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LIBRARIES

Hours atGreen likelyto shorten

By ELLEN HUETSTAFF WRITER

Students who celebrated Green Librarysextended late night hours this academic year maysee the gift taken back next fall due to theUniversitys budget crisis.

Stanford Libraries, along with the rest of theschool, have been required to trim budgets by 15 per-cent because of decreased endowment and the cur-rent economic recession, and are finding it difficult tomaintain extended hours with reduced funding.

Green, the largest library on campus and a pop-ular study space for undergraduates, pushed back itsclosing time from midnight to 2 a.m. in the fall of2009 in response to overwhelming student demandfor increased post-midnight study spaces.

Former undergraduate Senator Eugene Nho 10

organized the student effort, conducting a wide sur-vey that found that 80 percent of students surveyedfelt the current late night study spaces were inade-quate. After going to the Faculty Senate with thestatistics in the spring of 2008, the changes weremade for the following fall.

Given the current budget restrictions, however,the extended schedule appears unlikely to surviveinto the next academic year. Provost JohnEtchemendy noted the strong possibility of achange.

I do not know if the hours are changing, butgiven the budget situation, Id be surprised if theyare not,Etchemendy said in an email to The Daily.

Library administrators agreed,noting that hoursmight be scaled back to 1 a.m. or even to the origi-nal midnight closing time.

[A change] is conceivable,given the 15 percentbudget reduction, which is a very deep cut, saidRebecca Pernell, head of access services for thelibrary. The University Librarian Michael Kellerhas indicated that due to the budget cuts, we maynot be able to sustain the extended hours next fall.

We are, however, looking at creative solutionsfor perhaps staffing the library until 1 a.m., but

these plans are still very preliminary, she added.Keller could not be reached for comment.Pernell added that budget issues have already

affected the library, as the staff has been reducedbecause of the University-wide hiring freeze imple-mented earlier this year.

For Nho, the news that his efforts to extendhours might not last the year was disappointing butunderstandable.

I completely respect the place that administra-tors are in now, he said. Theyre hard hit by thedropping endowment, and they have to cut some-where.Its hard to figure out how to make cuts with-out inflicting too much damage on the student bodylife.

However, he maintained that ensuring studentstudy spaces should be one of the Universitys toppriorities, citing the results from last years surveyand positive student feedback to the changes.

Next years ASSU undergraduate senators, bothreturning and incoming,expressed their intention toadvocate for keeping Green Librarys current

By RYAN MACDESK EDITOR

Last week, the Office of UndergraduateAdmission announced that 85 students whowere previously on the waitlist had beenoffered admission as part of the incomingClass of 2013.

According to the offices Web site, the

decision to admit from the waitlist waslargely due to a change in admission strate-gy that saw the University admit fewer stu-dents this year than in years past.

Although higher than expected student

responses have not allowed for theUniversity to go to the waitlist in recentyears,a reduction in the number of offers ofadmission this year has resulted in theplanned use of the waitlist, read an onlinestatement.

Director of Admissions Shawn Abbottconfirmed this notion.

It has been several years since we have

admitted students from the waitlist, hewrote in an email to The Daily.We loweredour admit rate this past year, admitting 100fewer students in an intentional move toavoid over-enrolling the freshman class.We

now have the flexibility to build up to 1,700students accomplishing our goal ofensuring that we would not enroll any morethan our target number [of] enrolled stu-dents.

In the previous two years, over-enroll-ment has contributed to an overcrowding ofundergraduate on-campus housing. Thisyear, the Office of Admission hoped to

avoid this problem by deliberately admit-ting fewer students and using the waitlist toadjust numbers accordingly.This led to a 7.6

FEATURES PRESENTS

Sir Nigel shares his views

By ERIC MESSINGERDESK EDITOR

Stanford received the BritishAmbassador to the United States, Sir NigelSheinwald,on Monday,as part of the diplo-mats West Coast tour.

Sir Nigel has been visiting locationsacross the West Coast, including SiliconValley, advocating for the continuation of acommitment to open markets despite thefinancial crisis, and commenting uponAnglo-American relations.

While at Stanford, Sir Nigel spoke tomembers of an undergraduate course onBritish politics,participated in a roundtablecalled The Global Architecture whereEurope fits in at Encina Hall, and metwith Hoover Fellow and former Secretaryof State Condoleezza Rice.

Sir Nigel, who formerly served as Chief

Adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair, alsosat down for an interview with The Daily atEncina Hall. Over a half-hour he touchedupon a wide variety of issues facingAmerica and the United Kingdom,and thespecial relationship between the twonations.

Reacting to the recent scandal in theU.K. over Parliamentary expense charges,which Foreign Secretary David Milibandhas said will make for a dangerous monthfor British democracy, Sir Nigel connectedthe public reaction to longer-term trends.

All the evidence is that the scandalover Parliamentary expenses has deepenedthe mood of public disillusionment withtraditional politics and with Parliament asan institution, Sir Nigel said, and that isvery worrying for many of us who areinvolved in public life,and its been a wor-rying feature in many developed countries

for quite some time.Moving to President Obama, a figure

whose rise has arguably contributed to achange in the tone of the US-Europe rela-tionship, Sir Nigel was warm in his assess-ment of the initial international reaction tohis administration.

I think the overwhelming mood in theU.K.and the rest of Europe is positive andwelcoming of the policy stance taken by thenew administration and by PresidentObama, Sir Nigel said. If you look atwhat theyre trying to achieve internation-ally in creating new sets of partnershipswith European and other allies, in basingtheir foreign policy on values and principlesand the rule of law, in deploying the fullrange of tools of American power mili-tary and also political and also economic,in

Budget cuts threaten to roll back new,

post-midnight opening times

OFF-CAMPUS

Charterschool willhave new siteUniv.-affiliated elementary

school heads to Menlo ParkBy ERIC MESSINGER

DESK EDITOR

Students at a Stanford-relatedcharter school in East Palo Altowill be heading to their classes inMenlo Park next year after a schooldistrict decision made lastThursday.

Trustees for the RavenswoodSchool District voted to swap theEast Palo Alto Academy K-8School (EPAA) site with that of theJames Flood Science andTechnology Magnet School (FloodSchool). Students from FloodSchool will now be headed to thecurrent EPAA location in East PaloAlto, while EPAA students will goto Floods former facility in MenloPark. The switch will take place forthe 2009-2010 academic year.

