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October 21, 2010 Issue 25

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Recession effects
may linger in S.F.
New distress survey makes use of current economic data
By SAMANTHA McGIRR
DESK EDITOR
CalWORKs and Food Stamps
A “distress index” developed jointly by the Stanford 7000
Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and New 6146
America Media and released in September reveals the 6000
worsening economic state of San Francisco’s most vulnera-
ble residents and may shed light on where improvement in 5000 4660
public policy can provide the most help.
According to the report, entitled “Measuring Economic 4000
4016
LUIS AGUILAR/The Stanford Daily Distress in San Francisco,” “since December 2007 (the first
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual ‘80 delivers a talk in the Payne Distinguished Lecture series at official month of the great recession), economic distress in
San Francisco has increased a full 100 percent.” 3000
Bechtel Conference Center on Wednesday. He was nominated to his post by President Obama in 2009. 2599
The index was based on 11 indicators of economic hard-
ship, including CalWORKS enrollment, CalWORKS 2000
STUDENT LIFE NEWS BRIEFS homeless-assistance requests, bankruptcies, food-stamp ap-
plications, food-pantry visits, MediCal enrollment, Healthy 1000

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San Francisco enrollment, foreclosures, unemployment and
County Adult Assistance Program participation.
Obama to fundraise in Palo According to Chris Wimer, the lead researcher on the
0
CalWorks Enrollment Food Stamp Applications
project and the associate director of the center, the new dis-
Alto today tress index is meant to address the limited scope of current

are choosing
Dot-Com Burst Great Recession
poverty statistics,such as those released annually by the U.S.
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Census Bureau,that rely primarily on factors such as income Courtesy of “Measuring Economic Distress in San Francisco”
and size of family.
President Obama’s motorcade is scheduled to skim “The official poverty stats are really flawed,” he said. — the recession, as felt by the most vulnerable amongst us,

civic service
Postgraduate public service
rising in popularity, prestige
By SARAH JACOBSEN
While many Stanford students dream of landing a
job at a Fortune 500 company or top consulting firm, a
growing number are pursuing public service options
after graduation. In recent years, postgraduate service
programs, such as Teach For America and Ameri-
Corps, have witnessed a surge in applications from
Stanford.
As Jim Murray, the Postgraduate Public Service
Program director at the Haas Center, puts it, “I think
that we have leaders who want to make change, and
past the Stanford campus this evening as Obama returns
to the Bay Area today for two Democratic fundraisers.
According to the White House, Obama will land in
San Francisco at 3 p.m., after which he will head to the
Palo Alto home of Marissa Mayer ‘97 M.S. ‘99, a vice
president at Google.There, he will attend a $30,000-per-
person fundraiser for 50 Democrats,according to media
reports.
The fundraiser was originally to take place at Mayer’s
apartment in the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco,
but it was moved earlier this week for unknown reasons.
One reason floated by media outlets is the Major
League Baseball’s National League Championship Se-
ries,which is expected bring 40,000 San Francisco Giants
fans to the city for Game 5 against the Philadelphia
Phillies.
Obama later will head to Atherton, where he will
Please see OBAMA, page 4
HEALTH
“They don’t take into account the cost of living,all the things
that people need to spend money on now in terms of food,
clothing,shelter.These indicators are built around [a] basket
of resources that people use now to make ends meet.”
Additionally, Wimer says, current poverty statistics are
published a year after their collection, further limiting their
usefulness.
“Right now we only know numbers for 2009,” he said.“It
won’t be until fall 2011 that we know the numbers for 2010.”
All data in the index are up to date through June 2010,
with plans to update the index as data become available.The
San Francisco-based news site The Public Press published
an early version of the index in June, when it was titled the
“Misery Index.”Executive Director Michael Stoll notes that
the trends revealed by the index suggest fundamental errors
with the methods that policymakers use to track poverty.
“Ten of the 11 markers changed in the same direction,”
Stoll said.“The Obama administration declared that the re-
cession ended last year,but this measure argues the opposite
is getting worse.”
While 10 measures showed upward trends, indicating in-
creased need for social service, CalWORKS enrollment has
decreased in this “Great Recession.” These trends, Wimer
said, might reveal the relative efficacy of various social pro-
grams and help communities determine where to direct re-
sources.
“The index can determine which services are working
and which aren’t,” Wimer said. “The food pantry, for exam-
ple, is doing a great job to ramp up services. CalWORKS is
not showing as much of an increase, maybe because that
program isn’t being as responsive to underlying indication
of need.”
The Distress Index project, underwritten by the San
Francisco Foundation and the Wallace Alexander Ger-
bode Foundation, further reveals that current distress is 76
percent higher than the average level of distress during the
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they see public service as a way to do that.”
Murray estimates 100 to 120 Stanford students go
on to complete postgraduate service each year, either
through the Haas Center or external programs.
Today’s millennial generation — those born after
1982 — grew up with public service as part of their
most basic education. More than 80 percent of current
high school students perform community service, ac-
cording to Morley Winograd and Michael Hais in their
book “Millenial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and
the Future of American Politics.”As a result, students
are endowed with a more conscientious and informed
worldview and are choosing to give back to their com-
munities through public service, some say.
Lisa Hoffman, the Teach for America (TFA) on-
campus recruiting director, noted the competitiveness
of the program. In 2009, TFA received 35,178 applica-
tions and had a 15 percent acceptance rate, she said.
Postgraduate fellowships through the Haas Center
have also noted an increase in applications, according
to Murray, who said postgraduate service offers real
life, entry-level experience in sectors that may other-
wise be difficult to break in to. It can also better define
students’ interests and how they could best use a grad-
uate degree,if they choose to go on to graduate school.
Finally, postgraduate service often makes an applicant
more attractive to graduate schools.
Murray also said service careers have become in-
creasingly attractive due to the professionalization of
the non-profit and public service sectors. With in-
creased funding, many nonprofits offer competitive
salaries, especially compared to companies that have
had to cut back due to the economic recession.
Christine O’Connell ‘08 said she chose TFA in
order to address the issue of educational inequity. She
served as a high school biology teacher at a charter
school in Brooklyn and will continue her passion for
serving underserved students by completing her doc-
torate in ecology at the University of Minnesota and
becoming a professor.
Of her experience with TFA, O’Connell said, “I
never once wished I hadn’t done it.”
Hoffman estimates that, after TFA, about one-
third of teachers stay in education, one-third go on to
work with non-profits and related fields, and the re-
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ANDREW STILES/The Stanford Daily
Two students look at an iPhone. According to a recent study, about 20
to 30 percent of all pathogens are transferred from glass such as that
found on touchscreen devices.
