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April 25, 2011
Five fire trucks responded to a blaze at the Product Realization Lab on Saturday night. Though the exact cause of the fire has yet to be determined,
a fire official speculated that flammable manufacturing oils (which are stored in the lab) leaked onto the floor of the building and then combusted.
Fire breaks out at Product Realization Lab
By TYLER BROWN
DESK EDITOR
On Saturday evening, five fire trucks from
the Stanford and Palo Alto fire departments
responded to a blaze at the model shop, which
is part of the University’s Product Realization
Lab (PRL).
The Stanford Fire Marshal closed down the
PRL and posted a sign yesterday asking that
no one enter the building “until further no-
tice.”The shop, housed in Room 616 across the
street from Old Union, is most often used for
woodworking.
After the call came in at 9:54 p.m., officials
worried that the fire could have spread to
other parts of the building or nearby struc-
tures. But the sprinkler on the ceiling activated
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Yoo, Ramsey debate
legality of war in Libya
By KABIR SAWHNEY
DESK EDITOR
With the U.S. military’s involvement
in Libya still in its infancy, two scholars
came together at the Law School on Fri-
day afternoon to debate the constitu-
tionality of America’s intervention in
the country. Professor John Yoo of UC-
Berkeley and University of San Diego
professor Michael Ramsey J.D.‘89 pre-
sented opposing arguments, with Yoo
defending the constitutionality of Presi-
dent Obama’s decision to carry out
airstrikes and Ramsey arguing that in-
tervening in Libya requires a Congres-
sional declaration of war.
Yoo’s appearance generated contro-
UNIVERSITY
New dining hall to feature
‘extended dining service’
By SARAH FLAMM
With the Arrillaga Family Dining
Commons set to open next fall, Stan-
ford Dining has announced plans to
offer extended dining service between
current mealtimes.The new service will
offer meals between breakfast and
lunch as well as between lunch and din-
ner during weekdays, at no additional
cost to students on a Stanford Dining
meal plan. The Board of Trustees ap-
proved the change when setting tuition
rates for the 2011-12 academic year.
The new continuous service strives
to accommodate students who miss
regular meal periods, perhaps due to
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CRIME & SAFETY
immediately and “smoke was pouring out
when the first units arrived” at 10:05 p.m., said
a Stanford University Department of Public
Safety (SUDPS) official who was on the scene.
The fire did not burn for long.
Earlier in the day, a “project was going on
where students were building windmills for de-
veloping countries and learning to carve
blades,” said PRL Co-director Craig Milroy,
who was at the scene after the incident.
The PRL closed at 5 p.m., and nothing ab-
normal was reported. However, several types
of manufacturing oils, all flammable, were
stored in the building. The official speculated
that some “could’ve been leaking on the floor
and then combusted.” An electric spark might
have caused the blaze, he said.
More conclusive information will be made
versy prior to Friday’s event, organized
by the Law School’s Constitutional Law
Center. During his time at the Depart-
ment of Justice under the Bush adminis-
tration, Yoo co-authored the “Torture
Memos,” which provided legal justifica-
tion for torturing terrorism suspects.
Students handed out pamphlets titled
“Why John Yoo should be fired, dis-
barred and prosecuted” at the entrance
to the talk,and similar flyers covered the
outer wall next to the entrance of the
Law School.
“The problem with John Yoo is that
he is the person that devised a legal jus-
tification for torture, which is universal-
Please see LIBYA, page 2
conflicting class schedules,according to
Stanford Dining Executive Director
Eric Montell. Currently, students on a
Stanford meal plan generally have food
available from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m., 11:30
a.m.to 1:15 p.m.and 5:15 to 7 p.m.,with
hours varying slightly among the 10 un-
dergraduate dining halls.
However, the plan falls short of cre-
ating a 24-hour eatery, an idea that was
bandied about by various candidates
and officials during ASSU elections. In
their platform, newly elected ASSU
Wael Ghonim shared his revolutionary Facebook page with
President Michael Cruz ‘12 and Vice
President Stewart Macgregor-Dennis the audience in Cubberley Auditorium on Friday evening. Jan.17.He proceeded to translate the note to the
He recounted his experiences in Cairo at the height of the
Please see DINING, page 3 protests.
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Volume 239
Issue 48
ROTC’s
return
endorsed
Ad hoc committee
releases report
ahead of schedule
By KATE ABBOTT
DEPUTY EDITOR
In a report released last Friday, the
ad hoc committee investigating the po-
tential return of ROTC to Stanford an-
nounced its support for the program.
The report comes several weeks early
of its anticipated May 12 delivery, and
a presentation of the recommendation
will be given at this Thursday’s Faculty
Senate meeting.
Courtesy of Wyles Vance The report calls for a “restructured
ROTC program” that includes a re-
view of all ROTC lecturers and profes-
sors by a designated Stanford commit-
tee and courses available to all Stan-
ford students for academic or activity
credit.
“An on-campus ROTC would aug-
ment the civic education of other Stan-
ford undergraduates as well,” the re-
port states. “The opportunity to talk
available, pending an investigation by the about patriotism, just and unjust war,
Stanford Fire Marshal. The Marshal could not human rights, imperialism and anti-
be reached for comment over the weekend. colonialism, etc. in a classroom or dor-
“It could’ve been worse — nobody got mitory that includes prospective offi-
hurt,” Milroy said. “It could’ve happened at cers in America’s military is something
three in the morning, when nobody was here. from which all our students can bene-
Luckily, some of our TAs were walking by fit.”
when the alarm went off.” The 10-member committee voted
On one count, the incident was a close call: unanimously in its supportive recom-
the lid on a linseed oil container, which was lo- mendation; however, unanimity was
cated in the middle of the fire, almost melted not required, according to the commit-
through. An open oil container would have al- tee’s chair, psychology professor
most certainly exacerbated the blaze. Ewart Thomas.
Just after midnight, officials examined the “Our recommendation reflects in-
room with flashlights, checking the electrical puts from every committee member;
wiring and circuit breakers. At one point, the the language was massaged here and
Please see FIRE, page 5 Please see ROTC, page 5
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Egypt activist
visits Stanford
Wael Ghonim started Facebook
page that sparked revolution
By MARWA FARAG
DESK EDITOR
Egyptian political activist and Google Mid-
dle East executive Wael Ghonim spoke about
his role in helping catalyze the recent Egyptian
revolution in a talk on Friday at Cubberley Au-
ditorium.
Ghonim, who recently made it onto TIME
Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influen-
tial people, founded a Facebook group credited
with sparking the Jan. 25 revolution.
The 30-year-old Egyptian was detained for
11 days by Egyptian state security in late January
and early February. Ghonim gave an emotional
televised interview after his release on Feb. 7,
which fueled protests until former President
Hosni Mubarak resigned on Feb. 11.
During his talk at Stanford, which was organ-
ized by the Muslim Student Awareness Network
(MSAN), Ghonim took the stage following the
presentation of video clips from Al Jazeera’s
documentary on the revolution, “Egypt Burn-
ing,” and a YouTube clip showing reactions to
Mubarak’s resignation.
Ghonim began his talk on a modest note,
