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The Stanford Daily An Independent Publication
www.stanforddaily.com Volume 238
October 11, 2010 Issue 17

Changes
come to RA
app process
Prospective resident assistants will
apply during fall quarter
By BRANDON POWELL
Stanford students hoping to be
resident assistants (RAs) must
now apply during fall quarter in-
stead of spring; meanwhile, resi-
dent fellows and Row student staff
JONATHAN YORK/The Stanford Daily will have more time to interview
Sophomore running back Stepfan Taylor flies past Trojan defenders in Saturday’s tug of war between Pac-10 powers. Despite a disappointing first half and prospective RAs, marking signifi-
a missed extra-point kick in the fourth quarter, the Cardinal offense compensated with a power running game and beat USC for the third time in four years. cant changes for the staffing time-
line.
tions are filled before students
apply for housing.
“At this point, we are putting
applicants and houses in a very dif-
ficult position,” Calvert said.
In making the process earlier,
Calvert said ResEd is “looking to
create a bit more space to be able
to offer applicants positions dur-
ing a reasonable time.”
ResEd also is seeking to offer

DOWN TO THE WIRE

CARD TAKES DOWN decisive.
“I had to make it,”Whitaker said of the final kick.“I
TROJANS, AGAIN had a chance to redeem myself, and I made it. I’m def-
initely glad I got a chance — it would have been a
rough night otherwise.
By KABIR SAWHNEY “This is the biggest kick I’ve ever had,” he added.“I
MANAGING EDITOR couldn’t have done it without the team there, giving me
Troy has officially fallen.
that chance.”
The win allowed Stanford to bounce back from a
The No.14 Stanford football team hammered anoth- tough loss last weekend at then-No. 4 Oregon. The de-
er nail into the coffin of once-proud USC on Saturday feat saw the Cardinal lose its top-10 ranking and
night, defeating the Trojans by a final score of 37-35. marked its first loss of the season.
While the game ended in victory for the Cardinal “We were definitely aware of our shortcomings last
(5-1, 2-1 Pac-10), that outcome was uncertain until the week,” said redshirt sophomore quarterback Andrew
final few seconds of the game. Despite being a signifi- Luck. “We didn’t dwell on it, and we tried to improve
cant underdog, the Trojans (4-2, 1-2 Pac-10) played upon it.This had to be our half — we can’t have anoth-
hard throughout the contest, matching the Stanford of- er debacle like we did last weekend.”
fense point for point behind sophomore quarterback On the flip side, USC was deprived of a revenge op-
Matt Barkley. portunity for last season, when the Cardinal defeated
Stanford eventually won the game on a last-second the Trojans 55-21 in the Coliseum in Los Angeles.
field goal from senior kicker Nate Whitaker, who The two teams were fairly evenly matched through-
drilled a kick from 30 yards out as time expired to send out this game, with the offenses trading scores back
the Card to victory. Whitaker had earlier missed an
extra point wide left, a miss which might have proved Please see FOOTBALL, page 5
Also awaiting successful appli-
cants is a new training class for
RAs, a change set to take effect
during the 2011-12 school year.
Associate Dean of Residential
Education (ResEd) Jennifer
Calvert announced the changes to
resident fellows (RFs) and college
FOOTBALL directors (CDs) via e-mail on Sept.
27. The establishment of an RA
class is intended to afford future
10/9 vs. USC W 37-35 staff members more time to pre-
pare for the position, Calvert told
UP NEXT The Daily.
“They need time to reflect on
the role and how to engage with
WASHINGTON STATE the rich teaching and learning that
(1-5, 0-3 Pac-10) can happen in a residential set-
ting,” Calvert wrote in an e-mail to
10/23 Stanford Stadium 2 P.M. The Daily. “A class will allow the
COVERAGE: RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM opportunity for newly hired RAs
(kzsu.stanford.edu) to do this.”
The class is set to launch during
GAME NOTES: The No. 16 Stanford football team bounces the 2011-2012 academic year and
back from last weekend’s loss to Oregon in a last-second will be required for RAs hired to a
37-35 win over USC. The Cardinal and the Trojans traded position for the following year.
points and possessions throughout the game but managed Speaking about the shift of the
to clinch the victory with a game-ending field goal from sen- application process to fall quarter,
ior kicker Nate Whitaker. Stanford hopes to maintain its mo- Calvert expressed concern over
mentum through the bye weekend and in to its next Pac-10 the current conflict between RA
match up with Washington State. applications and the housing draw,
since sometimes not all staff posi-
RFs more time to select dorm staff
members. The interview period for
RA applicants will span five to six
weeks this year.
Florence Moore RF Greg
Watkins said fellows are historical-
ly faced with a time constraint in
selecting RAs.
“Something that frustrates RFs
in particular is the crunch of inter-
viewing, not interviewing just
RAs, but all staff members,”
Watkins said.
Watkins said it would be more
difficult for applicants to be confi-
dent in their decisions so far from
the following year.
“It will make it harder for cur-
rent staff who think they might
want to return,” Watkins said.
“They might not have a good sense
of whether returning works for
them.The earlier you make the ap-
plication process, the more likely
you are to say, ‘It’s a neat job. I
want to keep doing it.’ Whereas in
the spring, you are more likely to
say, ‘OK, one year was enough.’”
While Watkins expressed confi-
dence in the upcoming changes,
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LOCAL WORLD & NATION

Google buys alums’ Art professor’s

website for millions
By ZOE LEAVITT
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Stanford alumni Ben Eidelson ‘08 M.A. ‘08 and Jason
Prado ‘08 sold their company last week to Google for an es-
timated $6 million.
The pair founded everythingIsTheBest, LLC just last
year, but its ingenuity managed to attract Google’s atten-
tion. The company hosts a series of projects that “apply
simple technology to real problems,”according to the com-
pany’s website.
Eidelson enrolled at Stanford at age 16 and earned both
his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineer-
ing in four years. After graduation, Eidelson and Prado
both worked at Microsoft, where they brainstormed the
idea behind their social networking project.
In Silicon Valley, the image of an overworked computer
science graduate struggling to make the next big website is
common, but Eidelson and Prado seemed to have navigat-
ed the startup lifestyle with balance after leaving Mi-
crosoft.
“There were no moments of super desperation, but we
definitely adjusted our lifestyle accordingly,” Eidelson said
of their decision to close the door on Microsoft in favor of
a big bet on everythingIsTheBest.“Stanford did play a big
part . . . it tends to instill people with the idea of not feeling
insecure about not having a quote-unquote real job.”
“We just threw away the idea of work . . . we’re just liv-
ing life and building things we want to build,” he added.
The pair’s latest creation,Plannr (now closed),served as
an up-to-the-minute social planning service for use by
small groups of friends. By syncing an address book and
Google Maps, Plannr provided an alternative for text or e-
mail streams that can arise around planning a simple cof-
Please see GOOGLE, page 2
Source: The Stanford Daily, Stanford News Service
STUDENT LIFE
Fraternity placed on suspension
By MARISA LANDICHO
MANAGING EDITOR
Campus officials have put housed fraternity Kappa
Sigma on provisional alcohol and party suspension for
conduct and possible policy violations during New Stu-
dent Orientation, according to Nate Boswell, associate
director of Residential Education (ResEd) on the Row.
