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February 19, 2009 Issue 13

DAILY EXCLUSIVE

Men look to rebound after loss
By DENIS GRIFFIN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
It looks increasingly unlikely that
the Stanford men’s basketball squad
will find a way to sneak into the NCAA
Tournament. Now, it is becoming clear
that any remaining hope likely rests on
a Pacific-10 Conference Tournament
win and the automatic bid that goes
with it.
But that wasn’t always the case in a
season that initially looked so promis-
ing for the Stanford men (15-8, 4-8 Pac-
10). Flash back to just a few short
weeks ago, to Jan. 24, when the Cardi-
nal lost to Oregon State to fall to 13-4
overall and 3-4 in conference play.
Without the presence of senior point
guard Mitch Johnson, the Beavers
trounced Stanford 72-60, riding a ca-
reer night from Calvin Hayes (25
points) and Seth Tarver (19 points).
After the game, the Cardinal’s atti-
tude was one of frustration, as it had
been upset by a team it was expected
by many to beat handily, especially at
home.
OREGON STATE
2/19 Corvallis, Ore. 7:00 P.M.
NOTES: On Jan. 24, Oregon State came into
Maples Pavilion and soundly defeated Stanford
to the tune of 77-62. Tonight, the Cardinal will
try to return the favor when it travels to Corval-
lis, Ore. to take on the Beavers. In the first
meeting, senior Lawrence Hill was held to just
eight points and four rebounds. The Cardinal
will need a greater contribution from its senior
forward to beat the Beavers and take an impor-
tant step towards a shot at the Pac-10 title.
Open try-outs
for new kicker
Football to hold campus-wide search for a
kickoff specialist; men and women welcome
By DENIS GRIFFIN
DESK EDITOR
“They played with much more ener-
gy and more confidence than we did,” For Stanford football fans looking to get more in-
said senior Anthony Goods after the volved, this could be the news you’ve been waiting for:
loss.“They came out and threw the first The Cardinal has scheduled an open try-out for March 6
punch and played tough for 40 min- in an attempt to find a new kickoff specialist.
utes.” It’s no secret that the Cardinal struggled on kickoffs
“They out-fought us,” added coach last season, tallying just two touchbacks compared to
Johnny Dawkins. “They out-executed eight by opponents.The Nov. 15 home game against USC
us and they won. I thought from start to was particularly rough for the Stanford special teams, as
finish they played a very good ball the Trojans notched four touchbacks and racked up 230
game.” yards and a touchdown on four returns.
Despite professing a determination So after failing to recruit a player out of high school to
to bounce back following the loss, what fill the kickoff role, head coach Jim Harbaugh decided it
followed was nothing short of disas- was time to turn to the
trous for the Cardinal’s postseason student body in hopes
chances. Stanford lost its third game by
INSIDE HUSTLE of adding another gen-
just one point to USC before being uine asset to a program
blown out by UCLA. Losses at home  WHAT on the rise.
against Washington and at Cal — the Football holds campus-wide “We’re trying to
latter after being up by 22 points with find the best person on
try-outs for a new kickoff campus that can kick
4:33 remaining in the first half — fur-
ther chipped away at Stanford’s record specialist. off,” Harbaugh said.
and hopes. Now, just a shred of opti- “There’s a real need
mism remains.  WHEN there for our football
“You’ve got to look at it like a bless- Friday, March 6 at 5 p.m. team, and it’s a spot
ing if you’re playing anywhere [in the that would help Stan-
postseason],” Goods told The San Jose  WHERE ford football. We need
Mercury News of the likelihood that T.B.A. to make sure we’ve un-
the Cardinal could likely be headed for covered every av-
a lesser postseason tournament this  WHY enue.”
year. “A lot of guys go home at the end Defensive ends and
Because you always thought special teams coach D.
of the season . . . If we’re selected to
play in any tournament, we definitely kickers have it easy. J. Durkin described the
need to look at it as a positive. But right Find out for yourself. kind of player the
here and now, I think it’s best for us to coaches are hoping to
aim high.” find as an undergraduate student looking to make an im-
“The only way we can go about that
is by looking at the next game as a
pact on Stanford football.
“The reason we’re doing this, and what we’re looking
must-win every time,” senior Kenny for, is a guy with leg strength,” he said.“Someone who has
Brown told The Mercury News. “What a background in kicking — football would be great, but
better time to prepare for [the Pac-10 even in soccer — [but] leg strength is the No. 1 thing. We
Tournament] than now,right before it.” feel like, [if] we get a guy with leg strength, then we can
coach the technique of it, get him polished up and cleaned
With just those small hopes remain-
ing, the Cardinal will face the team that up on it.”
helped kick-start its string of misfor- Durkin added that while the team was looking for im-
tune back in January, as it travels to mediate help on kickoffs, an expanded role could be pos-
Corvallis, Ore. to take on the Beavers sible for any kicker who made the team.
(11-13, 5-8). OSU has had to deal with “Really,the main intent of it is I’d like to find a guy who
difficulties of its own recently, and is can help us with kickoffs, first and foremost,” he said.
coming off a three-game losing streak. “Progressing into the placekicker [role], someone who
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STAYING ON TOP
Stanford women look to dam the Beavers
By DANIEL BOHM
STAFF WRITER
Coming off of a thrilling victory
against archrival Cal on Saturday, the
Stanford women’s basketball team is
looking to carry its momentum into
tonight as the Cardinal plays host to
Oregon State at Maples Pavilion.
Stanford enters the game tied with
Cal atop the Pacific-10 at 11-1 in con-
ference games. The Cardinal is now
guaranteed at least a share of the Pac-
10 Championship if it wins out. The
Beavers, on the other hand, sit in sixth
place in the conference with a record
of 6-7 in Pac-10 play.
Tonight’s contest will be the sec-
ond time the Cardinal and the
Beavers square off this season, with
Stanford having won the first meeting
69-54 in Corvallis.
The Cardinal is led by Jayne Appel,
who is averaging 15.7 points and 9.4
rebounds per game. The junior center
was awarded her fourth Pac-10 Player
AGUSTIN RAMIREZ/The Stanford Daily of the Week award of the season after
Sophomore Kayla Pedersen and the Stanford women look to keep rolling through the Pac-10 with a win over the Beavers dominating Cal’s star center Devanei
tonight at home. Pedersen is averaging 10.8 points and 7.9 rebounds per game this season. Hampton over the weekend. In the
game, Appel scored 22 points and
grabbed 14 rebounds to carry the Car-
dinal to a come-from-behind victory.
Stanford also got a typically effi-
cient game from senior forward Jillian
Harmon, who scored 18 points on 8-
13 shooting.
As redshirt junior guard Rosalyn
Gold-Onwude said after the Cal vic-
tory on Saturday, “I think we made
our statement.” Now, the Cardinal
will look to make sure that that state-
ment sticks against Oregon State.
The Beavers’ top threat is Talisa
Rhea, a sophomore guard who leads
the Beavers in scoring 14 points a
game. Appel will also likely have her
hands full down low, dealing with Ore-
gon State centers Tiffany Ducker and
Alex Mitchell. Both are starters and
give the Beavers a large presence in
the paint. As a result, rebounding will
be a priority for the Cardinal tonight.
Stanford will likely need a strong
game from Kayla Pedersen to help
combat the size of Oregon State. The
6-foot-4 sophomore forward averages
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OREGON
STATE
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7 P.M.
NOTES: The Stanford women take on
the Beavers tonight at Maples Pavil-
ion, hoping to cool off one of the
hottest teams in the country — OSU
has won four of its last five. But the
Cardinal has momentum of its own,
coming off a 17-point thrashing of
No. 3 Cal on Saturday. Furthermore,
Stanford has only lost to the Beavers
once in the last 29 meetings between
the teams. The Cardinal’s post players
will be tested, as Oregon State uses
two strong centers in senior Tiffany
Ducker and Sophomore Alex Mitchell,
a Berkeley native.

