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Faculty discusses IT and interviews Issues with Internet security, admission policies come to head By JULIA BROWNELL

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The Faculty Senate met yesterday to discuss information technology security, undergraduate admissions and financial aid. During the meeting, undergraduate expansion and budget cuts also came up.

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Information Technology Due to last summer’s security breach incident, in which a laptop containing employee records was stolen from the IT department, an information security task force was created to address privacy and safety issues regarding online information.

“That incident created a tremendous amount of anxiety,” said Randall Livingston, director of the task force. He added, however, “There’s no evidence that personal records were ever accessed or viewed.” The costs of the incident are still apparent. “We spent over a million dollars to date just mitigating that incident,” he said. “Most importantly it has as big an impact on our reputation,on the sense of confidence people have in us as an organization.” To remedy the issue, the task force intends to forbid employees from having personal information on their own computers, including social security numbers and other identity data. Slightly less sensitive information, mostly consisting of medical records, must be encrypted if it is kept on a computer or transferred. The task force was also concerned about email transmission of sensitive data.To protect personal information, the task force aims for sharing to

occur only between Stanford email accounts. “The new email servers that are being rolled out [do] provide encryption any time from a Stanford user to another Stanford user,” Livingston said. One problem the task force is running into is third-party email servers like Gmail and Yahoo used by many students and faculty as “outsources” for their Stanford email. This information cannot be protected,and the task force wants to aim to limit their use. “We don’t have a mechanism to block [thirdparty server users] at this point, but that’s something we’ll work to over time,” Livingston said. Other faculty, however, had concerns about relying solely on Zimbra based on past performance. “We have to make sure [Zimbra] works,” said Philippe Buc, professor of history.“I think a lot of students are [switching],not just because they like their Gmail but because the Stanford mail is not

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Interviews and Class Expansion Members of the Senate spent much time discussing the new undergraduate admissions alumni interview pilot program,which was criticized by several faculty members. Paul Schwitzer,professor in statistics and chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid, talked about the six-city pilot’s success in drawing applicants. “Practically all applicants from these locations have opted for that interview,” he said. However, the program is still in its early stages and would have to be greatly expanded if it were to apply to all applicants. “We are interviewing, in these six cities, about five percent of all applicants,” he said.“If we were to roll this out to a universal basis, we would have

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Tree Week has featured a host of heated competitions among Tree contenders, with some engaging in chicken hunts and others fighting and defeating Oski the Bear. The week also saw an unlikely marriage of stunts and service, as Tree hopeful Jack Cackler ‘09 brought the Stanford Bloodmobile to Lagunita Court to promote his campaign. Cackler, a member of The Daily’s editorial board, is a second-time Tree candidate. “While the spheres of the Stanford Tree and public service haven’t traditionally intersected, I’m trying to change that,” Cackler said. The Stanford Bloodmobile parked in front of Lagunita Court yesterday from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The event promised music and performances from dance group Arabesque and Down With Gravity, Stanford’s juggling club. Cackler, wrapped in a red cape, thanked every one who donated by drinking a shot of maple syrup. “We’ve had an amazing turnout,” said Lee Crager, charge nurse for the Bloodmobile. “It’s been nonstop all day. I’ve been on a couple other blood drives at Stanford, and this is the busiest I’ve ever seen.” By 5:30 p.m., the number of donations had reached 35, correlating to over 100 blood recipients. Cackler contacted the center in early January, and offered to help with publicizing the blood drive. “It’s a good mix of doing things a little crazy that I enjoy and giving back to the community that I love,” he said. Elif Tasar ‘12 was one the many students who came to donate blood in support of Cackler. When asked about what made Cackler’s candidacy attractive, Tasar replied, “His presence, I guess? I’ve never experienced a Tree campaign before, but this seems like a solid one.” But other Tree contenders have been keeping themselves busy during the week as well. “This is a week I’ve been looking forward to for a long time,” said Tree hopeful Kyle Owen ‘10. “I have been focusing on having the most fun I can have and incorporating my friends and students and anyone possible.” Owen’s first stunt was called “Rocketeer,” and involved riding zip lines. He let other students ride the zip lines with security harness after performing his stunt. “I have great respect for anyone who runs for Tree, and really enjoy watching, filming and being a part of their stunts,” Owen said. The third Tree candidate, Jonathan Strange ‘11, declined comment beyond noting that, “I’m still running. I have a really good event planned on Saturday, but that’s all I’m willing to disclose right now.” According to current Tree Patrick Fortune ‘09, a fashion show will be put on this weekend where candidates can “show off their looks and the kind of image that they give.”

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Some students disagree with strict ban for SF tradition By ELLEN HUET

QUYNH PHAN/The Stanford Daily Last week, a number of Branner freshmen were affected by an unknown virus. Vaden has been unable to lay a finger on the cause. There are current fears that the sickness could escalate to the level of the “Toyonic Plague” of 2006, which devastated the sophomore dormitory.

VIRUS STRIKES BRANNER Several students make trip to Vaden due to undiagnosed sickness By CHRISTINE MCFADDEN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Branner Hall was looking more like a hospital ward than a dorm last week, after dozens of students in the all-frosh residence fell ill with stomach virus-like symptoms. While it lacks a formal diagnosis and cause, the sickness has caused several students to make trips to the Vaden Health Center. “What made me go to Vaden was that I was vomiting for more than one day in a row, and I could just not take the coughing anymore,” said Fallon Segarra ‘12. “Vaden suggested I had a post-viral cough because I had been sick the week before.” “I was told what I had and how to get over it, and I wasn’t told to let it run its course, which would have been a hard thing to do especially during a week full of midterms,” she added. Other students experienced similar symptoms. Evelyn Renee Kelley ‘12 suffered a loss of appetite along with other signs of sickness, but was unsure of where she might have contracted it. “It was gone in a day,” Kelley said. “My stomach settled after about seven hours.” Other symptoms reported by Branner residents include drowsiness, extreme body temperatures, shivering and lethargy. Freshman Jacob Stern’s roommate displayed comparable symptoms to Segarra

and Kelley. “He was really sick, and all of a sudden he started throwing up,” Stern said. “He was miserable for a couple days, and he actually gave it to his girlfriend too. Overall, it was not a positive experience.” The source of the illness is still a mystery. “At first they thought it was food poisoning, but I don’t think it was because it wasn’t just [my roommate],” Stern said. Whatever the cause, the sickness has hit Branner quickly. “It seems to be spreading pretty quickly,” said Christianne Gonzalez ‘12.“It’s just because we live together in such close proximity that we end up giving each other bacteria. It might also be because people don’t wash their hands well enough.” In 2006, many students at Toyon Hall succumbed to the aptly-named “Toyonic Plague.” While a high percentage of the students were not affected, the ones who were fell seriously ill. “A fair amount of people were in bed for days and vomiting. It was really gross,” said Jamie Marincola ‘08, a former Toyon resident assistant. The source of the “Plague” was similarly unknown, but there was some speculation that it came from one of Toyon’s three eating clubs. The sickness hit during spring quarter and even affected the housing draw — typically a popular dorm to for

sophomores, Toyon received a small number of preference rankings from freshmen applying for housing. Two muggings in the Toyon parking lot shortly before the draw might have also been a factor. Segarra said she does not foresee the wave of sickness in Branner reaching a level comparable to that of the Toyonic Plague. “The emails going out a couple weeks ago were kind of scary, but I didn’t see evidence of sickness,” she said. Signs are posted in Branner bathrooms urging students to take preventative measure. These include avoiding sharing food, washing hands thoroughly with soap, using disinfectant spray on places that receive a lot of contact and washing soiled clothing promptly. Students are advised to visit Vaden if they experience certain dangerous symptoms including dehydration, a fever of over 100 degrees, severe headache or abdominal pain, blood in stools or vomit, a vomiting session of longer than six to eight hours or diarrhea for more than three days. “It was kind of weird that they would make that much hype,” Segarra said. “I guess they were being proactive to make sure that what happened in Toyon doesn’t ever happen again here.” Contact Christine McFadden at cnm714@ stanford.edu.

