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ADMITS INVADE
Admit Weekend festivities kick off as 1,300
potential ‘13ers become the focus of campus
FRIDAY
The Stanford Daily
April 24, 2009
Card looks to defend Diamond
By DENIS GRIFFIN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
After suffering a disappointing sweep at the hands of Ari-
zona State in Tempe last weekend, the desert will visit the
Farm this weekend, as Stanford looks to bounce back in Pa-
cific-10 Conference play against the Arizona Wildcats.
The Cardinal (17-16,7-8 Pac-10) was blown out by the No.
3 Sun Devils in a three-game series, dropping the opener 14-
5, Saturday’s game 7-2 and Sunday’s game 6-3. But Stanford
bounced back in midweek action, beating Santa Clara 11-1
and California 11-7 in nonconference action to climb back
above .500 on the season. With just four weekend series
against conference opponents remaining, though, it will be
critical for the team to extend its winning ways into the week-
end against Arizona (17-19, 3-12).
“It’s huge for us to carry on this momentum we’ve creat-
ed in our midweek games,” said sophomore closer Drew
Storen. “The Pac-10 is packed so tightly, so depending on
how you do on a weekend, it can either rocket you to the top
or you can drop to the bottom. So it’s really important for us
to carry this momentum on, just go out and play our game
and hopefully get some good wins for our home crowd.”
Storen, in particular, will doubtless be eager to take the
mound against a Pac-10 foe once again, especially after being
roughed up by ASU last weekend. Storen gave up all seven
of the Sun Devils’ runs on Saturday in a disastrous eighth in-
ning, recording just one out and allowing three hits and three
walks. The Cardinal right-hander bounced back against
Santa Clara and Cal, though, earning his fifth save of the sea-
son against the Bears.
Please see BASEBALL, page 8
SOFTBALL
DUCK
HUNT
Cardinal looks to rebound
against Oregon, OSU
By NATE ADAMS
STAFF WRITER
The Cardinal soft-
ball team resumes
Pacific-10 Confer-
ence play at home OREGON
this weekend,hosting (15-26, 2-10 Pac-10)
the Oregon Ducks on
Friday and the Ore- Smith Family Stadium 7 PM
gon State Beavers on
both Saturday and
Sunday. The series
UP NEXT
comes at the heels of
a recent string of mis- OREGON STATE
fortune for Stanford 4/25 Smith Family Stadium
in conference match-
ups, as the Cardinal NOTES: Stanford got out to a great
looks to rebuild mo- start this season, but has faltered late-
mentum with a ly. Pitcher Missy Penna has started to
strong series against struggle and may be tiring under a
the struggling Ore- huge workload, but Ashley Chinn
tossed a no-hitter on Wednesday
gon teams.
No. 4 Stanford’s against San Jose State.
(38-6, 7-5 Pac-10) last
two conference series — on the road in Berkeley and
Arizona — tarnished an otherwise stellar first half of the
Pac-10 season.The Cardinal dropped two of three games
in both of those weekends, falling from a school-record
No. 2 ranking and being outscored 40-23 in the process.
Despite posting a conference-leading 37 overall wins and
the nation’s fourth-best win percentage at .863, Stanford
now finds itself in the bottom half of the eight-team Pac-
10 with a 7-5 conference record, checking in at fifth place
as the final stretch of the regular season begins.
Stanford head coach John Rittman, never one to lose
focus, acknowledged the impact of falling in the stand-
ings, but remains optimistic about his team this season.
“We’ve taken a bit of a hit, but you have to keep mov-
ing forward and learning lessons,” Rittman said. “It’s a
long season and we’re still in a great place. We came in
and played a real tough series in Arizona, and played
pretty well, actually, to take one out of two from Arizona
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NOTES: After a disappointing trip to Arizona
State last weekend, Stanford bounced back
with two high-scoring victories over Santa
Clara and Cal during this past week. Arizona
is last in the Pac-10 but ranks in the top three
of most offensive categories in the confer-
ence. Stanford has shuffled its weekend rota-
tion, now starting freshman Jordan Pries on
Friday, freshman Brett Mooneyham on Satur-
day and junior Jeffrey Inman on Sunday.
STANFORD SENIORS
READY TO GO PRO
A look at the Cardinal’s NFL prospects
By WYNDAM MAKOWSKY
MANAGING EDITOR
252 picks. 252 college athletes
hailing from everywhere in the na-
tion — from traditional powers
like USC to tiny Division-II col-
leges like St. Augustine. 252 foot-
ball players with their ticket
punched to the NFL, and not one
Stanford Cardinal amongst them.
The 2008 NFL Draft was disap-
pointing for the University and its
prospects — it was the first time
since 1999 that no Stanford players
were drafted — but the Cardinal
Center Alex Fletcher could be a draft day bargain for teams in the middle round looking for intensity, leader-
ship and versatility on the interior of the offensive line, according to NFL Draft guru Scott Wright.
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FOOTBALL SPECIAL
will look to reassert itself in 2009.A
formidable group of graduating
seniors — center Alex Fletcher,
running back Anthony Kimble, de-
fensive end Pannel Egboh and cor-
nerback Wopamo Osaisai — will
look to continue playing, this time
at the professional level.
Although no Cardinal player is
predicted to go particularly high in
the draft, which will take place this
Saturday and Sunday in New York,
it’s possible that all four Stanford
players will be chosen by an NFL
franchise. Fletcher predicted that
two to three Stanford players
Please see DRAFT, page 6
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Volume 235
Issue 44
$1 BILLION
DEBTISSUED
Univ. announces record
taxable debt figures
By JOANNA XU
MANAGING EDITOR
The University announced yesterday that it is issuing $1
billion in taxable debt, the largest amount in its history, in an
attempt to shore up liquidity and working capital after a sig-
nificant decrease in the value of the endowment in the past
fiscal year.
On Aug. 31, 2008, Stanford’s endowment stood at $17.2
billion. However, according to Stanford’s Vice President for
Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer, Randy Liv-
ingston, the endowment value will be down at least 30 per-
cent by Aug. 31, 2009.
Livingston said that the debt issuance is mainly a form of
insurance that will protect the University with an additional
layer of liquidity.
“Currently, we have ample liquidity to meet our current
needs from both the investment and operations standpoint,
but issuance of debt gives us additional liquidity and work-
ing capital in the event that the economy surprises us and the
market turns downward again,” he said.
According to a Moody’s Investors Services report pub-
lished yesterday, “The University will use the proceeds to
supplement liquidity for working capital and generate cor-
porate purposes, as well as to refinance approximately $200
million of taxable commercial paper.”
Livingston told The Daily that $350 million of five-year
bonds were issued at 3.65 percent, $250 million of seven-year
bonds at 4.30 percent and $400 million of 10-year bonds at
4.79 percent. On average, this means that Stanford is issuing
debt at less than two percent over Treasuries, the benchmark
for risk-free investments.
Last December, Harvard sold nearly $2 billion in debt.
Princeton sold $1 billion last January.
Please see DEBT, page 2
NFL DRAFT
Radio City Music Hall, New York
COVERAGE:
POLITICS
TV: ESPN, NFL Network
RADIO: ESPN Radio
NOTES: Stanford football’s seniors will
see how they stack up against the rest
Documents
shed light on
of the nation on Saturday and Sunday
as the NFL holds its annual college
draft. Among the most highly touted
Cardinal prospects are center Alex
Fletcher, defensive end Pannel Egboh,
running back Anthony Kimble and
corner Wopamo Osaisai. The Detroit
Lions, who have the first pick this year,
will officially be “on the clock” starting
at 1 p.m. on Saturday. The draft is
Rice’s past
composed of 256 picks divided into
seven rounds — the first two rounds Report reveals former Secretary of
will take place on Saturday, with
rounds 3-7 being held for Sunday. State authorized torture techniques
By ERIC MESSINGER
DESK EDITOR
Documents recently made available by the Obama ad-
ministration and the Senate Intelligence Committee (SIC)
have provided a clearer picture of Hoover Fellow and for-
mer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s role in formulat-
ing interrogation policy during the Bush years.
On April 22, the SIC publicly issued a report focused
upon administration deliberations in mid-2002, revealing
that Rice, then the National Security Advisor, gave verbal
authorization to use torture — specifically, waterboarding
— in July 2002, to date the earliest known approval from a
Bush official on the use of the technique.
