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www.stanforddaily.com Volume 235
April 17, 2009 Issue 39
SOFTBALL

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Stanford takes its show on the road to face No. 2 Arizona State in Tempe
By DENIS GRIFFIN
DESK EDITOR
This weekend, Stanford baseball returns
to Pacific-10 Conference play against one of
the best in the nation,Arizona State.But this
weekend’s series is more than just a road-
marker for how far the Cardinal has come
since starting the season 3-9 — it’s also the
perfect opportunity to look back at Stan-
ford’s tremendous 2008 campaign, which
left the Sun Devils with a score to settle this
weekend.
The Cardinal (15-13, 7-5 Pac-10) has
bounced back this year from its early season
struggles, recently winning three in a row
and taking two-of-three against UCLA,
Oregon and Washington in recent weeks.
The team goes into its showdown with No. 2
ASU looking to prove itself against a top-
notch opponent.
The Sun Devils (25-8, 10-2) are 17-3 at
home so far this season, and have been led
by the stellar offense of junior centerfielder
Jason Kipnis, who enters the series hitting
.410 with 10 home runs, 46 RBI and an as-
tounding .516 on-base percentage. Arizona
State’s pitching staff brings plenty to the
table as well, as junior southpaw Josh
Spence is 7-0 with a 1.01 ERA, and fellow
junior Mike Leake is 8-1 with a 1.53 ERA.
Last season, the script was notably dif-
ferent when the Cardinal hosted the Sun
Devils in early April. Stanford was 13-8 at
the time, while ASU was the conference fa-
vorite, having lost just one of 28 games en-
tering the weekend series. Arizona State
looked to be an offensive juggernaut, led by
Kipnis, as well as corner infielders Brett
Wallace and Ike Davis (both of whom
would be drafted among the top 20 of that
summer’s MLB Draft) and catcher Petey
Paramore.
The Cardinal, meanwhile, was looking to
prove that it was a legitimate contender a
year after a disappointing .500 finish. And
after dropping the first game of the series in
extra innings, Stanford did exactly that,
blasting ASU 12-2 in game two and 10-2 in
game three. The series victory seemed to
POWERS
NO. 2 ARIZONA
STATE
(25-8, 10-2 Pac-10)
COLLIDE
Tempe, Ariz. 6:30 P.M.
COVERAGE:
Card gets shot at
TV: FSN
RADIO:
Pac-10’s top team
KZSU 90.1 FM, (kzsu.stanford.edu) By NATE ADAMS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
UP NEXT SANTA CLARA Fresh off a 7-0
4/20 Sunken Diamond rout of Santa
COVERAGE: Clara on Tuesday,
RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM the Stanford soft-
ball team will take
(kzsu.stanford.edu) to the desert this
NOTES: The Cardinal travels to Tempe to weekend as it con-
tinues Pacific-10
take on the No. 2 Sun Devils, who have
been led this season by stellar starting Conference play
with an important
NO. 9
pitching and their outstanding cen-
terfielder Jason Kipnis. series against two
top-10 opponents,
ARIZONA
Arizona and Ari- (33-9, 5-2 Pac-10)
zona State. Tucson, Ariz. 7 P.M.
The second-
place Cardinal COVERAGE:
will get started TV:CBS College Sports
tonight in Tucson,
RADIO:
where a win
would move them
ahead of Arizona
KZSU 90.1 FM,
(kzsu.stanford.edu)
at the top of the
propel the Cardinal to new heights as the will need still more solid performances from conference stand-
team won six of its following nine confer- its young pitchers. Sophomore closer Drew ings. From there,
Stanford travels
UP NEXT
ence games. Storen has been money in the bank all sea-
But it was the atmosphere, particularly of
the third game of the series, that could lend
son for Stanford,with four saves,a 3-0 record
and 34 strikeouts to just one walk. Freshmen
to Phoenix for two
games against the
NO. 5 ARIZONA STATE
this weekend’s action a particularly con- Brett Mooneyham (3-1) and Jordan Pries third-place Sun 4/18 Tempe, Ariz.
tentious flavor.The Sunken Diamond crowd (3-0) have also been key to the Cardinal’s Devils, Saturday COVERAGE:
was particularly raucous that weekend, turnaround,boasting ERAs of 3.94 and 4.11, and Sunday. RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM
heckling Davis and Sun Devils coach Pat respectively. Friday-night starter Jeff Inman The series is a
Murphy in particular. has also been solid, going 7.0, 7.1 and 6.0 in- critical opportuni- (kzsu.stanford.edu)
Whether or not the Sun Devils’ fans will nings in his last three starts, while allowing ty for the No. 2
be able to deliver the promised pressure re- just five earned runs over that span. All will Cardinal (36-4, 6-3 Pac-10) to get back on track in
mains to be seen, but Stanford certainly need to be on top of their game to limit a Sun conference competition after dropping two of
knows what is on the line this weekend. Devils squad that has averaged over 7.9 runs three games to California last weekend, its only set
After only recently climbing out of its early- per game this season. of consecutive losses on the season.
season hole (reaching .500 last Saturday The trip to Tempe, however, is one of just With the Pac-10 proving to be astoundingly
against UCLA), the Cardinal now faces one three road series remaining on the Cardi- competitive this year — all but one member team
of the most daunting stretches of its season, nal’s schedule, as the team will only travel to has a winning overall record — Stanford head
with 10 games between now and the end of Washington State and USC (and to Santa coach John Rittman knows the importance of play-
the month, seven of which will come against Clara and San Jose State for one midweek ing well against top teams,and is eager to carry mo-
conference foes (three each against Arizona game each) over the rest of the regular sea- mentum from the Cardinal’s thrashing of Santa
and ASU, and one non-conference game son, which concludes on May 24. Clara into this weekend’s games. More focused
against Cal). than intimidated, he believes his team is ready to
If the Cardinal is to succeed in holding off Contact Denis Griffin at djgriff@stanford. face its top-notch conference opposition.
the Sun Devils’ attack, however, the squad edu. “It’s definitely a pretty significant series, espe-
cially with the close [Pac-10] race we’ve got right
now,” he said. “Arizona is a great team, probably
the best hitting team in the country statistically,and
both venues will be sold out this weekend. We’re

MAPLES MAGIC
Cardinal seeks
home-court edge
By JEFF LU
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With its position in the upcoming
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
(MPSF) Tournament firmly secured,
the Stanford men’s volleyball team will
head into the final two games of its reg-
ular season determined to secure a
home-court advantage in the tourna-
ment’s opening round.
The No. 4 Cardinal (20-9, 13-7
MPSF) has won 12 of its last 14 games,
including a four-game upset of then-
No. 2 Cal State-Northridge, to climb
three spots in the national rankings
since it was No. 7 in mid-February.Ac-
cording to Stanford head coach John
Kosty, the Cardinal’s extraordinary
late season surge is in part due to the
large number of home games on the
team’s schedule in the second half of
the season.
“The team is starting to come to-
gether and figure out what it takes to
win,” Kosty said. “That’s a crucial ele-
ment for a team as young as ours.”
Currently, Stanford is one game
ahead of No. 5 USC, which visits
Hawaii this Friday in hopes of break-
ing its three-game losing streak and
gaining the No.4 position over the Car-
dinal for the home-court advantage.