claiming an “allergy to video cameras” and a
hesitation to take full credit.
“I don’t enjoy the compliments much,not be-
cause I’m humble or anything, but because I
hate the fact that a lot of Egyptians aren’t getting
the credit for work they did,” he said.
“The real challenge is not to get rid of the
regime,”he added.“The real challenge is to actu-
ally achieve what we wanted to achieve from the
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Ghonim projected a note, written in Arabic,
that he had posted on the Facebook group on
Please see GHONIM, page 5
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Insights Across the Business Spectrum
Ann Livermore, the executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard, delivered
the keynote address at the “Insights Across the Business Spectrum” confer-
ence, hosted by Stanford Women in Business last Saturday in AnnAud.
LOCAL
California passes
renewable energy bill
BRENDAN O’BYRNE
STAFF WRITER
With the passage of Senate Bill 2X
(SB 2X) on April 12,public and private
utilities in California will be required to
obtain 33 percent of their electricity
from renewable resources by the year
2020. The law has been received posi-
tively by several Stanford experts, in-
cluding Steve Eglash,a member of the
Precourt Institute for Energy and the
executive director of the Environment
and Affiliates Program.
SB 2X builds on regulation passed
in 2006,which requires utilities to have
20 percent of their power come from
renewable resources by the end of
2010,a figure that currently stands at 18
percent but is expected to be 20 per-
cent by the end of 2011.
Accompanying California Gov-
ernor Jerry Brown at the signing of
SB 2X were Secretary of Energy
Steven Chu and State Senator Joe
Simitian (D-Palo Alto),the author of
the bill. In a press conference, Chu
said the law would “unleash clean-
energy innovation and clean-energy
investments,” while creating eco-
nomic benefits.
He also commented on the recent
finalization of a $1.6 billion federal
loan guarantee from the U.S. Depart-
ment of Energy to BrightSource En-
ergy to help with their massive solar-
thermal project in the Mojave Desert.
Chu announced another nearly $1.2
billion loan to help a different solar
energy facility,California Valley Solar
Ranch project, sponsored by Sun-
NEWS BRIEFS
New Executives
take office
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Newly elected ASSU President
Michael Cruz ‘12 and Vice President
Stewart Macgregor-Dennis ‘13 took
office on Saturday, two weeks after
the ASSU spring general election.
The pair replaced former President
LIBYA
Continued from front page
ly considered not only morally repre-
hensible but illegal,”said Omar Shakir
‘07, J.D. ‘13. “To have him speak at
Stanford Law School legitimizes not
only him, but also the criminal con-
duct he helped to facilitate.”
“We’re not talking about someone
who just has a perspective we don’t
agree with,” he added. “To have him
participate in a talk that is sanctioned
by the Constitutional Law Center at
the Stanford Law School is a black
mark on the Law School and the Uni-
versity.”
Michael McConnell, the Constitu-
tional Law Center’s director who
moderated the talk and invited Yoo to
campus, defended Yoo’s presence at
the Law School.
“A university is a place for inclusion,
not exclusion, of controversial ideas
and controversial people,” he wrote in
an email to The Daily. “[Yoo] is a re-
spected member of the faculty of the
University of California at Berkeley
and has been invited to speak at dozens
of universities around the country.”
“Many students chose to protest
the invitation, and, in the best tradi-
tion of Stanford,they did so in appro-
priate places and appropriate ways,
which did not interfere with the right
of other Stanford students to hear the
debate, free of disruption,” he added.
The debate itself saw a spirited dis-
cussion between Ramsey and Yoo,
centering on the true nature of the dis-
tribution of war powers between the
president and Congress.
Ramsey’s position was grounded
in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Con-
stitution, which gives Congress the
power to declare war. According to
the administration, military action in
Libya is not a “war”and thus does not
require the country to declare war
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Power Corp., which will be located
mainly in San Luis Obispo County.
Chu also mentioned the joint con-
sortium between Stanford and UC-
Berkeley that will “develop and test
new technologies aimed at improving
solar [photovoltaic] performance and
bringing down manufacturing cost.”
Commenting on the implications of
SB 2X, Eglash acknowledged that
though the program would cost more
in the short term, it would lower costs
and provide other benefits in the long
run.
“As individuals and as a society, we
make decisions all the time that aren’t
based on the absolute lowest cost but
are made by weighing the intangible
benefits,”Eglash said.
He noted that many of the costs of
non-renewable power are not included
in the bill’s final figure, such as pollu-
tion costs or involvement in oil-rich
areas overseas.
Brown publicly stated that the bill
would make California a new leader
for renewable resources and praised
Simitian for authoring such an innova-
tive bill.He cited the bill as an example
of overcoming the partisan divide that
exists in Sacramento over the Califor-
nia budget.
“We have something that is a real
success story,”Brown said.
The bill will help fulfill the require-
ments of AB 32,signed in 2006 by then-
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,
which includes a commitment to re-
duce greenhouse gases to 1990 levels
Please see ENERGY, page 3
Angelina Cardona ‘11.
Cruz served as Vice President
under Cardona after her original se-
lection, Kelsei Wharton ‘12, resigned
in winter quarter following a bike in-
jury.
The new Executive’s first major
task will be delivering a statement at
Thursday’s Faculty Senate meeting,
where the ad hoc committee on ROTC
will deliver its recommendation.
— Kabir Sawhney
against the Libyan government.
“The 18th-century sources define
‘war’ very broadly,” Ramsey said.
“The international law authorities
that wrote at this time . . . defined war
simply as armed conflict between sov-
ereigns.”
He added that the meaning of the
word “declare” did not mean that the
president could begin a war,so long as
he did not say that the country was at
war with another nation.
“This seems like a very odd
arrangement to me,” Ramsey said.
“The 18th-century meaning of declar-
ing war is quite a bit broader than
that.”
Yoo countered that the president is
authorized by the Constitution to re-
spond to attacks on America or its na-
tional interest without a Congression-
al declaration of war, and that Article
I, Section 8 was not designed as a
check on presidential power.
“[Congress] has created a huge
army, navy and air force, which is pri-
marily designed for offensive opera-
tions in other people’s countries,” he
said. “The president, because of this
arrangement, exercises a great deal of
initiative and responsibility.However,
that does not mean that the president
has unfettered power to use that mili-
tary . . . Congress [can] cut off funds
for any war with which it disagrees.”
Yoo also cited British law that pre-
ceded the writing of the U.S.Constitu-
tion, where the nation could be at war
for quite a while before the legislature
actually issued a declaration of war.
“Britain waged six or seven major
wars in the 100 years before the Consti-
tution,but they declared war only once
before or at the start of hostilities,” he
said.“Look at the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. It is a declaration of war . . .
but Lexington and Concord occurred
well over a year before the Declaration
of Independence was issued!”
Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawh-
ney@stanford.edu.
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FEATURES

