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Tomorrow FEATURES/2 SPORTS/5 Today NOVEL TEAMS HEISMAN POLL Lecturer Tom Kealey teaches The Stanford Daily staff makes midseason picks Sunny Sunny collaborative creative writing for college football’s most prestigious award 83 65 79 66 Home of Jessica Rowe 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 WEDNESDAY www.stanforddaily.com Volume 238 October 13, 2010 Issue 19 LOCAL Forum for Exchange UNIVERSITY Brown,Whitman debate for University starts last time before looming vote pilot child-care “Jerry Brown talks about Candidates scrutinize each other’s having created all these jobs records at Dominican U. event when he was governor,” Whitman said.“But the fact program for is, unemployment nearly By PAUL JONES doubled to what was then a record number of nearly 11 SAN RAFAEL — Three percent.” faculty families weeks before the Nov. 2 elec- “We had something Brown tion, California gubernatorial called a business cycle,” By KURT CHIRBAS candidates Meg Whitman,Re- Brown shot back.“We did create new jobs.Yes, publican and former CEO of we were in a recession,and two years later Cal- In 2007, a survey by the Faculty Development & Diversi- eBay,and Democrat Attorney ifornia was booming again.” ty Office showed that almost a third of Stanford faculty General Jerry Brown met for a Brokaw interjected. missed five or more days of work annually to take care of an final war of words. Moderated “At the end of Mr. Brown’s term as gover- ill child, causing a potential loss in productivity.To alleviate by former NBC Nightly News nor, it was in the middle of the Ronald Reagan Whitman this problem, the University recently launched a program anchor Tom Brokaw, the de- recession,” he said.“Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and that aims to meet the child-care needs of Stanford faculty, bate at Dominican University focused on issues Tennessee all had Republican governors and funded through a partnership between the provost and the such as the state’s fiscal crisis and economy. higher unemployment rates at the time.” School of Medicine. It wasn’t long before Brown and Whitman Later, Brokaw asked Whitman about her In addition to the productivity issue among general fac- began sparring with each other. decision to spend upward of $140 million on a ulty, the medical school was concerned with how the unpre- “I wouldn’t totally eliminate the capital- political campaign, despite her spotty voting dictability of its faculty members’ schedules affected their gains tax, which my opponent Meg Whitman record.Whitman called her lack of civic partic- child-care options and was looking for a solution, said Han- wants to do,” Brown said. “That would add $5 ipation “wrong,” but said her wealth allowed nah Valantine, senior associate dean for diversity and lead- billion to $10 billion to our budget deficit,” he her to be independent and said Brown owed ership in the medical school. added. public employee unions. Now, the new program seeks to resolve both of these is- “The tax he likes so much is a tax on jobs,” “If Jerry Brown gets to be governor of this sues.Called the Faculty Back-up Care Plan,it will be offered Whitman said. state,there will be a meeting . of all the union in a three-year pilot phase that began on Oct. 1. During this “How much money will you save if this tax bosses who are there to collect all the IOUs for phase, the service will be limited to Stanford faculty as well break goes into effect?” Brown asked of Whit- their having funded Jerry Brown’s entire cam- as associate, assistant and full-time clinical professors at the man,a billionaire. paign,”Whitman said. School of Medicine. “I’m an investor, and investors will benefit Brown said Whitman’s special interests are The provider of this service, Bright Horizons Family So- from this,but so will job creators,and I was a job the rich. VIVIAN WONG/Staff Photographer lutions, already manages similar childcare plans at Harvard, creator,”Whitman said. “She’s raised $30 million from the kind of Jack Jia, co-founder and chief executive of Baynote, Inc., speaks on Rice and Cornell. Its experience at other universities was a By contrast, Whitman said Brown’s record Tuesday at a symposium of FACES, the Forum for American-Chinese Ex- major factor in the University’s decision to select the com- showed he would hurt California’s economy. Please see DEBATE, page 3 change at Stanford. pany,Valantine said. “I think as we move forward, we’re seeing a shift in this generation of workforce where they are very concerned that STUDENT LIFE they should have work-life balance,”Valantine said.