassment or denial. In a study of 723 victims, only 40 percent said they had lost money. Its unknowable what the real statistic is, Shadel said.
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Stat on the Back

Luck, Fleener lead #1s

Number of the game: 1 What it means: It may be the loneliest number, but Stanfords players didnt seem to need anything more to make Catch of the Year 1A and Catch of the Year 1B. How important was the number one? Consider this: on the first drive of the first quarter, the Stanford defense stopped UCLA on the one-yard line.Then,on Stanfords first drive,the Cardinal used a one-handed catch by the No.1 player in the country (and future No.1 pick in the NFL Draft),Andrew Luck, and a one-handed catch by Coby Fleener (who is No. 1 in the nation in touchdowns by a tight end) to get the first points of the game. Why it matters:Stanford was going to beat UCLA on Saturday,even if the Cardinal came out flat from its bye week. More importantly, though, Stanford needed some signature plays to get the fans in the game early and to bolster the teams confidence. Its hard to do much better on those fronts than a goal-line stand on the first series of the game followed immediately by the aforementioned grabs by Luck and Fleener. The defense looked more pumped up than it had all year when it stuffed the Bruins four times from inside the five-yard line, and the crowd was louder than it had been all year when the referees overturned the call of incomplete on Lucks catch. And while no one on the team or coaching staff will admit to caring about it, Lucks catch definitely helps his Heisman campaign. Dont be surprised if you keep seeing his catch throughout the season, just like Cam Newtons run through the LSU defense last year and Desmond Howards punt return and pose in 1991.Last year,it was all about Lucks hits on Sean Cattouse and Shareece Wright.This year,it could be all about his one-handed catch. Other notable numbers: 200: For the third straight week, Stanford broke the 200-yard mark both through the air and on the ground, led by efficient games from Luck (23-for-27 passing) and Stepfan Taylor (17 carries for 112 yards and

n this weeks Stat on the Back, Ill take a look at Stanfords 4519 win over UCLA.

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Goalkeeper Emily Oliver posted two shutouts during the weekend roadtrip to keep the Cardinal unbeaten this season. Stanford took down Washington and Washington State 1-0 each on late goals. Oliver came up with a huge save early in the overtime period. She has a .920 save percentage.

STILL UNBEATABLE
CARD SETS PAC-12 RECORD IN LATE WIN
By JOSEPH BEYDA
DESK EDITOR

NEW WAYS TO WIN: LATEST GOALS KEEP STREAK GOING

Over the 23-game conference win streak, the Cardinal has usually scored quickly. However, this past weekend marked the latest and third-latest goals of the streak.

For nearly three years, conference play has been anything but tough going for the No. 1 Stanford womens soccer team. But on a weekend where the squad had a chance to break the record for the longest win streak in Pac-12 history, things got hairy for the Cardinal for the first time in a long while. It took goals in WOMENS SOCCER the 86th and 94th 1 minutes in a pair of STANFORD 1-0 wins to put WASHINGTON 0 Stanford in the 10/1, Seattle record books, as the Cardinal narrowly escaped Washington and Washington State to extend its conference win streak to 23 games. Stanford (11-0-1, 3-0 Pac-12) remains undefeated on the season and has not lost in Pac-10 (or -12) play since Oct. 2008. Yet as long as that run may seem, the bulk of the streaks drama has come over the past four days. Before this weekend, the Cardinal had outscored its opponents by nearly three goals per game during the streak, notched the winning tally by the 60th minute over 75 percent of the time and been on the board by the 29th minute on average. Only once did it take the team more than 75 minutes to score its opening goal in a

1. 10/2/11, at Washington 2. 10/23/09, at Washington State 3. 9/30/11, at Washington State 4. 10/18/09, vs. UCLA 5. 10/8/10, at USC

