The Stanford Daily

Author: Mike Ding

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Plans for green buildings outlined

By Mike Ding
NEWS| Y2E2 won’t be Stanford’s only green building in the years to come — students can count on massive University efforts to reduce energy consumption over the next few decades.

Animal research bill offers shield

By Mike Ding
NEWS| California State Assemblyman Gene Mullin has recently proposed a bill that would make posting the names of academics who conduct animal research online illegal. The bill would help ensure personal safety for animal researchers from animal activist groups.

New plans to affect housing

By Mike Ding
NEWS| The deadline to enter the housing lottery is drawing closer, and students will face a number of changes in the process this year.

Library considers new search technology

By Mike Ding
NEWS| Library officials from Stanford are negotiating a contract for the development of a federated search system for Stanford libraries.

Stanford seeks dr. diversity

By Mike Ding
NEWS| “A lot of work has been done that’s shown how physicians communicate with patients and the barriers to that communication,” he said.

SAT Subject Tests still criteria for admission

By Mike Ding
NEWS| While the University of California recently proposed omitting the SAT Subject Tests as a criterion for admission, Stanford has no plans to ditch the tests.

County rejects walking trail

By Mike Ding
NEWS| The controversial debate over whether the Stanford trail would be built has continued for nearly eight years now, beginning with the University’s commitment to construct two trails, designated C1 and S1, following a land development agreement with Santa Clara County in 2000.

The Real World: Crothers Hall

By Mike Ding
NEWS| For perhaps the first time in Stanford residential history, an unexpected twist of fate has brought two tribes, two sets of sworn enemies, together.

Ph.D. uses cartoons to teach about aids

By Mike Ding
NEWS| According to World Health Organization data, the virus killed an estimated 2.1 million people this year.

Farm alum to revise food pyramid

By Mike Ding
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Student book explores youth politics

By Mike Ding
NEWS| Amid ongoing criticism of our generation’s political apathy, a new book — co-authored by Josh Corngold, a doctoral candidate in education — offers hope.

Only for the "Nerdcore"

By Mike Ding
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Making the grade

By Mike Ding
NEWS| Last week, Stanford students turned the tables on the nation’s law firms. As part of a larger effort to increase diversity, students are assigning grades to their prospective employers — and in their eyes, it’s only GPA that matters.

Reduce, reuse, resell

By Mike Ding
NEWS| Oladayo Olagunju has gone green, and he’s taking Stanford — and its piles of waste — with him.

Far from puzzled

By Mike Ding
NEWS| For most Stanford students, Sudoku puzzles are a hobby to be enjoyed during the slower hours of IHUM lecture. For Thomas Snyder, they are a lifestyle.

Got (Raw) Milk?

By Mike Ding
NEWS| Living on an organic diet saved his life, Kenyan native Willson Kimeli Naiyomah told students and faculty Tuesday night in a lecture in the Geology Corner.

New MCAT gets mixed reviews

By Mike Ding
NEWS| For thousands of college students across the nation with eyes set on medical school, the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) is an inevitable obstacle. But since January, test takers have faced the additional challenge of taking the test on a computer.

Frosh expansion

By Mike Ding
NEWS| President John Hennessy has urged alumni, faculty, students, trustees and admissions personnel to begin dialogue about the expansion of the freshman class.

Grads turn out strong for first orientation

By Mike Ding
NEWS| When undergraduate freshmen arrived on campus Sept. 18, they weren’t the first new students to be welcomed to Stanford.

Solar car team races to meet Oct. deadline

By Mike Ding
NEWS| The Stanford Solar Car team is gearing up for the semiannual World Solar Challenge in Australia next month.

Math used to model race

By Mike Ding
NEWS| In the second of two presentations, Brown University Economics Prof. Glenn Loury tempered a passionate discourse on the causes of high rates of crime, gun possession, children conceived out of wedlock and lack of education among underprivileged African-Americans with the empirical analysis that is the tool of his trade last night at the Stanford Humanities Center.

Tresidder hosts anti-racism speaker

By Mike Ding
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Investment panel calls for input

By Mike Ding
NEWS| Linda Kimball, director of investment responsibility for APIR-L, began the meeting with a historical account of how the panel was created as an ethical compass for the University’s investment decisions.

Farmer cites service as key to healthy globe

By Mike Ding
NEWS| In “An Evening with Dr. Paul Farmer,” the co-founder of the world health-care organization Partners in Health (PIH), argued for increased implementation of University funding and resources in aiding poverty-stricken people around the world, relating his own experiences in this pursuit.

Fighting racism in Israel

By Mike Ding
NEWS| A British-born Jew, Nathan moved to Israel to escape the discrimination she experienced in Britain.

For Europe, a call to unite

By Mike Ding
NEWS| In the talk “Europe Now: Integration, Society, and Islam in a New Europe” yesterday, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a European Parliament member, argued for the need to transcend cultural differences of separate nation-states in the European Union in order to survive in the global era.