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Stanford’s Global Climate andEnergy Project (GCEP) has award-ed $8.4 million to seven Stanford re-search teams for developing high-efficiency energy technologies de-signed to reduce greenhouse gasemissions.“These awards support funda-mental research on a broad range of potentially game-changing energytechnologies,” said GCEP directorSally Benson, according to the Stan-ford News Service.The GCEP, an industry partner-ship supported by five firms —ExxonMobil, GE, Schlumberger,Toyota and DuPont — and based atStanford, has in total supported 93research programs with $113 mil-lion in grants since the project’s2002 launch.The GCEP portfolio includes re-search grants in fields ranging fromphotovoltaic energy to carbon cap-ture.While GCEP’s grants are wellknown in the scientific community,they are only accessible for Stan-ford faculty. GCEP grants are ex-plicitly targeted at funding researchin its earliest stages, to counter the
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THURSDAY Volume 241
April 26, 2012Issue 47
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Faculty panel talksopportunities,challenges of 2020
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Warsh discussesDodd-Frank reform
By NATASHA WEASER
DESK EDITOR
“Some will say it’s a bad thing and others will say it’s agood thing but too few will say ‘Dodd-Frank risks the fol-lowing bad things, but there is an alternative,’” said KevinWarsh ’92, former member of the Federal Reserve Boardof Governors, Wednesday.Throughout his talk, Warsh emphasized what hedeemed the “three fundamental pillars” of the economy —regulators, market discipline and capital standards — andhow they should be applied to government legislation.Warsh, currently a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institu-tion and a lecturer at the Graduate School of Business(GSB), spoke to an audience of approximately 70 people atPaul Brest Hall Wednesday evening, in a talk titled “RealRegulatory Reform: A Practitioner’s Perspective.”The regulation in question, the Dodd-Frank Wall StreetReform and Consumer Protection Act, is a federal statutesigned into law by President Obama in July 2010 and in-tended to provide more extensive regulation of financialinstitutions following the recession in the late 2000s. TheDodd-Frank Act has come under extensive criticism for itscomplexity and, for some, excessive regulation.Although Warsh joked that his experience practicing
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Speaker encourages dialoguewithin Jewish community
UNIVERSITY
Senator scrutinizesclaims by JudicialAffairs co-chair
Statements at meeting were misleading, created confusion among ASSU reps
By BRENDAN O’BYRNE
DEPUTY EDITOR
Michele Dauber, Stanford law professorand co-chair of the Judicial Affairs Committee,made misleading statements to an assembly of student representatives last Wednesday re-garding the new Alternative Review Process(ARP) for sexual assault cases on campus.ASSU Senator Ben Laufer ’12 said at the Sen-ate’s Tuesday meeting, at which Dauber wasnot present, that he felt she “misled to the pointwhere she even actually might have lied to us.”Laufer later apologized for saying Dauber mayhave lied.The misleading statement came whenDauber was discussing how sexual assaultcases handled by Judicial Affairs are civil cases,which she incorrectly said never require unan-imous agreement among jurors.“There is no such thing as a unanimous re-quirement in any civil case anywhere, ever,”Dauber told the assembly last week. “We justdon’t have unanimous requirements in civilcases.”According to a Department of Justice Sta-tistics Special Report on civil justice in statecourts from 2004, 27 states require unanimousconvictions in civil cases. Only 11 require athree-fourths majority and all others, exceptfor Montana, require a higher percentage of agreement (Montana only requires two-thirdsagreement).Dauber responded in an email to The Dailythat the 2004 report is accurate, but warned of intricacies in the legal process, as differentcourts have different rules across states. Nosuch nuance or qualification was included inher original statement at the meeting.In addition, Dauber said that by “we,” shewas referring to the State of California, whichshe felt was clear given Stanford’s location.Laufer, Senator Alon Elhanan ’14 and Stan-ford Daily Senate reporter Julia Enthoven ’15all stated that no such clarification was con-veyed during that part of the meeting. All threestated that they were under the impression
Website inefficiencies causebattery drainage
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Research on the battery-crippling effect of free apps, watching video or playing games on asmartphone is well known and highly publicizedbut, according to researchers at Stanford andDeutsche Telekom, even browsing popular web-sites can cause rapid battery drainage.Researchers suggest that the inefficiency —caused by bloated and redundant code — canbe reduced by almost 30 percent without induc-ing a diminished user experience, and noted thatincreased website energy efficiency will becomeincreasingly important as smartphone usagecontinues to increase.Stanford computer scientist Narendran Thi-agarajan and her research team measured theenergy usage of an Android phone when down-loading and rendering 25 popular websites overa 3G connection. The team discovered that load-ing the mobile version of Wikipedia consumedover 1 percent of the phone’s battery, as did theApple homepage, which offers no mobile ver-sion for smartphone users.The team repeated the measurements withlocally saved versions of tested websites — re-moving the energy requirement posed by down-loading the page — and rewrote the websitecoding to reduce energy usage by nearly a third.
