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STUDENT LIFE
No overdue
bill increase
with ePay
By ALICE PHILLIPS
STAFF WRITER
Despite a new Stanford ePay system in-
stated in the middle of last quarter which re-
quired authorized tuition payers to re-regis-
ter, Director of Student Services T.J. Fletcher
wrote in an email to The Daily that her office
has not observed an increase in past-due bal-
ances this quarter.
Stanfords quarterly bill cycle begins two
months before the start of the upcoming
quarter, when students are first notified of
their unpaid balance. The balance is due by
the 15th of the month prior to the start of the
next quarter, and for the majority of students
the bill-paying cycle ends there. However,
each quarter there are some students for
whom the cycle drags on because they have
an unpaid balance, according to Director of
Financial Aid Karen Cooper.
An account is considered past due if there
is an unpaid balance after the due date, and
31 days past the due date, the account is
placed on a financial hold that prevents stu-
dents from enrolling in future terms and re-
ceiving transcripts or diplomas. Late pay-
ment fees of 1 percent of the balance due are
applied once the account is considered past
due, according to the Stanford University
Gateway to Financial Activities website.
Severely delinquent accounts may be re-
ferred to a collection agency and/or placed in
litigation in accordance with state and feder-
al laws, according to the website. Students
with delinquent accounts may be held re-
sponsible for collection costs, attorney fees
and court costs.
Financial holds can be lifted without the
balance being paid if there are arrangements
made to pay the balance, Fletcher wrote. Her
office and the Financial Aid Office stay in
close contact about cases involving unpaid
balances of students on financial aid.
Well step forward and say, its our fault
the moneys not here yet, Cooper said. We
have to do x, y, z and the students done
everything they can. Its an open communi-
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Senator Feingold calls for balance in politics
LOCAL
Calif. schools at
stake in budget
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Hidalgo named chief of staff
By BRENDAN OBYRNE
The ASSU Senate kicked off its meet-
ing Tuesday with the introduction of Lina
Hidalgo 13, the new ASSU Executive
Chief of Staff nominated by ASSU Presi-
dent Michael Cruz 12 and Vice President
Stewart Macgregor-Dennis 13.
Former ASSU Executive Chief of Staff
Emma Ogiemwanye 12 stepped down
after choosing to go abroad winter quarter
this year.
The different initiatives the cabinets
are pursuing are geared toward bringing
campus together, said Hidalgo, who an-
swered questions from Senators for sever-
al minutes at the meeting.
The platform of the ASSU is an unbi-
ased avenue to promote goals of student
groups, Hidalgo said, adding that she
aims to continue promoting student
groups on campus and follow through on
several initiatives already started prior to
her appointment.
Cruz and Macgregor-Dennis said five
or six applicants applied to the position,
and two final interviews were conducted
to determine who would be hired. The bill
appointing Hidalgo was passed unani-
mously, making her term as the new Chief
of Staff effective immediately.
The Community Action Board (CAB),
another group within the Executive that
has experienced difficulty retaining staff,
also has a new director. Cruz and Macgre-
gor-Dennis chose Holly Fetter 13 to lead
the CAB.
Stanford Showcase, an event planned
by the ASSU Executive to display the di-
versity and unique identity of Stanford,
also added a new director to its ranks. Lau-
ren Felice 14, the current Chair of Student
Life in the ASSU Executive, will be in
charge of coordinating the event.
Cruz also updated the Senate on the
Governing Documents Commission, a
group tasked with updating the constitu-
tion and bylaws of the ASSU. Senator Alex
Kindel 14 and Cruz said they worked for
over 15 hours this weekend to finalize a
By EDWARD NGAI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
California voters will face a stark choice in Novem-
ber when they decide whether to approve Governor
Jerry Browns new budget proposal, which stipulates ei-
ther raising income taxes for the wealthy and temporar-
ily increasing sales tax by half a percent, or eliminating
$5.3 billion from state welfare and public school expen-
ditures.
Even if voters approve the tax increases, which are
expected to bring in around $35 billion over five years
according to administration estimates, Browns propos-
al would still cut nearly $1 billion each from MediCal
and CalWorks and over $1 billion from the states pub-
lic education system. If voters reject the tax increase,
however, a $5.4 billion trigger cut will be enacted, with
California children receiving the brunt of the impact;
the vast majority of the savings $4.8 billion would
be taken from K-12 education.
[Governor Browns proposal] either means that
voters approve new taxes, in which case were able to
maintain the status quo, or voters reject the taxes, in
which case we make even more draconian cuts in the
education system, said David Plank, executive director
of the Stanford Policy Analysis for California Education
and professor in the School of Education. Neither of
them is a cheerful scenario for schools because the pres-
ent situation in public schools is pretty awful, given the
By SARAH MOORE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Palo Alto City Council will hold a public hear-
ing on Monday, Jan. 23 to consider resident appeals
protesting an AT&T plan to install 19 new antennas
on utility poles.
AT&T aims to improve the wireless providers ge-
ographic coverage and carrying capacity with the new
antennas, but four residents have filed an official ap-
peal with the city in opposition to the plan.
The application by AT&T is just the first of many
to come, said resident Paula Rantz in her appeal. I
am asking that this application be denied until the city
has come up with a comprehensive Wireless Master
Plan for the installation of cell towers, taking into ac-
count the needs of the various providers and the over-
all impact to our community.
Most residents in opposition expressed that the
proposed benefits do not outweigh the aesthetic
drawbacks, which not only include unsightliness but
also possible harm to property values. Other concerns
include worries about radiation emissions and prefer-
ence for a citywide plan about the use of all utility
poles.
Palo Alto Director of Planning Curtis Williams,
whose office approved AT&Ts plan, feels that these
By NITHYA VIJAYAKUMAR
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Americans should walk and chew
gum at the same time, said former U.S.
Senator Russ Feingold to Crothers resi-
dents Tuesday evening, calling for Amer-
icans to balance the improvement of
global awareness with domestic econom-
ic recovery.
Feingold the inaugural Mimi and
Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor at
the Haas Center for Public Service this
quarter held his first talk of a weekly
conversation series with Stanford stu-
dents in Crothers, a global citizenship-
themed dorm.
During his informal conversation with
the students, Feingold discussed politics,
his career, his decision to become a politi-
cian and the importance of travel.
Private citizens should be encour-
aged and facilitated into going to other
parts of the world, Feingold empha-
sized.
Feingold first discussed his recent
book, While America Sleeps, which
covers the current lack of international
knowledge among American citizens.
While certain populations such as univer-
sity students and faculty tend to be more
globally aware, Feingold said, he believes
the country at large needs to prioritize its
global education.
