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Student veteran policy OK

Exec order targets recruiting efforts at for-profit universities
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The Taste of Palo Alto, held Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. in White Plaza, hosted local eateries such as Buca di Beppo, Coconuts, Siam Orchid, The Counter and The Prolific Oven. The event also featured performances.

A recent executive order aimed at preventing institutions of higher learning from aggressively recruiting veterans will have minimal effect at Stanford because the University does not profit from veterans benefits, according to campus administrators. President Barack Obama signed the executive order last week, which primarily targets for-profit institutions. Veterans may receive financial benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) through programs such as the Post-9/11 GI Bill or Yellow Ribbon Program. Stanford strives for a transparent process regarding veterans financial aid, according to Ron Diaz, a student services manager in the Financial Aid Office. At Stanford, financial aid for veterans follows the same process as the general population of students. The Financial Aid Office reviews all the financial resources of a student to calculate their need. After this review, Stanford sends the student an award letter, which details the cost of their education, the resources they think the student has and the amount of aid Stanford is able to offer.

What differs is that veterans who will bring VA money in will just have that resource, Diaz said. Because receiving aid from the VA can be a complex process of paperwork, Stanford is very sensitive to the vets, Diaz said. He added that the University tries to demystify the process of receiving veteran aid as much as possible. Stanford makes the greatest attempts to be as transparent as possible, he said. The University, however, has no formal recruiting process for veterans, a departure from other institutions that actively recruit students at military installations, according to The New York Times. Instead, Stanford has only a separate website for veteran applicants. According to Joseph Kralick, the veterans liaison in the admissions office, the purpose of this website is to recognize the unique questions and concerns of our veteran applicants. Because many veteran students have taken nontraditional educational routes, most apply as transfer students, according to Kralick. In fall 2011, nine veterans were admitted as part of Stanfords transfer class. The non-traditional route of veterans contributes

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French vote a rejection of Sarkozy, panelists say

By FELIX BOYEAUX Franois Hollande defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy to be elected as president of France on Sunday, an outcome predicted by panelists at a round table discussion about the French presidential election Friday in Encina Hall. No matter who wins the election, were heading towards very difficult times in France, said Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, a visiting lecturer at Stanford Law School and an international lawyer. The panels speakers pointed out a trend of French voters rallying behind extreme left- or right-wing parties, who represent anti-establishment, anti-globalization and a general distrust in the European Union (EU). They agreed that this trend was true for the election in general. This is clearly an election against Sarkozy rather than a vote for Hollande, Cohen-Tanugi said. He added that Hollande, who will be the first member of Frances Socialist Party to become president since Franois Mitterrand left office in 1995, has been very successful at playing this game, positioning himself as pro-growth and pro-spending while making Sarkozy appear as an advocate of austerity and welfare cuts. Jimia Boutouba, assistant professor in modern languages and literatures at Santa Clara University, agreed that the French almost seem unworried about the future, but focused instead on getting Sarkozy out of office. The nation is more and more defined by what it opposes, she said. The panelists discussed what Hollandes election would mean for the future of France. If Hollande is elected, he will have to face the test of the financial markets, in view of his electoral promises and his position on the European fiscal compact, CohenTanugi said. Arthur Goldhammer, senior affiliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard and renowned blogger about French political culture, said it would be difficult to act on the current opposition to transnational unions such as the EU in France. It is unrealistic and misleading to believe that France could leave the Union, Goldhammer said. When asked about the how Franco-Germanic relations would survive the break-up of the Merkozy couple referring to the close relationship between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Sarkozy Cohen-Tanugi said he is optimistic. The Merkel-Hollande couple would probably fall into place, he said. It will work out like these things always do. Goldhammers view of the future, however, was less bright. Hollande is looking for no more than symbolic concessions from Merkel, Goldhammer said. But Europe needs more than that to fight the Euro-crisis. Goldhammer said another problem that France is currently facing is the integration of its immigrant population. The presidential debate has all been about immigration figures and not enough about the integration of these very immigrants, he said. Second and third generation immigrants usually abstain [from elections] since they are alienated by the political discussion, Boutouba

Admins, students talk mental health stigma

By KRISTIAN DAVIS BAILEY
DESK EDITOR

This is the last in a four-part series on crisis response and mental health resources on campus. Over the past week, The Daily has examined how the University responds to and works to prevent mental health crises, the campus resources that exist to help students who are struggling and how students themselves experience those services. Todays piece examines how students and administrators think the University and student body can work together in the wake of tragedy to destigmatize the discussion of mental health and illness. Many administrators said they believe more focus must be put on giving students the tools to deal with everyday stress. The Office of Student Affairs, Residential Educational and Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) are all either finishing reports and initiatives related to student life and mental health or about to undertake new task forces on the topic. Wellness and education According to Carole Pertofsky, director of Wellness and Health Promotion Services (HPS) at Vaden Health Center, the University needs to devote more resources to the mental health and well-being needs of students who are not clinically diagnosed with a disorder. I think we are so amiss in focusing all of our attention on students when they are already downstream and not looking at what we can be doing upstream, Pertofsky said. Im about the 80 percent of students who struggle and find themselves sometimes thriving and some-

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Jimia Boutouba, an assistant professor in modern languages and literatures at Santa Clara University, weighed in on the French presidential election at a Sunday round table hosted by the Freeman Spogli Institutes Europe Center in Encina Hall.
added to Goldhammers comment. This silence is one of the main reasons [behind] Marine Le Pens 18 percent of votes, almost 6.4 million people. Le Pen, a far-right leader of Frances National Front party, placed third in the first round of the French presidential election. Cohen-Tanugi, however, said that if the polls turn out to be true, Hollandes victory may well lead to the implosion of the right. FSI Europe Center Associate Director Roland Hsu said he was pleased with the turnout to the round table discussion. At the Europe Center, we always try to make as comprehensive an event as possible, interesting both for faculty and staff, but also mainly for undergraduates, Hsu said. We are really happy that so many students actually showed up. Contact Felix Boyeaux at fboyeaux @stanford.edu.