Students looking forward to the characteristically rowdy and eccentric atmosphere at the 98th annual San Francisco Bay to Breakers race may be disappointed this year after a ban on public drunkenness, floats and other wheeled objects.After a year of deliberations among city leaders, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) and neighborhood associations, ING (the company directing the race) decided to institute a significant change to the event, which will take place May 17. Traditionally run from the Embarcadero area of the city all the way west to Ocean Beach, Bay to Breakers has been a long-standing tradition in San Francisco’s history. Started in 1912 to raise city morale after the devastating 1906 earthquake, it is the longest consecutively running footrace in the world, and its roots lie deeply in celebrating the spirit of San Francisco. Recently, however, race organizers have said that the race’s “spirit” has gotten out of hand. In response to neighborhood associations’ complaints about trash left on the course and defaced resident property, race organizers decided to implement changes to this year’s race. “People were throwing up in front yards,defecating in gardens and urinating on driveways,” said Terri Tiffany ‘74 MA ‘78, external personal relations counsel for the race. “If you owned a house on the course and you wanted to be celebrating the spirit of the race as well, it’d be difficult to be supportive [of this behavior].” Tiffany explained that the changes were not the result of a sudden switch in policy, but rather a shift over a long period of time. “The race really celebrated the spirit of the city and individuals, but there seems to have been a move away from the pure athleticism that characterized the early years of the race to more of a Mardi Gras spirit,” she explained. This year, SFPD will be enforcing zero-tolerance alcohol policies as well as bans on floats and wheeled objects, which in the past have been abandoned and created hazards for runners. “We’ve found that floats, which really have been an extension of costume and centerpiece in the past, are now often being used to bring alcohol on the course,” Tiffany said. “After the floats were used, often they were left in the middle of the course and became a real danger to people trying to run.” Public response to these changes is split between supporters who feel the policies will clean up the race and opponents who feel the policies detract from the spirit of Bay to Breakers. For Stanford students who participated as registered runners, the policies are a welcome change. “While some may be upset with these changes, I find them to be great,” said Sarah Itani ‘12, who ran the race last year to support the charities involved. “They will ensure better safety for the participants and an overall better race environment.” Aaron Bronzan ‘09, who has run in the previous

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FEATURES Second Chances An in-depth look at three of Stanford’s older students By CASSANDRA FELICIANO

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ost of us live on second chances and hardly recognize them — a rematch for a rivalry game, the blank sheets of paper under your desk, tomorrow morning. Every year, however, a handful of Stanford undergraduates join the throng of new freshmen in this notso-once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of a college experience. For these returning students and non-traditional transfers, New Student Orientation, take two, is an opening to relive their Stanford experience in a different and better way. The small melting pot of approximately twenty-five returning students and six non-traditional transfers who step onto campus each year consists of first-time returnees and veterans who are taking their third or even fourth run on the college ride. Three returning students — Celia Sandel ‘10, Tim Wilcox ‘10 and April House ‘10 gave The Daily an insider’s look at life inside the bubble, the second time around. One More Time! It might be said that Sandel, a Bay Area native, is a collector — but not of the traditional sort. She arrived on campus last fall seeking to explore a new career path and add another gold star to her already impressive resume. With a master’s degree in finance, Sandel can boast two career fields under her belt. She worked as a physician’s assistant in family medicine for twelve years before becoming a certified financial planner. We shared a few Communication classes before I began writing this article. While I had not known her name, I was immediately aware of her wide breadth of knowledge, which I had then attributed to an undergraduate education at a most prestigious institution. She asked provoking questions in class and offered insights unique to life experiences alone. When we met for this interview, it did not surprise me to hear that part of her decision to come back to school was due to a prerequisite of a bachelor’s degree for the Master in Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of

Pennsylvania. “I got all excited and went through all this process — wrote the essays and met the people. And then I didn’t get in,” she said, visibly disappointed. UPenn labeled her application as ineligible on the grounds that she did not have a bachelor’s degree. “So that kind of irritated me, and then I thought well, maybe I should finish it somewhere and then go [to UPenn],” she added. It was then that Sandel began searching for undergraduate programs with a goal of trying her hand at new academic fields while also getting her degree. Stanford’s program offered the most incentive, especially because Sandel could still make use of the academic credits she completed from her time here more than 25 years ago. “I was kind of ready to do a career transition from what I’ve been doing into something different, more interesting, which is one of the reasons why I was thinking of positive psychology to begin with,” she said casually. During her first years at Stanford, Sandel was a transfer student from Brown University, living off-campus on account of the housing shortages that plagued Stanford during those days. She met her most trying times on the Farm when her parents were going through a divorce and could no longer maintain the tuition payments. “The understanding was we could take care of everything,” she said. “They were getting a divorce; things were messy.” Sandel worked three jobs in an effort to assume the responsibility her parents could not. The whole experience eventually became too overwhelming for Sandel — no set career path, going from place to place by bike. She even opted to forgo the decision to follow the premed track in order to avoid additional expenses. “I hadn’t really prepared for doing school in that fashion,” she said. “I got kind of overwhelmed with that, and then it just seemed like, ‘stop the world, I need to get off.’” Now a Communication major, Sandel has adjusted to life as a Stanford undergraduate, although she notes that her situation can be

socially isolating. “Even when you’re involved in some extracurricular groups,” she explained, “if they had a Saturday night party, you feel like, ‘do they really want me there or would it be like having their aunt [there]?’” Admittedly she had thought about the generation gap before coming back. Still, she is unperturbed by it, claiming that her college-aged nephews and nieces have helped her get used to interacting with students much younger than she. Second, The Best Wilcox, an Archeology major, was not always sure he wanted to return to school. While, like Sandel, Wilcox intended to use his degree to get ahead in his career, he was hesitant to leave behind all that he had worked for. He held a technical position with the archeology department of the Navajo tribe in Arizona, and was in sight of a raise. What’s more, he had just settled his wife and four children into a house that was finally big enough to accommodate the size of their family. “I didn’t even want to tell them,” he admitted about his decision to go back to Stanford. “I didn’t even want to come, but my wife made me. She was the one that really pushed me, but I’m glad she did.” Wilcox’s family plays a key role in both the transition and the long process of finally deciding to complete his college education. He left Stanford in 1992, unable to cope with the side effects of the Stanford duck syndrome. Wilcox switched his major from engineering to anthropology, though his parents favored the former. However, he still felt unsatisfied academically. “I guess I was young and immature,” he said, “and being sort of lost in my academics, not knowing what I was really doing, I just sort of concentrated on other things outside of class.” He joined Ballet Folklorico and took on more responsibilities in Stanford’s Native American community, such as coordinating the annual Stanford Powwow. “The year I left, I didn’t do too well in my classes,” he said. “I was spreading myself pretty thin.” His disproportional focus on extracurricular activities, combined

