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Top analyst back at Farm Thomas Fingar defends intelligence establishment,surveys Bush decisions By GERRY SHIH SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A signed portrait of an old friend and boss, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, looks down at his desk. Black-and-white snapshots with men in 1970s Mao jackets line another window. A few eulogizing plaques from intelligence units here, more photos over there — it is enough memorabilia to suggest two lifetimes’ worth of work by this man who once scrutinized the most critical intrigues of the contemporary globe. Plodding, precise and unassuming, Dr. Thomas Fingar Ph.D. ‘77, the nation’s top intelligence analyst until last month, recently met The Daily in his new Encina Hall office to discuss his return to Stanford and the failures and progress of U.S. intelligence under the Bush administration. A career civil service man, Fingar spoke in steadfast defense of the intelligence establishment, while taking pains to distance himself from the politics of Sept. 11, the Iraq War and even the emerging relationship between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama. Now, after serving for 25 years at the State Department and the National Intelligence Council (NIC), Fingar is among a number of high-ranking Washington officials, including

Condoleezza Rice, to retire to academic life at Stanford. He emphasized his desire to return to California before becoming “too old and decrepit” to share with students what he has learned in a career that took him from the directorship of Stanford’s U.S.-China Relations Program in the mid-1970s to the State Department in 1984, and then to the National Intelligence Council in 2004. Fingar said he has no intention of returning to government. As the current Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute, he said he will give regular talks, teach courses at Stanford’s home and overseas campuses and possibly oversee the CISAC honors program. But he said he will prioritize offering students a chance to practice foreign policy analysis in the same fashion as his former subordinates in Washington. “The kinds of things the NIC or the State Department does — [I want to teach] that kind of a seminar or research project,” he said. “You don’t need classified information to ask, how do you understand what another government or society is attempting to do? How do you support policymakers? What are the third-party countries that might have an interest? How do you leverage what other people want or need to achieve U.S. objec-

tives?” During his time teaching, he will surely be asked to reflect on the past decade, an intense period when the peak of his career coincided with a low point in the intelligence agencies’ reputation after the country suffered an elaborate terrorist attack and launched two wars abroad — including one justified by false intelligence reports. Fingar, an assistant Secretary of State in 2002, was one of the main authors of the intelligence estimate alleging that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD). He is proud, however, of being a key figure in the faction of State officials that dissented on the record — and were ultimately overruled — during internal debate. “The thing was done much too quickly with little time for review,” he said. “It was bad tradecraft, bad sourcing, a lack of information about the sourcing and a mechanical reduction of judgments that had been reached at different times with different information.” Last year, Fingar publicly acknowledged that the Iraq WMD report was the “single worst product” he had seen in his career. Despite recent media reports that Fingar “hit back” at Bush during his final days in Washington, Fingar told The Daily that he

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Thomas Fingar, who has returned to Stanford after a career in Washington, chats with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell on Feb. 27, 2007 in a Senate hearing on security threats. did not think there was pressure from the White House and instead faulted Capitol Hill for setting unrealistic time constraints. “The administration didn’t ask for it; Congress asked for it,” he said of the 100page report that was completed in a week. “The decision was to meet the deadline rather than be accused of stonewalling Congress. It was a classic example of ‘if you want it bad, you get it bad.’” Congress lashed at his colleagues after no evidence of active WMD programs was found in Iraq, but Fingar suggested that legislators unfairly blamed intelligence agencies

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Late Night dining rumors discounted Stanford denies unused points will prompt Dining layoffs By KATE ABBOTT CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Stanford Dining discounted rumors earlier this week that wasted Cardinal dollars would lead to layoffs of Dining employees. Emails began circulating to several dorm chat lists at the beginning of winter quarter warning against unused dollars. “Please make an effort to come to Late Night more often because there were over 250,000 unused Cardinal Points campus-wide last quarter, and the staff is afraid that there will be layoffs sooner or later,” one email stated.“If the demand for Late Night diminishes, the need for employees will as well and Late Night will suffer.” The chain of emails did not cite where this information was gathered.

Eric Montell, executive director of Stanford Dining, said in an email to The Daily that these emails are, in fact, just rumors. “It is unfortunate that this email was sent around to students as it creates unnecessary fear,” Montell said.“The entire campus continues to have significant financial challenges as recently reported by the Provost. R&DE [Residential and Dining Enterprises] and Stanford Dining have been working thoroughly and diligently to reduce costs to the University and to students.” The majority of the emails sent in this chain were from anonymous senders, and receivers of the emails said they were unaware of the rumor’s origin. “It appears that if we don’t use up our Cardinal dollars (meal plan “points”), there may be layoffs . . . the points are pre-paid anyway, so you can’t gain anything from having tons of points leftover at the end of the quarter,” another email read. Montell said that Dining, along with other university departments, is cutting back as a result of the current economic situation, but this is in no

way linked to the use of Cardinal dollars. “We are doing everything we can to minimize the impact on our staff while we reduce costs,” he said. “However, we share the same financial burden as the rest of the campus and there will need to be a reduction in current staff levels.” According to Montell, these changes include a reduction of Dining staff in the central office as well as “in other areas that do not directly impact student services.” He added that a committee of dining managers and frontline employees, which will meet biweekly, will explore means of cost reduction and improvement of customer service. “These are not easy and are painful decisions as we have very talented staff members who are committed to excellence, to the students they serve and to this university,” he said. “We have asked many of our staff (including me) to take on additional areas of work and responsibility as we look for efficiencies to reduce cost to the University. We will continue to do so.”

when they in fact folded to political pressure on the road to war. “The report’s impact was debatable,” he said. “With the level of classification, people had to sign out [to see it]. Lots and lots of members of Congress said they saw it, but the record shows they didn’t.” On Sept. 11, Fingar similarly defended the role of intelligence agencies and acquitted the Bush administration. When asked if intelligence officers overlooked crucial connections in the lead-up to

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B) I’m going to have a little more trouble picking my classes now C) This won’t really impact me academically. D) This was the best spot to start paring down the budget Today’s Question: Will you still take “Sleep and Dreams” next year, even though it won’t fulfill a GER? a) Definitely, I hear the class is top-notch. b) Probably, I heard you’re allowed to nap during class. c) I don’t think so, no GER may be a dealbreaker. d) Nope, I just wanted the GER!

