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December 1, 2010
BCS
BOUND FOR
Victory propels Stanford to No. 4
By KABIR SAWHNEY
MANAGING EDITOR
The Stanford football team stat-
ed its case for a BCS bowl berth in
emphatic fashion on Saturday night,
defeating Oregon State, 38-0, in the
final game of its regular season.The
Cardinal will now be forced to wait
for a week before learning its final
bowl destination, as the final games
of college football’s regular season
don’t wrap up until next weekend.
No. 6 Stanford (11-1, 8-1 Pac-10)
now has the most wins in the pro-
gram’s history, which stretches back
to the founding of the University in
1892.
In a game that Stanford head
coach Jim Harbaugh described as
“thorough all the way around,” the
Cardinal dominated the Beavers on
both sides of the ball. Stanford’s of-
fense rolled up yards on Oregon
State’s defense, with a balanced at-
tack generating yardage through the
air and on the ground.
Sophomore Stepfan Taylor led
the running attack — he gained 124
yards on 14 carries, punctuated by a
long 62-yard touchdown run in the
third quarter.With his performance,
Taylor went over 1,000 yards rush-
ing on the season,becoming only the
sixth Stanford back to accomplish
that feat. Overall, Stanford gained
165 yards on the ground.
However, the story of the day on
offense was the passing game. Red-
shirt sophomore quarterback An-
drew Luck turned in a complete
game, annihilating the Oregon State
secondary with a 305-yard, four-
touchdown performance. Of course,
Luck was helped by his receivers,
who turned in some great plays of
their own.
One such play came late in the
WORLD & NATION
Hecker shares findings
from North Korean trip
By DEVIN BANERJEE
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
For six years, management science and
engineering professor Siegfried Hecker
has offered Stanford, Washington and the
U.S. scientific community a window into
the secretive world of North Korea’s nu-
clear program. The 67-year-old former di-
rector of Los Alamos National Laboratory
travels as a nonofficial diplomat, returning
each time with insights, photographs and
discussion points for U.S.-North Korea re-
lations.
But on Nov. 12, during his seventh visit
to the clandestine nation and his fourth to
its Yongbyon nuclear complex, Hecker
was “stunned” to find that the impover-
ished state had accelerated construction of
a state-of-the-art uranium enrichment fa-
cility complete with 2,000 steel-rotor cen-
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GAME NOTES: With big wins over its last two
opponents, Stanford finishes the season
with an 11-1 record, including an 8-1
conference record. The Cardinal sits at
No. 4 in the BCS standings, and is virtually
assured of a berth in a BCS bowl. Most
analysts are projecting Stanford to land in
the Orange Bowl or the Fiesta Bowl.
second quarter, when Luck com-
pleted a pass over the middle to sen-
ior receiver Doug Baldwin. Baldwin
caught the ball on the left hash
mark, eluded one defender’s grasp
and juked around two more players
on his way into the right corner of
the end zone. Overall, Baldwin
scored two touchdowns on the day
on five receptions for 97 yards.
“Andrew gave me the eye saying
it was okay to go up behind [the line-
backer],” Baldwin said. “I got the
ball in the perfect place, and I just let
my instincts take over after that.”
Stanford also got another great
catch-and-run from sophomore tail-
back Tyler Gaffney. On the first play
of the fourth quarter, Gaffney lined
up as a wide receiver on the right
side. Luck hit him with a short
screen, and Gaffney simply raced
past the defense up the right side of
the field. He eluded a final tackler
inside the 10-yard line and went into
the end zone for a touchdown. The
52-yard play was Luck’s longest pass
of the game.
Stanford’s defensive play was
trifuges producing low-enriched uranium.
If enriched further, the uranium could
be used to produce nuclear weapons.
“If you enrich a little and have that ca-
pability, you can easily enrich more,”
Hecker told an invite-only room Monday
at Stanford’s Center for International Se-
curity and Cooperation (CISAC), where
he serves as co-director. “That’s really the
primary concern.”
Hecker was joined on the trip by visit-
ing scholar Robert Carlin and emeritus
professor John Lewis, both of CISAC.
Though their guides at Yongbyon said the
uranium will power a new light-water reac-
tor to generate civilian nuclear energy, not
produce weapons, the team’s findings cap-
tured international attention upon their
return.
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also very impressive. The game
marked the third time the Cardinal
has shut out a Pac-10 opponent this
season — Stanford also pulled the
feat against UCLA in its first confer-
ence game of the season and against
Washington at the end of October.
“Our defensive coordinator, Vic
Fangio, can’t get enough praise,”
said redshirt sophomore linebacker
Chase Thomas. “A shutout is the
best compliment you can give the
defense.”
Thomas had an excellent game
himself, leading the Stanford de-
fense in a number of statistical cate-
gories. He led the team in sacks with
2.5, tackles for loss with 3.5 and
overall tackles with nine, as well as
forcing a fumble and deflecting a
pass.
With Stanford among the coun-
try’s best teams at 11-1, the Cardinal
must now contemplate the various
possibilities that could see it land in
one of the prestigious BCS bowls.
While Stanford is ranked highly in
every major poll, including the BCS
standings, it is not guaranteed a spot
in a BCS bowl unless it finishes in
the top four of the BCS standings or
wins the Pac-10 — an impossibility
due to Oregon’s position at the top
of the conference.
However, both the players and
Harbaugh believe that the team is
worthy of a BCS invitation.
“I think we are the best one-loss
team in the country,” Thomas said.
“Our offense is really hard to stop
right now, they’re so reliable, and
our defense made so many strides
from last year. I don’t see why we
shouldn’t go to a BCS game.”
“Our guys have stated the case
on the field,” Harbaugh said.“We’re
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STUDENT LIFE
Ujamaa walks out
of Gaieties show
By ELLEN HUET
MANAGING EDITOR
In response to content they found offensive and insensitive,
four staff members and 32 residents of Ujamaa walked out of the
last Gaieties performance of Big Game Week on Nov. 19,
prompting plans of talks between the two parties to discuss con-
cerns and how to move forward.
Ujamaa resident assistant (RA) Robbie Zimbroff ‘12 called
the portrayals of certain characters in the show “limited,” saying
they “made people feel undervalued” and didn’t fairly represent
the Stanford community. Zimbroff and Yvorn Aswad-Thomas
‘11, another Ujamaa RA, pointed to the show program’s “lexi-
con” list, portrayals of Native Americans as visibly intoxicated
and an ad-libbed line about dressing up for a party as “Rosa-
Parks black” as a few examples that led to the group walking out
of the performance about 45 minutes into the show.
But both Zimbroff and Aswad-Thomas said it wasn’t just spe-
JENNY CHEN/The Stanford Daily cific moments but an overall inappropriate attitude that the
Members of the Stanford Band watch the dress rehearsal for this year’s Gai- walkout meant to highlight.
eties, “The Last Temptation of Cal.” Residents and staff from Ujamaa walked
out of the show’s performance on Nov. 19 after 45 minutes. Please see GAIETIES, page 11
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NEWS
RESEARCH Bush Visits Facebook
Professor,APA
dispute ghost-
writing charge
Schatzberg and co-author maintain
they did not use industry ghostwriters
By ELIZABETH TITUS
EDITOR IN CHIEF

A watchdog group this week urged the National Institutes of

Health to put an end to “ghostwriting,” alleging that scientific
publications by some federally funded researchers were actually
written by drug and marketing companies — including one book
co-written by Stanford psychiatry professor Alan Schatzberg.
The Washington group, Project on Government Oversight,
bases its allegations on documents made public in a lawsuit
against GlaxoSmithKline related to the drug Paxil, as The New
York Times first reported on Tuesday.
The documents include a draft of the book “Recognition NOBERT STUHRMANN/The Stanford Daily
and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders:A Psychopharmacolo- Former President George W. Bush visits Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto on Monday to promote his new book and answer questions from Mark Zuckerberg. He
gy Handbook for Primary Care,” which was published in 1999
told the audience, “If you see me in an airport, I hope you wave with all five fingers, but if you don’t, you won’t be the first.” Bush recently released his memoirs.
by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI), a branch of
the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The draft was
“developed” by two writers for the medical publishing compa-
ny Scientific Therapeutics Information (STI) of New Jersey Continued from front page
under an “educational grant” from drug company SmithKline

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Beecham Pharmaceuticals (now GlaxoSmithKline), according
to the document. Schatzberg and Charles Nemeroff, at the time
chairman of psychiatry at Emory University, are the book’s au-
thors, the draft said.
Also among the documents was a 1997 letter from STI editor
Sally Laden to Nemeroff describing the company’s timeline for
completing the book. The timeline included several dates when
drafts of the book would go to the co-authors and the “sponsor”
for comments,“sign-off” and “final approval.”
“You and Alan [Schatzberg] are in good hands with Diane
[Coniglio, an STI writer],” Laden wrote to Nemeroff.
Schatzberg is the former president of the APA,which issued a
statement on Tuesday condemning the ghostwriting allegations
as untrue.
“Unrestricted” grants, such as the one SmithKline Beecham
awarded for the book, “support specific projects” but do not
allow companies to control books’ content, the APA said.
“From our perspective, timeline and details in the letter were
never approved by APPI [the publisher] or the authors,” the
statement added.
“This type of editorial assistance was quite common,especial-
ly the use of editorial experts to compile and check facts in books
on pharmacology,” said Ron McMillen, chief executive of APPI,
in the statement.“To say the book was ghostwritten is not true.”
He added the authors and the publisher did not sign a contract
until two years after the letter from Laden,and that the book was
peer-reviewed by eight physicians.
Schatzberg, Nemeroff and STI did not return requests for
comment.
Schatzberg, the chairman of psychiatry and behavioral sci-
ences at Stanford for 19 years before stepping down this sum-
mer, faced congressional scrutiny in 2008 when Sen. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa) raised questions about Schatzberg’s stock
holdings in a drug company related to the professor’s federally
funded research.Stanford attorneys at the time said the Univer-
sity took “appropriate steps” to prevent a conflict of interest.
Schatzberg ultimately resigned as principal investigator for the
grant.
Since then, the Stanford School of Medicine has revised the
ethics policy it implemented in 2006,called the Stanford Industry
Interactions Policy. Earlier this year it prohibited adjunct clinical
faculty — volunteer teachers who often work in private practices
— from giving paid speeches written by drug and medical-device
companies.
The policy also forbids faculty, students and staff from engag-
ing in ghostwriting:“in other words, individuals may not publish
articles under their own names that are written in whole or ma-
terial part by industry employees,” it says.
As medical school spokesman Paul Costello pointed out,
Stanford’s ghostwriting policy would not have been in effect in
1999, when the book was published. He added that Schatzberg
and the APA “strongly deny that the manuscript was ghostwrit-
ten.”
On Tuesday, doctors spoke critically to The Times about
SmithKline Beecham’s alleged influence on the book. And
members of the watchdog group, including former Grassley
staffer Paul Thacker, pointed to other examples of what they
called ghostwriting among federally funded researchers.
But Schatzberg told The Times that’s not what happened
here. SmithKline Beecham was not involved in the book’s con-
tent and the 1997 letter was “a theoretical proposal that bears lit-
tle, if any relationship to what actually happened,” he said in an
e-mail, adding:“An unrestricted grant does not give the compa-
ny any right of sign-off on content and in fact they had no sign-
off in content.”
Contact Elizabeth Titus at etitus@stanford.edu.
U.S. officials told The New York Times,
which broke the findings in a front-page
story on Nov. 20, that they think North
Korea, like Iran, will say its reactor is for
energy but will actually use it to develop
weapons.
Hecker said construction of the reactor,
which is in its early stages,is not a new find-
ing, as was widely reported after the trip.
“They told us in [February] 2009 they were
going to build a light-water reactor,” he
said.
The real shock came during the team’s
visit to the enrichment facility, a structure
formerly used for preparing nuclear fuel
rods before North Korea dismantled it
under a 2008 agreement with the Bush ad-
ministration to end its weapons program.
Between April 2009, when North Korea
expelled U.N. inspectors from the site, and
the team’s visit last month,the blue-roofed
building was gutted, renovated and fitted
with 2,000 centrifuges standing six feet tall,
which enrich uranium so that it can fuel a
reactor. TAMER SHABANI/The Stanford Daily
“I didn’t believe they would have an in- Siegfried Hecker answers questions after his talk on North Korea on Monday. Hecker, a co-director of CISAC, was “stunned”
dustrial-scale facility ready and available,” to find that the state had accelerated construction of a uranium enrichment facility.
Hecker said.“We looked through the win-
dows into the hall, and our jaws just
dropped.” other top scientists who have visited Yong- will be used to make bombs. “stay the course on denuclearization.”
Hecker said a North Korean official byon say North Korea has between eight Of the two paths to a nuclear weapon Lewis also said American diplomats
turned to the team and said, “No one be- and 12 nuclear weapons.Despite the belief — obtaining plutonium from spent reactor and foreign-policy makers should not
lieved us when we announced this in 2009,” by U.S. officials and political pundits that fuel and enriching uranium to weapons think of North Korea as “a weapon” but
before looking at him and adding,“includ- the new uranium enrichment facility is the grade — North Korea has already en- should mind the country’s modernization.
ing you, Dr. Hecker.” first stage of a full-fledged weapons pro- gaged in the former, and Hecker believes Mobile phones, flat-screen TVs and per-
Current assessments by Hecker and gram, Hecker isn’t worried that the facility that if the country’s leadership were seri- sonal computers are booming among the
ous about producing more weapons,“they population, Lewis and Hecker said. Stu-
could resume all plutonium operations dents are required to practice colloquial
within approximately six months and English, and one of the factories the team
make one bomb’s worth of plutonium per visited was even blaring American rock
year for some time to come” instead of music.
building a uranium enrichment plant. “What is going on is mind-blowing,”
Yongbyon’s five-megawatt gas-graphite Lewis said. “If you think sanctions are
reactor, which was used to produce pluto- working, forget it.This is not a country cut
nium until it was shut down in July 2007, off.”
“appeared dormant,” Hecker wrote in a Lewis and Hecker believe North Korea
report following his visit. revealed its developments at Yongbyon
Instead, Hecker’s worries are about not only because they would eventually be
North Korea’s ability to export nuclear impossible to hide from satellite images,
technology to other rogue states — Iran but also because the country wants to
and Syria, for example. Exporting cen- prove to the world that it is not about to
trifuge technology, he says, is easier to collapse. “One of the things we learned is
cloak than exporting reactor technology. that we should not underestimate the
Hecker also worries about the safety of North Koreans,” Hecker said.
the new reactor. Yongbyon officials told And why reveal them to these men
him they conducted seismic tests on the lo- specifically? “They trust us,” Hecker said.
cation and have a regulatory agency on “They trust us to give an honest report.
Courtesy of Allison Puccioni
site, but Hecker said he’s “not so sure.” Then they have to take their chances with
John Lewis, who has visited North what our assessment is.”
Hecker’s team saw this building transformed from a dismantled fuel fabrication Korea 20 times since 1986, said Monday
facility into an "ultra-modern" uranium enrichment plant. Inside are 2,000 cas- that regardless of the true intent behind Contact Devin Banerjee at devin11@stan-
cading centrifuges that enrich uranium to fuel an energy-generating reactor. developments at Yongbyon, the U.S. must ford.edu.

STUDENT LIFE

Alpha Phi selected as new campus sorority,will recruit in spring

By CAROLINE CHEN
STAFF WRITER
The Stanford Inter-sorority Council
(ISC) voted Tuesday night to introduce a
new chapter, Alpha Phi, to campus, increas-
ing the number of Panhellenic Sororities to
seven.
Alpha Phi was selected in a 4-2 vote over
Delta Gamma by each of the six current
Panhellenic sororities on campus. The ISC
noted in its recommendation of Alpha Phi
that it was a chapter with “an in-depth un-
derstanding and appreciation of the unique
Greek community on the Stanford campus,
as well as willingness and excitement to as-
similate to the environment already estab-
lished here.”
The decision to add a new sorority was a
response to increased interest during rush.
Currently, about 16 percent of undergradu-
ates join a fraternity or sorority, according to
the Stanford Common Data. Among sorori-
ty members, about 87 percent are affiliated
with one of the six current Panhellenic
sororities: Alpha Epsilon Phi, Chi Omega,
Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta,
Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi.
“More and more girls have decided to
rush in recent years, which has meant bigger
pledge classes and more girls who don’t get
bids at all,” said Anna Martinelli ‘11, outgo-
ing president of Chi Omega.“Stanford does-
n’t like the idea of girls not getting into
sororities, and a new sorority means smaller
pledge classes and fewer girls disappointed
at the end of the year.”
“It’s a particularly big issue for housed
sororities,” said Brittany Wheelock ‘11, pres-
ident of ISC. “There isn’t enough room, so
seniors can’t live there, though they should
be able to.”
The decision to extend the Panhellenic
sororities on campus was made last spring,
according to Amanda Rodriguez, Greek
program advisor for Residential Education.
The announcement was made public to all
National Panhellenic Conference organiza-
tions in May, and Stanford received 12 appli-
cations from interested sororities.
ISC sought to add a sorority that had val-
ues in line with the Greek community on
campus.
“Stanford has a very unique Greek com-
munity, which is more similar to areas in the
North and places like Brown or Columbia,
as opposed to the South,” Wheelock said.
“Stanford is more focused on academics and
sports, and Greek life comes second.”
Martinelli echoed Wheelock, saying they
were looking for a sorority that emphasized
having well-rounded students and didn’t ask
its members to “sell their souls to the organ-
ization.”
In addition, the sorority would have to be
willing to be un-housed. Currently, three of
the six Panhellenic sororities are housed,
and a new chapter would not immediately
get housing.
With these criteria in mind, the sororities
narrowed the applicants to two options,
Delta Gamma and Alpha Phi.
While the majority of the Panhellenic
sororities were excited by the prospect of
lowering pledge class numbers, there were
concerns that bringing a new sorority on
campus might hurt the growth of Alpha Ep-
silon Phi. AEPhi is a relatively new chapter
on campus, founded in 2007, and currently
has 37 members.
However, AEPhi supported the decision
to start the extension process. Lisa Abdilova
‘11, president of AEPhi, emphasized that the
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UNIVERSITY
Bing Concert Hall

BOSP considers
future expansion
By ELLORA ISRANI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
As the Bing Overseas Studies
Program (BOSP) continues to re-
cover from the economic downturn
that severely slashed its resources
and forced significant cutbacks
over the last several years, Univer-
sity officials are beginning to look
toward the possibility of new cen-
ters, seminars and requirements
that will define the program’s fu-
ture.
A first step on this path was the
appointment of Robert Sinclair,
professor of materials science and
engineering,who became the direc-
tor of BOSP this quarter.
“The way things work at Stan-
ford is that if there are new initia-
tives or new ideas,then it works best
if the consensus is built up from all
the possible constituencies,” Sin-
clair said. “We’re currently going
through that process right now.”
Sinclair said he has given pre-
sentations to the BOSP advisory
council, department office, execu-
tive council and Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Education Harry
Elam. Because of the large number
of groups that must be consulted, it
will take significant time and effort
before students see major changes
to the program, including any new
centers, he said.
BOSP is returning to pre-eco-
nomic downturn levels, according
to the director.Speaking of return-
ing to a “sustainable”level,Sinclair
said the monetary commitment for
a new center would be far from
trivial, with the final numbers de-
pending heavily on whether the
center is endowed by a major gift,
as well as the cost of physical setup
and support.The approximate cost
of a three-quarter center is $1.5
million a year.
“You can gauge from that what
the startup would be and what the
long-term commitment would be,”
he said. “The one-quarter pro-
gram, which is often more viable in
the beginning, is less, but it’s not
proportionately less.”
In the meantime,the program is
instead focusing on re-instating
the Overseas Seminar Program
cut a year ago because of budget
constraints. Currently, the plan is
to reintroduce the program in 2012
at half its level before the econom-
ic downturn and fully the follow-
ing year. Seminars are much more
logistically and financially feasible
for the still-recovering program,
Sinclair said.
“Trial seminars” would occur in
“key places,” including locations
where BOSP hopes to open up full-
blown centers in the future, he said.
Expectations for expansion will
play a significant role in determin-
ing the course of the seminars.
“The procedure in the past has
been to open it up to faculty pro-
posals,and we’ll do that to some ex- ANNA MARIA IRION/The Stanford Daily
tent,but there will be some targeted The skeleton of the Bing Concert Hall rises on east campus this month.
locations which faculty and staff
will think about to try some of the
new locations we might consider in
the long term,” he said.
Security company is there for safety purposes, and it is
“standard procedure” at Cal football
does not plan to file a complaint.
Guards tried to contain the Stanford
from UCPD show that Pressman was
arrested at Memorial Stadium after
Sinclair called program officials’ games to have them in place. He said Band in the fourth quarter by getting the game for public drunkenness, one
top choices, which include India quiet on Big Game that if Cal’s football team had been in the drum major and the Dollies off the of four arrested for public drunken-
and the Middle East, “almost self- a position to win the game, similar field, said one band member. ness that afternoon. Pressman was
evident.” crowd control measures would have been enacted to “The band was annoyed because held in custody until sober, then re-
“There are so many choices,” prevent Cal fans from rushing onto they were coercing the drum major leased.
Sinclair added. “Personally, the By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF the field. back into the stands,” said Tyler DeCoulode said he was unaware
School of Engineering has had Some guards attempted to physi- Berbert ‘13, who plays mellophone. of any violence by UCPD officers or
good associations with Bangalore . Landmark Event Staffing Services, cally restrain and deter Stanford fans “The Dollies were also annoyed be- by Landmark staffers.
. . it would help promote at the which provided security for last Satur- from joining in the Axe celebration on cause that’s what they do.They dance “I haven’t heard any complaints of
same time the involvement of tech- day’s Big Game, this week declined to the field,said students who were there. on the field.” violence on Saturday,” he said.
nical and engineering students. comment on how its guards dealt with Jackson Dartez ‘13 was among the A YouTube video surfaced Satur- Cal Athletics referred The Daily to
There wouldn’t be a language re- Stanford fans on the field after the students who headed for the field as day evening purporting to show a UCPD for comment.
quirement so there are lots of ad- game. the game ended. Stanford student being restrained by Landmark Event Staffing Ser-
vantages there. If you look at fi- Midway through the fourth quar- “We were at the football players the neck by two men dressed in black vices, a national event services com-
nance you’ve got to think about ter of the Berkeley game, security when a security guard came out of who some believed were security pany with offices in Oakland, Calif.,
Mumbai, if you think culture guards were deployed in front of the nowhere, ran at me, grabbed me and guards, though their identities are un- was hired by Cal to provide security,
there’s Delhi and Calcutta, but Stanford fan section in the southeast then threw me down and said, ‘Sir, clear in the video. In a blog post on ticket taking and ushering services
we’re taking into consideration the corner of California Memorial Stadi- you cannot be on the field. Go back Sunday, George Malkin ‘13 of The during the game. Landmark says on
difficult situation that technology um, where Stanford supporters pre- into the stands now,’” Dartez said. Unofficial Stanford Blog identified its website it also provides event serv-
students have, so Bangalore in the pared to rush the field as the clock “They pushed me back toward the the student as Sam Pressman ‘11, who ices to Stanford Athletics.
end is close to the top of the list.” wound down. stands.” declined to comment for this story.
In his enthusiasm for a center in According to Marc DeCoulode, Dartez said he was not injured and Public arrest records for Nov. 20 — Kabir Sawhney and Brianna Pang
lieutenant of investigations with the
Please see BOSP, page 8 University of California police depart-
ment at Berkeley, the guards were

Seniors,recent grads named

NEWS BRIEFS
and is the natural sciences editor for the Stanford Journal
of Undergraduate Research.
Drive Me…
Rhodes,Marshall,Mitchell Mitchell
Former ASSU president David Gob-
scholars aud ‘10 plans to pursue a master of law de-
gree at Queen’s University Belfast. Gob-
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF aud said he is interested in reforming the
criminal justice system and chose this uni-
Four seniors and two recent graduates have been hon- versity because of North Ireland’s Youth
ored with Rhodes, Marshall and Mitchell scholarships. Conferencing services, which he credits
Two seniors and an alumnus were among 32 Americans with reducing local crime rates.
granted the Rhodes scholarship, which funds two to three Gobaud
years of graduate study at Oxford University. — Ivy Nguyen
Two seniors were awarded the Marshall scholarship,
which funds graduate study for 40 students at a British uni- WASC team comes to campus for
versity of the scholar’s choice.
One alumnus won the Mitchell scholarship,which funds
one year of graduate study for 12 students at a university in
Farm’s reappraisal
the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Rhodes Scholars A five-member review team from the Accrediting
Biology major Fati- Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities con-
ma Sabar ‘11, one of the cludes its three-day visit today, marking the critical sec-
Rhodes scholars, plans ond leg in Stanford’s three-stage reaccreditation process
to pursue a master of that began in January 2007.
science degree in global Representing the Western Association of Schools and
health. Sabar’s work at Colleges (WASC), the committee offers accreditation to in-
Stanford includes coor- stitutions offering undergraduate and graduate educations
dinating a diabetes in California, Hawaii, Guam and the Pacific Basin. Its mem-
health education proj- Sivaram Sabar bers include faculty and administrators from UC-Irvine,
ect with migrant farm

