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October 12, 2010 Issue 18

Group pushes park compost

JIN ZHU/Staff Photographer
Pauline Chen discusses the role of empathy and art in med-
ical practice during her lecture entitled, “Doctor and Pa-
tient: Lost in Translation,” on Monday evening.
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
New community initiative gathers signatures for anaerobic digestion facility in Byxbee Park
By MARGARET RAWSON
STAFF WRITER
The Palo Alto Green Energy Initiative
(PAGEI) kicked off its petition drive in
front of City Hall on Sept. 25, calling for
an initiative on the November 2011 ballot
for the rededication of 10 acres of Byxbee
Park for a composting operation.The ini-
tiative supports the construction of a
composting operation, or anaerobic di-
gestion facility, on 10 of the 127 acres
scheduled to be turned into parkland
when the Byxbee Park landfill closes in
2012 — but it is facing some community
opposition.
compost, providing enough energy to
power 1,400 homes and reducing city
greenhouse-gas emissions by 20,000 tons
per year, according to PAGEI.The facili-
ty, which would be next to the existing
wastewater treatment plant, could also
save the city $1 million each year.
“There’s been a kind of chicken-or-
egg situation,” said former Palo Alto
mayor and PAGEI member Peter Drek-
meier of the petition, stressing the impor-
tance of thinking ahead to next year’s
election even though results of a feasibili-
ty study commissioned by the City Coun-
cil last spring will not be published in full
until September 2011.
the absence of oxygen and produces
methane which is harvested for energy,”
according to Hilary Gans, a proponent of
the facility and contract manager for
South Bayside Waste Management Au-
thority.
“That energy can be combusted to
generate electricity or it can be piped over
to the wastewater treatment plant to be
used as heating in their process,” Gans
said. “Or, theoretically, it can be com-
pressed into liquefied natural gas to run
vehicles.”
Overall, said Gans, “it is an energy-
positive operation.We also calculate that
it’s a revenue-positive facility.”
venture capital, government grants and
the city’s Refuse Fund and Utilities Fund,
including the Calaveras Fund, which to-
tals between $25 and $30 million, accord-
ing to Drekmeier.
“This is one of the most significant
things we can do as a community,” Drek-
meier said of the facility. Forty years ago
when the landfill was originally labeled to
be turned into parkland, “no one knew
about global warming,”he said.“If Propo-
sition 23 is defeated on Nov. 2, there will
be a lot more focus on how to reduce
greenhouse gases.”
“We feel it’s tremendously popular,”
Drekmeier added of the initiative,reflect-

Chen discusses the

The anaerobic digestion facility would The proposed facility would use dry The facility is expected to cost be- ing on the pride Palo Alto residents have
convert more than 60,000 tons of organic anaerobic digestion, “a fermentation tween $14 and $20 million. Potential
waste per year into green energy and process that breaks down the material in sources of funding include city programs, Please see COMPOST, page 2

art of medicine UNIVERSITY

Surgeon highlights importance of fresh

perspectives on patient care
By ERIN INMAN
STAFF WRITER
“How do we preserve the art of medicine?”asked liver-trans-
plant surgeon Pauline Chen in her address for the 20th annual
Jonathan J. King Lecture at Stanford Medical School on Mon-
day night.
Chen is a surgeon, a frequent contributor to The New York
Times and the author of The New York Times bestseller “Final
Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflection on Mortality.” The Jonathan J.
King Lecture commemorates Dr. King’s vision of enhancing pa-
Europe travel alert elicits caution
By STEVEN SMALLBERG
The U.S. Department of State issued a travel alert on
Oct. 3 notifying American travelers of potential terror-
ist attacks in Europe, where six of the Bing Overseas
Studies Program (BOSP) centers are located.
The alert, which will be in effect until Jan. 31, 2011,
warned of possible attacks in tourist areas and trans-
portation infrastructure in large European cities, be-
lieved to be coordinated by al-Qaida and its affiliates.
The broad alert encompasses BOSP locations in
Berlin, Florence, Madrid, Moscow, Paris and Oxford.
Irene Kennedy. “We also emphasize that they maintain
regular contact with their families.”
Travel alerts and warnings are issued fairly regularly,
and the BOSP has an established protocol in place to re-
spond accordingly. A recent Community Health Pro-
gram in Oaxaca,Mexico was cancelled because of a gov-
ernment-issued warning that included the entire nation.
“Stanford actually has a policy, issued by the provost, Developing embryos. Courtesy of Kevin Loewke
that we do not send students to countries with travel
warnings,” Kennedy said. “A travel warning
while the quarter is underway, depending on RESEARCH
the situation, could require us to evacuate

Researchers
tient care through empathy, compassion and hope. The alert did not mention specific cities; counterter- students.”
“It is a fact that our work becomes routine with time,” Chen rorism officials this month were assessing possi- Kennedy said that some parents of
said. “Our patients benefit from this clinical experience. But ble threats against Britain, France and Ger- BOSP students contacted the program
with that experience we begin to develop assumptions that pre- many,The New York Times reported. asking what emergency plans were in

vent us from delivering truly patient-centered care.”
In a world where the average medical resident witnesses 28
deaths a year, it’s hard to remember that it’s the patient’s first
time while still tapping into one’s wealth of experience as a doc-
predict fate
Travel alerts are less severe than travel place, but, according to Kennedy,“no par-
warnings — when a warning is issued, the ents or students requested to leave Eu-
Department of State generally advises rope.”
Americans to avoid visiting the country BOSP students spending fall

tor, Chen said.
Chen admitted that she used to consider the dying patients in
the internal care unit as “crumpled” and the frightened patients
who refused to accept treatment until they asked all their ques-
tions as “difficult.”
By doing so, she forgot what she now calls a crucial aspect of
her profession: it is always the patient’s first time.
She credited this realization to a former attending physician
for “defamiliarizing the familiar,” causing her to see her work in
new light. Rather than leave a woman alone with her dying hus-
band in the internal care unit, as Chen thought was the norm,
Please see MEDICINE, page 2
WORLD & NATION
the warning concerns. Travel alerts, on the
other hand, are usually issued in response to
short-term conditions and instead advise that
citizens exercise particular vigilance while
traveling.
The BOSP administration reacted
promptly when the alert was released.
“We drafted a memo to the students,
advising them to look carefully at the
travel warning, give overseas staff their
contact information and alert program
staff of weekend plans,” said Associate
Vice Provost and Executive Director
National Coming Out Day
quarter in Europe have reported virtu-
ally no effect of the warning on daily
life.
“I am a little more aware of my
surroundings, but other than that, I
don’t think much has changed,” Julia Kayser
‘11 wrote in an e-mail from Paris. “Fear is ex-
actly what terrorists aim to inspire, so I think
Please see EUROPE, page 3
ERIC KOFMAN/ The Stanford Daily
of embryos
By CAROLINE CHEN
STAFF WRITER
Until recently,the precarious first moments of an
embryo’s development have been a mystery to doc-
tors and scientists. A team of Stanford researchers,
led by obstetrics and gynecology Prof. Renee Reijo
Pera, recently managed to film early embryonic de-
velopment, thus discovering more accurate ways to
predict the success of an embryo developing into a
child.
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is an increasingly pop-

ASSU revives ular form of infertility treatment for women. But

though the technology has existed since 1978 and
the successful birth of Louise Brown, the treatment
is still riddled with flaws and risks.

