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MONDAY
April 18, 2011
VAULTING
TO 100
Men’s gymnastics earns
Stanford’s 100th team title
By NATE ADAMS
MANAGING EDITOR
The wait is over.
After heartbreaking finishes in women’s bas-
ketball and soccer earlier in the academic year,
the Stanford athletics program has finally broken
through with its 100th team NCAA title. That
honor comes courtesy of the men’s gymnastics
team, which secured its second championship in
three years on Friday night at the NCAA Team
Finals in Columbus, Ohio.
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UNIVERSITY
BioBlitz at Lake Lagunita
Alan Garber
headed to
Harvard
Med school professor
chosen as new provost
By AN LE NGUYEN
MANAGING EDITOR
Professor of Medicine Alan
Garber M.D. ‘83 will sport crimson
rather than cardinal this fall as he
takes on the role of provost at Har-
vard University in Cambridge,
Mass.
In his 25 years at Stanford, Gar-
ber has distinguished himself be-
yond the medical field, serving as a
professor (by courtesy) of eco-
nomics, a senior fellow at the Free-
man Spogli Institute (FSI) and
professor of economics at the
Graduate School of Business
(GSB). At FSI, he works as the di-
rector of the Center for Health
Policy/Center for Primary Care
and Outcomes Research.
But come Sept. 1, Garber will
leave the sunny pastures of the
Farm for Harvard Yard — a move
that will require “an entirely new
wardrobe,” Garber said.
“This is an incredible opportu-
nity, but it’s also a bittersweet
one,” he added. “My years at Stan-
ford have been very satisfying . . .
but I do feel good about this move
mainly because I’m going to see
other friends at an institution I’ve
long had a connection with. The
role will be challenging and satis-
fying.”
Garber graduated from Har-
vard College summa cum laudein
1976 and received his Ph.D. in eco-
nomics there in 1982. His appoint-
ment, announced last week, arose
naturally from collaborations with
top administrators in Cambridge.
“It started with a conversation
that I had with Drew Faust, the
president of Harvard, about how
the provost position should be
configured,” Garber said.
In their discussions, Garber and
Faust also broached the general
challenges that Harvard faces, no-
tably issues faced by the university’s
medical and dental schools and ob-
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Stanford breaks even
on Orange Bowl
By KABIR SAWHNEY and
ELLORA ISRANI
Stanford Athletics received
“zero” net income from the
football team’s recent trip to the
Orange Bowl, according to offi-
cials in the department. The
Daily was unable to independ-
ently verify this figure,as Athlet-
ics declined to provide its
NCAA expense report or other
financial documentation.
“I would say roughly, at the
end of the day, with all things
being considered, we’ll break
even,” said Brian Talbott, chief
financial officer for Stanford
Athletics. “We broke even at
worst.”
Officials within the Universi-
ty’s budget office,including Uni-
versity CFO Randy Livingston,
did not comment on financial re-
turns from the Orange Bowl and
directed all inquiries to Talbott.
The Cardinal defeated Vir-
ginia Tech, 40-12, in the Jan. 3
game, held at Sun Life Stadium
in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Stanford earned revenue
from its bowl trip through a pay-
out from the Pacific-10 Confer-
SPORTS/6
CONFERENCE CROWN
Women’s tennis closes season with
win over Cal to earn Pac-10 title
ence, which pools bowl revenue
from all of its teams and distrib- Profit/Loss for BCS Participants
utes it to schools to cover bowl-
related expenses, chiefly travel Ohio State Wisconsin Oklahoma Arkansas
and tickets. Stanford paid for $288,876
transportation, lodging and
meals for the team,the band and $79,168 $9,350 $5,525
University administrators and
was required to cover 7,500 tick-
ets — out of an allotment of
17,500 from the Orange Bowl —
that it was unable to sell.
In terms of profit, Stanford
ranked in the middle among
teams that participated in the
Bowl Championship Series
(BCS).
Talbott added that Stanford
Note:
– Stanford (Orange) and TCU (Rose) are private schools and thus not required to
release financial information.
broke even on its trip to last – The figure for Stanford was provided by Brian Talbott, CFO of Stanford Athletics.
year’s Sun Bowl in El Paso, – Talbott did not provide Stanford's bowl expense report, so that figure has not
Texas, where it lost to Okla- been independently verified.
homa, 31-27.
“That would be my goal for
any bowl — to break even on a
strict revenue and expense basis,
in the hope that the fact that you that playing in the game will
went to a bowl creates those an- bring the athletics program a
cillary benefits,” he said. wide range of benefits, many of
which are not quantifiable now
“Ancillary benefits” but could translate into financial
Though Stanford was unable gains in the long term.
to profit directly from the Or- “We know the numbers that
ange Bowl, Talbott pointed out the Pac-10 gets as a payout; we
Stanford Strategies for Ecology
Education, Diversity and Sustainabil-
ity (SEEDS) hosted a BioBlitz at Lake
Lag on Saturday, designed to assess
the biodiversity of the area. The
group also hoped engage the Stan-
ford community with the ecology
there.
BioBlitz is a “rapid” biodiversity as-
sessment of an area that takes place
in a single day. Mattias Lanas '11,
president of SEEDS, pointed out mul-
tiple advantages to such an assess-
ment, including the ability to compare
results from different years.
“The emphasis is definitely on the
Stanford community, since Lake Lagu-
nita belongs to Stanford, and we wish
to promote ecology awareness local-
ly,” Lanas said. “BioBlitz serves as a
wakeup call to the community, saying
‘Hold on, there are amazing critters
living right in your backyard. You just
need to come out and find them!’”
He added that the event had
three overarching goals: to spread
ecological awareness about the rich
array of biota on the Farm, to collect
data on the organisms living here
and to promote citizen science
among the Stanford community.
“We want people to learn why it’s
important to conserve this area,Æ
he said.
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know what it costs us — that
piece is easy,” he said. “What’s a
lot tougher is quantifying the an-
cillary benefits: how many more
ticket sales we’re going to get
this year than last year because
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STUDENT LIFE
Campaign
to divest
relaunched
Push is the latest in
struggle started in 2007
By MATT BETTONVILLE
STAFF WRITER
Students Confronting Apartheid
by Israel (SCAI) has relaunched its
campaign to build student support
for divestment of the University’s
endowment from companies that
SCAI says profit from human rights
violations against Palestinians.
SCAI plans to start at a grassroots
level to garner student support.
“We are morally bound to stop
making the harming of others prof-
itable,” said Cecilie Surasky, deputy
director of Jewish Voice for Peace,
of using divestment to combat per-
ceived human rights violations.
Surasky was one of three panelists
at SCAI’s presentation last Thurs-
day to renew the divestment cam-
paign it began in 2007. Approxi-
mately 60 people attended the pres-
entation.
The Israel-Palestine conflict has
been a divisive topic for decades,
and many are reluctant to directly
oppose or support either side. As a
result, SCAI’s proposition calls for
selective divestment rather than di-
vestment from Israel as a whole.
“We’re not calling for divestment
from Israeli companies but rather
companies that violate human rights
laws,” said current law student
Omar Shakir ‘07, the main speaker
at Thursday’s presentation.
The criteria that SCAI presented
as warranting divestment include
operating on occupied land, facili-
tating collective punishment and
supporting the building of a barrier
between Israeli and Palestinian
lands. According to SCAI, notable
companies that meet those criteria
include Motorola, Lockheed Mar-
tin, Caterpillar and Veolia Trans-
portation, which operates Stan-
ford’s Marguerite shuttle system.
Shakir pointed out Stanford’s
past divestments from South Africa,
Darfur and the Democratic Repub-
lic of the Congo as precedents for
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SCAI’s strategy. He added that the
2007 divestment promotion raised a
petition with just under 1,000 sign-
ers and achieved a majority vote in
the ASSU Undergraduate Senate.
SCAI President Jenna Queenan ‘11
said that the campaign never offi-
cially ended and that SCAI hopes to
bring the movement back to stu-
dents’ attention.
“It’s good timing with all the rev-
olutions in the Middle East,” she
said. “We’re relaunching because of
momentum with new students [in
SCAI].”
The group plans to restart its di-
vestment campaign by giving pre-
sentations to student groups and in
student residences with larger
events, such as town hall meetings
and speakers.
One notable criticism at Thurs-
day’s relaunch event was the lack of
demand that Stanford divest from
Intel. Joel Beinin, a professor of
Middle Eastern history and another
panelist at Thursday’s event, admit-
ted that the company met several of
SCAI’s divestment criteria. Howev-
er, he said Intel is too large a compa-
ny and too closely tied to Stanford
for SCAI to realistically ask the
University to divest. Several audi-
ence members criticized SCAI for
ignoring Intel’s role in the conflict,
despite SCAI’s rhetoric of moral
obligation.
Many students, especially in
Stanford’s Jewish community, op-
pose SCAI’s divestment movement.
Lindsay Funk ‘13, an activist against
last year’s divestment movement,
said she opposes divestment cam-
paigning because of the effects it has
on Stanford’s campus.
“The Israel-Palestinian conflict
is not an easy topic, so it makes
sense that anything to do with it, in-
cluding divestment, is going to en-
gender a lot of conflicting reason-
able opinions,” Funk, who advo-
cates for conversation between
both sides of the issue, said. She
added that SCAI’s campaign makes
compromise difficult because, “It’s
hard to have a conversation with
people who say that you’re propa-
gating an apartheid system.”
The Stanford-Israel Alliance
(SIA) officially opposes move-
ments to divest from Israel. SIA
president Jonathan York ‘13, who is
also a Daily photographer, pointed
to a campaign similar to SCAI’s at
UC-Berkeley that “caused tremen-
dous destruction in their campus
community and an enormous
amount of divisiveness” despite fail-
ing to pass Cal’s student govern-
ment. SIA states that its priority is
creating peace in Israel and believes
that divestment works against
peace.
“On both sides you have a fun-
damental problem when divest-
ment is brought up as essentially an
alternative to real peace negotia-
tions,” he said.
SIA does not have a campaign
planned against divestment at this
time, but York said that when the di-
vestment issue arose last year, a sep-
arate group called Invest for Peace
formed to invest in companies that
promote peace in Israel.
SCAI has tentatively scheduled
three events in the coming weeks to
continue its campaign: a perform-
ance by spoken word artist Remi
Kanazi on April 28, a town hall
meeting on May 3 and a speech by
Palestinian democracy activist
Mustafa Barghouti on May 13.
Contact Matt Bettonville at mbet-
tonville@stanford.edu.

