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UP FOR BIDDING
Stanford athletic teams hold entertaining
fundraiser for Camp Kesem
TUESDAY
March 3, 2009
The Stanford Daily
FACULTY & STAFF
Stanford salaries more
moderate than peers’
By LIZ STARK
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
A recent report on private col-
lege compensation by The Chronicle
of Higher Education has drawn the
ire of legislators including Iowa
Senator Chuck Grassley, who lam-
basted universities for paying large
sums to football coaches and med-
ical specialists.
But no Stanford employee came
within $500,000 of cracking The
Chronicle’s list of the top 10 highest-
paid private college employees.
According to the University’s
IRS Form 990 from fiscal year 2007
— the latest provided to The Daily
— Stanford’s highest-paid employee
is Dr. Frank Hanle, a professor of
cardiothoracic surgery who made
$1,735,417 in total compensation
that year.
The top-paid employee on the
Chronicle list is USC football coach
Pete Carrol, who made $4,415,714 in
fiscal year 2007. The 10th highest
paid is James A. Grifo, professor of
obstetrics and gynecology at New
York University; Grifo made
$2,393,646.
Surprisingly, the Chronicle found
that chief executives made up only
11 of the 88 private university
employees earning more than $1
million. By comparison, 46 medical
administrators and specialists
earned more than $1 million.
Stanford is no exception.
STUDENT LIFE
Fed.money
slated for
Work-Study
By KATE ABBOTT
STAFF WRITER
A total of $200 million was allotted
to colleges for Federal Work-Study
(FWS) as a part of the economic stim-
ulus bill signed by President Obama
last week. Though the funds will not
be allocated until April 1, Stanford
hopes to see a share of these funds for
distribution to both undergraduate
and graduate students.
The plan is expected to give aid to
an additional 130,000 college students
across the nation, with each earning
an average of $1,500 a year. Last year,
675 Stanford students participated in
the Work-Study program.
Mary Morrison, director of funds
management in the Office of
Financial Aid, said she hopes the num-
ber of participants will increase if
Stanford receives additional federal
funding, but it is too soon to tell.
“We’re expecting some changes [to
the funding distribution system] but
we don’t know what they are,” she
said. “We’re not counting on seeing
anything.”
According to Morrison, the
Department of Education considers
numerous factors, including student
enrollment and the number of stu-
dents with Pell Grants when assigning
federal funds for Work-Study. The
University then also provides funding
to students enrolled in the program,
although federal money accounts for
75 percent of the income.
“We don’t know what [the
Department of Education] is going to
do with this new money, because
they’re changing so many rules,”
Morrison said. “There’s an extremely
elaborate formula that has been
developed over the years, and it isn’t
even as simple as asking for a part of
the national allocation.”
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President John Hennessy made
$667,440 in fiscal year 2007 — he did
not make the list of the five highest-
paid university employees.
In comparison, the most highly-
paid university president in fiscal
year 2007 was Vanderbilt’s E.
Gordon Gee, who made $2.1 mil-
lion. Yale University President
Richard Levin made $955,407, and
Princeton University President
Shirley Tilghman made $724,444.
In light of Stanford’s budget cuts,
Hennessy announced in December
that he, along with Provost John
Etchemendy, would immediately
take a 10 percent pay cut.
According to data from The
Chronicle, Stanford’s Chief
Financial Officer (CFO) Randy
Livingston is the ninth highest-paid
CFO in the country. Livingston
made $577,061 in fiscal year 2007.
As is the case at other universi-
ties, the top earners at Stanford were
predominantly medical specialists
— four of the top five are medical
faculty.
The only non-medical profes-
sional in the top five was Sunica
Tyler Edelstein, a former managing
director of the Stanford
Management Company. Edelstein
earned $1,467,750.
The salaries of medical specialists
and top administrators dwarf those of
the average professor at universities
Please see SALARIES, page 6
FEATURES PRESENTS
The Mascot is
STRANGE
By ELLEN HUET
STAFF WRITER
J
onathan “Shu-Fry” Strange ‘11 is
the kind of person whose smell
reaches you a couple seconds
before he does. It’s nothing par-
ticularly strong — just a linger-
ing odor of fast food, dining hall fare
and other things that toe the line
between edible and questionable.