When asked about the United States
current relationship with Iran, Feingold
acknowledged the danger of the coun-
trys nuclear weapons program and
stressed the importance of maintaining a
positive relationship.
When another student questioned
prioritizing internationalism while re-
building the American economy remains
a pressing issue, Feingold stressed the im-
portance of balance in American politics.
As the discussion progressed, students
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By MADELINE SIDES
P
eering around corners of
tall bookcases, winding
through a trail of old
gramophones and
speakers, a visit to Stan-
fords Archive of Recorded Sound
is an adventure through the music
and voices of the past century.
The Archive, located in the
basement of Braun Music Library,
was created in 1958 when the Uni-
versitys first music librarian, Ed-
ward Colby, developed an interest
in historical sound recordings. At
the time, old style 78 rpm (revolu-
tions per minute) records were
being quickly replaced by the
newer LP format (long-playing
phonograph record), and Colby
felt that libraries should hurry to
collect the historical disks before
they disappeared.
Today, the Archive houses
about 100,000 78 rpm disks and
200,000 LP records and is over-
seen by head librarian Jerry
McBride.
Much of the collection comes
to us from private donations,
though we do have some funds for
purchasing items, McBride said.
The primary purpose of the
recordings here is for the use of
Stanford students and faculty for
their research, teaching and
study.
The Archive contains sound
recordings of all types, ranging
from classical concerts and opera
performances to spoken word
readings, radio broadcasts and
homemade sound effects. From
delicate cylinders, thick lacquered
disks and traditional 22 rpm LPs
to spools of reel-to-reel tape and
boxes of CDs, the recordings span
the last century and come in for-
mats representative of their time
period. The Archive also has the
devices needed to play all of these
recordings: many of these devices
are historical pieces themselves.
The recordings can be used
for historical research or research
of any topic. Anything in sound
can be the source of research,
McBride said. We get a wide
range of people using the Archive.
Its a fairly unique collection, so
we get users from outside of Stan-
ford, both undergrad and gradu-
ate as well as University faculty.
Many of the Archives collec-
tions are completely unique, and
their constituent pieces can only
be found at Stanford. Digitiza-
tion work ensures that the
recordings will be available to fu-
ture generations, as some of
these past recordings are less
durable than others.
Sound recording tape from
the 1950s to 80s is a rather unsta-
ble format, McBride said. The
tape is beginning to fail if it hasnt
been stored properly over the
years.
Unfortunately, digitization
from analog recordings is a time-
intensive process, as recordings
must be digitized in real time. The
process for one two-hour record-
ing itself takes more than two
hours.
The plan is over time to digi-
tize our recordings for preserva-
tion purposes, McBride said.
Much of the Archive is organ-
ized into collections, many coming
with intriguing background sto-
ries about the people and places
that created them. Sound cata-
loguer Frank Ferko is responsible
for organizing and researching the
details of some of the Archives
collections.
Each cataloging record that I
do is like a mini research project,
Ferko said. When we receive
recordings, we oftentimes do not
have the actual disk packaging; we
have to go off of the little informa-
tion provided on the label.
Ferko recently catalogued the
Ambassador Auditorium collec-
tion, which comes from the fa-
mous Ambassador Auditorium in
Pasadena, Calif., known as the
Carnegie Hall of the West.
The Ambassador Foundation
donated their entire collection of
recordings from 1974-1995 to
Stanford, as well as the supporting
paper documents that go with the
recordings, Ferko said. They
hosted all kinds of performers
from around the world for 20
years . . . and had very sophisticat-
ed recording equipment.
Ferko is currently working on
cataloging a large personal collec-
tion from San Francisco native
Jack Lund that was donated to
Stanford after his death in 2009.
He had a very strong interest
in classical music. He attended
concerts, supported the San Fran-
cisco Symphony and traveled the
world meeting great artists,
Ferko said. Lunds entire personal
collection, which includes hun-
dreds of 78 rpm records as well as
written letter correspondences
with musicians, photos and con-
cert programs, is being added to
the Archive.
The Archive is impressive in its
depth, evidenced by collections
like the Monterey Jazz Festival
collection, which holds each con-
secutive recording of the annual
Monterey Jazz Festival in Mon-
terey, Calif., beginning in 1958. It is
also staggering in its breadth.
Ferko has come across a variety of
unique and quirky recordings in
his time at Stanford and can trace
musical and recording trends over
the course of its history.
I came across a record once
with a label marked Man Walking
on Gravel, and I had to listen to
verify. But it is just that, the sound
of a man on gravel. Flip it over and
you find the track Two Men Walk-
ing on Gravel, Ferko said. Back
then, recording sound effects was
a novel thing.
Contact Madeline Sides at
msides@stanford.edu.
2 NWednesday, January 18, 2012 The Stanford Daily
By ADRIENNE VON SCHULTESS
T
he Los Altos Hills community is
no stranger to mega mansions
indeed, a 25,500-square-foot
mansion recently sold for $100
million as the most expensive
single-family house purchased in the Unit-
ed States, according to The San Francisco
Chronicle. But the new construction also
replaces smaller homes of the past.
One house slated for demolition be-
longed to Wallace Stegner, an acclaimed
historian, environmentalist and writer, who
won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972
and was an early resident of Los Altos Hills.
Wallace Stegner was appointed a full
professor at Stanford in 1945, wrote
Eavan Boland, director of the Creative
Writing Program, in an email to The Daily.
He was hired specifically to be in charge of
the Creative Writing Program.
Stegners family decided to offer his
property and house to Stanford at a dis-
counted price in the hope that they might
put in a creative writing center, said Les
Earnest, senior research scientist emeritus.
Stanfords Property Development Of-
fice said it would sell instead, leading the
family to withdraw the offer. The property
was placed on the market and purchased by
New Yam and Wan Lei Yong. The Yongs
later applied for a demolition permit be-
cause they wanted to build another man-
sion, according to Earnest.
Earnest is leading an effort to preserve
Stegners study, where Stegner wrote the
majority of his most famous works, such as
Angle of Repose and The Spectator
Bird. He believes the study should be relo-
cated to a site in the surrounding area and
converted into a small museum, where he
envisions exhibits on Stegners career and a
robotic docent.
The landowners agreed to allow the
study to be moved, but the logistics are dif-
ficult: the study can only be moved once the
demolition has started because of its loca-
tion on the lot.
There are other efforts to not only save
the study but also to halt the houses demo-
lition entirely. The National Trust for His-
toric Preservation wrote to Debbie Pedro,
planning director for Los Altos Hills, argu-
ing the study should be designated a his-
toric site and to request a California Envi-
ronmental Quality Act (CEQA) review of
the site. This review examines both the en-
vironmental implications of a demolition
and the sites historical significance.
As the CEQA review takes place,
Earnest is racing to gather funds to relocate
the study and find a place to put it.