ResEd, the Office of Student Life (OSL) and the Alco-
hol Advisory Board issued the suspension, pending in-
vestigation and possible further action by the Organiza-
tional Conduct Board (OCB).
“The University is following up with Kappa Sigma
regarding concerns of an alleged unregistered event
during NSO,” wrote Kappa Sig President Harris Brown
‘11 in an e-mail statement to The Daily.
Under suspension, Kappa Sig may not host events
where alcohol is served or consumed, according to
Ralph Castro, manager of Health Promotion Service’s
substance abuse prevention program.
A Greek organization can be put on alcohol and
party suspension if it violates the Controlled Substances
and Alcohol Policy of the University, which prohibits
serving alcohol during “dry” weekends.
“We have been cooperating with the University
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through an interim alcohol suspension and working
hard to address any specific concerns that may arise,”
Brown added.
Kappa Sig was last under review and put on proba-
tion during the 2001-2002 school year.
All housed fraternities and sororities are overseen by
ResEd’s Row Office, which can take immediate penal-
izing action while a more in-depth OCB review process
continues.The OCB may then rule to take no further ac-
tion, extend suspension or place the Greek organization
on probation.
“Over the years, Greek organizations have gone
through the OCB process on a yearly basis,” Castro
wrote in an e-mail to The Daily. “For the most part, our
Greek organizations are comprised of responsible and
thoughtful individuals. Sometimes, there are instances
where a few members make poor decisions that affect
the entire organization.”
Probation, unlike suspension, means the Greek or-
ganization may still host social events and parties with
highly controlled alcohol, though under increased
scrutiny by the University.
Probation, given for sustained behavior patterns, is
Please see FRAT, page 4
exhibit attacked
By ELLEN HUET
MANAGING EDITOR
A week of picketing outside a controversial art exhibit
by a Stanford professor culminated when a woman broke
into the museum and destroyed the art,which depicts a man
who resembles Jesus Christ receiving oral sex.
Picketers crowded outside the Loveland Gallery in
Loveland, Colo., on Oct. 1, when art professor Enrique
Chagoya’s art exhibit, a 7.5-inch by 7-foot color lithograph
print titled “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals,”
opened.
On Oct. 6, 56-year-old Kathleen Folden of Kalispell,
Mont., entered the exhibit and broke the Plexiglass case
with a crowbar, pulling out the book and tearing it up, The
Denver Post reported.
Protesters claim the art is offensive and should not be
displayed because the museum uses taxpayers’ dollars.Mu-
seum officials said since the art was donated, no public
funding was used for that exhibit, according to The Post.
Chagoya,however,sees his art not as defaming Jesus but
expressing an opinion about the organized church.“I’m not
trying to offend anyone’s beliefs,” he said.“This is a critique
to institutions.”
Chagoya is shocked at the art’s public reception,since he
said the book has been in various exhibits for more than a
year without any similar reaction and, he says, “no one has
complained until now.”
“It’s been very disconcerting,” he said of the work’s de-
struction. “I feel our First Amendment right is being at-
tacked. The museum is even afraid of replacing the work
Please see ART, page 2

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STUDENT LIFE
Bling comes to campus
By MATT BETTONVILLE
“What’s that thing on your
phone?”
That’s a question becoming more
common on campus since Bling, a
new payment method that uses a
proximity chip stuck onto users’ cell
phones, expanded into Palo Alto and
began its push among Stanford stu-
dents at the beginning of the school
year.
Bling tags are meant to function
as more efficient and safe debit
cards. To complete a transaction, a
user touches a Bling tag, which he or
she sticks on the back of a cell phone,
to a pad provided by a retailer. The
tag eliminates PIN numbers and sig-
natures, and is about one-eighth the
size of a credit or debit card.
The tap withdraws funds
from a user’s PayPal account,
which can be connected on-
line.
“It’s about adding a small
amount of convenience,” said
Bling user Drew
Padley ‘10.
The convenience
also extends to re-
tailers. Fraiche
employee Annal-
isa Likens said she
has seen Bling drive
consumers to the
Stanford campus
Fraiche location be-
cause they want to pay
with the tag. She uses the
STUDENT LIFE
Alums aim to shift gay-rights focus
By WYNDAM MAKOWSKY
MANAGING EDITOR
Two Stanford alumni, Brian Elliot
‘03 and Patty Buckley M.B.A. ‘09, re-
cently launched a social networking
site aimed at mobilizing straight peo-
ple for gay rights. The new nonprofit,
Friendfactor, is based in New York.
The site’s premise is simple: focus
the gay rights campaign on individu-
als instead of on a larger, impersonal
movement. Both Elliot, the founder,
and Buckley, the COO, referenced a
CBS poll that claimed 77 percent of
Americans have someone close to
them who is gay — a statistic they say
provides an impetus for their grass-
roots effort.
“Gay rights aren’t important to
people, but gay friends are,” Elliot
said. “We want to amass large
amounts of friends who want to help
friends.”
“If you change the rhetoric from
‘gay people’ to a friend’s name, it res-
onates differently,” Buckley said.“It’s
all about the framing.”
The site is set up to have two types
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[with another copy].”
Chagoya teaches print-making
and other art technique classes at
Stanford, and says he never speaks
about his art in classes.
Although his art has faced outspo-
ken criticism from many, he says he
also has received support from unex-
pected places, such as a pastor in
Loveland who commissioned a work
for his church after the controversy
broke out.
He said the dean and the chair of
the art department have been sup-
portive. They are planning to organ-
ize a forum on censorship in the fu-
payment method herself.
Setting up a tag involves entering
a mobile phone number upon com-
pleting the first transaction, and after
setup, every purchase instantly sends
a text message alert to the linked
phone, an added feature for book-
keeping and security.
Several Bling users said a big sell-
ing point of the tag was the incorpo-
ration with a cell phone. “Someday
I’ll really want something and only
have my phone,” said Evan McDon-
ald ‘11.
Other users said that a cell phone
is much more difficult to lose than a
Please see BLING, page 4
ANASTASIA YEE/
The Stanford Daily
of users: “advocates” — people
deeply devoted to the cause, regard-
less of orientation — and “support-
ers,” who join to help. Advocates can
call on their supporters for aid in a va-
riety of ways, from voting on referen-
dums to participating in public educa-
tion campaigns,which could consist of
as little as a Facebook status.
“For supporters, it’s 10 or 15 min-
utes a month to help their friends get
full legal freedoms faster,” Elliot said.
The page itself aims for simplicity:
“gay” is used instead of “LGBT,” be-
cause,Elliot reasons,fewer people un-
derstand the acronym. In addition,
Facebook Connect is used as the
means of networking,so members are
not prompted to do much legwork.
The ultimate goal is to rapidly
speed up the movement’s rate of
change. At its current progress, Elliot
said, gay Americans will have full
rights in no fewer than 10 years. By
creating peer-to-peer accountability
— a tactic that, he said, has never
been properly or fully implemented
— Elliot hopes to achieve equal free-
doms in far less time.
ture, “maybe when animosities calm
down, but not right now,” he said.
