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GEARING UPThe red-hot Stanford womens soccer team looks

to keep winning, taking on Hawaii at home

By MARGARET RAWSONCONTRIBUTING WRITER

After a busy summer, the ASSU executiveshave set their sights on several projects for fallquarter,all with a focus on community building,health and wellness.

A recent product of the collaboration is theLeadership Development Program designed

by ASSU executives Angelina Cardona 11 andKelsei Wharton 12 and program co-coordina-tors Lina Hidalgo 13 and Madeline Hawes 13,deputy chair of the Senate.

The program combines the application

process for students wishing to serve as Senateassociates or executive fellows. Hawes, alongwith other several other senators, served as aSenate associate last year.

Increased publicity for the program couldwork to address a concern of Whartons sincecoming to Stanford.

Some students know to get involved andare privy to opportunities and information,

Wharton said, describing what he called theinformation gap between students active instudent groups and those less knowledgeableabout Stanford resources.

The ASSU executive is pushing for the cre-

ation of a Stanford 101class,an initiative sup-ported by Vice Provost for Undergraduate Ed-ucation Harry Elam, to better acquaint stu-dents with Stanford organizations and life.

The executive also created stickers listingcampus resources for dorm staffs to distributeto residents at the beginning of fall quarter.

Over the summer, Cardona spearheadedthe launch of the ASSU Pakistan flood relief ef-

fort, which is set to continue throughout theyear. The executives partnered with UNCHR,the United Nations refugee agency,and namedAsfandyar Ali Mir 12 director of Pakistanflood relief. Cardona matched the first $500

raised over the summer from her executivesalary.To date,the effort has raised $10,400.

Citing the long-term goals of the executivein an e-mail to The Daily,Cardona lis ted unit-ing the Stanford community for movementssuch as the Pakistan effort,ensuring the long-term viability and credibility of the ASSU,shifting Stanford culture to prioritize health,wellness and balance,and helping to end vio-

lence against women.With this last goal in mind,Cardona attend-

ed the NCHERM Conference on Respondingto Sexual Misconduct on College Campuses,atwo-day conference on campus in July.

Cardona has been working with NicoleBaran, founder and director of the Center forRelationship Abuse Awareness,to plan an anti-sexual misconduct and domestic abuse train-ing.The ASSU will co-sponsor the Partnershipto End Violence Against Women campus-widesurvey in October.

This is a very tangible and visible initiativethat we hope will provide a lot of hard data as

to what people believe and experience aroundsexual assault, relationship abuse and stalking,Cardona said.This information will better in-

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Marguerite adds newstops, proposes new routes

Queer studies, nominationsfill this weeks agenda

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UNIVERSITY

Shuttlechangesapproach

ENVIRONMENT

Conservation atthe Dish turns 10

By KURT CHIRBAS

Ten years ago,when he was an undergraduate at Stan-ford, Jeff Schwegman 01 camped out with some of hisclassmates at the top of the Dish,a 2,400-acre area of thecampus reserved for both academic projects and habitatconservation.He remembers hiking up dirt paths,seeingsnakes slither across his path and, most memorably,watching the sun set.

Returning to campus this year as an IHUM teachingfellow,Schwegma n cant help but notice the changes theDish has undergone in his absence.

Its a little less like the Wild West now,he says.Thats because in 2000, spurred by an increase in the

number of recreational users of the area, StanfordsLand Use and Environmental Planning Department de-cided to implement a new conservation and land useplan, with the goal of trying to minimize human impacton the area.This September marks the 10th anniversaryof the Dishs environmental plan.

The Dishs history stretches back to the 1980s, whenStanford opened the area to the public,allowing commu-nity members to hike and jog along an authorized dirt

STUDENT GOVT

ASSU eyesfinancialreform bill

By MARGARET RAWSONCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The ASSU Undergraduate Senate kickedoff the academic year Tuesday evening bypassing a bill supporting a queer studiesminor through the Feminist Studies program,confirming the Nomination Commissionsfirst round of nominees to University com-mittees and discussing the first half of a com-prehensive financial reform package. TheSenate tabled a bill revising the the groupsrules of order.

Queer StudiesFirst introduced last spring,the bill to fos-

ter queer studies through the Feminist Stud-ies program was written by Karli Cerankows-ki,a graduate student in Modern Thought andLiterature,and Charles Syms 11 of the QueerStudies Coalition.

The bill initially included the allocation ofresources to the Feminist Studies programsfor a major, minor and Ph.D. certificate inqueer studies. A friendly amendment intro-duced by Senator Will Seaton 13 was adopt-ed to only encourage the creation of a minorin queer studies.

Several senators expressed concern thatthe bill needed more details about the con-

By IVY NGUYENDESK EDITOR

Changes are afoot for the Mar-guerite Shuttle system, Stanfordsfree shuttle service. Several newstops have been added to the Shop-ping Express route and changes havebeen proposed for Line A, Line Band the Midnight Express.

According to a Sept. 10 an-nouncement from Parking & Trans-portation Services (P&TS), threestops have been added to the Shop-ping Express route at Page MillRoad and El Camino near Palo AltoSquare,Hansen Way and El Caminonear Frys Electronics, and MaybellAvenue and El Camino near Wal-greens, according to the MargueriteShuttle website. The stops wereadded after a P&TS review of rider-ship data,stop locations,vehicles andservice hours.

The changes are part of a widerP&TS goal to conserve fuel, reduceemissions, reduce operating costs

Please see SHUTTLE,page 7

NEWS BRIEFS

Stanford Daily File Photo

Visitors run the Dish loop on a sunny day. Since the Dishs conservation plan started in 2000, thousands of visitors have hikedthe Dish. Annually, 500,000 guests from both Stanford and the surrounding areas come to visit the area, say officials.

BY JULIA BROWNELLSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Stanford School of Medicine haswon a $12.7 million grant from theNational Institutes of Health (NIH)to pilot and develop an unusuallylong-term program to combat child-hood obesity,potentially leading the wayfor other programs in the future nationwide.

The grant comes as part of the NIHs$49.5 million Childhood Obesity Preventionand Treatment Research (COPTR) pro-gram. Three other universities Vander-bilt, University of Minnesota Twin-Cities

and Case Western also received COPTRgrants.Thomas Robinson M.D. 88, director of

the Center for Healthy Weight at LucilePackard Childrens Hospital, will lead theresearch team designing the program.