workers in Monterey County and medi-
cine-related volunteering in Rwanda and
Oaxaca, Mexico.
Engineering physics and international
relations major Varun Sivaram ‘11, an-
other Rhodes Scholar, plans to pursue a
Ph.D. in solar energy materials, with an
ultimate goal of becoming an interna-
tional climate negotiator. Sivaram cur- Harris
rently has two patents pending related to
solar energy design.
Stanford’s third Rhodes scholar, alum Fagan Harris ‘09
who studied political science and American studies while at
Stanford, served as vice president of the ASSU and presi-
dent of Stanford Students for Relief, where he focused on
Pakistani flood relief and victims of Hurricane Katrina in
2005.
Harris is currently completing a master’s degree in
human rights justice as a Mitchell Scholar at the University
of Limerick in Ireland.At Oxford, Harris plans to pursue a
Ph.D. in education.
Marshall Scholars
Earth systems, Eng-
lish and French litera-
ture major Sasha Engel-
mann ‘11, a Marshall
Scholar, plans to study
geography and environ-
ment at Oxford. At
Stanford, Engelmann
served as president of Engelmann He
the Climate Initiatives
Group, part of Students for a Sustainable Stanford and
“sustainability adviser” to the sophomore class govern-
ment of 2008-2009.
Math and physics major Temple He ‘11 plans to spend
two years at Cambridge University, studying mathematics
in his first year and pursuing a master of philosophy in con-
densed matter theory research in his second. He has in-
terned at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico
No, Really!
MIT, Princeton, Caltech and the University of Hawaii.
The team attended presentations from administrative
officials and two open forums on Wednesday, one each
for faculty and students, to give the Stanford community
a chance to comment on the school’s effectiveness. Some
of the major points of assessment and discussion include
the University’s financial status, residential education, re-
search, undergraduate advising and student affairs.
As part of the second cycle — dubbed the “capacity
and preparatory review” — Stanford has also submitted a
35-page report evaluating undergraduate programs in for-
eign language and writing and rhetoric. The report, which
included 12 data exhibits and 28 appendices, focused on
the progress of first- and second-year students taking the
most popular languages on campus, French, Spanish and
Chinese, as well as the effectiveness of the first-year writ-
ing program and writing-in-the-major programs.
Although the end date for reaccreditation is not ex-
pected until late 2012 or early 2013, the University has al-
ready taken steps to assure that it complies with the asso-
ciation’s core standards, endeavors chronicled on the
Stanford Reaccreditation by WASC website.
As early as the fall of 2008, the Stanford Accreditation
Steering Committee,a 50-person group specifically created
to guide the University during the accreditation process,
surveyed a cross-section of the current junior class and has
been conducting quarterly meetings with these students to
hear about their experiences on the Farm.
According to the website, WASC has four core stan-
dards: 1) defining the University’s purpose and setting
appropriate educational objectives; 2) achieving these
educational objectives through “teaching and learning,
scholarship and creative activity, and support for student
learning;” 3) developing methods to sustain these objec-
tives; 4) “creating an organization committed to learn-
ing.”
The final cycle, “educational effectiveness review,”
will take place in fall 2012. Stanford was last accredited in
2000.
— Cassandra Feliciano
The Stanford Daily
Memorial for Stephen Schneider
set for Sunday
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Stanford biology professor and senior fellow at
the Woods Institute for the Environment Stephen
Schneider will be memorialized and celebrated on
Sunday, Dec. 12 from 1:00 to 6:30 p.m. with a day-
long symposium of presentations on climate
change. Schneider died of a heart attack on July 19
while traveling on a plane landing in London. Sun-
day’s event will pay tribute to Schneider, one of the
world’s leading climatologists and a beloved mem-
ber of the Stanford community, through a scientif-
ic symposium and memorial celebration.
Sunday’s event will celebrate Schneider’s life
with talks titled “Climate-Change Science and San-
ity: Steve Schneider’s Extraordinary Contributions
to Both,” “Why We Resist the Results of Climate
Science” and “The American Public’s Understand-
ings and Misunderstandings About Climate
Change: Is There a Crisis of Confidence in Climate
Science?” by John Holdren, Naomi Oreskes and
NEWS BRIEFS
Jon Krosnick, respectively.
Throughout his career, Schneider made enor-
mous contributions to the study of climate change.
In addition to his time at Stanford starting in 1992,
Schneider also spent time advising the Nixon,
Carter, Reagan, Clinton, both Bush and Obama ad-
ministrations and Governor Arnold Schwarzeneg-
ger. Schneider served as lead scientist on the Unit-
ed Nations International Panel on Climate Change,
which shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with Al Gore.
“He was a fantastic mentor and an inspiration to
his students, his colleagues and the global commu-
nity,” said William Anderegg, one of Schneider’s
graduate students, in an e-mail to The Daily after
Schneider’s death. “He was a leading light in the
science of climate change and in communicating
the risks of climate change to the media and the
public. His legacy will live on through those that he
taught, spoke with and inspired, as we try to carry
on his great work of protecting our planet’s cli-
mate.”
Visit http://woods.stanford.edu/woods/steve-
schneider-memorial.html for more information.
Those who wish to attend should RSVP to
sarahjo@stanford.edu.
— Caity Monroe
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 ! 5
UNIVERSITY
Stanford lab manager dies of in-
juries from Cupertino car crash
BOSP assesses Beijing
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Suvan Gerlach, 56, a manager in Stanford’s artifi-
cial intelligence lab, passed away as a result of injuries
language waiver effects
sustained in a car accident in Cupertino on Nov. 5, ac-
By LAURYN WILLIAMS
cording the San Jose Mercury News.
She was taken off life support Wednesday, accord-
While the Bing Overseas Study
ing to her husband,Gary Gerlach.
Program (BOSP) waived its lan-
Mrs.Gerlach’s Prius was hit by another car on Nov.
guage requirement last February to
5 at about 6 a.m. at Stevens Creek Boulevard and De
boost enrollment for its fall 2010 and
Anza Boulevard.She had been in a coma since the ac-
spring 2011 programs in Beijing, pro-
cident.
gram officials say they do not antici-
Santa Clara County sheriff’s investigators are “still
pate doing the same for other pro-
working on the investigation,”said Sgt.Jose Cardoza.
grams this year.
The female driver of the other car has not been ar-
Though the Beijing program had
rested or identified.Authorities have not released de-
not been among the most popular in
tails of the accident.
the past few years, applications to
Gerlach worked at Stanford for more than 20
participate in the upcoming spring
years. A memorial will be held in January at the
quarter program have resurged.
Saratoga Federated Church.
According to BOSP student rela-
— Samantha McGirr
tions specialist Lee Dukes, full en-
rollment may have been caused by
the waived language requirement
and the addition of Stanford faculty
member Thomas Fingar M.A. ‘69
Ph.D.‘77, a former U.S. State Depart-
ment official, to the program.
When it decided to waive the Bei-
jing language requirement, BOSP
consulted faculty on campus, staff
stationed in Beijing and students to
factor in their interests.The feedback
of students participating in the pro-
gram without the language require-
ment this fall will be key in determin-
ing the effectiveness of the new for-
mat.
Meanwhile, the most popular
overseas programs for Stanford stu-
dents have traditionally been in Aus-
tralia, Kyoto and Oxford. The first
round applications for the Oxford
program for the fall 2010 quarter ex-
ceeded those of any other program,
receiving 75 applications for 47 spots.
These programs constantly see high
application numbers, but the new
programs in Cape Town and Madrid
have received much interest from
students recently.
“Cape Town has a service learn-
ing component that is attractive to
students and it is also our only pro-
gram in Africa,” Dukes said. And
many students meet the language re-
quirement for the Madrid program
before they enter Stanford for their
freshman year.
In the past year, Florence has also
seen a decline in enrollment, filling
32 spots in fall 2010 and 28 spots in
winter 2011 for a program with a 40-
student capacity.
“Many students come to Stanford
with Spanish or French so it is easier
to go to Madrid, Paris or Santiago,
but not many students come to Stan-
ford with Italian,” Dukes said in an e-
mail to The Daily.
BOSP’s one-quarter programs
use a two-round system for applica-
tions. According to the BOSP web-
site, students are encouraged to
apply to their first choice program
during the first round of applications
as they are only allowed to apply to
one program. Results from the first
round are announced two weeks
after each specific program’s dead-
line.
Students who do not receive their
first round choice may apply to an
additional program during the sec-
ond round provided all vacancies
were not filled during the first round
of selection.
Capacity for enrollment differs
between programs but usually
ranges from 24 openings in Cape
Town to 48 in Australia. For fall and
winter 2010-11, BOSP accepted
nearly 80 percent of applicants.
According to Dukes, BOSP
would prefer enrollment to be at ca-
Please see BEIJING, page 6
6 ! Wednesday, December 1, 2010 The Stanford Daily
YEAR IN REVIEW ROTC remains in part because of the feder-
al “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which the
vestment pool.
Stanford’s investment gains are also more
to the new deal.

University and many of its peer institutions pronounced than those of many of its peer in- — Kabir Sawhney

10 to remember from 2010 call discriminatory.

By THE DAILY NEWS & SPORTS STAFF
In its last issue of 2010, The Daily looks
back on 10 of the year’s biggest Stanford sto-
ries.
Westboro pickets on campus
When a handful of members of the radical
Westboro Baptist Church arrived on campus
on Jan. 30 to picket the corner of Mayfield
and Campus, the Stanford community was
ready to respond with messages of unity and
acceptance. A counter-protest organized by
the Jewish Student Association, Hillel and 22
co-sponsors from Stanford and Palo Alto at-
tracted an estimated 800 to 1,000 people, ac-
cording to police.
The counter-protest featured anti-hate
signs and performances by Talisman, Blake
Parkinson ‘10 playing “Amazing Grace” on
bagpipes, and the Stanford band. The crowd
also read a declaration titled “Stanford Unit-
ed” out loud.
The event, which was advertised with the
goal “to affirm our common values, regard-
less of WBC’s presence,” was largely smooth
and peaceful, though three of the tires of the
group’s vehicle were slashed.
Those in attendance were pleased by the
counter-protest’s turnout as well the message
it sent about the values of the Stanford com-
munity.
“While I really abhor what the Westboro
Baptist Church stands for, it resulted in a pos-
itive opportunity for the University, to have
so many students come together to support
each other and make a statement for toler-
ance and against hate,” said University
spokeswoman Lisa Lapin.
— Caity Monroe
Major curriculum study begins
The Study for Undergraduate Education
at Stanford (SUES) launched in February as
part of a comprehensive, top-level effort by
the University to reexamine the undergradu-
ate curriculum.
The study, headed by history professor
James Campbell and biology professor Susan
McConnell, is attempting to achieve two ob-
jectives: articulating the goals and mission of
undergraduate education on the Farm, and
translating that philosophy into a set of prac-
tical recommendations regarding Universi-
ty-wide educational requirements.
Though setting requirements for earning
a major will remain under the control of indi-
vidual departments, SUES will address other
issues regarding the undergraduate academ-
ic experience, including the role of programs
such as Introductory Seminars, Introduction
to the Humanities and the Program and
Writing and Rhetoric and current require-
ments for writing, breadth, citizenship and
foreign language.
The University’s last similar effort was
conducted in 1994. Since its announcement,
SUES has presented to the Faculty Senate
and polled student opinions at a town hall
meeting in May. Since then, the study has
moved forward with its review of the under-
graduate curriculum as its subcommittees,
centered on topics such as writing, the fresh-
man year and breadth requirements, contin-
ue to meet.The study is also continuing to so-
licit student opinions, with Vice Provost of
Undergraduate Education Harry Elam
sending an e-mail Nov. 19 to upperclassmen
asking them for a “frank assessment” of their
IHUM experiences.
— Ivy Nguyen
Cardinal Care mandate for international stu-
dents overturned
Stanford’s international community re-
sponded with resounding opposition when
changes to Cardinal Care, introduced in Feb-
ruary, denied them the option to waive a
$3,000 annual fee — a choice still available to
domestic students with proof of alternative
health coverage. The university’s 3,200 inter-
national students won the fight a month later.
In a March report by The Daily, Fabian
Sahl, a graduate student in international pol-
icy studies who led the opposition to the new
healthcare policies, described these require-
ments as “discriminatory because it assumes
that domestic students can better evaluate
whether their coverage is adequate or not.”
Choosing to use their own insurance
providers, instead of Stanford’s, had econom-
ic benefits for students like Sahl, who was
covered by a German plan. He paid $2,000
less annually.
Vaden Health Center director Ira Fried-
man said that although 80 percent of interna-
tional students already use Cardinal Care,
the other 20 percent often encounter prob-
lems such as being refused in-patient mental
health treatment or being required to trans-
fer to a more distant county hospital during
emergencies.
Lobbying endeavors, which included a pe-
tition with more than 500 signatures that Sahl
helped collect, compelled Vaden to revoke
the revisions to Cardinal Care for an “opt-
out” choice for international students upon
the receipt of a completed form from their
personal insurance providers.
The modifications to Cardinal Care,
which also included an optional insurance
plans for the dependents of Stanford stu-
dents, took effect at the beginning of this
quarter.
— Cassandra Feliciano
Faculty studies possible ROTC return
In March, Professors William Perry and
David Kennedy recommended that Stanford
re-open discussions on ROTC and its place
on campus. The Faculty Senate formed an ad
hoc committee, which includes professors
and students, one an active Navy ROTC
member, to investigate the issue.
ROTC was removed from campus in 1973
after concern that the academic quality of the
program’s courses did not meet Stanford’s
standards. Students now travel to other uni-
versities to participate. The ban against
Since March, the ad hoc committee has
met several times to conduct research and
further its discussions, according to chair
Ewart Thomas. The committee sent an open
letter to the Stanford community in mid-No-
vember and received fewer than 30 respons-
es to its request for feedback.
Thomas said that the committee expects
to host a town hall during winter quarter that
will be open to students. It is expected to
make its recommendation in the spring of
2011.
— Kate Abbott
Judicial Affairs overhauls sexual assault
process
In April, President Hennessy signed onto
a new pilot procedure for how Judicial Af-
fairs handles sexual assault cases at Stanford.
The Board on Judicial Affairs, which devel-
oped the pilot, aimed to make the process for
hearing accusations of rape, harassment, dat-
ing violence and stalking among students
faster and more private.
“In every case that I have been involved
in, once the alleged victim learned about the
Judicial Affairs process, she was extremely
fearful and anxious,” wrote law professor
Michele Dauber, an advocate for Judicial Af-
fairs reform, in February. “Those who
pressed ahead were incredulous that this was
our process.”
Among the most significant changes to
the current process is the elimination of the
requirement that alleged victims and sus-
pects attend the same panel hearings during
a case and, in some instances, answer ques-
tions about the alleged misconduct in each
other’s presence.
The pilot will be reviewed in fall 2011. It
now overlaps with a new University review
of the Judicial Affairs office, which will in-
clude the first review of the Student Judicial
Charter since its creation in 1997. Stanford
staff and external consultants will report at
the end of the school year.
— Elizabeth Titus
Endowment starts to recover
Stanford made measureable steps for-
ward in financial recovery this year. In May,
Provost John Etchemendy Ph.D. ‘82 dis-
cussed the University’s annual budget report
for 2010-2011 with the Faculty Senate. He
highlighted that despite financial declines,
the University chose not to cut its financial
aid programs, which accounted for over half
of what the University collected in student
tuition.
Etchemendy said that some signs of re-
covery could be found in the reactivation of
various construction projects around cam-
pus.
In October, Stanford Management Com-
pany (SMC) chief executive John Powers
highlighted this year’s endowment gains, re-
porting a 9.6 percent increase over the previ-
ous fiscal year with a value of $13.8 billion as
of Aug. 31, 2010. During the economic losses
suffered the previous year, the endowment
dropped from $17.2 billion to $12.6 billion.
SMC also announced a 14.4 percent gain by
its merged pool, the University’s principal in-
stitutions. Harvard, Yale and MIT reported
11, 8.9, and 10.2 percent investment returns,
respectively, in the year-long period that
ended June 30, 2010.
— Caity Monroe
Federal court overturns gay marriage ban
While California watched the state debate
over Proposition 8, Stanford took its own
role in the process, with a law school alumnus
and a professor playing key roles throughout
the year.
On Aug. 4, gay rights advocates scored a
major victory when federal judge Vaughn
Walker J.D.‘70 overturned Proposition 8, the
2008 initiative banning same-sex marriage in
California. Walker, a San Francisco judge,
called the ban unconstitutional. His ruling
was appealed.
California voters narrowly approved the
ban on gay marriage in 2008, with 52 percent
voting for Proposition 8. Stanford students
overwhelmingly opposed the ban, with 87
percent voting against it, according to a 147-
person exit poll conducted by The Daily at
the Graduate Community Center on Elec-
tion Day.
Gary Segura, a political science professor
who testified on the civil rights implications
at the Proposition 8 trial, said Walker’s deci-
sion has the “potential to be a landmark
case.”
“Ultimately, if the Supreme Court up-
holds Walker’s decision, this could be the
most important case for gay rights,” he said.
On Dec. 6, a panel of three judges will de-
cide the case’s fate in the U.S. Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals. The case could be ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court.
— Samantha McGirr
Pac-10 expands
Under new commissioner Larry Scott,
and with the approval of the presidents and
chancellors of member schools, the Pac-10
Conference aggressively pursued expansion
opportunities this summer.
The conference will be officially rebrand-
ed as the Pac-12 when the two schools join in
all sports for the 2010-2011 academic year.
The biggest changes will be in football, the
sport that drove the expansion negotiations.
Next season, the Pac-12 will be split into two
divisions, North and South, and will have a
championship game in football between the
division champions, hosted by the school
with the best overall conference record.
The North division will be comprised of
Stanford, California, Oregon, Oregon State,
Washington and Washington State, while the
remaining schools — USC, UCLA, Arizona,
Arizona State, Colorado and Utah — will be
in the South division. Teams will play nine
conference games per season, five against di-
visional opponents and four against the op-
posite division. Stanford is guaranteed to
play the Southern California schools every
year, in order to preserve those rivalries.
The Pac-12 is also expected to command a
much more lucrative television deal during
the next round of negotiations, and will move
to equal revenue distribution in 2012. Stan-
ford Athletics is expecting a significant in-
crease from current conference payouts due
Stanford nabs two NCAA team titles, Direc-
tors’ Cup
By the end of spring, Stanford had
wrapped up two NCAA team titles, an IRA
team title and two individual titles on its way
to winning the Directors’ Cup for the 16th
consecutive year.
The first championship of the season
might have been the most heartwarming, as
Stanford’s men’s volleyball team completed
a “worst to first” turnaround, winning the na-
tional title on its home court at Maples Pavil-
ion. Despite the death of longtime assistant
coach Al Roderigues in March, the Cardinal
persevered, earning the triple distinction as
MPSF regular season champions, MPSF
Tournament champions and NCAA Tourna-
ment champions. Just three years after finish-
ing 3-25, Stanford men’s volleyball reigned
supreme, sweeping both its NCAA Tourna-
ment opponents in dominant fashion.
Next came the tennis tournaments in
Athens, Ga., where Cardinal tennis made its
presence felt.While the men’s team fell in the
Sweet 16, the women could not be stopped,
earning their 16th national title with a
thrilling 4-3 victory over Florida. In individ-
ual rounds, Stanford performed remarkably
well, as sophomore Bradley Klahn won the
men’s single title and the duo of junior Hilary
Barte and senior Lindsay Burdette won the
women’s doubles title.
The Cardinal women’s lightweight crew
team won the IRA National Championships
for the first time. This summer Stanford won
the Directors’ Cup as the nation’s best over-
all athletics program for the 16th consecutive
year.
— Jacob Jaffe
Football goes 11-1
Stanford’s football program is in the midst
of the best season in its history, reaching 11
wins for the first time ever, and is on the cusp
of its second appearance in a BCS bowl (and
the school’s first-ever at-large berth). The
historic season comes in Stanford head coach
Jim Harbaugh’s fourth season at the helm,
and Harbaugh has become the hottest coach-
ing commodity in the country.
Stanford’s season has been keyed by the
play of redshirt sophomore quarterback An-
drew Luck, a leading candidate for the Heis-
man Trophy and only the fourth 3,000-yard
passer in Stanford history.Another key to the
Cardinal’s big year has been the much-im-
proved defense. Under first-year defensive
coordinator Vic Fangio, an NFL veteran, the
defense switched to a new scheme this year,
has shut out three Pac-10 opponents and held
its last five opponents to less than 18 points
each.
The Cardinal’s visit to Eugene marked its
only loss of the season, as Stanford jumped
out to an early lead but failed to contain the
Ducks’ high-flying offense in the second half,
falling 52-31.
The 113th Big Game saw Stanford break
a streak of futility against its traditional rival,
hammering the Golden Bears 48-14 in
Berkeley and taking revenge for last year’s
heartbreaking home loss.
— Kabir Sawhney

STUDENT LIFE CRIME & SAFETY

Housing wait Palo Alto takes a stance on alarms

list has fewer By CAITY MONROE other important fire safety measures, months investigating the differences

students on
DESK EDITOR
Palo Alto’s city council voted to re-
strict the use of ionization smoke
including replacing fire alarms more between the alarms and coming up
than 10 years old, checking the batter- with recommendations.
ies of detectors currently in use and “Instead of knee-jerking and ban-
increasing the number of alarms in ning the technology of ionization . . .

hold this year alarms on Nov. 8 in an effort to im-

prove fire safety. This decision makes
Palo Alto the second California city to
any given household.
The city council decided to require
the use of either a dual-sensor alarm
you know, wait,” Gantt said.“Sit back
and wait and see . . . what the final
outcome is going to be on it.”

for rooms favor photoelectric technology in de-

By ELLEN HUET
MANAGING EDITOR
This year’s housing shuffle as stu-
dents return from abroad and others
vacate for winter quarter is proceed-
ing more smoothly than last year,
with fewer students who have guar-
anteed housing still waiting to be as-
signed a spot for winter quarter.
Since housing spots are often va-
cated between the announcement of
winter housing in mid-November
and the beginning of winter quarter,
Student Housing makes ample use of
a waiting list to make sure students
receive assignments by the first week
of the quarter while leaving as few
empty beds as possible.
The waiting list this year is “fewer
than 50” guaranteed students, ac-
cording to Rodger Whitney, execu-
tive director of Student Housing.This
time last year, the number was closer
to 75,Whitney said.This year, 360 un-
Student Housing’s wait list for students awaiting housing assignments is short-
er this year than it was this time last year. Students returning from abroad be-
tween fall and winter quarter are sometimes placed in Oak Creek apartments.
Village, we are able to keep some
groups together, which is an option
we were unable to offer in the past.”
Housing has kept the same num-
ber of spaces in Oak Creek apart-
ments as it did last year,Whitney said.
Currently, Oak Creek is fully as-
signed.
Francisco Maravilla ‘12, who is re-
turning from Florence and was as-
signed to Oak Creek, said he was
“fairly satisfied” with his assignment,
“aside from the unfortunate distance
tecting fires, following a similar deci-
sion in Albany in July. Yet this move
has faced significant opposition and
debate remains about whether or not
the move actually constitutes better
fire safety practices.
While studies have shown that ion-
ization alarms may be more effective
in detecting fast-starting flash fires,
they have also shown that photoelec-
tric alarms do a better job of detecting
Stanford Daily File Photo
slow-burning or smoldering fires.
“Many fires start off in a smolder-
ing phase,” said Palo Alto Fire Mar-
shal Gordon Simpkinson, who en-
couraged the council to restrict the
use of ionization alarms. “Those are
up with vacancies in the system,” he
the types of fires that occur late at
said. “Since these additional bed
night when people are asleep.”
spaces are often placed in common
Simpkinson cited studies that
spaces, we prefer to keep the resi-
show that ionization alarms will
dents housed in student rooms and
sound an average of 15 minutes after
keep the common spaces available to
a photoelectric alarm in cases of smol-
the whole community.”
dering fires.
“It’s a very significant difference if
Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stan-
you have to be able to safely get your-
ford.edu.
self out of a fire and especially if
you’ve got children in the home or
you’ve got elderly people that are
or the use of both types of alarms in
areas where nuisance activation is un-
likely. In areas where nuisance activa-
tion is more likely — kitchens, for ex-
ample — the city will require photo-
electric alarms only.These regulations
will apply to builders, landlords and
homeowners making major renova-
tions.
But not everyone agrees that more
stringent alarm regulations will trans-
late to better fire safety.
Heather Caldwell, a communica-
tions manager for the company
Kidde, which produces both types of
alarms, explained the company’s op-
position to restricting the use of ion-
ization alarms and described the dif-
ferent benefits of both technologies.
“Studies have also found that . . .
both are effective in providing ade-
quate escape time to occupants in real
life home fire conditions,” she said.
Gene Gantt works for an advocacy
firm in Sacramento and is a member
of the California Fire Prevention Of-
ficers. Gantt spoke on behalf of presi-
dent of the Northern Section Fire Pre-
vention Officers Lorin Neyer at the
Nov. 8 city council meeting and ar-
For now, Stanford is doing just
that.
According to Rodger Whitney, ex-
ecutive director of student housing,
while Stanford uses both types of
alarms, 99 percent of Stanford hous-
ing’s smoke detectors are ionization.
The idea that ionization alarms are
more likely to be activated by things
like burned food could ultimately be
relevant for Stanford.
“A lot of times [smoke detectors]
are activated by . . . burned toast . . .
things of that nature,” he said, adding:
“We have a lot of those,particularly in
graduate housing because they have a
kitchen facility.”
But Stanford Fire Marshal Joseph
Leung said that unlike Palo Alto,
Stanford will wait for the verdict from
the state fire marshal’s office before
making any changes to current fire
alarm use.
Whitney said Santa Clara county
code requires ionization detectors,
but that Stanford uses some addition-
al photoelectric detectors in certain
locations.
“Photoelectric smoke detectors
are occasionally recommended for

dergraduates applied for winter
quarter housing.
For students still unassigned,three
walk-in meetings are held through-
out December in which students sub-
mit lists of preferences and pick hous-
ing as it becomes available.
Whitney said Housing anticipates
having all students who are guaran-
teed housing and willing to live any-
where assigned to housing by the last
meeting on Dec. 29; all guaranteed
students are required to be assigned
by the Friday of the first week of class-
es.
“In recent years, the winter quar-
ter assignment process has greatly
improved,” Whitney wrote in an e-
mail to The Daily. “By providing
space in Oak Creek and Escondido
BEIJING
slower moving,” he said. “You need gued against the restriction of the use specific situations by our consultants,
of Oak Creek from campus.” Mar-
that extra time to get everybody out of the alarms. and are used when the County ap-
avilla used a third-tier draw this year
safely.” “The concern is that if jurisdictions proves those plans,” he wrote in an e-
and said that although Oak Creek
Simpkinson said ionization alarms on their own are banning or asking mail to The Daily.
wasn’t high on his list, he saw the Continued from page 5 are also more likely to produce false people not to use a specific type of Leung himself has yet to be con-
draw system as effective.
alarms, or “nuisance alarms.” often technology . . . we believe that’s vinced of the superiority of photo-
Unassigned students often wait
pacity for the programs it offers but triggered in kitchens by burnt food, wrong,” Gantt said. electric alarms.
until late December to get assigned
recognizes constraints that prevent such alarms have negative conse- Gantt himself remains uncon- “In my opinion both types of de-
housing, but Housing is working on
students from applying. quences beyond simple irritation. vinced by the evidence put forth by tectors have their place. It really de-
making that process faster by adding
“We understand that students Homeowners often take the batteries Simpkinson and others arguing pends on what type of fire you’re de-
more walk-in meetings. Whitney said
have other commitments and other out of the alarm, and later forget to against ionization alarms. tecting — they’re both effective,”
the number of students requesting
goals while they are here at Stan- put them back in, leaving the area “Personally I question much of the Leung said. “At this point, to say that
housing is closely tied to the number
ford,” he said. “BOSP as a group without a functioning smoke detec- science that’s being used by the pro- photoelectric work better, I think it’s
of students studying overseas, and
needs to continue to adapt our pro- tor. ponents of banning ionization smoke premature to say that. I’ll wait until
added that Housing chooses not to
grams to the needs of students while “That’s the main reason we advise detectors,” he said. the final findings of the state fire mar-
assign all students right away to leave
maintaining the academic excel- people to use photoelectric,” Simp- The state fire marshal’s office is shal before we decide what’s best for
space for late cancellations.
lence they receive at home.” kinson said. “That’s why they don’t putting together a committee to com- Stanford.”
“If we assigned everyone during
have these nuisance alarms that are pare the effectiveness of the two dif-
the first round of assignments we
Contact Lauryn Williams at lauryn- happening.” ferent technologies. Starting in De- Contact Caity Monroe at
would need to add additional bed
dw@stanford.edu. Simpkinson also emphasized cember, that committee will spend six cmonroe@stanford.edu.
spaces and then would ultimately end
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The Best Birthday Present Ever

Bautista the bill through before a Republican Congress prompting from his listeners — and by the
takes over in January, and if the House passes end, he had talked himself into the opposite
it, moderate Republicans in the Senate will position: some sort of pathway to legal status
feel political — and, dare I hope, moral — for the 11 million here was the only real an-