Rice’s Chief of Staff, Colby Cooper, declined comment
on the new information.
“On July 17, 2002, according to CIA records, the Director
of Central Intelligence (DCI) met with the National Securi-
ty Adviser, who advised that the CIA could proceed with its
proposed interrogation of Abu Zubaydah,” the report said.
“This advice, which authorized CIA to proceed as a policy
matter, was subject to a determination of legality by Office
of Legal Counsel [OLC].”
The OLC informed the CIA that the technique was law-
ful a week later.
The case of Abu Zubaydah was, according to the report,
pivotal in the development of the Bush administration’s in-
terrogation policies. In April 2002, following his capture the
previous month, “the CIA assessed that Abu Zubaydah had
Please see RICE, page 3
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Alumni Association lays off 10, slashes $2.7 million from budget DAILY POLL
Do you think Summer Research

UNIV.
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Stanford summer experience?

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By ELIZABETH TITUS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
In the latest round of University-mandated
budget cuts, the Stanford Alumni Association,
the Development Office and Division of Land,
Buildings & Real Estate all announced 15 per-
cent budget cuts this week. The cuts also
included 49 layoffs.
The Alumni Association laid off 10 employ-
ees on Tuesday and faces an upcoming $2.7
million budget cut, according to Association
President Howard Wolf. Three more employ-
ees left voluntarily, six took a time reduction
and four vacant positions were eliminated.
The Development Office laid off 19
ADMISSIONS
employees and the Division of Land, Buildings
& Real Estate laid off 20.
Wolf would not say which positions were
eliminated, but he said that almost every
Alumni Association department was affected.
He added that those laid off would remain on
the payroll for two months, allowing them to
tell prospective employers that they are still
employed at Stanford. They will also be com-
pensated for severance time.
He went on to cite several cost-saving meas-
ures that the Alumni Association will take,
including the reduction of printed materials
and the elimination of certain in-person com-
ponents of an alumni continuing studies pro-
gram.
The Association, which serves some 202,000
alumni worldwide, is funded by three sources:
the general fund, a lifetime membership fund
invested in the endowment and several busi-
nesses, such as Stanford Sierra Camp.
According to Wolf, all three sources are
under “tremendous pressure.”
Despite cuts, he said that alumni are still
confident in the University’s leadership.
“Stanford’s alumni have tremendous faith
in the President and the Provost,” Wolf said.
“All the indications I’ve had in discussions . . .
suggest that they’re actually very comfortable
that we’re looking at these things strategically
and responding appropriately.”
For Wolf, the laying off of workers was dif-
ficult, as some had worked at Stanford for 20
years.
“The formal way to describe that is you’re
eliminating positions, but the fact of the matter
is, those positions are filled by real people who
do great work, care deeply and try hard,” Wolf
said. “Behind every position is a person, and
behind every person is a life.”
Administrators at the Development Office
and Division of Land, Buildings & Real Estate
were not immediately available for comment
at press time. The Daily will have additional Today’s Question:
coverage of the latest round of layoffs next
week.
Contact Elizabeth Titus at etitus@stanford.edu.a
35% 33%
D A
17% 15%
C B
A) Yes, I wouldn’t want to stay on campus over
the summer without it.
B) No, it was nothing more than free food once
a week.
C) Maybe, but it is not that important.
D) What is Summer Research College?
Should Condoleezza Rice be prosecuted
for her authorization of torture in the
interrogation of terror suspects?
a) Yes, we have a duty to uphold the
law, and Rice broke it.
b) No, but Rice’s decisions need full
disclosure.
c) No, actions taken for the sake of
post-9/11 national security are a
special case.
d) No, the country needs to move on
from the Bush years.
e) I don’t care.

Admit Weekend brings vote today at stanforddaily.com!

1,300 to campus DEBT

Class of 2013 arrives to
check out the Farm
By ZOE RICHARDS
STAFF WRITER
With nearly 1,300 prospective
freshmen bellowing dorm cheers
and bouncing around campus with
name cards and the occasional par-
ent in tow, Admit Weekend for
Stanford’s Class of 2013 packs the
usual punch of Stanford tradition,
fun, nerves and excited ProFros.
In an email to The Daily, Dean of
Admissions Richard Shaw
expressed the joy of meeting
ProFros after “hibernating in [their]
offices” for months, reading over
30,000 applications for admission.
“It’s just great to be outside in
the California sunshine and show
the ProFros our campus and help
them meet our students and facul-
ty,” Shaw said. “In most cases, we are
meeting these students for the first
time and it’s often humbling for us
to have that first encounter.”
Dean of Freshmen Julie
Lythcott-Haims, who is particularly
excited about unveiling the Class of
‘13 roll call at the a cappella show on
Friday night (will it be “thir-teen?”
“one-three?”), predicts a one per-
cent increase in admit yield from
last year.
Lythcott-Haims lauded the
increased outreach efforts that the
admissions team has made in the
past few years.
“Now that more students around
the country and the world have had
the chance to personally interact
with a Stanford representative, it’s
only natural that our yield would go
up,” Lythcott-Haims said. “If people
are taking bets, I’m predicting a 73
percent yield for this year.”
Lythcott-Haims emphasized that
Admit Weekend is significant for all
arenas of Stanford, from administra-
tors to ProFros.
“For the University, it is reward-
ing to put the opportunity of a
Stanford education out there for
people to examine,” she said. “For
admits, it’s a set of memories that
may stay with them for much of
their life. For me, personally,
Thursday of Admit Weekend is one
of my most favorite days in a
Stanford year.”
Administrators and Admit
Weekend planners took special care
to keep the recession from having a
large effect on the weekend’s events.
According to Dean Shaw, “There
weren’t any major overhauls to the
[Admit Weekend] program” due to
the recession.
Admit Weekend Events
Coordinator Natie Ermyas ‘11 said
he was determined not to let the
recession rain on the parade.
“We were definitely affected by
the economic crisis, but wanted to
give ProFros the same opportuni-
ties,” Ermyas said, emphasizing the
importance of the quality of events
over minor extra goodies like class T-
shirts. Creative money savers include
2013 temporary tattoos instead of
class tees, as well as smaller dorm
recreation budgets.
Roble Head House Host Lily
Sadaat ‘12, reflecting on her own
Admit Weekend experience, remem-
bered the overwhelming nature of it
all and emphasized the importance
of incorporating free time for
ProFros to relax.
“I want to help eliminate the
awkwardness that is inevitable by
creating a fun atmosphere and allow
them to get to know Stanford in a
carefree sense,” she said.
ProFro (prospective freshman)
Francisco Delataz, said his initial
feelings of nervousness are already
beginning to fade as he hears about
the experiences of those he’s met
already.
“I’m definitely excited for what’s
coming up,” Delataz said. “I’m split
between two other schools, but com-
ing here has definitely helped me
sway my decision towards Stanford.”
Ermyas, who is a strong believer
in attending the college that best
suits the student, emphasized that
prospective students go with their
gut feeling when making their final
college decision.
“[I want to] help them figure out
what they can do here and what they
would enjoy [about Stanford],” he
said. “If they don’t want to come
here, we want to make them agonize
over [the decision] because of how
amazing the weekend was.”
Hoping that admits will make the
right choice, Ermyas had some
advice:
“Trust your vibe and the vibe you
get from people.”
Contact Zoe Richards at iamzoe@
stanford.edu.
Admits for the Class of 2013 stack their bags in the Arrillaga Alumni Center and anxiously wait around to be shep-
arded to their dorms. Stanford is expecting 1,300 prospective freshmen to visit over the course of the weekend.
ADMISSIONS
Univ.hopes for appropriate yield
By CHRISTINE MCFADDEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
After decisions were mailed to
students on March 31, the stress of
admissions season shifted instantly
from high-school students to
University administrators. While the
calculus of how many students will
eventually accept Stanford’s offer of
admission is always complex, the
recession and new Housing plan
have conspired to make spring more
difficult than usual for the Office of
Admission and Student Housing.
Because of this year’s added
uncertainty, administrators are
being exceptionally careful.
“We admitted fewer students this
year because, as an institution that
guarantees housing, it is important
that we do not over-enroll the fresh-
man class,” said Director of
Admission Shawn Abbott.
This year’s class of 2,300 admits (a
7.6 percent admit rate) is 100 students
smaller than last year’s class of 2,400
admits (a 9.48 percent admit rate).