I have about half as much as we need,
namely $3,500, and I am willing to loan
enough to get the job done, Earnest said.
So the money is not the major block at this
point. Its the site and lack thereof.
Earnest has looked at several sites for a
possible relocation, but none have yet
come through. After being rejected by the
board of Hidden Villa, a Los Altos Hills
ranch, he appealed to Stanford.
I happen to know John Hennessy and
suggested to him that Stanford provide a
site, Earnest said. As a result, Stanfords
Property Development Office looked into
possible sites for the study.
Stanfords Property Development Of-
fice found three potential sites in the
foothills by the golf course overlooking the
campus. Earnest appealed to those at Stan-
ford who were previously associated with
Stegner, he said.
Stanford ultimately rejected the project.
Finding no help from the University,
Earnest moved on to two potential sites in
Los Altos Hills. One of these sites is next
to town hall in fact next to an old house
moved there as a historical artifact,
Earnest said.
I did write a letter to the town govern-
ment requesting permission to use the
sites, Earnest said. There are indications
that some council members are opposed.
On Dec. 20, Los Altos Hills Mayor Rich
Larson wrote to Earnest, saying the Histo-
ry Committee has been asked to put this
issue on the January agenda and to propose
a solution. There appears to be strong
agreement from all parties that this matter
should be resolved as quickly as possible.
Yet without a site and with the result of
the CEQA review still pending, the studys
future is unclear.
Contact Adrienne von Schulthess at avon11
@ stanford.edu.
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aving
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PROFILE
Echoes of the past
Courtesy of Lynn Stegner
Wallace Stegner in 1947. This photo was taken in the
early years of Stanfords Creative Writing Program, which
Stegner founded while he was an English professor here.
F
unny story: last week, I fell
down a flight of stairs. I was
carrying a plate of French
fries and ketchup, and by the end
of my little tumble I was com-
pletely covered in both. Other
than ruining a great shirt with
ketchup stains, I survived un-
harmed that is, save for one
tiny cracked rib. Now, this would-
nt have been such a big deal, but
last week was also when I saw the
picture of the woman who fell on
Google Maps Street View, which
just so happens to be the funniest
thing Ive ever seen. Ever. Unfor-
tunately, having a cracked rib
makes laughing a completely
miserable experience, so what
should have been the best mo-
ment in my life became, well, mis-
erable. Still, even after crying in
both pain and laughter for sever-
al minutes, I maintain that em-
barrassing moments caught on
Street View are amazingly funny.
Theres only one problem
Google is running out of streets.
Yes, they have photographed al-
most all of the big streets in the
world! For the conspiracy theo-
rists out there, this is probably
terrifying for a completely differ-
ent reason, but for those of us
who live for funny Google Street
View images, this is deeply upset-
ting. Luckily, Google is working
as quickly as possible to make
sure we are never short in our
supply of Brazilian women
falling on their faces or German
men crawling out of car trunks
(true story) they are now ex-
panding Google Street View to
cover more remote areas of the
earth. Aside from providing us
with the potential for more en-
tertainment, this new initiative
has also given us something al-
most as great jobs.
As it turns out, Google is hir-
ing recent college graduates to
bike around various parts of the
world that arent automobile-ac-
cessible and take photographs
for Street View. In fact, there are
currently two young men biking
around France, taking les photos
of historical sites and presumably
drinking a lot of wine and having
a great time. For someone who
loves biking, travel and photog-
raphy, this is probably the best
job you could ever imagine.
Of course, a sense of adven-
ture isnt the only qualification
for this opportunity. You will also
need to have some sort of a back-
ground in engineering or com-
puter science in order to proper-
ly operate the fancy equipment,
and experience with photogra-
phy wouldnt hurt. In addition,
you need to be a good bike rider.
Im sure this isnt a big deal for
most of you, but those of us who
had three bike accidents in their
freshman year alone may not be
best suited for this job (yes, Im
talking about myself).
As long as you can stay up-
right on a bicycle, this job has
very few drawbacks. The biggest
one literally is that you will
ride a giant, oversized tricycle
that holds a lot of heavy photog-
raphy and GPS equipment. Sec-
ond, given the awesomeness of
the job, its a pretty competitive
application process, although the
Internet was somewhat unclear
on the details of exactly how to
go about applying. And last but
not least, you have to wear a
Google shirt the whole time
(probably not the same exact
one, but still).
It should also be noted that
this is a short-term job. You might
have the opportunity to transi-
tion into a more permanent posi-
tion at Google afterwards, but its
not a career in and of itself. In my
opinion, though, this is a good
thing. Very few of us know what
we want to do with our lives, so
why not try something fun for a
little bit and then see what we
want to do after that? There will
never be a better time in our lives
to just travel around the world
taking pictures and enjoying life,
and the fact that this is an actual
job, however temporary, is almost
too good to be true.
Basically, if I were at all quali-
fied, I would be totally into this
job. But Im not, so Im going to
encourage all of you to consider it
when making your post-gradua-
tion plans. And if you do end up
taking pictures for Google Street
View, please try to catch some
funny or embarrassing moments
on camera. It would make me so
incredibly happy.
Think Amandas clumsiness is
cute? Make her fall for you! Woo
her at aach@stanford.edu.
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D
uring my time at Stanford,
I have been told several
pieces of advice time and
time again. Start papers before the
day theyre due. Dont join 90
clubs just because they all seem
cool. Wear a helmet when riding
your bike. And, above all else, do
not attempt to take 20 units.
So when it came time for me to
enroll in classes for this quarter, I
told myself I would play it safe.
Then I started browsing through
Explore Courses. And my cau-
tious academic plan was promptly
flung out the window.
Dont do it, my friends
warned. They thought my choice
to take 20 units would be the
equivalent of Cady Herons deci-
sion to join the Mathletes: social
suicide. We all knew the kids in our
dorm who had taken 20 units dur-
ing fall quarter but only by
name. They were the ones who
rarely ventured outside of the
building, unless it was to attend
class or visit the library, of course.
They were the ones who pulled all-
nighters like it was as simple as
pulling up your pants. They were
the ones who always looked like
they were in desperate need of a
nice, long nap despite the mul-
tiple cups of coffee they consumed
at every meal.
Was I condemning myself to a
quarter of their extreme lifestyle?
A quarter without lazy Saturday
brunches, The Row, How I Met
Your Mother marathons and late
night runs to Yogurtland?
Think long and hard before
you decide to take a heavy course-
load this early in your college ca-
reer, warned my Pre-Major Advi-
sor earlier this year. Getting used
to college is a huge adjustment,
she explained. Give yourself a
while to settle in before you start
piling that many classes on your
plate. I left her office knowing she
was probably right (as she always
is), and yet a tiny part of me was
still on the fence.
