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November 4, 2010
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Experts from across Stanford came
together at Wednesday’s food sum-
mit to discuss strategies for promot-
ing better health and nutrition on
campus and across the world.
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Experts talk
food, health
at summit
Conference promotes
multifacted approach
By ELIZABETH TITUS
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Behind the lunch at Arrillaga
Alumni Center on Wednesday —
vegan squash patties with tomato
chutney, smoked Alaskan salmon,
wheat berry and rice salad — was an
event medical professor Chris Gard-
ner believes was unprecedented: the
gathering of experts from all seven of
Stanford’s schools to talk, well, food.
Gardner, a medical school profes-
sor, organized the “food summit” to
prod interdisciplinary discussion of
“some of the nation’s and the planet’s
most challenging and important
crises” and their implications for en-
vironment, health, industry and poli-
cy. But beyond the day’s agenda,
which attracted 350 attendees, the
event offered a snapshot of a matur-
ing sustainable food movement at
Stanford, where students’ interest
has been on a steady upward climb
for much of the last decade.
“There’s something here that res-
onates,” Gardner said. He described
finding colleagues one by one who
were working on food issues, first at
the Woods Institute for the Environ-
ment, then in philosophy, then at
Stanford Law School. The recent re-
search on obesity and malnutrition in
India, led by Jeremy Goldhaber-
Fiebert of the Woods Institute, is a
classic example of food’s intercon-
nected nature, he said. Food-related
health issues can involve food securi-
ty, he said; in turn, food security can
relate to climate change.
“People are starting to realize
these things are connected,” Gardner
said.
Eric Montell,executive director of
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STUDENT GOV’T
GSC approves executive campaign spending bill
Council debates spending
cap’s effect on free speech
By ANNA SCHUESSLER
STAFF WRITER
At this week’s Graduate Student Council
(GSC) meeting, members discussed new pro-
gramming ideas, approved a bill for ASSU ex-
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From the Farm to the Hill
Stanford boasts second-highest number of alumni in new Congress
By THEO MATTHEWS
Stanford has the second-most graduates in
Congress, according to a list compiled by U.S.
News & World Report. Eleven Cardinal alum-
ni currently serve in the Senate and House of
Representatives, five of whom were re-elected
on Tuesday. Stanford places second only to
Harvard, which dropped its representation to
13 members from 15 after the election.
Among the alumni, seven are senators and
five are representatives. Two are women; nine
are Democrats.
Although the members represent states as
far away as the Illinois, there is a higher con-
centration of elected alumni holding office in
the West Coast.
Tickling the Ivories
Annie Scalmanini ‘11 performs at Sigma Nu’s SNAPS on Wednesday night. The event enables Stanford artists and musicians to showcase their
work in front of their peers.
ecutive campaign-spending reform and pre-
pared for the council’s weekend retreat. Over
the weekend, the group hopes to clarify its po-
sition with regard to annual budgetary and eth-
ical issues and to work on reestablishing its role
as voice of the graduate student population.
Co-chair Justin Brown started the meeting
by swearing in third-year law student Tom
Spahn as the GSC’s law school representa-
tive. Spahn had been in attendance at the
GSC’s most recent meetings; last week, after
Spahn articulated his reasons for pursuing
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Political science professor Simon Jackman
said the drive to enter public office probably
begins even before college.
“The flicker of political ambition begins
probably as soon as high school and that inter-
est matures during the college years,” Jackman
said.“The prescribed college path for a career
in politics tends to begin with politicians earn-
ing degrees in the humanities or social sci-
ences, which is then usually complimented by
a J.D.”
The majority of the alumni hold degrees in
political science, history, economics or interna-
tional relations.
Sen.Dianne Feinstein ‘55,D-Calif.,who has
served in the Senate since 1992, received her
bachelor’s degree in history. She is chair-
the position, voting members approved his
nomination.
ASSU President Angelina Cardona ‘11
updated the group on Undergraduate Senate
events and discussed the executive cam-
paign-spending bill she and Vice President
Kelsei Wharton ‘12 introduced last week, a
bill the Senate approved on Tuesday. Car-
dona clarified particular amendments to the
original bill and asked for the GSC’s ap-
proval of the measure.
Concerns about the bill’s potential to limit
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woman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Sen. Judy Biggert ‘59 earned her degree in
international relations and is one of the two
Republicans in the group. Biggert, a represen-
tative from the 13th district in Illinois, is finish-
ing up her 12th year in the House. She serves
on various House committees, including the
Committee on Financial Services, Committee
on Education and Labor and Committee on
Science and Technology.
Rep. David Wu ‘77, a Democrat represent-
ing Oregon’s first congressional district, has
the only science degree in the cohort, with a
bachelor’s degree in biological sciences. Wu
serves on the Education and Labor Commit-
tee.
Biggert and Wu were re-elected on Tues-
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freedom of speech were raised, and council
members expressed varying levels of comfort
with the bill. Spahn hedged against the bill,
arguing that such spending caps might too
closely monitor an individual’s freedom to
spend money as he or she chooses.
“You are taking away [the candidates’]
ability to spend their money, and you are af-
fecting their right to free speech,” Spahn said.
“This is no different from telling people you
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day.
Political science professor Gary Cox, who
teaches a class on Congress, believes there are
a variety of reasons why Stanford might pro-
duce more liberal politicians, including the ge-
ographical backgrounds of the members of
Congress.
“People that come to this institution tend
to come from more liberal backgrounds or
more liberal parts of the country,” he said.“To
figure out what the Stanford effect is, one
would have to have an idea of their beliefs
coming in and what they look like when they
exit.”
Jackman believes the political movements
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LOCAL
Prof.warns
against high-
speed rail
Project unlikely to turn
profit, says scholar
By SAMANTHA McGIRR
DESK EDITOR
California’s proposed high-speed
rail system would likely cost taxpay-
ers money even in the long term, ac-
cording to Stanford management
professor Alain Enthoven.
His Oct. 12 report entitled “The
Financial Risks of California’s Pro-
posed High-Speed Rail Project” —
co-authored by William Grindley, a
former World Bank analyst, and
William Warren, a Silicon Valley fi-
nance consultant — concludes “that
there is little if any chance the system
will pay for itself.”
The proposed California high-
speed rail, which would run 800 miles
from Los Angeles to downtown San
Francisco, has an estimated cost of
$43 billion. The state has thus far re-
ceived more than $3 billion in feder-
al aid for the project, and state voters
approved more than $9 billion in
funds with Prop 1A, passed in 2008.
Enthoven, however, says the proj-
ect has been “sold to the voters on
false premises” and points to wide-
spread diminished returns on high-
speed transit systems.
“The whole history of high-speed
rail projects is one of financial failure
and big cost overruns,” Enthoven
said.
The report, independently fi-
nanced by the three primary authors
and published online by the Commu-
nity Coalition on High-Speed Rail,
cites research by the Congressional
Research Service that counts every
high-speed rail system as a money
loser, with two exceptions: a Paris-to-
Lyon line in France and an Osaka-to-
Tokyo line in Japan. These systems
break even, says Enthoven, in large
part because of their cultural con-
text.
“These are large metro areas with
good public transportation,” En-
thoven said. “These are cultures in
which people don’t own their own
cars.”
Enthoven dismisses the Califor-
nia High Speed Rail Authority’s
(CHSRA) proposed ridership figure
of 39 million by 2030 as “pure fanta-
sy.” For comparison, he points to the
Northeast Corridor’s Acela train,
which runs from Boston to Washing-
ton, D.C. and served only 3 million
passengers in 2009. Enthoven pre-
dicts ridership for the California sys-
tem would be “one tenth to one
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FEATURES
!here do you
like it?
By JESSICA WERTHEIM when [she] didn’t know where everyone else liked it.”
“I’m all for raising awareness,” said Julie
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Hern·ndez ‘12, “and last year’s bra color statuses got

T
his past month, legions of women updated
their Facebook statuses with evocative
statements, all beginning with:“I like it on .