Pakistan flood One major problem in IVF is the low pregnancy

rate — that is, the percentage chance that a woman
who undergoes IVF will actually become pregnant.
Currently, IVF practitioners create several em-

relief effort
By ELLORA ISRANI
Media and humanitarian attention to devastating Pak-
istan floods is dwindling, but the ASSU is implementing a
second wave of campaigns to revamp its Pakistan flood re-
lief effort and, organizers hope, spike attention for the 20
million people affected by the summer disaster.
Spearheaded this August by Asfandyar Ali Mir ‘12, a
Pakistani student appointed as ASSU executive director
of Pakistan flood relief, along with ASSU President An-
gelina Cardona ‘11 and Vice President Kelsei Wharton ‘12,
the campaign is a partnership with the United States
Agency for United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (USA for UNHCR), the United Nations
refugee agency. Stanford has partnered with six other
schools — Caltech, UC-Berkeley, Vanderbilt, Rice, Uni-
versity of Ontario and Gettysburg College — and is tar-
geting 30 high-school and collegiate partners in the near
future.
Stanford is leading the fundraising efforts with an esti-
mated $11,100 raised so far, with the second-largest dona-
tion totaling $4,000 from Caltech. Cardona said the focus
is not on reaching a monetary benchmark, but instead on
raising awareness about the disaster on and around cam-
pus.
Please see FLOODS, page 3
bryos, which are grown and observed for up to five
days before implantation. The practitioners pick
embryos that are dividing regularly, but up to now
there has been no way for doctors to predict
whether or not the fertilization will be successful.
Nationwide,the live birth rate with IVF is only 30
to 35 percent for women under 35 years old, accord-
ing to the American Pregnancy Association. This
number continues to drop as the woman’s age in-
creases. Failures are costly — not only financially,
but emotionally as well. Another potential conse-
quence is the higher likelihood of twins and triplets,
which can result when multiple embryos are trans-
ferred to increase the chance of success.
“It’s difficult to tell if an embryo is going to make
it or not,” said Reijo Pera.“It’s been a problem ever
since 1978, and this is the number-one problem in
IVF.”
Motivated by the low success rates in IVF, Reijo
Pera set out to study the human embryo. Working
with a team at Stanford’s Institute for Stem Cell Bi-
ology and Regenerative Medicine, Reijo Pera em-
ployed time-lapse imaging techniques on more than
a hundred fertilized eggs to study their develop-
ment.
Quickly, her team realized that the first stages of
embryonic development were in fact quite orderly
and not as chaotic as scientists had always pre-
sumed. By the time the embryo had divided into
eight cells — which is roughly “half the size of a
JIN ZHU/Staff Photographer
Sophomore Alok Vaid-Menon and fellow students celebrates National Coming Out Day on Monday in White Plaza. Please see EMBRYOS, page 3

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STUDENT LIFE

FEATURES Some biz-school

hopefuls defy
GMAT trend
By ANNA SCHUESSLER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Despite a growing number of students nationwide who

are hoping to avoid a tough job market by applying direct-
ly to business school, many at Stanford are still opting for a
more winding path.
According to the Graduate Management Admissions
Council, people under 24 comprise the fastest-growing
group of GMAT test-takers. The trend, however, has yet to
take root at Stanford with either undergraduates headed to
business school or Graduate School of Business (GSB) stu-
dents.
The desire to get out of academia and gain some practi-
cal experience is a common one for current seniors — even
if their eventual plans will have them hitting the books
again in a few years.
That experience just might prove to be necessary in
order to distinguish themselves from the rest of the appli-
cants. Business schools are known for looking for well-
rounded applicants and often like students with a few years
or more of hands-on work experience.
The GSB is no different.The median student comes into
the program with four years of experience in the workforce
or having started his or her own company. According to
Madhav Rajan,senior associate dean for academic affairs at
the GSB, attracting senior undergraduates is not a top pri-
ority — in fact, it is not on the priority list at all. Rajan has
been teaching at the GSB since 2001, and has yet to see a
large number of first-year students coming straight out of
undergraduate careers.
“Last year’s first-year class had 388 students and the
number straight out of undergrad was in the single digits,”
he said.
Rajan, an accounting professor, said students without
much practical experience tend to bring less to the class-
room than those who have been exposed to more business
techniques.And while summer internships expose students
to some business structures, they lack the degree of respon-
sibility normally put on part-time or full-time employees.
He says that when considering undergraduate applicants,
the GSB is more likely to look at students who have tried to
start businesses on their own rather than those who have
completed several brief work experiences.
“It’s about bringing their own experiences into the class-
room, and students with more experience can contribute
more to the class,” Rajan said.“Students tend to get less out
of the program also if they come straight out of undergrad.”
As an active member of Alpha Kappa Psi, Stanford’s
business fraternity, Ming Yan ‘11 is familiar with the path to-
BRYANT TAN/The Stanford Daily ward business school. She does not know of any seniors in
the fraternity applying for acceptance into MBA programs,
In front of the Stanford bookstore, Raj and Narinder Singh sell handmade positing that many of the group members are fully aware of
the expectations that business schools have for their stu-
jewelry, scarves and ornaments using materials and themes from India dents.
“Normally how it’s done is that you have to have work
experience,” Yan said.
By MARWA FARAG said, she taught herself how to make Indi- “Thera, thera . . . “ Thera in Punjabi “We have turtles, owls and Indian One program that’s attracted the attention of Stanford
an jewelry and handicrafts, and began to means both the number 13 and the word deities,traditional Indian ornaments,”Raj students in the last few years is Harvard Business School’s