times barely coping, sometimes thriving and flourishing, sometimes hanging on, sometimes falling off, resilient enough to brush yourself off and get back on eventually. Pertofsky said HPS reaches thousands of students a year through classes, programming and the Happiness Conference with a staff of only five people, but the department needs more resources. The Happiness Conference has sold out its 400person capacity within 24 hours in recent years, and Pertofsky said that feedback after the event always encourages HPS to host the event more frequently during the year. The allocation of University resources changed following a 2008 report on Mental Health and Well Being, but Pertofsky said the changes did not aid the prevention of students becoming depressed or suicidal. I was very disappointed because although there was a lot of lip service given to quote prevention, in actuality, every penny went to hire more mental health clinicians, Pertofsky said. That is not prevention. Greg Boardman, Vice Provost of Student Affairs, and Dean of Student Life Chris Griffith said they have not seen any formal HPS requests for additional resources. Resilience from Grief The recent student deaths [have] a large impact on students, even those who may not have directly known the students who have died, said CAPS director Ron Albucher. It gives people pause, it makes people reflect not only on their own mortality, but maybe thoughts that theyve had on their own about suicide or about family or

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Former Cisco CEO to speak at GSB graduation

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) announced Thursday that former CEO and chairman of Cisco Systems John P. Morgridge MBA 57 will serve as this years graduation speaker. Morgridge will be the third alumnus to speak at the annual GSB graduation ceremony, which will be held Saturday, June 16. Morgridge, who is on the schools Advisory Council, teaches management at the GSB and earned the Arbuckle Award for management leadership excel-

lence in 1996. He joined Cisco Systems as its CEO in 1988. During his time with the company, Cisco Systems grew from $5 million in sales with 34 employees to more than $1 billion in sales with 2,250 employees. He took the company public in 1990, became its chairman in 1995 and chairman emeritus in 2006. Morgridge was the president and COO of GRiD Systems before joining Cisco Systems and previously worked for Stratus Computer and Honeywell Information Systems. He is on the boards of Business Executives for National Security, CARE, the Cisco Foundation, Digital Promise, the Morgridge Institute for Research, Stanford Hospitals and Clinics, TOSA Foundation, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the Fund for Wisconsin

Scholars. He is also the co-chair of the Asia-Pacific Council of The Nature Conservancy and codirector of the Stanford Leadership Academy. He is the third consecutive alumni speaker at GSB graduation ceremonies following the 2010 inception of the alumni commencement speaker program.
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Engagement Summit promotes public service

By AARON SEKHRI
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Matt Flannery 00, M.A. 01, founder of Kiva, a non-profit organization that allows individuals to make microfinance loans to people in developing countries, admitted to an audience of students Sunday that his last year at Stanford was discombobulating and fragmenting. There was so much at stake, graduating felt like walking off a plank, Flannery said. After graduation, Flannery worked at TiVo, but said he found

himself questioning how to integrate service into his life. According to Flannery, service helped him overcome his fears. Fear comes from threats against yourself, or your person, or your livelihood, Flannery said. But really, when you serve others or some cause, there is no reason to fear anymore, because its not about you anymore, but its about the issue or some person. Flannery was one of four panelists who spoke at The Engagement Summit, an event held in

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will allow us to not feel the shame of our struggles and, rather, the commonality of them. Lythcott-Haims said she wants conversations sparked by FACES, a panel for freshmen during New Student Orientation (NSO) that seeks to expose the diversity of backgrounds and experiences represented at Stanford, and The Resilience Project, which shares faculty and administrator stories of distress, failure and resilience, to continue past freshman year. Moving foward Across the University, departments are working on a number of initiatives related to mental health and well-being. Students expressed commitment to fostering dialogue and remained optimistic about what change the collective campus can achieve. CAPS is making an effort to be more present in the community, both directly through office hours in community centers like the LGBT-CRC, among others and indirectly, through attending student events, according to Albucher. Students still suggest that CAPS might be even more present through sitting in dining halls, visiting dorms once a month or offering residential programming about depression and mental illness on campus and resources for addressing them. UAR is revisiting the structure of freshman year through a program called Stanford 101, according to Associate Dean Koren Bakkegard. Stanford 101 seeks to improve how freshmen navigate resources and how they reflect on their personal growth. The University has completed nearly all of the 18 recommendations made by the 2008 Mental Health and Well Being Task Force, Boardman said, and is now creating an advisory board, chaired by Albucher and Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs Sally Dickson, to monitor what the University is and could be doing with mental health services and resources. Students themselves are organizing. One pilot program called Share Your Secrets exposes students in Arrillaga Dining Commons to concerns faced by anonymous peers. Nicoletta von Heidegger 13, who works at The Bridge Peer Counseling Center and the Stanford Sexual Health Peer Resource Center, sent an email to students and administrators involved with mental health on campus last week, seeking to create a campus where mental health is something that is worked into everyday at Stanford. My dream would be to have a required series either during NSO or a required class/workshop that students take their freshman year, a Stanford emotional health class, if you will, Heidegger wrote students. Or, better yet a help your friend workshop where people learn the skills they need to help themselves or a friend who is struggling emotionally. Heiddeger is organizing a meeting of students, faculty and administrators including Human Biology Professor Lisa Medoff, who offers a course on adolescent mental health, and HPS student affairs officer Donnovan Yisrael 88, M.A. 89 to discuss these goals. The group will meet this Tuesday at 9 p.m. in Old Union. Many resident assistants (RAs) are promoting open conversation within dorms. Daniel Scott Smith 13, RA of EAST, sent an email to his residence last week charging students to speak with one another. As those affected by suicide, let us not be passive bystanders, Smith wrote. Let us talk openly and deliberately about suicide, specifically, but also about mental illness and health more generally. Moreover, we should all know that we have a right to talk about our feelings, and that, at Stanford, there is always someone to listen and to help. Contact Kristian Davis Bailey at kbailey@stanford.edu.