. . .” Some of those women included the
ladies of Stanford University.
Examples of said titillating statuses included: “I
like it on the bed,”“I like it against the wall”and “I like
it in the back of my car.”
The trick behind the phrase was the ambiguous use
of the word “it,” which was actually referring the
women’s purses or bags.The goal of this viral market-
ing was to spread the word about October as Breast
Cancer Awareness Month. “I like it on” was predicat-
ed on the wildfire-like spread of a previous, unofficial
Facebook campaign that asked women to change
their statuses to the color or print of their bras.
Gloria Koskey ‘11 “likes it on the couch.”
“The first day [the campaign] went viral, my friend
Facebook-chatted me and told me about how it
worked,” she said.“I had done the bra one, where you
put your bra color for breast cancer awareness, so I
figured, ‘I did the last one. I’ll do this one too.’”
“It definitely catches people’s attention,” Koskey
added.“In order for someone to become interested in
a cause, you need to pique their interest, which I think
this campaign achieved. Maybe after seeing these
Facebook statuses someone Googled the cause, and
maybe that person read an article on breast cancer.”
Others had more mixed feelings on the status up-
dates.
“I knew that it was a campaign for breast cancer
awareness, but I had no idea it was about purses,” said
Kaia Mattioli ‘11, who created her own version of the
“I like it on” status, sharing that she “liked it better
people talking about breast cancer awareness. [Even
though] this year’s topic didn’t seem as relevant as last
year’s, it got the job done nonetheless.”
The reactions were not limited to Stanford. In a re-
cent article on Time.com, Megan Gibson wrote,
“There is nothing wrong with campaigning for breast
cancer awareness (or any disease, for that matter). In
fact, quite the opposite is true — the effects of suc-
cessful campaigning for the disease has led to a signif-
icant reduction in the disease. Yet what exactly does
provocatively saying where you like to keep your
purse have to do with a horrible disease that has chal-
lenged millions of lives?”
Others on Stanford’s campus had similar respons-
es and doubted the effectiveness of the viral market-
ing campaign.
“I had no idea that had to do with breast cancer
awareness. I just thought [people] were trying to be
funny,” said Robert Burns ‘14. “I guess it was success-
ful in being widespread, but the message sort of got
lost in the shuffle.”
“I didn’t find out about the ‘I like it on the’ trend
until after if had ended. It wasn’t until I read about it
in an article that I found out what the ‘it’ was referenc-
ing,” said Jean Ansolabehere ‘11. “And even now, I’m
not sure about the connection between breast cancer
and where you keep your purse.”
“I think the sexual innuendo of the status update
was sort of a strange idea because breast cancer is
something so serious,” she continued. “I don’t think
it’s necessarily the ideal way to start an open forum
about breast cancer.”
Contact Jessica Wertheim at jessw89@stanford.edu.

ERIC KOFMAN/The Stanford Daily

Sprinting to
50,000
By JENNY THAI
words There’s a feeling that I’m trying to create and I’m
afraid when I show it to people before that idea is
STAFF WRITER
realized, they’ll look at it differently.”

I
t’s that infamous time of the quar-
ter: the hazy, dizzying weeks of
tackling midterms, grinding
through p-sets and churning out co-
herent thesis statements for papers.
As the quarter reaches its peak in bustling activity, a
small fraction of the Stanford community is taking deep
breaths before plunging straight into their writing.
Those people will breathe easily only after generating
50,000-word novels.
National Novel Writing Month, known as NaNoW-
riMo, is a now-worldwide writing event that takes place
during November. Organizers promote it as “30 days
and nights of literary abandon.” Aspiring novelists reg-
ister online and undertake the daunting task of writing
an entire novel from scratch in one month.
“Fifty thousand words,” said creative writing lectur-
er Scott Hutchins. “That’s the definition of success.”
Hutchins, along with creative writing lecturer Tom
Kealey, co-teach English 190T,“Special Topics in Inter-
mediate Fiction Writing: Nanowrimo.” This quarter is
the first time the course has centered on preparing stu-
dents for their writing marathons in November.
One key component of preparation is the reading of
several novels that are of NaNoWriMo length, includ-
ing Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five,” Ernest
Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” and Chinua
Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart.”
“We’ve analyzed what has made them
work and that has been interesting,” said
Aaron Peterson ‘13, a student taking the
course. “It shows how much you can do with
writing.”
What sets the course apart from other cre-
ative writing classes at Stanford is its unique way of
providing feedback early in the quarter.
“We reverse the model of typical workshops,”
Hutchins said. “Usually you read a lot before writing
and getting feedback. Here, we’ve been giving people a
lot of feedback on their outlines before they start the
novel writing.”
Early comments from fellow writers are an important
part of the collaborative experience the class fosters,par-
ticularly before the novels are underway,so that students
can deal with potential writing obstacles early on.
“There’s a huge difference between writing a short
story and writing a novel,” said Guillermo Huerta ‘09.
“One thing that’s definitely tripped me up is writing in
different voices. It’s been nice to get comments back so
I know what to work on.”
However, for most students, the writing is an inti-
mate process, and the prospect of revealing their rough
story outlines and possible ideas can be intimidating.
“I have trouble sharing my writing with others,” said
Chris Rurik ‘11. “I want to be secretive about it. I want
people to see the complete form, and not the process.
It is this aspect of collaboration that has actually be-
come one of this class’s greatest strengths.
“There’s a lot of camaraderie in our group and a lot
of support, which is essential since we’re doing some-
thing this big,” Peterson said.
This goes for all participants. “It’s a fellowship,”
Kealey said. “Other people hold me ac-
countable. Just the fact we’re doing it
collaboratively makes it
doable. It’s like going to the
gym — it’s much more suc-
cessful if you go with other
people instead of just yourself.”
According to Kealey, the var-
ious novels in the class cover a wide
range of genres, including fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, “real-
istic fiction” and magical realism.
“Mine takes place in a medieval world,” said
Grant Mathews ‘13. “I have some guiding ideas, but
nothing too specific. It’s more focused on character
development and I’ve been trying to keep the magic
off-stage.”
All of the preparation will culminate in daily writing
sprints, which are characteristic of NaNoWriMo writing.
Contrary to the common perception that all fast writing
is bad writing, there is a general consensus in the class
that there is value in rapid, word limit-based writing.
“I want to spend time just writing, to spend time
turning off my internal editor,” Kealey said. “I want
to get my characters, the tension out onto the
page and work on crafting characters and the
story arc.”
With 50,000 words as the finish line, partici-
pants will have to write close to 1,700 words per
day — “1,667 words, to be exact,” said Mathews,
a NaNoWriMo veteran. “I’ve previously done it
two whole times. I tried to do it during my first year
at Stanford but that turned out to be an epic failure.
Too many credits, too little time.”
The enormous time commitment to NaNoWriMo
may be the primary reason why Stanford students and
faculty rarely attempt the challenge.
“How many faculty are participating in NaNoW-
riMo? So far, only two,” Kealey said.
There is no wiggle room for procrastination.
“A major challenge is not thinking I can just put it off
a day and trying to make it up the next day,” Peterson
said.“It takes a lot of willpower to get that many words
out a day.”
Yet the reward at the end of November is well worth
the many hours of frantic, caffeine-induced writing for
participants.
“I’ve always wanted to write a novel,” Rurik said.
“Now I’ll know what it’ll be like to finish a story.”
Contact Jenny Thai at jthai1@stanford.edu.
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twentieth” of the CHSRA figures, in
large part because the high-speed
rail will not serve a primarily metro-
politan area.
“I think congestion relief and air
quality are legitimate reasons to ex-
pand in metropolitan areas,” En-
thoven said. “But I-5 is completely
empty. It’s not the place to put re-
sources if you want to improve con-
gestion.”