According to Chagoya, the muse-
um held a vigil for the destroyed art on
Friday night.Thomas Seligman, direc-
tor of Cantor Arts Center, called the
act a “prime example” of intolerance.
“I think art often provokes emo-
tions because it has something to say
that is a little too truthful for us to
take or is against someone’s ideolo-
gy,” he said.“It’s another good exam-
ple of art having power, but a gross
example of intolerance and purpose-
ful hostilities.”
He added that while art as provo-
cation is part of a growing society,
censorship of art does nothing to ad-
vance the cause.
“It’s amazing that a woman would
go to these lengths to destroy this,” he
said. “If she made her own art, that’d
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Card’s Deal
JONATHAN YORK/The Stanford Daily
Students lifted Eric Karpas ‘12 above the completely filled Red Zone section after a Stanford touchdown against USC on Saturday. Fans rushed the
field after a field goal was made in the last seconds of the sold-out game to seal a close win for the Cardinal.
GOOGLE
experiences, Eidelson and Prado “A lot of things you read, you just
seem to have successfully captured don’t end up applying . . . you can al-
the social potential coursing through most get inundated with consump-
Continued from front page the iPhone’s circuitry. tion of material rather than just doing
Plannr and other everythingIs- stuff,” Eidelson said. “I do regret not
TheBest apps have been shut down doing more projects as a student, with
But Elliot wonders, “How much fee date or pizza night. following Google’s purchase of the other students, because I was so over-
less?” The question dates back to the Plannr faced competition from company. Eidelson and Prado will whelmed with problem sets and day-
site’s origins in late 2009, when Elliot, Facebook invites, a host of other apps begin work at Google soon. to-day work.”
who is out, asked his friends a ques- trying to get iPhone users to hang out “It’s definitely going to be a Eidelson and Prado’s initial suc-
tion: “What would it take for me to with each other, and simple phone change to be employees again,” Ei- cess story may seem to parallel the
have equal rights in three years?” calls. However, TechCrunch called delson said. origins of Facebook, but Eidelson
“It was pie in the sky, but it mobi- the application “schedule manage- Although Stanford is home to maintains that there isn’t an ambition
lized a lot of energy,” he said.“Young, ment for hipsters” and deemed it a many innovative site founders who for fame.
straight folks haven’t been asked to success. dropped out — including Google “We’re just having a fun time in
do too much before.” “We didn’t think about what was creators Larry Page M.S. ‘98 and life,and I sometimes wonder how bad
He said that once he explained already out there, because if those Sergey Brin M.S. ‘95, who left their that would look in a movie,” he said.
that gay rights extended beyond mar- things worked for us, we’d be using Ph.D. studies for the company — Ei-
riage — he referenced laws in 29 them, and we weren’t,” Eidelson said. delson said he was happy to have Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@stan-
states that allow for homosexuals to By taking lessons from their own completed his degree. ford.edu.
be fired from their jobs simply be-
cause of their sexual orientation —
his friends were eager to get engaged.
He then started a Facebook group,
“Give Brian Equality.”He invited 600
friends;300 joined.Within four weeks,
it had 19,000 members.
He quit his job on Dec. 4, 2009, to
become what he calls a “professional
gay.” The response, he said, has been
overwhelmingly positive. So far,
Friendfactor has raised $500,000 and
has an advisory board with both high-
Please see FRIEND, page 4
be great — it keeps the dialogue
going. But in no way did she have the
right to do what she did.”
Chagoya feels that a tense political
environment may have also con-
tributed to the reaction to the art.
“I think pre-election polarizing
politics may be the cause,” he said.
“Unfortunately, I feel victimized by
this kind of extremism.”
And,as he pointed out,his art is not
the first nor will it be the last to deal
with controversial religious topics.
“My work is not even as bad as it
could be,” he said. “I mean, ‘South
Park’ gets away with depicting reli-
gious icons and the reaction is not the
same.” And, he noted, the show “also
takes place in Colorado.”
Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stan-
ford.edu.
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OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
Admission statistics hold lessons
L
ast week, both the Committee on Un-
dergraduate Admission and Financial
Aid (C-UAFA) and Dean of Admis-
sion Richard Shaw made presentations to
the Faculty Senate.Their reports gave an ex-
haustive and in-depth look at the driving en-
gine of this institution — the process of
culling together the next great class of Stan-
ford freshmen.
Many of the items covered are the ran-
dom statistics uttered at some point during
New Student Orientation. They include ac-
ceptance rate for the Class of 2014 (7.2 per-
cent!), the gender breakdown (47.6 percent
female for ‘14 and transfers, but 49 percent
for ‘13) and the percent of freshmen who at-
tended public school (57.6 percent.)
As quaint as those statistics may appear
when casually thrown about, the fuller con-
text of admission — and changes to the
process over time — highlight what Stan-
ford has become over the years.In 1994,with
14,000 total applicants, the University had
an acceptance rate of 20 percent. Sixteen
years later, the annual number of applicants
has swelled to more than twice that. The
graphs lay out plainly the undisputable fact
that the last two to three decades have wit-
nessed Stanford’s rise to global prominence
in higher education, a fact from which all of
us benefit extensively. The 49 states and 54
different countries represented in the Class
of 2014 further cement this case.
Even with our ascent, the data also show
that we have not yet conquered the big
three: Harvard, Yale and Princeton. While
the yield rate climbed to its highest-ever
peak of 71 percent, almost two thirds of stu-
dents who are accepted by both Harvard
and Stanford flock to Cambridge. These
numbers are improving to our advantage,
with accepted students breaking evenly be-
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T HE T RANSITIVE P ROPERTY
Coming Out: It’s Not Just For
LGBT People
S ResEd Won’t Ask,
o I’m one of those really lucky people
who had to come out twice (because, of
course, coming out once wasn’t fun
enough). My earliest memory regarding my
gender identity occurred when I was in pre-
school — I’d be changing, and I most vividly
remember that I’d look down and I most con-
fidently thought that I’d eventually get the
boy parts I’d always wanted, maybe as a
Christmas present. If Santa Claus could get
some little girl a pony, then he could sure as
hell give me boy parts.(Of course,once puber-
ty came along, I ended up more than a bit dis-
appointed.)
My second most vivid memory happened
when I was in seventh grade. Gwen Araujo, a
transwoman who lived in the neighborhood
where I went to middle school, was brutally
murdered one night by several men when they
found out her biological sex. Her story made
national headlines, and her funeral was at my
parish. The story terrified me as a 12-year-old
— for the first time, I saw someone I identified
with, someone whose mind and body didn’t
quite match. And she ended up murdered be-
cause of it, and this all happened within a mile
or two of my school,a place I thought was safe.
It probably was one of the reasons I didn’t
come out as transgender for so long.
I first came out as lesbian during my first
year of high school.The word “lesbian” didn’t
quite feel right, but I knew that I was attracted
to women, and “lesbian” was the only word
that fit best at the time, and I guess it was also
L ETTERS TO THE
Responses to Editorial on Victor Davis
Hanson
Ed. note: In response to the Oct. 7 editorial
“Hoover Institution should renounce Han-
son’s racist remarks,” Victor Davis Hanson
Ph.D.‘80 posted a criticism on his blog and The
Daily received dozens of critical letters.A sam-
ple of those letters, limited by our space con-
straints, is below. More letters are on our web-
site, stanforddaily.com. Unsigned editorials, as
always, represent the views of the editorial
board and do not necessarily reflect the opin-
ions of the Daily staff. Please see the full policy
beneath today’s editorial.
