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DAILY POLL
In the face of budget cuts, which
of these programs are you most
“You can’t bank on budget cuts, you can’t bank on the economy going downhill,”
concerned about?
26 votes taken from stanforddaily.com at 10:38p.m. 05/17/09 — FAGAN HARRIS, former ASSU Vice President
D

C
19%
19%

B
23%
A
38%
Execs look back on time in office
By CHRISTINE MCFADDEN and MARISA One year later, there is evidence that the accomplished as much as they had hoped to in their efforts in fighting Proposition 8. Their
A) Overseas programs LANDICHO efforts of Dorsey and Harris to change the diversity issues. ASSU-backed phone bank was the largest in
B) Sophomore College and Seminars SENIOR STAFF WRITERS tone of student government at Stanford have Dorsey and Harris entered office with a the state, Dorsey noted.
C) Student advising been successful. The Executive slate candi- platform packed with initiatives for a number Dorsey and Harris had more trouble,
D) PWR and IHUM
When they were elected last spring, former dates in this year’s elections made big, public of key issues. though, in dealing with the “unprecedented”
Today’s Question: ASSU Executives Jonny Dorsey ‘09 and Fagan service-oriented issues a focus of their cam- But events in their first quarter as economic crisis.
Were you pleased with Jonny and Fagan’s term
as executives? Harris ‘09 pledged to change the issues that paigns, and Dorsey and Harris’ endorsed team Executives overloaded their already packed Harris admitted that their method of town
dominate student government from bike light of David Gobaud ‘08 M.S. ‘10 and Jay de la agenda. halls was perhaps ineffective at soliciting stu-
a) Yes, I think they did a great job and intro
duced many beneficial changes. giveaways to bigger issues, like sustainability Torre ‘10 won the election. “You can’t bank on budget cuts, you can’t dent feedback. In a conservative estimate, he
b) Somewhat, but they could have been even
and public service. Theirs was to be a transfor- But the accomplishments of Dorsey and bank on the economy going downhill,” Harris said around 500 students were involved in the
better.
c) Mixed feelings, because I didn’t really see mational term at the head of the ASSU — Harris within the issues they hoped to address said.“You can’t really even appreciate the time process, but still pointed to some victories.
any changes that they made. are not as obvious. In an interview with The and effort it takes in a national and state elec- “At the very least, the symbolic gesture of
d) No, I don’t think they achieved anything Dorsey and Harris hoped that their changed
positive. attitude to student government would last for Daily, they claimed successes in three cate- tion.” student involvement and the importance of
vote today at stanforddaily.com! years at Stanford, and maybe even translate to gories — campus health, sustainability, public Breaking ground in advocacy outside of the
other schools. service — while they admitted they had not University, both Executives were proud of Please see EXECS, page 2

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A prolific offense backed senior ace Missy Penna in

Stanford’s successful bid to take down a home regional in
this year’s NCAA Tournament. The No. 8 Cardinal (47-9,
13-8 Pacific-10 Conference) blew past Portland State,
Nevada and Cal Poly to complete a perfect weekend.
Now 30-1 in Smith Family Stadium, there truly is no
place like home for Stanford. As the top seed in its own
regional, the Card erased any mental baggage left over
after three consecutive losses on the road to conclude its
regular season.
Portland State (29-25, 15-5 Pacific Coast Softball
Conference) gave the nation’s No. 8 team a run for six
good innings. In the end, Stanford dispatched the Vikings
10-3. Penna hurled six complete in the circle and struck
out 11 before sophomore Ashley Chinn finished off
Portland State in the seventh. The sophomore needed
only five pitches to complete a win for Stanford, backed
by five Cardinal runs posted in the sixth.
Four of Stanford’s 10 runs were accounted for by
Alissa Haber. Haber was 3-4 with a double at the plate.
Freshman Ashley Hansen followed suit with a 3-4,
three-double performance. The tandem of Haber and
Hansen combined for six RBI, and finished the weekend
14-23, with seven doubles.
“We both stand in and hit . . . both of us enjoy the
same types of pitches,” Haber said of her and Hansen on
the field. “We talk during the game about how to
approach the pitching.”
Stanford’s first six batters reached base, including
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The Stanford softball team was dominant over the
weekend, defending its home turf by handily defeating
Portland State, Nevada and Cal Poly. The Card faces
off against a tough Arizona team on Friday.
Affair
Students enjoy party with few clothes; only one person arrested
By ZOE LEAVITT
STAFF WRITER
Exotic Erotic: the morning after. When you can
lie in your bed with the warm gooey feeling of
(hopefully) satisfaction, knowing that last night you
bumped and grinded in closer proximity to a greater
mass of people closer to nakedness than you will
most likely ever experience again. Backed by almost
40 years of tradition, Stanford’s famed Exotic Erotic
party still shocks, titillates and gets creative getting
down.
Say what you might about Stanford parties, but
it’s not every day you enter a room by gingerly step-
ping over two guys in Santa Claus thongs humping
each other in the reverse cowboy position on the
stairs. Descending into the den of sin was crowded
and sweaty. Green lights flashed around the first
dance floor, barely illuminating black walls covered
in bright graffiti. “F*** police!” one of the sayings
encouraged, perhaps inspiring the dominatrix make-
out scene in the corner. Heavy techno beats often
sped grinding into dry-hump territory. The second
dance floor rocked with more typical hip-hop
rhythms, and provided better lighting. After walking
past the Sexual Health Peer Resource Center
(SHPRC) table handing out condoms, and the live
music of Dance Brown and Gabriel Peodros, guests
could choose to enter two dance floors or simply
enjoy the view.
There were lingerie, dominatrix boots and thongs
of all colors.And those were just the guys. Some girls
showed faux flirtation with modesty, rocking the
“Risky Business” look — underwear and collared
shirts unbuttoned to varying degrees. Others
embraced the night in string bikinis, lacy lingerie and
see-through tops. One boy, showing that typical
Stanford innovation, flaunted the “one-piece” cloth-
ing rule by strapping a cardboard box around his
midsection.That one caused some severe discomfort
for the surrounding dancers.
“As far as I know, no one entered the party com-
pletely naked,” said Taylor Durand ‘10, 680 Lomita
resident and house social manager. “No one exited
the party fully naked, but in between . . . I don’t
want to know what happened in my kitchen!”
Nadia Arid ‘12 and Jordan Richard-Craven ‘12
found the lack of nudity contrary to expectations
running up to the party.
“I was expecting more nudity,” Richard-Craven
said. “Also, more creativity in costumes. A lot of it
was just slutty.”
Please see EXOTIC, page 2

