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Bid week prompts ResEd concerns

Spike in alcohol incidents leads to meeting with Greek leaders
By ALICE PHILLIPS
DESK EDITOR
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Residential Education (ResEd) officials met with leaders in the Greek community last week to discuss the dozens of alcohol-related incidents that occurred during the new member education period, along with steps fraternities and sororities may take to alter the culture of bid week in the future. Im not naive to think that every person in the room was holding hands and singing Kumbaya, but I feel like most people there were honest, and most people were serious about wanting to address these things, Dean of ResEd Deborah Golder said of the meeting.
Alcohol incidents during bid week On May 17, Associate Dean of ResEd Nate Boswell sent a letter to all Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) and Inter-Sorority Council (ISC) members expressing concern about a spike in incidents involving the consumption and distribution of alcohol during the recruitment period, citing a fundamental disconnect between Stanfords stated expectations of responsibility around alcohol and the manner in which your chapters are regulating your use. The letter also directed the Greek organizations on campus that they must take steps to show that they are about far more than drinking or risk losing University recognition. If our current trajectory contin-
ues, it would not be out of the realm of possibility for the Stanford administration and Board of Trustees to consider serious changes to the Greek community on this campus as we know it, IFC President Ben Laufer 12 wrote in an email to The Daily. Sororities were eliminated altogether once before, and it is not inconceivable that Stanford will once again reconsider the status of Greeks here at Stanford. Boswells letter listed five areas of concern: reports that recruits returned to freshman residences so drunk they were vomiting and passing out, reports of medical transports because of alcohol poisoning, reports
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UNIVERSITY
Bing Concert Hall nears completion

By SARAH MOORE
STAFF WRITER
STUDENT GOVT
Stanford hopes to use next years opening of the Bing Concert Hall as an opportunity to better integrate the arts into campus life and to engage with local communities, the University announced Monday at an event that also included the introduction of Stanfords rebranding of its four-decade-old performing arts program. Stanford Live will replace Stanford Lively Arts, the previous organization tasked with helping to cultivate the performing arts on campus. Its inaugural season will begin January 2013 when the Bing Concert Hall holds its first performance. Engaging with surrounding communities is going to be a priority for us, said Bing Concert Hall Managing Director Wiley Hausam. A second priority is to build new audiences. The $111.9 million concert hall named after the financial supporters of the project, Helen and Peter Bing 55 is expected to open on schedule and on budget, the University announced. The theme of the opening weekends performances is a celebration of the Bay Area. Bing Concert Hall is a shared facility, said Stephen Hinton, faculty director of the Arts Initiative and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts. It doesnt belong exclusively to any groups on campus, but its also
Execs to hire ASSU cabinet over summer

Zimbroff, Wagstaff spend first five weeks on adminstrative tasks
By MARY HARRISON
STAFF WRITER ROGER CHEN/The Stanford Daily
The new $111.9 million Bing Concert Hall is under construction behind the Arrillaga Alumni Center. The facility is projected to open on schedule, with its first performance Jan. 2013.
for local artists. Hinton said that Stanford Live and the new concert hall will help students complete the recently revised breadth requirements that include courses in aesthetic and interpretive inquiry and creative expression. The University is committed to integrating the arts in its curriculum as an extension of the classroom, Hinton said. We will link the [concert hall] schedule to other events on campus. For example, I will be teaching a freshman seminar next year, and we will use the schedule as a cycle for our class. Another plan for integrating the arts with the rest of campus is the Beethoven Project. Various groups performances of all of Beethovens symphonies and piano concertos in the 2013 season will coincide with a symposium of international scholars called Heroism in the Age of Beethoven. Hausam added that this academic intertwining is aimed to attract students who probably would not otherwise be inclined to attend a Beethoven concert. There is a sense of social exchange and dynamic energy within the hall, said Jenny Bilfield, the artistic and executive director of Stanford Lively Arts. The University campus is the performing arts center of the 21st century with its integrated and interdisciplinary approach. Bilfield also stressed the intimacy of the venue, with its 844-person seating capacity and unique vineyard shape designed by acousti-
After five weeks in office, ASSU President Robbie Zimbroff 12 and Vice President William Wagstaff 12 have yet to make cabinet staffing decisions. According to Zimbroff, the two have been working on completing administrative tasks and will begin tackling larger initiatives during the summer. I think something we were reluctant to do is to rush into things just to say that we have them done, Zimbroff said. Zimbroff said he would assemble his cabinet over the summer by communicating with and interviewing potential candidates via Skype, phone calls and email. Were just looking for people with good heads on their shoulders and who know generally how the campus operates, he said.
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Tech tunes
Univ. revenue, expenses to rise next fiscal year

By MARSHALL WATKINS
DESK EDITOR
MONEY
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The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPho) performed their spring concert Wednesday night in Dinkelspiel, featuring laptops, iPhones and iPads.
RESEARCH
Biodesign forges connections

By CATHERINE ZAW
STAFF WRITER
Stanford is a rarity as one of eight universities in the United States with strong ties between its medical and engineering schools, with hundreds of pieces of research resulting from the collaboration. Officials from the School of Engineering and the School of Medicine said that this collaboration is largely grass roots, springing out of faculty familiarity and mutual
interests. The collaboration almost never comes from top down from the administrative level, but is rather based on individual faculty or students meeting each other, talking about what they do and finding a common or complementary interest, said Russ Altman, chair of the Bioengineering Department. Stanford does, however, offer some grant
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The 2012-13 budget will reflect the Universitys very strong financial position in the allocation of funds to academic, administrative and auxiliary units, according to University officials, as both revenues and expenses are projected to rise from previous years. Vice Provost for Budget and Auxiliaries Management Tim Warner MBA 77 formally presented the budget plan at the May 31 meeting of the Faculty Senate. The budget will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for approval in June. Were in a strong financial position not quite where we were prior to the recession, but gaining back, Warner wrote in an email to The Daily. In composing the budget, Warner emphasized continuity in spending priorities from previous years, with sustained focuses on strengthening budgetary support for undergraduate financial aid and boosting the Universitys competitive faculty salary position. Warner also acknowledged the impact of a struggling economic recovery and potential government cuts in the budget plan. Federal direct research funding of which the University (excluding the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) currently anticipates $478 million in 2012-13 constitutes over 10 percent of projected University revenues. These are both issues we are keep-
ing a sharp eye on, Warner wrote. They are also why we are budgeting a surplus next year in General Funds so that we have some cushion in the event of shortfalls in investment income and research funding. The University will also retain many of the budget cuts made at the height of the economic recession. While funding for programs such as Overseas Seminars and Sophomore College has been restored,Warner told the Faculty Senate on May 31 that the program of cuts is really starting to pay off. Consolidated expenses for the 201213 fiscal year total $4,096.3 million and are divided among expenses incurred by the Universitys academic units including its seven schools and those incurred by administrative and auxiliary units. Consolidated revenues for the 201213 fiscal year will total $4,443.4 million. Academic units The Universitys academic units will incur a projected $3,367.8 million in consolidated expenses next year, though the amounts disbursed to individual academic units vary greatly. The School of Medicine will receive 43 percent of all academic unit expenses next year, totaling $1,459.6 million. The school expects an overall surplus of $21.2 million next year, compared to this years $18.9 million surplus. The schools budget plan notes, how-
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2 N Thursday, June 7, 2012 SPEAKERS & EVENTS
The Stanford Daily
China censors to prevent collective action, King says

By NATASHA WEASER
DESK EDITOR
BUDGET
Continued from front page

ever, the potential revenue shortfalls prompted by economic stagnation and health care reform, emphasizing the continuing need to plan creatively in order to sustain a strong fiscal position. The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is projected to obtain 11 percent of consolidated expenses for 2012-13. SLAC, which obtains 97 percent of its funding from the Department of Energy, anticipates an expansion in expenses from $362 million this year to $384 million next year. The School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S) is slated to receive 12 percent of academic unit expenditures. H&S, which currently has the largest faculty in the schools history and which has mounted an aggressive faculty retention campaign, anticipates an operating surplus of $16.7 million next year. After transfers to plant and endowment payout capitalization, however, the school will run a deficit of $7 million. The School of Engineering will occupy 10 percent of consolidated expenditures, with a projected $4.7 million overall surplus next year. Sponsored research will constitute 41 percent of the Schools revenues, down from 44 percent last year as federal research funding contracts. The Dean of Research will receive 6 percent of consolidated expenses for 2012-13. The Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research anticipates a deficit of $1.1 million, stemming from revenues of $190.0 million, expenses totaling $195.9 million and net transfers of $4.9 million. The Graduate School of Business (GSB) is projected to produce 6 percent of expenses while generating an overall surplus of $3.8 million. The GSB will continue to rely extensively on endow-
The speech of Chinese citizens is individually free but collectively in chains, said Gary King, director of Harvards Institute for Quantitative Social Science and a professor in Harvards Department of Government. King gave a presentation Wednesday afternoon in Encina Hall titled, How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression. There are many looming challenges facing China ahead, said Jean Oi, director of the Stanford in China program and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, who introduced King and his project. One of them is how China is going to deal with the Internet and the flow of information. People have a lot of assumptions and speculations about censorship in China, she added, The question is, what do they censor and what are they trying to do? Kings lecture centered on disproving conventional wisdom that the goal of Chinese censorship is to stop government criticism, instead arguing through his empirical research that it is the threat or possibility of collective action that the censors target. King said that only two topics pornography and criticism of the censors themselves are always blocked. We as observers often think that the Chinese censorship system is leaky and imperfect, but actually it is our understanding of it that is so, he said. Although he acknowledged that countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam also block sensitive content, King stated, China is the largest effort to censor human expression in history. While exact numbers remain unclear, King said censorship in China is a huge manual effort involving hundreds of thousands of people. He divided the censorship into two broad categories: search filtering, which involves blocking certain terms in search engines, and content filtering, which involves removing individual posts by hand. According to King, websites like Sina, Chinas largest infotainment web portal, hire up to 1,000 people to censor content. With the help of Harvard graduate students Jennifer Pan and Molly Roberts, King undertook a sixmonth project, spanning from Jan. 2011 to June 2011, to use automated
content analysis software he developed and patented to download over 3 million social media posts from 1,400 Chinese social media sites. King then divided these posts into 95 topics and, for each post, examined the content, placed it on a timeline and revisited the site to see if it was censored. According to King, 13 percent of social media posts are censored overall, even though there are significant differences across geographic regions and topics. Drawing from the data collected, King showed that among some of the most-censored events in the earlier half of 2011 were protests in Inner Mongolia, the arrest of dissident Ai Weiwei and the rush to buy salt following the Japanese earthquake. King referred to the last case as an example of a topic that did not criticize or threaten the government, but was characterized by collective action and was thus heavily censored. To provide more evidence for this theory, King showed how criticism of key government policies, including the One Child Policy and education policy, have low censorship percentages, arguing that this is due to their lack of collective action potential. King also pointed out that in the cases of the protests in Inner Mongolia and Ai Weiweis arrest, posts were censored whether they supported or criticized the state. Citing cases such as the downfall of politician Bo Xilai and a South China Sea peace agreement, King also suggested that his software and findings can predict certain events before they occur. With the Chinese government leaving huge footprints and exposing themselves, we can tell what they are going to do before they do it, King said. He also noted that Chinese censorship is not ambiguous or hidden, showing a picture of a blocked Chinese site that stated, The page you requested is temporarily down. How about you go look at another page? I am not favorably impressed, but nevertheless impressed, by the Chinese censorship system, he said. This may be the optimal way to have a censorship program, as the government gets to see what everyone thinks, eliminate collective action potential and can measure and deal with problems. Contact Natasha Weaser at nweaser@stanford.edu.
ment payouts as a revenue source, with such transfers projected to constitute 34 percent of the GSBs total revenue of $190.2 million, alongside private gifts, which will provide a further 12 percent. Stanford Libraries will be allotted 3 percent of consolidated academic expenditures. The unit will run a deficit of $2.6 million in 201213, as the unit hires more specialist staff and plans and implements capital projects such as the relocation of collections currently housed in Meyer Library to the former GSB South Building. The Law School, the School of Earth Sciences and the School of Education will each receive 2 percent of total consolidated expenses. Remaining expenses, which total 3 percent, will be divided between the Hoover Institution, the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Vice Provost for Graduate Education. Administrative and auxiliary units Consolidated expenses for University administrative and auxiliary units will total $1,143.0 million for the 2012-13 fiscal year, with the largest segment belonging to Land, Buildings and Real Estate (LBRE). LBRE will constitute 20 percent of total administrative and auxiliary expenses next year. While expenses for 2012-13 will rise by 7.5 percent to reach $234.2 million, the unit will generate a small surplus of $2.4 million next year, according to the budget plan. Business Affairs and Information Technology will consume a smaller portion of overall expenses next year relative to this one, with its share falling from 18 to 16 percent of total expenditures. The unit, which has projected revenues of $190.4 million and expenses of $191.6 million, will run a small deficit next year. Residential and Dining Enterprises (R&DE) will make up 15 percent of consolidated expenses
for administrative and auxiliary units and will generate a small deficit of $1.7 million for the upcoming fiscal year. Minimal expense growth and a 2.7 percent growth in revenues largely attributable to planned room and board increases will result in a smaller deficit relative to this year. The Office of Undergraduate Admission (UGA) and the Financial Aid Office (FAO) will receive 14 percent of total administrative and auxiliary expenditures, with almost all of the units $160.5 million in expenses constituted by an outlay of $153.1 million on undergraduate need-based financial aid. The Department of Athletics, PE and Recreation (DAPER) will receive 9 percent of consolidated expenses, with a projected budget balanced by $97.4 million in expenses and revenues alike. Among the remaining units, the Office of Development and Alumni will receive 9 percent of consolidated expenses; the Office of the President and Provost will receive 6 percent; the Office of Student Affairs will receive 5 percent; and the remaining 6 percent will be divided between the Stanford Management Company, the Office of the General Counsel, the Department of Public Safety and the Office of Public Affairs. Capital Budget In addition to academic and auxiliary and administrative expenses, Stanford will spend a further $529.5 million in 2012-13 through the Universitys Capital Budget. The 2012/13-2014/15 Capital Plan, which totals $2.1 billion and is 14 percent larger than last years plan, will advance major projects such as the construction of the Stanford Energy Systems Innovations (SESI) project and the repurposing of the vacated, old Graduate School of Business Complex. Contact Marshall Watkins at mtwatkins@stanford.edu.
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programs, such as BioX, in which the school specifically asks for grant proposals that require a team of two or more investigators who have never worked together. This requirement encourages interaction between faculty members of different departments. Another such program is the biodesign program, which trains students from these different fields in inventing and implementing new biomedical technologies. In our designed program, fellows come in for either one or two academic years and are placed in teams half comprised of engineers that either have a masters or Ph.D. degree as well as two years of work experience and the other half doctors that are at their residency point, said Ari Chaney, executive director for technology translation for the biodesign program. Our teams represent our beliefs a combination of engineers and medicine skills leads to the best patient impact. The biodesign program, started 11 years ago, is an example of how the medical and engineering disciplines recognize the values of one another. Chaney said that the most important part is the process contributing teams undergo. Almost like a boot camp, Chaney said of the experience. We bring engineers and doctors to a common denominator where engineers know what issues there are in the medical field as well as the doctors understand the same vice versa. Through clinical immersion, the biodesign program challenges the teams to find and address clinical needs. Altman said that it is key that the collaborators have different specialties, each relevant to a research question. There is no professor matching and a lot of collaborative work comes from individual researchers interest in the work of others, he noted. Altman calls this method bottom-up collaboration and often encourages faculty to work with others by recommending potential collaborators.
We bring engineers and doctors to a common denominator.