D
ead Week of fall quarter is always an
interesting time for me. Fall quarter
Dead Week of sophomore year, I was
going through the whole aftermath of coming
out to myself — the shock, terror, elation, de-
pression, disgust — basically every emotion
you could possibly feel, switching from one to
another literally every half hour or so. On
Dec. 5, 2008, a day I see as my trans birthday, I
finally came out to my best friends as trans-
gender and decided that I would live full-time
as Cristopher starting winter quarter. You
know, it’s pretty difficult to focus on finals and
essays when you’re going through perhaps the
biggest self-realization of your life. Even now,
two years later, it still hurts to think about.
It’s strange to think how far I’ve gone, al-
most exactly two years later. On Thursday, I’m
finally heading over to the Superior Court in
Fremont to get my legal name change final-
ized. I’ll officially be Cristopher Marc Soriano
Bautista, and it’ll say so on my school ID, my
school transcripts and my driver’s license. I’ve
waited a long time for this, and to know that
I’ll finally be recognized as me by the state —
to say the least, I’m pretty excited.
It’s also two months since I’ve started T. (I
did my last injection by myself. You can’t call
yourself manly until you’ve stabbed yourself
in the thigh with a rather menacingly long and
thick needle.) In terms of physical changes, I
can’t really say much at the moment, besides
that I feel hungry all the time (which was cool
at first, but now has gotten kind of annoying).
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But I’m pretty much still waiting for the
testosterone to really kick in. I’m expecting
my voice to break by the time winter quarter
starts. (I’m also hoping to sport a wicked soul
patch soon,but that’s probably not going to be
for a couple more months. Sadness.)
Things are getting really frustrating, too.
My brain is rewiring itself. I find that my men-
tal processes are different, more intense.
Everything’s still there, I’m sure of it — but I
feel the T is rearranging everything in my
head, so I’m not very sure where everything is
anymore. It’s going to take me a while to get
used to it again.In terms of schoolwork,things
are exasperating because I just can’t focus. I
don’t think the same way anymore, and I have
to get used to things. This isn’t a very good
mindset to have, especially with it being Dead
Week and finals.But hopefully,I’ll get through
it in one piece.
Looking back on this quarter, I probably
would have changed a couple things. To say
that I was overwhelmed this quarter would be
a huge understatement. In terms of my transi-
tion, this is perhaps the busiest couple months
in my life — legally changing my name and
starting testosterone were both huge events.
Not to mention I was also a resident assistant
of an all-frosh dorm and took 18 units. Should
I have dropped a class or two? Yeah. Should I
have taken a back seat when planning dorm
events? Maybe. At times I wonder if I should
have taken the quarter off altogether. But
then again, despite how stressful this quarter
has been, I’ve met so many
great people and done so many things that
honestly, I probably would do the same thing
over again if I had the chance.
I’ll admit that part of the reason why I
wrote this column was so I would be making
goals for myself that aren’t just on me, but on
everyone else. If I told not just myself, but all
of Stanford, that I was going to the superior
court to file my name change paperwork, then
hell,I have to go to the superior court.If in one
column I promised Stanford that I would take
testosterone, then I have to schedule that ap-
pointment at Vaden before my next deadline
so I could write about it.
To you as my readers, then, I have to thank
you for keeping me on schedule. I wouldn’t
have taken this many steps if I had just myself
to account for. It’s strange that in writing 800
words a week, I’ve gained a greater support
network than I could have ever imagined.
Thanks for all the e-mails. I might not have
been able to answer them all, but I’ve read
them all, and they’ve gotten me through some
tough days.
It’s been a crazy ride. Thanks for everyone
for being there for me, and a special thanks to
everyone outside of the Stanford bubble who’s
reading this column. I don’t think I could have
a better trans birthday present. Have a good
break, everyone. See you next quarter.
Send Cristopher some birthday wishes at
cmsb@stanford.edu.
Judy Romea
pressure not to block the DREAM.This week
is a genuine chance.
The DREAM Act is a single issue that al-
most inevitably gets caught up in a wider de-
bate.The act would affect only 800,000 undoc-
umented students in the U.S. (out of 11 million
undocumented people), but critics who are
skeptical of wider immigration reform correct-
ly perceive the difficult reality:students are not
islands.They were brought to the U.S. by fami-
ly members, often parents who work hard to
give their children the best lives they can.Legal
residency for the children of undocumented
people in the U.S. would make yet another
powerful argument for comprehensive immi-
gration reform.
Yet opposition to broader reform is any-
thing but a legitimate moral stance against the
DREAM Act, and anything but American.
The United States is predicated on some sim-
ple, cherished ideals. Most centrally, it has built
its political identity on a value for the individ-
ual.The U.S.has traditionally stood for the idea
that honest, industrious individuals will have
protection whenever others would do them
harm and will have tangible opportunities to
reach for their dreams. That individualistic
spirit is at the heart of the U.S.’s ability — a
truly remarkable one — to adamantly be ar-
guing about a Guantanamo inmate’s right to a
trial or the unacceptability of the death penal-
ty if even one innocent person is wrongly con-
victed. The United States stands for proudly
safeguarding the individual.
And yet the United States has proven will-
ing,at least for these past nine years,to allow in-
dividuals to be trapped in a desperate no man’s
land by failing to pass the DREAM Act.To pre-
vent high school valedictorians who were
swer, but it would have to come with solutions
about future immigration and acknowledg-
ment of those who have waited in line. If com-
prehensive immigration reform is an obvious
one, the DREAM Act is crystal clear. If we re-
flect for two moments on the status of undocu-
mented students brought to the U.S. as chil-
dren, there is little beyond decriminalization
that can appeal to Sarah Palin’s most cherished
value for “American common sense.”
I have seen President Hennessy speak on a
handful of topics at a few events over my Stan-
ford career. The most encouraging, and most
human, moment I ever saw from him came the
only time I have talked with him personally,
which was in a meeting two years ago about
the DREAM Act. To our group of five stu-
dents (including two Stanford DREAMers,
both of whom will be graduating in this year’s
senior class but see a very different “real
world” ahead), he expressed his deep personal
support for the act and disappointment that it
had not yet been passed.After some emotion-
al stories (and maybe a little prompting from
some passionate students!), he agreed to pub-
licly endorse the act.
As Stanford’s president perceived, the
DREAM Act is a Stanford issue and a human
one. It is not the type of thing for which we
should stand idly by.And this week, we have a
real chance.So call your representative,call the
representatives who are on the fence and tell
your peers to do the same. Let everyone know
that you support the DREAM, and that we
have a special chance these next few days to
make it a reality.
You can find out who and how to call by going to:
www.dreamactivist.org. Aysha welcomes your

Deflating the Latex Bubble

brought to the U.S.as children and know no one thoughts at abagchi@stanford.edu.

S ENT F ROM M Y I P HONE

E
arlier last week, as I was enjoying the
healthy amount of procrastination that
the Thanksgiving break afforded me, I
stumbled across a Yahoo article highlighting
what would become the source of yet another
media frenzy surrounding the Catholic Church’s
controversial stance on the use of condoms.The
issue this time was the following statement made
by Pope Benedict XVI in his book-length inter-
view with German journalist Peter Seewald:
mento.A few days later,I discovered the Scope
blog of the Stanford School of Medicine pre-
sented a post entitled “Pope, plus science, offer
great news on AIDS prevention.” So as I was
reading The Wall Street Journal later on that
week in an effort to avoid further procrastina-
tion on my Poli Sci 1 policy brief, I was amused
to come across this headline, which seemed to
sum up the whole situation rather well:“Pope’s
Comments Set Off Firestorm.”
cred Heart Major Seminary professor Janet E.
Smith argues. Recognizing that a person could
be physically harmed from such an act is a step
toward understanding that the act itself is
harmful. In this book, the pope went on to say
that the use of condoms is neither “a real nor
Father Jim, Deliver Us
From Emo
moral solution” to the spread of AIDS. In-
stead, the surest way to avoid the spread of
HIV/AIDS is through abstinence and fidelity.
Controversial as these arguments may be,

“There may be a basis in the case of some
individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute
uses a condom, where this can be a first step in
the direction of a moralization, a first assump-
tion of responsibility,on the way toward recov-
ering an awareness that not everything is al-
lowed and that one cannot do whatever one
wants. But it is not really the way to deal with
the evil of HIV infection. That can really lie
only in a humanization of sexuality.”
Taking this statement completely out of
context,several news organizations,such as the
Associated Press, Yahoo and The New York
Times, confused readers all over the world,
particularly young adults,and reignited the de-
bate over college students’ favorite rubber.
Within a few hours (as I, of course, continued
to procrastinate), Facebook postings by
friends at Stanford and other college campus-
es of various articles with comments like “Con-
troversy or hype?” or “Finally . . . “ filled my
screen. I found myself engaging in a debate
with a complete stranger on the status of a
Facebook friend of mine at Cal State Sacra-
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Don't You Wish Your IHUM Were Hot Like SLE?
No duh.
As I continued to buy into this firestorm and
read on about the alleged controversy, it be-
came clear to me: there was no controversy at
all. It was pure hype — a common conse-
quence of sensational journalism.The media is
depressingly fixated on Catholicism and con-
dom use because it simply cannot comprehend
why or how an institution as large and power-
ful as the Catholic Church could possibly con-
tinue to regard contraception as immoral. But
this media fixation is one which results in mere-
ly the blurring of the truth and the confusing of
the general public,including Stanford students.
So what exactly is the truth? According to
George Weigel, foreword contributor to Pope
Benedict XVI’s latest book, “Light of the
World,”the pope did not say that “condom use
can be justified in some cases to help stop the
spread of AIDS,” as The New York Times re-
ported.The Holy Father meant to say that the
use of a condom by a male prostitute infected
with AIDS is simply a step toward recognizing
the overall immorality of disordered sex, Sa-
and whether or not you agree with the
Catholic Church’s teaching on sexual morality,
one thing is crystal clear: nothing has changed
in the church’s teaching on contraception.
Sorry to burst everyone’s latex bubbles,but the
church is far from condoning the use of con-
doms. She has not, will not and cannot change
her position on condoms because the basis of
sexual moral ethic is natural law, which essen-
tially does not change regardless of place, time
or public pressure. The media should try to
grasp this concept to avoid yet another ridicu-
lous firestorm, and members of the general
public — including Stanford students —
should make sure not to confuse one state-
ment from an entire book as a revolutionary
change in Catholic sexual morality.
So, all in all, last week’s media frenzy was
thus just that: a frenzy — a frenzy which wast-
ed people’s time and effort,causing people like
me to procrastinate work on my policy brief.
JUDY ROMEA ‘14
Daily Fellow
Kristian Bailey
F
riends, as of this moment, 8:25 p.m. on
Sunday Nov. 28, 2010, my Facebook
news feed is still feeling the fallout from
the hydrogen bomb dropped on it a scant
three hours ago, a hydrogen bomb with a No.
4 painted on the side. BCS MOTHERFUCK-
ERS! Facebook news feed explosions are
nothing new, but just like our defense, what
impressed me most about this particular
blowing-up was the consistency. With the ex-
ception of two people who were weirdly ex-
cited about “Inception” playing at FLiCKS,
every single status update from the Stanford
network was a celebration of our newfound
automatic bid-bestowing BCS ranking, a.k.a.
the reason to break my boycott of Arizona.
This is a little bit mind-blowing, because as
a whole, Stanford students don’t approach
anything with this level of universal enthusi-
asm. By week nine of fall quarter, you all start
to realize that the so-called Stanford commu-
nity is nothing more than a giant e-mail list.
Ujamaa walks out of Gaieties but won’t tell
anyone why, including the staff of the show.
That co-op or Greek organization you were
so excited about last year is fully mired in ad-
ministrative drama by now. You’re all about
to forsake everyone you know for the next
two weeks to study for finals because nothing
is more important than schoolwork, only to
end up convincing yourself that Robot Uni-
corn Attack is actually a supplemental read-
For the
Peter
U$C and Ari-
zona games, McDonald
4,000 Stanford
students were
able to determine that their midterms next
week didn’t need any more studying, that
some random lecture delivered to an empty
room wasn’t more interesting and they were
able to devote four-plus hours of their time to
congregate and cheer and boo and gasp and
jump to “All Right Now” all at the same time.
On a campus where pretty much everyone
complains of a feeling of isolation, we were
able to spend four hours on a few Saturdays
living life together, and that was badass. For
those of you who still think you’re too smart
to care about sports, you should know that
that sense of community is why so many of
the more pathetic/sincere parts of the country
treat football games like church.
However, if we’re going to anoint football
games as the replacement for Counseling and
Psychological Services, there are going be a
few administrative issues. For one thing, you
kids missed your appointments at the Oregon
State and Washington State games. You’re
still literal fair-weather fans who can’t be
bothered to check the football schedule be-
fore you book your return flight home. Also,
you haven’t fully embraced the concept of
Football Saturday. If you really want the ac-

M
y freshman experience has been vastly
different than most as, I am proud to
admit,I am one person of the roughly 5
percent of the freshman class who decided to
participate in SLE, Stanford’s yearlong Struc-
tured Liberal Education program.
Having completed only one third of this 30-
week-long journey, I wanted to do a brief
“midterm”assessment of my SLExperience,in-
side and outside the classroom.Below are some
high and low points of the quarter.
1) Becoming extraordinarily and irresistibly
erudite
As one of about 90 SLEople, I clearly am al-
ready further along the path to intellectual,philo-
sophical and spiritual enlightenment than the
roughly 1,600 IHUMans in my grade. Having
conquered numerous works by Plato and Aristo-
tle, “The Odyssey,” “The Bhagavad Gita” and a
few books in the Hebrew Bible,I obviously have
a firm grasp on the meaning of life.
All jokes aside, and much as I wish it were
otherwise, SLEople are not magically knowl-
edgeable individuals who know everything ever
about the world and possess all the information
necessary to navigate life without any trouble.
In fact, we have discussed the fact that being
well-read does not translate to being a better
person or living a more fulfilling life in a number
of different settings.It matters more what we do
with the information imparted from the texts.
From my position at the beginning of this
structured liberal education, it seems that SLE
equips its students to contemplate life’s “big”or
“hard” questions more thoroughly and pro-
vides us with multiple historical and philosoph-
ical lenses through which we can view these
questions. Asking and striving to answer these
questions are what ultimately create a more
meaningful experience, both at Stanford and
beyond.
This quarter, most of our texts either sought
to define justice, good and education, or dis-
cussed these topics in terms that provoked us to
consider what they really meant. These exami-
nations are the big questions that I have consid-
ered so far:what is justice and what does it mean
to be just? What does a good education entail?
To what degree do we have free will, or to what
degree, if any, are we working toward a fixed
destiny?
The biggest highlight of the quarter came
when I figured out the singular answer to all of
these questions! Having read a number of So-
cratic dialogues,the surest thing I can say I have
learned so far is this: I know nothing. I am igno-
rant about what really “is,” about what the
essence of anything and everything is.
But in all honesty, recognizing that much of
what I think I know is wrong had the same effect
on me that it did on Socrates’ interlocutors: it
made me curious about the truth. This inquisi-
tiveness made tackling our daunting reading list
an ultimately rewarding task (despite the num-
ber of times I wanted to keel over while reading
Plato’s “Republic”).
2) Special attention
Among the many offensive things said and
done during Gaieties, I should have been most
affronted by the number of jabs made at SLE.
Yet I and my fellow SLEeks reveled in the par-
ody. Our program, which represents only5 per-
cent of the class,gained enough attention to be-
come a major part of the plotline. (From what
little I understood, SLE, portrayed as a Harry
Potter cult, eventually defeated Lucifer, saving
Jesus Christ, a new freshman at Stanford, from
Please see BAILEY, page 8
ing.
And when it’s all over, there’s no time to
celebrate as a student body. Our Housing
Overlords doth sayeth that your ass better be
out of their dorms by Saturday, Dec. 11 at
noon. There are no awesome campus-wide
parties, just everyone staying up until 4 a.m.
drinking and packing, with no goodbyes. You
want to go home until you remember why
you were so eager to leave for college in the
first place, and that’s when the roots of that
mental health crisis that nobody wants to talk
about anymore start to take hold. It’s proba-
bly worth noting that the two colleges happi-
er than us, according to the Princeton Review,
one of which is in Rhode Island, don’t kick
their students out until the Monday after fi-
nals end.
It’s no wonder that by the time winter
quarter rolls around, everyone’s off in their
own little world, but there’s just a little bit of
hope because the Red Zone is 4,000 strong,or
60 percent of the undergraduate student
body,a percentage that is more than everyone
who’s not Washington State, where there is
absolutely nothing else to do on a Saturday,or
U$C.
tions of oversized men-children to be tran-
scendent, you need to tune out all other dis-
tractions for the entire day. I would suggest a
Four Loko if you needed assistance but . . .
sadface.Also, I admit that a preponderance of
all words uttered about football are mind-
numbingly inane, and that embracing football
means accepting the humorless anachronistic
paramilitary world of college athletics at face
value, but there will always be things in life to
try your faith.
Two weeks ago, I told you that college
football was all about hate. Now I want you to
love it, but don’t worry.After all, the opposite
of love is not hate, it’s indifference, and sleep-
deprived indifference is what I see in the eyes
of most people on this campus past week
three, and indifference is the cardinal sin in
college sports. Normally, my news feed is full
of solipsistic, dispassionate complaints about
schoolwork at this point in the quarter, but
today it’s been a steady stream of the number
four. All praises due to Harbaugh. Please
don’t go to Michigan.
To discuss the Talmud or the spread offense, e-
mail petermc@stanford.edu.
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CC:
lonelystanford@gmail.com
R
ecently,I received an anonymous
e-mail from a student about his
feelings of isolation and loneli-
ness.He agreed to let me share informa-
tion from his letter, thanking me for
speaking out about these issues.Howev-
er, he should not thank me, for I and
many other students have dealt with sim-
ilar feelings, and I think one of the best
things that can be done is to break the si-
lence that tends to fall around these is-
sues.
Freshman year,I discovered the infa-
mous “Stanford duck syndrome,”where
on the surface everyone looks calm but
underneath is paddling like mad to stay
afloat. I would soon discover that I, too,
was a duck.
Last year, in a blog post, a grad stu-
dent wrote, “I look around at everyone
— well-dressed,put together and on top
of their game, and I feel inferior. How is
it that for everyone else, this stuff is ef-
fortless, but for me it’s such an intense
struggle? The secret truth is, everyone is
struggling.”
Like many others, there have been
times in this college whirlwind when I
have wondered how the admission of-
fice thought I was on par with my
peers. There have been times when I
have felt academically inadequate,
emotionally exhausted or socially out
of place. At first, I felt alone in these
feelings, but during “Branner Spills,”
an open forum where dorm-mates
would answer any question, it became
clear that even members of my staff
had at times felt this way, too, and
shared similar fears.Their honesty and
vulnerability stuck with me.
The anonymous student wrote, “I
think I can be fun sometimes, and I sure
know a lot of people,but I don’t have any
real friends . . . I want someone to feel
comfortable enough around me, or to
think that I’m fun enough, that they
don’t feel weird about randomly getting
in touch . . . I feel socially awkward and
out-of-place and community-less.”
In many ways, we are all ducks, but
the good news is that ducks fly together
(“Mighty Ducks” reference FTW). The
best thing we can do as a community is to
be honest about our feelings and share
our triumphs and struggles. In order to
cure the “duck syndrome,” when some-
one asks you how you are doing, if you
feel comfortable,tell him or her the truth.
Additionally, it is important to prioritize
your life and make time for the things
you truly enjoy doing.It is all too easy to
get caught in the grind.
It is also important to recognize when
to seek help. When the problem be-
comes concerning, or even to be proac-
tive about your health,tap into the spec-
trum of resources available.An open and
eager ear is there for you from any resi-
dent assistant,community assistant,peer
health educator, residence dean, Bridge
peer counselor or Counseling and Psy-
chological Services professional. These
are phenomenal resources, used by
many, that can dramatically enhance
your Stanford experience. We are also
fortunate to be supported by an admin-
istration that values these issues and that
I encourage to continue to improve and
expand these services.
For those of you who are transition-
ing to your first year on the Farm and
may not be sure where you fit in,you are
not alone.For those of you who are strug-
gling to balance dissertations or clinical
rounds, and perhaps a family of your
own,you are not alone.For those of you
who are not yet comfortable sharing a
part of your personal identity,you are not
alone. For those of you who are com-
pletely unsure of what the next step is
after graduation, you are definitely not
alone. For those of you who are going
through a situation that I may not have
mentioned here, please know that you
too are not alone.
Whether you simply read this op-ed
and put it down,or whether these words
spring you to action to call or text your
friends and acquaintances to let them
know you are there for them and care
about them, I hope you remember that
we are not alone.We are one communi-
ty that shares many similar fears, hopes
and aspirations.
ANGELINA CARDONA ‘11
ASSU President
Here’s the Deal
Dear Harbs (and Hennessy, Board of
Trustees and Bowlsby),
First,let me thank you and congratu-
late you for your historic achievements
in only four years at Stanford.You slew
Troy and walked your talk. You did
everything here in four years we thought
might take at least five to seven years, if
ever. You had the audacity of hope, the
Enthusiasm Unknown To Mankind,the
passion and the vision to make it all hap-
pen, and take us from self-imposed
O P-E DS
death’s door,to BCS,even National Title
contention.
Now come the hard decisions . . . Do
you continue to dance with the girl who
stood behind you through all the grow-
ing pains? And does she step up her
game to keep you? After all,it takes two
...
I,for one,if you left tomorrow,would
thank you for a great ride and restoring
our hope in the Stanford football pro-
gram,and wish you well.I hope that you
stay for at least three more years and fin-
ish what you started, then decide. The
other bitches will always be there,as will
the bright lights that attract them with
the promise of good times, the 100,000-
seat bling and the national media harlots
who will never show you the love you de-
serve while you’re here.The NFL? Real-
ly? Do you want stability and quality
time for your new family? You are more
likely to get that in D-1, but the lure of
competition at the highest level probably
isn’t something you can ignore forever . .
. But now?
So here’s the deal — if Stanford
doesn’t step up with a three year deal of
at least six million dollars, and I would
hope closer to eight million, then they
aren’t trying hard enough and don’t ap-
preciate what they’ve got.Period.It ain’t
all about the money.But it’s an objective
measure of commitment.
Attendance? Jim, you have to un-
derstand, Stanford’s run off more fans
over the years because there’s never
been a commitment to the average fan
to keep consistently competing at the
highest level possible.We still don’t trust
our President and BoT to empower our
AD to take full advantage of your skill
set and our new facilities.We are like the
Oakland A’s — a farm club for both
management and player talent, willing
to let them leave town when their game
becomes too expensive to keep, and al-
ways looking over their shoulder for the
bargain, off-price non-retail, talented
beginner. It takes time and continuity
for the fan base to come back,and it will.
Even the disadvantageous demograph-
ics can be overcome once they “get it.”
Of course, a more aggressive smart tar-
get marketing campaign might help too.
(What other school has had, for two
years in a row, arguably the Heisman
Trophy candidate — and not even the
same player?)
So it’s not just your decision Jim, it’s
also time for the school to chart a new
course and decide to support excellence
rather than to run another on the job
training experiment . . . for at least 3
more years . . . besides, who knows, the
place may grow on you — and the grass
on the other side of the hill? It turns
brown too . . .
And if Michigan comes? Follow your
heart . . . nobody could blame you for
that . . .
No matter what happens, thanks
again for all you have done.Truly magnif-
icent,and against all the odds,as only we
who truly know Stanford will testify . . .
JOHN OLENCHALK A.B.‘77
Stanford football team,‘73-’76
A Dry Holiday in East Palo Alto
D
rought. Rapidly increasing con-
sumption. Ever-more complex
utilities systems. Water use is
one of the most pressing issues facing
the Bay Area today. Our neighbors
across Highway 101 in East Palo Alto
are increasingly strained by water allo-
cation problems. As members of Stu-
dents for a Sustainable Stanford,we are
concerned about current inequities in
East Palo Alto’s water supply. On Dec.
14, the San Francisco Public Utilities
Commission (SFPUC) will determine
the allocation of the Bay Area’s water
supply for the next eight years. Low-in-
come communities such as East Palo
Alto will likely lose out.
Historically, the burdens of water
scarcity have fallen disproportionately
on low-income and under-served com-
munities. The SFPUC periodically sets
regional water allocation quotas, which
in the past have given these communities
less than their projected needs in order
to compensate for increased consump-
tion across the region.
Water may be among the most
threatened resources in California, but
scarcity does not justify neglecting com-
munities like East Palo Alto.As the De-
cember deadline looms, concerned citi-
zens must urge the SFPUC to set a
precedent for a more equitable alloca-
tion of water in the Bay Area in order to
reverse past environmental injustices.
As things stand,the planned distribu-
tions are in urgent need of revision.
On Sept.30,the SFPUC released draft
guidelines detailing its water alloca-
tion targets.According to the draft,the
water quotas the commission allo-
cates may be far below projected need
in several low-income communities.
To use water beyond their assigned
quotas, communities would have to
pay steep fees. Under this plan, Palo
Alto expects to receive 110 percent of
its expected need, while East Palo
Alto expects to be allocated only 58
percent. If this draft goes into effect,
East Palo Alto would spend the next
eight years limited by a water alloca-
tion far below what it requires.
East Palo Alto is already under
heavy economic and environmental
pressures. The median household in-
come hovers at around $45,006 annual-
ly, slightly more than half of San Mateo
County’s median, $84,879. The city has
also endured many environmental in-
justices in its past. The county dump
once resided here,as have auto disman-
tling facilities,several large factories and
a hazardous-waste recycling plant —
all producing pollution, pesticides, her-
bicides and overall dangerous living
conditions.
Nevertheless, East Palo Alto has the
lowest per-capita water usage in the en-
tire Bay Area and is a model for water
conservation strategies in low-income
communities. Many contaminated sites
have been cleaned up, the hazardous
waste plant has been dismantled and a
string of open spaces and park facilities
have appeared in recent years.The com-
munity deserves to be rewarded for its
conservation efforts, not punished by
high water costs.
We in the environmental justice sub-
group of Students for a Sustainable Stan-
ford are advocating for fairer water allo-
cation quotas in the Bay Area.The cur-
rent proposal places an unfair financial
burden on East Palo Alto residents. In
other communities, such as Palo Alto, it
discourages water conservation through
excessive allocations that grant more
water than residents actually need.
BOSP
Continued from page 4
Bangalore, Sinclair also dispelled a
common student speculation: that
technical and engineering majors
cannot go abroad because of their re-
quirement-heavy curricula.
“The situation is not dire,” he said.
“It’s not as bad as we sometimes
think, but there are a fraction of engi-
neering students who aren’t able to fit
it into their schedules as easily as
other majors and so we want to pro-
mote engineering and technical stu-
dents to go abroad.”
An obstacle the program faces is
globalizing the program without de-
tracting from the centers already op-
erating. Sixty-six percent of Stanford
students who go abroad through
BOSP go to Western Europe, but Sin-
clair said that he would like to change
the trend.
“I personally would like to see a
more balanced program and more
globalization, and I think the Uni-
versity would also,” he said. “That
having been said, the centers are all
superb and serve a great purpose, so
we wouldn’t want to have an impact
Before the final decision on Dec. 14,
Students for a Sustainable Stanford is
leading an effort here on campus to pub-
licize our position and to advocate for
more equitable water distribution. By
raising awareness of this issue, we also
hope to promote conservation efforts in
communities like ours that are living
with an abundance of water. To learn
more about this issue, please visit our
L ETTERS
Ram’s Head apologizes
Dear Editor,
We, the board of directors of
Ram’s Head Theatrical Society, want
to apologize to you, particularly the
Class of 2014, for any hurt caused by
this year’s Gaieties. Big Game Gai-
eties, a tradition dating back to 1911,
has always intended to unite the cam-
pus against Berkeley, not divide Stan-
ford students or make any of them
feel unwelcome. While any harm was
unintentional, Ram’s Head takes full
responsibility for this year’s final
product and wants to address the
community’s responses in an effective
and compassionate manner.
Ram’s Head would like to engage
in a dialogue with the entire Stanford
community about Gaieties of the past,
present and, most importantly, future.
It is time for our organization and the
student body to re-evaluate the place
of Gaieties in the Stanford experience.
Next quarter, we will hold a town hall
meeting to discuss where this year’s
Gaieties caused hurt and how we can
refocus for next year and beyond. We
invite all members of the community
to join us,but especially those students
who have been personally offended.
Ram’s Head is committed to address-
ing the impact of this year’s show and
to redefining the Gaieties experience
for all those involved.
We believe that,above all,Gaieties
is an event for the Stanford communi-
ty, a humorous love letter to this uni-
versity and the amazing students who
give it its heart. We apologize for
alienating members of the communi-
ty this year,and we thank you for your
willingness to share your opinions
and ideas with us about the future of
this Stanford tradition.
RAM’S HEAD BOARD OF DIREC-
Michael Rooney ‘11, Executive Producer
Jean Ansolabehere ‘11
Liz Stark ‘12
Olivia Haas ‘11
Paul Brownlee ‘12
Randi Rudolph ‘13
[Ed. note: Stark is a TV critic for The Daily.]
Keep it going
Dear Editor,
I woke up Sunday morning, fol-
lowing Stanford’s resounding victory
over Oregon State, to find Stanford
with a record of 11-1 — its best ever
record in football. As I absorbed the
historic magnitude of this accom-
plishment for Stanford football, I re-
alized that Stanford’s international
reputation as an elite academic insti-
BAILEY
Continued from page 7
going to Cal — Hell — and redeeming
Stanford.) So, we were right up there
with the rest of the school making fun
of those weird kids who never go out,
live so far from everything on campus,
are always studying in their rooms and
like it.
Outside of mockery, SLE also got
some special attention in the form of
a private discussion with Professor
Robert Putnam of Harvard. Putnam
was invited to Stanford as part of the
University’s Presidential Lecture Se-
ries on Nov.15.The next day,he spent
on what they’re doing because they
are really to the benefit of a lot of our
students.”
Despite these difficulties, BOSP
continues to flourish in various
other ways. Applications to other
centers remain extremely competi-
tive, especially at Oxford and
Kyoto, the latter of which enjoys a
two-to-one application-to-spot
ratio.
Sinclair said the fiscal con-
straints under which BOSP oper-
SORORITY
Continued from page 2
chapter was not overly concerned
with numbers.
“A new ISC chapter promotes
Greek life, and AEPhi is in full sup-
port of that,” she said via e-mail.
Rodriguez also stressed that the
ISC worked closely with AEPhi to
ensure their concerns would be ad-
dressed.
“There have been on-going con-
versations with Alpha Epsilon Phi
leadership before we explored exten-
sion and throughout the extension
The Stanford Daily
website at bayareawaterallocation.word
press.com.There you can also sign a peti-
tion addressed to the SFPUC showing
your support for improving water alloca-
tion quotas in the Bay Area.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SUB-
GROUP
Students for a Sustainable Stanford
TO THE E DITOR
tution was fully intact.
Despite reaching the pinnacle of
college football success, there hadn’t
been the slightest diminution in Stan-
ford’s academic standing or prestige.
Moreover, as I delved further into the
impact of this remarkable achieve-
ment in college athletics,I discovered a
student body and alumni that thor-
oughly rejoiced in the accomplish-
ment,as well as beamed with profound
pride in their beloved university.
I said to myself, “Wow, it is possi-
ble, and even a good thing, for Stan-
ford to be successful in football.” In-
stead of detracting from Stanford’s
elite academic standing, football has,
in fact, enhanced the institution and
its family of students, faculty, alumni
and friends. Stanford has always ex-
celled and been best in class in every-
thing it does, and there is no reason
why that shouldn’t apply to football.
Let’s hope we keep it going. Re-
taining Coach Harbaugh will go a
long way toward sustaining this excel-
lence.
MICHAEL MESSINA ‘77
Malibu, Calif.
Don’t soak the coach
Dear Editor,
As a proud Stanford alumna and
staff member,it was a thrill to rush the
field after Saturday’s victory over
Oregon State and bask in the Cardi-
nal’s glorious 11-1 season.
Yet amid the throngs of celebrants,
there was one noticeable absence in
the moments after the victory: heroic
head coach Jim Harbaugh, who had
to make a quick getaway after getting
doused with ice water on an indis-
putably frigid Palo Alto night.
Sure,the players meant it as a com-
TORS
pliment. But the fallout was that a
chilled Harbaugh couldn’t stick
around to celebrate with his fans and
players, let alone have his moment to
shine under flashbulbs and cameras.
Harbaugh’s rushed reaction was-
n’t sour grapes, just sound judgment.
(Some may recall the death of former
Long Beach State coach George
Allen in 1990, which was linked to a
Gatorade “victory bath.”)
When Stanford wins at the Fiesta
Bowl,the Rose Bowl or wherever fate
takes the Cardinal to cap this magical
season, let’s see the team hoist Har-
baugh on its shoulders and carry him
off the field — so he can soak up the
glory, not the Gatorade.
KAREN HEYWOOD MCKINLEY ‘97
Mountain View, Calif.
an hour in the SLE Lounge in FloMo
answering our questions about reli-
gion and faith in America, the topic
of his earlier lecture and recently
published book, before giving a larg-
er talk at the Stanford Humanities
Center. The additional publicity and
opportunities SLE affords are some-
thing I have learned to appreciate on
all levels.
I would enumerate some of the
low points of the quarter, but unfortu-
nately, there are none. (Hypothetical-
ly,even if there were,the highlights far
outweigh the few discontented mo-
ments I’ve had.) For this quarter,it ap-
pears that SLE reigns superior.
KRISTIAN BAILEY ‘14
Daily Fellow
ates will continue to be the main de-
terminants of its future direction.
“There are some changes that are
possible, but we do have to remem-
ber that these are still really con-
stricting financial times so I would
say that any changes that are going to
happen are going to be gradual,
maybe not even in my time as direc-
tor,” Sinclair said.
Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-
ford.ed
process,” said Rodriguez via e-mail.
She also stressed that Alpha Phi,
as a new sorority with its own char-
acter, would potentially attract stu-
dents who may not have originally
have been interested in joining a
sorority, and thus would not detract
from the number of students seek-
ing to joining AEPhi.
The Alpha Phi national head-
quarters will be notified today of the
ISC’s decision. If it accepts the offer,
Alpha Phi will send representatives
from other chapters in the area to
help with recruitment during spring
rush.
Contact Caroline Chen at ccchen501
@stanford.edu.
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FEATURES
Taking Five on the Farm By CHRISTINA BROW
Coterming means time for academic depth
and a fresh take on campus life
year in mechanical engineering with a focus on control ing in undergraduate student life. Viswanathan still
systems. He hopes his degree will further prepare him spends time with undergraduates as a resident assistant

