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Stanford construction threatens families' beloved Escondido Village
Dec 30, 2018They may lose their newfound friends, familiar adult faces and the courtyard environment they are comfortable with."
The school's founders, Leland and Jane Stanford, were very committed to their late son, Leland Jr., and would have supported the on-campus presence of so many children, Tay said.
But to continue to recruit top-tier talent, university officials say, it is important to provide more on-campus housing, especially for those whose must work late at night and on weekends.
And the expanded complex -- 1.6 to 1.8 million square feet in size -- will help the local communities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park and adjacent towns by opening up more rental housing for others, according to the university.
Moreover, the new construction will offer far more amenities than Escondido Village -- such as a market and cafe, pub, cinema, exercise facility, music rooms and study spaces, Shirley J. Everett, associate vice provost for residential and dining enterprises, said at a recent campus "town hall" meeting. The new buildings will be modeled after the school's four-story Kennedy Graduate Residences, which offer fully furnished units with wall-to-wall carpeting, contemporary kitchens and high-quality services, according to the university.
The construction also creates space for new pedestrian and bicycle pathways to better connect graduate housing to the rest of the campus, as well as opportunities for popular food trucks.
"The housing project is meant to be something really great," Everett said. "It will be a huge improvement over the current housing.
"Escondido Village was developed in a rural time in Stanford's history," she added. "This is the last region of the campus housing where there is not so much density, and there is the opportunity to do more ... so we can house more students."
The families urge the university to instead build the high-rise apartments in an adjacent area, to protect the courtyards.
"You couldn't find a better place to have kids than Stanford," said electrical engineering doctoral student Brady Quist.
"When people ask me what Stanford is like, I don't talk about the education," he said. "I talk about the courtyards."
Contact Lisa M. Krieger at 650-492-4098. Follow her at Twitter.com/LisaMKrieger and Facebook.com/Lisa M. Krieger.
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San Pedro's ballerina megastar inspires and instructs a new generation
Jan 8, 2018Yah? Is that clear? Much better.”
Watching from the stage wings were youngsters from Leland and Point Fermin elementary schools in San Pedro.
The class was held on the stage of San Pedro’s historic Warner Grand Theatre on Seventh Street — where Copeland danced some of her earliest roles in the mid-1990s.
Today, she’s a principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre, has written a book and was recently featured on the cover of Time Magazine.
Earlier in the day, the intersection of 13th Street and Pacific Avenue, where the ballet studio now stands, was dedicated in her honor. Copeland lives in New York and has plans to marry soon.
It’s a long way from her Dana Junior High School drill team days, when Cindy Bradley, artistic director of the San Pedro City Ballet, visited the school one day and spotted Copeland’s potential dance talent.
Bradley and her husband, Patrick, hosted the event that drew hundreds of spectators to the theater and closed with class pictures, a standing ovation and flowers for Copeland, who seemed to enjoy her on-stage role as ballet instructor, later telling the audience that it was “incredible” to return to her hometown to teach new dance students.
The 90-minute session took students through the ballet basics.
“Keep those shoulders square,” she said, always using a calm voice as she helped individual students. “Very good.”
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Through it all, she reminded her young proteges, above all, to enjoy themselves.
“Tilt your head and maybe put a smile on your face,” she told one student who instantly broke out in a grin. “And open your eyes; at some point, you really just have to let it go. There has to be some freedom of movement.”
Toward the end of the session, she separated the students into smaller groups to provide some more personalized lessons.
Copeland probably made one girl’s day when she told her: “You have a beautiful quality, it looks very natural and easy, but I know you’re working your but... http://www.dailybreeze.com/arts-and-entertainment/20151221/san-pedros-ballerina-megastar-inspires-and-instructs-a-new-generation