It’s probably safe to assume that he
wasn’t always this way, but since he
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Photo courtesy Alex Oppenheimer
Jonathan Strange ‘11 dances as
the Stanford Tree for the first time at
Saturday’s men’s basketball game
against USC in Maples Pavilion.
was selected as the new Stanford Tree,
Strange now has to wear the Tree
Vest, which can only be described as
an elegant shade of fecal brown, par-
ticularly reminiscent of a shag rug, and
fashioned in a wholly unflattering cut.
It’s also never been washed.
“Actually, part of my job today is to
wait for it to start pouring so I can go
out and wash it in the rain,” explained
Strange, motioning to the suspicious-
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Today Tomorrow
Men’s volleyball wins doubleheader in
Hawaii without losing a set
Former Secretary of State speaks at MemAud on his life,
experiences in poltics, public eye
By KAMIL DADA
DESK EDITOR
Students trekked through early morning
rain to hear former Secretary of State Colin
Powell tell personal anecdotes of his time in
government and discuss the importance of the
American Dream on Monday at Memorial
Auditorium.
A capacity crowd attended Powell’s talk,
which covered personal memories and lessons
learned from his time in Washington. Powell
engaged the audience with his humor, but ulti-
mately left many attendees disappointed with
the lack of serious intellectual content.
Former Secretary of State George
Shultz introduced Powell with a brief
description of the former states-
man’s numerous accomplish-
ments in public service. He
pointed out that Powell
served in the Vietnam
and Gulf Wars, com-
manded 75,000
troops in Germany
Photo courtesy Misha Bruk
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell
spoke to a packed audience in Memorial
Auditorium yesterday. Powell shared a vari-
ety of humorous anecdotes along with
political opinions in his talk.
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Santorum draws interest,ire
By AN LE NGUYEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Last night, former Senator Rick Santorum (R-
Penn.) spoke to an intimate audience at Kresge
Auditorium about the threat of Islamic fascism to
American national security.
Broaching the politically sensitive topic of his
lecture, titled “The Gathering Storm in the Age of
Obama: Challenges and Opportunities,” Santorum
expressed his desire to engage the audience in a
hearty dialogue.
“I came out and started this discussion because I
wanted to enlist the Left,” he said.
Santorum’s speech covered a variety of issues,
from the need to examine the ideological basis of
terrorism to the importance of understanding differ-
ences between the Sunni and Shiite branches of
Islam.
Explaining his concept of Islamic fascism,
Santorum said, “If you don’t understand their theol-
ogy and what they want to accomplish, what their
goals are, what’s driving them to do what they’re
doing, then you have very little understanding of
how we should fight this war or why we should fight
this war.”
Santorum also expressed discontent with the
Bush administration’s execution of the war in Iraq
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Protestors gathered outside of Kresge to show their
opposition to Santorum’s opinions. Though the issue
did not arise in his talk, Santorum’s well-known posi-
tion against gay rights drew opposition.
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and “rejuvenated” the State Department, but
argued that he did not wish to simply list
Powell’s accomplishments. Instead, Shultz
chose to focus on Powell’s human characteris-
tics.
“He is just a wonderful human being and
has a terrific sense of humor,” Shultz said.“He
is a wonderful public servant.”
Indeed, audience members were readily
rewarded with Powell’s sense of humor. He
joked that since he is no longer Secretary of
State or Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
it was simply “a great pleasure to be any-
where” and have something to do. He added
that the lack of intellectual and emotional
stimulation was a serious problem for him.
“I gave it a great deal of thought [about
how to solve the problem],” he said wryly. “I
bought a Corvette.”
He went on to humorously recount how
the biggest thing he missed about being
Secretary of State was access to his private
plane.Audience members laughed as he told a
story of how hordes of onlookers would wave
to him as he boarded his plane and how the
plane would take off as soon as his own per-
sonal assistant poured him a can of Coke after
he was seated.
“As soon as I left office,they took my plane
away,”he joked.“They gave it to Condi.Now’s
Hillary’s got it, and I’ll never see it again.”
Please see POWELL, page 2
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Former Senator Rick Santorum spoke on the “gath-
ering storm” of Islamic facism in an event at Kresge
Auditorium last night. The Republican drew dissent
from many liberal students on campus.
— a campaign that he initially supported.
Carl Kelm ‘09, a political science major and edi-
tor emeritus of The Stanford Review, which cospon-
sored the event, said that he was very happy to
engage Santorum as the publication’s guest speaker.
“It was mostly just a convergence of interest,”
Kelm said. “We were interested in him and he was
on the lecture circuit and wanted to come here, so it
worked out well. As a [former] United States sena-
tor, he has a perspective that few of us can experi-
ence . . . I think he is a well-spoken guy; he’s an
intelligent guy. There’s no accident that he became a
two-term U.S. senator.”