By VIVIAN SHEN
With the onset of flu season comes a new way
to transfer illnesses — prized electronic devices,
including iPhones, Blackberrys and similar gadg-
ets.
A recent study co-authored by Stanford Uni-
versity graduate student Timothy Julian found that
about 20 to 30 percent of viruses are transferred
from the glass, like that of touch-screen interfaces,
to fingers.This adds just one more way for students
to catch the flu or other diseases.
“Our research study originally looked at how
well viruses transfer,” Julian said, “because we
don’t know how important different modes of
transfer are for communicable infectious diseases
like influenza, the common cold and gastrointesti-
nal diseases.”
Julian said diseases like influenza are passed
through surfaces and airborne particles, but they
didn’t know how well surfaces transferred these
diseases.All results were from lab-based data; vol-
unteers seeded their hands with bacteria phage
virus, then touched glass surfaces. The amount of
virus left on the fingertips or transferred to the
glass represented the transferability of the virus.
As he discovered, glass is a very effective
fomite, or object capable of transferring infectious
agents.The germs from the glass touch-screens get
onto fingers or other body parts, which in turn
poses serious health risks, as there is a high proba-
bility that these viruses go directly to the nose and
mouth, the most direct pathways to infection.
The practical implications of his study extend to
many commonly used surfaces and items, includ-
ing touch-screen devices.If someone coughs on his
or her hand and then borrows a phone,the chances
of transferring that disease increase exponentially.
This danger is not reserved specifically to touch-
screens; glass was simply used as a proxy in the ex-
periment, and the results could potentially be ex-
tended to doorknobs, toilet flush handles and
countertops.
Yann Meunier of the Stanford School of Medi-
cine Health Improvement Program added general
tips to reduce the spread of pathogens.
“It is easiest to catch diseases in public places,”
he said. “There are people coughing and sneezing
at concerts, conferences and sports events. Trans-
mission of germs is within 6 feet, so stay away from
sick people.”
He also added that general precautions include
“washing hands, covering coughs with elbows,
wearing warm clothing [viruses are easier to catch
when weakened from the cold], eating well, sleep-
ing well and having basically a sound lifestyle.”
If students are already sick, “stay home for 24
hours after the fever has subsided and then go
back to work or classes,” Meunier suggests.“If you
can, have a separate bedroom or bathroom, stay in
bed, and get a lot of fluid because the body loses
water and salt.Don’t share food or dishes with oth-
ers. Viruses can stay alive for hours outside the
body.”
He notes that studies have shown the virus still
alive after 17 days. Julian agrees.
“My personal recommendations if you’re al-
ready sick are to stay home until you feel better,
because it’s better to stay than get others sick,” he
said.
In regard to touch-screens specifically, it never
even occurred to some students that they could be
potential vehicles for spreading germs.
“I’ve never thought about it,” says Brianna
Griffin ‘11, “but I don’t like it when sick people
touch any of my stuff. I am fully in favor of Lysol-
ing.”
Julian couldn’t agree more.
“If you have to go out, make sure you’re wash-
ing your hands and wash surfaces. If you’re specif-
ically concerned about devices,use screen replace-
ments or alcohol wipes.”
Contact Vivian Shen at vshen@stanford.edu.

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FEATURES
John Wayne’s
masculine identity crisis?
By MOLLY K.VORWERCK
I
magine this: John Wayne lying on a psycholo-
gist’s couch,lamenting the loss of his manhood.
Clint Eastwood fervently writing to Dear
Abby, asking for a cure to his manly insecuri-
ties. Sylvester Stallone perusing a bookstore,
searching for “How To Retain Masculinity for Dum-
mies.” Silly, huh?
Not so fast,say some scholars.A new branch of ac-
ademia,male studies,has reached professors at Wag-
ner College, Rutgers University and McGill Univer-
sity in recent months, a movement that argues that
feminist studies has threatened the stability of the
contemporary male identity, one which might not be
as secure as those of Dirty Harry or Rambo.
On the Facebook page for the Foundation for
Male Studies, the up-and-coming academic group
spearheading this movement,articles abound justify-
ing the need to address this supposed crisis.One such
article involves the decreasing ratio of men to
women attending four-year colleges and universities,
and another addresses the statistic that women “for
the first time ever”make up the majority of the work-
force due to layoffs associated with the economic re-
cession.
In a recent New York Times article, male-studies
proponent and resident scholar at the American En-
terprise Institute Christina Hoff Sommers says that
“male-averse attitudes are widespread in the United
States” due in part to feminist studies and the fact
that masculinity has become a social taboo.
While the foundation cites its underlying goal as
studying “the male as male,” one cannot ignore its
rather apparent anti-feminism. Even its brothers
within academia are refusing to take part in this pro-
gram. For instance, The Men’s Studies Association,
established in 1991 to promote the scholarship of
masculinity, denied an invitation to speak at an April
conference for the Foundation at Wagner College.
So, what does Stanford have to think about this
new branch of study?
According to intended feminist-studies major
Miranda Mammen ‘14, “feminist studies, women’s
studies and gender studies across the country are
doing a really good job of tackling what it means to
be a man and conventional constructions of mas-
culinity. I think it’s a misconception that they only
study women, because the study of women’s roles
necessarily includes men.”
“My biggest problem with the male studies phe-
nomenon . . . is that it’s an explicitly anti-feminist
platform,”she continued.“The creators of male stud-
ies have argued that the presence of feminist and
gender studies is harmful to them, which is really
ridiculous.”
Mark Diaz ‘14, an intended psychology and lin-
guistics double major, “understands the idea” of
male studies,“but if you were to look at the big scope
of things,you could say that everything you learn has
been taught with a bias towards men, so I think it’s
fair for feminism to try and balance the scale.”
History Prof. Matthew Sommer considers the
male studies movement “very much part of a kind of
anxious backlash against feminism.
“It seems to me that some scholars, mostly men,
seem very insecure and defensive about feminism,”
Sommer said.“They seem to think that men are vic-
tims.”
That Sommer, as well as many other feminist
studies and history professors at Stanford, was only
nominally familiar with the male studies movement
may be indicative of the movement’s limited media
exposure and its irrelevance to the broader academ-
ic community.In fact,Sommer’s familiarity extended
to only a few articles he had read to prepare for his
interview with The Daily.
Despite his minimal exposure to the movement,
Sommer argues that these academics “don’t confess
to being anti-feminist.”
“But what are they trying to defend?” he ques-
tioned. “What are
they trying to re-
habilitate?”