Your caustic screed against Victor Hanson
is a routine embarrassment to Stanford Uni-
versity, your apparent intellectual inbreeding
leading to unwarranted overconfidence pro-
ducing sanctimonious posturing which so
gaudily illustrates the “one size fits all” cogni-
tween the Farm and Yale, but our consistent
positioning behind the Big Three in nation-
al rankings seems to have a bit of support
from the admission data analysis.
Two particularly fascinating points of dis-
cussion raised by the C-UAFA dealt with
the same underlying issue of whom exactly
Stanford is targeting for acceptance. First,
the committee last year reviewed language
in its charge that refers to the admission pol-
icy about criteria the University uses when
giving “special consideration” to applicants.
The Faculty Senate approved the commit-
tee’s revised charge, including reference to
that policy, last week.
The first of those criteria for “special con-
sideration”: “those applicants whose par-
ents graduated from Stanford.”As the Uni-
versity has reconceived itself in recent years,
the place and prominence of “legacies”
stands as a discussion topic that deserves at-
tention.
Second, the committee is actively target-
ing potential humanities majors. With
Shaw’s statistics showing a mere 18 percent
of freshmen even considering the humani-
ties,C-UAFA noted “the declining numbers
of Stanford students majoring in the human-
ities and arts.” And when cross-referenced
with the dual-acceptance figures, the only
schools Stanford loses students to are insti-
tutions, such as Harvard, with flourishing
humanities programs, whereas we fair com-
petitively, or better, against heavy technical
schools.
These figures,while wonkish and dry as sin
to many,speak to what our University has be-
come and where it plans to go. The editorial
board encourages the whole campus to take
a deep look at the admission process and to
help articulate a dialogue about what the
freshmen classes years to come will look like.
Cristopher
Bautista
a “safer” word to hide behind, one that people
understood more and didn’t require so much
explaining.
It wasn’t until fall quarter of my sopho-
more year at Stanford, when I got involved
with the No on Prop. 8 campaign and the
queer community, that I finally had a safe
space to explore my gender identity. I came
out as Cristopher Marc during the winter
quarter of my sophomore year. My friends
and family accepted me almost instantly, and
because of that, I will never take them for
granted.
One of the big decisions I had to come to
terms with during my coming out period was
how “out” I wanted to be. As a transman, I
have the blessing of “passing” — meaning,if I
wanted to, I could blend into the general pop-
ulation, and no one would know how I was
born. Not to mention I’d live a much safer life
— I wouldn’t have to worry so much about
hate crimes or meeting an unpleasant end. I
Please see BAUTISTA, page 4
E DITOR
tion of America’s future thought police officer
corps. If only there were substantive intellec-
tual diversity in your environs, you’d have re-
alized before humiliating yourselves that
Hanson’s comments are at once more sub-
stantive and more restrained than your puta-
tive critique, and your efforts to demand intel-
lectual compliance — so characteristic of
race/gender/class ideologues — will, in a free-
thinking world, carry only as much weight as
their underlying arguments will sustain,which
is to say, a featherweight, in orbit.
JOHN RYLANDER
That editorial was sophomoric, at best, but
then, I suppose some of the staff are, indeed,
sophomores.In fact,after reading both the ed-
itorial and the article it was unhappy with (in
both incarnations), I find that the editorialists
Please see LETTERS, page 4
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Dim Meta Writing
C
aution — for the next half-dozen para- the depths of the Antarctic seas (Side note:
graphs, you may find half-baked writ- does Antarctica even have seas? What are
ing. That’s right kids — this week’s in- they called if they aren’t seas then? Is there a
stallment is worse than usual! Why? It’s an ex- difference between a sea and an ocean?). I
periment to write about the writing process. I woke up with sweaty palms and a yelp.
have spent some time thinking about what I I know — why may you care about the use-
will write about, but the actual text that fol- less dreams of my past? That’s right — I didn’t
lows this paragraph comes naked — an unfil- think you did. Isn’t it annoying when someone
tered dump from the thoughts of my mind to else tells you something that personal? Yes?
the letters you see before you. I will do little OK, good. Let me tell you some more things
editing to the sentences that follow this para- that feed my narcissism. You are free to stop
graph, other than those obvious mistakes of reading anytime.
grammar or spelling. Hopefully, you readers This is my duality — very hard, witty, sar-
will make sense of the nonsensical, and send castic on the outside, and soft like a mellow,
me your thoughts. castrated bumblebee on the inside. (Another
When I was a kid, I imagined that I could side note: again, castration here is not a refer-
fly and, in mid-flight, freeze time with my very ence to genitalia at all. I think castration is the
will. I imagined that I could drop to the best word to describe what happens to the last
ground, stare at a person in the middle of a horrible hours of a bumblebee’s life when
conversation, mid-word, and appreciate his or their intestines and stinger are ripped out of
her entire life through that look. I imagined them all at once. Stop reading now, and give
myself with blue flannel pajamas, no glasses thanks that you are not a bee.)
— I finally had 20/20 vision — and swimming Now for more wittiness: look down at this
fins, because I could also go underwater mid- column. Now look up. No? How about this?
flight and stare at fish in mid-gaze as well. Coco is a horrible nickname for Conan
That is a story I like to tell about the dreams O’Brien. It sounds so effeminate and passive
about my youth.The following is not. — so wait, never mind . . .
As a more devout Hindu back then, I also Why is the sky blue? And why aren’t more
imagined that I was reincarnated — and I re-
member vividly having a dream that laid out
people from Stanford on Reddit? Does any-
one else secretly hate the Class of 2014?
for me utter, undeniable empirical proof that I What assholes — younger, better-looking,
was a gay, blind penguin swimming alone in more accomplished. And now they live in a
O P-E D
reaucracy that some of the newest ResEd
staff members spoke so proudly of during
RA training. There are a number of issues in
Just Tells the new (and not improved) hiring system,
but I will limit this letter to a few of them.
First, the announcement stressed that one
of the key goals was to initiate an additional
M
y name is Brandon Jackson, a junior class model of RA training to take place dur-
and resident assistant (RA) in Cas- ing spring quarter — giving RAs “more time
taño. I’m writing in response to the to reflect on the role and how to engage in a
recent changes Residential Education residential setting.” I would really like to take
(ResEd) has made with the hiring of its stu- a look at the RA training survey data from
dent staff members. The changes, announced the summer or, even better, hold an open
in an e-mail to current RAs Friday afternoon, forum to talk to current RAs to really hash
were a shock, to say the least, and have left out the many problems that exist in RA train-
me quite concerned. ing. However, I’m fairly confident that the
During RA training this summer, there main issues did not stem from not having
was a great deal of rhetoric from the ResEd enough time to develop fully functional staff
staff reminding us of how integral we were to members. If anything, there was more time
the success of ResEd as a whole. It is the RAs, wasted in workshops and presentations that
after all, who live and work in the residences did little to prepare student staff for the many
to build the desired intellectual and educa- challenges that arise in the RA role.
tional living communities on this campus. The most sensible response to an existing
That said, in efforts to hire the best staff, I find inadequate training is not to create room for
it disappointing that, to my knowledge, no more insufficient training. Moreover, if there
current RA or student staff member was con- was any pro to coming back during the sum-
sulted or even made aware of these drastic mer, it was that most, if not all, of my time was
hiring changes — until now. This certainly dedicated to becoming the best RA I could
doesn’t resemble the move away from bu-
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Shidham
room where I once vomited. It is probably
the most explicit example of the young push-
ing out the old. It makes me think of when my
own children will push me into a nursing
home. Yes, that’s right — Crothers is the
nursing home in the Stanford housing hierar-
chy! Huzzah!
