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Women talk sports evolution

Panelists assess future of professional athletes
By DANIELLE LUSSIER Stanford Residential Education and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric co-hosted a panel discussion Wednesday night about the past, present and future of womens sports. The event featured notable women in the sports realm, including Brandi Chastain, a former member of the U.S. womens soccer team and Ellen Estes Lee 02, former captain of the Stanford water polo team and a former Olympian. Dena Evans 96, a highly recognized track and field athlete and coach, and Dr. Joan Oloff, a podiatrist from Los Gatos, also spoke. Kelly Myers, a PWR instructor, organized the event. Myers said she was inspired by a class that [she is] teaching . . . about women in sports. She believed it would be beneficial to talk to women who have reached the highest level of sport and figure out where do we go from here. The panel provided perspectives on the past, present and future of womens sports to an audience of 40, which was comprised primarily of students. The panelists reflected on specific moments in womens sports that served as turning points and inspirations in their own careers. Some of the panelists inspired each other. Oloff referred to Chastains sports bra moment as a defining moment in womens sports that has affected generations of women athletes. The panelists discussed the challenges that remain for womens sports today. According to Dena Evans, there are vast amounts of young girls playing sports,[yet] there is a struggle to keep a womens soccer pro league from going under. Oloff confirmed that a current challenge for womens sports is that youth sports have come leaps and bounds but professionally, there is a strange disconnect. Chastain discussed the reasons for why children continue to play sports today.She discouraged the notion that children should specialize in a given sport for the purpose of earning scholarships. Kids today are not having a chance to truly experience sports because people are telling them, You can only do one, she said. Although the panelists reflected on some of the negative aspects of womens sports today, they were hopeful for its future. A professional league exists because [sports are] just like school, where you go to learn something

Distance learning successful

Method expands access to graduate programs
By MARIANNE LEVINE
DESK EDITOR

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Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Childrens Defense Fund (CDF), spoke on Wednesday about education, incarceration, nuclear disarmament, poverty, excessive materialism and family values.

Edelman finds meaning

Marian Wright Edelman delivered Harrys Last Lecture
By JORDAN SHAPIRO
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Childrens Defense Fund (CDF), delivered a lecture on the meaning of life Wednesday evening in Memorial Auditorium. As the 2011 Rathbun Visiting Fellow, Edelman shares an honor previously awarded to Justice Sandra Day OConnor, former Secretary of State George Shultz and the Dalai Lama.

The tradition of Harrys Last Lecture originated when law school professor Harry Rathbun determined that he would dedicate the last lecture of his course every spring quarter to ponder the meaning of life with students who were about to leave Stanford. The Foundation for Global Community recently endowed the Harry and Emilia Rathbun Fund for Exploring What Leads to a Meaningful Life,a program of

During a Faculty Senate meeting on Oct. 13, electrical engineering professor Bernd Girod indicated that if Stanfords NYC campus proposal is approved, the University will leverage distance learning and telepresence technologies extensively. While distance learning between two campuses may be a new challenge, according to Paul Marca, executive director of Stanfords Center for Professional Development, Stanford has been engaging in distance learning for the last 40 years. Weve had a long and rich history delivering education, Marca said. We have delivered television and internet-based education as well as face-to-face education. The Center for Professional Development provides the opportunity for individuals with full-time jobs to continue their education and enhance their skill sets. According to its website, the Center offers over 25 graduate degrees and certificates, as well as 51 masters of science degree depths. Thirteen academic departments from the School of Engineering participate in the distance learning program. Those students interested in pursuing masters degrees must be admitted by specific departments. In order to qualify for distance learning, students must belong to one of the Centers member companies, listed on the Centers website. These member companies include Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, General Electric, General Motors and NASA. Marca said the member companies understand the value of a Stanford education. Member company employees qual-

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UNIVERSITY

Clubs prepare for 2012 elections

Democrats and Republicans on campus begin campaigns
By EDWARD NGAI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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With less than a year to go before the 2012 general elections, Stanfords political organizations are shifting their focus to the upcoming election season. In the off-year between the 2010 midterm

elections and next years presidential election, organizations representing both parties are working to ignite busy students by planning voter registration drives, volunteering with campaigns and hosting meetings to discuss the issues of the campaign. Getting young people involved in politics is one of the biggest challenges associated with a big political campaign, said Rahul Sastry 13, vice president of the Stanford Democrats. For a candidate like Obama, energizing the student vote will be a very important aspect in getting [Obama] re-elected.

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[A] goal is to encourage everyone [at Stanford] to become active in politics, as university students are our countrys, and the worlds, future, wrote Mary Ann Toman-Miller 14, presi-

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RESEARCH

Study examines shift in squid life cycle

By NOMANA INTEKHAB HADI Biology professor William Gilly and student researchers recently managed to identify the El Nio phenomenon as the reason for changes in the Humboldt squids spawning habits. The Humboldt squid which resides in the Sea of Cortez has been spawning at a much younger age and smaller size than in past years. Gilly began his research in 2009, inspired to find the missing large squid in the Gulf of California. What we found instead was small squid all over the Gulf, but the biggest surprise was that these squids were mature and spawning, Gilly said. The El Nio phenomenon, a climate pattern that occurs every five years, causes warm water to be pushed down from the surface to an unusually great depth. Warm water from the Eastern Tropical Pacific gets pushed north into temperate latitude, causing temperature change. El Nio triggers a coastal upwelling process, which is driven by wind and the rotation of the earth.The upwelling of normally cool, nutrient-rich water brings warm, nutrient-poor tropical water to the surface. The phytoplanktons productivity, as a result, suffers.The squid, which eat phytoplankton, are thus impacted. Squid can move to an area of tidal upwelling, which remains productive during an El Nio condition, and continue on their merry, giant squid lifestyle and live to spawn when they are a year and a half old, Gilly said. The study found that Humboldt squid are maturing earlier in response to exaggerated, changing environmental conditions. The number of squid was found to be lower than in past years. Another

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The Humboldt squid, which resides in the Sea of Cortez, is spawning at a much younger age and smaller size than in past years. William Gilly found that changes in the squids lifestyle were linked to the El Nio phenomenon.