The tournament, which will be hosted
in late April, will see the top eight
teams in the MPSF competing for po-
tentially two spots in the NCAA Tour-
nament, alongside league champions
from the East and Midwest.
Kosty was optimistic about his
team’s chances.
“Stanford is definitely a contender
this year,” he said. “We’ve got as good
a shot as anybody in the MPSF at the
title.”
Despite Kosty’s confidence, a for-
midable barrier stands in the way of
the Cardinal’s chances at an advanta-
geous first round. Stanford will host
No. 1 UC-Irvine on Friday at Maples
Pavilion, marking their first encounter
of the season since the Cardinal was
swept by the Anteaters in early Febru-
ary.Irvine is currently on a three-game
winning streak, most recently sweep-
ing No. 2 Pepperdine at home.
Irvine’s two formidable opposite
hitters, senior John Steller and fresh-
man Carson Clark, are currently hit-
ting over .300 for this season. With
sophomore outside hitter Jordan Du-
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4/17 Maples Pavilion
fault knocking in 269 kills this season
so far from the other end of the net,
Stanford will have to find a way to shut
down the Anteaters’ double-pronged
offense if it is to retain its edge.
“Irvine is a very fast team and ex-
tremely consistent,”Kosty said.“We’re
strong enough at the net to match up
against Irvine, but we’ll have to slow
down their outside and opposite hit-
ters if we’re to win.”
Following Irvine, the Stanford
men’s volleyball team will host No. 9
UCLA on Saturday. The Bruins have
given the Cardinal trouble before,
beating Stanford in a five-game nail-
biter in their last meeting. Aside from
holding a significant height advantage
over Stanford, UCLA has several out-
standing players in its lineup, including
Garrett Muagututia, a 6-foot-5 junior
outside hitter who has proven himself
a notoriously difficult opponent for the
Please see VBALL, page 5
definitely excited by the challenge of playing two
of the best teams in the country.”
As Rittman noted, the Cardinal is certainly in
for a challenge. No. 11 Arizona (33-9, 5-2) owns a
remarkable 44-5-1 all-time record over the Cardi-
nal, including wins in their last three games togeth-
er. The Wildcats currently hold first place in the
Pac-10, and lead the nation in four major offensive
categories: runs scored (8.76 per game), batting av-
erage (.351), home runs per game (2.29) and slug-
ging percentage (.670). Three Wildcats have bat-
ting averages over .400, including junior catcher
Stacie Chambers, who currently leads the nation in
home runs (24) and RBI (74).
Stanford’s prospects against Arizona State, at
least historically, aren’t much better; the No. 5 Sun
Devils (34-8,4-3) are 20-27 all time against the Car-
dinal, including two wins in three games just last
season, and they are the defending national cham-
pions.
Despite the Cardinal’s track record against the
Arizona schools, however, Rittman remains confi-
dent that his players have all the tools they need to
win.
“We have a very talented team, with a lot of up-
perclassmen who are going to lead us through this
tough conference schedule,” he said.“We’re doing
a great job of taking it one game at a time and
preparing to win,week in and week out.As a coach,
that’s all you can ask:to work hard and get ready to
play. Hopefully we can go out and execute.”
Indeed, Stanford has plenty of reason for opti-
mism this weekend.The Cardinal is ranked as high
as it’s ever been at No. 2, and has held that spot for
a school-record three weeks.Stanford’s offense has
scored first in 32 of 40 games this season, and has
GIULIO GRATTA/The Stanford Daily
held its lead each time. The lineup is anchored by
Ian Connolly and the Cardinal men will close out their regular
season with a final homestand against conference foes UC-
Irvine and UCLA this weekend at Maples Pavilion. Please see SOFTBALL, page 5

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NEWS
BOSP pursues new campus after two successful quarter-long seminars

CAPE TOWN PROGRAM LAUNCHES

Grant from President’s Fund
opens 11th campus
By ROBERT TOEWS
STAFF WRITER
Budget cuts may be touching nearly every
corner of the University campus, but away
from Stanford, the Bing Overseas Program is
thriving, and even expanding. Starting winter
quarter next year, students will be able to
spend a quarter abroad in Cape Town, South
Africa. Cape Town will become the 11th cam-
pus in the Bing Overseas Studies Program
(BOSP) and the first on the African conti-
nent.
“We were interested in having one of the
BOSP centers be in Africa, where students
could study in place such issues as economic
development, healthcare delivery, disease
control and prevention, deficient housing,
democratization and race relations, among
other issues,” said Norman Naimark, one of
the BOSP directors.
The Cape Town program will focus prima-
rily on service learning, although it will be
open to students with a wide range of aca-
demic backgrounds and interests. The pro-
gram curriculum is still being finalized, how-
ever.
Participating Stanford students will live in
a dorm near the University of Cape Town
campus. For the first program offering (winter
of 2009-2010), 24 students will be accepted.
Since English is the national language of
South Africa, there are no language or other
academic prerequisites for the program.
“There will be numerous opportunities for
students to do service-learning and communi-
ty-based research with NGOs and residents of
Cape Town’s diverse communities,” said
Timothy Stanton, director of the Cape Town
program. “Interesting cultural events —
drama, cinema, music, fine arts — abound
here, and students will be encouraged to par-
ticipate.”
Stanton went on to explain that the
emphasis on engagement with the local com-
munity is what sets Cape Town apart from
some of the other overseas programs.
“We are also obviously distinguished by
our context,” he said. “While Cape Town is
perhaps more ‘European’ than any other
African city, it is still in Africa. The issues,
problems and challenges citizens and govern-
ment here face are considerable and unlike
anywhere else in the world.”
Administrators explained that the idea for
a campus in Africa has been brewing for at
least 40 years, encouraged especially by facul-
ty members involved with the continent. The
new program was
made possible by a
grant from the
President’s Fund.
Quarter-long seminars
designed as pilot programs
were offered in Cape Town
in 2006 and 2008, and
student responses were
overwhelmingly positive.
“I can never say enough about my
time in Cape Town,” said Aaron Kofman ‘09, CRIS BAUTISTA/The Stanford Daily
who participated in 2008. “The intersection of
so many different peoples in such an exotic applied for our Cape Town seminars, from
land makes the history and politics absolutely students’ answers on questionnaires, and from
fascinating — you can’t help but get drawn in student focus groups, we anticipate very
by the tangible, addictive pulse from the strong student interest in the Cape Town pro-
moment you arrive.” gram,” Naimark said.
Administrators expect demand for the
program to be high. Contact Robert Towes at rhtoews@stanford.
“Judging from the huge numbers that edu.

PALO ALTO

Shopping Center expansion plans halted

Officials cite hospital
expansion as priority
By CHRISTINE MCFADDEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Plans to expand the Stanford
Shopping Center were brought to a
halt on Monday, as the University
withdrew its construction application
from the City of Palo Alto.The appli-
cation dates back to August 2007,
with discussions between the City
and Simon Property Group, the
leaseholder responsible for the
Shopping Center, beginning in 2006.
According to University Vice
President for Land, Buildings and
Real Estate Robert Reidy, it was the
City that first proposed the idea of
expanding the Shopping Center. Palo
Alto City Manager Frank Benest and
some members of the City Council
called for the consideration of
expanding both the Shopping Center
and Stanford Hospital facilities
(including the Lucile Packard
Children’s Hospital and the School
of Medicine) simultaneously, yet sep-
arately.
