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Volume 241 Issue 44

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Trustees pass funding for new center

Board signs off on 4.2 million for contemplation center
By SARAH MOORE
STAFF WRITER

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The Ghanaian hip-hop group VIP headlined Saturdays Afrique Fest. The festival, complete with performances, arts, crafts, face painting, food vendors and raffles, was the kick-off event for the Stanford African Student Association Africa Week.

UNIVERSITY

Splash expands student outreach

By CATHERINE ZAW
STAFF WRITER

Over 2,000 students attend classes; admission newly governed by lottery

More than 2,000 students, mostly from local middle and high schools, attended the approximately 350 classes offered by the Stanford Educational Studies Programs biannual Splash program, which took place this past weekend. The classes, taught exclusively by Stanford faculty, graduate students and undergraduates, included subjects such as The Evolution of Evolution,

Speaking of Blueberries: An Improv Comedy Class, and Harry Potter Extravaganza, in which students were taught how to play Quidditch. The Splash administrative team said they made a large push this time around to recruit more underserved students to attend the classes. We ramped up our underserved student recruitment effort this Splash, said Spencer Boucher, a research assistant at the Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences and a member of the Splash administrative team. Ten busloads of students who otherwise wouldnt have been able to make it were provided transportation in addition to having their fees waived. According to Boucher, schools

served included Aspire Academy, Lighthouse Community Academy and Impact Academy. A new implementation for this springs Splash program was a lottery system for class sign-ups, which replaced the old first-come, first-served sign-up system. While some parents were unhappy with the new system, it made it fairer to underserved students who may not have 24-hour access to Internet service, said Splash co-director Aditya Todi 14. The event was moved from the Main Quad to Lomita Mall this year, reflecting concern for disabled students who

The Stanford Board of Trustees approved $4.2 million for a new contemplation center at its recent spring meeting. The annual gathering was held in Monterey from April 15 to 17 to discuss two main topics: undergraduate education and the Stanford Challenge. The Land and Buildings Committee met before the retreat, resulting in two action items then raised at the trustees meeting. According to Board of Trustees Chair Leslie Hume 71 Ph.D 79, the first action item was concept and site approval of the proposed 4,000 square-foot Windover Contemplation Center at the intersection of Lomita and Santa Teresa. The center will feature paintings by the late Nathan Oliveira, former professor of art at Stanford. It will be a place where people can sit and contemplate and look at these beautiful, enormous paintings by Oliveira, Hume said. From the slides we saw at this presentation of his paintings, and from reading about the origins of these paintings, its going to be a wonderful thing to have. The board will consider design approval of the contemplation center in October, and construction approval is scheduled for June 2013. The second action item concerned piping and building conversions to accommodate changes from steam to hot water for Stanfords Central Energy Facility. The board was prompted to discuss undergraduate education after the release of the SUES report earlier this year. Before this meeting, Vice Provost Harry Elam had not had the opportunity to speak about his plans for changes in undergraduate education in front of the entire board. Elam, along with Senior Associate Vice Provost Martha Cyert and a panel of three faculty members, spoke to the board about the vision of undergraduate education moving forward, specifically the introduction of Thinking Matters courses and a potential Introductory Seminar requirement. Harry walked us through, in some depth, all the different aspects of the SUES report and the pro-

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NEWS BRIEF

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Smartphone device scans for oral cancer

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF A new smartphone accessory device could prevent thousands of deaths that occur each year from oral cancer in developing countries, according to a Stanford School of Medicine news release. The OScan device, developed by Assistant Bioengineering Professor Manu Prakash, creates highdetail images of the mouth cavity to screen for potential lesions. The OScan device, which is estimated to have a material mass production cost of no more than a few dollars, is approximately the size of a pack of gum and attaches to the built-in camera function of a smartphone. It consists of a mouth positioner attachment, a circuit board and two rows of fluorescentlight-emitting diodes. The images OScan takes are panoramas of the patients mouth illuminated by blue fluorescent light emitted by the device. Any malignant cancerous lesions in the patients mouth show up in the panorama as dark spots amid the blue light. The OScan team was awarded first place for the mHealth Alliance Award, and second place for the Vodafone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Project. The team will use the $250,000 of Vodafone funding for further field-testing of the device and software application in India. In India, 40 percent of cancerrelated deaths are due to oral cancer, and there is one dentist for

She++ conference emboldens women in CS

By KENJI HATA

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Females make up 57 percent of the U.S. undergraduate population, but only 18 percent of those with degrees in computer science, according to Ellora Israni 14 and Ayna Agarwal 14 who gave the opening remarks Saturday at an event called She++. The conference, the brainchild of Israni, a Daily senior staff writer, and Agarwal, was meant to probe the barriers that separate women from the technology field, in addition to serving as a call for women to enter fields and pursue passions outside of their comfort zones. Speakers at the event included Jocelyn Goldfein, director of engineering at Facebook; Irene Au, head of user experience at Google; and Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College. Both Israni and Agarwal said they were influenced to found the event by a small presentation they attended last fall by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. If we were able to be inspired by something like [Sandbergs presentation], why not bring a host of role models to campus to inspire a larger audience of women? Israni said. Interested high school and Stanford students were admitted to the conference for free, and all available tickets were booked days after release. One of the attendees was Michelle Pan 15, who is considering majoring in computer science. I thought [She++] would be

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The Saturday She++ conference included panels such as the Women in Technology panel, pictured above. Two sophomores organized the conference to inspire confidence in women in computer science.
relevant to my life in the next four years and even beyond [Stanford], she said. Pan described the conference as insightful in helping her understand the role that women can play in the computer science world. I found it helpful that all the speakers came from different backgrounds, she said. It was easy to find someone to connect to and find a new perspective. The She++ team will post blog posts by attendees and videos of the panel speakers online for those who could not secure tickets to the Saturday event. The point of this was to bring the [She++] community onto the Internet for the rest of the Bay Area and the nation to