“So the institutions that recognize that need, and provide the infra- structure and resources to support [it] . are going to be the Overseas programs report crime ones that are going to be able to recruit and retain the very best of faculty.” The University last revised its child-care services in 1999 By IVY NGUYEN lic property near the Kyoto center. Again, it was again when it implemented a DESK EDITOR not indicated if students were involved. Motor vehicle program that has parents and bike thefts on public property in the area nearly call a referral agency to Recently released Clery reports for Bing Overseas doubled, to 49 vehicle and 323 bike thefts in 2009 from get a list of centers and in- Studies Program (BOSP) centers detail crime at and 26 motor vehicle and 255 bike thefts in 2008. house providers that near Stanford centers in 2009. No crime was reported One case of aggravated assault and one of robbery could take care of their for the Beijing, Berlin, Madrid, Oxford, Paris or Santia- occurred on public property near the Moscow center in children that day.Today, it go centers, while the crimes reported for the Florence, 2009, up from none the previous year. currently extends to all Moscow and Kyoto centers occurred on public proper- No information was available for the Cape Town members of the Stanford ty near the sites. center because the center debuted in spring 2010.No re- staff. The crimes detailed in the reports are categorized by port was made for the Australia center because the pro- “With the referral, the ANASTASIA YEE/ whether they occur on campus, within the dorm, in a gram is run through a contract with the University of employee makes all the The Stanford Daily non-campus area owned or controlled by the Universi- Queensland and does not have a facility maintained by arrangements with the ty or on public property. Public property is defined as Stanford. provider and pays the full “streets, sidewalks, and parking facilities contiguous to, Due to the differences in law enforcement record- cost of care,” said Teresa but not within,the campus,”and those statistics are pro- keeping at these sites, these numbers are not represen- Rasco, director of the vided by local agencies. Some of the statistics do not in- tative of actual crime patterns in the regions surround- Stanford WorkLife Of- HEALTH dicate whether the victims of the crimes were Stanford ing any of the centers. fice, in an e-mail to The students or other people. “The definition of ‘in the campus area’ is different Daily. In 2009, 94 cases of aggravated assault occurred on because these foreign police departments don’t have to Employees are then el- public property near the Florence center, down from do this for their own governments or purposes,” said igible to submit for a $160 Study: laptops’ 104 in 2008.A total of 17,077 cases of burglary occurred Irene Kennedy, executive director of BOSP. “In the reimbursement at the end there in 2009.It was not indicated whether any students United States it’s pretty well spelled out,but you try ex- were involved in these cases. ANASTASIA YEE/ heat can cause Two incidents of forcible fondling occurred on pub- Please see CRIME,page 3 The Stanford Daily Please see CARE,page 3 skin problems STUDENT GOV’T NEWS BRIEFS Hume outlines Case study documents laptop-in- Senate approves fiscal reforms trustees’agenda,notes duced skin discoloration, burns By MARGARET RAWSON ate student in chemical engineering and ex- there’s actual stuff that needs to be done on STAFF WRITER ecutive chair of graduate issues campus,” Khalessi said, expressing frustra- Hennessy’s 10th year The Senate passed a bill instituting three tion that the Senate has continued to focus By DANA EDWARDS The ASSU Undergraduate Senate hours of Senate office hours per week, ex- on internal affairs. By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF passed four bills Tuesday, enacting the first cluding dead week and finals week. While Cruz acknowledged this concern.“There That IHUM paper might have done some damage part of an ASSU fiscal reform package,insti- the office hours will not start this quarter, are some things that need to be fixed, but to your skin in addition to your sleep cycle. Accord- The board of trustees expects re- tuting Senate office hours, encouraging the senators expressed hope that, once a sched- this shouldn’t be the focus of the rest of the ports this year on the state of the ing to a recently published article in the journal of the establishment of Senate archives and stan- ule is created by the Communications Com- year,” he said. American Academy of Pediatrics, chronic exposure School of Engineering,the earthquake dardizing bill nomenclature.The Senate also mittee, the rotating office hours will begin The various Senate committees dis- risks facing the University and the next to the heat source on the underside of a laptop com- appointed 11 more students University soon.