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youre passionate about. You hope that when you graduate, youll have the opportunity to do that thing, Chastain said. Lee echoed a similar statement. With the absence of a professional water polo team in the United States, Lee had to stop playing because she knew [she] was going to have to do something else and considers business her second career. Evans emphasized that women athletes who are not at the professional level can still see promising futures. Evans said she has seen a redefinition of what it means to be a female athlete, as well as huge growth in women athletes on a recreational level. She noted that an overwhelming majority of participants in races like the New York Marathon are women. Attendees, such as Caitlin Scheder 15, reacted positively to the event.Scheder said the panel was inspiring and that it was interesting to have people [she had] looked up to [her] whole life talk about womens sports. Robbie Dela Cruz 15 was glad she went and said she was pleased that the event did not solely focus on women in sports. We [also] talked about how to encourage each other and appreciate ourselves, she said. Contact Danielle Lussier at dlussier@ stanford.edu. fishing, Gilly said. Were coming up on two years, so next summer may show a return to normal [patterns]. All we can do now is try to track things and see where they go. Gillys research indicated the important role of global warming in the El Nio phenomenon. The current changes from global warming could exacerbate the impact of El Nio, resulting in a potentially irreversible change in the size and living patterns of the Humboldt squid. As long-term warming continues and temperate California waters become more tropical-like, one might expect a northward progression of the smaller form of Humboldt squid, Gilly said. Whats intriguing about our observations is that the switch from jumbo to small Humboldt squid at maturity can happen so fast and that it can be triggered by a discrete event like El Nio. Contact Nomana Intekhab Hadi at nihadi@stanford.edu.

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ify as part-time students and are eligible for tuition discounts. We think of Stanford and the School of Engineering as [delivering] the needs of industry, Marca said. He added that an important benefit of distance learning is the opportunity for students to directly apply their education to their professional lives. If companies have specific initiatives, [they] can re-tool employees specifically and do so through Stanford, Marca said. Marca indicated that since distance learning students are working full-time, the amount of time necessary to complete a program varies. Masters degrees are typically completed in between three to five years, with five years being the maximum amount of time provided. Because of the part-time nature of the distance-learning program, the Center measures its size based on the number of enrollments as opposed to the number of actual students. Marca emphasized that while distance learning students are enrolled part-time, there is no differentiation in status between distance learning students and full-time Stanford students. When we offer extended education to industry, and the department admits students, that student is a graduate student at Stanford; there is no difference, Marca said. They happen to be working at Intel or Cisco or Hewlett-Packard, but they are in the courses . . . just not physically on campus. Marca attributes much of the distance learning programs success to the dedication of the Stanford faculty. Distance learning students may communicate with and receive help from faculty through different forms of technology, including live meetings and videoconferences. Our faculty understands that there is a distance learning component of the class, Marca said. If they deliver to graduate students at a distance, [they] understand the role of responsiveness. That has benefited students at a distance in a significant way. Joyce Rice, director of marketing at the School of Engineering, indicated that the technology developed for distance learning, which includes taped lectures, has also benefited full-time students. Full-time students at Stanford appreciate the opportunity to go online and view lectures of the courses online, Rice said. [This]

gives them the opportunity to go over materials and prepare for projects. Some professors at Stanford have also initiated distance learning classes, outside of the Center for Professional Developments specific programs. Sebastian Thrun, a computer science professor, currently offers his Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course online for free. The class now has 130,000 enrollments.

We reached people in over 190 countries.

SEBASTIAN THRUN, CS professor
Our class had an amazing success, Thrun wrote in an email to The Daily. We are changing the lives of people whom we could never reach before, in places like Afghanistan [and] Tanzania. We reached people in over 190 countries. Thrun emphasized that while distance learning is no alternative to campus life, online courses can help to democratize education. Although distance learning may raise concerns about the potential decrease in face-to-face interactions, both Thrun and Marca do not find the decrease problematic. Our students consistently report a very strong connection to us, Thrun said. Many of them feel as if they are in the same room with us, as if we listen to them, let them try and respond to their answers. Marca believes that for masters degree programs, face-to-face connections may not always be necessary. He stated that the only disadvantage of the Centers masters degree programs is the limited networking opportunities for distance learners. We believe the online experience is a great way to get the masters education out there, Marca said. Its a pretty solid program and a great way to extend Stanfords intellectual work to make a difference in the companies that engage with us and for those professionals who wish to take classes. Contact Marianne LeVine at mlevine2@stanford.edu.

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The Stanford Shakespeare Company displayed a fall showcase of studentdirected and performed pieces in White Plaza Wednesday night.

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change Gillys research team discovered was that the squid were not as concentrated in one region. Gilly attributed this recent change to the squids ability to quickly adapt to new conditions. The effects of these adaptations, however, are difficult to determine at this early stage. Its as if a population of humans started reproducing at age three, Gilly said. Whether this is good or bad for the squid, is not something that I can easily grasp. Its just the way it is but presumably this radical change in lifestyle serves some purpose and has been selected for by evolution. The study found that the shift in lifestyle, in response to El Nio, is circumstantial. Among the surprises was the speed at which the shift

occurred the changes in squid living patterns occurred between September 2009 and May 2010, less than one generations time for squid. The timeframe correlated exactly with El Nio, leading to the conclusion that El Nio caused the change in squid lifestyle patterns. To our knowledge, the only times small mature squid have been reported from the Gulf of California have been after the 1997-98 El Nio and the 2009-10 El Nio Modok. Gilly said. These squid are not on the small tail-end of a normal distribution or anything like that they form a completely distinct size class. The studys implications for the future of the Humboldt squid population remain unknown. Gilly and his research team have been looking to changes in squid patterns during the 1997-1998 El Nio period to formulate predictions. It took two years for large squid to return to the traditional fishing grounds in large enough numbers to support commercial

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dent of the Stanford College Republicans, in an email to The Daily. We need to act as a voice for our generation and remind Washington that our generation does not want to inherit an unsustainable economy. Toman-Miller is a Daily staffer. A year away from the election, however, the Stanford Democrats still feel challenged by the unique dynamics of campus organizing. I wasnt here in 2008 [for the last general election], so it was very interesting . . . trying to figure out how organizing on campus works, said Lindsay Lamont 13, president of the Stanford Democrats. Weve been going about it in a twopronged [manner], being the liberal base on campus . . . and working with the Obama for America campaign outside the Stanford community. Lamont says she understands

the challenges in igniting enthusiasm on a college campus in a deepblue state. Even if you feel that . . . California, as a whole, your vote may not have a voice, it doesnt mean that you cant have an influence elsewhere, she said. If we look to 2008, we [had] a huge influence on neighboring states. To increase involvement, both organizations are beginning to execute their plans for the election year with the final goal of building momentum and fostering a more politically active atmosphere on campus. I am planning to take a delegation of Stanford Republicans to the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, TomanMiller said. I will also take a delegation . . . to the California Republican Party state convention in February. The Stanford Democrats are taking a more community-based approach to their event planning. The big event . . . were looking to organize [is] a Dress Like a Republican party on campus, Lam-

