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Josh Freedman, Class of 2011, co-authored an article in the December 6 issue of Gastronomica titled 'Authenticity in America: Class Distinctions in Potato Chip Advertising'. 

The study uses potato chips to analyze class identity in food marketing because "you can't use caviar, you can't use pork rinds, you have to use something everybody eats and that's potato chips," said Dan Jurafsky, a professor of linguistics. 

More on Josh's research project, and its conception, can be read in the November 30th issue of the Stanford Report.

The Frank Figueroa Memorial Scholarship is intended to recognize and support excellence in public service by awarding a stipend to a graduate student pursuing a Masters of Public Administration in California, Arizona, Nevada or Hawaii. David Hoffert, currently in his second year in the M.P.P. degree program, was recently announced as the 2011-12 scholarship recipient. In early November he will travel to Southern California to accept the $2,000 award. Congratulations, David!

 

Mark Donig, Public Policy Class of 2009, recently co-authored an Op-Ed in Foreign Policy.  It discusses the opportunity for increased collaboration between Washington and Jerusalem by using Israel and post-Mubarak Egypt as an example.  Mark was a researcher at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and currently is a research analyst with a consulting firm in Virginia. 

Public Policy lecturer David Crane wrote an Op-Ed on July 29, 2011 in the San Francisco Chronicle on the chronic underfunding of pensions. He argues that "pension funding is a moral issue, not unlike climate change. By not making sacrifices today to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, our generation is imposing a larger burden on future generations. Likewise, by not contributing more money to pension funds today, we are forcing people tomorrow to use their money to cover our costs plus interest. In turn, they will have less money with which to compensate their own public employees, fund their colleges, build their infrastructure, finance their environmental protection, maintain their parks and more."

The full article can be read here

Watch this on the SIEPR channel on YouTube.
Public Policy coterminal Master's student, Nikhil Joshi, and former Public Policy Director, Roger Noll, spoke with Channel 7's David Louie about the strike both for the NFL and NBA and what it means to teams and ticket purchasers.

On May 5, former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Professor Christina Romer, spoke to an engaged audience of Stanford students, staff and faculty as the 2011 Zale Lecturer in Public Policy.  She spoke on the topic of 'Unemployment of Insolvency: Policy Strategies for a Troubled World Economy' and interlaced stories from her time serving in Washington, D.C.  

The Morris B. and Edna Zale Lectureship was established in 1980 and seeks to bring to Stanford leading figures from a broad spectrum of public and private life for a lecture open to the greater community, followed by an intimate, student-focused dinner with the speaker.   

Current Stanford undergraduates interested in Public Policy are encouraged to apply for the Coterminal Master's Degree.  All majors are welcome!  The upcoming application deadline is February 22, 2011.  More details on the degree can be found here.  

 

 

On February 10, former CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke to an audience of 200 Stanford students and faculty on Political Reform, Energy Policy and Climate Change.  He was joined by his former chief of staff, Susan Kennedy, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Joe Nation, and former special advisor to the governor and Public Policy lecturer David Crane.  

The Funding Status of Independent Public Employee Pension Systems in California, the November 2010 SIEPR Policy Brief was written by Joe Nation, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy.  

Jennifer Cohen (Class of 2006), an education policy analyst at the New America Foundation, speaks with PBS Jeffrey Brown on June 3, 2010 about the impact of potential layoffs and the new contract ratified by teachers unions in Washington D.C.   Video and transcript are available here.