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Numerous bands competed for the crown at last Saturday’s Battle of
the Bands, hosted by Phi Kappa Psi on the Row. One of the more pop-
ular campus bands was Den of Thieves, shown above during their set.

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Continued from front page
stacles accompanying its efforts to
establish multidisciplinary insti-
tutes.
“We had these conversations in
part, because I serve as the chair of
the Committee to Visit Harvard
Medical School and Harvard
School of General Medicine,” Gar-
ber said. “That is one of several vis-
iting committees which serve, es-
sentially, as external advisory com-
mittees to various units within the
university.”
At the same time, Garber’s work
at Stanford — notably his service
on the University Advisory Board,
which reviews all faculty appoint-
ments and promotions — has pre-
pared him for the position of
provost.
Looking to the future, Garber
foresees two major issues that will
require his immediate attention as
Harvard’s provost: the implemen-
tation of a set of changes in Har-
vard’s library system and con-
struction at the university’s All-
ston campus. He is also set to tack-
le various ongoing projects and
new initiatives during the chal-
lenging transition process.
“I’ll be in the learning phase in
the beginning — learning the peo-
ple, learning the issues, learning the
institution,” Garber said. “Fortu-
nately, this will be made somewhat
easier by the fact that I’m very fa-
miliar with the institution from hav-
ing been a student and a resident at
Harvard. I’ve kept close connec-
tions with the university over the
years in various capacities.”
Garber said his return to Har-
vard is similar to “going back
home after an absence of many
years.” As he prepares to leave
Stanford, Garber commended the
University for its “stellar leader-
ship” and its excellence in re-
search.
“It was and remains extremely
difficult to leave Stanford, be-
cause I’ve been as happy as I could
imagine during my 25 years on the
faculty here,” he said.
Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen
@stanford.edu.

The King of Gossip

ANDREW STILES/The Stanford Daily

Prominent blogger Perez Hilton spoke to students at Dinkelspiel
Auditorium on Sunday evening. The event was sponsored by the ASSU
Speakers Bureau as part of its “April Fools and Drools” series.
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FEATURES
IN THE THROES OF GOVERNMENT Brown began his administration and subsequently
By SUZANNE STATHATOS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER pulled Percy and another Schwarzenegger ap-
pointee, Steven Kram, off of the CalSTRS board.