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White Plaza in an effort to instigate further discussion about recycling and composting on campus, according to group member and lead audit organizer Michael Sojka 15. The group, one of four subsets of Students for a Sustainable Stanford (SSS), tracked and recorded the amount of waste in the area dumpsters of Green Library, Meyer Library and Coupa Caf for several days.The Zero-Wasters then sorted through the trash in those dumpsters on Friday wearing lab coats, gloves and goggles to find out how much of the trash in the dumpsters could have been either recycled or composted. The amount of trash that could have avoided the trip to the landfill is quantified by weight. I have not received the complete set of numbers yet, but from sorting, it appeared that there was a lot of compost that was thrown away, Sojka wrote in an email to The Daily. This is another sign that we need composting in all buildings. Approximately 15 members of the Zero-Wasters participated in the public audit, and a number of people passing by approached them during the event to see what was going on, according to Sojka. The waste audit was part of a larger Earth Day celebration on Friday in White Plaza. SSS acquired the garbage through Peninsula Sanitary Service, Inc. (PSSI).
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every 250,000 residents in rural areas. In the United States, oral cancer is the sixth most frequently found type of cancer. Prakashs team includes James Clements, a first-year bioengineering graduate student, medical student Dhruv Boddupalli and Cupertino High School student Aditya Gande. Stanford has filed for a patent on the OScan smartphone-accessory technology.
Alice Phillips

Spielberg to serve on Media Innovation Institute Board

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Filmmaker Steven Spielberg and Hearst Corporation CEO Frank Bennack will serve as members of the advisory board for the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation, the institute announced recently. The Brown Institute, established this January, is a collaboration between the Stanford School of Engineering and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, designed to encourage and support new endeavors in media inno-

vation, according to its website. Former Cosmopolitan Editor in Chief Helen Gurley Brown donated $30 million to fund the bicoastal institute in memory of her late husband David Brown 36. As a film producer, David Brown collaborated with Spielberg and Richard Zanuck on films such as Jaws, Driving Miss Daisy and The Verdict. When David Brown passed away in Feb. 2010, Spielberg issued a statement. We all remember our favorite teacher captivating, wise, humorous, and very kind. David Brown was like that for me, Spielberg said. He and Richard Zanuck had the most successful partnership in all of Hollywood and were wonderful mentors to me on my first two pictures. Bill Campbell, chairman of the board at Intuit, Inc; Eve Burton, Hearst senior vice president and general counsel; and Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfied and Byers will also serve on the institutes board.
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grams and initiatives he has introduced, Hume said. The board was particularly excited by the effort to integrate all aspects of students learning, inside and outside the classroom the effort to really focus on engaging students earlier on in their time at Stanford. Elam and Cyert discussed the opportunity to use residences as a way to broaden students learning experiences by having more faculty interaction in the residences or having rooms in dorms specifically for art projects and music. For the next few years, there are going to be a lot of experiments, and one of the key things is to address early on how youre going to assess these initiatives and decide what you really want to continue, Hume said. So I think its going to be a really interesting time in undergraduate education. The board also discussed The Stanford Challenge, which raised $6.2 billion for the University and which Hume called the most successful comprehensive campaign in Stanfords history.

It will be a place where people can sit and contemplate.

LESLIE HUME, Board of Trustees Chair
Vice President for Development Martin Shell led the board in examining the quantitative and qualitative outcomes of the fundraising campaign that concluded at the close of 2011. Associate Vice President for Strategic Planning Roberta Katz and Dean of the School of Earth Sciences Pam Matson discussed initiatives and challenges in moving forward. The board also toured the Hopkins Marine Station for the first time as part of their retreat and listened to Hopkins Executive Director Steve Polumbi and three graduate students, who shared their research. Hume called the station a gem for both undergraduate and graduate research. Contact Sarah Moore at smoore6 @stanford.edu.

Zero-Wasters conduct waste audit in White Plaza

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF The Stanford Zero-Wasters sifted through trash Friday in

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Members of Students for a Sustainable Stanfords Zero-Wasters group sifted through garbage from the dumpsters serving Green and Meyer Libraries and Coupa Cafe during a public waste audit last Friday.

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see, Agarwal said. During the panel, Goldfein explained why there is such enthusiasm to promote computer science for women. If the gender balance among computer scientists could match the regular college distribution, there would be a doubling of computer scientists in America, she said. Computer Science professor Eric Roberts told The Daily in February that only 20 percent of CS majors currently at Stanford are women. The She++ conference also focused on the reasons behind the abysmally low numbers of female computer scientists and engineers. Female engineers face the Imposter Syndrome, the inse-

curity that they do not belong in an area so heavily occupied by males. Keynote speaker Klawe offered a solution that she said has raised Harvey Mudds percentage of female computer scientists to 40 percent. According to Klawe, using the K-12 SWIFT Career Interest Study 1998-1999, Harvey Mudd found that from an early age, women have a significantly smaller interest and lower confidence level in computer science and engineering. Additionally, this gender gap does not change throughout the years. Its a problem based on the old saying Do what you love and what you are good at, Klawe said in her keynote speech. She added that if women are not interested and are not confident, they will not pursue computer science. In order to fix this gap, Harvey Mudd reconstructed their intro-

ductory computer science course from the standard Java curriculum into a group-focused Python learning experience. This course was further divided based on the experience-level of each student so new students were not dissuaded by their peers who were seemingly more experienced. CS 106A, Stanfords introductory CS class, is taught in Java. [Israni] and I really want to do something after this, Agarwal said. Its just a matter of figuring out what. But, I feel like I have a responsibility to continue doing something with this experience. I think we can view this conference for a day, but the impact needs to last longer than that, Israni said. Whether its pointing people to other places or organizing them ourselves, were definitely going to continue. Contact Kenji Hata at kenjihata@ stanford.edu.

