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April 27, 2009
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Students rally for community centers Ticket price same as previous years’, but no open bar this year

Seniors face cost

issues over formal
By AN LE NGUYEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
With May rapidly approaching, Stanford’s
graduating seniors have two major events in
mind — thesis deadlines and senior formal.
While the former might be the greatest source
of stress for seniors, the latter is also arousing
some frustration among the Class of 2009
because of high ticket prices and the lack of an
open bar.
Early-bird tickets for the May 9 formal at
San Francisco’s AT&T Park were priced at
$65, increased to $75 this past week, and will
now cost $85; the price also does not include an
open bar, a popular feature of previous for-
mals.
“I definitely think that the ticket prices are
too high, and that there could have been better
communication by those organizing the
events,” said Anstes Agnew ‘09.“Senior formal
should be an event that is inclusive and open to
AUGUSTIN RAMIREZ/The Stanford Daily all seniors that want to attend, and these ticket
Concerned Students for Community Centers (CSCC) marched on Friday, protesting the lack of transparency in community center prices are simply not affordable for everyone.”
budget cuts. They argued for more information from the Vice Provost of Student Affairs and greater student input in the budget cut Other students, however, felt that the tick-
process, which they believe will severely affect community centers. The Daily will have full coverage on the cuts in the coming days. ets were appropriately priced.
“I think that they are really fairly priced,”
said Mary Liz McCurdy ‘09. “It’s expensive to
put on a really nice event. If you compare the
prices to local high schools’ formals like Paly,
tickets are about $125. While $65 is not cheap,
putting on the event is not cheap.”
According to senior co-president Johnny
McCormick ‘09, the ticket prices must cover
costs for the dance floor, DJ, jazz band, photog-
rapher and food. The class presidents also plan
to make avail of AT&T Park’s scoreboard and
play a picture montage for the Class of 2009,
thereby incurring further costs.
Still adding to the formal price tag is a sep-
arate transportation cost for seniors who do
not plan to drive to the event. Bus tickets from
campus to the venue are on sale for $18 each.
“The tier pricing was chosen because it pro-
vides an incentive for students to buy tickets
early — a necessity given the intricacies of
venue contracts, which require us to pay the
full rental costs ahead of time,” explained co-
president Dimitar Iliev ‘09 in an email to The
Daily. “A secondary concern is that we need to
know how many people are going early on in
order to secure appropriate catering, security
Please see FORMAL, page 2

STUDENT GROUPS
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL MPSF TOURNAMENT
SWIB hosts
FINAL business
conference
SPIKE Executives from
Wikipedia, Yahoo! speak
Card’s season cut short by By ROBERT TOEWS
Trojans in five-set heartbreaker STAFF WRITER

Stanford Women in Business

By JACOB JAFFE (SWIB) hosted its third annual “I
DESK EDITOR Don’t Know to CEO” business confer-
ence on Saturday, drawing many pre-
The season ended in heartbreaking fashion for Stanford men’s vol- professional attendees to a six-hour
leyball, when the team failed to hold onto a two-set lead over USC in series of events in Annenberg
the first round of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) play- Auditorium, which featured several
offs. high-profile speakers, including top
The No. 4 Cardinal (21-11, 14-8 MPSF) lost to the No. 7 Trojans 20- executives from Wikipedia, Yahoo! and
30, 27-30, 30-27, 30-24, 15-11 on Saturday night at Maples Pavilion. YouTube.
Stanford had all the momentum coming into the match, winning 13 of Sue Gardner, executive director of
its final 16 matches in the regular season and clinching its first home the Wikimedia Foundation, was the
playoff match in six years after USC lost to Hawaii last weekend. This conference’s keynote speaker. The
momentum carried over into the first two sets of the match, when the Wikimedia Foundation is the non-prof-
Cardinal showed its confidence. it entity responsible for operating
“USC was a little bit startled and nervous because we had so much Wikipedia, the world’s fourth most
positive energy from the gym around us,” said freshman middle block- popular Web site.
er Gus Ellis. “One of the biggest pieces of advice
The positive energy came from the packed crowd of 1,200 people in I would give to people just graduating
Maples, and the atmosphere was raucous all game long. Players, coach- and entering the career phase of their
es and fans from both teams were involved in a number of scuffles lives is to do what really drives you, to
throughout the game, culminating in the third set when USC head not get pressured or tricked into think-
coach Bill Ferguson was given a yellow card for arguing from the side- ing that what drives other people is
lines. what drives you,” Gardner said.
The Cardinal started off strong, hitting .365 in the first two sets, com- “Follow your own path and the rewards
pared to only .247 for USC. Stanford’s digging and blocking were excel- will follow.”
lent in the first two sets as well, leading to a sideout percentage of 77, Gardner also urged more women to
which also bested USC’s 61. become involved in the Wikipedia edit-
“We were able to sustain a high level of intensity and a good rhythm ing community, pointing out that cur-
on defense,” said Ellis, who had four kills on seven attempts.“We could rently more than four out of five edi-
comfortably predict what sets [USC sophomore setter Riley McKibbin] tors on Wikipedia are male.
would make.” The conference featured a series of
The tide completely turned in the third set, though, as the Trojans workshops on a number of different
established control and wouldn’t let go of for the rest of the night. aspects of business, such as entrepre-
“As time wore on, they built their confidence up and felt more com- neurship, marketing, networking and
fortable,” Ellis said. even career paths after consulting.
USC players began to hit better and better, hitting .405, .500 and .500 Workshop speakers included current
in the final three sets of the match and siding out at a rate of 83 percent. Stanford Masters student Filip
“[USC’s players] started to play with a lot more consistency,” Ellis Kaliszan, the founder of CourseRank.
said. CourseRank started as a project for an
“They had a good collective effort to play defense, and they were a undergraduate computer science class
DYLAN PLOFKER/The Stanford Daily solid all-around unit.” and is now used by 97 percent of the
Junior opposite Evan Romero recorded 21 kills in Saturday’s meeting with the Trojans, but the Cardinal couldn’t hang
on to its early lead after a mid-match turnaround by USC. Please see VOLLEYBALL, page 6 Please see SWIB, page 2

