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By DAN HUANG

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With a soft economy and uncertain jobprospects, students are seriously consideringentrepreneurial options, especially as layoffsand hiring freezes make more traditionalcareer paths look less attractive.

In two weeks, the Stanford EntrepreneurialNetwork (SEN) will host EntrepreneurshipWeek on campus. “E-Week” will feature pro-grams each day including Venture CapitalSpeed Dating, workshops for students and net-working mixers and receptions.

“This year, [E-Week] is trying to put anemphasis on the economic situation by bringingin speakers to talk about the situation and howentrepreneurship is thriving, and how it’s a real-ly good time to make startups and revive theeconomy,” said Yesul Myung ‘09, president of the Asia-Pacific Student EntrepreneurshipSociety (ASES).

“Earlier this month, we had our Social-Eand E-Challenge kickoff and there was anamazing turnout for those,” said Eli Rabek ‘09,

co-president of the Business Association of

Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES).“Based on that, it seems that a lot of people areconsidering entrepreneurship who weren’t con-sidering entrepreneurship in the past. So I thinkthat there will be an equal if not greateramount of excitement on campus for this E-Week.”

E-Week is a joint production of several cam-pus groups,including SEN,BASES, ASES, andthe Stanford Technology Ventures Program(STVP).

“E-Week in general provides an amazingopportunity to see the offerings of many on-campus entrepreneurial campus organiza-tions,” Rabek said. “[It] typically showcasesmany different elements of entrepreneurshipall within a weeklong setting.”

Theresa Lina Stevens, organizer of E-Weekand head of marketing and communications forSTVP, said the week is meant to reach all stu-dents interested in business innovation.

“This is a way to bring together all the entre-preneurial activity on campus for a week,” shesaid. “The goal is to encourage students to

develop entrepreneurial skills whether or not

they are pursuing it as a course of study.”Some of the events from past years have

come back for 2009, including Venture CapitalSpeed Dating, where students give three-minute pitches to venture capital pairs inexchange for three minutes of feedback.Networking events and mixers have alsoreturned.

Other new events include workshops onproduct creation and pitching ideas to venturecapitalists, a debate on where technology isheading in the future and an opening addressby President John Hennessy.

“I think [E-Week is] obviously important if John Hennessy is willing to devote an hour of his time to talk about it,”Stevens said. “I thinkit is fantastic that we have a president who him-self is an entrepreneur.”

One of the more mysterious new events forthis year is entitled “Creativity Challenge:James Bond Casino Caper,” set at an undis-closed location. This event is a workshop thatwill test participants’ creativity and teamwork— with just one catch.

“If you

want toattend theevent,you haveto get your-self invited,”Myung said,“so you’ll have to figure outa way to get yourself on the guest list.”

Myung, Rabek and Stevens all agreed thatthis year’s E-Week will have a strong focus onopportunities created by the economy,and thatstudents will react positively to this.

“There’s a lot of bad news about the econo-my,” Stevens said, “which is real, but at thesame time, wherever there’s a problem, there’sopportunity.And that’s what we teach students. . . So we’re not ignoring the economic situa-tion, we’re saying ‘Given the circumstances,you’ll have to be more entrepreneurial inapproaching things.’”

E-Week runs Feb. 18-25. Visit eweek.stan-ford.edu for more information.

Contact Dan Huang at [email protected].

No spending cap or public funds in ’09 election

By MARISA LANDICHOSENIOR STAFF WRITER

A much-heralded public financing pro-gram was scrapped during last night’s ASSUUndergraduate Senate meeting after theElections Commission and ASSu Executivescould not get the Senate and the GraduateStudent Council (GSC) to approve thesource of funds for the project.

Even though many members were indi-vidually supportive of the idea, ASSU VicePresident Fagan Harris ‘09 and ElectionsCommissioner Briana Tatum ‘11, when facedwith a hedging senate,were forced to hold off on the measure until 2010.

The program, in its current form, wouldauthorize $750 in ASSU funds to each stu-dent campaigning for office. Because cam-paign war chests drawn from students’ per-sonal finances surpassed $3000 last year, thepublic financing scheme is intended to makepolitics accessible to every student,regardlessof economic status.

After the first year, the public funds will

be drawn from the Executive budget. For theproject to begin this election season, howev-er, the money would have to come from thereserves of both the Senate and the GSC.

Tatum and Harris,who have invested sub-stantial energy into the project over the pastyear, needed the two bodies’ approval for aone-year pilot.

But students will have to wait anotheryear before ASSU elections are fully democ-ratized. A reluctant GSC and a 6-6 dead-locked senate straw poll doomed the projectto the back burner.

For different reasons, members of bothbodies balked at the proposed plan, all thewhile agreeing with the idea itself.

“I’m a little bit concerned that it costs so

much to run for Executive that we are per-haps losing viable candidates,” said SenatorPatrick Cordova ‘09. “At the same time, I’malso concerned about lots of individuals thatwould love to have a pot of money to playwith and perhaps abuse that.”

Senator Luukas Ilves ‘09 refused to allowreserve funds, which are collected from thestudents at the beginning of the year, ongrounds that students shouldn’t pay for peo-ple to campaign to them.

Another objection came from SenatorStuart Baimel ‘09, who feared the proposedplan would let people game the system forspecial advantages.

As the program’s popularity waned, bothTatum and ASSU Executives Harris andJonny Dorsey ‘09 expressed frustration withthe lack of consensus on an otherwise widelysupported idea.

“[Public financing] is still something that isvery important to me, but for this electioncampaign ‘09 it seems impossible,” Tatumsaid. “The two bodies disagree on fundamen-tals.”

Unless the Senate and GSC come to someagreement quickly, the current elections sys-tem will remain for the spring campaign.Dorsey and Harris, who spent $3,597.31 ontheir own campaign, still plan on writing theprogram into the Executive budget for nextyear, guaranteeing public financing for ASSUelections ‘10 and beyond.

The GSC did not agree with paying forhalf of the plan when graduate studentsrarely run for executive office. Instead, theGSC favored a cap on elections spending.

On the other hand,Ilves criticized institut-ing a cap because it would encourage cheatingand may also limit students’ free speech rights.

Senate rejectspublic financing

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Bravman says this is tip of the iceberg, more to come

By RYAN MACDESK EDITOR

On Jan. 30, Vice Provost forUndergraduate Education JohnBravman ‘79 announced in a letter thatseveral of the University’s academicadvising systems will be eliminated nextyear. Most notable among them are theHead Peer Academic Coordinator(HPAC) and Peer Mentor (PM) pro-grams.

