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Intermission covers weekend comic convention, Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny The Daily investigates. interviews actors Martin Starr and Adam West 60 42 61 44 TheThe Stannfford DDDailyilyily An Independent Publication FRIDAY www.stanforddaily.com Volume 235 March 6, 2009 Issue 24 FACULTY & STAFF Hecker talks SALARIES FROZEN North Korea AT FACULTY SENATE MS&E prof. dicusses his most Univ.staff also discusses adjusments to recent trip to isolated nation academic calendar, medical school facilities By CALLA HUAN SHENG By NIKHIL KAMAT would be moved to the first Monday of CONTRIBUTING WRITER STAFF WRITER the quarter and the add/drop deadline would be consolidated and fall on the A complete transcript of the following interview Provost John Etchemendy PhD ‘82 Friday of the third week of each quarter. with Prof. Hecker is available online at www.stan- announced a University-wide salary Course withdrawal and grading basis forddaily.com. freeze at yesterday’s Faculty Senate deadlines would also be consolidated meeting. The Senate discussed budget and fall on the eighth week of each quar- Management Science and Engineering cuts, new medical school facilities and ter. Additionally, each quarter would Professor Siegfried Hecker, an expert on nuclear upcoming changes in the academic cal- have an extra day by starting on a weapons, recently returned from a visit to North endar. Monday instead of a Tuesday. Korea, where he frequently checks on the country’s Black said that the proposed calendar denuclearization process. Hecker has researched Severe budget cuts to affect all gives students greater flexibility in extensively in fields of plutonium science — he University departments selecting their classes. He said that the served as director of Los Alamos National Citing the worsening economy and its current schedule adds needless stress to Laboratory from 1986 through 1997, and remains sharply negative effect on the students by forcing them to choose class- an emeritus director to the Laboratory. Through a University’s endowment, Etchemendy es and seek advising during the finals series of Track Two, non-governmental, non-official announced a planned budget reduction period. visits to North Korea, Hecker has worked closely of approximately $100 million for the “Course enrollment for spring quar- with the previous and current administration’s next fiscal year. The budget reduction is ter opens Monday,” Black said. “Most North Korean negotiations team. The Daily spoke $30 million greater than originally students are thinking about finishing with Hecker about his experiences in the country, ALVIN CHOW/The Stanford Daily expected. their quarter; they’re totally focused on and his insight into nuclear issues in North Korea In order to meet the cuts, finishing off their papers, and then to ask and elsewhere. Senior guard Anthony Goods scored 15 points to help the Cardinal avenge a 90-60 loss Etchemendy announced the salary them at this juncture to start thinking to the Sun Devils earlier in the season with an upset road win in Tempe last night. freeze, which will begin on Sept. 1. The about the upcoming quarter?” The Stanford Daily (SD): This is your sixth visit to freeze will not apply to certain raises Black said that the scheduling North Korea. You made one each year from 2004 such as those due for faculty promotions. changes are part of a broader set of to 2009. How is this trip different from the previous “Obviously, we made this decision in improvements intended to help students ones? Any change in North Korean society, diplo- order to minimize the number of lay- make better decisions about classes by macy? offs,” Etchemendy said. “As you know, having more room to communicate with Siegfried Hecker (SH): We visited North Korea DESERT STORM the economic situation has deteriorated their adviser. from Tuesday, Feb. 24 to Saturday, Feb. 28, and first since November and continues to look “I want people to get more informa- of all it was quite a relief from Beijing in that the Stanford men upset No. 21 ASU, 74-64 in Tempe quite bleak.” tion when enrollment is open,” Black air was quite clear and that the weather was beau- Etchemendy also added that stock said. “Right after midterms is a good tiful. In Beijing, it went day to day from being By HALEY MURPHY (21-8, 10-7). More importantly, though, the assets comprise only a small portion of time. It’s a break, a couple of weeks to smoggy to being almost impossibly smoggy. So the DESK EDITOR game also served as much-needed revenge the University’s endowment. However, coordinate schedules.” first thing that we found when we got off at for the 90-60 thrashing