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might have a hard time accessing the Quad directly from the student registration and lunch sites. The Splash administrative team said one of the main challenges this year was directing the new traffic flow, as well as the longer distance for set-up of lunch and student registration. The Splash team gave out water bottles and t-shirts for the volunteers, as well as to the teachers, who were invited to an appreciation dinner later in the weekend. It helped me understand how difficult but rewarding teaching is, said Christina Wang 15, who served as one of the Splash teachers. It really teaches how participation in class is important. Reflecting on this years success, Michael Si, Splash financial officer, recommended another change for the future. He said he

hopes the groups web team might employ an online reimbursement system for Splash teachers to replace the current paper receipt submission system for the cost of supplies and class materials. This way we can go paperless and the process can be accelerated, making it easy and fast for both parties, Si said. Along with Stanford Splash, the educational non-profit Learning Unlimited sponsors 15 other Splash programs around the country, at sites including the University of Colorado, Duke University, the Massachusetts Institute for Technology and Yale University. Stanford is on the frontlines of a national movement, said Chris Kennedy, coordinator of new chapter development for Learning Unlimited. Its the second largest Splash in the country and growing faster in recruitment of students and teachers. Contact Catherine Zaw at czaw13 @stanford.edu.

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HISTORY CORNER

Admit Weekend
s Admit Weekend approaches and over 1,000 prospective freshmen (ProFros) are soon to descend on the Farm, The Daily took a look back at the history of Admit Weekend. In 1985, an experimental telephone hotline for ProFros overwhelmed the administration with over 30 calls in one night. Questions ranged from the obvious class sizes, overseas opportunities and the quality of teaching in various departments to the more esoteric Is Palo Alto the suburban, boring place it is reputed to be? one prospect asked, The Daily reported (Admittees swamp hotline, April 24, 1985). On April 23, 1999, inspired by admit weekends at schools throughout the United States, The Daily published a collaborative piece between student journalists at Stanford, Williams and Harvard in which each writer penned thoughts on their respective schools. The theme of Stanford is opportunity, the Stanford column read. The Stanford students have the opportunities to take large lecture classes or small seminars, live in dormitories or vegetarian cooperative houses, conduct undergraduate original research, act in a student-written and produced musical comedy, or anything in between. That, in one paragraph, is the essence of Stanford. That same year, The Daily reported that there had been two alcohol-related incidents during Admit Weekend. On Friday, another prospective freshman became sick after drinking too much...People just nursed him to a state of semi-health, resident assistant Akhi Sista said, The Daily reported in an article on one of the incidents (Weekend role reversal, April 27, 1999). In 2001, The Daily reported that alcohol incidents continued to occur during Admit Weekend despite a change in administrative policy. Beginning last year, the Admissions Office put the guidelines for Admit Weekend participants in writing, in order to ensure that prospective students and their parents understood Stanfords expectations before coming for the weekend, The Daily reported (Alcohol policy examined, April 25, 2001).

A COUPLE OF

GOOD GENES
By LINDA YU

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ames Watson, Francis Crick, Linus Pauling and Rosalind Franklin are staple figures of biology textbooks today, but their names also appear frequently in the professional repertoires of two Stanford genetics professors, husband and wife Leonard Len and Leonore Lee Herzenberg. Theres a saying: Standing on the shoulders of giants, said Lawrence Steinman, professor of neurology and chair of Stanfords program in immunology. [Len and Lee] may not physically look like giants, but they are the giants of immunology. And friendly, warm, welcoming giants they are. As lab members passed by Lees office, she called out to each one, whether passing along a memo, inviting them to dinner, calling them to join the ongoing conversation in her office or simply saying hello. Her office, too, evoked an amicable atmosphere with splashes of color, shelves of family pictures and assorted memorabilia. The Herzenbergs dog, a Bichon Frise named Gigi, also spends her time in the lab, obediently lying next to Lee on an orange cushion on the ground. Lens office is conveniently located right next to Lees, allowing for easy and convenient communication, a central element of their work together. We are a two-headed horse that mostly goes in the same direction, Courtesy of Lee Herzenberg Lee said. We nourish the same body, The Herzenbergs and their Bichon Frise, and the two heads talk a lot. The pair met at Brooklyn College Gigi, celebrated Lens 80th birthday. in 1952, when Len was a senior and Lee was a freshman. Lee needed an an early incidence of the gender disanalytic geometry tutor, and a mutual crimination Lee would face later in friend introduced her to Len, who tu- life. Still, Lee praises Caltechs biology tored high school students at the time. department for its support of women Their friendship blossomed into a re- in her field and credits her teachers lationship, and an engagement came there with teaching her how to think soon thereafter. While their parents about science. Following his time at Caltech, Len expressed concern about the marriage because of the pairs youth and many worked for the Pasteur Institute and remaining years of schooling, Len and the National Institutes of Health be-

Lee fully believed in the connection they shared and were determined to maintain it. From the time we started to go out, we knew we were engaged, Lee said. Len went on to graduate school at Caltech, which, at the time, boasted a biology department that included seven future Nobel Prize winners. There, he was exposed to an interdisciplinary research culture that the Herzenbergs maintain in their lab today. To be closer to Len, Lee transferred from Brooklyn College to Pomona College. However, the science courses at Pomona paled in comparison to those at Caltech, and Lee soon began auditing graduate level classes there instead. While she could have enrolled as a student, Caltech did not accept women into its graduate programs

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Lee and Len Herzenberg have been a couple for 60 years. Len is pictured wearing his 2006 Kyoto Prize Medal.
fore he was asked to join the biology department at Stanford. He accepted the offer, an especially fitting choice because Stanford was one of only a few schools that allowed couples to work together. Lee had already started pursuing her own scientific research interests. It was at Stanford that Len developed the award-winning technique of fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS), which rapidly sorts cells based on fluorescence markers on their surfaces. Invented in the late 1960s, there are now over 30,000 FACS machines worldwide, and the technology has played a crucial role in the fields of immunology, cancer biology and regenerative medicine, among others. For the FACS technique and his lifelong contributions to science, Len received the Kyoto Prize, Japans equivalent of the Nobel, in 2006. The Herzenbergs successes are largely a result of their teamwork and collaboration. There is never competition between them, as the two publish papers together and maintain jointly functioning laboratory groups at Stanford. With different temperaments and interests, their relationship is defined more by complementary aspects than similarities. Len is more into the science, and he loves to range freely across all sciences, Lee said. He finds a new area of science, brings in a fellow or a student and then he finds another area in two years. At one point, I told him, If you bring me home one more baby,