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friends who have dealt with it. Im hoping that a sense of compassion for the whole student body is kept in mind, Albucher added. Julie Lythcott-Haims 89, dean of freshmen and undergraduate advising and associate vice provost for undergraduate education, shared some lessons she learned from her own grieving 20 years ago, after the loss of her brother and father in her late 20s. I didnt grieve the death of my brother in a healthy way I put blinders on, so I could finish law school, Lythcott-Haims said. It was three months after my father died that I realized I couldnt think very clearly couldnt organize my thoughts, couldnt organize my day, Lythcott-Haims said. A friend pulled me aside and said, I think youre grieving. I didnt know what that meant. Helena Bonde 12, a friend of Cady Hine, the junior who died at her home in Palo Alto on April 1, said that she feels there is no proper way to grieve. I was angry at myself for not getting over [Hines death] faster, for not productively grieving all of the time, Bonde said. For not somehow getting through it right, doing everything right. Being able to compartmentalize it enough to do work, and then go back and do it properly, like I was some kind of perfect grief-handling product that could just do it all. Lythcott-Haims suggested that the Student Grief and Loss Workshop, sponsored by CAPS, ResEd and the Office for Religious Life, be held more frequently than twice a quarter. Making this resource more permanent, she said, would increase visibility to students and reduce stigma around looking for support while grieving. Decreasing stigma, deflating the Duck In addition to citing stigma surrounding student grief, every student and administrator interviewed for this series identified a stigma around discussing mental health and seeking treatment. While this stigma exists elsewhere, many agreed that there are challenges unique to Stanford most notably, the Stanford Duck Syndrome. Students and administrators

both commented on the pressures and conditions of Stanford to find a group of friends, to do well in classes, to be successful and to change the world. This pressure, they said, creates an environment where struggling or even showing signs of struggle is futile against the backdrop of blue, sunny skies, palm-lined roads and smiling students. I think the greatest threat to Stanford students is recovering from failure, said Juan-Carlos Foust 13. I think that mental health and struggling with feelings of unworthiness are a lot more common than we might think, said another student, who is currently on a leave of absence due to anxiety and depression issues. Once we scratch a little bit below the surface, I feel like everyone Ive talked to at that level has told me I feel like Im not doing enough. I feel like Im inferior. Albucher commented that, with all of Stanfords resources, one-fifth of the campus is still likely to experience some form of depression or mental illness. If you look at typical ages of presentation, most mental health problems show up in the late teens and early 20s, Albucher said. And so, while well continue to make efforts at prevention, some people will still nonetheless have depression, anxiety and other problems. Deborah Golder, dean of ResEd, said that one step toward solving this problem is to recognize that Stanford is not immune from issues present in the real world. Stanford is not free of society. We are a microcosm, Golder said. Students said the most important step is creating a safe space for conversations about these topics in residences, student organizations and especially within groups of friends. Bonde described feeling like she came to Stanford unable to express her emotions without raining on the parade of freshman year, but said her experience was different when she actually spoke out. I found people one by one, Bonde said.I found individual people who somehow, I or they let slip that actually they were from a really poor family, or their parents were alcoholics, or they just felt so alienated by the culture here. And Id be like, me too. The greatest force of healing is community based, said Sam Pressman 12.We need to have a real understanding of the way community works and what makes community be trusting and loving of what

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ment (PAFD) will no longer serve the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory as the Menlo Park Fire Protection District (MPFPD) took over the responsibilities for providing fire and emergency assistance to SLAC last Tuesday. MPFPD located under two miles from the lab has a threeyear contract to provide fire services to the lab. PAFD previously operated Station 7 on site at SLAC near Building 44. The new agreement also involves the Woodside Fire Protection District, which will provide supplemental emergency services

to the lab when necessary. Medical-aid response time from MPFPD is four minutes, which SLAC estimates to be two minutes longer than the current response from the on-site station. MPFPD is within the required sixminute fire call response time required by the National Fire Protection Association and the Department of Energy. The change comes following a decrease in emergency calls at SLAC and an enhancement of the labs emergency detection and response system. SLAC currently places fewer than 100 calls per year, a sharp decrease from the more than 400 per year that was normal in the 1990s, according to a SLAC press release.
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Old Union, which was organized by the ASSU and aimed at discussing issues of service and charity. Other speakers included former Senator Mike Gravel (DAlaska), Change.orgs Sam McAfee and Blissmo founder Sundeep Ahuja 00. We live in a really troublingly unequal world, Flannery said about the need for service. McAfee said it was his upbringing in an activist household coupled with his passion for computer science that led him to search for a career that would synthesize the two interests. He first founded Radical Fusion, an Internet consulting company that served non-profits, before shutting it down and moving to Change.org. The main theme of my work has been to not fear failure, to learn from it and to constantly iterate over good and bad ideas, McAfee said. Ahuja emphasized the importance of introspection and having a specific idea of the personal investment of service. Service was always about fun and just doing what I love in a way that I feel happy about what Im doing, Ahuja said. Service is most powerful when it is done in a way that aligns your interests with what is beneficial. Ahuja asked audience members to question what service means for them. While it may lead to embar-

rassing answers, at least youll know why youre doing something, which means youre being authentic with yourself, he said. Gravel discussed the merits of direct democracy as a solution to the current governance problem. Gravel said that his organization, the National Citizens Initiative for Democracy, aims to raise awareness about direct democracy and call for a shift in governance. The people will originate, set and vote on policy, Gravel said of his ideal governing system. Audience questions ranged from the issue of ASSU representation of the student body to how to effectively measure the impact of service in the social sector. I have always been interested in public service, but this event gave me many perspectives of what service means in the real world, and I think that this event actually made me value my Stanford education a bit more highly, for everything that I can go on and do with it, Yongjian Si 14 said. Contact Aaron Sekhri at asekhri@ stanford.edu.

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DIPLOMACY ANDon U.S.-Korea relations DISSIDENTS Korea expert shares experience, views
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DAVID STRAUB

or a farm boy from southeast Kentucky, the odds of dining with Bill Clinton are about as good as the chances of feasting with Kim JongIl. But in the summer of 2009, David Straub, director of the Korean Studies Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), did both as part of a small delegation sent to secure the release of two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were held in North Korea for allegedly entering the country illegally. I wish I could say that I played a major role in the incident, but the very capable people in the U.S. government worked it out in an astute way and we were on the ground for less than 24 hours, Straub said. Straub, who had previously visited North Korea four times, was chosen for the mission because of his extensive knowledge of Korean culture and politics. Basically, I was there as a resource person. I could understand the Korean that the North Koreans were speaking so I could correct the interpretations, Straub said. I was able to reassure our people that what the North Koreans were proposing was not a problem. Straub also recalled giving the two journalists some gastronomical advice following their release no doubt feeling like an expert on the subject following his fine dining with high dignitaries. On the way back to the United States . . . I advised the two women not to eat much of the greasy American food we had out on the table, he said with a laugh. They had been eating Korean food for many months, and if you suddenly change your diet like that, you can easily get sick. Straub brings both gastronomical and professional experience to his current position at Stanfords Korean studies program, where he has worked since 2008. Thirty years of experience in the U.S. Foreign Service provide him with a unique perspective on academia. One thing that is special about APARC is that you have people like David [Straub] who come not from a purely academic background, but who are comfortable in an academic setting and who can bring the knowledge that they have gained in other places in their lives to the University, said Daniel Sneider, associate director for research at APARC.