A
lthough he might look innocuous with
his white button-down shirt, blue jeans
and clean-cut hair, no one would expect
that Cameron Percy ‘07, who recently
began master’s studies in Stanford’s
Public Policy Program,has sparked a controversy in
the California government.
He and his four group members — Howard
Bornstein ‘10 MPP, Stan Markuze ‘10 MPP, Lisha
Wang ‘10 M.A. International Policy Studies and
Moritz Zander ‘10 M.A.International Policy Studies
— caused a stir with their investigation into the sus-
tainability of public pension funding in the state of
California.
The project came about when Schwarzeneg-
ger’s office approached Stanford’s department of
public policy, asking a group of students to do an
independent academic assessment of the state of
California’s public pension funds.
Percy’s group decided to focus on the three
largest pension funds in the state — the California
Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS),
the California State Teachers’ Retirement System
(CalSTRS) and the University of California Retire-
ment System (UCRS).They examined the account-
ing practices of these three organizations to deter-
mine their future liabilities and to analyze how
overfunded or underfunded they were.
The team used numbers from June 2008 to pre-
dict the state of public pension funds in California
16 years into the future.
“As of June 2008, before everything crashed, we
concluded that CalPERS,CalSTRS and UCRS had
a combined underfunding level of $425 billion over
the next 16 years,” Percy said. To put it in perspec-
tive,the state budget every year is about $87 billion.
Because of his team’s work on this study, Percy
was appointed by Schwarzenegger to the Cal-
STRS board. There are a total of 12 members on
this board: four ex-officio members, three teacher-
elected members and five appointees.The board is
one of the largest institutional investors in the coun-
try,collectively overseeing the administration of the
$150 billion fund.
Members are appointees of the governor until
they go through a Senate confirmation process,
which can be held up to a year from the date of ap-
pointment.However,before the hearing,Governor
Joe Nation, professor of the practice of public
policy and the nominal faculty advisor for this proj-
ect, speculated that Brown pulled Percy because
“the California Teachers Association,a big support-
er of Brown’s, said, ‘We don’t want this guy.’ They
didn’t want Cameron on the CalSTRS board . . .
because Cameron had conducted a study conclud-
ing that CalSTRS was severely underfunded.”
CalSTRS and the teachers’ unions didn’t ap-
prove of Percy’s study, because they didn’t want to
admit there was a problem.And Brown thought he
needed the backing of the teachers’ unions in order
to gain support on the June ballot for his tax poli-
cies, according to Nation.
Before Percy’s study, CalPERS and CalSTERS
“were understating their liabilities, overstating in-
vestment return . . . and doing transactions that
were just risky,”said David Crane,lecturer in public
policy and former economic adviser to Governor
Schwarzenegger.
Now, Percy has temporarily suspended his stud-
ies in public policy in order to work in downtown
Palo Alto.
Reflecting on his work, Percy said, “We uncov-
ered something that really is fundamental to the
state’s future and is something that we have to get
right . . . It was the order of magnitude of the prob-
lem that everyone was surprised to see confirmed.”
Because the state cannot default on pensions
promises it has already made, according to Crane,
its only option is to cut programming in other areas,
such as education.
“Fix number one is to understand the magnitude
of the problem,” Nation said. “Second, I think the
thing to do is to sit down with stakeholders and say,
‘Okay, now we know there’s a problem; let’s figure
out how we all collectively can solve it.’”
Percy said it is critical that the state be responsi-
ble with how it sets money aside.
“In the long run, the world will probably look
very different for future employees,” Percy said.
“The state just can’t back itself into obligations that
it may not be able to pay at some point.”
Percy said he is grateful to have had this “surpris-
ing opportunity as a young person to become ac-
quainted with this issue and continue to be involved
at a decision-making level outside of academia.”
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we went to the Orange Bowl, how
many more donations are we going
to get this year because we went to
the Orange Bowl, how much better
is our recruiting going to be because
we went to the Orange Bowl.”
Season ticket renewals for next
year are already up — Talbott said
he expects to beat the 90 percent re-
newal target “substantially” — and
even though new ticket sales have
yet to open,Athletics has already col-
lected four times as many deposits to
date as it did for all of last year.
“Even taking it a little further, the
more people who come to any game
for us,the more they’re going to have
to pay to park, the more they’re
going to buy concessions, the more
they’re going to buy merchandise,”
Talbott said. “All of these things
trickle down.”
The publicity from the game, es-
pecially because it was the only foot-
ball game on during the 8 p.m. EST
timeslot, could also be beneficial in
recruiting players and retaining
coaches. He noted that while coach-
ing impacts are felt more immediate-
ly, the recruiting gains will probably
be seen in the 2012 class,as this year’s
group had already committed by
February.
“Everybody was watching,” Tal-
bott said. “That gets recruits’ eyes;
they say, ‘Hey, I could be on TV if I
play for Stanford.’ And it helps retain
coaches to some extent, although it
makes them more popular too, so
they could leave, but coaches like to
be part of a successful program.”
Talbott also noted that the Uni-
versity as a whole could reap finan-
cial benefits from its football victory,
as donations could benefit from the
Orange Bowl being “a very public
success.”
“It should break even, from a
strict ‘revenue and expense related
to the bowl itself’ perspective,” he
said.“I find it hard to believe that we
won’t see significant upside in those
secondary areas that will make it well
worthwhile over time.”
Sizing up the competition
Nine other universities participat-
ed in last season’s BCS, a set of five
marquee bowl games including the
national title game and the Orange
Bowl.From a profit standpoint,Stan-
ford was right in the middle of the
pack.
Unlike Stanford, which is a pri-
vate institution, public universities
are required to disclose their NCAA
bowl expense reports upon request
due to open-records laws, most no-
tably the federal Freedom of Infor-
mation Act. For the eight public
schools that participated in the BCS,
The Daily was able to collect detailed
financial information, including fig-
ures for profit or loss.
Among those schools,only two —
Ohio State and Wisconsin — made a
significant profit, with the Buckeyes
earning $288,876 on their trip to the
Sugar Bowl and the Badgers receiv-
ing $79,168 from the Rose Bowl.Two
other teams, Oklahoma and
Arkansas, were close to break-even
— the Sooners earned $9,350 from
the Fiesta Bowl, and the Razorbacks
received $5,525 from the Sugar
Bowl.
The remaining four schools took
significant financial hits. Most no-
table was Connecticut,which lost just
under $1.8 million on its Fiesta Bowl
trip.Virginia Tech, the Cardinal’s op-
ponent in the Orange Bowl, lost
$421,046. Both participants in the
BCS National Championship Game,
Auburn and Oregon, ended in the
red, with the Tigers paying $614,106
and the Ducks losing $312,437.
Records were not available for
the Rose Bowl’s second participant,
Texas Christian University, because
it is a private institution.
It appeared that conference affili-
ation was an important factor in de-
termining whether a team made or
lost money. Both Ohio State and
Wisconsin are members of the Big
Ten Conference, which generally
pays out more revenue to its member
schools than other conferences.
For perspective, Ohio State re-
ceived $2 million from its conference
for its bowl appearance, while Vir-
ginia Tech received just $1.725 mil-
lion from the Atlantic Coast Confer-
ence (ACC). The Pac-10 also ap-
peared to be slightly more generous,
as Oregon received just under $2.3
million — with the caveat that the
Ducks played in the title game and
thus were expected to have higher
expenses as well.
The Daily also compared finan-
cial returns from the two participants
in the 2010 Orange Bowl, Iowa and
Georgia Tech.The Hawkeyes made a
$55,954 profit,while the Yellow Jack-
ets took a $198,910 loss. However,
the two teams did have a large gap in
revenue, with Iowa getting $1.95 mil-
lion from the Big Ten compared to
Georgia Tech’s $1.6 million payout
from the ACC.
Flaws in the bowl system
Matt Sanderson, one of the co-
founders of Playoff PAC, a political
committee whose goal is to establish
a playoff for college football, dis-
cussed Stanford’s bowl finances —
and the flaws of the bowl system in
general — in an interview with The
Daily.
“It shows you how bizarre this
system is, that actually breaking even
on a bowl is considered a success
story,” he said.
Jeff Passan, a Yahoo! Sports
columnist and a co-author of the
book “Death to the BCS,”added that
it was “surprising and not surprising”
that Stanford broke even on the Or-
ange Bowl.
“Surprising, sure, because its
peers in BCS-level bowl games al-
most all took massive baths,” he
wrote in an email to The Daily. “It’s
not surprising because the Stanford
athletic department always has
struck me as being more conscien-
Pac-10 Financial Comparison
$2,236,295
$1,093,190
-$312,437
Oregon Washington
tious than most.”
Passan also said that not being a
traditional football powerhouse, like
Virginia Tech or Ohio State, actually
made it easier for Stanford to break
even.
“The difference between a school
that breaks even and one that bleeds
is conscientiousness,” he said. “Foot-
ball rules Virginia Tech. Everyone
wants a part of it . . . Rather than
leave itself open to criticism for being
like every other school and overvalu-
ing football,Stanford’s approach was
pragmatic: enjoy the experience,
don’t go overboard.”
Sanderson said that the bowl sys-
tem, and the BCS in particular, is set
up to make it difficult for universities
to make profits.
“There’s a lot more revenue that
college football’s decision-makers
are leaving on the table,” he said. “If
we were to move to a playoff, a lot
more revenue would be available to
participating schools and to schools
that don’t participate in the playoff.”
Much of the blame for the distor-
tions in the bowl system is placed on
ticket guarantees, where participat-
ing schools are required to sell a cer-
tain number of tickets and cover any
unsold ones.Thus, bowls transfer the
majority of financial responsibility
onto the participating schools and
actually take very minimal risk.
“The bowls are foisting blocks of
overpriced tickets on schools,”
Sanderson said. “Fans can hop on
StubHub and get the same tickets for
a fourth of the price. The bowls are
pushing all the risk of not selling tick-
ets off onto the schools.”
“The false market created by ne-
cessitating universities and confer-
ences to purchase tens of thousands
of tickets at full price, when ticket
brokers and resale services offer day-
Profit/Loss
Revenues
$1,153,190
$3,796 -$274,932
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of-game tickets for as little as 10 per-
cent of face value, elucidates more
than anything what a terrible deal
bowls are for schools,” Passan said.
The money trail: from bowls to con-
ferences to schools
Stanford’s zero profit estimate is
based on a number of expenses —
most substantial among them are
unsold tickets and travel expenses
for the team, the band and Universi-
ty administrators — and one major
revenue source: a bowl payout.
According to the BCS media
guide, supplied by the Orange Bowl
Committee to The Daily, the BCS
pays out $21.2 million to each of the
six automatic qualifying conferences,
including the Pac-10, plus another $6
million if a conference qualifies a sec-
ond team for the BCS. This season,
both Stanford and Oregon qualified
for the BCS,giving the Pac-10 a $27.2
million payout in total.
The Pac-10 also received payouts
from its other bowl teams, Arizona
and Washington, which played in
the Alamo and Holiday bowls, re-
spectively. The conference pools
these payouts to cover travel and
unsold ticket expenses for each par-
ticipating team and then divides the
remainder equally among all 10
conference teams, regardless of
their involvement in a bowl.
“Basically what happens is all of
our bowl revenue is brought into
one pot from every bowl game we
participated in this year, from the
Championship Game, roughly $17
million from that, $6 million from
the Orange Bowl and then there’s
the other bowl games: the Alamo
Bowl and the Holiday Bowl,” said
Kirk Reynolds, vice president of
public affairs for the Pac-10.“Those
revenues all come into one pot,
minus the expenses from each, and
then the rest is distributed among all
10 institutions.”
“Stanford would have gotten,be-
cause they played in a BCS game,
$1.4 million plus change, and then
travel expenses for 600 people,” he
said.
However, it seems the bulk of
that went this year to covering trav-
el and tickets. Stanford had an obli-
gation to sell 17,500 tickets to the
Orange Bowl but only managed to
sell about 10,000, a figure given by
Talbott and corroborated by
Reynolds.
“We did not meet the ticket obli-
gation,” Talbott said. “We sold or
used about 10,000 tickets and our
obligation was about 17,500, but
part of the payout from the bowl to
Pac-10 is used to help offset some of
those ticket that we weren’t able to
sell, so at the end of the day, we
won’t have to eat 7,500 tickets.”