[Dr.Robinson] has done a lot of really s u-perb groundwork with families, schools andcommunities, said Fernando Mendoza M.D.

75, a professor of pediatrics who researcheschildhood obesity.We tend to set out a stan-dard format.Clearly there are a lot of ways tolose weight . . . Toms program is holistic. Ittakes all those things into account.

The Center for Healthy Weights currentintensive six-month program helps 80 per-cent of its participants shed excess weightthrough fun, stealthy interventions likedancing and soccer.

That model works well for the familiesable to do it, Robinson said. The new pro-gram will be in a community setting because,for some families, they have no availability

or theres [no program] in theirarea.

The seven-year grant will finance a newstudy following 240 obese children betweenthe ages of 7 and 12,a s well as their families,for three years. Participants will be drawnfrom local towns like East Palo Alto, Red-

wood City and East Menlo Park.Very few programs last three years most last a couple of months, Robinsonsaid. Weve chosen the populations wework with to be quite diverse as well so thatresults can be applied across the county.

The children will receive medical care

Please see SENATE,page 7

MED SCHOOL SERVESUPOBESITY PROGRAM

Biology professor wins

Heinz AwardBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Biology Prof. Gretchen Daily Ph.D. 92has won a 2010 Heinz Award for her effort s toprotect natural ecosystems, specifically herwork in calculating the financial benefits ofpreserving the environment.

Daily was one of 10 recipients of theaward this year. Each recipient receives$100,000.

Daily co-founded the Natural CapitalProject, a group that is currently creating asoftware program called InVEST to help de-cision-makers identify top-priority locationsfor conservation where those efforts wouldlead to high economic value. She is a seniorfellow at the Woods Institute for the Environ-ment.

Now in their 16th year, the Heinz Awardsare administered by the Heinz Family Philan-thropies and recognizes contributors to artsand humanities,the environment,the humancondition, public policy and technology, theeconomy and employment, according to apress release.The theme of this years awardsis environment challenges.

Ivy Nguyen

Please see GRANT,page 3

Execs aim for wellness, involvement

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Please see DISH,page 7

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By KATHLEEN CHAYKOWSKIDESK EDITOR

On a bright Oklahoma morning,Greg Hall 13,a member of theStanford Solar Car Projectselectrical team, woke up to aradio call blaring that the

teams solar car, Apogee, was engulfed inblue smoke.

Wed get panicked and call, The solarcar is on fire!Hall said.

The car wouldnt really catch on fire,butunanticipated bugs in its circuitry ormore simply, the electronics blowing up sometimes caused blue smoke.

Small explosions are fairly routine whileracing a solar car for a month straight, saidHall, who was one of nearly a dozen Stan-ford students to spend this summer compet-ing in the North American Solar Challenge.

The biennial race is a 1,200-mile trekfrom Broken Arrow,Okla.,to Naperville,Ill.About 20 other universities around theworld from countries such as Germany,Tai-wan and Turkey,competed this year.

Mornings during the race started beforesunrise when team members woke to chargethe car.While the top half of the car was re-moved and placed on a steel structure tocapture sunlight, the team checked the carselectrical systems, the days weather reportand the cars battery.Once the lead and thechase vehicles the cars carrying gear andmost of the team were packed, it wastime to hit the road.

Each day, two lucky drivers each spent

four to five hours in the vehicles snug, one-person seat. Drivers frequently didnt havetime to visit the bathroom,and there was noair conditioning. Its a rough combinationwhile driving through 100-plus degreeweather in the American South.

Theres a famous story from the 2005race: it came down to the wire with Cal 30minutes behind us, Hall said. And I knowthat [Stanford] repeatedly denied the driverbathroom breaks.

I mean,its Cal,he added.At noon, the car can generate about a

kilowatt of power from solar rays, enoughenergy to power four desktop computers or10 fairly large light bulbs, Hall said. The420-pound car, built almost entirely fromcarbon fiber,is extremely aerodynamic andcan go for a couple of hours at highwayspeeds.

Hall heard about Solar Car even beforehe enrolled at Stanford he met membersof the team in his Admit Weekend dorm.After attending meetings and hangingaround the shop freshman year, he waseventually invited to race with the team.

There is a steep learning curve, so youhave to hang around the car for a while be-fore you can do something useful, he said.

Over the summer, Hall drove for aboutfour days. Though the ride can be uncom-fortable, he said driving a solar car is moreengaging than driving an ordinary car. Forstarters, drivers are seated in the middle ofthe car,which can cause people accustomedto sitting off-center in traditional vehicles todrift in their lanes.And throughout the race,drivers are in constant communication withteam members and race officials, who tellthem if they need to pass another vehicle ormake a turn.Drivers are also notified if theyare violating race rules.

Racing for the day ended at around 5 or6 p.m.and was followed by dinner and repairwork until midnight or 1 a.m.Work time wasusually accompanied by watermelon snackbreaks and techno music.

The judges said, We dont like thoseStanford kids liberal spirit, Hall recalled.I think they thought we were having toomuch fun.

This years car, which team leaderNathan Hall-Snyder 12 described in an e-mail to The Daily as the teams most durableyet,came in fourth.

Hall-Snyder has been on the team fortwo years, and he took fall quarter of hissophomore year off to race the car in Aus-tralia. He built his own sports car in hisgarage in high school,and team members re-gard him as the go-to source for anythingsolar.

The student-run club was founded in1989. It recently received $2 million from

Volkswagen for the construction of the newStanford Solar Car shop. Volkswagen alsocommitted $750,000 a year to the team forfive years.The team is working on its 10thcar in preparation for the next race,the 2011World Solar Challenge across the Australianoutback.

The team has close ties to the renewableenergy technology sector of Silicon Valley.

We work closely with companies likeVW, Linear Technology and STMicroelec-

tronics on cutting-edge electric vehicle tech-nology at a pace that youll never find any-where in industry,Hall-Snyder said.

Teslas current chief technical officer, JBStraubel 98 M.S.00, is an alumnus of theteam, and the first prototype of the Teslabattery pack was built in Stanfords formerSolar Car shop.Besides its commercial con-nections, the primary purpose of the projectis educational.

On Solar Car,a part you design or build,instead of being turned in for a grade,couldcarry you or one of your teammates across

Australia on a race,Hall-Snyder said.When the team isnt spending late nights

in the shop or making food runs to TandooriOven near campus, Solar takes its car tolocal K-12 schools in the Bay Area and givestalks about pursuing an engineering educa-tion.

