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BY MICHAEL PEÑA
Excitement is building over at the Department of Art and Art History, where a student in the new graduate program in documentary filmmaking is one of six finalists in a contest for which aspiring journalists, videographers and filmmakers produced works about tolerance and diversity. Darfur Rising, by MFA documentary film student PETER JORDAN, tells the story of children fleeing the genocide and other atrocities in their homeland in western Sudan. The grand prize is $100,000, plus a $15,000 donation to the charity that fights for the winner's cause. Jordan said that if he wins, all $115,000 will go to humanitarian relief and advocacy efforts in Darfur. The winner of the "Seeds of Tolerance" contest will be determined by an online popular vote hosted by Current TV at http://www.current.tv/make/vc2/sot. Dec. 1 is the last day to vote. Clips of the finalists' films are available at the website. Two runner-up prizes of $10,000 each also will be awarded.
A wine-tasting benefiting the Huntington's Disease Society of America will be held at the Clark Center this Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. RON KOPITO, professor of biological sciences, will host the event, which will feature food and entertainment and live and silent auctions. All proceeds from ticket sales—$65 each—will go toward research on Huntington's Disease, a hereditary neurological brain disorder that slowly robs those afflicted of the ability to walk, talk, think and reason (typically, between the ages of 30 and 50). For more information, the society's Northern California chapter can be reached at (916) 927-4400.
The Stanford team that took part in the Silicon Valley Walk to Cure Diabetes on Oct. 8 raised $15,815, with about 10 different groups coming together from across campus. Among the groups, Stanford Hoops raised $5,426, Piano Forte raised $1,815 and the Graduate School of Business brought in $3,565—much of that raised by GSB faculty support assistant CHRIS LION. A football jersey autographed by RONNIE LOTT for the most money raised went to CHARMIN SMITH, a women's basketball coach and captain of Stanford Hoops. Other groups stepped up from Internal Audit ($970), the Prevention Research Center ($790), Stanford Grounds ($651), Cantor Arts Center ($507) and Stanford Staffers ($230).