Hi everyone. I'm an admitted student who is fairly convinced she's coming here, but still has some lingering questions. May 1st is Monday, so hopefully some of you will read this soon
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Drinking sort of depends where you end up living, but still mostly boils down to personal choice - I lived across the hall from the party room in my dorm (Branner) freshman year, and I didn't start drinking until I was a senior, yet never felt out of place when with people who were drinking. Most people seem to drink socially - there will always be those who drink primarily to get drunk, but most of the drinking takes place in a social environment. That being said, the impression I get from friends at other schools is that drinking at Stanford is generally less social. The drinking policy has changed since I was a frosh, so there's probably a bit more drinking behind closed doors now, but generally the residential staff recognize that it happens and do their best to keep people from getting hurt without excessive discipline
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Can you explain why the one-group-per-function rule undesirable? I can understand for groups that audition and hold selective memberships.... Does this mean that each of the a capella groups on campus have a different function?
Well, it's undesirable for certain types of student activities - the aforementioned humor magazine (the Chapparal / Chappie) is terrible, but won't get any better since there's no competition. As far as I know, the a capella groups don't get ASSU funding, or if they do they have specific goals in mind which separates them from the rest. For most of the arts groups it doesn't matter so much, though for orchestras and the like, since only one can get funding, having an unfunded musical group can be a bit difficult. An alternative is to try and turn the one group into a sort of head group, which disburses funds to several smaller groups; however, that's complicated and takes a lot of effort to change the architecture.
I'm heavily involved in the martial arts programs at Stanford, and the university only allows one funded school per style (ie, karate), even though there are several schools of that style represented on campus (ie, JKA, SKA, Universal, Shorin-ryu, etc.) Since the Stanford Martial Arts Program is a university-funded
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Right -- I was thinking of a scenario in which a group is badly led or corrupted, and no one can establish a competing group as well.
Ooh, I thought you meant that only one group per function is allowed on campus; really, it's one group per function that's given money. Well, that's better at least.
And no problem with the blatant advertising -- I'm into TKD ^-^
Stanford has a fairly competitive TKD team - they recently went to a competition in Japan and did pretty well. The TKD coach is also the head of SMAP, and he's a pretty nice guy. I highly recommend continuing training while at Stanford - kept me sane for four years =O)
Not really sure - they seem to be relatively laid back (at least, outside of training), so I think only the best/most hardcore students go to tournaments like that. I think the website is http://tkd.stanford.edu if you want to check it out further - generally, most martial arts clubs train two or three times a week, with no specific attendance requirements if you're not competing. Some styles are more stringent about attendance than others, but from what I remember hearing about TKD, it's not that bad.
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Can you explain why the one-group-per-function rule undesirable? I can understand for groups that audition and hold selective memberships.... Does this mean that each of the a capella groups on campus have a different function?
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I'm heavily involved in the martial arts programs at Stanford, and the university only allows one funded school per style (ie, karate), even though there are several schools of that style represented on campus (ie, JKA, SKA, Universal, Shorin-ryu, etc.) Since the Stanford Martial Arts Program is a university-funded ( ... )
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Ooh, I thought you meant that only one group per function is allowed on campus; really, it's one group per function that's given money. Well, that's better at least.
And no problem with the blatant advertising -- I'm into TKD ^-^
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Yay for procrastination on a research paper.
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