Index Opinions/3 • Sports/4 • Classifieds/5 Recycle Me

2 N Monday, April 27, 2009 The Stanford Daily

NEWS BRIEFS
University prepares
for flu outbreak
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
As the U.S. begins to face the
possibility of a Swine Influenza
outbreak, the University itself
announced that it is developing
precautionary measures.
A campus-wide task force
that has been studying pandemic
flu for the past few years is fol-
lowing the outbreak and work-
ing with Stanford hospitals, fac-
ulty at the School of Medicine,
the county public health depart-
ment and federal health officials.
The University has asked that
New grad school
rankings released
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
U.S. News & World Report
released its 2010 rankings of grad-
uate schools on Thursday.
Stanford placed second in busi-
ness school rankings, while
Harvard maintained first place.
Northwestern University and the
University of Pennsylvania tied
for third, and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and the
University of Chicago tied in fifth.
In education, Vanderbilt
TOP 5 BUSINESS SCHOOLS
School
1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
all students and staff take pre-
liminary steps to control the
exposure. All dining hall units
and Row houses have been
asked to post hand washing signs
and make Purell available in
each dining room. Row house
staffs have also been asked to
prepare for switching to dispos-
able utensils, if necessary.
Furthermore, Stanford offi-
cials are advising students, facul-
ty and staff to avoid travel to
Mexico in light of the develop-
ments there. Health officials say
a strain of Swine Flu has killed
up to 86 people in Mexico and
sickened more than 1,000.
At this time, no students, fac-
ulty or staff have reported symp-
toms of concern.
University came first, followed
by Stanford, Columbia
University, the University of
Oregon and the University of
California at Los Angeles.
The engineering leaders fell in
the same positions as last year,
with MIT at the top, followed by
Stanford, the University of
California at Berkeley, the
Georgia Institute of Technology
and the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
In law, Yale University main-
tained the top spot, followed by
Harvard, Stanford, Columbia and
New York University. Last year,
Stanford tied second place with
Harvard.
Location Points Tuition
Boston, MA 100 $43,800/yr
Stanford, CA 99 $48,921/yr
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and transportation reservations at
the lowest possible prices.”
Iliev added that ticket prices for
senior formal have not increased
from the previous two years, with the
structure remaining the same and the
bus price actually decreasing by two
dollars.
However, this year’s ticket price
does not include an open bar, which
was popular at previous formals.
McCormick, who attended last
year’s formal, shared doubts about
whether or not an open bar would
have been a good bargain for his
peers.
“Once you got there, you didn’t
have to pay for drinks because it was
an open bar, but you really had to
spend a lot of time waiting in line to
get your drinks,” McCormick said of
the Class of 2008 senior formal. “As
far as this year goes . . . if we had
pushed for an open bar, it would
have been prohibitively expensive.”
McCurdy also thought that it was
appropriate that there was not an
open bar.
“I think it’s nice that they event
planners tried to keep the cost as low
as possible,” she said.“Since drinking
is a preference, it gives you the
option of if you want to drink or not.
I think that is nice.”
Students however, remarked that
they were unclear about what they
would be paying for. Agnew
explained that she assumed there
was an open bar and that bus tickets
would be included in the fee because
the ticket price was already so high.
“I understand that the venue is a
huge expense, but the organizers
haven’t done a good job being trans-
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parent about where our money’s
going,” she said.
Aside from these concerns, senior
class presidents had difficulty secur-
ing an appropriate venue. As the
chair of the formal committee, Siri
Sachs ‘09 revealed that they had a
limited number of options to choose
from.
“Most venues in San Francisco
won’t take this kind of event any-
more,” Sachs said. “We did not have
that many options.”
McCormick expressed similar
frustration over finding a venue. The
de Young Museum, which hosted last
year’s formal, was initially a top
choice, but was unattainable.
McCormick suggested that past inci-
dents might have led the museum to
decline Stanford’s business this time
around.
“We got in contact with them
back in the fall, but they were not
interested in having us as one of their
clients again,” McCormick said.
“It’s interesting that AT&T is tak-
ing us back because there were
mishaps last time, but that’s also why
we have to hire additional security
this time,” Sachs added.
The formal planners also faced
the difficultly of paying an upfront
fee for the venue space. The rental
costs for AT&T Park alone totaled
$17,500, leading the class presidents
to push for early ticket sales.
In spite of these challenges, the
formal organizers have remained
enthusiastic about the event.
“In general, our class has always
had unusually high attendance to
class-wide events, whether it has
been sophomore formal or junior
formal or even Senior Night,”
McCormick said.“I have heard anec-
dotally, from the cabinet members
who have been selling tickets in
White Plaza, that that is doing well.”
Sachs echoed these sentiments,
but is admittedly worried that ticket
prices might discourage some seniors DAILY POLL
from attending the event.
“I’ve received maybe two or three
Should Condoleezza Rice be prosecuted
questions about it actually, and those for her authorization of torture in the
people still bought tickets,” Sachs
noted. “Still, there might be people
interrogation of terror suspects?
39 votes taken from stanforddaily.com at 11:33 p.m. 04/26/09
who are just not bringing it up.”
Indeed, some seniors have 10%
planned a less expensive night out in E
San Francisco as an alternative to the
formal, opting instead to have dinner
15%
in the city with an intimate group of
friends. D
But for seniors who do intend to 41%
go to the formal, the event is a com- 23% A
memoration of their undergraduate
years at Stanford. C
“It’s going to be at the end of our
four years together,” Sachs conclud- 23%
ed.“For me, it feels very important to B
have a very good, forming last expe-
rience together and I think it’s going A) Yes, we have a duty to uphold the
to be a lot of fun.” law, and Rice broke it.
Even though some considered the B) No, but Rice’s decisions need full
disclosure.
cost of the tickets to be high, they still
C) No, actions taken for the sake of
plan on attending. post-9/11 national security are a
“I’ve always planned on attending special case.
senior formal, and so am willing to D) No, the country needs to move on
accept, somewhat unhappily, the
[cost] of the event, but I recognize
from the Bush years.
E) I don’t care.
that not all of my peers can do the
same,” Agnew said. “It’s unfortunate
Today’s Question:
Will senior formal prices prevent you from
that there’s likely a lot of people out attending the event?
there who are prohibited from going
a) Yes, it just too expensive for me to
due to the cost, when this should be a attend.
night for the whole senior class to b) Maybe, the state of the economy is
enjoy.” making me rethink attending
c) No, formal is an important of senior
Senior formal is scheduled for year.
May 9, 2009, from 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 d) I don't care about senior formal.
a.m. Tickets will be on sale from vote today at stanforddaily.com!
noon to 1 p.m. on Monday and
Friday in White Plaza, and from 7 to
9 p.m. in Old Union.
Kamil Dada contributed to this
report.
Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen@
stanford.edu.

undergraduate student body.

3 Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL
3 University of Pennsylvania
5 Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (Sloan)
93 $46,791/yr The highlight of the event,
though, was a “power panel” enti-
Philadelphia, PA 93 $44,480/yr tled “View from the Top: Changing
the Face of Technology.” The panel
was comprised of five speakers,
Cambridge, CA 92 $46,784/yr including co-founder of YouTube
Jawed Karim, former Yahoo! exec-
utive Ellen Siminoff and CBS
International CEO Sophia Bekele.

TOP 5 EDUCATION SCHOOLS

The panel discussed the ways in
which technology is revolutionizing
how business is done and dispensed
School Location Points Tuition advice on how to navigate the com-
petitive business world.
1 Vanderbilt University (Peabody) Nashville, TN 100 $1,504/credit

2 Stanford University Stanford, CA 96 $36,303/yr “Follow your own

3 Teachers College, Columbia
University
New York, NY 95 $1,085/credit path and the
4 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 94
$12,087/yr (in-state)
$17,109/yr (out-of-state) rewards will
5 University of California, $0/yr (in-state)
Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 93
$14,694/yr (out-of-state) follow.”
— SUE GARDNER,
TOP 5 ENGINEERING SCHOOLS executive director of
Wikimedia Foundation
School Location Points Tuition
Karim emphasized the impor-
Massachusetts Institute of
1 Technology Cambridge, MA 100 $36,140/yr tance of adaptability, pointing out
that YouTube initially started as a
2 Stanford University Stanford, CA 98 $38,400/yr dating service but changed its busi-
ness model to reflect the desires of
users. Siminoff urged the audience
3 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA $0/yr (in-state)
88 to not be afraid to make unconven-
$15,006/yr (out-of-state) tional career decisions, remarking
4 Georgia Institute of Technology $5,670/yr (in-state) that when she joined the founding
Atlanta, GA 86
$23,742/yr (out-of-state) team at Yahoo!, most people just
thought of it as “that company with
5 University
Champaign
of Illinois, Urbana-
Urbana, IL 83 $12,630/yr (in-state)
the funny name.”
$25,384/yr (out-of-state)
Organizers argued that the idea
of “I Don’t Know to CEO” was a
business conference for anyone,
TOP 5 LAW SCHOOLS regardless of their background.
“Especially [for] those who
don’t yet know what they want to
School Location Points Tuition do in life, but are interested in busi-
ness, [I Don’t Know to CEO is a
1 Yale University New Haven, CT 100 $46,000/yr good way] to learn some basic busi-
ness skills and get a sense for what
2 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 95 $41,500/yr it’s like in the boardroom of a real
company,” added Leslie Georgatos
‘09, co-president of SWIB.
3 Stanford University Stanford, CA 93 $42,080/yr The event’s organizers were
extremely pleased with how the
4 Columbia University New York, NY 88 $45,674/yr event turned out, which was the
third annual conference hosted by
SWIB.
5 New York University New York, NY 87 $42,890/yr “We were thrilled by the turnout
among Stanford students, new
admits and others in the communi-
ty,” said Melike Abacioglu ‘09, the
TOP 5 MEDICAL SCHOOLS (RESEARCH) other SWIB co-president. “Every
single session was amazing.”
School Location Points Tuition Contact Robert Toews at rtoews@
stanford.edu.
1 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 100 $39,900/yr

