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Volume 240 Issue 51

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Commissioner Brill speaks about privacy concerns at Law School

By JOSH HOYT
STAFF WRITER

FTC seeks to rein in Facebook

EPA homicides double in 2011

Decades-long trend reflects decrease in violent crime
By JORDAN SHAPIRO
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Public fear over online privacy has been ramping up, and for Julie Brill, a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, the increased attention is warranted. In an informal talk at the Stanford Law School, Commissioner Brill said the FTC is focusing increasing attention on the privacy policies of cyber companies from Facebook to the latest smartphone applications. We have been really active over the past year or so in terms of enforcement and probably the matter that . . . in many ways could be considered the most important is the Facebook settlement, Brill said. I think Facebook, and to a certain extent the Google proposed settlement, are significant because for the first time we are calling on companies . . . by order from us, to institute a comprehensive privacy program. The FTC has taken actions against Facebook, Google and Twitter and has proposed settlements for all three. The major components of the settlements with Facebook and Google include: having in place personnel who are primarily responsible for privacy and having in place governance structures throughout the corporate entity that are thinking about privacy, Brill said. We also put in place auditing requirements . . . that last for 20 years.

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FTC Commissioner Julie Brill discussed FTC settlements with Facebook, Google, Twitter and Amazon at an informal talk at the Law School. Many companies are facing complaints over consumer privacy concerns.
In the case of Facebook, Brill also mentioned that the FTC is specifically concerned with the transparency and clarity of their privacy rules. Just simply having something down somewhere in a very complicated document, we have taken the position that . . . it will not absolve a company of potential problems if consumers wouldnt have expected to find that very salient information in the place where the company put it. That was one issue that came up in the Facebook matter. Facebook is accused of deceiving consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public, according to an FTC press release. Of the three major Silicon Valley companies to face action from the FTC, the action against Facebook contained the most numerous and diverse complaints. The complaints range from changing the companys privacy policies without notifying consumers, to several instances of misrepresenting such policies. For example, the FTC complaint claims that, in many instances, Facebook has shared information about users with platform advertisers by identifying to them the users who clicked on their ads, despite stating explicitly that Facebook never shares data. After relaxing privacy policies in Dec. 2009, platform ad-

The number of homicides in East Palo Alto doubled this past year, jumping from four homicides in 2010 to eight in 2011. With a goal of zero homicides in 2012, the city will rely heavily upon its Operation Fourth Quarter, a collaborative program that educates the community with the expectation of lowering the rate of homicide. The City of East Palo Alto Police Department reported a 9 percent decrease in violent crime and a 2 percent decrease in overall crime during 2011. According to Police Chief Ronald Davis, the doubling of homicides over the past year, while emotionally significant, is not statistically significant. Rather, it demonstrates the extreme fluctuation of homicide rates in the single digits. You do have to put it in context in a sense that, even though it was double last year, it was the same as the year before, Davis said. Were seeing a long-term downward trend, clearly; but I think the fact that we have these

increases and decreases, these fluctuations, really underscores how much work we have to get done. The chief referred to the five murders in June and July of 2011 as the reason this years homicide rate was unbalanced. Specifically, he believes that a violent crime spree of three individuals accounted for three of the five summer homicides, pointing to the need to curb gang violence in East Palo Alto. Contrary to this past years data, historical trends of homicide in East Palo Alto typically show an increase during the last three months of the year. Operation Fourth Quarter was established in 2007 to counter the trend of East Palo Alto homicides in the fourth quarter of 2006, during which three murders occurred in two weeks. The program focuses on enforcement of laws and prevention of crimes. It makes the community aware that this is a historical time, that we do have violence, and it provides, what we think, is

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HEALTH

BeWell expands to offer spousal benefits

By ALEXIS GARDUNO
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Research looks to small farms in Africa

By LUCY MUSSON Smallholder farms may hold the answer to issues of hunger and poverty in Africa, according to Thom Jayne, professor of international development from Michigan State University, who presented his research Thursday evening as part of the Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series. The ironic thing is that Africa, which is the most food insecure and impoverished continent in the world, also has the greatest supply of unutilized arable land in the world, Jayne said. Despite the perception of Africa as a land-rich continent, studies of where the people live reveal a different situation, Jayne added. Much of rural Sub-Sahara Africa is sparsely populated, but a high proportion of the rural people in the continent do live in densely populated areas, Jayne said, referencing population histograms. Jayne used Zambia, the country in which he currently runs a policy program, to illustrate the negative effects of living at the population threshold. Sixty-seven percent of Zambias population is not selling maize or other crops due to their lack of access to land. Jayne argued this leads to urbanization problems. Some of the problems of urban slums . . . are linked in some respect to the problem of inability to earn a livelihood, Jayne said, highlighting the farmers in the bottom tier who do not produce maize. Jayne used evidence from maize farming in Zambia to illustrate that agricultural growth does not necessarily lead to poverty reduction. Following a maize subsidy in the mid-2000s, maize production in Zambia doubled, but rural poverty remained at 78 percent.

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Entering its fifth year, BeWell, a campus incentive program to encourage healthy lifestyles for community members, has expanded to offer financial benefits to spouses and registered domestic partners of University benefits-eligible employees. In addition, BeWell has started offering employee participants the option of sharing and exchanging their BeWell records with those from an outside medical plan. Stanfords BeWell program provides participating University employees with yearly fiscal incentives, advising, nutrition workshops, gym memberships, classes and other services to help them make healthy decisions, thereby hoping to prevent heart disease, cancer, diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Undergraduates and graduate students

can also use BeWell to track their health progress and participate in events, but do not receive financial incentives. Spouses and registered domestic partners will not have access to BeWell Berries, a package of benefits including a yearly fitness assessment and classes, offered to employees in addition to the lifestyle assessment and financial incentives that make up the core of the program. It would be great to see the at least 50 percent of [participating] employees with spouses or registered domestic partners participating in the program, said Jennifer Sexton, director of fitness and wellness programs, about the new initiative. We had over 6,300 faculty and staff complete the SHALA and Wellness Profile in 2011.