I think that the best window for work is 20-
minute chunks. Some people say that this is
too short for most genius Stanford students.
My opinion? It’s enough time for me to do ge-
nius work . . . so there. I must have turned
back and forth from the same problem set 15
times this weekend. Its challenges never
forced me to question my own life choices, or
consider the utterly illogical teaching choices
of certain unnamed Stanford departments of
science and engineering, or question my own
validity in the class and mourn the passing of
the drop deadline. No — I got my work done
with little stress, and lots of learning and cre-
ation packed in little,cute packets of joy — no,
not joy, more like packets of red chili peppers.
Sadistic joy, I guess.
You know what I want sometimes? I want
Please see SHIDHAM, page 4
be. Adding a course in the spring as students
are already taking full loads of classes, extra-
curricular activities and athletics, etc., in the
name of giving students “more time to re-
flect” simply does not make sense.
One point was offered that by making stu-
dents apply by the new Dec. 3 deadline (dur-
ing dead week), they would not be backed
into corners concerning the Draw. I can’t
speak for everyone, but I certainly don’t re-
call any of my peer RAs being backed into
any corners greater than the one anyone who
wishes to become an RA now finds himself
or herself backed into. I’ve spent three weeks
with residents in my current dorm striving to
do everything I can to make it a place we all
can call home (Casta-No-Place-Like-Home).
And now it’s time to start thinking about not
only where I’m living, but also staffing next
year! Oh, and about going abroad? Well, I
guess I have to finalize that soon too. This, of
course, is not even to mention the question of
if I want to staff next year — a question I was
looking forward to exploring over the next
two quarters in my current role as an RA.
Coming full circle, I have to ask: where
Please see OP-ED, page 4
4 ! Monday, October 11, 2010
BLING
Continued from page 2
credit card or wallet.
Some retailers offer a program
Bling Nation spokesman Matthew
Murphy described as a “digital
punch card,” wherein the text alerts
offer incentive programs for fre-
quent shoppers at a given venue. For
example, Stanford CoHo offers 10
percent off every seventh purchase
made with a Bling tag.
One concern students voiced
about the Bling tags is the seemingly
easy theft of such small objects, espe-
cially because Bling tags are identi-
cal aside from a nearly invisible
number indented near the bottom.
However, Murphy believes that
Bling Nation’s security features off-
set this problem.
“There is no information stored
on a Bling tag whatsoever,” Murphy
said, comparing Bling tags with debit
cards. “You also realize you lose
your cell phone before you realize
you lose your wallet.”
Murphy said the company is ex-
panding from Palo Alto to San Jose,
with a particular focus on expanding
at Stanford.
Although some students admit-
ted they only accepted the Bling tag
because of the $10 incentive, those
who adopted it as their primary
method of payment have largely
FRAT
Continued from front page
considered a warning to fraternities
and sororities, cautioning them to im-
prove their conduct or risk losing
their housing if probation continues
for several years.
Suspended fraternities and sorori-
ties, on the other hand, may not have
alcohol of any kind for gatherings
larger than five people. Suspensions
may be imposed for single incidents
or series of incidents.
Both suspension and probation
periods depend on the severity of the
offenses and the conduct of the of-
fending organization.
To get off probation,the Greek or-
ganization must meet guidelines set
by ResEd. Most recently, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon (SAE) was lifted off
its 2009-1010 housing probation,
which was imposed in May 2009 for
been pleased.
“I use [the Bling tag] every place
that has it,” Likens said. “It’s a lot
easier, because I’m pretty forgetful
and forget money.”
“It’s definitely a trendy way to
pay,” said Bryan Yoo ‘10.
Contact Matt Bettonville at mbett
224@stanford.edu.
FRIEND
Continued from page 2
ranking Democrats and Republicans
on board. The nonprofit has three
full-time employees and a slew of
volunteers.About 10 work in Friend-
factor’s New York City office.
“These people believe that this
will push the needle,” Buckley said.
The site currently has 800 regis-
tered beta testers and will have a
soft launch in four to six weeks. Al-
though the focus is currently specif-
ic to the gay rights movement,
Buckley sees Friendfactor as a
“highly replicable model” for any
host of issues.
“We’re trying to mobilize millions
of Americans,” Buckley said. “This
will shift the way we think about gay
rights. It’s a game changer.”
Contact Wyndam Makowsky at
wmakowsky@stanford.edu.
“various violations of the Universi-
ty’s alcohol policy during the preced-
ing months,” according to SAE Presi-
dent Owen Boochever ‘11.
“Specifically, [ResEd] wanted to
see that we could not only be more re-
sponsible when serving alcohol at our
social events, but that we could con-
tribute more to our members and the
campus as a whole than just a venue
for parties,” Boochever wrote in an e-
mail to The Daily.
If a fraternity or sorority does not
improve its behavior on probation, it
faces eviction from its residence. It
has been more than seven years
since a Greek organization was re-
moved from its house (see “Housing
Timeline”).
In 1998, the University evicted Phi
Delta Theta (now 680 Lomita) after a
member fell off the balcony while in-
toxicated and while the fraternity was
under probation. The University later
revoked the fraternity’s charter. Fra-
ternities Theta Xi (formerly housed in
717 Dolores), Delta Kappa Epsilon
APPS
Continued from front page
current and prospective student
staff members voiced curiosity and
apprehension about the changes.
“I’m curious to hear the Univer-
sity’s response as to how these RA
changes will affect the Row,” said
Jon Anderson ‘11, an RA in Chi
Theta Chi and prospective cotermi-
nal degree applicant. “The early
deadline means that house staff
might not be chosen yet, so I don’t
know how they would be able to
pick the RAs.Also, I wouldn’t know
if coterms could apply to be RAs,
because they won’t know whether
or not they’ll even be here next
year.”
Tiffany Shih ‘11, an RA in Car-
denal, said she is concerned that
some of ResEd’s actions may be
misguided.
“ResEd keeps making sponta-
neous decisions to change things
without consulting RAs and hear-
ing what we have to say,” Shih said.
“It seems that they’re making a lot
of decisions that seem good only on
paper.”
ResEd hopes to address the con-
cerns of all involved parties, Calvert
said.
Contact Brandon Powell at bpow-
ell1@stanford.edu.
(now Phi Kappa Psi) and Delta Tau
Delta (in what is now Narnia) lost
their houses in the ‘90s and early 2000s.