Sommer an-
ticipates that
gender depart- ANASTASIA YEE/
ments across the The Stanford Daily
country will be be-
mused by this idea of
male studies because
“it’s odd to hear that
men are the victims”
and that very few aca-
demic institutions, if
any,will welcome it as a legitimate
field of study.
On the question of whether Stanford
will create a home for male studies, Som-
mer laughed. “No, [it’s] certainly not welcome.
The idea that men are oppressed in society is ab-
surd.”
While most male studies critics on the Stanford
campus believe that the movement is largely irrele-
vant, some students feel otherwise.
“If there were to be a male-studies class, then it
needs to approach its studies in the same way that
feminists approach theirs,”Alisa Parrett ‘13 suggest-
ed. Male studies “shouldn’t try to side-step feminism
in the name of being politically correct. It shouldn’t
be cowering in a corner trying to be nice to feminists.”
So, back to the beginning: is it really so preposter-
ous to find John Wayne on the psychologist’s couch?
“There are good parts and there are bad parts to
feminism,” said Angela Torres ‘13. “And if you pres-
ent it unbiased, then, you know, guys can make their
decision.”
Maybe man’s favorite gunslinger shouldn’t cancel
that appointment just yet.
Contact Molly K. Vorwerck at mvorwerc@stanford.
edu.
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Catch up with Reyna Garcia,
the student behind the 2009 video that got
thousands of hits
By BILLY GALLAGHER
R
eyna Garcia ‘11 walks into Roble Library wearing shorts and
a “Beat Cal” shirt. At quick glance, she looks just like any
other student. You would never guess that in April 2009, she
filmed a video of Condoleezza Rice that got more than
360,000 hits and 3,000 comments on YouTube.
The video captures on film a student reception for political science
Prof. Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state.As a group of
protestors demonstrated outside Roble Hall, the location of the
event, Garcia videotaped Rice defending the use of interrogation tech-
niques under the Bush administration.
Garcia admits she never expected the video to skyrocket in popular-
ity as it did.
“At first I just thought I would e-mail it to the dorm list because some
people missed the event and were kind of wondering what went on,”
Garcia said. “I just kind of e-mailed it out to the dorm and to TYT [The
Young Turks] too because I follow them.”
Soon after posting the video on YouTube, Garcia received e-mails
and phone calls from major news networks.
“A lot of them just wanted the original footage, but some wanted in-
teresting quotes or more information about the event or more about me
or more about the people asking questions,” she said.“There was a NBC
story that I was on. I was on TYT, The Young Turks. They were the ones
that originally posted to Huffington Post, which is where they picked up
the story. Once it got on Huffington Post it really exploded.”
At the time, Garcia’s video was the most well-documented instance
of Rice engaging students in back-and-forth conversation on controver-
sial topics. It was also Rice’s first publicized response at Stanford to in-
terrogation techniques used during the Bush presidency.
Luckily for viewers, Garcia believes she managed to get the most in-
teresting part of the night on video.
“I was there for most of the reception,” Garcia said. “She was just
making the rounds with the students. [Taking the video] was just kind of
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Continued from page 2 such as Condoleezza Rice and other
important heads of states or former
heads of states on campus,” she
impromptu and everyone had their said. By ANNA SCHUESSLER has come up in the discussion is that it their final decisions.
cameras because we were there tak- CONTRIBUTING WRITER is making certain student groups feel “There are two philosophical con-
ing pictures. Everyone was invited excluded.” cerns: what is your body’s commit-
to bring their cameras for pictures.” On Wednesday the Graduate Stu- Howe clarified the basis for the ment to free speech and free associa-
Rice and Garcia have not spoken dent Council (GSC) discussed its posi- rules, saying that Stanford’s status as tion? If you do restrict funding, it
since the YouTube video gained na- tion as a facilitator of freedom of a 501(c)(3) organization restricts should be content-neutral across all
tional attention. speech on the Stanford campus. In re- funds coming directly from the Uni- activities because you might be
When asked for a comment for sponse to a questions raised about reli- versity from supporting candidates abridging someone’s speech,” said
this story, staff in Rice’s office gious-event funding, the council invit- running for office. Howe.
replied that they were too busy be- ed Nanci Howe of Student Activities “We cannot support partisan and Some council members expressed
cause of her book tour. and Leadership to speak about the political activities,” said Howe. “‘Par- reservations about writing a bylaw in-
Garcia expressed interest in con- University’s relationship with the by- tisan’ is narrowly defined by some- tended to be passed down from year
versing one-on-one with Rice in the laws regarding religious and political one running for office.We cannot en- to year. Addy Satija, a fourth-year
future, particularly on the decisions funding.GSC funding committee chair dorse or fund candidates, and cannot graduate student in electrical engi-
Rice made while in office. Krystal St. Julien clarified the guide- put the University in a position of neering, hoped to protect the tran-
“I would definitely want to per- lines the group has been using in the funding candidates. That is against sient nature of each council.
haps press on the torture issue and past year to make funding decisions. tax law.” “I would think it would be useful
why she is so adamant about sticking “Right now we cannot fund reli- Howe could not be sure of the ori- to keep [the bylaw] standing at least
to the position of waterboarding not gious and political events with the gins of the funding bylaws regarding for a year,” Satija said.
being torture,” Garcia said. strict exception that they are educa- religious events, but she encouraged Ultimately, councilmembers came
Although she has received sup- tional and open to everybody,” St. the GSC to think about the values
portive feedback from friends, fami- CAROLINE MARKS/The Stanford Daily Julien said. “One of the things that they were planning to uphold with Please see FUNDING, page 7
ly and even strangers, Garcia ac-
knowledged that not all the respons-
es to her YouTube video have been
positive.
“Anonymous people on
YouTube send hateful e-mails every
once in a while,” she said. “Often
they go on very personal attacks to-
wards me or the other students who
were asking the questions, and that
was the hardest thing to deal with at
first. But I realized I don’t need to
worry about what they think about
me, especially since I don’t know
them . . . I still get some hate mail
even today from random people on
YouTube.”
Garcia hopes that the very real
possibility of negative backlash will
not discourage other professors or
people of Rice’s stature from dis-
cussing contentious issues with stu-
dents.
“I mean, people like Dr. Rice,
they’re public figures . . . that’s kind
of the response her staff gave after
the event,” Garcia said. “They know
that what they say is subject to re-
sponse. I would hope that that would-
n’t make them nervous.”
Garcia, a Los Angeles native, will
graduate this spring to an undecided
future. Currently in the process of
applying to jobs and graduate
schools, she likes to think that the
Rice incident won’t dampen her
prospects.
“I would hope it wouldn’t really
affect anyone’s opinion of me,” she
said. “I don’t know. I don’t think
anyone would want to take the time
to Google me. That seems kind of
random.”