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NEWS BRIEF

Ethics and War

Stanford Nobel Laureate wins top U.S. science honor

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Former director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Burton Richter was awarded the Presidential Enrico Fermi Award on Thursday. The award is one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology distinctions granted by the U.S. Government. The U.S. Department of Energy s (DOE) Office of Science conferred the honor on Richter, who is a Nobel Prizewinning physicist, and on Mildred Dresselhaus of M.I.T. The Fermi Award is given to recognize scientists, engineers and science policymakers who have given unstintingly over their careers to advance energy science and technology, the DOE webpage states. Richter boasts a lifelong career in the

physical sciences that has taken him from a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford in 1956 to a professorship in 1967 and a 15-year tenure as director of SLAC, from 1984 to 1999. Richter won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 along with Samuel Ting for their work on the discovery of a subnuclear particle. His general research focused on experimental particle physics with high-energy electrons and electronpositron colliding beams. In addition to his work in physical sciences, Richter has become a leader in energy policy and national security affairs in recent years, serving on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, Laboratory Operations Board and Nuclear Energy Task Force. He chaired the National Research Councils Board on Physics and Astronomy. And in 2010, Richter published Beyond Smoke and Mirrors a book that examines the issues of nuclear energy and climate change in the 21st century. The book received the 2011 Phi Beta

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Lawrence Wright, author, screenwriter, playwright and staff writer for The New Yorker, spoke at an Ethics and War talk Thursday about his book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.

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Law professors react to PIPA, SOPA legislation

By KRISTIAN DAVIS BAILEY
DESK EDITOR

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Sexton noted that the number of spouses and registered domestic partners expected to enroll is uncertain. Wed love to see the same participation rate with the faculty and staff, just under 50 percent, but I dont know how many people who qualify have a spouse or partner, Sexton said. If we saw half of the 6,300, it would be great. BeWell encourages Stanford employees to send in their medical information on a yearly basis by increasing the fiscal incentive for returning participants. First time participants receive $200 for completing the Stanford Health and Lifestyle Assessment (SHALA) and Wellness Profile. A returning participant who completed SHALA and the Wellness Profile for 2011 qualifies to receive $480 after completing this years profile. In previous years, these benefits and fiscal incentives have only been made available to Stanford employees, but BeWell has changed its policy to also benefit

Congress is expected to consider two bills when it returns from recess on Jan. 24: the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT IP Act or PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The legislation is of major concern to Stanford thought leaders, in addition to nationwide legal experts, online security experts, Internet activists and the founders of many of Silicon Valleys largest companies The answer is to innovate, not to pass stupid laws that are going to screw up the Internet, said Anthony Falzone, executive director of the Fair Use Project at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (SCIS) at a Dec. 7 event hosted by SCIS called, Whats wrong with SOPA? The panel convened experts on Internet infrastructure and security, digital intellectual property and Silicon Valley business to articulate many of SOPAs problems. More than 150 people attended the Law School event, which was not meant to give equal time to both sides, according to Falzone. The audience did include two representatives from the Motion Picture Association of America, supporters of SOPA and PIPA, who spoke up during a question and answer session. There were things about this bill that people in Silicon Valley needed to know that is lawyers, entrepreneurs and technology people, Falzone said. Our goal was to put together an array of people who could speak to each one of those sets of considerations. Professor Mark Lemley, director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, spoke in a January interview with The Daily of the necessity of publicizing what he characterized as the incredible harm of this potential legislation. PIPA was introduced in the Senate in early 2011 and it went through the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously . . . mostly I think because people hadnt paid attention to it, Lemley said. Lemley believes this unanimous action occurred because PIPA was a less extreme bill than SOPA a conscious legislative decision to make the lesser of two evils look like a healthy compromise. Both pieces of legislation are almost exclusively supported by traditional media companies like Viacom and members of

Recording Industry Association of America, as well as companies heavily reliant on brands such as Nike, the NBA and Pfizer. The founders of Google, Yahoo, Twitter, LinkedIn and many other Silicon Valley giants published an open letter warning of the dangers of SOPA and PIPA. The letter appeared as a paid advertisement in The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspapers. It predicted SOPA and PIPA would, have a chilling effect on innovation and change the very basic structure of the Internet. The letter also raised the legal concern that this legislation allows the closure of websites without due process and could be used to stifle legitimate speech. If we just shut down the Internet there would be a lot less piracy, right? Lemley said. But, there is a lot of socially valuable material that we get only because of the Internet. In the most severe version of SOPA the Attorney General would have authority to bring action against websites accused of committing or facilitating online piracy. The bill also provides for a system of notifications directly from the copyright holder to web services like Internet service providers (ISP) and search engines. These web services are then able to suspend service to specific sites and are immune from prosecution for doing so in error. You wouldnt necessarily even bring anybody into court, Lemley said. So each individual ISP who gets this notice has now got to keep a separate black list. Falzone said he fears a world in which websites could be shut down, in a completely invisible way. You would have people doing these deals in the proverbial smoky backroom . . . picking up the phone and saying, Wouldnt it be so unpleasant if we had to go through an elaborate process and spend money on lawyers? Falzone said. Of further concern is that the act of physically limiting the websites that computers can access would not only fundamentally change the way the Internet currently operates, but in so doing would negate current efforts at improved Internet security. For Lemley, the physical blocking of websites has foreign policy ramifications as well. Its awfully hard to persuade the Chinas and Irans of the

the spouses and domestic partners of these employees. Qualifying spouses and registered domestic partners must complete three requirements to receive the $240 taxable wellness reward in 2013. BeWell requires that spouses or partners complete the SHALA and Wellness Profile, agree to share information in 2012 and enroll in a Stanfordsponsored medical plan in 2013. The BeWell mission is to serve as the overarching health and wellness resource for Stanford University, according to the programs website. In its mission statement, the program states that by facilitating a culture of wellness at Stanford, we encourage individuals to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle and behaviors to improve their health, well-being and quality of life. BeWell approaches the question of how to stay healthy by personalizing its resources to address the employees individual needs. Participating employees must first fill out the health and lifestyle assessment, which serves as the gateway to the BeWell program. BeWell reports that the assessment is not meant to be time-consuming, and takes on average 20 minutes to complete.