Stanford agreed initially with the
intention of assisting the community,
maintaining that the renewal of the
hospital was the priority and that the
project’s core objectives would be
entirely separate.
“The hospitals’ project is the
immediate and highest priority for
Stanford lands in Palo Alto,” Reidy
wrote in a recent letter to Palo Alto
Mayor Peter Drekmeier. “The
urgently needed hospitals’ replace-
ment and renewal project will be the
single most important factor in deter-
mining the level and quality of health
care services in this community for at
least the next 50 years,”
However, the letter further stated
that City Council members and
Planning and Transportation
Commissioners have implied, for
nearly 30 months, that the Shopping
Center and hospital projects should
be considered one large endeavor.
This pairing created confusion and
went against Stanford’s initial inten-
tions to keep the projects separate.
“This [the application withdrawal]
is the culmination of the ongoing
process with the City and just a
recognition that the Shopping Center
had become a real distraction from
the No. 1 priority [the hospital],” said
Jean McCown, Stanford’s director of
Community Relations. “There was
not a specific thing that caused it in
terms of the way the City was
responding to the projects.”
“I think [Stanford’s] concern was
one of perception,” Drekmeier said.
“The combined projects were so
large that they were controversial.”
One consequence of the projects’
grouping was that perceived commu-
nity benefits and conditions for con-
struction were tacked disproportion-
ately onto the hospital.
For example, the City proposed
that only the hospitals be required to
construct housing units, even though
both the Shopping Center and the
hospital would produce increased
housing demand.
“They [the City] have done a new
analysis of people who will need
affordable housing and have been
advocating to the hospital to build
housing units,” McCown said.
“That’s an area of important differ-
ence of view with the hospital on one
side and the City on the other.”
594 housing units were proposed,
and they were to be built on land out-
side the City’s jurisdiction. McCown
pointed out that housing was just one
of many “community benefits” being
pushed.
“There’s a very lengthy list that
“Frankly, I don’t think that [the
economy] was the focus from the
the City Council and others have University’s perspective,” McCown
been putting together for 18 said. “The focus was entirely on
months,” she said.“It has many things bringing the highest priority of the
in it that really don’t relate at all to hospitals back to the center of the
the hospitals — it’s just things the effort with the City.”
City wants. The concern has been When asked if the emphasis on
that it will be challenging enough to the hospital would lead to a more
just fundamentally do the project expedient construction process,
that they’re trying to do, financially, McCown said that it was possible.
and that’s just one issue.” One of the City managers mentioned
Drekmeier said that these com- that they are hoping to make the hos-
munity benefits and housing issues pital decision by the end of the year.
are currently being negotiated “I was more enthusiastic about VIVIAN WONG/The Stanford Daily
between the City and Stanford. the Medical Center than the Stanford Shopping Center expansion plans were halted Monday, as the
“The hospital expansion would
add about 2,000 new employees,” he University withdrew its construction application from Palo Alto. The main rea-
said. “The question is, where are they Please see SHOPPING, page 3 soning for it was to instead focus attention on the Stanford Hospital renewal.
going to live?”
“I know that there are some peo-
ple in the City who wanted the
Shopping Center expansion for tax
revenue, so those people are going to
be disappointed,” Drekmeier added.
“Others felt that the combined proj-
ects were too much for the communi-
ty to absorb. The City doesn’t have a
position on that.”
McCown pointed out that the ren-
ovated hospital will still produce rev-
enue.
“I know the City is concerned
that the opportunity with the
Shopping Center would have meant
increased revenue with the City,”
she said. “The hospital projects
themselves will also have a signifi-
cant boost, particularly during the
construction period.”
Reidy’s letter additionally cited
the current economic crisis as hinder-
ing expansion and being one of the
reasons for the cancellation of the
Shopping Center application.
McCown noted, however, that the
main reason for the application with-
drawal was to focus attention on the
hospital renewal.

POLICE BLOTTER
This report covers a selection of crimes reported
between March 24 and April 14, as recorded in the
Stanford Police Bulletin.
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 25
I At Barnes Court, a car was towed and stored after
the alarm on the vehicle had been sounding for
approximately 18 hours.
I Between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m., an unknown suspect(s)
threw paint over the wall and rear patio of an
Escondido Village apartment.
I In an incident at Memorial Way, between 6:20 p.m.
and 6:25 pm, a person “made threats to the victim
in anger over a parking space.”
MARCH 27
I At 6:30 pm, a driver at 800 Block Pinehill Rd.
swiped a roadside dumpster, hurting both her vehi-
cle and the dumpster.
MARCH 29
I At Comstock Circle, between 12:05 a.m. and 4:48
a.m., three subjects were “seen acting suspiciously”
near a parked pickup truck holding several bicycles,
with the description later changed to “seen stealing
bikes.”
MARCH 31
I On the second floor of Herrin Biology Lab
between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m., an unknown suspect(s)
entered the victim’s laboratory and stole her wallet
from her purse.
I At Nixon Elementary School, at 8:15 a.m., a non-
injury vehicle-vehicle collision occurred, and the
children learned a lesson about words that only
mommy can say.
APRIL 2
IA person was arrested for shoplifting at the
Stanford Bookstore between 2:15 p.m. and 2:35
p.m.
APRIL 3
I Between 3:44 and 3:45 a.m., two unknown suspects
stole an advertising banner that was hanging in front
of the Stanford Bookstore.
I At 7:30 a.m., a person was arrested at Packard
Electrical Engineering and booked for trespassing
and having an outstanding warrant.
I At 10 a.m., the University served an unnamed person
with a University stay-away letter.
I Between 11:08 a.m. and 11:59 p.m., a new cell phone
shipped to the victim and delivered to her residence
at 680 Lomita Drive was taken by an unknown sus-
pect.
I In an incident reported on this day that took place
between March 9 and March 17 at the Environment
and Energy Building, an unknown suspect entered
the victim’s locked office and stole a textbook.
I Three people were cited and released for being
minors in possession at the corner of Mayfield and
Xanadu at 10:15 p.m.
I At 11:25 p.m. at Xanadu, with the party not finished,
a fourth person was cited and released for being a
minor in possession of alcohol.
I Not to be outdone, at Theta Delta Chi, a person was
cited for being a minor in possession at 11:55 p.m.
APRIL 4
I Shortly after, at 12:40 a.m. at Theta Delta Chi, a per-
son was cited and released for creating a public nui-
sance by urinating in public.
I Unwilling to admit defeat, Xanadu put in a strong
final effort when at 2:03 a.m., an arrestee was taken
to the main jail and booked for “being drunk in
public and unable to care for his own safety.”
I In an incident between 10 p.m. on April 3 and 9
a.m. the following morning, an unknown suspect(s)
stole the Stanford flag from a flag pole in Pac-10
Plaza.
APRIL 6
I In an incident on April 3 at 8:30 a.m., the reporting
party was bitten by a dog while jogging, and the case
was referred to Santa Clara County Animal Control.
APRIL 7
I In the week before April 7, an unknown person
climbed over a wall and stole 8-10 printer cartridges
from an office in the Y2E2 building.