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After this quarter, Professor William Dement’s immensely popular course “Sleep and Dreams” (PSYC 135) will no longer fulfill the University’s natural science general education requirement (GER). The change was made known after several students received conflicting information as to whether the course currently satisfies the natural science GER. “The Senate Subcommittee on GERs voted last spring to no longer certify the course as meeting the natural sciences subject area,” said University Registrar Thomas Black in an email to The Daily. “This will be effective Autumn 2009.” Black emphasized that the winterquarter course presently fills the natural science GER, as noted in the online Bulletin, printed Bulletin and Axess. Niko Milonopoulos ‘09, The Daily’s World and Nation Editor, was

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the course switched from department to department. “Sleep and Dreams” was originally offered by the Department of Psychology, then Human Biology and is now under Psychiatry. Dement noted that some faculty members at Stanford do not believe that PSYC 135 offers enough rigorous content to fill the natural science GER. This perceived lack of rigor was a reason why Human Biology stopped offering the course in the past, he said. Acknowledging that “Sleep and Dreams” might not be as difficult as other science courses at Stanford, Dement said it should nonetheless satisfy the natural science GER. “I wanted it to be easy, entertaining, so a lot of students would take it,” Dement said. “The reason for that is because you don’t get it anywhere else.” But he was quick to add, “What the brain does, how it functions, the neurological controls — that is, in my opinion, natural science.” “It might not be at an advanced level, but we’re starting at the very beginning,” Dement said. “It’s just as

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Largest-ever study of disorder in the works

Stanford announced the beginning of its recruitment process last month for the largest study of adolescents with Bulimia nervosa, to be conducted collaboratively with the University of Chicago. The study is geared primarily toward determining which of the treatments developed for bulimic adults are appropriate for a younger age group. Dr. Jim Lock, the senior investigator at Stanford, and his Chicago counterpart, Daniel LeGrange, received a $2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to implement a five-year study on 150 participants of either gender between the ages of 12 and 18. Eligible patients will undergo 20 sessions over a period of six months with one of the team’s four therapists, and a year of follow-up sessions. Each patient will be subjected to one of three therapeutic treatments. The first entails both the patient and his or her family spending time with one of the team’s four therapists in an effort to change attitudes toward eating. The individual therapy approach examines the mechanisms that adolescents use to cope with stressors and involves exploratory exercises that try to explain why certain eating habits have been adopted. Cognitive behavioral therapy is aimed at altering the participant’s thoughts and behavior toward eating and body image by requiring participants to keep records of daily eating patterns, along with a diary. “Our hypothesis is that, based on the available literature to date, cog-

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among the many students confused by this turn of events. Having intended to take “Sleep and Dreams” to meet his natural science requirement, Milonopoulos was surprised to find discrepancies between the information provided by Axess, the online Bulletin and the Registrar itself. While the Bulletin and winter time schedule have always indicated that “Sleep and Dreams” fulfills the natural science requirement, Axess did not make this fact clear until after the add deadline. Milonopoulos decided against enrolling in the course after a representative of the Registrar emailed him and mistakenly indicated that the course presently does not satisfy any GER requirements. “If I had known that it fulfilled the natural science requirement, I probably would have taken the course,” Milonopoulos said. “This is a class that is very amenable to non-scientists, and that’s who you mainly see taking the course.” Prof. Dement, who has taught “Sleep and Dreams” for 33 years, told The Daily that this is not the first time he has encountered problems with the University. In the past, he has experienced a variety of difficulties as

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FEATURES Howz itit goin goinacross acrossthe therm? rm? By KATE ABBOTT CONTRIBUTING WRITER

t is 8 o’clock on a fairly average Sunday night. The common room is quiet; two roommates are diligently working away on problem sets and Korean homework. On one side of the room, the silence is broken by the familiar ping of iChat: GoLuckE5 just received a message. Missundrstd1: hey, how’s ur paper? Missundrstd1: I miss the sound of ur voice! Missundrstd1 also happens to be GoLuckE5’s roommate. And here they are, instant messaging each other while sitting face-to-face. Messaging back and forth is becoming part of a nightly routine between many roommate pairs, and the trend seems to be growing among underclassmen on campus. The expanse of technology allows for college students to not only stay connected with friends and family back home, but also maintain a level of humor within their own dorm rooms. Stephanie Tomasetta ‘12 lives in a Roble quad. She said that her roommates tease each other over the Internet when things seem to be getting too serious in their room. “We only instant message (IM) as a joke once or twice a week when we are sitting in the same room,” she said. “Sometimes it’s to say something that can’t be said aloud because other people are in the room, or it’s about something that happened.” “[My roommate and I] have chatted a couple times to discuss how we’re feeling about certain things, but usually it’s when someone else is in the room,” added Rachel Lee ‘11. “We don’t use it when we’re by ourselves.” Alternate forms of communication, including iChat, Gchat, Skype and Facebook, are becoming more pervasive on campus. New roommates no longer draw the line at becoming Facebook friends and posting Photobooth pictures from their Macbooks. Now, it’s all about utilizing social networking sites’ chat features while only five feet away from each other. “I think roomie IM-ing is funny,” Tomasetta said. “We say ridiculous things to each other. It is like leaving post-its or silly notes. I mean, who doesn’t enjoy receiving loving messages?” Tomasetta speculated that the trend seems to be larger among female roommates, mostly because of the “silly” nature of this habit. “I used to IM my roommate in high school a lot,” said

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Garrett Schlesinger ‘12.“My roommates here just don’t IM as much.” The appeal of Internet communication also seems to be more popular among underclassmen, either because freshmen do not meet their roommates until move-in day, or because some upperclassmen live in singles. Growing up in the digital age has its consequences, according to scholars researching methods of Internet communication. Parents and professors who did not grow up dependent on the use of email are concerned that this fad is another form of alienation among teenagers, especially college students. According to an article by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, titled “Shyness, Alienation, and Academic Performance Decrements,” teenagers who “had longer years of IM use” ended up “more alienated from their peers, school and family” and were also “more shy.” Whether or not this is true of the IMing trend within college dorms is difficult to determine. Tomasetta’s roommate, Disney Williams ‘12, maintained that methods of silent communication are not to be taken seriously. “Sometimes it gets so quiet in here, we don’t want to disturb the peace of the working environment,” Williams said. “But really, usually we’re too busy Facebook-stalking to look away from our computers.” Screennames have been changed to protect privacy.