ByKELLYVICARS Captain James Cook,who explored the Pacific

and Antarctic Oceans.Today,the JR roams wa-

T
en miles off the coast of Costa
Rica,Stanford researcher Jennifer
Saltzman stands on the ship deck
of the JOIDES Resolution watch-
ing a gigantic steel drill dig a 23-
foot-wide hole in the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
The drill will reach depths of up to 6,924 feet,or
about 1.3 miles,below the ocean floor.
Its mission? To extract deep samples of
earth that could provide crucial insight into how
subduction zones — places where one tectonic
plate of the Earth’s crust is shoved beneath an-
other — produces large earthquakes, such as
the recent magnitude-9 earthquake that rav-
aged the coast of Japan.This type of research is
the “smoking gun” in uncovering the environ-
mental and climate changes that have shaped
the planet’s transformation throughout history,
from continental drift to the extinction of the di-
nosaurs,Saltzman said.
Deep-sea drilling has played an integral part
in shaping scientific understanding of geologic
phenomena, such as major earthquakes, vol-
canic eruptions and tsunamis. Aboard the
JOIDES Resolution,researchers are drilling to
depths previously unheard of,where sediments
could unlock the secrets that may one day allow
scientists to foresee tectonic disasters before
they take place.
The ship, which is affectionately called the
JR, is the only American ship in the world de-
voted solely to scientific drilling. Its full
acronym, JOIDES, stands for Joint Oceano-
graphic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling.
“Resolution” honors the HMS Resolution, a
ship commanded more than 200 years ago by
ters across the globe, from New Zealand to
Tahiti to Central America to the Bering Sea.
Assisting in this endeavor are over 100 indi-
viduals representing 10 nations on four conti-
nents:engineers,technicians,oilers,chemists,re-
searchers,curators,computer science and imag-
ing specialists, a captain, laundryman and pro-
fessional chefs. They work and live together
aboard the JR, where operations continue 24
hours a day in the lab stack — an innovative re-
search space comprised of seven vertical floors
of laboratories.
Saltzman,director of outreach education at
the School of Earth Sciences and a lecturer in
geological and environmental sciences, was
part of this team, working a 12-hour shift each
day like every member of the crew for the five-
week research voyage.She rose with the sunrise
at 6 a.m. and worked until just before sunset at
6 p.m.
She was hired from a nationwide pool of ap-
plicants as the ship’s education officer.Her du-
ties included sharing the JR’s progress with stu-
dents through blogs and live online broadcasts
as well as conducting research along with the
rest of the crew,spending days processing sedi-
ment samples in the geochemistry lab.
Saltzman jumped at the opportunity to par-
ticipate in the five-week research voyage when
she was offered the position early this year.
Along with looking at the sediment sam-
ples, she also got to share her experience with
student audiences around the country through
her blog posts on the JOIDES Resolutionweb-
site. Her entries paint a colorful portrait of life
aboard the JR and help explain the research in
Jennifer Saltzman conducts research aboard the JOIDES Resolution, pictured top left, where
she worked for five weeks as the ship’s education officer.
ways that younger audiences can understand.
In one post, for example, Saltzman described
drilling into the sediment on the seafloor as
similar to “pushing a giant straw through layers
of cake or Jello!”
Saltzman also found a way to interact with
her land-bound viewers through live online
broadcasts over Skype.She spoke to many class-
rooms in California and shared her experiences
as part of the research team.A few weeks ago,
Saltzman talked to a sixth-grade earth science
class in Santa Clara, Calif. She took them on a
photo tour of the JR and told them about some
of the research methods the scientists use —
some of which, like tasting the core samples to
test for differences in texture, are strange and
counterintuitive.
Her broadcasts even made their way back to
the Stanford campus. Kelly Marren ‘13, one of
Saltzman’s advisees,tuned in from her laptop in
her dorm room.
“[I was] wowed by the highly scientific
process of studying these core samples, cen-
timeter by centimeter,”she said.“I can’t believe
all this is taking place on a ship! I was very im-
Courtesy of Jennifer Saltzman
pressed by the dual existence of ship life and re-
search.”
For Saltzman,teaching from aboard the ship
was an exciting aspect of her job. She used her
blog and broadcasts to create a link between
the purely scientific aims of the research aboard
the JR and the avid minds of earth science stu-
dents on the Farm.
“I love teaching,” she said. “I love sharing
what I know about the world and helping peo-
ple understand.”
Though Saltzman’s five-week voyage
ended when the JR returned to port on April
13, the ship’s research will continue when it
embarks on its next voyage, which is planned
to explore waters offshore of Panama.
“We are FAR from understanding every-
thing about how the Earth system works, let
alone how to design all the tools and experiments
to get us there,” Saltzman wrote in her blog.
“That is the exciting thing about science.There is
still so much to learn and do.There is so much
still to discover.”
Contact Kelly Vicars at kvicars@stanford.edu.

ENERGY
gy plants, research and maintenance try, and it’s America potentially lead-
spurred by SB 2X. ing the world,”he said.
Opposition to the bill largely
Continued from page 2 stems from its economic cost, with Contact Brendan O’Byrne at
many senators objecting that there bobyrne@stanford.edu.
would not be significant economic
by 2020. gains.Safeway Stores,which is the sec-

“I believe that a decade from now,
when we have hit 33 percent by 2020,
we will look back on this day and say,
‘Look at what California has done,’”
Simitian said at the press conference.
Because the bill has the force of
law behind it, Eglash said it would be
effective in its goal of reducing green-
house gas emissions.
“I think [SB 2X] will undoubtedly
be effective, both at increasing Cali-
fornia’s use of renewable energy and
also at creating jobs,” he said.
Eglash said jobs would be created
through the construction of new ener-
ond-largest employer in California,
opposed the bill,citing economic con-
cerns.
State Senator Roderick Wright
(D-Inglewood) said the bill could cost
California $1.5 billion and claimed
that the bill would raise California’s
energy prices, which are already 18 to
20 percent higher than the national
average, according to the California
Manufacturers and Technology Asso-
ciation.
Brown, however, is confident
about the law’s future.
“It’s California leading the coun-
DINING
Continued from front page
‘13 proposed having 24-hour access
to fruit, cereal, milk and juice.
In an attempt to gauge student
support for 24-hour dining, Deepa
Kannappan ‘13,a former Senator,ad-
ministered an email survey to under-
graduates at the beginning of winter
quarter. The 300 responses revealed
high interest in having more food op-
tions available between regular meal
times but little interest in having food
available from 2:30 to 7 a.m.
In another change to current op-
tions, late night dining on East Cam-
pus will be moved from Stern to Ar-
rillaga. The hours will remain the
same, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., but the menu
will be expanded to include a “Fit and
Healthy” menu consisting of items
that are 550 calories or fewer. Com-
ponents of the new menu will be
launched this quarter, according to
Montell.
Montell added that Stanford Din-
ing would evaluate the effectiveness
of the continuous dining pilot pro-
gram throughout the course of the
next academic year, measuring stu-
dent involvement in the program.

Contact Sarah Flamm at sflamm@

stanford.edu.
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R
ecently, an ad hoc committee
consisting of Stanford stu-
dents and faculty was formed
in order to research the merits of the
return of ROTC to campus. Last
week this committee released a
statement supporting the return of
ROTC. Section 5.1 of the statement
specifically addresses the argument
of ROTC’s violation of the nondis-
crimination policy.
To say the least, I was disturbed
by the rhetoric the committee used
to describe their reasons behind
backing ROTC. An opening line in
Section 5.1 reads:
This objection focuses on the al-
leged persistence of discrimination
within the military despite the repeal
of DADT and says that any restruc-
tured, on-campus ROTC program
would make Stanford complicit in
such discrimination.
The committee was dismissive of
transgender people and their experi-
ences. Those words — “alleged per-
sistence of discrimination” — it’s in-
teresting how this discrimination is
“alleged” — as if it’s merely some-
thing that people talked about to
stall, that it’s all ultimately a lie. Tell
that to somebody who did experi-
ence that discrimination. Some stu-
dents’ support of the return of
ROTC and the military’s presence
on campus led them to say (uninten-
tionally or intentionally) transpho-
bic statements. I had to face that. My
transgender friends faced it.This dis-
crimination is not “alleged.” It actu-
ally happened.If ROTC discriminat-
ed against women, an ethnic minori-
ty or a religious minority, we would
not even be having this debate. The
fact that this debate is even occur-
ring in the first place — that there
needs to be a committee on this — is
in essence problematic.
But perhaps what is most disturb-
ing to me is the argument that taking
a stand for transgender rights is not
worth preventing the return of
ROTC. Here’s another excerpt from
that statement:
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committee used to
describe their reasons
behind backing ROTC
Employment Non-Discrimination
Act, a bill in Congress that would
give federal protection to LGB indi-
viduals, “gender identity” was re-
moved from the bill so that it would
get more votes (it has yet to pass in
Congress).The “No on Prop 8” cam-
paign excluded transgender people
from their advertisements for the
sake of making the queer communi-
ty look more “mainstream friendly.”
(Prop 8 passed, and gender-inclusive
marriage is still illegal in California).
These were my battles to fight as
much as they were everyone else’s.
And when trans people were left be-
hind, I gritted my teeth and accepted
it.If my LGB siblings got those rights
first, then it’s only a matter of time
before transgender people followed
suit,right? But that hasn’t happened.
And I don’t think it will happen un-
less we trans people stand up for our-
selves and say we deserve rights too.
We’ve fought for LGB rights. It’s
N O F REE LUNCH
time people fought for us.
Now this pattern is emerging at
my school. DADT was repealed, and
again, I’m hearing the argument that
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since my LGB siblings can now
serve, that the rights of transgender Student-Run Honor Zack Hoberg
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We fail to see any good reason for