U
ndergraduate students and gradu-
ate students form two distinct seg-
ments of the Stanford student
population. But for coterminal
degree students, the line is less
clearly defined.
() “We’re kind of like pseudo-grad stu-
dents,” said Nikil Viswanathan ‘11, who is
pursuing a master’s degree in computer
science.“Academically, we take grad courses.
But socially we are still very much tied to the
undergrad community.”
Viswanathan and students like him
aren’t alone in their decision to coterm.
According to Celeste Fowles Nguyen,
assistant in degree programs in the Uni-
versity registrar’s office, approximately
427 students were approved to coterm
during 2009-2010.
The coterminal degree program at
Stanford allows undergraduates to work
on master’s degrees while they com-
plete their Stanford bachelor’s de-
grees. According to associate dean
of Undergraduate Advising and
Research (UAR) Randy Williams,
coterming gives students an opportunity
to pursue advanced studies in an academic in-
terest.
Many students choose to coterm with
their career goals in mind.
Maya Mathur ‘13, for example, plans
to coterm in statistics after completing
ERIC KOFMAN/The Stanford Daily an undergraduate major in psychology.
“Stats and psych go really well together,”
Mathur said.“An M.A.in stats will help me as an empir-
ical psychologist who needs a solid stats background.”
Similarly, Sean Ramey ‘11, is planning to coterm next
for a career in defense systems and robotics.
“The engineering coterm is a continuation of under-
grad years with classes that are like job training,”Ramey
said.“You develop new skills and take classes that focus
on your interest.”
Although many coterms admitted that an M.A. has
the potential to yield monetary benefits, students also
choose to coterm because they don’t want their intel-
lectual career to end with their undergraduate diplo-
ma.
Teresa Robbins ‘11, who completed her undergradu-
ate degree at Stanford in biology, decided to coterm in
Latin American studies because she always had a strong
interest in Mexican immigration and culture.
“I want to help some of the Mexican population as a
doctor and explore another field of study besides sci-
ence,” Robbins said.
Lance Choy, director of the Career Development
Center (CDC), said a coterm can sometimes yields ben-
efits in the job search.However,both Williams and Choy
said a coterm is not necessarily a student’s best choice.
Williams suggested that in some cases, an honors thesis
or a graduate program might be more appropriate.
“There are many factors one must take into account
when deciding to coterm,”Choy said,citing career,value
of education and academic interests as possible factors.
According to Judith Romero,a spokeswoman for the
School of Law, students should avoid approaching a
coterm degree as a resume booster.
“You should base your decision on the merits of the
program as it relates to your area of interest and what
you intend to do with the degree,” Romero said in an e-
mail to The Daily.“Don’t take it on because you think it
will give you a leg up in the admissions process.”
Coterm: An Undergrad or Grad?
Even though coterms are not technically undergrads
in their fifth year, this doesn’t stop them from participat-
(RA) in the freshman dorm Soto.
“I still see a lot of my undergraduate friends very
often through various activities such as captaining our
IM Frisbee team . . . by going to football games and by
eating at Row houses,”Viswanathan said.
James Chu ‘11, who is coterming in sociology, also re-
mains connected to undergraduate life through his
staffing position in the EAST residence.
“I’m still in dorm housing, so it feels just like an un-
dergrad [experience],” Chu said.
To Robbins, one of the perks of coterming is having a
flexible schedule. She is not a member of as many activ-
ities as she was during her undergraduate years,which al-
lows her more free time to focus on activities like Habla,
Stanford Immigrant Rights Project and having fun on
weekends.
Some coterms feel closer to the graduate student
community. Robbins said her social life is more like that
of a graduate student’s.
“Since I’m not a senior,I don’t have all of these social
obligations, like pub nights and parties,” Robbins said.
Many coterms make a point of remaining close to
friends from their Stanford years. “When I coterm, I
plan to live in Munger with my draw group, who are also
coterming,” Ramey said.
Viswanathan described how coterms seem to feel less
academic pressure than grad students.
“We coterms tend to look really happy while gradu-
ate students look stressed and sad,” he said.
While some coterms end their undergraduate careers
and begin a new chapter,others consider themselves un-
dergraduates with more time.What coterms do seem to
agree on is that they are fortunate to have been both un-
dergraduate and coterminal students at Stanford.
“We are super lucky to have good friends around
campus and know what’s going on,”Viswanathan said.
Contact Christina Brow at ChristinaBrow@stanford.edu.

Writing of the past,

reading into Questioning
the future
Fred Turner reflects on cultural history,
discusses creative destruction in journalism
DADT
By ZAHRA TAJI Brand, the Whole Earth Net-
work, and the Rise of Digital

I
nside a fourth-floor room
on the Quad, bookshelves
overflow to the floor,
where literature mingles
with black
boxes from
archives around
the country.
Above the
hodgepodge is a
corkboard with
nametags, pho-
tos and its most
precious item: a Turner
handmade award for “Best
Dad.” Communication profes-
sor Fred Turner sat behind a
desk next to the window, gazing
through the window at Memori-
al Church, his “favorite place on
campus, without question.”
Turner’s shelves are stacked
with books from graduate
school, books he has taught from
and others he is referencing for
the book he is writing.The topics
in his collection range from so-
cial psychology to 1930s Ger-
many to World War II and the
Cold War — and then move into
the 1950s and 1960s, where there
“was a lot of art oriented around
perception, and about changing
Utopianism,” which explores
how the computer, associated
with the terrors of war, was
frightening in the 1960s, but be-
came a tool for the creation of
Utopian ideas in the 1990s. The
book he is currently writing is a
prequel to this one, focusing on
how “the rebellion against mass
media technologies and the
fears that mass media would
make us fascists in the 1930s . . .
[evolved] into the psychedelia of
the 1960s.”
A Journalist in a Sea of Change
Turner earned his bachelor’s
degree in English and American
‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ debate
literature from Brown Universi-
ty and his master’s in English
from Columbia. Shortly after
graduating from Columbia, he
simmers at Stanford as
national battle looms
took off for Berlin, where he
worked as a lighting technician
at a punk theatre and gave Eng-
lish lessons. Not particularly sat-
isfied with that occupation, he
returned to the United States to CAROLINE MARKS/The Stanford Daily
work as a freelance journalist in
Boston from 1986 to 1996. He
wrote for The Boston Globe
By SUZANNE STATHATOS cal arguments on both sides of the debate. But some changes in the policy’s implemen-
Sunday Magazine, Providence
Proponents of the policy place “special em- tation are materializing. In a federal district
Business News and The Boston
phasis on the need for units, especially in com- court case in Washington, it was ruled “uncon-

your perception so as to free
your soul,” he said.
A handful of colorful books
from the 1940s to 1960s stand
out from the others. They help
inspire Turner during the six
hours every day he spends writ-
ing about history.
“The thing about doing his-
torical writing and research is
that everyone you are writing
about is dead and so it feels a lit-
tle bit like writing about ghosts,”
he said. “Except when you keep
things like this around, you re-
member those ghosts once
walked the earth, and they make
them more real for you.”
At one point, he stopped and
picked out a book from the shelf,
Charles Morris’ “The Open
Self.”
“[This is] one of my favorite
books, about trying to free peo-
ple to live in a much more . . .
racially, gender-wise, religiously,
diverse society — in 1948, which
is a time we associate with kind
of being closed down,” he said.
Also in his collection is Turn-
er’s latest book,“From Counter-
culture to Cyberculture: Stewart
Phoenix, among other publica-
tions.
In 1989, while covering a
story about an American sup-
port movement for the Chinese
students in Tiananmen Square,
he felt that the story he was cov-
ering concerned a big cultural
event in China that he could not
touch on in his 750 words of
daily reporting.
“As a journalist, I got to be a
really good sailor,” Turner said,
offering a metaphor for his early
career. “I got to watch the chop
on the water really well, I could
always see where the little
waves were coming, little trend
here, little movement there, but
I always had the feeling that
there were these lower, slower,
deeper, cultural currents way
down below and I slowly began
to realize that I kind of wanted
to be an oceanographer, not a
sailor.”
The self-insight led him to
slow down his news-writing ca-
reer and write a book, “Echoes
of Combat: Trauma, Memory,
Please see TURNER, page 10
“D
on’t ask, don’t tell”
(DADT) was a compro-
mise implemented during
the Clinton Administration
amid a debate over the role
of gays in the military, limiting the military’s
ability to ask service members about their sex-
ual orientation but allowing for gay members’
discharge if such information came to light.
Nearly two decades later, the policy is drawing
fire on Capitol Hill and on Stanford’s campus.
“I have a number of good friends who are
gay who have been ex-officers in the military,
who have been kicked out,” said political sci-
ence graduate student Jim Golby, who is also a
major in the U.S. Army. “And I think it’s a
shame.”
Since 1993, approximately 14,000 gay men
and women have been discharged due to their
sexual orientation, according to The New York
Times. When the policy was instated, support
for openly gay service members was low.
But now, as the debate over the status of gay
service members heats up again, polls for the
first time suggest public support for a more
open policy. And on Tuesday, a new Pentagon
study reported the risk to the military’s effec-
tiveness by repealing the policy is low.
Law professor Jane Schacter explained typi-
bat, to be tightly bonded and unified” she said.
“They have also argued that civilians should
defer to the judgments of military officials on
this question because they have a better under-
standing of the special characteristics of the
military.”
The policy’s opponents argue that “preju-
dice drives these arguments, not data or evi-
dence,” Schacter said. They “have pointed to
militaries around the world that have success-
fully integrated openly gay soldiers . . . and said
the military is, in fact, harmed by the loss of the
many well-qualified gay soldiers.”
Several gay service members have filed law-
suits since DADT was enacted. They have ar-
gued the policy is unconstitutional because it
violates equal protection, due process and the
First Amendment, Schacter said.
None of these lawsuits has prompted broad
changes in policy, but “a few recent decisions
may signal a new direction,” Schacter added.
California District Court Judge Virginia
Phillips wrote recently that the policy “in-
fringes the fundamental rights of United States
service members” and violates their rights of
due process and freedom of speech.
The ruling is being appealed. Meanwhile, the
Supreme Court has ruled that the policy will re-
main in effect while the appeal proceeds.
stitutional to discharge [Maj.] Margaret Witt
from the military” Schacter said.
The judge “employed a new standard that
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had im-
posed, requiring the military to show specific
proof that the individual gay soldier discharged
had undermined military effectiveness or unit
cohesion,” Schacter added.
On Stanford’s campus, students fall on both
sides of the issue.
“If a corporation in the United States had a
policy like this they would be roundly criti-
cized,” wrote sophomore Dan Thompson in an
e-mail to The Daily. “It’s even worse that this
discrimination is supported by the state.”
On the other hand, sophomore Connor Lan-
man ‘13 says “there should be no distractions in
such a structured, focused organization.”
“Fighting a war, you can’t be afraid of the
fact that your comrade is a homosexual or not,”
Lanman said. “Maybe at some point I’d like to
see it repealed, but not in the midst of conflicts
overseas.”
One way or another, “if the government’s
going to change the plan, we want to make sure
we have as good of a plan as possible to smooth
the transition,” Golby said.
Contact Suzanne Stathatos at sstat@stanford.edu.
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erally educated in the 21st century,”
he added.
Turner described examples like
the website eHarmony.com, which
“transform the process of falling in
1980s and 1990s, used to have 120
pages. Today, it has 33. For Turner,
large print newspapers withering
away means “highly qualified pub-
lic discourse by expert social critics,

Student organization sells traditional Jewish
bread to help raise money for charity
By AMY LANCTOT
and the Vietnam War” chronicling
how Americans remember the
Vietnam War. After watching it sell
relatively lethargically,“like an aca-
demic book,” Turner concluded he
tiative, while the other half of the proceeds go to various had a more academic mind than a
charities in the area or around the globe. But Orbuch em- journalistic one and decided to pur-
phasizes the group’s advocacy component as well. sue a doctorate in communication
love into a process of applying, cre-
ating yourself as a brand . . . turn-
ing yourself literally into a product.
That’s a really interesting phenom-
ena and that’s something that we
need to be studying here.”
Turner believes that different
disciplines have much to learn from
one another. He emphasized
expert artistic critics, critics of film,
of the arts, of music, tends to disap-
pear from public discourse.”
“If you called a source and said,
‘Hi, this is Fred Turner from The
Boston Phoenix,’ they actually paid
attention to you,” he said.
Thinking back to Watergate,
Turner said that the current trend