The districts decision was a

result of budgetary pressure, asRavenswood seeks to maximize itsfunding. According to the San JoseMercury News, the trustees expectthe move to net $200,000 through acombination of reduced transporta-tion costs and expected growth forFlood at the new location. TheEPAA, which is a charter school,does not receive per-pupil fundingfrom California,while each new stu-dent at Flood brings more money.

The EPAA K-8 School, as wellas the unaffected EPAA HighSchool, are run by the StanfordNew Schools, a 501(c)(3) nonprofitorganization created by StanfordsSchool of Education in 2006. WhileStanford does not actively adminis-ter the school, it does appointEPAAs Board of Directors, andthe Dean of the School ofEducation serves as the presidentof the board.

While the move has drawn sharp

criticism from Flood School parentswho believe their children will bemoving to a less desirable locationand facility, EPAA personnel donot believe they are necessarilybenefiting from the switch.

I dont know that its animprovement, its just anotherspace, said Education SchoolDean Deborah Stipek.The plusesand the minuses cancel themselvesout in some res pects.

Stipek added that EPAA hadvery little input in the decision.

We dont have choices, Stipeksaid. The school district makesthem for us.

Stanford New Schools ChiefOperating Officer Gail Greely saidthe news of the move was notexpected.

We did not think this was an

MICHAEL LIU/The Stanford Daily

British Ambassador to the United States Sir Nigel Sheinwald sat down with The Daily at Encina Hall on Monday for an interview. SirNigel discussed a wide variety of subjects, including world reactions to President Obama and the challenges for world security.

British ambassador discusses special relationshipwith U.S.

Index Features/2 Opinions/3 Sports/4 Classifieds/5 Recycle Me

Over the Moon[beans]By AMY HARRIS

DESK EDITOR

It is the best of times and the worst of times for thecampus coffee scene. The announcement lastweek that Coupa Cafe will replace MoonbeansCoffee by the end of June spread like caffeinethrough the Stanford bloodstream,brewing both

incredulity on the part of Moonbeans die-hards andexcitement from disenchanted customers and Coupafans.

Im devastated, for everyone, said a crestfallen

James Rundell, Moonbeans store manager. Our cus-tomers are saying, Wheres the petition? Its wonder-ful to hear that outcry of support.

Coupa Cafe already has a spot in the Jerry Yang andAkiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building(Y2E2).The news of Coupas takeover giving it twolocations on campus blind-sided many students, whowere perfectly content with the status quo.

Moonbeans is definitely one of the high points toeat and drink on campus, said Loren Newman 09. Ilike the Coupa Cafes in the area,but it seems like its acase of if its not broken,why fix it. It seems like its tak-

ing a gamble on something that already works well.Gianna Masi 11, a Moonbeans barista who began

working at the kiosk this year, was likewise confused byCoupas move to replace Moonbeans.

Everyone who Ive talked to is really shocked thatMoonbeans is closing and they dont really understandwhy, she said.And to an extent, I dont really under-stand why. Its sad that such a beloved coffee shop oncampus has to close.

Others,however,are over the moon about the coffee

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kiosks demise.Going to Moonbeans was like getting

beaten over the head with a stick, said PaulGowder, a third-year political science grad-uate student. Moonbeans I mean, letsface it was pretty terrible in just aboutevery respect,so Coupa can only be better.

Gowder said he would try to refrain fromtoo many ding-dong-the-witch-is-deadcomments, but was unable to hide his sheer

jubilation at Coupas takeover.

The prices at Moonbeans were insane you could only eat so many $2.50 cookies,especially when theyre not very good cook-ies, he continued. You know, Coupasprices are pretty ridiculous too, but Coupaactually has high-quality food and drinks.

Coupa Cafe owner Jean Paul Coupal07 agreed that the installation ofCoupa between the twolibraries represents a step upin culinary value, and adecrease in prices.

Currently, the lattes,cappuccinos, all of our cof-fee drinks are cheaper thanMoonbeans, Coupalexplained. Theres not onedrink we have that is moreexpensive than Moonbeans.We think you should be ableto get quality at an affordableprice.

Still, some students havenostalgic attachments to thefunky kiosk and see Coupas

expansion as uprooting aneclectic cafe culture that tookyears to cultivate.

No one can compete with ourstaff in terms of speed, efficiency and

attention to detail, Rundell said. It takes10 years to get a group like this going.

Situated between Meyer and Green for11 years, Moonbeans adopted the businessmodel of creating a laid-back environmentwith unique tunes and friendly service,Rundell explained.

I would always hear people say thatthey love this place, that it was a breath offresh air from an otherwise stale campuslife, he said. We tried to cater to students

with our music we dont play just jazz andnew age. I think that we try to keep it funand something that the students like, asopposed to something that the studentsparents would like . . . definitely outside thecookie-cutter mold.

Students appreciated Moonbeans

unpretentious atmosphere.Its hard to put into words, but

Moonbeans just has the right vibe and theright connection of that vibe to the coffeeand tea, Newman explained. Its just apleasant atmosphere.

Gowder,however,felt that any sojourn toMoonbeans was anything but pleasant.If I needed a quick jolt of caffeine,there

was a convenience versus quality factor,andsometimes, convenience won out, helamented. I did go to Moonbeans verymany times,unfortunately.

The sort of quintessential Moonbeansmoment, for me, was ordering a chai there,with the use of god-awful chai swill,he con-tinued. I mean, God only knows if it hadany tea in it.

Gowders experience, however, seemedthe exception rather than the rule. BenAngulo 11 frequents Moonbeans daily,andwhile hes disappointed at Moonbeans clos-ing, he was more concerned with the loca-tion than the change in ownership.

I love Moonbeans . . . its just a goodatmosphere, he said. You can come outhere on a sunny day and sit down and runinto 20 people you know.

Clair Gibson 09 said that getting her caf-feine fix was the ultimate issue, regardless ofowner, but dismissed Coupas need toexpand to two on-campus locations assilly.

Moonbeans has the best coffee on cam-pus,so I dont see why Coupa needs to takeover here when they already have a shop inY2E2,she said.

Coupal said that he

understands the sentimental ties toMoonbeans,but assured customers that thenew Coupa location will not disappoint.

People do consider Moonbeans sym-bolic; its been there for such a long timesince the SULAIR constructed it, and I

guess some people may be upset about itclosing, Coupal conceded. But its a free-market society, everyone was given a chanceto compete,and I think that the better com-pany with the better proposal was chosen.