Hall-Snyder said the teams long-termgoal is to become the best solar racing teamin the U.S. He is excited about what theteams next car could do to meet that goal.

After doing some investigation fresh-man year, I think its the coolest hands-onengineering project thats available to un-dergraduates,Hall said.

Solar Car meetings take place at 12 p.m. onSaturdays and 7:30 p.m. on Mondays in theteams on-campus shop. Interested studentscan read more about them athttp://solarcar.stanford.edu.

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Photo courtesy of Greg Hall

GOING FOR A RIDE:

The Stanford Solar Carteam poses with its ultra-

aerodynamic, 420-poundcar, called Apogee, which is

built almost entirely fromcarbon fiber. The car

finished fourth in the 2010

North American SolarChallenge, a biennial solar

car race in the Midwest.

Stanford Solar Car races with the summer sun


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STUDENT LIFE

Ikes Place debuts to crowds, long waitBy WYNDAM MAKOWSKY

MANAGING EDITOR

Ikes Place,a renowned Redwood Shores sand-wich shop,opened its Stanford location this monthafter a summer of anticipation.Much like the now-closed original shop in San Francisco,the eatery hasmarked its first weeks on campus with long lines.

Set in the new Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engi-

neering Center,the store began its softrollout onSept. 1 and had its grand opening celebration onSept. 20. It is the brainchild of San Francisco nativeIke Shehadeh.

The premiere was the end of an exhaustivesearch and construction process that lasted morethan a year.Beginning in February 2009, a group ofstudents and staff,formally called the Science andEngineering Quad (SEQ) Cafe Request For Pro-posals Committee, contacted 13 vendors to gaugetheir interest in opening a Stanford location.

We actually found Ikes Place on Yelp, saidJackie Charonis,SEQs director of operations.

By March 2009, the committee had unanimous-ly selected Ikes for the slot,with a target openingdate of Aug.15.But after what was characterized astypical construction delays with the new Huangbuilding, the premiere was set back to Sept.1.

We considered it on time,Charonis said.The soft rollout, which lasted for much of Sep-

tember, allowed time to sort out difficulties beforethe school year began.

Theres always things that go wrong, so younever want to plan a grand opening for the first dayyou open your business,Charonis said.

Still,Ikes began to make its mark on campus: theshop gave out free food on Sept. 8 as part of theHuang buildings inauguration celebration.

Such actions are part of Shehadehs consistent ef-fort to maintain customer service.

Ike hand-delivers sandwiches to you,said LisaAbdilova 11,a customer.You go to sit down andhell remember your name and what you look like,and hell run it over to you.

We want to make people feel welcome, said

Shehadeh,32. Were there to make sure were thebest thing to come out of Stanford, and thats sayingsomething.

He opened his first Ikes Place in October 2007and immediately garnered fame for the quality ofhis sandwiches and for the length of the linespatrons were willing to endure to purchase one.Shehadeh said customers are driving from SanJose just to buy food from his Stanford shop.Ab-dilova, who has eaten at the original Ikes loca-tion,considers Stanfords store just as good as San

Franciscos.Still, the opening has not been without its kinks.Shehadeh expressed frustration with some of Stan-fords inherent bureaucracy, which has,for example,prolonged the process of connecting phone lines,which Ikes uses for takeout orders.

Were working within a building within a schoolwithin a university,he said.Its not good or bad,justslow.

For now, Shehadeh is working on solutions to

minimize wait times, which can last upward of anhour. He is beta-testing a smart phone applicationthat will allow customers to place and pay for orders,then tell them when its ready.It will also be availableon the Web.

People wont mind waiting 50 minutes,or eventwo hours, if they know they dont have to stand online,he said.They can place their order,go to class,then come pick it up.

Charonis said Ikes will soon stock a vending ma-chine at Huang with freshly-made sandwiches for pa-

trons on the go.Both Shehadeh and Charonis expect Ikes open-ing surge of business to sustain itself throughout theyear.

Before,there was not a place on campus whereyou could get that great sandwich, Charonis said.At Ikes, the sandwiches speak for themselves.

Contact Wyndam Makowsky at [email protected].

Michael Liu/Staff Photographer

Long lines are common at Ikes Place in the Engineering Quad. Since the sandwich shop opened in earlySeptember, waits have been as long as an hour for a sandwich. It is testing a smart-phone ordering app.

form the resources we have for educa-tion, outreach and response on cam-pus.

Other executive efforts includecontinuing the ASSU Non-partisanVoter Registration Drive for midtermelections and convening an Alterna-

tive Social Programming Board toprovide non-alcohol based social pro-gramming in Old Union on week-ends.

The executives also plan to createASSU Executive Action Grants,topic- and goal-specific grants for stu-dent groups, an idea originated byRyan Peacock, chair of graduate is-sues in the executive cabinet.

Contact Margaret Rawson [email protected].

EXECSContinued from front page

from their existing primary careproviders and will be enrolled in anafter-school program through or-ganizations like Boys & Girls Clubsor YMCA.Half the children will beenrolled in a standard after-schoolprogram,and half will learn healthy

eating and exercise habits in spe-cially designed after-school pro-

grams and receive home visits toensure the living environment isconducive to weight loss.

This will be one of the largestand longest studies ever conductedon childhood obesity preventionand will include analysis of its cost-effectiveness.

It is a very comprehensive pro-gram. . . the challenge will be tofind the parts of the program thatwork best and [ensure] the servicesare provided in the most effective

way possible, said Jay Bhat-tacharya M.D. 97,Ph.D. 00, who

will lead the investigation into thecost-effectiveness of the program.

If cost-effective, the pilot pro-gram could serve as a model forchildhood obesity prevention pro-grams across the country.

The pilot would be a success if itwould demonstrate that this model iseffective in helping over-traditionalmedical models,Robinson said.

Bhattacharya said the moneyrecognizes excellence in obesity re-search that Stanford has practiced

for many years. The grant is moreof an indicator of how strong the

program is already, he said.COPTR comes in the midst of a

national effort to combat the grow-ing problem of childhood obesity.Still, Robinson said even more in-vestment is needed in the long term.

Forty-nine million is a drop inthe bucket, he said. Much moreinvestment needs to go into an epi-demic were already facing, thatshaving huge impacts on health andeconomics in this country.