Kelm also stressed the significance of Santorum’s
discussion on national security.
“The whole point of calling it a ‘gathering storm’
is to highlight the fact that it’s still building,” Kelm
added regarding the lecture’s title. “A change in
administration is not necessarily going to mean that
it’s going to disappear.”
Not all students, however, harbored positive sen-
timents towards Santorum. During the question-
and-answer portion of the lecture, a number of audi-
ence members challenged the validity of Santorum’s
claims about Islamic extremism.
In addition, prior to Monday’s lecture, a number
of Facebook groups cropped up in protest of the
former senator’s presence at Stanford.
Frank Nothaft ‘11 was among the numerous stu-
dents who opposed Santorum’s lecture.
“He is the opposite of a civil rights leader,”
Nothaft said. “His views are very backwards and
really only hurtful toward large sections of the U.S.
He’s very strongly anti-gay. He’s very strongly anti-
Arab . . . I don’t really feel that hateful viewpoints
Please see SANTORUM, page 6
Recycle Me
2 N Tuesday, March 3, 2009
FEATURES
ATHLETES FOR SALE
Going once, going twice, sold for charity!
By CAROLINE CASELLI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A
thletes are everywhere. It’s
just before 7 p.m. last
Sunday. An overhead
screen on stage reads,
“Welcome to the 2009
Athlete Date Auction: A Cardinal
Council Event.” A blue and green
Camp Kesem banner hangs forlornly
to the side.
The seats of Dinkelspiel
Auditorium are half-filled with vari-
ous costumed freshmen from
Stanford’s athletic teams — from the
red fleece robes of the men’s water
polo players to the black shorts and
gold-decaled tank tops donned by the
women’s swimmers — as well as
other student onlookers.
Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” can be
heard faintly playing over the inces-
sant chatter. The auction’s black and
white programs feature several
Stanford-won national championship
rings, a familiar image of leotard-clad
Beyonce and the event’s theme,“Put a
Ring On It.”
Around 7:15, the host of the event,
jolly football player James
McGillicuddy ‘09 takes the stage. He
looks sharp, wearing a red and white
button-down shirt, khakis and brown
leather shoes. He energetically
recounts the success of last year’s auc-
tion — more than $5,000 was raised
for charity — and expresses his hope
that this year will be equally lucrative.
A former Stanford track and cross-
country runner comes to the podium
and gives a brief history of Camp
Kesem, the beneficiary of the auc-
tion’s earnings. He discusses the
“great partnership” between Stanford
Athletics and the camp, and he rattles
off names of athletes who have been
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STRANGE| Rising junior chosen as Tree POWELL
looking stains that cross from the
side around to the back of the vest.
Like the rest of the traditions sur-
rounding the Stanford Tree, it is mys-
terious, somewhat absurd and just a
little bit gross.
Strange was chosen to be Tree last
Thursday after a week of competi-
tion against Tree contenders Kyle
Owen ‘10 and Jack Cackler ‘09. The
process, though shrouded in mystery,
is generally very involved — candi-
dates are interviewed and perform
numerous stunts across campus,
among other things. Tree Week saw a
wide range of stunts from the com-
petitors, including zip lines and a
blood drive.
Strange began brainstorming for
stunt ideas after last year’s Tree
Week, when he was inspired by the
antics of last year’s competitors.
Many of his friends suggested that
he would be a good candidate for
Tree, and he took their advice to
heart. He started with a vast list of
ideas and eventually narrowed them
down to the most entertaining and
feasible.
“I was going to dress as Homer
Simpson, shave my head, do yellow
body paint and do a skateboard
jump,” Strange said. “But I almost
hurt my ankle learning to skate-
board, so I had to cross that off my
list.”
In his campaign, Strange wanted
to emphasize entertainment over
shock value of the stunts.
“Tree Week is meant to entertain
the public,” he said. “A lot of people
misinterpret it and do painful things.
Some people think it’s impressive to
go to extreme limits to show how
much you want [to be Tree]. I under-
stand their point of view, but my Tree
campaign had little to no pain
involved at all. I was mainly out
there to prove that if you can enter-
tain people, you can make a good
Tree.”
While some stunts were highly
publicized, others were less targeted
toward the public. Strange explained
that some stunts function well in a
public setting, but what really mat-
ters is that the former Tree —
Patrick Fortune ‘09 — sees the stunt.