In any case, Garcia has taken
away an important lesson from the
Rice-YouTube experience: students
have every right to engage in open
dialogue with visiting speakers.
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hat’s your favorite sound? No, not Theodore L. Glasser Chelsea Ma Zack Hoberg
the sizzle of bacon; not something Managing Editor of Features Giancarlo Daniele Photo Editor
Michael Londgren Web Projects Editor
associated with another sense or ex- Marisa Landicho Helen Anderson
perience. The sound you like most in the
world, purely for its aesthetic appeal.
Lucas Will Bob Michitarian
Managing Editor of Intermission Jane LePham, Devin Banerjee Copy Editor
Jane LePham Vivian Wong Staff Development
It’s not a question asked very frequently.
We have favorite colors, probably a favorite
Johnson Shelley Gao Managing Editor of Photography
flavor, but not very often is there a sound Zachary Warma
that causes you to stop and just listen. The Editorial Board Chair
sonic sense is cultivated in our society in
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You probably had a favorite song in mind, forego HD video just because of storage
and I’m not suggesting we neglect our brain’s constraints? Luckily, as computer capacity
microphones. In the same way we enjoy a expands, we’ll be more able to have quantity
meal or a landscape painting, when several el- and quality. T HIS C OLUMN I S I RONIC
ements of a sense are assembled together, Interestingly, we aren’t trained to manip-
they make a pleasing product. But do you ulate recorded sound the same way we are
have a particular tempo or pitch you prefer
above others? And how often do you take the
time, between classes, homework and activi-
ties, to really listen to the world around you?
with other media. Text editing is second na-
ture, simple cropping and toying with photos
is easy, and even middle school kids can pull
out a video camera and make silly cops-and-
It’s a Jungle Out There
Technology has given us amazing control robbers home videos. But it’s usually only

over the sound we listen to. Audio recording
has developed to a point where digital en-
coding provides us with microscopic resolu-
tion and massive storage capacity. With en-
tire music libraries in our pockets, we are no
longer restricted to a concert hall for a
world-class performance of a Beethoven
symphony. Nor must we sit in our living
room with a turntable piping tunes through
cabinet-sized speakers. But when we take
music out of those quiet environments, the
noisy world intrudes upon the fidelity of the
sound.
For example, when you’re in a car, listen-
ing to an iPod or the radio, the highway noise
masks all subtleties.That’s why pop and rock
are always mixed to be forte, because you
would never hear the soft bits. It’s the same
on a plane or commuting on a metro — we
wear headphones in an attempt to drown out
the hum of the vehicle (and the tedium).
Campus life has its examples too: speakers
cranked up over voices at loud parties, wear-
ing earbuds as you go to class, etc.
In these kinds of settings, not only are the
dynamics of music for naught, but so is the
spectral variety. Certain frequencies get lost,
like when the car engine’s low rumble domi-
nates a bass line.We still sing along at the top
of our lungs to a song at a party, but if that’s
the main way we listen, we lose a depth of
complexity in the sonic experience.
Even if we listened in quiet areas, the
quality of our recordings hasn’t been opti-
mal recently. Algorithms compress sound
L ETTERS TO THE
musicians that start fiddling around with
Garage Band. I suppose we don’t edit sound
very often because it’s not our main form of
storing and communicating information. It
takes time to listen to a speech when you
could more quickly read it. So we usually
couple the sound with a video, or we multi-
task and listen while we work.
But when we treat sound as a supplement
to our other senses, we don’t devote our en-
tire attention to it. Unless you’re a musician
or an audiophile, it’s easy to neglect a whole
universe of experience. Taking time to pick
out the clarinet countermelody in a piece, ap-
preciating the particular “chnk!” of a car
door closing, or marveling at the rasp of a
radio host’s voice are just more delicious rea-
sons to be alive.
On campus, there is a contingent of peo-
ple who obsess over sound.We’re finally get-
ting a concert hall with good acoustics, and
any music class (especially at CCRMA) will
focus your ears more than before, not to
mention the kid down the hall with expen-
sive speakers and headphones. But for peo-
ple in general, if you’ve ever savored a bite of
your favorite food or gazed for minutes at an
impressive sunset, then I recommend tuning
into your ears’ acuity.Take a breath from the
Stanford schedule for a moment and listen to
the Farm. It’ll make the music better.
Listen to the sound of typing, for example, if
you want to e-mail Lucas at lucaswj@stan-
ford.edu.
E DITOR
S
tanford is one of the most diverse college
campuses on the planet. We have stu-
dents here from countries you’ve never
even heard of. Seriously, my roommate dur-
ing freshman and sophomore years was from
Bahrain. Do you think I could actually point
that out on a map before I walked into Mirlo
304 two years ago? Hell no.
It’s not just our international student seg-
ment that embodies this remarkable diversi-
ty. In fact, our entire student population ex-
hibits a wider variety of creatures than you’d
see in The Lion King. Heading out into the
jungle of Stanford will allow you to see dif-
ferent types of people all existing together. It
can be confusing and even overwhelming at
first, so here’s a little scientific guide to help
you pick out some of the most prevalent
species of students here in the wild of the
Farm:
Bros (bromo erectus): If you want to spot
some bros in the wild, your best bet is to head
to the area around Theta Delt, Kappa Sig and
SAE — an area I like to refer to as the “Bro-
muda Triangle.”To confirm that you’ve spot-
ted a bro, check his clothing choice. He is al-
most guaranteed to be wearing a tank top
from one of the sororities on campus — most
likely to show off his Theta or Pi Phi girl-
friend. Bros are also likely to be legacy stu-
dents or have at least one parent who is the
CEO of a Fortune 500 company. If you would
like to attempt to get an up-close look at a
bro (don’t worry: they’re harmless), try offer-
ing him a can of Keystone Light. Please note:
members of Sigma Nu desire the moniker
“bro,” but end up looking more like Quinn
from Dexter than anything else.
Sorority Girls (homo blairwaldorficus):
Shane
Savitsky
Sorority girls are the female equivalent of
bros. You can spot them sporting the same
neon tank tops as bros, but always with a
Longchamp bag in tow. While bros tend to
congregate in the Bromuda Triangle, you’ll
find sorority girls in the Cowell Cluster.There
are only three relevant species of sorority
girls — Thetas, Pi Phis and Tri Delts. They
have houses and thus greater status in their
ecosystem here at Stanford. Kappas also are
plentiful on campus, but their lack of a true
habitat in the Cowell Cluster has caused them
to develop an affinity for alcohol as a social
adaptation to combat their inferiority com-
plex. Beware.