with being unsure of the academic paths he was taking, was enough to tip the scale. He had stopped going to school altogether after a failed retrial at Northern Arizona University, and began working as a clerk at a gas station convenient store. It was not until he got married and started a family that things began to look up. However, the move from Flagstaff, Arizona to Stanford was far from easy. Having accepted his reinstatement back into Stanford in July, Wilcox was unable to receive any on-campus housing. “The move was really hard,” he said, looking away.“For like a month and a half when we first came, we were homeless; we were living in a motel. There were seven of us in a motel room — that was really hard.” Yet he and his family persevered. They welcome their new life, though they plan to return to Arizona once Wilcox graduates. “My oldest son — every now and then, he says he misses Arizona,” Wilcox said in a way that suggested he felt the same. “But they’re getting something different — the beach, the big city — so I think it’s going to be a positive experience.” If At First You Don’t Succeed . . . April House, a current psychology major with ambitions to teach, spoke with vivacity in front of Meyer Library. She said with powerful certainty that she never doubted her return to school to finish her degree. “I didn’t have a light-bulb

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Tim Wilcox ‘10, an archaelogy major, is one of a handful of older students who returned to the Farm after an academic hiatus. moment when I decided now is probably a good time to go back to college,” she said. “I’ve always known I was going to complete my degree here at Stanford.” Although House had tried taking a few quarters off during her Stanford career in the ‘80s before finally throwing in the towel, she showed no signs of hesitation to get back on the horse. Her experience is not atypical, said Sally Mentzer, an academic advisor at Undergraduate Advising and Research. Other students have followed this same path, and some have even taken a few years off in between each return. House said the hardest part of her transition was convincing others that her decision to return after twenty years was the right one. “Everybody’s got this idea of what is right for you,” she said. “Some people think, particularly in my case, if it wasn’t right for you twenty years ago, give up on that and do something different.” Originally from Oxnard, California, House, a single mother of four, was admitted to Stanford as a freshman in 1986. While she refrained from going into detail

about her reasons for leaving, her hesitation as she discussed this aspect of her life suggested that times were rough. “Stanford is not the kind of place you walk away from and just bury it and don’t think about it,” she said. “The very first time that I saw Stanford, I was seventeen years old,” she said, beginning to cry. “There’s something that when I drive up Palm Drive or when I see MemChu, it still takes my breath away. I can still remember that seventeen-year-old kid. I think she’d be proud that I’m finishing something that I set out to do.” For older students who are taking a second chance on their college education, obstacles are embraced as a learning experience and used as a source of motivation, an important take-away for House. “If there’s somebody who thinks it can’t be done or that it’s been too long or that they have families now or other people to attend to, I hope they don’t hesitate to at least talk to somebody about the possibility,” she said. “Stanford’s still here.” Contact Cassandra Feliciano at [email protected].

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There are no bystanders in combating mental health issues n a telephone survey conducted in 20072008 of 2,196 Stanford students, a little nearly a quarter of the respondents had experienced temporary depressed moods during the previous month, and around 12 percent of the respondents had fleeting suicidal thoughts during their lifetime. These statistics are alarming, and we are glad our student government has risen to the occasion to combat it. In its new “I Am Not a Bystander” campaign,the ASSU is taking a promising step toward addressing the critical issue of mental health on campus. The editorial board stands in strong support of the premise of the ASSU’s efforts and encourages the campus community to enlist in this admirable cause. The centerpiece of the campaign is a Web site, bystander.stanford.edu, that solicits student input on proactive strategies for dealing with issues of depression, eating disorders, sexual assault, relationship abuse and discrimination, while also providing information on valuable campus resources available to address these personal struggles. While the campaign is off to a strong start, it is important to recognize that these issues are complex, persistent and often uncomfortable to address in public. It will take significant work on the part of the entire campus community to fully combat them. The editorial board is glad to see the ASSU addressing the issue of mental health in such a creative way by raising awareness among the student body on how to recognize symptoms of mental health issues. The opening pages of the well-designed Web site ask visitors for their information and walk them through potentially problematic scenarios. Among those covered are friends skipping meals and over-exercising, drinking excessively and misogynistic remarks. Each scenario offers visitors the chance to rank possible responses, with the ultimate goal of gathering data and gaining a better picture of Stanford’s “bystander culture.” Without appearing preachy or ineffective, it seems to offer easy access to phone num-

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bers and Web sites for resources including Vaden Health Center, the Bridge Peer Counseling,MIRROR (a resource for eating disorder concerns), the American Psychology Association, the Center for Relationship Abuse Counseling and campus community centers. A central element of the campaign is an effort to encourage students to take “The Pledge.” By signing up, students are promising to “recognize the inevitable stake we have in one another by standing up, speaking out and taking action against those harms that diminish the health and dignity of our community” and affirm that each one of them is “not a bystander.” While this may seem a bit trite, signing up instills a sense of solidarity and common purpose that is needed on our campus to combat this serious issue. Even though a signature by itself will not be sufficient to reform campus problems, it is a step in the right direction. We can only succeed in changing the campus bystander culture if everyone does their part to ensure that they are actively trying to address these issues.This is not a call for prying and overly aggressive overtures.Many of these issues, such as eating disorders, are incredibly sensitive and in some cases a well-intentioned comment can be extremely detrimental. One of the positive aspects of the bystander Web site is that it offers resources to further learn how to approach these delicate issues. The Bystander program is an excellent example of what our student government is capable of developing when it gets beyond petty bickering in the ASSU Undergraduate Senate and works together to address an alarming problem within the student body.We hope this program will continue to develop into a catalyst for students and administrators to work together to make Stanford a healthier environment. The editorial board urges students to visit bystander.stanford.edu to explore these issues for themselves and pledge not to be a bystander. We can change the prevailing stigma against mental illness, but only if we reject being bystanders and choose instead to stand together.

Unsigned editorials in the space above represent the views of The Stanford Daily's editorial board and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Daily staff. The editorial board is comprised of two former Daily staffers, three at-large student members and the two editorial board co-chairs. Any signed columns and contributions are the views of their respective writers and do not necessarily represent the views of the entire editorial board. To contact the editorial board for an issue to be considered, or to submit an op-ed, please email [email protected].