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2 N Thursday, February 19, 2009 The Stanford Daily

NEWS
Rubik’s cubing STUDENT GOV’T

Experts talk GSC passes

human rights
Conference on China starts today
By CASSANDRA FELICIANO
STAFF WRITER
A group of academic experts and
political bigwigs will be participating
on campus today and tomorrow in a
student-organized conference on
the role of China in humanitarian
crises. The two-day event, hosted by
Students Taking Action Now:
Darfur (STAND), will mix partici-
pants from the government, civil
society, private sector and academia
in an effort to move forward on the
issue of China and human rights.
Ambassador Richard
Williamson, former Special Envoy
to Sudan, is one of the featured par-
ticipants in the conference.
The concept of structured discus-
sion is a common theme throughout
the conference and in the mindsets
of many who hope to resolve the
crises in Sudan and surrounding
areas. Williamson, who is the
keynote speaker, adopts that notion
as part of the main points he would
like to convey to the attendees of
the conference.
“If we have structure relation-
organized last spring specifically to
execute the China Conference —
began sketching out plans for this
event in fall 2007 but only assem-
bled a full team, complete with a fac-
ulty advisory board, last spring. The
idea was brought forth by co-term
candidate Seth Silverman’09 and
further expanded on by Kapur, who
believed that China was an obstacle
to resolving the humanitarian crises
in countries such as Chad,
Myanmar, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
“We’ve been working on this
Sudan subject for a very long time
and the U.S. can only put so much
pressure,” Kapur said. “If China is
still providing Sudan with arms and
buying oil from them, our sanctions
and our efforts don’t really help.”
The China Conference — the
first of its kind at Stanford — was
originally planned for last spring;
however, the magnitude of the con-
ference and the difficulty of inviting
speakers pushed back the date to
almost six months later. It was
Silverman’s connections with impor-
tant political players in this issue —
built after a quarter with the
spending
bill
Campaign spending
capped at $1,500
By DANIEL BUI
STAFF WRITER
Last night, the Graduate Student
Council (GSC) passed a bill for
campaign spending caps after thor-
ough discussion with the ASSU
Executives and representatives from
the Undergraduate Senate.
The Fiscally Responsible
Campaign Spending Bill would pro-
pose a cap of $1,500 dollars spent on
any individual campaign. The legis-
lation is meant to encourage candi-
dates to allocate their spending
much more carefully. However,
JIN ZHU/The Stanford Daily
when the idea for a limitation on
Stanford’s Annenberg Auditorium played host to the EPGY Winter 2009 Rubik’s Cube competition on spending was introduced at Tuesday
Saturday, Feb. 14. Stanford students Leyan Lo (above, blindfolded) and Lucas Garron (not pictured) finished night’s Undergraduate Senate meet-
first in the 3x3x3 and 3x3x3 bildfolded events, respectively. ing, a small number of ASSU sena-
tors voiced their concerns about the
bill’s enforcement.
“I think the overriding concern
SPEAKERS & EVENTS was how you can enforce this in a
way that it does not promote sub-
Levite urges nuclear responsibility versive behavior,” explained ASSU
Vice President Fagan Harris ‘09. “If

Please see GSC, page 6

ships across the board, maybe we
can have more constructive discus-
sions,” Williamson said in an inter-
view with The Daily. “The U.S. has to
engage with China; it’s important to
have a constructive relationship.”
Given that, Williamson showed a
slightly skeptical view to China’s
response to any proposed formal
cooperation.
“I’m told by my predecessor that
with respect to passing the resolu-
tion for UN Peacekeepers, China
was helpful, and I’m willing to
accept that as true,” he said. “I just
can’t think of a thing during my 10
years as special envoy that I can
point to, disappointingly. My experi-
ence has not witnessed much coop-
eration from them.”
Emma Cobert ‘1l and April
Kapur ‘10, co-chairs of China in the
21st Century — a student group
CAMPUS LIFE
Stanford in Washington program —
and the help of various other
Stanford student organizations, such
as Six Degrees and Stanford in
Government, that allowed STAND
to finalize and put on the event.
Featuring a diverse panel of pro-
fessors from prestigious institutions
across the country, as well as other
important political figures, the
China Conference begins today and
will continue through tomorrow
afternoon. While the event is open
to all Stanford students, 150 of which
have already registered and con-
firmed attendance, other invitations
were first extended to specific
departments with graduate students
that STAND believed are really pas-
sionate about the issue.
“As much as we do want to fill
Please see CHINA, page 6
By CALLA SHENG
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Last night, Israeli nuclear security expert Ariel
Levite spoke at Arillaga Alumni Center about the
promises and challenges of nuclear power. Levite was
the keynote speaker for Stanford’s 2009 Drell Lecture,
a Stanford Center for International Security and
Cooperation (CISAC) sponsored event.
“I think we’re beginning to see unfold in front of
our eyes a race to acquire new nuclear public
resources,” said Levite, who serves as a senior associ-
ate at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, and is a member of the Israeli Inter-Ministerial
Steering Committee on Arms Control and Regional
Security. “It’s a race in the sense of the pace that is
quickening, in terms of the scope that is global, and in
terms of the dynamics, where we may be seeing one
country going in a direction as far as the others, to do
very much, very much the same.”
According to Levite, most countries face the chal-
lenge of replacing retiring reactors with new facilities.
Equally urgent is the need to educate a new genera-
tion of competent operators to man these new facili-
ties. Despite those hardships, nuclear energy is becom-
ing all the more attractive. Not only is it undisturbed
by weather conditions, unlike solar or wind energy, it Daily Poll Question
also eliminates the problem of greenhouse gas emis- Do you think the University has a responsi-
bility to make contraceptives affordable for
sion. students?
“But, the story is a hell lot more complicated,”
Levite said. “For all its appeal, nuclear power does a) Yes
have limitations, does have stringent requirements, b) No
does raise some risks. We should be painfully aware of c) No opinion
many of those cases.” d) Contraceptives?
The suppliers that constitute the nuclear food chain vote today at stanforddaily.com!
are few and far between.The inexperience of people in
the industry and behind the construction of reactors is
a severe problem. Levite cited the example of France’s
first new-generation reactor constructed in Finland.
“What it turns out is that after a couple of years of NEWS BRIEFS
construction, they are already more than three years
behind schedule, and more than two billion euros over
budget,” he said. “One can actually see what inexperi-
ence actually amounts to.”
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LAWSUIT AGAINST
FINANCIAL GROUP
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
The University released a state-

Students push for change in contraceptives’price ment yesterday affirming Stanford

