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VIGINA MONOLOGUES
FRIDAY
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February 18, 2011
UNIVERSITY
Stanford
contemplates
NYC campus
Site may house applied
science, tech center
By KATE ABBOTT AND
ELIZABETH TITUS
SENIOR STAFF WRITERS
University President John Hennessy
announced during yesterday afternoon’s
Faculty Senate meeting that Stanford is
investigating the invitation to establish a
New York City campus focused on ap-
plied science and technology.
The University is “exploring” the pos-
sibility, said spokeswoman Lisa Lapin
ahead of Thursday’s meeting.
New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg announced in December
that the city was seeking a “world-class
university” to partner with and build an
engineering school on public land. The
idea grew from the city’s concern over at-
tracting technology companies and jobs
to New York, which lacks a top graduate
school in engineering.
“This is sort of a first for us,” Lapin
said. The idea is “still in the exploration
stage,” she added.
“I think remembering that we are a
university that serves this nation, and I
think we need to take a page out of the
President’s State of the Union address,”
Hennessy said when asked about the ad-
vantages of such a center. “I think the
challenge in the U.S. is to create more
centers of innovation and vibrancy,
which this university is qualified to un-
dertake.”
U.S. News and World Report ranked
Stanford’s engineering school second be-
hind M.I.T. in 2010.The school’s doctoral
programs in computer science, electrical
engineering and mechanical engineering
boast top rankings by the National Re-
search Council, according to the school’s
Trojans
website.
Hennessy stressed that this would not
be a satellite campus operating similarly
to those hosted abroad — with typically
roll, card
Please see NYC, page 3
STUDENT LIFE
Pledge pilot rolls over
class slated
as optional
ResEd continues dialogue
with leaders in Greek life
By BRENDAN O’BYRNE
STAFF WRITER
Following conversations with leaders
in both fraternities and sororities, Resi-
dential Education (ResEd) plans to
launch a new class this spring for new
pledges in the Greek community. Plans
to implement an educational compo-
nent to the pledging process were initial-
ly met with complaints by members of
the Greek community because of a cited
lack of communication with ResEd.
According to Amanda Rodriquez, as-
sistant director of Residential Educa-
tion and Greek Program Advisor, a one-
unit course,Athletic 1:Alcohol & Health
in College Life, will likely be offered as
an optional pilot program for new
pledges.
The proposed course will explore
health and wellness topics “particularly
relevant to the Greek community,” Ro-
driguez wrote in an e-mail to The Daily.
Please see GREEK, page 3
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SLIPPING AWAY
USC
(14-12, 6-7 Pac-10)
Maples Pavilion 7:30 P.M.
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NOTES: After a tough 69-65 loss at home
to UCLA, the Cardinal will have to re-
group in a hurry before their matchup
against USC tomorrow night. The Tro-
jans are coming off a tight road win over
Cal, 78-75. Stanford is currently tied for
seventh in the Pac-10 standings, half a
game back of USC, with just a few
games left to improve their seeding for
the Pac-10 tournament.
By NIC REINER-PARRA
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
Stanford trailed by 16 against the visiting UCLA Bruins before a late rally led by junior guard Jeremy
In the first game of the week-
end homestand, the Stanford Green’s 21 second-half points. Fellow junior guard Jarrett Mann (22) had a game-high six assists.
men’s basketball team fell to the
UCLA Bruins last night by a MEN’S BASKETBALL ford put Nelson on the line re- scoring the game’s first six
score of 69-65. peatedly down the stretch. points and led by as much as
Junior guard Jeremy Green UCLA 69 UCLA had two other players in eight in the first half — the Bru-
led Stanford (13-12, 6-8 Pac-10) STANFORD 65 double figures — sophomore ins never trailed in the game and
with 27 points, 21 of which came forward Tyler Honeycutt and led at the half, 36-29.
in the second half, on 9-for-16
2/17, Maples Pavilion
freshman center Joshua Smith “We played well but it was
shooting from the field. Junior UCLA (19-7, 10-3) was car- — who scored 16 points and 13 in spurts,” said Stanford head
forward Josh Owens added 12 ried by sophomore forward points, respectively. Smith also coach Johnny Dawkins. “We
points and five rebounds while Reeves Nelson, who had 18 dominated the glass, grabbing didn’t deserve the win based
freshman guard Anthony points and seven rebounds, al- nine rebounds, five of which on our performance for 40
Brown contributed 15 points though eight of the points came were offensive.
and four rebounds. from the charity stripe — Stan- UCLA jumped out early, Please see MBBALL, page 8
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
DESK EDITOR
Stanford laid a collective egg in its highly an-
ticipated Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
showdown at No. 1 USC, getting blown out in the
first two sets before coming up a bit short in the
third and final game, ultimately falling in a 3-0
sweep.
The No. 4 Cardinal (9-4, 6-4 MPSF) has had a
rough time recently in the MPSF, going 2-2 in
their last four conference matches, and it got no
easier against the conference-leading Trojans (7-
1, 7-1).
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
STANFORD 0
USC 3
2/17, Los Angeles
Senior outside hitter Spencer McLachlin had a
good game with a team-high 11 kills, nine digs and
a .364 hitting percentage, while outside hitter
Garrett Dobbs, a redshirt junior, provided a nice
boost off the bench with six kills on nine attempts.
But besides junior outside hitter Brad Lawson’s
10 kills, the Cardinal couldn’t find any offense.
Stanford had 15 attack errors to USC’s eight,
and the Trojans’ .407 hitting percentage was al-
most double the Cardinal’s .213.
USC had five players with at least five kills, led
by outside hitter Tony Ciarelli, who had a match-
high 12 kills on just 18 attempts with no errors for
a .667 hitting percentage. Two-time AVCA All-
American Murphy Troy had an off night with just
seven kills on 20 attack attempts, but it was plen-
ty to get past the Cardinal defense that struggled
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
to sideout all night.
The men’s volleyball team fell flat in its showdown with No. 1 USC, despite the best efforts of
Please see MVBALL, page 8 junior Erik Shoji (above). The two-time All-American libero had 10 digs in a 3-0 road loss.
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NEWS
UNIVERSITY

PG&E pipelines still

under question
ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily

While it came as a surprise to

Company reports lines’
marked improvments
By ZOE LEAVITT
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Stanford officials have been in
contact with PG&E representatives
since the utility company named
four sections of pipeline running
along Junipero Serra on its list of
top 100 sections for maintenance
last September.
The PG&E compilation was pub-
lished in an effort to increase trans-
parency following the San Bruno
pipeline explosion. It said the Ju-
nipero Serra pipes face risk of po-
tential corrosion.
According to Stanford officials,
PG&E has since assured Stanford
that the pipes are not dangerous,
but has not yet released detailed in-
formation on the pipes’ background
and maintenance history. The Uni-
versity currently faces a waiting
game with PG&E until Mar. 15, the
date by which the company said it
would send information from an
ongoing report. PG&E will present
that report to the Public Utilities
Commission on the same day.
The pipes in question run by Sand
Hill Road, on either side of Ju-
nipero Serra past faculty backyards,
near the golf course and down Page
Mill Road. PG&E has had full con-
trol over their care since the 1930s,
when the pipes’ first sections were
installed.
Stanford officials to see these pipes
on the maintenance list, they have
“no information the pipes are dan-
gerous,” said Assistant Vice Presi-
dent of University Communica-
tions Lisa Lapin.
“[PG&E] has generally been re-
sponsive when they have the infor-
mation,” Lapin added. “Sometimes
they themselves are trying to an-
swer the same questions.”
Immediately after the report was
released, Stanford met with PG&E
representatives to find out as much
information as possible.
According to PG&E spokesper-
son Joe Molica, the pipes were put
on the list for “potential of corro-
sion.”He said PG&E has since fixed
the issue by adjusting the cathodic
monitor system — an external elec-
tric monitor for corrosion — on the
pipes.
The Top 100 Maintenance List focused on the types of pipes along felt was a more imminent need, we is contingent on the information
“looks for long range evaluation Junipero Serra, when they were last would have pressed [PG&E] even contained in the forthcoming re-
and planning purposes,” Molica inspected and their condition, more.” port. However, since PG&E docu-
said. Lapin said. The Mar. 15 report will Palo Alto, San Mateo and other ments revealed after the San Bruno
But it does not signify immediate reveal the maintenance records and surrounding areas are also in the explosion illustrated instances of
danger. history of the pipes, among other in- process of questioning PG&E faulty record keeping, falsified re-
“We thought the corrosion may formation. about pipes potentially requiring ports and delayed inspections, there
be a bit higher [on the Junipero Lawrence Gibbs, assistant vice maintenance in their areas. Any le- is concern that some questions will
Serra pipes] than at other places,” provost of environmental health niency PG&E had been awarded in remain unanswered come March.
he said. “We adjusted the cathodic and safety, has been monitoring the the past by the state utilities com- “The hope and expectation is that
monitor and recent analysis has issue closely since the report first mission — an accusation recently they have all the records there, and
shown marked improvement.There came out. He has also kept nearby put forth by California state repre- if they don’t we’ll have to find out
is no further action needed for ex- homeowners informed about any sentatives — is long gone. how they will ascertain that infor-
ternal corrosion.” updates and has forwarded any “One of the things to come out of mation,” Gibbs said.
Molica also emphasized that homeowners’ questions on to this will hopefully be much more in- “We’re following the investiga-
pipeline monitoring at PG&E is a PG&E. formation about transmission pipe tion very closely,” Lapin added.
24-hour, seven day per week “It remains a concern because safety, not only here but in the
process. we’re still looking for more data,” whole country,” Gibbs said. Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@stan-
Stanford’s questions to PG&E he said. “If this was something we Any plan of action Stanford takes ford.edu.