ont said. Thats what we mean by having campus events that . . . drag the liberal base and get them pumped and excited. Its the community-based stuff that keeps people volunteering and involved. Lamont laughed off a follow-up question pressing her on what Dress Like a Republican meant. You can take that as you like, she said.Favorite candidate impersonations, to presidential masks . . . as extreme [of a] stereotype as you want to go. The lightheartedness of the proposed events on the Democratic side contrasts with the more formal planning of the Stanford College Republicans. Our meetings feature speakers, Toman-Miller said. Our last speaker was Professor Evers from the Hoover Institute. Other prominent speakers . . . [like] House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy have offered to speak . . . in the new year. Toman-Miller also denies the assumption that the Stanford campus is deeply liberal. Republicans have been here on

campus since its founding, TomanMiller said, pointing out that Leland Stanford was a Republican. At the activities fair this fall, [the College Republicans] signed up over 60 new members . . . there are indeed many Republicans at Stanford. However, even with recent growth, the College Republicans mailing list remains one eighth of the size of the Stanford Democrats, which boasts about 800 members. Both organizations, however, were quick to point out that political engagement is nonpartisan.

[We] help register everyone eligible to vote, Toman-Miller said. [All of us] must engage in a constant and active debate on the risks and opportunities facing our country. Lamont echoed her sentiment. A big thing for [the Stanford Democrats] is activism as a whole, she said.Theres no partisanship in getting people to register. Our big task is following up and getting out the vote. Contact Edward Ngai at edngai@ stanford.edu.

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Visiting artist Ann Carlson experiments with time and space
our lawyers stand still in an office hallway surrounded by elevators. Dressed in typical business attire, the mens backs are to each other, and they dont say a word.The lawyer on the left makes the first movement, reaching over to slap his shoulder. The rest follow in a series of gestures and expressions as they bend, stretch, point and shout. What appeared to be a normal scene of lawyers in suits is transformed into a dance. To Ann Carlson, a visiting artist in the drama department, this use of everyday people in experimental settings is what makes her art distinctive. After graduating from the University of Utah with a bachelor of fine arts in modern dance and the University of Arizona with a graduate degree in dance, Carlson began to collaborate with many dancers,including the award-winning Meredith Monk. Her work has been performed throughout the United States, and she has received numerous awards, including an American Masterpiece Award in 2008 and a three-year fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. This quarter, Carlson is teaching two undergraduate classes at Stanford: Performance, History and Memory: The Jasper Ridge Project and Stillness in Action: The Body Out of Time. She is also the first visiting artist to collaborate with the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, a biological sanctuary on Stanford land that is designed to promote research and education.It is not a place traditionally associated with dance. The idea of having a visiting artist first came up two years ago when I was approached by Robert Buelteman, a well-known photographer, requesting access to the pre-

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spot they were taken. The performance will take place in March 2012, when the audience will be guided through a series of tours through the different stations on the preserve where actors perform scenes from the past. Its a collision between that moment in time and the present moment, Carlson said.It touches on a lot of different disciplines, such as environmental biology, botany, animals, fish and birds. Carlson herself has touched on multiple disciplines in her work over the past 20 years, collaborating with a broad range of people who were united by shared professions, relationships or passions. I approach dance as any conscious movement, Carlson said. It can be you typing on your laptop right now as long as you are thinking about it, a keyboard dance. This diverse group of performers have included lawyers, nuns, security officers and pediatricians, and her projects have included the four lawyers skit and a piece with fly fishermen she found in a sporting goods store for a festival in Maine. The work is about labors imprint on the body, about how what we do or what we love is expressed through our gestures, Carlson said. Carlson is particularly fascinated everyday movements and actively explores how they can be sequenced into a dance. I feel there is a huge hunger for people to have an engagement with metaphor,pulling out their everyday movements and reconstituting them into a portrait of who they are,Carlson said. Her attention to common objects and people is evident in her personality as well as past work. She is this short, blonde fireball, Cohen said. I once described her as the Studs Terkel of dance. My

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serve,said Jasper Ridge administrative director Philippe Cohen.I then went to the vice president of the Stanford Arts Initiative about having Robs photography at the preserve as a way to raise funds for having a visiting artist program at Jasper Ridge. Carlson saw Jasper Ridge for the first time when she was invited to do work on campus in 2008. In March 2010, she returned to campus to collaborate with 250 students to produce Still Life with Decoy, in which students posed like they were studying textbooks and lying on the ground after a bike collision, among other things. I have been really interested in investigating stillness and how it resonates in different places and different contexts, Carlson said. It deals with Einsteins idea that all of time exists in the present. Stillness is really interesting because it arrests movement and lets the past and future fold on into it. Based on Carlsons previous work,Matthew Tiews M.A.99 Ph.D. 04, executive director of the arts programs, invited her to be Jasper Ridges first visiting artist. She is a very unexpected artist, and we thought it would be an interesting collaboration,Tiews said. Carlson was interested by the history and environment at Jasper Ridge, which she described as very ancient and very alive. I got really interested in the balance of [Jasper Ridge] not being open to the public, but then inviting a time-based artist into the situation, Carlson said.It seemed counterintuitive and wonderfully inventive. The project follows the tableaux vivant tradition,where actors pose as paintings or photographs, and involves restaging about eight photographs from Jasper Ridge on the

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impression of her is that she looks in the everyday and finds what she views as a performance, which I think is fascinating. Tiews expressed a similar perspective on Carlsons energy and persona. She is incredibly dynamic and inquisitive, Tiews said. A part of her artwork is informed by real, almost scholarly work,which she manifests in really different ways. Carlson uses this energy to portray the body as a powerful vehicle of change to speak against what she calls a tendency to disregard movement. I call it the real people work, Carlson said. It responds to certain kinds of social issues because it looks at stereotyping and then bursts it apart, like with the dignity of the

lawyers. You wouldnt expect those guys in the fancy suits to be doing all of that action. Through her work, Carlson continues to investigate how dance can be conveyed through anything and anyone, whether they are lawyers, fly fishermen, scientists or Stanford students.Her stillness class has discussed the possibility of occupying San Francisco to experiment with stillness. We have been talking about,how does the still body support or object to things in public space? Carlson said. Anytime you work outside of time, it scares people and is a kind of disruption.It changes the whole energy and impact of the space. Contact Arushi Jain at ajain93@stanford.edu.

