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Student
Changes ETS Test Policy
THE SAT AND GMAT TEST scores of disabled students who are granted extra
time to take the exams no longer will be “flagged,” or pointed out,
to colleges and others looking at results, thanks to the efforts of
Mark Breimhorst, a second-year GSB student.
Breimhorst, who was born without hands, had requested extra time to
take the Educational Testing Service’s business school admission test,
the GMAT, according to press reports. His test results were then flagged
with the words “nonstandard administration,” which, he believed, violated
antidiscrimination laws. He filed a lawsuit and in a 2000 settlement,
ETS agreed to no longer flag such test results. This summer the College
Board, which develops the SAT and several other tests that are administered
through ETS, also agreed to stop the flagging procedure as of Oct. 1.
The ruling has generated debate over who qualifies as a disabled test
taker, but Breimhorst told the Associated Press it will “change the
lives of people with disabilities. They don’t have to have this scarlet
letter attached to their transcript.” Breimhorst, who has an undergraduate
degree and a master’s in education from Stanford, runs a venture philanthropy
organization that supports several nonprofits.
ILLUSTRATION
BY TERRY
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Online
Class Notes Is on Leave
“HOW CAN IFIND our class notes online?” an observant 1996 alum from
Tokyo asked in an email to this magazine shortly after the August issue
was in the mail. If you were one of those who liked to read your class
news online, you might be interested in publisher Cathy Castillo’s answer:
“We recently made the decision to take the ClassNotes section offline
until we can create a protected site available only to GSB alumni/ae.
We were worried that continuing to make this news public and therefore
easily available to commercial search engines would make people stop
talking about their families, their jobs, and the kinds of things we
think most of you look for in that section. We’re sorry to remove what
was a very popular part of our site, but we think eliminating even a
slight risk of exposing too much of someone’s personal life is worth
the inconvenience.”
Siebel
Scholars Announced
THEY WORKED FOR major consulting firms, managed election campaigns,
lectured on Chinese painting, and enjoyed salsa dancing and vegetarian
cooking. They also were recognized for outstanding academic work during
their first year at the Business School by being named the 2003 Siebel
Scholars.
The five MBA students, Eric Bannasch, Jim Edmunds, Jimmy Price, Sweta
Sarnot, and Craig Yee, were selected by a faculty committee for their
leadership and citizenship within the GSB community. The honor includes
a tuition grant of $25,000 from the program, which was established by
Siebel Systems in 2000.
Bannasch, who serves on the Stanford University Board of Trustees Development
Committee, worked in the mergers and acquisitions group of Cisco Systems
before entering the GSB and spent his summer at Viking Global Investors
in New York.
Edmunds, chairman of the GSB’s I Have a Dream Program, spent the summer
assisting Professor Jeremy Bulow in research on antitrust issues. He
previously worked on Wall Street and managed a state representative’s
reelection campaign in Texas.
Price has mentored local entrepreneurs and organized events for the
Black Business Students’ Association. He has worked for major consulting
firms and spent the summer as an associate of Oaktree Capital Management.
As a Stanford graduate student in industrial engineering, Sarnot was
selected for the Asia-Pacific Scholars’ Program. While a consultant
at McKinsey & Co., she participated in efforts to help her alma mater,
the Indian Institute of Technology, define its strategic objectives.
Sarnot’s most recent summer job was at Credit Suisse First Boston’s
technology investment banking group in Palo Alto.
Yee cofounded the Living Well Project, a minority community-based HIV/AIDS
organization, and worked for other nonprofits and consulting firms.
He will lead the School’s 2002 study trip to China and has consulted
to private organizations on collecting Chinese painting and calligraphy.
He recently completed a summer internship at Mckinsey & Co. in New York.
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New
Grad Named White House Fellow
David Carmel, MBA ’02, was one of 13 Americans named White House
Fellows by President George Bush this summer. The 21st Business
School graduate to be selected for the prestigious fellowship,
Carmel will spend a year as an assistant to a Cabinet member or
senior presidential advisor. “It’s an exceptional educational
opportunity, one that will expose him to the inner workings of
the U.S. government and how policy is crafted,” noted Dean Robert
Joss, himself a White House Fellow in 1968–69, four years after
the program began.
While an undergraduate at Harvard in 1995, Carmel cofounded the
Jumpstart service program that pairs college students with preschool
children who need individual attention. The program currently
employs 80 full-time staff and deploys 1,400 college students
in 17 cities.
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