Enthoven further questions the
environmental implications of the
project, pointing out that the con-
struction alone will damage proper-
ty and release large amounts of car-
bon into the air. Rather than build-
ing an entire high-speed rail system,
Enthoven believes California legis-
lators should direct funds toward the
expansion of current public trans-
portation in the state’s large cities.
“We ought to use that money to
subsidize public transportation with-
in metro areas,” Enthoven said.“[We
should] put resources into improv-
ing Caltrain and [funding] buses to
help people get to Caltrain. We
ought to continue to expand BART,
improve parking at stations, add an-
other airport or two.”
The CHSRA could not be
reached for comment. Robert
Cruickshank, chairman of the advo-
cacy group Californians for High
Speed Rail, said Enthoven may have
a personal stake in the proposed
plan.
“He says quite openly he is a
homeowner near the tracks and he’s
worried about his property value, so
I think that needs to be kept in mind
when assessing that report,” Cruick-
shank said in an Oct. 30 Peninsula
Press article.
Enthoven responds that he is, in
fact, adverse to the idea of the high-
speed rail near his residence.
“I’ll admit, I don’t want it in my
backyard,” he said.“I don’t want it in
Stanford’s front yard, either.”
The project is even less tolerable,
he says, because of its unlikely re-
turns to the state.
“The high-speed rail will do huge
damages to properties in Palo Alto,
Mountain View, some of Stanford,”
he said.“If you’re going to do all that
damage, you better have a powerful
economic and social justification.”
Contact Samantha McGirr at smcgirr
@stanford.edu.
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of the 1960s in California may have
also influenced the views of the bud-
ding politicians. “The period of the
‘60s and early ‘70s was a radicalizing
experience for a lot of kids,” he said.
“San Francisco and Berkeley were
the centers of opposition to the Viet-
nam War. Stanford, as well, was the
source of a lot of protest and tur-
moil. These events made a powerful
impression on people that were here
at the time by influencing their
views and pushing them in a more
liberal, Democratic direction.”
Ellen Huet contributed to this report.
Contact Theo Matthews at themat
@stanford.edu.
Correction
In “Groups fight ‘geek factor’ to
promote bike helmets” (Nov. 2),The
Daily incorrectly reported that the
campus sees 30,000 bikers on any
given day. In fact, the campus sees
13,000 bikers on any given day.
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Stanford Dining, said the event was
“a dream come true.” Dining faces
challenges finding and building rela-
tionships with food producers who
can meet Stanford’s sustainability
criteria and the volume demands of
Stanford’s 12,000 daily dining-hall
meals, he said.
But “it’s an investment we believe
in,”Montell said,pointing to Dining’s
accumulation of food suppliers in
Marin County, Salinas and Alaska as
a sign of progress.
“People are
starting
to realize these
things are
connected.”
— CHRIS GARDNER
Politics weighed on the minds of
some Stanford experts on Wednes-
day,a day after midterm elections sig-
naled a Republican takeover of the
U.S. House of Representatives. Polit-
ical science professor Rob Reich
Ph.D.‘98, who taught the Sophomore
College course “Food and Politics” in
2008,and law professor Buzz Thomp-
son J.D. ‘76 both spoke on Wednes-
day, Thompson focusing on farm bill
reform.The initial “basic issue” of the
election results set to influence agri-
cultural policy, Reich said, will be the
new Republican chairperson of the
House Agriculture Committee.
Meanwhile, back on the Farm,
Sarah Wiederkehr spoke about the
surge of interest she has experienced
since the University created her posi-
tion as farm educator in 2008. At the
time, Earth Systems administrators
said their classes were undergoing a
A student hops aboard the Stanford Dining blender bike at the food summit
Wednesday. Pedaling the bicycle powers the blender. Dining executive Eric Mon-
tell, who called the event “a dream come true,” also took the bike for a spin.
“population explosion,” and the
number of Earth Systems majors was
hitting a record high for the program.
“Classes are popping up left and
right,” Wiederkehr said Wednesday.
“I feel like things have really gone
through the roof.”
The trend is not unique to Stan-
ford, she said, adding that food-relat-
ed health issues in the year of health
care reform have only bolstered the
nationwide conversation.
At Stanford, the community farm
near Stock Farm Road where
Wiederkehr teaches agriculture
classes has become so popular that
students and faculty last fall pro-
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posed a larger, two-acre farm along
Campus Drive. But the proposal is
“still on hold” while awaiting county
permits, Wiederkehr said. The proj-
ect is likely to begin this spring at the
earliest.
The students pushing the project
have made one big purchase while
they wait: a tractor, a Kubota 3300
model they hope will move earth at
the new farm. And as for the admin-
istration?
“Stanford is on board,”
Wiederkehr said.
Contact Elizabeth Titus at etitus@stan-
ford.edu.
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can only put up X number of fly-
ers.”
Spahn suggested offering a vol-
untary cap, in which candidates
would agree to spend within a set of
pre-determined parameters, but
other members disagreed with him.
Many thought that a voluntary cap
would not realistically encourage
student candidates to spend less on
their campaigns, and some felt the
mandatory cap would be necessary
to level the playing field among
candidates with varying socioeco-
nomic backgrounds. Social science
representative Salvador Zepeda
argued in favor of an outcome that
would please the most people, re-
gardless of the method.
“I think we should vote on prin-
ciple rather than the mechanism,”
Zepeda said. “I do think that the
cap limits the ability for students to
spend their own money. I think the
[bill] promotes the social optimum.
And I think I have to vote in favor
of the social optimum.”
The group’s discussion of the bill
came to a close when Brown re-
minded the group that certain
smaller measures of the bill could
be amended even after it saw ap-
proval from both the undergradu-
ate and graduate governing bodies.
The bill passed by consensus, and
the group moved on to discuss the
Stanford Student Enterprise’s
progress on a new store in Tresid-
der Union.
Engineering representative
Joanna Lankester, who also heads
the GSC’s programming commit-
tee, expressed a desire to make the
reimbursement process for student
group checks public. In response to
the slow turnover of checks as they
are processed by administrators,
Lankester suggested that a website
specifically designed to track the
reimbursement process be created.
“If we could have some sort of
system by which reimbursements
can be tracked, it would be a really
efficient way to see that informa-
tion without people sending a
bunch of e-mails,” Lankester said.
The council decided to discuss
the issue in the future. It approved
all funding bills.
Contact Anna Schuessler at annas7
@stanford.edu.
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OPINIONS
E DITORIAL
A Palo Alto high-speed rail
station: finally, bursting
the bubble
I
n the fall of 2008, California voters ap-
proved Proposition 1A, an ambitious
plan to construct a high-speed rail
(HSR) network that would allow passen-
gers to make the 432-mile journey from Los
Angeles to San Francisco in a mere two
hours and 38 minutes.The plan calls for one
station in the mid-peninsula, located either
in Palo Alto (near Caltrain), Redwood City
or Mountain View. Construction on the rail
line is set to begin before 2012,but resistance
from mid-peninsula communities threatens
to delay the segment linking San Francisco
with San Jose and the rest of the rail net-
work. Mid-peninsula communities cannot
legally stop construction of the rail line, but
they do have a say in where or if a local sta-
tion is built.
On Oct. 25, the Palo Alto City Council
voted to tell the California High Speed Rail
authority that it does not want to be consid-
ered for a station. The council’s concerns
echoed those voiced by Stanford on Sept. 20
when the University claimed that “the city
and its surroundings have very little avail-
able traffic and parking capacity for such a
facility . . . and a station for HSR would not,
in our view, constitute a priority justifying
further reduction of this limited capacity.”
The problems associated with a new parking
garage and heavier local traffic are substan-
tial, but compared to the benefits an HSR
station offers, they are insignificant.