Contact Julia Brownell at [email protected].

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LOOKING UP

Seriously, Stanford, what the hell? Afterfour hours of playing Tower Defensewhile having AlcoholEdu open in the

other window, after having to sit through sixdays of Camp NSO-induced flashbacks tohigh school,wheres the goddamn party? Ivebeen in classes for two days now.

That was the dominant part of my think-ing at this point freshman year, and the an-swer is, the party was at SAE on Mondaynight,and its at Sigma Nu and Kappa Sig onFriday. However, if youre a freshman andyou go to either of those places this weekend,youll discover a baffling inversion of whatyou were told throughout high school viaevery college movie ever made. Namely,theParty that Everyone Goes To is not fun at all.The floor and general demeanor will resem-ble the New York Stock Exchange and thescene around the keg will remind you of na-ture documentaries about the watering holes

at the Serengeti.You will leave after an hourand discover the meaning of the phrasepainfully sober.

By the end of week one, youll becomethoroughly disappointed with the partyscene,especially because youll discover thatthe RFs will actually enforce quiet hours. Ifyou make the mistake of talking to any ofyour friends who went to a liberal arts col-lege,you might start looking up transfer ap-plications. For all the self-congratulating wedo about our alcohol policy, it looks down-right Mormon compared to anything youmight find at Pomona or Swarthmore.Noneof those places tacitly endorses drinking butstill hands out MIPs, or has a silly ban ondrinking in common areas that does more topromote social exclusivity than anythingelse.

But fear not, enterprising freshmen, be-cause even though it may not appear so atfirst glance,Stanford does hold its own on theparty scene; its just that the administrationwants you to work for it a little,which is for-eign territory for a lot of you.Even though

Im sure a solid 16 percent of you were blast-ing Shotsand I Love Collegeon move-inday,the larger 68 percent of you want to havecollege stories that would put Bill Clinton toshame but also find the presence of KeystoneLight to be a deal-breaker and worry that ifyou black out twice it means youre an alco-holic (Note:It doesnt. Its never about howmuch you drink; its about how many prob-lems you cause.I went through a period jun-ior year when I couldnt remember how par-ties ended. What did that prove? Just thatnone of my walks home were memorable).To those within that one standard deviation,I say to you: unless you join the Band, joinGaieties,join an a cappella group thats notTestimony, write for The Chappie or live in a

co-op, parties hosted by fraternities (notsororities) will be your only reliable sourcefor formalized drinking, an inherent part ofthe college experience since the founding ofthe University of Oxford.

However,these are not the scary frats thatpromote misogyny as a core value.Very littleto no porn is shot in any of the frat houseshere on campus. None of the punch will behalf Everclear.Theyre on the campus map,which means theyre not the Isla de Muertafrom Pirates of the Caribbean. Theres nosketchy line for uncool guys to wait in whilegirls walk right by,and I am willing to bet acompleted transfer application to U$C thatnot a milligram of Rohypnol is to be foundanywhere on campus,not even at SAE.

It turns out most frat bros just love Stan-ford and want to see it have fun; thats whythey throw those parties,so you might as wellgo to them. You wont get carded except forthe three or four giant clusterfucks of theyear and any party hosted by SigEp. No oneat Stanford takes arbitrary rules that serious-ly unless theyre about computer science.Yeah,Keystone Light tastes like piss,but you

know what? Youre not the first person todiscover this,so get over yourself. At mostschools of this size or larger,the concept of anall-campus party,a.k.a. any one that advertis-es SUID to Enter, 21+ to Drink, is practi-cally a thought crime these days.That said, ifyou know of a party that serves better alco-hol and will have more of your friends at it,feel free to go to that one, but dont chooseSigma-algebra over Sigma Chi just becausethe floors sticky. Be the change you wish tosee in the world.That way, you wont comehome wondering if you really should havepicked Williams instead.

Still cant find the party? E-mail [email protected] and hell bring it to you.

Frat Parties Suck, but Go to

Them Anyway

Ihave been doing a lot of thinking lately.Actually, that sentence could be my lifesynopsis.At this point, though,you dont

need my life story an introduction mightbe more in order.So, hello! My name is NinaChung,and I spent the past summer reachinglevels of emotion that even I found com-pletely disgusting (that was part of the prob-lem). It tends to happen when Im severelychallenged, and this summer was nothing ifnot a triple-scoop sundae of surprise tribula-tions.Delicious.

As Stanford students,we especially havegone through the trials. Why else did yourgrocery-store cashier gasp with impresseddelight when your mom unleashed the Stan-ford news? Despite being small talk, thedeeper implication was that you sweat yourheart out and lost your mind a few times withthe objective of conquering high school. (Onthe flip side, perhaps youre here because of

just the opposite:your pre-college career wasa relative cake walk.)

Thus,I know quite a few people who lookback on high school as the lost and unavoid-able years: The Era of Epic Suffering, orsomething. Thats just an example, though.Think of the time you felt completely ig-nored,or irreversibly off-track,or really,real-ly cringingly awkward.Dont we usually lookback at our roughest moments and wish theynever happened? Theyre the ugly ink-blotmars on our timelines that were pro at for-getting due to lack of willing mental space.And then,uh-oh: freshman year day one oc-curs, and the rate of disaster dramas andcrazy crises soars right off the charts.Right?

Where else over Stanford are we more proneto encountering this quantity of young,ideo-logically-clashing almost-experts who aredangerously self-aware? Or feel the worstkind of loneliness when were surrounded byso many people? We get caught in these irra-tional moments of total despair.They spiralon, seemingly forever,because thats inertia,and our analytical brains are kind of crazy-big. (Ron Weasley [on seeing Dementors]:Its like Id never be cheerfulagain) Any-way,most of that sums up to self-doubt.

Long ago, my Stanford essay explainedmy life as a novel: I saw character foils,recur-ring themes and,most importantly,my child-hood struggles effecting eventual advan-tages. Overall, Ive been blessed all my life,and Im unbelievably grateful. And notbut this past summer was my second-mostemotionally testing to date. (Ill leave thatfirst one a little mystery.) Certain unexpectedcircumstances made a nice little spotlight forfacets of my personality that really disturbedme. (Im always in awe by our ability to si-multaneously be ourselves and get to knowourselves.) But a developing two-and-a-half-month expose of that led to. . . one of the

best summers of my life. It wasnt a course oran internship or research. It was intensiveNina Chung 101,free of charge.