As for the actual selection
process, the details remain hidden
from the public.
“It’s actually a very complicated
process, and even I’m not 100 per-
cent sure what goes on,” Strange
said. “I’d like to keep the mystery,
though, because that’s another cool
thing about it — no one really knows
involved with it.
“Camp Kesem is a weeklong sum-
mer camp that was started by four
Stanford students and a staff member
in partnership with Hillel in 2001,” he
explains to the crowd.
According to the brochures hand-
ed out at the event, the camp has a
philanthropic purpose — it is a week
of safety, fun and support for children
whose parents currently have, or had,
cancer. What started with just one
camp based out of Stanford has now
grown to include more than 20 differ-
ent college campuses, from UCLA to
MIT.
Now that introductions are fin-
ished, it’s time for the auction.
McGillicuddy returns to the stage and
a team photo fills the overhead
screen. He briefly highlights the vari-
ous accolades of the opening act —
the women’s squash team — and
announces the prize to be auctioned
off: a barbecue with the team.
Two girls emerge from offstage
wearing black squash skirts and
sweaters, and share a brief dialogue.
Two other girls, also in uniform skirts
and white Nike tops, hop around with
rackets in hand, performing a sort of
squash-themed interpretive dance to
Enya’s “Sail Away.” A fifth girl, wear-
ing gray sweatpants and a red jacket,
also enters the scene.
Suddenly, the peaceful music stops
and “Womanizer” by Britney Spears
fills the auditorium. The five squash
players break into a choreographed
routine, ending with a huddle.
“Women’s squash!” they chant.
The act receives polite applause,
and McGillicuddy opens the bidding
at $50. No one bids. There is a brief
silence, and people begin to look
around expectantly.
“$50? C’mon. It’s for the kids!”
exactly what’s going on, except those
trying out.”
In keeping with the secretive ten-
dencies of the Band and the Tree,
Strange declined to describe all of
his stunts in order to keep the
intrigue alive. His largest and final
stunt had him dressed up in a gorilla
suit as “Shu Kong” and chased
around by his friends with torches
and pitchforks. Against a backdrop
of machine fog and red lights, he was
“captured” by the angry mob and
welded into a cage ball that he had
constructed earlier.
“They welded me inside the cage,
but I broke out with the strength of
10 men,” he explained.
“You definitely need a
lot of energy...and
probably no shame.”
— JONATHAN STRANGE
‘11, new Stanford Tree
The cage ball, which Strange
began constructing long before Tree
Week, was also used in an earlier
stunt: human bowling.
“We set up a bunch of empty kegs
in bowling pin fashion and people
would roll me like crazy to knock
them over,” he described. “I welded
the cage ball so that you could sit,
strap yourself in and roll. It was
about 60 hours of work, bending
metal poles — I was struggling the
whole time.”
Being mascot to the country’s
most eccentric band isn’t something
to be taken lightly. Strange explained
that the Tree must have dedication,
creativity and, most importantly,
lightness of foot.
“I’ve danced all my life — mostly
high school dance ensemble stuff,”
he said. “I like to mix it up. A lot is
inspired by swing, tango, stuff like
that. I have a lot of stuff in my arse-
nal.”
Apart from the often underesti-
mated dancing involved, however,
Strange agreed that the Tree is a
highly demanding role.
“You definitely need a lot of
energy, a lot of enthusiasm and prob-
ably no shame,” he said.
Strange referenced his first night
McGillicuddy urges, chuckling nerv-
ously.
“We’re the only West Coast
women’s squash team!” chimes in one
of the five dancers.
Eventually, a girl with crutches
raises her hand, signaling her bid. The
barbecue with the squash team is sold
for $50.
The evening starts off slow, with
the next team — track and cross-
country — selling an “evening on the
town” for $60, just $10 over their start-
ing bid.
“No one went for less than $100
last year,” whispers Charley
Henrikson ‘11, a member of the men’s
volleyball squad who participated in
last year’s Athlete Date Auction.
But very quickly, the bidding picks
up. Following a riveting lip-syncing
and hip hop dance performance to
“I’m On a Boat” by The Lonely Island
and T-Pain, the sailing team auctions
off a “day spent sailing on the San
Francisco Bay with head coach John
Vandemoer and members of the cur-
rent varsity team.” This sells for $375.
Next is the football team, repre-
sented only by McGillicuddy due to a
“big practice” earlier in the day.
“That is so unfair that they don’t
have to do this,” says an irked female
athlete to her friend. “There are other
sports here that are actually in season
right now.”
