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f science replaced money, egos and “street cred” Like Jay-Z, McFadden lyricizes about topics close to
sponsored walk across campus. in the lives of rappers, what would happen to hip- home — not Bentleys and bling, but biology, which Gobaud is also looking forward to increasing
“That was phenomenal,” said Emily Gasner ‘09 of the hop? Tom McFadden ‘08, a course associate (CA) makes rapping a bit of a challenge. Jay-Z and JD find graduate student outreach and addressing more
walk. “Definite exposure to the reality of the women’s bur- for the Human Biology (HumBio) Core, and rhymes for “bracelet” and “thing,” but McFadden has undergrad issues.
den in Africa!” Derrick Davis ‘10, a public policy major, conduct to work with “transcription factors” and “RNA poly- “I’m very excited about what this will allow us to
Long walks to retrieve water can be dangerous for African that experiment in their video “Regulatin’ Genes,” a merase.” So, he drops lines like “And if they bind, then do,” he said.
women, since they must carry on each of their heads 44 life-science spin on Jay-Z and Jermaine Dupree’s we’re looking at the next phase: block or recruit the Senator Michael Cruz ‘12 applauded what he saw
pounds of water, on average. Be Hope to Her desires to (JD’s) “Money Ain’t a Thang.” RNA polymerase.” Creative lyrics like that shame as a selfless act on the part of Gobaud.
lessen the physical danger and give women more time to many a rich rapper. “I think it’s very admirable that you would put
attend school. The Video McFadden, Davis and Wachtel couldn’t afford the your Cabinet in front of yourselves,” Cruz said.
“People in developed countries like the United States Wearing sunglasses, hoodies and baseball caps, Ferraris in “Money Ain’t a Thang,” but what they lack Later in the meeting, Senate Chair Varun
often take water for granted — they can walk a few yards, McFadden and Davis bounce in front of life science in Ferraris, they make up for in humor. Jay-Z and JD Sivaram ‘11 unhappily recalled that Vice Provost for
slides and the Quad. The video, edited by Jake Wachtel
Please see WATER, page 2 ‘09, flows as smoothly as an MTV music video — back Please see HUMBIO RAP, page 2 Please see SENATE, page 5
FEATURES
His work at our fingertips
After three years, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research & Education Institute
completes its project to make King documents publicly available online
By ELIZABETH TITUS Foundation, according to Carson. Two other course, but also by topic, names involved and
CONTRIBUTING WRITER institutions lent assistance — the Morehouse genre. Selecting “City of Montgomery v.
College King Papers at Atlanta University Martin L. King” from the topic list provided
Center and the Howard Gotlieb Archival by the Institute yields four results, including
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he young man wrote home a few Research Center at Boston University. King’s arrest warrant and court transcripts.
times the summer before he Historians agree the database is an impor- Entering “Paul, Saint” returns 18 records.
entered college. He asked his mom tant step toward opening history to a broader Searching by genre, 13 “manifestos” come ERIC LEW/The Stanford Daily
to check his test scores and wished audience. back.
for her homemade fried chicken. “I think this is one of the most forward- The records — and the project — have On Monday, Online King Records Access (OKRA) was launched, making thousands of
He assured his dad he was staying out of looking projects in the scholarly world today, limitations. Because the King family holds records related to Dr. King and the civil rights movement available to the public. Many more
trouble. and one of the most important,” said Michael copyright on many of King’s papers, the documents are to be added by the end of the year.
“I am not doing anything that I would not Honey, a King scholar at the University of Institute can’t put original documents online.
[be] doing [in] front of you,” he wrote. Washington, Tacoma. The author of three Instead, the database directs users to where writing a thesis on King’s opposition to the obstacle,” he said. “I’m relatively certain that
In another letter, he told them about his books on labor and civil rights history, he said they can see the documents — whether in one Vietnam War, agreed that primary documents we will. Probably within the next couple
travels. he finds it increasingly difficult to get access to of the nation’s many King archives, the shed light on the movement’s players. years, we will make many documents avail-
“After we passed Washington [there] was King’s papers. Institute’s six-volume “The Papers of Martin “Browsing through the King documents, it able.”