While many students and residentialstaff members are disappointed with thecuts, most have understood the financialcontext for the decision in a period thathas seen the University’s endowmentdrop between 20 and 30 percent.

In a phone interview with The Daily,Bravman suggested that these reduc-

tions for the next academic year mayonly be the beginning. The decision toannounce the removal of the HPAC andPM programs was driven by a necessityto inform students planning for nextyear.

“We were entering a period soonwhere people are thinking about whatto do for next year, and [we] wanted toget the word out that these programsweren’t going to be there,” Bravmansaid. “At this point,the funds from thesecuts are significant, but it’s a small frac-tion of the problem that we’re facing.”

While he did not wish to talk aboutother potential budget plans, Bravmandid mention that he and his office wouldhave a better sense of the situation inabout a month’s time. Furthermore, heasserted that while certain advising pro-grams may be taking a hit, there is nointention of curtailing what he called“core programs,” including FreshmanSeminars, Undergraduate Research andOverseas Programs.

“We do not have to have our budgetprepared until the March time frame,”he said.“The point we’re emphasizing isthat we’re trying to maintain these coreprograms and enjoy a certain education-al renaissance, while at the same timeminimizing the number of layoffs. We’rehoping to shield students from feelingany of the effects that these layoffs mayhave.”

While cuts to HPAC positions beganthis year, all remaining positions oncampus will be eliminated in the 2009-2010 academic year. Rinconada HPACAngelica Zabanal ‘09 believes the cuts

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Rice says no to Pac-10By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

Former Secretary of State CondoleezzaRice’s staff said yesterday that she is notinterested in becoming Pacific-10Conference Commissioner,according to theAssociated Press.

The returning faculty member said thatshe was requested for the job,which will beopened when longtime commissioner TomHansen steps down on July 1. The leagueadministration could not confirm that shewas approached, because a committee of university presidents is handling the search.

Rice decided not to accept the job andinstead intends to pursue teaching and writ-ing at Stanford, where she was a professorand provost for 12 years before joining theBush administration.

Rice has previously said her dream jobwould be National Football League (NFL)Commissioner.According to the AP, she is alongtime football fan and was once engagedto Rick Upchurch, a wide receiver for theNFL’s Denver Broncos.

The Daily will have complete coverageof Rice’s return to Stanford when shecomes back to campus this month.

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Fraiche, a popular frozen yogurt shop from Palo Alto, opened a location in Tresidder lastweek, drawing long lines of students for its homemade organic yogurt treats.

By FATIMA WAGDY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

After a week nestled in its new Tresidderhome, Fraiche yogurt has taken the campusby storm. Every night around 10 p.m.,a longline of students waiting for their “fro-yo” fixsnakes through the student union.

Fraiche — pronounced “fresh” — is a

locally owned organic yogurt shop that haseverything from frozen yogurt to coconutwater. It first opened in the summer of 2007on Emerson Street in Palo Alto.

Jessica Gilmartin, the co-owner of Fraiche, said she saw a market for a locationon Stanford campus because of theUniversity’s limited variety of healthy eatingoptions. Fraiche also had many loyal cus-tomers affiliated with Stanford who wouldprefer a campus location.

“[The Stanford location] is a really greatoption because it’s convenient,” she said. “I

Students, owners point to use of Cardinal dollars for popularity

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Calif. high court to hear Prop. 8 case next monthCalifornia’s highest court says it will take up a legal challenge to the state’s

voter-approved same-sex marriage ban next month.The state Supreme Court has scheduled a March 5 hearing date for oral ar-

guments in a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn Proposition 8.Gay couples,several local governments and Attorney General Jerry Brown

maintain the ballot initiative,which passed with 52 percent of the vote, is uncon-stitutional.

If it opts to uphold the measure,the court has said it will also decide whetherthe 18,000 same-sex marriages performed when gay marriage was legal in Cal-ifornia are valid.

After hearing arguments,the court’s seven justices have 90 days in which toissue a ruling.

Iran’s small satellite raises alarmsIran’s successful launch of its first satellite into orbit suggests a strong desire

to become both a space and nuclear power — and growing technologicalprowess toward that goal.

Iran used a multistage rocket in Monday’s launch, putting a small and rudi-mentary communications satellite into space, according to a U.S.counterprolif-eration official and another government official Tuesday. They both spoke oncondition of anonymity to discuss intelligence collected by other U.S. govern-ment organizations.t.

David Albright,a nuclear expert with the Institute for Science and Interna-tional Security, said the rocket used did not have intercontinental reach anddoes not appear big enough to hold a nuclear warhead. But it does speak toIranian intentions.

“It says they are persistent and continue to work away on developing a mis-sile capability,”he said. “This should remind us you can’t forget about Iran andtheir nuclear program.”

MySpace: 90,000 sex offenders removed from siteAbout 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from the so-

cial networking Web site MySpace,company and law enforcement officials saidTuesday.

The number was nearly double what MySpace officials originally estimatedlast year, said North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, who along withConnecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has led efforts to make so-cial networking Web sites safer for young users.

“These sites were created for young people to communicate with eachother.Predators are going to troll in these areas where they know children aregoing to be,”Cooper said.“That’s why these social networking sites have the re-sponsibility to make their sites safe for children.”

Source: The Associated Press

Obama:“I screwed up” JENNIFER LOVEN

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Barack Obama on Tuesday abrupt-ly abandoned his nomination fight forTom Daschle and a second major ap-pointee who failed to pay all theirtaxes,fearing a lingering ethics disputewould undercut his claims to moralhigh ground and cripple his presiden-cy in just its second week.“I screwedup,”Obama declared.

“It’s important for this administra-tion to send a message that therearen’t two sets of rules — you know,one for prominent people and one forordinary folks who have to pay theirtaxes,”Obama said near the end of aday of jarring developments, littlemore than 24 hours after he had saidhe was “absolutely” committed toDaschle’s confirmation.

“I’m frustrated with myself, withour team.... I’m here on television say-

ing I screwed up,” Obama said onNBC’s “Nightly News with BrianWilliams.” He repeated virtually thesame words in interviews with otherTV anchors.