I
f there’s something Stanford students will support “We have opportunities for political advocacy at the at UC-San Diego. Before joining “thinking about what it means to be in news — moving away from
without hesitation, it is probably food. Carbohy- selling table every week, and we’re hoping to ramp up this Stanford as a faculty member in human in a highly technological strong media institutions that once
drates are even better. This perhaps explains how aspect of the organization,” she said.“People are interest- 2003, he taught communication at era.” had resources to monitor the gov-
Challah for Hunger, providing bread in a variety of ed in our product, but we are also about education and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School “There are modes of teaching ernment and big businesses —
flavors to the masses, has found its niche on campus. raising awareness.” She mentioned collaboration with of Government and at MIT’s Sloan and learning that are deployed in causes journalism to lose some of
Challah for Hunger, an organization started at the Stanford STAND and possible work with the Stanford School of Management. each context that are rarely de- its power.
Claremont colleges, now has chapters at universities Project on Hunger and Dance Marathon. Today, Turner dips his toes in ployed in others,” he said. “If [Woodward and Bernstein]
around the country, all of which bake and sell challah Volunteer coordination Ali McInnis ‘13 deals with the many fields: He is the Department Overall, Turner wants to “see hadn’t had The Washington Post’s
each week, donating their proceeds to charity. Challah, a challenges of producing 160 loaves of bread every Thurs- of Communication’s director of un- technology and science taken more money and prestige and ability to
Jewish bread eaten on the Sabbath and holidays, is cus- day. dergraduate studies and an associ- seriously as agents of cultural publicize their case behind them, if
tomarily braided, a tradition Challah for Hunger keeps. “It’s a lot more work than I thought,” she said. “To ate professor in the Department of change by humanists” while having they hadn’t had The Washington
A little less orthodox in their choice of challah flavors,its make so many loaves you need a lot of people,and the time Art and Art History, by courtesy, the “rich humanistic tradition of Post’s lawyers, Nixon could have
challah loaves can be anywhere from plain and poppy seed it takes can depend on how much people know about bak- and affiliated faculty in the Depart- thinking about what it means to be run them out of town.”
to chocolate chip, olive rosemary or, recently, pumpkin.The ing, and whether they’re there to work or just chill.” ments of American Studies, Mod- a person brought into discussions “If you’re going to do journalism
chocolate chip loaves are especially popular, selling out “It’s difficult because no one gets paid or has an incen- ern Thought and Literature, Sci- about how we design things and that is watchdog work, if your job is
quickly at the group’s stand at Tresidder on Fridays or even tive to do it, so we’re a social group that has to run a bit like ence, Technology and Society what we design things for.” to afflict the comfortable and com-
by Thursday nights, when they emerge from the oven. a business,”she continued.“We have responsibilities to our (STS), Symbolic Systems and fort the afflicted, then you need to
The Stanford chapter of Challah for Hunger was co- customers, especially as we are switching to pre-selling Urban Studies. Turner on Technology be able to cover large institutions
founded by seniors Helen Helfand and Eva Orbuch dur- rather than pre-ordering, so we cannot give people the He is set to take on a new role One effect of the interactions with big resources, like the Penta-
ing the spring of their sophomore year. Orbuch had wrong type; they’ve already paid.” starting next fall as the director of between humans and technology is gon, like big businesses,” he added.
worked with the UC-Los Angeles chapter’s head at a Stanford’s chapter has found a creative way to work the STS program. His most imme- especially close to Turner’s heart: “Single people can’t do that.”
summer camp and she was inspired to start a Stanford around the problem of lack of volunteers by having stu- diate plans for the department are how digital media is transforming And as a single individual pon-
group. dent groups co-sponsor on many weeks.These groups can “to build on the intersection of cul- the newspaper. dering the fate of print media, even
“It seems that while in the Jewish community there was choose the charity to which half the profits go in exchange tural and social thought with sci- “When I was working as a jour- Turner needs a break.
an emphasis on social justice, there were no concrete op- for helping out with baking and selling. Past co-sponsors ence and engineering thought nalist, I wrote many of my stories . . Around 10 a.m., Turner pushes
portunities for service,” she said. “I wanted to provide that have included various fraternities, Project Love, FAITH that’s been the hallmark of [STS] . on a typewriter,” Turner said. back from his keyboard and walks
for the Jewish community and the wider community.” and STAND. for 20 years.” “You had to bring your work into to Memorial Church, occasionally
“As the social action chair for the JSA [Jewish Students Stanford’s Challah for Hunger is considering donating “Think about where we’re liv- the office or use a telephone to call stepping in to listen to the organist
Association], I had been searching for a way to get lots of its profits that do not go to AJWS to a local organization ing,”Turner said.“We’re in the mid- it in.” practicing.While leaving, he likes to
Jewish students at Stanford involved in social action,” on a regular basis, as many other chapters do. dle of Silicon Valley. This region Turner expressed some hope for take a look at the four words in-
Helfand added. “Up to that point I had organized a few McInnis’s volunteer base comes from the entire Stan- right now is changing culture the technological transformation of scribed on the facade’s mural: love,
events, but they mostly attracted the same small crowd, ford community, not just Jewish students. She emphasizes around the world in a way that journalism because it allows news faith, hope and charity.
and I really wanted to create something that the whole this interfaith component. maybe London changed it in the to be gathered, produced and dis- “It’s a nice counterpoint to some
community was excited about.” “I myself am not Jewish, and got involved last year in a 18th century or New York changed tributed “almost simultaneously” of the other things in Silicon Valley,
Originally baking at Columbae and selling in White co-sponsoring event,” she said. “I think this is a different it in the 19th century. The things by any individual. He believes that which might include ambition,
Plaza, Challah for Hunger has shifted to the Hillel kitchen type of service, which emphasizes education and advocacy that are being built around us are this allows more people to speak greed,” he said. “‘Love, faith, hope
and Tresidder as it has expanded from a tiny, grassroots as well. It’s also interesting for people to learn about chal- changing the way we interact . . . I about important public issues, but and charity’ strikes me as a pretty
start. lah and its traditional use in Judaism.” mean, we are sitting 100 yards from that at the same time established good motto, and I like to go read it
“We’re officially under the JSA, who subsidizes our in- Orbuch agrees that Challah for Hunger’s popularity is where the first Google algorithms brick-and-mortar newspapers are about once a day.”
gredient costs . . . so that all our profits can go to charity,” not religiously exclusive. were written.” suffering to the detriment of society.
Orbuch said. “Hillel has also been really supportive in “People come because it’s fun, and community build- “That’s an intersection that stu- The Boston Phoenix, one of the Contact Zahra Taji at ztaji@stanford.
lending us their kitchens and the space.” ing.We like doing thing with our hands and it’s a chance to dents need to know about to be lib- papers Turner wrote for in the edu.
And as the endeavor has grown, more space has be- bake that you don’t get if you don’t live in a co-op or Row
come necessary for a much-expanded group. house,” she said.
“We started with 40 loaves every week and now we And although the social action and interaction draw
bake 160,” Orbuch said. “The pre-ordering system has al- volunteers and buyers alike, an even greater appeal lies in
lowed us to bake in greater volume, as many Row houses the bread itself.
and dorms will order a big batch with kitchen funds.” “There is a huge desire on campus for fresh-baked chal-
Although Challah for Hunger may sell baked goods for lah,”Helfand said. “Buying a loaf definitely makes you the
charity, Orbuch said,“We are not just a bake sale.” Half of most popular person in the dorm.”
the proceeds each week go to Challah for Hunger’s nation-
al cause, the American Jewish World Service’s Darfur ini- Contact Amy Lanctot at alanctot@stanford.edu.
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GAIETIES
Continued from front page
“A lot of content throughout the
show was insensitive and put off a lot of
kids,” Zimbroff said. Aswad-Thomas
added that the show was “alienating,”
saying it “showed a kind of blindness we
have when engaging in issues of diversi-
ty . . . a lot of residents felt strongly of-
fended by the images in the show.”
This year’s Gaieties producer,
Rachel Lindee ‘12,emphasized that the
lexicon spoofed on all groups on cam-
pus, not just selected ones, and that in
writing and editing the script for the
show, she and director Emily Goldwyn
‘11 focused on being mindful of the“fine
line” between Gaieties’ tradition of
being a “politically incorrect,hilariously
over-the-top musical extravaganza,”ac-
cording to the Ram’s Head Theatrical
Society website, and being unnecessari-
ly offensive.
“It was important for us that while
our show crosses boundaries,as is tradi-
tion of Gaieties,it did not overstep them
in a hurtful or mean-spirited manner,”
Lindee wrote in an e-mail to The Daily.
The Ram’s Head board of directors
has been in talks with Ujamaa staff and
has scheduled a meeting to discuss con-
cerns, Lindee said. In a letter to the edi-
tor of The Daily, the board apologized
for offending audience members and
said it would hold a town hall in winter
quarter on the same topic.
Zimbroff and Aswad-Thomas were
both in favor of continued talks.
“We don’t want this to have been a
passive disagreement,” Zimbroff said.
“The goal is to have people reflect on
their own and collective ways we can
create and reshape the understanding
of the Stanford community.”
“Gaieties is meant to unite Stanford
together,” Aswad-Thomas added.
“How can it achieve that goal if people
don’t want to go to this show because
they feel they won’t be represented?”
Before being performed, the script
for Gaieties undergoes approval by the
Ram’s Head board and various Univer-
sity officials. This year, according to
Lindee, the script was sent to Dean of
Religious Life Scotty McLennan and to
“an ASSU officer who had a cameo in
the show.”
Zimbroff added that he felt it was the
responsibility of the administration to
reflect on the issue.
Zimbroff and Aswad-Thomas felt
the show’s portrayals of certain groups
could be damaging to diversity efforts
on campus, especially to freshmen, but
Lindee said the show addresses diversi-
ty in its own way.
“The fact of the matter is that dis-
turbing and divisive stereotypes do exist
on campus,”she said.“The way Gaieties
deals with them is by portraying these
stereotypes in an outlandishly over-the-
top manner,not only to generate discus-
sion, but also to combat them by unify-
ing the entire student body through
laughter.” Lindee also added that Gai-
eties strives to be “even-handed” in its
portrayals, making an effort not to ex-
clude or include any group unfairly.
But intentions are separate from
perceptions,Aswad-Thomas noted.
“The words I use might seem funny,
but some of my fellow Cards might not
see it that way,”he said.
Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@
stanford.edu
Shedding Stereotypes
For Ije Ude, 13 years means a lifetime of experience
By HELEN ANDERSON
I
f you’re like the majority of Stan-
ford students, you’re probably
planning on graduating four
years after you first set foot on
campus as a bright-eyed fresh-
man.This was how Ije Ude ‘10,now the
director of the Service Internship Pro-
gram at the Haas Center for Public
Service, planned her college career
too. But, in her words,“life kind of got
in the way.”After spending 13 years in
New York City putting her human bi-
ology major to use in the real world,
she returned to Stanford last January
to finish her last two quarters.
As an international student from
Nigeria, Ude initially experienced sig-
nificant culture shock coming to Stan-
ford. She spent her first three years of
college coming to terms with both her
preconceived notions about the Unit-
ed States — California in particular —
and the United States’ assumptions
about her.
“Nigeria . . . used to be a British
colony, so it still has the feeling of the
British,” Ude said. “It’s more class-
based. Class is the prominent status
that people talk about or issue that
people feel more comfortable focusing
on. I feel like America is very much
race-based, in terms of how things are
run and just that kind of undercur-
rent.”
Ude found that she surprised her
classmates with her normality, particu-
larly her lack of an accent.
“People had their idea of what they
thought an African person was like, or
should act like, or should sound like,”
she said.“So I didn’t really fit that and
people had a hard time placing me.”
Despite this nagging sense of not
quite fitting in, she loved her studies,
especially the interdisciplinary nature
of the human biology major,which she
said allowed her to “pull together” her
interests.
When she started feeling financial
pressures during her senior year and
was unable to continue to pay for
school,she took these interests to New
York City,where she began working in
a teen health clinic.
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“What I loved about Hum Bio was
that it looks at the social context for
certain health problems,” Ude said. “I
was really interested in public health at
that time.”
She stayed at the clinic for about
two years, working as an HIV coun-
selor and sexual health educator, both
one-on-one and in classrooms.
“Over and over again, [I had] both
young women and young men disclos-
ing to me these histories of violence
and sexual abuse,” Ude said. “And so
that kind of steered me in the direction
of doing violence prevention, violence
intervention work.”
At first she worked for nonprofits
doing educational youth empower-
ment or community empowerment
that dealt with violence issues. But she
soon became drawn to social-justice
organizations that were trying to get to
the roots of violence — looking at the
conditions that children are raised in
that allow violent acts to happen.
After about five or six years, Ude
shifted her focus again. This time, she
was doing a two-year fellowship in
which she got to develop her own proj-
ect. She ended up working in an inter-
national high school in Brooklyn,
where many of the students were
refugees from poor countries.
“I did a year-long project with them
involving art, using digital storytelling,
to have them share their stories of vio-
lence and survival and then use it as a
community organizing tool to talk
about violence in communities,” she
said.
This experience sparked Ude’s in-
terest in therapy. She decided that she
wanted to go to graduate school, and
this was one of the motivating forces
that led her back to Stanford to finish
her undergraduate degree last year.
But she never thought of her 13-year
hiatus as a break from her education.
“The work that I was doing was
very much connected to the stuff I had
learned as an undergrad,so I felt like it
was really a continuation of my educa-
tion anyway,” Ude said. “It was a long
time apart,but it really helped me clar-
ify [what I wanted to do].”
Back in classes, she had a new per-
spective — not only through her work
in New York,but also through her new
role as a parent.But sometimes she felt
it was wisest not to impose her experi-
ences on her fellow classmates.
“I felt like a couple of times I had to
hold my tongue, because we’d be in
class and people would be sharing
their vision of the work they wanted to
do,and it was really idealistic,”she said.
This was something she had gone
through herself — particularly when it
came to her previously idealized per-
ception of what working for nonprofits
would be like as opposed to the corpo-
rate world — but resisted the tempta-
tion to preach about what she had
learned, knowing that her classmates
would learn best through their own ex-
periences.
“I had to balance just letting people
have their ideas, knowing that they
were going to figure it out, and I didn’t
need to burst their bubble,” Ude said.
“I could share what I had to share but
let it be.”
Ude is now working at the Haas
Center, partnering with urban studies
students to help them through the in-
ternship process. Her goal is not just to
get internships for these students, but
also to help the students reflect on
their experiences afterward.She wants
them to have experiences that were as
meaningful as her experience in New
York so that they can “come back to
campus with a renewed focus and
apply that to the rest of their academic
career.”
In the future, Ude hopes to use her
counseling experience to increase the
effectiveness of community work be-
cause she believes the well-being of the
people engaging in public service is
just as important as the wellbeing of
those that they are helping.
“I feel like that’s one of the missing
pieces,” she said. “There’s not enough
support for staff or for activists or for
people who are doing work on the
ground . . . and that impacts the quali-
ty or the sustainability of the work
they’re actually doing.”
Contact Helen Anderson at helena1
@stanford.edu.
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SPORTS
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Junior Kristy Zurmuhlen dribbles the ball, outpacing a Florida State
defender in Friday’s match. The Cardinal uncorked an impressive
offensive performance against the Seminoles, scoring five goals.
CHASING A TITLE
Stanford earns berth in third consecutive Final Four
By NATE ADAMS
DESK EDITOR
Another year,another run at the Col-
lege Cup.
The Stanford women’s soccer team
will stand alone as the only No. 1 seed in
the Final Four next weekend after
punching its ticket to Cary,N.C.,with a 5-
0 victory over Florida State on Friday.
Overcoming a talented Seminoles de-
fense, the Cardinal (22-0-2) opened the
floodgates in the second half, with five
goals scored from as many players and a
pair of record-tying marks from senior
Christen Press. For the 2009 runner-up
Cardinal, the trip will mark its third con-
secutive College Cup appearance.
Despite the final result, the matchup
with the second-seeded Seminoles (16-
6-1) had every reason to be a close
match. Florida State had outscored its
opponents in the NCAA Tournament’s
first three rounds by a combined margin
of 8-1 — a mark identical to Stanford’s.
The Seminoles were making their 11th
consecutive playoff run, persevering
through a bevy of injuries, and they had
lost by multiple goals only once all sea-
son.
But Florida State had never faced the
Cardinal, and in Friday’s meeting, at
least, Stanford was able to find an offen-
sive rhythm and run circles around FSU.
“I think we’ve probably not been
under that quality of pressure all season
long, even though we have played a top
quality schedule,” said FSU head coach
Mark Krikorian.
To an extent,the Seminoles were able
to disrupt Stanford’s possessive style of
offense in the first half, occasionally in-
tercepting passes in the midfield and
mounting brief counterattacks. But even
if most of its chances came on long pass-
es into a crowded box, the Cardinal was
able to establish an increasing measure
of control.
“Whenever you get numbers in the
box, I think it’s a good opportunity to
score,” said Stanford head coach Paul
Ratcliffe about his team’s first-half pres-
sure. “It’s something we train for a lot,
and we want to see it happen.”
Stanford’s first chance was a good
one,with Press pausing in the box before
high-kicking a lofty centering pass from
junior Camille Levin in the fifth minute.
Seminole goalkeeper Kelsey Wys man-
aged to deflect the shot off the crossbar,
but the missed opportunity marked the
first of many for the Cardinal,which out-
shot FSU 22-6 on the contest.
Most of the Cardinal’s first-half
chances had the same flavor, including
an 11th-minute chip from sophomore
defender Courtney Verloo after she re-
covered a chaotic corner kick from jun-
ior Lindsay Taylor, who followed that at-
tempt with a point-blank header off a
soaring pass from sophomore Mariah
Nogueira seven minutes later.
Stanford’s first goal came on a similar
play,with Press dumping the ball into the
box from deep in the right corner in the
31st minute. Nogueira found the ball in
traffic and managed to head it past Wys
while streaking in front of the goal from
right to left. The goal was Nogueira’s
fifth of the season and her first of the
tournament. For Press, the score had a
bit of added significance — with her 41st
assist, she broke Stanford’s all-time
mark set by Marcie Ward in 2004.
Stanford headed to the tents at half-
time with an 11-3 shooting advantage
and a 1-0 lead.
Showing even a bit more spark then it
had in the opening frame, the Cardinal
was able to charge the net and string to-
gether some picture-perfect chances in
the second half.
After holding off a dangerous FSU
set piece in the 48th minute, Taylor was
able to double the Stanford lead by tak-
ing a cross from Levin while storming
into the box on the left side. After drib-
bling at full stride for a few steps, she
fired it in from just a few yards in front of
the left post.The goal marked the 10th of
the season for Taylor, who is tied with
classmate Teresa Noyola for the second-
highest goal tally on the team.
“During halftime, it was just [about]
staying confident, keep playing good
soccer,” Ratcliffe said about his team
stepping up its pace on offense. “And
let’s get another goal. Get another goal
to put the game out of reach, basically.
And then they just kept coming.”
Stanford all but put away the game a
few minutes later, with Press releasing a
30-yard blast from beyond the left cor-
ner of the box. The shot took a sharp
bounce off the pitch before ricocheting
past Wys and into the left side of the net.
Aside from giving her team a 3-0 lead,
the goal tied Press with 2010 graduate
Kelley O’Hara for the Stanford record
for goals in a single season (26).
Noyola added a fourth goal in the
78th minute,knocking in a first-time shot
Please see WSOCCER, page 17

Daniel FOOTBALL: 113TH BIG GAME Jacob

Golden Bear Beatdown

Bohm Jaffe
On My Mind Fields of Failure

Let Don’t for-

students
go to BCS
T S
he following is an open
letter to Stanford Presi-
dent John Hennessy and
other members of the
school’s administration.
Dear President Hennessy,
I am writing you today request-
ing that you stand behind the Stan-
ford football team. I’m not talking
about singing the alma mater with
the players after Saturday’s win or
participating in Gaieties. I am ask-
ing you to come out and say that
Stanford students will be excused
from classes on Jan. 3, 2011, to at-
tend the Orange Bowl, if that is in-
deed the bowl game that the Cardi-
nal football team is playing in. And
although it is highly unlikely, if
Stanford is invited to the Sugar
Bowl, I would love to hear that stu-
dents will be free to attend, even
though it is on Jan. 4, 2011.
Stanford needs the support of its
leader. I am sick and tired of hear-
ing that Stanford has a lackluster
fan base and that it will not be able
to fill its allotted seats at a bowl
game. I’m sure you are tired of
hearing those sentiments as well.
The bowl committees need to know
that Stanford is committed to sell-
ing its seats — that the university is
invested in the football team —
and they need to know now, before
the bowls are selected.
As you probably know, Stanford
is ranked fourth in the current BCS
standings, which gives the Cardinal
an automatic bid to a BCS bowl.
However, in the unlikely event that
we fall to No. 5 next week, I don’t
want there to be any doubt in the
minds of bowl chairmen that they
want Stanford at their bowl and
that Stanford will fill seats like it
did at last year’s Sun Bowl.
This is also an important oppor-
tunity to show support to a football
program that many pundits are say-
ing is bracing to take some serious
hits. Stanford has one of the best
coaches in the nation in Jim Har-
baugh, but many people think it is
just a matter of time before he
leaves the Farm for greener pas-
tures where fans live and die with
their football team. Show Coach
Harbaugh that Stanford can be a
great football school with a pas-
sionate fan base.
Stanford also has the best quar-
terback in the country in Andrew
Luck. He is a redshirt sophomore
eligible for the NFL Draft. Let’s fill
up a bowl game stadium and show
Luck that he should stay at Stan-
ford one more year and get his de-
Please see BOHM, page 16
Redshirt sophomore quarterback Andrew Luck shredded Cal’s defense in last Saturday’s Big Game, both through the air and on the ground. Luck’s sig-
nature play of the game was a 58-yard run in the first half, for which he gained instant YouTube fame by simply running over Cal safety Sean Cattouse.
By KABIR SAWHNEY
MANAGING EDITOR
The Axe is coming back to Stanford.
The No. 6 Cardinal football team won Stan-
ford’s annual rivalry game handily,defeating Cal-
ifornia by a final score of 48-14. Stanford (10-1, 7-
1 Pac-10) scored 31 points in the first half to zero
for the Golden Bears (5-6, 3-5), playing a strong
game on both sides of the ball throughout.
Tension between the two teams bubbled to
the surface early in the game, as both benches
emptied during the coin toss and faced each
other down at the center of the field.The players
exchanged taunts and provocations, and both
teams were flagged with personal foul penalties.
Stanford sophomore wideout Jamal-Rashad Pat-
terson was ejected after aiming a blow at Cal de-
fensive back C.J. Moncrease, who provoked Pat-
terson by spitting at him.
“It’s a rivalry game,” said senior cornerback
Richard Sherman.“Tempers flare.They were try-
ing to show their enthusiasm, and we were trying
to show our enthusiasm. Even before that, in
warm-ups, it kind of escalated early on.”
Stanford set the tone early in the game, on
Cal’s first drive. On the third play of the game,
Cal quarterback Brock Mansion fumbled the
ball, and it was pounced on by redshirt junior de-
fensive end Matt Masifilo to give Stanford its first
possession of the game deep inside Cal territory.
When asked whether it mattered that his team
turned the ball over on its first drive, Cal head
coach Jeff Tedford said, “Absolutely. No ques-
tion. You don’t fumble a snap and give them the
ball down in the red zone to start the game.There
were a lot of plays to be made, but we didn’t play
well enough to win.”
However, Stanford was unable to fully capi-
talize on its early opportunity. Indeed, the Card
failed to gain any offensive yardage on its first
drive — it gained 15 yards on a pass interference
penalty. A field goal from senior kicker Nate
Whitaker gave Stanford its first points of the day.
On its next drive, the Golden Bears appeared
ready to match Stanford and recover from their
early miscue.After a kickoff return to the Cal 34-
yard line, Mansion and running back Shane
Vereen led the Golden Bears deep into Stanford
territory. However, Mansion lofted up a pass into
the Cardinal red zone that was easily picked off
by Sherman at the Cardinal’s own five-yard line.
“Turnovers cost us down in the red zone — us
getting in the red zone and turning the ball over
— and then turning the ball over in their end
zone to give them a short field,”Tedford said.
After the Sherman interception, Stanford
redshirt sophomore quarterback Andrew Luck
marched his offense down the field, scoring its
first touchdown of the game on a short run from
sophomore running back Stepfan Taylor. The
biggest play of the drive was a scramble that Luck
turned into a 58-yard gain down the left sideline,
dodging and battering through several Cal de-
fenders before finally running out-of-bounds all
the way down at the Cal 21-yard line.The run in-
cluded a memorable stiff-arm on Cal defensive
back Sean Cattouse.
“It was just a lesson for me,” Cattouse said.
“At the last second, I got caught between making
that big hit and wrapping him up.”
Stanford proceeded to score touchdowns on
its next five drives, more or less imposing its will
on Cal’s porous defense.The Cardinal employed
a highly balanced attack, mixing its signature
power running game with throws from Luck at
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short and long range. Its 467 total offensive yards
were almost perfectly split — 235 passing yards
and 232 rushing yards. The performance was es-
pecially notable because it followed a weak
showing last weekend against Arizona State,
where the Card could only muster 17 points.
“They knew what they had to do,” redshirt
sophomore linebacker Chase Thomas said about
his team’s offense. “They made a lot of adjust-
ments early and they weren’t stopped after that.”
Stanford’s defense also played well, forcing
three turnovers and playing opportunistically.
The Cardinal held the Bears to 6-of-14 third
down conversions and forced one turnover on
downs, limiting the offense to 299 yards overall.
Mansion, who started the season as Cal’s backup
quarterback, had a rough day under center, going
19-37 for 173 passing yards, including two inter-
ceptions and one touchdown pass.
“We put a lot of pressure on [Mansion],”
Thomas said.“He doesn’t have that much experi-
ence — I think he was exposed in the game. He
had a couple interceptions; he fumbled a snap; he
seemed pretty rattled. I think that helped us out.”
Comparatively, Luck had a very strong game
to lead the Stanford offense, going 16-20 for 235
yards and two touchdowns,with no interceptions.
Luck was also first on the team in rushing with
three carries for 72 yards.
After the game,Stanford head coach Jim Har-
baugh called Luck the “best college football play-
er in the country,” and his teammates had similar
words of praise.
“He’s the greatest player I’ve ever seen,”Tay-
lor said. “He makes it a lot easier — it’s hard to
play defense out there against him; he can run
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tanford football is 11-1 and
ranked No. 4 in the BCS
standings.
I know you’ve probably heard this
by now, even if you haven’t read a sin-
gle sports story,ESPN headline,Face-
book status or tweet, but you can’t
possibly say, read or hear it enough to
fully grasp the enormity of that state-
ment. So I’ll say it again.
Stanford football is 11-1 and
ranked No. 4 in the BCS standings.
Just four years ago tomorrow, the
Cardinal wrapped up a 1-11 campaign
that saw more third-down punts than
home victories for a team opening a
newly renovated stadium. Thoughts
of becoming a national power were
nowhere to be found — the immedi-
ate thoughts were how to become a
respectable program again. The first
step toward that goal was the hiring of
head coach Jim Harbaugh, and the
rest, as they say, is history.
And it really is history that we’re
experiencing right now. As in Toby
Gerhart coming within a few clueless
SEC homer votes of a Heisman Tro-
phy, and Andrew Luck likely follow-
ing that up with a similar trip to
Times Square for this year’s ceremo-
ny. As in Luck setting Stanford’s sin-
gle-season passing touchdowns
record with 28 TDs to 10 different re-
ceivers with another game still to
play. As in the Cardinal replacing
Gerhart with a committee that has
totaled over 2,500 yards and 32
touchdowns, led by Stepfan Taylor’s
1,000-yard, 15-touchdown season.As
in Stanford’s first ever 11-win season
and highest-ever BCS ranking.
The “Worst to First” mantra of last
year’s Stanford men’s volleyball
team could certainly be applied to
this year’s football team, if not for un-
defeated Oregon standing in the Car-
dinal’s way. However, the achieve-
ment of the 2010 Stanford football
team goes far beyond its record and
statistics.
For the first time in recent memo-
ry, Stanford football is a big name
around the country. Media members
from even the most biased corners of
the country have been forced to ac-
knowledge the quality of the Cardi-
nal, and few teams have been as high-
ly touted by pundits as Stanford.
More than that, though, Stanford
football is finally making waves at a
more important location — Stan-
ford. The days of 85,000-person sell-
outs are long gone from Stanford Sta-
dium, but this year, the campus start-
ed to come around to the fact that it
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BACK ON TOP OF THE PAC-10

By CAROLINE CASELLI and
KATHERINE KNOX
After a whirlwind week filled with a
devastating Big Spike loss to No. 2 Cali-
fornia in Berkeley, followed by back-to-
back sweeps of the Arizona schools at
Maples Pavilion, the No. 4 Stanford
women’s volleyball team managed to
come out on top, earning its fifth consec-
utive Pac-10 title and the No. 3 overall
seed in the NCAA Tournament.
On Nov. 19, Stanford (24-3, 15-3 Pac-
10) headed to Berkeley (25-3, 15-3 Pac-
10) hoping to avenge a loss to the Gold-
en Bears earlier this season. The stakes
were especially high — both squads en-
tered the match with identical 13-2 con-
ference records, and with only two
matches remaining afterward against
unranked Arizona State and No. 20 Ari-
zona.The winner of the Big Spike would
seemingly emerge as the 2010 Pac-10
champion.
Playing in front of a crowd of more
than 4,300, the Card came up short, nar-
rowly winning the first set, 28-26, but
falling to Cal in the following three, 25-
17, 25-17, 25-20. Stanford outhit Berke-
ley .450 to .349 in the first set, but hit no
better than .190 in the remaining three
while Cal’s offense heated up. Defen-
sively, Cal had 13 blocks to Stanford’s
five.
“Cal is a great team, and they played
their best game against us,” said senior
setter/opposite Cassidy Lichtman. “We
did not start strong in any of the sets and
we struggled a lot defensively.”
Lichtman registered 12 kills,24 assists
and 10 digs to earn her third triple-dou-
ble of the season, and senior outside hit-
ter Alix Klineman had 24 kills and 11
digs for her 12th double-double of the
year.
For Cal, senior setter Carli Lloyd
posted 56 assists, 13 digs and four blocks.
Junior outside hitter Tarah Murrey
matched Klineman’s 24 kills, and fresh-
man outside hitter Adrienne Gehan and
sophomore opposite Correy Johnson
tallied 12 kills apiece.
With little time to recover, Stanford
closed the Pac-10 schedule in six sets
with back-to-back sweeps over No. 20
Arizona (20-11, 9-9) and Arizona State
(13-18, 7-11) over Thanksgiving break.
The Card finished off the Wildcats in
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily straight sets Wednesday night,despite 30
Sophomore middle blocker Jessica Walker (No. 7) goes up for a spike against Arizona. A sweep of both Ari- combined kills from Arizona outside hit-
zona and Arizona State over the weekend secured Stanford’s fifth consecutive Pac-10 championship. ters Courtney Karst and Tiffany Owens.
Stanford hit .384 on the night — led by
Spelman, who put down 10 kills —
against Arizona’s .284 hitting percent-
age.
Each of Stanford’s six starting hitters
contributed six or more kills,a testament
to the ability of the Cardinal setters —
both Lichtman and sophomore Karissa
Cook — to utilize the entire offense,
which created defensive difficulties for
Arizona.
Both teams posted high digging aver-
ages, but Cardinal senior libero Gabi
Ailes led the match,adding 15 digs to her
already record-breaking career total.At
the end of the weekend, Ailes had
reached 2,086 career digs, dwarfing the
Stanford program’s previous career
record of 1,597.
However, it was the nine blocks post-
ed by Stanford that gave the team the
defensive advantage over the Wildcats.
Freshman middle blocker Carly Wopat
contributed four blocks, while Arizona
totaled three blocks overall. Wopat re-
mains Stanford’s leading blocker for the
season.
The Wildcats’ statistics were strong
considering Stanford’s evident offensive
advantage throughout the match. Ari-
zona State — which had just come off a
major upset at Cal two nights before —
was less successful on both offense and
defense in Maples on Friday night.
The Card, whose conference title
hopes were revived in light of Cal’s loss,
came out fired up for Friday’s match, as
a win would ensure a share of the Pac-10
crown.
“We know that anything can happen
in the Pac-10 in any given match so we
went into the match with the mindset
that the championship was not going to
be decided until the last match was
played,” Lichtman said.“Actually seeing
the results when Cal lost, though, was
awesome.We were pretty excited to play
on Friday.”
The match marked the last home
conference match for Stanford’s seniors:
Klineman, Lichtman and Ailes. The
three All-Americans have been impera-
tive to Stanford’s success this season,
leading the Card in kills, assists and digs,
respectively. Their senior night was one
to be remembered, as Stanford held the
Sun Devils to a .174 hitting percentage,
while Klineman, Lichtman and redshirt
sophomore middle blocker Jessica
Walker all hit over .500 on the night.
With the victory over Arizona State,
the Card clinched a share of the Pac-10
title, the fourth conference champi-
onship for this year’s senior class.
“Winning the Pac-10 once is an
achievement. Winning it every year is
unbelievable,” Lichtman said. “Each
year it feels like it comes down to the last
match because there are so many good
teams. It says so much about the consis-
tency of our program that we’ve been
able to come out on top every time.”
With the Pac-10 season complete,
Stanford will appear in its 30th straight
NCAA Tournament as the No. 3 overall
seed, and the top seed in the Dayton
Region. The Card will host the first two
rounds of the tournament, with its first
match on Friday against Albany (22-8).
Albany, which was riding a seven-
match win streak until losing its final
match of the season, claimed the Amer-
ica East Conference title on Nov. 20, its
fifth title in the last seven years. The
Great Danes are led by senior outside
hitter Teresa Coppiellie, the 2010
America East player of the year, and
junior defensive specialist Laurie Gon-
zalez. Coppiellie recorded 13 double-
doubles this season and led the confer-
ence with 4.17 kills per set, while Gon-
zalez led the conference in digs (5.13 per
set).
On Saturday, the winner of the Stan-
ford-Albany match will play the winner
of the other first-round matchup at
Maples on Friday between Colorado
State (25-4) and Cal State Fullerton (26-
5). Should Stanford emerge victorious
from the first two rounds, the Card
would travel to Dayton, Ohio for the
Dayton Regional on Dec. 10 and 11,
where it could face Pac-10 foe USC (25-
4), the tournament’s sixth overall seed,
and second-highest in the region.
“We are really excited for the post-
season to start,” Lichtman said. “It’s al-
most like having a blank slate and I think
it helps renew our focus. Mentally, it’s
somewhat refreshing to know that we
have new teams to play and we feel like
we have a good path set up for us. Physi-
cally I think we’re all just desperately
trying to stay healthy enough and to im-
prove a little bit in our last few prac-
tices.”
Stanford will face Albany on Friday
at 7 p.m. in Maples Pavilion.
Contact Caroline Caselli at carolinecasel-
li@stanford.edu and Katherine Knox at
kknox12@stanford.edu.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Card sweeps South Carolina, Texas

By JACK BLANCHAT
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Turkey, chicken and beef. All three
were part of a good Thanksgiving week-
end for the No. 3 Stanford women’s bas-
ketball team. The Cardinal polished off
South Carolina 70-32 on Friday night,
then topped Texas 93-78 on Sunday after-
noon, stretching the team’s record to a
perfect 5-0.
In Friday’s contest with the Game-
cocks (2-4), the Cardinal revved up early
and dominated the entire game.The Car-
dinal stormed out to a 35-11 lead by half-
time and cruised in the second half to the
38-point victory, the largest margin of
victory for the Cardinal so far this season.
Senior guard Jeanette Pohlen led the
way against South Carolina, with 14
points on four three-pointers. All five
Cardinal starters finished with at least
nine points; senior forward Kayla Peder-
sen finished with 11 points, forwards
Nnemkadi Ogwumike and Joslyn Tinkle
each had 10 points and freshman Chiney
Ogwumike chipped in nine.
When all was said and done, the Car-
dinal had captured its first truly domi-
nant victory of the year. In the two games
prior to Stanford’s romp of the Game-
cocks, the Card had squeaked out a nine-
point victory over Utah and a six-point
victory over Gonzaga.
Both of the uncharacteristically close
games fell on Stanford’s first road trip of
the season, and the Cardinal came back
to Maples looking to play a dominant
game — a game that had eluded the
team until Friday.
“We’re still trying to find our identi-
ty,” Pohlen said. “We have a lot of really
athletic players who can contribute of-
fensively and defensively.We’re trying to
put it all together.”
The Cardinal’s huge margin of victory
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DROPPING THE BALL IN ANAHEIM

ZACK HOBERG/Staff Photographer
Stanford failed to eke out a win over No. 2 USC in Sunday’s
MPSF final, despite a strong effort from junior Ryan Kent,
above, the Card is unlikely to receive a bid to NCAAs.
By CAROLINE CASELLI uniformed player into the lineup,with 12