Hippies (homo immundus):Some may tell
you that Columbae is the “social justice”
theme house on campus, but it just exists to
distract you from the real hippies on campus.
We’ve placed them in their very own quaran-
tine zone — Synergy. It’s on a secluded hill-
top far away from the rest of campus. You
could think of it as a “Jurassic Park” for hip-
pies. These people can be identified by their
complete disregard for basic human norms,
including but not limited to showering, cloth-
ing and the consumption of meat. Don’t ap-
proach too close. Otherwise, the hippies will
mercilessly expound the benefits of a vegan
and environmentalist lifestyle to you.
Hipsters (scientific name is too obscure):
These are more difficult to spot in the wild, so
feel fortunate if you run across one.Your best
bet to see one may be wine and cheese nights
at Kairos. You can identify hipsters by their
extremely ratty clothing.This is just a camou-
flage technique! Their clothing most likely
was purchased at Urban Outfitters or some
overpriced secondhand shop in San Francisco
for hundreds of dollars. Feel free to get a clos-
er look.Their oversized headphones general-
ly blast incomprehensible music, giving you
the element of surprise. Most of their time is
spent scouring the blogosphere for new
bands to listen to in order to impress others.
They’ll want to tell you about it, so don’t mis-
interpret this behavior as aggression. Simply
tell the hipster that you’re attending a Katy
Perry concert tonight,and he will scamper off.
Nerds (homo solitarius): This species is
known for its horrific mutation: they are gen-
erally techies or pre-meds. Stanford scientists
are still confused as to how they evolved. Re-
gardless, as a result of their mutation, they
spend much of their time locked away in their
rooms in Manz or GovCo.They are generally
harmless, but their lack of human contact
often makes them skittish. The only time you
will run into this species is on their way to
class in Gates, Hewlett or Mudd.
There you have it, my friends.You will en-
counter all of these species during your time
here at Stanford. Stay safe and happy spot-
ting!
Want a personal guide for your next Stanford
safari? Then e-mail Shane at savitsky@stan-
ford.edu.

Shedding Light on the

Constitutional Council
ship was refreshed last spring, not a single
case had been heard in years. NEWS
A quiet past, or even a drawn-out nomi-

Dear Editor,
The ASSU Constitutional Council is one
of those rare byproducts of our strange local
democracy. Americans don’t forget that the
U.S. Supreme Court exists, but in a universi-
ty with high turnover and a booming stu-
dent-government bureaucracy, it’s not unbe-
lievable that the average Stanford student
will have no clue what the Constitutional
Council is, let alone who’s on it. The judicial
body of the ASSU has a considerable influ-
ence: the right to interpret the ASSU consti-
tution. Yet a case almost never arrives to the
council’s docket.A glance at its recent histo-
ry shows that before the council’s member-
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host a Democratic National Committee re-
ception at the home of Steve Westly ‘78 MBA
‘83, the former state controller of California.
The purpose of the president’s visit to
Northern California, according to a White
House press release, is two-fold: to headline
events for the DNC and to campaign for
San Francisco district attorney Kamala
Harris, who is running to be the first woman
and first African-American attorney gener-
al of California. Harris was an early and
strong supporter of Obama’s bid for the
presidency.
Obama will spend the night in the Bay Area
before leaving early Friday for Los Angeles.
There, he will campaign for Democratic guber-
natorial candidate Jerry Brown, Democratic
lieutenant governor candidate Gavin Newsom
and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) at various
events, including at a rally at the University of
Southern California.
— Devin Banerjee
Dining employee
arrested for alleged
burglary
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
A Stanford Dining employee was arrested
on campus Tuesday on suspicion of burglarizing
a Palo Alto home earlier this month, the San
Jose Mercury News reported late Wednesday.
cion of burglary and taking a vehicle without
permission.
Fernandez worked in a Stanford dining hall,
Brown told the Mercury News.
The incident marks at least the second arrest
of a Stanford employee in the last month. On
Sept. 26, Sgt. Chris Cohendet of the Depart-
ment of Public Safety was arrested on suspicion
of driving under the influence of alcohol.
— Devin Banerjee
Obituary: Grace ‘Lyn’
Hendry ‘41
Grace “Lyn” (Kreps) Hendry ‘41, a long-
time resident of Bethesda and distinguished
and highly regarded teacher who received nu-
merous awards for excellence while teaching,
died on Oct.13.She was 89 years old and for the
past 20 years resided at Heron Point in
Chestertown, Md.
Hendry was the teacher whom students re-
membered,who inspired them to think critical-
ly and challenge themselves. She was passion-
ate about teaching and saw public education as
the cornerstone of a strong democracy. Many
students stayed in touch long after they gradu-
ated. In the words of one of them, “You were
the first teacher to open the wider world of
ideas to me.” When Georgetown University
asked students to name their most influential
high school teacher, they chose Hendry; in
1979, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of
Humane Letters (Hons.) by Georgetown Uni-
versity for excellence in the field of secondary-
school teaching, and was one of the first sec-
ondary-school teachers in the country to be so
recognized.
Hendry began her teaching career in Sacra-
She came to Montgomery County in 1966
and taught there for 20 years, first at Richard
Montgomery High School in Rockville, and
from 1970 until her retirement in 1986 at Walt
Whitman High School in Bethesda. Her fields
of instruction were economics, history and
contemporary issues. In 1986, she was recog-
nized as a distinguished teacher under the
Presidential Scholars segment of the National
Merit Scholarship Program, and also received
the University of Rochester’s Award for Ex-
cellence in Secondary School Teaching.
Hendry was named teacher of the year at
Richard Montgomery High School for the ac-
ademic year 1970-1971 and best teacher at
Walt Whitman High School in 1976. She
served as chair of the Walt Whitman High
School Faculty Council, county representa-
tive in the Maryland State Teachers Associa-
tion and on various other educational com-
mittees.
Hendry was a 1941 graduate from Stanford
University. She received a California General
Secondary Certificate from UC-Los Angeles
in 1942 and an M.A. in education from Michi-
gan State University in 1960.
Surviving family members include her de-
voted husband of 62 years, Dr. James Hendry
of Chestertown, Md.; three daughters, Nancy
Hendry of Bethesda, Khati Hendry of Sum-
merland, B.C. and Susan Manley of Bethesda;
five grandchildren,two brothers and two sisters.