Growing up in southeastern Kentucky, Straub had few opportunities to travel but always longed to visit other countries. After graduating from the University of Louisville and attending graduate school at Harvard for a year, Straub left to join the Foreign Service and was assigned to work in Germany for two years. Building on his years of classroom German, Straub became fluent in the language by the end of his stay in the country. At that point, I was feeling pretty cocky and I thought that now that Id learned a European language, I ought to tackle a really hard language, he said. In 1979, Straub was assigned a position in South Korea. Because speaking Korean was essential for his new role in the U.S. embassy, Straub attended a language school in Washington and later a top university in Seoul to master the difficult language. Straubs work in South Korea involved maintaining lines of communication with dissidents, student movements and Christian organizations involved in human rights and democratization efforts after the 1979 military coup. He regularly met with top opposition members and leaders during this interesting and difficult time for South Korea. These everyday interactions with broad segments of Korean society would later serve Straub well in the classroom. Because of his almost perfect command of the Korean language, his extensive knowledge of Korean culture and especially his linguistic abilities, I felt a familiarity and a sense of intimacy with him, said Youna Oh, a former student of Straubs who is studying at Stanford as part of her overseas training for diplomacy in South Korea. Straub recalled that following the 1979 military takeover many Koreans blamed the United States for not doing enough to prevent the coup and supporting dictator General Chun Doo-hwan. He remembered that as a 28-year-old, it was frustrating to be one of the only people in contact with the opposition leaders. According to Straub, the U.S. ambassador rarely met with leaders of dissident groups, some of whom went on to lead the country following its return to democracy in 1987. This was in line with President Reagans policy, which emphasized communism and not totalitarianism as the real threat to peace. Traditionally, it has been a tenet of American foreign policy that people of our embassies should stay in contact with all legitimate members of society, Straub said,

expressing his disapproval of the strategy. Straub would again experience the frustration of diplomatic intransigence during the Six-Party Talks on North Koreans nuclear program from 2002 to 2004. Responsible for assembling the diplomatic briefing books for the negotiators, Straub remembered that the event was large and quasipublic, so carrying out successful negotiations was difficult. The first Bush administration was also determined not to have side negotiations with the North Koreans, which minimized the space for compromise. The world is a complex place. You cant just take these rigid positions and be black and white all of the time, Straub said, adding that the Bush administration would engage in more bilateral talks during its second term. Now, as a teacher, Straub is able to foster dialogue and understanding among his students. We have students in our classes from China, Japan and South Korea among other places, Straub said. I think its great that future leaders like these can study this early in their career with people who have worked in the U.S. government and who are speaking to them frankly. I think it will make them more capable officials and on the whole will help improve U.S. relations abroad. Gea Kang 11 said she believes many of the discussion and communication skills she gained from Straubs tutelage help with the work she does in governance through a fellowship from the Haas Center for Public Service. I think it is difficult for any instructor to strike a balance between remaining substantive and fostering discussion, but Straub did a very good job navigating that effectively and patiently, Kang said. After his time in South Korea, Straub was stationed with the Foreign Service in various locations around the world. In Washington, he spent time writing guidance packets for press officers who often faced difficult questions about the Korean dictatorships alleged atrocities and use of torture. When he assumed a position at the U.S. embassy in Japan, Straub found himself in a culturally fascinating environment, yet missed working in South Koreas less mature political scene. After several years, Straub returned to Korea, where he worked on and off, accumulating almost 12 years of experience in the nation by the end of his diplomatic career. By the time he shifted to academia in

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2006, teaching initially at Johns Hopkins University before coming to Stanford, Straub was ready for a change. When youre in government, you spend all day long going from meeting to meeting, dealing with the crisis du jour, and you spend a tremendous amount of time coordinating, Straub said. While its very interesting, its exhausting after a while and doesnt allow you to focus deeply on one thing. At Stanford, Straub has been focused on researching topics related to North Korea. In April, he moderated an event at Stanford featuring two North Korean defectors who recounted harrowing stories of hardship in their country. Straub found the event moving. In substance, I had heard similar stories, but when you hear it directly especially from two young people thats very powerful, he said. Straub sees an important message in such events. He believes that Americans do not focus enough attention on the humanitarian issues in North Korea, although he acknowledges that this is in part due to the lack of free press. However, he also believes that American society as a whole is not well versed enough in international affairs. It is unlikely that Straubs students will be caught unprepared by an international incident. In a class he co-teaches with his colleagues on U.S. policy in Northeast Asia, students are asked to produce memorandums that detail an appropriate response to a hypothetical crisis. The idea is for students to pretend they are National Security Council personnel and draft the paper accordingly. Even after working 30 years in government, thats not an easy thing to do, Straub said. Contact Stephen Cobbe at scobbe@stanford. edu.

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Housing Draw needs improvement A

few hours before this paper goes to press, the application period for Stanfords arcane housing selection process the Draw came to a close. Compared to peer institutions, Stanford is in the relatively unique position of guaranteeing on-campus housing for a full four years and still offers a remarkably heterogeneous portfolio of residential options: Stanford Student Housing comprises 78 residences, including traditional co-ed dorms, independent houses, suites, and apartments. Of these 78 residences, there are four academic theme houses, four focus houses, four ethnic theme houses, four language and culture houses, 10 Greek houses, and seven co-ops. For comparison, upperclassmen at schools like Harvard or Yale are essentially assigned to one of twelve houses, with little opportunity to explore housing options. Stanfords Residential and Dining Enterprises deserves praise for recent work on improving the undergraduate housing experience. As enrollment increased during the 1990s, Student Housing was unable to keep up with the demand for beds, and many residences were stuffed: triples were converted to quads, doubles to triples, and singles to doubles there are likely some on campus who remember the infamous mini-doubles in the Lagunita complex.The last three or four years has seen a welcome reversal of this trend. The completion of the Munger complex allowed Crothers to become an undergraduate residence, which then allowed Housing to un-stuff residences, most notably in Toyon and Branner. With a rough back-of-the-envelope calculation using data from the Housing website, the Editorial Board estimates that a rather large 60 percent of upperclassmen now live in either a single, a two-room double, or another similarly private space, which is a commendable accomplishment. Calculated separately, a third of Stanford upperclassmen live on the Row or other independent houses. Clearly we have a plethora of attractive housing options. As 98 percent of students opt to live in Stanford housing for four years, a system as complex as the Draw is perhaps necessary to support Stanfords housing system. However, we believe that the system is still lacking in transparency