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utside the Stanford book-
store every Monday and
Tuesday, Raj and Narinder
Singh bring a little bit of
India to Stanford.
In an unassuming stall reminiscent of
the copious bazaars of Southeast Asia,
they arrange jewelry, scarves and tradi-
tional ornaments.
For the past five years, twice a week
from May to December, Raj and
Narinder have been giving Stanford stu-
dents the opportunity to shop for authen-
tic ethnic jewelry and trinkets. Why the
Stanford bookstore?
The bookstore staff “is so kind and co-
operative, and it’s a beautiful place,”
Narinder said.
The Singhs, an elderly Indian couple,
moved to the United States in 1992 when
their grandson, Jujhaar Singh ‘14, was
born.Through “trial and error,” Narinder
show her work at art fairs and festivals,
such as the annual Jewish Cultural Street
Festival on California Avenue this month.
“I embroider, I crochet, I do a lot of
work . . . it gives me satisfaction,”
Narinder said.
Using sterling silver, semiprecious
stones,wood,steel and copper,she creates
an array of pieces, from traditional bridal
jewelry to costume wear.
“I started with silver only, then I diver-
sified,”she said.“I like to follow the trends
of what people like. Sometimes I remake
pieces.”
Raj and Narinder call their business
Thera Thera, in reference to the Sikh leg-
end of Guru Nanak. It is said that the
Guru was a storekeeper at a state granary,
where one day he was weighing grain
packages and counting. Upon reaching
the thirteenth grain package, the Guru
went into a trance and began repeating,
“thine” in a spiritual context.
“What it means is that whatever we
make here is yours, as in God’s,” Narinder
said.“Guru Nanak kept on saying,‘Thera,
thera’ and distributing [the grain], but it
never finished.”
Raj and Narinder combine pieces
made by Narinder, pieces imported from
India, and select Korean and Native
American pieces in a single, multicultural
display.The variety is evident: a gold Indi-
an bridal headpiece is juxtaposed against
brightly colored plastic bracelets. A
wooden bangle engraved with the symbol
for “Om,” a traditional meditation chant,
sits next to a necklace made with garnets
and green turquoise.
While jewelry dominates the stall,
scarves and Indian handicrafts make ap-
pearances.A legion of small, meticulously
painted elephant ornaments sit next to
wooden carvings.
said. 2+2 program, which demands two years of work and two
Recognizing that some students are on years of academic study of its students. Bringing the securi-
tight budgets, Narinder and Raj set the ty of a graduate program together with the adventure of
prices accordingly. two years of entrepreneurial endeavors,the program strikes
“We try to keep rates low so it is af- a balance that many students find appealing.
fordable for students,” Narinder said. In- “I want to get some experience that I can reflect on when
deed, is it easy for the bright colors and I go back to school,”David Rust ‘11 said of the Harvard pro-
reasonable prices of the pieces on display gram. He has already been accepted into it and says allow-
to lure passing students. ing students to defer their enrollment after being accepted
Raj and Narinder love interacting
with Stanford students and showcasing Please see B-SCHOOL, page 3
their work and culture. Happy to answer
to the curious gaze of passing students,
they emphasized that it’s the people on
campus who keep them coming back
every week.
Stanford “is the best place on earth,
and these are the best people on earth,”
Narinder said.
Contact Marwa Farag at mfarag@stan-
ford.edu.

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COMPOST
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of their environmental ethic.
“There is a need for dozens of these
facilities to be built,”Gans said.“Right
now there are none.”
“Palo Alto has a history of being re-
sponsible for its own services, with its
own utilities department, wastewater
treatment plant, and landfill,” Gans
added.“This facility is an extension of
that self-reliant philosophy.”
Not so, says conservationist and
former councilmember Emily Renzel.
“It’s being misrepresented to peo-
ple,” said Renzel of the petition.“This
is a park undedication ordinance, pure
and simple. They have a concept of a
project but there is no official project.”
Renzel views the proposed facility
as “a real slap in the face to many,many
councils who ratified over and over
again that this would be a park,” and
doubts its money-making prospects.
“Dream on,” said Renzel to the
idea that the facility will not cause dis-
ruptive noise or odor, calling the com-
puter-generated image of the facility
“a pie-in-the-sky” vision.
Dry anaerobic digestion takes
place indoors, but Renzel says trucks
coming and going from the site would
cause disruptions. Drekmeier hopes
the facility would have a green roof,
though opponents like Renzel ques-
tion how expensive a green roof
would be.
Proponents of the facility view it as
a compromise.“This is not an either-or
decision,” Gans said, stressing that the
facility will use only about 10 of
Byxbee Park’s 127 acres.
“If we don’t set aside land for this
purpose,we’ll have lost this opportuni-
ty forever,” Gans said.
Although a private company,
Peninsula Sanitary Services,Inc.,han-
dles University waste, sustainability
programs on campus see the initiative
in Palo Alto as a step in the right di-
rection.
“It represents a really positive step
for Palo Alto in the long term and for
Stanford as well,” said Theo Gibbs ‘11,
ASSU executive chair of sustainabili-
Courtesy of Peter Drekmeier
ty.“I think it’s more a matter of looking
at short-term definitions of environ-
mentalism and ‘green’ versus long-
term sustainability.”
Contact Margaret Rawson at marawson
@stanford.edu.
MEDICINE
Continued from front page
this doctor would remain in the room
to comfort the woman.
Chen realized that some rare doc-
tors, such as this man, saw suffering
and dying as an opportunity to care
and a chance to practice the art of
medicine.
“They replaced suffering, unbear-
able grief and fear with comfort, true
healing and hope,” Chen said. “They
managed to bring the two threads [of
medicine] back together — the sci-
ence and the art — and they weaved
them back into the same thread that
was stronger than each thread
alone.”
From these models, Chen began
to stay with her dying internal care
unit patients and families to provide
comfort as if for the first time.
“Hold onto the incredible role
models you have,” Chen said, ad-
dressing the medical students.“Their
behaviors are beacons of inspira-
tion.”
Chen also urged medical students
to hold fast to their newness and ide-
alism, as they remind older physi-
cians of the necessity of patient-cen-
tered care.
Leo Ungar, a first-year medical
school student in attendance, echoed
Chen’s perception of a fine balance
between burning out and being a
truly compassionate physician.
“I remember when I was applying
to med school the question I got a lot
was,‘What do you think the most dif-
ficult part of medicine is?’” Ungar
said. “The answer that I gave was
maintaining the distance that you
need to do your job effectively and
not burn out while at the same time
appreciating the gravity of each
case.”
Contact Erin Inman at einman@stan-
ford.edu.
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FLOODS
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Vineet Singal ‘12, who has been
helping with the campaign, said he
recently removed a personal plea in
his e-mail signature because of sev-
eral questions from individuals who
believed the disaster and campaign
were over.
“I got several e-mails from people
who were like, ‘Aren’t the floods
over?’” Singal said. “No, it’s not. The
relief effort is still going on.”
A major obstacle continues to be
raising funds and encouraging in-
volvement regardless of waning in-
ternational support. Mir called the
floods “one of the biggest in the his-
tory of humanitarian disasters” but
believed media coverage has been
inadequate. A native of Rawalpindi,
Mir has friends whose houses were
swept away in August by the floods.
His high school in Nowshera also
was destroyed.
Singal attributed the drop in pub-
lic awareness to the declining media
coverage.
“When the international re-
sponse subsided, so did the media at-
tention, and then so did the personal
attention,” Singal said.
The Stanford effort has used a
number of strategies, including Face-
book statuses and postings, personal
appeals as e-mail signatures and a
blog with resources such as inter-
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views by UNHCR Goodwill Ambas-
sador Angelina Jolie. A number of
students participated in “Walk for
Pakistan” on Sunday in Fremont, an
effort by the nonprofit organization
Focus, which is unaffiliated with the
ASSU.
One of the most effective meth-
ods so far was a letter sent on Aug. 27
to students from Cardona and Whar-
ton, asking students to donate just $5
to the cause.
“It’s something they spend on a
Subway sandwich, it’s something
they spend on a Starbucks coffee,”
Singal said. “It’s nothing. It got peo-
ple to think they could either have a
coffee or help people in Pakistan
who need it.”
Given the success of the letter,the
next wave will likely focus on one-
on-one strategies, such as having
ASSU senators send out personal e-
mails.The ASSU has also gotten Ro-
taract, a student service group, to
agree to match contributions, but the
details of this agreement have yet to
be defined. Mir is planning a panel
discussion on students’ role in such
humanitarian crises.
The empathy that Stanford stu-
dent feel in response to humanitari-
an tragedy has a history of generat-
ing of financial support on campus.
Last year, the ASSU ran a similar
campaign for relief for the earth-
quake in Haiti, raising thousands of
dollars with partner organizations.A
number of contributions came from
the “Heal Haiti” event held in Stern
Dining, which raised $4,000 in just a
few hours,Cardona said.Many of the
individuals who worked for Haiti re-
lief are also working for Pakistan re-
lief.
“We have a lot of talent on our
team,” Cardona said.
According to Mir, Stanford stu-
dents “have a tradition of stepping
up.”
“We did it for Katrina, for the
Southeast Asian tsunami, for Haiti
and have done it in part for Pakistan
as well,” he said. “But more needs to
be done still.”
Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-
ford.edu.