the current exclusion of persons from
the American military merely be-
cause of their transgender status. But
our committee did not set out to deter-
mine whether all the policies of the
American military are fully in keep-
ing with the nation’s civic ideals.That
seems to us far too high a standard to
set in order to open the door to a more
educationally productive relation-
ship between Stanford University and
ROTC.
I’m disappointed by the fact that
protecting the equality of all Stan-
ford students is “too high a standard
to set.” Apparently, my rights are so
unimportant to protect that I’m
worth sacrificing for the greater
good. This is all, sadly, part of an
emerging pattern.Throughout histo-
ry, transgender people have been left
behind for the sake of everyone else.
Gender non-conforming people led
the Stonewall riots — the catalyst of
the gay rights movement — yet, you
don’t see their efforts acknowledged.
Homosexuality was no longer classi-
fied as a psychological disorder in the
1970s, but transgender identities are
still medically pathologized. In the
people will soon come next. Call me
a pessimist,but I don’t buy it.That ar-
gument has been used way too many
times,and way too many times trans-
gender people have been screwed
over.
There aren’t many open trans-
gender people on campus,and often-
times, our voice is not heard. I am
glad that my peers have supported
me, and I am thankful for them. But
in the end,it’s the University that de-
cides the fate of ROTC. The ad hoc
committee’s recommendation is
merely that — a recommendation.
The Faculty Senate is going to vote,
and ultimately the decision lies with
President Hennessy.
I hope the Stanford administra-
tion doesn’t invalidate my identity
for the sake of getting the few extra
bucks from the government. Do we
want to be the kind of university that
throws out its nondiscrimination
policy for political expedience? This
is an opportunity for Stanford to
make a statement to the rest of the
country, standing up for equality for
all students. I hope my university
does the right thing.
Cristopher completed this column
with the help of Leanna Keyes. E-mail
Cristopher at cmsb@stanford.edu.
Code
L
ast week, on the advice on the U.S. Justice Depart-
ment, President Hennessey’s office unilaterally
lowered the standard of proof in Judicial Affairs
cases involving sexual assault from “beyond a reason-
able doubt” to “a preponderance of the evidence.”
While some might be frustrated that he failed to consult
the student body in making this change, it’s altogether
understandable; President Hennessey is responsible for
a large check from the federal government that’s contin-
gent on complying with it’s edicts.
More interestingly, this action preempted a current
review of the Judicial Affairs committee that’s asking a
more important question: what should the standard of
proof for all cases be, and, more generally, how should
the Judicial Affairs process be updated to make it more
relevant? Last Tuesday, we participated in a somewhat
under-attended event (we were the only two people
there) with the committee doing the review designed to
give students input on these questions.Their goals were
simple and altogether admirable: produce a set of re-
forms that would simplify the system, make the student
body feel more invested and most importantly, pass an
up down referendum by the student body.
First, let’s deal with the standard of proof. Stanford is
one of only a few universities to use “beyond a reason-
able doubt” as the standard of proof in campus Judicial
Affairs.That said, the committee itself made it clear that
the standard, whatever it is, is the deciding factor in, at
most, a handful of cases a year.That is, it’s not very often
when a judicial board says after a preponderance of the
evidence,“you’re guilty, but we just can’t get beyond our
reasonable doubts.”The average Stanford student does-
n’t know much about Judicial Affairs, but they do know
that anything less than “beyond a reasonable doubt”
sounds like a violation of their constitutional rights.
Odds are, if you put anything other than “reasonable
doubt” to a vote, it won’t pass. So keep it as it is — it isn’t
broken, so don’t fix it.
On to real reform. The first and perhaps easiest re-
form to implement would be to increase the pool of po-
tential judicial board members, the jury pool if you will.
Currently, the Judicial Charter of 1997 states that the
size of this pool will not be less than 30 students, faculty
and staff, which inevitably means that the same few peo-
ple will serve on most Judicial Affairs panels. This turns
the entire process into something of a black box. Odds
are, you don’t know anyone who’s had firsthand experi-
ence with Judicial Affairs, and if you do, it probably was-
n’t on their terms.
If the pool was increased to say 300 and the composi-
tion of any individual panel was determined by lottery,
not only would the process be less biased to the will of
the same panel, but also its contact with the wider cam-
pus community would increase exponentially. The
tradeoff is pretty obvious: it would be a lot more effort
on the part of Judicial Affairs to train and manage a jury
pool this large, but we think the benefits far outweigh
the administrative overhead. The only way to get stu-
dents to take ownership in the process is to get them in-
volved; what better way then by increasing the cross sec-
tion of campus that serves on hearing panels? A few stu-
dents being consistently involved in a process that we
don’t ever hear about doesn’t connect us to the proceed-
ings, but this reform might.
Finally, the hardest but potentially most important
reform needed is to systematically decrease the time it
takes to resolve Judicial Affairs cases. The average case
length for 2009-10 was 108 days. While this is an im-
provement on the 139 average for 2008-09, it is still un-
acceptable. With a quarter-long case length, those un-
dergoing investigation are forced to deal with the mat-
ter for a significant portion of their Stanford careers.
This isolates them from the student body and, as a corol-
lary, isolates the student body from the process.
When discussing with the committee, it was difficult
to determine if the case backlog was leading to the delay
or if the delay was leading the case backlog. Either way,
some combination of more staff and a generally acceler-
ated process — stricter rules on response time and the
like — is imperative. An even better if not somewhat
impractical option would be to mandate a nonnego-
tiable five-week timeout on every case. If the Judicial
Affairs Office fails to bring the case before a board in
five weeks or less, the matter is simply dropped.
The goal of these reforms is simple — to foster the
sentiment on campus that every student has a stake and
vested interest in the honor code, fundamental standard
and process utilized to uphold them. To accomplish
them,Judicial Affairs needs to be removed from its black
box and made a bigger part of the campus collective con-
science. We need an understandable, understood and
speedy process so that we as a student body buy into
whatever justice that’s being administered on our behalf.