Plus, even if I thought about
dropping a class, which one would
it be? Spanish? Too bad its a re-
quirement for studying abroad in
Madrid which Ive dreamed of
doing for years. IHUM? More like
iWish. Poli sci? Too bad its a major
requirement. My introsem? Too
bad its easily my favorite class and
the thought of dropping it makes
me want to cry.
Like so many other students, I
didnt sign up for 20 units thinking,
This will probably be as much fun
as a root canal. Lets do it! It just
sort of happened. Between
major/minor requirements,
GERs, IHUM and PWR, 20-unit
quarters are sort of like zits: unfor-
tunate, but most people will have
one or two at some point.
And so, despite the warnings of
my advisor and my friends, I have
decided to plow on with my 20-unit
course load. Sure, part of me is
more scared than Ive been since I
saw The Devil Inside (bad, bad,
decision), but a larger part of me
knows that everything will proba-
bly be just fine. Why? Because I re-
ally believe that you are the only
person who can know what youre
capable of. Others can offer advice
and present perfectly valid points
to back up their assertions, but who
knows my study habits and time-
management skills better than my-
self? Besides, thousands of other
Stanford students have undertak-
en the 20-Unit Challenge and lived
to tell the tale. Some gasp!
even had a few nights of fun time in
the process!
Was my decision a foolish one?
Maybe a little. Will there be days
when my mountain of work makes
me feel like crying? Duh. Can I
handle the pressure? Only time
will tell. Will I learn tons of new
things as I push myself harder than
I have ever pushed myself before?
Absolutely.
And if not, Ill thank Leland
and Jane for Stanfords long drop
period.
Did you catch the Mean Girls ref-
erence in this column? If so, email
Bianca at blchavez@stanford.edu.
She wont give you a prize or any-
thing, but she will compliment you
on your impeccable taste in movies!
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cuts they sustained over the past four
years.
The measure targeting education
is intended to close a $9.2 billion
shortfall in the state budget this year,
down from $26.6 billion last year. Ac-
cording to Plank, these cuts are nec-
essary as a result of the state govern-
ments history of fiscal mismanage-
ment.
The problem that we all face is
that we have pasted together budg-
ets . . . that are basically optimistic
assumptions, Plank said. Gover-
nor Schwarzenegger, in his first year,
issued $15 billion worth of bonds to
cover a deficit. Those have to be paid
back.
If voters reject Browns tax in-
crease initiative and another $4.8 bil-
lion is slashed from public schools,
Plank foresees big changes in the
classroom experience for California
children.
The estimate Ive seen is that
[the trigger cut] amounts to three
weeks off the school year. Youre
talking about a genuinely radical
change in the educational experi-
ence, Plank said. If the cuts go
through, were certainly testing the
bottom of [the school spending] dis-
tribution. Were headed for 50th
pretty quickly.
As a result of annual cuts over the
past several years to the state educa-
tion system, California public school
districts are suffering. An Education
Week study released on Jan. 8 rated
California an F for school spend-
ing, as the state slipped to 47th in the
nation in per-pupil spending.
But it may not even be the cuts
magnitude that troubles school ad-
ministrators most.
The greatest challenge is uncer-
tainty: will the [trigger cuts] happen?
And will they be at a scale that is
what you expected? said Kevin
Skelly, superintendent of the Palo
Alto Unified School District. That
uncertainty makes it very difficult to
plan. It makes it very difficult to work
with bargaining salaries and benefits,
and it puts everybody on edge.
In the uncertainty over the states
future finances, Kellys school dis-
trict is bracing for the worst.
We have what we called struc-
tural deficit: were spending more
money than we anticipate bringing
in, Skelly said. Fortunately, if you
look around the state, many school
districts have built up a reserve that
is there in case of these cuts. Well
spend our reserve.
Over the last four years, the Palo
Alto Unified School District has cut
its per-student spending by over
$1,000. This cut, Skelly said, has a
large impact in the classroom for
both students and teachers.
When you add more kids to
classes, you have to hire fewer teach-
ers [to deal with cost challenges], he
said. But when the budget is 85 per-
cent people, it has to come down to
the number of teachers you have.
And that has an effect on teacher
morale, teacher experience and of-
ferings you can [provide] for stu-
dents.
While California students are
facing a funding proposal that could
shave three weeks off their school
year, state Republicans and teach-
ers unions are blasting Browns pro-
posal, saying it uses students politi-
cally in order to raise taxes.
Clearly, there is a political ele-
ment to [the proposal], Skelly said.
But the other piece of it is that [Gov.
Browns] options are very limited. K-
12 education is one of . . . few.
Plank said he agrees that Gov.
Browns options are limited, but
questioned what he called the Re-
publican intransigence on taxes
while the two sides negotiated the
budget.
The polling shows that voters
will approve tax increases if the taxes
go to schools, so Republicans are
saying, [Gov. Brown] has put schools
at risk. Well, schools have already
been hammered, Plank said. Its
not like Republicans are defending
the children in schools; [theyre] op-
posing the tax increases.
Contact Edward Ngai at edngai@
stanford.edu.
BUDGET
Continued from front page
draft of new governing docu-
ments and hope to show a private
draft to administrators and Sena-
tors sometime in the next week.
Cruz said he believes a public
version will be available within
the month.
Cruz said the new governing
documents are significantly
shorter than the current ones, es-
timating their length to be rough-
ly 100 pages.
Senator Alon Elhanan 14
raised concerns over the docu-
ments, especially about how Sen-
ators would be able to adequate-
ly judge any changes or differ-
ences between the two versions.
However, Cruz assured Elhanan
that it would be a smooth
process.
I wouldnt go so far as saying
the content was the same, but
anyone who was familiar with
the ASSU will be able to recog-
nize the documents, Cruz said.
Senators also briefly dis-
cussed the Division of Internal
Review (DIR). The Senate had
previously grilled Andrew
Aguilar 14, head of the DIR, for
failing to gain access to financial
information and failing to prop-
erly communicate with the Sen-
ate.
According to Macgregor-
Dennis, this contentious ex-
change at a previous Senate
meeting was dissuading Aguilar
from coming in again.
Andrew is wary of having
communication with the Senate
given past communication,
Macgregor-Dennis told the gov-
erning body.
Senate involvement with the
DIR will continue, however, and
the appropriations committee
plans to review a controversial
ASSU buffer fund to further ex-
plore the sustainability of the
fund. Chair of the appropriations
committee Brianna Pang 13 said
she was working with Aguilar to
write a report on the fund and to
determine what its proper use
will be in the future.
Contact Brendan OByrne at
bobyrne@stanford.edu.