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In the Jan. 30 features story “‘Fearless’ author Matthew Cook ‘11,” it was implied that Cook did not rightfully have access to a press conference featuring L.A. County Sherrif Leroy Baca. Cook did, in fact, have access to the event, and did not break any rules regarding entry.

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Admission office right to stand against Score Choice This editorial originally ran on Jan. 15. etting into college is no longer as simple as filling out an application. Many students feel that they must feed into the multi-million dollar test prep industry if they are to receive an acceptance letter from their dream school. Stanford alone cannot turn the tide against the college application frenzy, but it has taken a small step by rejecting College Board’s new Score Choice program for the SAT (see “Stanford rejects new SAT Score Choice program” in the Jan. 7 issue of The Daily). The editorial board applauds the Office of Undergraduate Admission’s decision to require all SAT scores from students.Traditionally, all SAT scores are sent by College Board to colleges, but with Score Choice, universities will only see students’ highest scores. We agree with Stanford that taking a stand against Score Choice is a way of preventing students from trying to game the college admission system. While College Board argues that Score Choice will help assuage students’ anxieties about having a bad SAT score appear on their records, we believe it will only contribute to the anxiety of high school students nationwide. Students likely will feel increased pressure to retake the test numerous times and improve their scores as much as possible and this will by no means be a stress-free process. Such behavior contributes to a culture in which students focus on gaming tests to get into college, not on their genuine interests. A student who scored 1430 and 1450 on two versions of the SAT under the old system may have accepted that a college would realize this was how he or she generally scored. But with Score Choice, that student may take the test a dozen times until he or she finally gets over a 1500. Meaningful extracurricular pursuits are suddenly replaced by countless hours of testing and test preparation. We also agree with Stanford that Score Choice provides an advantage to wealthier students, who can afford to take the test more than one or two times. College Board counters that low-income students can apply for fee waivers.But students who did not grow up in a world where families spend thousands of dollars on test preparation and testing are less likely than wealthy students to put them-

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selves through the trouble. Rural students, furthermore, are unlikely to take advantage of taking the SAT multiple times if testing sites are inconveniently located. Most importantly, well-off students have more resources to prepare for the SAT and improve their scores. An upper-middle-class student has the opportunity to improve a series of low scores with expensive test preparation, while a low-income student does not. With Score Choice, the disparity between these groups — and even between well-off families who are willing to shell out test preparation funds and those who aren’t — will be exacerbated. College Board, ironically, had a similar policy to Score Choice between 1993 and 2002 for the SAT Subject Tests, according to The New York Times.When this practice was discontinued, the organization cited the complexity of releasing scores and unfairness to low-income students for ending the program. We expect the same problems to persist. Score Choice not only contributes to text anxiety and economic disparities, but also to an unhealthy culture in which students demand perfection of themselves. College Board argues that Score Choice helps out students who may have a bad test day. Universities,however,are likely to disregard fluke low scores even without Score Choice. College Board is instead sending the message to students that minor slip-ups are something we should hide if at all possible. There is no Score Choice for life. We cannot remove bad grades from our transcripts, take back harsh words or hide mistakes on the job. High school students taking part in the anxiety-inducing test-prep culture need to accept that a small failure is not the end of the world.Otherwise,students go through life thinking they need to game the SAT into an elite college, then game their way into perfect grades, a top graduate school and the perfect job.The cycle only ends with disappointment. So many of us need to learn that it’s okay to make mistakes. We’re proud that Stanford has taken a stand against this anxiety-feeding culture. Now all we can do is wait and hope that the stressed-out high school students excessively worrying about improving their SAT score just one more time will see the value in Stanford’s message.

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I need a bailout This column originally ran on Nov. 21, 2008.

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need a bailout. You, Stanford students, alumni, faculty and staff, are the only ones who can help me. And by helping me, you’re really helping yourselves. Please allow me to explain. I am in a somewhat perilous situation. I have been working to my utmost, but vast troubles loom on the horizon. I may not be able to pass my classes this year, and I don’t know how I will find a job. If Stanford does not come to my aid, I may go down, and let me tell you, if I go down, the consequences for our community will be grave. I am an institution here. I am so deeply tied into the Stanford community; one might say that I am the hub of a series of groups and organizations. In many instances, I provide the spark required to jump-start different ideas and activities. Without me to help steer, our community will certainly careen out of control and crash. I would like to be clear: I am not asking for a bailout just for the sake of it. I truly need help to keep myself on the road. Plus, I had no way of knowing I’d be in this situation beforehand. I assure you, my current troubles are completely and totally unexpected. How could I have anticipated that my classes would be just as hard, if not harder than, before? How should I be expected to know that the job market would be so difficult? How could I have possibly forecasted that foreign competition would be so tough? Who knew taking notes in class actually mattered or that you are supposed to do the reading? Now, I’m on the rocks, and I need help to make sure I can go on to keep Stanford’s name strong. Other people have an easier time getting jobs because they happen to have grown up in a foreign country or because they had nine languages spoken to them as a child, or because they weren’t watching YouTube during class. Why am I being discriminated against? Just because I didn’t have some of those benefits, I shouldn’t just be ignored. I mean everyone has to skip class for three weeks to catch up on TV shows once in a while. I’ve just been trying to live the American dream by putting my head down and working as hard as I can, but my hardest is no longer enough, and I need help. You believe in that too, don’t you? That as long as you’re willing to work hard, you can achieve anything? See, I knew it! This is good, we’re connecting. I’m not asking for much — $25 million

Sagar Doshi Michael Wilkerson would suffice. That’s nothing! At the beginning of this year, our endowment was $17.1 billion. My requested amount is naught but a tenth of a percentage of our entire amount. That’s the sort of thing you just round off anyway. No one would even notice. Honestly, what’s the big deal? It’s not like I’m the only one who’s needed some help recently. Why would you penalize someone like me, a simple, hard-working American son from the Midwest, for the bad judgment of some bums half a nation away? Or, for my own bad judgment and lack of foresight? I mean, I gave it a shot — come on! Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re going to say.You want me to change.You think that if I become more efficient with my energy, I’ll be able to do a lot better.Well, let me tell you something. I have been working on my energy efficiency ever since I started in this school. It’s just hard to change something overnight. If you give me this bailout, I will finally be able to turn the ignition on this and get it going from zero to 60 in no time at all. Do you really want the alternative? Do you want to live in a community where our school allows our students to fail academically and professionally? If so, why have you already put so much investment into classes, departments and extra-curricular activities? I know you folks care about me. Think about the spin-off effects if I’m not bailed out. Without me, those poor donors are never going to get their beloved Stanford Fund letters. Without me, my dorm mates would be sad and lonely. Without me, Moonbeans will have no one to whom they can sell their scrumptious cookies. In other words, the fabric of the Stanford community will be torn asunder. Do you really want that to happen on your watch? I don’t think so. I take cash or personal checks only. No credit card or wire transfers accepted.Thank you. Contact Sagar at sagarandmichael@gmail. com