If you’re interested in applying to be the Judicial Affairs of-

fice’s ox driver, please direct your application to daveg4
@stanford.edu and zhoberg@stanford.edu.
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ROTC
Continued from front page
there, and it turned out to be possi-
ble to write the recommendation in
such a way that all on the commit-
tee agreed to it,” Thomas wrote in
an email to The Daily.
The committee began investi-
gating the issue last March, follow-
ing a presentation given by profes-
sors David Kennedy ‘63 and
William Perry ‘49, M.S. ‘55, which
urged the University to explore its
options in helping to close a per-
ceived civilian-military divide.
The report focuses on the histo-
ry of ROTC at Stanford and dis-
cusses two large issues surrounding
the debate over the program: the
academic merit of ROTC and its
perceived discriminatory policies.
“The two broad classes of argu-
ments that we take up in the report
were the ones that took up much of
our time,”Thomas said.“These are:
a) how serious are the academic
conflicts between the curricula for a
liberal education and that for
ROTC training likely to be, and b)
the claim that, because transgender
people and others are barred from
the U.S. military, bringing back an
on-campus ROTC program to
Stanford would violate Stanford’s
own nondiscrimination policy.”
After an ad hoc committee con-
cluded that the program was not a
“worthwhile academic endeavor,”
the Faculty Senate voted 25-8 to
phase out ROTC programs on cam-
pus and to stop rewarding credit to
ROTC courses by 1973. Today, 14
students participate in ROTC pro-
grams through cross-town agree-
ments with neighboring universi-
ties and do not receive academic
credit.
Additionally, some have
claimed that support for a Stan-
ford ROTC program would inher-
ently violate the University’s
nondiscrimination policy, but the
report claims a Stanford program
would not necessarily endorse
these policies.
“We fail to see any good reason
GHONIM
Continued from front page
audience, explaining what he want-
ed from the revolution.
“I want to feel that I have a voice
in my country . . . I wish that corrup-
tion is fought in my country . . I want
teachers to make students love
learning,” he said.
Ghonim also translated select
passages, pausing to ask for his audi-
ence’s help with certain words.
“We had a dream,” he said.
“Hosni Mubarak was a nightmare,
and we got rid of the nightmare, but
we still need to reach the dream.”
Ghonim described Mubarak’s
regime as an “obstacle” and cau-
tioned against believing that the rev-
olution is complete.
He spent the bulk of his talk out-
lining practical steps that can be
taken to rebuild Egypt, calling upon
his audience to mimic the “inde-
pendent initiative” of the protestors.
“You need to come up with grass-
roots movements where you can all
get organized around a cause,” he
said, suggesting the sponsorship of a
rural Egyptian village or investing in
young entrepreneurs.
He also listed restoring the
tourism industry as an immediate
concern.
After showing the audience a
web page where the public can sign
up to volunteer to rebuild Egypt,
Ghonim said his plans for the future
were to take time off from Google
and start an NGO to “add a differ-
ence to people’s lives using technol-
ogy.”
Dr.Ossama Hassanein,the chair-
man of the board at TechWadi, a Sil-
icon Valley-based nonprofit that
promotes entrepreneurship in the
Middle East and North Africa, fol-
lowed Ghonim’s talk. Hassanein
discussed stimulating economic de-
velopment in Egypt and highlighted
FIRE
Continued from front page
lights in the room unintentionally
turned on.
Water from the sprinklers
dripped from the ceiling onto the
floor. In a last-ditch effort to keep
the machines from rusting, Milroy
rolled a cart loaded with dry rags
into the room and began to wipe
them off, also spraying them with
WD-40. Milroy said some equip-
ment, most visibly the table saw,
had already started to rust less than
three hours after the incident.
“I don’t know if this is going to
help or not,” Milroy said.
He added that he was not sure
how long that part of the PRL
would be closed. The machines in
the model shop will most likely
have to be disassembled for repairs.
“At a certain point, it won’t
for the current exclusion of persons
from the American military merely
because of their transgender sta-
tus,” the report states. “But our
committee did not set out to deter-
mine whether all the policies of the
American military are fully in
keeping with the nation’s civic
ideals.That seems to us far too high
a standard to set in order to open
the door to a more educationally
productive relationship between
Stanford University and ROTC.”
Over the last year, the commit-
tee has solicited feedback from the
community in the form of open let-
ters and town hall meetings, in addi-
tion to discussions with other uni-
versities about the format of their
ROTC programs. However, the
committee did not take into ac-
count the recent non-binding advi-
sory measure in which 2,406 stu-
dents voted in support of ROTC,
while 929 voted in opposition, and
2,117 voted to abstain.
When asked about the impact of
the student vote on the measure on
the committee’s report, Thomas
said it was “not much.”
“I tried to follow the student
measures in The Daily and on the
web, and I even went to a court-
room style debate that was won by
the ASSU leadership,” he said,“and
I think others on the committee
monitored the same events. In that
sense, the issues got blended into
our discussions, but these debates
could not have had nearly the im-
pact on our discussions as the issues
we do mention in the report.”
ASSU President Michael Cruz
‘12 will speak on behalf of the stu-
dent body at Thursday’s meeting.
As a Students of Color Coalition
(SOCC) endorsed candidate, Cruz
actively campaigned for abstention
on the advisory measure.
During the Faculty Senate meet-
ing on April 28,Thomas said he will
make a short presentation, and
then the floor will be opened for
discussion.According to University
spokeswoman Lisa Lapin, the Sen-
ate is expected to vote at this meet-
ing.
Contact Kate Abbott at kmabbott
@stanford.edu.
initiatives to improve healthcare,ed-
ucation and employment.
After Ghonim and Hassanein
finished their presentations, Omar
Shakir ‘07, J.D. ‘13 moderated a
Q&A session where audience mem-
bers asked Ghonim about ways to
help from abroad, the role of politi-
cal parties in the revolution and Is-
lamic fundamentalism. The session
also broached the topics of the Cop-
tic minority, safety in Egypt, de-
tained protestors and bloggers and
current uprisings in other Arab na-
tions.
Ghonim responded by empha-
sizing the agency of the individual
protestors, condemning sectarian vi-
olence and urging his audience to
focus on the future.
“I am pro ‘communicating with
everyone’ . . . there’s an extremism
that I think is just as bad as religious
extremism, refusing to talk to [reli-
gious extremists],”he said.“Let’s ed-
ucate them, and let’s be educated
about them. It’s time to be tolerant
and educate . . . criticize, criticize
strongly, but respect them as human
beings.”
Audience member Samar
Alqatari ‘14 expressed her apprecia-
tion for Ghonim’s talk.
“I thought he was very charis-
matic, a bit idealistic . . . but I think
that he has the potential to do what
he’s advocating for,” she said.
“It was great when he told us how
we could help and contribute,”
Alqatari added.“Just being inspired
by a leader like that helps us become
leaders of our communities.”
MSAN President Mai El-Sadany
‘11 was also inspired by the talk.
“Everyone I spoke to, whether
they were Muslim, non-Muslim,
Arab or non-Arab, got a lot out of
it,” she said. “It was great to hear
from someone with firsthand expe-
rience what we can do to affect
democracy in the Middle East.”
Contact Marwa Farag at mfarag@
stanford.edu.
make any sense to deal with them,”
Milroy said.
Machine repairs are either time-
consuming or expensive, he noted,
and the former is especially a prob-
lem when classes that use that part
of the shop are in session.
“Luckily, spring is our least busy
quarter,” he added.
At about 12:45 a.m., a vehicle
marked “Restoration Management
Company” arrived to begin the
cleanup process. The first step is re-
moving water from the floor, and a
new sprinkler will be installed by
noon today. After that, the water
pipes will be pressurized and the
fire alarm reset. Until then, a
SUDPS official will be at the PRL
on fire watch.
“This is the first fire I’ve been in-
volved in, that’s for sure,” Milroy
said. “And hopefully it’s the last
one.”
Contact Tyler Brown at tbbrown
@stanford.edu.
6 ! Monday, April 25, 2011 The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
BOUNCING BACK
By JOSEPH BEYDA
STANFORD
SCOREBOARD
DAILY SPORTS INTERN UP NEXT MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
LONG BEACH 3
North fought South this week- CAL (26-24, 25-27, 25-23, 19-25, 15-13)
end in the world of Pac-10 base-
ball, with Stanford meeting UCLA (24-12, 9-6 Pac-10) STANFORD 2
in a series between the two teams 4/25 Sunken Diamond 4/23, Maples Pavilion
picked to finish best in the confer- 5:30 P.M. PST
ence this year. But while the No. 11 BASEBALL
Bruins came into the series tied for COVERAGE: UCLA 4
second in the conference, the RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM STANFORD 5
slumping Cardinal was in desper- (kzsu.stanford.edu) 4/23, Sunken Diamond
ate need for wins, having fallen to
seventh in the Pac-10 and 26th in GAME NOTES: Stanford broke out of a MEN’S TENNIS
the country. slump of five consecutive conference loss-
es with a turnaround series win against
CAL 3
It looked like things would only
get worse for Stanford, until a two- UCLA over the weekend. Cal looks to be STANFORD 4
out, four-run rally in the final in- a tougher opponent in the cross-bay ri- 4/23, Taube Tennis Stadium
ning of the three-game set secured vals’ mid-week game this afternoon.
a series win for the Cardinal. Stan-
WOMEN’S TENNIS
ford finished the weekend with a Stanford’s only run came in the USTA JUNIOR NATIONAL 4
pair of 7-4 and 5-4 wins on Thurs- fourth inning, with a bases-loaded,
swinging strike three on a wild TEAM
day and Saturday, along with a 1-4
loss on Friday. pitch that advanced all runners. STANFORD 8
But backing up Bauer (8-1), the 4/22, Taube Tennis Stadium
BASEBALL SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily Bruins came back with runs in the