It turns out Im a Big-Picture Optimist.Maybe it doesnt matter, because it doesntchange anything substantial. Maybe it doesmatter a ton. But, seeing as were at thefront end of another (OMG!) lightning-fastStanford year, the main question is: whoknows how many horrid things are lurkingahead? A mismatched major.A choking rela-tionship. A wilting self-confidence. . . thesethings will happen.We live in this beautifulworld where people are allowed to both pur-sue their greatest passions and crash intoother people doing the same exact thing.De-pending on the situation, we come away ei-ther smiling or feeling like weve been sneak-ily robbed of some security. (Bridget Jonescalls this jellyfishing when you have asuperficially super-friendly conversationwith someone who magically leaves you feel-ing like youre a total loser. Dont you hate

jelly fishers?) When the insecurities appear,though, we dont always have to hate theirvery essence.We can,maybe, await the goodpart, even if it comes a bit/a lot later. I trulybelieve things work out like that.

This sounds like a happy ending, andthats because it is.I suppose if youre not intogood news,you might want to ignore this sec-tion for the next few months.But to everyoneelse! I hereby welcome you to my very,very,very first column.

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If youve been following theStanford football team forthe past few weeks, youveprobably started to noticethat the Cardinal is damn

good this year. If youve actuallybeen watching the games, youveprobably been pretty bored.

Beating Sacramento State 52-17to open the season was reassuring,but it wasnt all that entertaining.Stanfords 35-point beat-down ofUCLA, in the Rose Bowl itself,wasimpressive, but not all that memo-rable.

And alas, Saturdays late-nightthrashing of the Wake ForestDemon Deacons was explosive,butthe Cardinals 41-point first half leftStanford fans wondering if it waseven worth staying around to watchthe second act. Harbaugh pulledboth the offensive and defensivestarters out of the game early in thethird quarter.And those Red Zon-ers who did stick around for all 10renditions of All Right Nowwokeup with sore calf muscles Sundaymorning.

Stanfords season thus far hasbeen heavy on touchdowns and lowon intrigue.The good and bad newsfor Stanford fans is that the Cardi-nal likely isnt done with theblowouts.

This weekend, Harbaugh andthe boys have a road date with theFighting Irish of Notre Dame. Itspossible Stanford fans will onceagain find themselves watching a

game whose outcome has beensealed long before the final whistleblows.What the heck are you sup-posed to do when your team is too

good?Im here to suggest some ways to

stay entertained in the probablecase of any future Stanford footballblowouts.Think of a blowout like along road trip:its all what you makeof it.

Nitpick: If youre going to watcha blowout,you may as well becomea nitpicker.Be that douche bag.Anygood Stanford nitpicker is still pro-foundly bothered by the fact that

kicker Nate Whitaker missed twoextra points on Saturday.Try to finda problem with the smallest of de-tails,and use powerful language toconvey your dissatisfaction to fel-low fans.Wow! Did you see howsloppy Lucks footwork was on thatdrop? you might complain to afriend.

Get ahead of yourself:This strat-egy requires a good imaginationand access to a Stanford footballschedule.And its not very hard.Allyou need to do is find someonewhos willing to listen to you projectthe results of every game the Cardi-nal plays this year.Do take caution,though:you might feel kind of stu-pid if Stanford ends up going 8-4after you thoroughly analyzed theprobable outcome of a Stanford-Ohio State Rose Bowl matchup.

Reminisce: If youre feelinggood about a dominant Stanfordperformance,youll feel even better

when you remember that the Cardi-nal went 1-11 in 2006.

By NATE ADAMSDESK EDITOR

Playing at home with a full student body oncampus for the first time this season, the Stanfordwomens soccer team will look to impress tomor-row night when it takes on Hawaii.The No.2 Car-dinal (6-0-2) is riding a five-game winning streakand is coming off a tournament in Santa Clara inwhich it outscored its opponents 8-1 over twogames.

As the Cardinal heads into its match with theRainbow Wahine (2-7), no player has more recentmomentum than Christen Press. The senior for-ward leads an offense that has outscored its oppo-nents 21-7 over eight games by contributing a near-ly nation-best total of 10 goals of her own,alongwith three assists.Most recently, Press had a five-goal weekend in the Santa Clara Classic that in-

cluded a hat trick in the first 32 minutes of a 6-1 routof Pacific. With her performance, Press earnedrecognition as both the Pac-10 Player of the Weekand TopDrawerSoccer.coms National Player ofthe Week.

The offense may be putting up big numbers,butthe Stanford defense has also been turning heads inthe early games of this season.The defense has al-lowed less than a goal per game,and in its last out-ing it shut out a Georgetown team that had beenaveraging 3.88 goals per game before last weekend.

The defense is really strong right now, saidStanford head coach Paul Ratcliffe.Alina [Garci-amendez], [Courtney] Verloo,Annie Case,RachelQuon. . . weve had a lot of success with the backline, and were looking at different people in theback line.

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GEARING UPWOMENS SOCCER

9/19 vs. GeorgetownW 2-0

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HAWAII(2-7)9/23 Laird Q. Cagan Stadium 7 P.M.

GAME NOTES: No. 2 Stanford is 6-0-2 and is coming off atitle in last weekends Santa Clara Classic Tournament.The Rainbow Wahine are coming to Northern California

on a four-match losing streak. The two teams last met in

2009 in Honolulu, where the Cardinal scored a decisive

6-2 win.

KabirSawhney

Larry Scottshould fightmedia bias

Blowouts: all whatyou make of them

This week,I would not want tobe Larry Scott. Sure,by mostaccounts,this week has beena pretty good one for the Pac-10 Conferences commis-

sioner. His conferences football pro-grams performed fairly well over theweekend against nonconference com-petition,going 6-4 overall. Only one ofthose defeats Californias 52-31 loss

to Nevada was really an upset,anda spirited Arizona State team that wassupposed to get blown out in Madisoninstead gave Wisconsin a run for itsmoney,losing 20-19 on a blocked extrapoint.

Meanwhile,in the win column,Ari-zona took the game of the week, con-quering then-No. 9 Iowa 34-27, whilebeleaguered UCLA managed anupset of then-No. 23 Houston andStanford blew out Wake Forest,all onnational TV.