Hours earlier, the White Househad announced that Daschle hadasked to be removed from considera-tion as health and human services sec-retary and that Nancy Killefer hadmade the same request concerningwhat was to be her groundbreakingappointment as a chief performanceofficer to make the entire government

run better.Daschle said in a brief letter to

Obama that he refused to “be a dis-traction” from the new president’sdrive for health care reform. Obamasaid neither he nor Daschle excusedthe former Senate Democraticleader’s tax errors but that he accept-ed his friend’s decision “with sadnessand regret.”

Unsightly personal tax problemshad been piling up for the new admin-

istration. Last week, the Senate con-firmed Timothy Geithner as treasurysecretary, but only after days of con-troversy over the fact that the manwho would oversee the Internal Rev-enue Service had only belatedly paid$34,000 in income taxes.

Bill Richardson bowed out, too,though his difficulties didn’t involvepersonal taxes.The New Mexico gov-ernor, who was Obama’s first choicefor commerce secretary, withdrewamid a grand jury investigation into astate contract awarded to his political

donors.Questions about Daschle’s failure

to fully pay his taxes from 2005through 2007 had been increasingsince they came to light last Friday.Daschle overlooked taxes on incomefor consulting work and personal useof a car and driver,and also deductedmore in charitable contributions thanhe should have.To resolve it,he paid$128,203 in back taxes and $11,964 ininterest last month.

Killefer, an executive withconsulting giant McKinsey & Co.,hadbeen chosen by Obama to serve in tworoles:as the first chief performance of-ficer in a White House and as a deputydirector at the Office of Managementand Budget.

When Obama announced Killeferto much fanfare in early January, TheAssociated Press reported that theDistrict of Columbia government hadfiled a $946.69 tax lien on her home in2005 for failure to pay unemploymentcompensation tax on household help.She resolved the tax error five monthsafter the lien was filed.Since then, ad-ministration officials had refused tosay whether her tax problems extend-ed beyond that one issue.

By Tuesday, the tax questions hadreached critical mass.

“This is a self-induced injury thatI’m angry about, and we’re going tomake sure we get it fixed,” Obamasaid on ABC’s “World News.”

Democratic lawmakers were sur-prised,too — and disappointed.Axel-rod rushed to Capitol Hill to soothefrayed nerves.

“I was a little stunned.I thought hewas going to get confirmed,”said Sen.Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, thepanel that would have voted onDaschle’s nomination. “It’s regret-table.”

Associated Press writers MICHAEL J.SNIFFEN, RON FOURNIER, LIZ SIDOTI, CHARLES BABINGTON and DAVID ESPO contributed to this

story.

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President Barack Obama listens to second-graders at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, Obama’s nominee for health and human services secretary and his newly appointeed chief performance officer withdrew from their appointments over unpaid taxes.



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This column originally ran on Nov.13,2008.

Ifirst came across the plaque this past sum-mer. Returning from Jackson Library atthe Graduate School of Business,I noticed

a black marble square that read,“Corporateand Foundation Investors. The StanfordGraduate School of Business gratefully ac-

knowledges the following donors for theirgenerous support of the school.” It then pro-ceeded to list big-time corporations and theinvestment banking stalwarts: GoldmanSachs,Merrill Lynch and the like.

But by late September, the plaque wasgone. In its place was a large rectangle of butcher paper and, underneath the paper, abare stone wall. Until recently, the butcherpaper remained taped to the wall. In the lastfew weeks,the GSB replaced it with an updat-ed, “2007-2008” sponsors plaque, whichlacked any of the big Wall Street names.

September’s financial crisis didn’t just un-expectedly alter on-campus recruitment cy-cles and tighten the job market — the crisis al-tered the landscape of American elite univer-sities.The implosion humbled or outright de-stroyed institutions that Stanford studentshave long worshiped with reverence.

The September crisis just may have endedthe cult of investment banking as we know it -and possibly for the better.

The collapse’s short-term effects havebeen amply documented by college newspa-pers, including The Daily. Hiring is down.Firms are more conservative about recruiting.The Cornell Sun — serving a student bodyclose to Stanford in the pecking order of eliterecruiting — had some interesting statistics.According to Cornell Finance ProfessorCharles Chang, the big Wall Street firms re-cently hired back about 80 percent of interns.This year they could only hire 40 percent of in-terns.New offers are down by about half.WallStreet has been hemorrhaging jobs for a whileand the Financial Times estimates that it willshed dozens of thousands of more jobs.

But 2008 hasn’t just led to a crisis in campusrecruiting; it has also shaken supreme confi-dence with rampant uncertainty. Firms likeGoldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, MerrillLynch and Morgan Stanley have long heldspecial places in the imagination of the Stan-ford student.By recruiting the best of the bestat elite schools,the firms set themselves up asthe natural successor to prestigious schoolslike Stanford and the Ivies; they positionedthemselves as the “real world” Ivies, so tospeak.

Wall Street firms were a student’s directticket to privilege and status. Investmentbanks have represented intense work andtime commitments,but also enormous payoff.

Income two or three times larger than otherentry-level jobs, a nice apartment and high-status social life (a lifestyle of “models andbottles”as some phrase it) all before the age of 25 were rewards for years of sacrifice that firstbegan in high school,consumed most of col-lege and then dominated the waning years of youth.

And it’s no wonder elite students havebeen so attracted to finance and investmentbanks in particular. For over a decade, theworld has been the Stanford senior’s oyster.Seniors have faced one of the best job marketsin American history.The financial industry,inparticular,has flourished.In 2007 alone,about30 percent of S&P 500 profits were earned byfinancial firms,according to Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek.The number of jobs on Wall Streethas grown regularly in the past years — twopercent in 2007 and three percent in 2006.Moreover, starting investment-bankingsalaries vary,but they have been known to runupwards of $100,000 with bonus.And, com-pensation grew substantially with experience.

This career ambition is nothing particular-ly new.All the way back to the days of WilliamWhyte’s “The Organization Man”in 1957, theelite American university has been a breedingground for corporate and financial employ-ment:“The descent,every spring,of the corpo-rations’ recruiters has now become a built-infeature of campus life.” Then, by the timeDavid Brooks wrote his 2001 profile of elitecollege students entitled “The OrganizationKid,” investment banks had become theprime attractions for career-obsessed colle-gians with glossy posters placed all over elitecampuses.

Whether ambitious students can still be-come “Master of the Universe”— as TomWolfe famously labeled i-bankers — at theage of 22 is now totally unclear.The only thingthat looks likely is that they won’t be able todo so along the same path as before.