BASEBALL TAKES TWO OF THREE BASEBALL

5/17 vs. USC L 5-2

By DAN BOHM
STAFF WRITER
After winning the first two games of the
series, the Stanford baseball team (29-22, 12-12
Pacific-10 Conference) was unable to pull off the
sweep at USC on Sunday, falling 5-2.
The Cardinal has now won three consecutive
series and six of seven games total as it tries to
make a late-season push at a postseason berth.
Stanford pitchers led the way all weekend,
especially in the 8-6 win on Friday night and the
9-1 win on Saturday.
On Friday, freshman Jordan Pries took to the
mound and scattered nine hits and five runs
while striking out eight over eight innings for the
victory. Pries, who spent most of the season as the
Cardinal’s Saturday starter is now 4-3 in a very
solid freshman campaign.
Pries was given a great cushion Friday by the
Stanford offense.The big inning came in the third
when the Cardinal batted around en route to
scoring six runs.
The game was scoreless entering the inning,
when sophomore shortstop Jake Schlander sin-
gled to begin the rally. Sophomore second base-
man Colin Walsh was then hit by a pitch, and sen-
ior centerfielder Joey August bunted for a single.
A throwing error by USC pitcher Anthony
Vasquez allowed Schlander to score on the play.
Junior left-fielder Toby Gerhart then scored two
with a double to center.
The scoring was capped later in the inning on
a squeeze bunt off the bat of third baseman
Adam Gaylord, scoring designated hitter Jeff
Whitlow.
The Cardinal didn’t look back from there.
The one big blemish on the scoreboard came
in the bottom of the ninth when Pries loaded the
bases with nobody out, causing Stanford head
coach Mark Marquess to summon sophomore
closer Drew Storen. Storen was greeted uncere-
moniously by Vasquez, who blasted a Storen
pitch out of the ballpark for a grand slam, cutting
the Cardinal lead to two.That was all the Trojans
would muster off the Stanford closer, however.
Marquess was thrilled with the performance
of his freshman starter, Pries.
“Great performance,” Marquess said. “He
had good command; he only had the one walk.
Normally, when he has good command, he is
tough, and he was today in a big game for us.”
On Saturday, freshman Brett Mooneyham
would not need to hand the ball off to any reliev-
ers.The southpaw threw his first career complete
game, surrendering just seven hits while striking
out 11 Trojans.
UP NEXT
On the other side of the ball, the Stanford
offense had little trouble figuring out USC starter
Robert Stock.
UC DAVIS (10-40)
The Cardinal peppered Trojan pitching for 14 5/19 Maples Pavilion
hits and scored runs in five different innings. 5 P.M.
Stock lasted just four innings before being pulled.
Gerhart and senior first baseman Brent COVERAGE:
Milleville — the reigning Pac-10 Player of the RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM
Week — led the offensive onslaught with three (kzsu.stanford.edu)
hits apiece.Whitlow and sophomore right-fielder
Kellen Kiilsgaard each had a pair of RBIs to go GAME NOTES: Despite Sunday’s loss to
along with two hits each. USC, Stanford has still won nine of
After Saturday’s game, Marquess was happy its last 12 games. The Cardinal
to have won the series. pitching was exceptional on Friday
“A win any time in the season — especially and Saturday with starting pitchers
late — is important to us, so these wins are defi- going eight and nine innings,
nitely big,” Marquess said. respectively. Stanford beat Davis 5-2
in a match-up earlier in the season.
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EXOTIC
Continued from front page
“I was expecting streakers, but I
was glad to not see any,” Arid added.
“That would’ve been gross to dance
with streakers.”
In the works since December, this
Stanford tradition of letting it all
hang out required intensive organi-
zation. Red Bull was one of the
sponsors of the event and provided
free Red Bull and DJs for the party.
The Stanford Green Store provided
recyclable cups. Stanford Concert
Network (SCN) organized the music
for entertainment, and 680 provided
14 kegs for the social lubrication.
The 680 team decorated the house,
diligently fireproofing every last
hanging streamer, and staff and resi-
dents also kept control of the party
throughout the night.
“All the residents did a fantastic
job,” Durand said. “As a staff, we
were very impressed.”
But responsibility seems to be the
antithesis of the Exotic Erotic
dream. Based on its perception by
the outside world, this is the party
that dispels the myth that Stanford
students don’t party. While one
Stanford Urban Dictionary defini-
tion calls the Stanford party scene
“as dead as any Darwin Award win-
EXECS
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student voice was successful,” Harris
said.
Student Wellness
The former Executives cited the
new Wellness Room in Old Union as
their most tangible achievement in
student health. The room is intended
to be a stress-free space open to all
students.
With the Wellness Room in oper-
ation for only four months now, both
Dorsey and Harris acknowledged
that there were still aspects that
could be improved.
Despite the flaws, they main-
tained that there has also been
increased awareness of campus
health, reflected in the tone shift in
leadership rhetoric.
“If you just look at the platforms
of the 60-plus Senate candidates
running and Executives running this
past year, I think that’s evidence of a
dramatic shift in tone,” Dorsey said.
“Now, it’s a priority for people who
want to be leaders in student advo-
cacy.”
Sustainability
Dorsey and Harris made sustain-
ability issues a focus of their term,
and they pointed to the establish-
ment of the Stanford Green Store as
a big success in this area.
“3,200 cups were delivered just
this week,” Harris said of the Green
Store’s compostable cups. “That’s
not an easy thing to do. It requires a
sophisticated, tough-out approach.
Human capital alone is really incred-
ible stuff.”
Harris also noted that it was not
just the number of cups distributed
that made a difference, but the com-
munity of people gathered to deliver
them, showing support for sustain-
ability, that was the primary gain.
Broader sustainability advocacy,
however, was difficult for the pair.
“We haven’t seen the kinds of
results for sustainability from the
University that we’d really like,”
Harris said. “In context, in terms of
the budget year, they have a lot on
their plate.”
Public service
Dorsey and Harris both alluded
to a new culture of service estab-
lished during their time in the
ASSU; they highlighted the public
ner,” Exotic Erotic, an annual staple
for almost 40 years, once made it
onto Playboy’s top-10 campus par-
ties list, nationwide. However, just as
Stanford students are known as mas-
ters of the image they project
towards the world, the polished
eroticism found at Cirque
D’Exotique has a wild-yet-con-
trolled attitude.
“It’s very Stanford,” Durand said.
“There are 1000s of people, we pro-
vide music, entertainment, but then,
when you look behind the scenes,
there are chain-link fences every-
where, 30 cops. Risk management is
always extremely important.”
Because of the intrigue, the
promise of skimpy outfits and col-
lege students acting badly, this party
can attract far worse than the
“sketchy grad students” in the cor-
ners of an average frat party. The
lure draws high school students and
Palo Alto community members
without fail. The San Francisco
Craigslist even featured two ads —
one from a 23-year-old and one from
a 27-year-old man — both looking
for male Stanford students to hook
up with at the party. For these rea-
sons, 680 Lomita residents consid-
ered the 30 policemen they hired a
necessity, and upped the number
from last year.
Compared to the normal
Stanford frat party, where the
behind-the-back ID slip, or the look-
service summit as a great success
during the year. However, they said
that what is more important in rela-
tion to the summit is how it develops
in years to come.
“It’s not about what happens in
one year,” Harris said. “While the
summit is cool and we get a lot of
credit for that, it doesn’t matter if the
next steps don’t happen.”