“While it is impossible to predict
precisely how many students will
matriculate, admitting 100 fewer stu-
dents this year was a strategy to
potentially avoid over-enrolling the
freshman class,” Abbott said.
The targeted number of under-
graduate matriculates for Fall 2009
is 1,700, according to Abbott.
The new Housing Master Plan
for next year includes significant
changes, such as the addition of
Crothers Hall to undergraduate
housing and the reconfiguration of
rooms in Mirrielees, Lagunita,
Roble, Branner and Toyon.
Abbott said these dorms are
going through an “un-stuffing”
process, which will allow for more
personal and common space for stu-
dents, with the goal of creating a
more spacious and convenient hous-
ing situation.
Because Stanford guarantees stu-
dent housing, dorms in the past were
often “stuffed,” or changed from
their original construction plans to
fit more students.
Student Housing said that
despite the significant changes that
come with the Housing Master Plan,
the link between the Office of
Admission and Housing was no dif-
ferent this year from previous years.
“Housing has always had a very
close working relationship with [the
Office of Admission], and there
have not been any significant
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changes to that relationship or to
the admissions goals this year,” said
Marie Oamek, Student Housing’s
strategic information and standards
manager.
“Our two departments always
work closely together this time of
year to plan for the arrival of each
new freshman class in fall quarter,
and to meet our four-year housing
guarantee,” Oamek added. “If the
yield numbers change significantly
from the estimates we’ve planned
for, we work together to find room
for additional freshmen, or to fill
spaces which had been planned for
freshmen with upperclass students.
The goals for this year, however, are
not significantly different from last
year, and have not been influenced
by the Housing Master Plan.”
The Master Plan, which includes
creating more concentrated all-frosh
complexes, such as Stern and Wilbur
(with the exception of ethnic-
themed houses Okada and Casa
Zapata, which will remain four-
class), was in part created to provide
a better all-frosh experience, accord-
ing to administrators.
Contact Christine McFadden at
cnm714@stanford.edu.
Continued from front page
Livingston said that a $1 billion
debt issuance made sense because
$800 million is approximately equal
to one year of payout from the
endowment to support University
operations.
The University started consider-
ing a debt issuance about three to
four months ago and discussed the
possibility at both the February and
April Board of Trustees meetings.
Formal approval was obtained from
the Trustees at the latter meeting.
“The debt offering
is out of the
ordinary because of
its size.”
— RANDY LIVINGSTON,
Chief Financial Officer
“This debt offering is out of the
ordinary because of its size,”
Livingston said. “In the past, we
borrowed money for facilities and
equipment. This is unusual because
we’re borrowing for liquidity pur-
poses.”
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and
Morgan Stanley were joint under-
writers in this bond issuance.
According to a Goldman docu-
ment, the debt is expected to be
rated triple-A, and tranche sizes
will each be at least $250 million.
All three of the nation’s major
credit-rating agencies — Moody’s
Investors, Fitch Ratings and
Standard & Poor’s — do currently
give Stanford debt a triple-A credit
rating, which is the highest possible
rating.
“Every time we do a major debt
issuance, the three credit-rating
agencies re-evaluate our credit,”
Livingston said. “We think the rate
we received was quite good.”
The University currently plans
to reduce endowment funding for
University operations by 25 percent
over the next two years and reduce
expenditures.
Contact Joanna Xu at joannaxu
@stanford.edu.

STUDENT LIFE

Moonbean’s Coffee strives to renew lease,continue campus operations

By MARISA LANDICHO
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The lease for MoonBean’s Coffee is set to
run out by the end of the year, leaving the fate
of the coffee shop, which has been tucked
between Green and Meyer Libraries for 11
years, largely uncertain. Stanford Libraries has
solicited bids for the valuable space, and will
announce a decision May 1. If MoonBean’s
bid is unsuccessful, it will be gone by
September.
While acknowledging the need for renego-
tiating the lease, founder and owner Jennie
Reynolds is skeptical of the process.
“The Libraries are hoping to increase the
rent by about 50 percent in the competition,”
she said.
Not wanting to raise prices, Reynolds said
she could not afford the increase in rent and
was worried whether her store would continue
to serve Stanford students in the fall.
“If we do have to quit, we’ll not have
enough time,” she said. “We’re going to be
stuck with too much inventory ,and our
employees won’t have much time to find jobs.”
However, Libraries Director of
Communication and Development Andrew
Herkovic maintained that the selection
process was standard procedure.
“It was a perfectly normal process for the
lease to run out,” Herkovic said. “I have
absolutely no idea if [the MoonBean’s] bid will
be successful — it’s a competitive process. I do
know that there were at least several other
bidders.”
Herkovic did not report the identities of
the other vendors seeking the location.
Reynolds hopes her business will continue
on the basis of favorable reviews from her
patrons.
“[The selection committee] did comment
that we have a lot of support from the student
community,” she said. “As far as I understood,
the libraries were putting together a selection
committee that included students.”
Herkovic, though, said the committee
would be composed of “people in administra-
tion” and wasn’t aware of any students being
included.
“It is not a personal decision as to who gets
the award but an institutional one,” he said.
This is not the first time rumors of
MoonBean’s closure have circulated the cam-
pus.
Several patrons found out about the lease
expiration date, originally set for December
2008, last spring. Emails warning of the end of
the cafe filled chat lists and provoked an out-
pouring of support from students and faculty.
These efforts fizzled, however, after the
Libraries pushed back the lease until June 30
of this year.This time around, students remain
mostly unaware of MoonBean’s situation.
“Now, I think it’s less in the consciousness
of the student body,” said barista Jessica
Cornwell ‘09.
Jireh Tan ‘10, who said he comes to the cafe
once every week or two, had no idea about the
expiring lease and would be “quite sad” to see
the coffee shop go.
“I don’t think as many people know as I
would personally like,” said store manager
James Rundell, who has worked at
MoonBean’s for two and a half years. “But at
the same time, I don’t want to upset the
library.”
Rundell and Reynolds stressed that they
were not upset with the University or the
Libraries.
“[The administration] aren’t bullies in any
sort of sense,” Rundell said.“We don’t want to
make a scene, and we desperately love our job
there.”
“I don’t want to make them out to be the
villain — they need to be concerned about
their income too,” Reynolds added.
Many students have said they will miss
Moonbean’s if its lease isn’t renewed.
“I think [Moonbean’s] has the best coffee
on campus,” said Yaser Khalighi, a sixth-year
mechanical engineering graduate student. “It
has a kind of relaxed atmosphere outside that
makes it special.”
Jennifer Wang ‘10 said she would be
“extremely sad” if the cafe closed and that she
disliked the remaining campus coffee alterna-
tives.
“That crap that they have in Old Union is a
travesty,” she said.
Based on the popularity of the spot,
Cornwell hoped MoonBean’s would remain in
front of Green.
“Moonbean’s is a huge hub for students
and faculty,” she said. “There’s something to
say for the space — it’s definitely my sanctu-
ary on campus.”
Contact Marisa Landicho at landicho@stan-
ford.edu.
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specific information concerning
future Al-Qa’ida attacks against the
United States.”
Attempts to obtain this informa-
tion set in motion a process that led
to Rice, when “in April 2002, attor-
neys from the CIA’s Office of
General Counsel began discussions
with the Legal Adviser to the
National Security Council and OLC
concerning the CIA’s proposed
interrogation plan for Abu
Zubaydah and legal restrictions on
that interrogation.”
The Legal Adviser subsequently
briefed a number of officials, includ-
ing Rice in her capacity as National
Security Adviser.
Rice has, in the past, asserted that
she only approved interrogation
practices that were within the law.
“The one thing that I am
absolutely confident of and certain
of in my own mind, is that we did
what we thought was necessary, but
also what we believed was legal,”
Rice said in a March 4 interview
with The Daily.
Relevant memos from the OLC
were also released by the Obama
administration. The OLC was at the
center of the Bush administration’s
interrogation policies, providing the
legal advice used to determine
whether certain techniques and prac-
tices were acceptable. The memos
approved of the use of a number of
techniques, including waterboarding,
and provided detailed description.
In the wake of the release, The
New York Times reported, “Some
senior Obama administration offi-
cials, including Attorney General
Eric H. Holder Jr., have labeled one
of the 14 approved techniques,
waterboarding, illegal torture. The
United States prosecuted some
Japanese interrogators at war
crimes trials after World War II for
waterboarding and other methods
detailed in the memos.”