Corrections
In “Knight Management Center wins en-
vironmental award” (Oct. 18), The Daily in-
correctly reported that the Knight Manage-
ment Center has already earned the LEED
Platinum certification. In fact, the building is
on track to earn the certification but must

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Jose Luis Fernandez, 20, was on probation
for another burglary when he allegedly stole
several items and a Volkswagen from a couple’s
Palo Alto home on Oct. 8. Fernandez is also a
suspect in a similar burglary on July 3, Lt. San-
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mento and San Francisco, Calif. In 1946, she
went to Beijing to help reopen the Peking
American School after the war with Japan
ended.She remained there to teach until evac-
uated in early 1949,when Beijing was captured
by communist forces. Hendry also taught in
the American School in Saigon from 1957 to
1959, and was headmistress of the Dacca
American School from 1963 to 1964 in what
was then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. She
taught in the junior high school in East Lans-
ing, Mich. from 1960 to 1962 and again from
1964 to 1966.
wait until the building is finished.
In “Stanford Dining hires staff nutrition-
ist” (Oct. 20), The Daily incorrectly reported
that Vaden Health Center’s nutritionist, Vi-
vian Crisman, works full-time. In fact, she is
employed half-time.
In “Brokaw to moderate Stanford round-
table on longevity” (Oct. 20), The Daily in-
correctly reported that the roundtable is
happening on both Saturday and Sunday.
The event is only on Saturday.
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SPORTS
BACK TO THE DESERT
Unbeaten Card heads to Arizona for first time
since ‘07, puts conference lead on the line
By SAM SVOBODA
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The No. 1 Stanford women’s soccer
team travels to Arizona this weekend
to take on Arizona and Arizona State,
heading off on what could be the
team’s final trip out of California until
the College Cup.
After this weekend, the Card will
only have three Pac-10 matches left —
a trip across the Bay to Berkeley and
games against the Oregon schools at
home. Given its current ranking, Stan-
ford will likely be playing at home for
the first four rounds of the NCAA
Tournament (if the team advances to
all of those rounds) before the Final
Four takes place in Cary, N.C.
But first the Cardinal must survive
the trip to the desert, which begins Fri-
day night in Tempe against Arizona
State. ASU comes into the match with
a record of 8-3-2 (2-1-0 Pac-10),but has
not been on a great run of late. After
starting the season at an impressive 6-0-
1, the team has gone 2-3-1 since.
The Sun Devils do have a bit of mo-
mentum now,however,and thanks to a
good conference start they are still in
third place in the Pac-10. ASU split its
games in Washington two weeks ago,
beating Washington State,1-0, but los-
ing to Washington by the same score.
Last weekend the Sun Devils hosted
in-state rival Arizona and came away
with a 2-1 victory. An upset over Stan-
ford would prove them to be legitimate
contenders in the conference.
Arizona, meanwhile, is looking to
gain respect after a rough start to the
season.The Wildcats are 4-8-2 and sit at
the bottom of the Pac-10 standings,
with a 0-3-0 conference record. Aside
from last weekend’s loss to Arizona
State,they also lost a close 1-0 match to
Washington State, but were trounced
by Washington 4-1.They will play their
first conference game at home on Fri-
day against Cal before hosting Stan-
ford on Sunday at noon.
Although these are not the most
high-profile matches on Stanford’s
schedule,the Card is still prepared for a
challenge in the desert.
“Both [Arizona and Arizona State]
are tough teams,” said Stanford head
coach Paul Ratcliffe.“We’ll have to re-
ally show up and give good effort to get
the wins.”
East Coast gauntlet
By JACK BLANCHAT
The Stanford women’s
lacrosse team embarks on a
championship challenge this
weekend, as the Card travels to
Philadelphia to take on three
top-10 teams this Saturday.
While the Card will be missing
Homecoming, the reason is most
definitely a good one, as it will
tangle with perennial power-
houses Maryland, Virginia and
Sophomore Carloyn Bradley, the Cardinal player on the right above, scores a goal against UC-Davis last weekend. Stanford will need continued con-
tributions from the midfielder, along with the rest of the team, when it faces one of its toughest tests of the season this weekend.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
10/17 vs. WASHINGTON
W 2-1
UP NEXT
ARIZONA STATE
(8-3-1, 2-1 Pac-10)
10/22 Tempe, Ariz.
7 P.M.
GAME NOTES: Stanford will embark on its final
trip away from the Bay Area this weekend,
heading to the desert to face the Arizona
schools. First up for the top-ranked Cardinal
are the Sun Devils of Arizona State, currently
in third place in the Pac-10 standings.
The Cardinal did just that last year,
winning relatively comfortably against
both of the Arizona schools when they
visited the Farm — Stanford beat Ari-
zona State 3-1 behind goals from Mari-
ah Nogueira, Courtney Verloo and
Morgan Redman, and then clinched a
share of the Pac-10 title by beating Ari-
zona 4-0.Kelley O’Hara tied the school
record for points in a single season dur-
ing that game, and the Card also got
goals from Nogueira, Christen Press
and Teresa Noyola.
While O’Hara has since graduated,
every other player who scored for Stan-
ford that weekend is still on the team.
In fact,Press has been breaking records
of her own,as she has claimed the Stan-
ford career points and goals marks this
year.The forward is in incredible form,
and going into this weekend has 18
goals on the season and has scored in
nine consecutive matches.
Not that the streak crosses her mind
during the game, though.
“I don’t think about it . . . when I’m
playing,”Press said.“I just have been in
front of the goal so many times this year
[and] I’ve had so many good chances,it’s
just about finding a way to persevere
and get one in.I think,‘I’ve got to get one
[of the chances],at least,in,’ not ‘I’ve got
to score this game [for the streak].’”
Please see WSOCCER, page 7
Pennsylvania.
Stanford capped off last
weekend’s playday by knocking
off three Mountain Pacific
Sports Federation (MPSF) foes,
but the task gets elevated to a
new level this weekend at
Franklin Field, home of the
Quakers.
The highlight of the weekend
will be when the Card takes on
Maryland, the defending nation-
al champion. Of course, Penn
Senior Christen Press, above, has been a huge asset for the Cardinal this season. The forward from Palos Verdes
Estates, Calif. recently became Stanford’s all-time leader in points and goals, and has scored in nine straight games.
and Virginia are no slouches ei-
ther, as both made last year’s
NCAA Tournament as well.
Maryland took home the na-
tional title with a 13-11 victory over
Northwestern, which was ranked
No. 1 for most of the season.
The Northwestern-Maryland
matchup in the title game was es-
pecially significant for the Ter-
rapins, who were pining to knock
Please see WLAX, page 7
Thursday, October 21, 2010 ! 5
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
WOMEN’S LACROSSE SPORTS BRIEFS
10/16 vs. FRESNO STATE
SAINT MARY’S, UC DAVIS 3-0 Stanford field
hockey faces
UP NEXT Pacific on Senior
MARYLAND, PENN, VIRGINIA Day
10/23 Philadelphia, Pa.