The Kappa Sig suspension comes
at a time when ResEd is dealing with
an upswing in alcohol-related inci-
dents.
“To date, this year has been espe-
cially troubling for us because we
have seen more serious alcohol inci-
dents than in the past and some of
these have centered around Greek
houses,” Castro said.
Alcohol suspensions and proba-
tions may be administered by ResEd
to any residence or student organiza-
tion prior to OCB review, not just
Greeks, Boswell said. But Castro said
Greeks in particular are under more
scrutiny by the University.
“Housed Greek organizations
are held to a higher standard because
they are both a house and a student
organization,” Castro said.
Contact Marisa Landicho at landi-
cho@stanford.edu.
BAUTISTA
Continued from page 3
could lead a normal life. And for a
while, I’ll tell you the truth, that’s
what I wanted.
But we are at a moment of crisis.
This isn’t the time to live a normal
life. Maybe I could settle down later,
but not now. In a world where LGB
youth are four times more likely to
attempt suicide than their hetero-
sexual peers and where almost half
of trans youth have seriously con-
templated suicide, this is not a world
where I can hide behind a short hair-
cut and a male name. This is a world
where something needs to be done,
LETTERS
Continued from page 3
quite obviously misunderstood the
arguments of Hanson (either deliber-
ately or not) and then wrote an edito-
rial in the very vein for which they (in-
correctly) attacked Hanson. Is your
answer for him to just shut up? Or
might you consider making counter-
arguments instead of calling names.
Actually, I now see I was wrong.
This piece was not sophomoric, at
least in the sense of college sopho-
mores, it has much more in common
with the behaviors more commonly
found in junior high schools.
JAMES IVERS
Your claims are baseless, unsup-
ported by fact and McCarthyite in im-
plication. This is regardless of my
level of agreement with Mr. Hansen’s
opinions.
Sadly it is this precious sophomor-
ic pedantry that I’ve come to expect
from our so-called elite institutions. I
SHIDHAM
Continued from page 3
to sit at the end of a bar and have an
old white geezer with a top hat laugh
at my stupid jokes all day. I want him
to follow me around on the streets of
New York, down major thorough-
fares, and just laugh so hard that
sometimes he will seem like he is
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and it needs to be done now.
Today is National Coming Out
Day. Today is a day where we are
meant to celebrate the experiences
of queer people, but instead, we are
reflecting on a recent string of sui-
cides committed by queer youth. I
find it terrifying, the fact that young
people are taking their lives out of
a fear, out of a hopelessness that
things will not get better. They’re
people like me, people whom I
identify with, people whom I wish I
had known so I could reach out to
them.
What’s scary is that I’ve been
there. I have friends who have been
there. And I’ll tell you the truth —
it’s scary as hell, recalling those mo-
ments at four in the morning, feeling
terrified, trapped, hopeless, and the
used to run recruiting for a global
consulting company, we prized Stan-
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I for one repent of the regard I
once held for the Leland Stanford Ju-
nior University.
BILL REEVES
Brown Shirts . . . all of you. To
take the words of an intellect like Vic-
tor. D. Hanson . . . and twist those
words into racial slurs when they are
anything but . . . and then to demand
that he be silenced by his colleagues
in a setting and organization that is
supposed to breed dialogue and view-
points from many directions and per-
spectives?
You are Brown Shirts.
If you wonder why the Tea Party
exists . . . It is in response to three
decades of fascist idiots like you.
BRIAN C. KUHN
Your editorial written against Vic-
tor Davis Hanson is the most coward-
ly, ill-advised screed I have ever seen
in a paper associated with an institute
of higher learning. Bar none.
going to have a heart attack.I will feed
him with money and food.That is all.
See? I have waxed ironic, academ-
ic, poetic and just plain stupid in one
swell rush of my pen. I wrote this way
this week only because I wanted to
hear from my readers. So please,
readers, tell me what you think. How
did my experiment in creative writing
go? Does it look good naked?
Please do write! I want to read. Drop
me a line at ashidham@stanford.edu.
Warren Eide, Insurance Agent
The Stanford Daily
only way out is jumping off some
building or swallowing some pills or
doing something horrible to myself. I
never want anyone else to feel that
way, if I can help it.We don’t deserve
to become statistics. We deserve to
be people. This is why I am writing
this column.
So happy National Coming Out
Day, Stanford. This isn’t just for
queer people to come out of the
closet. This is for you to come out
too. Hold a sign. Start a conversa-
tion. Be out for someone who can’t
be out for themselves yet. Some-
times that makes all the difference.
If you’re queer/questioning or just want
to show support and need resources,feel
free to e-mail Cristopher Bautista at
cmsb@stanford.edu.
You and you institution have a lot
to answer for. That you are charged
with teaching the youth of our coun-
try makes me literally sick to my
stomach.
JEANNE PATTERSON
I am appalled by your editorial.
That kind of knee jerk demonization
of anyone who questions race-con-
scious resource allocation by power-
ful institutions is daily becoming less
and less convincing. Time to stop
playing the race card and start mak-
ing real arguments.
JONATHAN ASHLEY
OP-ED
Continued from page 3
was the student input in this deci-
sion? Where were the inquiries into
how students would be affected by
changes that will undoubtedly have
many adverse consequences for
those interested in becoming a stu-
dent staff member? I’m pleased that
ResEd is coming to current staff to
get us to spread the word of the new
hiring system, recognizing how
deeply we are positioned into the
living communities on this campus.
However, I sincerely wish that we,
instead of pure advertisers, were
also looked upon as fruitful advisers
to the Stanford Residential Educa-
tion program. I certainly would have
jumped at the opportunity, as would
many others, had we only been
asked.
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SPORTS
OUSTED IN OVERTIME
Senior defender Cameron Lamming helped Stanford maintain a scoreless draw through the first half of
Saturday’s game at Washington. The Card allowed two goals in the second half and fell 2-0 to the Huskies.
Continued from front page
FOOTBALL|Troy falls in final field goal
and forth all night.
USC drew first blood in the first quarter when,
taking over after a Stanford punt,it put together an
impressive drive behind a duo of running backs —
senior Allen Bradford and freshman Dillon Baxter.
Bradford provided the bulk of the carries for the
Trojans,while Baxter served well as a secondary tail-
back primarily out of the “wildcat”formation — he
scored the Trojans’ first touchdown of the game by
knifing through the Stanford front seven virtually
untouched on his way into the end zone.
The Cardinal responded quickly, scoring a
touchdown of its own on a pass from Luck to jun-
ior receiver Chris Owusu.
The two teams continued to trade points and
possession throughout the first half. Stanford
squandered opportunities to pull ahead twice, as
two fumbles deep inside USC territory cost it
dearly. However, the Cardinal defense was also
opportunistic, managing to force a fumble of its
own early in the second quarter that prevented the
Trojans from adding to their tally.
The score at halftime — a 14-14 draw — was
indicative of the kind of close battle the teams
were waging.Nevertheless,Luck saw room for im-
provement.
“We were a little disappointed as a unit at half-
time,” he said. “We had a couple of suicide plays,
fumbling the ball.We had the motivation to come
out and put points up on the board every time we
went out there.”