But for the Moonbeans workers, the endof Moonbeans represents an end to aunique campus niche that, for many, was ahome away from home.

Were not one of those machine coffeeshops that just churns it out, Masi said. Ifeel like we really do care about our cus-tomers, even though thats really cliche tosay.

Rundell said that the staff interactionwas Moonbeans most unique characteristic.

I was rewarded with a cafe culture atMoonbeans that most cafes wish they could

have, he said.To replace that sort of dynamic will

be a tall order, Masi said.You would be hard-pressed to

find a more caring coffee shop thanMoonbeans, she said.Coupa hasbig shoes to fill.

Contact Amy Harris at [email protected].

Moonbeans aficionadosdistraught over shops end,

others rejoice for Coupa

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Moonbeans, located just outside of Green Library, has been a popular coffee stop on campus for 11 years. After losing a bid war for arenewed lease, Moonbeans will close by the end of June to be replaced by Coupa Cafe, which also has a location in Y2E2.

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schedule.Many students have told me

that this has been the most usefuland valuable change that the Senatehas achieved in the past few years,said Shelley Gao 11 in an email toThe Daily.Green Library is one of

the most important facilities on

campus, and its current openinghours should not be reduced.

Budgets cuts are hitting allaspects of the University; however,now is the time for the school toforcefully establish its priorities,added Zachary Warma 11 in anemail to The Daily.I will advocate,within financial practicality, to seethe extended hours reinstated.

Pernell, who is in charge of theevening library staff,also anticipatesa strong student response if the

hours are reduced. She noted that

both anecdotal evidence and gener-al student feedback indicated thatlate night hours seem to have beenvery well received.

We know how much peoplelove evening hours we see somany regulars, she explained. We[walk through] the main readingsrooms, and it does get activity.

Pernell emphasized that no mat-ter how schedules might change inthe coming year, Green Library willcontinue to hold extended hours

during Dead Week and finals week,

as it has in the past.A final decision has yet to be

made, despite discussions andrumors of a schedule change. TheUniversity Librarians Director ofCommunications and DevelopmentAndrew Herkovic stressed that thecuts have had devastating effects onall parts of the University, and haveforced many organizations to com-promise things they value very high-ly.

It should go without saying that

providing convenient hours and oth-

erwise encouraging student use oflibrary facilities are important tous, Herkovic said in an email to TheDaily. We have not and will notreduce hours capriciously or casual-ly.

But tactical reduction of hoursis one among many compromises wemay have to deploy to balance ourbudgets in the very difficult periodahead,he added.

Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stan-

ford.edu.

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On January 22, USCs Daily Trojanwrote that all-new construction atUSC is going to be Leadership in En-

ergy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified from now on.Big step,guys.I mean,its a good way to cast the gauntlet,but Stan-fords going to. . .

Oh wait.We dont actually know yet, because

Stanford hasnt let students read its draftsustainability plan. Dont worry, though.Someone gave me a lollipop and promisedits one of the most stringent around.

This lack of access makes it very difficultfor me to publicly support or decry said plan,and it is keeping me out of the elite StanfordDaily Columnist USC-Bashing Club be-cause I cant back up anything I say abouthow much more awesome Stanford is than

USC.(For the record, The Daily Trojan also

mentions USCs admirable commitment toincluding students in planning.)

Fortunately, theres hope. Last week, agroup of Students for a Sustainable Stanford(SSS) members met with President Hen-nessy to express our strong interest in havingthe plan released to students. Since it wasstudents back in 2005 who started the cam-paign for such a plan and for a solid commit-ment to greenhouse gas emissions reduc-tions by the University, and since about14,000 members of the Stanford communityare current students,it has been particularlyfrustrating that students have not been ableto participate in the drafting process or evenbe made privy to the contents of the plan.

President Hennessy made a commitmentat that meeting to release the draft plan tostudents this week, which is pretty groovyconsidering how long weve been waiting forit. (Given that: please download it if youhave any interest in keeping Stanford bomb.

From the bits Ive glimpsed at late at nightwhen The Man cant see me, its got somegood points and some points that deserve tobe ridiculed by hordes of freshmen in thestreets.) Student input will allegedly besought for a section on how to keep studentsinvolved.

This is all very,very good, because it in-creases the potential of getting somewhere.

To explain why that potential is some-thing that feels so new, let me describe thecurrent student relationship with campussustainability planners.

We, the student body in general getslainfor being apathetic. We apparently dont door say much about the future of Stanfordsustainability, so the administration doesntthink we care,so it doesnt publicize sustain-ability or make opportunities for us to help.

Thats not to say Stanford doesnt do a lot one of the reasons that the plan has takenso long to draft is that Stanford has alreadydone a lot of the obvious things,like cullingincandescent light bulbs. Stanford cut itsdaily water demand substantially with somemajor infrastructure projects a few yearsback.I was in a particularly memorable classwhere someone had tried to show that thegolf course is a ridiculously wasteful waterconsumer relative to the Community Farm,but she found that the golf course is actuallya model of water efficiency (for a golfcourse) while the farm suffers from thingslike people forgetting to turn off hoses for acouple of days. Oops.So yes, Stanford is ad-mittedly pretty good at institutional efficien-cy.

What Stanford has not been particularlygood at is making sure we all care about effi-ciency, too,or trying to create opportunitiesfor students to voice concerns and get in-volved. Its a vicious cycle. Stanford imple-ments top-down projects with the admirable

stated goal of affecting student life as little aspossible meaning that the University istrying to be awesome at reducing carbonemissions while allowing us to stand aroundour house kitchens with the refrigeratorsopen while we chat about the delicious hum-mus were eating.Which is . . . good,I guess.

Because of these top-down projects thatget implemented behind the scenes,studentsarent aware of whats going on.So we dontcomplain or rejoice about it very often. Sowere seen as apathetic. So the Universitycontinues projects behind the scenes sansstudent input.

When we ask what we can do, were toldit would be helpful if the student body wereless apathetic.In turn, we say that were notapathetic we need to know what actionwould actually be useful, not just a sputter-

ing make-work activity for someones PWRpaper on student action or,worse,somethingactually counterproductive.

The best tangible mandate weve re-ceived is this: educate yourselves, and thencare, quietly and in your own way.To whichwe say: its difficult to tell the difference be-tween that and apathy, and can we pleasehave access to the materials that will a llow usto educate ourselves? To which were told:no.