EMBRYOS Columbus Day

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point of a pin,” according to Reijo

Pera — the cells were already acting
autonomously.
As a result, Reijo Pera realized
that the chances of survival were not
a murky mystery, but rather a pre-
dictable process that could be mod-
eled with mathematical formulas.
“We can predict success or failure
with over 93 percent accuracy,” she
said.
Not only did they realize they
could predict the success rate, but
they could do so by the second day of JIN ZHU/Staff Photographer
development.
“The embryo is still genetically A chalk message, “Columbus did not discover America: NATIVES
silent on day two,” said Reijo Pera. DID,” marks pavement at a bike intersection on Columbus Day.
“The embryo has not even turned on
its genes. So the success or failure
must be genetically inherited.” “There’s also a component that in Menlo Park co-founded by Reijo
Reijo Pera gives credit to devel- nobody has really thought to do this Pera. The company hopes to start
oping technology as a reason for this before,” she added. She hopes that clinical trials by 2011 to determine if
latest discovery. She explained that the discovery will help increase preg- success rates are equally accurate
embryo development could be af- nancy rates and reduce the complica- outside the lab.
fected by light, so the microscopic tions for women.
cameras had to work in dim condi- The technology has been licensed Contact Caroline Chen at cchen501@
tions. by Auxogyn, Inc., a bio-tech company stanford.edu.

EUROPE
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an even-keeled response is the best
we can do.”
Kayser said the atmosphere
among students had not changed
since before the alert, and her group’s
BOSP weekend trip was not resched-
uled in the weekend following the
alert’s release.
Additionally, the vagueness of the
alert, such as a lack of specific loca-
tions or time periods, may have de-
flated the sense of severity it inspired
among students.
“The idea that something might
happen at some point somewhere in
Europe isn’t going to make most peo-
ple too worried,” Aisha Ansano ‘12
said from Oxford. “Accidents and
other unpredictable things happen all
the time, but that doesn’t stop people
from travelling,”
While she did not feel immediate-
ly at risk, Ansano felt that the BOSP
responded appropriately to the alert.
“I think it’s probably the right
amount,”Ansano said.“It might seem
a little excessive, but when you think
about the fact that they’re partially
responsible for us on Stanford’s be-
half, it seems like a good idea to go a
little beyond where they have to just
in case it’s necessary.”
BOSP has prepared for the possi-
bility of a greater security threat as
well.A global response team is ready
at all times to discuss evacuation
plans if necessary.
Discussions of evacuation took
place earlier this year when an earth-
quake struck on Feb. 27 in Santiago,
Chile,where the BOSP has a location.
The BOSP administration kept in
close contact to ensure the safety of
the students, all of whom desired to
stay in Chile and aid in the recovery
process.
As the status of the alert has not
changed since it was issued, the
BOSP students in Europe have not
allowed fear to interrupt their experi-
ences.
“Worrying about the terrorist at-
tacks isn’t going to change the statisti-
cal likelihood of their occurrence, so I
haven’t given it a whole lot of
thought,” Kayser said.
Contact Steven Smallberg at small-
ber@stanford.edu.
Correction
In “Google buys alums’ website
for millions” (Oct. 11), due to an ed-
iting error, The Daily incorrectly re-
ported that Ben Eidelson and Jason
Prado developed the idea for their
social networking project while
working at Microsoft after gradua-
tion. In fact, they founded their com-
pany after leaving Microsoft.
B-SCHOOL
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to business school is a growing trend
that promises to yield many bene-
fits. Rust imagines that collecting
recommendations and writing per-
sonal statements might prove to be
challenging outside an academic
setting. Furthermore, the Stanford
senior has heard from others that
business school can be useless with-
out work experience. Rust is there-
fore looking forward to the years he
will spend between an undergrad
degree and graduate school.
“I feel like I can go do what I re-
ally enjoy whereas I might be more
inclined to do something with more
certainty otherwise,” Rust said.
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EDITORIAL The Stanford Daily
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ow three weeks into the school year, them to make hasty decisions during fall Theodore L. Glasser Chelsea Ma Anastasia Yee
freshmen are just getting used to quarter. Managing Editor of Features Giancarlo Daniele Graphics Editor
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Stanford and the idea of Residential Very few sophomores know of their in- Marisa Landicho Jin Zhu
Education. Some sophomores are thinking tentions for next quarter, much less whether Bob Michitarian
Managing Editor of Intermission Jane LePham, Devin Banerjee Photo Editor
deeply about their three-year plans with lit- or not they want to make a four-quarter Jane LePham Vivian Wong Staff Development
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track. Some juniors are still contemplating nior RAs are just becoming acclimated to Zachary Warma
whether or not to take advantage of study- staffing.With only nine weeks of experience, Editorial Board Chair
abroad options. Prospective coterminal stu- it will be hard to determine whether or not
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In the midst of the fall-quarter frenzy,stu- ments to activities, and deciding whether or
dents now have to weigh yet another option not to pass up their last chances to apply for
that Stanford offers — the choice of com- study-abroad opportunities.For prospective
mitting now to four quarters of resident as- coterminal students, the staffing decision C ONTINUED
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training class and three quarters of staffing.
The editorial board has concerns about
the new changes to the RA hiring process.
Granted, there is value in moving the dead-
line earlier. It allows more time for prospec-
Life: Hacked
In addition, a Row house’s current staff
will only have about nine weeks of interac- Jade
tion with its residents,leaving the staff to de-
cide on next year’s hires with little knowl- Wang
edge how the applicants would fit into the