Indeed, Stanford’s offense came out early in
the third quarter and looked ready to dominate
the rest of the game.After getting the ball back on
a USC punt,Luck and his offense took the ball and
pounded the Trojans with their power running
game, scoring a touchdown on a long, 14-play
drive that went 93 yards down the field. After a
made extra point, Stanford took a 21-14 lead.
USC’s offense took the field and responded in
kind,scoring a quick touchdown on a 61-yard pass
from Barkley to freshman receiver Robert Woods
to knot the score at 21 apiece.Woods would even-
tually grab 12 receptions on the night for 224 yards
and three touchdowns, becoming the first player
in the country this year with over 200 yards receiv-
ing and at least three touchdowns.
After another touchdown exchange, the score
stood at 28-28 a few minutes into the fourth quar-
ter. A huge kickoff return from Owusu to USC’s
12-yard line (with six more yards tacked on for a
horse-collar penalty) gave Luck tremendous field
position.He did not disappoint,threading a pass to
senior receiver Doug Baldwin in the end zone.
Stanford went up 34-28 after Whitaker missed the
extra point,only his third PAT miss on the season.
With time running out, USC head coach Lane
Kiffin elected to try to convert a fourth-and-10 at
the Stanford 32-yard line. However, Barkley
couldn’t complete his pass,turning the ball over to
the Cardinal on downs. Stanford looked ready to
seal the game — another touchdown could have
easily put it out of reach for USC.
Instead,sophomore running back Stepfan Tay-
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lor, the main tailback in Stanford’s offense, fum-
bled the ball near midfield, and after a video re-
view, officials confirmed that the ball belonged to
USC.This time, Stanford’s defense couldn’t come
up with a stop,and the Trojans went down the field
and put another touchdown on the board courtesy
of an Allen Bradford one-yard run. A converted
extra point gave the Trojans a slim 35-34 lead.
After a short Owusu kickoff return, the Cardi-
nal took over on its own 26-yard line with 1:02 re-
maining in the game. Luck then engineered a
quick-strike drive that went 62 yards in six plays,
helped by a 15-yard personal foul on Trojan line-
backer Chris Galippo. As the clock ran out,
Whitaker nailed the 30-yard field goal, giving
Stanford the 37-35 win and sending the sellout
crowd at Stanford Stadium into a delirium.
After the game, Stanford head coach Jim Har-
baugh remained extremely enthused.
“We felt like we could be game winners if we did-
n’t give in,if we didn’t quit,”he said.“There were big
hurdles and obstacles that had to be overcome,and
to a man,everyone on our team did that.As a head
coach,I couldn’t be more proud of everybody.”
Both passers had very strong games. Barkley
finished with 390 yards and three touchdowns (all
to Woods) on 28-45 passing, while Luck went 20-
24 for 285 yards and three touchdowns of his own.
Neither quarterback threw an interception.
“People that have doubted Andrew Luck do
not know football,” Harbaugh said. “He is a bril-
liant leader,and he played his heart out once again
Redshirt sophomore quarterback Andrew Luck hands off to sophomore running back Stepfan
Taylor in the last-second 37-35 victory over the USC Trojans. Taylor’s rushing attack was key to
the team’s offensive effort, as he added 23 carries, 104 yards and a touchdown run for the Card.
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
This weekend, the Stanford men’s
soccer team opened up the road edition
of its 2010 Pac-10 campaign against two
northwestern opponents. The Card hung
with a tough Washington team (7-4-1, 1-
3-0 Pac-10) for the first 45 minutes, but
gave up two quick goals to open the sec-
ond half and fell 2-0 on Friday night in
Seattle.
Sunday afternoon looked like it
would be more of the same for Stanford
(5-6, 1-2), as the team extended its score-
less streak to 280 minutes and headed
into double overtime against Oregon
State (6-5, 1-3) in Corvallis. But a golden
goal by senior forward Dominique
Yahyavi clinched the victory for Stan-
ford and sent the team back to the Farm
with a weekend split.
Redshirt freshman Galen Perkins saw
his first collegiate action Friday night,
starting in place of injured redshirt fresh-
man goalie Jason Dodson. Perkins
played well, making two saves in the first
half to keep the Huskies at bay. Yet he
was unable to stop veteran senior for-
ward Matt Van Houten, who broke free
of the defense minutes into the second
half. Van Houten first headed in a cross
from the right side in the 46th minute and
went on to beat Perkins again, this time
on a one-on-one from the left side —
Perkins was helpless both times.
Despite the two goals, the defense
generally held up well against a potent
Washington attack in front of a large
crowd at Husky Stadium. The Huskies
fell from the national rankings after a
wild 4-3 overtime loss to No. 25 San
Diego State last week, but were unbeat-
en in seven straight matches earlier in the
year. That streak includes a crucial 4-1
victory over then-No. 15 Portland.
The Stanford offense, however, was
out of sync all night — the Cardinal mus-
tered just four shots, half of which came
from defenders.
After a day off on Saturday, the Car-
dinal headed south to Corvallis to face
Oregon State. The Beavers were coming
off a 5-0 shelling by Cal on Friday night
at home, but they still managed to put up
a great fight and outshot Stanford 4-1 in
the second half. Both teams lacked ener-
— he was as poised as you can be in the two-
minute drive [at the game’s end].”
Stanford’s rushing attack was also a key to its
success, which Harbaugh went to repeatedly
throughout the game. Taylor, who has emerged
from Stanford’s early “backfield-by-committee”
approach as the go-to back for the Stanford of-
fense, had 23 carries, 104 yards and a touchdown
run, and freshman Anthony Wilkerson added a
touchdown run of his own.
Harbaugh also had plenty of praise for USC.
“[USC] played a great game,” he said. “This
was a great college football game.”
“To beat a great team like USC three out of
four years is a great milestone,” he continued. “I
really gained a lot of respect for Matt Barkley, for
his play.The Trojans played a tremendous football
game.”
With Stanford’s bye week coming up, Har-
baugh said that he will give the Cardinal some
time off this week.
For Luck,it will just be more time to savor beat-
ing the Trojans.
When asked whether it was more fun to beat
USC at home or in Los Angeles, he laughed and
replied,“That’s a good question . . . I’m not going
to answer that one.”
— Alyssa London contributed to this report.
Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawhney@stanford.
edu.
JONATHAN YORK/The Stanford Daily
Monday, October 11, 2010 ! 5
MEN’S SOCCER
10/10 at Oregon State W 1-0
UP NEXT
UCLA
(8-2-1, 3-0-0 Pac-10)
10/15 Laird Q. Cagan Stadium
7:30 P.M.
GAME NOTES: The Stanford men’s soccer squad
defeated Oregon State yesterday 1-0 in double
OT with a lone goal from senior forward Do-
minique Yahyavi. Previously this weekend, the
Card fell 2-0 to Washington, ending its northwest
Pac-10 campaign in a split. Next the team heads
south to face the Bruins, who are currently unde-
feated in the conference.
gy, and the crowd of 800 saw a defensive
struggle through steady rain throughout
most of regulation.
Perkins again stepped up and made a
number of crucial saves, including two to
keep Stanford alive in the first overtime.
Head coach Bret Simon was im-
pressed with his young backup keeper.