. . . What?!Apparently the Universitys worried we

might tell the press, plus the mother henwants her little chickies just to trust her onthis one.

I, for one,am ready for the chance to putthe force of conviction behind that trust (ornot) when we see The Plan Itself.And thenbash USC.To the press.

Send Emily comments on what kind of doctora Daily Trojan keeps away at gruberte@stan-

ford.edu.

Generally speaking, I am not much of asentimentalist. Known for wielding abit of a sharpened tongue,I have regu-

larly used my 800 words a week to bluster onsemi-serious topics regarding the means bywhich we can attempt to improve the collec-tive Stanford experience.My comments have,on occasion,reflected a rather Machiavellianoutlook toward the University; my concernsare not with the processes undertaken toachieve certain aims, but rather with the im-provement of the end results.

During the financial catastrophe that hasconstituted our enormous, 15 percent across-the-board budget cuts, my life has remainedvirtually unchanged.While I have bemoaned

the loss of our monetary dominance and thecutting of particular budget line items,the ac-tual impact of the economic climate hasseemed like a sort of amorphous concept tome.Just last week,though,I had a visceral ex-perience with the human cost of the financialcrisis.

Shockingly enough, there are a few folkswho, on occasion, give up a few minutes oftheir lives to read The Dude Abides. Onesuch person is Teresa Riseborough.A region-al housing manager for GovCo and surround-ing environs,Teresa has sent me a few incred-ibly kind messages regarding my columns.However, in a message I received last week,Teresa told me that she would no longer be atStanford next year.

Though I had only ever communicatedwith her over email, I asked Teresa if shewould care to chat. For over an hour and ahalf last Wednesday afternoon, we sat at alunch bench in the Lag courtyard, chattingover a wide range of topics.A 27-year veteranof Housing,Teresa has helped manage nearlyevery single residential complex on campus,

excluding the Row. A tremendously kindwoman,Teresa spoke of loving every minuteshe spent in Housing.

Leaving Lag,I felt a bit shaken up.I gener-

ally do not shy away from making bold andsweeping attacks at faceless bureaucracies,particularly in this column, but talking toTeresa was an important reminder to me thatthe overwhelming amount of people whowork at places like Stanford do so becausethey want to provide a superior experiencefor us all they want to see the school run ina manner that is friendly,welcoming and verymuch in tune with the needs of its young andabsurd constituents.

Teresa is someone who spent a large por-tion of her working life in the service of theschools student body, who exudes warmthwhen speaking of particularly superior RAs.But because of this economic shit storm,therewill be a particular absence in Housing be-cause Teresa will not be there.

In a perfect world, I would like nothingmore than to see Teresa have her position re-stored, or another comparable position of

worth be given to her. Unfortunately, this isprobably not in the cards,because the currenteconomic situation is just that wretched.From the departure of people like Teresa

(and I am dead certain that,given the 15 per-cent that is hitting the whole school,there area great many other exceptional employeeswho will no longer be with us), I do believethere are some potential lessons,albeit ratherbitter that I, and perhaps others, can takefrom this all.

First: look at the workings of the schoolfrom a less rigid world view. I still think TheAxe and Palm is a blight upon the world ofdining, and really do want to see improvedservice and food quality.One possibility is tosimply outsource the restaurant to an inde-pendent retailer, whose service would be infi-nitely less horrible, but whose employeeswould more than likely be paid less.Instead of

pushing outright for gutting our unionizedwork force, examining the situation from anon-student perspective and advocating for avariety of options is a far saner course of ac-tion.

Second: appreciate the efforts of thecountless and oft-invisible staff members whowork to make our time at Stanford the fouryears of pampered lunacy that it is.There isundoubtedly a huge amount of people likeTeresa, who, while interacting with studentson some degree, are largely invisible to thegeneral campus. It boggles my mind to thinkof how you make an operation like Housing,much less the entire bloody school, operateon a consistent basis.And the reason we areable to lead such comfortable existenceshere? Its the hard work of people like Teresa.

Lastly: dont throw away your trash in thebathroom bins. It is something I have beenguilty of a variety of times, though Teresa, Iam officially disavowing such behavior.

Zack is pretty sure that even at a place like USC,there are administrators and employees who

deeply care about the well-being of the students.Though they shouldnt.Shocked that Zack ac-tually remained coherent in this article? Let himknow at [email protected].

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OPINIONS

For 11 years, students have enjoyed thefresh coffee, convenient location andtrendy atmosphere of Moonbeans, a

coffee shop just between Meyer and GreenLibraries, that for many students is an inte-gral part of Stanford. But Moonbeans willno longer occupy that spot come June 30,when Stanford will commence with infra-structure upgrades to the site and preparefor a Coupa Cafe kiosk to open there in earlySeptember.

Moonbeans contract was first let in1998, then renewed without competition in2003 and finally extended until June 30,2009after it expired in December 2008, whileStanford received bids for the space on cam-pus.It made one of four bids that were care-fully examined by the University, but lost

out to Coupa Cafe, which currently has akiosk in Y2E2 in addition to a location inPalo Alto.The change has come as an un-welcome shock to many students who havebecome attached to Moonbeans over theyears and has even sparked an on-campuspetition to retain Moonbeans in its currentlocation.

While the Daily editorial board under-stands these natural student responses in theface of losing a coffee shop that has charac-terized a part of the Stanford experience,wealso understand the University decision toopen up the location to a competitive bid ina year plagued by a diminishing endowmentand painful budget cuts across the board.Over the past weeks,we have written aboutour concerns over budget cuts for communi-ty centers and Summer Research College,the lack of need-blind financial aid for inter-national students, the need for continuedfunding of service-learning initiatives likeImpact Abroad, the inequities of the newVaden service charge for next year andthe list does not end there.The University is

faced with tough choices in a period of finan-cial strain,so it is understandable to chooseto open up a campus location to competitivebids that will increase the revenues it cangenerate from prime retail space near thewell-trafficked Stanford libraries. Moon-beans has contributed to Stanford for 11years,and will be missed by many students asthey walk between Meyer and Green. ButCoupa may yet prove to be a positive newaddition to campus. We would only recom-mend retaining some of the friendly Moon-beans employees who brighten the coffeeshops atmosphere and earn many repeatcustomers.