Another public service program
they stressed was the tutoring of
staff children.
“How silly is it to have a school of
education and not be tutoring the
kids of our staff?,” Dorsey said. “It’s
appalling.”
“We have all this human capital,
all this potential, all of this ability,”
Harris added. “What happens if we
leverage that to benefit someone
besides ourselves, if we created a
vehicle of service? We have a lot to
give, we just need the opportunity to
give.”
Dorsey addressed the issue of
public service skepticism, and how
important it is to overcome it when
we live in a culture that’s self-cen-
tered.
“For years to come, this kind of
culture of service, this mindset of
service, will continue to permeate
the ASSU,” Harris said.
Diversity
Dorsey and Harris noted accom-
plishments among several diversity
issues, chief being the diverse repre-
sentation at town hall meetings, the
diversity within their Executive cab-
inet and the diversity of input in
budget cut advocacy.
Harris noted that Dorsey was
able to have an impact, although he
is not a minority.
“There’s this conception that if
you have a white Executive that
they’re just going to tune out,”
Harris said. “It’s as much impressive
that Jonny, a white guy that lives in a
fraternity, had influence and sway
and was an equal member in diverse
conversations as in the Community
Collaboration Fund.”
Additionally, both pointed out
that achievements were made
despite working with a very diverse
group of people.
“Even in the Senate, which is a
micro-chasm, I’m very pleased to
say that not only have we gotten
more legislation passed than any
other Executive in recent history —
if not the history of the ASSU —
but we did so with 15 ‘no votes,’”
Harris said.
“That diverse body, which some
Caution tape, body paint and lingerie were only a handful of the outfits
donned by partygoers on Friday night at 680 Lomita’s annual Exotic Erotic.
Historically, the 40-year tradition is one of the biggest parties of the year.
innocent-in-a-big-group-of-hot-girls
trick usually provides for the friend
from out of state or the one who for-
got their SUID, Cirque D’Exotique
did not mess around. Bikini-wearing
hopefuls had to stand in long lines
looping around fences and pass
through at least three police check-
points, including flashlight compar-
isons of people’s faces and ID pic-
tures.
“Oh, I didn’t know we needed
Stanford IDs,” two boys whined.
administrators say is the most
diverse they’ve seen in 30 years,
passed a lot unanimously,” he
added.
Harris, however, acknowledged
that not as much was accomplished
as he had hoped.
“Did we get everything we want-
ed to on diversity done? No,” he
said. “I really wanted to do a lot
more on class and socioeconomic
stuff. But to be honest, that’s how we
got to budget cuts.”
The good and the bad
The former Executives were
quick to say that their favorite part
of their term was the quality and
quantity of people they were able to
meet and work with. Although there
were too many to name, they speci-
fied the freshman class and the aver-
age Stanford student as people they
were impressed with.
“Stanford students are more
engaged than given credit for, as evi-
denced by phone banks, voter regis-
trations, etc.,” Harris said. “There’s
some real talent coming up, and
that’s exciting.”
As for their least favorite aspect
of their term, they cited the narrow
window of time granted for their
term.
“It’s rare to have a leadership
role that lasts for only one year,”
Dorsey said. “That influences a lot
of what you can do. Your strategy
has to be fully wrapped up in the
reality that you only have one year
and what we can do in that time. It’s
hard; it’s a sprint.”
Dorsey added that it’s difficult to
get invested in issues what will
potentially not be resolved or make
substantial progress in just one year.
Both Executives frequently men-
tioned their one year term as a
source of frustration, but were
happy that they had taken the first
steps in “changing the tone” of the
student body.
Dorsey said the biggest adminis-
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They were firmly turned away.
Groups who tried to sneak in
through back entryways also found
crews of police waiting.
According to 680 Lomita staff,
one arrest for harassment took place
after a policeman stopped a man
from assaulting a girl at the party, but
details of the case are not yet clear.
No other incidents ruined the festiv-
ities.
One logistical issue still needs
tweaking for next year.
trative challenge of his year was
communication, mentioning the
poor attendance to their roaming
office hours during fall quarter.
“I think we really improved a lot
over our tenure, but I think we could
have done better,” he said.
On the other hand, Harris cited
his main difficulty as “working with-
in the bureaucratic machine” within
their limited time frame.
Both Execs expressed personal
frustration in dealing with the issue
of sexual assault, an area that they
would have liked to see more
progress in.
“The hardest part was talking to
individuals who had been assaulted, or
who had at least told stories of being
assaulted, on campus,” Dorsey said.
“To me, it is appalling that this happens
at Stanford University. It’s frustrating
to know that we’re nowhere near
where we need to be on that front.”
“I was expecting
streakers,but I
was glad not to
see any.”
— NADIA ARID ‘12
“We got 14 kegs and only three
toilets!” laughed Durand, who will
also organize the party next year.
“People told us not to go behind our
bushes for a while — they’re proba-
bly covered in pee.”
Besides the rampant abuse of the
foliage, sentiments were mixed as to
whether Exotic Erotic lived up to its
annual hype. Sexual undertones and
hook-up hopes can be a typical
weekend staple, and the only differ-
ence last Friday may have been the
blatancy.
“The fun part was getting ready
and the hype about it,” Arid said,
“while the actual party seemed the
same [as other frat parties].”
There was the same grinding and
the same prowling boys and dancing
Post-Executive
Next year, Dorsey and Harris will
be leaving the ASSU office for life
outside of Stanford. Following up on
his strong public service back-
ground, Dorsey will be relocating to
New York to work for Global Health
Corps, a nonprofit he co-founded.
He will be building up the organiza-
tion’s fellowship program, which will
send recent graduates to different
locations to promote global health.
Harris will remain in the area to
work for a clean technology start-up.
The two say they will continue to
offer advice to current Executives
Gobaud and de la Torre. Dorsey
advised the new office-holders to
“focus on the issues that matter.”
“I think the ASSU in general has
to believe in its own power,” he said.
“What that calls for is focusing on
the big picture.”
Harris was also complimentary of
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girls locking making eye contact
from across the room. The decora-
tions were more elaborate, and
many guests appreciated the sepa-
rate rooms, live bands and fresh air
drifting in from the yard. And, of
course, prowling eyes had plenty of
places to land.
“Honestly, I thought it was the
exact same thing as any other frat
party, just with less clothes,” said
Nicole Rodriguez ‘12. “Lots of male
buttocks.”
And male buttocks of course
leave their mark. Most everyone left
the night stories of their own or
hearsay they could share with
friends from other schools. The resi-
dents of 680 Lomita can rest assured
they furthered Stanford’s party rep-
utation across the country.
Throughout the cleaning process,
680 residents and volunteering frats
and sororities discovered a multi-
tude of lost IDs, most likely because
of the complete lack of pockets
among guests. They also picked up a
few unpaired shoes, and, curiously,
an unworn thong with tags still
attached. But besides the ghosts of
crotches past, the house returned to
normal by Monday. There’s less than
a year now of clothes and inhibitions
until Stanford students can shed
both once again.
Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@stan-
ford.edu.
the former cabinet, and noted that