93:31 86:48 85:09 71:01 64:41

2009 match against the Washington St. Cougars, Stanford needed an 87th-minute goal by Christen Press to send the game to overtime before the Cardinal could take the game 2-1 in the extra frame. The teams first trip back to Pullman, Wash. since that game was just as dangerous. Stanford outshot Washington State 22-6 as opposed to the 22-7 margin in 2009 and, yet again, nothing was finding the back of the Cougars net. But in the waning moments of the second half, senior forward Lindsay Taylor whose cross in 2009 found the head of then-teammate Kelley OHara for the overtime winner in Pullman found herself at the center of the action once again. This time, however, she would be tasked with finishing off the match, diving for a header off a pass from senior Camille Levin for the game winner at the 85:09 mark. The Cardinal got off to an even slower start on Sunday at Washington, failing to get a shot off until 10 minutes into the match and going com-

pletely dry for two other extended periods in the first half alone. Stanford did have several quality shots, including a 25th-minute header from senior midfielder Kristy Zurmuhlen off the crossbar, but the Huskies played physical defense to keep the Cardinal from capitalizing on its chances from within the box. Withstanding a late-second-half push from Stanford to send the game into overtime scoreless,Washington coming off a 1-1 tie with Cal on Friday looked poised to draw yet another match with the tight defense that had halted the Cardinal all afternoon. But just two minutes into the first overtime period, Husky sophomore forward Hillary Zevenbergen found herself all alone in front of sophomore goalkeeper Emily Oliver, who came up with a game-saving stop on Zevenbergens low shot. After turning away the ensuing corner kick, Stanford pushed the ball upfield, and a cross from junior midfielder Mariah Nogueira found senior midfielder Teresa Noyola at the far post. Noyolas header snuck through the defense to extend the Cardinals conference win streak with the squads first overtime victory since a 21 decision over Georgia on Sept. 10, 2010. Stanford also continued its dominant defensive run,which includes a staggering 567 minutes and 26 seconds of game time since giving up its last goal over a month ago. Oliver has been key to that success, posting a stellar .920 save percentage on the season to lead the Pac-12 in that category. Shell have to be at the top of her game next weekend, as Stanford faces its toughest twogame test of the season against USC and UCLA.

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FOOTBALL |Cruising
of 27 passes for 227 yards and three touchdowns, mostly capitalizing on short passes that kept the Cardinal offense on the field for over 34 minutes of game time. Lucks spectacular performance with passing and receiving overshadowed the Cardinal defense on Saturday night, which (for the most part) didnt miss a beat despite the loss of junior linebacker Shayne Skov. The Cardinal defense did give up season highs in rushing yards allowed, total yards allowed and points allowed, but that was mostly due to Stanfords defense setting the bar very high in the first three games of the season. After only allowing 36 yards per game through the first three matchups, UCLAs Johnathan Franklin took 12 carries for 96 yards to help the Bruin offense to 141 yards on the ground,but that didnt mean the defense was left in a panic after the game. We stood up a lot of times when we needed to, but we definitely left a lot of plays on the field, said senior safety Michael Thomas. Guys were doing their jobs, but we just werent finishing plays. So thats just something we have to work on. [UCLA] ran the ball a lot, and with all the misdirection in the offense, it blurs your vision for a second,Shaw said.I think our guys did a decent job of containing it, but [UCLA] still popped out a couple of long runs. Thomas also complemented junior Jarek Lancaster and sophomore AJ Tarpley (who combined for 10 tackles) for their efforts stepping up to fill in for the injured Skov at inside linebacker. Im proud of those guys. They did their job,and they played a hell of a game,Thomas said. Stanfords defense set up the offense for success right from the start by stuffing the Bruins first drive of the night on the Cardinal one-yard line, a start that Shaw said helped ignite the team on both sides of the ball. It was huge, he said. When it happened,for a split second I flashed back to my time in Baltimore, and [Ravens linebacker] Ray Lewis used to always say,Opportunity for greatness.When the balls on the one-yard line,its an opportunity for greatness. And the guys stepped up to the challenge and did a great job. The Cardinal then pounded out a 16-play, eight-minute, 99-yard drive highlighted not only by Lucks but also by tight end Coby Fleeners onehanded touchdown catch. I knew Andrew was trying to make me look bad with his onehanded catch, Fleener cracked after the game.So I felt like I had to oneup him. The Cardinal kept that pace up for the rest of the game, as Luck and junior running back Stepfan Taylor, who rushed for 112 yards and two touchdowns, kept the offense perfectly in balance to combine for 442 total yards, including 202 on the ground. Stanford used all of its consider-