The presence of a local HSR station
would allow Palo Alto residents and the
Stanford community eight-minute access to
San Francisco International Airport. This is
a vast improvement over the current system,
which requires two train rides, can take well
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T HE C AMPUS B EAT
Listen Through
Others’ Ears
I
n the Rally to Restore Sanity last Saturday,
Jon Stewart highlighted the desire shared
by many for more civil and constructive
governmental discourse. He broadcast his
message widely, but proposed few methods to
actually change the culture. My column is usu-
ally about music, but I think that if we consid-
er identities and divisions in musical tastes, it
can help us think about how to start to manage
political divides when solving problems. In
both music and politics, people could benefit
from active attempts to listen and empathize
outside their comfort zones.
Stanford gives us a solid introduction to
the idea of a pluralistic, diverse, artistic com-
munity with events like FACES at orienta-
tion. We at least begin by acknowledging the
excitement of having disparate music, like
the contrast of Taiko to Calypso. But as we
set up our schedules, it’s easy to get into a
routine that doesn’t involve exposure to as
much musical variety. With politics, we don’t
begin with nearly as much diversity: I’ve
heard several conservatives lament the
heavy liberal leanings of most of the student
population.
At the same time, when filling out forms
before freshman year, we’re asked to rank
our music preferences, because music is (for
some reason) allowed to be a deal-breaker
between roommates. They don’t ask about
what kind of posters you might hang up or
what clothes you wear. Music is the impor-
tant aesthetic, apparently. We aren’t asked
about politics, though, because that’s a diver-
sity they have to try to encourage.
So why should we be wedded to our music
tastes so strongly? How do they develop any-
ways? Middle and high school teach us that
some types of music are “cool,” depending on
which people you were friends with or which
gender you are. Identities are formed around
the bands we listen to. In college or later,
your friends might introduce you to a new
style, but there’s a reason our parents listen
mostly to oldies. Politics we usually inherit
from our families, though sometimes we ex-
plore on our own through academics, politi-
cal student groups or internships, all of which
help flesh out our ideas a bit more. But many
people, in college and in life, take what they
were given and don’t dig too deeply.
That’s because it takes effort to seek out
different music or perspectives. Sometimes
you might bump into them accidentally, but
then it’s up to you to actually listen. And I
over an hour and often confuses infrequent
travelers.The station would also provide 20-
minute trips to downtown San Francisco
and a two hour, 21 minute travel time to Los
Angeles.
Silicon Valley, especially Stanford and
Palo Alto, is having trouble providing hous-
ing to workers who cannot afford the high
local real estate prices. An HSR station in
the mid-peninsula would give workers an-
other transportation choice and significant-
ly reduce the gridlock on Interstate 280 and
Highway 101. More traffic around the sta-
tion would be a small price to pay for a fast
alternative to car travel and clearer high-
ways to boot.
The HSR station would also provide more
direct economic benefits, such as large in-
creases in foot traffic to local businesses and
higher property values downtown. Building
the station elsewhere would shift these bene-
fits away from Palo Alto to another city,
which is perfectly reasonable.However,alter-
native locations cannot offer easy access to
Stanford for students,tourists and professors.
Redwood City and Mountain View cannot
boast an attraction like Stanford, and neither
city has as much difficulty bringing in workers
as Stanford and Palo Alto.
In our opinion, passing up the opportuni-
ty to fully integrate Stanford and Palo Alto
with the rest of California because of fears
that a parking structure will be unsightly or
that there will be more traffic around Uni-
versity Avenue is woefully shortsighted. If
we want Stanford and Palo Alto to remain
the region’s focal point, all parties involved
should work to make an HSR station near
University Avenue a reality.
Lucas Will
Johnson
don’t mean that you should sit there politely
and let the music play or the person talk. Nor
am I advocating for debate, full of point,
counterpoint and conflict.
I’m talking about empathy. Take country
music, for example. Dozens of times I’ve
heard people say, “I like most types of music
. . . but not country. I HATE country.” The
genre is popular enough to have its own TV
channel, so clearly it’s not bad music. The
people who complain about it just as often
listen to other types of pop or rock of the
same performance quality. I think the differ-
ence is cultural. People don’t always under-
stand music from lifestyles they don’t con-
nect with. Some love screamo and hate jazz.
Others can’t stand hard-core rap but cry at
operas. When it’s not your community, you
don’t like it.
Politics are similar — there’s a lack of em-
pathy on all sides.People have different opin-
ions, often for mostly cultural reasons. Take
the usual example of guns: the culture of
recreational hunting and personal self-de-
fense in rural areas doesn’t mesh with an
urban lifestyle that includes gangs instead of
game. Unless people think through the other
side’s perspective, we get conflict instead of
understanding or reasonable compromise.
This isn’t a new idea. We’ve all heard the
aphorism about walking around in another
person’s shoes. But how often do we actually
do that? It’s all too easy to live in your group
of like-minded friends, read your partisan
news sources and listen to the music you like.
What I suggest, then, as a means of prac-
ticing what Jon Stewart and his crowd were
asking for, is to use music as a way to better
understand and cooperate with others. Pick a
genre you never listen to and give it a chance
for an hour or two. Don’t be embarrassed ei-
ther — if you fall in love with musicals, for
example, go ahead and crank it up, singing
along.And if you’re already a music explorer
with eclectic taste because you enjoy the aes-
thetic variety, listen for the culture and poli-
tics associated with the art. Otherwise, we
creatures of habit will remain in our ways,
only occasionally bumping into new sounds
or thoughts.
Sane and/or fearful comments or songs can be
directed to Lucas at lucaswj@stanford.edu.
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T HIS C OLUMN I S I RONIC
Party On, Shane
I
’ve had a revelation over these past few Stanford, you realize that the smaller events
months: I think I’m getting old. I’m not end up being the most memorable: your best
quite sure when I started to figure this friend’s birthday, the party with whatever
out. Maybe it was this summer when I wore a Shane group you happen to belong to or just im-
shirt and tie to work every day. Perhaps it was promptu dorm room ragers. In addition,
the first time I got really excited by the Savitsky there’s also the best invention ever created at
check-scanning feature on the Wells Fargo Stanford. (The Internet doesn’t count. We
ATMs. Or it could have been the first time I only partly helped to create that.) You know
heard “Whip My Hair.” Most likely, though, what I’m talking about: special dinner. If
it was this past weekend at Synergy’s Hal- freshmen are our Dalai Lama at Stanford,
loween party. As I stood on that packed then special dinner is the upperclassmen
sweaty dance floor dressed as serial killer ex-
traordinaire Dexter Morgan, a thought
crossed my mind: “I can’t do this anymore.”
I’m over the Tibet.
Today, the tap of Keystone Light at Kappa
Sig runs drier than the Sahara. Some fresh-
I’m over the Stanford party scene.There. I men shed a tear, but I couldn’t care less. I can
said it.
(Your first response to that statement
may have been, “What Stanford party
Stanford party blast “Like a G6” to deafening levels in my
own room. (In a purely ironic sense, of
course. I wouldn’t be caught dead with that in
scene?” If so, please stop reading this column my iTunes library.) I might be over the Stan-
scene. There. I
immediately.You, sir, are a true bastion of wit ford party scene, but that doesn’t mean I’m
and hilarity. That joke has certainly never done having fun at Stanford. There are plen-
been uttered before about the social scene on ty of ridiculous times to be had; you just have
this campus, and you will find no humor in to know where to look. And trust me, it’s not
this clichéd humor column. Seriously, go the Bromuda Triangle.
write for SNL or something. That’s truly
groundbreaking comedy these days.)