ARI CHANEY
A close relationship between engineering and medicine is very natural, Altman said. The medical doctor teams up with an engineer to make a product that could help a patient. According to Altman, working with graduate students is another way different faculty members get to know each other. A graduate students thesis committee is made up of three or four faculty members, and they get to know and talk to one another, he said. The student can serve as a vehicle of faculty interaction. Often one of the challenges is that, though faculty may have a collaboration idea, there is no one available to do the work, Altman said. When a graduate student arrives, theyre obviously the one that is going to be doing the work and learning techniques from different departments. Once collaboration is established, generally, the members teaming up negotiate first, settling on authorship and how to allocate credit. This prevents researchers from having the wrong expectations entering into collaboration. A huge aspect of the collaboration is of personal compatibility, said Altman, who compared
the process to dating. In addition to being a good match in expertise, its important that the collaborators get along. Altman attributes the productive relationship partly to the physical proximity of the School of Medicine to the School of Engineering, since the move of the School of Medicine from San Francisco to Palo Alto in 1959. All the schools are on the same campus, coming in from all different parts of the University operating at high levels of expertise, Altman said. Chaney also recognized the rich resources that being in Silicon Valley offers to the collaborations. In the early stages of the projects, entrepreneurs from the area can provide funding or experienced managers, he said. And ultimately, the collaborations can make a difference to patients and to health. In the future, Altman sees only
a closer interaction between the two schools. There is going to be a new bioengineering and chemical engineering building that will have an animal facility that will be for the engineering school, Altman noted. Its going to create an easy gateway between engineers and the medical school. The building, which will host teaching labs and lecture halls on the first floor and offer shared facilities in the basement, is expected to be completed by the summer of 2014. Altman predicted that all the engineering departments in
general are going to be seeing a lot more biology. Stanford Hospital is undergoing a major expansion campaign, and while the new construction doesnt directly impact the collaboration between the School of Medicine and School of Engineering, Altman said that the best clinical fellows are likely to be attracted to the Stanford School of Medicine and are likely to take advantage of the collaboration to innovate. Contact Catherine Zaw at czaw 13@stanford.edu.
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FEATURES
HISTORY CORNER
Steinbeck at Stanford
CHANGE
founder of Change.org, discusses his popular social justice site
By STEPHEN COBBE
y his junior year at Stanford, Ben Rattray 02 planned to become a banker, earn a lot of money, then retire and enter politics. A double major in economics and political science, Rattray was wellequipped for such a career path. But after returning home for winter break that year, one of his brothers revealed that he was gay and everything changed for Rattray. My brother said the thing that was most painful when he was younger wasnt the people who were explicitly homophobic or anti-gay that he saw around him, but that people would refuse to stand up and speak out against it, people like me, Rattray said. Frankly, I was ashamed in a deep way for the first time in my life. Over the following weeks, Rattray realized that finance was not his calling. He wanted to
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n 1925, during the sixth and final year of John Steinbecks time as a Stanford student, the soon-tobe famous author moved off campus to a one-room shack behind a larger house in Palo Alto. The room was seven square feet and Steinbeck loved it. Steinbeck called the shack the Den of Pegasus after the mythological flying horse because it symbolized [his and his writer friends] soaring ambitions, said Art Ring, a former Steinbeck Collectors Club member. An avid Steinbeck enthusiast, Ring used to lead tours across the Stanford campus that detailed Steinbecks life at the University. Several years later, Steinbeck changed the symbol to a winged pig, explaining . . . I find Im more a Pigasus than a Pegasus; a lumbering soul but trying to fly, Ring said. To Steinbeck, that summed up the progress of his career at that point in his life . . . Steinbeck used that symbol throughout his life. This is the Steinbeck persona. Steinbeck had a colorful career at Stanford. In the six years that he was enrolled at the University, starting in 1919, he only accumulated 93 units becoming equivalent in status to a junior. He came to Stanford to mollify his parents, primarily his mother, explained Kevin Hearle 80, a visiting scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the American West. He wasnt excited about it. He didnt see why he needed a college education to be a writer. Steinbeck had no intention of graduating, according to Ring. Instead, the future Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author took a collection of courses that he thought would help him hone his craft as a writer. His grades were far from stellar, and he often withdrew from classes before the final if he found them uninteresting. Despite his varied college career, he did meet two English professors who he came to respect greatly. Margery Bailey 14 M.A. 16 and Edith Mirrielees 07 would have a formative impact on Steinbecks writing. Mirrielees taught a class on the short story, a form of literature in which Steinbeck would become a heralded voice. Edith Mirrielees was the first to spot Steinbecks talent, Ring said. She restored his ego, and gently and quietly would fire him with hope.
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Ben Rattray 02 founded Change.org, a website that facilities the creation of online social petitions to address specific instances of social inequity, in 2007 with former dormmate Mark Dimas 02.
somehow shed light on stories of social injustice and help give a voice to those who had been victimized. Eventually, these ideas culminated in the launch of Change.org in 2007. The website, founded by Rattray and a former dormmate, Mark Dimas 02, facilitates the creation of online social petitions to address specific instances of social inequity. Petitions support a host of different causes, including gay rights, the environment, economic and criminal justice, education and immigration. Nearly 15,000 petitions are started each month on the site a number that continues to grow. My concern was that there was a disconnect between general interest in taking action and the specific, practical ways to do so effectively, Rattray said. After graduating from Stanford, Rattray received a masters degree from the London School
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Flippin around
Co-founders of the Stanford Flipside reminisce about stunts, jokes and trickery
By JOSEE SMITH
W orlds Best Minds Gather at Exotic Erotic. Students Poor Midterm Grade Actually Causes Apocalypse. Report: Stanford Student Too Busy To
Breathe. Center for Coming Up With Fancy Names for Silly Things Announces New Global Peace Summit for Prosperity and Change. These headlines come from none other than the Stanford Flipside, a weekly satirical news publication that combines pop culture, social and political commentary and campus-centered humor to entertain students. Known for being one of the more unique and quirky campus publications, the Flipside also contains popular puzzles students typically solve upon picking up the pamphlet in the dining hall. It all started more than four years ago, when Jeremy Keeshin 12 and his high school friends created a publication similar to the Flipside at their high school. The Flipside is still published at Deerfield High School and Northwestern University. A few of my friends were really into The Onion and satirical writing, Keeshin said. I brought it here to Stanford, doing it with some of the guys in my freshman dorm. At Stanford, the Flipside started out as a club, with a newspaper format and multiple pages. Keeshin realized that this was not the best format for easy consumption and adapted the Flipside into a short, weekly format, which increased readability, offered more visibility and allowed for wider distribution. The distribution process has been pretty much the same since the beginning, said Zach Galant 12, Flipside co-founder. Wed say Lets go to dinner at Wilbur! and wed eat dinner there and distribute it there and the next night wed be at Stern and wed distribute it there. It started out with just us distributing it and we got some friends to do it but it was pretty tough initially. Even in the early years of the Flipside, the growing readership met the distribution with a mixture of excitement and anticipation.
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Growing
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By ERIKA ALVERO KOSKI
DESK EDITOR
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ashing from room to room in Serra, in striped bathing suits and with plastic water pistols dangerously set in their palms, six-year-old twins Aisling and Sabha may be a surprising sight to most students who are accustomed to seeing a general population over the age of 18. But for the Serra freshmen, the formidable pint-sized duo is part of the dorm community. For freshmen this is their first year away from home, said Susan OHara, Serra resident fellow (RF) and the twins mother. A lot of them have younger brothers and sisters, so it triggers those automatic nurturing kind of things. Growing up on campus as a child is a unique experience, with perhaps some pitfalls. How can six-year-olds fit into the college world, a world of individuals on the cusp of entering the workforce? According to OHara, the advantages of raising a family on campus are what bring many RFs to the position. Actually, one of the reasons we did it was because of what wed heard about, from other RFs, about their kids, OHara said. In fact, the children of RFs may gain an intellectual experience to which few of their school peers have access, perhaps accelerating their precociousness. They grow up having this very rich experience of college life, said Marie-Louise Catsalis, RF at Toyon and mother of two boys, four-year-old Tobin and seven-year-old Kai. Just from being around college students, I hear their vocabulary expanding, and they use words and concepts that college students are thinking about. Like, Oh, what will I do
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Aisling and Sabha Bennett, six-year-old twin daughters of Serra Resident Fellows (RF) Susan OHara and Stuart Bennett, were caught eating a chocolate cake in a students room. The girls are among many RF children who grow up among undergraduates on the Farm.
next with my career? A shifting vocabulary is a change noted by the Serra RFs as well. Theyll say, Whats up, dude? said Stuart Bennett, OHaras husband. And theyll call me Stu. They dont call me Daddy. Everybody calls me Stu, so they do, too . . . its kind of funny because theyre six years old and they talk like theyre eighteen. To some students, the children take on a younger sibling role. This, however, causes some awkwardness for older RF kids. Andrea and Federico Clerici-Hermandinger, who grew up in Cedro, found that as they grew older these interactions became fewer and fewer. I feel like we [hung out with students] when we were younger, said Andrea, now a sophomore at Palo Alto High School. Now theres such a close age difference its a little more awkward. A high school senior, Federico ClericiHermandinger will be leaving Palo Alto and heading to Boston College. I didnt even think about applying to Stanford because Ive just been on campus for so long, he said.But its still been a good experience, and its showed me a lot of what college is about. For the younger children, though, Stanford is still home. Living on a college campus establishes a model of college life for the children, setting Stanford as the norm of what follows high school. So a few months ago Kai started saying, I want to go to Stanford . . . At the moment, he likes Stanford; this is the place, Catsalis said. But as a seven-year-old, thats all he knows . . . Most teenagers are thinking, As far away as I can get from my parents. But at
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Dismantling the Stanford summer hierarchy
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s spring quarter progresses, a familiar refrain is repeated with increasing frequency, reaching a fever pitch as May turns to June. From dining halls to IHUM sections, students, faculty, and well-meaning strangers raise the inevitable question: So what are you doing this summer? The inquiry itself is innocuous enough, yet it often carries with it implicit assumptions about what a Stanford students summer should entail. Students who brightly chirp about their plans for international research, consulting internships or Silicon Valley start-up work are met with approving nods, while students whose plans are uncertain, or who plan to go home and find a summer job, may encounter confusion, condescending sympathy or even derision. While the diverse pursuits undertaken by undergraduates are impressive, the Editorial Board advocates a broader understanding of what summer undertakings are considered valuable and important. The current culture of the Stanford summer is at best elitist and at worst classist, and Stanford students may be reluctant to pursue unconventional summer paths due to the mentality that the question So what are you doing this summer? consistently reinforces. Students are asked about summer plans as early as January, when the gauntlet of interviews and applications begins in earnest. Summer, a time that was once occupied by recreational pursuits or creating memories with friends and family, is now a precious and pressing opportunity for career advancement. This, in turn, has a negative impact on campus mental health, as summer plans and the social pressures that are associated with them can be enormous sources of stress. If a student accepts an internship or research position that ultimately proves dull, will she view the experience as a summer wasted? Even travel or volunteer work is often discussed in terms of the instrumen-
tal value of the experience or perspective it can provide, as another tally toward personal development. Ask yourselves this: When was the last time you had a summer that didnt have to count for anything? The ramifications of this problem extend far beyond the realm of which students land a coveted internship and which do not. Indeed, our attitude toward summers strikes at the heart of what is both extraordinary and stifling about being at Stanford. Opportunities are numerous, but the sea of possibilities can sometimes drown out endeavors that dont fit the prevailing wisdom of what a Stanford student should be doing. For example, the hierarchy of summertime activities may alienate our peers who work during their summers to support their families. Furthermore, the high value placed on internships often obscures the fact that many students simply cannot afford to accept unpaid positions. Imagine a Stanford community in which every impulse to ask What are you doing this summer? was instead replaced by Whats the most interesting thing you learned this week? We owe it to each other to be more invested in the current experiences of our peers, rather than placing arbitrary value on summer plans. Summer, besides offering an opportunity for career advancement, is a chance for rejuvenation, an escape from the predictable schedule of papers and midterms around which we organize our lives, and in doing so occasionally forsake or forget our passions. It also presents an opportunity to live away from the norm of instrumentality that is so often overly present on campus. The Editorial Board hopes that each of you finds a space for critical engagement, from urban boardrooms to rural ranches. Until the fall, we wish you three months of discovery and inquiry, wherever your divergent paths may lead you.
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Keeping out of touch
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raduating students, have you found that all of your interactions are plagued by one question? As you reminisce about freshman year dorms, late-night study sessions and crazy parties, is your mind overshadowed by one thought? And do you feel vaguely anxious because, whenever you interact with someone, youre busy thinking just one thing: Am I going to keep in touch with this person after graduation? Your parents may have told you to invest in your future. Well, now its time to start investing in your social future. Its time to pick the people who will be your lifelong companions, the people you can point out to your grandchildren as the friends from college. So look around at all the people youve met and liked over the past four (or five or more) years. Will you keep in touch with everyone? Probably not. Lets be honest: after graduation, you wont see some of these people ever again. Theyll go off to other cities, states and countries. You can try to keep in touch, but it probably wont work anyway. In twenty years, youll walk by each other at Trader Joes, and youll think, Oh, wow, that person looks like a 45-year-old version of [name of college acquaintance]! But is it your friend? It might be hard to tell by then. Just in case, youll make sure to avoid eye contact. Fortunately for us, were graduating from college in the Facebook era. Even after graduation you can continue to follow your friends Instagram uploads and see what theyre eating, where theyre shopping and who theyre hanging out with every weekend. Youll know where they live and what they look like for many more years to come, which will make that casual run-in at the
grocery store a little bit easier to handle. As for those friends you also interact with outside of Facebook, there are ways to actively keep in touch. Go ahead and schedule Skype sessions and phone dates its a great way to regularly check in with friends in those faraway places. Letters? Sure, you can write those too. Google+? Some people use it. Gchat? Its like it was invented for people who are bored at work. The thing is that when you graduate, youll have to figure out how to keep communicating with those friends in faraway places. They wont be down the hall, across the street or an inconvenient 10-minute bike ride away. Thats when youll have to decide not just whether to keep in touch but how often to do it. Would you Skype with someone every day? Call someone every hour? Gchat someone every minute? But keeping in touch requires time, and keeping in touch with more people will take up that much more time. Especially when these friends are in other places, you may realize that youre spending hours in front of your computer or on your phone. Your efforts to catch up with people cut into your opportunities to explore a new place, to meet new people or (if youre in grad school) to study a lot more. In one extreme scenario, you might find that your entire social life has turned into a never-ending cycle of keeping in touch with people from college. Whether youre making an effort to stay connected with a lot of people, or whether youre keeping up constant check-ins with just a few of them, youre neglecting whatever else it is that you could be doing in the present. Keeping in touch obviously isnt bad, and you likely wont find yourself in the situation
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Will you keep in touch with everyone? Probably not.