I dont know how many people who qualify have a spouse.

JENNIFER SEXTON
Only after the employee has completed the SHALA profile can he or she move on to fill out the Wellness Profile. The Wellness Profile consists of three components, which include a screening, followed by advising and finally a planning stage. Once employees have undergone their screening, they are provided with a free one-to-one advising session. Participants meet with wellness advisors who tailor the program to the individual, considering data such as total cholesterol, HDL, glucose, body mass index, waist circumference and blood pressure. Contact Alexis Garduno at agarduno@stanford.edu.

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vertisers potentially could take steps to get detailed information about individual users, including profile picture, gender, current city, friend list, pages and networks. In 2011, Google and the FTC finalized an agreement stemming from an FTC case brought in 2010. The Google case was over the well-publicized Google Buzz fiasco, in which Google tried to create a social network based around users Gmail accounts. According to the FTC website, the options for declining or leaving the social network were ineffective; and for users who joined the Buzz network, the controls for limiting the sharing of their personal information were confusing and difficult to find. The FTC case against Twitter focused on data security, not privacy practices, and alleged that Twitter had not taken thorough enough security measures in 2009 when it was hacked twice. In all three actions, the FTC has brought what is called an administrative complaint, which is not a formal charge of violating the law. The companies do not admit to breaking the law when they finalize their settlement agreements with the FTC, and the finalized agreements do not come with a penalty, although they do provide for future penalties if the agreement is broken. Beyond bringing individual actions, last year the FTC created a proposal suggesting unique standards and practices to address privacy concerns online. We probably most famously sent out a call for industry, as well as policy makers, to consider developing do not track features, Brill said. It is one mechanism to

give users simplified notice and simplified choice about some of the ways that data is being collected and used online. The FTC proposal further suggests creating more strict disclosure rules for third party companies that collect data without direct interaction with the customer. The thinking is that a customer dealing directly with a vendor is aware that Amazon, for example, will have access to their personal data, but should be clearly notified if that data is collected by a third party as well. Brill said she expects the proposal to be finalized in the coming months, but for now it is open for comments. The FTC has traditionally focused on data security, but when asked about last years discovery that patient information from Stanford Hospital, including names and diagnosis codes, was online for over a year, Commissioner Brill said it would not be the FTC that would handle the case. Instead, Health and Human Services will be taking action. Brill did offer empathy for consumers over data security in general. The consumer has to trust that the company is engaging in good data security practices and when that falls down . . . the consumer is left on the sideline; but its their data. That is one of the reasons that we focused for a long time on data security, and it is only more recently that we have moved more broadly into privacy, she added. The event was hosted by the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and was put on as a part of Data Privacy Day, an effort to raise awareness about privacy. The official Data Privacy Day is Jan. 28. Contact Josh Hoyt jwghoyt@stanford.edu. at

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The rise of the B Corp

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or students looking at organizations in the real world, whether for employment or in order to bring about an idea they have, the split between nonprofit corporations and traditional, or for-profit, companies is clear. Nonprofit must serve a societal need, often (but not solely) in a charitable, religious or research capacity. For-profit corporations can solicit investors and shareholders, but generally the law sees their primary mission as maximizing shareholder returns. This means that a for-profit companys social or environmental missions often become secondary to its profit-seeking motive. In a middle ground between these extremes a new type of corporation is emerging, with California the latest but surely not the last state to legally enshrine socalled B Corp status. The B Corp, or benefit corporation, is meant to give firms a way to prioritize social and/or environmental goals without imposing all the restrictions of nonprofit status. Californias legislation, which is similar to laws in Maryland, Vermont and a few other states, requires B Corps to have a specific public benefit, which is generally taken to mean a social or environmental mission. They must also take into account the interests of their workers, their customers, the community and the environment in addition to shareholders, and they must publish reports on their societal or environmental impact in addition to financial results. One of the best-known companies to have since applied for legal B Corp status is Patagonia, a maker of outdoor clothing and equipment, which has a long history of supporting environmental causes. In fact, although legal B Corp status is still nascent, the nonprofit organization B Lab that developed B Corp certification and promotes states adoption of benefit corporation status has certified more than 400 companies as such. The organization sees B Corp status as a

corporate social responsibility equivalent to the U.S. Green Building Councils LEED status for environmentally sustainable design and aims to support more transparent standards for companies claiming to do good. Detractors argue that it is not clear that legal B Corp status is needed at all. Legal precedent suggests that for-profit corporations must maximize shareholder value but no laws actually state that social or environmental missions must come second. Furthermore, some argue that part of the B Lab certification procedure is cumbersome and does not actually guarantee any real social or environmental impact on the part of the firms involved, defeating its stated purpose. Lastly, the relative newness of the legal status means that many questions remain as to how the B Corps will actually be treated in the context of bankruptcy, layoffs or other socially difficult, but sometimes economically necessary events. Nevertheless, it would seem that the development of B Corp status offers several benefits and few real compromises for potential, socially conscious entrepreneurs, including those at Stanford. There is no doubt that firms that want to run themselves as a business (i.e. not as a nonprofit) but do see their role as fulfilling primarily a societal beneficial function do not currently have any unique recognition. At worst then, the B Corp registration offers a niche for a few firms to occupy. At best, it allows numerous firms that are currently constrained to legally work towards enriching numerous stakeholders rather than solely their shareholders and encourages further social entrepreneurship. It does all this without restricting the rights of other corporations or giving B Corps any readily apparent unfair advantage. Blurring the line a little between the categorical extremes of for- and nonprofits with the introduction of benefit corporation status appears to be a win-win.