“Obviously anything that we
authorized was in the context of our
treaty obligations and within the
law,” Rice said in the March 4 Daily
interview.
Much of the interrogation policy
in which Rice was involved has
since been overturned.
On Jan. 22, on the second day of
his administration, President
Obama issued an executive order
which banned the most controver-
sial techniques, stipulating that
detainees “be treated humanely, not
be subjected to violence to life and
person (including murder of all
kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment
and torture), nor to outrages upon
personal dignity (including humili-
ating and degrading treatment).”
Rice was formerly the Provost of
Stanford, and is currently a member
on leave from the political science
department.
Contact Eric Messinger at messinger
@stanford.edu.
SCIENCE & TECH
Director chides NIH policy
By JULIA BROWNELL
DESK EDITOR
Irving Weissman MD ‘85, direc-
tor of Stanford’s Institute for Stem
Cell Biology and Regenerative
Medicine, has publicly come out
against indications that the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) may
deny funds to many projects involv-
ing somatic cell nuclear transfer
(SCNT).
This denial of funds is found in a
stipulation in the draft guidelines by
the NIH for federal funding. SCNT
is the process by which the nucleus
from a blastocyst, or early embryo
cell, is taken out and transferred to
another non-embryonic cell for
replication. This process can lead to
stem cell lines in various different
organ systems.
The NIH specifically stipulated
that no stem cell project can go for-
ward if it uses SCNT on embryos
not derived from in vitro fertiliza-
tion (IVF) clinics. Weissman was
frustrated that the NIH put limits
on research for what he believed to
be moral and ideological reasons.
“I hold you [the NIH] morally
responsible for the loss of lives
because you delayed the research
that could have led to the saving of
those lives in that short window of
time they had left,” Weissman said.
The funding the NIH will be dis-
tributing became available when
President Barack Obama lifted the
ban imposed by President George
Bush on all stem cell research in the
United States.
As a visiting advisor to the
Friday, April 24, 2009 N 3
Obama transition team, Weissman
urged Obama to lift the ban and
base his policy on stem cells with a
policy based solely on scientific
knowledge.
“I reported that to the Obama
transition team, June 2nd...If you
decide to lift the ban...don’t replace
one ideology with another, you
should only go on the basis of what
is scientifically possible...And
Obama in his speech, and I was
there, said just that. He said we’re
going to remove politics and ideolo-
gy from scientific policy decision
making,” Weissman recalled.
Weissman believed the NIH
took this message and added its
own stipulation on top of it.
“I was very surprised that when
the NIH interpreted his speech to
write guidelines, they said they
would only fund research on embry-
onic stem cells derived from IVF
clinic embryos, or blastocysts,”
Weissman said.
Weissman stressed in an inter-
view with The Daily that SCNT is
an important source of research on
stem cells of those who suffer from
disease. The NIH is not banning
SCNT research on embryos from in
vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics with
leftover embryos, but as Weissman
said, those are not the embryos that
will lead to breakthroughs in curing
disease.
“[IVF stem cells are] all derived
from people who can afford to go to
IVF clinics who are infertile,”
Weissman explained. “Now, those
people aren’t giving rise to embryos
that are for sure going to get Lou
Garrig’s disease, or juvenile dia-
betes or early onset heart attacks or
any of the other genetic disorders,
so we’re not going to get disease
cells from that source. And we’re
not going to get embryonic stem cell
lines from southwestern Native
Americans, because they can’t
afford to go to an IVF clinic, yet
they have the highest incidence of
type two adult onset diabetes of
anybody.”
Weissman also explained, how-
ever, that SCNT is not the only pos-
sible way of obtaining stem cell
lines from an embryo. In addition,
scientists have been working on
methods to create new lines of stem
cells by replacing key genes in nor-
mal adult cells to give them stem
cell abilities like self renewal and
creation of system-specific progeni-
tors.
“We don’t know which of those
[two ways] will give us the best
answers to understand and treat dis-
ease,” Weissman said.
Still, Weissman is against stifling
the research possibilities that lie
with SCNT simply because other
options are possibly available, as the
future of regenerative medicine is
unknown.
“When and if we get stem cell
lines from diseases, by the Yamanka
method of genes or nuclear transfer
if it becomes safe and feasible —
then we should allow everybody to
be funded by NIH funds to follow
those lines,” he said.
Contact Julia Brownell at juliabr@
stanford.edu.
4 N Friday, April 24, 2009
OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
The choice is yours and
it’s easy, ProFros
his is a message from The Daily edito-
T Kamil Dada
rial board to all you ProFros still on the
fence about where you’ll be spending
the next four — give or take — years of your
life.
You’ve hopefully been enjoying the Cali-
fornia sun for the last day or so while meet-
ing students, professors and, most impor-
tantly, other ProFros, some of whom could
very well become your best friends. You’ve
heard inspiring speeches from leaders on
campus, listened to a cappella, watched
dance groups perform and heard from many
of the 700 student groups on campus about
all the amazing things you can do at Stan-
ford.
Equal parts corny and exciting, Admit
Weekend is a great time to get a taste of what
the University wants you to think Stanford is
like. Admittedly, the weather, the constant
buzz of excitement and activity and the warm
glow of smiles from every corner of campus
can’t help but look staged.Well, we at the ed-
itorial board are here to let you in on the se-
crets about what Stanford is really like.
It’s really this awesome. With good rea-
son, Stanford is consistently rated among the
happiest campuses in the nation, and could
probably give Disneyland a run for its
money. Check out events.stanford.edu for a
small fraction of the sheer number of events
going on. Just about everyone on campus is
passionately involved in at least one student
group, whether it’s a public service, political,
Greek, athletic or performing arts group.
The amount of research opportunities avail-
able are absolutely astounding, but are ex-
pected given the top-notch schools of medi-
cine, education, law, business and engineer-
ing right here on campus.
Stanford students also give back to the
community, and they do so in a variety of
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We appreciate The Daily editorial
board’s clear commitment to a fair Housing
Draw system. However, last Friday’s editori-
al (“Changes to the Housing Draw alienate
student body”) mischaracterized the Draw
Task Force and its relationship with the stu-
dent body.
We, the four undergraduates on the com-
mittee, were selected by NomCom, part of
the ASSU.Together, we worked very hard to
voice the concerns of a variety of students
and we were encouraged to seek input from
others. Nonetheless, understanding that four
undergraduates cannot possibly address the
concerns of the entire student body, the task
force sought the input of students directly. In
January, we consulted with the ASSU Sen-
ate,a body elected by undergraduates in part
to serve as an advocate for students with the
administration. The Senate served this role
well, and the task force took their comments
seriously.We held a meeting for RAs to hear
their concerns, as well as one for RFs. Con-
trary to recent coverage in The Daily, the
task force also met with co-op residents, and
we spent a great deal of time discussing co-
ops and how best to support them.
Lastly, in an effort to garner input from a
wider base of students, we held a town hall
meeting. Information about the meeting was
emailed to each and every undergraduate in
housing, and the flyers were hard to avoid. It
is nonsensical for the editorial board to
claim that “there was really no room for larg-
er student body input, other than a poorly at-
tended . . . town hall meeting.” The task
force was very eager to get input from the
general student body, and Housing cannot
be faulted for poor student attendance. In
addition, though the editorial board claims
ways: several organizations work to make
East Palo Alto a better place; Stanford
Dance Marathon has raised over $100,000
each of the past several years to help fight
AIDS in Africa; and Stanford organized the
largest No on Prop. 8 phone bank in the
country last November. If you want to make
a difference in the world, this is the place to
start.
To be fair, we should acknowledge the in-
famous “Stanford Duck Syndrome,” which
uses the metaphor of a duck to depict Stan-
ford students as outwardly tranquil, floating
on a lake, but furiously paddling under the
surface to stay afloat. There is some truth to
this stereotype, but to be honest, a lot of peo-
ple thrive in this kind of atmosphere. The
ability to work hard and excel in a variety of
activities, and then relax and have a good
time when appropriate, really enables Stan-
ford students to accomplish a tremendous
amount while still enjoying themselves. On
top of this, Stanford has taken on addressing
campus mental health issues, and it offers
free professional counseling to any student.
Stanford also has a variety of peer counsel-
ing centers, including the oldest student-run
24-hour counseling center in the country.