One of the biggest fears surrounding thenew change is the apparent market domi-nance Coupa will have with two locations on

campus and no competing coffee shop with-in walking distance. In announcing thechange,University Librarian Michael Kellerpraised Coupa for its sound business plan,proven environmental responsibility,profes-sional management and wonderful socialconsciousness. The editorial board encour-ages Coupa and Stanford to be wary of theeffects of a seeming monopoly on coffeeshops and keep prices that are low and af-fordable for all students.

Moonbeans will be missed, and we willhave to wait and see if it is able to secure an-other venue on campus.But its important tokeep in mind that Coupa is a family-ownedstore and its owners, Jean Paul and NancyCoupal,have many connections to the Uni-versity, including three children who havegraduated from Stanford.Coupa has gottenrave reviews in the Bay Area, and studentshave responded positively to the cafe inY2E2.Amid severe budget cuts and furtherupcoming disputes as more programs aretrimmed or axed, a farewell to Moonbeansis a sad but understandable change.

A farewell to

Moonbeans

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Thats a bummer, dude

You show me yours, Illshow you mine

And the reason we are able to

lead such comfortable

existences here? Its the hard

work of people like Teresa.

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4NTuesday, May 19, 2009 The Stanford Daily

By JEFF LUCONTRIBUTING WRITER

This Sunday, the Stanford mens varsityeight rowing team sprinted to a photo finish,narrowly edging Washington to place secondbehind California in the Pacific-10 Confer-ence Championships in the closest race intournament history. The rowers raced neck-and-neck through sweltering 105-degree heatin front of 2,000 fans on Lake Natoma, in theSacramento area.The Stanford men also wonadditional medals with third-place finishes inboth the second varsity eight and freshmancategories.

Stanfords varsity eight showed its determi-nation to win from the start, shooting out ofthe third lane to pull within half a boat lengthof Washington and California. Halfway intothe race, the No. 4 Cardinal drew even withNo. 1 Washington and matched them strokefor stroke until the last 500 meters, whereStanford surged ahead to within inches of theleading Cal boat.A full-out sprint in the finalstretch came down to the wire, and the Cardi-nal finished the race with a time of 5 minutes,42.1 seconds,a mere three-tenths of a secondbehind the Golden Bears. Third-place Wash-ington clocked 2.3 seconds behind Cal.

Despite the close loss,Stanford head coachCraig Amerkhanian was extremely pleasedwith Sundays results.

The Stanford men raced with courage andaudacity. I am proud to have witnessed thegreatest mens varsity eight race in Pac-10 his-tory, he said.

Earlier in the day, the Cardinals secondvarsity eight claimed one of Stanfords twobronze medals by clocking 5:53.30, 9.20 sec-onds behind the winner, Washington. Al-though the Cardinal stayed within two boatlengths of the Huskies and hung on the tail ofthe Cal boat for over three quarters of therace, the Stanford rowers found themselvesoverpowered in the final 500 meters of therace,where a power-10 helped both the Gold-en Bears and the Huskies pull ahead.

The mens freshmen eight also faced the

same difficulties in overcoming their Washing-ton and Cal counterparts, who finished 19.60and 10.80 seconds, respectively, ahead of theCardinal boat. Stanford finished 1.70 secondsahead of fourth-place Washington State toclaim the Cardinals second bronze medal ofthe day.

Sundays race showed marked improve-ment for both the mens varsity eight and theStanford mens rowing program as a whole.Amerkhanians rowers had not taken silver inthe Pac-10 Championships since the 2005-2006 season, having taken third place twice inthe past two years. Sundays Pac-10 Champi-onships was also the third confrontation thisseason between the Cardinal and its GoldenBear rival. The results were noticeably betterthan their previous two encounters, both ofwhich Cal won by a margin of 4.54 seconds.

With the Intercollegiate Rowing Associa-tion (IRA) Regatta coming up in less than amonth,Amerkhanian took this improvementto be a sign of Stanfords readiness for its finaltwo tournaments of the season.

We are now in a position to accomplishour season goal of racing for a national cham-pionship.Amerkhanian said,also adding thathe intends to focus on improving the teamsskill set, race plan and execution in the weeksto come.

In spite of their accomplishments on Sun-day, the Cardinal rowers also recognize thatfuture success can only come from toughtraining. Senior rower Mark Murphy helpedto summarize his entire teams determination.

We have worked extremely hard up to thispoint, but any true championship rowerknows to never be satisfied and always striveto put in more training than anyone thoughtpossible, he said.

The IRA Regatta, the oldest collegiaterowing championship in the United States,willtake place in two weeks at Lake Natoma.Thetournament will be held over three days andwill include appearances from the nations toprowing schools.

Contact Jeff Lu at [email protected].

SPORTS

TITLESHOTMens golf places fourth in regional, earns

bid to NCAA Championships

By ROXIE DICKINSONSTAFF WRITER

The fifth-ranked Stanford mensgolf team won a bid to the NCAAChampionship after settling intofourth place at the NCAA South-west Regional tournament at theUniversity of Texas Golf Club overthe weekend in a tight match be-tween several top teams.The Cardi-nal was in a stressful fight for fifthgoing into the final round,but pulledout a comfortable fourth place finishand a championship bid with a 35-over-par,887.

One of the things that we talkedabout was that we just had to fini sh intop five, coach Conrad Ray said.The beauty of this tournament wasthat it was a team effort.Now that weare done,we can start at ground zeroand take a breath of fresh air.

Sunday presented a do-or-die sit-uation for Stanford, who was a fulleight strokes behind fourth-placeUNLV and 17 strokes behind thetournament leader Texas going intothe final round of the tournament.Fortunately for the Cardinal, UNLVfell apart,posting a 23-over 307 in thefinal round to drop the Rebels intosixth place, one place short of ad-vancing to the NCAA Champi-

onship in Toledo, Ohio.Every stroke counted for Stan-

ford,as the Cardinal finished just onestroke in front of No. 45 Michigan,who took fifth.No. 8 Florida showedunwavering concentration and capa-bility, taking the Regional crown bytwo strokes over a 24-over by secondplace Texas Tech and a 25-over bythird place Texas.

The course conditions were real-ly tough,Ray said.The bad weath-er and Bermuda grass threw us a lit-tle out of our comfort zone, but Ithink we handled it really well.Thun-derstorms in the final round forced

play to be called off for three hours.In the final round, the wind justswitched directions and the tempera-ture dropped to 23 degrees.We knew

that we would have a good chance ifwe handled the conditions and post-ed a competitive number.