ASSU
Continued from front page
By DASH DAVIDSON
STAFF WRITER
The No. 6 Stanford mens ten-
nis team had a busy holiday
weekend in Thousand Oaks,
Calif., competing in the early-
season Sherwood Collegiate
Cup. The annual tournament
features some of the best pro-
grams and players in college ten-
nis, giving coaches a privileged
opportunity to watch their
squads face off against elite com-
petition on the eve of the dual-
match season.
The competition is great
down there, said Stanford head
coach John Whitlinger. The
guys saw some of the best tennis
players in the country. It was a
great test for us.
This years Sherwood Cup
field featured four prominent
teams: Stanford, No. 9 UCLA, No.
5 Baylor and the two-time de-
fending national champion, No. 1
USC.
The Cardinal was without the
services of its top player, senior
Bradley Klahn, who is out for at
least another month with an in-
jury, according to Whitlinger.
The Stanford delegation, with-
out Klahn, was still eight-men
deep and was led by the impres-
sive play of senior Ryan
Thacher, who will likely be filling
in for Klahn in the teams No. 1
spot when the dual-match sea-
son kicks off this Friday.
Thacher and junior Dennis
Lin, who returned to his home-
town for the tournament, were
the two Cardinal representatives
to make it past the first round of
the draw. In the second round,
Lin fell to UCLAs Nick Meister,
while Thacher bruised his way
past USCs Roberto Quiroz by
the score of 6-0, 6-1. Thachers
run ended in the quarterfinals
when Quirozs teammate,
Daniel Nguyen, got revenge to
the tune of 6-4, 6-3.
The Trojans continued their
strong play from last season by
sweeping through the doubles
and singles draws, with Trojans
winning and finishing runner-up
in both draws. Coach Whitlinger,
though, does not put too much
stock in the results of this tune-
up tournament.
Its good to play those guys
and see where youre at and see
what their teams are going to be
like, he said. Its really just a
good tournament to start the
year off with.
Its still a long way from May,
he added , referring to the annual
NCAA Tennis Championship.
Stanford will surely be look-
ing to play its best tennis late in
the spring, when the team hopes
to avenge its memorably heart-
breaking loss to No. 2 Virginia in
last years NCAA quarterfinal,
and when Klahn has returned to
the court in full health.
The Cardinal will face its next
opponent on Friday, Jan. 20,
when it travels to No. 23 Tulsa.
Contact Dash Davidson at
dashd@stanford.edu.
4 NWednesday, January 18, 2012 The Stanford Daily
SPRINGING
TO ACTION
By CONNOR SCHERER
Both Cardinal gymnastics
teams kicked off their 2012 cam-
paigns this past weekend, with
the women hosting the NorCal
Quad Meet and the men begin-
ning their title defense at Cali-
fornia. The women emerged with
a solid performance and a victo-
ry, while the men dropped their
first test of the season.
Womens gymnastics
On Sunday afternoon, the
Stanford womens gymnastics
team opened its season at the
NorCal Quad Meet, hosting UC-
Davis, San Jose State and Sacra-
mento State. The preseason No. 8
squad, the Cardinal returns eight
gymnasts from last years team
although two were sidelined
this past weekend with injuries
and brings in a strong recruit-
ing class of five freshmen. But
the team is led by upperclassmen
Nicole Pechanec and Ashley
Morgan, both of whom did not
disappoint on Sunday.
Pechanec, a senior who
earned All-Pac-10 Second Team
honors on the floor exercise last
season, participated in the un-
even bars, vault and balance
beam. She was one of five Cardi-
nal gymnasts to compete in at
least three events, along with
Morgan, fellow junior Nicole
Dayton and freshmen Pauline
Hanset and Rebecca Wing.
Using her own invented move,
the Pechancova, Pechanec
earned a 9.900 on the uneven
bars to lead the field in that
event. In addition, she and Day-
ton tied to win the vault with
scores of 9.825.
Morgan also earned All-Pac-
10 honors on the floor, joining
the first team on the floor. She
was the only Cardinal gymnast
to compete in all four events on
Sunday, finishing second overall
behind Thomasina Wallace of
San Jose State by a margin of just
.075 points. Morgans 9.900 on
the floor, her fifth consecutive
9.900 in that event, tied her with
Pechanec for the best score on
the afternoon.
The Cardinal also got a big
boost from Hanset, who was
making her collegiate debut.
Never earning below a 9.750 on
any of her three events, Hanset
scored a 9.850 on the floor, sec-
ond only to Morgan.
Stanford earned a total score
of 194.900, followed by San Jose
State (194.300), Sacramento
State (191.575) and UC-Davis
(190.775). The Cardinal won
every event as a team on the af-
ternoon aside from the floor, in
which they placed second to San
Jose State. However, Stanford
never trailed in the meet, as its
opening vault score was the
highest in the first round.
On Sunday, the Cardinal
hosts Washington at Burnham
Pavilion in the second of the
teams three home meets during
the 2012 season.
Mens gymnastics
The Stanford mens gymnas-
tics team looked to open its de-
fense of last years national
championship on Friday against
California. Following six consec-
utive top-three finishes at the
NCAA team championships and
a national title in two of the past
three years, the team looked to
continue its success this season
despite losing five All-Ameri-
cans from last year. However,
the preseason No. 4 Cardinal suf-
fered a tough loss to the No. 5
Bears to kick off its season.
The meet was a back-and-
forth affair between the Cardi-
nal and Bears until the past few
events. After Cal got off to a
2.800-point lead after the first
round (where the Bears put up a
score of 57.500 on the floor exer-
cise and the Cardinal scored a
54.700 on the pommel horse),
Stanford narrowed the deficit
with its impressive performance
on the floor in the second round.
Led by redshirt sophomore Paul
Hichwas 15.000, the Cardinal
posted a 58.300 to cut Cals lead
to just .300 points.
After the rings and vault,
Stanford took a 227.400 to
226.600 lead over Cal, due in
large part to redshirt freshman
Sean Senters 15.200 in vault, the
high score among all events for
the team. However, Cal came
back in the final two events to ul-
SPORTS
IN ELITE COMPANY
Jack Blanchat
Delighted
with
Dawkins
J
ust a few months ago, I was
ready to see the day that
Johnny Dawkins got fired.
For a kid who grew up
watching the Stanford bas-
ketball team make it into March
Madness every year from 1994 to
2008 (with the lone exception of the
2005-06 season), it was painful to
watch Cardinal basketball the past
few seasons three years in a row,
Dawkins squad finished seventh or
worse in the Pac-10. And after last
years effort, I was hoping that the
Stanford basketball team would
have another bad season this year so
the Cardinal could move on from
Dawkins regime and begin its re-
turn to respectability.