The question,then, is what will fill the voidleft by investment banks in the imagination of Stanford students. In all likelihood, studentswill follow the money to its new locale. TomWolfe, surveying the wreckage of his WallStreet “masters,”wrote that the true elite havealready begun moving away from Wall Street

OPINIONS

This column originally ran on Nov.12,2008.

Hidden within the Bay Area’s lush,

rolling hills waits a terror— a silent,ominous terror that threatens to tear usapart. And no, I am not talking about some-thing abstract and divisive, like tax policy orcarbon credits.

The terror I speak of is the mountain lion,an animal that,if given the chance,would liter-ally tear you apart.

Pretty much, if you take all that is wrongand evil in the world and mash it togetherinto the fourth-largest cat on the planet,you’d have the mountain lion: a snarling,ruthless beast born with an unquenchablethirst for blood and no understanding of theword mercy.

“But Kevin,” I can see some of you al-ready protesting in lengthy emails, “moun-tain lions are misunderstood, beautiful ani-mals blah blah land encroachment blah blahblah do you ever do research? blah blah.”

You make some valid points, Reader, butwill your unrepentantly liberal cougar sym-pathizing save you from being eaten alive?Doubtful.

“But Kevin,” I see some of you writing ina second,angrier email,“in the past 10 years,there have only been five recorded deaths bymountain lions, and, like, 500 deaths fromvending machine-related accidents.”

First of all, check your facts. There’s ab-solutely no evidence to suggest that that manyvending machines kill people annually(though, in your defense, I doubt my familywould report my true cause of death if I diedtrying to steal a candy bar, so the vending ma-chine death toll could well be underreported).

Other than that, your logic’s fine - you’reprobably more likely to die in an earthquakehere than get mauled. What you haven’ttaken into account, though, is a particularlyvivid story designed to distort your logical

perception of risk. Consider the following:Jimmy was a normal, mildly left-leaning

kid,much like yourself.One day, he went fora bike ride. “What a great day!” he said,“nothing could possibly go wrong!”

Just then a mountain lion pounced fromout of nowhere and ate his face.

As you can see from my realistic, well-written narrative, mountain lions are muchmore terrifying than vending machines.Why? Because vending machines cannotstalk you or jump 20 feet from a standstill.At least,not yet. (Looking at you here,“sci-ence.”)

I think about this all the time when I walkalone at night. Somehow, I have convincedmyself that if I am prepared for a mountainlion attack,I will be able to fend it off. I takestock of every possible defense item I canthink of - my bike: Could it be a shield? Thehelmet I had for Halloween: Though wornironically, would it protect my skull frombeing crushed?

And it’s never long before I start day-dreaming about how if such a cat attackedme, I would fight back and, inevitably, kill itwith my bare hands and sheer manliness.Later,in bar-type settings, women would askme cautiously about the scars lining my face,and I would reluctantly recount my epic bat-tle with nature.Impressed by my ruggedness,they would then offer to bear all my childrenforever.

Now, clearly, I would much rather nothave a scar on my face, not be attacked by amountain lion and not reproduce with

women who find near-death injury arousing.But it doesn’t hurt to be prepared.I think what scares me so much about

pumas is that they intimidate me. I don’thunt, but it would be nice to know that if Ihad to, I could kill squirrels, deer and Stan-ford’s alarmingly aggressive raccoons as wellas any lion.But mountain lions can stalk theirprey for days without food;I, meanwhile, canbarely complete my own sentences.How canI possibly compete?

It is with this in mind that I propose weerect a gigantic wall around Stanford to keepus physically safe from attack and to preserveour ability to hunt game on campus, not thatwe would ever want to.It would be 20 feet talland 30 feet wide, and, like the Great Wall,itwould be visible from space.I don’t know if itwould keep out Mongols, but it would cer-tainly make it hard for cars to get in - a smallprice to pay for securing our border.

But how,you might ask,can our great uni-versity afford to build such a wall when wecan barely afford to keep the school itself running?

Simple: we will create a Coalition of theWilling.We will work tirelessly,and probablyillegally,to construct the wall ourselves.Whatbetter way to tell mountain lions “screw youand the populations you keep in check”thanto keep them out forever?

Ultimately, I suppose mountain lions arescary because of how they’re different fromus; they walk differently, they talk differentlyand they stalk differently.But maybe, some-day, we can learn to live harmoniously to-gether.

Until that day comes, though, I’ve got awall to build.

Contact Kevin at [email protected].

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This editorial originally ran on Jan. 20.

This past Friday at Memorial Auditori-um, the ASSU Speaker’s Bureau andStanford in Government — in con-

junction with a host of other campus organi-zations — presented Pervez Musharraf, theformer Pakistani head of state,for their annu-al “Big Speaker”series.Following his contest-ed rise to presidency in 2001, Musharraf played a central role in global counter-terror-ism efforts and Indian-Pakistani relations, atthe same time drawing controversy in inter-national politics.

After delivering a nearly 55-minutespeech that highlighted the importance of combating terrorism,resolving political strifein the Middle East and South Asia and otherissues, Musharraf faced a question-and-an-swer session with the Stanford community.

No sooner had the microphones been turnedon did the cat-calls start flying.Enraged Indi-an nationalists and other emotionallycharged students questioned everything fromthe legitimacy of Musharraf’s rule to the in-herent corruption of the Pakistani govern-ment. The end result was ultimately a back-and-forth between strong-willed, would-beinquisitors and an equally defiant, finger-wagging Musharraf.

This event is but the most recent manifes-tation of the problem with enlightened andcivil discourse on campus.As one of the lead-ing educational institutions worldwide, Stan-ford is a repository for diverse opinions, ide-ologies and global outlooks. Oftentimes, asevidenced by the Musharraf question-and-answer session,these beliefs conflict in less-than-subtle ways.

As far removed as the Farm seems fromevents in the real world, too often do issues of national and global import trickle down intofiery dorm list exchanges.The recent strife inGaza has highlighted the uneasy relationshipbetween Israeli- and Palestinian-leaning stu-

dent organizations on campus.The 2008 elec-tion cycle deeply shook the psyche of studentlife,from the accusations of viciousness in the

Democratic primaries to the outrage over thepassage of Prop. 8. Many hold particularlystrong beliefs on these issues, yet the climatehas not always been conducive to certainparts of the population effectively articulat-ing positions not shared by a majority of thestudent body.

