Speaker lends a face to AIDS forum

Kim decries lack of political will for health care
By Kelley Fong and Christian L. Tom
NEWS| Internationally-renowned AIDS activist Dr. Jim Kim rejected the claim that the world lacks the financial resources to treat AIDS-afflicted Africans, arguing instead on Friday that it is a matter of public awareness and political will.

Torture panels shock audiences

By Lia Hardin
NEWS| Journalists, lawyers and psychologists spent Friday detailing alleged abuses of power in Iraqi prisons and discussing recent legislation decriminalizing abuses as part of the conference “Thinking Humanity after Abu Ghraib.”

Group calls for lower emissions

By Allison Dedrick
NEWS| Global warming has become a hot issue at Stanford with the University’s announcement of new sustainability institutes and funding increases for environmental research in the past few years.

Few profs share syllabi

By Daisy Chen
NEWS| A pilot version of Stanford Syllabus, an online repository for class syllabi, hit the Web last week, but students are already complaining that too few professors have posted course information, limiting the usefulness of the site.

A show of support

By Rahul Kanakia
NEWS| Six Degrees sponsored a six-hour concert extravaganza in White Plaza Saturday in an effort to raise human rights awareness, with campus groups manning informational tables as bands Jazz Mafia, K23 Orchestra and Albino played under the Birdcage for a crowd of students, tourists and local residents.