The first years of my Stanford career were
said it. Honestly, these days I’d rather curl up
with my girlfriend for a nice Saturday night
in. I’m so beat from the week that running
a wonderful and carefree time. The clarion across campus doesn’t seem like the most fun
call of Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK” ringing through anyway. Plus, actual conversation can be had.
the houses of the Bromuda Triangle would We can catch up on each other’s lives in the
beckon me to the dance floor like a call to and off we went to what was then called midst of a slew of midterms, papers and
prayer echoing across the minarets of Mecca. Kappa Sig’s Luau Party. She had to go. How events. I’ll probably be forced to watch some
I treated every Café Night at French House would she ever learn to brocialize otherwise? Hugh Grant romantic comedy, but we all
like it was my Last Supper — only without In my mind, she was a lost soul. have to take one for the team, right?
the bread and impending crucifixions. One of
my best friends, who attends Macalester Col-
Yet, at the time, I was the lost soul. I feel
like everyone goes through that period dur-
Okay, fine. You just caught me in a lie. I’d
probably demand that we pick the Hugh
lege in St. Paul, Minn., graced me with a visit ing freshman year. Stanford culture doesn’t Grant movie on Netflix. (Seriously though,
near the end of freshman year. Honestly, the
thought of her school horrified me. She did-
n’t know what a party was! The fact that she
help things either. Like China did to the
Dalai Lama, we upperclassmen exile fresh-
men to all-campus parties.That’s because we
have you seen “Love Actually?”)
See? I told you I was getting old.
attended college in the tundra notwithstand- know better.We know that low-key socializa- If Shane makes you feel like you’re living a
ing, her poor liberal arts college actually
lacked frats. I had to show her a good time,
tion with real conversation is the way to actu-
ally have fun here.As you spend more time at
teenage dream, then you should definitely e-
mail him at savitsky@stanford.edu.
F OREIGN C ORRESPONDENCE Brian Wanyoike
Mao Don’t Live Here No Mo
“B
eida xi men.” In theory, after you gestured for a picture at the feet of a 233-foot
have said those words, your Bei- Buddha cut out of a cliff in Leshan. While it
jing taxi driver should nod his might be reasonable to assume I was more
head and begin driving. If said incorrectly, as youthful and arguably better looking than
I managed to do every single time I get in a the 1,000-year-old Buddha, I was still taken
taxi, a more precise “Beijing daxue” should aback by people’s attention to my foreign-
do the trick. “Beijing daxue” translates to ness. Even though I knew I was African-
Beijing University or Peking University, American in a nation that is almost entirely
which is where the Stanford Beijing Over- Han Chinese, it still was a little unnerving at
seas Program is based. Think of PKU as the first to be treated as some sort of attraction
Stanford University of China, if Stanford was worthy of awe or amusement.
unquestionably the best college in the Unit- Those first few weeks in China, I could not
ed States. (Awkward pause.) overcome my overt feeling of different-ness.
As I’ve learned over the past six weeks, In my United States life, I almost pride my-
Beijing is less Chinese than it is cosmopoli- self on not looking uneasy when I am in pub-
tan.Although a portrait of Mao will still greet lic places. In China, however, I felt it did not
you as you enter the Forbidden City, the matter if I looked relaxed or confused be-
shops of Sanlitun or the towers of eastern cause my blackness made me stand out. I
Beijing’s Central Business District could be made it a habit to walk around Beida with
found in anyone’s London, New York or Stanford friends, or I would throw on my ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily
Paris. The changes that China has gone hoodie with headphones jammed in my ears.
through over the past 30 years have been I found myself blocking out what I thought nately, I have a wonderful PKU language
transformative, and PKU’s proximity to was an uncomfortable experience. partner, Zhi Li, who has taken four hours out
Zhongguancun, China’s Silicon Valley, al- Nevertheless, I began to realize my feel- of her six-day, nine-class school week (which
lows you to engage in that experience. ings of different-ness were shared by every- is the norm at PKU) to help me learn the lan-
Outside of Beijing is a bit of a different one who has experienced China after grow- guage. Somewhere in between all that, I have
story. Instead of getting a reprieve before the ing up in another culture. Although my race also been able to have substantive conversa-
madness that is weeks nine and 10 of fall might have made me feel more out of place tions with people about the role of the Chi-
quarter finals preparation, our Thanksgiving than others, ultimately it was I, not the stares nese Communist Party in everyday life, high-
break occurs during China’s National Holi- of the Chinese people, who defined how lighted by conversations about Liu Xiaobo’s
day, which falls during a standard week two. those differences affected my experience. Nobel Peace Prize.
So after three days of hanyu (Chinese), a My performance of disinterest with my head- Even though words like “billion” and
group of Stanford students flew down to phones, hoodie and Stanford block of friends “communist” normally come to mind when
Chengdu in Sichuan province and my limited protected me from my own assumptions China is invoked in various efforts to demon-
language skills were put to the test.As I start- more than it did the assumptions of those strate the country’s different-ness, I’ve found
ed walking around the Chengdu Research Chinese people I passed. Once I let myself that China is a far more familiar place than
Base of Giant Panda Breeding, a Chinese get immersed in all that China had to offer, I you would expect.
man approached me and motioned to his started to more fully appreciate my time So I stand as a testament to that story of a
camera. Even though toddler pandas were abroad. foreigner, lost in a new world, who subse-
frolicking right before us, I turned around, And it has been a fantastic time. In China quently loses and finds himself. Maybe
put on my best smile, listened for the one- I have played with the pandas in Chengdu, cliche, but not bad for week-six introspec-
two-three before the photo, and then sung on rolling hills of Inner Mongolia (cour- tion.
promptly turned away. tesy of Dr. Peter and Mrs. Helen Bing) and
It turns out that this photo would be the hiked backward the 3,000 steps of the Tai If you would like to share your own cliche for-
first of more than 30 that were going to be Mountains where Confucius chilled. A Bei- eign experience or buy the book and/or televi-
taken of me that week. The most egregious jing-sized amount of time has been given to sion rights to Brian’s, please e-mail bwany-
ask occurred when a middle-aged woman the study of the Chinese language. Fortu- oike@stanford.edu
The Stanford Daily
SPORTS
Jacob
Jaffe
Fields of Failure
Football
questions
linger
T
his is the big one. The first
ever meeting with both teams
ranked.An outside chance at
a Pac-10 title and a shot at
BCS eligibility hang in the
balance. It’s the biggest remaining ob-
stacle between the Cardinal and an 11-
win season. ABC is airing the game in
primetime, with its top team of Brent
Musberger, Kirk Herbstreit and Erin
Andrews on hand.The winner will like-
ly jump into the top 10, while the loser
must aim for the Alamo or Holiday
Bowl.
Yet in a sense,Stanford and Arizona
still bring major question marks into
Saturday’s top-15 clash.
Sure,both the Cardinal and the Wild-
cats are ranked in the top 13 in both the
polls and the computers.Sure,the teams
are led by two of the nation’s top quar-
terbacks. Sure, Stanford has already
matched up with the No. 1 team in the
country, holding a first-half lead in
Autzen Stadium and making Oregon
sweat much more than the final 21-point
margin would indicate. Sure, Arizona
owns one of the biggest nonconference
wins in the country, a thrilling seven-
point win over then-No.9 Iowa.
But in many ways,both teams have a
lot to prove. Consider the most talked-
about matchup of the game: Stanford’s
high-powered offense against Arizona’s
stingy defense.
The basic statistics touted by most
analysts paint this battle as a clash of the
titans.The Cardinal offense ranks fifth in
the country in scoring,averaging over 42
points per game,while the Wildcats rank
seventh in scoring defense, allowing
fewer than 15 points per game. As the
saying goes,something’s gotta give.
Looking at the schedule,though,nei-
ther the Stanford O nor the Arizona D
has been remotely challenged in most of
its contests. Among the Cardinal’s first
seven opponents (disregarding FCS
Sacramento State),only one ranks in the
top half of the country in scoring de-
fense.That one was Oregon, which shut
Stanford out in the second half after the
Cardinal jumped out to an 18-point first-
half lead. Meanwhile, Stanford racked
up points against Wake Forest,Washing-
ton State and Washington, who all sit in
the bottom 15 nationally in points al-
lowed.