There is a new room in Old Union actually
called “The Wellness Room” filled with
board games, art supplies and tea to help stu-
dents unwind on afternoons and evenings
throughout the week.
So come to Stanford — it’s really not a
hard decision. Whether you want to come
for the top-notch academic and research
opportunities available, first class athletic
department, the tremendous ways in which
you can actually make a difference in this
world, or just to be happy for the next four-
ish years of your life, just say yes. Welcome
to Stanford.
E DITOR
that the process of Draw reform “marks a
departure from” a model of “leadership op-
portunities given to students,” the four stu-
dents on the task force certainly had leader-
ship roles, and it was clear from the begin-
ning that, as far as Housing was concerned,
we were the most important members of the
committee.
The Draw Task Force had no larger agen-
da than improving student life at Stanford.
We recognized that students are really the
best people to guide us along this path. The
suggestions of the groups we met with di-
rectly influenced our final recommenda-
tions. Students had numerous avenues avail-
able to them to give the task force feedback,
and many took us up on that offer. Those
who didn’t, such as (apparently) The Daily
Editorial Board — note that the editorial
after the ASSU meeting addressed The
Daily’s feud with the ASSU instead of the
proposed Housing changes — certainly
have every right to complain about the
changes to the Draw. We ask that students
get the facts about the changes and thought
processes behind them before demonstrat-
ing an adverse, though understandable, gut
reaction to the change. Along those same
lines, we ask that students take ownership of
the so-called lack of “room for larger student
body input, other than a poorly attended . . .
town hall meeting” and realize that they are
incorrect to complain on the basis that they
didn’t have a chance to voice their concerns.
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EKINADESE OSAYANDE ’11
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A problem of admission
ith Admit Weekend upon us, the
W campus should by now be awash in
ProFros, red folders and lots of SAT
score comparisons. Welcome, “lowest admis-
sion percentage of all time” class of 2013!
While helicopter parents plan their chil-
dren’s four-year-plan unit-by-unit, ProFros
lucky enough to escape parents and pressure
can have all sorts of fun attending panels and
comparing AP scores. Oh joy! Who cares that
it doesn’t matter anymore because every-
one’s already in? It’s never too late to see
how you measure up.
But among the discussions held by
ProFros year after year, one you can expect
to hear a lot this weekend is the Stanford
duck analogy — something perpetuated by
its mention in those Princeton Review col-
lege ranking books.
Sometimes also referred to as a “syn-
drome,” the Stanford duck idea is that while
yes, this is California, and everyone is happi-
ly prancing in the sun (never mind the four
straight months of wind, clouds and intermit-
tent rain), the happy carefree-ness visible to
the outside world is actually only half of the
equation.
Our duck faces and bodies are calm above
the water, you see, but below it we are churn-
ing our webbed feet madly to keep up the
overachieving in classes, activities and jobs.
Why do feet count as half of a duck? Don’t
ask me, I study political science. Mangling
metaphors is a specialty of ours.
Going back to our Stanford duck, the real
question is whether the duality of calm and
happy versus frenetically busy is a bad thing.
It’s really cool that the guy playing Frisbee
with his shirt off is also majoring in architec-
tural chemistry with a minor in Nordic lan-
guages. Did he mention he also sings a cap-
pella? It can get nauseating for those of us
less accomplished, less talented or simply
lazier, especially when some of the over-per-
Letter to the Class of 2013
Dear Prospective Stanford Student (I refuse
to use the egregious term “ProFro”),
long, long time ago, I was like you, a
A fresh-faced high school overachiever,
excitedly clutching my snazzy Stan-
ford acceptance package. I was thrilled to go
to Admit Weekend and meet my potential
classmates.
I had no idea that at the end of it all, I
would be sobbing, unable to bring myself to
sign the next four years away to Stanford.
Overwhelmed by terrifyingly enthusias-
tic “HoHos” and “RoHos” and the saccha-
rine programming, I was appalled by the
supreme lack of academic seriousness that
Admit Weekend seemed to project. I wanted
to go to a school where I didn’t have to be en-
thusiastic and happy every single waking
moment.
I made the right choice and came to Stan-
ford anyway, despite my Admit Weekend ex-
perience. I’m glad to be here.
What I have found over my four years at
this fine institution is that Admit Weekend is
vey different from the real Stanford. That is
a good thing. It was, in fact, my worst three
days at an institution I have enjoyed thor-
oughly. Between ridiculous events like the
absurdly awkward HoHoPalooza — single-
handedly the worst event at Admit Week-
end, the a cappella show, the scavenger hunt
and the million other events in your compli-
cated schedules, Admit Weekend is over-
whelming and exhausting.
Not every student studies a cool-sound-
ing “inter-disciplinary” major like Human
Biology or Symbolic Systems. Most of us
study plain old subjects like Political Science
or Chemistry. Most Stanford students do
drink and go to parties, although we are not
allowed to have such parties this weekend.
(For some reason, most other admitted stu-
dents’ weekends at other schools actively ply
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formance seems like a disingenuous attempt
to get into law school.
But when someone like this is genuine —
and truly I believe this is more than half the
time — isn’t it awesome? Aren’t these the
kind of people you come to Stanford to
meet? For me, my four years at Stanford have
been an exercise in learning to squash insecu-
rity while making incredible, incredible
friends.
For a while, it’s kind of debilitating to real-
ize you’ll never come close to grasping parti-
cle physics like the kid down the hall. Or that
you aren’t going to write plays in your spare
time when not building electric cars with
household appliances. But what I’ve learned
is that you don’t have to measure yourself up
against everyone, in every category, to be suc-
cessful. Or to be happy.
This, perhaps more than anything else, is
something to keep in mind for Admit Week-
end, even for those of us several years in or
about to graduate. Comparisons don’t have
to be hierarchical. Admits, don’t measure
yourself against the next kid and wonder if
you’re “better.” I’m no career counselor, or
even a Daily advice columnist. But the point
of college for me has been trying to find the
things I actually like and then striving to get
good at them — rather than trying to domi-
nate everything for the sake of dominance.
Returning to the duck analogy, if it’s pos-
sible to learn to accept the crazy abilities of
your peers, is there a downside to this envi-
ronment where it sometimes feels like every-
one has dozens of hidden talents you can’t
compete with?
Absolutely.
The same dynamic where people down-
play their incredible abilities, responsibilities
and efforts makes it hard for people to ask
for help. The same facade of happy carefree
life at Stanford is worrisome when it can be a
mask preventing people from expressing
S TU ’ S V IEWS
Stuart Baimel
Do literally
everything that
Dean Julie tells you
to do. Don’t ask
why, just do it.
the alcohol, and we pretend like it does not
exist.)
We know we attend a prestigious re-
search institution, not a summer camp for
high school graduates. Stanford students
take their classes and research seriously.
Stanford students do not, contrary to what
you might expect based on Admit Weekend,
spend all of their time singing dorm cheers,
playing Frisbee and dancing with the band.
We spend a great deal, if not most, of our time
studying and partying, just like students at
the other schools you may be considering.
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stress, sadness or any difficulty at all. Every-
one else seems like they’re doing OK; why
can’t you just deal with it? Whatever “it” is.
The current budgetary inability of Stan-
ford to increase funding for helping students
deal with stress and mental health is most
worrying because of the degree to which
problems are often hidden. If our facilities
are already overwhelmed by people willing
to ask for help, what would happen if better
outreach actually worked on those still in de-
nial?
Perversely, amid all this unpleasantness,
there is definitely another Stanford tradition
of bonding over difficulty. Comparing how
little sleep you got, or how many pages you
have to write, is a common mid-week activi-
ty. And one that would seem to counteract
the idea that everyone minimizes the work
they’re actually doing.
The challenge for administrators, and es-
pecially for future Stanford students, is how
to make this bravado acceptable beyond just
describing classroom activities. When it be-
comes OK not only to mention the empirical
amount of work you’re doing but also when
and if you can’t handle it, our culture of pres-
sure will have taken a step forward.
Given how hard the students in the class
of 2013 had to work to be in the seven per-
cent admitted, I’m not sure whether they’ll
be able to break the cycle. But I am opti-
mistic.
Michael loves Admit Weekend, Stanford and
the Political Science department. If this column
scared you, he apologizes and would be happy
to tell you about the incredible upsides Stan-
ford provides its students. Email him at wilker-
son@stanford.edu.