S
tive RAs to find drawmates in the event of a house. ometimes, when I’m melting into my lap-
denial,it allows RAs to take a class similar to The improvements could be made with- top, staring at the blinking cursor of my
the training that peer health educators and out putting students in such situations. Stu- word processor, I somehow manage to
resident computer consultants undergo dur- dent input is integral in making these deci- convince myself that reading about “life
ing spring quarter, and it allows for more sions,and while the RA hiring process need- hacks” on the Internet is close enough to
work to assuage the niggling guilt. Life hacks
preparation. ed to be revamped, the editorial board is are small, clever changes in habit that im-
However, all these improvements are skeptical about whether or not this change is prove life, generally by increasing productivi-
done at the expense of the students, forcing the best course of action. ty. I read about ways to work on the comput-
er more efficiently and even occasionally
download programs that I rarely end up
using. I read, sometimes for hours, about how
Unsigned editorials in the space above represent the views of the editorial board of The Stanford Daily and do
not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Daily staff. The editorial board consists of seven Stanford students
to increase my productivity,thereby drastical-
led by a chairman and uninvolved in other sections of the paper. Any signed columns in the editorial space ly decreasing my productivity.
represent the views of their authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the entire editorial board. To It feels kind of like shopping,but instead of
contact the editorial board chair, e-mail editorial@stanforddaily.com. To submit an op-ed, limited to 700 searching for a soft cardigan that will flatter,
words, e-mail opinions@stanforddaily.com. To submit a letter to the editor, limited to 500 words, e-mail or a thick novel that will compel, I am looking
eic@stanforddaily.com. All are published at the discretion of the editor. for something that will make me a better ver-
sion of myself.
These hacks promise me that I can, in fact,
get it all done, with higher quality, and with
G IRL YOU K NOW I T ’ S T RUE enough time left over to bake an authentic
pizza from scratch. Instead of peeking at my
inbox through squinted eyes, hoping that the
search.
While, admittedly, I do rely heavily on the
program that only allows me six minutes of
Facebook a day, these computer-based hacks
can only take me so far. My true interest lies in
the hacks that people use in their everyday
lives, away from the computer.To be honest, I
know my computing productivity could use
some serious optimization, and I don’t really
need a shiny program to tell me that I should
probably read fewer blogs if I want to ever get
anything done.Away from the laptop, though,
I like to believe that I operate at a moderate
level of efficiency.A laundry list of ways to in-
crease my productivity does not come to me as
easily as in the case of laptop work.
Hacks in everyday life are difficult to come
by. They are not so readily apparent as the
computer variety, which are generally some
kind of application that utilizes keyboard
shortcuts heavily. They are the small habits
and quirks that have assimilated into routine
but present moments of insight for other peo-
ple. I first realized that I could be a hacker of
pus walkers” thrown into the diatribe. I didn’t
have time to see much of his reaction beyond
vague surprise before I rushed off to class on
my optimized route, but later, I started asking
people for their life hacks.
I have been collecting life hacks since,
keeping an eye out for clever shortcuts people
use in their own lives. Hacking is something
that, it seems, people do naturally — it’s going
to a restaurant during off hours to avoid a wait
and it’s pulling into the carpool lane and
speeding by the parking lot to the right. It’s
that sensation that feels like winning and beat-
ing the system. It’s saving a phone call home
for a long walk across campus, and it’s organ-
izing a shopping list according to the shelves at
the store. It’s carrying a shopping bag around
to sheath a wet bike seat, and it’s going to the
market to eat samples for lunch.The hacks can
get a little stranger, a little less common. It’s
brushing teeth in the shower to save time and

The Next Great

number in the parentheses has somehow life when I was walking to class with a friend, water. It’s mixing banana bread batter in the
dwindled, I could be gazing calmly at a con- the customary burn in my calves not quite baking pan to save on dishes, and it’s walking
trolled situation. I can almost envision myself enough to help me completely avoid tardi- through buildings to get somewhere faster.
evolving much in the style of a Pokemon, ness. I approached the Quad and barreled I invite you to join in the fun — think

Technology Movie
from procrastinating girl wearing athletic
shorts despite never doing athletic activity to
focused woman, poised and punctilious. Is
there really a magical program somewhere
on the Internet that will suddenly transform
through the first door I saw, walking intently.
My friend was confused, remembering cor-
rectly that I actually had class in Gates, sever-
al courtyards away. I explained that I wanted
to go through the building, so I could cut diag-
about your own hacks, and share them with
your friends. You might save some time, or
you might waste some, but it’s the conversa-
tion that is the fun. Welcome to life
hackathon.