Heres the catch, though: whilethese games were nationally televised,due to the time difference between theEast and West Coasts, they all startedat or after 10:30 p.m.in East Coast mar-kets,when most fans have already hadtheir fill of football for the day.Many ofthe voters in the Associated Press polland other polls probably didnt watchany of the Pac-10s big games,since thepolls are centered on the East Coast.

All it takes is one glance at the lat-

est rankings to see the prevalence ofEast Coast bias,and the persistent un-dervaluing of the Pac-10. Its alreadywell-known that the USA TodayCoaches Poll undervalues the Pac-10even more so than its main counter-part, the Associated Press Top 25 poll(yet the former is counted in the BCSformula while the latter is not).So, letsthrow out the Coaches Poll and focuson the AP.

To start with, lets look at whereArizona landed after decisively takingdown Iowa.The Wildcats jumped fromNo.24 to No.14 in the polls,but I wouldargue that, based on the teams abovethem,they are ranked too low,primari-ly because of the prevalence of EastCoast bias.

The four teams ranked immediate-ly above Arizona are No. 13 Utah, No.12 South Carolina, No. 11 Wisconsinand No.10 Arkansas.Utah deserves itsranking: it opened the season by de-feating Pittsburgh, a perennial Big

East contender, and has steamrolledits last two opponents.However,SouthCarolina, Arkansas and (especially)Wisconsin should not be ranked ashighly as they are.They simply receivegreater consideration because (a) APvoters actually watched their games;and (b) they dont play in the Pac-10,which is inexplicably considered inferi-or to the Big Ten.

Lets start with the SEC teams,South Carolina and Arkansas. Bothprograms biggest wins of the season todate are over a Georgia team that wasclearly overrated to start the seasonand is currently unranked. But bothteams looked good in their gamesagainst the Bulldogs, a considerationthe Pac-10 can never receive becauseno one is actually watching to see howgood the teams look.

Wisconsins ranking at No. 11 iseven more egregious.To date,the Bad-gers have beaten storied programs likeUNLV and San Jose State, and barely

escaped against an Arizona State teampicked to finish ninth in the Pac-10 pre-season media poll. Yet somehow, themere fact that it plays in the Big Tenand appears to have some potential isenough to rank it higher than an Ari-zona team that defeated one of themain contenders for the Big Ten con-ference title.

So we come back to the Pac-10commish,Larry Scott. He has done anadmirable job in his first year,expand-ing the conference by two schools andtrying to heighten its national profile.However,he has done this without ex-plicitly addressing the elephant in theroom: the fact that the media inexpli-cably favors East Coast teams overWest Coast ones,and that a three-hourtime difference is regularly given as anacceptable justification for this dis-crepancy. Hell, its even a reason whyToby Gerhart didnt win the HeismanTrophy last year: the East Coast hasgreater weight in voting than the West

Coast,and those voters never watchedGerhart bulldoze opposing defenses

Stanford set to

induct eight intoHall of Fame

Stanford Athletics last week an-nounced it will induct eight alumniinto its Athletics Hall of Fame in No-vember.Headlining the class is JohnLynch, who played safety for theCardinal in the early 1990s and won aSuper Bowl ring in the NFL with theTampa Bay Buccaneers.

Seven others will be inducted,andhonored at halftime of Stanford foot-balls game against Arizona on Nov.6: Brevin Knight 97 (basketball),Rick Lundblade 85 (baseball), Lili-ah Osterloh 00 (tennis), TracyeLawyer 99 (track and field,soccer),Mike Lambert 96 (mens volley-ball), Catherine Fox 00 (swimmingand diving) and Nick Bravin 93(fencing).

Knight played basketball for theCardinal for four years in the mid-1990s, winning three All-Pac-10 se-lections and a first-team All-Ameri-ca selection in his senior season in1997.Knight is considered one of thebest point guards ever to play atStanford,and currently is the careerleader in steals (298) and assists(780), as well as being the fourth all-time leading scorer (1,714). He wasdrafted with the 16th pick of the firstround of the 1997 NBA Draft by theCleveland Cavaliers, and went on tohave a successful career with a num-ber of different franchises, includinga strong stint with the expansionCharlotte Bobcats from 2004-07.

Osterloh had a highly successfulcareer at Stanford, despite playingfor the Cardinal for only one year be-fore turning professional. In 1997,her lone year on the Farm, Osterloh

won the NCAA singles title and ledStanford to its ninth team title inwomens tennis. As a pro, Osterlohhas had a strong career, netting over$1.3 million in career prize money.She reached her highest ranking in2001, when she was ranked No.41 inthe world in singles,and continues toplay on both the singles and doublestours.She won three doubles tourna-ments on the International TennisFederation (ITF) tour in 2009.

Fox is best known for winning twogold medals at the 1996 OlympicGames in Atlanta,forming a criticalpart of the U.S. 400-meter freestyleand 400-meter medley relay teams.Over her Stanford career,Fox was a21-time All-American and a nine-time NCAA champion.

Kabir Sawhney

Appel becomes third Cardinal player tocompete on USA Basketball Womens

World Championship team

Former Stanford womens basketballstandout Jayne Appel 10 can add onemore accolade to her laundry list of hon-ors. On Tuesday, the USA BasketballWomens National Team Player SelectionCommittee announced that Appel, cur-rently a center for the WNBAs San Anto-nio Silver Stars, will have a spot on the 12-member roster of the Senior NationalTeam competing for the 2010 Internation-al Basketball Federation (FIBA) WorldChampionship at the end of this month.

Appel becomes only the third Stan-ford alumna to represent the U.S. at theWorld Championship, joining the elitecompany of Jennifer Azzi 90 and SonjaHenning 91.

Appel is no newcomer to the interna-tional stage:she won gold medals at boththe 2006 FIBA Americas U18 Champi-onships and the 2007 USA Pan-Ameri-can Games. In Team USAs four exhibi-tion games since Sept.10,Appel has aver-aged three points,four rebounds and 9.3minutes per game.

In her illustrious Stanford career,Appel was a two-time State Farm Coach-es All-American, and in 2009,her junioryear,she was chosen as the Pac-10 Playerof the Year. In her final three seasons atStanford,Appel and the Card appearedin three straight Final Fours and two na-tional championship games.

She left her legacy on the programwith the most rebounds (1,263) andblocked shots (273) in Stanford history.She ranks third in both scoring (2,125points) and field-goal percentage (56.5).