APRIL 8
I An unknown suspect(s) graffitied the front door of
the mausoleum at 10:45 a.m.
Contact Eric Messinger at messinger@stanford.edu.
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SHOPPING
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Shopping Center,” Drekmeier said.
“The impacts of the [Medical
Center] are spread out throughout
the region, but so are the benefits;
other counties would benefit. The
jobs there are higher-paid jobs, so
others could afford to live in the
community. For me, it was important
for those issues to be addressed.”
On the subject of University-City
relations, McCown doesn’t think
that the construction controversy
will have much of an effect.
“I think we’re in a very long-term
relationship with the City of Palo
Alto and we will be going forward,”
she said.“I don’t think these kinds of
specific events along the way have
an effect on relations with the City.
They’re not going anywhere, we’re
not going anywhere; we have lots of
ways to work together.”
Contact Christine McFadden at
cnm714@stanford.edu.
FACULTY & STAFF
Faculty Senate debates Vaden fee,talks diversity
By JULIA BROWNELL
DESK EDITOR
Yesterday, the Faculty Senate con-
vened to discuss issues of diversity
among graduate students and faculty.
However, during the meeting, the frus-
tration of graduate students and their
faculty mentors with the University’s
financial situation dominated discus-
sion.
The meeting began with the
President’s report, followed by ques-
tions on student confidentiality and the
medical school’s new conflict of interest
disclosure, which posts information on
individual faculty pages.
The liveliest discussion, however,
came in response to Biology Prof.
Robert Simoni’s comments on the new
Vaden Health Center student fee. He
expressed concern about the measure’s
effect on graduate students’ finances,
and then posed a question to President
John Hennessy.
“What were you thinking?” Simoni
asked.
Hennessy explained the situation
and concern over the struggles of grad-
uate students to live in the current econ-
omy on meager salaries. However, he
pointedly outlined the moves the
University has made to avoid over-
stretching graduate students in the
budget cut process.
“I will point out that graduate stu-
dents are the only members of the
University to receive any kind of com-
pensation increase,” he said. “We also
did not terminate any fellowships in the
process of budget cuts, although we will
terminate or cut back the hours of about
500 University employees. And by the
way, they are University employees
whose salary scale matches that of grad-
uate students.”
Simoni, however, offered the exam-
ple of Wellness day, which is approach-
ing, as part of the BeWell program.
BeWell, he argued, is not central to the
short-term goals of the University, and
could be translated into relief for gradu-
ate students from the new fee.
“I suggest, if you want wellness for
the graduate students, then waiving this
fee would do a hell of a lot more good
than having them show up for a day and
get their blood pressure checked,” he
said.
This concern for graduate students’
financial welfare and the stability of
their programs permeated the rest of
the proceedings.
Graduate student diversity and funds
The meeting was dominated by the
Vice Provost’s Office for Graduate
Education’s report, given by Vice
Provost for Graduate Education
Friday, April 17, 2009 N 3
Patricia Gumport. The report focused
on diversity among graduate students
and graduate student funding.
She began, however, by putting her
report in the context of the University’s
financial situation in the struggling
economy.
“I want to acknowledge what a diffi-
cult time this is,” she said. “We’re wor-
ried about our graduate programs;
we’re worried about our students, our
staff, ourselves and our work.”
Further, she noted that many of the
difficulties the graduate programs face
are hard to address because of the
organization of separate departments
under a very loose-connected umbrella.
“We have a number of challenges
that are not easily resolved in our
decentralized structure,” she continued.
“In fact, they’re exacerbated by it.”
Gumport then addressed the issue
of diversity in the graduate population.
She first noted the successful growth of
women’s representation in graduate
programs.
“In every school, the proportion of
graduates who are women has grown,”
she said. She also noted how earth sci-
ences and engineering have doubled the
percentage of women in their programs.
Overall, however, she noted that the
proportion of women in traditionally
male-dominated fields such as engi-
neering, science and economics is still
low.
“This shows me,” she said, “that we
need to be much more field-specific in
our discussion of critical mass.”
She then moved forward to ethnic
and racial diversity.
“With ethnicity, it’s a much more
sobering picture,” she said. “The con-
cern is . . . since 1995 we have seen a
dramatic drop in the enrollment of each
of these three groups [Blacks, Hispanics
and Native Americans], and overall in
underrepresented minorities.”
In this past year, though, enrollment
numbers for Blacks, Hispanics and
Native Americans have all gone up sig-
nificantly — eight, four and six percent
respectively. The groups now stand at
3.1, 5.1 and 0.7 percent of the graduate
student population, respectively.
In addition, Gumport noted the
explosion in Asian American and inter-
national graduate students since 1985.
Asian Americans now make up 13 per-
cent of the total graduate population,
while international students constitute
33 percent.
Gumport cited recruitment, new
search assistance and VPGE task forces
as agents behind these largely positive
changes in student diversity.
In the case of funding, Gumport
explained that the graduate students
were funded in part by grants which
have actually received additional fund-
ing from the federal government,
endowments which have not been
affected as much by the financial crisis,
and the general fund, which has obvi-
ously taken a hard hit.
“The lesson we can take away from
this was that these sources are unpre-
dictable,and so it puts us,especially us in
the departments, in a very difficult posi-
tion when making multi-year commit-
ments to our graduate students,” she
said.
Gumport foreshadowed that aca-
demic departments, like all campus
departments, will have to make cuts in
graduate programming.
“Our reserves are being tapped out,
and as with every other funding cut in
the University, we need to take a very
close look at these models,and see what
we can sustain,” she concluded.
Report on the faculty
The report on the faculty, given by
Vice Provost for Faculty Development
and Diversity Patricia Jones, focused on
women and minority representation
among the faculty.
“Our biggest challenge is increasing
the representation of faculty of color,”
Jones said.“While the numbers of Asian
faculty have grown over recent years,
Black, Native American and Hispanics
haven’t seen much growth.”
She noted that underrepresented
minorities had remained relatively con-
stant in representation among Stanford
faculty. Blacks make up 2.4 percent of
the faculty, Native Americans constitute
0.2 percent and Hispanics represent 3.2
percent.
Asian representation among the fac-
ulty has nearly doubled since 1998, a
large percentage of this increase from
clinical science educators at the School
of Medicine, which has seen the largest
faculty hiring increase in recent years.
Jones then discussed the representa-
tion of women.
“All ranks are finally up to 25 per-
cent women,” she said. “We’ve been
working up to it for a number of years
and we are at 25 percent women across
all the ranks.”
Earth sciences and engineering
showed the largest increases in women
faculty over the past 10 years, though
their numbers were the lowest to begin
with. Women still hold the highest rep-
resentation in the School of Education,
followed by the humanities in the
School of Humanities and Sciences.
Jones also congratulated the faculty
present on moving women into posi-
tions of power at the University.
“Our faculty . . . are doing a good job
of having women appointed to positions
of leadership,” she said.
The Faculty Senate will next convene
on May 14, with a presentation from
Vice Provost for Undergraduate
Education John Bravman and Vice
President for Development Martin
Shell on the economy’s effect on
University fundraising.
Contact Julia Brownell at juliabr@stan-
ford.edu.