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and that small but meaningful reforms could improve the experience for students. For instance, releasing more details on how the auxiliary factors that impact the outcome of the Draw like gender, ethnicity, priority status, and the proportion of pre-assigning students in the house function would be a welcome move for many. But most importantly, we find problematic Student Housings policy of publishing detailed Draw cutoff numbers after the Draw results are announced yet deliberately taking this information off of its website during the summer. Housing rightfully argues that students fare better in the Draw if they create a robust list of every residence of interest and that Draw cutoffs can vary tremendously between years. Yet Housing then wrongfully concludes that providing cutoff numbers befuddles our judgment and causes us to produce poor options lists. We believe that this is an inappropriate stance to take, particularly because withholding basic information inhibits students from making informed decisions about topics like Draw group size or the choice to live off-campus. Withholding cutoff data also encourages students to seek out information from upperclassmen; often, this information is misleading if not downright incorrect, thereby further confusing students. In an email sent to all students this past Friday, Housing accused The Stanford Dailys A Guide to the Housing Draw, published Friday, as propagating incomplete and thus misleading information. The administrators then affirmed their stance of taking down cutoff data over the summer. Yet the easiest solution to ensure that students receive the complete information is to simply maintain the cutoff data on the Housing website. In short, Housings insistence on taking down the data not only leads to students making less informed decisions with rankings lists, but is demeaning to the intelligence of Stanford students. Overall, the Editorial board is pleased with the campus housing situation at Stanford, though we believe that increased transparency could improve the system even more for future years. We hope Housing takes these points into consideration when crafting policies for coming years.

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What conservatives get right about the family

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irst of all, dont freak out. Its a short article. My freshman year, at our dorm Crossing the Line event, there was one question whose answer I still remember. Our moderator asked us to cross the line if our biological parents were divorced or separated. Fewer than a quarter of students walked across the room. That response gave me pause then and still does today. Divorce rates in the United States for the first marriage are generally estimated to hover around 50 percent. Add in the children born out of wedlock to parents who never marry in the first place four out of 10 babies in 2007 and the statistics for America as a whole become staggering. So what does it say about marriage that, at least according to my completely unscientific survey, the worlds most successful, driven, bright kids measured by their admittance to Stanford tend to come from families where both parents are still married? Might stable marriages lead to more successful children? And if so, might the Right be right about the importance of the nuclear family and community in fostering responsible, virtuous young people? My opinion is: sort of. Theres no doubt that two-parent families confer a series of advantages on children. Most obvious among them is time: time parents spend reading with kids, time invested taking them to and from productive after-school sports and extracurriculars, time enjoyed having meaningful conversations over real, healthy, home-made meals, time spent obsessing over test scores and grades in short, time not spent leaving children in front of the television or video games munching on a Big Mac while working an exhausting second job to pay the bills a wife or husband might otherwise be able to help pay. Raising a child successfully takes enormous amounts of work, and two-parent families

have an advantage in splitting what can be a formidable workload for single moms and dads. In his influential new book Coming Apart, libertarian thinker Charles Murray argues convincingly that American social life is increasingly becoming polarized between two diametric demographic opposites: an elite upper class that tends to marry and stay married, connects with the surrounding community and has at least one college degree, and a lower class that doesnt marry, never forms meaningful social connections and rarely graduates from high school, let alone college. These data mesh discouragingly with the message of Robert D. Putnams thought-provoking Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, which examines declining levels of participation in civic networks among American families since 1960. Putnam argues powerfully that the average American is less connected to her fellow citizens, possesses shallower social networks and is less involved in her local community than ever before. In these respects, I think theres actually something valuable to be taken away from the generally absurd conservative outrage over Julia, Team Obamas recent digital poster-child. As Ross Douthat points out in the New York Times, Julia seems to have no meaningful relationships apart from her bond with the Obama White House: no friends or siblings or extended family, no husband (Julia decides to have a child, is all the slide show says), a son who disappears once school starts and parents who only matter because Obamacare grants her the privilege of staying on their health care plan until shes 26. That is a dark vision of the good life, indeed. So far, so good. Family and community can have noticeable positive effects. But heres where the Right

Miles Unterreiner
goes wrong. By adopting cutthroat fiscal policies that make it harder and harder for working-class moms and dads to find the time and money to spend meaningful time with growing kids, conservatives are themselves undermining the family values they profess to promote. By making it impossible for gays and lesbians to marry, conservatives are preventing the formation of stable nuclear families that they (quite rightly) aim to support. By refusing to acknowledge the lingering influence of racial discrimination in this country, conservatives are missing the opportunity to target family-friendly social and economic policies toward especially high-risk minority communities, where the two-parent families are particularly rare. By supporting wars overseas and in this criticism I include President Obama conservatives are removing tens of thousands of fathers and mothers from the lives of their children at some of the most vital moments in their emotional development moments stolen from them by a helicopter flight in Kabul or a firefight in Helmand. Even worse, sometimes those absences are permanent, tearing a family apart forever. So sure, lets encourage stable marriages, happy families and community morality. But lets do it honestly, and without the disingenuous hypocrisy that mars too many conversations about the family today. If you have better data than a Crossing the Line event from three years ago, Miles would love to see it. Email him anytime at milesu1@stanford. edu.

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THE YOUNG ADULT SECTION

Nina Chung
again, trusting our ability to follow good strategy. Which leads me also to a third observation: certain personality traits are both stellar for academics and useful for eating disorders. Think of how much strength and destruction is contained in perfectionism, high need for structure, and thoughts like I will only eat good things (disorder symptoms listed by Vaden). Several of my friends confirm that their ambitious work ethic and goal-oriented nature even a penchant for numbers (counting calories) were essential to sustaining an eating disorder. The difficulty in calling out an eating disorder is that it is defined by a way of thinking, and the actions that follow are only potential indicators. Everyone eats differently, grows up with different cultural standards and needs completely variable things. But eating disorders boil down to a question of motives, which include but are not limited to: an ever-decreasing scale number, an appearance that will never come and a distraction from more emotional issues. We are, however, at a place where being unbelievably busy is 100 percent socially acceptable.

