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Tomorrow NEWS/2 OPINIONS/4 Today MILLIONS FOR STEM CELLS UNPLEASANT OUTING Grant to aid muscular dystrophy research adds to sum Columnist Cris Bautista looks for lessons on Mostly Sunny Few Clouds Stanford receives for stem cell studies senior portrait day 61 46 62 50 Home of Gianluca Iaccarino Thhee SSttaannffoorrdd DDaaiillyy A n I n d e p e n d e n t P u b l i c a t i o n MONDAY www.stanforddaily.com Volume 238 November 8, 2010 Issue 37 Students engineer MESSAGE recyclable laptops with global twist SENT On two campuses, students Luck, Owusu shred Wildcats fight electronic waste By SAMANTHA McGIRR By KABIR SAWHNEY ing offensive fireworks en route to a 42-17 DESK EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR victory.The win keeps Stanford in the dis- cussion for a possible berth in the Rose A group of mechanical engineering graduate stu- Playing at the center of the national Bowl or another BCS bowl. dents have created a “recyclable laptop” that can be stage, Stanford’s football team made a re- “We’re playing for a championship,” completely disassembled by hand in under 30 seconds. sounding statement on Saturday night. Stanford head coach Jim Harbaugh said. As part of a corporate-sponsored design class, Me- The No.6 Cardinal (8-1,5-1 Pac-10) de- “That’s our goal — to get to the Rose chanical Engineering 310, “Project Based Design, En- feated No. 18 Arizona (7-2, 4-2), unleash- Bowl and win a Pac-10 championship. gineering and Development,” the Stanford students That’s all we’re playing for.” collaborated with students at Finland’s Aalto Universi- The game featured two marquee quar- ty to design and build the “Bloom” prototype laptop FOOTBALL terbacks in Stanford redshirt sophomore over the course of a year. Andrew Luck and Arizona junior Nick At the beginning of 2009, Autodesk, the team’s as- 11/6 vs. Arizona W 42-17 Foles, leading some to expect the game to signed sponsor, asked the students to create a fully re- be an offensive shootout. Luck and the cyclable consumer-electronics product using the com- Stanford offense certainly fulfilled those pany’s design software. UP NEXT expectations, tallying 510 yards, including After the team decided on a laptop as their product 293 yards on 23-32 passing from Luck. of choice, they set about addressing the ways in which ARIZONA STATE “We prepared ourselves for a traditional laptops are not eco-friendly. According to (4-5, 2-4 Pac-10) shootout,” said junior defensive back team member Aaron Engel-Hall ‘09 M.S. ‘10, this Michael Thomas. “We had some goals in meant making it easy to remove the “bad apples” — 11/13 Tempe, Ariz. 4:30 P.M. PST mind . if it came down to a shootout, we components such as the circuit boards — from the rest COVERAGE: were prepared.” of laptop. TV Comcast Bay Area The Stanford offense set the tone early “Almost everything in a laptop is theoretically recy- clable,” Engel-Hall said.“It’s mostly metal, plastic and RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM in the game, scoring a touchdown on a 45- yard strike from Luck to junior receiver glass. The problem is that the metal, plastic and glass (kzsu.stanford.edu) Chris Owusu, who was streaking wide are completely integrated [with the rest of the laptop], open down the left sideline. The score in- and we need to separate them before they can be recy- GAME NOTES: After this weekend’s victory against dicated that the Card would be able to cled.” Arizona, the Cardinal is now ranked an impressive move the ball at will against an overhyped The Bloom can be disassembled by hand in 30 sec- 6th in BCS standings, behind only one other 8-1 onds and in 10 steps.A traditional laptop, on the other Arizona defense. JONATHAN YORK/The Stanford Daily school, No. 5 LSU. Stanford’s strong offensive and The Wildcats entered the game highly hand, requires three tools and about 120 steps and can defensive lines look to dominate against Arizona Chris Owusu, above, led all receivers on Saturday, hauling in nine catches for 165 yards and take up to 45 minutes to disassemble. State in Tempe on Saturday. Please see FOOTBALL,page 5 one touchdown. The junior looked fully healthy after being slowed by injury in recent weeks. Additionally, the Bloom contains an envelope with prepaid postage behind the screen, which customers can use to send circuit boards to a specialized recycling WOMEN’S SOCCER facility. ENVIRONMENT Engel-Hall and his Stanford team members, Rohan 11/7 vs. Oregon W 3-0 Bhobe ‘09 M.S. ‘09 and Kirstin Gail ‘09 M.S. ‘09, spent PAC-10 the first six months of the academic year conducting user testing and research to determine why people do UP NEXT Hopkins’squid not currently recycle their electronics, specifically their laptops, and what