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OPINIONS
E DITORIAL

The Stanford Daily

The pitfalls of social engagement inside the classroom

Established 1892 Board of Directors Margaret Rawson President and Editor in Chief Anna Schuessler Chief Operating Officer Sam Svoboda Vice President of Advertising Theodore L. Glasser Michael Londgren Robert Michitarian Nate Adams Tenzin Seldon Rich Jaroslovsky

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n Fridays editorial we defended faculty political advocacy outside the classroom. Professors, as members of the University community, should be allowed to engage freely in social and political activism in their free time outside of teaching. In todays follow-up editorial, we will look at the other side of the equation: the impact of faculty members social and political involvement inside the classroom. A recent Washington Post op-ed by Hoover fellow Peter Berkowitz alleges that quality of education at top universities has diminished as a result of curricula that prioritize activism over learning, citing a research report on the UC system by the National Association of Scholars. Although there are flaws in the logic of Berkowitz and the NAS for example, they seemingly ignore the fact that todays students spend far less time studying when searching for the cause of declining quality of education the report and editorial raise important questions about whether the content of an academic course should be explicitly infused with the faculty members, or anyones, social and political views. Should college courses become training grounds for activism and social engagement? Though this Editorial Board acknowledges the importance of some Stanford courses directed at this goal, we worry that an overemphasis on creating agents of social change will endanger courses that deal with relatively esoteric subjects or focus on content mastery. One example of the move to transform some Stanford courses into sites of social and political activism is the letter to the Study of Undergraduate Education at Stanford (SUES) committee by the ASSU Community Action Board (CAB). In addition to advocating increased faculty diversity, which the Editorial Board supports, the CAB hopes that the curriculum can be more reflective of concerns over power structures, identity engagement, and political access. The report reads, We believe that it is imperative that Stanford establish a curriculum that not only engages difference and appreciates cul-

tural difference, but one that internalizes questions of access, power, and identity. What would it mean for the Stanford curriculum to internalize these social questions? Would Aristotle be excluded because his view that women are by nature inferior to men reinforces patriarchal structures of power? Will a class on Nietzsche be viewed as suspect because some used his philosophy in support of Nazism? These questions are hyperbolic, but the rhetoric surrounding socially engaged education makes them relevant. Though the views of CAB are not necessarily representative of those of the student body, the letter to the SUES committee presents a potentially alarming view of liberal education in which a courses ability to engage questions of identity, access, and power is used to justify its place in the curriculum. A view of the value of liberal arts education in which courses should become training grounds for social activism threatens to marginalize thinkers who fail to engage in socially relevant questions or who present less tolerant views on women, minorities, and privilege. This Editorial Board values courses that may have nothing to do with social issues, that feature thinkers who may not offer politically correct views, and that may be irrelevant to good citizenship. Although we believe faculty members should still be allowed to teach classes that promote social engagement, if approved by their department, these classes should occupy a minority rather than majority of the liberal arts curriculum. Indeed, there remain many sites for social activism outside of the classroom, while there are fewer opportunities to deeply engage in more theoretical subjects beyond the classroom walls. Just as we should trust the ability of Stanford students to formulate their own political viewpoints that stand apart from the viewpoints of their professors, we should trust their ability to act as socially engaged citizens without necessarily taking classes that promote a social agenda. Please see EDITORIAL, page 5

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I DO CHOOSE TO RUN

The paradoxes of pre-professionalism

ne of the greatest contradictions at the heart of the modern elite university is its general refusal to explicitly prepare its students for eventual professional careers even as it almost by definition attracts the students most qualified for, and dedicated to pursuing, eventual professional careers. This contradiction, while in many senses inevitable, also has a host of negative consequences that both elite universities and their students need to acknowledge and address. One will search the undergraduate catalogues at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia and our very own Stanford in vain for majors in pre-law, pre-med, predental, pre-veterinary, pre-physical therapy and the like. One instead finds anthropology, history, mathematics, biology, chemistry the pure subjects, unsullied by the tainted aura of vocational training. The closest nascent investment bankers can come to finance is economics, while aspiring CEOs looking for a business major will have to be satisfied with management science and engineering. That is far from the case at most public universities in America. Nearly all state schools allow their students to begin preparation for a post-university professional career immediately upon entrance, with majors in pre-law, nursing or business open to students with a well-defined sense of their own future. Stanford, like other elite private universities, eschews that model, for mostly good reasons. The purpose of a liberal arts education, after all, is to cultivate in its graduates a thorough foundation

in the arts and sciences; to instill its students with the ability to reason and analyze critically; to equip its inchoate scholars with facilities of broad learning, rather than narrow factual knowledge and memorized technical skills. Singlemindedly pursuing a career from the moment one sets foot on campus closes innumerable avenues of fruitful learning, precluding the opportunity for sustained, meaningful engagement with literature, philosophy and the lessons of history. But Stanfords approach to learning has its drawbacks too. One of them is the hypocrisy and doubletalk it engenders among elite students, most of whom got here by always thinking about the step ahead. The implicit cultural shadow the elite university model casts upon pre-professionalism discourages an open acknowledgment of future career goals among the students most likely to be heatedly pursuing them behind the scenes. The result is a sort of mutant variant on the famous Stanford duck syndrome, in which some students quack loudly about deep intellectual thoughts on the surface while paddling furiously toward career goals underwater. You may recognize this syndromes symptoms: the pre-med who feigns scholarly interest in the material from lecture when talking to his TA, but really just wants the problem set answers so he can scrape an A- on the midterm; the apparent Econ enthusiast wholl forget everything she learned in the 50-series as soon as she gets the summer internship at Goldman; the PoliSci major with her eyes on the profes-

Miles Unterreiner

Elite universities should be more open about preprofessionalism.