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The new (gotcha) media This column originally ran on Jan. 7. 008 was a banner year for what is now apparently being called “citizen journalism.”The existence of water on Mars was publicized not by NASA, but by Twitter — as were the earthquakes in China. Television journalist Tim Russert’s death was first announced not on his employing network NBC, as had been protocol in such circumstances, but by an anonymous edit to his Wikipedia page, made before his family was alerted of his passing. It is self-evident that as traditional media outlets (read: print newspapers) continue to downsize their staff and technological advances make the dissemination of current events a collective endeavor, the barrier between plebe and reporter becomes increasingly obsolete. We are all journalists, and in a way that seems both sensible and appropriate. If a citizen journalist witnesses an important event before a bona fide professional, then why shouldn’t he or she share it? And at a moment of debatably unsurpassed political engagement in America,the democratization of news gathering is an effective way to maintain this fervor. The paradigm shift from journalism as the duty of the privileged few to journalism as a free-for-all has occurred so rapidly as to seem both inevitable and inviolate. Still, we can sense when a line has been crossed; the announcement of Russert’s death could have been delayed for two hours with no consequences for the public, especially when compared to the consequences for his family. The argument that standards must be put into place for new media reporting, along with the companion argument about the impossibility of enforcing such standards, is an old one. What has not been sufficiently discussed is whether this brave new reporting is not, in certain situations, self-defeating. Citizen journalism promises unprecedented immediacy; we therefore assume that it will encourage greater candor and richer discourse. In particular, we hope it will bring us closer to those who lead us, whose opinions and actions we are so anxious to know. But citizen journalists, armed with all the privilege of old-school reporters and none of the ethical obligations, only drive us further from this possible synergy. Continuously poised to make even the most off-handed comment a viral spectacle, citizen journalists simultaneously demand communication with politicians and discourage them from speaking frankly. The result is an inundation of dialogue paired with a scarcity of substance that has already been evidenced in the recent presidential election and will no doubt characterize the way we interface with our leaders — or don’t — for a long time. Consider one of the more ambiguously ethical uses of citizen journalism over the past year: Mayhill Fowler attended a private dinner in support of Barack Obama this past April. It was at this event that Obama made his now infamous comment about those heartland Americans who “cling to guns and religion,” which Fowler duly noted and published on Huffington Post. Traditionally, members of the press have been obligated to declare themselves as such when appearing at any sort of public gathering. Fowler declined to do so, yet her experience of the event was utilized to shape a news story about Obama’s comment on what media service company Technorati recently ranked as the most popular blog on the Internet. It has been argued that Obama did not deserve protection from Fowler. Obama made his comment in front of a group, after all, and potential voters elsewhere have a right to additional information that would give them a sense of who they may be endorsing. Such contentions are valid until studied in a larger context. [Obama thought he was speaking to a group of supporters in confidence, and he directed his speech towards them.] Was the insight that an undecided voter gained from this sound bite worth the price of increased recalcitrance on Obama’s part overall? Obama is constantly engaging with the media (in the month following his election, he set the record for number of press conferences held by a President-elect), but his appearances are so tightly managed as to make

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the endeavor all but worthless.The Washington Post suggested that the journalists who interviewed Obama in the wake of his election may have been “pre-selected by his aides.” The New York Times has quoted several of Obama’s advisors as acknowledging that their strategy for media management parallels that of the Bush administration in its structure and rigorousness. We can all agree that politicians as a group talk too much and do too little, but the vigilance of millions of bloggers and Twitterers necessitates an unprecedented level of information control. The desire of citizen journalists to circumvent the bureaucracy inherent in traditional journalistic practices is understandable, but their methods are self-defeating. The harder they press, the more elusive Obama and his ilk become, generating a continuous feed of babble all the while. In the act of running for public office, political leaders implicitly agree to be forthright and responsible in all their dealings, and to make themselves available to public scrutiny. The media is integral to guaranteeing the ethicality of politicians; as such, it should not have to rely on fraudulent techniques to do so. We’ve already seen how, in the announcement of Russert’s death, citizen journalism

can violate ethical boundaries — and how, on a pragmatic level, it threatens to further erode the quality of political discourse. There is, of course, no way to guarantee that everyone with a story and an Internet connection considers the implications of his or her actions. As such, it falls to those who provide a forum for new media reporting to punish those who act inappropriately. The person who updated Russert’s Wikipedia entry early was fired from his or her job at Internet Broadcasting Services (in spite of — or should I say, because of — pleading ignorance at the implications of the gesture). If Huffington would hold her contributors to similar standards, that would be a good place to start. When Governor Sarah Palin complained about the “gotcha media,” we all laughed at her. Journalists worth their salt ask hard questions, fact-check and follow up. But good journalists also respect themselves and their readers enough to do the task with integrity, while doing it well, and the rest of us could learn from them. The future of political discourse depends on it. Contact Jenna at [email protected]

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The No. 11 Stanford men’s tennis team is headed to the ITA Indoor Championships as one of the top 15 teams in the nation. After two big wins in Boise, Idaho this weekend in the qualifying round, the No. 11 Cardinal (3-0) will head to Chicago, Ill. in two weeks to play for the ITA Indoor team title. On Saturday, Stanford downed No. 26 Boise State in the opening round, 6-1. It was a convincing win for the Cardinal, as the match took place on the Broncos’ home court with a hostile crowd, faster courts and higher altitude. Stanford won the doubles point to set the tone, going on to win five singles matches. It was the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles teams that picked up Stanford’s wins against Boise State. Sophomore Alex Clayton and freshman Bradley Klahn, at the No. 3 spot, won in 8-3.The No. 1 team