DESK EDITOR
After dazzling the crowd on the Farm
with three blowout wins to open the sea-
CLOSE, BUT
players putting up points for the Card.
Junior guard Jeremy Green led the team
with 21 points on 6-of-13 shooting. Red-
shirt junior forward Josh Owens had 14
points and nine rebounds, and freshman

son, the Stanford men’s basketball team
headed south for the Thanksgiving
weekend, winning one game and drop-
ping two at the 76 Classic in Anaheim,
Calif.With an overtime victory over De-
Paul on Sunday, the Card ended a two-
game slump and improved to 4-2 over-
all.
On Nov. 19, before hitting the road,
Stanford faced visiting Southwestern
Athletic Conference (SWAC) opponent
Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Maples Pavilion.
Impressive three-point shooting — par-
ticularly from senior guard Allen Smith
— enabled Arkansas-Pine Bluff (0-6) to
hang with Stanford throughout the first
half, but foul trouble and the Card’s size
plagued the Golden Lions in the second
half. After a mere seven-point halftime
lead, Stanford pulled away, winning the
game 92-49.
“I think it was a really good game for
us to play,” said Stanford head coach
Johnny Dawkins. “From the standpoint
that we were able to have a lot of guys
come into the game and compete, and
that we were able to get better from this
experience.”
Early on, Smith was the Golden
Lions’ offense, hitting six three-pointers
— three of which came on consecutive
shot attempts — in the first half alone,
accounting for 18 of the team’s 28 points.
Smith finished with a game-high 23
points, despite being held to just five in
the second half.
“We lost him too many times . . . so
we decided to stay home on him the en-
tire second half and try to make it more
difficult for him to find open looks,”
Dawkins said of the defensive adjust-
ments in the second half.“Our guys did a
JONATHAN POTO/The Stanford Daily good job being very disciplined in doing
Junior guard Jeremy Green led Stanford in scoring at the 76 Classic. After Stanford’s final that.”
game on Sunday, Green collapsed on the court, but his condition was not serious. Dawkins managed to work every
forward Dwight Powell added 12 points.
“It’s always exciting to get out there
— it definitely felt good,” said Powell
after the game.“It has been a good week,
but moving forward we have a lot of
stuff — both as a team and me individu-
ally — to get ready for.”
After a dominant start on the home
front, Stanford readied itself for its first
road trip of the season to the 76 Classic
in Anaheim.
On Thanksgiving Day, the Cardinal
opened tournament play against Mur-
ray State (3-3), the defending Ohio Val-
ley Conference champion, at the Ana-
heim Convention Center. Stanford
trailed the Racers by 14 points in the first
half, but made a late comeback attempt,
only to fall short, losing the game 55-52.
Powell posted a career-best 16 points
in the loss — including 12 of the Card’s
18 first half points — and shot 7-of-10.
Green remained scoreless until the
game’s final minute, when he downed
three shots from behind the arc. Owens,
who fouled out with 5:28 left to play,con-
tributed 10 points and five rebounds.
Murray State senior guard B.J. Jenk-
ins had 15 points, including two free
throws in the game’s last 30 seconds that
helped the Racers withstand the Card’s
late game surge.
One day later, Stanford fell to Tulsa
(4-2),which only lost once in the 76 Clas-
sic, during the first round to eventual
tournament winner Nevada. The Gold-
en Hurricane took control of the game
midway through the first half, and main-
tained a comfortable double-digit lead
for the duration of the evening, beating
the Card 65-53.
Stanford’s shooting was a tepid 25.9
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NOT QUITE
Men’s water polo falls in triple OT to USC in
MPSF Tournament final; season likely over
By DASH DAVIDSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
In what can only be described as a fantastic game,the USC
men’s water polo team earned a trip to the NCAA Tourna-
ment by defeating Stanford, 8-7, in overtime on Sunday.
Stanford head coach John Vargas, reacting to the loss after
the game, had nothing but praise for how his team played.
“The guys fought hard; they did a good job. I’m proud of
the guys,”Vargas said.
What’s frustrating for Vargas and his team is the prospect
of what could have been.
In all likelihood this was the final game of the season for
the Stanford men’s water polo team. There is only one at-
large entry to the NCAA Tournament, and it almost certain-
ly will go to No. 1 California. If Stanford had been able to net
a goal before the Trojans in the sudden death period, as it
came ever so close to on a breakaway by senior captain Sage
Wright, or if it had been able to hold off USC’s assault at the
end of regulation, the Cardinal would right now be preparing
to head to Berkeley with a chance to play for the NCAA title.
However, Stanford came up just a little bit short in its at-
tempt to pull off an upset of a weekend.On Friday,the fourth-
seeded Cardinal came from behind to defeat fifth-seeded
UC-Irvine by a score of 8-7, courtesy of a clutch goal late in
the fourth quarter by senior utility Jeffrey Schwimer.
On Saturday, in its fourth matchup of the year against top-
ranked and top-seeded Cal, Stanford pulled off a rousing
upset, knocking off its rival and propelling itself to its first
MPSF final since 2004.
“It’s a great feeling,”Vargas said after the Cal match.“The
guys worked hard and they did an outstanding job — all the
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Stanford’s Bowl Scenarios

Orange or Fiesta Bowl most likely
By WYNDAM MAKOWSKY
MANAGING EDITOR
Another week of college football
is in the books, and the new, penulti-
mate BCS standings of the regular
season have been released. The
news: wonderful for Stanford.
The Cardinal sits at No. 4; that
slot ensures that Stanford will re-
ceive a guaranteed bid to a BCS
bowl game. (See provision six
under “Automatic Qualification.”)
Of course, this positioning has to hold, and there is
still one weekend of football left to be played.However,
we can state with complete confidence that it is
virtually impossible for Stanford to be
leapt in the BCS rankings next weekend.
The Cardinal expanded its lead
over No. 5 Wisconsin this weekend,
going from a .0075 margin to a .0228
difference. That’s wide enough to be
considered “comfortable.” Addition-
ally, Stanford’s computer average
ranking was fourth; Wisconsin’s was
MICHAEL LIU/The Stanford Daily seventh and No. 6 Ohio State’s was
ninth. With all three schools having
With its victory in the Big Game, Stanford reclaimed the coveted Axe trophy from Cal. The Axe Committee, the Band, completed their regular seasons, there is no reason for
Stanford students and fans joined the football team on the field after the game to celebrate. The win was also only the there to be much movement in any direction.Although,
second time Stanford has claimed the Axe since the 2002 season; the Card’s other win in that span came in 2007. theoretically, anything can happen-all of the voters in
the Coaches’ and Harris Polls can embed various
cocktails of narcotics before casting their bal-
beats South Carolina; and West Virginia wins
the Big East
6.Oregon State beats Oregon;South
Carolina beats Auburn; and West
Virginia, Connecticut OR Pitts-
burgh wins the Big East
Let’s examine the options
under each of the six:
1. Oregon beats Oregon State;
Auburn beats South Carolina;and
Connecticut OR Pittsburgh wins
the Big East
Possible Bowl Games: Fiesta, Orange, Sugar.
Likely Bowl Game: Orange.
If Oregon and Auburn both win, that locks in
the title game and, by extension, the Rose
Bowl, as TCU would be automatically
selected for the open spot usually re-
served for the Pac-10 team. This
takes two bowls off the table. How-
ever, there is an obscure provision
that could get Stanford into the
Rose Bowl. Jon Wilner explains:
“Now, there is a little-
known rule buried deep within the
BCS manual that gives the confer-
ence commissioners the authority to overrule
any bowl selection based on what’s essentially a ‘good of
the game’ clause.
“I’m not sure the honchos have ever gone
down that path and seriously doubt they would this

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Continued from page 12
and pass. We all see him week in and
week out; he’s a great quarterback.”
The win was also significant for
Stanford, as it broke a recent string of
futility in Big Game matchups. Cal
had won the last three Big Games and
seven of the last eight, and there’s no
doubt the rivalry added an extra di-
mension to the game for both teams.
“We knew there was going to be a
lot of emotion in this game,” Luck
said. “Obviously, you’re not going to
be able to pull out all of those emo-
tions . . . it was a little tough not try-
ing to get involved in everything, but
we knew we just had to play foot-
ball.”
Last year’s close Big Game also
played into Luck’s motivation. Stan-
ford had opportunities to win that
game, but eventually fell, 34-28, after
a Luck interception late in the game.
“I definitely had some motivation
coming off of last year’s disappoint-
ment,” Luck said. “But, that being
said, it was a new year and you can’t
really dwell on the past too much.”
Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawh-
ney@stanford.edu.
lots, or something like that-it is almost accepted
fact that Stanford will maintain its No.4 ranking in
next week’s final BCS rankings.
It boils down to this: Stanford will be
playing in one of the five BCS bowls. But
which one? If you want the short version:
start packing for either Glendale (Fiesta
Bowl) or Miami (Orange Bowl), because
those are the most likely options.Here are the
scenarios:
1. Oregon beats Oregon State; Auburn beats South
Carolina; and Connecticut OR Pittsburgh wins the Big
East
2. Oregon beats Oregon State;Auburn beats
year to get Stanford into the Rose and send TCU to
another BCS game.”
As he says: not much of a possibility.
It makes sense on two levels-Pac-10 tradition
and Stanford’s large southern California
alumni base-but it would be such a drastic
and unprecedented move that it appears
quite unlikely.The potential use of the “good
of the game” clause comes into play in sce-
narios one, two, four and five, but this is the lone time
we’re going to mention it.
So: Rose Bowl and the title game are out. That
leaves the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar Bowls. The
order of selection for the bowls this year is:

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wasn’t due to massive scoring from
the offense, but instead a stingy de-
fense that held South Carolina to a
meager 21.8 percent shooting from
the floor, including a stretch of al-
most 10 minutes during which the
Gamecocks failed to score a single
point.
Stanford brought that power
into Sunday’s game against the
Longhorns, but Texas gave the Card
all it had before fading down the
stretch.
The game started in an unusually
auspicious fashion for the Cardinal
when the Texas coaching staff failed to
turn in the starting lineups before
tipoff,leading to a technical foul on the
Horns.The technical sent Pedersen to
the free-throw line, where she drained
both shots to give Stanford a 2-0 lead
before the game had even started.
When the game got underway,
Texas came out firing, draining
three consecutive three-pointers
while jumping out to a 9-6 lead just
four minutes into the game. Stan-
ford responded with a 28-9 run over
the next 11 minutes to grab a 34-18
lead after freshman guard Toni Ko-
kenis knocked down a three follow-
ing a Pedersen steal.
Stanford stretched the lead to as
high as 18 points in the first half
thanks to huge contributions off the
bench from Kokenis, who had seven
points in the first period of play, and
junior forward Sarah Boothe, who
added eight points early on.
But even after Boothe made a
jumper to push the lead to 18 with
2:50 to go in the first half, the Long-
horns refused to quit.An aggressive
full-court press from the Horns led
to three Stanford turnovers, while
Texas guards Ashleigh Fontenette
and Chassidy Fussell scored five
points apiece in the last two minutes
and 30 seconds of the half to cut
Stanford’s lead to 49-39 at the
break.
In the second half, the Long-
horns continued their aggressive
play, cutting the Stanford lead to six
points just two minutes into the final
period, and causing both Nnemkadi
Ogwumike and Pedersen to pick up
their third personal fouls with over
17 minutes remaining in the game.
Luckily for the Cardinal, the
cream rose to the top when the team
needed it most.After the Longhorns
got within striking distance, Stan-
ford’s “Big Three” — Pedersen,
Nnemkadi Ogwumike and Pohlen
— put the team on their backs.
In the next 14 minutes of the
game, the “Big Three” scored 28 of
the 38 points that stretched the Stan-
ford lead to 23, allowing the Cardinal
to cruise to the 93-78 final.
When the final buzzer sounded,
Nnemkadi Ogwumike had 22 points,
Pedersen had 19 points (and 12 re-
bounds), and Chiney Ogwumike and
Boothe each had 14 points. Kokenis
and Pohlen had eight points each,
and Pohlen added six assists to lead
the team.
After a tough, physical game in
which four players had three or more
fouls, head coach Tara VanDerveer
praised her team for rising to the oc-
casion, and complimented Kokenis’s
play.
“I think the story for me today
was Toni . . . Her speed and quick-
ness helped her get into the things
that we wanted to do,” VanDerveer
said. “You saw some mistakes be-
tween Toni and Chiney [Ogwumike],
but we need [Toni’s] speed, we need
her quickness and we need her de-
fense.”
VanDerveer even invoked the
name of Stanford’s biggest star in
her commendation of the freshman.
“With Andrew Luck, as great of a
player as he is, he redshirted his
freshman year,” VanDerveer said.
“We’re throwing Toni right in there, South Carolina;and West Virginia wins the Big Sugar, Orange then Fiesta.
and today she had to be out there on East The Sugar Bowl is the traditional
her own and she really stepped up.” 3. Oregon beats Oregon State; South landing spot of the SEC champion, but
VanDerveer also said that her Carolina beats Auburn; and West Vir- since Auburn would be playing in the
ginia, Connecticut OR Pittsburgh wins title game, it would likely fill the spot
team is closer to finding the identity
it has been searching for, and her star the Big East with another team from the conference.
players echoed those sentiments. 4. Oregon State beats Oregon; That would be either Arkansas or LSU.
“After these last two games, I Auburn beats South Carolina; and Con- Since the Sugar Bowl would have lost its
would say that we definitely are clos- necticut OR Pittsburgh wins the Big East
er, but not closer to the end, so to 5.Oregon State beats Oregon;Auburn Please see BOWLS, page 16
speak,” said Nnemkadi Ogwumike.
“We’re focusing on doing the little
things right.”
Boothe noted that the collective
team effort, combined with a sense
of trust among the players, was in-
strumental in the Cardinal hitting its
stride.
“Now we have faith in each other
that whoever’s on the court, we can
get the job done,” she said. “Even if
[the Big Three] just need a break,
you know you have someone on the
bench . . . who can get the job done.”
“Honestly, we have seven
starters,” VanDerveer agreed. “Toni
and Sarah, in my mind, are starters
for us.”
With final exams looming, Stan-
ford won’t play again until Dec. 12,
when the Cardinal will square off
with Fresno State in Maples Pavil-
ion.
VanDerveer, who needs just two
more victories to reach 800 career
wins, was hardly enthused with the
interim between games, but conced-
ed, “I have no choice, so I like [the
break].”
Pedersen, however, had a
brighter outlook on what the upcom-
ing couple of weeks will mean for the
team: another opportunity to im-
prove.
“We’re going to look at those two
weeks of practice and see what ways
can we get better,” she said. “We’re
hungry to practice; we’re hungry to
push each other; we’re hungry to get
better.”
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat
@stanford.edu.

Jack Duane
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Tom Taylor
England’s
World
Cup case
D
espite the continuing suc-
cess story that is Cardinal
football, the world’s biggest
sports story this week has
got to be the unveiling of the
candidates to host two upcoming FIFA
World Cups: England, Belgium/Nether-
lands,Russia and Spain/Portugal in 2018,
and Australia,Japan,Qatar,South Korea
and the United States in 2022.
I could easily write a long column ar-
guing why England and Australia should
get the right to host these tournaments,or
explain why I dread that Spain/Portugal
and Qatar may instead win sufficient
votes, but that would achieve nothing
more than echoing the increasingly bi-
ased and bitter process the whole bidding
procedure has become.
None of the potential victors on Dec.2
will be able to come out of this with their
heads held high knowing they have run a
clean and fair race; at best, they will only
be able to claim that they did nothing
worse than their competitors. Lingering
doubts about an opaque process that has
seemingly encouraged corruption and
collusion will be hard to banish.
So instead I want to ask the question:
What do we really want from a World
Cup?
Last summer’s tournament was paint-
ed as a major milestone for the African
continent, a great opportunity that would
help unite all the people of South Africa
and bring prosperity to everyone:black or
white, rich or poor.Yet two of my lasting
memories of the World Cup are of seeing
reports of street vendors being excluded
from the areas near the stadiums in order
to protect the rights of major sponsors,and
of the fact that the official tournament ball,
the Jabulani, was so expensive that even
middle-class kids in the Western world
would struggle to get their hands on one.
Roll the clock back two years to the
Beijing Olympics and the story is even
Please see TAYLOR, page 17
BOWLS
Continued from page 14
host, it can make that replacement be-
fore the “draft” of the at-large teams,
meaning that it would still have first
choice of who it would take. The logi-
cal choice of the remaining squads
would be Ohio State,which has one of
the largest national fan bases and has
shown it can travel, in droves, any-
where. So, though it remains an op-
tion, the Sugar Bowl does not seem
particularly likely.
That leaves the Fiesta and Orange
Bowl. At this point, we can explain
why the Big East champion matters.
The Big East is, simply, an awful con-
ference, but it has an automatic BCS
berth.That said, it isn’t tied to a specif-
ic game, so for all intents and purpos-
es, the Big East champion is treated
like an at-large team and enters the
“draft.” There are three teams com-
peting for the Big East championship:
Connecticut, West Virginia and Pitts-
burgh. Connecticut controls its des-
tiny:a win at South Florida next week-
end,and it wins the conference and se-
MWPOLO
Continued from page 13
guys on the team. A well-deserved
win, I feel, and so we’re happy to get
to the finals, but our job’s not done.”
The game on Sunday was a roller-
coaster affair, with ups and downs for
both teams.Three times over the final
three periods Stanford found itself
down by a goal; three times it fought
its way back to tie the game — dra-
matically scoring twice in the final 10
seconds of a period.
The match featured several ster-
ling individual performances —
goalie Brain Pingree and driver Sage
Wright for Stanford among them.
It also featured perhaps the rowdi-
est and largest water polo crowd of the
season, as contingents from at least
four different schools — USC, Cal,
UCLA and Stanford — were all in at-
tendance and were all loudly cheering
and jeering. Resounding chants alter-
nately sprouted up surrounding specif-
ic players, such as when USC fans de-
rided Cardinal goalie Brian Pingree
cures its BCS bid. If Connecticut loses
and West Virginia beats Rutgers, the
Mountaineers win the conference.
And if both Connecticut and West
Virginia fall, but Pittsburgh wins at
Cincinnati, the Panthers win the con-
ference. (If all three lose, Connecticut
gets the bid.)
If Connecticut or Pittsburgh wins
the Big East, it will likely be the last
team selected and thus head to the Fi-
esta Bowl.The Panthers would be 7-5,
and the Orange Bowl has been sad-
dled with uninspiring matchups in the
past few years. Connecticut would be
8-4 and almost equally unappealing-
plus, it has a fan base that has yet to
show it can travel.Under this scenario,
we’re projecting that the Orange
Bowl would favor one-loss Stanford
over these two teams.
2. Oregon beats Oregon State;
Auburn beats South Carolina; and
West Virginia wins the Big East
Possible Bowl Games: Fiesta, Or-
ange,Sugar.Likely Bowl Game:Fiesta.
This scenario is largely the same as
the previous one, and what was said
about the title game and Rose and
Sugar Bowls still holds.The difference
comes in the Fiesta and Orange Bowl
and then Stanford fans drowned them
out with an overwhelming chorus of
“Pingree’s house.”
Vargas noticed the crowd, saying,
“It was a great crowd; we love it.”
The loss was perhaps most diffi-
cult for the three seniors on the Car-
dinal squad: Wright, Schwimer and
driver Alex Pulido.
Wright, who Vargas called “very
special” and “incredible,” took the
time to reflect on the final game of his
collegiate water polo career.
“First you feel like, what just hap-
pened? And then, you know, those
close plays flash through your mind.
But then you see your teammates,
and that’s what makes the season and
makes the team and makes the
sport,”Wright said after the loss.
The season very well might be
over for the Stanford men’s water
polo team, but as Wright says, it really
is not all about winning and losing.
Besides, if its season is fated to have
ended late Sunday afternoon at
Avery Aquatic Center, the Cardinal
left it all out in the pool.
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@stan-
ford.edu.
selections. If West Virginia wins the
Big East, it would be an attractive
pick for the Orange Bowl.The Moun-
taineers would be 9-3 and possibly a
top-20 team.They have a large,travel-
ing fan base that is mainly situated on
the East Coast. The combination of
these factors could lead the Orange
Bowl to choose West Virginia over
Stanford, sending the Cardinal to the
Fiesta Bowl.
3. Oregon beats Oregon State; South
Carolina beats Auburn; and West Vir-
ginia, Connecticut OR Pittsburgh
wins the Big East
Possible Bowl Games: Fiesta, Or-
ange, Sugar, Rose. Likely Bowl Game:
Rose.
This is rather simple: if Auburn
loses to South Carolina next week, it
could fall out of the title game, with
TCU taking its spot. If that’s the case,
there would be an open space in the
Rose Bowl that would almost certain-
ly go to the Cardinal, giving the BCS
its best matchup of any of the five
games: Stanford-Wisconsin.
4. Oregon State beats Oregon;
Auburn beats South Carolina; and
Connecticut OR Pittsburgh wins the
BOHM
Continued from page 12
gree. I’m asking you to give us stu-
dents a chance.
I know that Stanford is one of
the best academic schools in the
world, and that canceling classes
for a football game may ruffle
some feathers, and it may even ap-
pear to undermine the academic
drive of the campus. However, col-
lege — as I’m sure you know,
given all of the amazing extracur-
ricular activities offered at Stan-
ford — is about learning both in
and out of the classroom. This is a
special opportunity that students
should be able to enjoy without
worrying about falling behind
back on campus.
There is precedent for cancel-
ing classes for big football games.
Just last year, the University of Al-
abama excused students and fac-
ulty from three days of class in
order to allow them to travel to
and from the BCS National Cham-
The Stanford Daily
Big East ange, Sugar, Rose, BCS title game.
Possible Bowl Games: Fiesta, Or- Likely Bowl Game: ?
ange, Sugar. Likely Bowl Game: Or- Bedlam. If the unthinkable hap-
ange.
Oregon and TCU would swap
places in the Rose Bowl and the title
game (Oregon and Stanford would
pens and both Oregon and Auburn
lose next weekend,everything goes up
in the air,and anyone saying that,right
now,he knows how it would sort out is
share the Pac-10 crown, but Oregon lying. Stanford would still be in a BCS
would get the automatic bid based on bowl, but the Cardinal could wind up
its head-to-head win), but Stanford’s in any of the four named bowls and
situation would be the same as in sce- there’s even the slim chance it could
nario one. be playing for a national title. But try-
ing to predict which one is a fool’s er-
5. Oregon State beats Oregon; rand.
Auburn beats South Carolina; and
West Virginia wins the Big East Contact Wyndam Makowsky at
Possible Bowl Games: Fiesta, Or- makowsky@stanford.edu.
ange,Sugar.Likely Bowl Game:Fiesta.
Oregon and TCU would swap
places in the Rose Bowl and the title
game (Oregon and Stanford would
share the Pac-10 crown, but Oregon
would get the automatic bid based on
its head-to-head win), but Stanford’s
situation would be the same as in sce-
nario two.
6. Oregon State beats Oregon; South
Carolina beats Auburn; and West Vir-
ginia, Connecticut OR Pittsburgh
wins the Big East
Possible Bowl Games: Fiesta, Or-
pionship Game. Yes, there are
complications that come from
canceling class — especially in
Winter Quarter when we already
lose Mondays to Martin Luther
King, Jr., Day and Presidents’ Day
— but I believe this is well worth
it. Also, if I recall correctly, just a
few years ago instruction began in
all quarters on Tuesday and not
Monday.
Unfortunately, none of us can
control whether or not alumni and
local Stanford fans show up for
home games or decide to travel to
bowl games. You, however, do
have the power to make it possible
for students to support their class-
mates on the gridiron. So please,
President Hennessy, throw your
support behind the Stanford foot-
ball team. Come out screaming
that Stanford deserves to be in a
BCS bowl and that Cardinal red
will be seen in the stadium.
Sincerely,
Daniel Bohm
Contact Daniel Bohm at bohmd@stan-
ford.edu.
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WSOCCER
Continued from page 12
off a pass from Kristy Zurmuhlen at
the top of the box.
At that point, the substitutes came
pouring in and the starters — includ-
ing the senior Press — went march-
ing out. Press, the national leader in
goals and the anchor of a top-ranked
offense, couldn’t help but soak in the
moment as she stepped off her home
field for the final time.
“I was nostalgic, sitting there and
watching my team,” she said.“Every-
MBBALL
Continued from page 13
percent in the first half, but improved
to 48.1 percent in the latter half of the
game.The Card’s free throw shooting,
which has been a challenge in the
team’s preliminary games, was a re-
spectable 83.3 percent, improving on
Stanford’s previous best of 66.7 per-
cent from the line.
Green had 18 of his game-best 20
points in the second half, marking the
third time this season that he has
reached the 20-point mark. Owens
tallied 10 points, while Green and
freshman center Stefan Nastic led the
team with six rebounds apiece.
Tulsa’s guards were impressive —
freshman Jordan Clarkson matched
Green’s 20 points and senior Justin
Hurtt added another 19, along with
five rebounds and three assists. Junior
forward Steven Idlet had a game-best
10 rebounds.
FOOTBALL
Continued from front page
not lobbyists, we’re not campaigners.
“We’ve impressed the heck out of
11 teams we played this season,” he
continued. “The voters should be im-
pressed — this is one heck of a foot-
ball team.”
While some coaches publicly
stump for their teams to be included
in bowl games, Harbaugh reiterated
that he has no plans to do something
similar.
“I think we’ve done all the lobby-
ing we can do on the field,” he said.
Unlike Stanford, Oregon State is
still trying to gain bowl eligibility.
The Beavers need just one win to be-
come eligible, but their only remain-
ing game is a rivalry game next
weekend against the country’s No. 1
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one was so excited to be going to the
College Cup. It was a huge crowd and
there was a lot of energy,so yeah,I felt
a little nostalgic watching everyone.”
Marjani Hing-Glover added a
final nail to the coffin in the 86th
minute, clinching Stanford’s trip east
with a 15-yard shot from mid-stride
on the left side of the box.
That sealed the win for Stanford,
who will depart for North Carolina
later this week.The Cardinal is sched-
uled to kick off its third consecutive
College Cup against Boston College
on Friday afternoon.
Stanford played the Eagles on the
road to open the 2010 season, and
ended the match in a 1-1 draw. Rat-
Stanford finished the tournament
on Sunday with an exciting overtime
victory against DePaul (1-4). The
game was evenly matched throughout
regulation — the score reached a tie
11 times — and a jump shot from Je-
remy Green evened the score at 67-67
to send the teams to overtime.DePaul
narrowed Stanford’s lead to one at 71-
70, but the Card outscored the Blue
Demons 14-7 in overtime for a final
score of 81-74.
Once again, Green was the team
leader in scoring, with 19 points on 8-
16 shooting. Freshman wing Anthony
Brown scored 14 points off the bench,
and Powell had 13 points, going 9-9
from the free-throw line, as well as 10
boards and five assists.
The Cardinal experienced a scare
when Green collapsed as he was leav-
ing the court post-game, suffering
from dizziness and difficulty breath-
ing. After being treated on the scene
by paramedics, Green was taken to a
local hospital, where he was deter-
mined to be in stable condition. The
collapse was attributed to exhaustion,
team: Oregon.
“Our only deal left for this team is
to do everything we can to prepare
for that game next week and win it,”
said Oregon State head coach Mike
Riley.
Luck also garnered a lot of
postgame praise, both for his per-
formance against the Beavers and
throughout the season. With his per-
formance, Luck is over 3,000 passing
yards for the season, only the fourth
Stanford quarterback to reach that
mark in a single season. His four
touchdown passes also give him 28
for the season, a total which breaks
the mark held by John Elway and
Steve Stenstrom for the most by a
Stanford quarterback in history.
Luck is also currently in the run-
ning for the Heisman Trophy, pre-
sented to the country’s top college
football player, and Harbaugh
gushed with praise after the game.
“He’s the best player, he’s the
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cliffe hopes that his team’s recent
trips to the College Cup will provide
an edge when they meet again.
“I think this team has gained expe-
rience from going to the Final Four a
couple of times,” Ratcliffe said. “So I
hope that experience is invaluable.
We’ll go out there with confidence
and try to finish the job.”
The Cardinal will face Boston Col-
lege at either 1 or 3:30 p.m. PST on
Friday, and the winner of that match
will play either Notre Dame or Ohio
State in the national championship
game at 9 a.m. PST on Sunday.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@stan-
ford.edu.
as Green was reportedly battling sick-
ness all week.He returned to the Farm
with the team on Sunday.
Stanford will have a 13-day break
from games until facing UC-River-
side on Dec. 12 at home. The High-
landers (2-4) have lost two straight
games, including a three-point defeat
in its most recent game against San
Jose State. Riverside is led by junior
guard Phil Martin, who had 27 points,
eight rebounds and four blocks in the
loss.
The Cardinal will have one more
home game on Dec. 15 against North
Carolina A&T before a two-game
road trip against Butler and Okla-
homa State. Stanford’s final game in
2010 comes against Yale on Dec. 28,
followed by its first Pac-10 contest on
Jan. 2 against cross-Bay rival Califor-
nia, both in Maples.
Tipoff for the Card’s game against
Riverside will be at 7 p.m. on Sunday,
Dec. 12 in Maples Pavilion.
Contact Caroline Caselli at caro-
linecaselli@stanford.edu.
most valuable player, on maybe the
best team in the country,” Harbaugh
said. “He has done everything a guy
could do in this season that plays the
quarterback position . . . I really feel
like Andrew is head and shoulders
above them all.
“[He has] the quality of playing
great when the game is on the line,”
Harbaugh added later. “That quality
separates the great ones from the
very good ones. He’s got it. It’s an ‘it’
thing, maybe, but he’s got it.”
However, Luck himself wasn’t
quite as effusive when discussing his
candidacy.
“I don’t really have an opinion on
what my chances are,” he said. “My
whole philosophy toward it has been:
If I’m good enough to win it,I’ll win it;
if I’m not, I’m not. I’ll just let my play
do the talking.”
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has a football team, and a good one
at that. Sure, the football fans always
cared, and sure, the attendance still
leaves a lot to be desired. But the
buzz around campus, from football
fans and the sports-illiterate alike,
has grown exponentially. People all
over campus are projecting Stan-
ford’s bowl position and waiting on
tenterhooks to update their Face-
book statuses at the exact moment
when Stanford’s BCS ranking is an-
nounced.
The Stanford football fever has
been spreading all season long, and
it’s infecting people who seemed im-
mune to its effects for years. A cynic
might call this fair-weather fandom,
but I see it as a larger group to share
this magical season with. And look-
ing back (and ahead) at this season,
it’s hard not to get caught up in the
emotion of watching this team suc-
ceed.
It takes so much to contend na-
tionally, from recruiting to strategies
to training to health to hard work to
good fortune to spectacular plays.
Looking at a team’s season like this,
it just brings into sharper focus how
incredible the achievements of Stan-
ford’s other teams have been over
the years.
Other sports sometimes take a
back seat to football in the press, and
that’s the unfortunate reality of the
world of sports. Particularly in a year
like this, when Stanford football has
ascended to unknown heights, it’s
not surprising that other consistent-
ly great Cardinal teams haven’t
quite received their due.
But forgetting about the rest of
Stanford sports would be forgetting
about some of the most impressive
accomplishments you will ever see.
Take women’s soccer, for example.
A second consecutive undefeated
regular season has already been fol-
lowed up by a third straight appear-
ance in the College Cup for the Car-
dinal women. Consider how many
teams in any sport around the coun-
try would trade anything to be one
of the four best teams in the nation,
and these ladies have done it three
years running. Just two wins sepa-
rate Stanford from its first national
title, something only seven different
Division I programs have won.
Stanford women’s volleyball re-
cently claimed a share of its fifth
consecutive Pac-10 title and will
head to the NCAA Tournament for
the 30th straight season, marks that
would be unheard of in almost any
other conference in any other sport.
The Cardinal will be the No. 3 over-
all seed and will look to make the
Final Four for the 19th time in 29
years and seventh time this decade
when it opens tournament play this
weekend.
Women’s basketball has just
begun its 2010-11 season, but the
pieces are already in place for an-
other run to the Final Four. Stanford
has won 10 consecutive Pac-10 titles
and has made the past three Final
Fours, and this year looks poised to
go at least as far.
The list goes on and on. Despite
the enormous pressure of contend-
ing nationally year after year, Stan-
ford has made an annual habit of
ranking among the nation’s best in
several sports.
We’ve been lucky to witness the
revival of Stanford football, and we
can only dream that it will one day
match the long-term success of
these other fantastic programs. For
now, though, let’s just sit back and
revel in the amazing sporting feats
happening right here on the Farm.
Jacob Jaffe just wants to be mentioned
in a footnote by some fancy sports his-
tory writer 20 years from now. Make
sure you spell his name right when
you ask for permission at
jwjaffe@stanford.edu.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 ! 17
CROSS COUNTRY
Falling behind
at nationals
By ZACH ZIMMERMAN
DESK EDITOR
The Stanford men’s and women’s
cross country teams fell short in their
quests to win Stanford’s 100th team
title after respective subpar perform-
ances at the NCAA Championships
for the second consecutive year. The
men’s team finished in fourth place,
while the women could only muster a
13th-place finish.
Liberty’s Sam Chelanga ran his
trademark-style race,and blazed out to
a strong lead to win the men’s individ-
ual title for the second straight year
with a time of 29:22.2. Arizona’s
Stephen Sambu, the eventual runner-
up, followed him closely for the major-
ity of the race,finishing just behind one
of the best collegiate distance runners
in recent memory in 29:26.5. While
Chelanga and Sambu had gold and sil-
ver wrapped up long before the race
was over, the real chess match took
place behind the top two,as the nation-
al powerhouses engaged in a strategic
battle for the team title.
The No. 1 Cardinal men, who had
been dominant in every race leading
up to the Nov. 22 meet in Terre Haute,
Ind.,elected once again to group its top
runners — juniors Chris Derrick and
Jake Riley and senior Elliott Heath —
together in hopes of securing three
spots in the top 10. Plagued by injuries
to veteran junior runners Brendan
Gregg and Benjamin Johnson, Stan-
ford would need its stars to run at their
absolute best.
Derrick and Riley came through,
finishing fifth and sixth with times of
29:44.7 and 29:45.0, respectively. Un-
fortunately, Heath struggled in the
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worse. One of the justifications for giv-
ing China the 2008 Games was that it
would act as a major incentive to im-
prove its human-rights record,and Chi-
nese authorities even pledged that this
would be the case.In reality,the tourna-
ment became the complete opposite,
and abuses were committed in the very
name of the Olympics: forcibly ejecting
people from their homes to make way
for sporting facilities; detaining large
numbers of dissidents in the lead up to
the games; and generally doing any-
thing to create an idealized image of the
country in the restrictive tourist bubble
around the event.
FIFA continues with its inspiring
rhetoric and grand visions of changing
the world when talking about the World
Cup,and the bidding nations never fail to
echo this in their sycophantic efforts to
please,but should we really believe that a
simple sporting event has such power?
The 1936 Berlin Olympics didn’t exactly
do much for world peace.
One of the major criticisms leveled at
the 2018 English bid has been the actions
of the British press.In recent months,The
SundayTimes published an investigation
of corruption that led to the suspension
of several high-ranking FIFA members
— including two from the Executive
Committee — and just days before the
actual vote,a BBC Panorama documen-
tary on corruption within the governing
body was due to air.
In response, commentators from
other countries have remarked that this
would never be allowed in their home-
lands, and some political pressure has
even been put on these media outlets
from within the UK.
How can we really place our faith in
the World Cup when freedom — in this
final cross country race of his collegiate
career,as he fell behind his teammates’
pace and finished with a disappointing
time of 30:35.5, good enough for 42nd.
Senior J.T. Sullivan and freshman
Erik Olson rounded out the top five
for Stanford, finishing in 100th and
132nd, respectively.
Oklahoma State repeated as na-
tional champions, followed by Florida
State,Wisconsin and Stanford.
The Cardinal women fared even
worse at the top, with sophomore
Kathy Kroeger, the team’s No. 1 run-
ner in every race this season, unable to
complete the 8,000-meter course due
to injury. Stanford turned to redshirt
junior Steph Marcy for a much-needed
boost, but her team-best finish of 55th
was not enough to vault the Cardinal
into the top 10.
Sophomore Alex Dunne and fresh-
man Jessica Tonn finished in 85th and
96th, respectively, earning valuable ex-
perience at nationals while boosting
the Cardinal with top-100 finishes. Ju-
nior Georgia Griffin and senior Alex
Gits completed the scoring for Stan-
ford, who ended the season in near-
tragic fashion after capturing the Pac-
10 title just weeks earlier.
The Villanova women joined the
Oklahoma State men as repeat nation-
al champions, earning the top team
spot ahead of Florida State,Texas Tech
and Georgetown.
With the cross country season com-
plete, Stanford’s distance runners will
turn their focus to the indoor track and
field season, which is scheduled to
begin just after winter break.
Contact Zach Zimmerman at zachz@
stanford.edu.
case freedom of the press — is seen as
such a threat to it?
Perhaps instead of trying to actively
use the World Cup to make the world a
better place,we should be using it simply
to celebrate positive changes that have al-
ready taken place.
On this basis the tournament in South
Africa comes out in a completely differ-
ent light.The country may have failed to
live up to the promises of its transition to
democracy and in many ways is still just as
divided as ever,yet few would argue that
life is not better than under the cruel yoke
of apartheid.The relatively peaceful tran-
sition,without a civil war,in the early ‘90s
is certainly something worthy of winning
this major international prize.
Though unable to claim the same sort
of political transformation, England too
has something to celebrate.
In the late ‘80s, soccer hooliganism
seemed to be destroying the sport in its
ancestral homeland. English clubs re-
ceived a lengthy European ban after the
Heysel stadium disaster in 1985 and al-
most a hundred fans died at Hillsbor-
ough in 1989. But then everything
changed, tough rules were brought in
that revolutionized the game in the UK,
and suddenly even families with young
children began to return to the once-vi-
olent stadiums.There may still be isolat-
ed incidents,but the transformation has
been so complete that reports and im-
ages of fans of foreign teams engaged in
violent or racist demonstrations now
seems pretty shocking stuff for the once
bad-boy nation of the world game.
Instead of elusive dreams for the fu-
ture, this is what the English bid should
have concentrated on:its hard-won cam-
paign against violence and intolerance
and how it has already changed the
world.
Tom Taylor was totally one of those soc-
cer hooligans from the ‘80s. Reminisce
about Thundercats and Black Sabbath
at tom.taylor@stanford.edu.
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Kappa Sig hosts Save the Music Deck the halls with “The Nutcracker” Liz Stark reminisces over fall’s TV season
Benefit Concert
Intermission reviews “127 Read autobiographies by Keith Richards, Kanye West, Robyn, Ke$ha
Hours,” “Burlesque” Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino release new material