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from the 04/16/09 issue
What do you think of cuts to the drama
department's class offerings?
a) The department is a good place to
start paring down the budget.
b) Improv is a really worthwhile class. I
am disappointed with the cuts.
c) I'm more concerned about budget cuts
in other departments.
d) I don’t care about the budget cuts
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OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
Draw revamp as opaque
as Draw itself
ast week, details for the new Draw sys-
L
tem for residential housing were final-
ly released. Chief among the changes
made to the Draw is the decision to replace
the traditional preferred/un-preferred hous-
ing system with a series of tiers correspon-
ding to Draw number increments. This
change was designed to make the Draw sys-
tem fairer and to eliminate legends of people
in the 6,000 club — people whose total draw
numbers add up to over 6,000. But while the
new Draw system was supposedly designed
to ease students’ worries over housing, in re-
ality the new system was conceived with far
too little student input, and may unnecessar-
ily impede on many students’ housing plans.
An arcane system of rules determines ex-
actly when students can use which tier —
seniority, Greek membership, pre-assign-
ment and a combination of other factors in-
fluence the decision, but essentially each stu-
dent gets one year in each tier. (Students in
Tier One receive Draw numbers between
one and 1,000, while Tier Two students are
between 1,001 and 2,000, etc.) Housed
Greeks forfeit all first- and second-tier hous-
ing, a change which could come back to
haunt many people as demand for housing
increases. Considering that each housed
sorority on campus was required to take
over 40 members this year, the new system
could really put a damper on people’s plans
to live in a sorority, as they may only end up
being able to live in their house for one year,
after which they will have to suffer in third-
tier housing for the remainder of Stanford.
One of the more noticeable changes to
the Draw is the replacement of the priority
system with the pre-assignment system. Pre-
assignment is a single-choice option for stu-
dents to guarantee a spot in a given house.
Pre-assignments will be capped in each
house to around one-half of the house popu-
lation. Housing is currently working with
each house to determine the logistics of the
pre-assignment process. Co-ops are most di-
rectly affected by this, as many depend on
housing renovations provided by prospec-
tive future residents who come in for work
days to get priority. It appears that housing
will soon come to an agreement with the co-
ops. (They will have to consider how quickly
the Draw is approaching.) In the meantime,
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Fees, PHEs and budget cuts
don’t know if it’s the presidential election,
I the recession or intense senior burnout,
but my ability to manufacture outrage just
isn’t functioning anymore. It might have been
the ASSU elections, which once again, to bru-
tally parse Macbeth, seemed “full of sound
and fury, signifying nothing.” (On that, I hope
I’m wrong, but beyond last year’s Executives,
the precedent isn’t promising.)
It might be that as budget cuts trickle
down, there are so many causes to care about
that I’m overloaded and can’t prioritize. The
quite normal Stanford pattern of finding peo-
ple and things that need saving has now come
full circle — extending from the far reaches
of the globe back to a campus in the throes of
budget cuts.
In our post-Google boom, it was all about
“saving” Darfur, or underprivileged youth or
providing electricity. Now the most urgent
calls ask if I want to save The Daily, commu-
nity centers, Vaden Health Center or the
drama department. Do cuts mean the new
Old Union will never be upgraded beyond a
slightly cushier version of Meyer? The new
foosball table in Old Union is already broken.
current co-op members have voiced concern
over why they were not consulted more
thoroughly about these changes prior to the
release of the new rules. In designing Draw
policies that are intended to directly affect
co-ops, it does not bode well that Housing
left co-op residents out of the decision-mak-
ing process.
The editorial board’s biggest bone of con-
tention with the changes to the housing Draw
— as with the new fees attached to Vaden
and planned changes to the drop deadline —
is the lack of transparency and student in-
volvement in the issue. A small panel of un-
dergraduates served to discuss the new
Draw, but there was really no room for larg-
er student body input, other than a poorly at-
tended and publicized town hall meeting.It is
becoming an increasing cause for concern
that the University is not doing a better job of
reaching out to the greater student body
prior to making major policy decisions on
housing, health services and academic sched-
ules. Following a student body election which
saw undergraduate voter turnout increase by
nearly 15 percent, the University should rec-
ognize that the student body wants and de-
mands input on these kinds of issues.
One of the reasons why students at Stan-
ford don’t complain much about housing —
compared to students at many other univer-
sities — is that housing here, for the most
part, is good. And housing remains a serious
issue for most of the student body. The abili-
ty to live in a particular environment focused
around a theme or living arrangement has
been crucial to the satisfaction of the Stan-
ford living experience. In addition to turning
a house into a home united with a common
vision, it provides groups of friends with an
easy way to live together from year to year.
Stanford excels compared to most universi-
ties in the amount of leadership opportuni-
ties given to students, as well as the amount
of self-governance available.
The way Housing has handled these
changes to the Draw marks a departure from
that model, as it takes power away from the
student leadership on campus and gives it to
Housing. While many students may, in fact,
end up benefiting as a result of these
changes, the editorial board would caution
against continuing with this trend.
Game tables aside, with the traces and
shreds of fervent concern I have left, student
health is my greatest fear as cutbacks contin-
ue. The newly announced blanket charge for
Vaden of $167 per student per quarter is a lot,
but it does kind of make sense. We can be as-
sured that Vaden will continue to offer servic-
es, even if it costs more. Stanford wants to
make sure students get treatment if they need
it, rather than avoiding appointments that
cost money.
“I think the University is selecting the phi-
losophy [of distributing costs] because charg-
ing people at the time of service heightens the
penalty of being ill or injured,” Vaden Direc-
tor Ira Freedman told the Graduate Student
Council this week. “[Vaden] provides a com-
munity good that I think is appropriate to dis-
tribute throughout the entire community.”
In an earlier interview with The Daily,
Freedman also pointed out that “there will be
virtually no reduction in CAPS,” or Counsel-
ing and Psychological Services. That is, of
course, reassuring, except that numerous
cases have been made, including by the Uni-
versity Mental Health Task Force and a spe-
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America’s gun problem
isn’t one
was troubled, though I can’t say surprised,
I to read my colleague David Goldbren-
ner’s April 15 column “The NRA victori-
ous,” in which he lambasted gun-rights ac-
tivists and decried the influence of the NRA
over the American population. Within his
artfully written piece, he drew on anecdotal
arguments meant to trigger emotion, pointed
fingers at politicians for gun deaths and gave
just enough statistical backing to help prove
his point without pointing out its flaws — all
in order to criticize the influence of firearms
and their lobby on the American people.
I’m not surprised because I’ve heard this
argument a million times before, from gro-
cery store clerks to U.S. senators and many
others in between. Unfortunately, the fatal
flaws in this argument have remained
throughout the years. In this column, I will do
my best to try and dispel the myths and asser-
tions presented by the anti-gun lobby and
provide a little more perspective on the issue
and illustrate the point that the issue of per-
sonally owned firearms is not as black-and-
white as fans of the Brady Bill make it out to
be.
It’s not easy to write a “pro-gun” column
here. Living in one of the few counties in the
country that refuses to issue concealed carry
licenses to the public at large, on a campus
that’s more than a little left of center, makes
convincing my peers that guns have merit an
uphill battle. It’s very difficult to combat the
“anti-gun” mindset that the majority of my
neighbors have grown up with, but it is my re-
sponsibility to at least try.