The 2010 FIBA World Championshipswill be held from Sept.23 to Oct. 3 in theCzech Republic. Appel and Team USAwill open the tournament in Group B,

competing against France, Greece andSenegal.

Caroline Caselli

SPORTS

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After success in the Santa Clara Classic, the No. 2 Stanford womens soccer team returns home and looks to extend its five-game win streak againstHawaii. The Card has a deep lineup on both offense and defense, including this weeks Pac-10 Player of the Week, senior forward Christen Press.

Stanford Daily File Photo

On Tuesday, Jayne Appel 10 was named to the roster of the SeniorNational Team competing for the 2010 International Basketball Federation(FIBA) World Championship. She becomes only the third Cardinal alumnato represent the U.S. at the FIBA World Championships.

Jack Duane

Please see SAWHNEY,page 6

Please seeWSOCCER,page 6

Please see DUANE,page 6


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Find someone who has beenaround for awhile,e.g. Dean Julie,andhave them explain something calledThe Buddy Teevens Era.Youll swell

with pride when you realize that thecurrent Stanford team emerged from adark, dark time. Did you know thatwe used to punt on third down?youllsmartly mention to your other friend.

Gamble: For some people, the bestway to treat a case of football boredomis to infuse some good ol gamblinginto the picture. According towww.betus.com,Stanford is a 4.5-pointfavorite over Notre Dame this week-end.Good luck.If that doesnt do it foryou,get specific.You can pretty muchbet on anything these days.But dontget carried away,you might wake up ina smoky Vegas backroom with a bro-ken kneecap and a laundry list of re-grets.

Hyperbole:When your team is win-ning a blowout,there have to be somefans who maintain a steady flow of pos-itive hyperbole. A consistent flow ofdeclarations such as Richard Sher-man is so sick! and Harbaugh might

be smarter than that British guy whotalks through that computer will dothe job.

The hard part about being Mr.Hy-perbole is that you have to keep it up.There needs to be a constant stream ofexaggeration in the seats,in the conces-sion lines and in the bathrooms at anyproper blowout.You cant let your fel-low fans forget that theirteam is really,

really,really good.

But even all of the aforementionedtechniques get boring after a while.Heres to hoping that we Stanfordfaithful have the privilege of watchinga close game at some point. Stanfordplays at No. 5 Oregon in two weeks.Who knows? Maybe itll be close.

Jack Duane wants to be that douchebag. Challenge him to a hyperbole

battle at [email protected].

DUANEContinued from page 5


and singlehandedly carry Stanfordthrough its brutal conference sched-ule.

Scott needs to make a direct attackon East Coast bias, and I believe thebest way to do this is to call for a refor-mulation of the polls methodology toreflect more voices from the WestCoast that actually watch the Pac-10sgames.Today,only six voters in the APpoll are from Pac-10 territory three

from California and one each fromWashington, Oregon and Arizona compared to 14 from states with SECschools and 14 more from states withBig Ten schools.

Indeed, despite the fact that Cali-fornia has a high number of qualityprograms and is the countrys mostpopulous state,it has the same numberof voters as Ohio (which has one majorfootball program in Ohio State) andone less than Texas.The four nation-al voters two from ESPN/ABC,one from Sports Illustrated and onefrom the St.Petersburg Times in Flori-da tend to be East Coast-based aswell. Similar adjustments should be

made to the voting process for theHeisman Trophy.

If these changes are made,the Pac-10 schools will have a much betterchance at gaining national respect, aswell as the prestige (and lucrativemedia contracts) that come with it.Scott has a duty to make these recom-mendations,as a critical part of his con-tinued mission to raise the profile ofhis conference.

Kabir Sawhney is actually from New Jersey. Remind him that he didntknow anything about Pac-10 footballbefore last year at ksawhney@stan-

ford.edu.

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Weve had [the black uniforms] for a while, said Stanford head coach Jim Harbaugh on the Cards new look, which de-buted last Saturday night. I was just driving into work on Wednesday and I said, Hey, lets wear the black ones this week.

The newest member of the Cardi-nal defense is sophomore CourtneyVerloo,who played in all 26 games lastseason primarily as a forward andmade the Pac-10 All-Freshman team.The Tualatin,Ore.,native, who scoredher first goal along with a pair of as-sists in her debut against Hawaii in2009, has started all eight games as adefender this season.

Obviously its a complete 180

from forward,but I think our back lineis awesome, Verloo said.Im in be-tween Rachel Quon and Alina Garci-amendez. Theyre just world-classplayers,and theyve helped me a lot,helped me to adjust a lot.I think wevecome together pretty quickly as astrong unit back there.

Stanford has also displayed addedflexibility at the goalkeeper position,with senior veteran Kira Maker shar-ing time with Emily Oliver, a fresh-

man.Oliver has started two games forthe Cardinal and has played nearly300 minutes compared to Makers445, and has posted a paltry .30 goals-against average.

Emilys been incredible, and shehas a great presence in the goal,Rat-cliffe said. And Kiras still thereknocking on the door shes anamazing goalkeeper and shes had anamazing career at Stanford,so werestill looking at her day-to-day, alongwith [backup goalkeepers] LindsayDickerson and Aly Gleason.Theyreall talented keepers and were lookingat them all the t ime.

Hawaii, a team Stanford defeated

6-2 last season, hasnt enjoyed thesame solid start that the Cardinal has.The Rainbow Wahine hasnt wonsince facing San Francisco on Sept. 3and hasnt scored a single goal sinceSept. 5. In its last four games, it hasbeen outscored 16-1.

Ratcliffe, never one to rest on hislaurels (or his teams),does not plan totake Hawaii lightly, however. Evenwith a big game against No.3 Portlandcoming up this Saturday, the Stanford

coach says he wont make sacrifices toprepare for future games.

My first goal is just that we have agood performance,and that we get agood result in the game, Ratcliffesaid. And from there,depending onhow the game goes,well make adjust-ments. But you cant take anyonelightly. I know the coach of Hawaii,[and] hes a good coach with a lot [ofgood] players.I expect it to be a hardgame.

If the match proves to be hard-fought, Stanford may gain a slightedge by finally having a significanthome crowd to back it up.

It helps the team a lot I think it

motivates us to play our best, Rat-cliffe said.Last year we had fantasticcrowds, so were really excited to havepeople come out,and were going toput on the best performance that wecan to excite the fans.