MOVIES
page 5 LITERATURE
page 7 MUSIC
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Kappa Sig preps for benefit concert
Union for a Dead Week music interlude.
The fraternity, along with corporate spon-
sors Stanford Bookstore, HP-Intel, Dell,
Heffernon Insurance, Future Freshman and
Treehouse, are donating all proceeds to the
VH1 Save the Music Foundation. Founded in
1977, the foundation had donated over $45
million-worth of musical instruments to stu-
dents in public school systems across the U.S.
with the rationale that music is an integral part
of child development.
The Stanford con-
cert, free to attendees,
will feature 20-minute
sets from eight student acts.
Set to perform are bands Whale Rider, Charlie
Brown, The Sea People and Stanford Hip Hop
Congress, a cappella groups Everyday People
Courtesy Kappa Sigma and Talisman, and solo acts from Colin Casey
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organizer of the event. “One of the great parts
of the school is that there are so many people
that play music and take part in music.”
This is the first benefit for the fraternity,
though Casey organized a CoHo music night
last year as an Apple campus rep. In recent
years, many Kappa Sig members have been
dedicated to music, and the idea of incorporat-
ing the Stanford community in a fundraising
concert “emerged organically,” according to
Casey.
The Save the Music Benefit Concert will
take place Thursday, Dec. 2, from 7:30-11 p.m.,
in the Old Union courtyard. Admission is free,
though donations are encouraged, with the
bulk of the fundraising dollars coming from
the corporate sponsors.
—marisa LANDICHO

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undraising has never sounded this good. ‘12 and Jamaica Osorio ‘12. contact marisa: landicho@stanford.edu
The fraternity Kappa Sigma will host the “The idea of it is to, number one, raise
Save the Music Benefit Concert on money for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation
Thursday, Dec. 2, bringing Talisman, The Sea and also celebrate the strength and diversity of
People and Stanford Hip Hop Congress to Old music at Stanford,” said Casey, also the head
Merissa Ren/Staff Photographer
introducing

Welcome to the inappropriately termed Dead Week. Intermission knows

Brooke Smith ‘11
that sometimes, “going to the library” really means sitting in Green and
Facebook chatting. Here’s what you can Hulu between mealtimes. I’m wearing:
Stuart Weitzman boots, Vince
TV Shows pants, DKNY vest, H&M top,
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and vintage sunglasses
A computer geek turns into a super-spy with a supercomputer stuck in his brain. Action,
Chuck espionage, romance and drama all jam-packed in one! The Stanford references make this WEDNESDAY
impossible to resist.
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Monk “Obsessive-compulsive detective” Adrian Monk has a need for balance, neatness and cleanness.
BONE TO PICK?
Unable even to function without his nurse, Monk sees the world as a nuisance. The world, however,
sees him not only as a clean freak, but also a state-of-the-art homicide detective.

Merlin
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The greatest wizard the world has ever seen (sorry, Harry) also lives through a troubling
youth with the young and inexperienced prince Arthur, whose father banned all sorcery. well then, e-mail us!
intermission@stanforddaily.com
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Psych A detail-noticing genius, Shawn can even fool people into believing that he’s a psychic with his Marisa Landicho
detective skills. Through countless job switches, Shawn drags his sidekick Gus down with him, yet DESK EDITOR
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Merissa Ren
House Eccentric doctor with a limp leg and stunning medical expertise that cures the sickest COPY EDITOR
patients. Although his personal life has no cure whatsoever, if you get hooked by this Stephanie Weber
character, be aware of the House-itis epidemic.
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intermission Shanae Davis

‘Tis the season to see ‘The Nutcracker’
A
s November gives way to
December, Christmas lights
begin to dot the streets,
Starbucks breaks out its festive red
cups and the annual holiday crop of
“Nutcracker” productions springs up.
For decades, the iconic images of
a mysteriously expanding tree, a rat
king and his posse of mice, an
enchanting swirl of snowflakes and
an intoxicating land of sweets have
been entwined with an American
Christmas tradition. The notes of
Tchaikovsky’s score beckon audi-
ences into a two-act tale of holiday
reverie . . .
Drosselmeyer’s Christmas gift to
Clara is a nutcracker doll, one that
transforms first into a life-sized sol-
dier to defeat the advances of a men-
acing army of mice and later into a
prince. He whisks Clara away on a
journey through twirling snowflakes
to the majestic land where flowers
waltz merrily and Arabian coffee,
Chinese tea, Spanish chocolate and
the dazzling Sugar Plum Fairy take
human form and treat her to vibrant
dances.
This American tradition derives
from a Russian ballet, premiered at
the Mariinsky Theatre in St.
Petersburg in 1892 to a mediocre
reception. Marius Petipa and Lev
Ivanov, the same choreographic duo
that revived “Swan Lake” three years
later, were responsible for the origi-
nal, adapted from E.T.A. Hoffman’s
story of “The Nutcracker and the
Mouse King.”
San Francisco Ballet designed
our nation’s first “Nutcracker” in
1944, but it was George Balanchine’s
1954 production for New York City
Ballet that truly marked the begin-
ning of an era. Televised in 1957 and
again in 1958 — a time when ballet
in the U.S. was still in its infancy — it
captured the imaginations of youth-
ful viewers across the country and
never let go.
New York City Ballet has
mounted “The Nutcracker” each hol-
iday season without exception since
its premiere. Major ballet companies
from coast to coast perform dozens
of “Nutcracker” permutations
between every Thanksgiving and
New Year. As the economy falters and
dance ventures struggle to stay afloat,
annual “Nutcracker” runs continue
to be a revenue powerhouse. The
repertory staple helps to fund the
remainder of most companies’ sea-
sons.
Many a choreographer has set
out to reinterpret the ballet or associ-
ate it with a particular cultural her-
itage, incorporating contemporary
movement and themes. Hip-hop, tap
and even burlesque have made their
“Nutcracker” debuts. And, of course,
“The Nutcracker” is an institution in
ballet schools across the nation.
Aspiring dancers grow up with the
ballet, from the day they first scurry
around the stage in the Act I party
scene, to the years they don tutus for
the mirlitons or waltz of the flowers,
and culminating with the experience
dance
of stepping out of the wings as Dew
Drop, Snow Queen or Sugar Plum.
Through the years, “The
Nutcracker” has become a
Christmastime tradition. Its influ-
ence has extended beyond the stage
and slowly trickled into popular cul-
ture. Film versions have starred
Macaulay Culkin (1993), an animat-
ed Barbie (2001) and, now in the-
aters, Elle Fanning and Nathan Lane.
Tchaikovsky’s instantly recognizable
melodies drift endlessly from depart-
ment store speakers and accompany
holiday-themed ads — this year’s
Planter’s peanuts commercial fea-
tures a wooden nutcracker doll and
his wounded peanut colleagues.
For those who have seen only
one ballet in their lifetime, it was
more than likely “The Nutcracker.” A
two- (rather than four-) act format
provides a more palatable point of
entry into the canon of classical bal-
let than most other works. The sim-
ple plot, bright scenery and efferves-
cent dancing speak to audiences of
all ages. More than anything, its
magic is irresistible. “The
Nutcracker” no longer belongs solely
to a ballet repertory; it has been
enveloped by the holiday traditions
that mark the American Christmas
season. ‘Tis the season to see “The
Nutcracker.”
—stav ZIV
Courtesy Erik Tomasson
contact stav: sziv@stan-
ford.edu
Vanessa Zahorian in Helgi Tomasson’s version of “The Nutcracker,”
set at the 1915 World’s Fair in San Francisco.

movies Stanford sophomore plays lead in feature film

Courtesy Jack Kohler
For Carly Kohler ‘13, acting is
just a hobby.
“I can’t imagine majoring in
drama,” she giggled. “I love
Shakespeare, but I can’t, like, kiss
someone I don’t know on stage or
anything like that.”
A psychology major here at
Stanford, Kohler has something to
her name most Stanford students
don’t have — a lead role in a fea-
ture film. “Behind the Door of a
Secret Girl” chronicles the life of a
depressed, self-mutilating Native
American teenager named Sammy,
played by Kohler herself, and her
struggle to live on a reservation
under her meth-addicted mother
and her mother’s drug-pushing
boyfriend.
The film has won seven awards
at various film festivals, and it was
most recently screened at the 2010
American Indian Film Festival in
San Francisco. The director, Janessa
Starkey, lived through the same
kind of brutal experience Sammy
endures in the film; Starkey chan-
neled her own suffering into a 24-
page short film that later grew into
a full-length feature. Kohler’s
father, actor and filmmaker Jack
Kohler ‘83, took Starkey under his
wing as a sort of prodigy, shaping
her creative vision.
Although Carly Kohler began
acting at the age of four, “Secret
Girl” marked her first experience
with screen acting.
“It’s a difficult role,” she admit-
ted. “I was worried that I would
become too over-the-top with
histrionics, but I made sure the
film wouldn’t become too monoto-
nous with its depressing parts.”
Internalizing this role was a
taxing process. Kohler was, in par-
ticular, worried about living
Starkey’s personal history out on
screen, though she increasingly
found herself drawing from what
she witnessed among friends and
family growing up, to the point
that Kohler didn’t feel that her
character’s experiences were foreign
to her.
Kohler is, of course, not your
typical Stanford student. She cer-
tainly stands out from the crowd —
with a streak of electric blue run-
ning through her hair, she’s all at
once striking, perplexing and beau-
tiful. A member of the Yurok and
Karuk tribes, Kohler is heavily
involved with Stanford’s American
Indian, Alaskan Native and
Hawaiian on-campus organiza-
tions. She’s also on Stanford’s rugby
team and part of the a cappella
group Counterpoint. Balancing
school life with acting was particu-
larly grueling during the end of
Kohler’s freshman year, though the
experience of touring film festivals,
she claimed, was ultimately more
rewarding than she anticipated.
“It was really amazing, meeting
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all these filmmakers,” she said.
“They all came from different walks
of life.”
Kohler hopes that this film
will, if anything, dispel some of the
nation’s deep-seated stereotypes of
American Indians. By tackling such
rampant problems as drug abuse
and depression that Kohler wit-
nessed firsthand among Native
youth groups, “Secret Girl” pene-
trates issues merely skimmed over
in other forms of media. The por-
trayal of Native Americans in
mainstream American film, such as
“Pocahontas” and “Twilight,” has
often bordered on the offensive, she
mentioned, hammering in precon-
ceived notions of the American
Indian population.
“I mean, even ‘Avatar’ just rein-
forced so many prejudices about
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Grab these games now
Spend your holidays battling vegetation-phobic zombies in
Plants vs. Zombies, upper left, weathering sandstorms in Prince
of Persia, above, bending the laws of physics in Portal, upper
right, and puzzling your way through Peggle.
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Native Americans,” she said.
“That was a film that continued
to romanticize Native culture,
portraying us as people who are
in touch with nature and all
that. We’re always portrayed
from a white man’s perspective.”
The role, Kohler claims, has
given her a new sort of perspec-
tive on her own sense of self —
evident just by observing her
poise and easy confidence. And
she’ll be keeping the blue hair.
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intermission
W
inter break is coming up, and that means plenty of
good old-fashioned down time. Sure, you could
always catch up with your little sister or shovel the
driveway with your old man, but let’s be honest, there’s some-
thing we’re looking forward to more than food or family. With
no classes to worry about and nasty weather keeping us inside,
the holiday season is practically begging to be spent with a
controller in your hand.
Gaming is bigger than ever this year, but don’t worry if
you think you’re late to the party or you’re not hardcore
enough to join in on the fun — there’s a bevy of great distrac-
tions out there for even the least gizmo-inclined among us. So
in honor of going all the way home just to spend time alone,
here are a few games to keep you busy. And the best part?
They’re all cheap, and you’ve probably already got
a laptop (or a smartphone) that can run them.
Portal
If Halo or Call of Duty is too fast
and furious for you — or you’ve never
even heard of them — you still owe it
to yourself to check out this darling of
a game. Like those intense shooters,
Portal has you exploring the world
from a first-
person perspective. But the simi-
larities stop there: instead of blast-
ing aliens or sniping terrorists, the
focus is on solving environmental
puzzles based on realistic physics
and a unique little device that can
create, well, portals.
Courtesy Ubisoft You’re tasked with escaping from
a research facility run by an ever-pres-
ent (and consistently hilarious) artifi-
cial intelligence, all while using your
“portal gun” in increasingly inventive
ways to move from one area to anoth-
er. By tapping the left mouse button,
you can tag a wall with a wormhole of
sorts, then tag another surface that
acts as an entrance (or exit) to the
“It was for the part,” she other portal. It’s as simple (and com-
smiled, taking strands in her plicated) as that. Objects, including
fingers and rubbing them yourself, pass through the portals with
against each other. “But I liked their momentum conserved, meaning
it, so I decided to keep it. It you could jump to a portal three sto-
makes me feel like an individ- ries below you only to have it catapult
ual.” you sideways out of a wall high above.
The pacing and humor will drive
—mayukh SEN you along without overwhelming you,
and the controls remain simple while
contact mayukh:
the puzzles get gradually tougher.
mayukh@stanford.edu
Even my dad managed to slog his way
through this one with plenty of laughs
along the way, and felt pretty good
about himself at the end of it all.
Portal is a finely tuned piano, but you
tiful music.
Available for PC and Mac, Xbox
360 and PS3
Plants vs. Zombies
Get ready to do a lot of tapping
(or clicking, as the case may be). This
quirky little strategy game pits you
against wave after wave of undead foes
whose only weakness — as we all
know — is the leafy power of the
plant kingdom. You’ll have to manage
your limited solar energy to sow the
appropriate seeds in your besieged
backyard, which is divided into rows
and columns. As the zombie army
ambles forward, your plant posse will
fire off pea-bullets, blow up under
their feet, freeze them in place or sac-
rifice itself in order to delay the
oncoming horde. You’ll have an enor-
mous and varied arsenal of botanical
buddies by game’s end, all of which
(along with the equally eclectic array
of zombies) are oozing with charm.
But be careful as you hold off
these tenacious terrors through dark,
light and watery environments — you
might find yourself blasting away “just
one more wave” when the clock
strikes midnight at your mom’s lame
New Year’s party.
Available for PC and Mac, Xbox
360 and iPhone
Peggle
If you’re noticing a “P” theme so
far, then bear with me. This gem of a
puzzler comes from the same folks
who made Plants vs. Zombies and
Bejeweled (the appropriately P-named
PopCap games), and carries the same
polish and charm. What’s more, it’s
easily the simplest and most gratifying
game on this list. To play, all you need
to do is aim, shoot and watch. There’s
a marble-cannon at the top of the
screen and a unique array of blue and
orange “pegs” on the board below. If
the marble hits a peg, it disappears
after a brief delay. A guide helps to
line up your shots and maximize the
effect of ricochets, which can be a joy
technology
Courtesy Valve Corporation
to watch as the music and sound
effects ramp up with every peg you
hit. Add in a cast of silly animal assis-
tants and their accompanying super
powers, and you’ve got a perfect game
for a quick hit of fun whenever there’s
a moment to spare.
Available for PC and Mac, iPhone,
Xbox 360, PS3 and DS
Prince of Persia (2008)
You won’t be playing this one on
your phone or dinky notebook, but if
you’ve got the means, then Ubisoft’s
recent revamp of this classic series
demands a look from game junkies
and newcomers alike. The art in
Prince of Persia is evocative of water-
color in motion, and there’s a distinct-
ly blissful Zen in simply moving about
the world.
It helps that the action and plat-
forming are simpler than anything
else out there, the combat is infre-
quent and simple and the stakes for
failure are low. Thanks to responsive
controls and environmental cues,
there’s a flow to moving and fighting
akin to a rhythm game. Even if you
should make a mistake and slip off a
ledge, you’ll be quickly rescued by
your female companion, Elika. Thanks
to her help, in fact, it’s nearly impossi-
ble to die in Prince of Persia. Besides
always having your back, Elika pro-
vides a charismatic and likeable coun-
terpart to the charming-rogue person-
ality of the prince: the banter between
them doesn’t slow down the action
and adds considerable depth to their
increasingly deep relationship, and
you can’t help but grow attached to
Elika as you work together to bring
life back to a cursed and tainted
world.
Available for PC, Xbox 360 and
PS3
—nate ADAMS
contact nate:
nbadams@stanford.edu