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SEEING GREEN

Where water comes from

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uring the driest December in two decades, I snuck off for a long weekend in Yosemite National Park. When I booked the trip, I expected to visit a winter wonderland, photographing snowflakes pouring down the face of Half Dome and icicles dangling from every cabin. Instead, every single road was clear, and the only sign of winter was the frost edging Bridalveil Fall. For my travel companion, a Yosemite rookie, the absence of snow proved a boon: We drove to every classic vista and hiked trails generally closed by that time of year. But if I was slightly disappointed by the lack of seasonal snowfall, I can only imagine the dismay of ski resorts across the American West. The unseasonably dry weather has left Tahoe skiers scraping gravel, Colorado and Utah resorts facing slim snowpacks and Yosemite itself still closed to snowsports. Snow-lovers with resources can still get their wintry kicks in parts of New Mexico and British Columbia; but in general, this years conditions are lamentable. Worse, a bad ski season predicts a tough year for water-users (read: everyone) living in the American West. Snowmelt from western mountain ranges form the headwaters of rivers harnessed to supply agricultural irrigation, drinking water and hydroelectric power. During low-snowfall years, our frozen mountain reservoir is diminished, and drought looms. Here on the Peninsula, 85 percent of our water comes the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, perched within Yosemite National Park and filled

by the dammed Tuolumne River. This water flows 167 miles down from the Sierras, across Californias Central Valley, underneath San Francisco Bay, to Peninsula reservoirs like Crystal Springs (the body of water visible from I280 between San Francisco and Stanford). The pipelines connecting the flooded Hetch Hetchy Valley to our dorm room taps were laid between 1914 and 1934, and cross three active faults. (The Crystal Springs Reservoir itself lies in the valley of the San Andreas Fault.) So its no surprise that the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is currently in the midst of a decade-long, $4.6 billion project to reinforce and enhance the water transport system before the next Big One rattles a fault between here and the Sierras. History predicts a severe earthquake along the Hayward Fault about once every 140 years, so were overdue for the next one. Geologists assign a 30-percent probability of a major earthquake within the next 30 years a slippery number for a slippery fault. But in the (likely) event that this January remains dry, we may discover that the largest threat to our water security isnt the shaky ground over which it flows. Perhaps well see that the real threat is drought. So far, weve gotten half the normal amount of precipitation, and the snowpack is 20 percent or less than normal for this time of year. Its easy to see that Californias water supply is in trouble by glancing at your nearest reservoir. The bathtub ring dirt and rock exposed along reservoir edges by falling water levels of Lake Don Pedro (also filled by the Tuolumne River), which we

Holly Moeller

Instead,every single road was clear,and the only sign of winter was the frost edging Bridalveil Fall.
passed on our drive home from Yosemite, must have been meters high. Even Crystal Springs here on the Peninsula is looking low. Across California and across the world were growing on borrowed water, outstripping the ability of our freshwater supply to replenish itself. Its a problem exacerbated by climate change. Not only will precipitation patterns change, potentially reducing the absolute amount of water that rains down on Californian watersheds, but warmer temperatures will mean less snow and more rain. Thus, rather than accumulating a large snowpack that melts in spring just in time to meet agricultural demand, well have to find ways of capturing immediate runoff from winter storms by adding capacity to existing liquid reservoirs. Scientists expect the Sierra Nevada snowpack to decline by 40 percent by 2050 and by up to 90 percent by 2100, assuming we keep up our current rates of fossil fuel use. Since it seems that, short of running out of those fuels, our carbon dioxide emissions are unlikely to slow, well be dealing with significant dry-downs within our own lifetimes. Time to start practicing. One week after my visit to Yosemite, I found myself in another National Park: Death Valley. Water that flows into Death Valley doesnt leave: The annual evaporation rate is 150 inches per year, and the valley floor is covered by salt deposits up to 5 feet deep. Our hotel room was plastered with warnings about heat and dehydration, and equipped with water conservation measures, like a rotating hourglass to time five-minute showers. Its amazing how quickly you learn to soap up (and how grateful you become for shorter haircuts) while watching sand trickle through the glass aperture. It was a lesson I took home with me: the perfect New Years Resolution shaped by two National Parks, one at elevation, the other (partly) below sea level, linked by water, or rather, its absence. Holly encourages you to try out the five-minute shower and to send water-saving tips, comments and critiques to hollyvm@stanford.edu.

THE MIXED MESSAGES OF MODERNISM

A musical double standard

value free speech. Reading otherwise-controversial ideas rarely bothers me, but I struggle to read The Atlantic because its tone is so moralizing. In my days at school, especially among those who term themselves socially aware, I have not found that mindset a common one. Instead, I have met an army of white knights, always at the ready to descend with righteous anger on those who say the wrong thing, and others who are less impassioned but share the sentiment. Attitudes toward speech heavily favor the shaming, if not censorship, of certain varieties of speech. Saying something insensitive, whether true and to the point or not, is universally decried. Oftentimes, this is a reasonable reaction. Most would rather write something bland, boring and uninformative than offend someone else even if just by challenging their beliefs. The consequences are by no means limited to mere social shaming. They reach deep into personal, professional and public life. When gaffes of that sort are made in the public and private spheres, reactions are harsh and swift. When words reflecting attitudes of unadulterated selfishness, a desire for needless excess or a cavalier attitude towards violence come up in conversation, people shake their heads in disappointment. Many see it as necessary that politicians resign after

faux pas that imply wrongheaded values. A wide array of statements we term insensitive or coarse is thought to reflect so strongly on the character of their speakers that they are put beyond public redemption. But consider the music that will be ringing in bars and clubs across the country this Friday night. That we should delight in lyrics so blatantly wrongheaded when upholding a culture so sensitive it often oppresses controversial debate is so ridiculous it defies explanation. At parties and at home, about a third of the soundtrack of the budding 10s is comprised of music whose lyrics not only make no pretense to being moral, but actively glorify actions that alarm even the most apathetic among us. Which is really strange in this day and age. Everything is analyzed for undertones of malice and immorality. What is found lacking is harshly critiqued. Yet the role of drugs, violence and inhumane behavior in music has never been so large as it is today. Yes, theyve always been a part of our music, but no one would guess what Day Tripper is about (the immaculately clean Paul McCartney is singing about a prostitute). Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is riddled with drug references, but never do Ringo, John or George declare their love for codeine syrup and a host of serious drugs. Never do they give violence and manipulation a clear