Nonetheless, the football team
offers four field-level tickets to the
California and Notre Dame games
next season and a football signed by
the team. These also receive a notable
sum, going for $275.
The team introductions, talent
show-esque acts and subsequent bids
continue for some two hours. In total,
18 different teams — women’s
squash, track and cross-country, sail-
as Tree when he had to dance with-
out the costume at the basketball
game, wearing just the Tree Vest and
little green shorts.
“A lot of people would have a
hard time going out there in front of
thousands of people, just dancing,”
he said. “I just have no shame.”
In addition to the Tree’s regular
duties — dancing for hours on end,
protecting the Dollies and being
voted “worst college mascot ever” by
people who obviously have no taste
— Strange will be spending the sum-
mer constructing his own Tree cos-
tume. Costumes are usually based
off of a backpack-mounted metal
frame with fabric and hoops.
“I’ll be doing a pine tree again,
and I’ll probably hook up a
CamelBak to it to get some water
while the costume is on,” Strange
said.
He also hopes to turn some of his
Tree Week stunts into something
lasting. He has plans to open up the
cage ball to the public and donate
the profits from rides to the Williams
Syndrome Foundation, in memory of
“Super Dave” Hahn, an ardent fan
of Stanford athletics and the Band,
who passed away last fall.
With regard to his fellow com-
petitors, Strange was grateful for
their participation.
“I’d like to give a big thank you to
the rest of the candidates,” he said.
“They really upped the competition
this year, and they kept me guessing
the whole time and kept me on my
game.”
Strange especially respected the
dedication of Kyle Owen ‘10, who he
said put all he had into the cam-
paign.
“If there were more people in
Sixth Man and Red Zone like
[Owen], our school would be a lot
better,” he said.
Strange will be taking over as
Tree beginning this spring and con-
tinuing until next year’s mascot is
selected. He looks forward to the
excitement of sports games, bringing
back the “cool pants” to the costume
and the added recognition.
“It’s a big step to go from walking
around campus as a prospective Tree
to walking around campus as the
Tree,” he said. “It was a lot of work,
but I had a lot of friends who sup-
ported me and my goal. [Being
named Tree] was one of the coolest
moments of my life.”
Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stan-
ford.edu.
Scantily clad members of the Stanford men’s swim team dance at the Athlete Date Auction, held Sunday in Dinkelspiel
Auditorium as a fundraiser for Camp Kesem.
ing, football, men’s and women’s gym-
nastics, men’s and women’s swim-
ming, men’s and women’s crew, syn-
chronized swimming, men’s and
women’s soccer, field hockey,
women’s lacrosse, wrestling and men’s
and women’s water polo — do brief
routines.
The scantily clad men’s swimming
and water polo teams — one per-
forming a dance and the other, an
original rap, in only Speedos — are
crowd pleasers. The men’s gymnastics
team wows the crowd with their toned
physiques and superhuman strength;
one athlete does handstand push-ups.
“Dude, you’re ripped!” an envious
male yells at the gymnast.
The women’s teams largely stick to
coordinated dance routines — soccer
to Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back,”
lacrosse to a medley of pump-up
music, swimming to “Hot Stuff” and
so on.
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Powell then transitioned his talk,
using humor as a foundation for mak-
ing political statements. Speaking of
how he was searched by immigration
control at the airport after he showed
up late to board a plane, paid in cash
and had no luggage, he questioned
whether the U.S. was paying “too high
a price for [its] own safety.”
“In this globalized, flattening world,
we were communicating the message
[to foreign students] that America is
not a welcoming place,” he said. “We
want them to get the skills that their
country needs when they return home
— or perhaps stay here.”
He added that it was important to
stick to the notion of America as a
place of hope and realization of
dreams.
“Terrorists can’t change who we are
as a people,” Powell argued. “Only we
can do that to ourselves.”
He continued on to offer advice to
the crowd on the importance of human
connection through a personal anec-
dote. Audience members laughed as
the former Secretary of State described
his vivid memory of how workers in the
garage of the White House would park
cars of guests nearby if the visitors
would smile and say good morning to
the workers.
WORK
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Morrison said that the Office of
Financial Aid was given an estimate
by the government of how much
funding they could potentially receive
before the stimulus plan was
announced, so the University is plan-
ning around this budget without
expectation of receiving additional
aid. Because of this planning, there
are no foreseeable changes to the cur-
rent program.