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The roof is falling! . . . literally midst all the resources available to Stanford students, there is one with a scarcity that engenders insecurity and rewards those adept at gaming the system — getting the right dorm room. While much ado has been made about the Draw reform’s new preference structure, the real improvement in the Draw comes from “unstuffing” campus. Housing is finally beginning to put right a blight upon student life at Stanford: the miniscule amount of dorm space given to the average Stanford student. Still, much remains to be fixed. When I tell my friends at Harvard or Yale about the system of “priority” or applying to staff to secure singles, they are baffled — they have been living in suites with attached singles and large doubles. I remember a fairly standard eight-person suite that reminded me of an expensive loft apartment during one of my visits to Yale. Though adding the decrepit Crothers complex to undergraduate housing will ostensibly give us the same proportion of singles as our peers, large differences remain. The average Yale or Harvard residential college or house has its own gym, photo lab, performing arts spaces, late-night eatery and other spaces, ranging from indoor squash and basketball courts to art galleries. We have computer clusters and lounges. Stanford has a history of indifference to the quality and design of our housing. Harvard, Yale and Princeton all built the majority of their current housing during the Great Depression, but paid great attention to the design and aesthetic coherence of their dorms. Even in the hideous post-war period, they commissioned renowned architects like Eero Saarinen and Robert Venturi to design their residences. Stanford, in contrast, has some gems like Branner, but mostly drab and unremarkable concrete structures reminiscent of public housing — Manzanita, Florence Moore, Stern and Wilbur are prominent and enormous examples. The difference continues today: Princeton recently commissioned the firm of IM Pei to renovate one of its residential colleges; our new Munger dorm, while certainly impressive by Stanford standards, was designed by an unremarkable corporate firm in Palo Alto (other credits include the Arrillaga Alumni Center). Do we at least pay less for our comparatively drab housing? No — our housing bill is a few hundred dollars higher than that of Harvard, Yale or Princeton. While the floor

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has fallen out of the rental market in Palo Alto, Stanford’s board bill has of course gone up for 2009-2010. Sadly, we fail to demand better. Housing’s recent outreach in its Draw changes deserves praise as a model. Housing held a town hall, consulted with the ASSU, gave The Daily in-depth details about the plan, extensively consulted RAs and has been open to suggestions. Student response has been lackluster — fewer than 30 students attended the town hall. More importantly, there is no student “policy position” on these matters — no statement from the ASSU or student groups, no general public discussion of what we want the Draw to look like, no way to coordinate our own proposals. Harvard et al pay great attention to their dorms for a reason — residential life plays an integral role in their undergraduate experiences, and there are strong alumni constituencies behind every residential college or dorm.An alum’s allegiance to his residential college often supersedes his loyalty to the school. Stanford’s model of community doesn’t look like that of the Ivies, but “residential education” benefits from bringing work and play facilities into the dorm. And there is no denying the ability of architecture to raise the spirit and ennoble the mind. If students want nicer housing and facilities, we need to start complaining: note our dissatisfaction in internal surveys and rankings like Princeton Review, draw up lists of what amenities and changes we consider appropriate, lobby the University to make undergraduate residences a more serious part of its capital campaigns. It’s not a question of money, but of priorities — there are lots of innovative ways to raise funds. Yale has an online catalog that lists the costs of sponsoring parts of its new residential colleges — a TV lounge for $250,000, a dining hall for five million dollars. How many wealthy alums wouldn’t want their name on a gleaming new residence on Escondido Road? Luukas wants to give up and move into Kingscote Gardens. If you know of any vacancies, contact Luukas at [email protected].

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With your own two hands few weekends ago I partook in my final trip to Tahoe as a part of the beloved Stanford ski trip tradition. After a long weekend of snow, sore legs and whisky hangovers, I was more than ready to roll out of bed and plunk myself back in the car for the sleepy drive home. Alas, as with any good story, we know the happy ending didn’t come so easily. When I awoke on our final morning, I noticed a human head-sized hole in the drywall of the master bedroom about five feet away from my face. Apparently, I missed the party. Scrambling to decide what to do in the few hours left before we had to vacate the house, I, along with a few others, zoomed into town and, by some unknown fortune, found the one hardware store in all of California open on a Sunday morning. After a few coats of paint, two blow-dryer mishaps and a lot of nervous sweat, we patched the hole and were on our way back home. That little incident made me realize something that I’m afraid has slowly become a trend in our generation. I had no idea how to do anything with my hands, and not in the sexual innuendo kind of way either. The only reason that hole was fixed was because I was on the phone with my mother, an architect, and my father, a craftsman, for three straight hours. If it hadn’t been for them, I would have spent 180 minutes staring at a hole in the wall before quietly accepting that our $1,500 damage deposit was gone forever. But how did this come about? I seem to recall playing with Legos and home chemistry sets when I was growing up. Had I not learned anything along the way? Or had I forgotten it all already? Think about your average day here at Stanford. You don’t really have to worry about much, do you? If one of your door hinges gets stuck, you file a fix-it. If your bike tire pops, you schedule a drop-off at the bike store. If your car starts smoking, you call a mechanic. And so on and so forth. Aside from the engineering and product design majors, the amount of basic work we as Stanford students do with our hands has been cut down to hand-written finals and setting up weekend beer pong tournaments. One has to wonder how this kind of gradual shift has been affecting us in the long run. It’s no secret that the American economy has shifted away from manufactured goods to focus on services. That’s not to say that we don’t manufacture anything anymore; we do, but our most lucrative and highly soughtafter jobs are solidly hands-off service work. Lawyers, investment bankers, CEOs and doctors are all scholarly and intellectually intensive jobs, but they do run pretty light on manual labor (save for, perhaps, surgeons). While this may not be a new phenomenon, the difference between manufacturing and service does seem to be growing more and more each year. Is this wrong? Any self-respecting capitalist would argue that this is absolutely right; the market has determined that which is most needed and pays accordingly. Gone are the days when an artisan carpenter was sought after and paid a king’s ransom. Why pay domestically when we can just ship in nearly identical quality from China? The free market at work! But we must be wary of what road this shall lead us down. Not only is it important to be careful of just how dependent we become on outside labor, but it is even more important to keep a close watch on the overall skill distribution of our society. A society of lawyers can sure as hell sue each other into oblivion, but it’s going to be difficult to patch holes in your roof with old law books. It is a credit to our society and civilization that a child prodigy on the piano can spend his time studying piano technique and music theory and not be forced to learn a trade to eke out a living. However, we are not all child prodigies, not even at Stanford, so it is good to maintain a little perspective. Perhaps, in your time here, you should try branching out and taking an engineering or product design course. Maybe take a handson IntroSem.The next time the chain on your bike gets screwy or your chair breaks, try playing with it yourself before defaulting to calling for help. The values surrounding the

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Write to us. practices of hard work and self-reliance are slowly fading away and I believe that is a tragedy. All being well, you will never really need such skills, but the knowledge and ability to build and use your hands is an important asset to every individual and every society, and cannot be underrated when you wake up to find your own proverbial hole in the drywall. Mark is absolutely petrified of the real world and its plumbing-related disaster potential. If you, too, are scared of common housework, contact him at [email protected] to commiserate.

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SPORTS MEN’S BASKETBALL

Slow start dooms Stanford men By JACOB JOHNSON

MEN’S BASKETBALL

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Sophomore Kayla Pedersen and the Cardinal women dominated Oregon State, 72-43 last night at Maples Pavilion to stay even with Cal atop the Pacific-10 Conference standings. Pedersen scored six points, pulled down seven boards and tallied three steals in the 72-43 victory.

CARD KEEPING PACE No. 4 Stanford rocks OSU, 72-43

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By NATE ADAMS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Stanford women’s basketball team got off to a hot start on the final stretch of its regular season Thursday night, soundly defeating Oregon State, 72-43 at Maples Pavilion. Senior Jayne Appel and freshman Nnemkadi Ogwumike each scored 15 points in the Stanford victory, which kept the Cardinal in a tie for the top spot in the Pacific-10 Conference. Coming into the game, the Beavers (15-9, 68 Pac-10) had won four of their last five and were fresh off a home sweep of the Washington schools last weekend. Playing with confidence, they opened the game with a steal by senior guard Mercedes Fox-Griffin just four seconds after the tip and continued to make the Cardinal work for its chances in the first half. Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer expected nothing less from the Beavers. “I really don’t think anybody was thinking about overlooking Oregon State at all,” she said. Starting point guard Jeanette Pohlen agreed, and was impressed by the forceful way OSU started the game.