the Executives’ tenure laid the
groundwork for the new Executives.
“I think really great people
applied simply because we had a
great year,” Harris said. “These guys
are coming in, and it’s just so much
easier than back in our day.”
Reflecting on their term, the for-
mer Executives acknowledged that,
while accomplishing a lot, not every
platform goal was met.
“Realistically, after you’re elect-
ed, you have about six months, that’s
about all,” Harris said. “That’s not a
lot of time, and I think, given that, we
did OK. We’ve had both successes
and failures, certainly, and in each
success, we’ve had a lot of failures
along the way to that, too.”
Contact Christine McFadden at
cnm714@stanford.edu and Marisa
Landicho at landicho@stanford.edu.
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OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
O-Show a No-Show,Fo’Sho’?
he Office of Student Activities and
T
Freshman Dean’s Office recently an-
nounced that the O-Show — the an-
nual group a capella concert held during
New Student Orientation — has been cut
for NSO 2009 after running continuously
since 1992. The decision was part of a larger
string of budget cuts that every office on
campus has been struggling to make, but was
also part of a larger discussion about the un-
fairness of a capella companies, and not
other performing arts groups, being show-
cased during NSO. The prohibitive price tag
for the event is mostly driven by the necessi-
ty to house members of performing arts
groups for several extra days before they
would otherwise move in.
Student a capella groups have expressed
the valid concern that O-Show is a huge
source of publicity, and that it will be much
more difficult to attract new members with-
out it. While the O-Show is undoubtedly a
huge recruiting tool, many a capella groups
tour residence halls in the first few weeks of
schools, and also table in White Plaza during
lunch and at the Activities Fair.It will be inter-
esting to see whether fewer students try out
for one of the nine groups this fall, but we are
optimistic that many students will still be ex-
posed to a capella during the first weeks of
school and opt to audition. Other performing
arts groups on campus — like dv8 and Cardi-
nal Calypso — have survived for years with-
out a formal showcase at the beginning of the
year.
Additionally,cutting O-Show allowed the
Freshman Dean’s Office to preserve Faces,
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S TU ’ S V IEWS
Huntsman, Obama, 2012 and
the GOP
resident Obama’s decision to select Jon
P Huntsman, Jr., the Republican Gover-
nor of Utah, to be ambassador to China
is certainly audacious. But Huntsman does
not appear to have been Obama’s first pick.
A blog associated with Foreign Policy maga-
zine,The Cable, notes that several people are
thought to have turned down the job, includ-
ing former Clinton Chief of Staff John
Podesta and former Republican Senator
Chuck Hagel.
Instead of choosing someone who is a
lifetime China expert, as he did with Joseph
Nye’s appointment as ambassador to Japan,
Obama has chosen someone with more po-
litical and less direct foreign-policy experi-
ence, although Huntsman was once ambas-
sador to Singapore in the early 1990s under
President George H.W. Bush.
The selection is likely to please the Chi-
nese government. Choosing someone with
the stature and instant celebrity as Hunts-
man sends a message that the U.S. highly val-
ues the U.S.-China relationship and the em-
bassy in Beijing has a direct line to the Pres-
ident. This is a move akin to French Presi-
dent Nicholas Sarkozy’s decision to co-
opt/appoint a distinguished Socialist,
Bernard Kouchner, as his foreign minister.
As Mark McKinnon, a Republican strate-
gist, commented, “Keep your friends close
and your enemies China.”
The other end of the appointment — the
acceptance — is even more interesting.
Huntsman was thought to be positioning
himself for a run at the presidency in 2012.A
two-term governor, he had previously de-
clared he would not be running for a third
term in 2010. Recently endorsing civil unions
and building a relatively pro-environment
record, he was thought to be positioning
himself as a relative moderate in a prospec-
tive field of who’s-more-conservative types
like Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Bobby
Jindal. As someone who has received much
less national media attention than Palin and
Jindal, Huntsman would be able to run with-
out the pre-existing negatives that Rudy
Giuliani suffered from in 2008.
The question is why Huntsman passed up
a decent shot at the GOP nomination in 2012
to take the ambassadorial appointment. The
calculation in Huntsman’s mind could have
occurred in two different ways. First, that
Obama and the Democrats are so strong
that no Republican besides a reincarnated
Ronald Reagan would have much of a
chance against him. Or, second, that his own
chances of capturing the nomination were
too small to really be a contender.
The first point is certainly a possibility.
The primary schedule, which privileges the
conservative states Iowa, Nevada and South
Carolina, heavily tilts any Republican pri-
mary toward a conservative.The only reason
John McCain won the nomination in 2008
was due to the division of self-identified
Real World, the Three Books seminar and
Discover Stanford. These programs all offer
different things to different members of the
Stanford community. This list of NSO pro-
grams only reminds us that the schedule dur-
ing NSO is already incredibly packed, so re-
moving this one event might help ease the
over-scheduling that weighs on freshmen as
NSO week wears on. It is, however, regret-
table that the program that was selected for
elimination was one that highlighted the
work of some of Stanford’s most celebrated
student groups and their accomplished and
talented members.
The editorial board would like to propose
a middle ground. It appears that holding the
O-Show during NSO as in past years is finan-
cially burdensome, and would continue to
weigh down an already crowded schedule.
On the other hand, to scrap it completely
would deprive freshmen of a valuable Stan-
ford experience,and deprive a capella groups
on campus of some welcome exposure.There
also appears to be a need for other perform-
ing arts groups on campus to have a chance to
perform for freshmen and advertise their
communities. Our suggestion is that during
the first week or two of class, the University
could sponsor a performing arts extravagan-
za specifically targeted to freshmen.With this
compromise, many performing arts groups
on campus get the publicity they need, the
OSA and FDO aren’t left to pick up the tab
for extra housing for dozens of singers and
our new freshmen are exposed to the wide
variety of talents present in our accom-
plished and diverse campus.
Stuart Baimel
When the party is shedding
moderates like the average
cat sheds hair,it is certainly
not a good time to be a
moderate [...]
“conservatives” among Mike Huckabee,
Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson. If conser-
vatives had united around one candidate
early, McCain would likely not have won the
nomination. The first primary, Iowa, is the
most important and the moderates McCain
and Giuliani were crushed in 2008.At a time
when the party is shedding moderates like
the average cat sheds hair, it is certainly not
a good time to be a moderate in the party.
On the other hand, Obama’s hand looks
particularly strong against any Republican.
If the economy does start to recover in late
2010, as most economists project, Obama
will likely gain some amount of credit for it.
The number of self-identified Republicans is
at its lowest levels in decades. The Democ-
rats completely control the policy agenda
and the public seems to agree — polls show
that the public does not believe that the Re-
publican Congressional leadership has been
bipartisan.
The true reason why Huntsman took the
job is probably both — that the Republicans
have a slim chance at capturing the presiden-
cy in 2012, and Huntsman has a slim chance
at capturing a nomination that few politi-