sor but her mind on law school. There are more specific, less nebulous reasons to worry about this model as well. One of them stems from elite educations upper-crust origins in the world of silver spoons and the Social Register, Downton Abbey and Skull and Bones a world in which universities conferred culture and class, rather than added economic or professional value, simply because their students could afford not to worry about it. For students whose trust funds will make up the difference between a degree in finance and one in eighteenthcentury French literature, preprofessionalism might seem uncouth. But for low-income or firstgeneration students with families to support after college, a high-

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THE YOUNG ADULT SECTION

Can people change?

he question arises in every relationship we have, though our answer is hardly ever the same. We aim the word change at the culprits of our breakups and divorces; its like evidence of unfair play. Other times, we place inexplicable amounts of hope in it to justify ties that hurt us, but simply must have a future. (That hope, too, can find a very bitter end.) In some ways, we are convinced that people do change, to our dismay or demand. Yet, in all of these cases, we seem more ready to relegate that possibility to the realm of others. So, in this alleged age of self-discovery, have we been fooled into thinking that we are the constants? High school was about when I embarked on the epic mission to be myself. Much of American youth culture claims to promote this mission. I employed all personality (slash perfume-style) quizzes in womens magazines and looked up to role models (i.e., Natalie Portman) to try and set something of myself in stone. In light of how mysteriously designed we all are, figuring a thing or two out often feels like relief: Yeah, I definitely [am this or do

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that]! Statements like these are like exclusive property titles to our life and personality. They represent an ability to look at our past and find precedents and patterns. Maybe its around puberty and social entrances that this desire for finalization starts sinking in a desire to be the master of ourselves. An interviewer reiterated that to me recently, as he walked me out the door: It really seems like you know yourself, he said. Thanks! I said, without getting into how knowing myself was becoming a particularly self-centered source of pride I was trying to tone down. His comment reminded me that self-awareness, as articulated in every cover letter and interview we do, is generally Step One to getting ahead in life. But theres a very thin line between self-awareness and self-ful-

filling prophecy. Self-awareness is about knowing our strengths, temptations and failures, and accepting what we cannot change. The line is that we dont always know what cannot change. The prophecy is when self-awareness becomes future-oriented, prescribing unnecessary guidelines with which we hem ourselves later. Ive been considering this thin line a lot recently, as Im a senior graduating in eight weeks. I feel myself toeing it each time a conversation with either of my parents reaches hostile pitches, mostly regarding my future. These people are among those who care for

my well-being as much as I do, and maybe more. Their intentions are in the clear, and I know it. So why such violent opposition to the offered advice? Why do I get so sensitive? Its because, honestly, their different ideas make me wonder if the decisions Ive made about myself are wrong. And its an uncomfortable mental place. For how much I say Im all for growth and learning and constructive criticism, its my tight grip on knowing myself that restricts me from truly opening my heart to friends and family. So, when the debates are over, I realize again that they were never about bouncing around ideas; they were usually about im-

pressing someone about how I already knew my own idea. Open-mindedness, a well-reputed quality, is often tested by our ability to try a new food, accept that others think differently or listen to others opinions in toleration. In actuality, I think that were all open-minded about anything that doesnt matter much to us. The real test comes when we face something that shakes mankinds most prized possession our knowledge of self. All we want is to depend on it forever. We even go so far as to tout our own bad qualities, hurtful or

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prepared breakfast for the children, as Lee was seldom awake in the morning. Len would often [take care of the children], and he didnt necessarily like other people to know this, Lee said. But when it became something okay [for men to do], he made sure to tell people he had always made his kids breakfast. This mutual support for one another took a more political turn early in Lees career as a woman in a scientific field. Lee, unafraid to speak her mind, would often join her male colleagues in discussions and seminars, winning the acceptance of some and the disdain of others. Len, however, was supportive throughout, respecting Lee for her ideas and contributions. He didnt treat a woman like she had to stay home, Lee said. I respected him, and he . . . respected me. In addition to Lens support, Lee has also had a number of female role models who encouraged her to pursue her career. One such figure was Linus Paulings wife, Helen Pauling, who told Lee to be persistent. [Helen] was never really allowed to develop her career, so she told me to keep at it, Lee said. She told me, Dont let them keep you down. She made a very strong impression. Sixty years after their first meeting, Lee and Len Herzenberg continue to share their work and their lives. Their afternoons are spent in the lab, still collaborating with their peers and colleagues and working as a team to advance the threshold of scientific knowledge. Weve never really changed, Lee said. We do everything together. Contact Linda Yu at lindayyu1 @stanford.edu. both concerning alcohol consumption and academics. (Take Admit Weekend with a grain of salt, April 22, 2007). It is our opinion that, whether Admit Weekend nearly made you choose another school or whether Admit Weekend alone made you fall in love with Stanford, it does not accurately portray our school, the editorial read. Over the weekend, the notion may arise that among the myriad of events and social activities offered, nobody here goes to class or works hard or that they are academically serious. This is, of course, far from the truth. Admit Weekend 2012 begins on April 26.
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Im going to go crazy. On the other hand, Lee calls herself the data person and is more technically oriented. Her main focus is detailed work in the lab, such as statistical analysis, guidance of programmers and the development of new software. Between them, knowledge is shared, and respect is mutual. Len taught me to be the scientist I am, Lee said. He taught me all of the science. For instance, Lee says that it is Lens ability to make connections between a diverse range of fields that makes him stand out as a scientist, and he has inspired her to do the same. He can make connections that other people cant, and he taught me how to do this, she said. Hearing this, Len smiled and credited Lees innate aptitude. A close working environment has also had clear benefits for the couple. When two people have separate careers, they have to manage their own priorities, but they dont have intimate knowledge of the priorities, Lee said. For us, that knowledge has always been common between us. For instance, if one of their children felt homesick or needed to be picked up, their knowledge of each others duties at work allowed them to determine who could most conveniently leave to take care of the issue, they said. Their lifestyle preferences are also complementary, as Len is a morning person and Lee tends to work from midnight until 3 or 4 a.m. In the early 1970s, when their children were young, Len