2 John Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 81 $38,000/yr

3 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 79 $41,036/yr

3 Washington University St. Louis, MO 79 $45,550/yr

at St. Louis
$0/yr (in-state)
5 University of California, San San Francisco, CA 77
Francisco $12,245/yr (out-of-state)

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OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
Let student groups collect
ProFros’emails
ike almost every other event and pro-
L Cris Bautista
gram this year, Admit Weekend was
hit with budget cuts, as organizers had
to scrap plans for Class of 2013 t-shirts and
reduce recreation budgets. As a result, event
coordinators were forced to do more with
less, trying to welcome 1,300 prospective
freshmen to campus with fewer resources
than in years past. Given these constraints,
we should be looking for cost-free ways to
drum up excitement among next year’s fresh-
men and convince the many fence-sitting still
trying to decide between Stanford and other
great schools.
With this in mind, the Editorial Board was
puzzled by a new policy at Thursday’s activi-
ties fair: no student groups were allowed to
collect ProFros’ emails or even hand out ma-
terials “with regards to getting involved in
the fall,” according to one event coordina-
tor’s email.
This decision, made with an eye on reduc-
ing stress for overwhelmed ProFros already
bombarded with too much information,
probably did not actually turn anyone away
from Stanford. We doubt any disheartened
ProFro is now tearfully crossing Stanford off
her list because she was not asked for her
contact information at the fair. Still, it seems
like student groups were asked to pass up an
important opportunity to find eager fresh-
men to replenish their ranks after involved
seniors depart, while the University in gener-
al missed a chance to generate at least mo-
mentary excitement from ambitious ProFros
in a way that would not have cost a penny.
It seems that most student groups ob-
served the letter of the law, if not the spirit —
a few groups were observed with suggestive
blank clipboards displayed prominently at
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their tables, which lent the entire fair a feel-
ing of uselessness. Several ProFros wandered
through the fair, hearing 10-second blurbs
from different groups but unable to form any
sort of connection. Many volunteered to sign
up their emails for more info or asked about
how to get involved at the beginning of the
school year. We imagine a non-trivial per-
centage of these eager freshmen will forget
about these clubs over the summer and miss
the chance to join in September, when one or
two brief reminders in July or August would
have sufficed.
With knowledge that there is also an an-
nual NSO activities fair that can serve as a re-
cruitment tool, organizers this year intended
to turn the Admit Weekend fair into more of
a showcase event, where ProFros could get a
flavor for all Stanford extracurricular life has
to offer without feeling pressure to sign up
for anything. Admit Weekend coordinators
also hoped to avoid the awkward situation
wherein ProFros who end up elsewhere are
still getting emails from Stanford student
groups.
Those coordinating the event also prohib-
ited student groups from selling things to
ProFros or making commercial solicitations,
which seems perfectly reasonable. However,
the restriction on contact-info collection
seems needless and, at worst, an impediment
to clubs’ recruitment and ProFro excitement.
If student groups were reminded to be re-
sponsible with ProFro emails and asked to
limit their summer contact to one email in
late summer, we suspect they would have lis-
tened. Next year, we hope email signup priv-
ileges are reinstated for the sake of student
groups hungry for new recruits and a Univer-
sity seeking to put its best foot forward.
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Rethinking rivalries
have a dark, filthy, dirty rotten secret: I
I didn’t always go to Stanford. It’s the capi-
tal-S Shame I’ve borne all three years I’ve
been here, and with seven weeks left until the
real world hits me like a left hook to the face,
I think the only way to finally feel better
about it is to get things all out on the table for
everyone to see (and by everyone, I mean the
mid-to-high single-digit number of readers I
draw on a weekly basis).
I transferred here, which by itself isn’t
such a bad thing, but it’s where I transferred
from that’s branded me with the Shame for
years. See, I didn’t just transfer from any-
where — I very nearly ruined the rest of my
life by (gulp) going to the University of
Southern California. USC, the school of
Lamborghini’s, a secret football dining room
that’s even more luxurious than the regular
secret athlete dining room and O.J. I admit to
it, and I am so, so sorry.
If you’re still reading and haven’t crum-
pled up your paper in anguish or smashed
your MacBook in unadulterated rage, I
should probably explain myself. As a Mid-
westerner, I was raised to distrust anything
and everything not Midwest, so going to Cal-
ifornia for school felt about the same as going
to the moon, and I didn’t necessarily under-
stand that different parts of it had, well, dif-
ferent personalities. But after deciding to be
the idiot who turns down Stanford for film
school, it took about 3.7 seconds on the USC
campus to realize how wrong I was.
I was on the dark side for one entire soul-
crushing year, and let me tell you, unlike
most stereotypes, which tend to be narrow
minded, overly generalized characterizations
of diverse groups of people, these ones
aren’t; every single stereotype you have ever
heard about USC is true. The girls really do
march around in heels so tight it borders on
Chinese foot binding, and the guys really do
puff out their chests, grate their teeth and flex
their pecs 13 hours a day in a kind of preen-
ing ritual that can only be described as Dar-
winian. While the first night at Stanford is
The freedom to speak
selectively
s a newspaper columnist, I under-
A stand that there are some things I
simply don’t do. I don’t make up
facts or claims about a person or situation
and try to pass them off as truth, I don’t try
to incite discord, negativity or hatred among
my peers and readers and I certainly don’t
intentionally go against the wishes of my ed-
itors without good reason.
From one perspective, one could call me a
responsible journalist. I tell a story in a fac-
tually sound and responsible way so as to
provide information and opinion without
baggage. But the reality of it is much simpler
and much less romantic. I don’t do those
things because I know that if I do, my ability
to continue writing will either be severely
hindered or outright eliminated.
In my weekly musings as a columnist, I am
not exercising my right of freedom of speech;
I am merely being allowed to speak by my
editors. I am not exercising the freedom of
the press; I am being allowed to use an al-
ready established press with the permission
of its owners. My ability to express myself is a
privilege, not a right, and it is a privilege I
protect because I enjoy doing what I do.
My predicament of choosing what I say,
when I say and how I say it, unbeknownst to
most, mirrors that of every Stanford student
every minute of every day.
There is a pervasive misconception on
this campus that while at Stanford we have
certain rights and freedoms — the same
rights and freedoms that are guaranteed to
us by our government. Most students as-
sume we have the right to free speech, the
freedom of expression and a reasonable ex-
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P ITH AND P LEONASM
spent meeting your dorm and going on band
run, the first night at USC is spent throwing
the freshmen to the wolves on frat row, with
all the people you’ve known for around
seven hours getting apocalyptically ham-
mered and (if they’re lucky) staggering 4
blocks back to campus. This is coincidentally
the night during which 86 percent of all un-
dergraduate friendships are forged and ce-
mented. By week two, everything is set in
stone.
The flaunting of wealth is shameless, the
use of parental connections is criminal and
what we applaud here — character, intelli-
gence, that kind of stuff — just isn’t on the
USC radar. It’s more like high school than
your high school was (unless you went to pri-
vate school in L.A., in which case it is proba-
bly exactly like your high school was).
So USC sucks — big time — which brings
me to my main question: maybe I don’t get it
because I wasn’t here for freshman year and
didn’t get the rivalry ingrained in me, but why
aren’t these ridiculous cretins from the South
our most bitter rival instead of Cal?
I never realized how one-sided the Stan-
ford-Cal rivalry was until Big Game this year.
Specifically, I didn’t realize it until a friend
and I tried to climb Tightwad Hill outside the
Cal stadium and were met by about 800 Cal
fans chanting at us (and only us) to get the
hell out of Berkeley. It was all pretty funny, at
least until the first full beer can went flying by
my face, at which point I realized that the ri-
valry meant something very different to Cal
fans than it did to me.To us it felt like just an-
other game, and Berkeley was just another
school. To them, it was ideological war.
What made it even harder was that I
agreed with around 90 percent of their insults
— there’s not much you can say to someone
yelling at you to “go back to Shallow Alto”
when you’re completely on the same page
about the absurd decadence of our city
(three luxury imported rug stores on Univer-
sity? really?).
I guess it makes sense to hate Cal since
M ARK M Y W ORDS
pectation of privacy. In reality, these funda-
mental rights are evanescent at best in a pri-
vate institution.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in
Education (FIRE), a liberty watchdog insti-
tute that focuses on America’s collegiate
campuses, has consistently given Stanford
University the worst possible rating when it
comes to personal freedoms and liberties,
and for good reason.
Like it or not,the truth of the matter is that
the administration at Stanford University can
tell you to be quiet, stop acting a certain way
or just plain kick you out of school at any
given time for any given reason. Stanford re-
serves to right to search everything from your
email to your cabinet at their whim.
Land of the free indeed.
Now, before we all panic, understand that
that was not the purpose of my writing about
this issue. In reality, Stanford allows as much
free speech as it feels comfortable allowing.
You can still spend a lazy lunch in White
Plaza watching pro-Palestinian and pro-Is-
raeli groups wave flags, and you can still have
the pleasure of getting heckled every other
Sunday by a few fine gentlemen who would
like to inform you that you are going to hell
for listening to your iPod or for dancing
meringue or something else equally sinful.
Stanford does believe that the basic
ideals of liberty and freedom are important,
and they do their best to allow the free exer-
cise thereof.
There is a responsibility, however, that
falls on the student body as a whole to exer-
cise these privileges responsibly.When Stan-
ford requests that we contain our protests
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we’re, you know, near each other, but could-
n’t we just start hating USC as a full-time
job? It’s so much easier. Spend five minutes
on that campus watching a group of around
50 girls who were all the most insufferable
ones at their high schools and are now insep-
arable best friends sunning themselves on
the north hill of the quad like Mufasa on
Pride Rock, or even look at Pete Carroll
(who is, by the way, the highest paid universi-
ty employee in America, and a consummate
jackass), and you’ll understand why this
makes so much sense.
Enthusiasm leading up to Big Game has
been way down in recent years, and it’s got to
be because we just don’t have that much to
hate anymore. The “what do Stanford and
Cal students have in common?” joke is old
and stupid and almost as obnoxious as one of
USC’s favorite things to say about UCLA
(since UCLA is consistently ranked higher
despite its much lower tuition, chants of
“Public School! Public School!” are popular
with SC fans outside the football stadium be-
fore that rivalry game. Apparently it’s an in-
sult, though I never quite understood why.
Did I mention I was very, very out of place
freshman year?).
If I could impart one piece of sage advice
to Stanford from the year I spent stuck in
SoCal Self-Importance, it’s this: you’re wast-
ing your time on Cal. Just go after the gold
(and platinum, and diamonds, and $80G cars
as a sweet 16 present) and focus all your
sports fan fury on hating the Trojans.
Matt Gillespie invites the only people who
make angry online comments on Daily articles
— Cal students — to find the three grammati-
cal errors he hid for them in this column (and
the probably five to six others that are just flat
out sloppy mistakes because he don’t know his
grammar). Send your too-hot-for-stanforddai-
ly.com hate mail to mattg3@stanford.edu.
Mark
Kogan
and activities to White Plaza, it is in the best
interests of those wishing to protest to do so.
When Stanford officials request that you
stop a particular action, you should probably
treat it as a little more than a suggestion.
For us as students to retain the rights and
privileges bestowed upon us by this private
institution, we need to take advantage of said
privileges with forethought and discretion.
Now, that is not to say that we should shy
meekly away from challenge or take the Ad-
ministration’s word as gospel. While we as
students may not have the leverage to force
the hand of the University, our efforts, voic-
es and discussions on the matter can better
bring to light what we consider fair and un-
fair, what we see as right and what we believe
is fundamentally wrong. The pressures of
public opinion (and more importantly, rich
alumni opinion) can exert the influence nec-
essary to make changes.
We may not be able to demand that the
OSA become transparent overnight, but we
can sure as hell ask why it isn’t. Questions and
approaches like this exhibit the rational, rea-
soned and responsible discourse students of
this university are respected and known for.
As a student body and as individuals, we
must remember that our actions should be
both bold and considerate.To be too rash is to
bite the hand that feeds, while by being too
timid one would surrender the critical
thought and fire that is integral to every
human being.
We must make it a point to move forward
together with the University and its rules,
not in opposition to them.
If you think Mark should be censored for this
column, email him at mkogan@stanford.edu.
4 N Monday, April 27, 2009 The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
Denis
Griffin
Rants and Raves