UNIVERSITY “The American Enlightenment”

FacSen
discusses
libraries,
health care
By AN LE NGUYEN
MANAGING EDITOR

The Faculty Senate convened Thurs-

day afternoon to discuss three topics:the
possibility of a New York City campus
dedicated to engineering and computer
science; the impact of the Health Care
Reform Bill on faculty and staff mem-
bers and the future of the University’s li-
braries.
Vice President for Business Affairs
Randy Livingston and Professor of
Medicine Arnold Milstein presented a
report the legislative impact of the
health care bill, placing the emphasis on
the rising costs of health care.
Livingston said the University cur-
rently offers five health plans to employ-
ees and their dependents: Kaiser, Pacifi- KOR VANG/The Stanford Daily
Care, Health Net, PPO and HDHP Curator Caroline Winterer, professor of American history, presented “The American Enlightenment:Treasures from the Stanford University Libraries”
PPO.
“The costs have been rising quite
exhibition in the Bing Wing yesterday evening. The exhibit displayed 40 rare books written by notable mid-18th century British American authors.
dramatically,” Livingston said, referring
to the fact that the compounded annual
growth rate (CAGR) is between 12 per-
cent and15 percent.
“What health care reform,at least for
STUDENT LIFE

Housing expands key card access

us, does is introduce a number of ele-
ments that will actually, in short run, add
a burden of additional costs,”Livingston
said.
One such burden stems from an in-
crease in the number of people covered.
Stanford will see approximately 400 de- Three dorms join ongoing effort ty problems, there was an increased awareness
that safety was of utmost priority campus
Manzanita resident Robi Bucayu ‘13
voiced a similar opinion about the efficiency
pendents added to its health care roll
wide,” Whitney said. “We wanted to be proac- of card access. However, the new system has
this year since the Health Care Reform
Bill allows children to be covered under
to improve security, efficiency tive rather than reactive.” also elicited a number of criticisms. Some stu-
their parents’ plan up to age 26. Feedback and concerns from students also dents, including Hemphill, were disgruntled
By NARDOS GIRMA played crucial roles in the implementation of that the system changed partway through the
In addition, some of the bill’s costs
are directly borne by individual faculty
CONTRIBUTING WRITER the new changes as well as in previous card ac- year.
and staff members. For instance, faculty cess projects at other dorms. Both students and Another complaint about the new key card
As part of a larger effort to enhance campus resident fellows were surveyed prior to the system deals with Student Housing’s decision
and staff are no longer entitled to get re-
safety and security, Student Housing recently project’s execution and have been involved to add an alarm system that sounds if dorm
imbursement for over-the-counter med-
installed ID key card access in Manzanita throughout the process. doors are propped open.This feature was orig-
ication, and health spending accounts
Park, Mirrielees and Toyon Hall, replacing the “This year specifically, feedback indicated inally installed to improve safety.
are capped at $2,500.The health bill fur-
traditional lock-and-key system. that students were eager to have card access in- “The use of door alarms has enabled a high-
ther includes a special excise tax on cer-
The card systems, which were introduced on stalled and/or in use at their residences,”Whit- er security level for residents,” Whitney said.
tain health benefit plans, effective 2018.
Jan. 31, 2011, allow students to enter their dorm ney said. “Doors are no longer accidentally or inten-
According to Livingston,the Univer-
buildings with their Stanford ID cards.These re- The reaction from students since the pro- tionally left open, which means that individu-
sity will concentrate on the dual objec-
cent additions are only part of an initiative that ject’s implementation has been generally posi- als who do not belong in a residence have a
tives of improving the health of employ-
began three years ago with the introduction of tive. Kafi Hemphill ‘13 said she appreciated the much harder time gaining access.”
ees and dependents and slowing the
ID card access systems to freshman residences, convenience of the new system. In the case that a door alarm goes off, the
growth of healthcare costs.
Rodger Whitney, executive director of student “I didn’t like it at first, but I really like it dorm staff is alerted through text messages.
housing, wrote in an e-mail to The Daily. now,” Hemphill said. “It has made it easier to
Please see FACSEN, page 3 “While Stanford has not had serious securi- get into the dorm quickly.” Please see CARD, page 3
The Stanford Daily
CARD
Continued from page 2
Housing Building Managers, custo-
dial staff and Housing Access Spe-
cialists are notified and instructed
to follow the University’s pre-
scribed course of action. The Hous-
ing Access Response Team
(HART) is also available after-
hours.
But the door alarms have re-
ceived mixed reviews from stu-
dents.
Toyon Resident Assistant (RA)
Colin Campbell ‘11 found the alarm
change to be a great improvement.
“Before, you had no idea if the
door was propped open, and now it
can’t be propped open for more
than [a few] seconds without the
alarm going off,” he said.
Hemphill, however, found the
alarms to be somewhat of a hassle.
“I don’t think propping dorms
open was a large problem to begin
with,” she said. “And now, if you
leave the door open for a moment
too long, the alarm goes off.”
Although building access tech-
nology has steadily spread at Stan-
ford, students shouldn’t expect to
have key card access systems for
their rooms any time soon.
“The University does not plan
to install card access at student
room doors in the near future,”
Whitney said. “We do intend to
continue installing card access at
perimeter doors of housing facili-
ties.”
Governor’s Corner is next in
line to have card access systems in-
stalled.The Row, which is under re-
view, may follow suit.
In light of safety concerns this
quarter, these recent changes to
building access were seen by most
students as welcome improvements
to convenience and security.
Contact Nardos Girma at ngirma@
stanford.edu.
ERIC KOFMAN/The Stanford Daily
FACSEN
Continued from page 2
Milstein said two initiatives, the
Be Well Program and preventative
care, are in place to address the first
goal.He also expanded on the idea of
a Stanford-based Care Management
Program. One central component of
this program is an A-ICU that pro-
vides intensified care for the10 per-
cent of the insured who are most
fragile.
Milstein also sees a role for Stan-
ford Hospital & Clinics (SHC) and
the Lucile Packard Children’s Hos-
pital (LPCH) within this framework.
In combination, these efforts could
effectively reduce long-term health
care costs and improve the health of
Stanford faculty and staff.
With regard to cost control, Liv-
ingston cited several considerations
and potential solutions.
“We’ve really come to the conclu-
sion that Health Net and PacifiCare
are no longer effectively doing man-
aged care,” he said, noting that the
University may drop these two plans
in favor of a new self-insured plan.
“We’ve really come to the conclu-
sion that Health Net and PacifiCare
NYC
Continued from front page
one revolving faculty member pres-
ent each quarter — but an actual
second Stanford campus.
In addition to Stanford’s 8,180-
acre home campus, the University
maintains Hopkins Marine Station
in Monterey,Calif.,a program for un-
dergraduates in Washington, D.C.,
and 11 overseas programs.
He said that initially, there would
be at least computer science and
electrical engineering departments
that would “admit faculty and stu-
dents in an integrated fashion with
the University.”
These departments would serve
as building blocks from which the
campus could expand over time.The
initial concept envisions hosting 25
faculty members, 125 Ph.D. students
and 250 masters students from the
School of Engineering and the Grad-
uate School of Business,according to
a press release shared at the meeting.
According to Hennessy, much of
Friday, February 18, 2011 ! 3
are no longer effectively doing man-
aged care,” Livingston said.
Adding to the problem is the fact
that Kaiser doesn’t really have com-
petition and “manages under the
umbrella of the costs” of the other
plans, he said.
Following the health care discus-
sion, University Librarian Michael
Keller and John Bender,professor of
English and comparative literature,
reported on the future of Stanford’s
libraries.
According to Bender,the Univer-
sity discovered in the fall of 2007 that
Meyer Library had to be demolished
“for reasons of earthquake safety.”
Meyer currently houses academic
computing, a large number of library
staff and, most importantly, the East
Asia Library (EAL).
This revelation of Meyer’s seis-
mic unsoundness led to the creation
of the Marrinan Subcommittee,
which was tasked with investigating
the future of the East Asia Library.A
second subcommittee, known as the
Sommer subcommittee, convened
early in 2009 to look into the propos-
als put forth by its predecessor.
According to Bender, the Som-
mer subcommittee recommended
that Stanford maintain a substan-
tial collection of physical books on
the Farm, build a new library to
the response thus far has been posi-
tive,but officials will discuss finances,
academic considerations and other
factors before reaching a final deci-
sion.
“The time is coming when univer-
sities will be in more than one loca-
tion . . . and I believe the institution
that figures out how to make it work
and make it work well will be in a sig-
nificantly valued position,” Hen-
nessy said.
A team from Stanford,along with
GREEK
Continued from front page
This initiative will be part of a larger
University effort to enhance new
member education and program-
ming.
Potential course topics include
alcohol consumption, hazing, sexu-
al assault and relationship abuse,
strategies to address the bystander
effect, responsible part hosting,
leadership training, philanthropy
and an overview of Greek life. The
course aims to offer comprehen-
sive information to pledges across
campus, complement existing
pledge programs and encourage
partnerships between different
Greek councils.
Residential Education met with
Greek presidents and the head of
Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC)
after news of the class broke. It
continues to collaborate with fra-
ternity and sorority presidents to
shape and develop the pilot pro-
gram.
However, there is confusion and
uncertainty among students sur-
rounding the class.
At a presidents’ meeting with
representatives from ResEd and
Vaden Health Center, Greek presi-
dents did not seem to support
ResEd’s original proposal to insti-
tute a mandatory, one-unit class this
spring.
“The opposition is from the ra-
pidity with which it happened,” said
Brian Tolkin ‘12, president of the
Sigma Nu fraternity.
Theta Delta Chi president Cody
Sam ‘12 echoed Tolkin’s sentiments.
“It was just so fast and we weren’t
involved in the planning of it,” he
said.“Mandatory,spring quarter just
isn’t going to work.”
The presidents met again last
week with Rodriguez, as well as
Ralph Castro, associate director of
Health Promotion Services (HPR)
and Jarreau Bowen, a health educa-
tor at HPR. Castro and Bowen are
scheduled to teach the Alcohol &
Health course.
At the meeting, several Greek
presidents voiced their concerns.
Rodriguez said useful feedback
from that meeting resulted in the de-
SERENITY NGUYEN/The Stanford Daily
house EAL and invest in the digi-
talization of its resources, among
other things.
But two developments coinciding
with the Sommer investigation have
expanded the University’s options
with respect to its libraries. The first
was the construction of Stanford
Auxiliary Library 3 (SAL3).The sec-
ond was the announcement that the
Graduate School of Business would
vacate GSB South.
GSB South has since been put
forth as a potential new home for
EAL. Provost John Etchemendy
said a cost-benefit study is currently
underway.
“We haven’t made a decision
about whether the contents of
Meyer will in fact go into GSB
South,” Etchemendy said. “Yes, we
spent $1 million [to study the op-
tions] . . . to make sure we don’t
make a mistake.”
Tentatively speaking, the cost of
transferring the contents of Meyer to
GSB South may “be on the order of
$50 million,”he said.The timeline for
the decision of the future of the li-
brary is six months into the future.
The construction of another building
to house EAL remains a possibility.
Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen
@stanford.edu.
representatives from approximately
15 other universities, attended an in-
formational meeting with city offi-
cials on Feb. 1 to learn more about
the project. Hennessy reiterated that
this project is “very much a competi-
tion.”
Official expressions of interest
are due by Mar. 16.
Contact Kate Abbott @kmabbott
@stanford.edu and Elizabeth Titus at
emtitus@stanford.edu.
cision to make the course optional.
According to Katie McKeon ‘12,
president of Delta Delta Delta, Cas-
tro and Bowen told students that the
course would make Stanford a pio-
neer; no other American college has
a mandatory class for credit for
Greek pledges.
Although McKeon said she sup-
ported the idea of expanding educa-
tion for pledges, she noted that rep-
resentatives from Vaden already
come to specific houses and individ-
ual chapter meetings for education-
al programs.
“This would make sense for them
because it would consolidate their
work into one class, but that doesn’t
necessarily mean it will be effec-
tive,” she said.
Other concerns range from the
logistics of the class to the way it may
affect potential pledges’ perception
of Greek life. Sam noted that it
would deter people from rushing.
Tolkin said it would be difficult to fit
600 people into a single room for the
class, which is scheduled to take
place in Cubberley Auditorium.
Brandon Mischel ‘12, president
of Kappa Alpha, observed that ath-
letes generally have practice on Fri-
days at the same time the class is
slated to take place.
On the whole, Greek presidents
seemed frustrated because details
about the class have yet to be re-
leased. One president who request-
ed to remain anonymous noted that
ResEd appeared to be “winging it,”
as it was unable to provide any
specifics about the course syllabus
or format. Bowen also said he has
yet to see a syllabus, and the course
is only four weeks away from imple-
mentation.
However, Rodriguez said “Resi-
dential Education/Fraternity and
Sorority Life is working with a
smaller group of presidents to re-
view a possible curriculum” in the
hope that the program will produce
positive results.
“It is a priority for the University
that new member education and
programming be enhanced in com-
ing years, and we look forward to
working with student leaders from
the Greek community to pursue
these endeavors,” she said.
Contact Brendan O’Byrne at bobyrne
@stanford.edu.
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B
eginning in the 2009-10
school year,Wilbur and Stern
(with the exception of the
theme houses Okada and Casa Za-
pata) switched entirely to freshman
housing. According to conventional
wisdom and survey data, all-frosh
houses better promote community
and rapport with dorm mates than
four-class houses do.Yet,some have
argued that four-class dorms pro-
vide their own benefits; benefits
which disappear when the majority
of freshmen are secluded in a bub-
ble within the bubble. While advo-
cates for four-class dorms are right
to cite advantages for academic ad-
vising, they are flat wrong when it
comes to improving alcohol safety.
In theory, four-class houses are a
great opportunity for informal peer
advising, both academically and on
a personal level. Upperclassmen
have insider knowledge about class-
es, majors, research and other op-
portunities that faculty advisors or
academic directors cannot provide.
On a personal level, upperclassmen
can provide guidance regarding typ-
ical Stanford struggles, such as be-
coming more involved in campus
activities and how best to balance
work and fun.They also have the po-
tential to be exceptional role mod-
els, especially when it comes to re-
sponsible alcohol consumption.
Even for those in all-frosh houses,
having upperclassmen in the same
dorm complex makes them much
more accessible than they would be
otherwise.
Unfortunately for advocates of
four-class housing, those theoretical
benefits do not always pan out in
four-class houses. Many upperclass-
men were not looking to live with
freshmen again, but settled for a
four-class house in the draw. While
some enjoy the enthusiasm of fresh-
Michael Londgren Copy Editor
houses produce some of the most Web Editor
Lauren Wilson
dangerous drinking habits, and Robert Michitarian Managing Editor of Intermission Wyndam Makowsky
freshmen are often more cautious Jane LePham Zack Hoberg Staff Development
than their older counterparts. In- Shelley Gao Managing Editor of Photography Business Staff
deed, upperclassmen, and in partic-
Rich Jaroslovsky Begüm Erdogan
ular sophomores, have accounted
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Having older students around also
makes instituting and enforcing
rules about alcohol much more dif-
ficult.
Alcohol safety should be a high
priority when it comes to formulat-
ing housing policies. A recent study
from AlcoholEdu showed that Stan-
ford students are high above nation-
al average in terms of number of
shots typically taken and amount of
pregaming.According to Ralph Cas-
tro, associate director of Vaden
Health Promotion Services,of the al-
cohol transports over the last four
years, 100 percent had consumed
hard liquor and 95 percent had
pregamed. Upperclassmen tend to
think that freshmen are naive and
therefore make poor decisions,but if
the mentors from whom they learn
are generally making poor decisions
as well,how can we expect better re-
sults from four-class houses?
Critics are justified in arguing
that the restructuring of Wilbur and
Stern has denied many freshmen
the opportunity to build relation-
ships with upperclassmen and de-
prived them of invaluable academic
guidance. As a community, we
should have more opportunities for
freshmen to be advised by those
with more experience, particularly
for academic purposes. However,
before we can look to four-class
housing as a solution, upperclass-
men themselves need to become
M ARKS M Y W ORDS
more responsible role models when