would make them more likely to do NCAA so. Then they collaborated with four students at Aalto University in Finland on the actual design and con- CHAMPIONS TOURNAMENT program teaches struction. Engel-Hall said the 10-hour time difference 11/12 TBA between California and Finland actually helped the group as they neared their deadline. Press leads Card to conference title GAME NOTES: Undefeated No. 1 Stanford se- “We would work around the clock and then, as we cured its second consecutive Pac-10 conference were going to bed, they were waking up, and we’d title on Sunday, shutting out Oregon 3-0. The sea stewardship By NATE ADAMS the Pac-10 Conference title and its DESK EDITOR second consecutive undefeated regu- Cardinal will learn its seeding and first-round Please see LAPTOPS,page 2 lar season. opponent in the NCAA selection show this after- It’s been a season of successes for In a tight match on Friday night at noon and will make its 13th straight appear- Humboldt squid engage kids, the Stanford women’s soccer team, Laird Q. Cagan Stadium, Stanford ance in the NCAA Tournament on Friday. but last weekend’s final series certain- was able to capitalize on an early goal biology professor finds LOCAL ly helped to end the year on a particu- and survive an extended Oregon and secured a share of the conference larly high note.With a pair of shutout State assault to ultimately hand the title, which the Cardinal went on to By ERIN INMAN victories over the Oregon schools at Beavers their first loss of the confer- clinch on Sunday. STAFF WRITER home, the No. 1 Cardinal (18-0-2, 9-0- ence season. The 2-0 win was Stan- 0 Pac-10) clinched sole possession of ford’s 16th victory in as many chances Please see WSOCCER,page 6 Squids for Kids, a growing outreach program run Recent grad’s through Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station, is teaching good ocean stewardship to kids. “A lot of kids have eaten seafood but haven’t really thought of what that means,” said Julia Stewart, the pro- gram coordinator and a graduate student in biology at death under Stanford.“To be able to see an animal,touch it and think about it moves towards ocean awareness.” The program started when William Gilly, a biology professor at Hopkins,gave a lecture and dissection work- shop at a science camp in Cambria,Calif.,two years ago. investigation After someone suggested that Humboldt squid be sent to the home institutions of some of the conference attendees,the program took off.The novelty of the Hum- By ELLEN HUET boldt squid garnered attention through word of mouth, MANAGING EDITOR while the website helped promote inquiries from other institutions. San Francisco officials are investigating the death of “The teachers were all astounded because they use a Stanford alumna, Jia Hou ‘07, who graduated with a little squid for dissection,” Gilly said. “They’re small, degree in psychology. mangled, deformed and colorless.” In contrast, Hum- Hou died on Oct. 29 in San Francisco at age 25, said boldt squid are not just novel to most people, but also Alan Pringle of the city-county Office of the Medical “charismatic,” according to Gilly. Their relatively larger Examiner last week. On Sunday, a spokesman for the size, and hence larger organ systems, makes them opti- office said the case was still under investigation and mal for dissections when compared to other, smaller would be for at least several more weeks. squid. Word of Hou’s death had spread last week to some The squid is a “novel platform for increased aware- of the staff who worked in Freshman-Sophomore Col- ness in students about ocean health,” Gilly added. It al- lege (FroSoCo) when Hou lived there, including resi- lows people to “connect with the ocean on a different dent fellows Andrew Dimock and Sharon Palmer and level,” Stewart said. former college assistants Cisco Barron ‘04 and LaCona Since the program’s inception, any teacher who can Woltmon ‘04.They all declined to comment. use the squid in a “rational way”is eligible to receive one, Quincy Tanner ‘08, who lived in FroSoCo with Hou JOHNATHAN POTO/The Stanford Daily Gilly said.Thus far, 60 to 75 Humboldt squid have been during the 2004-2005 school year,said Hou’s death was With nine goals this season, junior forward Lindsay Taylor (17) is tied with junior midfielder Teresa Noyola in second place on Stanford’s scoring list. The team leader, senior Christen Press, scored twice on Friday to vanquish OSU, 2-0. Please see SQUID,page 3 Please see HOU,page 3 Index Opinions/4 • Sports/5 • Classifieds/6 Recycle Me 2 N Monday, November 8, 2010 The Stanford Daily RESEARCH NEWS BRIEFS LAPTOPS Grant aids muscular Emerging scientists Continued from front page win federal awards Skype briefly and tell them what needed to be done,” he said.