Draft day
division in
the Bay
hile one side of the Bay

W cheered, the other could

only hang its head. That’s
how the 2009 NFL Draft opened,
and that’s how it closed, as well. On
the one weekend each year when the
nation’s most popular sports — col-
lege and professional football —
come together for a single selection
extravaganza that’s half corporate
event, and half picking dodgeball
teams at recess, the Bay community
was similarly split.
On the professional side of the
equation, the draft couldn’t have
gone better for the peninsula, as the
49ers sat tight at No. 10 and this
year’s most eye-popping playmaker
fell into their laps, potentially solving
what has been a half-decade long
problem for San Francisco. Redshirt
sophomore Texas Tech wide receiver
Michael Crabtree had it all: the pro-
duction in a top conference, as well
as the size, hands and leaping ability
to indicate that he was a near can’t-
DYLAN PLOFKER/The Stanford Daily miss receiver at the NFL level.
Stanford catcher Zach Jones teamed up with pitcher Brett Mooneyham to tag a runner at the plate on Saturday, giving Stanford its only win in the three-game series with the Wildcats. But, when doctors noticed a stress
fracture in Crabtree’s foot at the an-
nual NFL Scouting Combine in Feb-
ruary, it prevented the player who

CATS SLIP BY STANFORD

some analysts deemed the most tal-
ented player in the draft from run-
ning the 40-yard dash for scouts.And
questions regarding his speed ulti-
mately pushed him down on Satur-
day as the Oakland Raiders, also in
need of a wide receiver, passed on