men, others avoid them. Most im-
portantly, upperclassmen actually
tend to be poor role models for the
freshmen who emulate them. Con-
TMI? NEI.
it comes to alcohol consumption. In
the meantime, Stanford is right to
house its newest students away from
the corrupting influence of upper-

F
trary to popular belief, four-class classmen. or those of the earlier gener-
ations — TMI is an acronym
for the expression “too much
Unsigned editorials in the space above represent the views of the editorial board of The
information.” It is usually uttered
Stanford Daily and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Daily staff.The editorial to halt a conversational trend, and
board consists of six Stanford students led by a chairman and uninvolved in other sections it is often exclaimed in shock or
of the paper.Any signed columns in the editorial space represent the views of their authors protestation. I have heard it
and do not necessarily represent the views of the entire editorial board.To contact the edi- shrieked most often when people
torial board chair, e-mail editorial@stanforddaily.com.To submit an op-ed, limited to 700 go too far into the realm of the sex-
words, e-mail opinions@stanforddaily.com.To submit a letter to the editor, limited to 500 ually explicit, but also in reference
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lence and gore or narrations of
bodily functions such as bowel
O P-E D movements.
Rather than provide sample an-
ecdotes of situations in which my
now, but good to see you!” Occa-
sionally the conversation continues,
but in my experience at least, it goes
haltingly at first, like a car that has
Miriam Ellora stalled and needs to be restarted.
“So, um, how’re classes?” But the
Marks damage has been done. What dam-
age, you may ask?
NEI!!! The issue with answering
only “good!” to the “how’re you?”
question is that it sets a very low
They probably precedent for the level of informa-
tion sharing that will take place in
wondered why I
the conversation. It’s the lowest TMI
— the highest NEI. Each person an-
swers the minimum “good” or “fine”

The fine line between

friends gave me TMI about their sex
lives, I’m going to explore the realm
of the opposite — NEI (not enough
information). Yes, I made it up my-
provided so much or “okay” and moves on with their
lives. And who would break the
cycle? If you pose the question and
information the other person says “good” in re-

insensitivity and disrespect self just now. But you should totally
spread it around.
Anyway, picture the following
you?”
sponse, are you going to tell the per-
son all about your life? Probably not.
The person said “good,” so you’ll say
conversation between two people “good” too, right? It’s the cycle of
“I’m good!”