By JENNY REMPEL
STAFF WRITER
With the economy in dire straits and the
University facing tough decisions regarding
budget cuts, students who have been strug-
gling with the high cost of contraceptives,
which nearly doubled this year for students
buying birth control through Vaden Health
Center, are running out of options.
The federal Deficit Reduction Act of
2005 resulted in the closure of a legislative
loophole that had allowed pharmaceutical
companies to cut deals with low-income clin-
ics and college universities to provide cheap-
er birth control to students. Last year, a
monthly contraceptive pack cost $10, said
Vaden’s Director of Medical Services Dr.
Robyn Tepper in an email to The Daily. This
year, the price has risen.
“We recently ran out of all of the pills we
had purchased at the lower prices,” Tepper
said. “Pill prices are variable. Most generics
are $19 dollars a pack, but brands may cost
from $25 to over $100 dollars.”
While Tepper does not expect the recent
wave of budget cuts to affect contraceptive
prices, she is concerned about the price
increase and students’ ability to purchase
birth control given the current economic cli-
mate.
“Contraceptive management is the third
most common diagnosis for patients we see
at Vaden,” she said. “So for those of us pro-
viding healthcare services at the Vaden
Health Center, affordable birth control is of
major importance.”
Students shared Tepper’s opinion. Kate
Benham ‘09 served as co-president of
Stanford Students for Choice last year.
When it became clear that the prices would
rise last spring, Benham conducted an infor-
mal survey to see how students would
adjust.
“We found that the majority of them
would continue being sexually active but
didn’t know what they were going to use as
contraception,” Benham said. “Something
like 13 percent said they wouldn’t use any
method. It was very drastic and we felt it
very imperative that the University address-
es this impending health crisis, but they basi-
cally said we don’t have the funds to allocate
for this. So that was pretty much that.”
Although the ASSU Senate passed a res-
olution calling for the University to subsi-
dize contraceptives for students, the situa-
tion did not change. As a result, Meryl Holt
‘09, co-president of Stanford Students for
Choice with Benham, came up with the idea
of creating an endowment for reproductive
health.
She began working to find donors before
the financial crisis hit, but since then has
decided to postpone her efforts.
“We’re trying to get the issue back into
the news and back into people’s minds, espe-
cially because now more than ever it’s
important for women to have easy access to
affordable birth control,” said Holt, who also
serves on The Daily’s editorial board. “But
it’s difficult to raise the issue — sort of the
money issue — when the University is really
reeling from the effects of budget cuts.”
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plays out, the University seeks to
take preventative measures in
response to the confusion and repu-
tation injury to Stanford
University’s image as a result of the
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light high cost of birth control President, Editor in Chief

In Ho Lee
Chief Operating Officer
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V
Eve Ensler — V-Day founder and di-
rector of the award-winning “Vagina
Monologues,” coming to campus this Friday
to speak about women’s sexual health —
and Valentine’s Day romance still in the air.
Yet the absence of dialogue on campus
about the rising cost of birth control is
alarming.
As this month’s back-to-back, sold-out
performances of the “Vagina Monologues”
confirm, women on this campus are more
vocal and empowered to demand sexual
equality than ever before. In addition to the
success of the show, student groups came out
in force to rally for safe sex on Sexual Health
Day last Thursday in White Plaza, distribut-
ing contraception information.
Amid the commotion V-Day stirs, and the
“Monologues’” cry for women to take con-
trol of their bodies, the editorial board won-
ders:Why has the dialogue about rising costs
of birth control been lost in the shuffle?
In the past year, prices for birth control
for students without Cardinal Care have
more than doubled.At the same time,Vaden
Health Center’s supply of affordable pill
packs is dwindling.The rise reflects a nation-
al trend in costs for basic protective care for
female college students throughout the
country.
We know the economy is suffering and
that budgets across the board are stretched,
but high oral contraceptive costs for female
students should not be among the burdens
forced on students, especially given the fact
that over 39 percent of college women re-
port using oral contraception according to a
2006 survey by the American College Health
Association. No event underlined the chal-
lenges of teen pregnancy in the media more
than the teenage pregnancy of Bristol Plain,
daughter of Republican vice presidential
candidate Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska). In
Editorial Board Chairs
ating seniors wondering how they will afford Devin Banerjee Emma Trotter Ben Cohen
Cris Bautista
their own healthcare, unplanned children Managing Editor of Features Copy Editor
Kamil Dada Head Graphics Editor
are the last thing female students can afford. Masaru Oka
Recently, Stanford has been on the cut- Michael Londgren Becca del Monte
Managing Editor of Photo Samantha Lasarow
ting edge when it comes to safe sex. Last Head Copy Editor Graphics Editor
Theodore Glasser
year, Trojan Condoms awarded Stanford a
No. 1 ranking in its third annual sexual Robert Michitarian
health report card, citing broad contracep- Glenn Frankel
tion availability as one of the reasons Stan-
ford rose from its 2007 ranking of #41.At the Contacting The Daily: Section editors can be reached at (650) 723-2555 from 3 to 10 p.m. The Advertising Department can be reached at (650) 723-2555 ext. 401, and the
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fered birth control at a significantly dis-
counted rate to all Stanford students, regard-
less of their insurance status. Even without
Cardinal Care, women could purchase dis-
counted birth control from Vaden’s pharma-
cy for as little as $10. Currently, costs are es-
timated at $19 for the cheapest birth control
for students without Cardinal Care.
The increase in cost is not the result of
Vaden policy, but rather a mandate forced by
the U.S.Congress.When the 2005 Deficit Re-
duction Act was signed into law, it ended a
practice by which drug manufacturers pro-
vided prescription contraceptives to univer-
sity health centers at discounted rates. As a
result of this new law, it is more difficult for
Vaden to sell contraceptives at the previous
discounted rate.
The current administration in Washing-
ton has taken a friendlier stance on birth
control than the Bush administration, so
there is hope that if protests are loud
enough, subsidized birth control for all
women may come back to campuses. Stan-
ford should do its part. No matter where in-
dividuals stand on this issue, there needs to
be a more public debate regarding the on-
campus price of contraceptives. We encour-
age the administration, students and campus
healthcare officials to sit down and have a
public dialogue regarding the rising price of
contraceptives.