no discrimination at all,” he wrote. “We go to Carson told The Daily that the project was Luther King, Jr.,” the Institute’s campus office immediately becomes apparent that MLK “Hopefully in the age of the Internet, doc-
any place we want to and sit any where we “democratizing research.” or elsewhere. was but one leader in a larger movement,” he uments can be digitized and made available,”
want to.” “There’s always been an elitism in scholar- And adding records is time-consuming. said. “The release of thousands of new docu- he added. “Research will still be hard, but I
The young man was Martin Luther King, ly research that those who have resources can Institute staff had to spend more than a year ments about MLK and the civil rights move- think researchers will be able to undertake
Jr., and to track his life through the docu- do much better work than those who don’t updating their internal database before the ment would be of great use to any student more ambitious topics.”
ments he left behind — letters like these — have resources,” he said. “When we [the King public launch. Even then, the database only writing a research paper, working on an in- Maybe even young researchers.
scholars have long had to navigate a maze of Institute] started our work in 1985, my guess is contains records through 1958. Records class presentation or writing an honors the- Carson remembers when his daughter,
books, archives and Web sites to find where that there weren’t more than a dozen people through 1960 will be added by the end of the sis.” then a Palo Alto High School student, report-
these documents exist. in the world who were doing concerted King year, staff members said, and once they pub- Susan Englander, an associate director of ed that her history textbook said that King
But on Monday, the Martin Luther King, research. Now, anyone with access to a com- lish the rest of the 14-volume “Paper” series, the Institute, explained that any Stanford stu- launched the Freedom Rides of 1961.
Jr., Research & Education Institute at puter and an Internet connection can engage records for those documents will go online dent may ask to look at the physical docu- “I could imagine now, a student coming in
Stanford aimed to simplify that search by in the same kind of research.” too. ments that he or she encounters in the data- and saying, ‘The history textbook is wrong,’”
launching a free online database (http://king- Carson’s vision for the database, then, was That means that by December, the public base. he described. “‘I know from looking at an
papers.org) with information on 100 years of foreshadowed in a way by what King wrote to database will hold about 8,000 records — a “We welcome Stanford students to come interview with Dianne Nash, who was one of
King- and civil rights-related documents. the editor of The Atlanta Constitution as a fraction of the nearly 70,000 documents by,” she said. “We consider ourselves a the leaders of the Freedom Rides, that she
Major documents cover the Montgomery Bus college junior: entered by undergraduate research assistants resource and we hope more people will avail wasn’t a follower of Martin Luther King, that
Boycott and more records will be added, staff “We want and are entitled to the basic into the Institute’s internal database since themselves of us.” she did it in order to push him to act.’”
said. rights and opportunities of American citi- 1985. “Students would have to check in with the “Why can’t a high school student come up
“This is the only public database on King zens,” he wrote, including “equal opportuni- Staff members emphasized the value of staff in most cases,” Englander added regard- with a new interpretation?” Carson said with
archives that provides scholarly details and ties in education.” the public records, which Archival Assistant ing requests. “Just being curious about King is a smile.
description on each individual item,” wrote That, the Institute intends, is where Josh Kunz called “the best of the best.” good enough for me.” With the help of OKRA, that reality —
Institute Director Clayborne Carson in a Online King Records Access — or OKRA “These documents are now considered the while slow in coming — may be near.
released statement. “It will prove to be of — comes in. most historically important,” he said.
immense value to King researchers and indi- Archival Assistant Stacey Zwald added In his small office at the Institute on Via Elizabeth Titus is a former employee of the
viduals interested in the life and work of Dr. that her favorite documents showed her that Ortega, Carson — who edited King’s autobi- Martin Luther King, Jr. Research &
King and the civil rights movement.” OKRA works like this:A simple screen on “really, there is an army” of players in the civil ography — discussed the future of access to Education Institute.
The project was funded by a three-year, kingpapers.org allows users to search by rights movement. historic documents.
$450,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon detailed criteria — by author, title and date, of Andrew Schneider ‘09, a history major “We have to overcome [the copyright] Contact Elizabeth Titus at etitus@stanford.edu.
