Archive for November, 2011

How does Andrew Luck keep track of time?

November 10th, 2011

In an article about Saturday’s upcoming football game against Oregon, DAVID KIEFER of Stanford Athletics asks quarterback ANDREW LUCK how he keeps track of time:

“Did you circle this game on your calendar?”

“I don’t have a calendar,” he said.

“Do you use your iPhone?”

“I don’t have an iPhone.”

“Do you have a watch?”

“I don’t have a watch.”

So how does Luck keep track of time?

“I read the syllabus,” he said.

Luck certainly doesn’t need a syllabus to be aware of the stakes.

“When you’re thinking about the upcoming football season, you’re thinking about Oregon,” Luck said. “If you want to do something on the West Coast, you’ve got to beat Oregon.”

Read the full story about how the Cardinal is preparing to take on the Ducks at gostanford.com.

Copyright for course readers

November 9th, 2011

Stanford’s libraries dole out millions of dollars each year in copyright payments so that faculty, students and staff can have ready and easy access to published works. But when students purchase course readers for classes, they also are charged for copyright, often paying for the same rights the libraries already purchased.

Not anymore. The new Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange (SIPX), piloted last spring and launched more widely this fall in “print-on-demand” deployment for course readers, will prevent duplicate copyright payments and save students an estimated 25 to 78 percent of the usual cost. Researchers from the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX) and from Media X launched the new system to register and transact intellectual property for copyrighted materials used in course readers. It was developed by a multidisciplinary team jointly led by MICHAEL GENESERETH, associate professor of computer science and research director of CodeX, and ROLAND VOGL, lecturer in law and executive director of both CodeX and the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology.

SIPX allows the print system to become “legally trained” to automate aspects of complex licensing processes, including accommodating customized copyright pricing and dynamically calculating royalty payments that account for pre-existing rights to content through Stanford library subscriptions.

“It’s a big savings—and a cool project. This is cutting edge,” says Vogl. Read more in Stanford Lawyer.

ESPN ‘GameDay’ headed to Stanford

November 8th, 2011

ESPN “GameDay” will broadcast from the Oval on Saturday in the hours leading up to the Cardinal’s football game against Oregon that night. The show will begin at 6 a.m PT. More details will be posted on the Athletics website in the coming days. This will be the fourth time this season Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and Erin Andrews have been at a Pac-12 game. The show will begin at 6 a.m with more details coming on the gostanford.com website in the coming days. Previous “Game Days” with the Pac-12 this year have featured, Oregon and LSU, at Oregon with Arizona State and two weeks ago at the Coliseum when Corso put on the Stanford Tree outfit and predicted a Stanford win at USC. This is the first trip to The Farm for “GameDay” and third time the Cardinal have been involved with ESPN’s morning preview show. Last year’s game at Oregon was also a national preview show. Stanford (9-0) is No. 2 in the USA Today/Coaches Poll and No. 3 in the Associated Press poll. Oregon (8-1) is No. 6 in both polls. The game will be televised on ABC at 5 p.m and is sold out.

Stanford Women’s Soccer’s senior class honored

November 7th, 2011

Even before Cardinal women’s soccer ended its regular season unbeaten, its senior players — CAMILLE LEVIN, TERESA NOYOLA, LINDSAY TAYLOR and KRISTY ZURMUHLEN — were hailed as the greatest at a pregame ceremony Saturday night. The team’s 2-0 victory over Cal, in which Taylor and Zurmuhlen scored back-to-back goals, was icing on the cake.

Seniors Teresa Noyola, Camille Levin, Kristy Zurmuhlen and Lindsay Taylor before Stanford defeated Cal on Nov. 5. Photo courtesy Stanford Athletics.

The Class of 2012 has a regular-season record of 75-1-1 and has never lost at home.

“We’re going to miss the four seniors,” Cardinal coach PAUL RATCLIFFE said. “So, we want to take advantage of having them on the team right now and go all the way.”

 

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Vote for Matthew Rothe

November 4th, 2011

MATTHEW ROTHE, director of Stanford Dining’s Sustainable Food Program, has been named a finalist in the inaugural Real Food Awards for his leadership in creating a university policy to support more sustainable food practices. Rothe is credited for partnering with students to decrease food waste by more than 50 percent in one dining hall and for working to purchase “real” food from independently owned and ethical food businesses.

The Real Food Awards are sponsored by the Real Food Challenge (RFC), an organization that aims to shift at least 20 percent, or $1 billion, of university food purchasing from conventional to “real” sources by 2020 through student-led campaigns.

Rothe is up for an award in the Food Service Managers category. Other categories include students and student groups, faculty members or administrators, cafeteria worker-leaders and food producers.

According to a press release issued by the RFC, “All of the candidates have been chosen by students because they represent people who are truly making changes in the food culture on their campuses. The Real Food Awards are the only national recognition for excellence in food service voted on by the customers themselves — a ‘People’s Choice Award’ for the food industry.”

The finalists were announced and voting began Oct. 24 as part of the national Food Day. Within the first two days there were more than 600 votes. There is still time to cast your ballot for Rothe. Voting closes Wednesday, Nov. 9.

Winners will be announced on Friday, Nov. 18.

One last Halloween photo: Glow, Stanford!

November 2nd, 2011

The photo below landed in the Stanford Report “Suggest a Story” mailbox yesterday, sent from the iPhone of RANDEE FENNER, a lecturer in the Stanford School of Law. Turns out the pumpkin was carved by her husband, TOM FENNER, Stanford’s deputy counsel.

During a telephone chat, Randee noted that the photo was inspired by the Stanford football team’s down-to-the-wire win against USC on Saturday.

“It seemed like a fitting tribute to our alma mater,” Randee, AB ’75, said. Tom Fenner earned his bachelor’s from Stanford in 1973 and his JD in 1976.

 

A close encounter with the Stanford Band

November 1st, 2011

Oh, the horror: The night before Stanford’s fabulous football victory over USC, the members of a wedding party – apparently unaware of the game – were innocently taking an elevator to the ground floor of the Pasadena Marriott for the marriage ceremony. They were quiet, dressed nicely, with an air of formality. Two cute and very young bridesmaids held flowers.

Then the elevator stopped on the second floor. The door opened, and in flowed, with instruments and in full costume, a dozen members of the ever-energetic Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band. The wedding party was wide-eyed and speechless.

A band member smiled. “This has got to be a shock,” he said.