Stanford students are just as intellectually
engaged as the top East Coast institutions,
even though we may appear not to be.
Many students have a miserable time at
Admit Weekend, and unfortunately, it turns
them off so much that some of them choose
to go elsewhere. If you are uncomfortable or
outright hate Admit Weekend, you are not
alone. The challenge is to separate Stanford
from Admit Weekend.
I urge you to go outside your hyper-pro-
grammed schedule. Do not go to the many
events that have been planned for you. Talk
to students who are not RoHos and HoHos.
Visit the Row. Sit in on a seminar, not a lec-
ture. Don’t go to the classes in your packet
— pick the ones that really interest you.
Meet as many other prospective freshmen as
possible. And meet as many Stanford stu-
dents as possible, especially the ones not
wearing the Admit Weekend t-shirts. Make
your college decision based on the school,
rather than the programmed weekend.
The problem with college admissions is
that high school seniors have little informa-
tion on which to base their decision, and they
often pick one university over another on
very small, random factors. This is a shame,
but it is hard to improve the process. Instead,
we should make the best of it.
I love Stanford, and I am confident that
this is the most diverse and open environ-
ment in the top echelons of the U.S. News
rankings. There is a greater range of oppor-
tunities and experiences here than at any-
where else, and that is mostly why I chose
Stanford.
Oh, and the HoHoPalooza. I loved that.
Yes. I wish Stanford had more of that.
Stuart Baimel is currently hiding in the only
place free from overactive high school seniors
— the bowels of Green Library.You can email
him for advice at sbaimel@stanford.edu.
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6  Friday, April 24, 2009
SPORTS
USC
LOOMS
Volleyball will need a rare win against the
Trojans to advance in MPSF Tourney
By JEFF LU
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Only two years removed from a
dismal 3-25 season, the Stanford
men’s volleyball team has, through
persistence and sheer force of deter-
mination, resurged once again as a
volleyball powerhouse and a poten-
tial title contender.
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
4/18 UCLA W 3-0
UP NEXT
USC
4/25 Maples Pavilion
GAME NOTES: Stanford is hosting a first-
round playoff game for the first time
since 2003. USC has a 54-25 all-time
record against Stanford, and a 2-1
postseason record. Stanford has yet to
win a single game against the Trojans
this season, but with the home-court
advantage this weekend, they hope to
change that.
The Cardinal will host the first
round of the Mountain Pacific Sports
Federation (MPSF) Tournament for
the first time since 2003. The Stan-
ford men will face USC as their first
opponent in a bid for the tournament
title, and a shot at the NCAA Tour-
nament.
Last Saturday, No. 4 Stanford (21-
10, 14-8 MPSF) found itself in a pre-
carious position, despite sweeping its
final opponent of the year, UCLA. It
was only after news of a massive
upset ogf No. 5 USC by then-No. 14
Hawaii that the Cardinal was as-
sured of its No. 4 regular-season
ranking and home-court advantage.
“[We were] just planning on going
to USC this week,” said Stanford
head coach John Kosty.
At first glance, Stanford appears
to be the firm favorite in the up-
coming match against USC. Not
only does the Cardinal outrank its
counterparts in the MPSF, but a re-
cent American Volleyball Coaches
Association poll put the Trojans at
No. 7 in the nation, a full three spots
behind Stanford. Additionally, the
Cardinal finished the season with a
21-10 record, four games ahead of
USC’s 17-10 regular-season finish.
A closer look at the statistics, how-
SPORTS BRIEFS
Sand volleyball becomes an
NCAA sport; Stanford unlikely
to field team
The NCAA has approved sand
volleyball, better known as beach
volleyball, as a varsity sport, the or-
ganization announced earlier this
week. It will be an exclusively
women’s game at the collegiate level,
and teams can begin play as early as
the 2010-2011 season. Sand volley-
ball is already played at the Olympics
and in a nationally televised profes-
sional league, the AVP.
Stanford seems like a logical
place for a team to emerge.The AVP
hosts many events in sunny, beach-
lined California, and the University
already has frequented sand courts.
Plus, Kerri Walsh ‘00, a former mem-
ber of the Cardinal’s indoor volley-
ball team, is widely regarded as one
of the best beach volleyball players
of all time, with two Olympic gold
medals (2004 and 2008) to her
name.
But Jim Young, the Senior Assis-
tant Athletic Director for Media Re-
lations, shot down speculation that
Stanford could field a sand volleyball
team, although he didn’t close the
door entirely on the idea.
“At this time, it is very unlikely we
will add any programs in the foresee-
able future,” he wrote in an email to
The Daily.“But, we will certainly dis-
ever, indicates that Stanford may be
looking at a rough first-round en-
counter this Saturday.
Currently, the Trojans hold a 54-
25 lead in their series with Stanford
and historically are 2-1 against the
Cardinal in playoff encounters. De-
spite having met USC twice this
season, Stanford has yet to win a
single game against the Trojans —
the closest the Cardinal came was in
early February when Stanford
made a 29-31 stand against the Tro-
jans in what would be the Cardi-
nal’s first home loss of the season.
USC also currently leads Stan-
ford in nearly every major statisti-
cal category, including total assists,
blocks, kills, service aces and in-
team hitting percentage. The Tro-
jans have also outperformed the
Cardinal on an individual basis,
most notably in the field of assists,
where USC sophomore setter
Riley McKibbin ranks first in the
MPSF for total assists and third for
assists per game. Trojan sopho-
more outside hitter Murphy Troy,
who knocked in 21 kills in Stan-
ford’s first encounter with USC,
ranks fourth in the league in serv-
ice aces and fifth in total points.
If they are to offer an adequate
response to USC, the Stanford men
will need to rally behind their own
unique strengths. Junior outside hit-
ter Evan Romero, currently the
leading Cardinal hitter in kills, has
hit over .300 in 10 of the past 12
games. Freshman libero Erik Shoji
leads the nation in total digs, and to-
gether with middle blockers Bran-
don Williams and Garrett Werner,
mans an impressive Stanford de-
fense. Add in the reliable support of
junior setter Kawika Shoji and a
stellar cast of freshmen, both on and
off the bench, and it becomes clear
that the Cardinal will be a force to
reckon with come Saturday.
Elsewhere in the MPSF, No. 8
UCLA will be facing No. 1 UC-
Irvine, No. 6 BYU will play No. 3
Cal State Northridge, and No. 7
Long Beach will visit No. 2 Pepper-
dine.
Saturday’s first-round match will
be held at Maples Pavilion at 7 p.m.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the
first 250 students with an SUID will
receive free admission to the game.
Otherwise, an adult fare of $10 and
a student/children/elderly fee of
five dollars will be charged.
Contact Jeff Lu at jjlu@stanford.edu.
cuss the matter.”
Sand volleyball will need at least
40 schools to field teams before it can
have an NCAA Championship, and
thus reach full-fledged varsity status.
In the meantime, it will be consid-
ered an “emerging sport for women.”
Ziegler added to Palmer Cup team
Sophomore Steve Ziegler of the
men’s golf team will play for the
United States in this year’s Palmer
Cup, to be held this June in Colorado,
Ziegler’s home state.
The Palmer Cup is similar to the
professional Ryder Cup, albeit on
the collegiate level. Two teams of
eight are assembled — one from the
United States and one from Europe,
with all but one of the 16 players
coming from American universities
— and then pitted against each other
in competition. Ziegler is Stanford’s
lone representative on either Palmer
Cup team.
Ziegler, ranked No. 9 in the coun-
try, has been the Cardinal’s most pro-
lific performer all season. He won
the USC/Ashworth Collegiate Invi-
tational in February, and he most re-
cently finished in a tie for fourth at
the U.S. Intercollegiate.
The United States currently has
the all-time series advantage. The
Americans lead 6-5-1, but the Euro-
peans won last year in Scotland.
— By Wyndam Makowsky
Cardinal Today
KICKING TO THE FINISH
WOMEN’S WATER POLO
4/18 at USC L 11-6
UP NEXT
MPSF CHAMPIONSHIPS
4/24 Honolulu, Hawai’i
GAME NOTES: The Stanford women’s water polo
team will need to have a short memory, hoping
to forget a regular-season ending loss to USC,
just its second defeat of the year, as it advances
to the MPSF Tournament in Honolulu. The Car-
dinal has been led offensively this year by fresh-
man Melissa Seidemann with 55 goals, fol-
lowed by junior Kelly Eaton with 36 and senior
Lauren Silver with 31.