The payout from the Pac-10 also
helped cover Stanford’s travel ex-
penses, which included an eight-
night stay for the team at the
Fontainebleau Miami Beach as well
as three nights at the Renaissance
Eden Roc Miami Beach for the
band, according to Max Chang ‘13,
director of public relations for the
LSJUMB.The University also char-
tered a plane for about 130 of the
180 band members and subsidized
travel for the rest.
Despite the pooling of both risk
and revenue achieved by the Pac-10,
significant differences existed be-
tween the three other Pac-10 bowl
teams. Due to its participation in the
BCS National Championship
Game, Oregon received a much
higher expense allowance and had
much higher expenses than the
other two schools. NCAA bowl ex-
pense reports revealed that Arizona
lost $274,932 on the Alamo Bowl,
while Washington came out slightly
ahead on its Holiday Bowl trip, with
a $3,796 profit.
Both teams had roughly equiva-
lent expense allowances of around
$1.1 million. However, the Wildcats
were forced to cover $552,375 in un-
sold tickets, while the Huskies only
had to take $102,130 in ticket losses,
with those figures coming after the
Pac-10’s contributions to covering
unsold tickets. Oregon paid for
$555,575 in unsold tickets on its way
to a $312,437 loss, out of a $2.2 mil-
lion expense allowance.
Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawh-
ney@stanford.edu and Ellora Israni
at ellora@stanford.edu.
4 ! Monday, April 18, 2011
OPINIONS
E DITORIAL
ASSU:What’s Next
M
ore than a week after
ASSU election results
have been released, we
are as relieved as any other stu-
dents (except perhaps the candi-
dates themselves) to be done with
our annual exercise in representa-
tive government. Despite our re-
luctance to protract conversation
on such a tired subject, the results
of these elections are enormously
compelling. In particular, this
Board notes the continued domi-
nance of SOCC endorsees, a sharp
decline in graduate voter participa-
tion and the ambiguity of the
ROTC vote. We also urge the next
generation of ASSU leaders con-
sider these trends when they enter
office, and make good on their
campaign promises to improve stu-
dent engagement and advocacy.
Senate Endorsements.This year,
the necessity of endorsements
evinced itself as never before, with
only one unendorsed candidate
winning a Senate seat. While this
newspaper has already noted that
several campus organizations
elected all of their Senate en-
dorsees, we are most impressed by
SOCC’s continued dominance in
absolute terms. Of 15 senators, 12
will be SOCC-affiliated next year,
the greatest number of co-affiliated
senators in recent ASSU history.
This is surely to SOCC’s credit: no
other group even approaches its
ability to organize, communicate
and get out the vote. However, we
consider the dominance of any one
party troubling, and hope that next
year’s Senate will consider the in-
terests of all students.We also urge
other endorsing groups to look to
SOCC as a model for fighting gen-
eral voter apathy.
Graduate Apathy. In a lively
election year that included the con-
tentious Measure A and resulted in
a nearly 8 percent increase in un-
dergraduate voter participation, it
is remarkable that the number of
graduate students who participat-
ed in voting actually dropped by a
whopping 28 percent. Even more
staggeringly, candidates for Gradu-
ate Student Council elections were
so sparse that a few spots even went
to write-in candidates who unwit-
tingly won a handful of votes. We
believe that the absence of a grad
student candidate for Exec is the
only reasonable explanation for
this sudden drop-off in interest.
While Gobaud-de la Torre and
Peacock-Bakke both promised
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LETTERS TO THE
Dear Editor,
In reading Brenda Barnes’ state-
ments on the Stanford Daily on
April 14 (“CPRN responds to radio
sale concerns”),I realized something
very important to keep in mind and
that is: in this messy fight between
the entertainment community, its
corporate rivals and the FCC, it is
easy for misinformed statements to
be made.
Unfortunately,it is even easier for
readers to believe that misinforma-
tion.
Representatives of large entities
should know better than anyone the
facts they state publicly — which is
why their words, true or not — are
generally consumed by the public as
informed, competent and accurate.
I think it is appropriate to clear up
this grand misconception through
one detail that has been incorrectly
stated twice. That detail is the “10
percent of those working at KUSF
were students” falsity stated by
Brenda Barnes.This gross underesti-
mation was used as an excuse to sell
our beloved radio station. When Fr.
Privett first stated that number at the
community meeting the day after
the sale, the community and volun-
teers knew it was a wrong estimate,
but beyond booing, the crowd at the
time, had no counter-argument.
The only people with the numeri-
cal knowledge of student volunteers
were the personnel directors/re-
cruiters and the program coordina-
grad student representation in the
ASSU Executive, this year’s race
only saw undergraduate candi-
dates.
Measure A: ROTC. After a ve-
hement debate about Measure A
that included a constitutional ap-
peal and an extensive “Campaign
to Abstain,” more students voted
“yes” than “no” or “abstain,” pass-
ing by a margin of more than 2:1.
However, when also considering
the number of students who voted
to abstain on the measure, fewer
than 50 percent of students voted in
favor of ROTC’s return. If any-
thing, we believe that these results
demonstrate that students are
eager to defer the ROTC matter to
the University.
Lessons for the New ASSU.
Though endorsement groups now
wield a more potent influence than
they ever have, we challenge the
13th Undergraduate Senate to
grow together as a whole and move
forward with initiatives that benefit
the entire student body. If they are
to disabuse the electorate of their
superfluity, the new Senate must
find ways to publicize their work
and resist the temptation to grand-
stand or become ensnared in inter-
nal fiddling. Close collaboration
with the Executive team is also nec-
essary for a cohesive and effective
ASSU.
Likewise, we congratulate the
new Executives and challenge
them to identify and articulate
what students care about most pas-
sionately. Amidst their platform of
more than 100 initiatives and goals,
President Cruz and Vice President
Macgregor-Dennis would do well
to focus their energies on a core set
of priorities.
As ASSU leaders,the Executive
is granted the privilege of regular
access to high-level University ad-
ministrators. Throughout their
tenure, the new Executives should
find ways to ensure that the
restoration of VPSA and VPUE
budgets to pre-recession levels be
on the forefront of the minds of ad-
ministrators who shape Stanford’s
annual budget.Our campus has felt
the loss of these frontline staff —
those in Student Affairs and Un-
dergraduate Advising and Re-
search, who previously worked
with students every day — and
every student would benefit from
bringing them back.
Please see EDITORIAL, page 5
EDITOR
tors making the schedules. Neither
Fr.Privett,Brenda Barnes nor any of
their constituents, ever asked any-
one at KUSF for these numbers.
How they derived that information
is unknown, but it can be insinuated,
that the number was guessed out of
convenience and assumption that in
their power, their statements would
not be debated.
I would like to debate them now
with more correct numbers to set the
record straight. KUSF’s Program
Coordinator the last few years,Brian
Springer, has stated, “From the last
schedule written for KUSF 90.3fm,
33 percent of the staff were from the
USF student body.” This is the num-
ber of students who had radio shows
and does not include the students
who were still volunteering, working
their way up to having radio shows.
In addition, I was a Personnel Di-
rector for two years at KUSF.At the
start of each semester, when we re-
cruited the most (because USF was
not helping promote our station),
there were on average 15 new stu-
dent volunteers. I looked through
our Personnel records and found
that from Aug. 2007 through Jan.
2010, the Personnel Directors (my-
self, Toby Suckow and Danielle
Serna) recruited 171 new volunteers,
of which approximately 95 were stu-
dents. On average per year, there
were 30 students introduced to vol-
Please see LETTERS, page 5
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Because Offices Can
Go Anywhere Zack Hoberg
& Dave Grundfest
I
t’s no secret that living on the Row has its perks. Lo-
cation wise it can’t be beat, and when it comes to the
campus social scene, you’re in the center of nearly
everything. From frat parties, to Wednesday nights at their own — it’s common knowledge that Chi Omega
EBF or Kairos, to parties at Casa and Xanadu, to Exot- has been, and is, fighting tooth and nail for a house of
ic Erotic at 680 or hanging out around Columbae’s fire their own.
pit — most of the campus social scene seems to be fo- Given all of this, it seems obvious that the Universi-
cused around the Row. ty should do all that it can to promote a vibrant Row
This might simply be because of the location; maybe life. It is in high demand and serves as the social epicen-
if you tore down all of the Row and replaced it with ter of campus. So why, over the years, has the number of
Suites, the space would be just as social and energetic, Row houses been limited? Ask anyone who was here in
but we think there’s something else at play. Just living in the 60’s and 70’s about the Row and — Animal House
a house makes a difference — eating, cooking and style stories aside — there were simply more student
cleaning with your housemates in co-ops and self-ops residences.The answer is pretty simple: as the Universi-
create a stronger sense of community and promote the ty grew, and there was demand for new space, tradeoffs
urge for fun. had to be made. Row houses were converted to office
This energy is one of the great things about Stanford. space or demolished altogether.This is understandable,
Not that there is anything wrong with wanting a quieter but considering the constant rhetoric on campus about
corner of campus and not that other dorms and locales student housing and strong residential communities, it
around Stanford don’t throw down as well, but the Row seems like these would have been treated more like ac-
taken as a whole contributes hugely to Stanford’s abili- tual priorities.
ty to be a fun, social and energetic campus. We pride For instance, why is the Row Office located in the
ourselves on that, on our ability to excel at one of the Lausen Row Center, a beautiful house in a prime loca-
best research universities in world while still knowing
when to put aside the problem-set, open up a beer (or
tion at the bottom of the upper Row? They keep a plant
in a shower because nobody uses it anymore, and what
age-appropriate EANAB) and celebrate going to once were residential rooms have been hastily trans-
school here. formed into offices — offices that could be located any-
So it follows that these houses are among the most where on campus. Any student on campus would glad-
sought-after assignments in the world of Stanford ly choose to walk or bike a few more minutes whenev-
housing. Places like Mars and Xanadu are typically er they had to visit the Row housing office in exchange
filled with those who received low tier-one draw num- for a few more beds on the Row.
bers, and there was more than a 36 percent increase in The same goes for Serra House (the Clayman Insti-
those trying to pre-assign into co-ops this year. tute for Gender Research), Mariposa House (the Facul-
Housed sororities and fraternities are in high demand, ty and Staff Help Center) and Rogers House (the
and some of the un-housed Greek organizations
would give many members’ left arms for a house of Please see LUNCH, page 5
T HE T RANSITIVE P ROPERTY
A Statement Against LGBT Bullying
T
he past Friday was Day of Si- went on for several months.
lence, a nationwide move- In high school, I had a group of
ment where high school and friends who were emotionally abu-
college students across the country Cristopher sive and made me feel awful about
remain silent for the entire day in
order to make people aware of the
Bautista myself. (When I got into Stanford,
instead of congratulating me, one of
bullying of LGBT youth. I have par- my friends remarked the only rea-
ticipated in Day of Silence every son the school accepted me wasn’t
year I have been at Stanford. It is an days when I was younger. I don’t re- because I was smart, but because I
important day for me, every year. ally like thinking about it. I was a was gay, and they had to fill their
Every Day of Silence reminds me of victim of bullying. In elementary “gay quota.” Good times, good
where I come from. school, the other kids made fun of times.) But regardless of how badly
I admit every Day of Silence I me because I was different — both they treated me, I would’ve much
find myself getting a bit depressed. they and I did not quite know how I rather had awful friends than have
Consciously not talking for an ex- was different, but they just knew I had no friends at all.
tended period of time not only was and ostracized me for it. During I suffered from low self-esteem
makes people aware of what you’re recess, I ended up sitting by myself because of my experiences. I mean,
doing, but it also leads to a lot of and reading a book rather than after being told you were weird, and
time in my head, thinking about playing with the other kids. In mid- different and that you didn’t de-
things. dle school, a girl called me a faggot
I don’t really think about my and told me I was going to hell.This Please see BAUTISTA, page 5
The Stanford Daily Monday, April 18, 2011 ! 5