T
his weekend, “The Social Network”
rode its Aaron Sorkin-based walk-and-
talks to its second week as the No. 1
film in the country. Considering this is basi-
cally a movie about a lawsuit between one set
of rich WASPs and some other billionaire
guy who went to Harvard, it seems likely that
the vast majority of the popularity is piggy-
backing on the fact that it is The Facebook
Movie rather than being especially torn up
over the travails of various Winklevosses and
Zuckerbergs and Timberlakes. Old people
want to see the movie that captures the spirit
of the younger generation, young people like
to see what old people think captures the
spirit of our generation, and the circle of life
continues.
The Movie That Defines a Generation
comes out every so often, and as far as this
goes, it could be worse. Fifteen years ago, the
equivalent movie was called “Reality Bites,”
and it starred Ben Stiller, Winona Ryder,
Ethan Hawke and America’s sweetheart,
Janeane Garofalo.
Though I am not original enough to think
of a good idea, I am unethical enough to
steal someone else’s and capitalize on it my-
self without sharing credit (like our collec-
tive hero, Mark Zuckerberg!).And the great
idea here is to take some random boring
movie about a dull legal procedure or some
such and suddenly tie it into a technology or
product that people care deeply (and irra-
tionally) about. Here are a few ideas for how
to do that.
Just Ask: The Story of Ask Jeeves
A disgruntled butler (Michael Caine) re-
alizes he has a gift for answering his boss’s
(Ashton Kutcher) moronic questions. What
color is a knife? What is normal blood pres-
sure? Who you attracting with that line,
what’s your name, what’s your sign? So in
1996, he takes to the interwebs to personally
answer people’s questions, the world over.
(Sample dialogue — Random Attractive
Woman: The site got 2,200 hits within two
hours? Jeeves: Hundred. Twenty-two hun-
dred. RAW: Yes, that’s what I said. Jeeves:
Oh. Right then.)
Jeeves’ newfound wealth allows him to
quit his job and hire a butler of his own, an ac-
tion that he is deeply conflicted about. How-
ever, he gets over it and eventually begins
making his butler do all the humiliating tasks
he resented doing.
Unfortunately, other search engines real-
ize that there are better ways to gather infor-
mation on the Internet than having one per-
son sit at a computer and type in answers, so
Jeeves’ website loses all its value, and he is
forced to go back to his old job as a butler,
where he will serve out the rest of his days
primarily functioning as a footstool.
Jordan
Carr
What color is a knife?
What is
normal blood
pressure? What’s
your sign?
cation to an exotic island locale, before they
start being murdered one by one, only to re-
alize that the killer all along was . . .
Jobs! The Official Steve Jobs Story
How do you go from getting fired from a
company to becoming the guy whose health
outlook affects its stock prices? The story
opens in a dorm in Reed College where
young Steve Jobs (Denzel Washington) is the
most beloved man on campus, but he would
really like to be part of the school’s elite so-
cial clubs. Upon learning that Reed doesn’t
really do weird, elite social clubs, he drops
out and soon is running Apple, where some
jealous idiots fire him for being too awesome.
They soon regret their horrible mistake and
rehire him at which point he is awarded over
230 patents and single-handedly invents
everything that makes Apple worthwhile.
The biggest drama surrounds when that
stupid jerk Bill Gates (Vin Diesel) starts try-
ing to look good by getting all his billionaire
buddies to agree to donate large sums of
their fortunes. Steve Jobs has no interest in
participating, and is mad that Bill Gates gets
any credit for this. The problem is resolved
when Jobs realizes that for no apparent rea-
son, young and socially conscious people ar-
bitrarily regard Apple as a “responsible”
brand, and Bill Gates as the evil, money-
hoarding rich guy. In the closing scene,
everyone high fives and laughs hysterically
as an ad for something called a “Microsoft
Zune” comes on TV. Written and Directed by
Steve Jobs.
me into one of those people who doesn’t
struggle to achieve focus? I haven’t found one
yet, but every Sunday night, I’ll do another
L ETTERS
Writing, not content, was
problem with Hanson editorial
Dear Editor,
I stumbled upon the recent controversy re-
garding the Oct. 7 editorial about Victor Davis
Hanson’s remarks about race and politics.
I wrote for The Daily occasionally in 1990
and 1991 while completing an M.A. in com-
munication (journalism), and during this
time I always found the staff to be one of the
best in college journalism, with the fiercest
and most knowledgeable copy editors in the
business.
Thus I was extremely disappointed by the
Oct. 7 editorial.
The content, such as it was, was not a prob-
lem. Davis made a provocative argument,
and you responded with disagreement.That’s
as it should be (though your argument would
have been much more effective had you em-
ployed some specifics).
The problem was the writing.
“But this sort of homogenous denigration
is no intellectual commentary. It is at best vit-
riolic ignorance. Combining the toxic as-
onally through the Quad and make it to Gates
faster, with no shortage of statements of ob- Let Jade test out her inbox sorting hacks.E-mail
noxious pride at being one of the few “cam- her at jadew@stanford.edu.
TO THE E DITOR
sumption that all members of an ethnicity beats a pile of adjectives every time.
group act the same way with the mocking ref-
erence to ‘an accent and a trill’ veers danger- MIKE DROUT M.A.‘91
ously into bigotry.” And it goes on like this.
Let me put on my professor hat for a mo-
ment: can ignorance be “vitriolic”? Can an
Ed. note: more letters responding to the Han-
son editorial are on our website, stanforddai-
ly.com.
assumption be “toxic”? Can you veer “dan-
gerously into” bigotry? (On this last, you can
veer toward something, but once you’ve Beutelsbach, not Florence, was
veered “into” it, then it’s just bigotry, which
was actually your point, was it not?)
Not to be all “back in the day,” but, well,
first BOSP outpost
back in the day The Daily’s board and the Dear Editor,
copy editors would never let that many mod-
ifiers be employed in one paragraph and
In “Framing Florence” (Oct. 6), there is a
small factual mistake. The author says that
would certainly not have allowed them to be “Stanford has had an abroad program in Flo-
imprecise and therefore ineffective. (“Vitri-
olic” means “like acid,” so certainly rhetoric
rence for 50 years — it was the University’s
first foreign outpost.” It is true that Stanford in
can be “vitriolic” — which is no doubt what Florence was opened in 1960 and has been
the writer meant. But “vitriolic” does not re- going strong for 50 fabulous and successful
ally describe ignorance very well at all.) years. But the first foreign outpost of the Bing
You let someone get carried away with the Overseas Studies Program was in Beutelsbach,
adjectives and adverbs and printed a dog’s Germany, a program that opened in 1958.
breakfast of an editorial. Unless things have
really changed at the Farm (which I doubt), BOB HAMRDLA ‘59
you’re better than that.As Prof. James Risser Beutelsbach Alumnus
told me once, a true argument written calmly BOSP Staff