The editorial board in no way advocatesthe curtailing of dissent or an environmentthat values diluted,politica lly correct tripe asa means to address complex issues.Rather,incoordination with the educational mission of this university, we endorse a campus culturethat provides for the free and civil exchangeof varied beliefs in a non-threatening settingthat encourages intellectual stimulation andgrowth.Too often do we find tumultuous sub-

jects reduced to shouting matches, in whicheach side tries to drown out the other in a seaof impassioned remarks. This does little to

perpetuate an atmosphere in which disagree-ment is celebrated.

The University is often held up as a centralplace where personal beliefs are challengedand redefined,where exposure to diverse waysof thinking expands one’s perspective.It is thusironic that many students interested in civildiscussion may shy away from thorny topicsfor fear of instigating conflict in the dining hall,on the chat list or in emails to The Daily.Shout-ing matches,electronic or otherwise,not onlycontribute little to debate but also create an in-tellectually stifling atmosphere for those hop-ing to foster authentic debate.

Musharraf is no doubt an immensely con-troversial figure, and his presence shouldhave rightfully sparked an intense andthoughtful discussion on the state of South-Asian geo-politics and the current state of counter-terrorism. Just as the Gaza conflictand the presidential election have broughtopposite ideologies to a head, we should notbalk at the prospect of lively debate. If weprize our reputation as a world-class institu-tion,it is incumbent upon us a student body to

argue for our beliefs, but in a way that is morein line with the values of Stanford and lesscomparable to cable television news stations.

Stanford,Musharraf and

the value of discourse

EDITORIAL

THI S STANFORD LIF E

The cult of investment banking

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By JENNY PETER

On Feb.5 and 7, seven members of the Stanford men’s gym-nastics team will have the chance to compete in the Winter

Cup Challenge at the Las Vegas Sports Center.The competi-tion is used to select members of the U.S. Men’s Senior Na-tional Team.

The gymnasts selected to participate in this ye ar’s event aresophomores Alex Buscaglia, Ryan Lieberman, Josh Dixonand Tim Gentry, and seniors Bryant Hadden,Sho Nakamoriand Greg Ter-Zakhari-a nt s. 2 0 08 U. S. a l l-around champion DavidSender ‘08 will also becompeting at the event.All except for Buscagliaand Ter-Zakhariantscompeted in the seniordivision at the Visa Na-tional Championshipslast May to qualify forthe Winter Cup Chal-lenge this weekend.

Last year,Sender andNakamori were mem-bers of the nationalteam, but rarely had tochoose between compet-ing at an international

meet and a collegiatemeet, as the Men’s Pro-gram Committee (MPC)wouldn’t normally invitea collegiate athlete to an international meet if it were close tothe NCAA Championships or other major intercollegiatecompetitions.

“Sometimes the international meets are the same weekendas meets here,” Dixon said.“But usually if you have an inter-national meet where you represent the U.S.,you would chooseto go to that.”

The opportunity to make this year’s national team couldn’tpresent itself at a better time for the Stanford men because theWinter Cup is coming off of an Olympic year.The six Olympicteam members will take a year off from being on the nationalteam to have surgeries and to rest — this allows for the Stan-ford men to be in the running for the available spots.

“It’s a chance for the new guys like us to make the nation-al team, while the Olympians are taking a break this year ormay retire,”Dixon said.

This year is also unique in that the MPC has added onemore spot to the national team,making the group 15 and fur-ther increasing the Stanford men’s odds of becoming nationalteam members.

“The selection process is pretty complicated for those re-maining spots,” said assistant coach Dave Durante.“We havea point system in place that awards points according to howyou finish on each event [first place on the floor gives you 11

By ANARGHYA VARDHANA STAFF WRITER

The Stanford track and field team sent its largest contin-gent of athletes of the season this weekend to Washington tocompete in the UW Invite.The meet featured some of the topnames in the nation and resulted in several fast t imes and topfinishes for the Cardinal.

The Stanford men were led by the young energy of f resh-man Chris Derrick,who won the 5,000 meters with a time of 13:44.02.Not only did Derrick win the event,but he achievedan automatic NCAA-qualifying time, as well as the third-fastest time in Stanford history.Derrick’s achievement is fur-ther highlighted by the fact that the two records before himwere run by for-mer Olympians,Ian Dobson andBrad Hauser.Derrick nowproudly possess-es the fastesttime in the na-tion thus far this

s ea so n, a lo ngwith the title of having run thet h i r d - f a s t e s tfreshman time inthe 5,000 history.

“I really owethe race to Elliot[ He at h] , w hopaced methrough a little over 3K,”Derrick said. “That allowed me toreally relax and conserve energy the first half of the race, andfrom there I just had to hold it together and capitalize on theopportunity.”

“It was really good to have him and my other teammatesout there helping out,and I think that kind of team unity hasreally helped us this year,” he added.

Senior captain Hakon DeVries commended Derrick’sdebut indoor meet.

“Chris Derrick continued his incredible freshman yearwith his automatic time in the 5,000-meter,”DeVries said, re-ferring to Derrick’s cross country season, when he placedseventh at NCAA Nationals and achieved an All-Americantitle.

“He stayed very controlled, and with his attitude and

work ethic,the sky is the limit,”DeVries added. “He’s a greatteammate to have.”

By JEFF LUSTAFF WRITER

The Stanford men’s volleyball team is off to an auspicious start to the week followingits spectacular, hard-fought weekend sweepover challengers Long Beach State and UC-San Diego.The No. 6 Cardinal is looking toextend that winning streak as it prepares tovisit UCLA and UC-Irvine next Thursdayand Friday.

Stanford (7-3, 3-2 Mountain Pacific SportsFederation) rallied from behind to narrowlywin its first home match on Friday against No.7Long Beach State,26-30,24-30,33-31, 31-29,15-8. Staving off two match points, the Cardinalrode the momentum of a monstrous perform-ance by freshman outside hitter Brad Lawson,whose 27 kills and .438 hitting percentage car-ried Stanford to its nail-biting win.

On Saturday, the Cardinal took on No. 15

UC-San Diego,marking its second triumph of the weekend with a 30-25, 30-23, 28-30, 30-28victory over the Tritons. Junior setter KawikaShoji contributed a season-high 52 assists andput up six of the team’s 12.5 blocks to force theCardinal out of a third-set lull, after which ashift in momentum helped Stanford to claimthe win.

Despite the weekend sweep, both headcoach John Kosty and his team appeared hesi-tant to declare it a perfect performance.

“We need to work on our serving game,”Kosty said. “After seeing Pepperdine elimi-nate its hitting errors [two weeks ago],we real-ized that we needed to reduce our hitting er-rors too.”