Arizona takes two of three, leaving postseason uncertainty for Stanford

By ERIK ADAMS
BASEBALL SENIOR STAFF WRITER
4/26 vs. Arizona L 7-6 In a series that many considered a must-
win for Stanford, the Cardinal came up just
UP NEXT short, dropping two of the three contests
against Arizona to fall to 18-18 overall and 8-
10 in the conference.The Wildcats were in last
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO place in the Pac-10 coming into the weekend,
(22-22, 8-7 WCC) but they steamrolled Stanford in the opener
and held on for a narrow victory in the week-
4/27 Sunken Diamond 5 P.M. end’s last match to take the series and improve
to 19-20 and 5-13 in the conference.
GAME NOTES: After a disappointing one-win weekend The largest positive on the weekend was
against Arizona, Stanford looks to rebound in Monday’s
freshman starter Brett Mooneyham, who
meeting with the Dons. The arrival of USF is the first of bounced back from a disappointing outing
two home non-conference games the Cardinal will play
against Arizona State to pick up a win and
this week before traveling to Washington State over the hold Arizona to just one run in the Saturday
weekend.
game.
“I wasn’t my best at Arizona State,”
Mooneyham said. “I tried to work on my
breaking balls and did a much better job this
week with being able to lock guys up and get
outs.”
Although it is impossible to know how
postseason selections will play out, it is likely
that Stanford will need to win every series the
rest of the way to even have a chance of mak-
ing the tournament.
Friday: Arizona 11, Stanford 1
Freshman starter Jordan Pries — making
his first career Friday start — pitched three
scoreless innings before getting into trouble in
the fourth. The Wildcats sent 10 men to the
plate and scored four times in that inning, al-
though Stanford was close to getting out of
trouble a couple of times. Senior first baseman
Brent Milleville nearly caught a foul ball over
his shoulder, and sophomore right fielder
Kellen Kiilsgaard nearly made a diving catch
on a sinking line drive that would have ended
the inning. Pries didn’t make it out of the fifth
— allowing two more runs — and took the
first loss of his collegiate career to fall to 3-1.
“Pries got behind and then had to throw a
lot of fastballs,” said head coach Mark Mar-
quess. “They got a few hits and then also got
hits after he walked guys, which is what really
hurt him.”
On the other side of the diamond, Arizona
starter Preston Guilmet pitched a gem, hold-
ing Stanford to just one run on five hits over
seven innings. Guilmet allowed three men to
reach in the first, but was able to keep the Car-
dinal off the scoreboard and eventually set-
tled down to shut down the Stanford offense.
His lone blemish was a high home run hit by
Please see BASEBALL, page 5
Crabtree at their seventh spot to se-
lect Maryland wideout Darrius Hey-
ward-Bey. Heyward-Bey turned in a
blazing 40 time of under 4.3 seconds,
and Raiders owner Al Davis had
seen all he needed to see.Though the
Raiders were largely derided for
their choice over the next day and a
half of the draft, they had their man.
And two picks later, the Niners
had theirs. Whether the Raiders se-
lection of Heyward-Bey will turn out
to be a classic draft blunder, only
time will tell. But most analysts were
quick to confidently proclaim that
Oakland’s loss was San Francisco’s
gain. Adding further insult to injury,
the Raiders’ second round choice
was mocked as well, as safety
Michael Mitchell from Ohio (not
Ohio State, just plain old Ohio) was
considered such a non-prospect that
the ESPN broadcast didn’t have a
highlight reel ready to roll when he
was selected.The network that has to
be ready for literally hundreds of
players across the nation to be select-
ed simply wasn’t ready to talk about

Cruising Cardinal
Penna’s pitching gives Stanford the edge against Oregon, OSU
By CHRIS FITZGERALD
DAILY SPORTS INTERN
The No. 4 Cardinal (41-6, 10-5
Pacific-10 Conference) upended
Oregon and Oregon State over the
weekend for a season sweep of both
programs. Senior Missy Penna
tossed 23 innings for a complete
weekend in the circle and gave up
just three runs, all of which came on
Saturday against the Beavers.
Oregon’s last shot at the Cardi-
nal stretched over nine innings. Ju-
nior Shannon Koplitz broke the
scoreless game on Friday when the
New Orleans product blasted the
game-winner with fellow junior
Alissa Haber on first to secure a 2-0
win for Stanford.
Penna nabbed her 26th victory
this season, boosted by 12 strike-
outs, and also tied her own school
record of 15 shutouts in a year. But,
she eclipsed the mark later in the
weekend with a one-hitter on Sun-
day. Ducks’ freshman Sam
Skillingstad picked up the loss, de-
spite giving up just five hits in nine
complete innings of work.
After Friday’s evening win, the
Stanford ace threw a day game, but
fell off her tepid pace slightly. De-
spite six hits surrendered by Penna,
including her 12th homer allowed
on the year, Stanford withstood
minor struggles and secured at 6-3
win over Oregon State.
The win came largely due to
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GAME NOTES: Stanford has won four
straight, and looks to continue its streak
against the Sun Devils. The teams split their
last two-game meeting, with Arizona State
dominating the second game, 10-1.
Stanford’s offense, which would not
be outdone. Powered by freshman
Ashley Hansen’s 3-4, 3-RBI after-
noon, the Cardinal put up a half
dozen runs on nine hits.
However, Stanford left six on
base, a point that head coach John
Rittman singled out.
“When we get into big games,
you’re only going to get so many
opportunities to score, and you
need to make the most of them,” he
said.
Penna hit for the first time in
conference play on Saturday. The
senior went 0-3, giving freshman
Maya Burns the day off.
While the back of the order did
not respond well to the change,
Coach Rittman explained the deci-
sion.
“[Penna is] a very capable hitter.
[She] works hard, and when we can
get her some at-bats, we need to do
that.”
The bottom five in Stanford’s of-
fensive lineup combined for just
one hit on Saturday. But, incremen-
tal improvement was the theme
over the weekend, and the Cardinal
was able to even out on Sunday.
In Stanford’s third meeting with
the Beavers on the season, Penna
proved to be a savvy veteran. She
fanned seven and faced just 22 hit-
ters in a 4-0 Cardinal win. In allow-
ing only one hit and blanking the
Beavers, Penna posted her school
record 16th shutout of the year.
Stanford’s first five hitters com-
bined for six hits, while the last four
batters made up the difference in 10
total knocks. Sophomore Melissa
Koutz ignited offensive production
in the second inning when her first
home run of the year left Smith
Family Stadium on a line over the
right field fence, 210 feet away from
home plate.
Koutz replayed the first-pitch
Please see SOFTBALL, page 5
this guy.
In short, it was a bad weekend for
Raiders fans.
Meanwhile, for the first time since
2003, San Francisco has a potential
franchise weapon at receiver. After
megastar (and mega-headache) Ter-
rell Owens left town for Philadelphia
prior to the 2004 season, the 49ers of-
fense sank into an abyss from which
it has yet to fully emerge. Despite a
shaky situation at quarterback, the
selection of Crabtree for the 49ers
seems to, at the very least, represent
a step in the right direction, if not
portend an offensive explosion in
2009.
On the collegiate side, mean-
while, it turned out to be a fantastic
weekend for the Pacific-10 Confer-
ence and Cal, but another dismal one
for Stanford’s NFL hopefuls. For the
second year in a row, no Cardinal
player was selected in the seven
rounds of the draft, though some will
undoubtedly latch on with teams as
undrafted free agents.
On the whole, however, it was a
banner weekend for some in the Pac-
10, and especially USC. The Trojans
led the way with 11 players selected
on the weekend, including three in
the first round. Oregon State was
next in the conference with seven
players selected; Oregon had six, Cal
had three, Arizona and Arizona
State each had two, Washington
State had one and UCLA and Wash-
ington joined the Cardinal in the oh-
for category.
For the Trojans, the weekend
must have seemed especially sweet.
Beginning with the fifth overall pick,
when the Jets traded up to land for-
mer Southern Cal signal-caller Mark
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Sanchez, a veritable parade of Tro-
jans had their names called in New
Stanford ace Missy Penna struckout seven batters in as many innings in the York. What’s more, eight of the
Cardinal’s game against Oregon State on Sunday. Penna threw 23 innings for
the Cardinal over the weekend, earning her 15th and 16th shutouts of the year. Please see GRIFFIN, page 5
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Classies Work! junior left fielder Toby Gerhart in
the sixth inning — it was the first and
only home run Guilmet has giving up
in over 60 innings.
make it 2-1. Perhaps the most im-
portant play of the game came in
the next half inning, when Arizona
tried the squeeze play with a runner
on third and one out. Mooneyham
charged the bunt and flipped it to
sophomore catcher Zach Jones,
who absorbed a hit and put the tag
down just in time to get Wildcat left
fielder Brad Glenn at the plate and
able to climb out of the one-run
deficit.
Four Cardinal batters finished
with multi-hit games, including
Gerhart, who went two-for-three
with two runs and two RBI, and hit
his fifth home run of the season.
Walsh, August and Jones all added
two-hit games, Milleville delivered
a pair of RBI, and Kiilsgaard went