Arizona State like those of many of its peer institu- Black said adding an extra day to the Pyongyang, was the After beating USC 75-63 at home in handed Stanford on Jan. 2 as the Cardinal tions, Stanford’s assets are tied in illiquid start of each quarter allows professors relief of having rea- Maples Pavilion, it seems the Stanford raced out of the gates, gunning for an assets that cannot be easily sold at this who schedule classes on Mondays to sonably clean air. men’s basketball team took that game’s upset. time without significant loss to the have more time in the classroom, espe- All the way momentum and packed it in their suitcases “That’s always motivation,” junior University, Etchemendy said. cially during winter quarter, which sees around, while some — because the newfound energy somehow Landry Fields said of the teams’ previous two Monday holidays in President’s Day people believed made its way to Tempe, Ariz., where the meeting. “That’s the kind of stuff that our Registrar announces new and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. that North Korea Cardinal defeated No. 21 Arizona State, coaching staff and our players, we don’t academic calendar “The reasons for not having instruc- and its economy is 74-64. forget. We all knew that the first time University Registrar Thomas Black tion on the first Monday were mostly sinking, we’ve actu- The decisive victory marked a better- around wasn’t our best effort, and we announced new changes to the academ- administrative,” Black said. “They relat- ally seen it rising late-than-never conference road win for wanted to make sure that didn’t happen ic calendar to take effect starting with ed to registration and bill payment, but and looking better the Stanford men (17-11, 6-11 Pacific-10 again. Tonight we played with energy and the 2009-2010 school year. The changes since then, we’ve all gone virtual, and we than we’ve seen in Conference) — the first of the season com- purpose.” include moving the start of enrollment can recover quite easily.” the past. I would ing on the season’s last road trip — and the to the sixth week of the previous quar- say this is the stark- third consecutive loss for the Sun Devils Please see MBBALL, page 7 ter. The preliminary study list deadline Please see SENATE, page 2 est observation of how it struck differ- ently as the previ- ous times. Photo courtesy Siegfried Hecker [Diplomatically,] Prof. Siegfried Hecker makes OFF-CAMPUS DAILY POLL we’ve seen a change frequent Track Two, non-offi- Do you think ASSU Executive of attitude since cial visits to North Korea. His slates should have their campaign spending capped? October 2006, when most recent visit in late 38 votes taken from stanforddaily.com at 9:10 p.m. 03/05/09 they conducted a Students join Prop. 8 Februrary marked his sixth nuclear test. Even 11% though, by technical visit in fiver years to the D standards, that detached Asian country. 11% rally outside state court C nuclear test was of 61% limited success, politically for them it was very suc- A cessful. So the principal attitude change is one of Calif. Supreme Court The demonstration, billed the 18% greater confidence on their part. They now tell us, “100,000 March,” hoped to garner B you must deal with us as a nuclear weapon state. holds Prop. 8 hearings 100,000 supporters to demonstrate We have demonstrated that we have nuclear outside of the court proceedings. weapons.We’ve tested a nuclear weapon, and so we While it was well short of this lofty expect to be treated as a state that has nuclear By RYAN MAC goal with only several hundred peo- A) Yes, slates should be elected on the basis of weapons. That confidence will most likely harden DESK EDITOR ple attending, the event was of unde- their ideas and not by the size of their wallets. their negotiating position. Then, of course, they’re niable importance in the fight for B) No, it’s all fair in love and politics. also still trying to get a sense of what the new same-sex marriage, according to C) I don’t have an opinion on the matter. “No on 8” and “Yes on 8” cam- D) I only care about free T-shirts, so... administration will do. They are entering the nego- paign signs, ubiquitous in the weeks Wadden. tiations with a new administration from what they before last November’s elections, “The crowd was very, very intense Today’s Question: considered to be a position of strength. in the public addresses following the Do you agree with the Registrar’s decision to reappeared yesterday in San begin quarters on Monday instead of Tuesday? Francisco as the state Supreme Court court proceedings,” Wadden a) Yes, I feel it will add more time to my learning SD: How is North Korea’s disablement process of experience.