n Fridays Daily, outgoing ASSU President Michael Cruz 12 published an op-ed in support of a petition advanced by a group previously named Students Confronting Apartheid by Israel (SCAI), now called Students for Palestinian Equal Rights (SPER). SPERs formerly SCAIs petition advocates for selective divestment from companies variously involved in Israeli activity east of Israels pre-1967 border. Cruzs title, Why I support Israel, Palestine, and divestment, positions him as supportive of all parties, and in no way do I doubt Michaels good intentions to aid both peoples. However, Cruz has fundamentally misunderstood what pro-Palestinian and proIsraeli mean, which has been evidenced in the days since his op-ed was published by the elated disbelief of the SPER community on the one hand best ASSU president ever? asked one vice president of SPER and the incredulous frustration of our community on the other. First and foremost, selective divestment is not pro-Israel because if it succeeds, media reports will never represent SPERs petition as the carefully fine-tuned policy position that it professes to be; rather, the headlines will declare

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that STANFORD DIVESTS FROM ISRAEL. Moreover, divestment is not pro-Israel because it seeks to point the finger at and punish only Israel for its perceived misdeeds, without examining the record of the Palestinians and their governing body, the Palestinian Authority (PA). While I can list many Israeli policies I would like to see changed, Cruz in his op-ed belies his avowal to promote all human rights by failing to consider what we might demand of the Palestinians. Should the PA recognize Israels right to exist as a Jewish state, as they have failed to do? Should the PA implement the institutions of a real democracy, and the rights one entails that are now regularly contravened by the PA the freedoms of the press, of expression, of religion? Most ironically, SPER in its previous incarnation as SCAI wrongly accused Israel of somehow perpetrating apartheid, but what of the clearer case of Palestinian apartheid the official, abhorrent PA positions that a future state in the West Bank must be free of Jews, and its law that selling property to Jews in the West Bank is a capital offense? In March, Cruz told me that he believes firmly in a strong state wo months ago, I wrote a column about my eating disorder. I had hoped to explain why eating disorders themselves were less a root problem and more a symptom of a universal issue: the desire for control. Over the past couple years, though, I've also begun noticing the particularity of eating disorders at Stanford. The disorder persists because it's an internal psychology, which is an invisible topic. It happens, but no one talks about it because it is so well-camouflaged. It weaves itself into Stanford lives in so many ways. Even if we on the outside see the most blatant behavioral changes in someone, our fear of sounding judgmental prevents us from saying anything. Its an unexpected side effect of our emphasis on total toleration. I always wondered why not one person legitimately commented on my new, committed habits that entire year. Yet just a bit later, even I felt that hesitancy when I recognized my former seemingly innocuous habits replayed by a dormmate. I was passive and never addressed it even after learning personally the damage of the disorder. Later, I discovered that she had indeed been suffering and was in recovery. Im now quite afraid of my own ability to ignore. The irony proceeds. Our campaigns for fitness, athleticism, eating healthily and avoiding sugar

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set a high standard for the country. They react and respond to a broader epidemic of obesity, low food quality and sustainability issues. Equally destructive, though, is the volatile swing to the other extreme, where a one-size-fits-all health formula becomes a life purpose, which doesnt make sense either. Health does not equate to two people sitting at a table, eating identical proportions of vegetables and non-vegetables. Yet still I hear Oh, you eat so healthily! as a well-intended compliment that once gave me a burst of psychological energy to continue depriving myself of calories. Stanford recognizes this, for which Im exceedingly appreciative. I dont think there are many other schools that so loudly and creatively proclaim the holistic nature of wellness. It gets complicated, though: in the process of promoting its importance, we too easily short-circuit ourselves to focus simply on its external face. Its an extremely difficult line to gauge. In any art or film class Ive ever taken, a major discussion has always been about authenticity versus image, for as something authentic grows in value, so does the value of the image. The mechanics of an eating disorder exemplify this: relative to pursuing true spiritual peace, the visible interpretation is much more convenient. And we fall for that, over and over

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Stat on the Back

BEAT BY BEAVERS
By JOSEPH BEYDA
DESK EDITOR

Seau and football violence

hate the news. Ive never liked watching the news, reading the news or even knowing the news. I know this is weird because I work for a newspaper. I know its important to stay upto-date on whats going on in the world, but every time I see the news, it depresses me. News seems to be equivalent to who was just killed and what normal everyday objects are slowly killing you and how the government is screwing things up so more people will die. Sports, on the other hand, are fun. Sports allow you to experience every possible emotion without ever getting in any danger. You can yell and scream and cry, and all that has changed is that some millionaires have run around a field. The next day, you can go right back to it while feeling good about life. There are so many great things about sports, and one of the best parts is the distraction they can offer from the world. No matter what is happening in your life, sports can give you that small amount of joy to get you through the day. Except sometimes even sports cant escape the tragedies of the real world. On Wednesday, Jered Weaver pitched a no-hitter for my favorite team in the world, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Yet his brilliance on the mound was regrettably pushed way down on every sports news show in the world, and for a good reason. On a day that should have been about a baseball no-hitter and playoffs in basketball and hockey, football stole the show for all the wrong reasons. The story of the day was Junior Seau, a former NFL linebacker who was found dead at 43 with a gunshot wound in his chest. Seau was one of the best linebackers in history, and his passion for the game was infectious. Growing up in Southern California, I couldnt help but root for Seau on the San Diego Chargers even though he went to USC. Before I knew anything about football defense (every new fan just watches the ball), I watched Seau roam around because he seemed to be involved in every single tackle. The 12-time Pro Bowler ranks 10th all-time with 243 NFL starts, and every anecdote from fellow players says that he loved playing the game every bit as much as fans enjoyed watching him. But less than a week ago, Seau shot himself in the chest. Seaus suicide is incredibly tragic, but it also brings up several questions: Was playing football involved in his death? Did it stem from concussions and lasting brain damage? Was it because he didnt know what to do with his life after his football career ended? Studies of Seaus brain could provide some insight, but we will never know the true answers to all these questions. However, these questions will undoubtedly lead to many more