F
or those of you who have
never received an e-mail blast
from me, I am the President of
the 6th Man Committee. Yesterday
I was unsurprised to see an opinion
written by a fellow student under
the title “It’s all fun and games . . .
until you call it a Fiesta.” The op-ed
was critical of the 6th Man Club’s
upcoming “Fiesta Night,” labeling it
as “insensitive.” While I would like
to personally apologize for offend-
ing anyone, I think the message be-
hind the event is being lost and I dis-
agree with the stance that we should
prevent events like this at Stanford.
First of all, let me state for the
record that I am sorry that the au-
thor and others may have felt
“cheapened” by the theme for the
event. I totally understand the sen-
timent that it seems unnecessary to
associate tacos, sombreros and the
word “Fiesta” with basketball. And
I definitely sympathize with the fact
that such events can quickly go
wrong: first come sombreros, next,
mustaches. Of course these objec-
tions were foreseeable; so what
could we have been thinking?
I think the author is ignoring the
venue and purpose of the event. It
is not being held on the Row to cel-
ebrate drunkenness at the cost of
another culture, as so many events
admittedly are (take “Internation-
al Progressives” or “Cafe Night,”
for example). It is about bringing
together a community of fans over
good food (tacos), music (played
by Mariachi Cardenal), fun prizes
(sombreros) and, best of all, some
exciting Stanford basketball
(against U$C). Obviously, if one
measures the event by whether it
fulfills the traditional standards for
a fiesta, it will come up short. But
that is not to say the event is inher-
ently insensitive or disrespectful.
Although it is our responsibility to
preserve Stanford as a respectful
environment, this event, which has
the best of intentions, seems a very
misplaced focus for the author’s
ire.
While the author may not have
realized this when formulating her
opinion, it is not the Stanford ad-
ministration that is the object of her
criticism but students like me. The
members of the Committee plan all
of the events for 6th Man, come
early and stay late for every game,
flyer weekly, go to dorm meetings,
sell t-shirts for charity and support
the women’s basketball team. We
volunteer full-time to support
men’s basketball and to make the
student experience at games even
better. In my mind, this really begs
the question of who is being insensi-
tive and/or disrespectful.
In any case, Fiesta Night will go
on! Shameless plug:
Stanford men’s basketball vs. USC
Fiesta Night
6:30-9:30 p.m., Maples Pavilion
Hope to see you there!
JOEL SANDLER, B.S.‘10, M.S.‘11
who pass by each other outside
Meyer Library:
“Hey, how’re you doing?”
“Hey! I’m good . . . how’re
O BSESSIVE KOMPULSION
This Weather Sucks
Y
esterday, for the first time I
can recall all year, it was
colder at Stanford than all
the major cities on the East Coast. It
was 58 degrees and partly sunny in
Cambridge, Mass., 62 degrees and
sunny in New York and 70 degrees
and sunny in Washington, D.C. Un-
acceptable.
Like most MacBook owners, I
have the weather widget on my
dashboard. But my dashboard is
set up to show me the forecast for
four different cities at once: Stan-
ford, New York City — where I’m
from — Cambridge and New
Haven — where my best friends go
to school. When our forecast is so
much better than it is on the East
Coast, I take a screenshot of the re-
ports, post it to Facebook and tag
all of my friends.
I know — not a nice thing to do,
but I’ve only done this twice . . .
And I think my caption from my
Jan. 14 upload says what I felt best:
Then what happens? Sometimes
the two people part ways there,
maybe even feigning some excuse
for departure. “Oh, I have to run
Kristian
Bailey
“Sorry — I kinda had to do this . . .
it’s just too good.”
My freshman fall was catego-
rized by excellent weather — a hot
September and October, 70 degrees
during Big Game Week and 60 in
December. Nice as the fall may
have been, the first half of winter
quarter really outdid itself. Sure, it
was cloudy the first few weeks, but
no one can say that hitting 72 de-
grees in late January and 79 degrees
in February is not phenomenal.
Beyond my rare photoblogging,
my friends back on the East Coast
can tell you I’ve not otherwise been
humble about our gorgeous weath-
NEI.
In my mind, this recalls the ques-
Please see MARKS, page 5
er this year. I can’t even begin to
count the number of Facebook sta-
tuses I posted along the lines of,
“LAYING OUT IN 70-DEGREE
WEATHER IN JANUARY. SO
HAPPY” or “SUCH A BEAUTI-
FUL DAY!!!”
So, imagine how I feel now that I
can’t brag.
On Monday afternoon, some-
thing about The Axe & Palm
seemed strange to my friend and me
as we walked over from our dorm
— we soon realized that we could-
n’t remember seeing it in cloudy
weather. Tuesday night, the sound
of wet, squeaky shoes against the
floor was foreign enough to cause
me to stop briefly and wonder what
noise I was hearing.
As I left the Daily building that
same night, I opened the backdoor
to see an unfamiliar sight: rain
falling in a continuous motion.I did-
Please see BAILEY, page 5
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MARKS
Continued from page 4
tion of who moves first in the game
of conversation (thank you, game
theory). If you’re answering the
“how’re you?” question first, you
set the precedent. If the other per-
son is answering first, they set the
precedent of how detailed the con-
versation should be, and initial
precedents can be hard to change.
However, it is possible to change
the game. If you decide to add in a
tidbit like, “I’m good, I just got out
of a midterm!” you’ve implicitly
given permission for the other per-
son to also add an additional piece
of information. I’ve seen this hap-
pen many a time — when asked
how I’m doing, I provide one little
sentence of description, ask how
the person is doing in return and re-
ceive one little sentence of descrip-
tion. It brings to mind the idea of
raising the price of a good in an
auction — I’ve raised my “bid” in
the conversation, so I force the
other person to raise theirs too.
Okay, no more economics. The
point is that these little one-liners
are the most important aspect of
the casual run-in. Even if the only
thing you gain from that interac-
tion is hearing that the other per-
son just had a midterm or is really
tired or is going to an interview, it’s
one more way you’re involved with
their life and one more way you can
feel connected to them. Plus it’s
conversational ammunition for the
next time you run into this person
— if you remember what they said
before, you can bring it up in the fu-
ture and ask about their interview
or nap or post-midterm ecstasy.
Now, what do you do when you
ask, “how’re you doing?” first and
the person says “good” in re-
sponse? I dare you, when they ask
you in return, to volunteer a tidbit
or two.They may have set the bar to
the highest level of NEI (is this
catching on?), but you don’t have
to keep it there. In this situation, I
usually go ahead and volunteer a
few things. Sometimes it’s as egre-
gious as:
“Hey [name], how’re you
doing?”
“I’m good, Miriam! How’re
you?”
“Oh wow. This week is killing
me. I have a ton of work, and then I
had to scramble to find a good topic
for my Daily column. Now that’s
over, but I still have a midterm this
week. At least this weekend will be
good! You should definitely check
out this big show on Saturday
called Rhythms. Sanskriti is putting
it on in Memorial Auditorium, and
it features 14 difference student
performance groups . . . “ etc.
I usually take the other person
BAILEY
Continued from page 4
n’t know what to do — my instinct
was to retreat back inside, thinking
I could wait out the rain — but then
I realized I just had to bear it.
So, I turned my scarf (the days
may be nice here, but the nights are
cold), into a shawl and sped back to
FloMo. My Facebook status that
night was: “Rain?! How do I deal
with this?!”
If you’re on the East Coast and
are reading this, you’re probably
thinking the same thing one of my
friends at Penn commented: “OH
NO NOT RAIN ANYTHING
BUT THE RAIN.” But really, Ger-
ren, this weather sucks.
Imagine trying to bike in the rain
— your legs, perpendicular to the
Friday, February 18, 2011 ! 5
aback at first. After all, they prob-
ably wondered why I volunteered
so much information. But then the
best part happens. If the person
clearly isn’t dashing off to another
engagement, they often readjust
to the new, lower level of NEI that
I’ve set, and then we have a real
falling rain, get much wetter than
they would if you walked, and your
jeans consequently feel like death.
If you’re biking against the wind,
you can’t see a thing and blindly
hope you won’t crash into another
cyclist, the poles that close off
streets to cars or a car itself. And
even during the day, your hands
freeze against the cold and wet han-
dlebars. It’s truly Stanford’s biggest
first world problem.
I’ve been told by many an upper-
classman that I’ve been spoiled by
this winter — I am fully aware of
this and wholeheartedly embrace it.
I’ve successfully worn shorts each
month I’ve been at Stanford, and I
haven’t had to shovel any snow
(and New York has had a particu-
larly nasty winter this year).
Yesterday during lunch, my en-
tire dorm stared through the win-
dows of the dining hall in awe. We
didn’t understand how anyone
conversation! No more monosyl-
labic answers — we have a good
exchange until one of us really
does have to leave.
Was this columns TMI on NEI?
Share your thoughts with Miriam at:
melloram@stanford.edu.
could want to go outside in such a
downpour. I could easily see how, in
a normal winter, after two or three
days of rain, class attendance might
drop.
Harvard and Yale might have
seasonal affective disorder (SAD),
but that’s not what we signed on for,
right? Seasonal depression belongs
on the East Coast.
My pride was at stake in this
weather — my friends never would
have let me live this down if they
discovered it before I pointed it out
myself. But I beat them to the chase.
And anyway, they can have their
one nice day.They’re not the ones in
a position to complain that a fore-
cast of 50 degrees and rain in Febru-
ary is bad.
Hey East Coast, you’ve got some
snow headed your way in the next
week! If you’re mad, send some Kris-
tian’s way at kbailey@stanford.edu.
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SPORTS
ONE MORE TIME
STANFORD HEADS TO L.A. ON FINAL PAC-10 ROAD TRIP
By JACK BLANCHAT
DESK EDITOR
After a relatively flat weekend
against the Washington schools, the
Stanford women’s basketball team
will head south to Los Angeles for its
final road trip of the Pac-10 season
this weekend.
The No. 3 Cardinal (22-2, 13-0
Pac-10) looks to break out of a recent
mini-slump in Southern California
after it shot a season-worst 36.5 per-
cent from the floor against Washing-
ton last Saturday and trailed Wash-
ington State midway through the first
half.
Even though Stanford managed
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
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winning streak to 15, the perform-
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ally dominant standard of play this
season. MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
But the Los Angeles schools gen- STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .0
erally bring back some good vibes for USC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 (25-15, 25-14, 25-21)
Stanford. In a two-game set at
Maples Pavilion in January, the Card 2/17, Los Angeles
punished then-No. 8 UCLA (21-2, MEN’S BASKETBALL
11-1), 64-38, before trouncing USC USC 7:30 P.M. PST
(15-8, 7-5), 95-51.
Despite the performances against STANFORD
the Washington teams, freshman for- 2/19, Maples Pavilion
ward Chiney Ogwumike said that the
Cardinal is focused and upbeat about WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
the last road trip of the regular season. STANFORD 7 P.M. PST
“It’s a huge weekend for us,” she UCLA
said.“Because going on the road is al-
ways difficult, our approach is really
2/18, Westwood, Calif.
focused this weekend in particular.” MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
First up for the Cardinal is the STANFORD 7 P.M. PST
USC Trojans, who have gone 3-2
since the last meeting with Stanford PEPPERDINE
but have a lineup of scorers that are 2/19, Malibu, Calif.
daunting to any program.
Guards Briana Gilbreath, Ashley
MEN’S TENNIS
Corral and Jacki Gemelos all average FLORIDA 12 P.M. PST
at least 11.7 points per game, and STANFORD
Gilbreath is eighth best in the Pac-10 2/18, Seattle
with 15.1 points per game.
The three guards combined for 27

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points in last January’s matchup
against the Cardinal, and Chiney Og-
wumike said that more good play can
Kabir
be expected from the Trojans and the Sawhney
rest of the Pac-10.
“When you play in the Pac-10,
everyone knows you, they see you,
they scout you for the whole year, so
is losing Follow the Money

it’s much more difficult to play in this

conference,” she said. “We demand
excellence on the court, so people are
going to play their best game against
the fight nothing that riles up the crowd at
a hockey game quite like a fight,
and elated cheers or disappointed
groans ripple through the arena

us.We have to come focused and con-
centrate.”
If the Cardinal can capture a vic-
tory on Friday night, it will lock up a
first-round bye in next month’s Pac-
10 tournament, but even with a victo-
ry over the women of Troy, the con-
ference title is still not a sure thing.
The No. 9 UCLA Bruins, Sunday’s
hosts to the Cardinal, have only lost
one game in the Pac-10 — the 64-38
loss at Maples Pavilion last month.
Chiney Ogwumike said that both
the Trojans and Bruins will be look-
ing for revenge, a motivation that the
Cardinal cannot afford to overlook.
“We know that we executed very
well against them the first time, but
we know that the second time they’re
going to come back stronger and
more studied,” she said.“[UCLA is] a
very hungry team, and they’ve
haven’t lost a Pac-10 game besides us,
so we have to execute our game and
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily know our scouting report.”
Stanford is perfect in the Pac-10 at 13-0, but will be tested on the road at UCLA Chiney Ogwumike, the younger
and USC this weekend. Freshman forward Chiney Ogwumike (13) is currently
4th o the team and 18th in the coference with 12 points per game. Please see WBBALL, page 8
A
s I have written be-
fore in these pages,
I belong to a small
class of fans who
love hockey. It’s
fast paced, action packed and
viewer friendly, but the sport and
its highest league, the NHL, are
struggling mightily to grow and
gain fan support here in the U.S.
Part of the reason for these strug-
gles is hockey’s tradition of “fight-
ing” on the ice, when two players
drop their gloves and go at it in an
old-fashioned fistfight. Most
teams employ enforcers whose
sole job is to rough up opposing
players.
Before last week, I was in the
ranks of the apologists for this as-
pect of the sport. Sure, fighting
might turn off some fans, but it is
woven into the fabric of the sport.
Even without fighting,hockey is a
violent game, with players slam-
ming into each other at high
speeds.
I’ll even admit that there’s
once the brawl has concluded,de-
pending on the outcome. I myself
have often been in those ranks,
cheering on the Devils’ enforcers
as they sought to bloody up oppo-
nents.
Yet the events of a Feb. 11
game on Long Island between the
Pittsburgh Penguins and the New
York Islanders have irrevocably
turned me against fighting.It must
be banned from the NHL now if
the league hopes to salvage its
image and appeal to the broader
American sports consciousness.
To give a brief summation of
that game, the teams basically
brawled with one another
throughout the contest, an even-
tual 9-3 win for the Isles. There
were 65 penalties, 346 penalty
minutes, 10 ejections and a goalie
fight.The stage for the showdown
was set in an earlier game be-
tween the two teams, when Pens
goalie Brent Johnson broke a cou-
Please see SAWHNEY, page 7