Jeremy Weinstein recounts his work at the White House

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PROFILE

n a well-lit office on the fourth floor of Encina Hall, Jeremy Weinstein makes his home among papers stacked tall across the room. During a recent afternoon, at a wooden table placed squarely in front of the door, he sat with his legs crossed and spoke passionately about his time at the White House. Jeremy Weinstein has a foot in two worlds, one at Stanford and one in Washington, D.C. Here,he is an associate professor of political science and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. But for the past two years, Weinstein worked under President Barack Obama, serving as the director for development and democracy on the National Security Council. In that role,he dealt with several international issues in the interest of the United States, including global development and democracy, anti-corruption and foreign assistance reform. During that time, Weinstein also helped shape the nations agenda for global development through the United States Agency for International Development, a government agency that provides economic and humanitarian assistance around the world. Prior to serving on the National Security Council, Weinsteins first brush with the White House came under the Clinton administration, during which he focused on Africa policy.There, he developed strong connections and eventually was offered a position as a global development and democracy advisor for Obamas 2008 presidential campaign. I was thrilled, Weinstein said. I had read Dreams from My Father, and I was convinced that this guy was something special. So I quickly got involved in the campaign and . . . ultimately took a public service leave from Stanford to join the Obama administration. Weinstein deeply admired Obamas foreign affairs strategy, adding that it was an approach that stemmed from Obamas background as a community organizer. Both he and the President agreed that establishing and maintaining democracy required fostering ties with other countries based on mutual understanding. I think at the core of the presidents agenda on democracy and human rights is recognizing that sustainable political change comes from the bottom up,Weinstein said.It cant be imposed from the outside. You tend not to get the kinds of outcomes that youre interested in unless you have that base of support and interest with people willing to take risks, as we saw in the Arab Spring in their fight for human rights. Through his encounters with the president, Weinstein concluded that advocates outside of government were key to constructing public policy. One particular meeting with the president and a group of human rights activists

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struck a chord with Weinstein that continues to resonate today. The president was very powerful in his response in a number of ways, Weinstein said. He said to the groups,Your job is to hold my feet to the fire . . . so, you need to be out there everyday raising these issues, telling us when were doing the right or wrong thing. My role is to be President of the United States, and your role is to be a strong voice for people who arent always heard. I think thats a powerful message what produces good policy is not just the expertise of people inside the government, but the pressure that comes from outside. Weinsteins political background in his career outside of government spans years of public policy research and experience and also draws upon his desire to effect change on a global scale. In a big picture sense,Ive always been a social scientist,Weinstein said.I believe that [social science] provides powerful tools to help us understand fundamental processes of political and economical change. Theres no place like the West Wing of the White House to have an

idea . . . and be in a position to call on any country, any organization, any business, any group of advocates and convene them around doing something [about it]. For students aspiring to work in government, Weinstein strongly advised traveling abroad as a way to gain first-hand experience with problems resulting from different histories, cultures and political environments. Get out of the United States, Weinstein said. Its really important to experience these issues in places where their salience is high and understand them from the perspectives of people who are fighting every day for human rights and challenging their governments. You cant learn that from a textbook. Weinstein also encouraged depth of knowledge, rather than breadth.The policymakers he most admires are the specialists. Thorough expertise with a specific issue, he said, allows policymakers to be more creative in their area of interest. Dont spread yourself too thin, Weinstein added. Know something about something. There are a lot of generalists in Washington,but some of the most effective policy players that

Ive met are people who are deeply invested in accumulating knowledge and expertise about something like global poverty reduction or whatever it might be. Weinsteins White House experiences have left an indelible mark on his views about the international role of the U.S. government. In Weinsteins opinion, many people see the government as an obstacle to human rights advancement. However, he hopes to instill in the next generation of political leaders the notion that government can be an effective means of largescale progress. I think its increasingly easy to write off government as behemoth and bureaucratic and slow and broken . . . but the U.S. government is a massive player and what it does matters enormously all around the world, Weinstein said. We need the best people going into government. [Students] need to see the political process,despite its dysfunction,as a process that can generate good outcomes and make a difference throughout the world. Contact Leslie Nguyen-Okwu at leslie.nguyenokwu@stanford.edu.

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heres a line in the coming-ofage indie-flick Garden State when Zach Braffs character says, You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isnt really your home anymore? All of a sudden, even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone . . . You feel like you can never get it back. Its like you feel homesick for a place that doesnt even exist. That brings me to this weeks advice: DO: Be Grateful. DOO-DOO: Be Homeless. Im not sure if it was a life-imitates-art-imitates-life sort of thing, but my first two years of college were pervaded by a strange sense of not homesickness, but homelessness and restlessness. Stanford was my new life,but I wasnt about to call it home. And when I would return home for breaks, home just felt like a house where I kept the things from my past life. It was like my life was placed on pause, nothing I did at home would contribute to the bigger picture. There were no feelings of consequence or progress. This led to a great deal of restlessness and discontent. When I was at Stanford, I just wanted to be in Orange County, and when I was there, I wanted to be anywhere but there. I was stuck living in the past bliss of nostalgia or the future hope of a place to call home. Over the last two years, my concept of home has drastically changed and it has allowed me to be truly happy where Im at in the present.The sense of security and belonging we call home isnt a place we find or discover or reach in the distant future, its a feeling we create here and now, where we are with the people around us. Thanksgiving break was the perfect reminder for me. There are times when we all feel lonely and lost in the world, and Ive found that the best remedy is gratitude true appreciation for the people that have shaped our lives. It may help to sit down and remind yourself where you belong and what you call home. For me, home is Clint having the Deathly Hollows tattooed on his calf forever, and Lauren knowing Ill be at your house in 15, means Ill be at your house in an hour.Its David still saying,Yo Yo Yo! upon entering every room, and Colton still insisting that his virtual girlfriend exists (well then, how come weve never met her?).Home is how it somehow makes sense that Matt

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got disqualified from a pancake-eating contest . . . for eating too many pancakes. Home is the way Brett still has an unshakable faith in the 18-year-old Green Van, and the way Hilary cares less about the Cal-Stanford rivalry than even I do. Its how Greg had the hardest year of his life and still strengthens the people around him. And how Nick and I spent the winter writing songs about getting better (and if were being honest, were getting there.) Its Doug having the dumb idea of biking to Berkeley from LA for no reason at all, and Sunny having the genius idea of secretly following him to film how far he actually goes (hell probably make it.) Home is Landon performing the sickest cover of Skinny LoveI have ever seen (in the deepest V-neck I have ever seen). Its Jill knowing some things never do change.Its how Coleman used to get teased for being straight-edge and now gets teased for not being straight-edge, and how Michael still wont let me ride his horse (this is a 100 percent literal and should not be taken figuratively in any way). Its how Garrett will go down in history as the funniest, nicest and most agreeable person ever (a narrow finish over Will, who used to be Bill in high school),and how Clark knows more about more things than you do (but seriously, he does). Home is how Arya knows anything I write here wouldnt do him justice and that Carson still is . . . and will forever be . . . Carson. Its how Hayden is going to be super famous some day,and it wont change a thing. Its how were all counting down the days until Ian, Sam, Taylor, Lauren and Sarah come back to us in America (aka Amurrricccaaaaa!). No doubt, home is something different for each of you. But theres a strange confidence and joy in life when you remember you always have a home to return to, no matter where you go.And better yet,you can create one right where you are. If youre trying to find a new home,meeting Chase might be a great place to start. Email him at ninjaish@stanford.edu to find good company.