O P-E D

Standard of Proof why, considering how many women

are re-victimized once they decide
to come forward and seek justice
with stereotypes and assumptions
will function in conjunction with the
standard of proof as set by the ASSU
Constitution (which has “Beyond a
Reasonable Doubt” as its standard
policies like “Beyond a Reasonable
Doubt” were catalyzing for sur-
vivors of sexual violence and abuse.
And while the change is a cause for

O
n April 12, President Hen-
nessy released an executive
order to lower the standard
of proof from “Beyond a Reason-
able Doubt” to “Preponderance of
the Evidence” in cases on sexual as-
sault and relationship abuse.The de-
cision came on the heels of Vice
President Biden’s stern call to U.S.
universities to better account for
campus sexual violence.
This decision comes as a great joy
to me, considering how much of my
term as ASSU Chair of Women’s Is-
sues was spent lobbying both Uni-
versity administrators and the Stan-
dard of Proof Subcommittee of the
review process to lower the standard
to “Preponderance of the Evi-
dence.” Much of our discourse cen-
ishment.As such, our former system
of “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt”
was wholly inappropriate when con-
sidering how actual criminal courts
prosecute sexual assault and rela-
tionship abuse.
Now, as an advocate of survivors, I
am elated that this change has hap-
pened. By having such a stringent
standard for sexual misconduct
cases, survivors of sexual assault and
relationship abuse were being de-
terred from pursuing the process,
given the difficult standards they
were required to meet. However, al-
though this change will improve the
University’s response to violence
against women, it comes decades
late in terms of adequately address-
ing University response to sexual vi-
that call into question their morality,
past sexual history and degree to
which they may or may not have re-
sisted.
Having a lower standard of proof
will circumvent many of these issues.
It will require of those deciding on a
sexual assault case to be conscious of
how contentious these cases can be,
the history that has allowed for an
unequal balance of power based on
gender and how to better under-
stand the fact that sexual violence
rests more on consent and less on the
traditional paradigm of struggle and
physical evidence.
Lastly, attention must be directed
to how the new standard of proof
for both Honor Code and Funda-
mental Standard cases). As it cur-
rently stands,Judicial Affairs and the
ASSU Constitution have differing
standards, an issue that could bring
liability to Judicial Affairs cases. I
would strongly encourage the in-
coming ASSU Executive and ASSU
Senate to make the lowering of the
ASSU Constitution’s standard of
proof to “Preponderance of the Evi-
dence” a priority, to be effective as
soon as possible.
While it is problematic that
Stanford’s strict standard of proof
for sexual assault cases lasted as
long as it did, I celebrate the admin-
istration for realizing the harm that
celebration, much work remains to
be done. I encourage administra-
tors and students alike to call for
further reforms within Judicial Af-
fairs, particularly policies like a
standard sanction and increased
sensitivity training for University
staff. Most of all, I encourage stu-
dents to become advocates against
violence against women. Educate
yourself and others and stand up to
violence or gender discrimination.
The changing of the standard of
proof is a victory for anyone who
believes in eradicating sexual vio-
lence from college campuses.
VIVIANA ARCIA ‘13
ASSU Chair of Women’s Issues

tered on civil rights.Title IX (a feder-
al provision aimed to protect female
students from gender discrimina-
tion) states that a university’s judi-
cial process should not have a stan-
dard higher than “Preponderance of
the Evidence” when handling sexual
assault and domestic violence cases.
Stanford, by virtue of receiving con-
siderable funding from Title IX,
should have heeded to the regula-
tions provided by Title IX.
We also brought up the issue of
how our high standard differed from
those used in domestic violence
courts. In these cases, courts use a
standard of “Preponderance of the
Evidence,” or about a 51 percent
chance that the assault or abuse oc-
curred. And in these cases, people
are often at risk of prison sentences.
However, at Stanford, the most that
can happen is expulsion from the
University, not nearly the same pun-
olence.This point is made even more
explicit, considering how campus
sexual assault has become an epi-
demic and how the culture of silence,
both among students and university
administrators across the country,
has been widely publicized.
Instead, many University institu-
tions have centered many of their
policies on the popular but mistaken
myth that accusations of sexual as-
sault or domestic abuse are lies on
the part of women. While it may be
the case that some accusations are
unfounded, this occurs in less than 2
percent of overall cases. Instead, this
myth perpetuates not only a nega-
tive view of women and their testi-
mony but contributes to the hesitan-
cy that many survivors feel in coming
out with their experiences of abuse.
It is little surprise, then, that over
60 percent of sexual assaults are un-
reported. And it’s not hard to see
LETTERS
Continued from page 4
unteering at KUSF. Out of approxi-
mately 200 total volunteers an-
nounced in our program guides, in-
cluding cultural producers/commu-
nity members, 30 per year add an-
other 15 percent of student involve-
ment.Total, that’s 48 percent, not 10.
One other detail I’d like to point
out is Brenda Barnes’ quote, “I
doubt Stanford wants to sell the sta-
tion.We don’t want to take a station
away from someone who doesn’t
want to sell.”
When Fr. Privett was questioned
in January about announcing KUSF
for sale, he contradicted Barnes’
statement by saying, “We took no
initiative to dispose of the radio sta-
tion. We were approached, and we
responded positively.”
solicited, or about anything else.
EDNA BARRON
KUSF Volunteer/USF Alumna
Dear Editor,
I have four letters for you:
KDFC.
These four letters were not men-
tioned once in either of your recent
articles on KZSU’s recent fit of
paranoia.
KDFC is a San Francisco-based
classical music station. Until recent-
ly, it served the entire Bay Area. It
was started in 1946 and eventually
became one of the most popular
classical stations in the country
(and in the Bay Area, one of the
most popular stations, period). It
has worked closely with the San
Francisco Symphony and the San
Francisco Opera, providing live
broadcasts of concerts. It was the
last commercial classical station in a
move it to a non-profit, listener-sup-
ported format like other classical
stations have done around the coun-
try. For whatever reason, presum-
ably because of their experience in
the field, they chose USC as a part-
ner for the financial support needed
to make this possible.
As their corporate owners re-
tained the station’s frequency and
broadcasting equipment, KDFC
was forced to quickly acquire new
signals in order to keep broadcast-
ing. This included both KUSF and
KNDL, a Christian station. KDFC
now has a hodgepodge of weak sig-
nals with spotty coverage. It current-
ly cannot serve the South Bay or
much of the East Bay, because the
power of its broadcasts has been
greatly diminished. Their recent
transmitter move was an attempt to
improve their coverage in the East
Bay and on the peninsula. They are
looking for a location to serve the
South Bay but need to wait until

EDITORIAL
Continued from page 4
Furthermore, the Executive
needs to find ways to use their team
and position to engage the more
than 2,000 undergraduates who did
not vote in a year that saw the high-
est undergraduate turnout since vot-
ing records have been kept. Even
more importantly, the new ASSU
must collaborate with the Graduate
Student Council to deliver initiatives
and events that are pertinent to the
entire student population, lest grad
students lose faith in the ASSU per-
manently.
The Cruz-Macgregor-Dennis
team is uniquely positioned to enact
substantive change. Their Stanford
2.0 campaign featured an impressive
technical platform with sophistica-
tion that may far exceed what past
candidates have accomplished on the
Farm. During their campaign, Cruz
and Macgregor-Dennis emphasized
that this part of their platform has
three consequences: (1) incorporat-
ing technology and a social entrepre-
neurship mindset, (2) bringing more
students from these communities
into the ASSU and (3) gathering con-
sistent feedback from the entire stu-
dent body. These are promising
strategies, and we look forward to
their implementation in the next aca-
demic year with the goal of increas-
ing the ASSU’s engagement, ac-
countability and efficiency.
It is this lack of precise informa-
tion that is leading to a demise of the
media format this new generation is
looking to for knowledge. Unfortu-
nately, we’re not debating over
loose celebrity gossip. These ‘facts’
have aided in bringing down a 34-
year-old radio station. In numbers,
Stanford has nothing to worry
about in regards to KZSU. Howev-
er, I’d like to call on Stanford stu-
dents to make sure they’re not being
lied to about their station not being
major U.S. city.
In January, its owners, Entercom
Communications, decided to get rid
of KDFC and replace it with a clas-
sic rock station. This was not for a
lack of listeners — according to Ar-
bitron, KDFC had more than
600,000, more than any other local
Entercom station — but because it
was more difficult to find advertisers
for a classical station.
Rather than shut down the sta-
tion, the staff of KDFC decided to
someone is willing to sell.
Contrary to Haddon’s claim, the
Stanford bubble is stronger than
ever.This story is not about USC try-
ing to send pro-Trojan messages
through our airwaves or disrupt
KZSU’s signal. This is about the
preservation of a San Francisco in-
stitution that has served the Stan-
ford community, among many oth-
ers, for decades.
ALEX LANDAU ‘10, M.S.‘11