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the summer, many are also at a disadvantage hundred students at one time.
when it comes to coordinating the end of the In the past, many large lecture courses —
spring quarter with the schedule of a summer most notably in computer science — have of-
job or internship. At a time when the econo- fered alternative final exam dates in advance T OO B IG TO FAIL
my has fewer jobs to offer college students — of the official final. Some professors will also
and when having summer work experience is make individual arrangements for students
practically a prerequisite for many careers
and graduate programs — the editorial
needing to leave early. While professors are
not required by the registrar to offer early
Stuff white people are Jenna
board would like to see more professors em- final exam options, the editorial board would Reback
bracing flexibility with final exam schedules
to help students who need to leave campus
recommend that all professors consider of-
fering alternative options, at least in the
ambivalent about
early. spring quarter, for students who need to This column was originally published Feb.18. What follows is a list — admittedly quite in-
As a result of the University’s quarter sys- leave campus early for work-related reasons. complete — of stuff that white people are am-
tem, summer for Stanford students has con- Professors should also highlight these op- t’s a new day — at least, according to bivalent about. I can’t say it’s going to help you Still, it’s pretty bad how Russians go around
sistently begun several weeks later than
those of students at peer universities. Final
exams officially end this weekend for stu-
dents at Harvard and Princeton, while Yale
tions at the beginning of spring quarter when
reviewing the syllabus and class structure; we
would not want to deter students who are too
shy or feel like they are imposing on their
I will.i.am. I don’t know about you, but when
someone teleports into the CNN newsroom
and starts speaking,I listen.
any, but if there’s anything white people love
right now,it’s reading about themselves.Here we
go.
wearing fur all the time.On the other hand,who
are we to try to impose our own mores on a cul-
ture we don’t entirely understand?
So,even as the global economy collapses and
has been done with exams since May 12. professors because they are not aware such our planet corrodes into a noxious wasteland, 1. Other white people 3. Consumerism
Those extra weeks often create problems for options exist. the good news is that racism is over in America! Don’t worry — we’re not like the rest of OMG, have you bought the new ninja war-
Stanford students hoping to land an intern- In keeping with the founding spirit of Baby, it doesn’t matter if you’re black or white them. I’m Jewish. You’re one-fourth Scandina- rior app for the iPhone 3G? Neither have I, be-
ship that is scheduled to begin in late May or Stanford as a university focused on con- — Michael Jackson has long since evolved into vian, three-eighths French, two-sixths Irish and cause buying stuff is so indulgent and needlessly
early June, when most other college students tributing to the larger world — and recogniz- his own species,and the rest of us are discovering 6.25 percent Cherokee.And having successfully wasteful.
would already be done with classes. In all too ing the considerable strain students are true equality in all being equally screwed. linked your whiteness to a cultural tradition of But in times like these, shouldn’t we be pro-
many cases, students are forced to make a under just to find summer work — faculty That’s right, white people. Country clubs oppression and/or socialism,you are now free to moting technological innovation and boosting
choice between putting off a required course members should be understanding of stu- aren’t cool any more, and the only person look- identify any remaining white acquaintances and the American economy? Sure we should, which
or turning down a good internship because it dents’ obligations and help them as much as ing good in J. Crew is Michelle Obama. treat them with appropriate contempt. is why I just bought the past three seasons of “30
begins too early. possible to reconcile their summer plans with Doubtless the end of white societal hegemo- Kevin Webb,for instance,is one of the few in- Rock” on Amazon. I promise to recycle them
Students in the humanities are in some in- spring exams. ny is a good thing, especially considering that exorably white people I know, and though he when I’m done, and to build an orphanage in a
the most significant cultural contributions by owns only 50 percent of this column,he is by de- third-world country with my bare hands as
Caucasian Americans recently have been fault 100 percent responsible for the havoc that penance.
Unsigned editorials in the space above represent the views of The Stanford Daily's editorial board and do not sweaters for dogs and crystal meth. white people have wreaked upon America. I still feel terrible about it,though.
necessarily reflect the opinions of the Daily staff. The editorial board is comprised of two former Daily staffers, Still, there are bound to be some hard feel- Feel free to email him with your complaints
three at-large student members and the two editorial board co-chairs. Any signed columns and contributions
are the views of their respective writers and do not necessarily represent the views of the entire editorial board.
ings.White people used to be a big deal in Amer- about Fox News, NASCAR and the continued 4. Britney Spears/Lindsay Lohan/Jessica Simp-
To contact the editorial board for an issue to be considered, or to submit an op-ed, please email ica, and now they’re just like everyone else. production of “The Hills.” He will take a break son
editorial@daily.stanford.edu. Haven’t you seen “Gran Torino?” from smoking cigars and drinking bourbon to The fact that these women are apparently
Nowadays, white people are divided into smile patronizingly and promise to put you in our only remaining cultural exports goes far to
two camps: those who check “Stuff White Peo- touch with “his [white] people.” explain the problems in America today. Still,
ple Like” on a regular basis, and those who Because I know that none of that has any- there’s something deeply appealing about the
O P-E D throw Tupperware parties.