cians in their right mind should want. The
fact that a popular, charismatic Republican
governor would rather work with Obama
than run for President himself is a testament
to the strength of Obama’s political position,
which is likely to remain extremely strong
for some time.
Stuart Baimel is publicly declaring he will ac-
cept a nomination to be ambassador to France,
and in exchange, will not challenge Obama in
2012. Send him English-French dictionaries to
sbaimel@stanford.edu.
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to an idealized commencement speech in-
stead. So:
To the graduating Class of 2009 . . .
What can I say to people who know al-
most everything? There was a time when I
surely knew, because I’d just graduated
from college myself, after writing down the
sum of all human knowledge on exams and
research papers. Of course, the main re-
quirement of speeches like this is talking
about your liberal arts education’s meaning,
to try to explain why the degree you are
about to receive has actual human value in-
stead of just a material payoff. What do you
take with you from here? A story, a formula,
maybe a handshake, a special encounter, a
friendship.What will remain, except a diplo-
ma? Much must remain, because when two
persons meet, a mystery is born. Take that
mystery and respect it, and if possible, invest
it with more meaning, with more miraculous
significance.
The world outside is a cold world, a cyni-
cal world. I’m in no way an optimist. Opti-
mism is a notion that there’s sufficient evi-
dence that would allow us to infer that if we
keep doing what we’re doing, things will get
better. I don’t believe that. I’m a prisoner of
hope — that’s something else. Now each of
you will have the chance to make your own
discovery in the years to come. And I say
“chance” because . . . you won’t have to take
it. There’s no community service require-
ment in the outside world, no one forcing you
to care. You can take your diploma, walk off
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P ITH AND P LEONASM
this stage and chase after the big house and
the nice suits and the other things that our
money culture says you should buy.
But what matters is not the perception,
nor the fashion, nor who’s up and who’s
down, but what someone has done and if they
meant it.What matters is that you want to see
and make and do, on as grand a scale as you
want, regardless of what the tiny voices of
tiny people say.
Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I
was a critic and I wish I could take it all back
because it came from a smelly and ignorant
place in me, and spoke with a voice that was
all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until
you have written one, and do not dismiss a
movie until you have made one, and do not
dismiss a person until you have met them. It
is an [expletive]load of work to be open-
minded and generous and understanding
and forgiving and accepting, but Christ, that
is what matters.
So worship power:You will end up feeling
weak and afraid, and you will need ever more
power over others to numb you to your own
fear. Worship your intellect; being seen as
smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud,
always on the verge of being found out. But
the insidious thing about these forms of wor-
ship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that
they’re unconscious. They are default set-
tings. They’re the kind of worship you just
gradually slip into, day after day, getting
more and more selective about what you see
and how you measure value without ever
being fully aware that that’s what you’re
doing.
The really important kind of freedom in-
volves attention and awareness and disci-
pline, and being able to truly care about other
people and to sacrifice for them over and over
in a myriad of petty, unsexy ways every day.
That is real freedom. That is being educated,
and understanding how to think.The alterna-
tive is unconsciousness, the default setting,
the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of
having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
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Gillespie
And of course, you’re general, but you’re
also specific. A citizen and a person, and the
person you are is like nobody else on the
planet. Nobody has the exact memory that
you have. What is now known is not all what
you are capable of knowing. You are your
own stories and therefore free to imagine
and experience what it means to be human
without wealth — what it feels like to be
human without domination over others,
without reckless arrogance, without fear of
others unlike you, without rotating, rehears-
ing and reinventing the hatreds you learned
in the sandbox.And although you don’t have
complete control over the narrative (no au-
thor does, I can tell you), you could never-
theless create it.
Although you will never fully know or
successfully manipulate the characters who
surface or disrupt your plot, you can respect
the ones who do by paying them close atten-
tion and doing them justice. The theme you
choose may change or simply elude you, but
being your own story means you can always
choose the tone. It also means that you can
invent the language to say who you are and
what you mean.
But then, I am a teller of stories . . . a be-
liever in the ethical bend of the human heart,
a believer in the mind’s disgust with fraud
and its appetite for truth, a believer in the fe-
rocity of beauty. So, from my point of view,
which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as
already artful, waiting, just waiting and
ready for you to make it art.
I wish you all way more than luck.
Matt Gillespie quoted/paraphrased, in order, B.
Kingslover, D.F.Wallace, E. Wiesel, C. West, B.
Obama, D. Eggers, D.F. Wallace (again, his
speech should be required reading for anyone
who’s human) and Toni Morrison. Contact
him at mattg3@stanford.edu with anything he
left out.
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SPORTS
Stanford falls in
marathon match
Baylor outlasts Card in match
that finishes at 2:12 a.m.
By ANTHONY NGUYEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
On the surface, the No. 13 Stanford women’s
tennis 4-3 heartbreak loss to No. 4 Baylor at the
NCAA Championships at College Station,Texas
appeared to be out of the norm for postseason
competition.
The loss ended a 28-season streak of 20 wins or
more, and marked the Cardinal’s earliest postsea-
son exit since 1998.
However, the match was much more than an
average Round of 16 bout.
With play running behind all day, the match
was pushed back an hour from its 6 p.m.start time.
Then a power-outage after doubles play led to a
one-hour delay.With lights working on only three
of the six courts, the No. 1, 2 and 3 singles began
first.
In all, play ended at 2:12 a.m. local time, lasting
seven hours overall.
“It’s something I have never experienced be-
fore,” said Stanford head coach Lele Forood.
“When we had rain delays in 2006, we almost
played to midnight.That’s the closest I’ve seen to
this situation.”
Stanford started off the match strong in dou-
WOMEN’S TENNIS
5/15 vs. Baylor L4-3
GAME NOTES: Stanford’s match against Baylor did not
finish until 2:12 am due to a long-lasting power-out-
age. Despite winning the first set, Stanford freshman
Veronica Li was unable to prevail in the deciding
match. The Cardinal’s loss ended a 28-season streak
of 20 wins or more.
bles with an 8-1 win by freshmen Logan Hansen
and Veronica Li.
“Logan and Li had a solid doubles match, so
that gave them a lot of momentum going into sin-
gles,” Forood said.
Sophomore Hilary Barte and junior Lindsay
Burdette would prevail 8-6 at No. 1 to clinch the
doubles point for the Cardinal.Unfortunately,the
power outage nullified any momentum Stanford
had at that point.
“They talked about whether we would return
the next day,”Forood said.“We were pretty unan-
imous in thinking that would help our opponents
a lot to wait.”
However,with half the singles playing,the Car-
dinal women found themselves tied up with the
Lady Bears.
Burdette fell to Lenka Broosova 3-6, 1-6 while
Please see WTENNIS, page 6