Senior captain Dodge Kemmercarded his best finish of the year in atie for fourth with a three-over 216.Kemmer finished the first round in atie for 31st with a five-over 76.Afterhis rough start,he birdied his way tothe top five on the individual ladder.Kemmer grabbed four birdies in thesecond round to post a one-under 70on the day, launching him up 20places to a tie for 11th. He continued AGUSTIN RAMIREZ/The Stanford Daily

Freshman David Chung and the Stanford mens golf team earned a spot in the NCAA Championships by placingfourth in the NCAA Southwest Regional with a 35-over-par 887 last weekend at the University of Texas.

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GAME NOTES:No. 5 Stanford rallied to finish

fourth at the NCAA Southwest Regional witha 35-over 887 as a team, which put the

Cardinal one stroke ahead of No. 48 Michi-

gan. The Cardinal was led by senior DodgeKemmers three-over 216, which was tied

for fourth overall. With the fourth-place fin-

ish, Stanford advances to the NCAA Cham-

pionships, which take place May 27-30.

WyndamMakowskyBetween the lines

Trevor Ariza,

why did you

have to leave?

Ive always been partial to un-derrated,unknown players.Thefirst article I ever wrote for anypaper was on the 2003 NewYork Giants running back situ-

ation,and why Delvin Joyce was bet-ter, dollar-for-dollar, than HeismanTrophy winner Ron Dayne.

And in 2005, while fellow NewYork Knicks fans were stocking upon Starbury apparel, I came ever soclose to customizing Trevor ArizasNo. 21 jersey. If not for some inaneMadison Square Garden rule thatonly allowed you to use the numberone on a custom uniform, it wouldhave come to fruition.

Im not sure why,out of a roster ofa dozen guys, Ariza became my fa-vorite. Perhaps it was because theother Knicks of that dreadful erawere, on the whole, entirely unap-pealing, and Arizas high-flyingdunks provided some of the lone ex-citement in an otherwise pathetictime to be a New York basketballfan.Ariza was extraordinarily athlet-ic, but remarkably raw.He probablyleft school a season or two too early,but that was all right he had thenatural talent to play in the NBA,buthe just needed a bit of practice.

Above everything else, he lackeda sound jump shot from beyond 12

feet. He was pretty much helplessalong the arc,and even inside of it.Ameme developed for a few friendsand me:If Ariza could develop an 18-footer, he was going to make theKnicks very happy.

But that opportunity never came;Ariza was dealt to Orlando in early2006 in exchange for Steve Francis.The trade was seen as fairly safe forthe Knicks, but it left me distraught still, if Francis could turn his ca-reer around and get back to his for-mer, superstar level, all would beright.

But,just like every other plan dur-ing Isaiahs Reign of Terror, theAriza-Francis trade didnt work out.In his lone full year in Orlando,Arizaposted career highs in field goal per-centage and points per game in the2006-2007 season. Even then,though, he was still raw it wasntuntil he was traded to the Los Ange-les Lakers in late 2007 that he began

to blossom.By this past season, he had be-

come a legitimate scoring option,both with his drives to the hoop andwith a fairly developed jumper.Arizahas shot well from beyond the arc inthese playoffs, and though that partof his game is still lacking overall,hes become a complete player. Inshort, hes developed that much-needed 18-footer, so much so thateven on a team with Kobe Bryant,Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum,he isfrequently the third or fourth optionon the attack.And it would be crimi-nal to go this entire column withoutmentioning his defense, which isquite good along the perimeter.Andthen, of course, there are the high-light plays,like some of his steals anddunks against Utah in the first round.How many times have we seen himleap out of bounds,save the ball andgive it off to a streaking teammate?

Its become a running joke at The

Daily office,and this column,self-in-dulgent as it is,has been a long timein the making. We watch the 2009playoffs,and see Ariza as a legitimateoption on a Lakers team that hasseemed destined for the Finals prac-tically all year.After each impressiveplay, a few editors in particular willturn and watch me wallow in mygrief.As if the abomination known asNew York basketball over the pastdecade wasnt painful enough, Imnow stuck watching one of my fa-vorites help a team that has, lets say,an interesting history with theKnicks.

But the worst part is that Arizasgame would fit in perfectly withMike DAntonis offense,which is al-ready helping to turn the tide in NewYork.Visions of Nate Robinson dish-ing to Ariza in transition are impossi-ble to erase from my mind.

More often than not, the un-knowns I choose to champion

amount to fairly little.Joyce, for ex-

SPORTS BRIEFS

Lightweight rowers sweep Pacific

Coast ChampionshipsThe Stanford womens lightweight rowing

team followed its openweight counterparts,taking first at the Pacific Coast Rowing Cham-pionships at Lake Natoma last weekend.Theboat of eight showcased its West Coast su-premacy,winning its third straight title.

The lightweight boat easily beat its oppo-nent,the Santa Clara Broncos,by over 37 sec-onds with a time of 6 minutes,47.4 seconds.

The boat of four also came away with awin.The Cardinal entered two boats into thecompetition and came away with an out-standing one-two finish. The first boatcrossed the line in 7:38.2, with the secondboat close behind at 7:53.6.

This weekend was a great chance for us toapply the changes weve been working on in arace setting, said freshman Jenna Wixon-Genack.To do that on the same course wherethe IRA [Intercollegiate Rowing Associationchampionships] will be held was a really goodopportunity.Its definitely going to be a greatrace in a few weeks,and until then,were goingto keep focused and work hard.

Womens varsity eight dominates Pac-10The No.1 Stanfords women varsity eight

rowing team continued its national domi-nance this past weekend, taking the gold atthe Pacific-10 Championships at LakeNatoma. Finishing with a time of 6 minutes,18.6 seconds,the Cardinal won its first goldmedal since 2003.

Stanford is now riding a huge wave of mo-mentum.Prior to its gold medal performancein Sacramento, the team was part of a sweepof California at the Big Row on May 2.

The womens team as a whole finished insecond for the third consecutive year.

The Cardinal is now looking to the future,where it will once again head to Sacramentofor the NCAA Championships. Later today,the NCAA will announce the teams that willparticipate in this years competition. Thefirst varsity eight, ranked first in the country,will likely be the favorite.