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Andrew Luck (holding ball) showed poise in the pocket against the Bruins. Luck threw for 227 yards and three touchdowns and snagged a 13-yard pass with an acrobatic one-handed catch. The redshirt junior quarterback called his own plays from the line for the first time this season, as the Cardinal rolled up 442 yards of total offense.
able offensive firepower to score on its first four drives of the night before finally being forced to punt for the first time in the third quarter. Luck and company authored five scoring drives of 59 yards or more when all was said and done. Shaw said that he was pleased with his offenses effort and particularly with his quarterback,who drove a new, speedy, no-huddle offense at several points during the game. [The no-huddle offense] is really something we worked on the entire offseason, and this was the game that we were going to start doing it,Shaw said. We just put the formation out there and let Andrew call the play. Its not coming from the sideline, its coming from him on the field. When were in the no-huddle, hes calling the plays. And despite his new receivers highlight-reel catch, Shaw didnt foresee going back to Luck to catch any more passes this season. We wont come back to it again this year, he said. We kind of like what he does at quarterback. The Cardinal will return home this weekend for another Pac-12 matchup against the Colorado Buffaloes at 4:30 p.m.on Saturday,Oct.8. Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@ stanford.edu.

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MENS SOCCER

Cardinal couldnt find the net on SoCal roadtrip

By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR

The mens soccer team had a disappointing start to the Pac-12 season, dropping a tight 1-0 match in the conference opener Friday at San Diego State before fading slightly in the second half of a 2-0 loss to No. 25 UCLA Sunday afternoon. Stanford (3-6-1, 0-2 Pac-12) started off the season in a slight funk, struggling to find a groove on the road against some very tough opponents including a nationally televised matchup at No. 1 Maryland. But the Cardinal had won two straight matches before hitting the road for San Diego, and coach Bret Simon was optimistic that the team was beginning to hit its stride in time for the conference season.

MENS SOCCER STANFORD 0 UCLA 2 10/2, Los Angeles

In the first half of Friday afternoons game against San Diego State (7-1-2, 2-0), Stanford certainly played well. Both teams had plenty of scoring chances the Card took four corners in the span of two minutes in the first half but neither side could break through. It looked like Stanford might get on the board first when junior midfielder Adam Jahn forced Aztec goalie Blake Hylen to make a save just minutes into the second half. But instead, San Diego State found a seam in the Cardinal defense, and Ata Ozbay knocked a 25-yard shot past the diving Jason Dodson for the only goal of the game in the 52nd minute. The Aztecs stayed on the attack for much of the second half, controlling the tempo and mustering up several more scoring opportunities, but a late surge by Stanford sent San Diego States defense scrambling. Jahn hit the crossbar on a free kick in the 85th minute, and freshman forward Zach Batteer had one of his four shots on goal saved soon after. But the equalizer never materialized despite 11 second-half shots, including six on goal. Against UCLA (7-3-1, 2-0) on