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GAME NOTES: Stanford is currently ranked No. 11 in the nation and undefeated on the season. This will be the first of only two home matches for the Cardinal in the month of February. It is also the last match for Stanford before the team heads to the ITA National Indoor Championships in Chicago in just under two weeks.

of senior Blake Muller and junior Richard Wire, however, then suffered an 8-5 defeat.The Cardinal relied heavily on senior Matt Bruch and freshman Ryan Thacher in the deciding doubles match, as the duo won a tight 9-8 battle over the Broncos’ Stanley Sarapanich and Clancy Shields, giving the Cardinal the first point of the match. From there it was smooth sailing, as Stanford dropped only one singles match. Clayton had a tough, three-set victory over No. 22 Shields at No. 1 singles, 7-5, 6-7, 10-5. Thacher also went to three sets at No. 2 singles, but could not pull out the victory, falling to Kean Feeder 6-7, 6-4, 6-10. The Cardinal’s No. 3 to No. 6 singles players sweeped their matches as well. On Sunday, Stanford moved on to play Auburn, who beat Vanderbilt 4-3 in their opening round. Klahn, who did not play in singles the day before, did not play at all against the Tigers. The match began a little differently than the day before, as Auburn captured the doubles point. While the Tigers have two doubles tandems ranked in the top-20 in the nation, and swept through Stanford at the No. 1 and 2 spots, Clayton and sophomore Ted Kelly won their doubles match at No. 3, 8-2. It was the first match this year that Stanford lost the doubles point. But Stanford again dominated singles, winning five out of six matches for the second day in a row. Clayton beat the No. 48 ranked player in the nation, Alexey Tsyrenov, 0-6, 7-6, 6-0 for his second

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Despite falling to Oregon State on Friday afternoon, Stanford wrestling rallied in the evening to win two matches against Portland and Princeton University. The victory over Portland brings the team its first win against a Pacific-10 Conference opponent this season. Several slips in close matches toppled Stanford (6-12-1) in a 25-9 loss against Oregon State, but the Cardinal decisively pounded the Vikings 29-12 and the Tigers 31-13. Three Cardinal wrestlers posted perfect, three-win days: redshirt sophomore Lucas Espericueta, redshirt freshman Nick Amuchastegui and junior Jake Johnson. These wrestlers were the only three to earn victories over Oregon State. Matt Scencebaugh started the tournament with determination, falling behind at first,but getting his Oregon State opponent on his back in the last few seconds. The freshman’s comeback, however, was not enough to close the scoreboard gap, and Scencebaugh had to settle for a 14-9 loss. Sophomore Porfirio Madrigal, redshirt sophomore Cameron Teitleman and redshirt junior Tyler Parker then suffered three losses in a row to leave Stanford with a 13-0 deficit. At 157 pounds, Lucas Espericueta brought Stanford its first victory of the day. He followed a quick takedown in the

first period with two more in the rest of the match for an 11-4 win. Amuchastegui then capitalized on his chance for revenge against Oregon State opponent Keegan Davis — the Beavers’ junior beat him at the Reno Tournament of Champions in December. “I was more prepared in this match; I felt fresher since last time [I faced Davis] was in the middle of a tournament,” Amuchastegui said. “I was mentally prepared for a hard match.” The redshirt freshman’s preparation proved necessary. Down 4-3 going into the third period, Amuchastegui earned a one-point escape to tie it up. He then scored a takedown with only 20 seconds left to win 6-4. 184-pound Jake Johnson also surged from behind to score a takedown in the final 30 seconds for a 7-6 victory. Senior Luke Feist also battled through a close match, but Oregon State’s Chad Hanke got a takedown with only two seconds left to take the match. Adding injury to insult, the Cardinal ended the Oregon State match on a sad personal note: As if the team loss wasn’t bad enough, Matt Winterbourne — Stanford’s sole heavyweight wrestler who had just re-entered competition after healing a back injury — tore a ligament in his knee halfway through his match. He has been consigned to crutches and will not be able to wrestle for the

Over the weekend, the No. 5 Stanford women’s tennis team picked up two dual-match victories over No. 51 Colorado and No. 36 Illinois, improving to 3-0 on the season. With a pair of dominant 6-1 wins, the Cardinal women played above their current ITA ranking. “This weekend we played really well,” said junior Lindsay Burdette. 1/31 vs. Illinois W 6-1 “I think we even shocked ourselves and our coaches this weekend, especially with doubles play. We definitely didn’t get a huge (2-0, 1-0 Big West) number of singles 2/5 Taube Family Tennis Center matches under our 1:30 P.M. belts in Palm Springs and in GAME NOTES: The Cardinal is currently the Vegas, so to come No. 5 team in the nation and is undefeatout as sharp and ed on the season. The match against Cal steady as we were Poly is the last tune-up before the Card was definitely a travels to Madison for the National Team pleasant surprise Indoor Championships. Following that for all of us.” contest, Stanford will enjoy 12 of its 15 reBesides bolster- maining matches at home. ing their early season record, the Cardinal women also punched their tickets to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships in Madison,Wis. next week. Stanford will be making its 15th appearance at the Indoor Championships. Despite a young squad this season, qualifying for the Indoors was never in question for a storied Cardinal program. “We were hands down fully expecting to blow these teams away,” Burdette said.“But I think that the question marks were how our doubles teams were going to match up with the few changes in the past couple weeks. Taking matches was never in question though.” Last Friday, Stanford blew past Colorado, sweeping all three doubles matches. The top half of the lineup also dominated in singles, becoming a common theme in this year’s matches. A co-captain of the squad, Burdette won 6-2, 7-5 in the afternoon. “As far as singles for me, there’s no substitute for match play,” Burdette said. “I got better every single match in the past five days, and hopefully that will continue throughout Indoors.” At the bottom half of the lineup, the freshmen held their ground, with Courtney Clayton clinching the match over 6-0, 6-2 victory. However, freshman Veronica Li retired from her singles match at No. 5 due to a pulled stomach muscle. “Veronica unfortunately has been struggling with a stomach muscle pull which has made her results look dicey,” Burdette said. “But as soon as that heals up, she and Courtney [Clayton] are going to be great down there. If she’s still struggling with the muscle by indoors, Jennifer Yen will come in and clean up shop as well.”

