Stanford Report, June 14, 2006

Cardinal Chronicle

BY MICHAEL PEÑA

Call it Greg's list. SUPost.com, created by electrical engineering graduate student GREG WIENTJES, is modeled after the popular Craigslist website and has gained steam on campus as students move out. Over the past three weeks, the number of posts has doubled to more than 1,600, with students getting rid of everything from sofa covers to cars—some at real bargains. But the site, http://www.supost.com/, also has something for those who can afford to splurge—say, on a silver Porsche Boxster that its current owner in Escondido Village would like to sell for about $24,000. The website permits only people with Stanford e-mail addresses to post content, which can be about events on campus as well. "Faculty and staff are certainly invited to buy, sell and post content," said Wientjes, who will receive his master's degree on Saturday but will continue to run the site while he works toward his doctoral degree in the School of Education.

The Stanford Breakfast Briefings summer series kicks off this morning with BETTY J. BAKER, a leader in the high-tech sector for more than two decades who currently directs a national nonprofit trade association that lobbies on behalf of the technology industry. The briefings are one-hour, monthly executive-level forums featuring some of today's top corporate leaders and business researchers. Past speakers have included MICHAEL DELL, LARRY ELLISON and BILL GATES. Law School Professor LARRY LESSIG, best known as an expert on cyberspace laws and proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyrights and trademarks, will be the featured speaker on Aug. 9. The briefings are held on the second Wednesday of the month in the Faculty Club. Breakfast is served at 7:30 a.m. and presentations begin at 8 a.m. Registration is $48 per briefing for the general public and $36 for Stanford students, staff and faculty (STAP funds apply). To sign up, go to http://breakfastbriefings.stanford.edu/.

Next weekend, the Stanford Amateur Radio Club will participate in Field Day, an annual emergency communications exercise where ham radio operators set up in local parks, shopping malls and in their own backyards and get on the air using generators or battery power. The Stanford club will set up at Site 530, near the Dish. The public is invited to visit anytime from 1 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 24. For more information, go to http://www-w6yx.stanford.edu/.