LUNCH
Continued from page 4
Bridge Peer Counseling Center), all
located across from FloMo, where
Mayfield turns. The Bridge has a le-
gitimate reason for wanting to be
near a population center on cam-
pus, but the others could easily be
moved to less residential areas with-
out a hit to their productivity. Even
the Bechtel International Center —
right across from FloMo if you, like
the majority of campus, have never
been there — would be an excellent
location for student housing.
And what exactly to put in any
or all of these new houses? Let the
students decide. Do we want more
theme houses, co-ops, Greek hous-
es or general Row houses? If we did
it right, we could have one of each
and bring more students towards
the center of campus.
The University needs to realize
something — all of these resource
centers and accessible services etc.
are great, but in terms of our lives,
they are trivial compared to who we
live with, what the atmosphere at
lunch and dinner is and who the
person down the hall is. We should
be using the limited space we have
on the Row in the smartest way
possible. After all, offices can go
anywhere.
To apply to live in re-repurposed
Row office space, Contact Dave
(daveg4@stanford.edu) or Zack
(zhoberg@stanford.edu)

BAUTISTA
Continued from page 4
serve to be happy for years and
years,you’re more likely than not to
believe it. I got depressed, even sui-
cidal, throughout my school years.
This idea that I was a bad person
pervaded every part of my con-
sciousness — my evilness was
something I believed was a fact,
more than anything.
It wasn’t until I got to college
that things changed. For once, I
was respected, even appreciated.
No one was trying to beat me down
for me being smart. Nobody was
trying to bash my identity of being
gay or trans. People actually liked
me for who I was. And it was a
strange, sudden change and some-
thing that I’m still not used to yet.
I admit now, I’m still struggling
with these same issues. When I’m
feeling depressed, those bad
thoughts creep in, tell me that I’m
a bad person and that I don’t de-
serve to be happy.
I stopped speaking to my high
school friends during my first year
of college. I attempted to reconcile
with them during the summer be-
tween my junior and senior year.
One particular girl — the most
emotionally abusive of them all —
attempted to bully me into submis-
sion again. By that time I had man-
aged to salvage some self-esteem,
and I finally realized how awfully
they had treated me, and I wouldn’t
tolerate it any longer. When she
saw that I was finally standing up
for myself, she ended up calling to
threaten me in the middle of the
night and sent me a long email
cussing me out and telling me re-
peatedly that I was a horrible per-
son (she even cc’ed my other
friends in the e-mail in order to an-
nounce my horribleness to the
world). My other friends, who I
thought would stand up for me,
said nothing. I called them, asked
for help, but they did not answer
my calls or my texts. I haven’t
talked to them since, and they
haven’t made the effort to contact
me either. It was a rather traumatic
experience that I still haven’t
worked through yet. Honestly, if
your friends stand idly by while
someone’s bullying you, they aren’t
worth being friends with in the first
place.
Nobody deserves to be bullied.
Nobody deserves to get their hu-
manity mocked and ridiculed, just
because somebody doesn’t fit in
with what’s considered “normal.”
It’s bullying that gets LGBT kids
depressed, makes them feel worth-
less, makes them think that maybe
they’re better off dead. And I hon-
estly thought that way at that point
in my life. It was terrifying.
During my years of college, I’ve
managed to find a small slice of
happiness for myself, but I can’t say
the same for those kids still in
school. This column is for them.
This column is to give them hope,
to show them somebody that’s also
been bullied but turned out all
right. I know it hurts. I hurt then
too. But things will be okay. Trust
me.
Bullying sucks. Email Cristopher at
cmsb@stanford.edu.
6 ! Monday, April 18, 2011 The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
SWEET Daniel
Bohm

ENDING
On My Mind

Card beats Cal,
wins Pac-10 title
By WILL SEATON
STAFF WRITER
With a resounding 5-2 victory
over No. 9 California this past Sat-
urday, the No. 2 Stanford women’s
tennis team clinched the Pac-10 reg-
ular season title, perhaps the first of
many titles the Cardinal could bring
home this year.
Stanford (23-0, 8-0 Pac-10) re-
mains the nation’s only undefeated
team in Division I women’s tennis,
with 42 consecutive wins going back
to February of last year. This is the
third straight Pac-10 regular season
title for the women, including the
shared league title in 2008 with
UCLA.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
STANFORD 5 Gators are only ranked above the
CAL 2 Cardinal due to strength of sched-
4/16, Berkeley
“It was a really unique ex-
perience for me,” said freshman
Nicole Gibbs. “Not a lot of people
get to come in to such a successful
season their first year. Kristie and I
really enjoyed playing in the lineup
and being able to contribute consis-
tently to the team’s successes.
Everyone was really proud of the
effort we put in to get there.”
The match proved to be a state-
ment day for a number of reasons.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
4/16 at Cal W 5-2
UP NEXT
USTA JUNIOR
ALL-STARS
4/22 Taube Tennis Stadium
1:30 P.M.
GAME NOTES: Stanford rounded out its sea-
son with a dominant performance over
rival Cal last weekend to clinch the Pac-10
title. The team will play an exhibition
match next week ahead of the playoffs.
With its defeat of No. 9 Cal (16-6, 6-
2), the Cardinal has now earned
wins over five top-10 teams. That’s
one more than the No. 1 Florida
Gators, who only have four wins
over top-10 squads. Since the
ule, surely this must help Stanford’s
case of returning to the top spot.
On a more individual level, the
nation’s No. 2 team of senior Hilary
Barte and sophomore Mallory Bur-
dette pulled off the upset of Berke-
ley’s top-ranked team of Mari An-
dersson and Jana Juricova.The final
score of 8-6 gave credence to the ar-
gument that Barte and Burdette
should be America’s top-ranked
pair.
Cal initially took a 1-0 lead in
doubles when No. 34 Annie Gorans-
Though she lost in doubles play with her parter Kristie Ahn, freshman
Nicole Gibbs, above, more than made up for it when she clinched the Pac-
10 Championship for Stanford with a 6-2, 6-4 win in singles.
son and Anett Schutting defeated
No.37 Kristie Ahn and Gibbs,8-2,on
the second court. Stanford leveled
the score after senior Carolyn
McVeigh and sophomore Stacey Tan
bested Cal’s Marina Cossou and
Tayler Davis, 8-3. Barte and Bur-
dette’s upset clinched the doubles
point before the team began singles
play.
Tan,a sophomore ranked 55th in
the nation, played a beautiful sin-
gles match to be first off the court,
winning 6-2, 6-2 over Cossou. Ahn,
the nation’s No. 22 player as just a
freshman, put Stanford within one
point of clinching the match after
coming off her court with a 6-3, 6-0
win.
Up 3-0 and on the brink, Stan-
ford lost its first point when No. 25
Andersson edged No. 19 Burdette,
6-4, 6-4. Any momentum the Gold-
ZACK HOBERG/The Stanford Daily
en Bears could have hoped to gain
from their win, though, was taken
away after Gibbs clinched the
match — and the Pac-10 title —
with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Schutting.
“I didn’t even realize what hap-
pened,” Gibbs said.“I thought,‘Oh,
we beat Cal,’ not ‘Oh, we just
clinched the Pac-10’. After Frankie
told me that I clinched, I felt really
good but also just proud of our team
and everything we’ve done this sea-
son.”
California and Stanford split the
last two points, as Veronica Li de-
feated No. 48 Davis 6-3, 6-4, and top
ranked Juricova defeated the
fourth-ranked Barte 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 in
the day’s only three-setter.
It didn’t feel that much different
from any other dual match,” Gibbs
Please see WTENNIS, page 8
“Spoiled”
fans in
San Fran?
W
hat makes a sports
fan spoiled? Or
rather, which sports
fans are generally
spoiled? I’ve been
asking myself these questions recently,
thanks in large part to the sudden prolif-
eration of San Francisco Giants fans
that have appeared at the beginning of
this baseball season,in which the Giants
will try to defend theirWorld Series title.
Giants fans are popping up every-
where these days.Everyone seems to be
a Giants fan.People who just moved the
Bay Area, people who don’t know the
rules of baseball and even some Oak-
land A’s fans are all touting the defend-
ing world champions as heroes. And
many of the Giants fans that predated
the World Series championship have
become entirely incorrigible. They are
miserable to talk baseball with,as every
conversation turns back to either some
reminder that yes, the Giants won the
2010 World Series, some comment
about how Brandon Belt or some other
Giant prospect is the second coming of
Babe Ruth or their own man-crush on
Tim Lincecum or Brian Wilson and his
beard.
During my first four years at Stan-
ford, I passively rooted for the Giants.
Now this year I’m getting close to active-
ly rooting againstthe Giants, simply be-
cause of those fans — but is that fair?
I’m a New York Yankees fan.In my