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Senior Adoni Levine carries the ball for Stanford. The Card could not muster any offense on its trip to Southern California, losing 1-0 at San Diego State in the conference opener on Friday and 2-0 at UCLA on Sunday.
Sunday, the Cardinal again struggled to finish its chances,particularly early. Stanford had the games first four shots senior Garrett Gunther hit the crossbar in the 24th minute but nothing came of it, and the teams went to halftime scoreless. Thats when the Bruins got their act together. In the 53rd minute, 2010 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year Kelyn Rowe made a nifty play to set up Ryan Hollingshead for the go-ahead goal, which was followed by a penalty kick converted by UCLAs Andy Rose after a Cardinal foul in the box. Dodson was forced into action multiple times, making six saves in the second half, and the offense never quite got into gear before the final whistle. Stanford gets a bit of a reprieve this week with just one match they will host California on Sunday but just eight games remain before the NCAA selection committee will set the NCAA Tournament field, and the Cardinal has some work to do in order to be one of the 32 teams selected. Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@stanford.edu.

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uate, section-teaching staff is key to running the class. Unlike most Stanford undergraduate courses, CS106A is taught by professors and graduate-student teaching assistants (TAs) as well as undergraduate students who lead discussion sections every week.TAs deal mostly with logistical aspects of the course and occasionally fill in for lecturers when needed. Meanwhile, the undergraduate section leaders are responsible for teaching a small section approximately 10 students and grading assignments and tests. Undergraduates who are interested in leading section for introductory CS courses are required to apply to the position and enroll in CS198, a workshop offered by the department intended to teach section leaders how to teach and grade. Only students who have completed the CS106 series by either taking 106A/106B or 106X are eligible to lead sections. Section leader Tom Schmidt 14 says he applied to the program last winter and has taught CS106A and CS106B sections every quarter since. I plan to stay with the CS198 program for as long as Im at Stanford, Schmidt said. Its a wonderful initiative with some very bright people. Schmidt also notes that the CS198 program is very deeply intertwined with the CS Department. All of the 106 lecturers come to our Monday meetings and are ex-

tremely supportive and open to feedback, he said.We have barbeques from time to time, and they are often held at professors houses. The CS106 professors seem equally appreciative for the support from their section leaders. One of the challenges is not only recruiting students into the teaching program, but also having them stay in the program and teach for multiple quarters, Sahami said. The CS106A teaching staff presented various theories as to why enrollment has skyrocketed. The factors of economic opportunity are very real, Sahami said. The high-tech economy is doing very well compared to the regular economy.There is a growing realization of the power of computing and an element of self-empowerment. Students can see more directly their contribution to technology, and they understand they have the knowledge to use their own tools themselves. Schmidt said that CS is booming for a variety of reasons, including the rapid expansion of the Silicon Valley and the flood of job opportunities that await Bay Area programmers. It seems like computer science is sexy again, Schmidt said. Startup life has been glorified in the media, and stories like Facebooks scrappy dorm-room beginnings or Apples huge comeback have a certain appeal for people. It has been said before, but I would agree that The Social Network and similar pieces of media brought programming and hacking back into the limelight and infused them with a bit of sex appeal. Contact Katherine Nabel at knabel@stanford.edu.

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Picked to finish fourth and second in the conference, respectively, the two squads have had quite different seasons the Trojans (3-9-0, 0-3) have lost six straight games by a single goal, while the Bruins (10-0-1, 30) are ranked second in the country

after outscoring their opponents 194 on the year. Stanford head coach Paul Ratcliffe will be going for his 200th career win against USC on Friday night at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium, before UCLA the last team to beat the Cardinal in conference play comes to town Sunday afternoon. Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@ stanford.edu.

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two touchdowns). Of the 24 completions, 10 different players caught a pass.Head coach David Shaw preaches balance at least as much as Jim Harbaugh did, and he wont be satisfied with a one-dimensional team, no matter how strong that dimension is. Hows Stanford doing balance-wise? The Cardinal ranks 31st in the nation in rushing and 32nd in passing.Thats a balanced offense. Stanford ranks seventh in scoring offense and sixth in scoring defense. Thats a balanced team. 141: Stanford allowed 141 rushing yards to UCLA. In the first three games of the season combined, the Cardinal gave up only 108 rushing yards. Was the run defense that bad?