above. But it goes to show a larger point: youre only 23-ish, and youre still changing. You have many new things to see and do and many new relationships to make; keeping in touch with a bunch of your college friends is allowed to take a backseat. Those of us who co-termed this past year have had the luxury of semi-acclimating to this new environment. And its not so bad to keep a little bit out of touch. Sometimes its even fun to run into those people who you havent seen in a while. At that moment, when you end up chatting with some casual acquaintance at your friends BBQ, it wont really matter if youve kept in touch. Seeing a familiar face will be fun, and talking to someone after a few years will give you a lot more to talk about. All this is to say, dont worry if you dont keep in touch with everyone. You cant. There are too many people graduating in your class at Stanford, too many other people in the world to meet
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Peace be with you
I DO CHOOSE TO RUN
he most epic thing I have ever learned is how similar people are. Across time and space, were the same. We havent changed after centuries of civilizational development, revolutions and scientific movements; we dont change according to birthplace or method of upbringing. Im convinced that our biggest problems are the eternal ones, like happiness, loneliness, power and all of the other one-word bombs our society cant seem to diffuse. Everything springs from those. Our toys may get shinier, but the human condition does not. The reason I majored in international relations is that I see this play out on the global stage. Every foreign affair can be stripped down to something remarkably human. There are big players in the European Union that break the rules they enforce on others; this starts on the school playground. North and South Korea vie for a status with financial benefits; this happens in our families. Our cultures and languages, too, are just clothes for the same concerns. A pie in the sky in English is the picture of a rice cake in Korean. (Isnt that awesome? I learned that last week.) Parallels abound. Theres a map in my head of everything Ive ever learned, and everything on it leads right back to a common human nature. In a way, the Stanford institution supports this, because our unity is emphasized through our
What is this place?
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great diversity. Behind each community center, ethnic theme house and extracurricular is a purported celebration of difference, also printed in every promotional booklet admitted students receive. Many of us hear more a cappella, eat more South American grains and are exposed to more kinds of sexual self-identification here on this campus than we ever did before we came. As a result, though, the loudest proclamation we make to the world is that our student body has, at least superficially, digested the divides of ethnicity, socioeconomic status, ideology, religion and appearance. Hence, our sensitivity to political correctness; we expect ourselves to embody a universal embrace, as if the idea were attached to our Stanford degree. And here my doubt lingers. For as we tout big victories of acceptance and toleration, what do we do every day, privately? We speculate about friends behind their backs. We laugh at each others expense. Rant angrily about others achievements. Give people cold
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high school teacher of mine once observed that if we truly wish to understand the soul of a society, we need only look at what it builds. Public architecture, he argued, gives material form to the abstract values of the community that constructed it. The peoples of medieval Europe built their cities around immense cathedrals their own humble homes dwarfed by the house of God, its spires and pinnacles pointed skyward to redirect the eyes from the mundanity of earth to the glories of heaven. The Romans placed the enormous Colosseum at the center of their capital, an edifice of public entertainment in the heart of an empire of bread and circuses. Nazi Germany crushed its population under the gargantuan weight of an architecture of militantly straight lines and implacable granite immensity, subsuming the individual man in the great mass of Vlkisch oneness. As I prepare to leave this place after four years, I cannot help but wonder if we might locate at least part of the elusive, hard-to-define Stanford spirit the spirit the New Yorker tried to capture this year, the spirit that animates this Universitys innumerable accomplishments and triumphs, the spirit that courses through the veins of every student and alumnus
in our architecture as well. Perhaps in the ever-flowing stream of creative destruction that razes old buildings and erects bigger and better ones, we could discern Stanfords dedication to the intellectual cutting edge, to the perpetual abandonment of old ideas in the pursuit of new knowledge. In the essential sameness of the Main Quad, unchanged amid the unending upheaval of the rest of campus, we might see Stanfords dedication to the core principles of a liberal education given physical form a recognition that as new technologies change the world, the fundamental questions of humanity stay the same. We have countless gyms for a community driven by fitness and appearance; an enormous new business school to give concrete form to our restless entrepreneurialism; community centers for a diverse student body that hails from around the world and from every corner of society, economy and sexuality. But some unanswered questions remain. I cannot help but wonder if our architecture might symbolize our communitys imperfections as surely as it does our successes. There is, for example, no community center, or any dedicated space at all, for Stanford military veterans. Might that symbolize a
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troubling gap in our commitment to diversity and inclusion on a campus where, all too recently, there were only seven undergraduate veterans out of a student body of some 6,800? Everywhere we see sandstone, Spanish mission architecture, redtiled roofs conformity. As represented by the battle over Chi Theta Chi this year, are we uncomfortable with true, as opposed to superficial, human difference, or deeply alternative notions of what constitutes a life well lived? What does it mean that at the very heart of our thoroughly secular campus lies a church? Is MemChu simply an paradox, a bizarre antiquation out of place in and unsuited for the rigors of an uncomfortable modernity? Or does it reflect the unacknowledged presence of an enduring faith in universal progress, reason, the fundamental and ineradicable goodness of man? At an event for returning alumni during Homecoming Weekend this year, a particularly
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Portugal
A taste of
knew next to nothing about Portugal when I decided to travel to Lisbon. My knowledge of the country only went up to about the 16th century and the period of exploration. Even my moms insistence on the usefulness of Spanish for basic conversations with Romance language speakers did not help me, and I was unable to have the Spanish-Portuguese conversations I believed I would. Initially, I tried speaking Spanish. I had signed a Spanish-only pledge for the quarter and did not want to slip into English when Spanish was so similar to Portuguese. The language barrier proved to be higher than I anticipated. My fellow Stanford in Madrid students and I tried to order in Spanish. Our waitress would not have that. She helped each of us pronounce the Portuguese words from the menu. We quickly learned that speaking Spanish only invited Portuguese lessons, while English worked and got us what we wanted the cost of an item, directions, etc. Attempting Portuguese transformed us from travelers into friends. It was not long before obrigada and obrigado female and male versions of thank you were added to our regular vocabularies. In Portugal, I learned what pride the Portuguese have for their lan-
guage. More than anywhere else I have visited, the locals wanted to teach us. Whether it was a simple hello or thank you, they wanted to share. This even rang true in commercial places, where employees would take the time to explain cultural nuances, even if sacrificing efficiency to do so. Once I got past the language barrier, Lisbon eased my homesickness, due to its striking similarity to San Francisco. We wandered through Lisbons hilly streets, populated by cable cars, and stumbled upon a large flea market. In the distance, a red suspension bridge spanned the wide river. The fresh coastal air even smelled like San Francisco! After nostalgically noting the similarities, I reminded myself that I was in a foreign city and took in the citys individuality. I admired all the ceramic tiles lining houses, churches and fountains. Later I sat on a tiled bench and sunk my teeth into Lisbons delicacy, not sourdough bread, as is commonly thought, but rather sweet egg tart pastries called pasis de nata. A taste of Lisbon, a few lessons in Portuguese and many new experiences later, I returned to Madrid with my group for our last few weeks on the Iberian Peninsula.
Rebecca Amato
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Stanford in Madrid student Rebecca Amato 14 and fellow students practiced their Portuguese, ate paseis de nata and admired the cermaic tiles, churches and fountains of Lisbon on a side trip.
was making that night, prompting curious stares from other shoppers. The high number of RFs with families on campus has created a built-in community of RF children, a network both for the parents and children. Theres a monthly RF meeting, to figure out what were doing and its hard to have conversations with kids, Bennett said. So some of the RAs usually volunteer to entertain the kids or just watch over [them], so thats always fun. Living on campus exposes the children to a range of interesting events. Weekly events in the Toyon performance hall range from Shakespeare and opera to Ballet Folklrico, exposing Tobin and Kai to events beyond the experience of most kids. Ultimately, however, they are still children and while they may live on a college campus, they are not yet ready to fully take part in this world. When asked if college students are weird or cool, Tobins reply was weird. Why? Because they have weird tshirts, he answered, as a matter of fact. Contact Erika Alvero Koski at erikaa1@stanford.edu. rine Lab also gave Steinbeck an ecological perspective. Almost all of his works begin with looking first at the setting, at the environment . . . because of his notion that people are part of an environment, he added. That aspect of humans as animals and humans as part of an ecosystem is central to Steinbecks understanding of the world. In 1925, Steinbeck left Stanford to pursue a writing career in New York with neither a diploma nor an intent to return. Although he remained close to several teachers and friends he had met in Pacific Grove and Palo Alto, he did not keep up a relationship with the University. In a 1964 letter to his good friend Dook, Steinbeck asked, Do you ever go near Stanford? I dont think I would like to go. It would be kind of embarrassing because I was such a lousy student, I suppose. Anyway, I have no call for the Groves of Academe. The Groves of Academe, however, had housed him well in some regards. In a 1962 letter to Mirrielees, he wrote about her influence on his writing. Although it must be a thousand years ago that I sat in your class in story writing at Stanford, I remember the experience very clearly, Steinbeck said. I was bright-eyed and bushy-brained and prepared to absorb from you the secret formula for writing good short stories, even great short stories. You canceled this illusion very quickly.
Taylor Grossman 1964 letter from Sandstone & Tile, Winter/Spring 2002 publication. Citation: John Steinbeck to Carlton Sheffield. June 21, 1964, Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York. Steinbeck Collection
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the moment hes thinking, I dont want to leave home! The alcohol use and party scene that pervades university life can pose problems for raising a family, but OHara noted that although this was an initial parental concern, in practice it has not greatly affected her children. Before we moved in, we thought a lot about what they would see in a freshman dorm, what
would be not good for them to see, or how they would process all this, OHara said. I think actually since weve moved in, we havent found that to be much of a problem. OHara and Bennett do not let their children into the dorm on party nights like Friday and Saturday. Aisling and Sabha even managed to sleep through Band Run, which passed right by the Serra RF cottage. Though on weekdays the door between the cottage and the dorm will often remain open, allowing the girls to run out and mingle with the students and the students to run in as well, on weekend nights
the RFs close the door, effectively separating the family world from that of often-rambunctious college students. Catsalis concurred, though she expressed potential concern for the future. I wonder if its going to be sustainable when theyre teenagers, just because there will be a lot more temptations, she said. Living with a built-in dining hall has its advantages as well, though it does present a somewhat unrealistic image of the real world for the youngsters. OHara recalled a trip to the supermarket where one of the children asked what the chef
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In terms of his actual education and what he got out of it . . . at first he probably didnt get much, Hearle said. But he eventually found a group of fairly like-minded guys who were interested in writing and who knew that they wanted to be writers. Some of his best friends over the years people he kept in touch with his entire life were Stanford guys, he added. One such man was Carlton Sheffield 23 M.A. 30, affectionately known to Steinbeck as Dook. Dook would become Steinbecks lifelong companion until the latters death in 1968. Along with filling the role of best man at Steinbecks wedding to first wife Carol Henning, Dook also once saved Steinbecks life during a camping trip. Another was Ed Ricketts, a man who would later be immortalized as Doc in Cannery Row. Rickets and Steinbeck later wrote The Log from the Sea of Cortez, a description of their trip to the Gulf of California. Steinbeck met Ricketts at the Hopkins Marine Station, Stanfords marine laboratory, during a summer session. According to Hearle, Steinbecks time at the station in Pacific Grove was pivotal to his work as an author and granted him as awareness of biological and ecological systems. He wound up becoming probably the most scientifically, especially biologically trained major American novelist of his time, Hearle noted. The Hopkins Ma-
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Acclaimed novelist John Steinbeck attended Stanford for six years.
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UAR addresses Three Books selection