Thursdays match against Hawaii isscheduled for 7 p.m.at Laird Q.CaganStadium.

Contact Nate Adams at [email protected].

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route. But without any manage-ment of the area, other paths notauthorized by the University werecreated. These 12 miles of boot-leg routes caused land erosionand came close to both Universityfacilities and wildlife habitats.

If you have recreational usersaround those types of facilities andinfrastructures, it could really putthem at risk and complicate the

use of those things, said CharlesCarter,director of land use and en-vironmental planning.

The 2000 conservation and landuse plan was designed to helpsolve this problem but the Dishnow attracts more visitors thanever before, according to the Uni-versity. Carter said approximatelyhalf a million people visit the Dish

annually, up from between 300,000and 400,000 a decade ago.

Its probably not a good thingfor conservation purposes, and itsprobably not a good thing for Uni-versity operations, but its a goodthing from a community-relationsp ersp ec tive, C arter sa id . Itmakes for some good-neighborpolicy.

Dana Harrold, a resident ofPalo Alto who has been going tothe Dish since she moved to thearea in 1992, said she sees benefitsto the number of visitors.

The more time people canspend out in nature,the more sen-

sitive theyll be to the need to pre-serve it,she said.

But not all neighbors are pleasedwith the new policies. Tom French,another runner who started comingto the Dish four months ago,said hewishes he could bring his dog onhikes with him,an act that is prohib-ited under the 2000 plan.

The rationale for this provision,

Carter said, is that pets would en-danger wildlife that is alreadythere.He also recalled a time whenpets were allowed to come to theDish.

When it was open to dogs, itwas pretty foul up there, Cartersaid.There was a lot of dog wastein the Dish, and [specifically] atthe Stanford Avenue gate en-trance.

Projects in the works for theDish include a plan to put up inter-pretative signs that explain whatthe Dish lands are used for not

just recreation, but conservationand academic interests. While the

plan was shelved in the past,Carter said the University mightpursue it in the future.

And while Schwegman said theDish is a little more draconiansince the last time he saw it,he alsoadded:But I still love it.

Contact Kurt Chirbas at [email protected].

DISHContinued from front page

and respond to customer feedbackwhile maintaining or improvingservice levels, according to P&TSDirector Brodie Hamilton.

Under the proposed changes, thecurrent Line A would be split intothe new Line A, which would travelin a one-way loop between the PaloAlto Transit Center and CampusOval via the Medical Center andCantor Arts Center, and Line D,

which would travel between theMedical Center and Escondido Vil-lage via Serra Mall.Line B would besplit into the new Line B, whichwould serve the western half of thecurrent Line B route, and Line E,which would serve the eastern half ofthe current Line B.

Hamilton said changes to Line Awere proposed due to current over-

lap with Line B. Changes to Line Bwere prompted by the high concen-tration of wheelchair users in theMedical Center area,which requiresthe deployment of the bigger Mar-guerite buses. Splitting the line intotwo routes would allow the deploy-ment of smaller buses in the rest ofcampus, which would increase fueleconomy for the system.

Were hoping with thesechanges that were saving hundredsof tons of CO2 emissions,Hamiltonsaid.

The Marguerite system serves anestimated 5,000 riders a day,accord-ing to Hamilton.Some have reacted

positively to the proposed changes.Wai Liu,a fourth-year graduate stu-dent in statistics, said he welcomesthe changes, especially the idea ofsplitting Line B into two routes.

Its good for me because the Bline is too long to get me where Iwant to be, Liu said.Because it hasto go all the way around campus, itsoften late. Splitting it into two will

make it go on time.The Midnight Express would also

be split into two routes to providemore frequent stops for riders.

The proposed changes would notrequire additional buses or drivers,nor would they incur additionalcosts,Hamilton said.

While some Marguerite routeslike Lines A and B are closelyaligned with the Caltrain schedule,which is facing budget shortfalls,thechanges were not made in anticipa-tion of any cuts in Caltrain times.Should a decision be made tochange the Caltrain schedules, theMarguerite team would work to ad-

just the Marguerite schedule asneeded.

P&TS is seeking comments fromthe public on the current iteration ofthe proposed route changes and willcontinue to accept comments on itswebsite through Sept. 30.

Contact Ivy Nguyen at [email protected].

SHUTTLEContinued from front page

tents of the minor and more studentparticipation in a survey assessinginterest in queer studies. Theamended bill passed with 13 affir-mative votes and Senators JuanyTorres 13 and Kamil Saeid 13 ab-staining.

ASSU President Angelina Car-dona 11 and Stewart Macgregor-Dennis 13 voiced their opinions thatpassing the bill,rather than tabling itfor a week,would give momentum tothe movement for queer studies.

Daniel Khalessi 13 agreed, sayingthe bill might also serve as commen-tary on the U.S. Senates recent fail-ure to repeal dont ask, dont tell.

Ryan Peacock, a graduate stu-dent in chemical engineering andchair of graduate issues for the exec-utive cabinet, encouraged the billsauthors to continue to reach out todeans and high-level faculty.

Financial Reform PackageAt the beginning of Tuesdays

meeting, Peacock unveiled the firsthalf of a financial reform package, asignificant ASSU initiative for fallquarter.The report was a combinedeffort between Peacock, the ASSU

executives, Senate Chair MichaelCruz 12, Senate Treasurer Macgre-gor-Dennis and others.

The goal of the current financialreform is to codify how we deal withmoney and who is in charge of what,said Peacock.

The report states its purpose is to

address the lack of clarity in dealingwith the politicalbudgets and implement bylaws thatdescribe the current best practices ofthe Association.

Proposed bylaw changes includethe creation of four categories al-location, stipend, line item and dis-cretionary for all budget items.The report also outlines the budgetmodifications voting system andclarifies the roles of GSC financialofficers and the Senate treasurer.

The second half of the report,stillto be unveiled, will discuss spendingon student campaigns.

Nominations CommissionThe Senate unanimously con-

firmed Tuesday the NominationsCommissions first round of nomi-nees to University committees.Many positions, particularly gradu-ate student positions, remain un-filled. The Commission plans re-newed publicity efforts to targetgraduate students.

Because of time conflicts, thechair and deputy chair of the com-mission have stepped down. TheASSU executive is tasked with ap-pointing replacement chairs and willdo so this week after a joint meetingof legislative body chairs.

Contact Margaret Rawson at [email protected].

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