MASARU OKA/The Stanford Daily

The Stanford men’s tennis team continued its rollercoaster series against USC, falling in the Round of 16, 4-2. The Card managed to
jump ahead in many of the individual matches, but was unable to thwart a comeback by the Trojans in College Station on Thursday.

Trojans just too tough

Men fall to USC in
Round of 16
By ALYSSA AHLUWALIA
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
After clawing its way through the gru-
eling NCAA season, the No. 9 Stanford
men’s tennis team lost to No. 8 USC in
College Station, Texas in the Round of 16
on Thursday, ending its run at a champi-
onship in the team’s 30th NCAA tourna-
ment appearance.
The NCAA Round of 16 brought to-
gether the elite men’s college tennis
teams for a unique type of competition.
Team history does not offer too much as a
means for predicting match outcomes be-
MEN’S TENNIS
5/14 vs. USC L 4-2
GAME NOTES: Despite losing in the Round of 16, Stan-
ford still put together an outstanding season, finishing
with a record of 20-6. Freshman Bradley Klahn and
sophomore Alex Clayton will remain in College Sta-
tion to participate in the NCAA Singles Tournament,
while freshman Ryan Thacher will team up with Klahn
in the doubles portion of the competition.
cause almost every team in the round
presents a significant threat, and has a
good chance at the Championship.
Prior to the match, the Cardinal had
anticipated a hard-fought battle against
the Trojans. The rivalry between the
teams continued to build throughout the
season when USC finished second in the
Pac-10 with a 5-1 record (its only loss, to
UCLA), and when, in response, Stanford
freshmen Ryan Thacher and Bradley
Klahn wrestled away Pac-10 doubles and
singles titles from USC players Robert
Farah and Steve Johnson.
The split of victories throughout the
season ensured a match of epic propor-
tions in the NCAAs where Stanford fell 4-
2 against the Trojans.
“The match against USC was very
close in that it all came down to a point
here and a point there” said Cardinal
coach John Whitlinger. “We didn’t get
enough to go our way. I give a lot of cred-
it to USC.”
Doubles competition was tough from
the get-go. Stanford senior Matt Bruch
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Card baseball still fighting Denis

Griffin

I
ncredibly, unbelievably, they’re
still alive. If you were like me, a
couple of weeks ago, and essential-
ly wrote off Stanford baseball’s
chances in 2009, I have to believe that all
but the most die-hard of Cardinal fanat-
ics would forgive you. Back on May 1,
Stanford lost the first game of its three-
game series on the road at Washington
State 3-1.The outcome dropped the Car-
dinal to 20-19 overall and 8-11 in an
overcrowded Pacific-10 Conference.
The Cardinal defeat with less than a
month left to play seemed to be one of
the final nails in the coffin — sealing, or
nearly so, the team’s fate as a postseason
afterthought in 2009, just one year after
a trip to the College World Series in
Omaha.
But if you thought that, you were
wrong. Stanford has responded in a big
way, winning nine of its next 12 to im-
prove to 29-22 and 12-12 in conference
play. It’s an amazing run that has been
just enough to keep the team’s hopes
alive after a disheartening April.
There is still, obviously, plenty on the
line. With just four regular season games
left to play, Stanford still finds itself in
sixth place in the conference, but with a
golden opportunity to move up at least
one spot against fifth place Oregon
State next weekend. Who knows
whether or not a strong finish will be
enough to get the team to the postsea-
son? But, at the very least, if the team
finishes strong, it will have a chance.
And that’s better than most expected.
It’s a shame to say, but if you were
placing odds on it, all that hard work the
Cardinal has put in still might not be
enough to get the job done. As I’ve men-
tioned in a previous column, any time a
team needs to sweep to advance, it’s a
tall order.
But in sports, sometimes the joy is in
Rants and Raves
the journey. And at the very least, this
team has now given its fans a journey to
remember. Whether or not Stanford’s
late-season push is enough to carry it
across the finish line, it’s been better
than mediocre — it’s been memorable.
And it’s been building to the kind of fin-
ish — as the team relies more and more
on young players, and gains increasing
confidence in its ability to rally — that
should only carry it forward into future
seasons. The Cardinal might not get its
chance at a title this season, but this late-
season push has assured ramifications
for the future. The young stars of today
will be able to carry the charge forward CHRIS SEEWALD/The Stanford Daily
Despite striking first with an impressive win in doubles competition, the No. 13 Stanford women’s
Please see GRIFFIN, page 6 tennis team was unable to prevail, losing to No. 4 Baylor in a Round of 16, late-night thriller, 4-3