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S TEAL T HIS C OLUMN

A triumph of reason, for now D EMBY D OWNER Nicole Demby

young man from Beirut, Lebanon sat

A directly in front of me.To his left sat an-

other student from Tehran, Iran.Then,
to his right, a surprising sight: a former Israeli
soldier and the former soldier’s friend, also
from Israel. Not what you might call the typi-
cal Sunday-night dinner crew.
They, and 15 others, had all come to this
room to finally talk.
The evening of Feb. 8 brought vision into
reality, a reality I had long been hoping to see
at Stanford. Twenty or so Stanford students
who care deeply about the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict — be they from Israel, the Palestinian
territories, other countries in the Middle East
or elsewhere (the latter group including yours
truly, hailing from 10 minutes north of Stan-
ford) — gathered at Tresidder Union to
launch a Middle East dialogue group.
Each member, including the presidents of
the Stanford Israel Alliance, Coalition for Jus-
tice in the Middle East (CJME) and Students
Confronting Apartheid by Israel (SCAI), all
of whom were present as individual members,
not as representatives of their respective
groups, had a different perspective, and to-
gether represented a vast spectrum of views
on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The night was simply intended to allow us
to meet each other before the group’s real
work began, but the launch event symbolized
an unmistakable turnaround in sentiment on
this campus. While listening to the Lebanese
student speak of growing up in Beirut, the
Iranian student describe politics back home
and the Israeli soldier describe his experience
adjusting to the United States,I could not help
but be overjoyed. In each person, a common
humanity shone.
Only a month before, some of these same
people now engaged in conversation had
stood on opposite sides of a bike lane,shouting
slogans.During the weeks that followed the re-
cent Gaza conflict, the campus had seemed
primed for division on this issue once again.
But reason made a comeback. It achieved
its first major victory due to the work put into
creating an environment where all parties
could come together, by people who care
about achieving progress on campus and
peace in the Middle East, particularly Shira
Beery,vice president of Coalition for Justice in
the Middle East, head of the dialogue group
and organizer of its opening dinner. It was
clear that Middle East activists were prepared
to stop yelling and were ready to talk and lis-
ten. And for that, all students who clamored
Mark
Donig
“It’s important not to think of the group as
a means by which people with different politi-
cal opinions can convince each other of their
opinions or come up with a common political
vision,” she said. “The point is to understand
the need to respect that there will inevitably
be differences of opinion, but that we do have
common interests which include advocating
for peace in the Middle East.”
Even with all the optimism,there is,in many
circles, an understandable wariness that this
group may be used as a platform upon which to
once again raise divisive issues to prominence,
in the process not only hurting the dialogue but
hampering the process that dialogue seeks to
create. The campus rift that resulted from
SCAI’s 2007 campaign to divest from Israel is
still fresh in the minds of many, and there is al-
ways a fear that extreme ideologues on either
side of the Israeli-Palestinian issue will see dia-
logue as a threat to their political aims rather
than a necessary step toward reason. Indeed,
nothing would be more harmful to dialogue on
campus than using that very dialogue as a sup-
posed mandate for such one-sided proposi-
tions.But even by the end of that first meeting,
there seemed a clear positive energy and a re-
newed belief that the members truly believe in
the stated purpose of the group.
To say that all beliefs, all views of the crisis
in the Middle East, were represented clearly
would be to overlook those extreme opinions
to which dialogue carries little weight, and
thus those carrying them chose not to become
members of the dialogue group. On the sur-
face, it seems easy enough to disregard those
fringe elements. But they are the ones against
whom those who value dialogue must under-
stand they need to be most vigilant, for it is in-
deed much easier for polarizing figures and
ideas to gain exposure than it is for reasonable,
nuanced discussion to gain traction.
The triumph of dialogue is new, and it is
real. But it is also tenuous. Dialogue is the
means,not the ends,and it is up to each of us to
maintain and protect it from those who seek to
divide, so that we may make real progress to-
ward a new humanization of those with whom
Die Revolution sind Where?: Practical
Revolution 101
ometimes my parents worry about me.
S They think that at times I can be a bit,
shall we say, “dismissive of authority.”
Yet I think what sometimes manifests itself
as rule breaking is really just a curiosity
about where authority is, and why the rules
are what they are. While this curiosity can be
the impetus for me to do very stupid things, it
is also the seeds of my political conscious-
ness.
It all started last year, when I somehow
deluded myself into thinking is was a good
idea to break a lot of art department rules in
the name of a horribly misguided “perform-
ance art” piece (let’s just say the event was
entitled “pARTy”). Needless to say, my
“project” landed me in a lot of hot water (I’m
thankfully still enrolled here).Yet despite the
ill-conceived nature of the piece itself, I think
my intentions were pure. I had long ad-
mired the transgressive work of many avant-
garde and contemporary artists. I was in awe
of the ingenious ways they conceived of to
use tools like humor, surprise and yes, shock,
to get people to think differently about their
world. My own project was conceptually
sloppy. It lacked the singularity and direct-
ness of the artworks I so admired that made
them so effective.As opposed to my own, un-
focused project, these artworks tended to
choose a particular strain of the status quo to
subvert.
Yet the whole experience did lead me to
recognize that many of us have the seeds of
youthful rebellion in us that make us want to
question authority, and that these impulses
can either be destructive or constructive. I
think what determines whether our rebel-
liousness leads to reckless, or noble endeav-
ors, lies in how much effort we put towards
informing ourselves about the world. Since
my brush with the Stanford Man, I have been
thinking incessantly about revolution,
whether it’s necessary, and if it is, what such a
revolution would look like.
I know it would be compelled by some de-
What better place to
start prodding the status
quo than our immediate
surroundings,
the University?
sire for change, a feeling that somehow the
status quo needed to be altered. What better
place to start prodding the status quo than
our immediate surroundings, the University?
Personally, I know that before my aforemen-
tioned brush with the Stanford Man, I never
really considered the magnitude of the Stan-
ford bureaucracy. Being forced to confront
the existence of a little thing called the Judi-
cial Affairs Committee led me to realize just
how many departments and offices operate
on this campus. Do you know that Stanford
employs almost 14,000 people? I began to
understand there was a lot about the Univer-
sity I had been taking for granted. I was too
busy scurrying from classes to parties, trying
to maintain my grades and a social life, to re-
ally question the nature of the place that was
structuring those experiences.
In his column in The New York Times last
week, philosopher Stanley Fish mentioned
University of Ottawa professor Denis Ran-
court, a physics professor who got fired from
the university after awarding all his students
A-pluses when the university wouldn’t allow
him an exclusively pass/fail grading system.
When I read about Rancourt, I was instantly
reminded of the antics of one of my heroes,
the German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys.
Beuys was famously escorted from the Uni-
versity of Dusseldorf by campus police when
he continued to teach after his dismissal. He
was fired after he invited students who had
been rejected by the academy to join his class.
I’m not saying that you should make the
obedience-instilling carrot-and-stick nature
of the grading system or the exclusivity and
social unfairness of university admissions
policies your battle. I’m also not saying there
aren’t causes outside of academia that are
worth your time (we can probably all con-
ceive of greater injustices than a University
of Ottawa student getting a B). But when was
the last time you stopped to think that Stan-
ford could function without a grading system,
or that top-tier universities could let in more
than one out of every 10 students, and that
these differences might even lead to a more
interesting, more free and better educational
environment.
I think it’s a beautiful moment, the nais-
sance of true politics, when a person realizes
that something they’ve always taken for
granted as normative can actually be other-
wise. It is this moment that enables us to dis-
cover what needs to be altered in society.
We should take advantage of being in a
university setting, a place that puts a primacy
on intellectual freedom and a person’s right
to question. Maybe revolution is necessary,
and maybe it isn’t. I tend to think it is, but you
should look around and decide for yourself.
Just don’t tell the art department I sent you.
Nicole is in a third-world country spouting the
Communist Manifesto at disenfranchised
peasants. Email her and tell her how naive she
is at demb33@stanford.edu.

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for a change of tone, all activists who respond-
ed to that call and all student leaders who put
down their signs and came to the table are to
be commended.
In a recent interview,Beery outlined her vi-
sion for what the group has potential to
achieve,defining its goals as much by what this
group is not as by what it is.
we may disagree.But for now,it is indeed a tri-
umph.
Mark Donig likes email and Benjie Molina. He
wants more of the former,and got to meet the lat-
ter down in Scottsdale over the weekend.What a
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SPORTS
A-ROD’S
NEW GAME
BY ANTHONY NGUYEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER

W
hile Alex Rodriguez
rocked the sports world
last week, a different A-
Rod showed up in the Bay
Area. It was Andy Roddick, who head-
lined an impressive draw at the 2009
SAP Open that included Juan Martin
Del Potro, James Blake, Mardy Fish and
Stanford alums Bob and Mike Bryan.
After turning pro in 2000, Roddick
was crowned the next best hope in
American tennis following the Sam-
pras-Agassi era. With a booming serve
VIVIAN WONG/The Stanford Daily
and penetrating forehand,Roddick cap-
The Stanford swimmers and divers head to Berkeley on Saturday for the final dual meet of the season. Although the 2009 Cal squad is not as strong as tured the 2003 U.S. Open title and a
in previous years, the Bears still present a serious hurdle in the Cardinal’s quest for an NCAA title. World No. 1 ranking.
Then came Federer. And soon after,
Nadal.
set, I was in on his serve,” Roddick said.
“I was putting a lot of returns on the
court giving myself a chance.Everything
just felt a little cleaner.”
When asked about his success in San
Jose, Roddick was frank about his con-
nection with the Bay Area, which has
come to know him over the last eight
years.
“I just feel comfortable on this court,”
Roddick said like a player returning to
his hometown. “You’ve played enough
matches out there — I’ve got to be close
to over 30 matches on that court.There’s
a little bit of a relationship with the fans
here — seen me since I was 18 years old
here. I’ve kind of grown up in here in
front of them, or working on it anyway.”