“They’re really known for their aggressive defense, maybe the most in the Pac-10,” the sophomore said.“That definitely showed in the first half.” The Beavers ended the game with eight steals — two more than the Cardinal total — including four by center Tiffany Ducker. They also worked their way to 30 rebounds compared to Stanford’s 39, a very small gap compared to most Cardinal victories of similar margins. Despite the Beavers’ impressive opening and sustained effort, the No. 4 Cardinal (21-4, 12-1) took advantage of its opportunities and soon had a fairly solid control of the game. Appel and Ogwumike led the Stanford offense, each of them playing at the top of their game Thursday night. Appel, at a towering 6-foot-4, used her size to penetrate the Oregon State defense and make high-percentage shots. She led the team in field goals with seven, each of which was a lay-up or came from the paint.Appel, who finished with 15 points and six rebounds, entered the game as the reigning Pac-10 Player of the Week,an honor she was awarded for the fourth time this year after the Cardinal’s victory over

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COVERAGE: RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM (kzsu.stanford.edu) California last Saturday. Ogwumike, at 6-foot-2, put out an astounding effort and also scored 15 points. She led the team in field percentage (6-7, 85.7 percent), and was 3-4 from the free-throw line. Ogwumike,a rising freshman star who is beginning to see time as a starter, played the most minutes on the team (24),despite not entering the game until 16:34 in the first half. Appel and Ogwumike,who lead the conference in field-goal accuracy at 62.8 percent and 61.7 percent, respectively, even managed to hook up with each other on several scoring drives.At one point late in the first half, Ogwu-

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MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Danny

On the road again No. 7 Cardinal ready for final road swing this winter By JEFF LU CONTRIBUTING WRITER

After a weekend of battling top-five volleyball giants Pepperdine and USC at home, the Stanford men’s volleyball team is preparing for the first leg of its final road trip of the quarter. The Cardinal is currently mired in a four-game losing streak on the road, a record the Stanford team intends to end this weekend when it visits Cal State Northridge and UC-Santa Barbara. No. 7 Stanford (8-6, 4-5 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) kicked off its second set of weekend home games last Friday by hosting No. 3 Pepperdine. Previously undefeated, the Waves crashed under the combination of an overwhelming offense and a well-coordinated blocking effort by the Cardinal players to lose 30-18, 28-30, 30-25, 30-24. Junior outside hitter Evan Romero led Stanford with 24 kills and was one of four Cardinal players to reach double-digit hitting figures that night. On the defensive end, 17.5 blocks,including eight from MPSF co-Player of the Week senior middle blocker Brandon Williams, held the Pepperdine offense to a .236 hitting percentage. “Our offense and defense did exactly what we needed to do,” said coach John Kosty. “I don’t consider Friday’s match an upset . . . we simply played to our potential.” Stanford’s celebrations, however, would be cut short as Saturday saw the Cardinal fall in a sweep to No. 5 USC, 31-29, 30-28, 30-25, for its first home loss of the season. Despite double digit kills by Romero, freshman outside hitter Brad Lawson and sophomore outside hitter Spencer McLaughlin, the Cardinal offense floundered under .233 hitting,allowing the Trojans to extend their winning streak to four. Despite the loss, the weekend gave Stanford a well-needed boost after blowing a two-set lead at UCLA and losing in a sweep to UCIrvine the previous week.The Cardinal will un-

doubtedly need the renewed confidence when it takes on No. 4 Cal State Northridge on Friday. Currently,Northridge is riding a three-game winning streak, including sweeps of No. 6 Long Beach State and No.10 UC-San Diego, and boasts a 9-2 record marred only by back-toback thrashings by Hawaii. Despite two previous encounters, Stanford men’s volleyball has thus far been unable to take one set away from the Matadors. “Northridge has extremely dynamic outside hitters who bring a lot of speed and power to their offensive game,” Kosty said. “They have great ball control and huge serving — controlling their serving will be the key to controlling the upcoming match.” On Saturday, Stanford will face No. 13 UCSanta Barbara for the first time since the November 2008 UC-Irvine Fall Invitational. Despite the Gauchos’ lower ranking, Kosty believes UCSB is far better than its record implies, pointing to its near-upset of No. 2 UCIrvine last Wednesday. “We need to remember that this is a top-15 team we’re talking about here,” he said.“Every match this weekend is going to be different and challenging.” In spite of the foreseeable difficulties, Kosty remains confident about the team’s season, especially given the relative ease with which the Cardinal’s freshmen are adapting to tournament play. All five freshmen have made collegiate appearances, and freshmen Lawson and Eric Shoji have found a place among the Cardinal’s starting lineup. “It’s a long season — longer than they’ve ever played — but it’s an opportunity for them to keep growing,” Kosty said. “We’re also over the hard stuff now [in terms of road trips]; it’s just the routine weekends from here on out.” Stanford has played ten of its last 14 games on the road. After this weekend’s matches against Northridge and UCSB and the following weekend’s double-header against Hawaii, the Cardinal will host 11 of its remaining 13 games. Contact Jeff Lu at [email protected].

Belch

On My Mind

The Stanford men’s basketball team was looking to recover from a tough loss at Cal when it took on Oregon State last night. Instead of redemption, the Cardinal men saw their hopes for an NCAA Tournament bid fall further out of reach. A poor first half put Stanford in a big hole, and the team left Corvallis with a 66-54 loss. Remember the 90-60 blowout loss at Arizona State? The Cardinal scored just 30 points in the first half of that Jan. 2 contest. How about the one-point loss at Washington State on Jan. 10? Stanford managed just 54 points, but put up 30 in the first period. The first OSU game, where the Cardinal lost by 15 in Maples? The home team finished the first half with 28. A 34 point beat-down at the hands of now No. 20 UCLA? Another 28-point first period. Last night? 17 points. That’s not a typo. The Stanford men’s basketball team scored just 17 points in the first half of last night’s loss to Oregon State, a combination of tough Beaver defense and miserable Cardinal shooting. “We started the game out slow,” said Stanford head coach Johnny Dawkins. “We should give them a lot of credit; they played well. They got out to a really fast start in the game . . . That allowed them to set up defensively, and I think initially we turned the ball over way too much in the first half.” A quick rundown of Stanford’s offensive possessions in the first half goes something like this: missed three-pointer, turnover, missed layup, missed jump-shot, foul shots (Hill goes 1-2 from the line), made three, missed jumper, turnover, made jumper, turnover, missed shot, turnover — and that was just the first six minutes of the game. Stanford didn’t hit double digits until the 6:51 mark. By then, the Cardinal was already in a 17-point hole. “I think the tone was set in the first five or six minutes of the ballgame,” Dawkins said. “They established a dominant position at that point. We were fighting uphill the rest of the way.” The Beavers weren’t exactly on fire, but they were effective on offense and played tough defense throughout. In the first period, they were 11-21 from the field and 3-6 from the three-point line. Guard Calvin Haynes, who torched the Cardinal for 25 points in the previous meeting, was hot early, but faded as the half wore on — the sophomore hit his first three shots, but was 0-5 in the last seven minutes of the half. Beaver center Roeland Schaftenaar led all scorers with 12 in the first period. Stanford couldn’t buy a bucket to start