No. Was the run defense really that good for the first three weeks? No. Stanford held UCLA well below its season average on the ground, but there were still several gaping holes for Johnathan Franklin right up the middle. Most likely, Stanford wont routinely give up over 140 rushing yards per game, but it also wont hold many teams below 40. Most teams in the Pac-12 rely more heavily on the passing game,so the running numbers will probably end up halfway between these two numbers. 3: A big reason why Stanford had less success stopping the run was its inability to tackle Bruin rushers behind the line. The Cardinal had only three tackles for loss on Saturday after leading the nation with 31 in its first three games. Yet again, the UCLA offensive line was better than the other lines Stanford has faced, so its not surprising the numbers went down.

Still, every team in the country averages more than three tackles for loss, so the lack of big-play defense is somewhat worrisome. The defense is one of just three teams without an interception this year, so the big plays have to come from tackles behind the line. With the loss of Shayne Skov, Stanford will be without its best bigplay defender for the rest of the year. The rest of the team needs to pick up the slack. 8: What makes three tackles for a loss not seem so bad? When your offense has allowed only eight tackles for a loss all season.The offensive line has shown some holes at times, but when you have the fewest negative plays of any team in the country, your line must be doing something right. 22: Stanford has gotten to the red zone 22 times this season. Every one of those times, the Cardinal has come away with points. Thats the best of any team in the country. When you dont turn it over (one turnover all season, best in the country) and your kicker doesnt miss (Jordan Williamson is 7-for-7),you become almost impossible to stop. 12: The winning streak continues. Jacob Jaffe lives in a single, so he knows the true meaning of one is the loneliest number. Give him some love at jwjaffe@stanford.edu or publicly ask him out on Twitter @Jacob_Jaffe.

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On the availability of Art Department offerings

Dear Editor, The publication last week of Jamie Solomons column, On the Margins, Between the Lines: The Art Department hates me, shined light on a problem that, from a certain perspective, seems to be borne of success.The picture might be described as follows: Interest in the visual and performing arts has been gaining momentum among Stanford students for years. It has been nurtured by the Universitys Arts Initiative and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts. Thanks to the Arts Initiative, this interest is also taking palpable form in a new arts district around the Cantor Arts Center, with the construction of the Bing Concert Hall, the future McMurtry Building for the Department of Art & Art History and the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, all of which will increase the arts opportunities on campus. Given the attention that has been focused in recent years on how the arts might play a more significant role in the educational experience of all Stanford undergraduates, it is gratifying to see increasing demand for courses in art practice. However, at times it has been difficult to adapt existing spaces and procedures to accommodate all students who wish to take introductory courses that involve hands-on practice and individual attention. The fact of the matter is that small courses taught by Stanfords outstanding arts practitioners may always be oversubscribed I know from colleagues that this can be a problem with popular courses in other fields as well. For this reason, arts programs and departments need to develop mechanisms to ensure that students will not be repeatedly turned away. Once might be understandable, a second time would be unfortunate, but three times (or more!) is simply not acceptable. What are we doing today to ensure that Jamie Solomons experience will not be repeated? In the Art & Art History Department, we are reviewing our waitlist procedures and working to develop a computer-based system that will track students who plan to major, minor, or simply wish to take a course in some aspect of Art Practice. We are committed to devising better means of advising which courses are likely to top out and directing students to enroll in alternatives where space is available. We are also continuing to explore how to increase usage of our classrooms, which in the past has sometimes allowed us to double or even triple offerings during a single quarter in the most sought-after media photography, for example. Space continues to be a tremendous challenge and, therefore, we look forward to our move to the new McMurtry Building where we anticipate having better storage facilities and greater studio classroom flexibility. Efforts are also underway to increase the capacity for student artspractice opportunities in the residence halls and other facilities around campus.All of these steps will help ensure that students like Jamie Solomon know they are not hated but instead welcomed by all of Stanfords arts programs, and particularly the Art & Art History Department.
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