STANFORD 4 Cal Poly 0

Continued from front page broke down the importance of funda- sixth, when freshman Jenna Becerra over the span of three games.
5/17/09
mentals in hitting as the source of so was hit by a pitch and cued produc- Stanford head coach John
“We know it’s going
SOFTBALL
STANFORD Cal Poly
many doubles. tion from the last four hitters in Stan- Rittman praised his team’s determi- AB R H BI AB R H BI
“I try to go gap to gap, rather than ford’s lineup. With one out in the in- nation in Sunday’s win. Haber lf 3 0 1 1 Maiden lf 3 0 0 0

aiming for the lines,” she said. “Of to be a tough super ning,Becerra’s classmate Sarah Hass- “We probably had four or five hits
Hansen ss
Koplitz 3b
4
2
1
0
1
0
0
0
Tam 2b
Pura ss
3
3
0
0
0
2
0
0
course, having speed helps, too.” man lined a triple to the wall in left. that were right at someone,” he said,
regional.”
Coon 2b 4 1 1 0 Cahn p/dp 3 0 1 0
Koutz 1b 3 0 2 1 Lund pr 0 0 0 0
back-to-back doubles by Haber and On 11 hits, the Card put nine The hit scored Becerra, and punished “but we eventually found the holes.” Neill c 3 0 0 1 Cary 1b 3 0 0 0
Hansen, before Portland junior Tori across, leaving just five runners on the Mustang’s outfield for playing in Stanford’s success means a super Burns rf 4 0 0 0 Correia c 1 0 0 0
Becerra dp 4 0 0 0 Lee 3b 3 0 0 0
Rodgers was relieved. base in its only meeting of the year on Hassman. regional in Palo Alto next weekend.
Stanford’s intensity only picked up with Nevada. — JOHN RITTMAN, The triple marked a turnaround The Card takes on an Arizona team
Hassman cf
Penna p
3
0
1
0
2
0
1
0
Rogers cf
0 Sobczak rf
3
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
after Friday’s 13-hit extravaganza. Fittingly, Stanford’s Sunday con- for the back of the Card’s order, that has already lost a pair at Smith Pena p 0 0 0 0