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S TUDENTS R EFLECT

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O CCUPY

Occupy the Future: Widening the gap in education quality since 1995

hula Vista, my hometown, has the largest elementary school district in California, with 46 schools that serve the citys 230,000 residents. Having such a large school district poses an interesting set of problems, primarily dealing with the quality of education that exists across the economically diverse city. The East has the newest homes, the newest schools and the wealthiest families, while the West tends to be poorer, have older facilities and generally lag behind in the Academic Performance Index (API), which the state of California uses to measure scholastic achievement from second to 11th grade. I guess it makes sense (although it may not be proper): studies have long shown a correlation between wealth and scholastic achievement. However, there is something a bit more unsettling happening in Chula Vista. EastLake, the second-largest subdivision and possibly the wealthiest and most successful, having won San Diegos Best Community award 11 years straight on the East side of Chula Vista has its own educational foundation. The EastLake Educational Foundation was established in 1995 and serves the subdivisions four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. Geared toward grants for technology, the founda-

The system is broken:privilege builds upon and serves itself.

tion states that it funds programs that are either poorly funded through traditional means or have no existing funding base through the public school districts. Which is to say that it has provided over 1 million dollars in supplemental aid to precisely the same programs that no other students at the 42 other elementary schools, nine other middle schools and nine other high schools have access to. Thats not all though: the initial endowment for the foundation was created by the EastLake Corporation, the entity that developed the community. Maybe it shouldnt be surprising that the development that set up private governments for its own residents to administer its pools and parks (as city parks and pools saw severe budget cuts or were closed) also created a privatized school fund to supplement the dwindling state budget for education. Marketing ploy or not, the EastLake

Corporation greatly reinforced the economic inequality that geographically maps the city and exacerbated it by impacting the youth that will make up our future generations. I have been asked if there would be a way to make the EEF contribute to the other schools in the district. Perhaps they should, but coming to a philosophical decision on whether the EastLake Educational Foundation (and other organizations like it) should be mandated to spread the wealth steps beyond the heart of the issue. The system is broken: privilege builds upon and serves itself, congratulating itself and basking in its wealth as the disenfranchised continue to go without, falling further and further behind. Thus I cannot accept the existence of this foundation and others like it. From the realization that a childs education needs supplemental funding, understanding that other children at other schools in the same district are also lacking should follow. Rather than retreating from the public sphere or using their wealth for subsidy, the privileged few should exercise their agency and work to create an education system that brings an appropriate level of public funding to students of all socioeconomic backgrounds.
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Leslie Brian

Stuck in a rut
eat, etc. The Stanford student in me cringes at the inefficiency. And for that matter, its frustrating to wait on people to make up their minds only to cancel last minute. In my mind, its much better to avoid that whole rigmarole by doing things alone. But even though I enjoy my alone time, its also my emotional crutch. As I learned from living alone in Paris over the summer, too much solitude is never good for anyone. Yet even though I know I need people, I still struggle to reach out. Thats not everyones rut. One persons rut can be another persons adventure. But we all have our variations on the general theme, and only we know exactly what it takes to break out of our comfort zones. Regardless of what your routine is, deviating from the norm will always require taking a risk. And, unfortunately,that lands you smack dab in the middle of uncertainty,a no-mans land where no one feels particularly comfortable. Taking a risk could generate a potential failure, and, after all, dont we like what were good at? So, we revert to the comfort of sitting on the couch, watching a movie instead of getting out and about, exploring all that life has to offer. Every day can be an adventure. Thats one thing travel has taught me. Being in a new city for a limited amount of time makes you start to milk every second of every day for what its worth. Youll run yourself ragged going from museum to museum, or from landmark to landmark. But how many of us have taken the time to explore what our own hometown or campus has to offer? Its not that theres nothing to do. By virtue of going to Stanford, we all get 10,000 different emails from 10,000 different groups every day advertising all sorts of cool and exciting events on campus! And if that wasnt enough, San Franciscos golden aura beckons us from the horizon. But

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the Office for Religious Life. Dr. King warned us a long time ago about excessive materialism and militarism . . . and worried that we were integrating into a burning house,Edelman said in an interview with The Daily.He warned us about the failure to use our great wealth as a nation to make sure that everybody had the basic necessities of life. With these ideals at heart, Edelman focused her speech on the need to redefine the meaning of success in America, claiming that the United States is off track. She spoke about education, incarceration, nuclear disarmament, poverty, excessive materialism and family values. Edelman presented each of her concerns to students as lessons of life she had given to her own children. As a young woman growing up in the south,Edelman learned core values of social responsibility. She became the first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar and led the Poor Peoples Campaign with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.These experiences influenced her decision to create the CDF in 1973. Prevention and early intervention became the theme [for CDF], Edelman said. And hopefully, I thought that people wouldnt blame five-month-old babies for parents they didnt choose. Since then, Edelman has written eight books and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom the nations highest civilian honor among other accomplishments. She spoke of her struggle to found the first Head Start program for children in her community, one of her many efforts to improve the lives of those surrounding her. Edelman discussed the tendency of impoverished children to end up in prison, a process that she refers to as the Cradle to Prison Pipeline. [The United States spends]

ets be honest: theres a 60year-old trapped inside my 21year-old body. In my perfect world, Id be in bed by 11 p.m. every night, nursing a cup of Yogi tea while penning in the answers to the daily crossword.People now respond with typical when I just laugh at the suggestion of throwing back a few shots and raging at a frat party. My procrastination websites of choice are not Reddit or Perez Hilton, but rather lumosity.com brain training (I swear by it!) or Heidi Swansons vegetarian food blog, 101cookbooks. I still dont understand YouTube. I can (and do) spend hours on end playing board games. Im the kind of person who looks at a menu for 15 minutes, asks the waiter an average of three questions and then settles on the same thing I always order. In short, I am a creature of habit. But arent we all? Routine, tradition, schedule:its so much easier to choose the comfortable inertia of whats familiar over the uncertainty that comes from a gamble.When I know I can enjoy a lovely evening by myself watching the latest episode of Top Chef,why would I go through the hassle of picking up the phone,calling my friends and trying to figure out their plans for the night when those plans may very well fall through and leave me in the lurch? In short, its a much safer, easier option to accept the guaranteed payoff of Top Chef,rather than venture into the territory of an uncertain outcome. Heres the irony, though (if Im using that word correctly). I know Im my happiest, best self when I deviate from what is routine. My comfortable status quo tends to be solitude. Frankly, though, people annoy me sometimes. Put me in a big group of people trying to decide what to do and I literally go crazy. Well spend hours spinning our wheels, talking in circles, stewing over where to go, what to do, what to

Dont think you have to win to make a difference.