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paying job can be a necessity, not a luxury. In this unsustainable tension between elite universities struggling to get their students to think outside the box and elite students struggling to be the best at filling boxes in, something has to give. Both sides have some work to do. Students should recognize that

deep engagement with learning as an end in itself, rather than a means to future success, is the best guarantee of future success. In an era of globalization and breakneck competition, the intellectual leaders of tomorrow will be thinkers capable of drawing connections between disciplines, engaging with several planes of thought at once, reasoning creatively rather than applying old formulae to ever-shifting problems. As former Harvard president Larry Summers pointed out in the New York Times, instant access to factual knowledge via the our main obstacle. Or, perhaps, the main obstacle is acknowledging that weve reached that point of self-restriction at all. People can be changed, though, in enormous ways. Ive experienced it myself and seen it

Internet is gradually rendering fact-based learning less important; the best doctors and lawyers of tomorrow will rely less and less on memorized bits of law or anatomy. But elite universities should also be more open about the presence of rampant pre-professionalism in the ranks, even if for no other reason than to combat it more effectively. Pretending it doesnt exist does no one any favors. Let Miles know what you think at milesu1@stanford.edu. in others, and now have faith that its possible. If theres a line stopping you from contacting Nina, just cross it. Here! Her email is ninamc@stanford.edu. She loves hearing back from you. sion that politicized classrooms result from left-leaning political affiliations, we agree that an over-emphasis on courses geared toward social engagement can diminish the quality of a liberal education. The closing of the Stanford mind occurs not when faculty members engage in social activism outside the classroom, but when a focus on courses as training grounds for social activism marginalizes or crowds out courses that have no such aim.

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harsh habits we inflict on others, as distinctive and inevitable parts of us. And in doing so, we end up giving ourselves a free pass to do them perpetually. A certain degree of selfawareness is essential everything this column is speaks to how much I think so. Sans a bit of introspection, wed never learn from mistakes; wed be constantly vulnerable to foolish situations and wed face an identity crisis every time we had to pick an icecream flavor. But theres a place where knowledge stops being knowledge and instead becomes

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A student taking classes in Greek metaphysics and German literature is not necessarily less socially engaged or a worse citizen than a student taking courses in education equity and food sustainability. Although we disagree with Berkowitz and the NAS conclu-

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Under the new Admit Weekend alcohol policy, which remains in effect, current students may not serve, provide or make alcohol available to ProFros. No alcohol may be present, served or consumed at any organized student group functions during Admit Weekend. The dry policy raised student concerns that Admit Weekend does not accurately represent life at Stanford. In 2007, The Stanford Daily Editorial Board wrote about the falsely idyllic view of Stanford presented at Admit Weekend,

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Freshman third baseman Alex Blandino, once a rarely used alternate, solidified his position in the lineup this weekend with three home runs and nine crucial RBI. Blandino now has a team-leading .350 batting average, though he has only half the at-bats of most of his fellow starters.

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This weekend couldnt have been much more successful for the No. 10 Stanford baseball team, which swept the No. 20 Arizona State Sun Devils thanks to strong hitting from freshman third baseman Alex Blandino. Blandino led Stanford (25-10, 8-7 Pac-12) by going 8-for-13 with three home runs and nine RBI on the weekend. The Palo Alto na-

tive is now hitting .350, and for Sundays game head coach Mark Marquess had Blandino in the cleanup spot, showing that he has become one of the most clutch and capable hitters in an extremely talented lineup. Im just trying to hit good pitches, react, not do too much, Blandino said of his recent approach at the plate. Ive been trying to get on pitches up in the zone and get the ball up. The other story for the Cardinal was its revived offensive prowess. Prior to this series

Stanford had scored just eight times in its past four games, but in the three games against the Sun Devils the team put up a staggering 34 runs. It really just came down to our approach, Blandino said. We werent chasing balls early in the count or forcing it. We were in a lot of hitters counts. This is the first weekend that we hit like

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A year ago, outside hitter Brad Lawsons 27 kills werent enough to prevent Stanford from being eliminated in five sets at home in the first round of the MPSF tournament. Lawson may have only mustered 22 kills in the conferencetourney opener this time around, but the seniors efforts were more than enough to get the No. 3 Cardinal to the semifinals in its 25-23, 25-17, 23-25, 2517 victory over No. 9 Pepperdine at Maples Pavilion on Saturday. He set the school record for kills (1,788) in the rally-scoring era in the process, propelling Stanford (21-7, 17-5 MPSF) past the Waves (14-15, 9-13) with his .514 hitting percentage. Sophomores Brian Cook, Steven Irvin and Eric Mochalski were in double-figures in kills as well and helped the Cardinal avoid another first-round upset. In a back-and-forth first set, neither team had more than a two-point advantage until Pepperdine jumped out to a 16-13 lead and forced a Stanford timeout. The Cardinal quickly bounced back to knot things up at 18, and grabbed a three-point lead of its own on a Lawson kill, an error by senior blocker Matt Pollock and a Lawson block. Stanford led the rest of the way, and a kill from sophomore hitter Steven Irvin clinched the opening set.

Despite some struggles early on, the No. 12 Stanford mens tennis team finished its regularseason schedule on a high note Friday with a comfortable 5-2 victory at No. 14 Cal. The win completed a season sweep of the rival Golden Bears by the Cardinal (16-7, 5-2 Pac12) following a 6-1 victory in the annual Big Slam match in February and extended Stanfords overall winning streak against Cal to five matches. Following close on the heels of last Wednesdays dominant 70 victory over Pacific, the road win also further builds momentum for the Cardinal in advance of the inaugural Pac-12 tournament, which starts this Wednesday in Ojai, Calif. The victory over the Golden Bears (11-10, 43 Pac-12) secured a third place finish in the conference for Stanford, and thus the tournaments No. 3 seed. This last week of the season was crucial in generating positive momentum heading into Pac-12s and the NCAAs, especially after such a tough week in L.A., said senior Bradley Klahn, referring to the Cardinals heavy losses to No. 1 USC (7-0) and No. 9 UCLA (6-1) on April 14 and 15. I think our team learned a lot from that weekend, though, and it is our job now to take that experience