This same phenomenon has influ-
enced Arizona’s statistics. The Wildcats
have faced four opponents (other than
FCS Citadel) ranked worse than 75th in
scoring offense, allowing only 11 points
per game to them. On the other hand,
Arizona has faced three decent offenses
— Cal, Oregon State and Iowa. The
Wildcats held Cal to only nine points,
but the Golden Bears have been
abysmal on the road this season, losing
all four games away from Memorial Sta-
dium.The other two had relative success
against Arizona’s defense, scoring at
least 27 points in each game.
Now, no reasonable college football
fan would say that Stanford has a poor
offense or that Arizona has a poor de-
fense.Each unit will likely be the tough-
est test the other has faced this season.
But neither unit has been able to consis-
tently perform against a strong oppo-
nent, which is what makes this matchup
so intriguing.
Apart from this facet, Saturday’s
showdown could expose more untested
areas of each team.The Wildcats will be
facing their first real road test of the year.
Coming in, the only games Arizona has
played away from home have been
against Toledo, Washington State and
UCLA. While the Rockets have done
well in MAC play,they were two-touch-
down underdogs to Arizona, and the
Cougars and Bruins have set up shop in
the Pac-10 cellar. Stanford represents a
significant step up in competition level.
Overall,Arizona has played five Pac-
10 opponents,including the bottom four
teams in the conference. The only win-
ning conference team the Wildcats have
played is Oregon State,and the Beavers
beat Arizona in Tucson. The Wildcats
have ascended to the top 15 without
playing Oregon, Stanford or USC, so
their true ability remains in question.
Meanwhile, Stanford has played
only two teams with winning records,
losing to Oregon and squeaking out a
victory over USC at home. Arizona is
on a different level than the Trojans, so
the Cardinal will certainly need to step
up its play to contend with the Wild-
cats.
Please see JAFFE, page 7
FINAL TEST AWAITS
By NATE ADAMS
DESK EDITOR
For all the success that Stanford has en-
joyed this year, there’s one team that’s kept
pace with the No. 1 Cardinal throughout Pac-
10 play. Oregon State has been perfect
through seven conference games, stretching
its overall record to 15-1-1 and its national
ranking to No. 13.
The Stanford women’s soccer team (16-0-
2, 7-0-0 Pac-10) remains undefeated and
stands as the nation’s unanimous No. 1 team,
which means it will be playing the Beavers in
a de facto conference championship game on
Friday night.
The Cardinal will also host Oregon (7-8-3,
3-3-1) this weekend to wrap up its regular
season.
Friday’s game represents the first oppor-
tunity for Oregon State’s program to win a
Pac-10 title, and it has certainly earned that
chance. Under head coach Linus Rhode, the
Beavers have enjoyed a banner season, par-
ticularly on the defensive side.Their only loss
came in a 1-0 match against now-No. 11 UC-
Irvine, and through 17 games the defense, an-
chored by junior goalkeeper Colleen Boyd,
has allowed only seven goals. The Cardinal,
backstopped by freshman keeper Emily Oliv-
er, has allowed 10 goals through 18 games.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about
the Beavers’ season is how much of a turn-
around it is from only a few years ago. Oregon
State posted a combined 2-22-3 record in the
Pac-10 from 2006-08, and after leading his
team to the third round of the NCAA Tour-
nament last season, Rhode has this year’s
squad in position to do even better.
“Linus has done an incredible job,” re-
marked Stanford head coach Paul Ratcliffe.
“Last year they were also an exceptional
team, and I can’t say enough about how much
respect I have for Linus and his program.
We’re excited to play them.”
Some of Stanford’s more talented oppo-
nents this season, like Santa Clara and Wash-
ington, have taken a conservative approach
on offense against the Cardinal, focusing on
minimizing the goals they allow rather than
attacking. The Beavers’ main strength is cer-
tainly their defense, but Ratcliffe thinks the
Oregon State squad is talented enough to
SPORTS BRIEFS
Wrestling set to host outdoor dual
The Stanford wrestling team will open its
season with the first outdoor dual meet in
program history this Sunday at 3 p.m. Only a
small number of matches have been held out-
doors in NCAA history, as wrestling is a win-
ter sport generally held indoors.
The team will take on Northwestern at
Taube Tennis Stadium.An indoor backup site
Lorig finds niche in NFL
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
10/30 vs. CAL W 3-0
UP NEXT
OREGON STATE
(15-1-1, 7-0-0 Pac-10)
11/05 Laird Q. Cagan Stadium
8 P.M.
COVERAGE:
TV FSC/FSN
GAME NOTES: The winner of Friday’s match will gain
control of the Pac-10. Cardinal forward Christen Press
has scored 21 times on the year and has posted a goal
or an assist in all but one match. Oregon State, now
ranked 13th in the nation, has allowed only seven goals
on the season.
come after the Cardinal with a balanced ap-
proach.
“Linus is a smart coach, so I think they’ll
play with a very organized system,” Ratcliffe
said. “But I also think they have players that
can come after you and try to score. So they’ll
open up at times and try to score goals, but
they’ll also be very organized and stay togeth-
er as a unit.”
When the Beavers do attack, forward
Chelsea Buckland is usually their leader. The
redshirt sophomore leads her team with 18
points on eight goals and two assists.
Stanford, meanwhile, boasts the nation’s
best scorer in senior Christen Press, who has
found the net 21 times this season and has
scored at least a point in all but one of Stan-
ford’s matches. Press, a candidate for the Her-
mann Trophy, has nine game-winning goals
this season alone. Another player to watch
this weekend is Lindsay Taylor — the junior
forward has scored in each of the Cardinal’s
past five games, increasing her season goal
total to nine.
Of course, the Beavers aren’t the only
team from Oregon that will be visiting this
weekend.The Ducks are having somewhat of
Please see WSOCCER, page 6
has been established in case of bad weather.
Stanford will be led by two returning
NCAA qualifiers — redshirt senior 157-
pounder Lucas Espericueta and redshirt jun-
ior 174-pounder Nick Amuchastegui. Last
season, Amuchastegui placed fourth in the
165-pound weight class at the NCAA Tourna-
ment in Omaha, Neb.
— Kabir Sawhney
Thursday, November 4, 2010 ! 5
Stanford senior Christen Press, above, has driven an undefeated Cardinal team with her 21 goals
on the season. She hopes to lead the squad to a regular-season Pac-10 title this weekend.
Ogwumike named preseason All-American
Stanford women’s basketball star
Nnemkadi Ogwumike was named to the As-
sociated Press Preseason All-America team
on Tuesday, where the junior forward was rec-
ognized as one of the top players in the nation
heading into the season.
Please see BRIEFS, page 7
By WYNDAM MAKOWSKY
MANAGING EDITOR
S
ince before he stepped foot on
the Farm, Erik Lorig’s football
career has been unpredictable.
The trend continued through his
time at Stanford and now, in the
NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, it
has manifested itself even further.
Lorig, a rookie seventh-round pick,
made his first career start for the Bucs two
Sundays ago. However, it wasn’t at defen-
sive end, the position at which he was draft-
ed and played through training camp.
Rather, it was at H-Back — a hybrid of the
tight end and fullback roles. In the span of
about a month, he went from the practice
squad to the active roster — though inac-
tive on game days — to a starter at a new
position on the other side of the ball. How
did he get there?
A story of this nature may be odd for
most players, but for Lorig, it’s nearly par
for the course. His tale dates back to his
college recruitment. Lorig, a 2005 four-star
recruit at tight end and defensive end who
earned multiple high school All-American
nods, was highly sought after by Stanford,
USC, California and UCLA.
His recruiting process was about as
drawn-out as it can get — national signing
day is in early February,and despite alleged
ultimatums from the schools, Lorig did not
commit until May, even missing his Admit
Weekend while he pondered his choice.
After his redshirt year, he played offense in
2006 before switching sides in 2007, where
he stayed for the rest of his Cardinal career.