BUNNIES!
Saturday: Stanford 3, Arizona 1
Stanford turned to its other star
freshman pitcher, Brett Mooney-
ham, to shut down the Wildcats and
Don’t you know The even the series on Saturday. The tall
Daily lacks the left-hander allowed just one run on
Where have we been money to have four hits in 6.2 innings of work, and
all this time? space for us? handed the ball off to sophomore
close Drew Storen in the seventh in-
ning. Storen then picked up a seven-
out save. Mooneyham struggled with
control at times, but for the most part
was able to get outs whenever Ari-
zona threatened to score.
Stanford scored a run in the first
inning after Arizona starter Kyle
Simon walked the first three Cardi-
nal batters, but Arizona tied the
Yeah, well, printing a game in the top of the fourth on an
paper sure ain’t. RBI single by star first baseman
But my services are Dillon Baird. Milleville gave Stan-
free! ford the lead right back when he
smashed his eighth home run of the
year over the left field fence to
preserve the lead.
“[Mooneyham] is a good athlete
and he made a good play there,”
Marquess said. “That was a bang-
bang play, and that was a big play be-
cause that saved a run there. In a
close game, that is a huge play.”
Stanford’s third run came when
senior Joey August drove in sopho-
more Jake Schlander with an RBI
single in the fifth. Mooneyham
picked up the win to improve his
record to (4-2).
Sunday: Arizona 7, Stanford 6
The Wildcats scored two runs in
the first inning and held the lead al-
most the entire game, but Stanford
was always right on their heels. Ari-
zona never held a lead larger than 6-
3, and that only lasted briefly. In fact,
each time Arizona scored after the
fifth inning, Stanford put up the
same number of runs in the bottom
half the inning, but finally proved un-
one-for-two and drew three walks.
Still, the Cardinal wasn’t able to
capitalize and stranded 13 runners
on base.
Freshman outfielder Steve Sel-
sky scored two runs on four hits for
Arizona, and shortstop Bryce Orte-
ga blasted a home run and finished
two-for-three with three runs and
two RBI to keep the Wildcats out in
front.
Stanford starter junior Jeffrey
Inman picked up the loss by allow-
ing four runs on seven hits in 4.1 in-
nings and fell to 1-6, while Arizona
pitcher Cory Burns tossed two
shutout innings to earn the win in
his first decision of the season.
The Cardinal returns to action
tonight when they host San Francis-
co (22-22, 8-7 WCC) at Klein Field at
Sunken Diamond at 5 p.m.
Contact Erik Adams at ekadams
@stanford.edu.

SOFTBALL
The Bunnies make a temporary return.
Continued from page 4
shot.
“I thought it was going to be off
the wall, so I was still running hard,”
she recalled.
Stanford put two more runners
classmate Maya Burns further guar-
anteed productivity from both the
top and the bottom of the order.
Koutz, who hit sixth in the order,
stressed this point.
“Up and down production is real-
ly important,” she said.“It’s nice to fi-
nally put it together and get a sweep.”
Stanford outscored its opponents
12-3 on the weekend, sweeping the
Oregon schools for the second time
in as many years.
Stanford stays in Palo Alto to face
Arizona State on Friday, May 1 at 7
p.m.
Contact Chris Fitzgerald at chrishfitz@
gmail.com.

across in the third; after Hansen sin-
gled to lead off the inning and Ko-
plitz was hit by a pitch, senior Mad-
die Coon knocked one into the gap
between right and center, scoring
two. Stanford tacked on its final run
in the fourth after loading the bases
with nobody out for the third time in
as many games.
Haber entered play Sunday with
a .430 batting average, and the two-
time All-American improved her av-
erage and belted three singles on the
day. Multiple hits from freshman
Sarah Hassman and a single from
GRIFFIN
Continued from page 4
school’s 11 overall players to be se-
lected were picked in the fourth
round or earlier, a rare display of
confidence in players from a single
program.
In the end, it was the kind of
topsy-turvy weekend in the Bay
Area that only the NFL Draft can
bring. While Raiders fans mourned
in Oakland, 49ers fans danced in San
Francisco. And while Cal players
and fans rejoiced in Berkeley, all
was quiet at Stanford. But the beau-
tiful thing about the draft is this: de-
spite all our initial impressions,
nothing is final. There’s still time for
everyone — from the speedy but
unheralded Heyward-Bey to the un-
drafted Stanford stars — to change
our minds. In the NFL Draft, the ul-
timate rule, as always, is that time
will tell.
Denis Griffin already has a Michael
Crabtree jersey. Contact him at dj-
griff@stanford.edu.

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TENNIS TAKES ON PAC-10S

MEN’S TENNIS WOMEN’S TENNIS
Card wins Tourney serves as NCAA prep
both Pac- By ANTHONY NGUYEN
STAFF WRITER
her second-round match versus
UCLA’s Yasmin Schnack in a 6-2, 6-
1 decision.
over her teammate.
In the other quarterfinal match,
Nguyen fell 6-1, 6-1 to USC’s Aman-