our community because we share these concerns. Because equity and access are among our core values in UAR, we have gone to great lengths from the outset to make this an inclusive, deliberate and thought-provoking program for all of our incoming students this fall. In April, Professor Applebaum met with the Resident Fellows (who will lead the dorm discussions following the event) and shared an extensive study guide. Elements of this study guide are presented in a video that will be released to incoming students in July. Although these materials contextualize the program and selections, the short announcement sent to The Daily last month was instead a press release about the texts and described neither the plans for access nor the conceptual agenda of the program. Given that a news brief (Three Books inspired by opening of Bing Concert Hall, May 25) and an editorial (Choice for Three Books disappointing, June 1) reacted only to the press release, wed like to elaborate on those issues here. To be perfectly clear: there is no expectation that students own or buy a smartphone for this program. In a few weeks, students will receive a mailing that includes the book, DVD and a letter from Professor Applebaum introducing them to the program and a special Smule website set up by Professor Ge Wang exclusively for incoming students. cus, an Italian film theorist, described the film character as possessing the attitude of detachment which licenses the most virulent actions at the level of history. This is exactly the detachment, however, that us supposedly good people show through actions against our own peers. Our own gossipy statements and jabs of superiority suggest irrevocable difference. They are predictions that we could never, in our entire lives, empathize with the subject of our criticism. Yet this emotional distance, at its very root, is the same as every -ism we decry in the world. The best example I can give is my own. I used to very outspokenly judge all Christian people as judgmental hypocrites. (Paradox.) Then, when I came to faith during The website (http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/3-books/) provides video demonstrations of the applications, links to relevant articles about the culture and meaning of smartphone applications and ideas for expanding on uses for this technology. To fully engage in all of the content offered, students will need to dedicate several hours (not unlike reading a book). In some respects it is this website not the apps themselves that is the Three Books selection. We want students to experience the applications first hand and have a plan for this. During New Student Orientation (NSO), residential staff will provide devices with the apps pre-loaded so students can explore them in person, make music with their dormmates and go on a campus sonic scavenger hunt together. This will be a scheduled activity during NSO not unlike a field trip to a percussion studio in which everyone can use (but need not purchase) an instrument. Regardless, it is not the apps themselves but rather a discussion of them that offers an opportunity to explore relevant issues such as the digital divide, Stanfords Silicon Valley identity and if Stanford students should expect entrepreneurial greatness. It is the content of Professor Wangs website that, coupled with the other texts, evokes the larger questions we are asking: What is important? Who gets to decide? Why are things included or excluded? How are these sophomore year, I suddenly understood that the fact was obvious. I am hypocritical now, as I was hypocritical then. Being human, Im actually implicated in every crime I denounce in everyone else. I condemn inconsiderate mercilessness in history and political science, and get caught up in it right after class. With this in mind, I wish to rescind a column I wrote last October called The Value of Division. I wrote it to justify my disregard for someone based on differences, and also my condescension. I now recognize this attitude as the same one driving most worldwide conflicts. For someone who believes in the power of small gestures and little things, surely I should be recognizing that my attitude toward people in my own
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thoughtful audience member spoke eloquently on the essential importance of place, arguing that there was something special, indefinable but real, about this campus, something he simply felt and knew every time he returned to Stanford. He worried that the proposed expansion to New York City might irretrievably alter the character of this University, even if the same faculty, students, classes, donors and sponsors inhabited and supported our East Coast branch. There would be, he feared, something missing there. Something lost. I cannot help but agree. Stanford somehow retains its essential identity even as its constituent parts the students, faculty and staff who give it life uproot themselves and move on. This place is defined by more than the people who, for a fleeting moment or two, occupy its dorms and classrooms, its dining halls and auditoriums. Stanford whatever that is cannot be replicated, moved, copied or imitated. It is here and only here. In addition to the buildings and the campus, however, we are Stanford as well. Wherever we go, there, too, will Stanford go. We will carry it with us always, imperfections and all. Miles has been honored to have the opportunity to write this year, and to hear your comments and criticisms. Email him any last words anytime at milesu1@stanford.edu.
or the first time, Stanfords Three Books program goes beyond the book: a documentary film, a suite of smartphone applications described on a website that includes articles and video documentation, as well as a book. It is hoped that the diversity of format encourages students to think about how ideas are expressed differently by the written word, in filmic presentation, through music, or by using contemporary social media. In light of the opening of the $112 million Bing Concert Hall, Undergraduate Advising and Research (UAR) chose to focus Three Books 2012 on the arts and chose Professor Mark Applebaum to select the texts. Professor Applebaum believes the opening of the concert hall begs the questions: What is it for? Who gets to use it? The issue of access that surrounds the concert hall is deliberately paralleled in the Three Books selections: what ideas are worthy of our attention (a book about heavy metal); which people ought to make art (a film about a 4-year old); and who should have access to tools (a discussion about smartphone applications). When the idea to examine smartphone applications initially surfaced, we were intrigued by the possibility and conscientious about the inclusion of a medium that, at first glance, may seem divisive. We understand the initial reaction the Three Books announcement has generated from some in
questions relevant to a liberal education? What is the role of the student in actively shaping that education? There are no right answers to these questions, but they are good starting points for the dialogue we hope to cultivate with students this fall and throughout their careers at Stanford. As Professor Applebaum states in his study guide, We hope for a class of open-minded, joyful skeptics, not sleepwalking academic sycophants. Part of that dialogue, we are certain, will address the Editorial Boards opinion that the apps dont offer an opportunity for intellectual engagement. As an academic community, we actively encourage the expression of differing opinions, and the Boards questioning of the Three Books program aligns with our intent. However, we regret that the Board did not take the time to first learn about the logistical infrastructure and conceptual agenda supporting our selection. We believe, had the Board considered the goals and care that went into designing this years program, it would share our excitement about what is sure to be a most thoughtful event. Even though the editorial failed to tell the full story, it has succeeded in sparking the very questions the selections are intended to provoke.
JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS 89 Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising
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attitudes. Avoid our ex. Want revenge. We think things like How could she say that!? or What a jerk! or I could never be like that. These statements dont start world wars or mass murders, and they arent published in our journals or academic papers. But they are undoubtedly our cruelties of choice, misleadingly casual for how bitter they can become. They are irrelevant to the humanitarianism we herald . . . right? In my Italian film class last week, we watched a biographical drama about a highly controversial political figure. Millicent Mar-
life may be yoked with the rest of the worlds. To accept that someone else has a heart is to accept that they want the same basic things and struggle with the same questions as you do. Its to accept that they were, in fact, created as equally as beautifully as you. Its an ideal we announce quite loudly on banners and broadcasts, but means something real only if we pursue it in our social lives now. Idealism, buzz words and institutions for world peace aside, lets be real. I believe in hope for us an eternal kind. But I believe its a personal thing, above all. Hey readers, Nina thanks you. And if you havent yet, you can find her at ninamc@stanford.edu for a little while longer.
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and too little time. So enjoy your final hugs, handshakes and fist-bumps with your friends. You wont get regular life updates from them the way you did the past few years, but thats just a part of graduating. And thats also the fun part of it when you do reconnect after months, years or even decades of not keeping in touch, reuniting will feel that much better. Miriam hopes she didnt just persuade you to not keep in touch with her. Go ahead, keep her updated at mirmarks@gmail.com.
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MANAGING EDITOR
By JACK BLANCHAT
In the midst of a run to the Super Regionals of the College World Series, seven Stanford baseball players were selected in the MLBs firstyear player draft this Monday through Wednesday. The bevy of Cardinal athletes entering the pro ranks began on Monday, when star junior pitcher Mark Appel was picked eighth overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates. Appel, one of three finalists for the Golden Spikes Award given annually to the top player in college baseball, has compiled a 10-1 record and a 2.27 ERA in 2012. Im currently concentrating on winning a national championship and finishing
my academic endeavors at Stanford, Appel told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday, as he will be the Friday starter for the Cardinals Super Regional matchup with Florida State. I will address the possibility of a professional career in due time. With his 6-foot-5, 220pound frame and 99-mile-perhour fastball, many MLB experts and scouts expected Appel to be selected first overall by the Houston Astros, who instead selected 17-year-old shortstop Carlos Correa with the first pick. With the unexpected slide, Appel ended up being the third righthander picked in the first eight picks of the draft, and the third consecutive righty that the Pirates have selected with their first pick in the draft. In 2011, the Pirates selected UCLA fireballer Gerrit Cole
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Stat on the Back
COMEBACK KIDS
CARDINAL RALLIES TWICE TO WIN REGIONAL AT HOME
By JOSEPH BEYDA
DESK EDITOR
s I finish up my time on the Farm, its hard not to look back and think about my four years here. All of a sudden, I understand all of those speeches we sat through during Admit Weekend and NSO about how fast this would go by, and since Dean Julie is leaving, Ill try to temporarily fill-in as leader of nostalgia. When I came to Stanford, I had the fears that everyone else had about college. Except I had all of them. I wouldnt be able to fit in, I wouldnt be smart enough and I would make Stanford second-guess its decision to let me in. As far as classes go, I knew that Id do something techie, mostly because I hated reading, writing and public speaking with a passion. I did not understand anything about literature, writing an essay induced more tor-
A special four years on the Farm
Three up, three down for the Cardinal baseball team. Stanford swept its regional for the second straight year, beating Fresno State once and Pepperdine twice at Sunken Diamond last weekend to stay in contention for its first national title since 1988. It took two come-from-behind wins over the Waves after junior righty Mark Appel shut down the Bulldogs on Friday night, but the Cardinal (41-16, 18-12 Pac-12) showed
why it deserved to host a regional for the first time in four years with a weekend of solid play. We battled, and at this stage of the year you have to be able to do that, said head coach Mark Marquess. Besides Appel, Stanfords starters hit some rough spots, but the bullpen gave up no earned runs in its 9.1 innings of work. The Cardinal did benefit from its opponents mistakes a combined seven errors, 20 walks and eight hit-by-pitches over the three games, including a three-run wild pitch that proved crucial in game two but its
best hitters also showed up on a big stage. Junior catcher Eric Smith, sophomore first baseman Brian Ragira, sophomore second baseman Danny Diekroeger and junior shortstop Kenny Diekroeger were all named to the allregional team, with Ragira reaching base 10 times in his 14 plate appearances. Im just trying to get on, and we have a bunch of run-producers throughout the lineup, Ragira said. I know that the guys behind me . . . are going to come up big for us. Stanfords team offense would have been
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Caroline Caselli
hen faced with one of the biggest decisions of my young life back in 2008 choosing where I would attend school for the next four years I knew very few specifics about what I wanted out of my college experience. However, three things were certain: I wanted to go to a good school (whatever that means), the weather had to be tolerable and sports were important. By default, small liberal arts schools and the Ivies were out, and my application list quickly came to resemble the more temperate half of the then-Pac-10 conference. As inconsequential as my criteria
Seeking solace in sports
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The Stanford baseball team downed Fresno State and Pepperdine over the weekend to take home a regional victory in the first round of the College World Series. Now, the Cardinal travels cross-country to Tallahassee, Fla., to take on the Florida State Seminoles in a best-of-three series in the Super Regionals. The winner will advance to Omaha, Neb., and the College World Series finals at TD Ameritrade Park.
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Florida State stands in the way of Omaha