CARDINAL POUNDS PACIFIC

lifetime, the Yankees have won five
World Series championships, including
the World Series immediately prior to
the Giants’ championship. Maybe I’m
missing something,or maybe I’m naïve,
but I really don’t believe that Yankees
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
fans’ reactions to their championships
DESK EDITOR
were as intolerable.There is an “act like
you’ve been there before”attitude.
Having already clinched the No. 3 seed in the
This is actually not meant as a criticism
MPSF Tournament with a win over UCLA last
of Giants fans or Yankees fans.It is just a
weekend, the No. 4 Cardinal could have mailed in a
discussion of the mindset of fans of dif-
result in the regular season finale against Pacific
ferent teams.Are Yankees fans spoiled
Saturday night. Instead, Stanford came out swing-
because their team has won 27 titles?
ing, and junior outside hitter Brad Lawson had one
Probably.Is that a good thing? I think it
of his best performances of the season with 23 kills,
depends on what you consider “good.”I
nine digs, two blocks and a .556 hitting percentage
hope the Yankees win the World Series
on the way to a 3-1 victory.
every season, but even if they did, each
Stanford (19-8,
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL one would still be as sweet.
15-7) took the first
The Giants, on the other hand, hadn’t
STANFORD 3 game,25-23,as Law-
won a World Series since 1954 when
PACIFIC 1 son and senior out-
they still played in NewYork,so perhaps
side hitter Spencer
4/16, Stockton, Calif. their fans’ enthusiasm,even if it is often
McLachlin got hot
obnoxious,is justified pleasure.
early. After junior
Going back to the initial question,
setter Evan Barry started the game off with an ace,
who is spoiled? I think a good way to
Lawson smashed a kill to start a run where he and
look at this is by city. Bay Area sports
McLachlin combined for kills on nine of Stanford’s
fans aren’t spoiled whatsoever. In fact,
13 points.
prior to the Giants World Series cham-
The Tigers battled back and pulled within two
pionship, professional teams in the Bay
points at 21-19, but Lawson and McLachlin finished
Area had been decidedly mediocre for
the game off with three kills in the last six points.The
some time (the exception being the San
Cardinal hit .361 in the first game, and while Pacific
Jose Sharks, who have been good, but
hit a solid .305 for the match,Stanford’s defense was
have combusted in the playoffs year
just good enough.
after year).
“It’s all about rhythm,”said Stanford head coach
New York fans are another story.
John Kosty. “Tonight was the start of our tourna-
New York is a pretty good place to be a
ment push.”
sports fan,but I wouldn’t say New York
Set two saw Pacific grab an early lead and build
fans are spoiled.The Yankees are a heck
it to five points at 19-14 before Stanford rallied and
of a team to root for — but somehow
cut the deficit to one at 21-20. The teams traded
this year is the first time since 1997 that
points for the rest of the game, with Stanford blow-
both the New York Rangers and New
ing a 24-23 lead and Pacific missing on its own game
York Knicks are in the playoffs at the
point before a Lawson service error and an attack
same time. Both have been overspend-
error by McLachlin tied the match at one set apiece.
ing and underperforming for years.Yes,
But after the break, the Cardinal came out fo-
the New York Giants and New York
cused, shutting down the small crowd of 324 as it
Jets are normally pretty good, but they
rolled to a five-point victory in game three and a
are by no means the class of the league.
runaway 25-16 win in the fourth game — Stanford
So what other cities have strong
used a five-point run to take a seven-point lead
cases to be called spoiled children?
early and never looked back.
Philadelphia and Boston come to mind.
Stanford now heads into the MPSF Tournament
In recent years the Phillies, Flyers and
with a two-game win streak,the team’s longest since
Eagles have all been near the top of
before spring break. The Cardinal will face No. 6-
their respective leagues,while the Sixers
seeded Long Beach State,a team that gave Stanford
remain competitive. Boston, ever since
fits in the regular season.The No. 8 49ers (14-10, 12-
the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series,
10) swept the season series and also won the first
has had an embarrassment of riches
matchup, 3-0.
with the Patriots, Bruins and Celtics all
The Cardinal will look to freshman middle
competing for championships along-
blocker Eric Mochalski and junior middle Gus Ellis
side their peers on the baseball dia-
to neutralize Long Beach’s balanced attack. Six
mond.
players on the 49er roster have at least 100 kills, led
On the other hand, what cities have
by Jim Baughman’s 305.
the toughest luck when it comes to
But it was Kyle Friend who keyed the 49ers 3-0
sports? I know there are lots of bitter
victory in the first meeting between the teams on
fans lining up to be on this list.Obvious-
Jan. 29, with 11 kills and a .500 hitting percentage.
ly Cleveland immediately comes to
Long Beach is no stranger to upsets this year,
mind.The Browns are consistently very
with several wins over teams ranked in the top-5 of
bad, the Indians have been bad for a
the AVCA national rankings besides Stanford.
while now,the city doesn’t have a hock-
Then-No. 2 UC-Irvine and then-No. 3 Pepperdine
ey team and you may have heard that
both fell victim to the 49ers. And although Long
some guy named LeBron James threw
Beach could not get past No. 2 BYU two weeks ago,
a knife in Cleveland’s back on his way
the 49ers finished up the regular season with two
out of town to Miami,burying the Cav-
straight wins over UC-San Diego and Cal State
aliers.
Northridge.
Life is bad elsewhere, however. I
It will be a big advantage for Stanford to play at
wouldn’t want to be a sports fan in
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily home, where the Cardinal is 10-4 — Long Beach is
Seattle.“Sure, the Cleveland Cavaliers
Senior outside hitter Spencer McLachlin, left, got hot in his final regular season game at the col- just 5-6 on the road.
stink,” Seattle fans would say — but at
legiate level as Stanford dominated Pacific in a 3-1 win in Stockton, Calif. on Saturday. The Hon-
olulu native had 21 kills in the match, behind only Brad Lawson’s game-high mark of 23. Please see MVBALL, page 8 Please see BOHM, page 8
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THE “HOME” STRETCH

Card hosts USF as
postseason looms
By DASH DAVIDSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With seven straight wins,the Stan-

ford men’s tennis team is in the midst
of its best stretch of play this season.
The Cardinal will try to continue that
this afternoon in an unusual Monday
matchup, hosting the University of
San Francisco Dons at Taube Tennis
Stadium. Ranked No. 70 in the na-
tion, the Dons should have their
hands full as they take on the red-hot
Cardinal, currently the ninth-ranked
team in the country.
The Dons,led by Norwegian-born
sophomore Ola Bakke, have won
three of their past four matches,dom-
inating UC-Davis and Montana,
squeaking by Gonzaga and falling to
Nevada. Every member on the USF
roster is either a Californian or an in-
ternational student, with Oslo, Nor-
way serving as a hotbed for recruit-
ment. Four of the team’s eleven play-
ers call the Scandinavian city home.
Upholding a recent trend in col-
lege tennis, the Dons, led by head KOR VANG/The Stanford Daily
coach Peter Bartlett, have been very
proactive in recruiting from a particu- Senior Alex Clayton, above, should provide critical leadership as Stanford
lar international location. Stanford enters the home stretch of its regular season. Clayton is ranked No. 71 in
has been a firsthand witness to that the nation and won his last singles match 6-1, 6-2 against Boise State.
tendency this season,facing a number
of teams that have featured multiple Championships next weekend in Ojai, After hosting the University of
players from the same international Calif. and, after a two-week hiatus, the San Francisco today, the Cardinal has
area. It seems as if college teams al- NCAA Championships. Stanford only two matches remaining in its reg-
most monopolize certain regions of hosts the national tournament this ular season: No. 36 Brigham Young
the world,laying claim to the top high year,which begins May 19. University will visit tomorrow, and
school players in their region for re- Klahn, the defending NCAA sin- Cal will cross the bay for the tradi-
cruitment purposes. Stanford is one gles champion, has played all year tional Big Smash on Apr. 23.
of few teams to feature a very low in- with a bulls-eye on his back, weather- The Stanford men’s tennis team is
ternational presence — or more ac- ing the best shots from each team trying to stay the course with what it’s
curately, none. whenever he takes the court.He’s still been doing — building towards May

The Stanford men are coming off
consecutive routs of Oregon and
Boise State, beating both schools 6-1.
Junior Bradley Klahn, the Cardinal’s
top player, has picked up his game as
of late, losing just once over the
course of his team’s winning streak in
both singles and doubles play.
Klahn has been preparing his game
— as the whole team has — for the
stretch run, culminating in the Pac-10
Baseball swept by Oregon State
managed to post an impressive 21-9
overall singles record this year and is
only now rounding into his top form.
As head coach John Whitlinger
said at the beginning of the season,his
goal is always to have the team “pre-
pared to play their best tennis in
May.” The team certainly seems to
have taken its coach’s words to heart
— since spring quarter, the team has
yet to lose a dual match.
SPORTS BRIEFS
On Saturday, Stanford’s offense
— and enjoying the ride along the
way.With three more matches before
the playoffs begin, the team’s focus
and mettle will be tested now more
than ever.
Stanford and USF square off
today at 3:30 p.m.in Taube Tennis Sta-
dium.
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@
stanford.edu.
BOHM
Continued from page 6
least they have a team! The Superson-
ics were jettisoned to Oklahoma City a
few years ago, and the city’s two re-
maining franchises, the Seahawks and
the Mariners, are both substandard.
Kansas City fans can’t be too happy ei-
ther. Kansas City has two teams: the
Royals, who haven’t been to the play-
offs since 1985, and the Chiefs, who
haven’t won a playoff game since Jan-
uary of 1994.
What’s the moral of the story? If you
ask me, sports fans will always want
more, but in most cases things can be a
lot worse.
Daniel Bohm neglected to mention the
other,forgotten half of New York base-
ball fans. Remind him of the Mets at
bohmd@stanford.edu.