“Galen Perkins did an excellent job
starting the first two games of his college
career,” he said.
Perkins made nine saves over the
weekend and appears likely to feature
frequently in goal for the Cardinal with
Dodson’s return still unclear.
After the first overtime finished score-
less, the Stanford offense finally got into
gear.In the 107th minute,sophomore for-
ward Adam Jahn found himself free with
the ball and fired a shot that goalkeeper
Steve Spangler parried away. But senior
Dominique Yahyavi pounced on the re-
bound and fired the ball into an empty
net for his fifth goal of the season and his
second game-winning goal of the year.
Stanford will resume Pac-10 play next
weekend, when it welcomes UCLA and
San Diego State to the Farm. The Cardi-
nal will face off against the Bruins on Fri-
day night, before playing a Sunday after-
noon game against the Aztecs.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs
@stanford.edu.
FIELD HOCKEY
10/8 vs. Harvard W 6-0
UP NEXT
SYRACUSE
(8-4)
10/15 Albany, NY
9:00 A.M. PST
COVERAGE:
GAME NOTES: The No. 17 Cardinal field hockey
team shutout Harvard 6-0 at home last Friday. The
Crimson’s subdued offense was no match for Stan-
ford’s aggressive possessions. The Card now
heads on an East Coast tour to face No. 9 Syra-
cuse, Rutgers and Northeastern next weekend.
CRIMSON
CAN’T
COMPETE
Harvard heads home
after Cardinal shutout
By NICK SU
A strong performance in the second
period led the No. 17 Stanford field hock-
ey team (8-3, 3-1 NorPac) to a 6-0 shutout
over a struggling Harvard squad last Fri-
day at the Varsity Turf. The Stanford
women held Harvard to zero shots in that
period after coming off a 4-2 victory over
No. 8 Wake Forest and a 2-1 overtime win
against UC-Davis last weekend. Harvard,
on the other hand, came into the game
having won only one of its last eight
matches.
Less than two minutes into the first
half, a right-side cross from junior forward
Stephanie Byrne led to a tap-in goal for
sophomore forward Alysha Sekhon and a
quick 1-0 lead for the Card. However,
Stanford was unable to capitalize on its
initial lead until the end of the first period.
Fortunately for the Cardinal, Har-
vard’s offensive effort was unsuccessful,
as the Crimson missed its only two shots
of the game — a penalty corner lobbed
wide of the left post and another shot
missing to the right.
Please see HOCKEY, page 6
Daniel
Bohm
On My Mind
No respect
for field
rushers
I
apologize in advance to my loyal
readers who will recognize that
this column is awfully similar to
one I wrote after Stanford beat
Notre Dame last year. I also
apologize for being a downer, because
really, I should be celebrating Stan-
ford’s resiliency in beating USC on
Saturday. But of course, Stanford stu-
dents had to go screw it up.
This is an open challenge to any
person who ran onto the field after
Stanford’s win to e-mail me a legiti-
mately good reason why you did so. If
you do, I will do something — any-
thing — of your choice, to match the
embarrassment you brought upon all
of us by looking like a clown after the
game. That isn’t going to happen
though, because a good reason does
not exist.
Stanford students
are so consistently
out of touch with
sports reality.
Stanford students are so consistent-
ly out of touch with sports reality that it
never ceases to amaze me. Did you
know, Mister or Miss Field-Rusher,
that USC is unranked, on probation
and has 15 fewer scholarship players
than Stanford? Or that USC lost last
week to a very mediocre Washington
team and that Stanford was favored in
this game by more than a touchdown?
When you rush the field, you tell
the other team that you didn’t expect
to win the game, and that you think
they are better than you. You are es-
sentially saying that particular win is
more special than all the other wins.
When Oregon beat Stanford last
week, I found solace in the fact that
very few idiotic Oregon fans rushed
the field. I thought, “Wow, they really
think we are a hell of a team.” USC
doesn’t deserve that distinction.
I have a newsflash for you — Stan-
ford is better than USC. This isn’t the
2007 upset when Stanford was a 41-
point underdog. This is a Stanford
team that is one poorly played second
half away from being undefeated and
ranked in the top five.
I haven’t talked to anyone on the
team about it, but I don’t know how I
would feel about the field rush if I were
a player.Sure,the crowd was active last
night. It wasn’t Death Valley-loud, but
for Stanford, it was impressive. People
didn’t leave around halftime and even
the Axe Committee people managed
not to yell at the wrong times (hint:
when Stanford has the ball). But how
many games does the team have to win
before fans start expecting to win?
Some coaches tell their teams that
when they score a touchdown, they
should hand the ball to the referee and
act like they had been there before.
When will Stanford fans act like they
have been there before?We have beaten
USC three out of the past four seasons.
We have been ranked for most of the
season.We went to a bowl game last year.
I got a text message from a friend
who went to the University of Maryland
— a school that may not have a great
football team, but has fans that under-
stand sports — that read, “Good win
but u should be ashamed of yourself for
charging the field.”Damn straight.
Ashamed is probably the best word
for it. That or pathetic. I want to be
proud, but instead I’m forced to sit in
my seat and just shake my head.I guess
I can be happy that we aren’t Colorado,
one of college football’s most storied
programs in the past,and we didn’t rush
the field after beating 1-3 Georgia.
So where should we draw the line?
I don’t want to delve too deeply into
that topic, because that is what I did in
my column last year after the field-
rushing after beating 6-6 Notre Dame.
I will say this, however: if you rush
the field, the team you beat should
have at least been a) ranked higher
than you, b) a top-10 team or c) your
archrival (in our case Cal — everyone
hates USC, not just Stanford).
So I’m sorry for being the fun po-
lice,but really,if you want to be consid-
ered respectable, you have to start de-
manding respect. Charging the field
isn’t the way to earn it.
Daniel Bohm hates you. Win back his
affection at bohmd@stanford.edu.
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HOCKEY
Continued from page 5
But in the second half, Stanford
would strike early once again, with
a goal by sophomore defender
Becky Dru in the 41st minute. Scor-
ing off a penalty corner shot, the
goal was Dru’s fourth of the season.
Fifteen minutes into the second
half, Stanford pulled ahead to a
solid 4-0 lead, with goals by senior
defender Katherine Donner and
senior midfielder Xanthe Travlos,
assisted by senior forward Kather-
ine Swank and Dru, respectively.
The Cardinal would end the match
with two more goals by Byrne and
Donner.
Donner’s two goals were her first
of the season, and Byrne contributed
to the second-half Cardinal effort
with two assists.
In a dominant offensive display
by Stanford, the team managed to
outshoot the visiting Harvard squad
22-2.Along with a 10-0 difference in
second half penalty corners, this
dominance kept the ball predomi-
nantly in Stanford possession and
gave little action to the Cardinal de-
fenders. Redshirt freshman Julia
LaSalvia and junior Allessandra
Moss split time at the goalkeeper
position.
With five games left in its regu-
lar season, the field hockey team is
headed for three games on the
road, beginning with No. 9 Syracuse
(8-4) this Friday. The team’s East
Coast tour will continue with
matches at Rutgers (5-9) and
Northeastern (6-7) the following
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