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Nadinne Cruz left the Haas Center for Public Service
in June after nine years with the center, three as
its director. Under Cruz’s leadership, Stanford ranked
first this year in service learning in U.S. News and
World Report. “I
love to serve because she loves to teach,” Jay Trinidad, ’03,
told the Stanford Daily. “It’s rare to find someone
who can convince your mind, talk to your heart and
inspire your soul. ”
Six students from
the Coalition for Labor Justice fasted for seven days
at the end of spring quarter to protest
campus labor policies. They want the University to
adopt a comprehensive “code
of conduct” that would include guidelines for the use
of temporary and subcontracted workers, extension of
the living-wage policy to all workers, and increased
educational opportunities.
The group ended its hunger strike on June 3 when the
University announced the formation of an advisory committee
that will
include three students.
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Several faculty members have won national recognition.
Psychology professor Laura Carstensen received a 2003
Guggenheim Fellowship to support a book-in-progress
about the sudden
extension of life expectancy in the 20th century. Seven
scholars were elected to the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences:
statistics and electrical engineering professor Thomas
Cover, MS ’61, PhD ’64, research associate professor
of biological sciences Gretchen Daily, ’86, MS ’87,
PhD ’92, law professor Thomas Grey, statistics and biostatistics
professor Iain Johnstone, Hoover Institution senior
fellow Kenneth Judd, psychology professor Ellen Markman
and sociology
professor Douglas McAdam. Another seven were elected
to the National Academy of Sciences: math professor
Yakov Eliashberg,
anthropological sciences professor Richard Klein, materials
science and engineering professor William Nix, MS ’60,
PhD ’63, SLAC physicist Helen Quinn, ’63, MS ’64,
PhD ’67, psychology professors Claude Steele and Brian
Wandell, and chemistry professor Paul Wender.
The University’s budget will
be tight in 2003-04, but the impact of cutbacks—including
a salary freeze—will
not be “terribly visible overall,” Provost John
Etchemendy told the Faculty Senate in early June. The
financial woes are largely due to the sluggish stock market,
spiraling
health-care costs, students’ increased need for financial
aid and an upswing in University debt due to construction.
Etchemendy, PhD ’82, added that if the outlook continues
to be grim for the next two to three years, Stanford
may have to make “structural cuts of a larger sort and
perhaps more targeted sort.”
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