SPORTS BRIEFS
Softball heads to Sin City
Stanford softball went 4-1 at the
Kajikawa Classic in Arizona last
weekend, the only loss coming at the
hands of Nebraska in extra innings.
Now the Card is back on the road for
this weekend’s UNLV Louisville
Slugger Desert Classic in Las Vegas,
where the competition promises to be
even stiffer with the likes of No. 23
BYU, No. 9 Hawaii and No. 3 Ten-
nessee all on the slate for Stanford.
The Cardinal required just five in-
nings to dispatch Nevada and CS-
Northridge in Tucson last week, thanks
in part to an offensive attack that pro-
duced 38 runs in five games. Junior
shortstop Ashley Hansen and sopho-
more second baseman Jenna Rich both
have matched high preseason expecta-
tions early in the season.
Hansen led the team with a .611 bat-
ting average that included two triples,
and Rich hit two doubles,smashed four
home runs and tallied 13 RBI on the
opening weekend.
The season opener also featured the
return of sophomore pitcher Teagan
Gerhart from an arm injury that side-
lined her for the latter part of last year.
Early returns were very promising as
Gerhart went 1-1 with a 0.82 ERA and
16 strikeouts on the weekend. Senior
counterpart Ashley Chinn was 3-0 with
16 strikeouts.
Coach John Rittman was pleased
with the debuts of his two freshmen
starters, designated player Danielle
Miller and left fielder Corey Hanewich
— Miller hit two home runs and had
five total hits and five RBI, while
Hanewich hit a home run in her first
collegiate at bat and finished the week-
end with two bombs.
Stanford kicks off the Desert Clas-
sic with a doubleheader today against
Utah State and Portland State.The first
pitch is scheduled for 11:15 a.m.
— Miles Bennett-Smith
THE GREAT INDOORS
By DASH DAVIDSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Stanford men’s tennis team heads to
Seattle this weekend for its biggest test of the
young season, the ITA National Indoor Champi-
onships.At 7-0 (1-0 Pac-10), the team is off to its
best start since 2002.
The Cardinal is seeded seventh in the 16-
team tournament, which will stretch from today
through Monday.The tournament is single-elim-
ination but features a consolation bracket, guar-
anteeing teams the opportunity to play at least
three matches.
Stanford is looking to avenge what was a poor
showing in the same tournament last year, when
it was trounced by Texas in the opening round.
The Cardinal has been on a roll through the
early part of its schedule this year, though, and
looks primed to present a tough challenge to the
10th-seeded Florida Gators, Stanford’s first-
round opponent.
The Cardinal is on the same side of the draw
as No. 2 seed USC, and if both Pac-10 rivals win
their first matches, they will be pitted up against
each other in the quarterfinals on Saturday in
what would inevitably be a hard-fought match.
However first, Stanford has to take care of a
Florida team that is full of talent, but perhaps
somewhat unaccustomed to playing indoors due
to the prime tennis conditions that the state of
Florida provides.The Cardinal will be looking to
take advantage of this discrepancy in indoor-
playing experience.
Leading the Stanford team as it tries to make
a statement against the best teams in the country
this weekend will be junior Bradley Klahn, the
team’s No. 1 player and the reigning NCAA sin-
gles champion.
Klahn spoke about the upcoming tourna-
ment and what it means to the team.
“The National Team Indoor Championships
is a great tournament to really see where we
stand versus the top teams in the nation,” he
said. “The top teams are all in it, and these are
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
Sophomore Denis Lin (above) secured Stanford’s recent win over Fresno State with a 2-6, 6-2,
6-3 win over Jean-Charles Diame. The Cardinal faces Florida in the ITA Team Champioinships. Please see MTENNIS, page 8
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ple of bones in Isles goalie Rick DiPi-
etro’s face during a goalie fight.After
the fight, fines and suspensions were
handed down to both teams.
The fallout from that game illus-
trated clearly to me the main reason
why fighting should be tossed in the
trash: the only time hockey gets any
extended coverage on SportsCenter
is around these types of brawls, feed-
ing the negative image of hockey as a
game for brutes, rednecks and Cana-
dians.Any given hockey game is lucky
to get five minutes of airtime on
ESPN’s flagship program, but the
videos of this fight were replayed over
and over and over.
Over on the Internet, videos of
three or four fights going on simulta-
neously on the ice headlined major
Friday, February 18, 2011 ! 7
sports websites, while a chorus of
columnists decried the violence that
the sport had devolved into. When
Penguins owner Mario Lemieux
called out the NHL for a lack of
toughness in going after the perpetra-
tors, it made headlines once again.
In order to further illustrate the
need for a ban on fighting, let’s com-
pare last week’s brawl to another fa-
mous altercation: the 2004 Pacers-
Pistons fight in Detroit, famously
prompted by a fan throwing a cup of
Diet Coke at Ron Artest. True, the
Malice at the Palace did a good deal
of damage to the NBA’s image, but
the league took swift and decisive ac-
tion against all involved, including
handing down suspensions to nine
players.
More importantly, that fight was
viewed as an aberration, sparked by a
couple of idiotic fans and one particu-
larly hotheaded player. By contrast,
the Islanders and Penguins fought
each other in a systemic way — as en-
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of time. The brawl is the natural out-
come of the NHL’s fighting culture:
when enforcers step over some un-
written line (as they sometimes do),
the opposing team feels a need to re-
spond with violence in kind.
The NHL needs to clean up its
image in order to expand, and ban-
ning fighting would be an excellent
start. For too long, the sport’s brutish
side has obscured what it has to offer
to the American fan. Hopefully, we’ll
be able to look back on Feb. 11, 2011
as a crucial moment in hockey’s evo-
lution, when it finally turned away
from violence and embraced the ele-
ments that make the sport great.
Kabir likes to watch NHL fights
from the relative safety of his dorm
room. But if you are in the mood to
talk hockey, lumberjack competi-
tions or anything else Canadian,send
him an e-mail at ksawhney@stan-
ford.edu.
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MBBALL|Green hot late
minutes.”
Though the Cardinal finished
with 44-percent shooting, Dawkins
felt it was lackluster.
“A lot of times our lulls on of-
fense carry over to the defense,” he
said. “Our kids are thinking about
what just happened on the other
end. We got to work on that going
forward.”
Jeremy Green went on a tear
near the end, getting the Cardinal
back in the game, scoring 16 points
in the final five minutes.
With about six minutes left in the
game, the Bruins led, 57-42, and
seemed prepped to coast to victory.
However, the Cardinal went on a
big final run, scoring on eight
straight possessions late to cut the
lead to 66-62 with one minute re-
maining.After a missed UCLA free
throw, it appeared the Cardinal
might be able to cut it to one.
But on the ensuing possession,
Jeremy Green drove to the basket
and had the ball stolen.After yet an-
other missed Bruin free throw, the
Card had another chance wasted as
Green’s three-pointer rimmed out.
Both teams jostled for the rebound,
but the Bruins came up with the ball
on the ground and put the game out
of reach with two more free throws
in the last 10 seconds.
Nelson’s free-throw shooting
was especially important in the final
stretch. While the Cardinal desper-
ately tried to get back in the game
“We didn’t
deserve the win.”
—JOHNNY DAWKINS
late, he sank free-throw after free-
throw, making seven of eight in the
final minutes.
When asked about the last pos-
session, Green took responsibility
for Stanford’s missed chance.
“I got a decent look at the three,”
he said. “It’s on me to make that
shot. And on the previous one, I
turned the ball over. It’s on me.”
Turnovers were a big key in the
game, as both teams coughed the
ball up frequently. The Bruins fin-
ished with 17 turnovers while the
Cardinal had 12.
Up next for Stanford is USC,
which bested the Cardinal, 65-42,
last month in Los Angeles. The Tro-
jans are a game ahead of Stanford at
fourth place in the Pac-10 with a 7-7
conference record and are coming
off a tight victory on Thursday night
over Cal.
Stanford and USC tip off on Sat-
urday at 7:30 p.m.at Maples Pavilion.
Contact Nic Reiner-Parra at nrein-
er@stanford.edu.
MVBALL
Continued from front page
Junior libero Erik Shoji had 10
digs, and junior setter Evan Barry
had 30 assists, but Stanford was out-
blocked 17-2 and was in trouble
from the middle of the first set.
After trading points early on,the
Cardinal took an 8-7 lead, but it
would be the last Stanford lead
until midway through the final set.
USC went on several runs as it ran
away to a 25-15 margin in set one.
The second game wasn’t close
after the first few points, as the Tro-
jans hit .632 in the set with four kills
WBBALL
Continued from page 6
sister of junior (and reigning Pac-
10 Player of the Year) Nnemkadi
Ogwumike, also mentioned that
even though the team struggled
last weekend, adversity would only
make the team stronger in the long
run.
“We’ve had great shooters
show up every game so far this
year until that Washington game
— it just wasn’t connecting at that
point, and one thing that you have
to have is dependency between
your guards and your posts,” the
younger Ogwumike said.
“A shooter’s mentality is one
that you forget quickly,” she con-
tinued. “So even though the shots
weren’t falling, I think it was im-
portant for our team to see that
even if you’re having an off
shooting night, other people will
step up, and my sister and I and all
the other posts really worked
hard to make sure that our shoot-
ers can keep that shooters men-
tality.”
After two games that head
from Tri Bourne.
Stanford finally got its act to-
gether in the third game, and after
trading points early on, clung to a
17-14 lead after an attack error
from Austin Zahn. But the lead was
short-lived. USC went on a six-
point run to put the game, and the
match, out of reach.
Coach John Kosty couldn’t find
an answer to Stanford’s problems,
and the Cardinal freshmen, who
had recently been providing a big
boost to the lineup, fell flat on
Thursday. Starting outside hitter
Brian Cook did not register a kill
and had three attack errors for a -
.249 hitting percentage. Fellow
freshman outside hitter Eric
Mochalski had just one kill, and
coach Tara VanDerveer described
as “too casual” on the part of the
Cardinal, Chiney Ogwumike also
mentioned that a weekend stint
against two of the strongest teams
in the Pac-10 would be a good chal-
lenge for the Cardinal to maintain
its sense of urgency.
“One of our strengths is our
focus and concentration, and when
we put our mind to it, we can be a
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the teams that we’re going to be
seeing throughout the rest of the
year and finally in the NCAAs.
“I think it’s a great opportunity
for us to go up against these teams
and see if we can come out with
some wins,” he continued. “We’re
just trying to go out there, play our
best tennis and have a successful
tournament. I think this weekend
can do a lot for our confidence level
as a team.”
With the squad entering the
most pivotal and difficult portion of
its regular season schedule, a boost
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even a solid contribution from
freshman middle blocker Denny
Falls (three kills, one block) were
lost in the carnage of Stanford’s
third road loss in four conference
matches away from home.
The Cardinal will need to re-
group quickly to get ready for its
matchup against Pepperdine, which
will face No. 15 Pacific tonight be-
fore hosting Stanford on Saturday
night.
The No. 9 Waves are just 2-5 in
MPSF play, but recently defeated
USC, 3-2, last weekend. The match
is set for 7 p.m. from Firestone
Fieldhouse.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at
milesbs@stanford.edu.
really great team,” she said. “We
need to test ourselves to make sure
our concentration is there for
every opponent.”
The Cardinal tips off in Friday’s
matchup against the USC Trojans
at 7 p.m. at the Galen Center in Los
Angeles.
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat
@stanford.edu.
in confidence would surely be a
welcome addition.
Stanford is off to its best start in
nine years, has a secure spot in the
national top 10 and is led by a core
of experienced upperclassmen.
That group includes Klahn, the
Cardinal’s s top player and the
reigning NCAA singles champion.
With this group of players, perhaps
this will be the year that the Cardi-
nal breaks through and ends a 10-
year NCAA title drought.
This weekend could prove to be
one of the season’s most telling
tests for the Cardinal. The first
match, against Florida, is at noon
today.
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@
stanford.edu.
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on Eve Ensler’s
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“Jeopardy’s” latest guest star is IBM’s new
THEATER
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Stanford professor Carl Djerassi pushes
cover
supercomputer, Watson. the envelope with “Taboos.”
Stegner Fellows read to
Anastasia
Campus MovieFest makes a splash with five-
minute films. a packed house. Yee
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The 2011 Grammys brought its regular dose of

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Rihanna’s weird toilet scrub dress), crazy upsets
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he average American has notice that the menu has no clear
B.o.B./Bruno Opening with a strings-only rendition of “Nothin’ On You,” Mars stole eaten some 1,500 peanut but- direction and is overly eclectic. Amid
Mars/Janelle the show with a grin-inducing doo-wop version of “Grenade” that
added a rock ‘n’ roll edge to his typically smooth croon. Janelle Monáe
ter and jelly sandwiches
before he or she graduates high
mainly American cuisine, there are
large Asian and Latin influences that
Monáe amped up the energy afterwards with a frenzied “Cold War.” school; that is almost one sandwich tend to come out fairly mediocre. For
every four days since birth. The secret example, the duck dumplings are
to such an addicting recipe is to not easily forgotten. They are almost
Cee Lo

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spread the ingredients too thin — a deep fried, lending a particularly
Cee Lo and Gwyneth’s performance of “Forget You” (oh, censorship)
couple heaping globs of the magic at
Green/Gwyn was utterly delightful. The stage was an explosion of color, peppered
the top of the food pyramid. Calafia
heavy feeling to the duck. The
Enchilada Special is well plated, but,
eth Paltrow with Muppets and topped off by Cee Lo’s wackadoodle costume — a
chainmail headpiece and ridiculous, feathered bodysuit — paying
Café does not seem to have that part similar to the dumplings, the dish
down though. By trying to please takes on a heavier feel than necessary
homage to Elton John’s 1977 “Muppet Show” appearance.
everyone and going too wide, they with the sour cream and does not
spread themselves too thin and don’t provide commensurate flavor. The

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Mumford & The three acts were a fantastic tribute to folk music. Mumford & Sons
shine on any dimension.
The cafe (as distinct from the
Really Angry Pork Tacos are simply
unbalanced. The “anger” is derived
Sons/The Avett took the stage first with an exhilarating, banjo-strumming take on
their single, “The Cave.” Next up were The Avett Brothers with a rous-
Market A-Go-Go side) is a cute from a pinch of minced, pickled
Brothers/Bob ing “Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise.” Dylan strutted
restaurant for a relaxed lunch or a
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onstage to end the performance with a throaty “Maggie’s Farm,”
Dylan backed by Mumford & Sons and The Avett Brothers.