endorsement. What is at the core of this double standard, that allows the veneration of casual immorality and insensitivity in one realm and not in every other? I could never pretend to know. It does, however, seem doubly absurd that this realm of clemency be music the chosen form of entertainment, consolation and information about the adult world for teens, tweens and age groups too young to have a hip moniker. This is not to say our music needs to change, and I certainly do not advocate censorship. I will continue listening to the same things I always do. I merely want to point out how ludicrous it is that in a world where a police officers sexist, dumb, but apologizedfor sentence at a 10-person public safety seminar at a law school in Toronto spurred an international movement, we not only abide by but encourage, admire and promote words reflecting much worse attitudes. Well pounce on statements that show the slightest signs of poor judgment, and do nothing but bob our heads while violence and carelessness are elevated onto our most prominent stages. We believe in free speech, but we also viciously attack that speech we deem unacceptable; then why is music exempt from our scrutiny? The realization of our own inconsistency forces us to ask questions of the sincerity of our values.

D.S. Nelson

Saying something insensitive,whether true and to the point or not,is universally decried.
While I know plenty of Stanford students who wont stomach a single word out of line, perhaps rightfully so, none of them takes issue with the music that inundates our airwaves. Neither do I, really. But it seems truly absurd that we can campaign against innumerable social ills and then give them tacit sponsorship by popularizing artists who make it central to their work. Its not a problem I can properly address. But it certainly seems to have some hefty implications about our endorsement of our values and our beliefs about the media we let define our culture. Is Tyler, the Creator not your ideal music? Let Spencer know at dsnelson@stanford.edu.

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a comprehensive approach, Davis said. Its not just enforcement. We try to schedule and engage in prevention programs, intervention programs and clearly, enforcement strategies. Involved in the collaborative, community efforts are local youth, fraternities and parents, among others. These groups are engaged in town hall meetings, roundtable discussions, youth summits and other educational events. Internally, Operation Fourth Quarter increases police enforcement with the addition of narcotics and gang investigations, compliance checks and tactical operations on a weekly basis. I think [the community is] doing a tremendous job fighting crime and violence. But, the fact that [it] can fluctuate so greatly suggests that many of the core is-

There is no reason why we cannot have zero homicides in a year.

RONALD DAVIS, EPA police chief
sues that involve crime and violence remain, Davis said. We keep fighting the battle; were doing a great job, but we [have] got to get to those core issues, otherwise one argument, one issue leads to a spark and major problems for us. Despite the continued risk of violence, the East Palo Alto Police Department reported that the amount of gun violence did not increase proportionally to the number of homicides this past

year. Davis said he views this trend as promising, noting that factors such as the caliber of weaponry and the proximity of the shooter were likely more responsible for the deaths than an overall increase in gun violence. I think [Operation Fourth Quarter has] made a tremendous difference. We havent seen those kinds of numbers since then, Davis said, noting that even so, violence usually remains highest during the fourth quarter. The city has seen a decline of homicides over the past decade. While the count was often in the double digits during the 1990s, reaching a record of 42 homicides in 1992, recent years have been relatively peaceful, ranging between four and 15 killings in the past six years. Were small enough that four is outrageous, Davis said. There is no reason why we cannot have zero homicides in a year. Contact Jordan Shapiro at jordansh@stanford.edu.

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Kappa Book award in science in early December. The Presidential Enrico Fermi Award was named in honor of Enrico Fermi, an Italian-American who discovered the first nuclear chain reaction. The $50,000 honorarium and the gold medal bearing an image of Fermi are granted to scientists who excel in both theory and experiment. Energy Secretary Steven Chu will present the award to Richter and Dresselhaus later this year.The two scientists will split the honorarium.
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By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Wiley Hausam, executive director of the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, was named the inaugural managing director of Bing Concert Hall, to be effective Feb. 1.

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world that they should open their society and Internet to things they object to when we wont open our society to things we object to, Lemley said. A third bill that Congress will consider, the Online Protection & Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN Act) may address some of the professors concerns with SOPA and PIPA. This legislation would differ from SOPA because it would not allow for the physical blocking of websites; rather it would block funding for the infringing websites. It would also be enforced by the International Trade Commission and do away with the notification system of SOPA. Falzone predicts that what Congress will ultimately pass will be similar to the OPEN Act and not SOPA. Falzone also said he foresees a more prolonged battle. Silicon Valley has now really thrown their weight behind [opposing SOPA & PIPA], and it is a real fight . . . everybody has brought their big guns. Contact Kristian Davis Bailey at kbailey@stanford.edu.

Wiley brings a depth of experience overseeing performing arts organizations and an enthusiasm for the importance of the performing arts in the life of the university, said Matthew Tiews, Stanford s executive director of arts programs, in a statement. Hausam will manage the operations and management of Bing Concert Hall, in addition to coordinating programming. The hall, expected to open in Jan. 2013, will be used by student groups and Stanford departments for performances. In addition to his duties with Bing Concert Hall, Hausam will work with the Stanford Arts Initiative to help promote the arts around campus. It is a pleasure to welcome Wiley to Stanford, and I look forward to working with him as we count down to the opening of the hall, said Jenny Bilfield, director of Stanford Lively Arts. Stanford hopes the Bing Concert Hall will develop into a showcase for local artists and student groups, as well as being a valuable rehearsal venue for the music and drama departments. According to the University, the hall will be the main venue for presentations and performances by any visiting artists, as well as campus and offcampus programs.
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How can you have that kind of growth and not have any impact on poverty reduction? Jayne asked. According to Jayne, the answer lies in the size of farms. Maize production increased dramatically on large farms of 10 to 20 hectares. Forty-one percent of households, however, live on farms of less than one hectare. Jayne argued that solutions to poverty therefore must be based in smallholder farms, especially since individuals with political connections typically control the large farms. There are elements of this story that are similar to whats going on in the United States, Jayne said, referencing how large land owners are able to support subsidies to continue accumulating wealth. Jayne concluded that policies aimed at poverty reduction and agricultural development must address these land inequalities, physical infrastructure and public investments.