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Senior outside hitter Brad Lawson set the Stanford record for kills in the rally-scoring era at 1,788, and his .514 hitting percentage was crucial in the Cardinals four-set win over Pepperdine on Saturday.

ell thats more like it. After a woeful stretch where runs seemed to come with the frequency of Halleys comet, the Stanford baseball team found its offense this weekend in a much-needed sweep of Arizona State. Ill be the first to admit that I did not see this coming. I honestly did not think the Cardinal would be able to even scratch out one win against the Sun Devils this weekend. Think about it: Stanford had gone just 3-7 in its past 10 conference games, and if the Cardinal couldnt beat San Jose State, how could it hope to beat perennial College World Series contender Arizona State? And despite the fact that ASU is banned from postseason play this year, the 2012 Sun Devils are still formidable.Arizona State had won five in a row and eight of nine coming into the game and sat just six spots below Stanford in the national rankings. Well, the Cardinal proved me (and a whole lot of people) wrong by winning all three games. And these werent just lucky bounces. These were were-every-bit-asgood-as-you-thought-we-were wins. Which, for the rest of the nation and particularly the rest of the Pac-12, is very unwelcome news. In Arizona States first 15 conference games of the year, the Sun Devils allowed only 38 runs while going 9-6. In just three games against Stanford, the Sun Devils allowed 34 runs while going 0-3. Arizona State came in with a team ERA of 2.65, putting ASU in the top five pitching staffs in the country. After one series with Stanford, that ERA is up to 3.53, meaning ASU is no longer even in the top five pitching staffs in the conference. It all started on Friday, when the Cardinal had to match up against Sun Devil righthander Brady Rodgers, whose sparkling numbers gave him a case for being the best pitcher in the nation. Rodgers had an incredible 55-to-7 strikeout-towalk ratio and the sixth-best ERA in the country, an unbelievable 1.13. He had allowed nine earned runs in nine starts and had gone at least eight innings in each of his past seven outings. Stanford smacked Rodgers around to the tune of eight runs, six of them earned, in a season-low 5.1 innings. So naturally, Arizona State head coach Tim Esmay took him out, allowing the bullpen to give up another nine runs in the next 2.2 innings. Yep, after scoring eight runs total in its past four games, the Stanford offense scored 17 in one game against one of the best starters in the nation and some of the top relievers in the conference. Any team can have a good game every so often (although few could have that good of a game against those guys), but what is really heartening for Stanford fans is how the Cardinal followed up the big blowout on Friday with two more wins. On Saturday, Stanford was locked in a close duel with the Sun Devils. The game was tied 2-2, 3-3 and 7-7, the last of which came in the ninth inning. But with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Alex Blandino came through with a clutch RBI single to give Stanford the walk-off win. Blandino, a freshman from a stones throw away in Palo Alto, has gone from occasional late-inning fill-in to occasional starter to major contributor to big-time star in the past few weeks. And although this weekends sweep was a team effort, Blandino was undoubtedly the star of the show. Thanks to injuries to Lonnie Kauppila and Jake Stewart, Blandino found himself starting the week at third base. And despite entering the week with only 44 collegiate atbats, Blandino made the most of his playing time. On Tuesday he had a two-run homer, his third of the season, to account for Stanfords only two runs in a loss to San Jose State. In the demolition on Friday, he hit two monster homers to left, driving in four runs and scoring four himself. On Saturday, he hit another home run to go with his walk-off hit. And on Sunday, he was the only Cardinal player with more than one hit as he

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that in league play, Marquess added. Fridays game seemed like it would be a low-scoring pitching duel between aces Brady Rodgers for Arizona State and Mark Appel for Stanford. Coming into the matchup, Rodgers had an impressive 1.12 ERA, and each pitcher had lost just one game all season. Appel looked solid from the beginning; his fastball came in at 97 miles per hour and his slider was working the plate beautifully. But in the fourth inning the Stanford righty hit a rough patch, giving up two hits, two walks and three runs. What really hurt me were the two walks to lead off the inning, Appel said. After that I just tried to settle down. They got a few hits, but I really just have to take it pitch by pitch. After the fourth Appel did settle down, tossing two more scoreless innings. Stanfords bats really started to come alive in the fifth. Tyler Gaffney hit a bloop single to tie up the game at three apiece, and after a walk, an error and a sac fly the Cardinal was up 5-3. In the sixth, Gaffney walked with bases loaded, and a passed ball by Sun Devil catcher Max Rossiter and a base hit by Brian Ragira extended Stanfords lead to 9-3. Stanford scored four runs in seventh inning with three of them coming on Blandinos second home run of the evening and four more in the eighth, and the contest ended with the Cardi-

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nal in front 17-5, its greatest margin of victory since a 19-6 win at Cal on April 9. Saturdays game was much more competitive than Fridays blowout. Redshirt junior starting pitcher Brett Mooneyham went six solid innings, giving up three runs to the Sun Devils. In the bottom of the sixth Blandino hit another three-run homer and the Cardinal was up 73 going into the seventh. But Arizona State knotted things up at seven with a three-run top of the seventh and a game-tying double with two outs in the ninth. In the bottom of the ninth a pair of juniors came through for Stanford, as catcher Eric Smith and shortstop Kenny Diekroger hit a pair of one-out singles. A fly ball by Wilson advanced Smith to third, and Blandino sent a single down the third-base line to win the game for the Cardinal. Sundays game did not start off as well for Stanford. Arizona States first two hitters got on base and leftfielder James McDonald drove in a run. Despite the early deficit, Stanford bounced back. With the bases loaded in the bottom of the third, recently converted leftfielder Stephen Piscotty singled, sending home Wilson and sophomore second baseman Brett Michael Doran. In the top of the fifth, the Sun Devils put together a rally of their own, scoring three runs. The Cards defense looked extremely shaky in that half-inning, as the newly retooled Stanford infield, which lost sophomore shortstop Lonnie Kauppila to a season-ending knee injury last weekend, missed plays that have normally been very crisp. Things will only get harder for Stanford, with the top four teams in the country all still alive in the MPSF semifinals. Fortunately for the Cardinal, the squad gets to play No. 4 BYU first while No. 1 USC and No. 2 UC-Irvine duke it out in the other semifinal; Stanford beat the Cougars twice in as many days in Utah in early Feb-