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GAME NOTES: Prior to defeating Princeton, the Cardinal also fell to Oregon State 25-9, but won against Portland State 29-12 during the four-team meet last weekend. Also, several Cardinal wrestlers participated in the California Collegiates in San Francisco on Saturday, where sophomore Justin Paulsen took third overall. Arizona State had lost three in a row before beating Cal Poly last weekend. rest of the season. “I was defending and my knee just buckled,” Winterbourne said. “It was a freak accident.” Despite the brevity of his current season, the redshirt freshman still holds wrestling close. In fact, Winterbourne is already planning his comeback. “I’m definitely looking forward to making more noise next year,” he said. The back-to-back matches against Portland and Princeton saw many redemptions and personal achievements, besides the Stanford team’s overall domination. “Earlier in the season, when we lost a dual match, we would have a hard time bouncing back,” coach Jason Borrelli said.“This time, we got beat, and the team was able to put it behind them.” Scencebaugh and Madrigal both

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Freshman Matt Sencenbaugh grappled with his opponent in a meet earlier this month. Sencenbaugh won his match against Princeton 12-1 to give Stanford an early lead on its way to a 31-13 win.

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e are naturally fickle. As a people, as a society, the recent past frequently takes precedent over history. When The Dark Knight came out this summer, for example, it was instantly catapulted into IMDB’s top ten movies of all time, better than Casablanca, Schindler’s List, and The Wizard of Oz. We rush to make grand proclamations, and in our fury, we discount precedent. Sportswriters are no different. “We overreact. We assume that whatever we’re seeing now is bigger or better or more important than what we saw then.We forget the past. We dishonor it,” writes Gregg Doyel. Those are important words, except that Doyel then spent an article trying to prove why that wasn’t the case. But, of course, it is. Only through our capriciousness can we call Super Bowl XLIII, a game that was, for fifty minutes, one of the more boring games of the year, one of the best ever. This wasn’t like the San Antonio Spurs winning a championship because of purely fundamental play that isn’t exciting to watch. No, this game was hardly about the grind-itout football basics — it was sloppy and poorly refereed. The final ten minutes — which gave us one of the most exciting Super Bowl endings, ever — did not make the rest of the game moot. If you had said “game over” after Arizona punted early in the fourth quarter down 20-7, I wouldn’t have blamed you. Half of Arizona’s drives ended in punts, and not necessarily because of Pittsburgh’s defensive fortitude, but rather because Kurt Warner seemed to forget that Larry Fitzgerald existed until the fourth quarter. There were dropped kickoffs and 18 penalties between the two teams. Despite a Cardinals defense that looked out of sync in the first half, the Steelers could only score one offensive touchdown in the first three quarters, instead settling for two Jeff Reed chip shots, one of which was aided by 35 yards of Arizona penalties. Ah,yes,the Zebras.The 2009 postseason was marred by controversial refereeing, from the defensive holding call in overtime of the Indianapolis-San Diego wild card game, to the no-call on a delay of game in the Baltimore-Tennessee divisional battle, to the multitude of questionable calls in the Super Bowl. On just the aforementioned field goal drive alone, the Steelers were handed 15 yards on an absurd roughing the passer penalty, and a first down at the Arizona four-yard line after an equally bizarre roughing the holder call. Before the fourth quarter, the Cardinals had ten penalties called on them to Pittsburgh’s two. I’m not going to be the guy who says that the refs stole the Super Bowl. I’m sure there will be plenty of those voices emanating from Phoenix (and a still-bitter Seattle) over the next few days. But, I do follow Jason Whitlock’s line of reasoning, that “on a play-toplay, quarter-to-quarter basis”, it was Terry McAulay’s crew that stole the show. So, until the Cardinals’ offense woke up in the fourth quarter,we had one notable play (James Harrison’s miraculous interception return for a touchdown) that stood out amongst penalty-ridden, mundane football — the game wasn’t a cliffhanger, it wasn’t notable. And then came a furious finish, where Arizona scored two touchdowns and recorded on safety to take a late lead before Ben Roethlisberger and Santonio Holmes hooked up for the game-winning touchdown with less than a minute remaining. The ending led writers across the country, from Don Banks to Michael Silver, to proclaim Super Bowl XLIII as the best there ever was — the former making his declaration not two hours after the game had ended. But when judged as a whole, this contest doesn’t hold a candle to the truly great matchups of years past — Jets and Colts in III; Steelers and

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Wrestlers bounce back By ZOE LEAVITT

Senior Blake Muller is the only member of his class on the Stanford men’s tennis team. His leadership is just one reason the Cardinal was able to qualify for the ITA National Indoor Championships.

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the attack, Fingar replied, “There weren’t dots to connect.” “I’m offended by this ‘connect the dots’ imagery,” he added, “as if you had enough monkeys, you could figure this stuff out.” Instead, he blamed law enforcement — specifically, a “structural failing” in the separation between domestic and foreign law enforcement. He believes there were “good and understandable” barriers meant to protect civil liberties that conflicted with the government’s ability to protect its people. “It took legislative change to fix that,” he said of the revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authored by Bush officials after 9/11. Yet, he remains somewhat of a hero among liberal circles. With the end of Bush’s second term, Fingar, who had been appointed to highranking positions by both Presidents Clinton and Bush, walks away from a government career with an unsullied reputation outside the Beltway as an apolitical civil servant and progressive administrator. The Guardian newspaper in 2007 hailed him as the man who “singlehandedly stopped — or at least postponed — any U.S. military strike against Iran” by authoring the intelligence estimate that concluded that Iran had stopped its covert uranium enrichment program. Other liberal commentators claimed he alone

BULIMIA Continued from front page nitive behavioral therapy will be the most effective,” Lock said. “But whether or not that’s true is really unknown. On average, that’s the treatment that looks the best in adults, and therefore it’s the presumed best treatment.” Analysis of results will be based on a structured interview developed 20 years ago called “eating disorder examination,” the standard of measure in studies dealing

halted the neo-conservative “war party” in its tracks. Fingar shrugs it all off. “Even if we were going to go into Iran, where would we have gotten the troops?” he said, dismissing the speculation of a strike as hysteria. What he is genuinely proud of, however, is a signed issue of Time magazine he keeps at home, in which his pet project “A-Space” — what Time called a “Facebook for spies” — was listed as one of 2008’s best inventions. A-Space is indeed more than a social networking tool for the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. It’s a platform for collaboration on projects from dissecting Nigeria’s troop movements to pulling together a presidential briefing. It is the successor to Intellipedia, a freely editable Wiki for intelligence analysts that was also pushed forward by Fingar in his attempt to create A-Space. Intellipedia, he noted with satisfaction, reached one million edits among the sequestered intelligence community in a shorter time than the public Wikipedia had. The demands on intelligence officers have fundamentally changed from the cloak-and-dagger Cold War days. Fingar said the number of “issues” has increased from several hundred to several thousand, as international dynamics and the rise of non-state actors can no longer be viewed through Cold War lenses. Situations also unfold with increased urgency. “Back then, we just watched the Soviet Bear plod around,” he said. “Now you’ve got [soldiers] standing in Iraq outside a house, and they