This first kind of white person feels conflict-
thing to do with us.At least,I’m pretty sure. underdog — especially if you’re white and fan-
tasize about being one yourself — and if a 20-
ed.She wants to frolic joyously into the glorious 2. Russia something multi-billionaire struggling with the
Students fast in solidarity post-racial future, but even more than that, she
wants to be part of a milieu that doesn’t cele-
brate chastity balls.
Hail, overzealous yuppie Caucasian, and
Uninterrupted substance abuse. Artificial-
ly — and unconvincingly — blond women. A
rich history of bigotry against ethnic and cul-
tural minorities. These are just three of the
expectations of a demanding and lecherous pub-
lic father isn’t an underdog,I don’t know who is.
Like the current state of the economy, these
starlets’ collective demise is undeniable proof
with community center staff embrace me as your true sister! But alas,we are
both deluded.The authors of “Stuff White Peo-
ple Like” want to convince us that the remorse
and ethnic longing that dictates our hobbies and
many things that rural America and Russia
have in common.Yet for some reason, the for-
mer territory is “our heartland,” while the lat-
ter remains a “global nuclear threat.”
that ours is a broken and mendacious social sys-
tem. No one is blameless.Which is why Jessica
Simpson’s weight really matters.Apparently.
rom Tuesday, May 18, to Friday, May 22, a timely fashion was both disappointing and tastes is the basis of a legitimate culture, and we There must be something to be said of a 5. Bipartisanship
SPORTS
Crucial time for Daniel
Bohm
TRACK AND FIELD
5/16-17
L
ike school, the Stanford sports ago. Yes, the Cardinal has had some bad
year is dying down. Seasons are luck — opponents have under-performed,
ending and summer is fast ap-
proaching. For many Cardinal
hurting its strength of schedule — but nev-
ertheless this team has way too much tal-
UP NEXT
athletes, the upcoming weeks
provide a rare break, a time to focus on fi-
ent to be spending the end of May and
early June at home. NCAA WEST REGIONAL
nals, get some rest and prepare for another Friday night was supposed to be Fire-
rigorous year. works Night at Sunken Diamond, but that CHAMPIONSHIPS
This is the time of year that athletes get was moved to Saturday because there is 5/29-30 Eugene, Ore.
to enjoy things they may not be able to another Stanford team with an important
enjoy during the school year. For example, obligation Friday. GAME NOTES: After a strong showing at last week-
Athlete Formal — the pseudo prom for That is the Stanford softball team. The end’s Pac-10 Championships, track and field
Stanford athletes — was Monday night. Cardinal will be hosting the University of will now head to the NCAA West Regional
My sports editor wants my columns to Arizona in the Palo Alto Super Regional Championships in Eugene, Ore. The Cardinal
be longer, as there are fewer sports to this weekend. The winner earns a trip to will be looking to build off of last weekend’s per-
cover for The Daily. Oklahoma City and the Women’s College formances at the conference championships
The strange thing about this period in World Series. (also in Eugene), where the women took home
which most athletes’ seasons are wrapping How important is it for the Cardinal to second place and the men took third.
up is that this particular week still might be go to Oklahoma City? The team has never
the most important of the year for Stan- won a WCWS championship and hasn’t
ford Athletics. even made an appearance in the WCWS
Cardinal sports are at a crux this week. since 2004. That means Missy Penna, not
Next week,if I choose to,I could be writing
one of two columns. The lead of the first
only one of the greatest pitchers in Stan-
ford softball history, but also one of the
TRACK AND FIELD
could be something like “Stanford sports greatest overall players in the team’s histo-
cap an up-and-down year with late-season
surges and postseason success.”
If the results go a different direction,
however, the lead could look more like
ry, has never made it to the dance.
It is her last chance, as well as Maddy
Coon’s — a four-year starter and All-Pa-
cific-10 Conference performer — to make
Cardinal
this:“Season is over for Stanford.The Car- the pilgrimage to the Midwest.
dinal crashes and burns under postseason
pressure.”