The Card handed Nevada (40-19, 15-
5 Western Athletic Conference) its
first of two losses on Saturday in Palo
Alto. Penna fired a two-hitter en
route to the eventual 9-1 drubbing of
the Wolfpack.
Hansen and Haber again went 3-4
with a double apiece. Stanford had no
home runs on the weekend, but got
the job done with two-base hits.
Haber, now the Stanford record-
holder for doubles in a season with 24,
test matched the squad with familiar head coach which was a combined 1-11 on Satur- Family Stadium, but handily defeated Totals 29 4 7 4 25 0 3 0
regular-season rival Cal Poly (41-12, day. The speedy Hassman scored on the Cardinal early in the conference R H E
Stanford 100 002 1 4 7 1
18-3 Big West). ford stranded 10 runners, which in- yet another double from Haber, schedule. Cal Poly 000 000 0 0 3 1
The Cardinal saw senior Mustang cluded two bases-loaded situations in opening up the game for Stanford. “We know it’s going to be a tough E—Inman (2). LOB—Stanford 10; Cal Poly 6. 2B—Haber (24);
pitcher Anna Cahn for the third and the first and second inning with just After her 50th career shutout, super regional,” Rittman said.“In my Coon (9); Koutz (12). 3b—Hassman (1). SB—Hassman (18).
final time this season. Before play one run to show for it. Penna took the win in stride. opinion, it’s the toughest.” Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO
Sunday,Cahn had given up only three However, that one run proved to “[Junior catcher] Rosey [Neill] Arizona comes to Palo Alto for a Stanford
Penna W (34-6) 7.0 3 0 0 2 5
runs to the Cardinal over 17 innings of be enough. Penna tossed a three-hit- knows what to call, after seeing Poly best-two-of-three series with the Car- Cal Poly
work in the regular season. ter and walked only two Cal Poly bat- twice this year,” she said. dinal beginning on Friday. Cahn L (28-7) 6.0 7 4 4 4 2
Pena 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
But momentum continued to flow ters. The Cardinal bats came alive on WP— Penna.
in the direction of Stanford. The bats Stanford survived off a one-run Friday, and stuck around through Contact Chris Fitzgerald at chrish- HP: Ed Rado 1B: Geri Magwire 3B: Tanya Garig
produced seven hits, although Stan- lead after the first inning until the Sunday, outscoring opponents 23-4 fitz@gmail.com — Compiled by Zach Zimmerman
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BASEBALL
Continued from front page
Despite carrying the momentum
into Sunday and knowing that it might
need a sweep in order to keep its slim
regional chances alive, Stanford fell 5-
2 in the final game.
The Cardinal was without its nor-
mal Sunday starter, junior Jeffrey
Inman, who was out with arm sore-
ness. Sophomore Michael Marshall
made his second start of the season in
place of Inman.
Marshall, along with relievers Max
Fearnow and Storen pitched reason-
ably well,allowing five runs on a series
of weakly hit bloop singles. The lone
power shot by the Trojans was a solo
homer off the bat of All-American
shortstop Grant Green while facing
Storen in the ninth.
The story of the game, however,
was the Trojan pitching. Brad
Boxberger and Daniel Cooper com-
bined to allow just six hits while
striking out 10 Cardinal batters in
WTENNIS
Continued from page 4
senior Jessica Nguyen dropped a 4-6,6-
3 6-1 decision to Jelena Stanivuk.
Nguyen, playing in her last colle-
giate dual match, is the last remaining
player from Stanford’s 2006 national
championship team.
“I’m sure [Nguyen] was disappoint-
ed,”Forood said.“We didn’t talk about
it in those terms because we had to go
over and watch three other matches.
I’m sure she’s not happy and disap-
pointed with the results.”
Barte salvaged the top-three singles
with an expected 6-1, 7-5 straight set
victory over Taylor Ormond.
“Hilary’s been doing it all season so
we’re not surprised when she gets a win,”
Forood said.“She was very solid against
Ormand, and getting off in straight sets
was really important for us.”
With the score tied 2-2, the match
would depend on the depth of both
teams.
“By winning two out of the three
matches really nullified any advantage
after the doubles point,” Forood said.
“There’s a different dynamic when you
don’t put out everyone out at once.”
the victory.
Boxberger, who Marquess called
“one of the top guys in the confer-
ence,” normally starts earlier in the
weekend, but had his start pushed
back to Sunday because of illness.
He showed no effects of his sick-
ness as the lone Stanford runs came on
a fourth-inning two-run home run to
center by Gerhart.At the time, it gave
the Cardinal a 2-1 lead; however, the
Trojans would quickly answer back
with two runs in the bottom of the fifth
to take the lead for good.
Stanford now returns home for its
final four games of the season. It hosts
UC-Davis on Tuesday before its final
Pac-10 series of the season against
Oregon State this coming weekend.
The Cardinal likely needs to win all
four games to have a chance at the re-
gional. It is a difficult task, but not in-
surmountable for a team that began
the season 3-9 and has since gone 26-
13.
Nate Adams contributed to this report.
Contact Dan Bohm at bohmd@stan-
ford.edu
Baylor took the 3-2 lead as sopho-
more Carolyn McVeigh dropped a 7-
6(2), 6-2 decision to Nina Secerbegov-
ic.Hansen would later tie up the match
with a gutsy 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 performance.
“It wasn’t a good start for her, but
she really regrouped and did what she
had to do,” Forood said of Hansen.
“She served quite well in the third set
and dominated it a bit.”
The match came down to the final
court at No.4 with Li and Baylor’s Csil-
la Borsanyi. After nearly seven hours
of play,Borsanyi would prevail 4-6,6-2,
6-4 to clinch the match for the Lady
Bears.
In the end, the match had drained
the best of both teams.
“Nobody felt good,” Forood said.
“Even the people who won didn’t feel
good when it was all over. It couldn’t
have been any tighter as a match.”
With a surreal loss at 2 a.m.,the Car-
dinal women were left stunned.
“We were all kind of like,‘I can’t be-
lieve this just happened,’” Forood said.
“They’re a really good team, so it’s not
like we thought they would be easy to
beat. But, after it’s that close, it’s like,
‘Wow, I can’t believe it came down to
that one,’ but it did.”
With the loss, the question of “what
if?” comes to mind had the power out-
age not occurred. When asked about
In a series of must-win games, Stanford baseball took care of business this past weekend in Los Angeles as the team
took two out of three games from USC. The Card must win out in order to have a shot at a postseason birth.
the possibility,Forood gave much cred-
it to the Baylor squad.
“I don’t know,” Forood said when
asked about playing Baylor in a regular
match.“They match up pretty well with
us. They’ve got a bunch of big, strong
girls and these courts were played pret-
ty well for them.They were just a little
too much for us.”
While it might take some time to get
over the loss,Stanford still has the indi-
vidual championships left in their sea-
son. Barte will represent the Cardinal
in the singles field, while two doubles
teams will compete for Stanford in the
bracket.
In spite of the results of the match,
Stanford has certainly grown leaps and
bounds over the course of the season.
What once was an unsure team with-
out an identity matured into a squad
expected to contend for the champi-
onship despite its low seeding.
“We had a lot of growth this year as
a young team,” Forood said. “People
had to find their way a little bit, we had
to come together and do different
things with our doubles. We just ran
into a team that’s pretty good,and we’ll
see how far they go as this tournament
goes on.”
Contact Anthony Nguyen at an-
guyen9@stanford.edu.
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and sophomore Ted Kelly were able
to balance out an early doubles loss
with an 8-5 win against Trojans Matt
Kecki and Jaak Poldma. The dou-
bles point came down to the No. 1
pair Bradley Klahn and Ryan
Thacher, who were unable to pull
off a second Cardinal victory against
Farah and Johnson, losing 9-8 (4).
Singles competition proved ruth-
less as well, with five out of six
matches turning into three-setters.
Bruch was able to pull together a
win over Abdullah Magdas in a third
set of singles play, but Stanford
freshman Ryan Thacher fell to Jaak
Poldma, 7-5, 7-6(4), and senior
Blake Muller lost to USC’s Daniel
Nguyen 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.
Stanford freshman Bradley
Klahn was, for the third time this
season, able to pull off a singles vic-
tory in a close match against USC’s
Steve Johnson 3-6, 6-2, 7-6(1). This
victory could not propel the Cardi-
nal to victory, however, as the Cardi-
nal’s fate was sealed in the No. 1
match between sophomore Alex
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Clayton and Trojan Robert Farah, in
which Farah was able to prevail de-
spite a strong start by Clayton, 3-6,
6-3, 6-4.
This past weekend, despite de-
layed competition due to thunder
and harsh weather, USC was able to
come away with an upset, winning
against the previously undefeated
Virginia team 4-0. The Trojans will
now take on Texas on Monday.
Klahn and Clayton will partici-
pate in the NCAA Championships
for singles play this year beginning
May 20. Last year, Clayton made it
to semi-finals for singles competi-
tion.
“In a sense, we put the team be-
hind us now for singles play”
Whitlinger said. “Neither [Clayton
nor Klahn] will enter seeded, but
both play extremely well, and we’ll
have to see how it goes.”
The Cardinal ends its season re-
spectably with a 20-6 record (3-3
Pac-10).
“Obviously we wish we could
have gone further, but if we look
back on all we’ve accomplished, I
am very proud of our guys” the head
coach said.
Contact Alyssa Ahluwalia at aahluw13
@stanford.edu.
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tomorrow.
Look no further than the Cardi-
nal rotation, led by freshman Brett
Mooneyham (who threw his first
career complete game against
USC on Saturday, racking up 11
strikeouts), for your hope for 2010.
Look no further than sophomore
rightfielder Kellen Kiilsgaard,
who has developed into the middle
of the order bat that the team will
most definitely need going for-
ward, especially as senior Brent
Milleville graduates this year.
Look no further than other sopho-
mores like Zach Jones and Jake
Schlander, solid position players
who could be due to break out at
the plate. The Cardinal of 2010 are
likely to be a veteran, experienced
squad, led by players who were
young when the Cardinal made its
drive to Omaha last season, but
now old enough to lead a new crop
of youngsters on the Farm them-
selves.
To be sure, some key pieces will
be missing. Along with Milleville,
senior outfielder Joey August
helped provide some key veteran
leadership for this year’s squad —
indeed, Kiilsgaard has credited
working with August in batting
practice for much of his improve-
ment at the plate this year. Star
sophomore closer Drew Storen is
draft eligible, and may well be the
first college reliever selected in
June. If that were to be the case,
one would imagine there’s a very
good chance he could go pro. Ju-
nior outfielder Toby Gerhart
could, conceivably, return to play
football and decide to head to the
NFL rather than play one more
season of baseball on the Farm.
But even with those departures,
the Cardinal’s recent record leaves
no doubt about it: Stanford’s
young core has arrived, and it’s
here to stay.
And yes, while you’re looking
ahead to 2010, remember that
2009’s team is still alive. Despite
everything this year has thrown at
it.
Denis Griffin is known for his veteran
leadership. Contact the Godfather at
djgriff@stanford.edu.