Baseball
UCLA 4 Kenny Diekroeger, above, hit a blooper that brought the No. 26 Cardinal next three innings, taking game
a victory against the No. 11 UCLA Bruins, breaking the team out of a los- two by a 4-1 tally.
STANFORD 5 The storyline looked all too
4/23, Sunken Diamond ing streak and giving it momentum for its upcoming games.
similar for the Cardinal heading

“This win was huge,” said
sophomore shortstop Kenny
Diekroeger after Sunday’s game.
“There’s no doubt about it. But
quess.“But they have a great pitch-
ing staff. They have the best pitch-
ing staff in the conference.”
Stanford turned things around
But while the long ball reigned
supreme on Thursday, the pun-
chout became the story on Friday.
Twenty-nine batters — more than
hitting its
into the bottom of the ninth on Sat-
urday. Behind pitching that had
given up only three hits, UCLA
was again up 4-1, allowing the only

honestly, we were in the same situ-
ation last year, so this team knows
how to battle.”
Stanford improves to 19-13 (5-7
with nine hits off Cole in the open-
er, including home runs from sen-
ior catcher Zach Jones and junior
left fielder Tyler Gaffney en route
half of those retired on the night —
went down via the strikeout. And
with big-league scouts in the stands
to watch a UCLA star pitcher for
stride?
run on a passed ball in the seventh
frame. Two quick outs seemed to
confirm a series win for the Bruins,
until freshman right fielder Brian
Guymon — making just his sev-

Pac-10) with the win over UCLA
(21-14, 10-5), also ending a five-
game Pac-10 losing streak in the
Thursday opener by knocking
around one of the best pitchers in
college baseball, Gerrit Cole. Com-
ing up with hits against the strong
Bruin pitching staff would be a key
challenge for the Cardinal.
“We’ve really struggled with
the bat the last three weeks,” said
Stanford head coach Mark Mar-
to a 7-4 win. Sophomore starter
Mark Appel (3-4) gave up nine hits
as well but stranded 12 UCLA bat-
ters and managed to hold the Bru-
ins to just three runs in his seven in-
nings of work.
Gaffney’s two-run shot in the
seventh chased Cole from the 6-3
game, and sophomore third base-
man Stephen Piscotty launched
Mitchell Beacon’s first pitch in re-
lief for a solo homer.
the second straight night,
righthander Trevor Bauer made
the most of the attention, tying a
career best with 17 strikeouts in a
complete-game win.
Bauer’s fastball blew by the
Cardinal all night; Stanford hitters
only mustered four hits, and fresh-
man second baseman Lonnie
Kauppila was the only batter that
did not go down on strikes at some
point.
enth start of the season — finally
got to reliever Nich Vander Tuig
with a single up the middle.After a
walk to sophomore pinch hitter
Justin Ringo, sophomore center
fielder Jake Stewart singled on a
full count to bring home one run.
Jones came to the plate, hitting
below .250 on the season, but final-
Please see BASEBALL, page 7
D
uring the course of any season,
teams face make-or-break, do-
or-die moments. For the Stan-
ford baseball team, Saturday
was one of them.
After an auspicious start to the season
against some the nation’s best teams,the Car-
dinal had stumbled of late,losing five consec-
utive conference games before this series
with No.20 UCLA.
The Cardi-
nal, now un- Daniel
ranked after