A back-and-forth weekend in Corvallis didnt exactly end the way the No. 7 Stanford baseball team had envisioned. When junior shortstop Kenny Diekroeger, down to his last strike, tied Sundays contest against No. 20 Oregon State at 4-4 in the top of the ninth, it seemed that the Cardinal would have enough momentum to capture the rubber game and return home with a series win. But instead, Beaver third baseman Ryan Dunn singled off the glove of junior Jake Stewart in leftcenter field in the bottom of the tenth to clinch another close win for Oregon State. Instead of keeping pace with conference leader No. 12 Oregon, which beat No. 16 Arizona in two of three in Tucson this weekend, the Cardinal (29-14, 11-10 Pac-12) falls into a three-way tie for fifth in the conference with Washington and the very same Beavers that halted Stanfords recent Pac-12 charge yesterday. All three teams trail the Ducks by three and a half games with only three weeks to play. Though the Cardinal can lay blame to some pitching anomalies the flu-induced scratch of redshirt junior lefthander Brett Mooneyham on Saturday or the unexpected (and unsuccessful) start by junior righthander Sahil Bloom on Sunday it was Stanfords hitting that fell short in both losses. The Cardinal only got 13 combined hits over the three games in the first eight innings, rallying to an impressive win 8-2 on Friday night before mounting two more late comebacks that just werent enough to secure a second victory. Junior leftfielder Stephen Piscotty paced the squad with his 7for-12 hitting clip on the road trip, but was eventually credited with yesterdays loss despite 4.2 innings of solid work. Junior righty Mark Appel gave up six hits in as many innings to start the series on Friday, but he kept the Beavers off the board

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Junior shortstop Kenny Diekroeger had the game-tying hit against Oregon State with two outs in the bottom of the ninth yesterday, but Stanford still fell short in 10 innings in the rubber game.
into the seventh, when three base knocks in a row spelled a late 2-0 lead for Oregon State. Mark looked great, sophomore rightfielder Austin Wilson told GoStanford.com. It kind of stunk because the first couple of innings we couldnt support him. But that support showed up in full force in the final two frames. Piscotty and sophomore first baseman Brian Ragira each singled to lead off the eighth against sophomore starter Ben Wetzler. After Wetzler was yanked, Wilson followed with a triple to tie the game at two and freshman third baseman Alex Blandino tacked on a double to give the Cardinal its first lead. A failed bunt and two straight strikeouts ended the push, yet Stanford wouldnt be stuck at three runs for very long. With two on and one out, Ragira made it 4-2 with his third hit of the afternoon and a Wilson fielders choice pushed a fifth run across. Back-toback doubles from Blandino and fellow freshman Dominic Jose extended the lead to five runs and a single by junior catcher Eric Smith

capped the scoring at 8-2. It shows how we never, ever stop battling, Wilson said. Down 2-0 . . . we put some more runs on and didnt let them come back. Stanford would be looking for a miracle again on Saturday, with a platoon of six pitchers throwing in Mooneyhams absence and letting Oregon State build a 4-0 lead through seven innings. Freshman lefty Jace Fry walked Jose to lead off the eighth and gave him second base on a wild pitch, but Jose would advance no further with the Cardinal flying out three straight times to end the inning. Piscotty drew another leadoff walk in the ninth, helping set up another key RBI double from Blandino to make it 2-0 with one out. It was Stanfords only extrabase hit of the afternoon and just the fifth hit of any kind given up by Fry, who quickly got out of the jam to improve to 5-3 on his impressive rookie season. Bloom was the surprise starter on Sunday, replacing struggling freshman John Hochstatter and sophomore A.J. Vanegas, who had pitched in relief of Appel on Friday night. But the juniors first start of the season didnt last very long, as he gave up three runs all of them coming with two outs in the first two innings and quickly gave way to Vanegas. Stanford nearly drew even in the sixth, with Piscotty and Ragira singling with two outs to make it 32. But Beaver righty Dan Child limited the damage and got his team out of the inning, allowing Oregon State to tack on an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth and seemingly put the game in the books. The Cardinal had some more drama in store for its hosts, however, as Wilson was hit by a pitch and Blandino singled to also get on with no outs. Down 4-2, Smith then belted a fly ball to deep right field that was not quite hard enough to get to the fences but still moved Wilson to third. Jose followed with RBI groundout to cut the margin in half.

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BOWLSBY ACCEPTS BIG 12 JOB

By JACK BLANCHAT
MANAGING EDITOR

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On Friday, Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby was introduced as the new commissioner of the Big 12 Conference, officially making his move away from the Farm after six years at Stanford. Bowlsbys successful tenure at Stanford was marked by 10 national titles as well as the hiring of coaches Jim Harbaugh, David Shaw and Johnny Dawkins, but now the Iowa native takes over a conference that has been in turmoil for the past three years. The Big 12 has lost four of its members in the last two years Nebraska to the Big Ten, Colorado to the Pac-12 and Texas A&M and Missouri to the SEC all of which led to the firing of former commissioner Dan Beebe in 2011. But the man hired to replace Beebe told reporters at his introductory press conference that the Big 12 is in a good place for the future, as it added TCU and West Virginia to the conference this year to replace recent departures A&M and Missouri. I, like many people, had a vision of this conference as unstable, Bowlsby said Friday

in Irving, Tex. What I found instead was a group of chief executive officers that were very committed to one another and very committed to the best principles of intercollegiate athletics. I was very quickly put at ease relative to the stability of the group and the ongoing commitment to one another. Bowlsby, who will take over as commissioner on June 15, was seen as the ideal candidate for the Big 12 job because of his exceptionally successful tenures at Stanford and at the University of Iowa, where he worked from 19912005. He also contributed significantly to the lucrative media deals of both of those schools conferences, particularly the Pac-12s current $3 billion, 12-year television contract with ESPN and Fox. Additionally, Bowlsby was present for the birth of both of those conferences television networks the Big Ten Network, which launched in 2007, and the Pac-12 Network, which will launch in August 2012. Bowlsbys role in the media network expansion of the Big Ten and Pac-12 was critical to his hiring as Big 12 commissioner because the turbulent conference is currently working on a new television deal of its own. Hes been very involved in the television

aspects of conferences he has served, from the formation of the Big Ten network to the Pac12 network and, of course, the related television agreements, Burns Hargis, the president of Oklahoma State, told ESPN. Obviously thats a very valuable talent that we intend to take full advantage of. Bowlsbys other challenge will be determining if the conference needs to expand, as the Big 12s major quirk is that it currently only has ten member schools, which prevents it from staging a conference championship game. Conference championship games generally require 12 teams, and they serve as major boons to any conferences pocketbooks; the SEC, ACC, Big Ten, and Pac-12 all have title games. However, Bowlsby said he currently didnt know where exactly the conference would go with its membership. Im not going to presume a direction that we would go, he said. Theres nothing magic about 11 or 12. I come in with no preconceived notions of what the right number is . . . Im pretty excited about the 10 institutions that we have.