SWIMMERS, DIVERS READY FOR CAL

Stanford puts undefeated season and
No. 1 ranking on the line Saturday
By CHRISTIAN L. TOM and KENAN JIANG
After the dive team provided the swimmers
with positive momentum by winning all their
events at BYU over the weekend, the Stanford
men’s swim team will face off against California
on Saturday, Feb. 21.
Freshman Taylor Sishc won the one-meter
springboard while senior Dwight Dumais cap-
tured the three-meter title. Sishc victory on the
one-meter board marks his first collegiate dual
meet victory. He scored a 307.95 — an automatic
‘A’ qualification for the NCAA Zone E Diving
Championships. Sophomore Brent Eichenseer
came in second with a 301.05 and senior Casey
Weston was third at 297.3. Dumais won the three-
meter in 403.8 while Eichenseer was second with
a score of 401.025, also an ‘A’ mark. Sishc finished
fifth in 303.4 and Weston sixth in 300.9.
On the swimming side, No. 2 Stanford finished
its home dual meet season with wins against CSU
Bakersfield and a strong but overmatched USC
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team last weekend. The Cardinal swimmers are
finishing their last stretch of heavy training in
preparation for Pacific-10 Championships, held
March 4 through March 7 at Long Beach,Calif.At
Pac-10s, Stanford will look to make the NCAA
cuts — time standards that will qualify swimmers
to compete at the NCAA Championships. That
meet will be held at the Texas A&M aquatic facil-
ities in Texas Station from March 26-28.
When Stanford takes on the Bears this week-
end, Cal will be led by Beijing Olympic gold
medalist and All-American Nathan Adrian, who
swims the freestyle sprint and fly events. Besides
its sophomore Olympian, Cal also returns indi-
vidual medley specialist and Estonia National
Team member Martti Aljand, 2008 Olympic
backstroker Guy Barnea and University of Mis-
souri transfer Bennett Clark, an outstanding
freestyle sprinter who will add depth to their
freestyle and medley relays.
“I’m looking forward to seeing, like every
weekend, guys stepping up for meet,” said senior
captain Jason Dunford. “We’ve started the rest
phase — some are well into rest for Pac-10s, so
Saturday could be a very good sign of where these
guys are going to be.”
Cal also has a strong butterfly contingent in
sophomore Nick Cordes, freshman Miller Dou-
glas and senior Ian Lentz. Barnea owns the sec-
ond fastest time in the nation in the 100 back-
stroke, behind only to Stanford’s Eugene Godsoe
— the junior owns the top times in both the 100
and 200 yard distances. Cal’s David Russell, an-
other top-flight backstroker, swam the fourth
fastest time this season in the 100. Both Barnea
and Russell are expected to give Godsoe a close
race on Saturday.
“We know Cal is very strong,” Duford said.
“They have a bunch of Olympians, but on paper
they don’t seem to have the depth we have on our
team. But there are going to be a lot of close races
this weekend, and we will have to be on top of our
game to beat them.”
Olympian breaststroke specialist Damir
Dugonjic has been a powerhouse for Cal in the
100 breaststroke this year, sprinting to the fastest
time in the NCAA early on in the season with an
incredible 52.14 — only a tenth of a second off
Stanford senior Paul Kornfeld’s winning time of
52.03 at the NCAA Championships in 2007-2008.
Dugonjic will battle the Stanford breaststroke
squad of captains Kornfeld and classmate Nate
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While Roddick’s story may be all too
familiar for the American tennis fan, he
still remained a model of consistency
over the last eight years. However, in
2008, Roddick’s early round exits at the
Australian Open and Wimbledon were
causes of great concern for his fans —
was this it for America’s poster child?
In an attempt to revitalize his game,
Roddick hired Larry Stefanksi, former
coach of Fernando Gonzalez,Tim Hen-
man and former World Nos. 1 Marcelo
Rios,Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Stanford
alum John McEnroe.
“The thing that made Larry really ap-
pealing was looking at the people he’s
worked with before me . . . lots of differ-
ent styles, lefties, righties, a lot of strong
personalities,” Roddick said after his
quarterfinal win against Tommy Haas.“I
liked that he was American, that he was
willing to come to Austin. Everything
about him just kind of fit.”
“We’ve always gotten along pretty
well — he was pretty much the only guy
I was looking at,” Roddick added.
And so began a training and diet reg-
imen that saw Roddick lose 15 pounds
before the 2009 Australian Open. With
the added fitness level,Roddick reached
the semifinals of the Open, including an
upset of reigning champion Novak
Djokovic.
Carrying a solid 9-2 record on the
season, Roddick returned to San Jose to
show off his new game as the defending
“It’s just nice to come back to a place
where you’ve had good memories,” he
added.
Though Roddick would falter in the
semifinals against 2008 runner-up
Radek Stepanek, all signs seem to indi-
cate that Roddick is ready for another
Grand Slam run in the near future.
“I was in good shape back then just be-
cause I had played so many matches that
summer,” Roddick said of his 2003 run
in Flushing Meadows.“I think probably
similar right now,as far as getting weight
down and whatnot. I think it’s a lot dif-
ferent that it was last year or the year be-
fore. I feel pretty good — it’s definitely
way better than at anytime in ‘07 or ‘08.”
While Roddick’s fitness may have
changed, his sense of humor certainly
hasn’t.
In the post-game on-court interview,
Roddick polled the audience about
what he should do for Valentine’s Day
for his new fiancee,who openly told him
not to do anything at all. To Roddick’s
joking dismay, the crowd overwhelming
voted for him to get her a gift.
Later, Roddick was asked if he had
any plans with Larry Stefanski.
“What, like dinner plans?” he
quipped.
All joking aside, Roddick’s response
almost seemed like a message to his
doubters.
“We have a tentative schedule in
place,” Roddick said.“We made a lot of

TRY-OUTS| Placekicker wanted SAP Open champion.This year marked strides with the work in Austin we put in
Adams his sixth straight appearance and eighth
overall at the second oldest men’s tour-
before the Australian Open, and I’d like
to keep that up if there’s an off-week and
The Inside Pitch nament in the States — including titles bang out five or six really hard days.”
can kick field goals, that’s something that takes a lot under the program’s belt. in 2004, 2005 and 2008. Though Roddick didn’t come away
more practice and technique and things we’ll have to While Harbaugh and Durkin both acknowledged After two easy opening round with the 2009 title, he gave the Bay Area
work on down the road.” that building enthusiasm among the student body matches, a revitalized Roddick dis- a glimpse of what’s to come in the next

Stanford’s According to Harbaugh, he and his staff were ini-

tially inspired to turn to an open tryout when reading
about Texas Tech’s Matt Williams.The kicker initially
caught the eye of Red Raiders coach Mike Leach
could be a nice, added benefit of the search for a new
kicker, the tryout is far more than a public relations
move as the Cardinal seeks to fill a legitimate spot on
its roster.
patched Haas in the quarterfinals to
break a three-match losing streak
against the tough German.
“Every service game in the second
few months.