Stanford’s baseball team went
through a historically brutal sched-
ule early in the 2011 season, but last
weekend’s series against visiting
Oregon State may have been the
most disheartening yet. The No. 9
Beavers (27-7, 8-1 Pac-10) entered
MVBALL
was once again stymied by Oregon lin and senior captain Jordan Ina-
State pitching, as the Cardinal could fuku to keep the team focused for
only scrape across one run on two the next two weeks.
hits against starter Josh Osich en
route to a blowout, 8-1 loss.The bot-
Continued from page 6
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-
tom of the Stanford order was com- bs@stanford.edu.
pletely stifled, as the fifth through “In the MPSF playoffs, you’re
ninth hitters combined to go 1-for- going to face a quality opponent,”

the weekend as the Pac-10 leaders, a
position they’ll hold onto after
sweeping Stanford (16-12, 3-6) at
Sunken Diamond. Despite entering
the series with a 9-1 record at home,
the No. 17 Cardinal was unable to
push across runs as it fell back in the
conference standings with 1-0, 8-1
and 6-4 losses.
Sophomore pitcher Mark
Appel came into Friday’s contest
riding a wave of momentum after
his best performance in a Cardinal
uniform in his previous start.
Appel again appeared to be on top
of his game, pitching 6.2 innings
and allowing only seven hits and
one run. That run, scored on an
RBI single by the Beavers’ desig-
nated hitter Kavin Keyes in the top
of the first, proved to be enough for
Oregon State starter Sam Gaviglio,
who allowed only six baserunners
and no runs in eight strong innings.
OSU closer Tony Bryant struck out
the side in the ninth to cap the 1-0
Beaver victory.
14 on the day. Cardinal junior
starter Jordan Pries took the loss
after allowing five earned runs in six
innings.
Sunday saw the Cardinal bats
draw first blood after letting oppo-
nents score first in six straight
games. Stanford scored two in the
bottom of the opening frame to
take its first lead of the series, but
the Cardinal offense once again
went quiet for the next seven in-
nings. Stanford scratched through a
couple more runs in the ninth, but it
was not enough in a 6-4 loss. The
Beavers handed Stanford sopho-
more starter Dean McArdle his sec-
ond career defeat, with both coming
in his last two starts.
The sweep was Oregon State’s
first ever at Sunken Diamond. Stan-
ford must regroup now with a mid-
week game at Santa Clara tomor-
row before next weekend’s home
series against No. 23 UCLA.
—Jacob Jaffe
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
Despite some solid innings on the
mound, freshman pitch A.J. Vane-
gas, above, couldn’t make the dif-
ference as Stanford dropped an 8-1
blowout to OSU on Saturday.
Kosty said. “Coming into this
weekend, we knew it would be
Long Beach or UC-Santa Bar-
bara, a team we split with and
needed to rally from two sets
down to beat. We’re all evenly-
matched teams.”
The battle to win the MPSF will
begin with the quarterfinals on Sat-
urday,April 23. Other matchups in-
clude No. 1 USC hosting UCLA,
BYU hosting UC-Santa Barbara
and UC-Irvine hosting Hawaii.The
semifinals are scheduled for Thurs-
day, Apr. 28 and the MPSF Final —
the winner of which receives an au-
tomatic berth into the NCAA
Championships — will be held at
the site of the higher-seeded team
on Saturday, Apr. 30.
Stanford needs to make a mem-
orable appearance in the MPSF fi-
nals — if not win the tournament
outright — to have a chance at one
of the at-large bids into the
NCAAs, and will look to the veter-
an leadership of Lawson, McLach-
WTENNIS
Continued from page 6
said. “We’ve been a little spoiled by
the fact that we haven’t even had
any 4-3 victories this year.We’re just
going get our business done, and
that’s the end of it.”
“We had the same approach
coming into the Cal match,” Gibbs
continued. “We’re obviously really
excited about the potential for the
solo Pac-10 title. I don’t think we
were particularly nervous. We were
just excited to compete.”
With the regular season com-
pleted, Stanford now begins prepa-
ration for the postseason and the
Pac-10 tournament, where it will
come in as the No.1 seed and look to
defend its championship.
Contact Will Seaton at wseaton@stan-
ford.edu.

Continued from front page

MGYM|Cardinal men make history

“I am ecstatic that men’s gymnastics was
the team to reach the 100th title for Stan-
ford,” said Stanford head coach Thom Gliel-
mi. “It is an incredible achievement for Stan-
ford and the fact that it was men’s gymnastics
that won it is just icing on the cake.”
Stanford scored a remarkable 363.450 in
the team finals, edging out runner-up Okla-
homa (361.600) and third-place Illinois
(360.150).
That final mark came despite a less-than-
stellar start in Friday’s first event, the parallel
bars. After scoring the NCAA’s best score of
the year with 61.500 in Thursday’s preliminar-
ies, the Cardinal posted a solid but unremark-
able 59.950 on Friday. Redshirt sophomore
Cameron Foreman and senior Ryan Lieber-
man led Stanford with scores of 15.200 in the
event — for Foreman, it was a career best.
Next was the horizontal bar, where Stan-
ford showed why it was the NCAA leader in
the event entering Friday’s meet. The Cardi-
nal recorded a score of 59.300, led by senior
Alex Busaglia’s mark of 15.400, which tied for
the best score of the night.
Stanford came through with a season-best
effort on the floor exercise, which may have
pushed the team over the edge in the final
standings. Sophomore Eddie Penev’s mark of
15.950 helped his team secure the NCAA’s
second-best floor score at 62.450, while sen-
iors Josh Dixon,Tim Gentry and Buscaglia all
posted scores of 15.300 or above.
The Cardinal struggled a bit on the pom-
mel horse and still rings, but pulled into a
comfortable lead in the vault. Lieberman and
redshirt junior Abhinav Ramani boosted
Stanford into the lead with vault scores of
15.850 and 15.950, respectively. Dixon,
Buscaglia and Gentry then all but secured
Stanford’s victory with marks of 16.000,
16.350 and 16.250.
With the win, the Stanford squad captured
its fifth title in program history — the others
came in 1992, 1993, 1995 and 2009. Glielmi,
who took over as head coach in 2003, now has
two championships.
Stanford is just the second school in histo-
ry to boast 100 team championships, behind
UCLA’s nation-best mark of 106. The title
also continues a remarkable streak for Stan-
ford, which has won at least one NCAA
Championship for 35 years.
The men’s gymnastics team wasn’t quite
done, as members of the team returned to ac-
tion on Saturday for the NCAA Individual
Championships. Buscaglia led the way, taking Stanford Daily File Photo
home his first-ever individual title on the hor- Senior Alex Buscaglia, right, had a magnificent weekend in Columbus, powering Stanford to its
izontal bar. He wasn’t alone in earning com- second NCAA team championship in three years on Friday before earning an individual title on
mendations, as six Cardinal gymnasts earned
a total of nine All-America honors. the horizonal bar a day later. Buscaglia is now a seven-time All-American.
As the NCAA leader on horizontal bar for
nearly the entire season, Buscaglia lived up to with top-eight finishes on the rings, vault and horse, respectively.
his reputation with the lights-out score of floor exercise. The senior now has seven All- The meet marks the end of an incredible sea-
15.750, winning by nearly half a point.Adding America honors in his career. son for Stanford, which regained its title as
to a career night, Buscaglia earned All-Amer- Dixon and Penev added to their All-Ameri- NCAA champion and established its pro-
ica honors on the parallel bar with a sixth- can totals with fourth- and fifth-place finishes gram as one of the best in recent history.
place score of 14.400. on the floor exercise, while Foreman and
Gentry had a phenomenal night as well, earn- freshman Chris Turner became first-time All- Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@
ing a remarkable three All-America honors Americans on the parallel bars and pommel stanford.edu.