The Stanford Daily

Author: Mima Mohammed

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At your service: Gardner Fellows

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Every year, the John Gardner Fellowship Program selects six seniors from the graduating classes of Cal and Stanford to receive the opportunity of a lifetime: a $27,500 stipend and a 10-month placement in a government or non-profit agency.

Stanford Web sites to be redesigned by June ‘08

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Stanford University’s Web sites will be undergoing major changes in months to come, focusing mainly on design changes and content overhaul.

Armitage speaks on foreign policy

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Kresge Auditorium was virtually empty last night as the former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage spoke about the current state of foreign policy.

Dyson reflects on King legacy

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| “Hip-Hop Intellectual” Michael Eric Dyson reflected on race and the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Transplant technique succeeds

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Born with only one kidney, 50-year-old Larry Kowalski received a kidney and marrow from his brother at Stanford Hospital in 2005.

Obama supporters flood White Plaza

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| “Fired up! Ready to go!” shouted a crowd of about 300 Stanford students who gathered in White Plaza at noon on Friday for the campus’ latest display of Obama-fever.

Documentary screening honors MLK

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| In honor of the upcoming holiday on Monday, participants celebrated the dream and messages of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. yesterday at Arrillaga Alumni Center.

Speaker slams global warming

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| The former space scientist and government scientific administrator, who is co-author of the bestselling book, “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years,” claimed that observed warming is produced by the sun and that “human contribution is negligible.” Singer’s research suggests that for the past million years, the Earth has gone through warming and cooling phrases that have lasted about 1,500 years each.

Dorms battle in capture the flag match

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Over 100 freshmen wearing white and red athletic gear descended on Stanford Stadium last night for an enormous game of capture the flag.

Conference celebrates CCSRE anniversary

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| While hosting a conference may not seem like the typical celebration for an anniversary, today’s festivities at Annenberg Auditorium aren’t typical for an anniversary either: To celebrate its first 10 years, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) invited educators from across the country to examine how today’s unprecedented diversity is shaping American lives.

Gender balance vital in classroom

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| A recent Stanford psychology study suggests that women’s academic performance depends on the gender composition of a classroom.

“Junior” on track for Urban race

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| The Stanford Racing Team and its robotic car “Junior” begin competition today at the National Qualifying Event for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge.

Around the world in a month

By Sagar Bapat and Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Ever wish you could master the skill of Irish folk dancing?

Adoption advice for a high price

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Last Saturday, Women’s Health at Stanford and the Northern California Chapter of RESOLVE, an organization that educates and supports women faced with infertility, held their annual symposium, “Pathways to Adoption.

Palestinian Awareness Month aims to educate Stanford students

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| This month the Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (CJME) will be putting on a series called Palestine Awareness Month, cosponsored by the Muslim Student Awareness Network and the Organization of Arab Students in Stanford. The organization’s aim is to raise awareness on campus about the situation in the Middle East. In the past, CJME has been involved in organizing human-rights-related events, often focusing on the situation in Israel and Palestine.

Cabaret full of fun, laughs and fishnets

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| The cast of Cabaret, which opens Friday, is scantily clad and features a triple threatperformers with fantastic acting skills, excellent dance movesespecially tap and amazing musical numbers.

STAND wins divestment victory

By Aram Hur and Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Students Taking Action Now on Darfur (STAND) scored a victory last week when the California State Teachers’ Retirement System Board voted 9-0 in support of a measure to divest the fund’s holdings from companies with ties to Sudan.

Protesters put up fence

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| More than one million people nationwide took to the streets yesterday, calling for the first broad changes in U.S. immigration policy in more than two decades.

PR a concern for FacSen

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| The recent resignation of Harvard President Lawrence Summers cast a shadow over yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty Senate, which consisted mostly of discussions about the public affairs status of the University — namely media relations and its impact on public standing.

GSC recruits candidates before April election

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| This year’s ASSU elections are rapidly approaching, slated for April 12 and 13. Graduate Student Council candidates do not need to petition for signatures.

University hosts worker rights symposium

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| “People worry if they could afford bus fare or breakfast. They worry that their kids won’t have a better life than they did,” said Anna Burger, chair of the Change to Win Federation, during her passionate speech on the ongoing struggle for worker’s rights.

We need to reevaluate election bill 05

By Andrew Barragan and Mima Mohammed
OPINIONS| The ASSU Undergraduate Senate and the Graduate Student Council passed Election Bill 05 last Wednesday in a joint meeting.

International students face unique challenges in their transitions to the Farm

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Fall quarter, 2,679 international graduate students were enrolled at Stanford, comprising 32.7% of the graduate student population according to information released by the Bechtel International Center.

Panel highlights plight of many Latino Muslims

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| While Latinos and Islam may first appear to be unrelated subjects, yesterday’s panel titled “Hispanos Musulmanes: Latinos embracing Islam” highlighted the unique population of Muslims residing in Latin American nations and the Caribbean.

Dating 101: graduate students and their love lives

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Last winter quarter, Sex and Love in Modern Society, taught by Sociology Prof. Paula England, sought to explore the love lives (or lack there of) of Stanford undergraduates.

Grad files national suit

By Mima Mohammed and Jenny Allen
NEWS| Rahinah Ibrahim, a Stanford doctoral candidate, was at San Francisco International Airport last year ready to fly home to Malaysia for a conference.

Freshmen seek Valentine's Day love at speed dating

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Branner Hall will be hosting their first annual speed dating event 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. today — Valentine’s Day — in Branner lounge.

