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Report as: spam offensive John H on 5/09/08 at 9am

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER NEW EXCUSE for Lake Lag being empty. So let me get this straight: It's not wasting water when it's for the salamanders, but God forbid we actually use water for Stanford's own lake.

I'm calling BS. This is just the latest in a string of ever-changing excuses. JUST BRING BACK LAKE LAG!!!

Report as: spam offensive Elway on 5/09/08 at 9am

What a bunch of pointless enviro-mumble-jumble. Quit writing nonsensical letters to the editor and just bring back lake lag.

Report as: spam offensive nancy on 5/09/08 at 9am

Fire Tom Zigterman and bring back whoever used to hold his position back when Lake Lag used to be filled!

Report as: spam offensive lake lag monster on 5/09/08 at 9am

lake lag monster breeds in lagunita. monster needs more water. or else, monster will dehydrate. and if lake monster dehydrates, then no more lake monsters. good environmental cause. lake monster sez: PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST BRING BACK LAKE LAG

Report as: spam offensive Mister Tiger Salamander on 5/09/08 at 9am

I am a tiger salamander. And we salanders need MORE WATER.
So I am asking Tom W. Zigterman to please fill up Lake Lag to the rim. Or else we will die. And I think it will make Mr. Zigterman very sad if all of us salamanders die. So please fill up the lake!

- Mister Tiger Salamander

Report as: spam offensive becky on 5/09/08 at 9am

Wow. Congratulations, Tom W. Zigterman. You've just turned yourself into public enemy #1.

Oh yeah, just to echo everyone else on here: bring back lake lag (as if it needs repeating).

Report as: spam offensive been here a while on 5/09/08 at 11am

A few of of these comments are not very nice. I think one should try to make one's point without being discourteous. I know the comment writers don't really mean it. I bet they're just being funny, or maybe they're using a style of online writing that I, as an older person, just don't get. Still, it seems to me that a lot of issues in the wider world -- for example, the current Democratic primary process -- would benefit immensely from simple courtesy.
<br><br>Anyway, Mr. Zigterma's letter is quite informative. I urge any readers who are really interested in the issue of water bodies and natural life on Stanford property to sign up for a tour of Stanford's <a href="http://jrbp.stanford.edu/">Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve</a> (home of Lake Searsville) or to bike over to Arastradero Open Space Preserve, possibly by way of Old Page Mill Rd.</br></br>

Report as: spam offensive been here a while on 5/09/08 at 11am

Hrm. I wonder why I can never get html tags to work in these comments.

Report as: spam offensive been here a while on 5/09/08 at 11am

Also, I should clarify that Arastradero OSP is not, as far as I know, Stanford property. But I think it's representative of the local natural environment.

Report as: spam offensive _ on 5/09/08 at 12pm

FYI: The "been here a while" posts were actually written by Tom Zigterman himself (I can tell; I'm one of his colleagues).

Report as: spam offensive Condi Dondi on 5/09/08 at 12pm

Haha, looks like Tom Zigterman is fearing for his job. Tom, instead of posting "anonymous" comments about your own letter to the editor, I have a better idea for you: JUST BRING BACK LAKE LAG LIKE EVERYONE HERE IS TELLING YOU TO DO. not a complicated solution.

Report as: spam offensive Gregory B on 5/09/08 at 12pm

Oh man, you know you're having a bad day at work when even the tiger salamanders tell you that you're wrong (see fifth post).

Report as: spam offensive been here a while on 5/09/08 at 5pm

Actually, I'm a PhD student. I was here as an undergrad several years ago. Hence I've been here a while. In particular, I've seen Lake Lag full and empty over many seasons.

Report as: spam offensive nancy on 5/09/08 at 6pm

lmao oh the scandal, now apparently zigterman is anonymously commenting about his own letter AND pretending to be a phd student??? maybe he should just quit wasting time on the clock and just, as everyone else here so eloquently puts it, "bring back lake lag"

Report as: spam offensive Tom Zigterman on 5/09/08 at 7pm

Look, we're just not going to fill up the lake. I even tried to get Stanford to cut off water from all the fountains around campus, but they wouldn't go for it. Heck, I even proposed to cut off all water from on-campus residential showers. (I wanted to save the water to feed the caterpillars.) Who needs to take showers anyway? If I'm going to smell like a disgusting fanatical eco-dimwit, then everyone else should too!

Report as: spam offensive nancy on 5/09/08 at 7pm

haha p3wned

Report as: spam offensive Stanford Waterskiier on 5/09/08 at 9pm

We need a waterski team. I'll give a year's scholarship to the first Stanford Studen who goes 3 at 41 off at Lake Lag.

Report as: spam offensive Stanford Waterskiier on 5/09/08 at 9pm

Oh yeah, and just incidentally, one more thing: BRING BACK LAKE LAG.

Report as: spam offensive Stanford HR on 5/10/08 at 4am

Tom, say bye-bye to your job...

Report as: spam offensive Peter on 5/20/08 at 10am

I an an alum from he 1980s. Lake Lag, when it was filled annually, used to be a fun place. It had a boat house, beach, sailing and swimming. It was seasonal then, filling in March and turning swampy by May, and gone by July.
The university manufactured various excuses for ending Lake Lag- cost and endangered animals.




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