GAME NOTES: After powering through a trio of opponents Stanford will host Pacific this
from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in their last Sunday in its final home game of
playday, the Cardinal is headed to the East Coast to take the regular season before wrap-
on some much tougher opponents: All three of Stanford’s ping up conference play at Cali-
matches this Saturday are against top-10 teams. fornia next weekend and shifting
its focus to the postseason. The
No. 19 Cardinal (9-5, 3-1 Nor-
Pac) is currently just one game
behind NorPac-West leading
California, and a win over Pacif-
ic (2-11, 0-3) could go a long way
toward positioning it for a late
run at the NorPac’s Western Di-
vision regular season title.
Heading into the final stretch
of the season, Stanford looks to
be in good form. The Cardinal
has spent 17 consecutive weeks
in the national rankings, a school
record. Goalkeeper Alexandra
Moss has a lot to do with keep-
ing that stretch alive, and has
caught people’s attention re-
cently with her strong play —
the junior out of New York, N.Y.
was named the NorPac’s West
Division defensive player of the
week after stopping eight shots
in two games on the road last
week.
The match will also mark
Stanford’s annual Senior Day
for 2010, featuring festivities
that will honor graduates-to-be
Heather Alcorn, Katherine
Donner, Jaimee Erickson,
Camille Gandhi, Katherine
Swank and Xanthe Travlos. The
ceremonies come amid the
school-wide activities scheduled
for Homecoming this weekend.
Stanford’s match against Pa-
cific is scheduled for 1 p.m. this
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Sunday at Varsity Turf.
— Nate Adams
Tom Taylor
Fixing soccer
in America:
part 2 of2
L
ast Friday, I wrote an article
arguing that the future of soc-
cer may well lie in the hands
of the United States, not be-
cause of its great interest in
the sport,but rather because of its apa-
thy. Soccer wants to be big here, and so
the average American sports fan could
wield serious influence on the game.
I also drew up a short list of the
major problems with soccer from as
much of an American viewpoint as I
could.Now I want to analyze these and
propose some solutions that could not
just boost the sport’s popularity here,
but would also be seen as a positive
step elsewhere.
Low scoring and ties
There is no way to change the fun-
damental rules of soccer to increase
the number of goals scored without
changing what is a tried-and-true (and
hugely successful) format overseas,not
to mention alienating billions of fans.
Similarly, there is no good way to elim-
inate ties, as FIFA’s failed experiments
with golden and silver goals have
shown.
Even if American fans can’t get
used to these aspects of the game,there
might still be an answer. Youth devel-
opment in the United States could
concentrate on developing ball skills
and playing a fast, attacking game.The
combination of better offense with in-
evitably weaker defense would make
tied games more rare and lead to more
goals scored.
Cheats and bad referees
Compared to pretty much every
other professional sport, soccer has
lagged behind in using technology to
help referees and to catch cheaters.
This is partly because the game has few
natural pauses in which to refer to
video evidence, but that is no real ex-
cuse.
Goal-line technology would be a
start. Everyone has seen disallowed
goals that clearly crossed the line,and I
can even think of goals that went
nowhere near the line. It is easy to vili-
fy referees for these mistakes,but if we
don’t use technology to make their
lives easier, even the best will still get it
wrong occasionally.
Video evidence would also be a
vital tool in catching cheaters. It’s not
possible to stop a game in the middle of
play to check the footage,but there are
still ways to integrate it. Reviewing the
game afterwards, it would be possible
to hand out red or yellow cards retro-
spectively, and even take back cards
that were wrongly awarded.Though it
would be impossible to reverse the ac-
tual result of the game, this would act
as a major deterrent for anyone inten-
tionally cheating, knowing their ac-
tions would never go completely un-
noticed.
Understanding the game
One consequence of using more
technology at soccer games is that all
sorts of data could be amassed on what
happens during a game — length of
passes,speed of shots,distance run,etc.
The list is virtually endless,and all sorts
of tables and charts could be drawn up
to compare the performances of differ-
ent players and teams. Something like
the Hawk-Eye system used in tennis
and cricket would allow TV pundits to
replay shots from any angle and make
televised soccer more appealing to the
average American sports fan.
Major League sports
It is unlikely that any major foreign
soccer teams will play regular season
games in the United States any time
soon, because the idea is hugely un-
popular with fans and the governing
bodies of the world game. But there
could still be a way to do this. Occa-
sionally teams are forced to play
games either behind closed doors or in
neutral locations, and I can’t think of a
much more neutral location than the
United States. Perhaps America could
even bid to host the Champions
League Final one year.
The world’s best players could also
be brought to these shores by creating
strong links between MLS teams and
the biggest clubs in Europe. Big teams
often loan out talented young players
so that they can gain vital match expe-
rience, and U.S. teams could market
themselves as feeder teams.This could
mean some of the brightest young tal-
ent coming to play here for a year or
two, and could perhaps bring the “sen-
ior” players across now and then as
well.
It is also worth considering structur-
ing the MLS more like soccer leagues
abroad rather than copying the major
U.S. sports. Across Europe, each coun-
Please see TAYLOR, page 7
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maining teachers enter completely
new professions.
Catherine Aranda ‘10 is currently a
Stanford Public Interest Network
(SPIN) fellow, working to coordinate
family workshops for the early child-
hood literacy program JumpStart.
Aranda was heavily involved with
public service throughout her under-
graduate career, completing three
summer fellowships through the Haas
Center and co-directing East Palo
Alto Stanford Academy, a mentoring
program for middle school students.
She has tentative plans to enter busi-
ness school after graduation but says
that, no matter what her career trajec-
tory, she wants to remain engaged in
her community.
“I’ve always known that regardless
of what I end up doing as a profession,
public service is going to be a part of
my life no matter what,” she said.
Postgraduate fellows come from all
majors, but Murray said that there are
a large number of international rela-
tions,human biology and public policy
majors.
According to political science pro-
fessor and co-director of Center on
Philanthropy and Civic Society Rob
Reich M.A. ‘98 Ph.D. ‘98, students
graduate with good intentions and a
solid grip of world issues but are not al-
ways sure how to translate ideals into
action.
“The Stanford student body is very
motivated, but what’s lacking is an
array of courses that would help stu-
dents prepare for and be better service
providers,” Reich said.
For alumni like O’Connell, the
most effective learning came through
hands-on experience, where abstract
mission statements and theories of ed-
ucational equity were replaced by di-
rect experience.
“I loved teaching and I couldn’t
have done what I did without [TFA],”
she said.“I support TFA’s big ideas,but
they didn’t affect me from day to day.”