First and foremost, the argument that
prevalence of guns leads to gun violence is in-
correct and misleading. Extensive studies by
the FBI have shown absolutely no correla-
tion between gun supply and violent crime,
or crimes committed with a firearm. In lay-
man’s terms: more guns do not, nor have they
ever, lead to more crime.The opposite of that
is also true, in that an increased supply in
guns does not lead to a decrease in the crime
rate.
However, legalization of concealed carry
does. In every one of the 40 states that has
“right-to-carry” laws on the books, crime ei-
ther decreased dramatically or did not in-
crease after the right-to-carry laws were in-
troduced, also according to the FBI. Florida’s
homicide rate fell from 36 percent above the
national average to four percent below it,
and has remained there since the laws’ pass-
ing. In Texas, murder fell 50 percent faster
than the national average after the introduc-
tion of the law. Rape fell 93 percent faster in
the first year after the enactment of the law
and 500 percent faster in the second year.
T HE WANDERER
cial series in The Daily, that the current level
of resources devoted to CAPS is woefully in-
adequate.
The question administrators are surely
grappling with is how to improve CAPS, and
where it lies on the priority list with the
corpses of lost jobs and the now non-existent
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
degree already rotting on the floor.
I’m glad that CAPS is not going to be cut
back, but it’s been lacking for years — it al-
ready often takes weeks to get an appoint-
ment.It’s hard to make a case for more spend-
ing in a time of severe budget tightening, but
if there is one place spending should be in-
creased, CAPS deserves consideration.
For more general health issues, perhaps
fittingly, it may be students who play a large
role in looking out for student health in the
coming financially scrawny years.
Even though I know it has virtually no
chance of getting more funding soon, the peer
health educator (PHE) position is one of the
most cost-effective ways to make sure stu-
dents get the health information they need.
PHEs are student residential staff giving ad-
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More soberingly, every state without a
right-to-carry law has higher crime than any
state with said law. States that had right-to-
carry laws, and rescinded them, saw their
crime rates rise 11 percent faster than the na-
tional average. The average state without a
right-to-carry law has a 105 percent higher
robbery rate, an 86 percent higher murder
rate and a 25 percent higher rate of rape than
states with right-to-carry laws, according to
various statistical studies.
While none of these numbers prove cau-
sation, there is an awful lot more correlation
than the numbers offered by the anti-gun
crowd. These numbers suggest that perhaps
laying the blame squarely on the shoulders of
guns and gun owners seems both illegitimate
and intellectually dishonest.
To David’s citing of school shootings, he
conveniently only mentions the shootings
themselves and assumes they are the norm
for such situations. In fact, there have been at
least a dozen incidents since 2005, in which a
responsible citizen brandishing a firearm has
prevented a crime from occurring on a col-
lege campus.
In the bigger picture of the tragedy of
public shootings, after the introduction of
right-to-carry laws in states with mass public
shootings, a University of Chicago study
found that the average death rate plummet-
ed 91 percent and the average injury rate fell
80 percent, drawing the suggestion that re-
sponsible citizens with firearms helped to
prevent more horrifying public slaughters
from happening.
Even wider statistics support this argu-
ment as across the country, firearms are esti-
mated to be used in the prevention of crimes
2.5 million times annually according to the
FBI.
Finally, the two countries most like us
(Western democracies) to have banned
firearms in recent memory — Australia and
the United Kingdom — both saw crime rates
increase immediately after the ban. In fact,
crimes committed with a firearm in the Unit-
ed Kingdom nearly doubled after firearms
were banned according to the UK Home Of-
fice. Within three years of the 1997 ban, you
were six times more likely to be mugged in
London than in New York.
The contention I am making is not that
guns aren’t involved in crime. My contention
is that it is not guns that cause crime. Further-
more, trying to ban and prohibit guns is a
ploy used by politicians as scapegoat legisla-
tion to shirk other responsibilities.
The shooters in the Columbine massacre
broke multiple federal laws in the acquisition
of their firearms.
vice and minor health assistance in most
freshman dorms and a few others. As a resi-
dent assistant (RA) in a freshman dorm, I
have been awed and humbled by the contri-
butions of our PHE to the dorm’s well-being
and I was shocked to find out that PHEs are
basically volunteers, paid a whopping total of
$1,000 for the whole year. That’s far less than
most social managers in Row houses,and how
many hours do you think they ever spend in
the hospital?
Fortunately, though the program should
be expanded, most PHEs are not motivated
by the stipend, even though it is woefully un-
fair compared to other staff members.
“When it started, it was a volunteer pro-
gram,” Jarreau Bowen ‘07, who coordinates
the PHE program, told me recently. “It was a
group of students who were very dedicated to
health and wellness.”
As the program expanded, Bowen ex-
plained, “It was easy to say yes to having [an-
other] PHE because we weren’t paying any
money.”
My own PHE, Michelle Meyer ‘09, con-
firmed that money wasn’t the motivating fac-
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The“gun culture”in
America is really just
the word“culture”with
something shiny added to it.
Guns aren’t the
problem here.
The shooter at Virginia Tech was mishan-
dled by the university and also broke federal
gun laws already on the books before the
shooting.
If these laws didn’t stop them, what on
earth makes people believe that more will?
The United States has a tragically large
number of gun deaths, this is true. Yet, coun-
tries socially very similar to our own, with
much higher gun ownership rates (Switzer-
land and Israel), have far lower gun crime
rates, which again suggest that perhaps guns
aren’t the problem.
The “gun culture” in America is really just
the word “culture” with something shiny
added to it. Guns aren’t the problem here. Is-
sues of poverty, socio-economic stratifica-
tion, poor law enforcement, and a myriad of
other social and cultural pressures have a
much greater impact on crime rates than do
guns.
I agree with David that issues such as the
gun show loophole need to be addressed, and
sooner rather than later. However, I com-
pletely understand the resistance of gun
owners to these movements. After closing a
few loopholes stateside, the Brady Campaign
enacted prohibitions on firearms nationwide.
Gun owners felt double-crossed and back
stabbed.Why should they continue to give an
inch when the anti-gun lobby then takes a
mile?
It is unreasonable to demand gun rights
lobbyists to back off when anti-gun crusaders
make no such concessions.The right to own a
firearm is a fundamental right guaranteed by
our Constitution. If the people don’t defend
that right, who will?
“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you,
it would be reasonable to shoot back with your
own gun.” — The Dalai Lama. Do you think
Mark is right on the money or does he need to
set his gun down and open his eyes? Let him
know at mkogan@stanford.edu.
Michael
Wilkerson
tor.
“I think the reason I signed up for being a
PHE rather than an RA is I liked the health
aspect of it,” she said. Meyer has played an ac-
tive role and mentioned fixing bikes and
reading resumes, in addition to providing
health information.
“Ninety percent of the PHEs, if not all of
them, want to be considered full staff,” she
added, noting that PHEs do take a four-unit
class.
Given their direct connection to students
and ability to provide information and treat-
ment referrals, the University would do well
to give more support, even if non-monetary,
to the PHE program. PHEs can’t make up for
the shortfalls at Vaden or in CAPS, but they
do more than supply condoms and band-aids.
I hope the Vaden fee is the only one of its
sort. But I am glad I’m graduating.