HEARTBREAKER
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
DESK EDITOR
The Stanford men’s volleyball team saw its
drive to repeat as national champions stall out
before it even picked up momentum, as the No.
4 Cardinal lost 3-2 in a dramatic five-set match
at home against No. 5 Long Beach State in the
MPSF quarterfinals Saturday night.
On the ropes at match point in the fifth and
final set, senior outside hitter Spencer McLach-
lin had a chance to tie the score, but saw his
smash go just wide
of the line as the MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
49ers celebrated LONG BEACH 3
on the Maples
Pavilion floor in STANFORD 2 24, but dropped the first set 26-24 when junior
front of a thousand 4/23, Maples Pavilion
fans, most of whom
were solidly in Stanford’s corner.
Although this marks the end of the Cardi-
nal’s chances to repeat as MPSF Tournament
champions and earn an automatic bid to the
four-team NCAA Championships to be held in
State College, Penn. this year, there is still a slim
chance that Stanford (19-9, 16-8 MPSF) could
slip in with the one at-large bid given out by the
selection committee.
No.7 UC-Santa Barbara’s upset win over No.
2 BYU Saturday night could end up being cru-
cial to Stanford’s cause, as the Cardinal swept
the Cougars this season and split with Santa Bar-
bara (who likely didn’t do well enough in the
regular season to merit an at-large selection re-
gardless of their finish in the MPSF Tourna-
ment). Should the Gauchos knock off Long
Beach in the MPSF semifinals this Thursday in
LA, it would likely be down to BYU, Long
Beach and Stanford for the NCAA bid.
On Saturday, Stanford nearly managed to
avoid all talk of at-large bids by getting over the
hump against Long Beach (15-13, 12-10). De-
spite losing the two previous meetings with the
49ers earlier this season, the Cardinal put up a
serious fight on its home floor.
Junior outside hitter Brad Lawson backed
up his selection to the All-MPSF First Team
with 27 kills, 15 digs and a match-high .426 hit-
ting percentage on 54 swings.It just wasn’t quite
enough, and the first set proved to be a harbin-
ger of things to come in the match.
After trading points early on, Stanford took
a three-point lead midway through the set at 15-
12. The 49ers got some big contributions early
from freshman outside hitter Taylor Crabb,
who, along with reserve outside hitter Josh
Riley, would be crucial for Long Beach down
the stretch.
But even then, Stanford ran into a wall and
couldn’t hold the lead — Long Beach went back
on top for the first time since it led 7-6, going up
18-17. The Cardinal tied things up at 22, 23 and
Gus Ellis was stuffed by a 49er block.
Stanford seemed to find energy in the
crossover, pouncing on Long Beach early in the
second set and getting the crowd into the match
as it stretched its lead as far as five.As quickly as
the Cardinal took the lead, it gave it back.Three
straight kills by Riley put the 49ers within one,
and a service ace by Riley tied the score at 17.
Long Beach clearly had the momentum by that
point and used a quick four-point run to force
Stanford head coach John Kosty into a timeout
late in game two.
Still, after a couple of attack errors on both
sides of the net, Stanford freshman outside hit-
ter Steven Irvin smashed a big kill past the
block, tying the score at 24. Long Beach staved
off defeat with a Kyle Friend kill on match
point, but Irvin put the ball down on the second
match point try and evened the match at one set
each.
It wasn’t enough, as the 49ers came out like
gangbusters in game three, storming out to a
five-point lead midway through the set. When
Stanford rallied — which coincided with Law-
son catching fire and smashing five kills in a
span of seven total points — Long Beach just
managed to fight it off. A late four-point run
turned a tied game into an insurmountable
deficit for the Cardinal,who never led in the set.
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Senior outside hitter Spencer McLachlin,
above, barely missed the final hit that sealed
the Cardinal’s fate in a valiant effort that ended
in a 3-2 loss to Long Beach State.
Stanford was hitting in the low .200s at this
point in the match but turned that around with
just one attack error in the fourth set and a .414
hitting percentage. That reenergized the crowd
just in time to see freshman middle Eric
Mochalski get three blocks and two kills as he
and Ellis neutralized All-MPSF middle
Antwain Aguillard, who had been the Cardi-
nal’s kryptonite in the two previous matches.
After the 49er attack broke down late in the
fourth game with three attack errors and two
service errors, the match moved to a fifth set
with the momentum on Stanford’s side.
When the Cardinal grabbed a slim 11-9 ad-
Please see MVBALL, page 8
spending much Bohm
of the season in On My Mind
the nation’s top-
20, did manage
to win on Thursday night — but stumbled on
Friday and trailed the Bruins 4-1 with two
outs and nobody on in the bottom of the
ninth in Saturday’s rubber game. There was
no reason to think that there was any fight
left in the Cardinal — after all, Stanford had
mustered more than four runs just once in its
previous seven conference games.
But just when you least expected it,fresh-
man right fielder Brian Guymon singled,
pinch hitter Justin Ringo walked,sophomore
center fielder Jake Stewart singled and sen-
ior catcher Zach Jones doubled, tying the
score. Head coach Mark Marquess must
have been shaking his head, wondering
where that offense has been for the last
month.
After a pair of walks to load the bases,
sophomore shortstop Kenny Diekroeger
dunked a single in front of the outfield to win
it for the Cardinal.Seems so easy,doesn’t it?
Could this be a turning point for the up-
and-down Cardinal? Perhaps.With the win,
Stanford is back to a respectable 5-7 in a very
difficult Pac-10 — though things won’t get
easier for Stanford anytime soon,as the Car-
dinal has a trip to No.9 Arizona State on tap
for next weekend.
The ninth-inning,four-run rally was a nice
start, but Stanford’s offense will need to be
more consistent if the Cardinal is going to
turn a corner.Hitters have shown signs of life
— but they need to find a way to produce
day-in and day-out.
The potential is there — case in point was
Thursday night. Stanford’s had-been putrid
offense was facing Gerrit Cole, UCLA’s ace,
and arguably the best pitcher in the country.
So what did Stanford, which managed five
runs all of last weekend against Oregon
State, do? The Cardinal knocked Cole
around to the tune of six runs on nine hits in
6.1 innings en route to a 7-4 win. What may
have been the most amazing part of that of-
fensive performance, however, is that Cole
(and his 98-miles-per-hour fastball) only
struck out one Cardinal hitter.
So Stanford was able to carry that mo-
mentum into Friday night,right? Wrong.Fac-