There needs to be a public investment strategy that will expand access to land in areas that are currently underutilized to allow some kind of natural migration to be going into these areas, to relieve the population pressures, Jayne said. Following Jaynes speech, Derek Byerlee, director of the 2009 World Development Report, provided additional commentary. He agreed with Jaynes main points and,in addition, emphasized the need to address the current system of land markets and land rights. At present, 80 percent of the land is under customary rights and under this informal system transactions are not recorded. Byerlee argued for the need for transparency in these transactions, and like Jayne presented the tie between land rights issues and other social problems. I think its going to be really critical for maintaining peace and reducing conflict. I think a lot of the big conflicts weve seen in Africa, trace them back, and they reduce to problems of land, Byerlee said. Contact Lucy Musson at lucyfina@ stanford.edu.

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ith bowl season less than a week behind us, everyone s minds are on altering college football s postseason format for the first time since 1998, when the BCS was established. But in an attempt to provide some distraction from the disappointment of Stanford s close Fiesta Bowl loss, I m going to focus on another league making similar changes in the near future: the MLB. Under the new collective bargaining agreement signed last November, the MLB postseason will feature two more wild-card teams, one each from the National and American leagues, which will participate in a one-game playoff with their league s other wild-card club starting in either 2012 or 2013. It s the first major change to the baseball postseason since the division series was added in, yes, the late 90s, and it further parallels the plus-one model that has become popular among NCAA football pundits because it increases albeit just slightly the number of teams with the potential of winning a title at season s end. Single-game playoffs are hardly new to baseball; as tiebreakers they can mark a nailbiter of an ending to the regular season. And in four of the past five years, at least one of the two wild-card races have come down to a single game, so it s not like the second wild-card bid is entirely unmerited. That said, adding a second wild-card team only takes away from the September chaos at the tail end of the MLB season, a 162game marathon that exhausts even the most dedicated of fans and, just like the three-hour game itself, turns off a good chunk of our generation with its slow pace. Remember last September, when late-inning heroics at three separate venues jettisoned the Rays and Cardinals into the postseason above the Braves and Red Sox? With a second wild-card bid, not only would all four teams have made it to the playoffs; they likely would have clinched a berth days in advance. Taking away from that final-day-of-the-season excitement is a serious mistake, and with the lack of parity in today s MLB, you shouldn t expect nearly as many down-to-the-wire races after the second wild-card team is added. What s more, there s a serious wear-and-tear factor at hand for the players here. One game might not seem like much, but the travel and exhaustion accumulate quickly. Go back to 1997, when the Dodgers and Mets finished tied for second in the NL wild-card standings behind the Marlins. The Mets lost the season series with the Dodgers 6-5, so the tiebreak would have been played in LA. If the Mets won, they would then have to travel back to Miami for the wild-card showdown, soon followed by a best-of-five series beginning in Atlanta. By the time New York had its first home game, it would have traveled over 8,500 miles and played in three cities. Knowing how the MLB likes to push up its postseason schedule, the Mets probably would ve had to do it all in less than a week. And they wouldn t even be out of the first round yet. Just as frightening, what if there s a three-way tie for the wild card, which nearly happened between the Rockies, Padres in Mets in 2007? Or if one of the wild-card teams is tied for a division lead as well? Point is, one-game tiebreaks can build up in a hurry, and by the time we have a single wild-card representative, the three division leaders will be well rested from all the time they had spent twiddling their thumbs. If anything, this system could make it harder for a wild-card club to make a run deep into the playoffs. Baseball is supposed to be a simple, approachable game; pick up a bat, throw a ball and you re well on your way. We ve already had Shoeless Joe Jackson s thrown World Series, the DH rule, Pete Rose s gambling, the Pittsburgh Pirates cocaine use, George Brett s pine tar, the addition of interleague play, Sammy Sosa s corked bat, Bill James sabermet-

Despite a very tough night from the freethrow line Stanford went 5-17 at the charity stripe the mens basketball team staved off a scrappy Utah team to continue its run of conference success with a 68-65 win on Thursday night. The Cardinal (14-3, 4-1 Pac-12) was favored by 23 heading into the contest, but struggled to contain the Utes offense, which came into the game 333rd in the country averaging just 56.9 points per game. Guard Chris Hine scored a career-high 21 points for Utah (4-12, 1-3), routinely splitting the defense for layups.

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On offense, Stanford was an efficient scorer, shooting 53.8 percent from the field and a solid 41.2 percent from behind the threepoint arc. But the Card had 18 turnovers and several times gave the ball away by throwing passes out of bounds or dribbling off its own feet. With a rowdy student section providing plenty of support despite an announced attendance of just 4,981, Stanford had several highlight-worthy plays. Redshirt senior Josh Owens threw down a one-handed slam off a breakaway in the first half, and sophomore forwards Dwight Powell and Josh Huestis both emphatically finished plays above the rim. It was Huestis who really put the team on his back in the second half, scoring all 13 of his points down the stretch on 6-6 shooting from the field. The 6-foot-7 forward from Great Falls, Mont. also chipped in 10 rebounds in one of the best games of his career. With the Utes picked to finish 12th by the media in their first season in the Pac-12 and already winless on the road so far this season, Stanford looked to be on its way to a big win despite some early struggles on offense.

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Sophomore forward Josh Huestis had a career-high 13 points and shot 6-6 from the field, leading the Cardinal to a surprisingly close win over new Pac-12 addition Utah.