Michael Wilkerson is currently covering him-
self in band-aids and condoms in anticipation
of the SHPRC party.Want some? Email him at
mwilkerson@stanford.edu.
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CREW
SPORTS
Danny
Belch
Stanford to play host On My Mind

to first spring regatta

MEN’S GOLF By ZOE LEAVITT
STAFF WRITER
Final home This weekend, Stanford men’s
crew will compete against Washing-
ton, Wisconsin and Oregon State in
tourney on tap its first home regatta of the spring
season. All teams enter the weekend
ranked in the top five. Stanford, a
team full of younger rowers, hopes to
By ROXIE DICKINSON use its impressive results against top-
ranked Cal a few weeks ago as a
Washington presents two 22-year-old
international students from Ger-
Sports’
many who have rowed at some of the
world’s highest levels but compete
this year on the freshman team. Tom
Lehmann, who reached the men’s
healing
rowing pair semifinals in the 2008
Beijing Olympics, and Mathis Jessen,
who stroked the German men’s four
boat to victory in the 2008 World
powers
Rowing Championship, have both
proven to be remarkable assets. would like to follow up on my

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springboard toward greater heights Lehmann and Jessen helped Wash- Daily colleague Dan Bohm’s
The No. 4 Stanford men’s golf team returns to the Farm this when the Cardinal men face other ington flatten all opponents in the Wednesday column, “Tragic
weekend to host its final regular-season tournament,the U.S.Inter- top-ranked teams. San Diego Crew Classic, including times in the sports world.”The death
collegiate. The rounds will be a preview for the upcoming Pacific- “We had a really good day in San defeating Stanford by a huge margin. of Anaheim Angels pitcher Nick
10 Conference Championships, as nine of the 10 conference teams Diego when we beat Cal in the heat, “Freshmen are not eligible to row Adenhart last week was indeed trag-
will be participating in this weekend’s tournament. and Cal is now No. 1 in the country,” varsity,” Amerkahnian said. “It’s no ic. I feel for his family, his friends, his
Of the 17 participating schools, six are ranked in the top 25 na- said men’s coach Craig Amerkhan- riff on them,they’re awesome,it’s just teammates and anyone who was
tionally,including No.3 USC,No.4 Stanford,No.8 Washington,No. ian. “It showed us that we have a ca- they should be able to row on the best close with the 22-year-old rookie.
15 Texas, No. 18 UCLA and No. 21 Arizona State. pability to race with the best.” boat. But Washington has a first- People that young just don’t deserve
“This is the one time all year that a bunch of top teams come At 6 p.m. tonight, the Cardinal ranked freshmen team, and our to pass away like that.
from all over the county to compete in the Bay Area,” head coach AGUSTIN RAMIREZ/The Stanford Daily varsity eight will face off with Wash- freshmen will have to do their best to The Angles respectfully and ap-
Conrad Ray told KNBR 680.“It’s the future stars of what you’ll see Freshman Sarah Hassman and the Cardinal will ington, followed by the second eight compete.” propriately honored Adenhart. A
down the road on the PGA Tour. There were 15 guys who played look to topple Arizona from the top spot in the at 6:20 and, at 6:40, the freshmen Stanford freshman Chip Schroed- makeshift memorial was created
in the Masters last week that have played at one time in the U.S.In- Pac-10 standings today in Tucson, Ariz. eight against Wisconsin. Saturday er looks forward to this weekend’s outside of Angel Stadium. The team
tercollegiate.It’s neat to see these young guys come and heat it up.” morning will see the Cardinal battle races as a good opportunity to show postponed the game that was sup-
Last year, USC took the tournament crown from the Cardinal Oregon State, leading up to the finale the team’s improved fitness. posed to take place on the next day.

SOFTBALL
with the only under-par team score of the tournament at 12-under against second-ranked Wisconsin on “The frosh know that if we row ag- The team held a ceremony two days
828. Stanford tried to bridge the gap in the final round but was un- Sunday. gressively as we’ve been doing this later and etched his number into the
able to overtake its SoCal rival,posting a one-over 841 for the tour- The waters of Redwood City will week in practice, we have the poten- dirt on the mound. A part of the out-
nament. Sophomore Sihwan Kim earned second place on the indi- Continued from front page be frothing with the best rowing tal- tial to be a very fast crew and show field wall has his picture and number
vidual ladder, firing a two-under-par 208, while Trojan Rory Hie ents in the nation. The Cardinal has some good results this weekend,” on it. The Angels will now wear his
took the individual title with a 10-under 200. Hie has since gradu- traded victories with the Badgers Schroeder said. number 34 on their uniforms the en-
ated. several of the nation’s top players, including junior over the past several years, but this The team hopes that the San tire season.
This past week’s mighty gusts of wind may pose a challenge for Alissa Haber (.428 average, seven home runs, .746 year Wisconsin has come armed Diego Crew Classic bodes well for It was a poignant moment at the
the range of competitors.Last year,the wind caused many teams to slugging percentage) and freshman Ashley stronger than ever,with last year’s na- the rest of its season, and views this Angels ballpark in their first game
post high over-par scores. Luckily for fans and competitors, the Hansen (.415, 39 RBI). tional championship to back its repu- weekend’s difficult competition as since Adenhart’s death. It reminded
winds are expected to be down this weekend. Nothing has contributed more to the Cardinal’s tation. This regatta will bring togeth- practice for the rest of spring. Despite everyone in the stadium and watch-
“We’re talking short weather this weekend,” Ray said.“It’s sup- success, however, than its dominant pitching. The er the most recent two national the Cardinal’s opportunity to prove ing on TV that life can be short, and
posed to be 80 degrees this weekend, which is great because the ace of the staff, senior Missy Penna, has combined champions, Washington (2007) and itself against some of the best in the something can happen in an instant
course is playing firm and fast.We’ve got a great backdrop here at with sophomore Ashley Chinn to put up confer- Wisconsin (2008). country, the team’s challenges will that can change it forever. No one is
Stanford with our university course.” ence-leading numbers in ERA (1.11),opposing av- “This is the finest regatta this side not be over soon as it faces Cal again free from the despair of tragedy, not
Stanford’s five team competitors this weekend are No. 10 soph- erage (.170), strikeouts (327) and wins (36). of the national championships,” on May 2.With Stanford climbing the even a young kid who showed just a
omore Steve Ziegler, No. 48 freshman David Chung, Kim and sen- Penna, a senior from Miami, expressed the Amerkhanian said. “This field repre- rankings and taking on increasingly few hours earlier that he had a bright
iors Dodge Kemmer and Daniel Lim.Sophomore Graham Brock- same confidence that her coach did, stressing that sents the highest ranked teams to difficult teams, the men will try and future ahead of him.
ington and junior Jordan Cox will be competing as individuals.This the Cardinal needs to focus on its own perform- come together in rowing history.” prove themselves, showing how they But as moving and emotional as
will be the last time that Kemmer and Lim compete for the Cardi- ance, not its opponent’s. “We’re racing with the best,” he deserve their high reputation. the Angels’ celebration was, it also
nal on the Stanford golf course. “We’ll play our game, no matter who we’re up continued. “They respect us, and we “The team itself has a typical Stan- brought to mind a bigger principle —
Both Chung and Ziegler were on fire last week,helping the Car- against,” she said. “We’ve got good competition, respect them.” ford student can-do spirit,” something that maybe few have
dinal earn its second-place finish at the U.S. Collegiate Champi- but we need to concentrate on our own team, and While the whole team will be Amerkhanian said. thought about. What makes Aden-
onship in Georgia. Chung snagged his personal best and second playing our best no matter what.We shouldn’t ever pulling its hardest for the finish line hart’s death any different from the
top-10 finish of the season,coming in third on the individual ladder. play up or down to whomever [we’re up against].” this weekend, the freshmen will face Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@stan- hundreds, thousands of untimely and
Just one stroke behind Chung was Ziegler, who came in a tie for Adding to the excitement this weekend, an especially tough uphill battle. ford.edu. heartbreaking deaths that take place
fourth. tonight’s game, in which the Pac-10’s top spot will around the country every day?
