Cardinal Chronicle
BY MICHAEL PEÑA
All are invited to attend the 12th annual Alumni Hall of Fame and Multicultural Reception this Friday, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Each of the four ethnic community centers on campus nominates community members and alumni of color to highlight their contributions, and a selection committee comprising faculty, students, staff and alumni decide who will be inducted. This year's inductees will be QUYEN VUONG, MBA '94; ELENA RIOS, '77; MALINDA MAYNOR LOWERY, AM '97; and the late history Professor KENNELL JACKSON, who died last November after serving as Branner Hall's longtime resident fellow. The reception will be held in the Alumni Center's McCaw Hall, and refreshments will be served.
The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research will host a screening of The Gender Chip Project at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17. The documentary by Bay Area filmmaker HELEN DEMICHIEL follows the experiences of five young women in science and engineering courses at Ohio State University. A panel discussion will follow the screening. Moderated by Institute Director LONDA SCHIEBINGER, panelists will include computer science Professor ERIC ROBERTS; DENISE JOHNSON, associate professor of surgery at the Medical Center; MARIA SPLETTER, a fourth-year graduate student in biological sciences; and DeMichiel. For more information, contact MICHELLE CALE at mcale@stanford.edu.
The Quesada Gardens Initiative is an effort to beautify a neighborhood in one of San Francisco's roughest districts, the Bayview. It started in 2002 when a couple of residents on Quesada Avenue began to clear away the empty liquor bottles and other trash that were tossed onto a median and turn it into a garden oasis. Stanford's Kappa Sigma fraternity adopted Quesada Gardens after reading about it in the San Francisco Chronicle. Student JACOB LEMIEUX and five of his fraternity brothers were the first to help out last March, but student support soon grew tenfold. During the last weekend in September, a group of students helped dig a 400-foot-long trench for irrigation, patch up a retaining wall and apply two coats of primer in preparation for a mural. "These amazing young people are making a visible and lasting difference on our block and in the Bayview," said JEFFREY BETCHER of the nonprofit Quesada Gardens Initiative. "Their spirit and strength catapult us to a new level every time they visit."