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SPORTS
SINKING NO.1
Stanford hands previously perfect MEN’S WATER POLO
USC its first loss of season 10/9 vs. USC W 5-3
By DASH DAVIDSON
In a day that saw several Stanford teams
triumph over their USC counterparts, the
men’s water polo game may have been the
most surprising of all the victories. Stanford
put in a strong defensive effort en route to a
tough 5-3 win.
No. 1 USC (15-1, 1-1 MPSF) was in the
midst of an 18-game winning streak, and had
won its previous 17 games against the Cardi-
nal, dating back to 2005. The No. 6 Cardinal
(7-5, 1-0), on the other hand, had been endur-
ing a slide, losing four of its last six after four
straight wins to start the season.Two of those
losses came against rival California, which
knocked the Card out of both the NorCal
and SoCal Tournaments.
One thing the Cardinal did have going for
it, which seemed to give the squad added en-
ergy and motivation, was home-pool advan-
tage. Having an electric atmosphere against a
marquee opponent like the Trojans set the
stage for the upset at Avery Aquatic Center
on Saturday afternoon.
The unquestioned star of the match for
the Cardinal was redshirt junior goalkeeper
Brian Pingree. In consort with an excellent
effort by the defense as a whole, Pingree
managed to hold the Trojan attack, vaunted
for its scoring proficiency, to a paltry three
goals, well below its Mountain Pacific Sports
Federation (MPSF)-leading average of 15
W. volleyball drops one
Card suffers first loss of the
season, splits two games in L.A.
By KATHERINE KNOX
The No. 1 Stanford women’s volleyball
team (14-1, 5-1 Pac-10) headed south last
weekend to face No. 8 USC (14-3, 3-2) and
No. 12 UCLA (12-4, 2-3) on Friday and Sat-
urday. To kick off the weekend, the Card
pulled out a four-set victory over the Trojans,
18-25, 25-23, 25-20, 25-16. However, Stanford
couldn’t keep up its momentum,and the Bru-
ins ended the Cardinal’s undefeated run in a
five-set thriller the following night, 25-21, 16-
25, 25-27, 25-23, 15-12.
USC got off to a quick start after aggres-
sive serving by senior outside hitter Geena
Urango and junior setter Kendall Bateman
that kept the Cardinal offense off the net.
Early attacking errors from the Stanford side
combined with three consecutive kills by
USC freshman Falyn Fonoimoana added to
the Trojan lead,which peaked at 17-7 mid-set.
USC held the Card to a .125 hitting percent-
age on the set, which at that point was the
lowest on the season.
Despite another huge serving run by
Urango that brought the Trojans up to 11-6 to
kick off the second set, the Cardinal pulled
out a slim 25-23 victory to split sets. USC sen-
ior outside hitter Alex Jupiter earned four
early kills, yet the 10 combined kills of Stan-
ford’s priorities — senior outside hitter Alix
Klineman and sophomore opposite Hayley
Spelman — gave the Card the offense edge.
It was a pair of untimely errors from the Tro-
jan service line that ultimately cost USC the
set by a two-point deficit.
After the break, the teams traded leads
twice before a trio of consecutive kills from
Klineman allowed Stanford to pull ahead 11-
9. Cardinal momentum built throughout the
set, as Klineman added three more kills to
two pivotal side-out kills by Spelman. Red-
shirt junior middle blocker Stephanie
Browne concluded the set with a solo block
of USC middle blocker Lauren Williams.
Stanford took the set 25-20.
Five tied scores early on in the fourth sug-
gested an inevitable battle for the set and
match.However,Cardinal senior libero Gabi
Ailes took control of the match mid-set by
punching out a pair of aces in a five-point run.
Klineman, Spelman and Browne tallied 14
kills on the set to score a 25-15 win, earning
the Card the match.
Klineman totaled 27 kills to become the
kill leader for her 10th consecutive match,
while Jupiter slid in second with 19 kills.
The USC defense gave the Cardinal front
line a battle as four Trojans recorded double-
digit digging totals. The Trojans rank third in
Pac-10 digging stats,while the Cardinal sits in
second.
However, UCLA embodies defensive
success, leading the conference in digs per set
since the beginning of Pac-10 play.
The Cardinal started its campaign in
Pauley Pavilion neck-and-neck with the Bru-
ins until three Cardinal hitters contributed
three consecutive errors to give UCLA the
lead, 14-13. A pair of kills by senior outside
hitter Dicey McGraw gave the Bruins a
three-point lead. The Card then dropped
quickly to a 24-19 deficit with a series of un-
forced errors,and closed the set with a service
error.
The beginning of the second set mirrored
the first, yet the outcome reversed when a
block by Spelman and freshman middle
blocker Carly Wopat forced three hitting er-
rors from the Bruins. The Cardinal stole the
momentum, holding the Bruins to a hitting
UP NEXT
UCLA (9-3, 1-1 MPSF)
10/15 Los Angeles, CA 6 P.M.
GAME NOTES: Stanford is coming off of its biggest win of
the season, an upset of top-ranked USC. The Bruins,
however, are ranked second in the nation and have al-
ready defeated the Cardinal once this season.
goals per game. Pingree finished with 14
saves.
On the offensive side of the pool, senior
driver Jeffrey Schwimer paced the Cardinal
with two goals while sophomore driver Paul
Rudolph, senior driver Sage Wright and jun-
ior utility Peter Sefton each added a goal to
the Cardinal’s tally.
For the visiting Trojans, senior goalie Joel
Dennerley had four saves while sophomore
Mace Rapsey scored two goals and freshman
Nikola Vavic had the other.
The game’s scoring was concentrated
around the beginning of the match and the
end, with a lull in the middle two periods.The
Cardinal, courtesy of Schwimer’s first goal,
opened up the scoring at the 5:33 mark in the
first period. Six sturdy saves by Pingree sti-
fled the USC offense for most of the first pe-
riod, and Stanford doubled its lead at the 2:38
mark in the period when Sefton hammered
percentage of .000 to pull out a 25-16 win and
split the sets.
Ten tied scores characterized the third set,
which forced the “win-by-two” rule into ef-
fect when Stanford took the set with a pair of
attacking errors from the Bruins.The rallying
of the score paralleled the long rallies that en-
abled Klineman and Ailes to accumulate 20
digs apiece.
Gera,working in tandem with sophomore
outside hitter Bojana Todorovic, controlled
the Bruin defense and serve-receive forma-
tion.The Cardinal took the set, 27-25, to lead
the match 2-1.
Klineman carried the Stanford offense in
the fourth set, with contributing kills by
Browne and senior setter Cassidy Lichtman
at the beginning of the set. Timely kills by
UCLA outside hitter Rachael Kidder and
middle blocker Katie Camp throughout the
set kept the Bruins in control. Each beat
down a kill in opposition to Klineman’s pair
at the end of the set as the Bruins maintained
their two-point lead to take the set 25-23 and
bring the score to 2-2.
Because both teams tacked on a number of
service and attacking errors in the fifth set, it
was Kidder’s dominant offensive performance
that earned the Bruins the upset, 15-12. She
added an unprecedented seven kills for UCLA
in the final set,giving her 25 on the night.
Klineman led with 27 kills, hitting .243 to
Kidder’s .110 across the five sets.The loss was
Stanford’s first on the season.
The Cardinal remains first in the Pac-10
after Saturday’s defeat, although rival Cal
now shares the position with the same 5-1
conference record.
Stanford’s next two matches are at Maples
Pavilion, where it will face Washington on
Friday and Washington State on Saturday.
Both matches are scheduled to start at 7 p.m.
Contact Katherine Knox at kknox12@stan-
ford.edu.
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Senior outside hitter Alix Klineman has been
the leading hitter in 11 consecutive match-
es to power No. 1 Stanford. The Card lost
to UCLA despite Klineman’s 27 kills.
Stanford’s junior goalkeeper Brian Pingree, right, makes a save in the Cardinal’s 5-3 win over No. 1 USC on Saturday. In the game Pin-
gree recorded 14 saves against the Trojans’ vaunted offense. Pingree was named MPSF Mikasa player of the week for his performance.
home his goal.
The Trojans responded quickly thereafter
with Vavic scoring their first goal at the 1:07
mark in the first period. After that point
though, they could not penetrate the stingy
Stanford defense again until the fourth period,
when the game was starting to get out of reach.
The fourth period opened with Stanford
leading 4-1, following Schwimer’s second
goal in the second period and Rudolph’s tally
at the end of the third. USC mounted a brief
charge at the beginning of the final period,
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Senior forward Christen Press became Stanford’s
all-time leading scorer with her 60th goal in Fri-
day’s win over USC. She scored another goal, her