10 titles The No. 13 Stanford women’s

By ALYSSA AHLUWALIA
The Stanford men’s tennis team
entered Ojai, California on Thursday
for the Pacific-10 Championship
tournament, and by Sunday had won
the fight for both singles and doubles
championship titles.
Freshman Bradley Klahn earned
the title in both singles and doubles
following Sunday’s competition, in
which he dominated USC’s Steve
Johnson, 7-6(4), 6-4, and then later
defeated Bruin opponents Michael
Look and Eugen Brazdil, 6-3, 3-6, 7-
6(2), with his partner Ryan Thacher.
The Cardinal had five players
enter into the singles bracket —
Klahn and Ryan Thacher, sopho-
more Alex Clayton, junior Richard
Wire and senior Blake Muller. Like-
wise, in the doubles bracket, the Car-
dinal had four entering teams —
Wire and Muller, Klahn and Thacher,
Clayton and sophomore Ted Kelly
and invitational team sophomore
Greg Hirshman and senior Jeff
Zeller.
Clayton and Klahn found early
victories that advanced them to the
quarterfinals of the championship
singles bracket. Early Thursday
morning, Klahn beat out Amit Inbar
of UCLA, 6-3, 6-2, in the round of 32.
He continued to defeat USC’s Ab-
dullah Magdas, 6-4, 6-3. Likewise,
Clayton defeated opponents Jose
Izquierdo of Oregon, 6-4, 7-6, and
Matt Kecki of USC, 7-5, 7-5.
Meanwhile,Thacher crushed Ore-
gon’s Alexander Cornelissen,5-7,7-6,
6-1, before losing to the Golden
Bears’ Pedro Zerbini, 6-2, 6-4. Muller
and Wire found even earlier exits
after being defeated by UCLA team-
mates Holden Seguso, 6-2, 6-1, and
Michael Look, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, respec-
tively.
In the quarterfinals on Friday,
Clayton and Klahn continued to
shine, and both advanced to the semi-
finals of the singles bracket. Klahn
defeated UCLA’s Matt Brooklyn, 7-
6, 6-4, and Clayton won over Ari-
zona’s Andres Carrasco, 6-1, 6-1.
The standings on Saturday found
Klahn in the running for the champi-
onship singles title after his victory
over USC’s Robert Farah, 6-2, 7-5.
Clayton was defeated 6-4, 6-3 by
USC’s Steve Johnson, over whom
Klahn then triumphed on Sunday
morning.
Sophomore Alex Clayton advanced to the men’s singles semifinals before
falling to USC’s Steve Johnson, 6-4, 6-3. Johnson was then defeated by
Clayton’s teammate Bradley Klahn, who took the singles title as a freshman.
In the invitational singles bracket,
Stanford sophomore Greg Hirshman
and senior Jeff Zeller each advanced
to the quarterfinals on Thursday after
winning against respective oppo-
nents of Tommie Murphy of Califor-
nia (4-4) and Alex Rosinski of Wash-
ington, 7-5, 6-2. On Friday, Zeller was
defeated by USC’s Dan Nguyen, 6-1,
6-4, but Hirshman continued on to
beat Duncan MacDonald-Korth 6-2,
6-2, before leaving the tournament
on Saturday after a loss to UCLA’s
Eugen Brazdil, 7-6(4), 6-4.
On the doubles side, Wire and
Muller beat out Arizona’s Carrasco
and Ravid Hazi 8-3 on Friday before
losing to USC’s Abdullah Magdas
and Nguyen 9-8(4). The big shocker,
however, came when Klahn and
Thacher advanced beyond UCLA’s
Holden Seguso and Brooklyn to de-
feat the nation’s No. 2 pair in Farah
and Johnson of USC.
After Saturday’s ensuing win
against opponents Derek Drabble
and Martin Kildahl of Washington, 8-
3, Klahn and Thacher found them-
selves in running for the Pac-10 dou-
ble title — and they did not disap-
point come Sunday.
“Klahn and Thacher played a
great game against a worthy oppo-
nent,” said Stanford head coach John
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Whitlinger. “USC is a highly re-
spectable team, and we came
through.”
The invitational doubles bracket
competitors found success as well.
On Friday, Hirshman and Zeller beat
out opponents Tommie Murphy and
Evan Rose of California at a score of
8-4. Then, on Saturday, the pair con-
tinued its domination of USC’s Jason
McNaughton and Daniel Gilner, 8-1,
and continued its success into Sun-
day’s match against another Trojan
pair in Matt Kecki and Andrew Kells.
“It was a great win for Zeller to
come at the end of his college career,”
Whitlinger said.
Overall, the Cardinal’s success
centered on the freshman Klahn who,
after being named Pac-10 Player of
Week on April 20, has already found
two highly anticipated Pac-10 titles.
Despite all of the success at the
Pac-10 Championships, though, the
team is still anticipating the NCAA
Championship, which begins for
Stanford on May 8.
“We hope to host at Stanford,”
Whitlinger said. “[So] we’re treating
our first game as very important — it
is no matter who we play first.”
Contact Alyssa Ahluwalia at
aahluw13@stanford.edu.
tennis team competed at the Pacific-
10 Conference Championships over
the weekend in Ojai, Calif. Though
the Cardinal women did not bring
home any titles this year, the experi-
ence was a positive one for the well-
represented Stanford squad.
“I thought the team’s perform-
ance was pretty good,” sophomore
Hilary Barte said.
In the championship singles
draw, five Stanford players partici-
pated, including Barte, junior Lind-
say Burdette, senior Jessica Nguyen,
sophomore Carolyn McVeigh and
freshman Veronica Li.
Burdette dropped her first-
round match to Cal’s Bojana Bobu-
sic in a hard-fought 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 loss.
McVeigh, meanwhile, bowed out in
Sophomore Carolyn McVeigh had an early exit from women’s singles play,
falling to UCLA’s Yasmin Schnack, 6-2, 6-1. McVeigh and partner Jessica
Nguyen then fell 8-6 in the semifinals in the doubles championship bracket.
Still, Barte, Nguyen and Li all
made it to the quarterfinal round.
On their paths to the quarterfinals,
Nguyen and Li gained some much-
needed revenge over previous foes.
In the first round, Nguyen routed
Cal’s Mari Andersson 6-2, 6-3. Last
weekend, Nguyen fell to Andersson,
as Stanford lost 4-3 to its archrival.
Similarly, Li defeated Southern Cal-
ifornia’s Alison Ramos 6-1, 7-5. Last
month, Ramos got the better of Li in
the first match-up, contributing to
USC’s huge, 5-2 upset of Stanford.
“Jessica’s win over Andersson was
pretty huge,” Barte said of her team-
mate. “[But,] I thought Li beating
Ramos was pretty important as well.”
However, in the quarterfinals,
Barte and Li were set to face each
other, and Barte easily won 6-2, 6-2
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da Fink, leaving Barte alone in the
championship draw.
After going undefeated for near-
ly two months, though, Barte was
shocked by Fink in a 6-4, 2-6, 7-5(5)
upset.The loss broke a 13-match win
streak for Barte that dated back to
Feb. 28 against Washington’s Venise
Chan, and the USC senior went on
to take the championship title.
“I started off really well,” Barte
said. “There was a lot of hype going
into it. It was a tightly contested
match — I had my chances and she
obviously did also.”
In the invitational singles draw,
senior Isamarie Perez, sophomore
Jennifer Yen and freshman Logan
Hansen represented the Cardinal.
Perez and Yen fell in the first and
second round, respectively. Hansen
made the quarterfinals of her draw
before falling 0-6, 6-2, 6-4 to Wash-
ington’s Aleksandra Malovic.
In the championship doubles
draw, Stanford fielded two teams,
Hansen-Li and McVeigh-Nguyen.
The top duo of Barte and Burdette
elected to sit out the tournament to
focus on their singles play.
“We were definitely itching to
play, though,” Barte said of doubles.
Hansen and Li fell out of the first
round with an 8-5 loss to USC’s Fink
and Gabriela Niculescu. McVeigh
and Nguyen outlasted their oppo-
nents in the semifinal round before
falling 8-6 to ASU’s Laila and Nadia
Abdala.
Meanwhile, in the invitational
doubles draw, Perez and Yen
teamed up for the first time this
year. The duo made a surprising run
to the finals, but eventually fell 8-2
to Maya Johansson and Anna-Vik-
toria Lind of UCLA.
“I thought it was awesome,”
Barte said of Perez and Yen. “They
beat some really good teams, and it
was a good showing for them.”
With the Pac-10 Championships
concluded, Stanford’s focus now
turns to the NCAA Championships
in two weeks. Two years removed
from a national title, the Cardinal is
eager to reclaim its place at the top.
“We have the first two rounds of
NCAAs in two weekends’ time,”
Barte said. “We’re all pretty excited
and looking forward to that.”
The NCAA Tournament draw
will be announced on Tuesday. The
first two rounds will be played May
8-10, and the final 16 teams will con-
vene in Texas for the NCAA Cham-
pionships.
Contact Anthony Nguyen at an-
guyen9@stanford.edu.