By JOSEPH BEYDA
DESK EDITOR
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The No. 13 Stanford baseball team may have swept its regional last weekend, but it still has a cross-country trip up next. Thats a story thats all too familiar to the Cardinal (41-16, 1812 Pac-12), which was eliminated at No. 7 North Carolina a season ago after dominated the Fullerton regional. The Tar Heels shut
down Stanfords bats in the opener before barely escaping a Cardinal comeback the following afternoon, which featured a threehour-and-32-minute rain delay right in the middle of a four-run Stanford rally that fell just short. Now the Cardinal must travel to the Southeast once again, this time to face No. 3 Florida State, another experienced national seed that will benefit from playing on its home turf against a jet-
lagged Stanford squad. This time, at least, all three games will be played at night, a welcome departure from the sweaty afternoon opener that seemed to catch the Cardinal off guard in Chapel Hill last year. I just think we kind of got overwhelmed going down there, said junior centerfielder Jake Stewart, who was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the ninth round of this weeks MLB Draft. It was
100 degrees with 100 percent humidity, and I think all those factors got to us. Stanford is also much more experienced than last years group, which often started seven underclassmen in the field. I think in some ways we were almost happy to be there, said Stanford head coach Mark Marquess. The expectation level last
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Florida State sneaking by UAB in the opener before taking control in 8-1 and 5-2 wins over Samford. On the season, the Seminoles are an impressive 30-5 at home, so the Cardinal will be going against the odds when it ventures into Dick Howser Stadium on Friday night. Theyre used to winning, just like any of the great programs, Marquess said. Especially at home. Florida State is as good of an all-around squad as can be found in college baseball. Given its top50 scoring and pitching and lack of any defensive malady, its easy to see why it spent a good chunk of the season as the top-ranked team in the country. The Seminoles only have three .300 hitters, but Stanford cant quite match up with their top two sluggers, junior Jayce Boyd (.390) and senior James Ramsey (.385). Ramsey, a 13-home-run hitter, drove in six runs in the first two games of the Seminoles regional, while Boyd had only three hits on the weekend. Florida States two dominant freshman starters, lefty Brandon Leibrandt and righty Mike Compton, have combined for a 18-4 record and a 2.78 ERA. But head coach Mike Martin opted instead to go with junior Scott Sitz whose 3.99 ERA is, by comparison, pedestrian to open the ACC tournament and Florida States regional. If Martin chooses to do so again, Sitz (3-3) will face off against Stanford righty Mark Appel (10-1), who has not lost a game in over three months. Were prepared and I think weve performed under pressure all year long, Appel said. And we know theres going to be a lot of pressure out there this weekend. The Cardinals hitters besides just getting to Sitz are going to have to put some significant pressure on either Leibrandt or Compton if Stanford wants to make it to Omaha. Redshirt junior lefthander Brett Mooneyham was unreliable for the second week in a row last Saturday, while junior leftfielder and pitcher Stephen Piscotty gave up four first-inning runs only one of them earned in the eventual clincher over Pepperdine. Luckily for Mooneyham and Piscotty, Stanfords bats had a fairly encouraging weekend against Fresno State and Pepperdine. Sophomore first baseman Brian Ragira continued his solid sophomore season by reaching base 10 times, while sophomore rightfielder Austin Wilson knocked in five runs in key situations. Struggling juniors Kenny Diekroeger and Tyler Gaffney also showed some signs of life, even if they didnt match that production. Marquess expressed some concern that his team was stranding too many runners in scoring position leaving 31 on base over the course of the regional but two comeback wins from identical 4-0 deficits against the Waves showed that the Cardinal is on the right track. There have been a couple of times this year when weve gone down early and havent really come back the way we wanted to, Stewart said. I think this weekend really showed us that we could come together and even if . . . were down by four runs, we could come back and have that faith in each other and that faith in the team. I think if we do that, well compete with anybody, he added. The Card will have to compete this weekend if it wants to make its first College World Series appearance since 2008. Friday nights opener will be played at 4 p.m. PDT and can be seen on ESPN2, along with the Super Regional. The teams then square off Saturday at 3 p.m. and, if necessary, Sunday at 4 p.m. Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@ stanford.edu.
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year [was], Are we going to win a regional? Most of the players that went [to the Super Regionals] last year are back, and theyre not just happy to be there. They know were playing a great team, but its a different mindset. That attitude is bound to make for a competitive Super Regional between two regional hosts; only two of the eight Supers feature a pair of top seeds, and the other, coincidentally, is being played 150
miles down the road in Gainesville, between Florida and North Carolina State. Florida State (46-15, 24-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) earned its right to host a Super Regional with one of the nations top records, fueled by three separate win streaks of at least seven games. The Seminoles didnt lose a weekend series until mid-May, though they entered the NCAA tournament with a thud after failing to win a game in the ACC tournament for the first time in school history. But those struggles seemed long behind them by the end of the Tallahassee regional, with
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the story of the weekend had it not been for Appels stellar Friday night performance. Fresno State came in as the only team to have beaten Appel (10-1), pounding his fastball and getting two home runs from sophomore centerfielder Aaron Judge when the Bulldogs met the Cardinal in March. That wouldnt be the case in the regional opener. We were pretty sure he was going to come out and make an adjustment this week, said Bulldog head coach Mike Badesole. The kid is fantastic. He had the answer. He had two great breaking balls to go to. Im pretty sure he couldve won a big-league game today, Badesole added. Appel, the eventual tournament MVP, tossed his fifth complete game of the season, striking out 11 and allowing only four hits, just three days before his name was called eighth in the MLB Draft. Its difficult for the juniors that are draftable, and when they tell you theyre not thinking about it, theyre not being honest with you, Marquess said. You cant help but think about it. Everybody comes at you, every which way . . . its just crazy. But hes handled it well. The Cardinal nearly got on the board in the first frame when Ragira was robbed of an RBI double by a diving Jordan Luplow in right. The freshman appeared to drop the ball, but the umpires ruled it a catch, quickly evoking memories of Tyler Gaffneys controversial snag in last years Fullerton Regional in a 1-0 Stanford win. Cardinal runners advanced to third in each of the next three innings, but the squad was unable to bring one home. After pitching twice on short rest in the WAC Tournament, righthander Justin Haley held Stanford off the scoreboard and got two-out strikeouts with runners on third in the third and fourth. The spark finally came for the Cardinal with two outs in the fifth. Junior leftfielder and pitcher Stephen Piscotty started the rally with a double before sophomore rightfielder Austin Wilson singled with the count full to put Stanford ahead 2-0. We left a lot of runners on base and had a lot of opportunities to score, Marquess said. But I thought Wilsons hit, getting two runs on the board, was big. Haley had struck out five Cardinal batters at that point, but his luck ran out in a three-run sixth. Only one Stanford hit left the infield, but three walks, a hit-bypitch and an infield hit extended the Cardinal cushion to five. The Bulldogs got to Appel for the first time in the next frame, as an RBI double by redshirt junior first baseman Trent Garrison ended the shutout. The seventh inning was the first one in which Appel did not record a strikeout. The Diekroeger brothers then turned a 6-4-3 double-play to help Appel get out of an eighthinning jam, before two straight hit-by-pitches in the eighth scored Stanfords sixth run and a Kenny Diekroeger single followed by an error made it 9-1. With the win, Appel became the first Cardinal pitcher to win 10 games in a season since Jeff Gilmore in 2005. Unfortunately, Stanford didnt get the same starting performance on Saturday from lefthander Brett Mooneyham, who departed after just 2.1 innings. Pepperdine which had beaten Michigan State 6-2 on Friday to enter the winners bracket scored two runs to start the third and then loaded the bases to force the redshirt junior from the game. He got himself into trouble, Marquess said. He really hadnt pitched that poorly, but to their credit, they followed it with a couple of hits. After junior righty Dean McArdle replaced Mooneyham, redshirt freshman Bryan Langlois blasted a double off the left-field wall to give the Waves an early 40 lead. Ragira revived Stanfords hopes with a shot to dead-center, his fifth home run of the year, to lead off the top of the fourth; the Cardinal was the away team on Saturday afternoon, so it came to the plate in the top half and commandeered the dugout on the third-base side. That quirk would come to the forefront in the sixth, when, still down 4-1, Stanford loaded the bases for Gaffney with one out. Sophomore righthander Scott Frazier then bounced a curveball several feet in front of the plate and over the head of catcher Miles Silverstein. Ragira came around to score while freshman third baseman Alex Blandino moved to third and Smith advanced to second. Silverstein then tried to pumpfake to third, but the ball squirted out of his hand and toward the Cardinal dugout. Next thing I know, the ball is rolling around and the pitcher is around me, Ragira said. We were hustling, and the ball rolled our way. With Ragira and his teammates celebrating in foul territory and Blandino racing down the third-base line, Frazier and Silverstein chased after the loose ball, but it rolled through the mass of humanity and into the Stanford dugout. After a quick discussion between the umpires and an argument with Pepperdine head coach Steve Rodriguez, Smith was awarded another base and the game was suddenly tied at four. My only problem was the crowd control around the dugout, Rodriguez said. When their whole team is out there and the pitcher goes out there for the ball that was probably the only thing I could say was an issue. McArdle would go scoreless into the sixth before Marquess turned the game over to sophomore righty A.J. Vanegas with a runner on third. Freshman centerfielder Matt Gelalich chopped one to second, and Danny Diekroeger nailed Langlois at home to save a run. That run would turn out to be the difference, with Kenny Diekroeger coming through late again on an eighth-inning RBI double that made it 5-4 for Stanford. Then it would be up to Vanegas (4-0), who came up with a career outing at just the right time. In his 3.2 innings he struck out eight batters, including five of the last six he faced and four in a row swinging to end the game. It was an unbelievable job by A.J., Marquess said of the all-regional team selection. He had great stuff and won big spots all evening. With Fresno State having knocked out three-seed Michigan State that afternoon, the Cardinal knew it was set for a rematch with either the Bulldogs or Waves in Sundays late game, where Pepperdine redshirt senior designated hitter Matt Forgatch kept his career alive with a grand slam to snatch an 8-5 advantage that the Waves would not relinquish. It was a short turnaround for Pepperdine before its 6 p.m. elimination game with Stanford. Because they had burned their top three starters, the Waves chances seemed slim, especially given their unreliable bullpen. But it would be the Cardinals starter that was beat up early. Senior rightfielder Tony Cooper slapped a two-out, RBI single off Stephen Piscotty in the first before Pepperdine loaded the bases. Blandino then dropped a tricky flyout in foul territory that would have ended the inning, and the error led to the second 4-0 lead for the Waves over Stanford in as many evenings. I thought it was going to be a long night, Marquess said. The key for us was Piscotty settling down. This is probably the biggest game Ive ever played in my life, Piscotty said. And I got knocked down, but I wasnt going to give up. He went on to retire 11 straight batters and put up five scoreless innings in a row, giving Stanford more than enough time to mount a response. A leadoff double by junior centerfielder Jake Stewart got things going in the first, before Piscotty got the Cardinal on the board with a single off the glove of sophomore lefty Matt Maurer. A Ragira double with two on in the third made it 4-2, and Wilson nearly tied it on a line drive just foul of the leftfield line. Blandino flew out to the warning track to bring home Stanfords third run in the same inning, but with two on and two out, third baseman Austin Davidson made an acrobatic catch in foul ground, in the same place that Blandino had dropped one earlier, to end the frame and preserve Pepperdines lead. Just an inning later, Stanford would complete the comeback and on top of that, do some more damage. Wilson singled with the bases loaded to grab a 5-4 lead for his team, bringing Blandino to the plate with two on and two outs. The freshman blasted a 1-0 pitch over the leftfield wall to give the Cardinal a four-run advantage, its first comfortable lead over the Waves all weekend. Pepperdine wasnt done, however, and four straight hits in the top of the seventh spelled three Waves runs and the end of Piscottys night. Junior righty Sahil Bloom cleaned things up and got through an uneventful eighth before leadoff hitter Zach Vincej came to the plate to start the ninth. With the count at 2-2 and the Cardinals lead at 8-7, the junior shortstop hit a high fly ball down the leftfield line that cleared the fences, but just a few feet foul. It started to hook [foul] a little bit, and then it kind of went straight, said Blandino, who had perhaps the best view of anyone from third base. I knew it was going to be foul, but I definitely held my breath there for a couple of seconds. Vincej would eventually ground out to second, and three batters later Stanford was headed to a Super Regional. The Cardinal will travel to Tallahassee, Fla. to face No. 3 Florida State, which also swept its home regional. The series kicks off Friday night at 4 p.m. PDT and continues Saturday at 3 p.m., with the fourth game to be played at 4 p.m. if necessary. All the action will be televised on ESPN2. 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SPORTS BRIEF Mark Madsen joins Cardinal basketball as assistant coach
After more than a decade away from the Farm, former basketball star Mark Madsen has returned to Maples Pavilion, this time as the new assistant coach for the Stanford mens basketball team. Stanford head coach Johnny Dawkins announced the move on Wednesday, hiring Madsen to replace associate head coach Dick Davey, who announced his retirement in March after four years with the Cardinal. I am very grateful to Coach Dawkins and Stanford University for the opportunity to join the basketball staff and work with such a highly talented group of student-athletes, Madsen said. I feel extremely fortunate to represent an institution that has meant so much to me, both personally and professionally. Im excited to get started and look forward to contributing immediately as our program builds on last years success. The Mad Dog was a twotime All-American in his time on the Farm and helped lead the Cardinal to four NCAA tournament appearances, including the 1998 Final Four. The 6-foot-9 forward from Danville, Calif., averaged 10.9 points per game and 7.9 rebounds per game in his Stanford career. Madsen was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 29th pick in the 2000 NBA Draft and helped the Lakers to the 2001 and 2002 NBA titles. Madsen then spent six years with the Minnesota Timberwolves before retiring in 2009. After his retirement, Madsen has spent the last two years in Stanfords Graduate School of Business working towards his MBA.
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Card falters at NCAAs