MARIAN WRIGHT,
CDF FOUNDER
three times more per prisoner than per pupil, Edelman said in her lecture. She urged for America to replace that pipeline to prison with a pipeline to college. When asked to compare the Occupy movement to the Civil Rights Movement, Edelman praised the publicity the movement has given to economic gaps in American society. She said that major transformation is possible if enough people are willing to get out of their comfort zones [and demand change]. In addition to her lecture in Memorial Auditorium, Edelman spent time during her visit speaking with students. At a discussion with students who were planning to go abroad or who had already traveled, she spoke of the need for young adults to understand their endeavors in a global context.She indicated this perspective could only be obtained by visiting other countries. Dont think you have to win immediately or even at all to make a difference, Edelman warned. If you see a need,dont ask,Why doesnt somebody do something? ask, Why dont I do something?. Edelman emphasized the role of young people in advocating for change. I think that young people need to find their voice in all of this because so much is at stake for them as well as for the country, and Im hoping that there will be more campusbased activism, Edelman said. Democracy is not a spectator sport. Contact Jordan Shapiro at jordansh @stanford.edu.

Its so much easier to choose the comfortable inertia of whats familiar over the uncertainty that comes from a gamble.
even though Im well apprised of all the current goings on in the city,lifes daily grind will most likely always trump my grand aspirations of adventure. But life doesnt have to be boring if you choose for it to not be.There are so many opportunities to do something different or fun in every moment. From exhibits to see, mountain paths to travel, sports to try, hobbies to rekindle, new people to meet, old friends to have coffee with, different food to try adventure is yours to create. It doesnt have to be a big todo if you dont want it to be. Sometimes, its enough to strike up a conversation with the grocery store cashier or run a different route around campus. But it does require that you put forth the effort and take a risk, allowing yourself the freedom to try . . . and sometimes fail! Want to place a bet on whether Leslie will actually end up going to Thursdays senior night? Email labrian@stanford.edu to find out!

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SPORTS
Pac-12 just got a lot more fun

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Jack Blanchat

TRAGEDY STRIKES CARD

Defensive assistant McGlockton dead
By JACK BLANCHAT
DESK EDITOR

hich do you like better, Christmas or Coaching Carousel Season? Luckily, one is already in full swing and the other is right around the corner, but I love me some hirings and firings more than just about anything in the world. College football fans are so dedicated and ravenous that there is no greater joy in their lives than having a bad coach fired and getting a brand new addition to their family thanks to several million dollars and three courtesy cars. But the best news about new coaches in new places is that they can totally change the framework of how an entire conference works.That kind of wackiness is exactly what I love so much about the Pac-12s two newest family members Washington State hiring Mike Leach and Arizona hiring Rich Rodriguez is about to make the Pac-12 a whole lot more fun. First of all, Leach and Rodriguez will bring two explosive offensive minds into the conference, and thats an exciting prospect. The Pac-12 already has five of the nations top 25 offenses and two of the top 10 (Oregon and Stanford) so just imagine what it will be like to have Leach and Rodriguez added to that mix. Rodriguez was the guy who turned West Virginia into a two-time BCS bowl winner by finding guys like Steve Slaton, Pat White and Noel Devine, and Leachs Texas Tech quarterbacks routinely threw for more than 5,000 yards a year. When you add them to the conferences already potent offensive minds, I get excited just thinking about it. Can you imagine the box scores that look like something out of NCAA 12? Can you see the scores that look like they came from a basketball game instead? The Pac-12 will be like the Anti-SEC! But secondly,and more importantly, Rodriguez and Leach will bring their two unique (and somewhat bizarre) personalities to the conference something that should be significantly more exciting for the fans than the imminent offensive explosion. Simply put, there is no better thing for any football team than a coach who loves to stir the pot and talk trash. For example,a Stanford fans mind should turn directly to former head coach Jim Harbaugh, who not only took the Cardinal from an also-ran to one of the baddest teams in the country, but shook up conference supremacy by bad-mouthing USC and getting into a tiff with Trojan head coach Pete Carroll. How much better did that make the conference? Infinitely better. Immeasurably better. The same thing is true in the NFL

Chester McGlockton, a defensive assistant for the Stanford football team, passed away last night in his sleep due to an apparent heart attack. He was 42.

McGlockton, a four-time NFL pro bowler, was in just his second season coaching for the Cardinal, seven years after retiring from the New York Jets. Everyone in the Stanford Football family is deeply saddened by the passing of Chester McGlockton, head coach David Shaw said in a statement on Wednesday. For the past two seasons, Chester has been a valuable member of our football staff and a wonderful friend to us all. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Chesters wife Zina and their two children.

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Defensive assistant Chester McGlockton (left) gives pointers to defensive end Ben Gardner during spring practice. McGlockton, who died yesterday at age 42, was a four-time NFL Pro Bowler.

McGlockton was a former all-ACC defensive tackle at Clemson and was a first round pick of the Los Angeles Raiders in 1992. He played in the NFL for 12 seasons with the Raiders, Chiefs, Broncos and Jets. San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh, who brought McGlockton on to his coaching staff last season, weighed in on his former assistants passing. Chester has been a very close and dear friend over the past four years, Harbaugh told the San Jose Mercury. He was part of our team here and at Stanford.Its a shock and just sad,sad with his passing. I want people to know Chester was a good guy doing the right thing and helping a lot of people. To say he was coming into his own as a coach would be understating it, Harbaugh continued.Hed already blossomed. He was so positive with other coaches and players. The untimely passing of McGlockton brought an outpouring of support from current Cardinal players as well, who took to Twitter to remember the assistant coach. Prayers go out to the family of Coach Chester. He taught me so much, wrote freshman linebacker James Vaughters. Speechless . . . lost much more than a coach today. Please pray for Chester and the McGlockton family, tweeted redshirt freshman linebacker AJ Tarpley. We lost a brother today who made us all better. He challenged me personally to be a better man, wrote offensive assistant coach Mike Sanford, who joined McGlockton as a member of the Cardinal coaching staff two seasons ago. McGlockton is survived by his wife, Zina, and his two daughters. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@stanford.edu.