I hit rock bottom as a Stanford
basketball fan last year. On a night-
ly basis, my rage would boil every
time I saw Jeremy Green jack up an-
other terrible three-pointer while
Dawkins sat placidly on the bench.
If Dawkins was going to sit there
like a man checking stocks on his
iPad while his team played subpar
basketball, I was not going to sup-
port the team any longer.
But lo and behold, halfway
through the 2011-12 season, my
feelings have changed. In his fourth
year as head coach for the Cardinal,
things have finally crystallized for
Dawkins squad and I couldnt
be happier about it. The Stanford
basketball team is back.
In case you havent realized, the
Cardinal basketball team is 15-3
overall, tied for first in the Pac-12
and in good position to make the
NCAA tournament. The 15 wins in
18 games have already tied the Car-
dinals win total from the entirety of
last season. Now, the Pac-12 has
proven to be a very weak confer-
ence this season, but Dawkins de-
serves to be commended for finally
delivering a team that looks like a
winner back to the Farm.
The most remarkable thing
about the Cardinals transforma-
tion from very mediocre with a lot
of major question marks to pretty
darn good is that Dawkins was able
to finally make it happen in just one
year with pretty much the exact
same team. So just how has he done
it?
First, the addition of freshman
guard Chasson Randle coupled
with the departure of Jeremy Green
has made the Cardinals backcourt
infinitely better. Although Green
led the team in points per game last
season with 16.2 per contest, the
Cardinal are far better off now than
they were last season when Green
ran the show.
Simply put, Randle does all the
things that Green never did last sea-
son like pass the basketball occa-
sionally. Last year, Green averaged
just one assist per game. Just one.
Randle averages 2.3 per game. Its
amazing how having a guard who
creates opportunities for other play-
ers changes just how successful your
team is. Additionally, Randle is the
third-leading scorer on the team,
with his 12.2 points per game essen-
tially making up for Greens scoring
ability.
Second, Dawkins appears to un-
derstand the strengths and weak-
nesses of his team much better this
season. Notably, this means that
sophomores John Gage and Josh
Huestis have earned far more play-
ing time, and their energy and scor-
ing ability have been a critical part
of the Cardinals success. Gage aver-
ages three more minutes of playing
time per game this year and has
even gotten some starts the last few
weeks while Huestis playing
time has gone up from 9.9 minutes
per game to 20.9 minutes per game.
Although this has affected Dwight
Powell and Jarrett Manns playing
time, one can hardly argue with the
results.
Finally, Id like to think fans like
me, who were becoming disgruntled
with the teams recent performanc-
es, had something to do with the
transformation as well. But I also
know Johnny Dawkins would never
admit that the hot seat was getting
to him, even if it were true. But when
I watch him prowl up and down the
sidelines with a little more spring in
his step or wave his arms to pump up
the crowd (like he did last Thursday
against Utah), I have to believe that
Dawkins knew he had to deliver a
winner this season. And he has.
In sum, its clear to me that this
team, under Dawkins leadership,
has finally turned a corner. Even
though his team is far from being
one of the best in Stanford history,
the Cardinal looks primed to re-
SHERWOOD CUP
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MENS, WOMENS
GYMNASTICS OPEN SEASONS
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The No. 2 Stanford womens gymnastics team secured a victory in its
first meet of the season, led by upperclassmen Nicole Pechanec and
Ashley Morgan. The No. 4 mens team fell at cross-bay rival Berkeley.
KOR VANG/The Stanford Daily
Junior Dennis Lin returned to his hometown of Thousand Oaks, Calif.
to play in the annual Sherwood Collegiate Cup. He and senior Ryan
Thacher were the only Cardinal players to make it past the first round.
Please see GYM, page 5
WOMENS TENNIS
No. 2
Card hits
the road
By CHRISSY JONES
STAFF WRITER
Stanford tennis fans will
have to wait two more weeks
to witness the Cardinal in ac-
tion at home, but the players
have been busy gaining match-
play practice in anticipation of
their dual-season opener. The
No. 2 Stanford women made
their first appearance since the
fall this past weekend, repre-
senting the Cardinal in the
Freeman Memorial Invitation-
al in Las Vegas and the Nation-
al College Tennis Classic
(NCTC) in Indian Wells, Calif.
Senior captain Veronica Li,
freshman Ellen Tsay and soph-
omore Amelia Herring jour-
neyed to Southern California
to compete in the NCTC.
Other schools represented in
the tournament included No. 9
Virginia, No. 21 Texas and No.
16 USC.
Tsay led the charge for
Stanford as the No. 2 seed be-
hind UVAs Emily Fraser. Tsay
breezed through the first and
second rounds before falling to
Virginias Xi Li 7-6 (4), 6-1 in
the quarterfinals. Despite her
elimination, Tsay was proud of
the mental toughness she dis-
played throughout the match.
I was down 0-3 in the first
set of the match and came back
to go up 5-4, Tsay said. Even
though I lost that set in a
tiebreaker and ended up losing
the match, I feel as though I
was constantly finding ways to
try to improve and stay in it.
Tsay faced a similar situa-
tion when doubling up with Li.
In their quarterfinal match
against Texas Elizabeth Beg-
ley and Juliana Gajic, Tsay and
Lis chances at victory seemed
grim as they trailed 1-7 in the
pro-set doubles match, which
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timately win the meet 340.900 to
334.800.
Stanford received strong per-
formances from junior Eddie
Penev and freshman Brian
Knott, who were the only two
Cardinal gymnasts to compete in
all six events. Penev finished first
all-around and Knott finished
third. The squad, which only has
13 of the 15 allowed gymnasts,
may have been hurt by its depth
in the meets later stages.
Stanfords next meet will be
on Saturday as it looks to get
even with the Golden Bears in a
rematch at Burnham Pavilion.
Contact Connor Scherer at cscher-
er@stanford.edu.
GYM
Continued from page 4
turn to being the program that was
always competitive in the Pac-10
during the Mike Montgomery era.
For a fan who was as bitter as I was
last season, this is a big step. But I
have to admit it now, because my
Grinch-sized heart has grown
three sizes and Johnny
Dawkins head is a long way away
from the chopping block.
Despite his revived enthusiasm,
Jack Blanchat still cant understand
how a Division I basketball team
can be so terrible at shooting free
throws. Send pointers to blan-
chat@stanford.edu and follow him
on Twitter @jmblanchat.
BLANCHAT
Continued from page 4
is played to eight games. Tsay was
lucky to have experience on her
side this time, as she and senior
captain partner Li were able to
make a comeback to win the
match 9-7.
I think at first we were still
kind of feeling it out and didnt
have much match experience to-
gether, Tsay said. Our play was a
little bit off-timing, but we knew
that if we got it together, we could
be the better team. We talked it
out, tried to work together more
and improved with each game.
