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BY BARBARA PALMER ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF AT THE Department of Public Safety reported an outbreak of bare legs after Chief LAURA WILSON approved shorts -- navy for community service officers and dark green for sworn officers -- as a uniform option during spring and summer months. "It was something deputies and associates had been asking for," said Wilson. Officers do risk cuts and bruises to exposed skin if they get involved in a pursuit, but "I've yet to see a deputy wearing shorts on patrol," she said. The shorts are popular with community service officers who write parking tickets and are assigned to field security at the Dish area, she said. The new look seems to be making Dish hikers feel a little better, too. Many have told the field site officers, "Oh, you guys look so much more comfortable," Wilson said. ON JUNE 30, STUDENTS FROM A spacecraft
design class taught by BOB
TWIGGS, a consulting
professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
deployed the third satellite designed and built by Stanford
students, QuakeSat, which was launched into orbit from northern
Russia. Among the missions of the satellite, which is about the
size of a half-gallon of milk with four solar panels and a
60-centimeter boom attached, is to try to detect electromagnetic
waves that could possibly signal earthquakes, Twiggs said. The
satellite, which was built from ham radio and small computer parts,
also is intended to help demonstrate the feasibility of using
off-the-shelf parts to construct a reliable, short-mission
microsatellite. So far, the mission is going well, said Twiggs. "To
get it to work at all is pretty good," he added. Follow the
satellite's progress at
http://ssdl.stanford.edu/LM-CubeSat/Team4/.
COUPLES IN LONG-TERM relationships have about 30 percent "solvable" problems and 70 percent "unsolvable" ones, according to research by psychologist JOHN GOTTMAN. "That's not optimistic, but you have a lot of company," ROSAN GOMPERTS told a crowd at a noontime talk yesterday sponsored by the Women's Interchange at SLAC. "What makes a relationship work is how you work with the unsolvable problems." Hot-button issues couples fight about include sex, money and kids, said Gomperts, a counselor at Stanford's Help Center. And then there's the issue of tidiness. "In many relationships, there's one person who's neat and one who's not," added counselor SUSAN OWICKI. "It can be one of those 70 percent unsolvable problems." The speakers gave tips on how to tackle the tough stuff by becoming an active listener -- for example, asking for clarification of something a partner said without becoming defensive, and putting oneself in the other person's shoes. Gomperts said people can't force their partners to confront longstanding problems. But for those who want support in making the leap, the Help Center offers free counseling. Call 723-4577 for an appointment.
Write to Barbara Palmer at barbara.palmer@stanford.edu
or mail code 2245 or call her at 724-6184. |
Barbara Palmer
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Stanford Report, July 23, 2003