SPORTS BRIEFS
Noyola, Derrick named Pac-12 Scholar-Athletes of Year
Mens cross country star Chris Derrick and womens soccer standout Teresa Noyola got some good news Wednesday when they were both named Pac-12 ScholarAthletes of the Year in their respective sports. Fresh off his runner-up finish at last weeks NCAA Championships, Derrick will end his collegiate career as just the sixth athlete in history to finish in the top10 at the championship meet all four years, as well as being an 11time All-American in cross country and track and field. A native of Naperville, Ill., Derrick is an economics major and carries a 3.86 grade-point average. Noyola is on track to graduate in the spring with a degree in math and computational science, and the Palo Alto native sports a 3.52 GPA. With eight goals and 14 assists this season, she has again helped lead the No. 1 Cardinal to its fourth-straight College Cup this weekend. Along with being undefeated in her career at home, Noyola is a three-time First Team All-Pac-12 selection both Derrick and Noyola are previous Pac-10 AllAcademic team honorees.

Andrew Luck a finalist for Walter Camp and Manning Awards

Redshirt junior quarterback Andrew Luck was named one of five finalists for the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award and one of 10 finalists for the Manning Award on Wednesday. Luck was also one of the finalists last year for the award named after legendary Yale football coach Walter Camp,which is voted on by the Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors the winner will be announced next Thursday at 8 p.m. on ESPNs SportsCenter. With 3,170 passing yards and 35 touchdowns, the Houston native and son of former NFL quarterback Oliver Luck has played his way into the conversation for many of the nations top awards, leading Stanford to the No. 4 ranking and an 11-win season. That includes Lucks first nomination for the Manning Award, created in 2004 to honor the accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning. Open only to quarterbacks, previous winners include Cam Newton, Colt McCoy, Tim Tebow and Matt Leinart. It is the only award that takes into consideration bowl performance, with the winner being announced on Jan.18.
Miles Bennett-Smith

Ogwumikes crush UC-Davis

By TOM TAYLOR
SENIOR STAFF WRITER

AGGIES EASILY AXED

were playing our defense really well,and we had really good action on our offensive side of the ball.

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MENS WATER POLO

DAVID PEREZ
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Title hopes washed again

The 2011 season ended on a bitter note for the No. 4 mens water polo team this past weekend in Los Angeles, marked by another top squads unsuccessful campaign to bring a national championship home to the Farm. Stanford ended the season at 19-7 overall and 5-3 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF). The team finished fourth in the MPSF regular season standings and also took fourth in the MPSF Tournament, behind No. 2 UCLA (23-4, 6-2 MPSF), No. 1 USC (22-3, 8-0) and No. 3 California (20-3, 7-1). (At the time of production, the most recent NCAA rankings, released on Nov. 23, reflected USC as the No. 1 team. It is likely that No. 1 USC and No. 2 UCLA will switch positions to reflect UCLAs victory in the MPSF Tournament.) The Cardinal ended its season with three losses in the span of a week, two of them at the hands of rival California and the other to USC in a game that ended Stanfords hopes for the conference tournament and national title. The rough ending, however, should not take away from an otherwise solid season. It was a good season, said junior driver Paul Rudolph, even though we ended with three bad losses. The biggest highlight of the season was winning the SoCal Tournament in early October, something Stanford had not done since 2002. In the course of that tournament, the Cardinal defeated both USC and California. That weekend we proved that we could play with anyone, Rudolph said. Looking back, redshirt sophomore goalie Hunter Ploch noted, The second day of SoCals was definitely the biggest day of the season. Ploch will be taking center stage this offseason alongside fellow redshirt sophomore goalie Scott Platshon. One of those two will have to step up next year to replace redshirt senior goalie Brian Pingree, who has been the starter for the past two seasons and was named honorable mention All-MPSF this year. Its always hard losing a senior goalie, Rudolph said when talking about next season. Two players the Cardinal will not have to worry about replacing are freshman utility Alex Bowen and redshirt sophomore 2-meter Forrest Watkins. I am really exited about next year, said Platshon with regards to the teams outlook. Both our top offensive and top defensive players in Alex and Forrest are returning. Bowen and Watkins were the stars of the 2011 team. Bowen, a true freshman, led the team with 2.41 goals per game, which was good enough for third in the MPSF. He finished the year with 52 goals. Bowen has surprised everyone, said coach John Vargas earlier in the season. Rudolph added that it is almost unheard of for a freshman to have that type of goal-scoring season. His statistics this season were so special that he was named MPSF Newcomer of the Year in addition to being named to the All-MPSF First Team. There is still a great upside for Bowen, though, as he will be looked at to improve on his defense in the offseason. Watkins, on the other hand, has as complete a game as anyone could ask for. Not only is he the teams best 2-meter defender, he was also tied for second on the team in scoring this season. Watkins has also been honored with an All-MPSF First Team selection for his outstanding season. He is our backbone, Vargas said. We go as he goes. Within the first weeks of the season, Watkins had already eclipsed his season total of seven goals from last year. He finished

The Stanford womens basketball team announced its return to campus after the Thanksgiving road trip last night with a 93-44 rout of UC-Davis. The Cardinal only held a lead of three points halfway through the first period, but it turned up the heat to put this game all but out of reach at the break. Stanford (5-1) began this game with just one upperclassman in the starting lineup, senior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike, in comparison with the three seniors and two juniors of Davis (6-2), and the lack of experience seemed to hamper the Cardinal in the early going. The Aggies were more effective at pressing Stanford on offense and stole the ball several times early on to help it drag the game back to level with 12:31 remaining in the half. But from 13-13 onwards, the Card turned its early problems around and began to inch back into the lead and then race ahead to double UC-Davis score with 1:23 left and lead 51-23 at the half. We came out with tremendous energy and a lot of confidence,explained Davis head coach Jennifer Gross of the good first few minutes by her team. To start with, we

WOMENS BASKETBALL UC-DAVIS 44 STANFORD 93 11/30, Maples Pavilion

The last couple of times weve played at Stanford, weve been in a very similar position where it can go one way or the other, Gross continued. We really tried to buckle down, and we tried to get some stops and some scores, but unfortunately it went the other way, and it turned into a 20-point game. Nnemkadi Ogwumike looked impressive the first half, when she netted 18 points and grabbed nine rebounds, followed closely by her sister, sophomore forward Chiney, who had 20 points and nine rebounds. But with the game looking all but won early on,Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer could rest both the players recently named to the Naismith Trophy watch list and give others who dont regularly start significant playing time. While some teams might slow down when their best players leave the floor, Stanford refused to do so.Ten of the 11 players who took to the floor scored points, and junior forward Joslyn Tinkle and freshman forward Bonnie Samuelson both notched career highs in points. Tinkle played the

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Senior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike (above) and her younger sister, sophomore forward Chiney, combined for 38 points and 18 rebounds on Wednesday night. After a road matchup against Fresno State on Sunday, the Cardinal will take a two-week break for finals.