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By AARON SEKHRI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
“Visions of Tomorrow” was the theme at Wednesdayevening’s Stanford 2020 Symposium, which includedseven 15-minute presentations by notable Stanford facul-ty on a host of subjects ranging from global democracy toa food revolution.The event, financially supported by the ASSU, theSpeaker’s Bureau and the Vice Provost for Undergradu-ate Education, and co-sponsored by 18 other campusgroups, united seven faculty members of diverse special-ties to discuss fundamental future trends and problemsgleaned from their own research, and the multidiscipli-nary approaches to their solutions.The event was kicked off by David Kennedy, professorof history, who spoke about the potential for a water short-age in the American West in the near future, which he at-tributed to climate change, land subsidence and a flawedplumbing infrastructure.“The tremendous success story that is the develop-ment of the American West was made possible by massiveirrigation,” Kennedy said.He warned that ongoing trends mean the future supplyof water for humans is far less certain than a generationago. Kennedy concluded by discussing the global scope of the problem and sharing his hope for the audience to worktoward a solution.Larry Diamond ’73 M.A. ’78 Ph.D. ’80, director of theCenter on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), presented on the topic of a more demo-cratic world, and shared his optimism for this trend to be-come the norm.This hope was compounded by his observation that“there exist many now functioning democracies despiterelatively modest economic growth,” in contrast with theprevailing narrative that freedoms are closely connectedto economic performance.“You don’t have to be a part of the middle class,” he as-serted, “to believe in dignity, or in human rights.”The “clock is ticking for authoritarian regimes,” Dia-mond concluded, asserting that 2020 will be a much freerand more democratic time than today.Stan Christensen, a lecturer in civil and environmentalengineering and a partner at Arbor Advisors, proceededwith the topic of negotiations, their importance, theirunder-appreciation and common misconceptions on thesubject.
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Kevin Warsh, a former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and afellow at the Hoover Institution, discussed financial reform Wednesday evening.Warsh expressed concern that Dodd-Frank is inadequate in regulating finance.
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Ben-Amiadvocates two-state solution
By MARWA FARAG
MANAGING EDITOR
Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder andpresident of advocacy group JStreet, advocated for a two-statesolution to the Israeli-Palestinianconflict and open discussion on Is-rael within the American Jewishcommunity in a talk Wednesday atthe Black Community ServicesCenter.Ben-Ami discussed three areasof challenge facing Americans onsubjects related to Israel — the fu-ture of the Israeli state, Israel inU.S. politics and how the Ameri-can Jewish community can holdconversation on both subjects. Hecriticized Israel’s current path as“simply not sustainable.”“I start by acknowledging allthat Israel has accomplished, butwe have to be honest and ac-knowledge all of the challengesand the threats,” Ben-Ami said.He went on to detail the exter-nal and internal threats facing Is-rael, including “a terrible neigh-borhood” and the “extremefringes of Israeli society.”These challenges, Ben-Amiposited, complicate the questionof supporting Israel today.“Back when I was growing upin the ’60s and ’70s, supporting Is-rael was a really straightforwardproposition: You simply stood
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