Known for his run defense, he anchored
the Stanford line before suffering a season-
ending groin injury early in his senior year.
Despite a hurt pectoral that kept him
out of most offseason workouts, Lorig was
one of three Cardinal players — along
Please see LORIG, page 6
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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Cardinal
searches
for revenge
By CAROLINE CASELLI
DESK EDITOR
After a convincing six-set sweep over the
Oregon schools last weekend, the No. 3 Stan-
ford women’s volleyball team (18-2, 9-2 Pac-
10) looks to bring its dominance back home as
it takes on the Los Angeles schools in a pair of
top-10 matchups.
The Card will face No. 10 UCLA (17-5, 7-
4) on Friday and No. 7 USC (19-3, 8-3) on
Sunday.With the California schools currently
holding the top four spots in the conference
standings — No. 2 California leads with a 10-
1 conference record, followed by Stanford,
USC and UCLA — this weekend’s matches
could have major implications for the Pac-10
title.
On Friday,Stanford will have the opportu-
nity to avenge a heartbreaking five-set loss to
the Bruins in early October. The match
marked the Card’s first loss of the season and
knocked the team out of the No. 1 spot in the
national rankings.
“Since dropping a match to UCLA earlier
this season, our team has focused a lot on re-
specting the challenges that the Pac-10 throws
at you each week,” said sophomore setter
Karissa Cook, who returned to the lineup last
weekend after battling an injury early in the
season. “There are no ‘off weeks’ to coast
through in our league, and in our practices we
have really focused on matching that same
level of relentless competition that we see
each weekend.”
UCLA has won its last four matches, in-
cluding a five-set victory last Friday over No.
11 Washington (17-5, 6-5). The Bruins
snapped an eight-match losing streak to the
Huskies.
Senior outside hitter Dicey McGraw and
sophomore opposite Rachael Kidder, who
have led the UCLA offense all season,shined
in the match against Washington, with 24 kills
and 17 kills, respectively. However, neither
Kidder nor McGraw ranks among the confer-
ence’s kills or points leaders, and it is a differ-
ent Bruin,junior middle blocker Katie Camp,
who is 10th in the Pac-10 in hitting percentage
(.337).
Defensively, UCLA continues to stand
out.The Bruins lead the Pac-10 in digs with an
average of 15.45 per set, while junior libero
Lainey Gera is the individual digs leader,aver-
aging 4.72 per set. Gera tallied 25 digs in the
Please see VBALL, page 6
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VBALL
Continued from page 5
Bruins’ last meeting with the Cardi-
nal.
USC, like UCLA, has not lost a
match in its last two weeks of confer-
ence play, and also emerged victori-
ous in a five-set thriller over Washing-
ton last weekend. In addition, the
Women of Troy have the distinction
of being the only team to beat two
one-loss top-five teams — Cal and
No. 4 Hawaii — this season.
Junior outside hitter Alex Jupiter’s
combined 42 kills against Washington
and Washington State last weekend
earned her both Pac-10 player of the
week and AVCA national player of
the week honors. Jupiter finished with
30 kills against the Huskies and a .414
hitting percentage in addition to 14
digs. She has proven herself as one of
the conference’s top attackers — she
is fourth in the conference in kills and
points per set,with averages of 4.5 and
5.35 — and is second in service aces.
Two other juniors, setter Kendall
Bateman and middle blocker Lauren
Williams, have also been imperative
to USC’s success. Bateman leads the
Pac-10 and is second in the nation in
assists (12.34 per set), while Williams
boasts the conference’s best hitting
percentage at .414.
The Cardinal has fared well
against both squads historically, with
a 40-33 all-time record against the
Bruins and a 54-18 record against the
Trojans. However, with a loss to
UCLA this season already and a
competitive USC squad looming,
both teams will be dangerous.
“Heading into another big week-
end, our team is looking to put dis-
tance between us and the southern
California schools who are currently
3rd and 4th in the Pac-10 conference
standings,” Cook said.“This weekend
is an opportunity for us to get better
as a team and to gain confidence
nearing the end of league play and
heading into the postseason.Cardinal
fans can expect some competitive vol-
leyball this Friday night and Sunday
afternoon.”
The Card will take on UCLA on
Friday at 7 p.m.and USC on Sunday at
1 p.m. Both matches will be played in
Maples Pavilion.
Contact Caroline Caselli at carolinecasel-
li@stanford.edu.
LORIG
Continued from page 5
with Jim Dray and Toby Gerhart —
selected in the 2010 draft. He prac-
ticed at defensive end during sum-
mer camp but was cut during the
final roster trimmings in September.
The Bucs immediately signed him to
their practice squad and, with a
wealth of odysseys already behind
him, a new journey began.
“We were in the second week of
the season. I was a defensive end and
I was inactive, I wasn’t playing. They
needed a tight end and fullback for
the scout team,” Lorig said. “So I
took it as an opportunity to show-
case what I can do on offense.”
The Bucs knew that Lorig had
played tight end at the collegiate
level, but while he did some work at
H-Back for the Cardinal — in fact,
USC had recruited him at the posi-
tion — his experience as a fullback
was minimal at best. Blocking as-
signments and adapting to the offen-
sive playbook prompted new chal-
lenges.
“There’s a mentality switch. At
defensive end,it’s about motor going
all the time,” he said. “When you
switch sides to offense, you have to
bring that mentality of playing really
hard but you have to be more con-
trolled and understand the concept
of the play — a few inches or feet
could make the block and determine
WSOCCER
Continued from page 5
a resurgence of their own this sea-
son, going from a 1-8 conference
record in 2009 to a much-improved
3-3-1 mark this season, good for fifth
in the Pac-10 entering the final
weekend.They’re also riding a three-
game winning streak, with victories
coming against Washington State
and the Arizona schools. The Ducks
are anchored on offense by scoring
leader Jen Stoltenberg, who has
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily posted 12 goals and five assists this
season.
The Stanford women’s volleyball team is looking for redemption this weekend as it hosts UCLA, one of only two teams Oregon may be an improved
to defeat the Cardinal this season, at Maples Pavilion. Stanford is 9-1 against UCLA at home under head coach John squad, but it has a lot of history to
Dunning. The team will then take on USC on Sunday in another match with legitimate Pac-10 title implications. overcome if it is going to defeat the
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where the running back inserts.
You’re reading linebackers instead
of linemen.”
His learning curve was steep.
Lorig began competing with backup
fullback Chris Pressley in early Oc-
tober. In Week 6, against the New
Orleans Saints on Oct. 17, Lorig
played about 15 snaps. The next
weekend, Pressley was released and,
with starting fullback Earnest Gra-
ham battling a nagging hamstring in-
jury, Lorig took over the starting
role.
“It was a good experience,” he
said.“I did some good things and did
some bad things. I have a lot of room
to get better there, from what I
watched on the film. I’m taking what
they give me and making sure I do
my job.”
Lorig has leaned on Graham,
starting tailback Carnell “Cadillac”
Williams and running backs coach
Steve Logan during the transition,
and they have aided him in digesting
the different techniques and plays.
That’s part of the equation — the
other is maintaining the motor that
characterized his time as a defensive
player.
“It’s a 110-percent game at this
level.If you’re not going at that level,
you’re not going to perform well,” he
said. “It’s also about being really
confident in the playbook.”
He paused, then added, “And being
competent, too.”
Contact Wyndam Makowsky at
makowsky@stanford.edu.
Cardinal on its home turf. When
playing on the Farm, Stanford has
outscored the Ducks 17-0 in six
matches.
Stanford will kick off the season’s
final series on Friday night, when it
takes on the Beavers for the Pac-10
title at 8 p.m. The Cardinal will then
wrap up its 2010 campaign on Sun-
day afternoon, facing the Ducks at 1
p.m. Both games will take place at
Laird Q. Cagan Stadium.