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inter sports are entering conference and NCAA Championship season, so it’s about time to take a look at where the Stanford teams stand. Not only is the success of the Cardinal and the student-athletes on our minds as we approach NCAA season,but also on our minds is the Director’s Cup (newly sponsored and renamed the Learfield Sports Director’s Cup). After the fall season, Stanford is in a familiar spot in the Director’s Cup standings: on top. Cardinal teams racked up 394 points in the fall season thanks to finishing second, nationally, in women’s volleyball and men’s water polo, third in men’s cross country and women’s soccer and eighth in women’s cross country. It was a great fall on the Farm, as every team that made it to the NCAA postseason finished in the top-10. Rounding out the top five spots are Oregon (323 points), USC (304), North Carolina (290), Florida and Wake Forest (268 each). The good news for Cardinal fans is that Stanford usually surges during the winter and spring seasons.The fact that the Card is on top so early is a

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COVERAGE: RADIO KTRB 860 AM the game. The offense seemed to find some rhythm as the half continued, but finished with 6-19 shooting — a sub-par 31.6 percent. The Cardinal committed nine turnovers in the period and scored zero points in the paint. The bench contributed just two points, and Stanford went to halftime down a dozen. The Beavers successfully defended their home court, but almost let the visiting Cardinal pull off a miraculous comeback in the second period. Junior forward Landry Fields came to life after the break, finishing with 17 points. Freshman Jeremy Green was another driving force behind Stanford’s comeback — he was 5-9 from beyond the arc and finished with a teamhigh 19 points. Foul trouble continues to plague the young guard, and he fouled out of last night’s contest in just 17 minutes of play. Stanford falls to 15-9 and 4-9 in the Pacific-10 Conference with the loss. The Beavers move to 12-13 overall, 6-8 in conference play. The Cardinal is now ninth in the Pac-10 — only 0-14 Oregon owns a worse record in the Pac-10. The loss is particularly disheartening for a Stanford team that came into last night’s contest knowing it needed a strong finish to be in any position for a possible bid to the NCAA Tournament in March. With upcoming games against traditional powerhouses UCLA and Arizona — not to mention matchups against Arizona State and USC — the Cardinal couldn’t afford to overlook the Beavers. Now, even if Stanford wins its remaining five contests, it can only finish with a .500 record in the Pac-10. “I thought we showed moments of being able to climb up the hill, but when you dig a big hole, it becomes difficult,” Dawkins concluded. Next up, the Cardinal takes on the cellar-dwelling Ducks. It is a must-win for the Cardinal to keep its March Madness hopes alive. Game time is set for 5 p.m. on Saturday in Eugene, Ore. Contact Jacob Johnson at twoj@stanford. edu.

SOFTBALL

Three rivals descend on Farm By DANIEL BOHM

Sizing up Card’s Cup chances

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The Stanford softball team, ranked No. 5 nationally in the most recent USA Today/NFCA Poll, will look to stay hot this weekend as it hosts the Stanford Nike Invitational at Boyd & Jill Smith Family Stadium. The three-day, four-team tournament marks the beginning of the Cardinal’s home schedule after compiling an 8-1 record on the road the past two weekends. Stanford will play host to two teams that participated in the NCAA Tournament a year ago — Notre Dame and Sacramento State — as well as an upstart Western Kentucky program. The Cardinal is coming off a weekend in which it looked overpowering at times, en route to a 4-0 record at the Campbell/Cartier Classic in San Diego. The Stanford offense has been in top form early in the season, and much of that is due to the performance of star freshman shortstop Ashley Hansen. Hansen, one of the most highly recruited players in her class, became only the fifth Stanford softball player ever to be named NFCA National Player of the Week for her performance last week in San Diego. For the year, Hansen is batting .531 with two homeruns and a team-leading 17 RBI. Hansen credits her easy transition to college softball to an invigorated work ethic. “I want to make myself better,” Hansen said. “That means working hard at practice and in the weight room everyday.” Head Coach John Rittman also appreciates the hard work of his talented freshman. “She has a tremendous work ethic everyday at practice,” Rittman said. “She is very vocal on the field and practices and plays like a veteran.” Hansen is not the only Cardinal enjoying early season success. In fact, the two hitters who flank her in the lineup, junior leftfielder Alissa Haber and senior second baseman Maddy Coon, are off to outstanding starts as well.

Hitting out of the leadoff spot, the twotime All-American Haber is batting .484 with 12 runs scored on the year. Coon, the Cardinal three-hitter, is hitting .500 with an impressive .656 on-base percentage thus far this season. In the circle, the Cardinal continues to be led by senior Missy Penna. She enters the weekend at 6-1 with a 1.02 ERA on the season.The returning All-American continues to dominate opponents, making life for the Stanford defense markedly easier. Penna, with the help of the talented triumvirate at the top of the Stanford lineup, will try to continue her early season success this weekend. The Cardinal plays each visiting team twice over the course of the tournament, beginning with a game against Sacramento State at 12:15 p.m. today. The Hornets enter the weekend with a 2-0 record and are led by returning All West Region pick, senior catcher Jamie Schloredt. In just seven at-bats this season, Schloredt has already hit a remarkable three home runs. In its second game on Friday, the Cardinal will square off against Notre Dame.The Fighting Irish enter the weekend with a 1-3 record on the year. Two of those losses came at the hands of top-ranked Alabama. Notre Dame is led by senior pitcher Brittney Bargar, who posted a 1.47 ERA and 244 strikeouts last season to lead the Irish to an NCAA berth. Western Kentucky, a team the Cardinal will face for the first time at 12:15 p.m. on Saturday, is led in the circle by senior Ryan Rogge. Rogge enters the weekend with a 3-1 record to go along with a 1.65 ERA thus far this season. Still, Stanford should be a heavy favorite in all of its games this weekend, especially as it gets a week off from traveling. Rittman emphasized the enthusiasm the team experiences when playing at home. “We’re excited.We have good competition coming to town,” he said. “Now hopefully Mother Nature will cooperate as well.” Contact Dan Bohm at [email protected].

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BELCH Continued from page 4 great sign that the 15th consecutive Cup is coming to the Farm.If you look at history, it’s nearly a lock. But according to our good friend Benjamin Franklin,there are only two things that are certain in life,and Stanford winning a Director’s Cup is not one of them. So the athletes are just going to give it their all to win that NCAA Championship. From there the Director’s Cup could just fall right into their laps. So where does the Cardinal stand with the winter season sports? How many points will the Cardinal be adding to its total? Let’s take a look. Basketball Right now, the men’s team has plenty of work to do to get into the NCAA tournament. With a loss against Oregon State on Thursday, our hopes for a spot likely come down to winning the Pac-10 Tournament. But our chances at an at-large bid are still alive, if just barely. They come down to a home stand against USC and UCLA a week from today. Stay tuned, Sixth Man. For the women, their season is far from over. Now tied with Cal atop the Pac-10 standings, Stanford will without a doubt cruise into the NCAA tournament. The question will become:What is our seed and where will we play? Another Final Four appearance is within reach, but seeding and regional placement will play a big factor in the Card’s postseason success. Swimming and Diving The swimming and diving teams are off to excellent starts and are in the midst of “tapering,” which means backing off training to make sure bodies are fresh for championship seasons. The men have qualified several

athletes for the NCAAs and the women have qualified a slew as well. Both teams are ranked No. 2 in the country, and both have come awfully close to a championship in recent years.This year looks as good as any to add another swimming title to the Cardinal’s trophy collection.