By AUSTIN BLOCK
STAFF WRITER
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with the first pick, just one year after taking high schooler Jameson Taillon with the second overall pick. Altogether, the Pirates look to have compiled a fearsome young trio of arms that could help turn around a team that has routinely finished last in its division over the past two decades. Appel didnt have to wait long to have another Cardinal join him in the big leagues, as fellow junior Stephen Piscotty was selected 36th overall by the St. Louis Cardinals. The pair is just the fourth duo of Cardinal players to be selected in the first round, and the first since Justin Wayne and Joe Borchard in 2000. Piscotty hit .318 this season and led the team with 55 RBI. I had a bunch of teammates rooting for me today, and Ill be rooting for them tomorrow, Piscotty said after being chosen by the Cardinals. It was pretty nerve-racking . . . I was very surprised when they called because I was talking to a couple of teams below them when they called. Lefty Brett Mooneyham, the Cardinals number-two starter, then followed Piscotty off the board, as the Washington Nationals took the Atwater, Calif., native with the 111th pick. Last year, after he missed the entire 2011 season with a finger injury, the Nationals selected the lefthander in the 38th round with the 1,147th pick in the 2011 draft, but thanks to a 7-5 record, a 4.26 ERA and 90 strikeouts this season, Mooneyham was able to improve his draft stock 1,036 places. Next to have his name called was junior shortstop Kenny Diekroeger, who was picked by the Kansas City Royals in the fourth round. Coming out of
high school, Diekroeger was a second-round pick of the Tampa Bay Rays, but the Woodside, Calif., has seen his draft stock drift in the past few years after a stellar first season where he was named Pac-10 freshman of the year. After moving back to shortstop in place of injured sophomore Lonnie Kauppila, Diekroeger hit only .269 this season, but has played excellent defense, cutting his errors in half from last season. The Detroit Tigers made centerfielder Jake Stewart the next Stanford player to be picked, selecting the junior in the ninth round. Stewart, who was drafted in the 14th round by the Phillies coming out of high school, showed some serious pop in his junior campaign, hitting seven home runs and 15 doubles while batting .290 as the teams leadoff hitter. The Los Angeles Dodgers were next, selecting catcher Eric Smith in the 18th round. Smith, who switched from the infield to catcher before this season, hit an impressive .330 with 32 RBI in his first season as a starter. Finally, the Pirates bookended the Cardinals drafted players when they picked outfielder Tyler Gaffney in the 24th round on Wednesday. After a dominant 2011 campaign in which he hit .327 and tallied 35 RBI, Gaffney had a swoon in his junior year, hitting a meager .240 with just 17 RBI. Gaffney, a backup running back on the Cardinal football team, could potentially return to school to play another year of both sports. For now, though, all the Cardinal players must refocus on the task at hand, the Super Regionals against Florida State in Tallahassee, Fla., this weekend, just one step away from the College World Series. Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat @stanford.edu.
Weighed down by a poor second round, the Stanford mens golf team stumbled to a 19th-place finish at the NCAA Championships at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles. After three rounds of stroke play and three more rounds of match play, Texas won the national championship, narrowly defeating Alabama. We obviously had higher expectations, said head coach Conrad Ray. The guys fought hard. We had two really solid rounds, and then the middle round kind of shot us out of the water. In a competitive field [with] as many good teams as there are, you cant afford to have that bad round. Although freshman Patrick Rodgers, a Ben Hogan Award finalist and the nations fourth-ranked college golfer, shot rounds of 69-72-73 to finish in a tie for ninth at one-over par, the rest of the Cardinal struggled on the difficult Riviera course. Junior Andrew Yun was the Cardinals second-lowest scorer, finishing at +10 to tie for 69th. Its a tough golf course. I think we had a couple of guys that were struggling to find some confidence out there. It was difficult. There just werent too many places where you could really miss, Rodgers said.
We knew all year that we had a good enough team to win the national championship. Its just a matter of putting it all together at the right time, and obviously we dont have any tournaments left to do that, so its disappointing. Ray said the breeze and tough pin locations made the course especially difficult during the second round of play. No Cardinal players broke par that day. We strung too many bad holes together, Ray said. I think our guys got off to maybe a little bit of a slower start than they wanted, and then sometimes if youre trying to make birdies, you can make bogies in a hurry, especially at a course like Riviera. I think we probably pressed a little bit too much. It was just one of those days. Yun said the teams poor performance could not be attributed to a lack of effort. I definitely think that everyone was working really hard. We didnt have any excuses for playing badly we just didnt have our best stuff, he said. Despite the teams disappointment, Ray said there are a lot of positives to take from the season. Golf is very competitive and unpredictable, he said. For our team, being fairly young really . . . to be
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Tom Taylor
ts almost over. Its the fourth quarter. Its the bottom of the ninth. Were halfway up the 18th hole. In reality though, its the end of spring quarter, and Ive got a little more than one week left on the Farm. Ive found that senior year is a good time to think about memories and spend time swapping stories about the last four years, but more importantly, its a good time to reflect on who we are, how weve changed, how twists of fate and luck brought us here today and why we do what we do. And with this being my final column in The Stanford Daily, Ive got just one last chance to reflect on my time covering Stanford sports. Last week, it struck me that my graduation would occur in Stanford Stadium, a place thats been immensely important to my time here. Ill never forget watching Andrew Luck complete a perfect 50-yard pass in his first Cardinal-White game or beating USC on a last-second field goal in 2010. Its pretty easy for me to say that many of my most unforgettable moments here have occurred in various Stanford stadiums, and Im glad my last Stanford moment will happen there. But it also struck me that my graduation would occur on Fathers Day, with my dad in the stands. And for a somewhat mundane, Hallmarkcard holiday, its one that has a lot of significance in my life. My dad spent his first Fathers Day behind a glass wall, watching me in the neonatal intensive care unit in Dallas,Texas, hobbled by pneumonia that left me with just a 50 percent chance to live. Hell spend his 23rd watching me cross the stage at Stanford, his alma mater. And really, theres no better way to explain what brought me here than to start with him. In the course of those 23 years, I have to attribute a lot of my character today to him, including my love of sports, reading and writing that inevitably drew me to Stanford and The Daily.
Fathers, sons and sports
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In the final tournament of his college career, senior David Chung (above) and the Stanford golf team struggled over the weekend at the NCAA championships in Los Angeles, finishing in 19th place out of 30 teams.
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in the top 10 in the national ranking most of the season and to have won a big tournament in Chicago [The Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational] in the fall and be competitive in a number of others, I think theres a lot to be proud of and a lot to build on. In a welcome bit of good news, sophomore Cameron Wilson qualified for the U.S. Open, which starts next Thursday at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. Rodgers and senior captain David Chung also participated in sectional qualifying, but only Wilson made the cut. If we get through our finals, were definitely going [to the U.S. Open to support Wilson], Rodgers said. Were all really happy for him, and Im going to try to go up there at least one or two days to watch some practice rounds and just see how hes doing and root him on . . . were all excited for him. Although the Cardinal won only one tournament as a team on
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the year, Yun won the Pac-12 Championships, and Rodgers, recently named a PING First Team All-American, won two tournaments in his first year of college golf. Senior captain Chung is departing, but Stanford has signed two new recruits for next year: 2010 Washington State Golf Association Junior Boys Player of the Year Dominick Franks and David Boote, member of the Welsh National Mens Amateur Squad and winner of the 2011 Welsh Boys Golf Championship. Yun and Steven Kearney, who shot rounds of 74-77-73 to finish in a tie for 77th at Riviera, are the teams rising seniors, while Andre DeDecker will be a redshirt junior. Losing David [is] obviously going to be a big loss and tough shoes to fill, Rodgers said. I know he struggled this year, but hes a great player and he played great for Stanford for four years, so he should be really proud of what hes done. Were all really thankful to have him here at Stanford. Chung compiled an impressive list of honors in his four years on the team. He played in the 2011
Masters and U.S. Open and helped the U.S. team defeat Europe in the 2010 Palmer Cup. He won the 2010 Western Amateur and the 2010 Porter Cup, and in his sophomore year, he was named a Ben Hogan Award semifinalist and a PING Third Team AllAmerican. He was also named to the All-Pac-10 first team that year. Over the summer, players will compete regularly to stay sharp. Rodgers and Yun will travel to Northern Ireland to play for the United States in the Palmer Cup, which starts June 28 and pits top American college golfers against their European counterparts. Last year, Yun went 4-0 in Palmer Cup match play to lead the United States to its second straight victory. Rodgers said the team is highly motivated to perform better next year. Here at Stanford, the goal never changes its to win a national championship and every year you dont [win], youre going to end the year disappointed, he said. Were going to work hard and hopefully get back with a chance to win next year. Contact Austin Block at aeblock @stanford.edu.
ll good things must come to an end, and so it is that the Class of 2012 a group that can name football quarterback Andrew Luck and womens basketball forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike among its ranks is finally leaving us. The world of collegiate athletics is a cruel one, and the life of a college star is almost always shorter than it is sweet. Both Luck and Ogwumike leave as number one picks in their respective drafts and with title and school records to their names, but with their ultimate college ambitions unrealized: neither managed to get their hands on a national title. Pro sports teams can build legacies on the shoulders of key players. Manchester United, for example, has won 12 out of the 20 seasons since the inception of the Premier League and throughout that time has relied on the talents of midfielders Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes. Even now, with their youthful energies fading, they remain key members of the club. College teams, meanwhile, must cope with losing their best players every four years, and even more frequently when athletes jump ship early to launch professional careers. With such a rapid turnover of players, it is incredibly hard to build momentum and retain sufficient experience and leadership in a team year after year. Luck and Ogwumike are impossibly fortunate individuals. Many Stanford stars, legends in their own backyard, must wake up from the dream now. Perhaps their sport just doesnt receive nearly the same sort of monetary support in the professional world as in the collegiate one, or perhaps, regardless of the records they may have set here or the importance they have held in their team, they just dont have the right physique or skills to get paid to do what they love. As each sports season has come
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The Stanford Daily PROFILE
KARL EIKENBERRY
By NATASHA WEASER
DESK EDITOR
ON AFGHANISTAN, CHINA AND LIFE AT STANFORD
arl Eikenberrys office in Encina Halls East Wing holds hints of a decorated, controversial and adventurous past. Books on politics and history line the shelves, pictures and certificates hang on the walls and an Afghan rug is laid out on the floor. Eikenberry M.A. 94 has had a distinguished military and diplomatic career. Prior to his current position as the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), he spent 35 years in the United States Army. As U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan from May 2009 to June 2011, he led President Obamas civilian surge, which occurred in conjunction with a 30,000-troop surge. Eikenberry, with his soft-spoken manner and friendly disposition, recalled how his father would discuss his World War II experiences in the Asia Pacific region over dinner at his home in Goldsboro, N.C. I still consider Goldsboro home, Eikenberry said, pulling out the key to the city, which was given to him by Goldsboros mayor in August 2007. In 1969, Eikenberry left Goldsboro for the United States Military
Academy at West Point. He received a letter from the Dean of the Department of Foreign Languages requiring him to study two years of a foreign language. I looked down the list and saw French, but I was already studying it, Eikenberry said. I wanted something new and exciting. I saw Russian and that was the time of the height of the Cold War but then I saw Chinese and thought that was the most exotic. The decision led Eikenberry down a path that would see the fluent Mandarin speaker form close connections with China and the Asia Pacific region. On May 17, 2012, Foreign Policy magazine published an article by Eikenberry titled Stop Ignoring Taiwan, in which he argued for revitalizing diplomatic and economic relations between Taiwan and the U.S. in the face of Chinas economic and military ascendance. Over three decades we have quite skillfully managed to balance commitments to Taiwan and continuing to evolve our complicated relationship with China, he said. Going forward, with good diplomacy skills we can maintain this balance but . . . theres going to be points in time where we have to make difficult decisions, he added. Eikenberry acknowledged President Obamas pivot toward Asia, citing Chinas growing mar-
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry now serves as the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Eikenberry, whose military and diplomatic career has spanned almost four decades, led President Obamas civilian surge in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2011.
itime claims as a key issue. Since World War II, the U.S. had the assumption that we have complete mastery of the military in the Pacific Ocean. As China rises it will challenge our assumption of complete supremacy how to manage this is the question, he said. Despite his connection to China and Asia, it is Eikenberrys efforts in Afghanistan that have been the most noted. Before becoming ambassador, he served two tours in Afghanistan. His first tour was as security coordinator and chief of the Office of Military Cooperation from September 2002 to September 2003, and during his second, from 2005 to 2007, he served as commander of the American-led coalition forces. Eikenberry summarized his experience as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan as extraordinarily intense. The mission was complicated, the expectations in Washington were understandably very high and in the strategy we were implementing, time mattered, he said. Despite his intense focus on the mission, the people of Afghanistan left the most profound effect on Eikenberry. These are a people that have been through three decades of unimaginable horror, conflict, war. Some of the stories we heard from them are almost untellable, he said. Yet here was a group of people who had still retained their pride and a very strong, compelling culture. There is a saying that when we leave Afghanistan, we leave a part of our hearts behind this was certainly so for me and my wife, he said. According to Eikenberry, his frequent walks through Afghan bazaars with his wife, Ching, led him to be dubbed as the The Afghan Peoples Ambassador by locals.
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of Economics (LSE), where he weighed how best he could turn his ideas on social change into action. He then traveled to Washington, D.C., to work as a political consultant, and later as cofounder of GFS, a social entrepreneurship venture that provides software to help nonprofits automate the federal grant application process. During his time in Washington, Rattray experienced firsthand how power works and the many barriers to galvanizing nationwide change through the existing political framework. But when he learned of a new website called TheFacebook (later Facebook), he recognized the incredible potential for connecting large groups of people with the Internet. While Mark Zuckerbergs website centered on sharing photos and friends, Rattray wanted a website that would unite people based on mutual grievances. Change.org began as a social networking website designed for people with a common interest in bringing about social change. It shifted focus after Rattray witnessed the power of the online petition in late 2010, when a South African woman named Ndumie Funda used Change.org to start a petition to end the corrective rape of lesbians. The petition, which was launched from an Internet caf in Cape Town, gathered over 171,000 signatures from 175 countries. In response, the South African government formed a special team to tackle the problem. Domestically, Change.org attempts to circumvent the political process of lawmaking and debate by focusing its attention only on specific instances of a broader issue. Right now, its legal in 29 states to fire someone for being gay. Because of that, there are lots of people fighting this national battle for equality around a bill called the Employment Nondiscrimination Act but it wont pass in Congress, Rattray said. But if you look at the way that the issue manifests itself in local communities, its not as divisive. A year and a half ago, Seth Stambaugh, a teacher outside of Portland, Oreg., was fired for being gay. In response, angry parents and community members started a Change.org petition that opposed the firing. Supporters sent thousands of emails to the school district and protested at school board meetings to demand Stambaughs reinstatement. Eventually, the school district rehired the teacher, issued an apology and passed a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) inclusive nondiscrimination policy. An individual success like that spawns dozens and eventually hundreds of other campaigns of people fighting the firing of gay Americans in other circumstances, Rattray said. This in turn starts to build overall momentum such that it becomes more likely that the national issue