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And while the move was a nobrainer for Bowlsby, as he will quickly become one of he most powerful and influential people in all of college sports, Stanford is now forced to try and find a successor to replace him as athletic director. For now, the list of candidates whose names have been mentioned includes Yale athletic director Thomas Beckett, Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl executive director Gary Cavalli, UC-Irvine athletic director Mike Izzi, West Coast Conference Commissioner Jamie Zaninovich, Utah athletic director Chris Hill and West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck, father

of former Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. All of these candidates have major connections to the Farm, as Beckett, Cavalli, Izzi and Zaninovich have all previously worked for the Stanford athletic department. Additionally, former Secretary of State and Stanford political science professor Condoleeza Rice has been suggested as a potential wild-card candidate to replace Bowlsby, as she is a dedicated Stanford sports fan and has said that her dream job would be commissioner of the NFL. The athletic department has not yet suggested a timetable for finding a new athletic director or intimated whether it would hire an interim commissioner when Bowlsby packs up for the Big 12. Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat @stanford.edu.

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of Israel, but his proposal Friday only weakens Israel while failing to strengthen the PA. In fact, the West Banks greatest hope today is not divestment but the drive to build up its civil society, led by PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, and most strongly supported by the United States, who contributed $600 million to the PA in 2010, and Israel. Both countries work daily with the PA to train its security forces, and the PA has begun to successfully assume responsibility for arresting and disarming terrorist factions within its own midst. As security cooperation has dramatically improved, Israel has been able to work with Fayyad to bolster the economic, health, and educational situations significantly in the West Bank. With a safer, stronger, and more prosperous PA, Israel is safer; with peoples that work more closely hand-in-hand, the greater trust that results enables brighter prospects for peace. In striving towards peace, I be-

lieve that we must not seek to castigate, to demonize, to weaken the other those we deem at fault, in Michaels words while simultaneously shielding ourselves from all criticism and harm. Rather, we must look inward, identifying our own flaws so that we can act more humanely and productively, while also moving forward however we can with our adversary who must eventually be our partner to find opportunities for their actions too to be more tolerant, more constructive, and to create room for hope. Today in White Plaza, the Stanford Israel Alliance celebrates the founding of the Jewish state of Israel, 64 years ago. We will not be celebrating Israels policies or borders, but rather its existence the visceral manifestation of the Jewish right to a national homeland. May we one day soon be able to celebrate too a Palestinian Day of Independence, one which from that point forward will mark a peaceful future of self-determination and coexistence for all the peoples of the Holy Land.
MARTY ZACK 14 Co-President, Stanford Israel Alliance

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Thus, not everyone is taking time to address their truest intentions, let alone those of others around us. This is a significant part of why an eating disorder can tyrannize a Stanford student for so long. The insanity of its purpose takes reflection, introspection and a community of people who will reaffirm that appearance doesnt suffice as a life goal. This column isnt meant for the student with the disorder. For those engulfed in a radical eating regime, its likely to sound totally irrelevant. This column, ultimately, is for the student nearby, or the dormmate or classmate or friend noticing something. You might not know what to say or do, but there are people at Stanford (Stanford Healthy Body Image Program or Vaden) who are prepared. Many of them went through this, and are trying to spare others. Nina is always open to responses, at ninamc@stanford.edu.

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Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby (right) will take over as the Big 12 commissioner starting June 15. In his six years on the Farm, Bowlsby hired head football coach David Shaw (left) as well as former coach Jim Harbaugh and current mens basketball coach Johnny Dawkins.

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Behind 0-2 in the count with two outs, Diekroeger fought off a pitch and then knocked one into right field to keep Stanford alive. Piscotty sent the game to extra innings with a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth and got on base with one out in the tenth, but Ragira grounded into a double play to give the Beavers a chance to win the game. Junior centerfielder Joey Matthews singled with one out to

begin the threat, and a perfectly placed infield single down the third-base line by freshman rightfielder Dylan Davis moved him into scoring position. Piscotty got a second out but walked the next batter to load the bases for Dunn, whose ensuing single won the series for Oregon State. Stanford will not play a midweek game this week, getting a chance to recuperate before hosting Washington State (23-20, 9-11 Pac-12) this coming weekend. The series opener at Sunken Diamond will start at 6 p.m on Friday. Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda @stanford.edu. ers slamming into each other on every play is one thing, but players doing their best to injure an opponent is even more troubling. Combine this with stories of former players like Seau who, for whatever reason, cannot live normal lives after playing football, and the long-term viability of football really becomes questionable. Because lets be honest: non-contact football is not a reasonable option. Theres no easy answer to solve the issues with football and player safety, but acknowledging that there is a real problem is the first step toward saving and improving the game. And when days like Wednesday come around, its impossible to ignore that there is a real problem with football. Jacob Jaffe is still upset about the career-ending concussion he sustained at last years Ink Bowl. Help him get back to living his normal life at jwjaffe@stanford.edu and follow him on Twitter @Jacob_ Jaffe. ans admission website. Given the recent conflicts, many of these students have had multiple tours. The website continued to say the life experience that students bring from previous career paths or military service provides a unique perspective in discussion seminars, student groups and campus activities. At Stanford, were used to hearing the top-down view of the military or organizations as a whole, Clark said, citing events featuring CEOs of corporations and military colonels. When you get veterans from enlisted ranks, you get a very bottom-up level of military perspective. Contact Erin Inman at einman@stanford.edu.

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doubts about the most popular sport in America. Head injuries and brain damage in football were already of particular interest, and a suicide by a future Hall of Famer will only accelerate the debate. I love watching football and find many of the recent personal foul penalties excessive and annoying. But clearly, both the safety of players and their future well-being are more important than a penalty flag every so often. At some point, though, this might not be enough. Is football just inherently too violent to survive? That question, which would seem ridiculous a couple years ago, has become much more complicated. Wednesdays other top story, the suspensions given to Saints players for their roles in the bounty scandal, does nothing to minimize the issue. Play-

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to the diversity of Stanford undergraduates. In particular, according to the website intended for helping veterans navigate the application process, veteran applicants add a highly valued voice to the undergraduate community. The particular voice not probably what they have in mind, but how I view it is the voice coming from the enlisted levels, said Sergeant Chris Clark 12, who served two tours in Iraq in the Marine Corps Reconnaissance Unit and is now the Stanford Veterans Group representative on the veter-