By MICHAEL LAZARUS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
For the former-No. 1 Stanford
women’s water polo team, it’s impor-
tant to remember that the season
isn’t over. Forgetting that, however,
may be the hardest thing to do.
Entering its April 18 match
against No. 2 USC, the Cardinal
boasted a 22-1 record, a perfect 6-0
mark in Mountain Pacific Sports Fed-
eration (MPSF) play, a 19-game win-
ning streak and the title of best team
in the nation. All that changed, how-
ever, after Stanford fell to the Trojans
11-6 at the McDonald’s Swim Stadi-
um in Los Angeles.
The match began the same way as
the Cardinal’s previous two games,
with Stanford failing to score in the
first period and trailing as it entered
the second. After the opening eight
minutes,USC held a 3-0 lead aided by
two 6-on-5 goals.
Stanford had its opportunities to
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would be taken, and analyst Scott
Wright — whose Web page, NFL
Draft Countdown, is considered the
world’s most popular draft site —
projected a similar number of Cardi-
nal draftees.
The Stanford group is diverse: all
players perform at a different posi-
tion, and their individual attributes
vary. Fletcher, for example, is highly
regarded for his intangibles, while
Osaisai and Egboh both have the
athletic ability that NFL teams
crave. But all have worked through-
out their collegiate careers to reach
this weekend, when they will cease
to be amateurs and instead be cata-
pulted into the rich, professional
world of the NFL.
“It’s a lifelong dream,” Kimble
said. “How many people can get
paid to do what they love?”
In the lead-up to the weekend,
the players themselves helped shed
light on their pre-draft activities, and
Wright, in an interview with The
Daily, offered his take on Stanford’s
prospects.
ALEX FLETCHER
Fletcher was the cornerstone of
the Cardinal’s offensive line in 2008
and, for that matter, throughout his
collegiate career. As a U.S. Army
All-American coming out of high
school, Fletcher played both guard
and center at Stanford. He started 20
games on the right side, but every
single contest last season was at cen-
ter, where he is being looked at for
the pros. Fletcher’s enviable versa-
tility is a big selling point for NFL
squads who want their interior line-
men to be able to shift around.
“It’s definitely a leg up, because
they are projecting centers at other
positions,” Fletcher said.
Perhaps as a direct result, Fletch-
er said that every team that he spoke
to has given him a draftable grade,
with some putting him as high as the
fourth round, and some placing him
in the seventh and final round.
“It’s a lot like buying a house,” he
said. “I’m going to be more appeal-
ing in the fifth and sixth rounds.”
Fletcher was able to speak with
nearly every single team at the NFL
Combine in February, where he had
a top score in the short shuttle and
bench press. It was just part of a suc-
cessful offseason for the New York-
native, which started the Monday
after the Cardinal’s season-ending
loss to Cal. He did strength and con-
ditioning work in New Jersey, and
then played in the Texas vs. the Na-
tion All-Star Game, where he was
able to beat out other top prospects
for the starting center job on the Na-
tion team.
While he was physically impres-
sive in the lead-up to the draft,
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Junior Jessica Steffens and the Cardinal women will look to make a splash at the MPSF Championships in Hawai’i this
weekend, after falling 11-6 at USC to close out what was an otherwise almost-perfect regular season.
get on the board first, but could not
execute.
“We played well on offense in the
first quarter, but had nothing to
show for it,” said Stanford head
coach John Tanner. “We earned a
penalty shot and two power plays
because we attacked efficiently, but
we shot poorly.”
In the previous two games, against
UCLA and Cal, Stanford (22-2, 6-2
MPSF) survived its slow start with a
strong second period to take control
of the game. While the Cardinal
outscored the Trojans 3-2 in the peri-
od, it could never garner any sense of
Wright emphasized that it would be
the unseen side of Fletcher’s game
— his intelligence and leadership
ability — that would make him at-
tractive come draft day.
“Physically, he’s not going to
blow you away,” he said. “Fletcher
has passable physical tools — but
intangible tools are huge at the cen-
ter position, and Fletcher has the
type of intangible tools that you
want at center.”
Wright also emphasized that
teams know what they’re going to
get with Fletcher. While he may not
have the measureables that shoot
players up draft boards, his colle-
giate production and knowledge of
the game makes his “floor” — in
other words, the low end of the spec-
trum of his potential — relatively
high.
But Wright also pointed out that
the 2009 center prospects were par-
ticularly good, which could hurt
Fletcher’s standing.
“This is definitely one of the
stronger center classes we’ve ever
seen,” he said.
Fletcher, for his part, felt that
there were too many variables to ac-
curately predict his placement in the
draft.
“Going into this weekend, it’s
going to be different,” he said.
“Some teams think it’s a below-av-
erage center class.”
“There’s a lot of hype going
around, especially around USC
guys,” he continued. “But where is
Mike Williams? Darnell Bing?
Dwayne Jarrett? Meanwhile, Trent
Edwards is starting in Buffalo. I’m
pretty optimistic.”
WOPAMO OSAISAI
When the 2008 Pac-10 100-meter
track champion enters the NFL
draft, teams are going to be in-
trigued. When he also starts at cor-
nerback and emerges as one of the
football team’s most reliable tack-
lers, that interest only grows.
But for Osaisai, the offseason
provided little opportunity for him
to show off his gifts. He had to un-
dergo intense rehab after sustaining
a knee injury in the Cal game, and
just when he was almost healthy
again, he suffered a calf injury dur-
ing workouts. As a result, despite
being invited to the Combine, he
couldn’t prepare or participate.
That said, Osaisai still met with
about 20 teams in Indianapolis, and
in the past week alone, said that 17
squads have contacted him.
“I know teams are interested,” he
said.
Recently, Osaisai has been doing
defensive back drills to “get back
into the rhythm of being a football
player” so that he’s prepared for his
professional career after the week-
end, and has been informing teams
accordingly.
While Osaisai himself recognizes
that he is at the backend of the cor-
ner class, he still feels that he is bet-
momentum.
After each team traded goals to
start off the period, junior Jessica
Steffens and freshman Melissa Seide-
mann scored on consecutive posses-
sions to pull Stanford back into the
match. Yet with the final seconds of
the half waning off the clock, USC
scored once more to open the lead to
5-3 and kill the Cardinal rally.
“We have made individual mis-
takes that led to easy goals,” Tanner
said.“We also failed to make plays at
times that could have turned the
game our way.”
The third period belonged to the
ter prepared for the NFL than some
of the players ranked ahead of him.
“But, I can’t really say anything
without working out,” he added.
Aside from his play at defensive
back, Osaisai’s stock has remained
around the fifth to seventh round
because of his prowess as a special-
teamer — he was named to three
straight All-Pac-10 teams for his
work on specials. For a late-round
draftee fighting for a roster spot, the
ability to play on more than one side
of the ball is crucial.
“His special teams play will earn
him a roster spot,” Wright said.
“Teams are comfortable knowing
that if they draft me, I can contribute
immediately instead of just being a
developmental corner,” Osaisai
said.
Indeed, although Osaisai recog-
nizes that he will likely begin his ca-
reer as a reserve, his ultimate goal is
still to be a starting cornerback in
the NFL.
Wright recognized this possibili-
ty, but felt that he had to stop being
“a track guy playing football” and
instead become more of a playmak-
er. That said, Wright was intrigued
by his potential.
“He’s a boom-or-bust type,”
Wright said. “But, he has the physi-
cal tools that you take a chance on. If
there’s anyone from [the Stanford]
group that goes higher than they’re
projected, it will be Osaisai, based
on his potential.”
ANTHONY KIMBLE
For two years, Kimble led the
Cardinal in rushing as a starter, but
he blossomed as a reserve in 2008,
putting together the highest yards
and per-carry average of his Stan-
ford career, working behind junior
Toby Gerhart. As an experienced
runner, good blocker and deft pass
catcher, Kimble’s all-around game
helped the Cardinal ground attack
place second in the conference in
yards per game.
It is that same proficiency that
makes Kimble an intriguing late-
round prospect.
“It’s a jack-of-all-trades scenario
with Kimble,”Wright said.“He’s not
really the type of guy you project to
be a starting running back, but he’ll
fight for a roster spot and is a long-
term backup possibility.”