want to know which door to go in.” So he pushed to integrate information organization and analysis, and modernize the entire U.S. intelligence network, Fingar said. “Two-thirds of the people who worked for me joined after Sept. 11,” he said. “They’re your generation, smart, tech-savvy, multi-tasking. You can’t do 21st-century stuff using standards and procedures from a slow-moving time. We’re doing better in each agency, and better is going from quite good, in some instances, to very good.” The body of intelligence analysts Fingar left to the Obama administration will be tested by a world no less simple. The “ark of instability” from Pakistan to the Levant will be the most challenging, Fingar said. Fingar is certainly more dovish than the dominant policymakers of the Bush era. He suggested collaboration with non-friendly states on initiatives such as combating climate change and providing stable sources of energy. He visibly disliked even the phrase of “pressuring Iran,” and said he found Obama’s campaign rhetoric on Iran “very encouraging.” An objective policy opinion or not, it was the closest Fingar came to revealing political favor in an hourlong conversation. When asked a final time to give his critical assessment of foreign policy successes and failures over the past eight years, Fingar declined mildly. “I don’t have the kiss-and-tell kind of habit,” he said.

with Bulimia nervosa. Recruiting for the study is estimated to last up to two years. Lock attributed the long process to the difficulty in finding an adolescent suffering specifically from Bulimia nervosa alone. “A lot of times, adolescents who are bulimic are quite secretive, and people don’t know about it,” Lock said, “so they can be harder to identify.” He is hoping to draw a sample of participants from admitted bulimic patients at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Advertisements and information sessions in various schools are also

part of the recruitment plans. “We really desperately need to recruit effectively,” he said. “I think that’s our main challenge.” While two other studies on this topic have been previously published, Lock claims that the results from those were inconclusive, and the samples were far too small to make accurate generalizations — a primary motivation for conducting a third study on bulimic adolescents. “Right now, the clinicians in the community don’t know what they’d be offering adolescents with Bulimia nervosa — they’re just more or less guessing,” he said. “We would like to be able to offer them information about the kinds that are the most effective, and maybe for which [age group] therapies are most effective.” Most of the studies on Bulimia nervosa have focused on treatment for the older population. This can be attributed to the convenience and accessibility that comes with recruiting adult patients, Lock claims. Adults have proven easier to recruit because they can decide for themselves and do not need any forms of parental consent. Still, he pointed out that the treatment used for adults may not always be as effective when directed toward patients in a younger age group. “You’re really looking at a very different group of people with different abilities to use therapy, different levels of autonomy and different levels of symptom severity,” he said. “Adult researchers don’t always value the need to intervene early as much as those who work with adolescents do.”

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SLEEP Continued from front page if people can’t seem to grasp that.” For Xandra Clark ‘12, the GER requirement was of lesser importance compared to the value of the class material. Clark stressed that she would have taken the course whether or not it fulfilled any GERs. Having attended Dement’s lecture during last year’s Admit Weekend, “It was one of the main reasons why I attended Stanford,” Clark said. But students who need to finish university requirements in order to graduate have a different perspective. “I’m really enjoying the class right now,” said Sean Tannehill ‘12. “But the fact that it fulfills the natural science requirement really helps me out academically.” Contact An Le Nguyen [email protected].

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Gymnasts stay perfect Cardinal edges Arizona to go 8-0 By KENAN JIANG STAFF WRITER

The No. 4 Stanford women’s gymnastics team scraped by Arizona last Friday at McKale Center and extended its record to 8-0 on the season. Never before has the Cardinal won eight straight decisions to start a season. Still, the women made some uncharacteristic mistakes and almost lost their perfect record to the No. 24 Arizona Wildcats. Stanford eventually came from behind to edge Arizona 195.575 to 195.175 after losing points and falling behind on the first rotation. The Cardinal also failed to perform up to its own standards on the balance beam, which is the team’s best event this year.Arizona remains 0-4 overall despite beating the Cardinal in two events. Junior Carly Janiga stepped up for Stanford after the early mistakes and scored a 9.9 on the vault and uneven bars, while capturing the all-around with 39.45 points. Janiga’s performance was a tremendous boost for the Card, as the junior — ranked fifth collegiately in allaround — won the vault, bars and floor, while scoring season bests or tying her season highs for all the events. Sophomore Shelley Alexander also contested the allaround and ended with a score of 38.475, with her highest total coming from the vault at 9.875. “It was clearly not our best performance,” Janiga said. “We made some uncharacteristic mistakes on beam and bars, but we also made some great upgrades on floor which boasts our difficulty level. It may have been good that we had some mistakes because we are that much more fired up for the meet against UCLA on Sunday.” “Our performance in Tucson did not reflect the great work we’ve been doing in the gym over the past few weeks,” said senior Kelly Fee.“We made some uncharacteristic mistakes that none of us are worried about. Personally, I had a few of those uncharacteristic mistakes, but all in all, I was satisfied with my performance and look forward to defeating the Bruins next Sunday.” The Arizona gymnasts came out with a strong punch, as all scored 9.9 on the vault to top the Cardinal. But freshman Alyssa Brown scored a 9.875 and junior Blair Ryland had a 9.825, both season bests; and along with Janiga’s 9.9 and senior Nicole Ourada’s 9.875, Stanford set a team-high score of 49.35 on vault to Arizona’s 49.2. On the uneven bars, Stanford beat out Arizona 48.825 to 48.025, with Janiga leading on a 9.9, followed by Fee with a 9.775. Freshman Nicole Pechanec scored 9.75, Brown scored 9.75 and sophomore Shelley Alexander finished at 9.65. Arizona edged out Stanford on the balance beam 48.725 to 48.45 with Arizona’s Briana Bergeson scoring a 9.9 followed by Stanford’s Ourada at 9.875, Fee at 9.8, Janiga at 9.775, senior Heather Purnell at 9.75 and junior Allyse Ishino at 9.25. The Wildcats also beat Stanford in the floor exercise, 49.225 to 48.95. The Cardinal resumes action against No. 3 UCLA at

