Online petitions transform efforts

Web-only special fees option changes strategy, tactics
By megan maass
NEWS| The new electronic signature process requires all groups to gather signatures through an online petition. To “sign,” a student must enter a valid last name, student ID and SUNet ID, a process that has drawn mixed reactions from the thirteen student groups — nine undergraduate, three joint and one graduate — petitioning for special fees this year.

Teaching decisions

By Allison Dedrick
NEWS| As seniors contemplate their post-graduation plans, some will consider participating in Teach for America (TFA) — an increasingly popular program, which offers college graduates full-time, two-year teaching positions in poor or rural public schools, with the goal of providing underprivileged students a quality education.

High-tech equipment stolen

By Rahul Kanakia
NEWS| Tens of thousands of dollars worth of specialized electronics equipment has been stolen from three physics buildings located in the Hewlett and Packard Quadrangle.

'Free' laundry shapes washing habits

By Janet Kim
NEWS| Entering the Wilbur laundry room for the first time is one of the more surreal moments of the Stanford experience. Equipped with 21 washers and 22 dryers, the room is an awe-inspiring, wall-to-wall demonstration of laundering prowess. And it’s all free. Well, sort of.

ASSU endorses amendment

By megan maass
NEWS| The Undergraduate Senate passed an advocacy bill, two elections commission measures and approved an amendment to its constitution at the group’s final meeting of the quarter last night.

Guantanamo docudrama stirs

By Peter Williams
NEWS| The film chronicles the detention of Ruhal Amhed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul — three men suspected by the U.S.

The beginning of something

By Linus Liang
NEWS| Nine thousand Post-it notes fluttered about campus last weekend, a side product of an Entrepreneurship Week in full swing. Team “Gumball Capital” used their Post-its to solicit donations for a micro-lending organization called Kiva. Canvassing the campus with their Post-it notes, they were able to raise over three-thousand dollars.

Hispanic institute founder dies

By Stanford Daily Staff
NEWS| Ronald Hilton, professor emeritus of Romantic languages, died at his on-campus home on Feb.