16th of the year, in Saturday’s victory over UCLA.
WOMEN’S SOCCER 10/10 at UCLA W 2-0
UP NEXT WASHINGTON STATE
(6-7, 1-1 Pac-10)
10/15 Laird Q. Cagan Stadium 5 P.M.
GAME NOTES: Top-ranked Stanford women’s soccer, coming off
a sweep of the Los Angeles schools, will play host to Washing-
ton State. The Cougars are not expected to contend for the
Pac-10 title, but are coming off of a 1-0 victory over Arizona.
Luck’s big hit helped Card
B
efore Saturday night, I had never
cheered after a Stanford turnover.
Never before had I seen a team bene-
fit from a lost fumble. Never before
had I witnessed a sell-out crowd drop
its collective jaw in a synchronized WTF-just-hap-
pened reaction.
That’s because before Saturday night,Andrew
Luck had never gone Thomas the Tank Engine on
a USC Trojan.
USC’s Shareece Wright is probably still feeling
the effects of the hit by the train that is our starting
quarterback. As Wright attempted to return a
Stepfan Taylor fumble just before halftime, Luck
thwacked him Ray Lewis-style, forcing the ball
loose with such authority that it sparked accusa-
tions of juicing by YouTube commenters.
The play was literally breathtaking,causing fans
of both teams to drool at the big screens while Luck
jogged off the field with a grin.ABC replayed the
hit umpteen billion times while play-by-play guy
Mike Patrick tried his hardest not to have an
aneurysm as he described the heroics.
Yet some of my friends weren’t impressed. In
fact, many of them were ticked off. They weren’t
mad at Luck, who none of us doubt has a spine
made out of titanium,but rather at Stanford fans —
the same Stanford fans that I berated last week and
that my friend Dan Bohm lambasted yesterday.
See, despite Luck’s attempted murder of
Wright,Stanford still lost the ball.We gave up pos-
session with 50 seconds left in the first half,in a tie
game in which every touch of the ball was of the
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 ! 5
right after Wright put the Cardinal up 5-1 just
1:39 into the fourth. Rapsey responded with
a goal of his own, doubling the Trojan’s score
15 seconds after Wright’s goal, and sent
tremors of an impending comeback through
the crowd at Avery.
However, Pingree and the Cardinal de-
fense remained steadfast, allowing only one
more goal, scored again by Rapsey, when the
game was essentially already out of reach
with 1:43 left.
Befitting the stellar game he played, the
Taking L.A.
Stanford remains unbeaten with
road victories over USC and UCLA
By BROOKE DAVIS
The curtain has fallen on the first week-
end of conference play, leaving No. 1 Stan-
ford women’s soccer with two victories to
its name. The Cardinal (11-0-2, 2-0-0 Pac-
10) defeated both No. 20 USC (8-3-2, 1-1-0)
and No.13 UCLA (8-4-1,1-1-0) on the road
in southern California.
On Friday night under the lights of the
Coliseum, the Cardinal met a fervent USC
squad. At the half, the scoreboard re-
mained tied at zero. Stanford and USC
each had six shots at halftime, but the game
took a turn in the 59th minute when senior
forward Christen Press sunk the ball in the
back of the net from 20 yards out.
With her 60th career goal, Press now
holds the Stanford record for goals scored.
The mark, set by Sarah Rafanelli in 1993,
had been untouched for 17 years.
But the goals didn’t stop there.The 65th
minute arrived and so did junior midfield-
er Teresa Noyola with a shot from the top
of the box. Noyola managed to sneak the
ball past USC goalkeeper Shelby Church,
who couldn’t quite reach the left post shot
in time to keep it out of the Trojan net.
With plenty of time still left on the
clock, USC kept up its intensity and drew
14 total fouls from Stanford, which only
drew eight from USC. Off one USC free
kick, Trojan defender Mia Bruno collected
an attempted Cardinal clearance and put
the ball away in the 84th minute.
Stanford held the score at 2-1 for the re-
mainder of the game and came out on top.
“We learned a lot about the mentality it
takes to win a game in the Pac-10,” said
Stanford head coach Paul Ratcliffe. “USC
utmost importance.TheTrojans started their drive
at midfield,were receiving to start the second half
and were picking on the Stanford cornerbacks
without resistance. Objectively speaking, they
were a near lock to get on the scoreboard before
the break.
Nonetheless,Stanford fans cheered.I cheered.
I punched my friend in the chest.I acted like an an-
imal.The question is whether this behavior is in-
dicative of a “true”football fan.
No.The play was really terrible — like worst-
case scenario terrible.Did all of the fans recognize
this? Of course not.
Let’s be honest.At Stanford Stadium only 20
percent of those who were cheering understood
the true consequences of the play, 40 percent of
those cheering did so just because they saw the hit
and the remaining 40 percent were cheering be-
cause they heard everyone else cheering.
However,I’m going to give everyone the ben-
efit of the doubt this one time and take the side of
the fans because,this time,I truly believe that this
play made a difference in the outcome of the
game.
For the first time since I’ve been a student
here,people looked at us like we were mean.We
could care less if you took the ball from us.
Turnover or not,we were going to hit you square
in the mouth.These nerds can get pissed off too.
And not just any nerd, but our prized quarter-
back,the projected first pick in the NFL Draft.A
potential 50 million-dollar man is willing to
lower his shoulder — scratch that, his throwing
ZACK HOBERG/The Stanford Daily
contest ended with a penalty-shot save by
Pingree, cementing the upset.
For his efforts, Pingree was named MPSF
Mikasa player of the week.
Stanford will hit the road for its next two
MPSF contests, going to UCLA on Friday
and UC-Santa Barbara on Sunday. The Card
will take on the Bruins at 7 p.m. and the Gau-
chos at 12 p.m.
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@stanford.
edu
went after us. We’ve got to be hungry, hun-
gry enough to win.”
Two days after defeating USC, the Car-
dinal headed to Drake Stadium to face
UCLA.The Bruins entered the game com-
ing off a 1-0 victory over No. 16 California,
and were bolstered by the return of for-
ward Sydney Leroux, who came back after
two weeks at the U.S. senior national-team
camp.
Stanford delivered early, holding Ler-
oux to one shot over the course of the game
and earning its first goal in the 23rd minute
of play. After a Bruin handball, Press
stepped up to take the penalty kick and
scored her 16th goal of the season.
“When you’re in a tight game, especial-
ly away from home, and get a goal, it can
break the ice,” Ratcliffe said. “This one
broke the ice. It was big.”
The Cardinal continued to press, taking
a total of 12 shots during the game (UCLA
took seven), and in the 36th minute, sopho-
more midfielder Mariah Nogueira took ad-
vantage of one of three Stanford corner
kicks and sunk the ball in the Bruin net
from the six, closing the scoring at 2-0.
The weekend came to a close and sent
Stanford back up north in good spirits.
“We knew the first weekend was going to
determine who’s going to have the best shot
of controlling the Pac-10,” said senior mid-
fielder Allison McCann.“This was huge.”
“They understood the importance of
this week,” Ratcliffe said.“But the job’s not
done. There are plenty of tough teams in
this conference.”
Conference play for the Cardinal will
continue this weekend, when Stanford will
host Washington State on Friday at 5 p.m.
and Washington on Sunday at noon at
Laird Q. Cagan Stadium.
Contact Brooke Davis at bedavis@stan-
ford.edu.
Zach
Zimmerman
Dishing the Rock
shoulder — and lay down the law.If that doesn’t
put an ounce of fear into an opposing squad and
a jolt of electricity into Cardinal fans, then noth-
ing will.
From then on, the offense played flawlessly.
The famous O-Line,the same one that was humil-
iated last week at Oregon in easily its worst per-
formance of the season, was fired up with a pas-
sion that we had never seen.And although our de-
fensive players were exposed more than Brett
Favre’s manhood on Deadspin, they played with
an extra step.The stadium was absolutely electric,
and the win was gigantic.
So hate or love the crowd’s reaction,but it was
well-deserved.A hustle play that sparked a bril-
liant offensive performance against our most
hated rivals — I said it,USC has surpassed Cal —
deserves to be rewarded with praise. Even the
biggest football elitists, myself included, have to
step away from big words like “implications”and
“statistics” every once in a while and savor the
moment for what it is.
And what a moment it was. Stanford’s domi-
nance over USC in recent years now has a poster
image.And Shareece Wright has a new daddy.
Zach Zimmerman is hiding from Andrew Luck
and his titanium spine.Remind him that Luck is a
nice guy at zachz@stanford.edu.
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