Five womens basketball players named

finalists for national teamsEven in its off-season, the Stanford

womens basketball team keeps winning

honors.Junior Jayne Appel, sophomore Jeanette

Pohlen and sophomore Kayla Pedersen wereannounced as three of the 14 finalists for theUSA Womens World University GamesTeam. Separately, freshmen Sarah Bootheand Nnemkadi Ogwumike were namedamong the 14 finalists for the USA WomensU19 World Championship Team.

All five women will travel to ColoradoSprings to train before the final rosters areannounced for each team.Both teams will cuttwo more players during training camp, andcompetition for each team begins in July.

Boothe and Ogwumike will be looking torepeat their gold medal performance fromlast year, when they were both on the U18team.Appel and Pedersen also bring experi-ence winning gold medals with previous U.S.national teams,whereas Pohlen will be look-

ing to make a national team for the first time.

By Jacob Jaffe and Zach Zimmerman

MENS ROWING

Men improve in Pac-10s,

prepare for IRA regatta

GIULIO GRATTA/The Stanford Daily

Sophomore Jeanette Pohlen was one of five

Cardinal women named as finalists for U.S.national teams, along with junior Jayne Appel,sophomore Kayla Pedersen and freshmenSarah Boothe and Nnemkadi Ogwumike.

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option under consideration for usuntil about three weeks ago,Greely said.

There was so much oppositionat the end of April, Greely added,that we were surprised theymoved forward.

Nonetheless, Greely said thatshe believed the EPAA communitymight be better-prepared for a dis-ruptive move than the members of

the Flood School.They have a long history at that

location, and a strong tie to thatlocation, Greely said. Weve hadsome disruption from relocationand expansion every year. Ourcommunity and our sense of identi-

ty is not rooted in our site.As a K-8 charter school without

its own building, the EPAA mustby California law receive an ade-quate facility from the local schooldistrict. While beneficial in that itoffers the EPAA the guarantee of asite, it puts the organization at themercy of the district.

Stipek said that the change high-lights the desirability for the EPAAto build its own site.

Ultimately, it would be wonder-ful if we could raise the funds tobuild our own building, and not beat the whims of the district, Stipeksaid.

Greely,however, cited the perma-nent nature of the Menlo Park facil-ity as a possible improvement.Currently, the East Palo Alto site iscomposed entirely of portablespaces,while Flood will be leaving asite that has a central permanent

building.Greely also noted that the

switch would require significantwork to manage effectively.

There are a lot of logisticalconsiderations, Greely said. Wehave to deal with the issues ofphones and computer networks.

In an email to The Daily, EPAAK-8 Principal Nicki Smith said sheis aiming for a smooth transitionamidst the disruption of the move.

I was the principal of SlaterSchool in Mountain View whichwas closed, Smith said, and Iknow how strongly a communitycan feel about its school. Well be

offering our parents a chance to goand see Flood and I am ver y willingto host Flood families at our pres-ent EPAA ES site [for a visit].

Contact Eric Messinger at [email protected].

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being prepared to open a full dia-logue with adversaries, as well asfriends: all of these are things thatmap pretty well to the way in whichwe Europeans approach the broadframework of our international rela-tions.

Sir Nigel emphasized, however,that the international community wasfacing a difficult set of problems inboth security and economics.

Now were on to the next phasewhich is the phase of implementingthese policies, Sir Nigel said, in try-ing to achieve results in a world whichis dangerous and difficult.

All our governments are trying tohandle international and securityissues at the same time as were allhandling thepredominantissue,whichis getting our economies workingagain, and having to keep so manyballs in the air as political leaders andwin public trust on that basis, headded.

Sir Nigel noted that security issueswere a continuing crucial area forAnglo-American coordination. TheBritish combat mission in Iraq offi-cially came to an end on April 30,andSir Nigel felt British troops left in asatisfactory manner.

We believe we are now leavingBasra and the southeast part of thecountry in a reasonable state to theIraqis who are capable of dealing

with both the political and the securi-ty challenges which lie ahead, SirNigel said. So our armed forces areleaving with their heads held highafter a very difficult mission indeed.

With both the United States andthe United Kingdom sending addi-tional troops to Afghanistan in aneffort to stabilize the country, SirNigel felt three factors were para-mount to achieve success.

I think the first is to see the con-nections to Pakistan, Sir Nigel said.Not to equate Afghanistan withPakistan, because theyre differentcountries, but to recognize that youwont make progress in either unlessyoure able to make progress in both such are the inter-linkagesbetween the two sets of problems.

Sir Nigel also emphasized atten-tion to political considerations.

The second thing is that you needan integrated approach which is polit-ically driven, Sir Nigel said. Youre

dealing in Afghanistan which is aninsurgency, the Taliban, and we allknow from our history books thatyou only defeat insurgencies throughpolitical means, so you have to find away of ensuring that your politicalstrategy is dominant.

Therefore you need to proceedacross a wide front politically, eco-nomically and militarily withmuch more coordination than weveseen so far, he added.A great partof that is trying to find a way ofencouraging reconciliation betweenparts of the Taliban that are reconcil-able, that are not hardcore and deter-mined Taliban, but people who might

come across to normal politics withencouragement.

Sir Nigel continued by noting theimportance of what he described asAfghanization, admitting that itwas an ugly word but emphasizingthe importance of building nationalinfrastructure.

Were not going to achieve suc-cess in Afghanistan by pretendingthat we can do it all ourselves wecant and our exit strategy ulti-mately is through effective Afghansecurity and through effectiveAfghan institutions, so we have tofind a way of building them up,allow-ing them to take the responsibility,Sir Nigel said.

Sir Nigel felt that policy coordina-tion between America and theUnited Kingdom would continuedespite any political changes withineither country,including the possibili-ty of a transition in British govern-ment with upcoming elections.

I think on Afghanistan actuallyboth the government and the opposi-tion have stressed what is now a veryclear part of the Obama administra-tions policy, which is that weve got tohave a very clearly-defined and real-izable mission, which is publiclyunderstood, Sir Nigel said.I thinkthat is related principally to avoidinga situation where Afghanistan canonce again become a base for Al-Qaeda. Thats a strategic imperative.Thats what gives the mission its legit-imacy, and allows people to under-stand very clearly why were thereand why weve been mandated by theU.N. to be there.

In Sir Nigels view,democratic ele-ments would have to form a part ofany workable solution toAfghanistans stability.