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Their first performance, “Month of May,” was bit chaotic between the
Arcade epileptic lights and BMX bikers, but the Montreal rockers, fresh off their

Fire surprise Album of the Year win, toned down the sensory overload for the
much stronger “Ready to Start” which closed out the night.

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As per her usual fashion, Lady Gaga arrived at the Grammys in a bizarre
Lady alien egg contraption that made more sense when she hatched out of it

Gaga during her performance of her new Madonna-esque single, “Born This
Way.” Other than the pod, Gaga, clad in a demure (for her) mustard yel-
low ensemble and “I Dream of Jeannie” ponytail, kept things relatively
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asked the waiter for refills? I hadn’t until I ate
lunch at Station Café in San Carlos, a café that
just opened in November. All quarter,
Stanford’s Program for Ethics in Society has
been feeding me weekly, in-class lunches
catered by the Station Café (full disclosure: the
program coordinator’s husband owns the
place). And although I’m all for actually learn-
ing in class, going to a seminar every
Wednesday knowing that really, really good
food lies in wait has become a major weekly
highlight. And after a month of watching oth-
erwise tame ethics honors students (aided and
abetted by our instructor, himself a tenured
professor of political philosophy) rhapsodize
about lemon-blueberry tarts and argue about
who gets the last of the parmesan cheese, I
knew I had to go straight to the source.
Station Café could be closer to campus,
but the drive up El Camino is straightforward
and not really longer than an In-N-Out run.
eerily tidy, Disneyland-like quali-
San Carlos
ties. As an added bonus, the café is
literally across the street from the
San Carlos Caltrain station, mak-
ing it a convenient pit stop for all you train-rid-
ing enthusiasts in the Stanford community.
Inside, the place looks like the kind of
casual, cute bakery you could find in any
European country that’s embraced the welfare
state and whose people sit for hours lingering
over espresso, arcane philosophical discussions
and deserts with hard-to-pronounce names.
The sun was shining, so we decided to nab a
table in the small but very pleasant outside area
— although it was hard to leave the gleaming,
incredibly fancy-looking espresso machine
indoors, which had a magnetic quality for a
coffee nerd like me.
Station Café’s menu is simple and brief,
restricted largely to pizza, pasta and salad offer-
ings; for people overwhelmed by the total glut
that is the 20-something page Cheesecake
Factory menu, this makes for a great change.
The salads are all excellent — I especially liked
an avocado, orange and almond concoction
that we devoured dur-
ing one in-class session
on the ethics of online
anonymity. For our
lunch at the café,
however, my friend
Station Cafe’s modest set-up belies its delicious food.
and I ordered heav-
ier but equally
amazing dishes — a plate of prosciutto mixed
with fresh pear and parmesan cheese for her
and fusili pasta in a classic tomato sauce with
capers, sundried tomatoes, spinach, olives and
sausage for me. Both were really amazing; in an the zepolle, a kind of Italian doughnut — think
age of molecular gastronomy and fusion foods
that take the paradigm way too far (Korean
tacos, anyone?), it becomes easy to forget the
value of basic foods prepared well and with
really good ingredients. Their addictive bread
— fresh and homemade, but not some kind of
crazy nouveau take on bread by any means,
serves as further testament to the power of
food that’s just simple and really yummy. The
best part of Station Café, however, comes at the
end of the meal — their deserts are straight up
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amazing. The actual offerings seem to change
from day to day, but whoever is cooking them
deserves some kind of highly prestigious
award. The unequivocal favorite, however, are
flaky, puffy pastry coated in coarse-grained
sugar. At only $0.75 each, these zepolle are, in
the words of an anonymous Ethics in Society
student, “so good it shouldn’t be allowed.”
Honestly, I think that’s a quote that applies to
the entire establishment. Station Café is defi-
nitely worth trying.
—evie DANFORTH
contact evie:
erdanfor@stanford.edu