What do I mean by all of this? A few
This is also one of the best — if not the
best — Stanford softball team ever. It has
been ranked as high as No. 2 in the country
second, third
prominent Stanford sports are at a point in and has, at times, looked completely un-
the season in which they will either get
over a hump that has been haunting them,
or they will be going home for the summer.
stoppable. It has potentially three All-
Americans in Penna, junior outfielder
Alissa Haber and freshman shortstop
TAYLOR CONE/The Stanford Daily
Sophomore second baseman Colin Walsh and the Stanford baseball team were defeated 11-2 by
UC-Davis on Tuesday night. The team ends its season this weekend against Oregon State.
at Pac-10s
Take the Stanford baseball team for ex- Ashley Hansen.
ample.After being ranked as high as No. 5 But if Stanford’s Pac-10 rival bests it
in some preseason polls, the Cardinal this weekend, that will all be for naught,
Both men and women
DUMPED BY
stumbled out of the gate this season with a and next week’s column will not be a
3-9 start, all but burying its postseason happy one.
chances.
Now, with three games remaining, the
Baseball and softball are not the only
sports with big weeks.The men’s golf team
finish strong in conference
Cardinal faces a do-or-die match-up with will set its sights on its second NCAA
Oregon State at Sunken Diamond this Championship in three years next week.In
DAVIS
weekend, with the winner likely headed to tennis, the individual championships for By ANARGHYA VARDHANA
a regional and the loser’s season ending. both men and women are this week. STAFF WRITER
Stanford may actually have to sweep If things go well in all of these sports,
the Beavers to make the tournament, de- then next week would be extremely cele- Stanford track and field took Eu-
spite winning 26 of its last 39 games.Aaron bratory for Stanford. However, if things go gene, Ore. by storm this weekend at the
Fitt of BaseballAmerica.com believes it the other way it will be a sad week — and Pacific-10 Conference Championships.
will be hard to keep Stanford out of the we sportswriters won’t have much to A weekend filled with season bests, re-
MEN’S TENNIS
Clayton, Klahn going solo
By ALYSSA AHLUWALIA suming Koniecko defeats his prior opponent, Florida’s
CONTRIBUTING WRITER No. 23 Carlos Cueto). A potential “Pac-10 revisited”
lurks in the quarterfinals, where Clayton has the
Stanford men’s tennis enters NCAA Championship chance of facing an old opponent, No. 8 Robert Farah
singles play today at the George P. Mitchell Tennis Cen- of USC.
ter in College Station, Tex. Sophomore Alex Clayton “I’m looking forward to playing for the singles
and Freshman Bradley Klahn will be representing the title,” Clayton said. “I lost in the semifinals last year,
Cardinal, as they earned places in the 64-man draw. and right now we’re nursing a harsh team loss, but I’m
Klahn and fellow freshman Ryan Thacher were also playing well this season and I’m healthy. Me and
chosen as alternates in doubles competition and will [Klahn] are ready for the competition.”
play if a certain number of the 32 participating team Klahn holds a 35-8 overall record (20-5 dual,19-7 vs.
pairs withdraw. nationally ranked opponents). He was recently named
The singles matches will be best-of-three sets. There ITA National Rookie of the Year,boasts Pac-10 singles
will be regular scoring and a 12-point tiebreaker at six and doubles championship titles for 2009 and is the
games for all matches. only freshman in Pac-10 history to receive three con-
Clayton will enter play with a record of 29-10 over- ference Player of the Week awards in one season.
all, 14-5 dual and 10-11 vs. nationally ranked oppo- His first opponent on Wednesday will be Steven
nents.He boasts an impressive reputation on the men’s Moneke of Baylor University. If Klahn gets the best of
tennis circuit. Last season, Clayton was named an All- Moneke, he will meet up with the winner of the match
American Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), between Radford’s Martin Sayer and East Tennessee
and advanced to the semifinals of the NCAAs before State’s Enrique Olivares. Like Clayton, Klahn has the
being defeated by the eventual tournament champion, opportunity to replay a Trojan, if both he and USC’s
Somdev Devvarman of the University of Virginia. Steve Johnson advance into the quarterfinals.
This season, Clayton boasts the title of ITA Region- Neither Cardinal player enters the singles tourna-
al Singles Champion and has advanced to the finals of ment seeded, but the impressive records each boasts in
the 2008 Sherwood Cup and the semifinals of the 2009 conference and tournament play this season is enough
Pacific-10 Conference Championships — an impres- to leave Stanford men’s tennis optimistic.
sive tennis record to say the least, especially consider- “Both Clayton and Klahn have been playing ex-
ing he spent part of his season nursing a sprained ankle. tremely well this season,” Stanford head coach John
Clayton’s first opponent in the singles champi- Whitlinger said. “We’re leaving the team behind in a
CHRIS SEEWALD/The Stanford Daily onship is No. 45 Jordan Rux of Baylor University. If he sense to get ready for the individuals, the singles play.”