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New-look Cardinal begins defense of its title

MILES BENNETT-SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR

With often-intimate connections formed through the recruiting process and four years or more of training and competition, it s rarely easy for coaches to say goodbye to graduating seniors. When you graduate five All-Americans on the heels of winning the NCAA championship, like men s gymnastics

coach Thom Gilelmi did this year, it can be overwhelming. Faced with that daunting task, the No. 4 Cardinal kicks off its defense of last season s title tonight when it takes on No. 5 California on the road in Berkeley, Calif. The rival Golden Bears regularly prove a stiff test for Stanford, and last year saw the Cardinal rebound nicely from a season-opening loss to Cal, winning the Big Flipoff and

the last dual-meet of the season to enter the postseason with plenty of momentum. But the loss of All-Americans Alex Buscaglia, Josh Dixon, Tim Gentry, Ryan Lieberman and Abhinav Ramani all of whom graduated after competing for the Cardinal in last year s NCAA meet and Buscaglia s win of an NCAA Individual Title

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STIFLING THE UTES

CARD OVERCOMES LOW SCORE
By TOM TAYLOR
SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Last night the Stanford womens basketball team extended its unbeaten streak in the Pac12, defeating Utah 62-43 in Salt Lake City. Again the No. 4 Cardinal (14-1, 5-0 Pac-12) started the game slowly, allowing the Utes (8-7, 1-3) to tie the game eight minutes into the contest, and the score stayed level at 10-10 for almost three whole minutes. From there, however, the Card noticeably improved, and the half ended with an 11-point lead. After the break, an eight-point unanswered run in the first two minutes of the second period put the game out of Utahs reach, and it was relatively simple for Stanford from there on out.

WOMENS BASKETBALL STANFORD 62 UTAH 43 Jan. 12, Salt Lake City

The high points for the Cardinal were the double-doubles by both Ogwumike sisters, senior forward Nnemkadi and sophomore forward Chiney, as well as a nice night from sophomore guard Toni Kokenis, who joined them in double-figure scoring with 13 points. In reply, redshirt sophomore forward Taryn Wicijowski also grabbed a double-double for Utah and redshirt junior guard Iwalani Rodrigues scored 16 points. Most of the Ogwumikes rebounds came defensively, which highlights a good defensive effort by the Cardinal in general. The low point, though, came on offense, with both teams shooting being below par: Utah man-

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Sophomore forward Chiney Ogwumike had her sixth double-double of the season against Utah in a relatively low-production night for the usually powerful Cardinal offense. Stanfords 62 points were just one above a season low, and the squad has been held below 70 points in two straight games, a cause for concern heading into tomorrows meeting with Colorado.

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Squad faces Cal Poly in conference clash

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This Sunday the Stanford wrestling team heads to San Luis Obispo to take on a Pac-12 foe, the Cal Poly Mustangs. The Cardinal (5-5, 1-1 Pac-12) and the Mustangs (3-2, 2-1) have been to the same tournaments this year the Vegas Invitational, the Reno Tournament of Champions, and the Midlands Tournament. In the two earlier tournaments, Vegas and Reno, Cal Poly finished higher than Stanford. But since then Stanford has wrestled much better. At the Midlands Tournament Stanford finished 25th, eight spots better than Cal Poly. The Cardinal and the Mustangs have wrestled three teams in common so far this season, and both are 2-1. Both teams dominated Cal State Bakersfield and won close meets against Boise State. But against American, Stanford almost pulled out a win while Cal Poly lost by double digits. The main event of Sunday s dual will be the match between Stanford s No. 1 Nick Amuchastegui (13-0) and Cal Poly s No. 4 Ryan DesRoches (19-0). DesRoches, a two-time NCAA Tournament qualifier who has twice finished third in the Pac-12 Tournament, has already won three tournaments this year. Amuchastegui has won the Pac-12 Tournament and finished second on two occasions, including last year. This match will undoubtedly be the toughest test so far for both Amuchastegui and DesRoches. There is a lot at stake because the winner of this match will likely have the No. 1 seed at the Pac-12 tournament and a top-three seed at the NCAA Tournament. Stanford s other ranked

wrestler, No. 7 Ryan Mango at 133 pounds, looks to improve upon his 19-5 record and keep his 10-0 perfect. The Mustangs have two ranked wrestlers other than DesRoches No. 2 Boris Novachkov at 141 pounds and No. 16 Ryan Smith at 197 pounds. Novachkov has had an extremely successful career at Cal Poly, winning two tournaments this season and finishing fifth at another. He has lost just two matches this year, has won the Pac-12 Tournament twice and last season finished second at the NCAA Tournament. Smith recently defeated the No. 14 197-pounder in the country, Danny Mitchell of American. Smith will be a tough match for Alan Yen, Stanford s starter at 197 pounds. This match is crucial in determining momentum for the remainder of the rest of the season for the Cardinal. Although the squad is wrestling very well maybe the best it has all year it is coming off of a loss. A win this weekend would greatly boost the team s confidence and would be a great reward for the team s hard work and improvement, while individual wins are also very important for seeding in the Pac-12 Tournament. The key to the dual will be the Cardinal wrestlers ability to put multiple moves together. Against Boise State and American, they were able to execute one move after another, reshooting after an opponent s attack and going for pinning combinations after gaining control. The Cardinal has the ability and the talent to win this Sunday, and it is crucial that it takes care of business against its Pac-12 opponent. Contact Palani Eswaran at palani14@stanford.edu.

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on the horizontal bar has left some questioning Stanford s depth. Despite fielding a roster of only 13 members other teams like Cal regularly carry up to 20 athletes with 15 allowed to travel to most competitions Glielmi has been impressed by the team s ability to step up its training so far this offseason. We need guys to be ready, even if theyre in the seventh spot of the lineup in a sport that has six competitors, he said. We may need them to step in and compete. The need to be ready is inherent in our sport since guys are getting injured all the time. Were going to be calling on our all-around gymnasts this year a lot and that really takes a lot out of them. One athlete, Glielmi, likely won t have to worry as much about in the spotlight is Eddie Penev. A three-time All-American, the junior is one of the team s best all-around gymnasts and won an NCAA Individual Title on the vault as a freshman in 2010. With All-American Cameron Foreman looking to improve on his third-place finish on the parallel bars last season and sophomore Cale Robinson hoping to bounce back from a knee injury suffered last year, Stanford still enters the season ranked among the nation s best teams. But with many of this year s main gymnasts unseasoned in