“I’m a complete back — I bring
that to the table,” the Louisiana-na-
tive said.
In addition to his various skills
out of the backfield, Kimble also saw
work on special teams — and,
specifically, as a return man —
throughout his career.
“Any little thing helps,” Kimble
said. “I’d love to get drafted.”
While Kimble admitted that he
might not be chosen, he was opti-
mistic about, at the least, becoming a
priority undrafted free agent after
Sunday, when he would be able to
sign with any team.
“15 teams’ position coaches have
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Trojans. USC scored three times on a
Stanford defense that seemed unor-
ganized and lost, while the Cardinal
offense couldn’t penetrate the Trojan
defense. Down 8-3 entering the
fourth period, Stanford’s dreams of
keeping an unblemished conference
record and No. 1 ranking were grow-
ing dim.
The Cardinal’s three goals in the
final eight minutes were not enough,
as the Trojans tacked on three more
of their own to close out the game
11-6.
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talked to me,” he said.“They like my
film. Some see me in the sixth to sev-
enth round.”
“No matter what, you’re going to
have to prove yourself,” Kimble said.
PANNEL EGBOH
A lightly recruited player out of
high school, Egboh went on to lead
the Cardinal defensive line in tackles
for two straight years, with his most
prolific season coming in 2007, when
he tallied six sacks. But Egboh’s play
regressed in 2008, as he recorded
only 31 tackles and 1.5 sacks while
starting 10 games.As a result, Egboh,
who once had an early-round grade,
has seen his stock drop into the mid-
to-late rounds.
Still, Egboh’s combination of size
and physical tools are enough to
open some eyes. At six-foot-six, 275
pounds, Egboh is bigger than most
defensive ends, while still retaining
similar athleticism. Wright saw him
as perhaps the most intriguing player
from the Stanford group.
“There are lots of good defensive
ends who are 240, 250 pounds,”
Wright said. “It’s a rare commodity
to have an end who is 275, 280
pounds.”
Although Stanford ran a 4-3 de-
fensive scheme, Wright projects
Egboh to a five-technique defensive
end in a 3-4 defense in the NFL.
“The 3-4 is on the rise,” he said.
“One of the guys whose stock is ris-
ing rapidly is [LSU’s] Tyson Jackson,
for that reason.”
Defensive ends in the 3-4 align-
ment are often characterized by
their run stopping ability, but don’t
rush the passer as much as their 4-3
counterparts.
“He has to be a left defensive end
in a 3-4,” Wright said. “He’s not a
great pass rusher, but he goes a good
job against the run.”
Egboh could not be reached im-
mediately for comment.
The Stanford draft class can be
summarized as a group of successful
collegians who won’t be franchise
cornerstones from their first day in
the league, but are the type of ath-
letes that you need to build a success-
ful team — talented,smart and capa-
ble players. Even seniors who aren’t
as highly regarded as the four above,
like linebacker Pat Maynor, may get
a chance to latch on with a team in
training camp.
“These are guys that will likely
start their careers as backups; these
are guys that could contribute on
special teams immediately,” Wright
said.“But, with some, the potential is
there for more.”
A common theme emerged for
the Stanford prospects — no regrets
about their collegiate careers, and a
yearning to do more at the next level.
“It doesn’t matter where I do it,”
Kimble said. “Let’s just go play.”
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State in eight innings like that. So,
we’re pretty happy with how we’re
playing.”
In terms of the standings, however,
a series with the Oregon schools could
give the Cardinal a big boost.Both the
Oregon Ducks (15-26, 2-10) and the
Oregon State Beavers (22-22, 3-9) are
struggling mightily in conference play
this year. Together, they post the only
two non-winning overall records in
the Pac-10.
What’s more, the Cardinal owns a
favorable historical record against
each of them — 27-20 against the
Ducks and 34-15 against the Beavers.
Stanford hasn’t lost a game to either
team since May 2007, and won all
three games on the road earlier this
month; the Cardinal allowed no more
than two runs in a single contest. In
one of the games with Oregon, Stan-
ford obliterated the Ducks in an 11-0
rout. Despite his team’s recent history
against the Oregon schools,Rittman is
treating them with as much respect as
any other opponent.
“We can’t look at this weekend any
differently from any other,” he said.
“These two teams are capable of beat-
ing any other team in this conference,
and we can’t get ahead of ourselves in
taking anything for granted. They’re
going to come out swinging, and we’ll
definitely have to execute to do well.”
Rittman was particularly hesitant
to set a goal of sweeping the games.
“We really can’t look that far
ahead,” he emphasized. “That’s when
you start to trip yourself up and lose
focus.We just need to take things one
game at a time.”
If playing two opponents they’ve
performed well against isn’t enough,
Stanford may get a boost by simply
playing at home this weekend. The
Cardinal boasts a 22-1 overall and 3-1
Pac-10 record at Smith Family Stadi-
um, where they haven’t played a full
Pac-10 series since late March.
Rittman knows his team does well
at home, but he’s hesitant to rely on it
in lieu of solid play and good focus.
“We’re pretty pumped to be de-
Cardinal Today
“We’re pretty pumped to
be defending our own
turf.”
— JOHN RITTMAN,
head coach
fending our own turf, and we’re look-
ing forward to playing at home,but we
can’t lose sight of things and need to
look at this like any other game,on the
road or anywhere,” he said.
Stanford opens its weekend series
Friday at 7 p.m.against the Ducks,and
then plays the Beavers this Saturday
at 1 p.m. and then Sunday at noon.
Stanford will hold “Little League
Day” during Saturday’s game, and
families are encouraged to attend.
Young players will be able to meet
players and coaches on the field after
the game.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@stan-
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“It’s good to get back in my
groove — to get back and get on the
hill again; it’s just baseball,” Storen
said. “You’ve just got to come back
and try to eliminate the peaks and
valleys, try not to get too confident
and try not to get too down on your-
self. So, it was good to get out there
and face some guys again.”
The confidence that the team
gained on the whole from its mid-
week action could be of vital impor-
tance against Arizona,as tonight’s se-
ries opener is scheduled for broad-
cast on CBS College Sports Televi-
sion.
Senior right-hander Preston Guil-
met will take the mound for the Wild-
cats, bringing a 2-4 record and 3.93
ERA in 55 innings pitched; he faces
off against Stanford freshman Jordan
Pries in the first Friday-night start of
Pries’ young career. The Cardinal
right-hander earned the prime spot
in the rotation thanks to his solid 3.43
ERA and team-leading 3-0 record in
eight appearances. The former Fri-
day-night starter, junior Jeffrey
Inman, will pitch Sunday for Stan-
ford, and freshman Brett Mooney-
ham will toe the rubber on Saturday.
The balanced Wildcat offense is
led by Dillon Baird’s .411 average
and five home runs. In all, the Ari-
zona offense has six regular contribu-
tors batting over .300 on the year.
The Cardinal offense, meanwhile,
will look to keep rolling against the
Wildcats after scoring 22 runs in two
games this week. Junior outfielder
Toby Gerhart finished the midweek
schedule in particularly strong fash-
ion, going 3-for-4 with a pair of dou-
bles and a walk on Wednesday
against Cal, raising his average to
.280 on the season. For the two-sport
star, the return to Sunken Diamond
was especially welcome.
“Last week,Arizona State was the
hardest place I’ve ever had to play at
to see the ball, both hitting and in the
outfield,” Gerhart said. “It was im-
possible at times at twilight. Here at
home, you’re getting [support] from
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the crowd, you know how to play it. I
don’t know — we just seem to play
better here . . . we’re just comfort-
able here.”
With time winding down on the
2009 season, the Cardinal knows ex-
actly where it stands and where it
wants to go.
“Everything comes down to these
next four series [against Pac-10 op-
ponents],” Gerhart said. “We have a
reputation of going to the postsea-
son,and we want to go to the postsea-
son because we want to get back to
the World Series. And to get there,
we’re going to have to win all these
next four series. Like [Storen] said,
you can’t have a bad weekend be-
cause it’ll drop you down, but with a
good weekend, we can be right there
at the top, and that’s our goal for the
next four weekends.”
Friday’s first pitch is scheduled for
5 p.m., with Saturday’s and Sunday’s
games both slated for 1 p.m. starts.
Each contest can be heard on KZSU
90.1 FM.
Contact Denis Griffin at djgriff@stan-
ford.edu.