WOMEN Continued from page 4 On Saturday, Stanford was set to face Illinois for a spot at the Indoor Championships. However, the third place match ran an hour longer than expected, leaving the Cardinal waiting to begin its match. “We were definitely sitting up in the office trying to keep ourselves occupied,” Burdette said. “We did a really good job of keeping it light and fun in the meantime, and going out there and putting on our game faces.” And certainly, the one hour wait could not delay the inevitable. Stanford came out strong again with yet another sweep of the doubles point. Burdette and sophomore Hilary Barte teamed up to dispatch their opponents 8-3. “Doubles has been unbelievable the past couple matches,” Burdette

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Senior Nicole Ourada finishes her floor exercise routine at the ASU meet two weekends ago. This weekend, Ourada helped Stanford secure a win in the important vault event. Burnham Pavilion on Sunday, Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. “UCLA is probably our team’s equivalent to Stanford’s rivalry with Cal,” Janiga said. “It’s always been back and forth between us and UCLA for the Pac-10 title. UCLA has some killer freshmen this year, so I believe that we are really going to be well matched this weekend. It will definitely be a head-to-head finish.” Contact Kenan Jiang at [email protected].

said. “Hilary and I really found our place when we broke through in Palm Springs. We’ve been feeling really good even when the match is close. Our hopes are so much higher for this year than last year.” In singles, Co-Captain Jessica Nguyen dropped a hard-fought match in a 7-6(3), 6-2 decision. However, Barte and Burdette picked her up with a pair of 6-2, 6-0 wins, and Clayton was able to clinch the second match of the weekend with a 60, 6-3 win. High on a three-match win streak, the Cardinal is ready to accept whatever challenges come its way in Madison. “Our expectations are to go in there and give it all we got,”Burdette said. “We have every ability to beat any team in the nation. Between now and then, we’re going to continue to solidify our doubles teams and focus on making sure everybody’s healthy because our singles are going great with everyone healthy.” The Cardinal women are two

years removed from their last Indoor Championship. In the last two years, including the match that broke their 89-match win streak, Stanford has been ousted by Georgia Tech. Still, with a young squad, Stanford is aware that they have nothing to lose heading into this year’s tournament. “If we go out there, put our best foot forward and come short, to me that won’t be a disappointment at all,” Burdette said. “We need to cultivate the idea that we’re going out after it. We’re young, so the pressure is on the other teams, especially in the later rounds, and we’re going to use that to our advantage.” “As long as we go out after it, it doesn’t matter whether we fall short or not,” she added. Before ITAs, Stanford will have one final tune-up in a home match against Cal Poly on Thursday, scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. Contact Anthony Nguyen at [email protected].

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Sophomore Hilary Barte lined up a forehand shot in a match last weekend. Barte has paired up with junior Lindsay Burdette to form an elite doubles tandem this season.

WRESTLE bounced back from their earlier defeats to take down their opponents. Teitleman shut out his Portland opponent 4-0. By the time Johnson emerged victorious against Portland at 184 pounds, Stanford had guaranteed its first victory against a Pac-10 opponent. Though Winterbourne’s injury caused a forfeit in the heavyweight class, Stanford won 29-12. The Cardinal’s newfound momentum carried it through the night, as Stanford proceeded to trample Princeton 31-13. Scencebaugh set a positive tone in the first match of the night, flipping the Tigers’ Robert

Benitez twice to gain an 11-0 lead by the second period. He won 12-1 to score a bonus point for the Cardinal. Princeton then forfeited two matches to fall behind 16-0. Amuchastegui said his match was “closer than expected,” but he managed to edge-out Tiger freshman Andy Lowy 9-7. “There was lots of crazy stuff I hadn’t been anticipating, lots of flipflopping,” Amuchastegui said. However, it was worth the fight. Amuchastegui’s continued winning streak tied him with Zach Zimmerer ‘00 to earn the fifth-most wins of any rookie wrestler in school history. Johnson — the team’s current win leader — also achieved a personal milestone with the 60th win of his career against Princeton. “The thing about Jake,” Borrelli

said, “is he’s probably the best conditioned wrestler on our team so he always thinks he can outwork his opponent, always thinks he can win.” By the time Feist wrestled against Portland and Princeton, Stanford’s victories were already determined. However, he pinned both his opponents to bring his career pin total to 25. Feist now stands as the Pac-10’s season pin leader and took fifth place on Stanford’s alltime chart. As individual wrestlers’ achievements grow and Stanford begins to rack up wins, the team looks to continue improving throughout the season. This Friday, Stanford will take on Arizona State at home at 7 p.m.

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Cowboys in XIII; Broncos and Packers in XXXII; Patriots and Rams in XXXVI; and Giants and Patriots in XLII. Indeed, it’s interesting to watch writers elevate this year’s game to the top of the pantheon when last season’s contest is still fresh in our minds — one that featured the greatest play in Super Bowl history, historical connotations, well-executed football on both sides that kept it close throughout, and, in light of this year’s travesty, some of the most widely recognized, best refereeing in a championship game. Super Bowl XLIII had an ending and an interception return for the ages, but that’s about it. Let’s consider the whole product before making these inane snap judgments. But I won’t kid myself — if next year’s game has even a modicum of excitement in the fourth quarter, I’ll be back in this space, writing this same column, because to our most impulsive football analysts, the immediate past always trumps history.

straight victory over a top-ranked player. After Wire and Muller both won in straight sets at No. 4 and No. 5 singles, respectively, Bruch sealed the match with his second victory of the weekend, a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Lukas Marsoun at No. 3. “Even without the doubles point, our team is good enough and has the ability to beat anybody from one to six,” Muller said. “As long as everyone competes, there isn’t really a reason we can’t win a lot of matches.”

The Cardinal has qualified for Chicago in two weeks, but will not head there yet — they will play a dual match against BYU this Friday. The match will be preparation for the tough Indoor field that the Cardinal will face later on this month: the other 14 of the top 15 teams in the nation. “We played [the second match] without one of our better players (Klahn), and we were still able to pull it out,” Muller said. “We experienced a lot of tough aspects of college tennis [this weekend].The team handled it very well. Overall it was a good showing.”

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