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WRANGLING IN VEGAS
Wrestlers head to Cliff Keen Invitational
By PALANI ESWARAN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

MWPOLO
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the 2011 campaign with 42. With that level of offseason improvement, only time will tell how high his ceiling can be for next season. Two players to look out for next season will be Rudolph and redshirt sophomore driver Ian Gamble. Rudolph started off this season slowly on the offensive end, but picked up his scoring pace significantly at the tail end of the season. He finished the year by netting a hat trick against California in the MPSF third-place game. Rudolph spoke highly of his fellow classmate Gamble, saying, He is a good player, and it is starting to show. Gamble cracked the regular playing rotation this season and earned more and more playing time as the season progressed. Amid all of this optimism there were still some definite low points

This weekend the Stanford wrestling team travels to Las Vegas for the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Collegiate Wrestling Invitational. The tournament starts on Friday, Dec. 2 and finishes on Saturday, Dec. 3. Stanford has never competed in the Vegas Invitational, one of the premier collegiate competitions in the country, and looks to bring for-

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Senior Dylan Rush (above) and the Cardinal wrestlers are looking for a strong showing in Las Vegas this weekend against some of the nations strongest squads.

ward a strong showing against the nations top competition. Numerous top-25 teams will be competing, including Northwestern and Missouri, two of the countrys best teams that have already beaten Stanford. Other teams to watch this weekend are Stanfords fellow Pac-12 members: Arizona State, Boise State, Cal State Bakersfield and Oregon State. Although it is early in the season, matches against Pac12 opponents have special importance because they will determine seeding in the Pac-12 Tournament and possibly the NCAA Tournament. There is no doubt that all eyes will be on redshirt senior No. 1 Nick Amuchastegui (174 pounds) and junior No. 5 Ryan Mango (133 pounds). Both wrestlers are undefeated this season, and Amuchastegui and Mango will both be contenders for not only All-American honors this season, but also national championships. But its not just Amuchastegui and Mango who need to send a message this weekend the entire team will be looking to show that they can compete with the best in the country.The Card has lost three matches in a row all to ranked opponents and a successful weekend in Las Vegas would help the Cardinal garner national respect. This weekends measure of success for Stanford will be how many wrestlers advance to Saturday. Friday will consist first of play-in matches to place the lower-seeded competitors into the 32-man bracket. Following those initial rounds, the tournament will proceed through the quarterfinal matches and two consolation rounds. If a wrestler makes it to Saturday, there is a good chance he can place and earn points for his team. The Cardinal takes to the mat in Las Vegas this Friday and Saturday. Contact Palani Eswaran at palani14 @stanford.edu.

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Freshman Alex Bowen (above, left) was one of the bright spots on a talented Cardinal squad this season, but three losses in one week derailed the Card as it came up short of a national championship.
for the Cardinal. Stanford did not lose to any opponent ranked outside of the top four nationally, but they were unsuccessful against the elite teams. Outside of the SoCal Tournament, Stanford was

0-7 against the top three teams, losing three times to both USC and California and once in its only contest against UCLA. The Cardinal will also lose two of its top four scorers to graduation: senior driver Jacob Smith and senior utility Peter Sefton, who received honorable mention honors to the All-MPSF team this year. Smith has accounted for 156 goals in his Stanford career and was named to the All-MPSF Second Team. Replacing Jacob will be a huge challenge for next year, Platshon said. He was one of the prolific scorers in Stanford polo history and was constantly a target of other top schools defenses. Stanford has not won a national championship since 2002, but a strong core of returning players and the possibility of a strong recruiting class that includes the top recruit in the nation should put them right back in the running come next season. Contact David Perez at davidp3 @stanford.edu.

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lost to Texas A&M because, As coaches,we failed to make our coaching points more compelling to the players than their fat little girlfriends. He once dispensed dating advice to a Texas Tech freshman by telling the starry-eyed youngster to take a girl on a date to a steakhouse because the girl will be forced to eat in front of you, which girls hate to do, so they will have to conversate and show their true self. Sometimes you cant make this stuff up but isnt that much better than a coach who does nothing but dispense cliches? So get excited,Pac-12 football fans I know I am for a new era of quirky quotes and nonstop offense, because its about to take the West Coast by storm. As long as someone doesnt get locked inside a storage shed again, that is. Jack Blanchat aspires to one day be both a pirate and a head football coach,and he doesnt mean working at Eastern Carolina or Tampa Bay. Send him some more practical and less dangerous job options at blanchat@stanford.edu or follow him on Twitter @jmblanchat. Asked how she kept making those shots, Samuelson gave a simple explanation. Probably my dad, she said. Ive shot with him since I was little, a lot of hours in the gym. The Cardinals next test will be against Fresno State on the road this Sunday, followed by a two-week break for finals. Contact Tom Taylor at tom.taylor@ stanford.edu.

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Jets head coach Rex Ryan has made the entire league more fun to watch by always running his mouth about anybody and everybody. So getting Rodriguez and Leach into the Pac-12 in one hiring season is like hitting the jackpot. For example, Rodriguez LOVES to cry during press conferences, and that could make for some entertaining and awkward moments during Pac-12 media days. But Leach will bring a new level of weirdness to the conference that has never been seen before. Hes obsessed with the history of pirates because he thinks pirates would make great football players. Pirates function as a team, Leach once said.There were a lot of castes and classes in England at the time. But with pirates, it didnt matter if you were black, white, rich or poor. The object was to get a treasure.If the captain did a bad job, you could just overthrow him. He once said his Texas Tech team

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most time of any Cardinal player and made personal records with her 19 points and nine rebounds, while Samuelson easily surpassed her previous career highs after hitting five three-pointers to finish with 15 points.

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