will pass in the future because of this aggregation of victories. But the most widely felt Change.org petition came in March from the parents of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17year-old boy who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watchman. The petition, which received an unprecedented 2.2 million signatures, helped bring Travyons death to the national spotlight. Charlotte Hill, communications manager for Change.org, remembered the atmosphere at the organizations San Francisco headquarters while the petition was going viral. As excited as we were to see the petition from Trayvons parents taking off and gathering support, we all knew that a victory would only be a victory in a certain sense; this kid had died and there was no bringing him back, Hill said. But there was also a feeling of pride in our model that it could serve Trayvons parents in this way, and that it could allow their story to more easily spread and resonate with people across the country. A number of causes affecting the Stanford community have also found a platform in Change.org. The site hosted a petition to the Israeli government to free Stanford graduate Fadi Quran 10 in February of this year, and is currently hosting a petition to President Obama to commute the 36-month jail sentence of Missouri businessman Shakir Hamoodi, father of Salahodeen Abdul-Kafi 12. While the majority of successful petitions succeed independently of any help from Change.org, the organizations staff, which has grown from 20 to almost 90 in little over a year, plays a role in fostering the development of certain petitions by offering services like peer-to-peer support, campaign advising and media training. We look for petitions with an incredible personal story that appeal to a broad swathe of people and that arent highly divisive, Rattray said. Another part of the team focuses on developing algorithms to match petitions with the people who are most likely to be passionate about the cause. Change.orgs emphasis on technological innovation is reflected in the many rows of computers that fill the organizations San Francisco office. In fact, Rattray said that without the teams chief technology officer, Dimas, the organization would not have succeeded. The most critical element in the beginning stages of almost any start-up is having someone who is extremely technically competent, Rattray said. The only way we got through all the challenges we faced was Mark [Dimas] and his willingness to wake up every day to code at home for 14 hours in his underwear, though he says he was dressed. Tyler Rattray, Bens brother and executive assistant of Change.org, also made an important contribution to the organization in its early stages. As a college freshman, he loaned his life savings to help keep the organization afloat in its first year.
Four years later, Change.org is now profitable and on track to bring in $100 million in annual revenue within three years by running campaigns for a variety of organizations such as Amnesty International. Tyler joined the Change.org team after having a lengthy conversation with his brother about the direction in which his life was headed. Ben always talked about the importance of leaving a legacy no matter what youre doing, he said. After our conversation, I realized that building a tool that could give anyone the power to
leave their own legacy was such a powerful thing and was something that I wanted to be a part of. Looking toward the future, Ben Rattray plans to further expand into the international market and develop the websites mobile interface. Last year, mobile phone activity accounted for 6 percent of Change.orgs total traffic. This year, that number rose to 28 percent. The futures clearly in the computer in your pocket so were spending a lot of time finding more effective ways to engage people through their cell phones
to allow for more responsive and dynamic types of organizing, Rattray said. When reflecting on his time at Stanford, Rattray said he believes that the culture of audacity that permeates the campus was a key inspiration for him. Instead of making it seem like a scary thing, Stanford makes quitting your job, raising money and disrupting an industry you have no experience with seem like the most natural thing in the world, he said. Contact Stephen Cobbe at scobbe @stanford.edu.
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fake activities fair in White Plaza during winter quarter to increase campus awareness of the Flipside and give the staff a chance to actively satirize pop culture and campus culture, instead of just writing about it. I was the President of the Resume Building Club, Galant said. I wore a suit and had resumelooking flyers and handed them out, asking students if they wanted to join the Resume Building Club. Jeremy was running the Stanford 7th Man Club, which was fans of Stanford basketball fans, and Dean Julie walked by and she signed up for the Breakfast Club. Another booth featured the TSA frat Tau Sigma Alpha, a play on the Transportation Security Administration and airport security measures. They were wearing tanks that said Frat Me Down and had little water bottles that youd have to chug because you cant bring them on and theyd pat you down, Keeshin said. The fair also included booths devoted to the Gospel of Tim Tebow and the Mile High Club. We blasted the mailing list right before the fair with claims that people knew were fake, Keeshin said. But it got people out to White Plaza [to come look at our booths]. While the articles in the Flipside are written for the sake of poking fun at relevant campus or contemporary issues, some have been offended by its content. We wrote an article once titled Stanford Cutting Mechanical Engineering Its Just Not Working, Keeshin said. Some people thought it was a real article and got upset. We also had a White Male Community Center booth at the activities fair and this girl just starting railing on us, Galant said, laughing. The guys stayed in character though, saying they were going to go to a Third Eye Blind concert and shop at Trader Joes. According to Galant, the Flipside has also had a lot of positive responses from students, such as people screaming with joy whenever they walk into dining halls carrying the stacks of copies or getting excited about the Flipside guy! Weve have also had a lot of success online, Galant added. The first article we had that really went viral online was one called The Party Starts Before Ke$ha walks in. It was right when Tik Tok was really popular and it got more Facebook shares than any other articles wed had. It got posted to someones Tumblr and got 600 reblogs. I think [the Flipside] is a really good voice that a lot of people can relate to but dont necessarily have the venue to express it, said Carlo Pasco 13. As both founders will graduate this spring, they bid their Flipside creation a doleful farewell. Galant and Keeshin plan to work together on a start-up called CodeHS, which will involve teaching computer science to high school students. According to Keeshin, the future of the Flipside next year looks promising. We have a really high bar for quality for the Flipside and I hope that the quality remains high, he said. I have one goal for the Flipside and that is to be entertaining for five or 10 minutes every Monday. Contact Josee Smith at jsmith11@ stanford.edu.
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Itd be like Its the Flipside guy! Galant said. People come to expect it on Mondays and if there was a holiday and we distributed on Tuesday, people would be like Where were you yesterday? Distribution was difficult at first because just Galant and Keeshin were handing out copies, with hopes to cover the entire campus. Galant recalled bringing copies to IHUM lecture and putting them next to the lecture handouts. People would just come by and take the Flipside along with the handouts and I always thought it was really cool seeing people read it in lecture, Galant said. As the Flipside grew, so did its structure. The staff began having weekly brainstorm and editorial board meetings and added a DDay the groups name for Distribution Day, on which the Flipside staff walks around campus, distributing copies of the Flipside to various dining halls. They also experimented with different collaborative websites in hopes of finding new ways to plan, structure and organize the newspaper. We still have the same problem that a lot of groups have of keeping people involved, but its gotten easier, Keeshin said. Weve started doing group writes, Galant said. Wed have a Google Doc and a bunch of people would be working on an article at the same time, building off of each other. It made the process so much better, getting a chance to work with other people. Along with articles and headlines, the Flipside features weekly cryptograms and Rebus puzzles. People get really excited about the puzzles, Keeshin added. My main goal is to have people read the articles but if theyre reading it for the puzzles, then I think theyll also read it for the articles. My favorite part is definitely the cryptograms, said Katherine Scavo 15. One of my friends in the dorm and I really like figuring out the quotes and decoding them. The Flipside staff has added more outside activities to the Flipside over the years, including a
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Jeremy Keeshin 12 (far left) and Zach Galant 12 (far right) founded the Stanford Flipside, a popular satirical campus publication, as freshmen in 2008. Also pictured: Senior Flipside writers Adam Adler (second left), Laney Kuenzel (center) and Eric Karpas (second right).
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Given the nature of the mission, Afghans can get frustrated with necessary military operations, he said. Putting the face of the U.S. embassy out there was important and helped mitigate the frustration Afghans understandably felt with the international military forces. The relationship between Afghans and U.S. troops has been tumultuous, with civilian deaths a major issue of contention. However, Eikenberry remains adamant that the war was necessary after 9/11, stating that the notion to just ignore Afghanistan was not an option. I would have disagreements with aspects of strategy in Afghanistan but never questioned
whether we needed to be there, he said. Eikenberry stated that the core of the mission was to harden Afghanistan so that it would become a state with a reliable government, an accountable security force, an appropriate justice system and a significant economy so that it will no longer be a sanctuary of international terrorism to attack the U.S. and its allies. I dont classify this [the war in Afghanistan] as winning or losing. We are attempting to help the Afghan people achieve progress and make sure we will not be threatened by international terrorism, Eikenberry said. Here at Stanford, the sandstone arches and palm trees put Eikenberry in a world startlingly different from that of the bustling streets of downtown Kabul or the rugged terrain of the AfPak mountainous border. When not in his office, Eiken-
berry can be seen at the gym seven days a week, taking a break at the CoHo and even recruiting potential football players for Stanford. Although he enjoys biking, he said at Stanford, biking sometimes makes me think that Im in Beijing. What I love about the Stanford campus is the combination of the aesthetics and the sense of seriousness and purpose, he said. What I see in terms of the caliber of students is extraordinary these are the future leaders of our society. He particularly enjoys speaking to students about their future career paths, relying on advice his father once gave him. When it comes to the end of the day in lifes journey and what you see in the mirror makes you smile then you can say you did reasonably well, he said. Contact Natasha Weaser at nweaser@stanford.edu
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may seem, they reveal a great deal about who I am and how I ended up at Stanford. My mother, a Stanford alumna herself (the great class of 77!), emphasized the importance of academics throughout my upbringing and inspired longtime loves for reading, writing and the arts loves that first brought me to the Daily building in the fall of 2008 for what would ultimately become the most defining activity of my college career. Growing up in perhaps the nations most moderate climate, in the lovely East Bay city of Alameda, Calif., I am uncomfortable when the weather deviates too far below 60 or above 80. Neither snow nor the extreme heat would see their ways into my undergraduate life. And then there are sports. Its impossible for me to describe when sports became prominent in my life because there was never a time that they werent there. My father, who played football for a couple of years at a certain East Bay university, was the quintessential sports dad:the guy who helped coach Little League baseball and rec-league basketball, provided
running color commentary on every home video and had to be restrained by other dads when my brother was violently taken down in a soccer game.Photo albums from the first five years of my life document a smattering of Giants and As games and great retro Bay Area sports paraphernalia, and many of my earliest memories involve traveling up and down California (to glamorous hotspots like Modesto and Morgan Hill) to watch my older brothers various (and frequent) sporting events. But in 1995, my family of four was rocked by tragedy when my dad was diagnosed with a brain tumor; nine months later, he was gone. My brother, 11 at the time, sought solace in his busy schedule of athletic commitments.A six-year-old girl now lacking a father figure, I sought solace in my brother. From that point on, what my brother liked, I liked, which meant any team facing the Lakers,theWorld Cup before it was trendy in the States and Barry Bonds, despite his surly demeanor and regardless of whether or not he took steroids (ask either of us, he didnt).When my brother chose to attend Stanford in 2003, I became a Stanford sports enthusiast right alongside him, celebrating the glorious 2004 basketball season (minus its untimely end) and woefully enduring
zero Big Game victories during his four-year tenure. When I too became a Cardinal in 2008,our sports worlds converged still further, and now, most Saturdays in the fall are spent sharing drinks with friends at Gate 10 followed by raucous cheering in Stanford Stadium. Forever bonded by a passion for Stanford athletics,I have no doubt that our future holds years of season tickets, bowl game excursions and March Madness brackets that optimistically take Stanford farther than theyll go. On Sunday, June 17 barring any academic catastrophes I will graduate from Stanford University. My commencement falls squarely upon Fathers Day, and although my dad wont be present alongside my mom and brother in the stands to watch me receive my diploma, I like to think that he would be proud of the daughter, and more specifically, the sports writer, editor and enthusiast that I have become in his absence. And even though he was a Bear, I know hed be a closet Andrew Luck fan. Caroline Caselli doesnt write columns often, but when she does, theyre the best. Thank her for her four years at The Daily at carolinecaselli@stanford.edu or follow her on Twitter @carolinecaselli.
The Stanford baseball team made short work of its home regional last weekend, but the road ahead gets much more difficult for the Cardinal, as it must travel across the country to take on the Florida State Seminoles, a team that spent much of the season as the nations top-ranked team.
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Jack Mosbacher was a member of the Stanford baseball team from 2008-2011. Each week, he takes a look at the Cardinals ups and downs on its road to the College World Series.
This is was what I was afraid of all along. The good news is that the Stanford Cardinal easily won its regional and punched its ticket to the Super Regionals, just one step short of the coveted College World Series in Omaha, Neb. The bad news is that the Cardinal now has to travel to Tallahassee and face a Florida State team that spent the majority of the 2012 season as the countrys top-ranked team. Those who have followed my writing this season may have grown weary of my constant talk of the importance of obtaining one of the top eight national seeds for the postseason tournament and, in doing so, securing the right to host a Super Regional. This weekend, my friends, is my case in point. Super Regionals are always tough the last 16 teams alive in the tournament each year are always talented and capable of beating one another but winning on the road is an even more daunting task. First and foremost, Florida State can flat-out play. This years team won the regular season Atlantic Coast Conference title before getting knocked out early in the conferences postseason tournament. The Seminoles spent a large portion of the season as the nations top-ranked team, their
regular season performance highlighted by sweeps of eventual ACC postseason champions Georgia Tech and future regional hosts Miami and Virginia. Though the Seminoles are a young team, they had three players selected in the top seven rounds of this weeks Major League Baseball Draft. Simply put, theyre loaded. On top of their on-field talent, the Seminoles boast one of the countrys great home-field advantages. Not only do Florida State games attract almost 5,000 fans a night (compared to roughly 1,500 on the Farm), but their fans are also among the most knowledgeable and intense in the game. To put it lightly, a game at Dick Howser Stadium is a different experience entirely than one at idyllic Sunken Diamond. When it steps onto the field, the Cardinal is going to feel much further away from home than the 2,500 miles that already separate Palo Alto and Tallahassee. The heritage of Florida States fans is best exemplified by their most famous tradition. The actual origin of this tradition is still hotly contested even among Seminole fans themselves so Ill just tell it the way I first heard it. Sometime in the 1980s a team came to Tallahassee with a roster including a pitcher from Canada, and the Seminole fans had done their research. When this pitcher was called into the game in the fifth inning, the entire crowd serenaded him with a hearty a cappella rendition of Canadas national anthem, O Canada, repeating the song several times as he tossed his warm-up pitches. The Semi-
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major business deal hed been working on had fallen through. Eight years and three career changes later, I now know just how significant that small moment was for my dad, a moment shared with a son through the medium of sports. It hasnt always been easy, but eventually, I think most people realize that their fathers are, in many ways, just like themselves real people with hopes and disappointments of their own. I know Ive had that realization in these last four years, here at the same place my dad went to school 25 years ago. And without my father, I know I wouldnt be here today,and I definitely wouldnt be who I am today. So thats why, in my last column for The Stanford Daily, I just wanted to make sure and say thanks, Dad. To my loyal readers, thank you too. Its been one of the most profound pleasures of my life to write for The Daily for the past two years. And take some time today to thank your dad and tell him you love him. Or just go to a ballgame with him. In many ways, its the same thing. Jack Blanchat looks forward to being a dad himself in the very distant future. Send him your best parental advice at blanchat@stanford.edu or follow him on Twitter @jmblanchat.
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Together, through road trips to catch SEC football games, hot afternoons spent trying to hook fish and our fair share of nights watching the double-A Arkansas Travelers at Ray Winder Field, sports became the huge part of my life that it is to this day. Thanks to his near-obsessive level of reading books and magazines, there was always plenty of reading material to keep me occupied growing up. And thanks to his stories about the Theta Delt house or John Elway firing baseballs like rifle shots from right field to home plate, I always wanted to go to Stanford. That said, the relationship between a father and his son is often a complicated one. At some point in our lives, just about everybody has to tangle with the marks that a father (or the absence of a father) leaves on us. Some of the things that we bear from our fathers are easy to understand maybe youre a Packers fan because your dad is from Wisconsin but other times, there are things that you never understand or dont understand until years into the future. Like at the 2004 Masters golf tournament, when my dad told me a
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In previous years, the ASSU Executive team has chosen to announce their cabinet selections before the end of spring quarter. Last year, former ASSU President Michael Cruz 12 and Vice President Stewart Macgregor-Dennis 13 announced their cabinet selections during the first week of June. In 2010, former ASSU President Angelina Cardona 11 and Vice President Kelsei Wharton 12 announced their picks during the second week of May. Zimbroff and Wagstaff both said that they hope Stanford students understand that although their administration has not been sending out emails to alert students of their progress, they are getting things done. Weve been doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work, Zimbroff said. We have to get the less sexy, more proscribed stuff out of the way before we can do the real work. He said at the beginning of the term people dump a ton of stuff on your plate. You have to clear that stuff off in order to move forward with what you want to do, Zimbroff said. One of the projects that Zimbroff has been trying to clear off his plate is the appointment of students through the Nomina-