BASEBALL

Cardinal to open ‘09 season v. Vandy By ERIK ADAMS GAMEDAY EDITOR

Gymnastics Both the men’s and women’s gymnastics teams have been solid top-five national finishers over the years. This year, the men started the season ranked No. 1 in the nation, but have since lost to Cal three times..They will probably finish within the top six; the talent says they can be No. 1, but the final results have not. The women are undefeated on the season. They are ranked No. 6 in the nation, looking to qualify for the Super Six (a.k.a. the NCAA Finals). In years past they have made it that far, but have come up short of a title. Men’s Volleyball The Cardinal has beaten the best and had some tough losses en route to a 7-5 overall record and a No. 6 national ranking. It is winless in conference play on the road, something that will need to change soon if it is to earn a bid to the NCAAs as one of the best four teams. But the team has the talent and ability to beat anyone — it just needs to get into the postseason in order to make that happen. So prospects for some NCAA titles look good for the winter season. Don’t forget: UCLA has the most team NCAA Championships at 103, with Stanford right behind at 95. We can’t let UCLA have bragging rights over us,can we? We need to start chipping away at their lead, and what better time to start than right now? Danny Belch, a sprinter for Stanford’s Track and Field team, wants you to know that the Cardinal Indoor team is looking pretty good right now,too.Contact him at [email protected].

Just like he does every season, head coach Mark Marquess will throw his team into the fire right away against three of the toughest teams from around the country — Vanderbilt,preseason No.13 Cal State-Fullerton and preseason No. 10 Texas — to open the season. Stanford will host Vanderbilt Friday and Saturday, travel to Fullerton next weekend and host Texas the following weekend, just before breaking for finals. Mixed in with those series are a doubleheader against UC-Riverside on Sunday and an evening home game against St. Mary’s on March 3. Marquess knows the best way for the Cardinal — ranked as high as No. 5 in the preseason polls — to see where it stands this year is to test itself against the best opponents the nation has to offer as early as possible. “When we reach the break and are taking finals, we’ll have a much better idea of where we need to improve,” Marquess said. “Those are quality opponents and will certainly find any weaknesses we may have.” Eight months after finishing tied for third at the College World Series, the Cardinal players are anxious to return to action and excited to dive right in and take on the nation’s best. “It’s exciting [to get to play the best teams out there],” said senior outfielder Joey August. “I’ve really appreciated and looked forward to our

WBBALL Continued from page 4 mike scored two consecutive inside baskets,each off a pass from Appel,to put the Cardinal up 25-16. Oregon State head coach LaVon-

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tough schedule. It’s a reason that a lot of us come here — that we know we are going to play the best teams, like Fullerton and Vanderbilt. You don’t get that opportunity a lot of other places.” August is one of just six seniors returning to the Farm in 2009. Stanford had seven players taken in the MLB First-Year Player Draft last season, and filling the gap left by their departure will be no easy task. Still, the Cardinal is returning a very talented group of players and bringing yet another strong freshman class in to try to get the job done. The first test is against Vanderbilt this weekend — the Commodores are among the toughest teams the Cardinal will face all season.Vanderbilt finished 41-22 last year and made it to the NCAA Tournament Regionals. But, like Stanford,Vanderbilt has lost a huge amount of its offensive production from last season to graduation and the draft,including the No. 2 overall pick, third baseman Pedro Alvarez. But the Commodores are still a very dangerous team, especially on the mound. Their returning pitchers represent 37 of the 41 wins amassed last season and 87.4 percent of the all the innings thrown. The ace of the staff is Friday’s starter,left-hander Mike Minor. He was the Friday-night starter last season as well, posting a 7-3 record with a 4.28 ERA, while averaging nearly a strikeout per inning pitched. Baseball America named him the College Summer League Player of the Year in 2008. The Card is answering with its best arm, righthander Jeffrey Inman. The junior nearly matched

da Wagner noticed the duo’s effort and cited it as a major reason for the defeat — particularly their proficiency in the post. “The biggest thing is they got 48 points in the paint,” Wagner said of the Cardinal.“Period.The end.” Before the game, VanDerveer got her players ready to focus on quality shooting.

Minor’s numbers from last season exactly, going 7-2 with a 4.27 ERA. He competed in the Cape Cod League last summer and was named the ninth-best prospect there by Baseball America. Saturday afternoon, two sophomore right-handers will square off in Stanford’s Danny Sandbrink and Vanderbilt’s Caleb Cotham. Sandbrink broke into the rotation late in the season last year and posted a 2-1 record with an excellent 2.81 ERA over 57.2 innings.Cotham went 7-6 with a 4.50 ERA and struck out 90 in just 86 innings. Both teams will have very different batting orders, but some familiar names will make up the core of the Cardinal order. Senior Brent Milleville and junior Toby Gerhart are expected to provide the bulk of the power for Stanford’s offense after losing Jason Castro and Sean Ratliff — a hot start from them this weekend would bode well for the Card. Vanderbilt is returning just one starter in the field from last season’s squad — junior first baseman/catcher Andrew Giobbi.He hit a solid .322 last season with 42 doubles, but outside of him, the Commodores are full of players yet to prove themselves with the bat. First pitch Friday nigth is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Saturday’s game will begin at 1 p.m.and the doubleheader against UC-Riverside on Sunday will begin at noon, with the second game starting 30 minutes after the completion of the first. All Stanford baseball games this season can be heard live on KZSU 90.1 FM or online at kzsulive.stanford.edu. Contact Erik Adams at [email protected].

“She asked about our games in high school,” redshirt junior Rosalyn Gold-Onwude recalled. “None of us averaged less than 20 points a game. Basically, she was trying to remind us that we’re shooters,and we need to go out there and go for it.” The Cardinal finished the night with a team accuracy of 53.7 percent, its best effort since playing at OSU nearly a month ago; the women also shot a virtually identical 53.3 percent. Stanford currently leads the Pac-10 in shooting percentage at 46.4. In addition to its hot shooting, the Cardinal responded to the Beavers’ aggressive opening with a dynamic fast-break style of play, especially in the second half. The Cardinal never kept the ball in the same place for long, and rarely allowed the shot clock to creep into single digits. “[That style] definitely makes my job easier as point guard,” Pohlen

said. “Pushing the ball, knowing I have three or four other people running for me, is great, and taking the easy bucket without having to set up play is the right thing to do.” The win improved Stanford’s alltime record against the Beavers to 436, and was its 26th consecutive victory at home — putting the current Cardinal team into a tie for the fourthlongest home win streak in school history. The victory also kept the Cardinal in a tie for the conference’s top spot with California,who routed Oregon last night, 84-42. The Cardinal will get its own chance against Oregon in Saturday’s 2 p.m. game at Maples Pavilion. The contest will be broadcasted live by 90.1 FM KZSU, and streamed on the Web at kzsulive.stanford.edu. Contact Nate Adams [email protected].