Protests outside GCC

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Friday, Feb. 3 • Sometime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., an unknown suspect cut the base of the victim’s rosebush, causing it do it die.

Human rights abuses high, speaker says

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| “I tremble for my nation, but trembling is not enough, I have to speak and be active. Someone has to point out the contradictions,” said Imam Mahdi Bray during his talk last night in Pigott Hall as part of Islam Awareness Month.

Speed dating sets up graduate students from around campus

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Graduate students are often pressed for time, as they pursue their advance degrees and research projects within their respective fields.

Networking skills to cure your social ills

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Widely acknowledged as a hub for today’s intellectuals, Stanford is also home to students sometimes lacking in social graces.

Muslim groups lobby for community center

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Several student groups authored a proposal last fall for the construction of a Muslim Community Center. More recently, the groups have been lobbying for approval of their request for space and funding for a full-time center and director.

Grad GO Pass program gets extended for 2006

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| GO Passes, which subsidizes Caltrain rides for graduate students who live off campus, for 2006 are now available for purchase at Parking and Transportation Services at a subsidized cost of $60 for off-campus graduate students.

Japanese leader speaks

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| “Quite rarely I speak at a university in the United States. Sometimes I am quite fearful,” said former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto as he addressed a large audience — many of them standing — in Bechtel Conference Center last night.

Livermore shares experience at HP

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Ann Livermore, executive vice president of Hewlett Packard (HP) and leader of Hewlett Packard’s Technology Solutions groups, addressed Stanford students last night, describing her perspective as an executive at one of the world’s most powerful companies.

Law School switch

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Stanford Law School has officially switched from the semester system to the quarter system, in a move similar to that of the University of Chicago Law School.

World AIDS day raises support for victims

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Across the world — including Stanford’s campus — people sported a red ribbon yesterday as a sign of support for those living with HIV/AIDS and to mark the annual international day of action against the disease — known as World AIDS day.

Pre-game festivities successful

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| The Big Game Committee has been working overtime to make this Saturday’s 108th Big Game memorable, incorporating new activities to the tailgate and organizing a Big Party to take place prior to the game across the street from the tailgate area.

Lawyer critcizes U.S. terror policies

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| “I think everyone in this country feels that one of the true landmarks in the U.S. is openness,” said Stanford Law School’s 2005 Pubic Interest Lawyer of the Year Barbara Olshansky in a speech last night.

Nobel peace laureate speaks about life, tragedy

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Rigoberta Menchu Tum, the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, addressed a packed crowd at Memorial Church yesterday. The youngest individual to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Menchu became a powerful human rights advocate after the 1983 publication of “I, Rigoberta Menchu,” the story of an indigenous child whose family was caught in the war that killed an estimated 100,000 people and left another 40,000 missing and presumed dead.

Confronting Katrina class analyzes race

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| The failures of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts began long before the chance that a Category Four or Five hurricane would strike New Orleans.

Daniel Pearl's life celebrated through music

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Daniel Pearl, a slain Wall Street Journal reporter and Stanford alumnus, was remembered last night in a memorial service entitled “The Annual Daniel Pearl Music Day” held at Memorial Church.

Canuck Card to celebrate Queen Victoria

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Alex Trebek is one. So are Jim Carrey, Celine Dion and Lorne Michaels. These famous Canadians celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday this past Tuesday along with the rest of the nation.

Measure would renew parcel tax in PA

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Ballot Measure A, a proposed $493 annual parcel tax that will be voted on by residents of Palo Alto in the June 7 election, would provide $9.

Hordes of ProFros hit up campus

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| With red folders and maps in hand, prospective freshmen, or ProFros, will flock to campus today for Admit Weekend. Some ProFros began arriving on Wednesday, and more than 1,000 ProFros are expected to attend in total, said student coordinator Caity Rocha, a sophomore.

Herstory highlights hormones

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Female sex hormones have reached an almost mythical status in today’s society, and very few people are sure exactly how they work and influence women’s health from puberty through menopause.

Alum named CEO of women's network

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Last month Stanford alumna Betty Cohen, a respected veteran cable television executive, was named president and chief executive officer of Lifetime Entertainment Services.

Forum on Islam promotes tolerance

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| To provide a forum for all members of the Stanford community to ask questions about and acquaint themselves better with the Islamic faith, two Islamic student groups hosted a panel last night entitled “Islam Reflections and Perceptions,” including both students and Muslim leaders.

Innovative journalists to convene for conference

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Citing the success of last year’s Conference on Innovation Journalism, the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning, or SCIL, and The Swedish Innovation Journalism Fellowship Program will present the conference a second time starting today at 8:30 a.

‘Jeopardy!’ champion Jennings talks on trivia

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Do you know what the state cooking pot of Utah is?

Law Schools hosts Chang memorial

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| In honor of Iris Chang — the author, human rights activist and journalist who committed suicide Nov. 9 in Los Gatos — the Law School hosted a memorial service last Thursday in conjunction with Stanford ChinaRains and the Stanford Chinese Law Association.

Mock Trial goes to national tournament

By Mima Mohammed
NEWS| Stanford Mock Trial is on a roll and will be sending two teams to national competitions in Iowa and Florida in upcoming weeks.

Political-party tension is not unusually high, prof. says

By Mima Mohammed and Debashish Bakshi
NEWS| Although present-day relations between Republicans and Democrats seem tense, it is not unusually high, said Public Policy Prof.