Freshman Bradley Klahn will be representing Stanford at the NCAA Individual Championships, along with sophomore Alex takes home the win in said match, Clayton could face
Clayton. Klahn and fellow freshman Ryan Thacher will also be alternates for the doubles competition. third-ranked Bryan Koniecko from Ohio State (as- Contact Alyssa Ahluwalia at aahluw13@stanford.edu.
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examining the effects of into prison, interviewing families, of Stanford on the quarter system. “I see the work we did for Mr.
tetracycline on the bacterial compiling records and arguing in “Clinics will be a full-time com- Williams in the Clinic as my most
communities in the gut. Participants courts,” Romano said. “So, the stu- mitment for a quarter next year,” significant law school accomplish-
will receive $200 in compensation. dents really are responsible for man- Romano said. “We have 10 clinics, ment and one of my most fulfilling
Please contact Dr. Jennifer aging the cases.” and each will be offered two of the experiences, period,” Melahn said. “I
Dinalo at jdinalo@stanford.edu Despite the fact that those partic- three quarters.” will be much more likely now to
or 650-493-5000 x 66991. ipating in the clinic are still in law Even though balancing an seek out Three Strikes pro-bono
school, student participants feel they already tough load of law classes and cases as a practicing lawyer.”
WANTED haven’t run into condescension from an actual case can be challenging,
WEB SAVVY GRAD STUDENT other parties because of their age. students in the clinic feel the experi- Contact Kate Barber at kbarber
wanted to refurbish outdated “I felt like we were treated like ence is worth it. @stanford.edu.
book selling web site of small,
local publisher.
www.PeninsulaPublishing.com.
SENATE
Charles Wiseman. 948-2511 revamped town halls in order to fur- mentarian and treasurer. Sivaram
ther inform students of the state of will be Senate liasion to Faculty
Web savvy entering UCSD freshman the budget cuts, according to de la Senate.
wants short-term web dev. projects Continued from front page Torre. Among committee business, the
this summer. JAVA, PHP, MySQL The first town hall, scheduled for Communications Committee
& HTML. ben.stillerman@gmail.com Wednesday, May 27, will include dis- announced a decision to make an
Undergraduate Education John cussion with Bravman, Vice Provost ASSU Senate Facebook profile in an
Bravman alluded to a significant of Academic Affairs Rebecca effort to keep students updated on
decrease in advising programs dur- Warner, Vice Provost of Student Senate affairs, and that it will contin-
Classies Work! ing the Faculty Senate meeting last
week.
Affairs Greg Boardman on issues of
student affairs and undergraduate
ue to release one-minute video sum-
maries of Senate meetings. The
“Advising is getting killed,” education. Student Life, Housing & Education
Sivaram said. “Basically, all we have De la Torre emphasized the town committee (SLHE) announced the
left are academic directors — I was halls as a unique opportunity to gar- formation of a sustainability sub-
very unhappy with that.” ner the voices of students and speak committee with Dean Young ‘11 as
In line with the urgency of these directly and constructively to the its chair.
changes, Sivaram encouraged sena- administrators who are making Also, starting this weekend, the
tors to get involved with an advocacy budget decisions. Nitery will also be opened up for stu-
effort to voice concern with adminis- “This is probably the easiest way dent use as part of a pilot program.
trators on this issue. for [students] to interact with admin- According to Gobaud, the initiative
The Senate will continue with istrators face-to-face in a public is intended “to increase the amount
ASSU Town Halls, which com- forum,” de la Torre said. of student space for meeting and
menced during winter quarter to Additional bills confirmed Anton studying,” and will be evaluated after
gather student opinions on the budg- Zietsman ‘12 as liaison to the Legal the trial run.
et crisis. The Senate and Executives Counseling Office Policy Board, Lee
are preparing for the first of what Jackson as ASSU Speakers Bureau Contact Zoe Richards at iamzoe@
they intend to be a series of liaison and Alex Katz ‘12 as parlia- stanford.edu.
6 N Wednesday, May 20, 2009 The Stanford Daily