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The Stanford Daily

DINING

“Meatless Mondays”rejected Students, Dining opt for keeping meat at FloMo By ELLEN HUET A recent proposal for “Meatless Mondays” in Florence Moore Dining sparked much debate among FloMo residents until residential staff shot it down at the end of last week. The plan, proposed by FloMo residents Adelaide Oneal ‘12 and Baljinnyam Dashdorj ‘12, asked that FloMo Dining not serve meat at Monday dinners, with the exception of the usual chicken and hamburgers from the grill, in an effort to save water and energy. In an email to the residence, Oneal and Dashdorj explained that one pound of beef requires 1,857 gallons of water and that FloMo Dining uses, on average, 100 pounds of beef per dinner. “Reducing shower length and other measures are great, but we felt by [working to reduce] meat consumption we could make a bigger difference,” Oneal wrote in an email to The Daily. “The connection between meat and water usage is not one that’s as apparent to everyone, so our hope was to get FloMo residents to realize what a hugely water-intensive process producing meat is.” The proposal raised considerable debate among FloMo residents before it was eventually rejected. Executive Director of Stanford Dining Eric Montell explained the decision to The Daily. “The idea of having a Meatless Monday is interesting; however, Stanford Dining is committed to excellence and providing high quality dining choices to meet a wide variety of student dining preferences including meat, vegan and vegetarian selections,” Montell said. “Therefore we do not have plans to restrict Florence Moore Dining’s menu on Mondays to

serve only one type of menu preference.” Freshman Andrew Lucas agreed with the reasoning behind the decision. “I don’t usually eat much meat that isn’t off the grill, but in general the concept irks me because . . . that would greatly infringe upon the rights of other students,” he said. Residents expressed frustration with the proposal because it asked for a mandate, not for volunteers. “Many FloMo residents believe that their options at the dining hall are already not fully optimal,” said Cole Hatton ‘11. “I am satisfied with what I can get there, but I would not like my options to be further restricted by a proposal like this.” Despite the backlash against the proposal, other residents remained open-minded. “I think we should have given Meatless Mondays one trial run so that we could see if the FloMo dining hall could provide a reasonable alternative meal that had no meat in it,” said Stephen Hibbs ‘11. “I do sympathize with many of my dorm mates who feel that the idea is an unreasonable imposition upon them, especially in light of FloMo [Dining’s] being closed Fridays and Saturdays.” Student opinion has been generally split. “About seven to 15 percent or so of the students in Mirlo were strongly in favor, and about half were strongly opposed,” Lucas said. “However, student opinion became very hateful against the issue and caused some in-house ‘drama’ over environmentalism.” In response to the debate about the proposal, West FloMo RF Patrick Young sent out a residencewide email addressing the proposal’s rejection. “We will not approve any proposal in which part of the dorm is involuntarily required to give up their current privileges based on the desires of another group of students in the dormitory,” he wrote.

In an email to The Daily, Young elaborated on the reasons behind the residence staff’s decision to eliminate the proposal. “In a general dormitory setting, dietary choices available to students should not be subject to a process in which a majority of students may decide to eliminate dietary options for other students,” Young explained. “Given that they moved into the dormitory with the understanding that a full range of dietary options would be provided to them, it would be entirely unfair to eliminate some of these options mid-year because other students wanted those options removed.” Even though FloMo Dining staff had been involved in discussions about the proposal, it wouldn’t have passed without the approval of the residents. “The entire plan hinged on student and staff support,” Oneal wrote. “The dining hall was willing to make changes, but only if residents approved of them.” The proposal is dead for the moment, but students and staff alike think the idea could continue forward, perhaps in a different way. “Our staff is very interested in supporting our students on environmental issues, and is hoping to work with the students to come up with a new proposal in which participation by students is entirely voluntary,” Young said. Oneal said she and Dashdorj are currently working on a voluntary version of the program. “Since it will be a matter of choice for each student, we are optimistic that this idea will be acceptable to the dorm as a whole,” Oneal said. “No matter what, we’re committed to getting students information about the unsustainability of meat production, so at least they will be more aware of the issue.” — Ryan Mac contributed to this report. Contact Ellen Huet at [email protected].

FACULTY Continued from front page to multiply our efforts 20-fold.” Provost John Etchemendy PhD ‘82, was among a number of faculty who were skeptical of the program. “I was probably as skeptical as anyone . . . [Interviews] do tend to swamp all other data because they are so salient to the interviewer,” he said. However, Etchemendy was eventually convinced of the program’s benefits and minimized negative effects. “The interviews tend not to have a huge impact,” Etchemendy said. “I see this as primarily a recruiting tool and also alumni engagement.” The benefits of the system could

RACE Continued from front page two Bay to Breakers, agreed, but said that there would be an inevitable change in race tradition. “A lot of the culture of the race is embodied in the massive party behind the racers,” said Bronzan, co-president of the Stanford Running Club. “Enforcement of public drunkenness violations will obviously subdue the exuberance a bit, but I’m sure people will still find a way to have fun.” Some students, however, feel that the policies will hurt the celebratory quality of Bay to Breakers. Several fraternities and sororities on campus have made Bay to Breakers a tradition in the past, and the new policies will certainly affect their decision to participate. “I’m all for having police to enforce citations of public drunkenness and stopping people from defacing property, but I think that to totally remove alcohol from the event would change the easy-going and fun atmosphere of Bay to Breakers,” said Andrew Duchi ‘11 of Kappa Sigma. “The floats, so far as I saw last year, were not dangerous to the pedestrians and I think they are really at the heart of what is Bay to Breakers.” Rachel Wolfson ‘11, a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, recently decided not to participate in this year’s race due to the new policies. “A big part of Bay to Breakers is that it highlights the freedom and

come in increased yield rate of top students accepted into other elite universities offering interviews. “The yield rate of admits is not as good as we would like,” Switzer said. “The ones that are getting jointly admitted to Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton — the very,very cream of the crop — we want to get as many of those students as we can,” Etchemendy added. Earlier in the meeting, President John Hennessey made announcements to the Senate, including one regarding the indefinite postponement of the plans to expand the undergraduate student body. After viewing the report by the task force on undergraduate expansion, the administration has decided to halt expansion plans due to budget concerns.

“Of course, given the dramatically changed financial situation, I told [the task force] that we’d put such plans on hold,” Hennessey said. One area of the report the administration does plan to look into, however, is the expansion of the Resident Fellow program, which has fallen off in participation over recent years. “[We will] try to explore ways in which to increase the number of faculty who serve as resident fellows in the dorms, which has dropped significantly over the last few decades,” he added. The Senate also discussed further budget issues, including cutting faculty bonuses and pursuing government research funding as opposed to endowments.

open atmosphere that is associated with San Francisco,” she said. “By banning the consumption of alcohol and use of floats, they are ruining the free spirit that brings the city together.” Since the race isn’t until May, some of the policies are still flexible, especially those concerning floats. “We’re talking about giving some alternative ways to participate with floats this year,” Tiffany said. “We’re looking at ways that students and groups could possibly register floats to

help cover the costs of cleaning up.” Overall, Tiffany expressed optimism over the future of the race under these new policies, and encouraged college students to keep participating in Bay to Breakers. “We have a long history with both Stanford and Cal students participating, and no one wants to see that go away,” she said.“That’s just part of the heart and soul of the race.”

Contact Julia Brownell at [email protected].

Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stanford. edu.