Hoffman noted that students have
increasingly adopted the mindset of,“I
don’t want to work to work. I want my
work to matter.”
Contact Sarah Jacobsen at sarah92
@stanford.edu.
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“That’s her job,”Ratcliffe added.
He also noted that whoever is scor-
ing is secondary to how the team is play-
ing overall.
“The team is supplying great passes
to her to get the goals [and] to be a for-
ward you have to be a goal-scorer,” he
said.
As for the road trip,Press is excited,
but the senior refuses to believe that it
will be the last time in her college career
that she will hit the road with her team-
mates.
“It’s going to be fun . . . but we don’t
like to think that it will be our last road
trip,” she said.“We’ve got a bigger and
better road trip ahead of us at the end of
the year.”
Stanford will take on Arizona State
on Friday at 7 p.m. in Tempe,Ariz., be-
fore facing the Wildcats at 12 p.m. on
Sunday in Tucson,Ariz.
Contact Sam Svoboda at ssvoboda@
stanford.edu.
WLAX
Continued from page 5
off the Wildcats team that had cap-
tured every national championship
since 2005, a streak of five in a row.
The Wildcats had commandeered
the top spot in women’s lacrosse
from the Terps, who also had an im-
pressive title streak of their own.
From 1995-2001, the Terps reeled
off seven straight national champi-
onships, the third-longest streak of
consecutive championships in any
NCAA women’s sport.
The Terps have had a tough test
in their fall schedule, having gone
on the road to face Virginia and
battled with both Vanderbilt and
Georgetown at home.
Stanford, their latest challenge, will
be looking to exact revenge on the
Terps, as Maryland beat the Card
20-8 last year in College Park, Md.
While the Cardinal will be hop-
ing to get back at the Terrapins, the
Card’s other two opponents have
an even bigger bone to pick with
the girls from Maryland. The Cava-
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dot-com bust of the early 2000s,and al-
most double levels at the start of the
Great Depression.
Sandy Close,the executive director
of New America Media, which co-de-
veloped the project, says the index has
tremendous potential not only to en-
able journalists to understand histori-
cal trends but also make sense of eco-
nomic facts and figures.
“We as reporters have a hard time
unpacking the economic data and get-
ting a real sense of what’s going on
around us,” she said.
Though the San Francisco project
made use of county data, since the city
is coterminous with the county, Close
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liers lost once in the regular season
and once in the ACC Tournament
to the Terrapins, and Penn lost to
the Terps in the regular season and
in the quarterfinals of the NCAA
Tournament
Virginia finished ranked No. 5
last year and was bounced from the
NCAA Tournament by North Car-
olina in the quarterfinals. The 17-7
loss to the Heels was especially sur-
prising because the Cavaliers took
down the Tar Heels 13-12 in over-
time during the regular season. The
Cavaliers only had three regular
season losses last year, including
one to James Madison, who ended
Stanford’s season in the NCAA
Tournament.
The Card’s final opponent,
Penn, finished the season ranked
No. 7 after it fell to Maryland in the
quarterfinals of the NCAA Tourna-
ment. The Quakers finished with a
12-3 regular season record, good
enough for the Ivy League regular
season title. Penn completed the
Ivy double when it took home the
league’s tournament title with a 9-8
victory over Dartmouth in the
championship game.
And while Maryland, Virginia
called it a “provisional first step” and
expressed hope that similar indicators
could be collected in other counties
and subsets developed for individual
cities. Such indexes, she says, make it
easier to gauge not only hardship but
improvement.
“I would like to see the distress
index turned into a hope index,” she
said.“It would be exciting if the indica-
tors showed improvement.”
Contact Samantha McGirr at
smcgirr@stanford.edu
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to the conclusion that the decision
would be theirs to make. The GSC
planned to discuss the matter at
greater length at an open session di-
rectly following the meeting as well
as at its upcoming retreat.
“We can ask as many administra-
tors as we want,” said Jessica Tsai,
council co-chair. “But in the end, we
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and Penn will steal the spotlight of
this weekend’s schedule, the Cardi-
nal will still have another playday on
Sunday. After Saturday’s Penn
scrimmages, the Card will move to
Malvern, Pa., for scrimmages against
Drexel, St. Joseph’s and Temple. The
three Sunday opponents struggled
last season, as the best record be-
longed to Drexel, who finished 10-7
overall. Temple notched a 7-10
record and St. Joe’s struggled to a 2-
14 regular season. None of the three
made the NCAA Tournament.
The Philadelphia weekend will
be the Cardinal’s only trip away
from California this fall, but the
venture will be a return home for
many of the players on the Cardinal
roster. Seventeen of 27 team mem-
bers hail from the greater Philadel-
phia metropolitan area, including
11 players from Maryland.
Next weekend, the Card will take
a Halloween trip to UC-Davis for a
playday. The Cardinal will play Cal,
St. Mary’s and UC-Davis in its last
series of intercollegiate games be-
fore February.
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@
stanford.edu.
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try has a hierarchy of smaller leagues
below the top one, and they are linked
so that the best teams are promoted
upward and the worst relegated down-
ward. The biggest advantage of this is
that it means everyone has a nearby
home team,and that there is always the
chance that your team could eventual-
ly make it to the very top of the pile.It’s
a little like the American dream —
anyone can start a team, and with
enough hard work that team can hit it
big.
College sports
It may be tricky to find a compro-
mise between young players attend-
ing college or starting their profes-
sional career early, but it would be a
simple step for the NCAA to bring its
rules closer to professional rules. This
means limiting the number of substi-
tutions to just three, playing with a
normal clock where time is added for
stoppages rather than a running clock,
and removing the golden goal rule.
These might seem like minor changes,
but the advantage of consistent rules
is that fans of college soccer will be im-
mediately familiar with professional
soccer.
Limited substitutions might re-
duce the number of people that can be
involved in any particular game, but it
would perhaps make college players
more attractive to professional clubs.
Playing a full 90 minutes is a more dif-
ficult physical test than, say, 20 min-
utes with breaks.
Whether you agree with my ideas
or not, though, events across the pond
last week made one thing clear. Last
Friday, the very unpopular American
regime at the world-famous Liver-
pool FC was ousted; not by fans or an
oil-rich billionaire, but by rival U.S. in-
vestors. Soccer may never manage to
hit the big time in the United States,
but ultimately, American influence in
the sport is here to stay. So please, be
gentle.
Tom Taylor just wants European
leagues to play games in the United
States so he can simultaneously be a
Stanford student and attend proper
football matches.Tell him how impos-
sible that dream is at tom.taylor@stan-
ford.edu.
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