Courtesy Fox Searchlight
I
n April 2003, 27-year-old out-
doorsman Aron Ralston hiked
the sandstone trails of Blue John
Canyon, near Moab, Utah, only to
become trapped by a dislodged
boulder that crushed his right hand
and pinned him to an extremely nar-
row canyon wall. Without a cell
phone and without a companion, he
quickly recognized that he was utter-
ly on his own. He didn’t even leave a
note to say where he’d be going.
Under the exuberant guidance
of Danny Boyle (the director respon-
sible for “28 Days Later,”
“Trainspotting” and Oscar-winning
“Slumdog Millionaire”), what might
have been an arid docudrama based
on Ralston’s bestselling memoir
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place,”
is instead “127 Hours” — a gripping,
visually engaging piece of story-
telling.
The film, as per Boyle’s style, is
bright and frenetic. Scenes swelling
with people and noise are juxtaposed
with scenes of objects out of a still
life and wide, silent shots of the hori-
zon. The screen is often split twice
and thrice to add emphasis and draw
connections between disparate
images. The difficulty of Aron’s isola-
tion, which elsewhere might have
hinged purely on the actor’s talent, is
in part alleviated by the kinetic ener-
gy driving Boyle and his cinematog-
raphers, Enrique Chediak and
Anthony Dod Mantle. The two cine-
matographers, it appears, went wild
in the beauty of Utah’s sprawling
natural landscape. The confines of
the space do not stifle the story but
rather allow the production team the
opportunity to think creatively
inside the box. They succeed magnif-
icently, for they fashion an incredibly
compelling illusion of movement in
spite of the static location.
To be sure, the performance
that James Franco delivers as Aron
Ralston would have been enough to
carry the film had nothing else been
up to par. His staggering range of
emotions exceeds the challenge
posed by “127 Hours,” which in
many ways is a one-man show. He
moves from affable to solemn,
despairing to stunned, with dexterity
and nuance. Each moment is execut-
ed with absolute precision — and it’s
not only the extremes that Franco
captures, but the subtle middle
ground. Franco knows what drives
Ralston, when he’s rational and
when he’s lost it and when he’s navi-
gating the dim route in between.
The story, adapted for the
screen by Boyle and Simon Beaufoy,
also works to enliven the otherwise
static setting and lone character. We
see Ralston’s memories, his regrets,
his hallucinations and his premoni-
tions, wherein the other people in his
life offer distinct perspectives on who
Ralston is: the brother of a young
woman who is to be married, a guy
who is, perhaps, doomed to loneli-
ness, and the future father of a little
boy. We also see Ralston interacting
with himself through a video cam-
era. He begins by addressing the
unfortunate person who finds the
camera and Ralston’s remains, but
transitions to apologizing to his par-
ents and, finally, coming to the stark
realization — with a somber “oops”
— that he is the only one to blame
in this situation.
Until that moment when the
boulder falls on Aron’s arm, the story
plays out like a horror movie.
Ralston, joined quickly by two pretty
hikers, talks about how the earth is
always moving. Boyle draws our
attention to his hands as they glide
along the great surfaces of boulders
and canyon passes. We watch in fear,
waiting for the painful moment we
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know is coming, but unsure of when
it will strike. The tension is visceral.
While Boyle’s active style of
filmmaking and Franco’s keen intel-
ligence and comical energy, along
with A. R. Rahman’s (“Slumdog
Millionaire”) triumphant score, go
to great lengths to craft each brilliant
moment of “127 Hours,” a little
more is to be desired. Ralston’s folly
of selfishness is overlooked, and the
gravity of his plight, while played out
on a sensual level, does not soar to
existential heights. In this way, “127
Hours” falls somewhat short of “Into
the Wild,” in which the protagonist
Christopher McCandless plunges to
greater, more profound depths that
affect the audience’s hearts rather
than their nervous systems.
This complaint is, however,
slight. Ralston’s story is different
from McCandless’, for Ralston him-
self maintains a certain sanity, a
shocking streak of practicality, which
sets him apart. The fact that Ralston
has the presence of mind to break
both his radius and his ulna, and
then sever his soft tissues and ten-
dons with a dull knife, changes the
scope of the story. Boyle isn’t inter-
ested in a romantic search for self
that basks in awe of the numinous,
but a hard and fast tale of survival
and lust for life.”127 Hours” is a grit-
ty film that thrives on the tensions
set by man vs. self and man vs.
nature.
By throwing these conflicts
together, Boyle depicts a social image
of man, who, as it turns out, is
unable to face the natural world
alone. He also shows, with manic
bravura, to what great lengths a
human being will go to live.
—ashley CHANG
contact ashley:
adchang@stanford.edu
movies
“Great enthu-
siasm, terrible tim-
ing,” says Sean
(Stanley Tucci) to Ali
(Christina Aguilera) as she
hounds him backstage, begging for a
job in Steven Antin’s latest,
“Burlesque.” This line adequately
sums up the film — it’s an enthusias-
tic musical featuring very catchy
good plot or decent writing.
The movie centers on Alice “Ali”
former from a small Iowa town who
drops everything to move to L.A. to
pursue her dream. There, she quickly
happens upon Burlesque, an upscale
but faltering Burlesque theater run by
sassy former star Tess (Cher). As Ali
works her way up at the theater, first
as a waitress and eventually as a
dancer, Tess struggles to keep the the-
ater afloat after amassing enormous
debt. Ali also struggles with her new-
found fame, made even more trouble-
some by her budding relationship
with her new roommate, Marcus
(Cam Gigandet).
The plot is incredibly cliché, but
serves its purpose as a springboard for
the movie’s many musical numbers,
which are appropriately glitzy and
entertaining. Most of the songs fea-
ture Aguilera, whose powerhouse
vocals lend the dance scenes tons of
energy and attitude.
Although Aguilera successfully
carries the musical numbers, her
attempts at acting are sub-par at best.
Her character swings between kind-
hearted, ambitious and obnoxious
from scene to scene, a fact only
enhanced by Aguilera’s awkward tim-
ing.
Cher, on the other hand, is enjoy-
able as an aging performer fighting to
retain ownership of the club. She
brings natural energy and snark to the
role, and is much more believable in
dramatic moments than Aguilera.
Meanwhile, an underused
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Stanley Tucci slips comfortably back
into his “The Devil Wears Prada” role
as the bitchy gay assistant with a heart
of gold. His barbed one-liners aren’t
as sharp as they were in “Prada,” but
that’s clearly the fault of writing, not
acting. Even with sub-par material,
Tucci is a breath of fresh air among
the rest of the overdramatic cast.
The original music in
“Burlesque” is quite catchy, even if
most of the songs are carried by
Aguilera’s excellent, enthusiastic vocal
performance. She shines especially in
“Express,” an upbeat track featured in
the middle of the film. However, the
original music is awkwardly juxta-
posed with some generic pop hits and
classics like “Diamonds Are a Girl’s
Best Friend” that make the sound-
track seem unoriginal at times.
“Burlesque” doesn’t shy away
from the obvious influence of many
other films, which often makes it seem
amateurish and cliché in comparison.
The film strives for the glitz and
drama of Rob Marshall’s “Chicago,”
while falling short of “Chicago’s” well-
done satire of celebrity and scandal. It
also tries to recreate the fantasy of Baz
Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge!” without
the rich story and setting that made
that film so great. It even fails to live
up to “Showgirls” in terms of its quali-
ty as a “so-bad-it’s-good” film. While
“Showgirls” reveled in off-the-wall
plots and terrible acting that made it a
cult classic, “Burlesque” awkwardly
straddles the line between serious
musical and campy escapist film, leav-
ing viewers in a decent but far-from-
classic no man’s land.
— h a l l e E D WA R D S
contact halle:
halle@stanford.edu
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hese days, Kanye West is clearly not the
hero that everyone wants to cheer on.
After a slew of politically incorrect state-
ments and actions over the past few years, West
promptly retreated out of the spotlight when
the public turned against him, instead redirect-
ing his focus and reevaluating his career.
The result of this self-imposed isolation is
an absolutely genius fifth album that even
West’s strongest opponents cannot deny is
exceptional. Yes, West knows and acknowledges
that he is a “jerk-off,” but “My Beautiful Dark
Twisted Fantasy” proves that he’s a jerk-off that
produces fantastic music.
“Fantasy” delivers exactly what its name
insinuates — a haunting album that delves
right into the heart of Kanye West’s thoughts.
And at a time where much of the world is root-
ing against him, West wisely decided to produce
a work that skips the superficial themes that
many of his peers construct entire albums
around. Instead, West is eager to push every
boundary, spill every secret and tell listeners
about every last part of his convoluted mind so
they can finally get his side of the story.
In just over an hour, “Fantasy” includes
tracks that touch on topics as diverse as racism
(“Gorgeous”), women (“Hell of a Life”), uncer-
tainty (“Lost In The World”) and his favorite
subject: how good of an artist he is (just about
every song). Never fear, West is still West — he
actually goes as far as to call himself a “super-
hero [who needs] his theme music” — but part
of his success in “Fantasy” comes with his
determination to jump right into controversial
issues that many artists wouldn’t come within
20 feet of.
For instance, one of the most powerful
tracks is the closing one, “Who Will Survive in
America,” which is not so much a song as it is a
sermon about the two-sided nature of America.
West calls the country inhospitable to the com-
mon man, urging, “Build a new route to China
if they’ll have you/Who will survive in America?”
West’s boldness to speak his mind — whether
anyone agrees with it or not — is one of the
many elements that make him stand out from
the crowd.
Another of these elements is West’s appre-
ciation of art, and this manifests itself in
“Fantasy” as a synthesis of myriad musical gen-
res. Although some of his past work, particular-
ly his 2008 album “808s & Heartbreak,” dabbled
in modern styles like synth, “Fantasy” takes a
broad approach, flawlessly unifying dichoto-
mous techniques such as choirs, ‘90s grooves,
African drums and orchestra-driven beats. This
synthesis also extends itself to featured artists,
as well. For example, the fifth track, “All of the
Lights,” somehow manages to successfully
incorporate Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Elton John,
Kid Cudi and Fergie, while still delivering pow-
erful lyrics.
And as far as lyrics are concerned, West is
arguably the best in the industry. Forgoing the
designer name-dropping that many hip-hop
artists create meaningless songs out of, West is a
master at telling stories within a four-minute
period. For instance, the slow, piano-heavy
track “Blame Game,” featuring John Legend,
tells the tale of a failed relationship between an
aloof star and a woman who couldn’t handle
the spotlight. West laments, “We’ve become pub-
lic enemies/We walk away like strangers in the
street gone for eternity.”
With multiple strengths helping it along,
“My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” is an
album that will have West rightfully anticipat-
ing that elusive “Album of the Year” Grammy
Award that he so desperately wants. As far as
listeners are concerned, there should only be
one conclusion to logically come to: Buy this
album. Seriously.
—andrea HINTON
contact andrea:
anhinton@stanford.edu
“Body Talk” is a slowly but surely con-
cocted work that celebrates the drama of
being a girl. Robyn’s third release and the
culmination of her efforts for 2010, it draws
five tracks each from the earlier “Body Talk
Pt. 1” and “Body Talk Pt. 2,” adding five new
stellar songs to the mix. Covering the
heartache and despair of unrequited love,
the spunk of female empowerment and the
playfulness of being a girl, it all adds up to a
wonderfully energizing dance floor LP.
Bring on the pop.
Arguably Robyn’s biggest hit of the
year, “Dancing On My Own” starts the
album off. Originally off “Body Talk Pt. 1,”
the single finds her at her strongest vocally
while exposing her emotional vulnerability.
While the spirited vocals ring out loud
above the upbeat synth and bass lines, the
lyrics tell another story. As the reject in the
club, she sings of herself dancing: “I’m giv-
ing it my all, but I’m not the girl you’re taking
home.” Never has a pop dance anthem felt as
personal or heartbreaking before. Expect
smeared mascara on the dance floor.
Not to worry, though. “Don’t Fucking
Tell Me What To Do” kicks in a couple of
songs later to show who’s boss. A playful,
repetitive electro-house tirade, the track
starts off listing all of the annoyances that
are killing her, starting off with her drinking
and including her PMS (female empower-
ment, anyone?). “Kickdrum,” she demands
halfway through the song, and the drum
pad jumps for her. An awesome track that
has you nodding the whole way through,
reminiscent of Daft Punk’s “Technologic,” it
culminates with the title rant, presumably
meant for her man.
“Indestructible,” the first of the new
tracks, brings in the hope and optimism of
new love to gloss over the earlier letdowns
conveyed in the album. With a string instru-
ment arrangement mixed in over the synth
lines, the track feels softer and less edgy
than the earlier electro on the record. “I
never was smart with love/I let the bad ones
in and the good ones go/But I’m gonna love
you like I’ve never been hurt before,” she sings
throughout the chorus, although the energy
of the line is somewhat sabotaged after
being followed by one of the least ingenious
lines in the album: “This is hardcore.”
Another new track, “Call Your
Girlfriend” is one of the high points off the
album. As Robyn sings to her lover to leave
his girlfriend to be with her instead, one can
see countless stories and lost hopes of “the
other woman” come shining through. What
seems like a straightforward pop song with
a strong groove and synthesized vocals is
actually an incredibly elaborate emotional
development, which is at times desperate, at
times seductive and coy, but mostly sad in
its familiarity.
As the album comes to a close with the
upbeat and slightly childish “Stars 4-Ever,” it
becomes clear that this is the album that
Robyn had wanted to release all throughout
the year, but had not been able to conclude.
The tracks are now in the order intended,
with enough electro and even a bit of dub-
step interspersed throughout the album to
keep her dance pop anthems from becom-
ing too sweet, and her collaborations with
Snoop Dogg (“U Should Know Better”) and
Röyksopp (“None of Dem”) are masterful.
And although mass commercial success has
shirked Robyn this year, the intimacy in her
songs promises to captivate more than one.
Girls, put on your heels: it’s time to dance to
Robyn.
—maria DEL CARMEN BARRIOS
contact maria: mariacbg@stan-
ford.edu

K
the vital stats e$ha’s second album, “Cannibal,” revives a cry for individuality and being “forever young.”
the middle-finger-raising, boyfriend- The mantras about youthful indiscretion make for
Cannibal trashing, glitter-loving frenzy of her debut. a can’t-get-it-out-of-your-head thrill. She asks you
For her haters, this is a second serving of base to make light of the night and join the lawlessness.
KE$HA humor and overproduced Auto-Tune. For her “Sleazy” continues the don’t-care, don’t-need-
Pop fans, the album is another mindless escape into you theme. A fierce rhythm built by snare and
the nightlife. Consider that it might be so bad that bass drums energizes the song. Her voice is nasally
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gle, Ke$ha shouts “Rawr” and raps about devour- tat on your dum dum dum.” Subtly inserted sexual
Courtesy Ke$ha ing hot boys. The chorus hooks you in when she innuendos (“ . . . gonna make me come . . . um,
slows down to declare, “I am a cannibal” with over to your place!”) are ridiculously adequate for
synth-pop keyboarding in the background. this generation’s laugh-out-loud moments.

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We R” is more synth beats and electro-pop. This is
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Courtesy Little, Brown & Company
Keith Richards’ literature
‘Life’ is raw, poetic, charged
P
erhaps it’s no surprise that a
musician’s autobiography
would be filled with the same
sort of lyricism that defined his
career. Keith Richards’ “Life,” the
star’s long-awaited tell-all, sounds a
bit like the music he creates —
direct, rapturous and a little
bruised. He gives every fiber of his
being to us and presents it as the
truth, demanding that we accept it.
Richards, aided in his writing
by journalist James Fox, crafts his
words into a looking glass. We walk
through his life, his past, exactly as
he remembers it. It’s an autobiogra-
phy that’s curiously devoid of any
new-age drivel or explicit self-
reflection, instead filled with a
recreation of an earlier time that’s
surprisingly vivid. Creating an
invariable sense of time and place,
we suddenly become part of the
cultural zeitgeist that defined that
era. Slowly, we realize how absorb-
ing that kind of world is, how easily
one can be swept up in it.
Richards’ writing illuminates
the obvious — that even rock stars,
in all their deified glory, come from
somewhere. His recollections of
childhood reveal exactly why some-
one from his upbringing just had to
play music. He, too, writes fondly of
the men and women who inspired
him — and there were many.
“He was one of those Texan
guys who could sail through any-
thing, including his whole tragic
life,” Richards reminisced about Roy
Orbison. “We watch the opening
number. And out walks this totally
transformed thing that seems to
have grown at least a foot with
presence and command over the
crowd.”
A life like Richards’ can easily
become monochromatic when
retold. There are times, just rarely,
when his experiences take on a sort
of blurred cyclicality, beginning to
blend together. But this is a minor
quibble. For the most part, Richards
reveals his experience with such
passion, such urgency, that his rock
star life — which can easily be
reduced to vignettes of coke binges
and road shows — becomes tangi-
ble, and the public figure suddenly
takes on human form. He slips
between tones with surprising flu-
idity and ease. At times sarcastic, at
others sincere, he communicates
how his life’s been filled with
assuming so many faces, so many
different identities: the oft-wor-
shipped rock messiah, the confi-
dant, the loner.
Like Richards’ guitar playing,
his prose seems saturated with
melancholy. For one, he’s as humble
and honest about his own personal
flaws as he is about those of others,
most infamously Mick Jagger. His
recollections of the women he loved
are as achingly damp as they are
electric. To Richards, love became a
necessity, unbounded by typical
notions of time and space.
“A lot of times I’ve ended up in
bed with a woman and never done
anything, just cuddled and slept,”
he recalled. “And I’ve loved loads of
them. I’ve always been so impressed
that they actually loved me in
return.”
Keith Richards is a legend.
Fittingly, he has crafted his narra-
tive into exquisite, immaculate
form. We cannot touch him. But
“Life” has so much feeling, so much
nakedness, that he creates the illu-
sion that we can touch this god, this
paragon of musical brilliance, and
share a part of his experience.
—mayukh SEN
contact mayukh:
mayukh@stanford.edu

‘Here’s the Situation’ preaches gospel of GTL

M
ike “The Situation” Sorrentino’s
recently published book, “Here’s the
Situation,” is exactly what you would
expect it to be. The “Jersey Shore” star’s pen-
chant for self-promotion is on full display in his
guide to life, love and, of course, the art of GTL.
Reading “Here’s the Situation” is something
like watching a train wreck. The book takes
celebrity status, The Situation offers up personal
stories from his own life, spending several pages
describing his first “fame bang” and his difficulty
choosing among 14 or more willing sexual part-
ners at once.
It’s not a surprise that “Here’s the Situation”
reads very quickly. The book is written in “Jersey
Shore” lingo, and The Situation addresses his
The most terrifyingly fascinating picture is,
without a doubt, The Situation’s handy pictorial
guide to revealing abs on such occasions as talk
show appearances, meetings with religious lead-
ers and funerals.
Amazingly, though, this book has a saving
grace. It is obviously ghostwritten — whoever
wrote it is simply too intelligent to be The

trashiness, sexism and superficiality to appalling
new levels. When he’s not gloating about his
sexual conquests or glorifying his self-described
“astonishing physique,” particularly his abs, The
Situation simply revels in his own fame.
The advice that The Situation presents in
his book covers nearly all aspects of life, from
education to sex, or “smooshing.” According to
The Situation, weekly workout regimens are to
be strictly followed, except on Thursdays. Axe is
the only acceptable scent for men. If you’re
“
reader as “bro” or “dawg.” Furthermore, a signif- Situation himself, as it seems highly unlikely that
he is actually familiar with the Mohs scale of
Scattered throughout mineral hardness — and the ghostwriter’s tone
is so sarcastic that he or she seems to be poking
the book are ‘Sitch Ab fun at The Situation throughout the book.
Whether juxtaposing his insistence that women
Facts,’ in which The should not be compared to meat with a drawn-
Situation credits his out comparison of women to different kinds of
steak, or simply noting that “the entire contents
abs with various med- of [The Situation’s] brain” can be found in this
guide, the ghostwriter employs the very superfi-

”
stranded in the New Jersey Pine Barrens on your
way to Seaside Heights and need to wash cloth-
ical, theatrical and ciality that made The Situation famous against
him without seeming excessively cruel.
ing by hand, just use your abs as a washboard.
You should know how to recognize various
crime-fighting skills. These underlying currents of sarcasm and
irony transform “Here’s the Situation” into a
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types of “grenades,” usually unattractive women
who destroy chances of hooking up with their
more attractive friends. He even shares his opin-
ions on food: the ideal lasagna is nine layers of
cheese, sauce, noodles and beef.
Also scattered throughout the book are
“Sitch Ab Facts,” in which The Situation credits
his abs with various medical, theatrical and
crime-fighting skills. To further illustrate his
icant portion of the book’s 133 pages consists of
pictures rather than words. Sometimes they clar-
ify The Situation’s advice: he offers a useful step-
by-step guide to “beating up the beat” as well as
suggestions about how to hold different alco-
holic beverage containers in order to best show
off muscles. Other illustrations, such as the out-
rageously sexist peek into the brain of a
“grenade,” stand alone, without explanatory text.
self-aware mockery of the whole “Jersey Shore”
phenomenon. It’s widely recognized that The —micah SIEGEL
Situation himself is basically a walking monu- contact micah:
ment to narcissism; thankfully, this book recog- m s i e g e l 9 @ s t a n f o rd . e d u
nizes it, too.
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REMOTE Looking back on what we watched

regressed. I know that, when it comes to
“Glee,” I’m like a broken record produced by
Ryan Murphy, but I sincerely believe that the
show has finally revealed its incomplete skele-
ton. Addictively flashy narrative distractions
such as Darren Criss singing “Teenage Dream,”
Gwyneth Paltrow pushing “Forget You”
through her nasal cavity and the cast watering
down “Rocky Horror” have jacked up ratings
at the potential expense of alienating the core
fan base and digging the show an even deeper
hole of logical impossibility.
Even columnist’s pet “Community” has
yet to stake out major goals for the season,
instead taking parody to new heights in “Basic
Rocket Science” and “Epidemiology.” The
often-forgotten “Cougar Town” has embraced
the stigma of its name with admirable sarcasm
and continues to nail its portrayal of mid-40s
life (in fact, I find the college-age plotlines for
Travis the least enjoyable). And then there’s
Courtesy FX “Modern Family,” which in my opinion has
been plodding along from week to week and
Belushi and Jerry O’Connell together in the
sudsy world of Las Vegas law, and with names
like that, this “comedy-drama” errs more on
the side of the former.
Notably, these are male-dominated com-
binations. TNT’s “Rizzoli & Isles” has been
renewed for a second season on the strength of
its female leads, one a detective and the other a
medical examiner; however, ABC cancelled
“The Whole Truth” when the pairing of a male
prosecutor and a female defense attorney did-
n’t click with audiences (see also the stilted
comedy of Arnett and Russell on “Running
Wilde,” the early end to “My Boys” for failed
experiments in mixed gender). The inherent
levity of male bonding has endeared itself to
the most lucrative demographics.
Shows such as these have proven to be the
safe bets they were surely developed as, but a
juxtaposition of paid and basic cable program-
ming highlights the benefits of informed risk-
taking. This fall, HBO and Showtime rolled
out new projects such as “Boardwalk Empire”
parable humanity of “Mad Men” make the case
that paid cable budgets are not necessary or
sufficient conditions for art.
Finally, the admittedly oft-neglected genre
in this column, reality television, cried out for
attention this fall. “Dancing with the Stars”
unexpectedly, though perhaps not uninten-
tionally, thrust itself into the political arena as
the war of talent versus notoriety between
Jennifer Grey and Bristol Palin came to a head.
There’s nothing like an inquiry into the ethics
of reality television production to remind us of
human fallibility.
Similarly, “Jersey Shore” continued to take
the world by storm, dominating Thursday
nights and cementing MTV’s cultural rele-
vance. I personally have been caught in the
spell of Tyra Banks, as I have followed the 15th
cycle of “America’s Next Top Model” to Italy,
where either Chelsea or Ann will further wors-
en America’s reputation abroad when one of
them undeservingly graces the pages of Vogue
Italia. The self-congratulatory attitude of the

M
aybe it’s me, maybe it’s the lure of
Stanford football, but this fall’s tele-
vision offerings have failed to
impress. More charitably, the new shows of
this year took risks, good and bad, that they
ultimately couldn’t sustain or couldn’t sell to a
literalist American audience. It’s like a first
date: you idealize it, are charitable in your ini-
tial post-game analysis, but are ready to jump
ship three minutes into date number two. An
analysis of what’s hot and not will determine
both my winter break television consumption
and the trends for next year’s new content.
Perhaps the most contentious topic of dis-
cussion has been how to judge whether last
year’s pet programs have improved or
giving every character equal time. The com-
mon thread seems to be that these ensemble
comedies have shifted from group dynamics to
the lives of the individuals, a subtle change that
reads to me as a cop-out.
Just as the arrival of these shows last year
“redefined” the genre of the family sitcom, this
fall has ushered in a new era of buddy detec-
tive shows. On FX, “Terriers” has thrived, deftly
combining elements of mystery and drama
with the natural humor of its charismatic male
leads. Another under-the-radar Fox show, “The
Good Guys,” features Bradley Whitford of
“The West Wing” and Colin Hanks of “Tom”
as Dallas detectives disparate in age and world-
view. “The Defenders” from CBS brings Jim
and “The Big C” while hyping stalwarts such as
“Weeds,” “Dexter,” “Eastbound and Down” and
“Bored to Death.” The returners have not
inspired much enthusiasm in their consider-
able fan bases, and I just couldn’t get into life
on the “Boardwalk.” The period-piece nature
was almost too immersive, too cinematic for
me to return after the first few episodes. “The
Big C” initially bored me with upper-middle-
class white problems, but has proven adventur-
ous.
Nevertheless, the innovations of the fall,
and very likely the future of television, are
available on basic cable. The Shakespearean
biker-gang saga of “Sons of Anarchy,” the inge-
nuity of “The Walking Dead” and the incom-
judges regarding this prize has certainly
attracted attention, though perhaps not in the
way Tyra had hoped.
Love ABC Family’s “25 Days of
Christmas” ode to clay animation as I do, I
look forward to catching up on sleep, vegeta-
bles and television this winter break as part of
a healthy diet. I will do my best also to expand
my repertoire to continue to bring you a
simultaneously negative but adoring perspec-
tive on America’s greatest pastime, couch
sports. Happy holidays, everyone!
— l i z S TA R K
contact liz: estark12@stanford.edu

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about an intense party. Only the to the forget-it-all, find-meaning-in- call the sound “good, clean fun” like
place she imagines would have both dancing messages of before. She sings The Beach Boys if it weren’t desirous
“dirt and glitter cover the dance floor.” in tune with the synthesizer, defend- of adulterous one-night stands.

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“Gaieties 2010,” “West
marching pace to her wish for mov-
Side Story” and
ing on. Anyone can relate to her need
“Coraline”
to not be alone in the dark. Far-away
sounds of “oh” are comforting
Stanley Tang ‘14 capital-
mourns, strangely. Although this
izes on the Internet,
song might be better fit for Kate
writes a best-seller.
Nash or Ingrid Michaelson, even
Lady Gaga has her slow pieces.
ing the night-owl life. The loud
pounding makes a simple but seduc-
tive rhythm and then slows to echo-
ing keyboard notes.
Ke$ha has something against
overly sensitive boys. “Grow a Pear” is
a whine-fest about . . . whining. It
definitely isn’t a favorite from the
album. She wants a guy who “acts
like a chick” to “grow a vag,” and she
ends up at a new level of crudeness.
The lyrics aren’t that intriguing, with
just enough thought for a corrupt
nursery rhyme. The bass is turned up
for the pulsating rhythm of this song.
The title “C U Next Tuesday” is a
nod to texting culture. Another bass
beat joins whimsical synth keyboard-
ing for an even harmony throughout.
She sings in a playful, childlike way,
The ending track is a remix of
“Animal” from Ke$ha’s release. This
is best described as dream elec-
tropop, somewhere in between Owl
City and Imogen Heap. The
Billboard remix is appropriate for her
idealistic pipe dreams mentioned.
She wants to go “into the magic” and
take us with her.
Don’t expect Ke$ha the philoso-
pher. She delivers on her image: party
anthems for losing yourself on the
dance floor. At the very least, this is a
guilty pleasure for you to sink your
teeth into.
—sophia VO
contact sophia:
sophiavo@stanford.edu

“Crazy Beautiful Life” returns us inducing a lovely drowsiness. I would