Li, too, ran away with the first
round but was eliminated in the
second round by Texas Alex Mar-
tin, 6-2, 7-5. Herring fell in the sin-
gles first round to Katerna Pal-
livets of Fresno Pacific, 7-5, 6-1,
but moved on to consolations,
sneaking by Erika Januskova of
Fresno Pacific 7-6 (10-9), 5-7, 7-3.
She ultimately lost in the quarter-
finals of the consolation round to
Cierra Gaytan-Leach of Texas, 6-
2, 6-2.
Representing the Cardinal just
east in Las Vegas was the rest of
the squad: junior Natalie Dillon,
sophomore Nicole Gibbs, junior
Mallory Burdette and junior
Stacey Tan. Tan and Burdette both
reached the quarterfinals round,
but Dillon was defeated 6-1, 6-1 in
the second flight of the main draw
singles round by Skylar Morton of
UCLA. Tan fell 6-0, 6-4 to
UCLAs Robin Anderson in the
quarters. It was Burdette who se-
cured a 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 victory that
round after dropping the first set.
I was up 4-3 in the first but lost
my focus and she came back,
Burdette said. I knew that if I ex-
ecuted my game plan that I would
have a really good chance of get-
ting through that round. The
match helped me work through a
lot of issues.
Many of these challenges
stemmed from playing on the
road.
I needed to continue to be ag-
gressive in the point and not settle
for just hanging behind the base-
line, she said. The conditions in
Vegas were a little bit tough be-
cause of the bouncy courts, which
were pretty slow compared to the
soft courts at Stanford, so I had to
take the ball earlier so it wouldnt
jump over my head.
Burdette made it all the way to
the championship round before
USCs Zoe Scandalis outlasted
her 6-7 (8), 7-6 (5), 6-3.
I was a little bit frustrated be-
cause I had three match points in
the second set, but she was tough,
Burdette said. She got a lot of
balls back. I was taking all the
risks and really going for my shots,
but she was getting almost every
ball even though she was hanging
back. It made it difficult to close
out the match, but she did a great
job.
Burdette and Gibbs also made
it to the consolation champi-
onship doubles match and were
set to face North Carolinas Shi-
nann Featherston and Lauren
McHale. However, the match was
not played because the Stanford
players had already missed their
first flight back to the Farm due to
prolonged singles play and could-
nt afford to miss a second.
The Cardinal now has two
weeks to prepare for its first dual
match of the season on Feb. 1
against UC-Davis.
The first weeks back are
rough because everyones been
doing different things over
break, Burdette said. But every-
ones focused now. Its the time to
really break it down in practice
and in the gym and then build it all
back up for the seasons start.
Tsay agreed and expressed ex-
citement to play back on the
Farm.
I think our mentality will be
even more intense, she declared.
I have watched Stanford play
dual matches before, and I know
the crowd will be really enthusias-
tic. I cant wait to experience play-
ing for the team and the home
crowd.
Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissyj@
stanford.edu.
WTENNIS
Continued from page 4
We talked
it out, tried
to work
together
more.
ELLEN TSAY
cation back and forth between the
offices.
For students on financial aid, the
problem is one of several possible
components of their bill: University
financial aid, the parent contribu-
tion, the student contribution or ex-
pected outside scholarships.
It could be that there is aid that
was supposed to disperse that has-
nt, or they need more aid than
what we originally estimate,
Cooper said. We have to sit down
and figure out: why is the bill not
paid? Where is the money not com-
ing from?
Outside scholarship checks are
processed through the Financial
Aid Office, but if the check does not
arrive in time the balance is consid-
ered unpaid, Cooper said. Her of-
fice puts the amount of money a
student expects to receive as antic-
ipated aid in the account so no late
fees will apply if the scholarship
check arrives late, but the student
will still be unable to enroll until the
check comes in to pay the balance,
as a financial hold will still apply.
We do our best to make sure
we dont have a backlog of private
scholarship checks to be
processed, Cooper said.
If the problem is that the par-
ent/student portion of the bill has
yet to be paid, the Financial Aid Of-
fice constantly reevaluates if the aid
awarded is appropriate for a fami-
lys finances.
We have noticed an increase in
appeals to us during the middle of
the year dealing with changes in
family circumstances over the last
three years or so due to the econo-
my, Cooper said. Families, par-
ents are losing jobs. Thats definite-
ly on the upswing and has been a
big change for us.
A situation that Cooper said
does occur regularly, albeit it in
small numbers, is students who
have delinquent bills and are apply-
ing for financial aid, despite having
never filled out the Free Applica-
tion for Federal Student Aid
(FAFSA) during the normal aid
application cycle.
The Financial Aid Office is cur-
rently handling at least one such
case of a student who has a delin-
quent University bill but will need
financial aid to pay out the balance.
If the student just fills out a fi-
nancial aid application, we can get
him or her fixed up, Cooper said.
Students do still apply throughout
the year, and changes in circum-
stances are the number one reason.
The family thought they could han-
dle the charges, but somebody lost a
job; there are medical expenses,
those kinds of things.
However, if graduate students
find themselves needing financial
aid, Cooper said that her offices
hands are frequently tied by feder-
al regulations.
For example, if a student has de-
faulted on federal loans taken out
while earning an undergraduate
degree, the Financial Aid Office
cannot award them new federal
loans at the graduate level. The of-
fice will recommend private loans,
she said, but generally the student
will need a cosigner due to having
racked up bad credit by defaulting
on undergraduate loans.
In really sticky situations, we
do have a small institutional loan
program that we can use, but its a
small program, Cooper said.
Graduate student bills are also
often complicated because most
students rely on refunds due to
overpaid balances for their living
expenses, Cooper said. After the
University departments input the
stipend information into a comput-
er system and the Financial Aid Of-
fice applies any federal loans the
student may be receiving in addi-
tion, the difference between the
amount owed and the amount paid
is refunded to the students bank
account.
Federal rules allow the Univer-
sity to dispense the refund up to 10
days before the start of the quarter
and as many as 14 days after the
start of the quarter. Cooper said
that Stanford usually refunds grad-
uate student early in that time
frame, but that the winter quarter
refunds were delayed due to prob-
lems transferring files to the stu-
dents banks.
We were within the federal
regulations, Cooper said. We
have to disperse money to students
within 14 days; its not like were vi-
olating any rules, but I know how
important it is to get that money to
students.
Contact Alice at alicephillips@stan-
ford.edu.