Youre not going to getJeffersonian democracy orWestminster democracy overnight,he said. I dont think that the previ-

ous administration thought that wasgoing to happen I know that ourgovernment doesnt think that youcan achieve that quickly either butsome element of representative gov-ernment is going to be important.

I think its important for us torealize that thats what vast majorityof Afghanis want, he added, thatthey enjoy taking part in politics andhaving the opportunity to express apolitical choice. So I dont think weshould swing so far the other way asto say that we would be happy ifAfghanistan returned to the darkdays of a feudal dictatorship; ofcourse that itself wouldnt providethe stability and security that weneed.

Moving to the international finan-cial crisis, Sir Nigel expressed his

belief that moving away from open-market principles would be a mistake.

Were absolutely convinced thatwhatever changes are needed in termsof the world financial system, theanswer doesnt lie in pulling down theshutters on world trade,or going backto protectionism,in order to de-glob-alize,in order to pretend that whatshappened in the world over the last 20years can be turned off, Sir Nigelsaid. We dont believe thats right,and we believe that would actually sti-fle the growth which we hope willreturn before too long to our econo-my; it would impoverish even furtherthe developing world because it

would close them off from the financethats needed for world trade.

And we believe that London isgoing to have a huge part to play inthat recovery when it comes inmonths ahead, he added.

Closing with his personal take onthe core philosophy behind the spe-cial relationship between the U.S.and the U.K., Sir Nigel focused onthree elements.

I think the thing about the U.K.-U.S. relationship, apart from a lot ofhistory of all kinds, he said with alaugh,is that the partnership is glob-al. The partnership is not confined tothe military or intelligence area whichhistorically was the core in theSecond World War, but now extendsto the issues weve been discussingtoday: to our economy,to sustainabledevelopment and protecting the envi-

ronment, through the modern issuesof terrorism,development, trade andso on.

I think it passes the test of con-temporary relevance,he added.

Sir Nigel ended by saying thatwhile the long history of Anglo-

American relations was vital tounderstanding their connections, hiseye is pointed towards the future.

What matters is how we worktoday, he said.

Contact Eric Messinger at [email protected].

SIR NIGELContinued from front page

6 N Tuesday, May 19, 2009 The Stanford Daily

up the individual ranks when he post-ed three more birdies to give himanother 1-under,leading him to finishin a tie for fourth.

Dodge has been one of the keysto our success, Ray said. He hasbeen disappointed in his own results,but he has definitely been knocking

on the door for a while now.This tour-nament was great for Dodge. Heplayed solidly and definitely showedthat he is the backbone of our team.

Sophomore Sihwan Kim also hada slow start but finished in a tie for12th with an eight-over-par 221 forthe tournament.Kim finished the firstand second rounds with a 75 and 74 togive him a seven-over 149 and puthim in a tie for 28th. He stepped upfor the Cardinal in the final roundwhen he came in with a one-over 72for the day that boosted him up 14ranks to finish in the top 15 forStanford.

No. 15 sophomore Steve Zieglerhad real potential to take the individ-ual crown but thunderstorms andtough course conditions placed himinto a tie for 37th with a 13-over 226.Ziegler finished the first round with aone-under 70,just two strokes behindfirst place.However, he carded a six-over 77 and an eight-over 79, putting

him out of contention for the topspot.

Freshman David Chung and sen-ior Daniel Lim tied for 56th with a 20-over 233 for the tournament. Chungstruggled in the first round,posting an82 and 78, but rebounded in the finalround with a two-over 73. Lim didwell in the first round,firing a 73, butthen went on to post a 79 and 81.

Stanfords outcome in its regionalis similar to the other top four teamsin the country. No. 4 Washington andNo.2 Georgia came in second at the

Central and Southeast Regionals,respectively. No. 3 SouthernCalifornia placed fifth in the WestRegional while No. 1 Oklahoma gotfirst in the South Central Regional.

Everyone is in a similar situationto us and now we need to regroup,Ray said.There are probably a hand-ful of teams that could win theNCAAs and I think we qualify in thatgroup given our season finishes andproduction. Next, we looked at theteam individually and I think thatthere is not a team that we cant com-pete with if we play our best golf nextweek. Its really going to come downto which team has [its] best week nextweek.

As a result, the Cardinal will becontinuing on the road to the NCAAChampionships next week for thethird consecutive season.

Contact Roxie Dickinson at [email protected].

MGOLFContinued from page 4

ample, has been out of the NFLfor nearly five years, and wasnever more than a decent returnman in his time in the league.Andby no means is Ariza a superstarin the making hell likely be aneffective role player throughouthis time in the NBA, but neverAll-World. That said, he hasalready made significant strides,and still hasnt tapped out his

potential.But hes doing all this in SoCal,

and not New York. And that is atremendously hard pill to swallow.

Wyndam Makowsky is out of tissues.Send him some more at [email protected].

MAKOWSKYContinued from page 4

percent admit rate,considerably lessthan the 9.46 percent admitted forthe Class of 2012.

Other peer institutions have alsogone to their waitlist. Princeton,with a yield of 59.7 percent, hasadmitted 31 off its waitlist, whileHarvard, with a 76 percent yield,will admit at least 85 students off itswaitlist. Yale has no plans to admitfrom its waitlist as its yield of 68.7percent has led to an already crowd-ed Class of 2013.

Unlike its peer institutions,how-ever, Stanford has yet to release itsfinal yield numbers.

We will not be releasing theyield for the incoming freshmenuntil we have finished admitting the

class, Abbott said. Since we haveadmitted 85 students from the wait-list and will likely admit a few more,it is premature to release that infor-mation.

As for other factors affectingwaitlist admittance and overallyield, such as the current economy,Abbott believes it too soon to makeconclusions.

I cannot say for sure yet if thecurrent recession affected ourenrollment numbers thus far,Abbott wrote. Please understandthat we have just begun to adminis-ter our admitted student question-naire. Once that survey deadlinepasses and we have calculated andanalyzed our admitted studentresponses,I might have a better ideaabout the effect of the recession onour enrollment numbers.

Contact Ryan Mac at [email protected].

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How much would you care if the weeknight closing timefor Green Library went back to midnight?

a) A lot. I find the extra time really helpful.b) A bit. It can sometimes be useful.c) Not at all. Im never there that late.d) I wouldnt care at all. I never go to Green anyway.

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