Let’s improve cyber security and your job prospects Joe Troderman January 30, 2015 0 Comments Stanford students are some of the best computer scientists in the world, and their labor while enrolled is relatively cheap. If Stanford hired its own students to fix tech glitches, a positive synergy... Read More »
Let’s stop treating compromise as the saving grace of democracy Joe Troderman January 21, 2015 0 Comments Forest ecosystems, like American politics, are at their essence, interacting compromises. Whether it is the fact that many forest systems have two tree species that dominate (as we have two political... Read More »
Let’s go green by going brown Joe Troderman November 20, 2014 7 Comments It's time for Stanford to wake up and smell the wild roses and lupen, and get rid of our obsession with green lawns. We urge the university to start xeriscaping campus with drought tolerant native... Read More »
Let’s make PHE stipends equitable Joe Troderman November 7, 2014 8 Comments But there is a simple solution to this problem: maintain the PHE program exactly as it is, but have contracts through ResEd that are at parity with RAs. Arguably, PHEs might even deserve a greater... Read More »
Let’s improve introductory chem and Math 51 Joe Troderman October 23, 2014 2 Comments Hiring lecturers for these introductory courses with the intention of increasing quality would have no adverse effect other than than increasing the quality and freeing faculty to focus on topics that... Read More »
Why rollouts need to end on campus Joe Troderman October 10, 2014 11 Comments If someone were to suggest breaking into houses early in the morning and wake up all the people who live there in order to welcome one of them to a group, we would call that a crime. But under the... Read More »
Reducing redundancy in engineering courses Joe Troderman September 25, 2014 1 Comment Here is a list of courses: CS109, CME106, Math 151, Stats110, EE178, MS&E120 and Stats116. What do all these courses share in common? The answer is that they are all introductory probability courses... Read More »
The Stanford housing bubble Joe Troderman July 23, 2014 3 Comments The housing draw can be stressful, but in the end, everyone gets housing. At least, that is what’s supposed to happen. Every year, though, many tier-three students will find “unassigned” written... Read More »
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