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high-pressure competition Penev is in fact the only returner to post an All-Around score last season in a meet the defending NCAA champs have plenty to prove early on. Glielmi acknowledged the high expectations his squad faces, but the two-time College Gymnastics Association National Coach of the Year said that he fully expects to make a deep run in this year s postseason. Our goal is always an NCAA championship, he said. Regardless of how we finish in the dualmeet and regular season, the guys need to come away from each competition knowing what they need to do to improve and be the best they can be at their events. Well be strategic when we use guys and be ready to go come postseason. Against the Bears, who finished fourth at the 2010 NCAA Championships, it will be important for Stanford to start strong and not fall behind early. Cal boasts two members of the U.S. senior national team, Donathan Bailey and Glen Ishino, and had three members of the team compete at either the World Championships or Pan American Games during the fall. Coach Tim McNeill s team also returns four All-Americans. The Cardinal, which has finished in the top three at the NCAA Team Championships for six consecutive seasons, gets its season underway tonight at Haas Pavillion at 7:30 p.m. Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@stanford.edu.

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The loss of Alex Buscaglia, who won a NCAA individual title on the horizontal bar, and four other All-Americans will set the Cardinal up for a tough defense of its national championship.

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Utah did not pick up its first bucket until almost four minutes into the game, and did not score again until a layup by Hines at the 9:22 mark in the first half. But the Cardinal led by only eight at that point, and two more quick baskets by the Utes cut the lead to three with a little over seven minutes left in the half. A 10-point run by Stanford gave the Card a little breathing room, but Utah ended the half with a seven-point response of its own to tighten things up at the break. Play opened up early in the second half with plenty of points on both sides. Four consecutive three-pointers by the Utes saw them take their first lead of the game less than three minutes into the half at 39-37. A steal and layup by Hines pushed the lead to 43-39, the Utes biggest advantage of the night. Thats when Huestis came on strong, scoring eight of his points in the next six minutes. Stanford pushed its lead back to seven with a nice run, and a threepointer by Huestis on the wing had coach Johnny Dawkins animated on the sideline as the Card seemed to ice the game with 3:42 to play. But Utah refused to go away. Down by 10 with just 43 seconds to go, the Utes went on a seven-point run as Stanford turned the ball over and missed two free throws. After a missed foul shot by Utahs Dijon Farr, two game-tying three-point attempts were off line, giving the Card a 68-65 victory and moving it into a tie with Cal for first place in the crowded Pac-12. Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@stanford.edu.

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Senior forward Josh Owens had 11 points, including this energetic dunk, and made one of his two free throws of the night. Stanford struggled from the line, converting on just five of its 17 free throw opportunities.

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Womens soccer players join national teams

Five of Stanford s national-champion soccer players will be practicing with national teams next week, with three representing the United States and another pair playing for Mexico. Freshman forward Chioma Ubogagu has been in Chula Vista, Calif. since last Thursday with the U.S. Under-20 squad, which is getting ready for

the CONCACAF Qualifying Tournament in early March. Forward Lindsay Taylor and defender Camille Levin, both seniors, will travel to Florida for the U.S. Under-23 team s camp starting Sunday. Levin had the assist on senior midfielder Teresa Noyola s game-winning goal in the College Cup Final on Dec. 4, while Taylor was the Cardinal s leading scorer with 20 tallies last season. Meanwhile, Noyola and junior defender Alina

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59 home win. If the altitude of Salt Lake City played any part in Stanfords shooting struggles in Utah, that too will provide additional home advantage to Colorado as Boulder sits over a thousand feet higher at 5,430 ft. The player Stanford may need to be most wary of is junior guard Chucky Jeffrey, who grabbed 21 points against the Golden Bears and with 17.2 points per game, ranks near the top of the Pac-12s scoring table. Nnemkadi Ogwumike, though, sits atop that list and exemplifies the difference between the two schools. Stanfords top scorers are forwards who stand well over six-feet tall, while Colorados are guards several inches shorter. If the Cardinal can defend as well as it did against Utah, it will be in the ideal position to put this height advantage to good use against Colorado. The contest between Stanford and Colorado will start at 3 p.m. PT in Boulder. Contact Tom Taylor at tom.taylor @stanford.edu. found that legacy. Add two more wild-card teams to the list. Joseph Beyda is a baseball purist at heart, but likes to bring a little sabermetrics into the newsroom with plenty of pie charts and spreadsheets. Let him who will be the next Greek god of walks at jbeyda@stanford.edu.

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aged just 27.8 percent from the field, and though Stanford was definitely better with 43.3 percent it hit just one from 11 three-point attempts. The Card will next face Colorado (13-2, 2-2 Pac-12) at the Coors Event Center in Boulder tomorrow afternoon. The Buffaloes are recovering from a collapse against California last night that cost them a chance to enter a tie for second place in the conference. Colorado had a 12-point lead with just over 12 minutes left in the game, but would only score four more points in the contest as the Golden Bears surged back to win 68-55. The Lady Buffs should still be a tricky proposition for Stanford, however, with the best overall record of any team except the Card in the Pac-12. When the two last met, albeit in March 2002, the Buffaloes recorded a narrow 62-

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Garciamendez will be preparing for the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Vancouver, once again representing Mexico after the duo appeared in last summer s World Cup. Noyola was awarded the Hermann Trophy last week after a nine-goal, 15-assist senior season on the Farm.
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Wopat earns All-American honors

Carly Wopat earned her second All-American honors of the year on Wednesday, as Volleyball Magazine named the middle blocker a First Team AllAmerican Wopat was already an American Volleyball Coaches Association honorable mention All-American. The Santa Barbara, Calif. native was first in the Pac-12 in blocks per set with 1.63, and also ranked second nationally. After finishing third in the conference with a .383 hitting percentage, Wopat was also named to the

AVCA All-Pacific Region and All-Pac-12 First Teams. In addition, she was second on the team with 3.16 kills and 4.08 points per set, while becoming the first player to be named Pac-12 Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week this season. While the Cardinal was upset in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, Wopat whose twin sister Samantha is also on the team posted a career-high 13 blocks in Stanford s first round victory over Sacred Heart.
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