CONTINUED FROM “CALAFIA,” PAGE 2

habanero peppers that still overwhelms the other-
wise boring tacos with their spice. By not pairing
the peppers with other strong flavors and ingredi-
ents, the tacos just fade away.
Calafia also offers a wide range of vegetari-
an options, but these, in general, are a disaster.
For example, the Spinach Dragon Noodle Bowl
does not seem to bother with trying to look
appetizing. The only divergence from what
appears like a yellow mess of curry is a few
sprigs of parsley that also stand out too much in
flavor. The dish is relatively bland and has a ter-
rible texture. The Tofu Lentil Loaf is a complete
miss as well. The loaf itself is intensely dry, and
the texture isn’t saved by the miso mushroom
gravy. Only an acute peppery flavor comes
through from the loaf or the accompanying
mashed potatoes.
The vegetarian sides fare only slightly bet-
ter. The Carrot Almond Salad has no flavor to it
except that of plain carrots and carries with it an
almost fetid smell from the rice vinegar. The
same vinegar also causes the toasted almonds to
become soggy and gives the whole dish a dis-
pleasing mouthfeel. The Butternut Chilijack is
surprisingly under-seasoned. While not a bad
option, it is a far cry from providing the feelings
normally associated with a warm bowl of chili
on a cold day. The Ginger Mashed Yams have a
nice ginger kick to their creamy texture and are
certainly among the best vegetarian options; nothing particularly interesting or subtle about
unfortunately they’re only a side. the flavor profile.
The generic American options are generally After wading through the real misfires, there
the strongest on the menu. The Fiery Bottom are a handful of good plates at Calafia that could
BBQ Pork Bowl was well balanced and delicious. satisfy you. In the end though, nothing stands
The BBQ sauce has a mild but sufficient spiciness out, and you would not be remiss to pass this
to it and never comes off as overwhelming. The over in your time at Stanford. In general, it’s in
bed of brown rice, yams and spinach round off the “middle of the road.”
the bowl nicely with a bit of sweetness and a
fluffier texture that doesn’t leave you lethargic like —joshua GLUCOFT
BBQ often does. Wolfgang’s Pizza is certainly tasty contact josh: glucoft@stanford.edu
but not exactly culinary mastery; it’s difficult to
miss when presenting a bed of
pesto, cheese and fatty red
meat (duck), but there was
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 theater
‘Monologues’ charms
with winning cast
N
obody talks about vaginas. The word is
avoided in conversation — it’s to be spo-
ken in hushed voices and accompanied
by giggles or shouted as the punch line to a dirty
joke or waved like a battle flag by the kind of mil-
itant feminists that many refuse to take seriously.
But with “The Vagina Monologues,” Eve Ensler
singlehandedly turns this social norm on its head,
making the vagina a symbol of empowerment
and strength and independence and womanhood
while maintaining enough wit and hilarity to
charm even the most cynical of viewers. The
exceptional student cast channels the humor,
directness and poignancy of Ensler’s words to
make for a truly memorable experience. And the
fact that the “Vagina Monologues” are based on a
series of interviews with real women — each
monologue is either a true story for a single
women or a compilation from several — only
acts to heighten the empathy of the audience,
strengthening both the humor and the tragedy of
the piece.
Most striking about the show was the range
of topics: the monologues varied from laugh-out-
loud funny to empowering to downright devas-
tating. When Morgan Duffy ‘13 ranted about her
“Angry Vagina,” her alternating cold sarcasm and
white-hot fury brought about howls of laughter
in the audience, and Leslie Brian ‘12 was met by
raucous laughter as she mused about her eccen-
tric experiences in a “Vagina Workshop.” And yet,
as soon as you’d grown comfortable and you felt
like you knew exactly what kind of a show you
were watching, you would be abruptly yanked
out of your comfort zone and thrown into the
profound, the tragic and the alarming. I got chills
when the women performed a speech from the
transgender perspective, I trembled as I watched
Belinda Chiang’s ‘10 deeply disturbing account of
a girl who had been gang-raped for days by six
soldiers, and I’m certain that I was not alone. The
show was uncompromising and wild; it refused
to be predictable.
One might expect this inconsistency to take
you out of the moment, but the vast range was
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intermission
A few high points: Lyn Mehe’ula’s ‘11 mono-
logue from the perspective of a queer woman
with a history of sexual abuse was one of the
most compelling and believable performances of
the night, and Ariel Mazel-Gee’s ‘12 account of a
much of what female-only sex worker (in which she writhed
made the show and kicked her way through impressions of
really work: it increasingly absurd female orgasms) was undeni-
never lingered on ably hilarious.
tragedy long At the end of the night, despite the small size
enough to feel of the Wednesday audience, “Vagina
preachy. Instead, Monologues” was compelling enough to easily
it made its melt away any cynicism and reluctance; the audi-
impression, ence was quick to laugh and — though initially
painted a single quiet and reluctant — shouted along when the
absolutely heart- show called for audience participation. “Vagina
breaking Monologues” had no need for complex props or
moment that the costumes; it got by on the charm of its cast and
audience could the truly authentic feel to its material. Whether
truly believe in you’re seeking an educational and empowering
Jin Zhu/
and then whisked experience or just looking for a laugh, head to
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us away to an Cubberley tonight for the final show and you will
equally believable moment of hilarity. The con- find what you are looking for.
trast between each monologue didn’t make them
undermine each other — to the contrary, they —eliana CARMONA
helped to build on each other, overlapping to cre-
contact eliana:
ate a single multifaceted feeling, a sort of summa- car mona@stanford.edu
ry of the female experience.
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‘Taboos’
breaks new
ground
“Taboos” is one of the latest plays by
Stanford scientist-turned-playwright
Carl Djerassi. It explores the conse-
quences of nontraditional birth —
everything from the use of sperm
donors to in vitro fertilization — and
how that affects the modern definition
of parenthood. The story is set in
modern-day San Francisco and
Jackson, Miss. By creating a story
about five adults, two families, several
different ideologies and a handful of
children, Djerassi writes a very mod-
ern, intriguing play about what it
means to be a parent in the face of
new reproductive technology.
The play begins with Harriet and
Sally, a lesbian couple, meeting on
their first date in San Francisco.
Harriet, a doctor, is confident and
witty from beginning, while Sally, a
TV reporter, is more soft-spoken and
easily flustered. Their conversation
starts out awkwardly but quickly
moves into witty rapport, establishing
a relationship that, a few time skips
later, becomes a domestic partnership.
The couple, mainly at Sally’s
insistence, decides to have a baby. To
do so, they enlist the help of Harriet’s
brother, Max, to be the sperm donor.
Things are simple enough until Sally’s
conservative brother Cameron arrives
in San Francisco from Mississippi. He
immediately takes issue not only with
Sally’s “unnatural” relationship with
Harriet but also their unconventional
means of pregnancy.
Controversial or not, Sally and
Harriet’s first child is born, and all
seems well — until Harriet starts feel-
ing left out of their marriage.
Meanwhile, back in Mississippi,
Cameron and his wife Priscilla strug-
gle to become pregnant and begin to
look at other options like in vitro.
Cameron, who has begun visiting his
sister in San Francisco more often, has
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“I
Am Number Four” is a new movie by
director D.J. Caruso, whose previous
movies include “Disturbia” and “Eagle
Eye.” It is neither a particularly good movie nor
a very memorable one and suffers from being
too generic. On the plus side, though, it does
feature some pretty, pretty people.
“I Am Number Four” is about a teenager,
John Smith a.k.a. Number Four (Alex Pettyfer)
who is real- the vital stats
ly an alien I Am Number
with special
powers. He SCALE
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is on the
3
ON
run with
his warrior
protector Henri (Timothy Olyphant) from evil
aliens. When John senses the death of “Number
Three,” he and Henri go on the run again — this
time to Paradise, Ohio where John meets love
interest Sarah (Dianna Agron) and nerdy side-
kick Sam (Callan McAuliffe).
The movie is unoriginal and lacks direction
and tone. For the first half of the movie, it does-
n’t seem to be able to decide whether it wants to
be a high school romance or if it wants to be
more of an action-adventure movie. There are
elements of science fiction in it, too, such as a
brief history of the alien races, but it all seems
casually tacked on. The characters can’t even
keep their backgrounds straight. Henri men-
Five-minute
films a hit at
Stanford
M
ost students only pull all-nighters to
study for midterms or write papers.
However, those participating in the
Stanford Campus MovieFest loaded up on caf-
feine and spent Monday night putting the final
touches on their competing films.
Organized by members of the Stanford
Film Society, Stanford Campus MovieFest
(CMF) is an opportunity for amateur filmmak-
ers to create their best five-minute film in just a
weeklong process. Competitors submitted their
productions on Tuesday and await the screening
event and judging results on Sunday night. First
place winners receive an iPod Touch or Nano
and an invitation to the International Grand
Finale in June.
Campus MovieFest, now a worldwide event,
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tions that only Number Four and Number Nine
have powers, but that’s clearly not the case when
Number Six (Teresa Palmer) shows up. All the
aliens have fake-looking swords that glow,
though, so I honestly was not expecting much in
that department.
“I Am Number Four” borrows heavily
from other popular movies. The evil aliens
resemble Lord Voldemort. Some of John’s pow-
ers are Jedi-like; he even uses a Darth Vader
death grip a few times. At times,“I Am Number
originated at Emory University less than a
decade ago. Since then, the festival has expanded
to cater to over 50,000 students per year, supply-
ing high-quality equipment to each participant
to produce a film.
“The materials they give you are awesome,”
said Casey Stewart ‘13, an organizer of Stanford
CMF.“It’s a great opportunity to work with
some nice stuff.”
Stanford has not hosted CMF since 2008,
but the Stanford Film Society made its return a
priority.
“The decision to bring CMF back was col-
lective,” said Jennifer Schaffer ‘14, an Intermission
writer who also led the Stanford CMF team.“We
have been trying really hard to build a more solid
and noticeable film community on campus.”
“It was one of our main goals this year,”
added Sam Pressman ‘11, co-director of the Film
Society.
Despite the three-year gap, CMF has had
“an amazing response” this year, according to
Schaffer, handing out all 50 sets of equipment in
under three hours. However, the process of film-
making was a long and arduous one for Stanford
Courtesy Dreamworks
Four” really feels like a checklist of popular
movie clichés. Romance between the girl and
the mysterious new kid? Check. Rebelling
against parental authority? Check. Even though
John is in grave danger and must keep a low
profile, he insists on attending school. High
school drama? Absolutely. Even though the
stereotypes are painfully obvious (i.e. obligatory
school bully, the outcast, etc.) at the school,
everyone still feels the need to constantly talk
about their social status. The result of the com-
students in the middle of the quarter, with many classwork.
difficulties along the way. With just seven days to
produce a coherent, five-minute story, many
filmmakers made the decision to work in groups being forced to make it happen is a beneficial
in order to finish their tasks and drew inspiration thing for creating art,” Schaffer said.
from previous material.
“I filmed with my friend — we have a com- perceived as ritualistic, sticking closely to a script,
pany, Polynice Pictures, together,” said Pressman,
who also created a movie for the festival.“We
watched a film in a class with our favorite profes-
sor that sparked our concept.”
Some participants also felt the pressure of
having just a week to complete their films, espe-
cially in the midst of midterms.
“It’s almost kind of unreasonable to ask for
five minutes in a week . . . that’s a substantial
amount of time for just one week, and I really
only have this weekend,” said Tayo Amos ‘14,
who teamed up with her roommate to produce a
film.
However, others
expressed gratitude for the
regulations, arguing that it
catalyzes the artistic process
that is often delayed due to
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movies
bination of all these clichés is not the ultimate
popcorn flick but a movie that limps along.
It’s not all bad though — some of the per-
formances keep the movie interesting. Pettyfer is
pretty flat, but his co-stars Agron and Olyphant
are both pretty charismatic. McAuliffe is also lik-
able when he’s not spewing off dialogue to fur-
ther the plot.
At its best,“I Am Number Four” is a light-
hearted action movie that doesn’t take itself too
seriously. It gets into an okay groove toward the
end and has a few good moments, but every-
thing seems to fit together too nicely.
Coincidences happen too frequently. The visual
effects are not that great and are only a small
step up from the visual effects seen in the aver-
age action TV show.
Ultimately, though, it just feels too generic
and panders to a high school audience. Why not
explore themes that are not cliché? John devel-
ops quite the penchant for using his Darth
Vader grip — it would have been interesting to
see a movie about that. Sam was raised by his
dad who believes in aliens, so growing up, Sam
thought that believing in aliens was the norm —
I’d rather see a movie about that.
—meihsin CHENG
contact meihsin: meihsin@
s t a n f o rd . e d u
“I think there’s value in time constraints.
Having a deadline and a competitive feel and
Although the filmmaking process is often
participants enjoyed the constant improvisation
their filmmaking entailed.
“It leaves you to be creative. Yesterday, I was
filming and could only get two of my friends out
to San Francisco to do a scene, so we had to grab
people off the street. It was a cool experience,”
Pressman said.
Pressman also added that he enjoyed creat-
ing a short film instead of a longer piece.
“The short film allows you to explore one
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 music Brett Wines/
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Stegner Reading:
Nina Schloesser Sarah Guan/ The Stanford Daily
Stegner fellows Ryan Teitman and Nina

and Ryan Teitman Schloesser read to a full house Wednesday

Brentano thrills and
moves audience I
t was 7 p.m. on a Wednesday, and it was raining
outside, but the Terrace Room in the English
building was packed, and for good reason.
night.
poems are influenced by art, including one that was
inspired by a maker of stained glass windows and
another by Gustave Moreau’s painting “Orpheus,” on

S
tring quartets play chamber music, which has always been Stegner Fellows Nina Schloesser and Ryan Teitman loan to the de Young Museum from the Musée

“
intended for relatively small audiences. After the concert, the each read from their recent works — the former from
Brentano String Quartet’s second violinist, Serena Canin, the first chapter of a novel-in-
remarked that the group usually plays in smaller venues than progress and the latter several
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, one of the largest on campus, which was poems — to a warm and enthu- I’ll have
almost three-quarters full on Sunday afternoon. However, the siastic audience who was not
disappointed.
warm sounds of the stringed instruments created such a homey
atmosphere that any doubts about the perhaps unsuitably large
Schloesser started out hesi- that image of a
tant, quiet, with what could have
turnout were immediately and happily forgotten. been a slight accent, reading
with her head down — she burning hawk
The concert opened with a series piece was different from the previous: needn’t have. The subject matter
of four Renaissance-era pieces by the program jumped from a piece by
Orlando Gibbons and the well-known eyebrow-raising Charles Ives (made all
was unorthodox — her protago-
nist was a slightly insecure, seared into my
William Byrd. The quartet’s enormous the more so due to the fact that it was a novice pickup artist at a gay bar
d’Orsay in Paris. His audience listened in rapt atten-
tion to his words, some even sit-
ting with their eyes closed, slight
smiles on their lips, as if picturing
the images he painted in their
minds’ eye. As one audience
member remarked after the read-
ing, “I’ll have that image of a
burning hawk seared into my
mind forever.”
Indeed, despite the lateness of
the hour and the long commute
that some of the audience had
ahead of them — there were quite

