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Author: Nila Bala

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SSE's Capital Group holds office hours

By Nila Bala
NEWS| The Stanford Student Enterprises Capital Group, a student-run financial organization that offers banking services to student groups, held a drop-in information session last Friday to educate the student body about retirement savings accounts with particular emphasis on Roth IRAs, or Individual Retirement Accounts.

Writing prizes awarded

By Nila Bala
NEWS| Stanford’s Program in Creative Writing announced yesterday the winners of the Bocock-Guerard Fiction Prize and Urmy-Hardy Poetry Prizes.

Hewlett VP encourages innovation

By Nila Bala
NEWS| “The world is changing at a faster rate than any other time in history,” said Richard Lampman, senior vice president and director of Hewlett Packard Labs, during a talk last night.

Course readers abandoned for Web

By Nila Bala
NEWS| Students often complain about the prices of textbooks and weighty course readers. Turns out professors have been listening.

Program takes clinical research to the next level

By Nila Bala
NEWS| Six years ago, Dr. Philip Pizzo left a children’s hospital in Boston to become the dean of Stanford’s School of Medicine.

Investment reforms pitched

By Nila Bala
NEWS| For almost a year the Stanford Coalition for Investment Disclosure, or SCID, has been pushing for increased transparency and credibility in the University’s investing policies.

iProcrastinate competes with Thefacebook.com

By Nila Bala
NEWS| Amid red swirling hypnotic circles, the homepage of iProcrastinate.com lists its features: “Blogs, photos, calenders, IM with video chat, import facebook profiles, open to every school, find parties and events.

Business, academic ties outed

By Nila Bala
NEWS| An ambitious student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, David Zopal came to Stanford in 1996 with the intent to find a cure for HIV.

Corporate-funded research questioned

By Nila Bala
NEWS| “It’s like trying to prove the events that occurred in the marital bedroom without being a Peeping Tom or having a camera — it’s a virtually impossible task,” said History Professor Barton Bernstein, referring to the formation of links between Stanford and the corporate world.

Cap and Gown turns 100

By Nila Bala
NEWS| “The fact that my service is paving the way for future generations of women makes the bumps along the way worth it,” said Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor at Saturday’s Cap and Gown centennial celebration.

Students leave music and dancing to chance

By Nila Bala
NEWS| "In this one piece, we just play paper,” said freshman Karl Pichotta, referring to sounds made by waving paper. “If you just focus on the sound of paper, it’s a pretty beautiful sound.

Author supports organ donation

By Nila Bala
NEWS| "Talk about a random act of kindness. This has got to be the most random and the kindest thing you could ever do for a person,” said author Eleanor Vincent, urging students to consider becoming organ donors at a book reading last night, when she discussed her recently released book, “Swimming with Maya.

Real News and BCSC host talk on state of Black America

By Nila Bala
NEWS| “Progress is what’s in this room. Regression is what’s not — that’s the simple answer,” said Harvard Law Prof. Charles Ogletree last night during a discussion regarding the state of the black community.

Senate

By Nila Bala
NEWS| Last night’s Undergraduate Senate meeting focused primarily on budget modifications for four groups: the Stanford Band, the Black Community Service Center, the Black Psychology Student Association and Stanford Students for Life.

Stanford Hospital Adds 4D Image Machine for Heart Care

By Nila Bala
NEWS| When this machine became available, it was a no-brainer to make the purchase,” said Stanford Hospital’s Echo Lab Director, Ingela Schnittger, referring to the lab’s recent purchase of two new Philips iE33 echocardiography systems.

Class-shopping receives scrutiny

By Nila Bala
NEWS| “It’s typically American. It’s competitive and gives the choice to the consumer,” said Religious Studies Prof. Michael Zimmermann, commenting on the shopping system for classes at Stanford.

Study breaks aim to ease Dead Week stress

By Nila Bala
NEWS| Pastries flew through the air and landed on students’ feet as a University-sponsored pie-eating contest turned into a food-fight frenzy in under 10 seconds Tuesday night.

Programs aid female faculty, but not staff

By Nila Bala
NEWS| “Ain’t I a woman?

ASSU works on communications

By Nila Bala
NEWS| “If I weren’t a senator, I wouldn’t know what the ASSU did,” said sophomore Katie Salisbury, who chairs the new ad hoc ASSU Communications Committee.