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nole offense subsequently put together a huge rally against the poor Canuck and won the game. In every contest at Dick Howser Stadium since that day, the Seminole fans have risen from their seats in the fifth inning and sung O Canada. Made of equal parts humor and intimidation, this tradition perfectly personifies the lions den into which the Cardinal will descend this weekend. This is what I was afraid of when Stanford was swept by Arizona and lost a pair of crucial series to Oregon and Oregon State. This is why it was so important for Stanford to secure home-field advantage for the entire playoffs. For the first time this year, and for the most important series of the year, Stanford has to play as an underdog. And this has all of the makings of one heck of a story. Before the season started, everyone knew that the 2012 Stanford Cardinal was among the most talented teams in school history and among the deepest in the country. In the first few series of the year, the team displayed its prodigious potential, swatting
away powerhouse programs like flies and ascending to the top ranking in the land. Then, the Cardinal struggled. It lost one series, and then another. Key players fell to season-ending injuries. The countrys most potent offense fell silent. Darkness had descended. All seemed lost. But it battled back. Stanford showed remarkable resilience, climbing into contention for the Pac-12 title before a disappointing series loss to Cal in the season finale. Today, as the Cardinal boards a plane for Tallahassee, the players know that theyll need to play the best baseball of their lives if they hope to pass through the last gauntlet between here and Omaha. Theyll have to ignore the deafening cheers and angry insults of college baseballs toughest fans (and struggle through whats guaranteed to be biased home field umpiring). Theyll have to play hungry, relentless, fearless baseball. In short, the odds are stacked against the Card. But the stage is set for what could turn out to be the dramatic, penultimate chapter of the greatest story of their lives. I, for one, cant wait to watch. Contact Jack Mosbacher at jackmos@stanford.edu. portunities that came to me, and that has made all the difference in my life. Of course, opportunities are in some ways all about luck, and I got incredibly lucky to get where I am today. Stanford opened up such incredible opportunities for me, such as the ability to write this column for four years and broadcast playby-play of some of the best athletes in the world without any prior experience. I also got extraordinarily lucky to come to Stanford at a time when so many amazing people were here. For instance, my freshman hallway in Branner (the greatest hall of all time) had four athletes in four different sports who played at Stanford the full four years. One set a school record and won a national title in mens volleyball; one was a first-team All-American and won a national title in womens soccer; one was an All-American three times in singles and in doubles and won the national mens tennis singles title; and one is a 14-time AllAmerican and set multiple school and American records in track. What an amazing way to enter college. And it kept going from there. I got to see the best football player, womens basketball player and baseball player (its ok, Mark Appel, the Astros will soon realize their mistake) in the country perform here. I watched live from the press box as Stanford went to the only three bowl games it had been to in a decade, including the programs first-ever BCS bowl victory last year. I saw three straight Heisman runners-up who easily could have been winners. I saw four straight Final Fours for the womens basketball team and the mens team start to reap the benefits of rebuilding with an NIT title. I saw the mens volleyball team go from worst to first right here at Maples. I saw womens soccer finally break through, womens tennis grind out a thrilling championship and womens water polo go backto-back. The wonderful thing about Stanford, though, is it isnt just about that. At Stanford, you get to meet some of the greatest athletes in the world and you get to see
tions Commission (NomCom), which Zimbroff said his administration has now completed. I dont need to send a campus-wide email saying what Ive accomplished, Zimbroff said. I think thats something students dont like about the ASSU. The majority of Stanford students arent going to be upset that the ASSU isnt flooding their inboxes, he added. NomCom is responsible for screening and appointing student representatives to committees and boards across campus. During the previous ASSU administration, no new NomCom members were recruited because the ASSU Executives assumed that an amended constitution, which included a reformed NomCom process, would pass, according to Zimbroff. However, the constitution did not pass, leaving the ASSU with no way to appoint students to University committees. This wasnt something we planned on or campaigned on, but it was something we needed to do, Zimbroff said of appointing students through the NomCom process. The ASSU Executives will be taking a break from ASSU activities over Dead Week and exam week in order to focus on their studies. However, once their academic obligations are over, the pair plans on resuming planning for the 2012-13 school year. Zimbroff said that he and Wagstaff plan on talking with administrators about how to prepare harsh, given the seriousness of the situation, I personally felt it was appropriate, Laufer wrote. ResEd and Greek community response At the meeting, Golder stressed to Greek leaders that their organizations tend to get lumped together in the public eye, regardless of which organization is associated with particular incidents. Even if only half of the alleged incidents occur, people dont say it was this organization or that, Golder said. The University just goes, Oh, its fraternities and sororities. Golder noted that some reports from the period in question have been confirmed while others have been found not to have occurred. A lot of what were trying to determine is, Did something occur that was egregious? Golder said. If it did, whats the appropriate follow-up that should occur? Some fraternities and sororities have internal judicial processes that they use to determine accountability for incidents, a process some of the organizations had already started before meeting with ResEd, Golder said. She added that other situations are referred to the Organizational Conduct Board (OCB). Incidents that are referred to the OCB an organization analogous to the Judicial Affairs board, but for student groups are University-level policy violations. In general, incidents involving public disruption, as well as incidents that result in police reports, end up on the desks of the University President, the Provost and the Vice Provost for Student Affairs, Golder said. I think that most of the people at the table were being really honest, and I think that the reality is the folks who are in the leadership roles in these fraternities and sororities care about their organizations, they care about the members of their organizations and they actually understand and dont disagree for the most part with where the University is coming from, Golder said.
for next school year while they are on campus over the summer. We see this summer as a great way to hit the ground running, Zimbroff said. One specific plan that Zimbroff discussed for the upcoming school year was to bring food trucks to campus or have better food-delivery options for students late at night. He said that, over the summer, he and Wagstaff will be negotiating with campus administrators and local restaurants in order to get these options ready for the fall. The pair has also made a point of saying that although they do have plans that they want the ASSU leadership to spearhead for next school year, they also want ASSU leaders to feel comfortable in a supporting role on campus. I dont feel compelled to roll out a slew of sustainability initiatives, Zimbroff said, citing one example of the philosophy in practice. I think the ASSU should play a supporting role for groups who are already doing a great job with sustainability initiatives on campus. Zimbroff stressed a need for practicality in the job of ASSU executive. You dont always have to have a new revolutionary program and do it two weeks after taking office, Zimbroff said. You just have to do what works. Contact Mary Harrison at mharrison15@stanford.edu. Theyre in the tough position of trying to get their membership to understand it as well. Laufer agreed that open communication between the Greek community and ResEd is important, but added that sometimes ResEds manner of approaching a situation leads the Greek community to shut down toward the administration. The best way the IFC collective can react to ResEds concerns is to remain open and willing to self-reflect on the actions we have made that have resulted in their concerns, Laufer wrote. Defensiveness is not constructive. However, I do think that ResEd should keep in mind that playing the blame game will lead to said defensiveness. This springs spike in alcoholrelated incidents comes in light of progress on the part of the Greek community since it came under ResEds purview several years ago. Theyve been doing really well all year, frankly, in terms of concerns around party management and other things, Golder said of the Greek community. Organizations overall have been doing really well. Despite her generally positive assessment of the year for the Greek community, Golder said that there are major areas for concern in the drinking culture, particularly because fraternities and sororities are accorded special status by the University among student groups. She said that she holds housed fraternities and sororities to particularly high standards because they get a multi-million dollar house due to their affiliation as a Greek organization. Youve got to be better than everybody else, not worse, because its a really special thing, Golder said. If you cant do better, if youre teaching on purpose, passively or actively, that all you are is about drinking, then thats not a theme Im going to support from ResEd. Were not going to have the get drunk house as a theme, she added. Contact Alice Phillips at alicep1@ stanford.edu. As we begin to work with this space, we can develop its uses, Bilfield said. Its up to the imagination of the visitors and the performers. The schedule for the concert halls first season which will extend from Jan. 11, 2013, to June 1, 2013 includes more than 40 performances. The pre-season events, Harmony for Humanity on Oct. 3 and Grammy Award winning Chanticleer on Dec. 11, will be held in Memorial Church this fall. Featured performances in 2013 will include cellist Yo-Yo Ma with pianist Kathryn Stott, violinist Midori with pianist Ozgur Aydin, pianist Emanuel Ax and vocal groups Cappella Romana and the New York Polyphony. Stanford student groups will also appear at the venue throughout the season. In addition to independent student performances, artists such as singer Vusi Mahlasela, who has a history of working with the a capella group Stanford Talisman, will involve students with their appearances at the concert hall. Contact Sarah Moore smoore6@stanford.edu. at
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that Greek organizations were regularly serving alcohol to minors, hazing allegations and reports from charter bus companies that Greek formals were poorly managed. Reports came from Resident Fellows (RFs), Resident Assistants (RAs), friends of new Greek members and members of the Greek organizations themselves, Golder said. While we want very much to work in collaboration around these issues, the trends discussed will not be tolerated moving forward, Boswell wrote in an email to The Daily. I have no interest, and frankly I dont think Stanford has an interest, in having a bunch of drinking clubs, Golder said. The reports concerned both housed and un-housed IFC and ISC organizations, but Golder noted that the time period in question was separate from the multicultural organization recruitment period. While the May 17th letter may be construed by some as championships every year. But you also get everything else that goes with it. You dont need to work for the newspaper or radio station to get an up-close and personal look at all these games. You dont need to be in the right frat or sorority to know the athletes personally, as friends instead of just icons. And you dont need to be in the LSJUMB to have your blood pumping when All Right Now plays. Stanford sports are for everyone. Theyre for the sports fanatics who check Twitter updates for tennis scores while they walk back from the dining hall, but theyre also for the next Mark Zuckerbergs on campus who want a break from programming. Theyre for that girl you want to ask out and that guy you met at a party.Theyre for wideeyed freshman and jaded grad students. Theyre even for professors and school administrators. Whatever your passion, Stanford gives you opportunities. My passion happens to be sports, and after four years, I can proudly say that I took those opportunities. But whether or not youre a sports nut like me, take advantage of the unbelievable sports scene on campus. Meet athletes and learn about their sports. Go to games that you know nothing about and find new sports to enjoy. Learn when to jump during All Right Now and force everyone around you to do it. Get wrapped up in the crazed fandom of a student section and dont care what the local senior citizens think of your rowdiness. That way, when you come back for a reunion after making your first billion (because as we all know, a million dollars isnt cool anymore), you can smile fondly as you reminisce about the football teams glory years and the days when there were buildings on campus not named Arrillaga. And when the band starts playing, youll get goosebumps as you instinctively yell with the crowd. Five, six, seven, eight. Jacob Jaffe made his editors cry. Bid him a bittersweet farewell at jwjaffe@stanford.edu and follow him on Twitter @Jacob_Jaffe.
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ture for me than the machine from Princess Bride and I became the first person in memory at my high school to refuse to give a graduation speech as salutatorian. Four years later, I have voluntarily spent most of my collegiate life reading, writing and speaking to people. And its all because of sports. During the activities fair my freshman year at Stanford, I walked all the way around looking for something to catch my eye. In typical fashion, I didnt like anything.As I was on the verge of walking away, I realized that my mom would get frustrated and start lecturing me if I didnt at least try something. Begrudgingly I went back to the tables, where my friend told me there were a couple advertising for sports fans. Ive always loved sports, and I figured it would sound good if I said I had signed up for a few things, so I wrote my name down for The Stanford Daily and KZSU. And the rest, as they say, is history. Or at least, the rest has been my life for the past four years. They say that sports are a metaphor for life. Ive always hated this, mostly because talking about metaphors just reminds me how much I hated analyzing literature.But I suppose there is some truth to it. In sports, the final outcome is often the result of whether or not you take advantage of opportunities. Whether its scoring a goal on the counterattack, knocking down the big putt, closing out a break point or picking off the pass and taking it to the house, you can make up for a long period of being outplayed as long as you take advantage of the opportunities that come your way. At Stanford, I got outplayed big-time. I was never at the top of my classes, never got prestigious internships, never did research with professors and never stood anywhere close to the top of the social scene. But in the Stanford sports world, I took advantage of the op-
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cian Yasuhisa Toyota of Nagata Acoustics, who was also in charge of the acoustics at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the New World Symphony in Miami. Bilfield noted that not just the stage itself which is sunken in the center of the hall but also practice rooms, a recording studio and an underground rehearsal hall were designed with minimal right angles for the ideal acoustic experience. Ennead Architects, which was contracted for the 1999 expansion of the Cantor Arts Center, led the overall design of the concert hall. Though the concert hall is set to be completed before the end of the calendar year, this deadline does not mean that development of the venue will cease. Bilfield said that performers will experiment with different forms of presentation on the halls unique stage, which is surrounded by audience seating on all sides, presenting a significant difference from the traditional box stage.
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to an end over the course of this last year, many graduating seniors will have been given a farewell at their final home games on the Farm. As students, though, most have stayed around finishing up classes and, perhaps, finally getting to enjoy life here without the punishing demands of being a college athlete. Now, though, the end has finally arrived. Life just got real. Beyond the athletic department, other students will be facing the same fate. My own time on the Farm is not yet over, but The Daily itself will be a very different place come fall quarter. Hardest hit will be the sports department: the current managing editor, three out of five desk editors and the same number of regular columnists will be gone. I try not to name-check too much in the opinions I write here, but I hope you excuse me this indulgence. Among those leaving are a host of names that should be more than familiar to regular followers of Cardinal athletics: media stars who have brought you the action in both this newspaper and on KZSU over the last few years, but who, unless ESPN comes knocking, will now have to learn how to be just fans again. My first-ever sports managing editor, the guy who first gave me a chance writing on mens soccer, Zach Zimmerman, and the current incumbent, Jack Blanchat. The only editor for whom Ive completely missed a deadline and failed to turn in a story, Jacob Jake Jaffe sorry! and the as-yet-unwillingto-move-on Caroline Caselli (shell
be working in the business office next year). Last but not least, I must mention Sam Svoboda why do all good sports reporters first and last names begin with the same letter? and Nate Adams. Both have since flirted with other roles at this paper Sam technically graduated last year but hung around as vice president of sales, and Nate has floated around as editor at large but will always be sportswriters in my mind. There are more of you, too. People I should thank but I dont have space to mention here because thats not entirely the justification for writing this column. What I really wanted to do was draw an analogy to the very teams these folks have written about. None of these organizations are going anywhere. There will still be a football team, basketball teams and even this newspaper on campus next year. But they will look and feel a lot different. Standards are always high at Stanford, and, for example, Lucks position at quarterback is going to be a very big hole to fill. Perhaps, though, this is what makes life at university so interesting. Clearing out the seasoned talent, space is left for new stars to rise and others to step out of the shadows. Teams rebuild because they must, and we fans never have enough time to get bored with the status quo. And as much as well miss these seniors, by September well be inspired, frustrated and thrilled by those brand new freshmen. Tom Taylor is never, ever leaving Stanford, or The Daily for that matter. Tell him to make room for some younger guns at tom.taylor@stanford.edu.

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FEATURES/3

Seven Cardinal selected in MLB draft

T Stanford Daily The

Volume 241 Issue 73

Bid week prompts ResEd concerns

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Please see GREEK, page 15

Bing Concert Hall nears completion

Execs to hire ASSU cabinet over summer

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Univ. revenue, expenses to rise next fiscal year

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Biodesign forges connections

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Index Features/3 Opinions/4 Sports/7 Classifieds/15

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Dismantling the Stanford summer hierarchy

Keeping out of touch

THE YOUNG ADULT SECTION

Will you keep in touch with everyone? Probably not.

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Peace be with you

What is this place?

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Acclaimed novelist John Steinbeck attended Stanford for six years.

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UAR addresses Three Books selection

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A special four years on the Farm

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Seeking solace in sports

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Florida State stands in the way of Omaha