SPORTS BRIEFS
No Stanford players selected in the NFL Draft
In a repeat of last
April’s NFL Draft, no
Stanford football players
were chosen in New York
this weekend. It was an
unexpected result, as
many predicted that Car-
dinal athletes like defen-
sive end Pannel Egboh
and cornerback Wopamo
Osaisai would be selected
based on their individual
potentials alone.
Egboh and Osaisai
quickly latched onto
teams as undrafted free
agents, though, as Egboh
signed with the San Fran-
cisco 49ers and Osaisai
inked a deal with the San
Diego Chargers.
Still, for a school that
prior to 2008 had at least
three players drafted for
six straight years, it was a
disappointing result. In Stanford cornerback Wopamo Osaisai
addition to Egboh and was one of the Cardinal football players
DRAFT
Continued from page 5
The 49ers also introduced Crabtree at a
news conference at their training complex
Sunday. Wearing a sharp tan suit with a red
tie, the fashion-minded receiver looked the
part of a new Niner while holding up his
new No. 15 jersey — although he said the
outfit was picked out weeks ago, well before
he knew the color scheme matched where
he would spend the next several years.
“I love interacting with my teammates,”
said Crabtree, who won’t participate in much
of the upcoming minicamp while resting his
surgically repaired left foot.“That’s the most
fun part, messing with my linemen and my
DBs, and just having fun with your team.”
The Niners traded their second and
fourth-round picks Saturday to Carolina for
a first-rounder next year, so their highest
pick behind Crabtree was third-rounder
Coffee, the hard-nosed tailback who rushed
for 1,383 yards during the Crimson Tide’s
outstanding season.
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Continued from front page
Coffee didn’t make a pre-draft visit to
Santa Clara, but he already has watched
Frank Gore enough to know he’ll enjoy
being the San Francisco star’s backup.
“I’d probably want to run you over first,
but if I can’t run around you, I’m going to try
to make you miss and get away from you,”
Coffee said.“Trust me, if I see a hole, I won’t
think twice about lowering my head.”
Singletary envisions Coffee doing a bit
of the dirty work for Gore, who has been in-
credibly durable in four seasons with the
49ers despite his lengthy injury history. Cof-
fee is just 6 feet tall, but could add 10 to 20
pounds of muscle in the next couple of
years.
“Whatever Frank leaves over, whatever
little bit Frank leaves on the plate, then (Cof-
fee) can pick it up,” Singletary said. “Coffee
is a downhill guy. There’s not a lot of slash in
him. He’s just coming right at you.”
Singletary valued McKillop, the Niners’
first pick in the fifth round, for his versatility
and immediate usefulness on special teams.
The 49ers won’t be in a similar rush to use
Davis, the Mid-American Conference’s of-
fensive player of the year while leading Ball
State to the title game.

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Osaisai, longtime starters
like running back Antho- overlooked during the NFL Draft, mark-
ny Kimble and center ing the second consecutive year in which
Alex Fletcher were not no Stanford players were selected.
taken, and as of this arti-
cle’s writing, had not signed free agent contracts, although both are
expected to do so. Other players who may latch on to professional
squads include linebacker Pat Maynor and offensive tackle Ben
Muth.
The Pacific-10 Conference in general had a hot-and-cold draft
season. USC had 11 players selected, and Oregon State and Oregon
had seven and six players taken, respectively. But, along with Stan-
ford,Washington and UCLA had no athletes selected. Bay area rival
Cal had three players chosen, although two came in the final round.
Women’s lacrosse wins MPSF Championship
In what has become its usual fashion, the No. 14 Stanford women’s
lacrosse team earned the top spot in the Mountain Pacific Sports Fed-
eration (MPSF), winning its fifth consecutive conference champi-
onship on Sunday. It was the team’s 12th in 15 years. The Cardinal
trampled Cal’s Golden Bears, 18-13, in the tournament’s final after
dominating UC-Davis, 17-3 on Friday.
Although the game went back-and-forth early on, including three
lead changes and seven ties before the 25-minute mark, Stanford
maintained steady control of the match-up after gaining a 9-7 lead.
Individually, Cardinal sophomores Leslie Foard and Karen Nes-
bitt shined brightest. Foard registered a career-high five goals and
CHRIS SEEWALD/The Stanford Daily
MPSF Player of the Year Lauren Schmidt offered three goals and two
assists in Stanford’s victory over Cal. With the win, the Cardinal
claimed its fifth consecutive conference title.
one assist in the finale, and Nesbitt was deemed the tournament’s
Most Valuable Player after posting three goals, two assists and three
draw controls of her own. Stanford also got significant contributions
from MPSF Player of the Year junior Lauren Schmidt (three goals,
two assists), senior Jamie Nesbitt (two goals), junior Eleanor Foote
(forced four turnovers), and sophomore Ashley Aruffo.
With the win, the Cardinal extended its MPSF Tournament win-
ning streak to 12 games, a stretch that goes back to 2004. Stanford re-
turns to action in non-conference play, taking on Louisville at home
on Thursday at 3 p.m.
Please see Thursday’s Daily for a preview of that match-up, and a
further recap of this weekend’s games.
— By Wyndam Makowsky and Haley Murphy
Meanwhile, the Cardinal’s hitting dropped
to .267 for the final three sets, and its sideout
percentage was 69. Over the last three sets, the
Trojans jumped out to early leads, and al-
though the Cardinal responded with runs of its
own, Stanford could not gain a lead in any of
the last three sets. In particular, the Cardinal
had trouble defending USC’s outside hitters
Murphy Troy and Tony Ciarelli,who combined
for 49 kills in the match. McKibbin was anoth-
er source of trouble for the Cardinal, notching
69 assists and 16 digs, both match highs.
Stanford was led by junior opposite Evan
Romero’s 21 kills, followed by freshman out-
side hitter Brad Lawson with 15 kills,and soph-
omore outside hitter Spencer McLachlin with
12 kills. Junior setter Kawika Shoji, who was
just named to the All-MPSF First Team, also
had 61 assists and five kills on six attempts.
Meanwhile, freshman libero Erik Shoji added
15 digs,giving him 447 for the year,which is be-
lieved to be the NCAA record,although no of-
ficial dig statistics have been kept.
After such impressive individual perform-
ances and the team’s early lead, the Cardinal
was devastated to end its season this way.
“The locker room was completely silent,”
Ellis said. “When [Kosty] came to address us,
he thanked the seniors, but he was still at a loss
for words.”
Despite the tough loss, this season was a
great step forward for the Cardinal program,
as its 21 wins marks the most in 12 years.
The USC match ended the Stanford careers
of its four seniors, middle blocker Cameron
Christoffers, middle blocker Brandon
Williams, setter Miki Groppi and libero Jarod
Keller.
Apart from its losses, the team is optimistic
about continuing its turnaround from a 3-25
record two years ago to its status this year as a
national powerhouse.
“[In the locker room,] everyone was saying
it’s going to be different next year,” Ellis said.
Contact Jacob Jaffe at jwjaffe@stanford.edu.