Southern California may be ranked third nationally, but last be up for grabs, will be televised nationally on CBS He was a young man whose first
week the Trojans came in ninth place overall in the U.S. Collegiate. Sports. Junior catcher Rosey Neill said, however, job in life happened to be that of a

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that it won’t be a significant distraction to her reigns No.1 in the nation for digs,in no baseball player. In most cases, he was
Stanford has good momentum going into this weekend’s tough small part thanks to freshman libero
playing field, posting top-five overall finishes in all five of its spring team. just an ordinary guy. Ordinary peo-
“We’ll play the same game against every team, Erik Shoji who is becoming increas- ple don’t always get special news
season tournaments. ingly well known for his miraculous
“We’ve had a good year,” Ray said to KNBR “The guys are regardless of T.V. or other circumstances,” she said. Continued from front page coverage like Adenhart did. Ordi-
“Maybe it’ll add some nerves to some kids, but we save, which was featured as the No. 2 nary people don’t always get the top
working hard,and we’re looking forward to having a good showing Play of the Day on SportsCenter’s
this weekend.” try not to let it affect us.” headline on several websites, ongo-
Stanford defense. “Top Plays;” the video has over ing television reporting and an ex-
The U.S. Intercollegiate will begin at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, Tonight’s televised contest with the Wildcats
For that reason, Stanford will be 180,000 hits on YouTube. Shoji cur- travagant memorial.
going until dusk.Admission is free and the weather is predicted to begins at 7 p.m., as does Saturday’s game against
rolling out its own big guns this week- rently leads the nation in digs and Referred to several times last
be gorgeous on the links. Arizona State. Sunday’s game is set for noon.
end. The team will undoubtedly look holds the Stanford single-season week as “a big fraternity,” the Angles
to outside hitter Evan Romero to spur record for digs. and MLB as a whole have been ex-
Contact Roxie Dickinson at roxie221@stanford.edu. Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@stanford.edu.
the Cardinal offense;the junior has hit With the entire team playing at its cellent in showing their love and sup-
over .300 in eight of his last 12 games highest level since the beginning of the port for Adenhart’s family and the
and has totaled an incredible 435 kills year, both Kosty and the Cardinal Angels franchise. The MLB, like any
SPORTS BRIEFS event in recent memory.
“It’s kind of been a Stanford cy-
large graduating class last year, hopes
this event will draw new faces to their
this season.
“Evan has raised his own bar this
players can hope for the best this
weekend.With a little bit of luck,Stan-
professional sport, is an organization
that is committed to the well-being of
cling tradition, to try every year to ranks and remove some mystery from year,” Kosty said. “He’s really done ford may see the first round of the all its members. Competition takes
Men’s gymnastics advances to team host a race and to run into some road- the team. the job for us out there and has MPSF Tournament grace its campus place, but at the end of the day it’s
finals blocks,” said the team’s road captain, “It would be awesome if people played a consistently high level of later this month for the first time in about the coaches, players, judges
junior Rae Brownsberger. “[This even remotely interested in cycling volleyball, just what we need on the several years.
No. 1 Stanford was victorious in and team staff. Like a nice car, a sport
year] we’ve finally reached a critical could come out,” Brownsberger said. outside.”
Minneapolis on Thursday, as the Car- mass of wisdom and experience.” “For all those people who say, ‘Cy- On the defensive end, Stanford Contact Jeff Lu at jjlu@stanford.edu.
dinal came in first at the NCAA qual- Please see BELCH, page 6
This Sunday’s race involves an ap- cling looks fun, but I’m intimidated’
ifying meet to move on to tonight’s proximately one-mile loop around and think everyone on the team is in
team finals.The men will be joined by Campus Drive and the surrounding better shape, it’s really not true. It’s
No. 4 Michigan and No. 5 California. roads. about school pride and running
Stanford started strong and hardly “The smartest person is going to around screaming.”
let up, as it won the vault competition win, not necessarily who can climb a
with a 63.850; sophomore Josh Dixon hill the fastest,” Brownsberger said. — By Zoe Leavitt and Wyndam
took first in the event. The Cardinal The Stanford team, depleted by a Makowsky
went on to win four of the six events in
total, and never finished below third.
Stanford also finished first on the hor-
izontal bar, still rings and floor exer-
cise. Dixon picked up his second top
finish on the floor, where he finished
with a 15.6, three-tenths better than
the runner-up. The Cardinal came in
second on parallel bars and third on
pommel horse.
The 361.100 overall score was the
Cardinal’s second highest of the year
overall as it bested second-place
Michigan’s mark of 358.300.
Women’s gymnastics misses Super Six
Stanford faced heartbreak in Lin-
coln, Neb. on Thursday, as the Cardi-
nal came just a fraction of a point
short of qualifying for the six-team
NCAA Championships. The top
three teams from the event advanced,
and LSU finished just 0.075 points
ahead of Stanford to come in third
and claim the final spot in the NCAA
Super Six Finals.
The Cardinal was impressive on
uneven bars, finishing in second be-
hind Georgia,as well as vault,where it
came in third.But Stanford only came
in sixth in the floor exercise and
fourth on the balance beam.
Now, with team competition com-
plete, Stanford only has the individual
event finals tomorrow left in its sea-
son. Senior Nicole Ourada and junior
Carly Janiga, who each earned spots
by winning first-team All-American
honors in bars, will compete.
Stanford cycling hosts home race
Sunday morning at 7:30 a.m., an
hour most college students have
never heard of, the Stanford cycling
team will speed off on its first on-cam-
pus race in years.
A high-performing club team that
achieved three national champi-
onships in the last decade, Stanford
cycling will host its first true home
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working perfectly in order to have a
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Athletics has offered us a glimpse
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September 11, to Breast Cancer
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and the connection that the team
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like they were all in it together for
him, his family, the Angels and the
game of baseball.
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cause he was a baseball player, his
brothers across the country rallied
around him. That made people like
me take notice and want to rally as
well. Baseball showed that the game,
the stats, the numbers and the home
runs are not as important as the life
of one of their own men.
I’ll thank sports for instilling that
feeling in myself and many others
across the country. Sports are not
above the rest of the world.They are
something that can bring people to-
gether. And that principle struck
people like me who grieved for Nick
Adenhart and his family — because
after seeing how the Angels and
baseball community honored him, it
just felt like the right thing to do.
Contact Danny Belch at dbelch1
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