But in the bottom half of the inning, Stanford answered the Devils attack. Piscotty and Blandino got on base with no outs, and a Ragira single tied up the game at 4-4. Later in the inning Wilson sent Ragira home on a base hit and Stanford took a one-run lead. A wild pitch in the sixth increased the Cardinals advantage to two. In the top of the seventh Arizona State scored, cutting Stanfords lead to 6-5, but sophomore lefty Garrett Hughes got the Cardinal out of the inning before any more damage could be done. Sweeping the Sun Devils was huge for Stanford, which prior to this weekend had been 5-7 in the Pac-12. Stanford had recently lost two out of three to Oregon and had been upset at home by San Jose State on Tuesday. League play is difficult, Marquess said. Everybody is capable of beating anybody else on a given weekend. Youve just got to get timely hitting, and you cant make errors or give them a lot of bases on balls. If you do that then you have a chance to win any series. The one cause for concern for Stanford going forward may be its fielding. The Cardinal committed seven errors over the weekend. Fortunately, Arizona State committed six errors and also played poorly in the field, but the team will have to improve its fielding if it hopes to have success the rest of the season because it cannot afford to give teams extra baserunners and extra outs. Next up for Stanford is BYU. The Cardinal will face the Cougars on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Sunken Diamond. Contact Palani Eswaran at palani r14@stanford.edu. ruary, while it only has recorded one win against the other two remaining squads, a 3-0 victory at Irvine on Feb. 17. The Cardinal meets BYU at USCs Galen Center on Thursday at 5 p.m. Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@ stanford.edu. think that this series proves that the Cardinal will be ready come playoff time. Stanford desperately needed wins this weekend after falling to 57 in Pac-12 play, and the opponent was daunting. It would have been easy to roll over and continue the lull. Instead, the Cardinal ripped out its most impressive three-game stretch of the season, pounding a top team to get back over .500 in conference play and back in the mix for a top-eight national seed. I dont think theres a team in the country that could have matched up with Stanford this weekend, and the way the team played, no one wants to see the Cardinal on its schedule any time soon. Unlike Alex Blandino, Jacob Jaffe didnt quite hit three home runs this weekend. Send him some hitting pointers at jwjaffe@stanford.edu and follow him on Twitter @Jacob_Jaffe.

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The Cardinal cruised to a 10-3 second-set lead and didnt look back, going wire-to-wire and earning its 24th and 25th points on a pair of service errors. The Waves slightly out-served Stanford with 11 service errors to the Cardinals 14, but Pepperdines sloppy end to the second set put Stanford firmly in the drivers seat. The Waves responded by grabbing an 8-5 lead to start the third set. Stanford had five straight points to regain control of the match, but a strong finish by Pepperdine which trailed 19-17 at one point kept it alive, and freshman Matt Tarantinos block off Irwin ended the set at 25-23 to give the Waves a shot at the comeback. Pepperdine hung in the fourth set until 7-6, when a kill and a block from Lawson and two errors by Tarantino created some separation for Stanford on the scoreboard. Senior Evan Barry - also playing in his last game on the Farm punched the Cardinals ticket to the second round with his block at 24-17.

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led Stanford to the sweep. Oh, and he also made the defensive play of the game with a diving stop down the third-base line. In total, he was 9for-16 with eight runs scored, 11 RBI and four home runs for the week. Sundays game was close throughout, but with Stanfords recent swagger, you could just feel that the Cardinal would come through in the clutch.And thats exactly what Stanford did, winning 9-5 in front of a season-high crowd of over 3,000 people to put the finishing touches on the teams first sweep since February. Looking forward, its hard to predict what Stanford will do considering the teams recent inconsistent history. But Im inclined to

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and turn it into something great. Having shuffled the Cardinals doubles lineup for the match against Pacific, head coach John Whitlinger continued the tactic against Cal. The Cardinal, however, struggled to maintain its previous success, dropping two matches and conceding the first point to the Golden Bears. Cal is always a big rivalry for us, and we knew going in that we had to be prepared for a battle, Klahn said. Our team responded exceptionally well to the challenges presented, especially losing the doubles point. In singles play, Stanford and Cal initially swapped points with Klahns 6-3, 6-4 victory cancelled out by junior Denis Lins 6-1, 6-2 defeat before the Cardinal pulled away to claim the last four singles matches. Junior Matt Kandath and freshman John Morrissey pulled off 62, 6-4 and 6-4, 6-3 wins, respectively, before senior Ryan Thacher battled to a clinching victory in three sets (3-6, 6-1, 64). Sophomore Daniel Ho rounded out the win with a 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (4) triumph. It was great to see Danny fight back in the third set from down two breaks [at 4-1], even after the match had been clinched, Klahn said. His effort showed a lot about his ability to gut out a tough match, but more importantly showed our resiliency as an entire team to stay determined and not be satisfied with any of our achievements. For Klahn and Thacher, the match also marked the final regular-season game of their Stanford careers. The seniors have put together outstanding careers for the Cardinal, collecting eight doubles titles as a pair while leading the Cardinal to three straight NCAA tournament appearances. Klahn also won the 2010 NCAA singles championship. Its hard to believe that my last regular season at Stanford has finished, Klahn said. I am excited to begin my last postseason, and to see our team lay everything out there for the five weeks. There is still much for this team to accomplish, but I think we have a great founda-

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Senior Ryan Thacher closed out his regular-season career for Stanford on a high note, battling back from a first-set loss to win his singles match 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 and clinch the Cardinals win at Cal. Thacher and former NCAA singles champion Bradley Klahn will be sorely missed next year.
tion with the determination and work ethic. Now it is simply just about executing our game plan. The Cardinal will receive a first-round bye in this weeks Pac12 tournament, and will face the winner of the match between the No. 6 and 7 seeds (which have yet to be determined) on Thursday. Contact Marshall Watkins at mtwatkins@stanford.edu.