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anguyen9@stanford.edu.
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got girl when he drilled a 30-yard field goal during a promo-

tion at a Tech home game.If it could work in Lubbock
— or a few years previously at Boston College —
why not at Stanford?
“I don’t think it’s totally a shot in the dark,”
Durkin said. “It’s something that definitely could
work out.”
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power As Durkin explained, new college rules have

placed even more of an emphasis on the role of the
kick-off specialist.
“They moved the ball [at kickoffs] back to the 30-
yard line last year, and football is a game of field po-
sition — what’s your net punt, what you are gaining
on some other levels, but that’s not the main purpose
of it,” Harbaugh later added. “Probably the biggest
benefit is we’ll meet some more Stanford students. It
should be a fun event, and we don’t see it as a high-
pressure kind of thing. It’s always nice to see some of
just under 11 points and eight re-
bounds a game.
The Cardinal will also look to expe-
right time. Stanford has now won
seven straight and 12 of its last 13 —
with the only loss coming at Cal on
the other students that are really interested in foot- rienced players like Harmon and Jan. 18.With only six games remaining

L
ast fall, the Stanford football
team had their best season
since any of us have been on
the Farm, going 5-7 and hav-
ing several opportunities to earn a
bowl bid. The women’s volleyball
team had a very ordinary year by
their standards, posting a 31-4 record
and reaching the NCAA title game
for the third straight year.
So far this winter, the men’s bas-
ketball team is 15-8 and has exceed
many people’s expectations in the
season following the departure of
the Lopez twins and former head
coach Trent Johnson. The women’s
basketball team has failed to take a
step forward from last season, fol-
lowing up last year’s run to the title
game with only a No. 4 national
ranking and 20-4 record so far in this
campaign.
I guess the girls just can’t keep up
with the boys.
Seriously, though, when it comes
to the more visible team sports at
Stanford, the women are just un-
on kickoffs,” Durkin said. “I thought we did a very
good job of covering kicks last year with the excep-
tion of the USC game, which is probably fresh in
everyone’s mind.
“But you start breaking it down, we had two
touchbacks the entire season,” he continued. “You
kick the ball off 50, 60 times the entire year; if you’re
only getting two of those as touchbacks, it’s obvious
you’re increasing the number of times [your oppo-
nents] return the ball. And the more opportunities
they get, the better chance they have to break one on
you.”
According to Harbaugh, another factor that made
the open tryout option attractive was the predicted
expansion of the team’s roster to roughly 105 players.
The tryout could also pay dividends in raising in-
terest in the team as it heads into spring practices.The
Cardinal fell just one win short of bowl eligibility in
2008 and could be primed for a breakout season in
2009 with plenty of key starters returning on both
sides of the ball and a few strong recruiting classes
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ball and see if they’ve got a talent that could help out
the team.”
Harbaugh even left the door open for a female
student winning the spot, noting that the decision will
be made entirely on the merits of a prospective stu-
dent-athlete’s ability.
“Whoever can kick the ball the farthest, male or
female,” he said.
The tryout is currently scheduled for 5 p.m. on Fri-
day, March 6.According to Durkin, the coaches view
it as a no-lose situation: either the team will find the
leg it’s looking for, or it will be no worse off than it al-
ready was.And either way, all involved should be en-
riched by the opportunity.
“Anytime you’re involving the students in what
we’re doing, to me, you’re gaining from it,” Durkin
said.“They’re our best fans; they support us the best.
So we want to give back a little and give them an op-
portunity to be a part of it.”
Contact Denis Griffin at djgriff@stanford.edu.
MEN Continued from front page
Gold-Onwude for leadership down the
stretch. Harmon is having the best sea-
son of her Stanford career, averaging
10.3 points and 4.9 rebounds per game.
She is Stanford’s jack-of-all-trades: a
good passer and capable scorer. She is
also a solid rebounder and one of
Stanford’s grittiest defenders.
Gold-Onwude also does a bit of
everything for the Cardinal. While her
stats might not jump off the page,
Gold-Onwude is a team player who
has been asked to play multiple posi-
tions throughout the course of the sea-
son. Both she and Harmon will be in-
valuable toward the Cardinal’s post-
season success.
After battling through a grueling
non-conference schedule, head coach
Tara VanDerveer seems to have her
team playing to its potential at the
until the start of the Pac-10 Tourna-
ment, the Cardinal has picked a good
time to get hot.
If the Stanford women can keep up
their winning ways and bring home a
Pac-10 title, they would be in the run-
ning to receive a No. 1 seed in the
NCAA Tournament.A top seed would
mean home-court advantage and a
boost of confidence — but that is still
a long ways away.
In order to achieve the expecta-
tions that had the Cardinal ranked No.
2 in the country in the preseason, Stan-
ford must keep racking up wins. And
that starts by beating the teams that
the Cardinal should beat — like Ore-
gon State, tonight at 7 p.m.
Contact Daniel Bohm at bohmd@stan-
ford.edu.