BILLS
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6 NWednesday, January 18, 2012 The Stanford Daily
Infrastructure
underfunded by $2
million per year, says
Palo Alto Blue
Ribbon report
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
The Palo Alto City Council de-
voted the entirety of its Tuesday
night meeting to hearing a report
on 13 months of work from the In-
frastructure Blue Ribbon Com-
mittee (IBRC) about the citys in-
frastructure needs and potential
sources of funding for projects.
City council members tasked
the IBRC in Oct. 2010 with provid-
ing a recommendation to the City
Council on infrastructure needs,
priorities, projects and associated
funding mechanisms to address
the infrastructure backlog and fu-
ture needs.
Over the years Palo Alto has
built up a wide array of infrastruc-
ture assets. In the competition for
civic funds, infrastructure has suf-
fered, read the executive summa-
ry of the report. As a result, the
City has underfunded its infra-
structure maintenance in the
amount of over $2 million per
year.
According to the committees
report, the citys infrastructure has
a backlog of catch-up needs to-
taling over $40 million. The com-
mittee recommended that Palo
Alto spend $32.2 million annually
over the next four years for total
maintenance of the infrastructure
management system, representing
a $2.2 million increase over what
the city has already budgeted.
Funding for the projects could
come from any number of alterna-
tives the committee presented, in-
cluding a tax increase that would
offset annual needs and long-term
borrowing to finance new facility
construction.
Kristian Davis Bailey
Co-founder Yang
leaves Yahoo
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Yahoo co-founder and former
CEO Jerry Yang 90 M.S. 90 re-
signed from his board position and
broke ties completely with the
company Tuesday, amid recent
criticism about his leadership and
failure to secure a buy-out deal
with Microsoft. Yang resigned
from all company positions, includ-
ing the boards of Yahoo Japan
Corporation and Alibaba Group
Holding Limited.
The time has come for me to
pursue other interests outside of
Yahoo, Yang said in a company
statement.
Following the announcement
Tuesday, the companys stock price
rose approximately 3.7 percent in
after-hours trading. The company
has faced recent turmoil, as former
PayPal head Scott Thompson was
only recently appointed as CEO,
replacing Carol Bartz, who was
fired in September.
Yang currently serves on the
Stanford University Board of
Trustees following his initial ap-
pointment in 2005, as last reported
in the August 2011 Stanford Bul-
letin.
Yang and his wife, Akiko Ya-
mazaki, pledged $75 million, the
largest of several donations from
the couple, to the University in
2007 for the construction of the
Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki
Environment and Energy Build-
ing (Y2E2) and the Li Ka Shing
Center for Learning and Knowl-
edge at the School of Medicine.
Yang co-founded Yahoo with
fellow Stanford student David Filo
in 1995.
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raised concerns on topics from the
importance of U.S. intervention in
global affairs to the Arab Spring
and the SOPA and PIPA bills.
Questions grew more person-
al, as Feingold described how
seeing his political heroes
John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther
King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
speak and later be assassinat-
ed inspired him to pursue a ca-
reer in politics.
Feingold connected with stu-
dents by describing the proudest
and weakest moments of his ca-
reer and described the difficul-
ties as well as the importance of
voting independently in a two-
party system.
Crothers residents will see
many other political figures visit
during the course of the year.
Senator Feingold is one of
several key visitors to Crothers
this year, including Kofi Annan,
Ambassador Karl Eikenberry
and, next week, anti-genocide ac-
tivist John Prendergast, said
Stephen Stedman 79 M.A. 85
Ph.D. 88, Crothers resident fel-
low and Freeman Spogli senior
fellow at the Center on Democ-
racy, Development and the Rule
of Law (CDDRL).
Feingold will speak to students
in other venues, including leading
a weekly workshop series facili-
tated by Stanford in Government
(SIG) and two major lectures,
among other events.
His engagements include
meetings with public and foreign
policy scholars, evening dorm
events, radio talk shows, a con-
versation about faith and politics
with his sister, Rabbi Dena Fein-
gold, and numerous class visits,
said Thomas Schnaubelt, execu-
tive director of the Haas Center
for Public Service.
Contact Nithya Vijayakumar at
nithyapv@stanford.edu.
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LUIS AGUILAR/The Stanford Daily
Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, distinguished visitor at the Haas
Center, spoke with Crothers residents about public service Tuesday.
issues have been adequately recon-
ciled for the project to continue.
As far as visual effects are con-
cerned, Our architecture people
have already looked at the utility
poles, and they already have utility
equipment on them, Williams
said. They condition the equip-
ment so that it will blend in more,
and some of the equipment will be
located up higher so its not right at
eye level. Also, it is required at
some of the poles to put some addi-
tional trees in to help screen it visu-
ally.
Regarding radiation concerns,
the federal government sets stan-
dards ensuring that emissions are
healthy, and AT&T is far below the
limit with its new plan, he said.
Furthermore, Williams com-
mends the idea of having a Palo
Alto wireless communications
plan, but the city is limited in what it
can do in that realm by federal reg-
ulations. It is, however, attempting
to provide better information about
where wireless providers can locate
their antennas.
About 20 Palo Alto residents
have contacted the city planning
office in opposition to AT&Ts
proposal, but around the same
amount have notified the office of
their support, said Williams.
In Palo Alto, youve got a real
high density of smart phone users
and smart device users, said
AT&T spokesperson Lane Kas-
selman. Because of that, you have
more devices on our network, and
it makes it harder for those folks to
be able to get fast speed and main-
tain connection. In order to solve
that, we must have more access
points to connect to the network.
After Mondays public hearing,
the city council will make a decision
about whether AT&T will be al-
lowed to carry out its installation
plans. If the plans are approved,
AT&T will fund the entire proce-
dure and will also pay $1,500 per
year to the city for the use of each
utility pole. The installation process
of the antennas is projected to take
three to four months.
The 19 new antennas have been
designated for East Palo Alto and
downtown Palo Alto, so if they are
installed, Stanford students wire-
less coverage will be minimally af-
fected except for when they leave
campus to visit surrounding neigh-
borhoods.
The installations would be the
first step in bigger plans AT&T has
for the area, which include the es-
tablishment of 80 new antennas
total, some of which will more di-
rectly affect those on the Stanford
campus.
The company claims that if its
plans are put into effect, users will
have fewer dropped calls, faster
data speeds and a noticeable im-
provement in connectivity.
These specific antennas are
called DAS [Distributed Antenna
System], and theyre all around the
Bay Area, Kasselman said.
Theyre a bunch of smaller anten-
nas that cover a larger area without
the need to put up a bigger antenna.
This is a solution we use for neigh-
borhoods where it isnt really aes-
thetically pleasing to put in a large
antenna, so we put in these smaller
ones.
AT&T says it has heard from
thousands of Palo Alto residents on
the record, saying that they are in
support of the new plans.
Contact Sarah Moore at smoore6@
stanford.edu.
AT&T
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