Stanford totaled 18 hitting errors on Satur-day, eight of them committed in the third setalone.The fourth set saw four service errors ina six-serve span and another four hitt ing errors.In all, UCSD had four players break doubledigits in kills,an occurrence the Cardinal play-ers feel was a result of their inconsistencies.

“We’re a good team, but we’re not consis-tent enough to be a great team,”Shoji said.“But

we’re still improving and continuing to learnthe game.The best is certainly yet to come.”The problem of consistent play is bound to

resurface again this week as Stanford preparesto tackle No. 3 UC-Irvine and No. 8 UCLA.Irvine,currently with only one conference loss,is coming off of a four-game winning streakafter dispatching UCLA last Friday in four sets.In their last meeting at the Fall UC-Irvine Tour-

nament, Irvine proved itself a tough adversaryafter the Cardinal scraped by with a narrowwin,30-27,25-30, 30-25,21-30,15-13. It remainsto be seen whether Stanford can repeat its vic-tory at UC-Irvine’s Bren Center.

UCLA will be meeting Stanford for the firstofficial time this season on Thursday.The Bru-ins,who completed their previous season with a17-14 record to extend their streak to 46 consec-utive winning seasons,will be facing the Cardi-nal with a roster composed mainly of returningveterans.

The matches against Irvine and UCLA areStanford’s opportunity to iron out any consis-tency issues and to test them against a pair of strong opponents before the Cardinal hosts No.5 Southern California and No.2 Pepperdine thefollowing weekend, the latter having main-tained an undefeated record so far this season.

“Our team is very talented,”said junior out-side hitter Evan Romero. “Once we find our

groove on offense and play defense with theheart our team has,we will be a strong force thatcan compete not only with the tough USC andPepperdine teams, but with any team in thecountry.

“A great rest of the season awaits us,”Romero added.

Contact Jeff Lu at [email protected].

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SPORTS

Whatmight have

been

A s the Stanford men’s bas-ketball team stumblesthrough Pacific-10 Confer-ence play, one has to sit

back and wonder what could havebeen.After a trip to the Sweet 16 in2007-2008,it was no shock to anyonethat All-American Brook Lopezturned pro, but the fact that his twinbrother Robin did as well was a bit of

a surprise to many.Now,midway through the season,it looks as if both parties, Stanfordand Robin Lopez, are feeling the ef-fects of his decision.

Stanford has struggled all seasonto develop any sort of inside game,which was the Cardinal’s bread andbutter a year ago. “Big men” JoshOwens and Will Paul have continual-ly been overmatched by bigger andstronger opponents. Both haveplayed admirably, but they are sim-ply being asked to guard and re-bound against players whom theyshouldn’t be matched up against.

Now throw Robin Lopez into themiddle of this Stanford team. Theteam would look completely differ-ent and would probably be national-ly ranked. Lopez would guard theother team’s best big man,and with-out his brother getting all of thetouches, Robin would undoubtedlyaverage more than the 10 points and

six boards he did last year.With Lopez in the lineup,there isno way Stanford loses three Pac-10games by one point.Instead of hav-ing their way down low,Taj Gibson of Southern California and Jon Brock-man of Washington would likely

NAIL-BITERSCard takes two close matches at home

MEN’S GYMNASTICS

1/24 Stanford Open

2nd place (352.3 points)

UP NEXT

WINTER CUP CHALLENGE2/5, 2/7 Las Vegas

GAME NOTES: After a week off, the Stanford

gymnastics team will travel to Las Vegas to

take part in the Winter Cup Challenge.The Winter Cup is a big opportunity for

gymnasts to claim a place on the United

States National Gymnastics team, and theCardinal men will be hoping to make agood impression.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

1/30, 1/31 Long Beach State,

UC-San Diego

W 3-2, W 3-1

UP NEXT

UCLA,

UC IRVINE2/5, 2/6 Los Angeles

Irvine, Calif.

GAME NOTES:The men’s volleyball team will travel down to

Southern California this weekend to take on a pair of top-10 teams, No. 3 UC-Irvine and No. 8 UCLA. The Cardi-

nal, No. 6 in the nation, is coming off of back-to-back wins

at home against No. 7 Long Beach State and No. 15 UC-

San Diego, pushing its record to 7-3 (3-2 in conference)

TRACK AND FIELD

1/30-1/31 UW Invitational

UP NEXT

NEW MEXICO LOBO CLASSIC2/7 Albuquerque, N.M.

GAME NOTES: Two weeks after competing in the

New Mexico Cherry and Silver Classic, the Stan-

ford track and field team will return to Albu-

querque for this weekend’s Lobo Classic. TheCardinal is coming off of a great showing at last

weekend’s UW Invitational in Seattle, where it

achieved multiple automatic NCAA marks.

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Daniel

Bohm

On My Mind

A chance toimpress

TRACK AND FIELD

Cardinaldominant in

Washington

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Freshman Cameron Foreman competes on the high bar for Stanford. Seven of Foreman’s teammates willbe competing for a spot on the U.S. National Team at the Winter Cup Challenge this weekend.

GIULIO GRATTA/The Stanford Daily

Junior opposite Evan Romero goes up for a kill last weekend. Romero and the No.6 Cardinal de-feated two fellow top-15 teams, No. 7 Long Beach State and No. 15 UC-San Diego.

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CLASSIFIEDShave endured long days at the handsof Lopez — widely regarded as thebetter defender of the twins. Oh,andCalvin Haynes of Oregon Statemight have had some of those run-ners and lay-ups contested with a bigtree in the paint.

With the emergence of LandryFields and the resurgence of Lawrence Hill this year, coupledwith the senior leadership of Mitch

Johnson and Anthony Goods, Stan-ford would be a pretty dangerousteam with a low post presence. In-stead, save a big turnaround, Stan-ford seems to be bound for the Na-tional Invitational Tournament(NIT).

Part of Lopez has to be thinkingsimilar thoughts.He is averaging justthree points and 1.7 rebounds pergame as Shaq’s backup in Phoenix.He has been relegated toward the

end of the bench, having appeared just once in the past five games andfour times in the last 13.Most of thegames he does play are when Shaqtakes a day off or the game is ablowout.

Had he returned for his juniorseason,Lopez would have been ableto be the focal point of the Stanfordoffense and move out of the shadowof his brother. He would have beenable to hone his offensive game andhelp Stanford make a run in theNCAA Tournament.This extra year(or two) of experience would, bar-ring an injury,have boosted his draftstock significantly.