stoppable. They can never “wow” us
because they consistently set our ex-
pectations so high.
It isn’t a competition, but the men
in the spotlight need to step up. For-
tunately for the guys, spring is just
around the corner — and with it
comes the boys’ best chance to shine.
Yes, the softball team is all but
guaranteed to have an excellent sea-
son, but that doesn’t mean the guys
can’t pick up some points on the
baseball diamond.
Last year, the baseball team was
Please see ADAMS, page 5
Athletic department to sell
Sixth Man seats
The athletic department will sell
seats in the student section to Buck
Cardinal Club members, amongst oth-
ers, for Stanford’s upcoming home
games against No. 20 UCLA and USC
on Feb. 26 and 28, respectively.
According to an email from Stan-
ford Athletics to season-ticket holders
on Wednesday, the seats for sale are
“adjacent to the student section” in sec-
tion 13, which is normally a part of the
Sixth Man section. Sixth Man Director
Alexis Link said that this section ac-
counts for over 200 students.
“The Sixth Man Club has been an in-
tegral part of our team’s success for
years, and the players thrive on the en-
thusiasm and support of their peers,”
said Link. “Selling seats in the Sixth
Man Club sets a bad precedent for the
future that will allow the Director’s Of-
fice to progressively remove more and
more of the student section.”
While student attendance has been
down this year, Link expected next
week’s games against the Los Angeles
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The Beavers fell by three points at home against
Arizona, lost a low-scoring, 49-38 contest against
ASU and were blown out on the road at Washing-
ton before narrowly defeating Washington State,
54-52 on Saturday.
Moreover, with just six conference games re-
maining, Stanford could be staring at its first losing
Pac-10 season since 1992-93. The Cardinal men
would need to win five of six to keep that streak
alive, starting tonight.
Oregon State has been aggressive defensively,
notching 163 steals on the year — a 6.8 steals per
game clip — in its first year under head coach Craig
Robinson, brother-in-law of President Barack
Obama. Unfortunately for the Beavers, the team
has also committed 17 more turnovers than its op-
position this season, with a rate of 13.5 turnovers
per game.
Oregon State is led offensively by sophomore
guard Calvin Haynes, who is scoring 15.2 points per
game and is the only Beaver averaging double dig-
its. It will be interesting to see if Mitch Johnson’s
presence on defense can slow OSU’s perimeter at-
tack. When the teams met in January, Oregon State
was a deadly 5-10 from beyond the arc.
Tip-off in Corvallis is scheduled for 7 p.m.
tonight, with the game to be broadcast live on
KTRB 860 AM and KZSU 90.1 FM.
Contact Denis Griffin at djgriff@stanford.edu.
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schools to bring in a slew of fans.
“This would have been a more
appropriate move for less-antici-
pated opponents,” Link said.
“These games are expected to be
the most highly attended by stu-
dents of the season, so it seems irre-
sponsible to sell seats that likely
won’t be available.”
The Sixth Man has issued a poll
to its members to generate a con-
sensus on the decision — it hopes
that the results may be able to make
the athletic department reverse its
action.
Former Cardinal coach Harris to
tutor Akron quarterbacks
Former Stanford head football
coach Walt Harris has been hired
by Akron as the Zips’ new quarter-
backs coach and passing game co-
ordinator. The new position comes
after Harris spent the past two
years away from the game follow-
ing his firing by Stanford.
Harris had previously coached
at Pittsburgh from 1997-2004,
amassing an overall record of 52-
44. After the ‘04 season, Harris was
hired to replace Stanford’s Buddy
Teevens. He was somewhat success-
ful in 2005, leading the Cardinal to
a 5-6 record that included a near
upset of Notre Dame in the final
game at the old Stanford Stadium,
an improvement over the previous
season’s 4-7 finish.
A shocking loss to UC-Davis,
however, in the team’s home open-
er would prove to be a troubling
sign for the future. The Aggies — in
the third year of a four-year transi-
tion from Division II to Division I-
AA — defeated the Cardinal 20-17
in one of the most embarrassing
losses in program history.
What followed was one of the
worst seasons ever for Stanford. In
its first season in the new Stanford
Stadium, the Cardinal floundered
to a 1-11 record, with the team’s
lone win coming on the road at
Washington. To make matters
worse, the team was routinely
blown out by double-digit margins.
The Cardinal was outscored 377-
127 — an average of nearly 21
points per game. Following a sea-
son-ending 26-17 loss in Berkeley,
Harris was fired and eventually re-
placed by current Stanford head
coach Jim Harbaugh.
With the Zips, Harris will inherit
conditions pushed the contest to
yesterday — leaving the Cardinal
with just one day off before taking
on No. 3 Syracuse tomorrow. The
Orangewomen are the highest-
ranked team the Cardinal will face
during the regular season. Stanford
head coach Amy Bokker doesn’t
think the quick turnaround will be a
problem.
“We need to allow ourselves to
find our rhythm,” Bokker told
GoStanford.com. “It’s almost bet-
ter to back up the games a little
closer together.”
Game time is set for 3 p.m. at
Laird Q. Cagan Stadium.
Stanford hurler on Golden Spikes
Watch List
Junior pitcher Jeffery Inman was
named to the 2009 Golden Spikes
Watch List, USA Baseball an-
nounced on Tuesday. Fifty of col-
lege baseball’s top players were
named to the list, which is spon-
sored by Major League Baseball.
The winner will be announced on
July 15 as part of the MLB’s All-
Star Weekend.
Inman, a right-handed starter,
progressed nicely from the 2007 to
2008 seasons. He improved across
the board as a sophomore, lower-
ing his ERA from 5.74 to 4.27, al-
lowing 13 fewer hits, 14 fewer runs
and cut his walk total by five. His
strikeouts fell, but he finished with
an outstanding 7-2 record on the
season.
The junior got better as the sea-
son progressed — during a seven-
game streak in March and April, he
allowed just six runs in 36.1 innings.
In the College World Series, Inman
held the eventual-champion Geor-
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coming off of a disappointing 2007
season and just looking to find a way
back to the postseason. Instead, they
shocked most observers and won
their way to the College World Se-
ries. This preseason, the experts
have the Stanford men ranked in the
top-20 across the board and as high
as fifth in some polls.
Predictions before any games are
played don’t mean much of any-
thing, as the Detroit Tigers and
Tampa Bay Rays both learned last
season. But if players stay healthy
for the Card, this team has all the
pieces to make another run.
Junior Jeffrey Inman is returning
to be the Friday starter, and was
named to the Golden Spikes Award
Watch List — the winner of which is
named the top player in college
baseball — earlier this week. He
was 7-2 for the Cardinal last year
and averaged more than a strikeout
per inning last summer in the Cape
Cod League.
Leading the offense is senior first
baseman/catcher Brent Milleville,
who is the active Stanford career
leader in doubles, homers and RBI.
The big man was even 7-for-10 in
steals last year and was red hot
down the stretch. Milleville should
prove to be one of the biggest of-
fense threats in the conference.
These are just the top returnees
on offense and the mound. Sur-
rounding them is a complete and
deep cast of players that puts the
Stanford baseball team in position
to have another excellent year.
Junior Toby Gerhart is on track
for his first injury-free baseball sea-
son and can absolutely destroy the
ball when he is healthy. Joey August
enters his senior year as the team’s
active leader in career batting aver-
age and hits. And fellow senior Max
Fearnow should battle for a spot in
the rotation or provide reliable long
relief from the bullpen.
More than a handful of freshmen
from last season — Drew Storen,
Danny Sandbrink, Zach Jones and
Jake Schlander, to name a few —
developed into very valuable play-
ers and should only get better with
experience. If the new freshman
class can deliver even close to as
many impact players, this team will
be very dangerous.
A return to Omaha is certainly a
lot to ask for, and it would be hard to
write off an entire season as a failure
just because the team didn’t make
the final eight. But that doesn’t
mean we can’t expect a lot from this
2009 baseball team.
Besides, the pressure is on these
guys to perform. Otherwise, who is
going to show the Stanford women
that the men can be dominant for an
entire season too?
Erik Adams just wants to see some
gender equality in Stanford athletics.
Contact him at ekadams@stanford.
edu.