talent was obvious not only in each
member’s mastery of his instrument,
but also in how it managed to stay
perfectly in sync even in pizzicato sec-
tions, which are notoriously difficult
for any music group without a con-
ductor. Historically, string quartets
came after the Renaissance era, but
that didn’t prevent the Brentano String
Quartet from effortlessly transporting
the audience 400 years into the past.
No Brentano String Quartet con-
cert would be complete without a
Beethoven string quartet given that the
group’s name comes from the proba-
ble name of Beethoven’s mysterious
“Immortal Beloved,” a woman whose
identity to this day remains unclear.
They played op. 135, the F major quar-
tet, to great applause at the end of the
first half of the concert.
The second half of the program —
a series of short pieces, each about four
minutes — showcased the quartet’s
impressive ability to switch between
distant genres with great ease. Each
6 contact brett:
intermission
scherzo) to the beautiful second move-
ment of Tchaikovsky’s D major quartet
to an arrangement of Robert Pete
Williams’s “I’ve Grown So Ugly,” which
involved the cellist slapping her instru-
ment to create sounds one wouldn’t
ever expect to hear from a stringed
instrument. When that last piece was
over, the audience erupted in giggles.
The quartet manipulated the
audience’s emotion with the skill of a
great cellist bowing his instrument,
from the sadness of Tchaikovsky to
the playfulness of Williams, to the sec-
ond Dvorak waltz, the sunniness of
which would have had this author up
and happily waltzing in a heartbeat.
Though the audience was mostly
geriatric, at the end of the two hours
there was no languor in the audience’s
leaping to its feet for a thundering
ovation. It seems that Stanford
unequivocally thinks the more string
quartet concerts, the better! As will any
other venue fortunate enough to be on
the Brentano String Quartet’s tour.
—brett WINES
bgwines@stanford.edu
— and the introduction some-
what protracted, as she spent
mind forever.
quite some time developing the
main character’s psychology, but
as soon as she got to the action
of the story, Schloesser had the audience chuckling at
the character’s awkward and increasingly desperate
antics. She finished her excerpt to resounding
applause and even, if it may be believed, a few catcalls.
Teitman’s poetry drew from his experiences as a
journalist and his first-hand knowledge of several
cities. His reading was bookended by an ode to his
childhood hometown of Philadelphia and an equally
nuanced depiction of one of San Francisco’s well-
known secrets, the Sutro Baths. Some of his other
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or two feelings in depth and not necessarily have to be
married to a massive narrative or a classical structure,”
he stated.
Overall, participants feel that despite the work, the
end result is worth the effort.
“We wrapped at 5 a.m. on Sunday morning, and
to be euphoric and not able to sleep until 7 a.m. despite
complaining hours before that I can’t do this for anoth-
er minute . . . It’s all about that,” Pressman said.
“Finishing the film is the prize itself,” Amos added.
Most of all, filmmakers are looking forward to the
”
a few people who had come down
from San Francisco — nearly the
entire room stayed afterwards to
personally congratulate Schloesser
and Teitman on a fine night’s
work. Said Teitman of the crowd, “I think it’s won-
derful that the department provides this space for us,
and everyone in the creative writing community is so
supportive. We had a great turnout tonight.” If this is
the quality we come to expect of these readings, then
we may expect Stegner Fellows to continue to read
for a full house.
—sarah GUAN
contact sarah: sguan@stanford.edu
relief that accompanies the end of the process, as well as
the grand finale, which occurs Sunday at 8 p.m. in
Memorial Auditorium.
“To me, the finale is why you make your film —
so people can see it. This is the big premiere for the film
community,” Schaffer said.
“I’ll be happy with whatever I churn out.
Hopefully, I’ll win that iPad,” added Stewart.
—andrea HINTON
contact andrea: anhinton@stanford.edu
Man vs. IBM Supercomputer
“M
r. Watson, come here.
I want you!”
Fittingly, these were the first
words to be communicated via tele-
phone, when the device’s inventor
Alexander Graham Bell called, literal-
ly, upon his friend in 1876. If this were
an English essay, I would dissect the
use of the imperative and its implica-
tion that humans demand new tech-
nology; I would argue that the prox-
imity of the pronouns, separated by
the small verb “want,” highlights not
only the ability of machine to bring
men together but also the intrinsic
similarity of man to his creation.
What does all of this have to do with
the TV shows we know and love and
their human-centric content?
This week, “Jeopardy!” called
upon technology to sate its viewers’
desire for the inspiration of extreme
intelligence, the suspense of competi-
tion and the drama of favorites and
underdogs. Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday evening, Alex Trebek
played referee to a heavyweight intel-
lectual title match between former
champions Ken Jennings and Brad
Rutter and newcomer Watson, the
IBM supercomputer. Named for the
founder of IBM, Thomas J. Watson,
Watson tied Rutter on the first night
of play and trounced his opponents
on Tuesday despite botching the
“Final Jeopardy” in the hopes of win-
ning one million dollars and validat-
ing years of development.
The Watson avatar that towers
imposingly next to Jennings and
Rutter is metonymic of 16 terabytes
of RAM, housed in an offsite com-
puter the size of 10 refrigerators. Into
that computer, IBM scanned approxi-
mately one million documents:
books, movie scripts and entire ency-
clopedias. The computer receives the
question via text and breaks down
Jeopardy’s notoriously labyrinthine
language into discrete units before
searching its own content, not the
Internet, for the answer.
While the details of what makes
Watson tick are fascinating, I’m more
intrigued by what this phenomenon
means to reality television and the
desires of American audiences. James
Cameron’s “Avatar” bridged reality
and animation with the Na’vi, entic-
ing viewers with the ambiguous state
of its actors. “Jeopardy!” never fea-
tures actors reciting lines and playing
roles, but the show is not without its
characters: the patient condescension
of Alex Trebek, the lazily smug inten-
sity of Ken Jennings. The show even
returns from its first commercial
break with each contestant sharing a
story of his or her regular humanity.
In 2011, when you throw a super
computer into the mix, Watson, too,
must participate in this cult of
human potential that “Jeopardy!”
enshrines. Watson’s predecessor, Deep
Blue, defeated chess grandmaster
Gary Kasparov in 1997, when the
narrative was of the differences
between computers and humans.
Watson’s presentation on the show
suggests that this technology seeks to
optimize human behavior, not render
it obsolete.
For example, Watson is palatable
visually, standing as a regular plasma
screen between his two human com-
petitors as opposed to overpowering
them. When Watson thinks, we see
dots connect on a globe much in the
way our synapses fire, so that we
know he is thinking, even if his reac-
tion time would suggest otherwise. As
Watson delivers his answer, we see his
percentage of certainty, which is
communicated in humans by pauses,
vocal tone, and facial expression.
IBM, and surely the “Jeopardy!” pro-
ducers, has designed Watson to dis-
play simultaneously his equivalence
with and superiority to humans.
Such a combination renders Watson
inherently attractive to viewers.
If we’ve reached the point where
a computer can be an attractive pro-
tagonist, can we replace human con-
testants and actors with technology?
Movies from the 1980s such as “Short
Circuit” emphasize the camaraderie
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of man and machines and the
desire of the latter to enter the
world of the former. In three
nights of “Jeopardy!,” Watson
occupied more screen time than
Jennings, Rutter or Trebek,
demoting those three celebrities to
supporting roles. Do we treat Watson
the same way we did Jennings in his
heyday — we marvel at his success
while secretly hoping he’ll prove falli-
ble? For me, the answer is no. As
much as this television event centers
on the nature of “Jeopardy!,” ulti-
mately this is a showcase for IBM and
its human engineers. We can’t root
against something man has created,
and, as a result, technology will never
fully replace human actors on televi-
sion, reality or scripted. These forms
of storytelling require complementa-
ry elements of good guys and bad
friday february 18 2011
television
REMOTE
WHAT TO WATCH NEXT
WEEK
Tuesday at 8 p.m. :Spoiler
alert: there will be a proposal
in next week’s episode of
“No Ordinary Family” (ABC)
Wednesday at 10 p.m.
:Check out the second
episode of the new “Criminal
Minds” spinoff, “Criminal
Minds: Suspect Behavior,” to
judge for yourself if Oscar-
winner Forest Whitaker can
make a franchise out of this
procedural (CBS)
Wednesday at 10 p.m. :Or,
fall into the sophomore sea-
son of “Justified,” an uncon-
ventional take on the U.S.
Marshal Service. It’s yet
another gem in FX’s ever
growing repertoire of intense
and addictive dramas (FX)
Thursday at 10 p.m. :Gather
your friends for some Buca di
Beppo, acrylic nails and
“Jersey Shore” (MTV)
guys and immerse the reader in their
created worlds. If a computer or
avatar were the star of a television
show, audiences would be immersed
in the technology rather than the
story and thus would never believe an
antagonist. Watson has become a
sensation on “Jeopardy!” because he
is writing his own story, the story of
human progress. Because even an
HBO miniseries isn’t long enough to
cover all of that.
— l i z S TA R K
contact liz: estark12@
s t a n f o rd . e d u
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become more open-minded about explores implications of nontraditional

plicated.
their unusual relationship, unlike his birth and parenthood. For example, if
Roxy has found a few occasions
staunchly religious wife. one woman donates an egg but anoth-

It’s a small
where this is to her advantage: an ami-
Things take a turn for the com- er carries the child to term, who can be
cable ex is, after all, only a few row
plicated when Harriet and Cameron called the mother? Can a man be a
houses away and usually down for a

world
secretly make a deal — Cameron will biological father but officially just an
brief rekindling. But when she meets
donate sperm to Harriet so she can be uncle? What is the best option for the
someone new, the unfortunate truth is
a mother as well, and she will donate children created out of such unions?
that it’s rarely someone new. He’s dated

after all that girl she knows; she used to hook

up with his freshman year roommate.
eggs to Cameron so that Priscilla can
undergo in vitro fertilization. Soon,
two more babies, biologically twins
Although the play raises more ques-
tions than it answers, it certainly is
enough to get the audience thinking.
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oxy’s no fool: she knows that, but born to different mothers, are The tone of the play carried the
breakups break up groups of friends as Courtesy kevinberne.com
for almost all things, bigger is born, and the complications between themes well. Although it was very dia-
well and hey — Roxy’s even had the
better. Everything’s exciting the families ensue. logue-heavy and mostly serious, witty tional Christian family values and also
pleasure of finding a couple of
when there’s more of it — more Throughout the play, the conflict dialogue and stinging one-liners were fought for her opportunity to be a
hookup-history buddies: that is, girls
intrigue, more shirtless boys on sunny of different beliefs is strongly present. sprinkled throughout the 90-minute mother.
whose paths through Stanford bedfel-
days, more cushion for the pushin’, Cameron and his wife Priscilla are performance, lightening the mood “Taboos” is a fascinating, witty
lows have an awful lot of overlap with
more money and even more prob- often seen praying and quoting the and keeping the audience engaged. and entertaining exploration of the
her own. And that, friends, is a special
lems (who doesn’t love a little bible, while Harriet and Sally make The acting throughout the play implications of nontraditional birth.
type of bond that can only occur after
drama?). noticeably more rational arguments was strong. Chloe Bronzan stood out Djerassi does an excellent job of
years in a limited dating pool.
But one thing that Stanford has for equality. Although the glaring con- especially, portraying Harriet as a expressing many of the issues, compli-
But lest this be too dismal, Roxy’s
yet to embrace more of is the number trast between liberal San Francisco character who was at once confident cations and emotions surrounding
got some advice: if you’d rather avoid
of undergraduate students per class and conservative Mississippi seems a and insecure, and forced to balance this issue through his characters.
the tangled web that is a class by its
— a figure that has hovered around touch cliché, it serves the purpose of her own desires with what was best for
junior or senior year, date grad stu-
1700 for years. And when there’s a exploring how different ideologies her growing family. Courtney Walsh
dents until you’re old enough to date — h a l l e E D WA R D S
bone to be picked about an issue like react to the issues at hand in the play. also shined as Priscilla, who, in stark
freshmen. Roxy knows plenty of TAs contact halle: halle@
that, you know who to call: Roxy Sass. More interestingly, the play contrast to Harriet, stood up for tradi- s t a n f o rd . e d u
who she’d like to have grade her work
Roxy remembers being a fresh-
week after week. And while her
man: The campus was her oyster, and
cougar-ing days are far ahead of her,
its aphrodisiac qualities were kicking
in. So many new faces, so many peo-
Roxy’s also not above getting a little Mixed Co. presents ‘Love Sucks’
practice on the hunt with the Class of
ple to meet, so many boys who had
2014. Watch out, freshmeat: there’s a
recently gone through pre-college or
new sheriff in town.
Turkey Drop breakups and were
looking for some platonic and slight- — ro x y S A S S
ly-less-platonic comfort. Roxy’s social
circle was mostly her freshman dorm- FRIDAY
mates, and while the inevitable dorm-
cest was awkward, she only had to 02.18.11
look outside the confines of Wilbur to
meet some fresh faces that were bliss-
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A few years down the line, how-
ever, the story’s different: Roxy knows
that through casual socialization,
introductory classes and the stalkery MANAGING EDITOR
wonder of Facebook, the faces in your
Lauren Wilson
class start to look very familiar, and
after a few rounds of hookups and DESK EDITOR
breakups, stuff gets a little more com- Sarah Guan
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intermission Anastasia Yee Co.’s annual Valentine’s Day show.