It also would have given him bothanother year to enjoy college and an-other year to mature into a profes-sional. And had he stayed for twoyears, he could have finished his “if basketball fails, Stanford degree”in-surance plan.

Even Phoenix Suns coach TerryPorter has noticed that Lopez maynot be ready for the NBA.

“He doesn’t seem to have thefocus,” Porter said. “[He is] missing

balls.Missing assignments on the de-fensive end. Missing box outs. Hedoesn’t have the focus when he stepson the floor.”

There has been speculation inPhoenix that Lopez could be sent tothe Suns’ affiliate in the NBA’s De-velopmental League — not exactly aflattering thought for the 15th over-all selection in last year’s draft.

All said, though, Lopez can’t beregretting his decision all that much.He is set to make $1,623,720 this sea-son alone.For those of you doing themath at home, that’s $19,801.46 foreach of those games he doesn’t ap-pear in — just a few grand more then

a quarter at Stanford — per game!This salary will only increase in thecoming years, regardless of his per-formance,meaning that playing timeor not, Lopez is free to live the goodlife — just so long as his idea of agood life is banging bodies with Shaqat practice every day.

Dan Bohm is auditioning to beRobin’s life coach. Give him tips at [email protected].

BOHMContinued from page 4

points, second gives you 10 pointsand so on]. This is done for everyevent and the all-around over thetwo days of competition.”

This Thursday, the top 42 of the

84 gymnasts competing will advanceto the finals on Saturday. Scoresfrom both days of competition willcount toward the final point rank-ings for the all-around and individ-ual events.National team spots willbe allotted to those who earned theseven highest point totals. Theeighth spot is chosen by the MPC,while the senior national team coor-dinator selects the ninth spot.

“I don’t know how they [theMPC] came up with such a convo-luted system,”Dixon said.

As detailed as the selectionprocess may be,the men agree theyhave a fair system set in place sinceseven spots are based on perform-ance, while two spots are based ondiscrepancy. They also agree andare confident they all have a chanceto make the team based on theircompetition.

“It’s a lot of the same caliberathletes who we’ve been competing

against since we were 10, so it’s thesame group we’re used to and thefield is completely open,” Dixonsaid.

With seven members competing,the Stanford gymnastics team hasthe largest contingent of the entireWinter Cup meet, suggesting thatthe Stanford men’s program is astrong one.

“The opportunity to have na-tional team members on the Stan-ford gymnastics team puts a magni-fying glass on the Stanford gymnas-tics program,”Dixon said.“It seemsthe Stanford men’s team is doingsomething right if its athletes arebeing put in a position to becomemembers on the national team.”

The Cardinal’s chance to repre-sent both the United States andStanford certainly gives the sevenLas Vegas-bound Cardinal mensomething to look forward to thisweekend.

Contact Jenny Peter at jpeter12@ stanford.edu.

GYMNASTICSContinued from page 4

Other top finishes in the distancesfor the men were provided by sopho-more Jacob Riley, who finished sec-ond with a personal best and provi-sional time of 14:01.92 in the 5,000

meters; sophomore Brendan Gregg,who finished third with a personalbest time of 14:11.29, barely off theprovisional time; and junior JustinMaripole-Bird,who missed the provi-sional time in the 3,000 by three-tenths of a second, with a finishingtime of 8:05.30. The men’s distancemedley relay of Maripole-Bird, jun-ior Zach Chandy, sophomoreSpencer Castro and freshman DylanFerris finished seventh with a time of 9:58.50.

In the sprints, the men were led by junior Ryan Fisicaro. Fisicaro, whohas consistently been getting closer toWopamo Osaisai’s Stanford 60 meterrecord,finally reached the mark thisweekend, tying for first place in theevent with a time of 6.82 seconds.

“It was a great feeling to havebeaten the record,”Fisicaro said.“Al-though I wish I could have won therace outright instead of tying. It’s agreat achievement, but there are still

more goals I have for the rest of theindoor season, which include helpingour team win the MPSF meet andqualify for nationals.”

Freshman Amaechi Morton alsohad an event win to add to the successof the sprinters, winning the 400 witha time of 47.42; Morton was the onlyrunner to break 48 seconds at themeet.

The women also had several no-table performances, with the firstNCAA automatic-qualifying timecoming from the women’s distancemedley relay. The team consisted of senior Alicia Follmar, senior IdaraOtu, freshman Maria Lattanzi andsenior captain Lauren Centrowitz.The team was Stanford’s first to qual-ify for the NCAA Championshipsthus far in the season, placing thirdwith a time of 11:07.53.

Centrowitz and Follmar alsoreached automatic-qualifying stan-dards in the 3,000. The pair of sen-

iors finished second and third, withtimes of 9:10.99 and 9:14.98,respec-tively.The race was a best time for

both women.“It was really nice to open the sea-

son with a personal record,” Cen-trowtiz said.“It was especially excit-ing to have the potential for threegirls to be in the 3K at NCAAs, whichis a testament to the strength of ourdistance program. And then to havethe DMR also hit the automatic qual-ifying time is awesome because Stan-ford has such a rich tradition in the

middle distances.”

The seniors are leading the wayfor the women, having qualified fornationals in two events this early inthe season. Interestingly enough,

Centrowitz pointed out that it wasFollmar’s first time running the 3,000— a remarkable debut time. Alsodoing well in the event was freshmanLaurynne Chetelat,who finished fifthwith a provisional time of 9:16.70.

“Both Lauren and Alicia are sen-iors and are really stepping up andleading the team,” DeVries said.“They have a lot of experience be-tween the two of them and are run-ning phenomenal right now.”

Other top finishers included sen-ior thrower Michaela Wallerstedt,who won the women’s shot put with atoss of 49-11; senior Tessa Flippin,who finished second in the high jumpwith a height of 5-foot-8; and Otu,who finished third in the 400 with atime of 55.07 seconds.

Next up for the track and fieldteam is the New Mexico Lobo Classicin Albuquerque this upcoming week-end — another chance for NCAAChampionship qualification.

Contact Anarghya Vardhana at [email protected].

TRACK Continued from page 4

“...with his attitude

and work ethic, the

sky is the limit.”

— HAKON DEVRIES,on Chris Derrick

investment banks to Connecticuthedge funds.