SWIMMING
an effective passing game that aver- gia Bulldogs to just two runs in 5.1 times earlier this season in a triple dis-
aged 231.5 yards per game and innings, striking out five. He fol- tance meet, although the event was
scored 20 touchdowns last season. lowed up a strong sophomore sea- not scored. Cal’s relay teams, espe-
Akron quarterbacks did throw 14 son with a stellar showing in the Continued from page 4 cially in the 200 freestyle and medley
interceptions on the season, howev- Cape Cod league this summer. relays, are incredibly strong this year
er, a trend Harris will be expected Pitching for the Yarmouth-Dennis and have the potential to win titles at
to reverse. Red Sox, the Stanford righty caught Cass, senior Paul Zaich, sophomore the NCAA Championships.The Car-
the attention of Baseball America John Criste and freshman Curtis dinal’s biggest challenge this Satur-
Women’s lacrosse wins tune-up and the magazine ranked Inman as Lovelace. In the 200 breaststroke,Al- day will be to take down the Bears’
over Albany the No. 9 prospect in the 2008 Cape jand, Liivamagi and Sean Mahoney fast relays. Stanford’s relay strength
Stanford women’s lacrosse is Cod League, and named him a of Cal will face off against Stanford’s lies in the medley relays, especially
perfect in 2009. The Cardinal de- third-team preseason All-Ameri- best. the 400-yard distance.
feated the University of Albany 15- can. While Stanford has a definite edge “This weekend is a stepping stone
10 yesterday at Laird Q. Cagan Sta- Stanford kicks off the 2009 sea- in distance events with standout to our next big meets and is a really
dium to push its record to 3-0 on the son when it hosts Vanderbilt at freshmen Chad La Tourette, Michael good warm-up to Pac-10s and
season.Albany suffered its first loss Sunken Diamond, Friday at 5:30 Zoldos and Trevor Scheid, the real NCAAs,” Kornfeld said. “We expect
of the year and is now 1-1. p.m. and Saturday at 1 p.m. UC- battle for the dual meet victory will our guys to go real fast,and we expect
The Great Danes jumped out to Riverside comes to the Farm for a come in the relays. Chad La Tourette the same from the Cal guys.”
a 2-1 lead in the first 12 minutes. double-header on Sunday. owns the fastest time in the nation in
Stanford is setting a trend of falling the 1,650 this year with a 14:40.65. Contact Kenan Jiang at kenanj@stan-
behind early in contests, having — By Denis Griffin, Jacob Johnson Stanford defeated Cal last year 132.5 ford.edu and Christian L. Tom at
given up first-half leads in two of its and Wyndam Makowsky to 110.5 and also swam to very fast cltom@stanford.edu.
first three games. But Albany
couldn’t hold the lead for long: The
Cardinal rattled off six unanswered
goals to close out the first half. The
visitors stayed competitive in the
second half but couldn’t close the
gap.
Stanford out-shot Albany by a 2-
1 margin and committed just 10
turnovers to the Great Danes’ 16.
Sophomore Sarah Flynn, and jun-
iors Dana Lindsay and Lauren
Schmidt each contributed three
goals. Junior Amanda Schwab
scored twice coming off the bench.
The game was supposed to be
played on Tuesday, but rain-soaked

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GSC
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you try to cap this and don’t have
any enforcement measures, you will
see some campaigns go under-
ground.”
Possibilities for enforcement
were discussed, such as disqualifying
candidates who spend their
resources in an irresponsible man-
ner. GSC members also considered
the more amiable solution of revok-
ing Fair Campaign status, which is
noted on the election ballot.
The ASSU Executives also
voiced the concerns of undergrad-
uate senators in placing the burden
of enforcement upon the Elections
Commission, which has been run-
ning campaigns for the ASSU and
the GSC.
“There are undergraduates that
are concerned that if you bequeath
that sort of power to that body, they
may become partisan,” Harris said.
“Many of the senators did not feel
comfortable with investing that kind
of power into that authority.”
“I think we all deeply care much
about this issue, but we want to see
it done right,” said Shelley Gao ‘11,
chair of the Undergraduate Senate.
Gao also noted her concerns about
making such a “dramatic change in
policy” so close to the onset of elec-
tion season.
Despite these issues, members of
the GSC seemed to think that the
passage of the bill was in the best
interests of the candidates.
Ryan Peacock, a third-year grad-
uate student in chemical engineer-
ing and author of the bill, expressed
worry over the need for “a bigger
discussion about enforcement.”
Echoing his comments at Tuesday
night’s Undergraduate Senate meet-
ing, Peacock said that legislation
needed to be passed immediately in
order for the council to evaluate the
cap’s effect on the election and pave
the way for more stringent regula-
tions in future years.
“This enforcement thing is really
a smaller deal than people have
been making it out to be,” added
Nanna Notthoff, a first-year gradu-
ate student in psychology.
The spending bill was passed by
the GSC with 10 votes for, one vote
against and one abstention.
GSC members also discussed
preliminary measures for a bill that
would subsidize funds for candi-
dates who need assistance in paying
for their campaigns. Some members
worried about the necessity of such
legislation after passing the spend-
ing bill, but GSC co-Chair Polina
Segalova disagreed.
“I don’t think that passing the
caps bill should be a reason to disre-
gard the financing bill,” she said.
“I think we have to tackle this
topic from as many angles as we can
because this problem is multifac-
eted,” Harris added. “The bill would
allow candidates to run for student
government without having to
worry about socioeconomic status.”
The GSC also discussed the
Wellness Room, which opens Feb.
25. ASSU President Jonny Dorsey
‘09 described the resource as a “cen-
trally located room in Old Union to
help students become mentally and
physically well” with a number of
programs and opportunities
throughout the year for student
groups to use.
“It’s a great portal to become
plugged into existing resources on
campus,” Harris added.
Contact Daniel Bui at dlbui@stanford.
edu.
NUCLEAR
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Whether the government will
provide the necessary support to
jumpstart the industry is another
problem, one that has been aggravat-
ed by the current economic crisis.
Levite talked about the $50 billion
nuclear loan guarantees that were
recently cut from the stimulus pack-
age.
“It just indicates to you that the
level of support for the moment is
uncertain . . . and 18.5 billion would
only supply for two and a half reac-
tors,” he said.
Levite also discussed the problem
of nuclear waste, which “hasn’t gone
away.”
“The ways to alleviate it, some of
the technological solutions we’d like
to see, are still a decade or two
away,” he added.
Finally, Levite acknowledged the
risk of the mishandling of nuclear
power.
“There is a significant potential, a
significant risk that if one nuclear
reactor turns wrong, elsewhere
around the world, there will be a set-
back in terms of public sentiments,
regardless of what the specific
parameters of this reactor would be,”
PILL
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Benham was more outspoken in
her analysis.
“I think that it’s hugely impor-
tant and I think that the University
frankly just doesn’t care very much
[about reproductive health],” she
said. “It’s not a priority for them.”
Current Students for Choice
President Emily Gasner ‘09 is con-
tinuing to work for more afford-
able contraceptives. She, too, has
been frustrated by the University’s
reluctance to help, though.
“I really do think it’s a burden
that goes untalked about a lot, just
because it’s birth control and med-
icine and reproductive health,”
Gasner said. “I think the common
conception that it is a women’s bur-
den is a huge mistake, and while
that is not only on this campus, but
everywhere, it does make any sort
of sexual interaction or sexual rela-
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he said. “And therefore, if somebody
handles nuclear power irresponsibly,
or uses it for the wrong purposes, it
will come back to haunt us.”
Students were generally
impressed by the talk.
“I’ve been studying nuclear issues
and security for a long time,” said
Peter Berg ‘10.“I was pretty interest-
ed to hear what he has to say about
the viability of expanding the
nuclear generators’ power. He’s
someone I’ve read a lot about; it was
a fascinating lecture.”
The Drell Lecture, named for
physicist Sidney Drell, CISAC’s
founding co-director, addresses cur-
rent security issues of important sci-
entific or technical dimensions.
Contact Calla Sheng at hsheng@stan-
ford.edu.
tionship completely unbalanced.”
“I would expect Stanford of all
places to step up and acknowledge
the inequity and try to do some-
thing to correct it,” she added.
Contact Jenny Rempel at jrempel@
stanford.edu.
CHINA
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the room because we have some
amazing speakers,” Kapur said,
“what’s important in this event is
not as much who’s attending and
listening, but who’s attending and
speaking, and the fact that they’re
talking to each other.”
Those who are interested can
register for the conference online at
china21.stanford.edu.
Contact Cassandra Feliciano at ccfe-
lici@stanford.edu.