Following the weekend’s action,
the Cardinal won’t have long to wait
before learning where it stands in
the postseason. The selection show
for the NCAA Tournament is tenta-
tively scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on
Monday afternoon.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams
@stanford.edu.
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BRIEFS
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Ogwumike, the reigning Pac-10
player of the year, led the conference
in scoring last season with 18.5 points
per game, and was second in re-
bounds with 9.9 per game. She
helped lead Stanford to the national
championship game, where the Car-
dinal was defeated by Connecticut.
Baylor’s Brittney Griner, Ohio
State’s Janel Lavender, Oklahoma’s
Danielle Robinson and Connecti-
cut’s Maya Moore round out the
All-America team. Moore won the
Wade Trophy last season as the na-
tional player of the year.
Cardinal seniors Jeanette Pohlen
and Kayla Pedersen were also hon-
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In addition, both teams have to
deal with their own internal question
marks. Stanford’s defense has been in-
credibly inconsistent — see: two road
shutouts in Pac-10 play,but 38.3 points
per game allowed in a three-game
stretch against Oregon, USC and
Washington State.The performance of
the Cardinal defense, particularly
against the pass, could be the deciding
factor on Saturday night. Arizona has
its own uncertainty at quarterback,
where starter Nick Foles has been
sidelined by a knee injury for the past
few weeks.Backup Matt Scott has per-
formed admirably in his absence, but
the Wildcats will need their best offen-
sive effort to keep up with Andrew
Luck and the Stanford offense.
For both teams, the spotlight and
pressure are relatively new phenome-
na. Arizona has never made the Rose
Bowl,while Stanford’s players were still
in elementary school the last time the
Cardinal smelled roses. However, both
Mike Stoops and Jim Harbaugh have
changed the attitudes at their respective
schools, and both teams figure to be up
for the challenge.
The hype about Arizona-Stanford
will be all about the strengths of both
teams, but it will be each team’s weak-
nesses, and its ability to improve on
them,that will decide this one.
Jacob Jaffe loves stats.Teach him some-
thing new at jwjaffe@ stanford.edu.
Thursday, November 4, 2010 ! 7
PAC-10 POWER RANKINGS
Every week, Jacob Jaffe will give his Pac-10 football power rankings. These represent a
measure of current success, not a prediction of future standings or a measure of talent.
1. Oregon (8-0, 5-0 Pac-10) UP NEXT: vs. Washington
Surprise, surprise. Oregon ascends to No. 1 in the country and has to play a rested
USC team on the road. Every pundit is projecting another upset and the Ducks trail
several times . . . and yet they still win by three touchdowns. That’s the Oregon we’ve
seen all year, a team that can play below its usual standard against a quality opponent, and
then in the blink of an eye turn a game on its head and coast to victory. It seems less and less
likely that Oregon will lose, or even be in a single-digit game, before the national title game,
and maybe not even then.
2. Stanford (7-1, 4-1 Pac-10) UP NEXT: vs. Arizona
Now that’s the Cardinal team that we’ve been expecting to see. After a few subpar
games, Stanford looked superb in every facet of the game, pummeling Washington in
one of the team’s best performances of the decade. The 107 yards allowed were the
second-fewest ever given up by Stanford, and the fewest in a victory. The Cardinal has
no time to rest on its laurels, though, because it faces its toughest remaining test on Saturday.
Stanford will need another strong showing on both sides of the ball in order to win this top-15
showdown and remain in BCS bowl contention.
3. Oregon State (4-3, 3-1 Pac-10) UP NEXT: at UCLA
Although the record might not indicate it, Oregon State is a very dangerous team.
Cruising to a home win over Cal doesn’t tell a whole lot about these Beavers, but
the remaining schedule will. Oregon State looks very likely to make another bowl
game after upcoming contests against UCLA and Washington State, but then the
road gets tougher with USC, Stanford and Oregon closing out the year. The Beavers have a
road win over Arizona in hand and still control their own destiny, and no team wants to see
Oregon State at the end of the year.
4. Arizona (7-1, 4-1 Pac-10) UP NEXT: at Stanford
The Wildcats might very well be the best team in the country to be only fourth-best in
its own conference, but such is life in the Pac-10. Arizona sports a sparkling 7-1
record, but questions remain after a lackluster win over UCLA. Quarterback Nick
Foles is scheduled to return on Saturday, but many thought he would play last week, so it’ll like-
ly be a mix of Foles and backup Matt Scott. Whoever is under center will face a daunting task
against Stanford, but a win would go a long way toward a BCS bowl, although Oregon still
remains on the Wildcats’ schedule.
5. Arizona State (4-4, 2-3 Pac-10) UP NEXT: at USC
Yet again, the cure for a struggling Pac-10 team is a matchup with Washington State.
This one was supposed to be much tighter after improving performances from the
Cougars, but Saturday was back to the old Wazzu. The Sun Devils destroyed the
Washington schools, as they so often do, and now sit at .500 with a chance to boost
their bowl hopes against the Trojans. A win would give them a chance, especially if not enough
teams qualify for a bowl and the NCAA is forced to take a 6-6 team with two FCS wins. A loss
puts them on the brink of elimination from bowl eligibility, with games against Stanford and
Arizona remaining.
6. USC (5-3, 2-3 Pac-10) UP NEXT: vs. Arizona State
For a while, it looked like another No. 1 team could go down in a conference road
game. But then the Trojans were treated to the Oregon Ducks show and could not
recover. Still, a 21-point loss to Oregon is not the worst thing in the world, and USC
still has very winnable games on its schedule. The question now becomes how moti-
vated the Trojans are, with no bowl game to play for and no BCS-shattering blockbuster games
left. We’ll get a pretty good glimpse on Saturday against ASU.
7. UCLA (3-5, 1-4 Pac-10) UP NEXT: vs. Oregon State
It speaks to the decline of the bottom half of the Pac-10 that the Bruins, losers of
three straight and four of five in conference play, check in at seventh. Despite
almost no hope for a bowl game and the loss of starting quarterback Kevin Prince,
UCLA put forth a valiant effort against a very good Arizona team. The Bruins were dominated
statistically, but they still found themselves with the ball and the chance to take the lead in the
fourth quarter. No ranked teams remain on UCLA’s schedule, so the Bruins might be able to
take a positive step toward the future in the closing weeks.
8. California (4-4, 2-3 Pac-10) UP NEXT: at Washington State
Same old Golden Bears. Another chance to prove itself on the road, and another
massive egg laid by the country’s most bipolar team. Now with four home wins and
four road losses, Cal is going to seriously challenge its trend by traveling up to
Pullman to take on the lowly Cougars. Even with senior quarterback Kevin Riley likely done for
the year, a loss to Washington State would speak volumes about Cal’s road woes. A win makes
bowl eligibility very much within reach, but the Golden Bears still have crucial home contests
against Oregon and Stanford.
9. Washington (3-5, 2-3 Pac-10) UP NEXT: at Oregon
Nothing is going right in Seattle. The Huskies got obliterated by Stanford, failing to
score at home for the first time in 34 years. Quarterback Jake Locker, once thought
to be the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft, has looked dreadful and will now sit
for at least a game due to a rib injury. And he’ll have to watch his team travel to Autzen Stadium
to take on what most voters believe is the best team in the country. The preseason optimism
has never seemed further away, and a bowl game now looks almost impossible.
10. Washington State (1-8, 0-6 Pac-10) UP NEXT: vs. California
So the Cougars aren’t there yet. After 21 fourth-quarter points against Stanford,
many thought Washington State would turn the corner and finally win a Pac-10
game. Last weekend seemed like the prime opportunity to do it, against a strug-
gling Arizona State team with fading bowl hopes. Instead, the Cougars looked as
bad as ever, failing to score while giving up 375 passing yards. Wazzu has another opportu-
nity this week against Cal, who hasn’t done much of anything right on the road this season,
but the Cougars will likely need to improve on last week’s eight rushing yards in order to pull
the upset.
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