Hopefully the decline of the cultof investment banking will force tal-ented students to look at other,more productive fields and opportu-

nities. Many students joined invest-ment banking firms simply becauseothers were doing it and they want-ed to make money. Now that theopenings are scarce,hopefully somestudents will rethink their careerplans.

Indeed,if anything good is to comeof the demise of investment banks andits dwindling opportunities, it will bean end to Stanford’s brain drain.Stan-ford’s talented will hopefully be di-

rected into fields with more tangiblemissions or public service opportuni-ties. According to the CDC, atten-dance for sessions on the Peace Corpsand Teach for America is already upthis year.

In the meantime,the new plaque isup at the School of Business.I doubt,however,that I’ll ever see the originalagain.

Contact Paul at [email protected].

CRAFTContinued from page 3



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may cause a potential problem forundergraduates,especially freshmen.

“As an HPAC,I t ry to forward alllearning opportunities that come myway to my residents,” she said. “Ithink that eliminating the medianposition of the HPAC will especiallyaffect the freshman experience, asthe HPAC is the go-to person formisunderstandings with the StanfordBulletin, particularly in the begin-

ning of the year.”But former HPAC Tien Dong ‘08,

now a medical student at theUniversity of Chicago, remainedskeptical about the long-term effectsof the VPUE’s change in undergrad-uate advising.

“I am saddened that the HPACposition is being cut, but it does notcome as a surprise,” he wrote in anemail to The Daily.“I believe that theadvising services the University hasat Sweet Hall is very exceptional, sofor the most part, students won’t belost without the guidance of HPACs.”

“I just hope that without HPACs,RAs will get more training aboutacademic issues to make up for theservices that HPACs once provided,”Dong added.

Bravman echoed this sentiment,saying the current on-site profession-al Undergraduate Advising andResearch (UAR) advisors would be

sufficient in guiding students in theright direction.

“I am confident that with aca-

demic directors now in place in everyresidential complex . . . and our corestaff of professional advisors locatedin Sweet Hall, we have the infra-structure needed to create an excep-tionally strong pre-major advisingprogram,” he wrote in his Mondayletter.

For current Peer Mentor FolakeDosu ‘11,the elimination of the PeerMentor program may provide for abetter consolidation of advisingresources.

“I spoke to my peer mentor regu-larly as a freshman,” she said.“However, I was fortunate thatthings worked out like this,because I

have friends who could not recog-nize their peer mentor for the life of them, and others have not spoken totheir advisor since fall quarter fresh-man year.There was definitely a lackof quality control in this program,sothe experiences are diverse, for bet-ter or for worse.”

Yet with these specific cuts, stu-dents will essentially be forced tofind their own answers.

In Dosu’s opinion, the initiativenow lies in the hands of undergradu-ate students.

“The same students who have theinitiative to seek guidance from theirHPACs will use that same resource-fulness to find the help they need,”she said. “With the elimination of HPACs and peer mentors, studentscould look to online sources of helpin addition to the UAR advisors.We

just need to come up with creativesolutions to fill the void this programwill leave.”

Contact Ryan Mac at rbmac@stanford.edu.

VPUEContinued from front page

think people are really excited tohave a healthy dining option on cam-pus, especially since we’re openmornings,nights and weekends.”

The convenient location alsoattracts students who love the non-Dining feel.

“It’s the closest [thing] to going toan off-campus restaurant withouthaving to bike to University[Avenue],”said Nell Van Noppen ‘11.

Earlier this year, Fraiche decidedto lease a space in Tresidder and setup shop right next to the ExpressLunch, working with StanfordDining along the way.

“We approached Stanford

Dining, and they were already famil-iar with us,” Gilmartin said. “Weneeded to show them that Fraiche isa truly unique concept that theStanford community wouldembrace.”

Because Fraiche cooperated withDining, it has the ability to acceptCardinal dollars by using the samesoftware other eateries on campususe. When asked about the use of Cardinal dollars,Gilmartin said theystrove to make sure students coulduse them at Fraiche.

“We knew it would be a win-winto allow the Stanford community touse Cardinal dollars,” she said. “We

worked very closely with StanfordDining to make sure we could acceptthem.”

Students agree that the Cardinaldollars help them afford frozen yogurtand help Fraiche attract business.

“I think [Fraiche] will be consis-tently popular because they take[Cardinal dollars],” said GabiRuchelli ‘11. “It’s expensive, butwhatever. It’s frozen yogurt.”

Fraiche made its presence knownon campus last week with giantorange balloons spread out overmain traffic areas.When asked aboutthe balloon campaign, Gilmartinexplained that it was an innovativeway to spread the word.

“We just love to have fun, andorange is a very signature color of ours,” she said.“We thought it wouldbe a fun, simple, yet visible way toshow people that we’re on campus.”

Students enjoying Fraiche at nightexpressed much satisfaction withtheir frozen yogurt.

“It has a much better flavor thanfro-yo from the dining hall becauseit’s made from real yogurt, so it’s

tangy,” said Elena Jordan ‘12. “It’shealthier, sweet and it satisfies.”

While some thought the excite-ment would die down over time,most students who spoke with TheDaily thought that the excitementwould last, insisting that the shopwould continue to be popular.

“I think it’s comparable to Olivesin that it will always be popular,”Jordan said. “It’s one of the betterways to use your Cardinal dollars oncampus.”

Gilmartin said business is great sofar, with consistently long lines eachnight.

“To be able to have a fairly guilt-

free indulgence, I think, is somethingpeople decided is worth waiting inline for,” she said.

Contact Fatima Wagdy at fwagdy@ stanford.edu.

FRAICHEContinued from front page

The result is that come spring,stu-dents will still have to pay out of pocket for their campaigns.

Later in the meeting, the Senatemade more progress in the realm of visibility.

Communications Chair JonathanMcMaster ‘11 unveiled a Senateflyer to be distributed every otherweek to the student body. The pro-posed flyer included committeeupdates, achievements and futureprograms.

An ASSU student group calendar

also recently went online, thanks tothe efforts of Operations ManagerDavid Gobaud ‘08.

To reach out to the larger commu-nity, Senator Yvorn “Doc” Aswad-Thomas ‘11 plans to host lunchtimeinformal meetings in Stern Hall,opento all students. The first “FocusedForum” will spotlight housing anddraw reform.

The student body will also betapped with regard to budget cuts.Each senate member is tasked withrecruiting two experienced studentgroup leaders for a meeting of stu-dent experts, to be held sometimenext week.

Contact Marisa Landricho at [email protected].

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