Your assumption is for the most part incorrect. 95% of Stanford undergraduates live on campus, as well as 56% of graduate students. Housing in the area is extremely expensive, and many faculty members live in university subsidized housing, which is necessary for the university to maintain a competitive compensation package for their professors.

I was able to find a few email addresses that could be relevant:

Games Label PR Contacts by Product/ Franchise

EA Partners, EALA & Blueprint (Spore, LMNO, Red Alert 3, Mercenaries 2, Rock Band, Crysis, Left 4 Dead, RAGE)
* Bryce Baer, Director (bbaer@ea.com)
* Amanda Taggart, Manager (ataggart@ea.com)
* Nikki Flynn, Publicist (nflynn@ea.com)
* Andrew Wong, Manager (anwong@ea.com)
* Devin Bennett, Senior Publicist (devinb@ea.com)

I'm not sure what impact it'll have, but I let Bryce know why I am not buying (or pirating) Spore, and that I'd love to purchase it if EA were to release it under less oppressive DRM