JIN ZHU/The Stanford Daily
Junior Bradley Klahn, above, played doubles with
classmate Ryan Thatcher in a decisive victory that
paved the way for the rest of the men’s tennis team
to secure a victory over rival Cal.
CARD ‘SLAMS’ CAL
Men close season with teams with some very familiar ones. On
court three, freshman Jamin Ball — who, as
4-3 win over rival the season has progressed, has forced his
way into the starting rotation — was paired
in an unfamiliar duo with senior Alex Clay-
By DASH DAVIDSON ton against the freshman-sophomore team
CONTRIBUTING WRITER of brothers Ben and Riki McLachlan. The
Cardinal (18-5, 5-1 Pac-10) came out firing
The Stanford men’s tennis team finished and posted the first victory of the day, an 8-5
the season in style on Saturday afternoon, win over the brothers.
defeating No. 14 Cal, 4-3, in the annual Big Then on court one, in a matchup of two
Slam at home. Beneath an unseasonable top-25 ranked doubles teams, Stanford’s No.
gray sky, Stanford’s top players performed 3 ranked pairing of juniors Bradley Klahn
their best to secure a remarkable 10th con- and Ryan Thacher trounced the No. 23 team
secutive win on the No. 8 Cardinal’s Senior of Nick Andrews and Christoffer Konigs-
Day. feldt from Cal (12-7, 3-3). The two doubles
wins gave Stanford the crucial first point in
MEN’S TENNIS
the match, which it used as momentum
CAL 3 heading into singles play.
Immediately following the doubles play,
STANFORD 4 started every game, and no other catcher on
the Cardinal and its many fans celebrated
4/23, Taube Tennis Stadium
the three seniors on the Stanford team, who
The action started quickly in the three
doubles matches, pitting some unfamiliar Please see MTENNIS, page 8
ing the Bruins’ second ace, Trevor Bauer,
Stanford was utterly dominated as Bauer
threw a complete game four-hitter, striking
out a whopping 17 Cardinal batters. Does
any of this make sense? Not really.Yes,Bauer
is one of the country’s best pitchers, but it’s
difficult to explain the drastic lack of consis-
tency.
A win like Saturday’s may be crucial in
building much-needed momentum going
forward.A 5-7 record looks a lot better than
4-8. Not losing three conference series in a
row is also a huge plus. No one questions
Stanford’s talent level — all the pieces are
there for this to be a College World Series-
caliber team — the question is whether Mar-
quess can push the right buttons and get nine
guys on the field playing well at the same
time.
One of the keys may be Jones.While Mar-
quess has the liberty of shuffling players in
and out at other positions, Jones is really
Marquess’ only option at catcher. He has
the team has a single at bat this season.Senior
Please see BOHM, page 8
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BASEBALL
Continued from page 6
ly starting to break out of a slump.
With runners at the corners, the sen-
ior drove a ball just fair of the first-
base line.
“I thought it would be [hard
enough to score Stewart], but then it
kind of hit the bullpen and bounced
back into play,” Jones said. “I knew
he was going to be sent, because he’s
a fast guy.”
Stewart came around well ahead
of the throw,knotting up the game at
four apiece.
UCLA then turned to reliever
Zach Weiss,who threw two consecu-
tive four-pitch walks to load the
bases and bring up Diekroeger.
After another ball, Weiss was re-
placed by Brandon Lodge, who
quickly took the count to 1-2 before
Diekroeger battled back.
“Anytime a pitcher gets taken
out in the middle of an at-bat like
that, it kind of throws you out of
your rhythm,” Diekroeger said. “I
knew the wind was blowing in, so I
knew I wasn’t going to hit a home
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Bruin outfielders stayed back for
too long and were unable to get to
the ball after it had been knocked
down by the wind. Jones came
around to score, sealing the 5-4
comeback victory for Stanford.
“It turns us around in Pac-10
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would’ve been four games under
.500. This was a huge game for us,
and a huge game for them to lose.”
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STAFF WRITER
Preparing for postseason play,
the Stanford women’s tennis team
invited the nation’s best to the Farm
as it hosted an exhibition match
against the USTA Junior National
Team. Stanford (23-0, 8-0 Pac-10)
prevailed, 8-4.
“There were eight girls that were
chosen by the USTA to be part of a
training camp,” said senior Carolyn
McVeigh. “But throughout the year
they’ve been playing against some
of the top college teams. They’ve
played Florida and Miami earlier in
the year. They played Cal on Thurs-
day before we played them.”
WOMEN’S TENNIS
USTA JUNIOR NATIONAL
TEAM 4 “I’d say the USTA juniors team
STANFORD 8 the 49ers — who have never won an
4/22, Taube Tennis Stadium
Included in the USTA national
team are players such as Krista
Hardebeck and Gabrielle Andrews
of California, both ranked atop
their junior divisions. TennisRe-
cruiting.net details Hardebeck as
being interested in Stanford for col-
lege, among other schools including
California, UCLA and USC. Hard-
ebeck is a member of the high
school class of 2012.Andrews is cur-
rently an eighth grader and a mem-
ber of the high school class of 2015.
Both these players recorded im-
pressive wins over Stanford’s top
two players, senior Hilary Barte and
sophomore Mallory Burdette.
Hardebeck defeated Barte, 6-4, 7-5
in two close sets.Andrews recorded
a very impressive three-set win over
Burdette, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (9).
The other two USTA points
came at the 7th and 8th singles
spots. High school sophomore Yuki
Chiang of California defeated
freshman Amelia Herring 6-4, 6-4.
High school sophomore Mia King
of North Carolina defeated Natalie
Dillon 6-1, 6-4 at the eighth spot.
Beyond those four matches,
Stanford performed well in earning
an impressive win over these na-
tional players. Both sophomore
Stacey Tan and McVeigh gutted out
three-set wins. Tan defeated high
school freshman Caroline Doyle, 6-
2, 5-7, 6-4, and McVeigh overcame
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Sophomore Stacey Tan, above,
carved out a three-set win against her
opponent when the Cardinal faced
members of the USTA Junior Nation-
al Team in an exhibition match.
high school sophomore Alyssa
Smith, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.
“She was really good,” McVeigh
said of Smith. “I was really im-
pressed by her professionalism . . .
she had good volleys and was an all-
around player. It was more a matter
of who was executing better, and I
thought I played really well in the
end.”
Stanford rookie Kristie Ahn de-
feated high school freshman Taylor
Townsend of Georgia, 6-3, 6-3,
while junior Veronica Li defeated
high school sophomore Jennifer
Brady of Pennsylvania, 6-4, 6-2.
The college experience really
shone through in doubles play. Ju-
niors competing on a national level
focus on singles competition with
the hopes that this will help them
once they turn professional, and
only on the college level do players
really focus on developing and im-
proving their doubles ability.
McVeigh and Tan defeated Brady
and Hardebeck 8-6, overcoming
some of the top individual players.
“Hardebeck was their number-
one singles player, but I think
Stacey and I were confident in our
abilities to take them down,”
McVeigh said. “This is just because
the years we’ve been playing dou-
bles at college. In juniors, the focus
tends to be singles, so we had the
edge technically and experience
wise. We did more formations, had
more movement at the net, but I
was really impressed by their play.”
Stanford won all four doubles
matches, highlighted by an 8-2 vic-
tory at the third spot that starred
Herring and Li in a defeat over
King and Smith.
was one of the top two or three
teams we’ve played this year,”
McVeigh said.“It was really good to
see that team in place and showing
that it’s possible to develop your
game through college tennis instead
of considering college tennis as the
fallback if you can’t make it in the
professional circuit.”
Stanford will now prepare for
the Pac-10 Championships, which
begin on Thursday in Ojai, Calif.
Contact Will Seaton at wseaton@
stanford.edu.
MTENNIS
Continued from page 6
yesterday played their final regular
season match. The seniors — Alex
Clayton,Ted Kelly and Greg Hirsh-
mann — shared a great career on
the Farm, combining for numerous
accolades including a 79-42 record,
three NCAA tournament appear-
ances, a share of a Pac-10 title and a
return to the No. 1 national team
ranking — something that had
been eluding Stanford for over
seven years.
Singles play got underway with
all eyes following the match on
court one, which pitted Klahn
against one of his chief rivals, Cal
senior Pedro Zerbini. Earlier this
April 29
BOHM
Continued from page 6
Ben Clowe used to catch but doesn’t
anymore — so it looks like as long as
he is healthy, Jones will be behind the
dish.
Marquess knows that he will get
great defense out of Jones — he has
thrown out exactly 50 percent of
would-be base stealers this season.He
also knows Jones can run when he gets
on base and can hit for some power (he
is tied for the team lead with three
home runs). However, Jones is dead
last among team regulars with a .236
batting average.
Much of that is a product of an ex-
MVBALL
Continued from page 6
vantage and forced Long Beach
coach Andy Read into a timeout,the
Maples crowd, on its feet now, could
almost taste the victory. But Crabb
and Riley wouldn’t let it happen.
The senior Riley — who had started
just eight matches all year — had
four of his 19 kills in the fifth set, and
although Irvin had a kill to make it
13-12 in Stanford’s favor, Crabb hit
two straight balls through the block
to put Stanford on the brink of elim-
ination. When McLachlin’s hit went
wide, it was all over.
The dramatic loss overshadowed
season, on Feb. 18, Zerbini defeated
Klahn 7-5, 7-5 at Berkeley in their
first matchup.
Saturday promised to see a dif-
ferent result, as Klahn came out fir-
ing. He blitzed Zerbini in the first
set, running away with a 6-1 win, of-
fering fist pumps and raucous
shouts to the Stanford crowd.
Klahn followed up his nearly flaw-
less first set with an equally impres-
sive second, winning it 6-2 and thor-
oughly defeating his Brazilian foe,
giving Stanford a 2-0 edge in points
and helping to set the tone in what
would evolve into a hard-fought
match.
Clayton’s resounding 6-1, 6-3
win on court three was tempered by
a 6-3, 6-3 loss by his doubles part-
ner, freshman Jamin Ball, on court
six. That left the match score at 3-1
in Stanford’s favor. The decisive
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traordinarily slow start to the season.
In fact,in recent weeks,Jones has been
steadily improving at the plate, and
Marquess even moved him from the
ninth spot in the lineup to the two-hole.
Jones has more experience than any
other Cardinal player — as a fresh-
man, he was the team’s starting third
baseman when it went to the 2007 Col-
lege World Series. Down the stretch,
Jones’ leadership may be pivotal to
Stanford’s success. It was definitely
pivotal to Saturday’s win, at the very
least.
Daniel Bohm wishes people would
sometimes write about the do-or-die
moments for his club baseball team.
Send him your version of this column
at dbohm@stanford.edu.
some great defensive performances
on both sides — junior libero Erik
Shoji had 16 digs to lead four Stan-
ford players in double figures, in-
cluding junior setter Evan Barry
who had 60 assists and 11 digs. For
MPSF Tournament before — four
players reached double figures in
digs including Riley with 13.
The Cardinal ended up outhit-
ting Long Beach .262 to .243, but the
49ers got points at the right time to
move on and send Stanford packing.
The selection committee makes
its decision on the one at-large bid
next Sunday, with the NCAA semi-
final set for May 5.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-
bs@stanford.edu.
fourth point was now in the hands,
for Stanford, of sophomores Den-
nis Lin and Matt Kandath and jun-
ior Ryan Thacher.
Much of the remaining drama in
what was a highly competitive
match was lost when Kandath de-
feated his opponent, the younger
Mclachlan, 7-5, 6-4. With the win in
that match, the Cardinal defeated
the Golden Bears for the second
time this season and added another
impressive victory to its already
solid record.
Now Stanford will bide its time,
celebrate a successful regular sea-
son and prepare for Thursday’s
opening round of the Pac-10 cham-
pionships, held in nearby Ojai,
Calif.
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@
stanford.edu.