“They told us what we’re [receiv-
ing] before the changes, and that’s
what we’re planning on operating
with,” she said, “but if we get more
money, we will use it.”
Before the stimulus package,
Stanford was expecting to see around
$2.1 million in federal money for the
Work-Study program, although this
number had not been finalized. The
extra $200 million will be spread thin-
ly across colleges.This extra boost will
help universities meet the new nation-
al minimum wage, which is expected
to rise to $7.25 over the summer.
About two-thirds of the way
through the night, two girls, both
wearing red tank tops and jeans, are
brought onstage. Elaine Breeden ‘10
and Julia Smit ‘10 both won medals at
the Beijing Olympics and hold numer-
ous other records and titles. Greeted
with rousing applause by the audi-
ence, the Olympians are auctioning
themselves off for a date.
“Who can say they’ve been on a
date with a world record-holder?”
inquires the Cardinal Council chair
who introduces Breeden and Smit.
“Yeah, pretty cool opportunity.”
McGillicuddy adds, “And if you go
on the date, you can try on the
medal!”
The dates with the Olympians sells
for a respectable $175.
Finally, 17 acts and two Olympians
later, the women’s gymnastics team
comes out for the grand finale. They
do not fail to disappoint, performing
“It is just the simple connection to
human beings,” Powell emphasized.
The fits of laughter only grew
stronger as Powell moved on to
detailed narratives of how his grand-
children played video games such as
Guitar Hero and would Twitter and
send text messages on their cell
phones. He added that he ended up
endorsing President Obama in his bid
for president when he realized how the
former senator was using technology.
“In an almost military-like fashion,
he organized efforts,” Powell said.
He added that the U.S. needed the
generational change and transforma-
tion that Obama would bring to the
government. Powell explained that his
support for Obama also stemmed
from his realization that the presiden-
tial candidate had a strong vision, but
was not ideologically rigid. He pointed
to the poor state of the economy as an
example and explained that Obama
did not pretend to have a quick and
easy fix.
“The Republicans came up with an
answer: Joe the plumber,” he said to a
crowd roaring with laughter. “I’m not
kidding.”
Powell ended with some parting
advice for the audience.He warned stu-
dents that the issue of race was not
going to disappear overnight and
stressed the importance of addressing
poverty and the lack of education in
many parts of the United States.
“Don’t walk away from those in
need,” he said. “Carry out service in
The importance of the FWS pro-
gram is recognized by both political
parties, and has received much sup-
port because of its influence, accord-
ing to a recent article in The Chronicle
of Higher Education.
“Everyone understands the con-
cept of working your way through
school,” said Cynthia A. Littlefield,
director of federal relations for the
Association of Jesuit Colleges and
Universities in an interview with The
Chronicle.
Caitlin Smith ‘09 praised the FWS
program for providing opportunities
that some students would not be open
to otherwise because of monetary
issues. Smith participated in the
Community Service Work-Study pro-
gram through the Haas Center in con-
junction with normal Work-Study
over the summer.This program places
individuals in community service
organizations outside the University,
but pays students with Federal Work-
Study funding.
“I got to work somewhere that fit
really well with my career goals,”
Smith said. “Work-Study allows you
to work for a nonprofit organization
or government agency where you
normally wouldn’t be able to be paid
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an impressive array of splits, flips,
handstands and leaps.
“[We’re offering] a day at the
gym!” one of the gymnasts says cheer-
fully. “It will be awesome. We’ll do
whatever tricks you want!”
This is met by excited howls and
loud laughter from the many male
attendants in the audience.An intense
bidding war between the men’s swim-
ming and crew teams follows, with the
eventual prize going to crew for $300.
Around 9 p.m., the auction has
ended and McGillicuddy thanks
everyone for coming.The student ath-
letes and other audience members
slowly exit Dinkelspiel, pleasantly
reflecting on the evening of debauch-
ery, silliness and, most importantly, a
plethora of money raised for Camp
Kesem.
Contact Caroline Caselli at caro-
linecaselli@stanford.edu.
your community.”
Many students reacted favorably to
the former General’s talk and pointed
to his sense of humor as being particu-
larly effective. However, others felt that
the talk was more of a whimsical reflec-
tion rather than an intellectually stimu-
lating lecture.
“I thought it was an entertaining
talk,” said James Adelston, a second-
year law student. “However, there was
not much content and I came away
from the talk having learned little
about his experiences as Secretary of
State.”
Steven Adamosuki, a former
colonel under Powell in the Vietnam
War, agreed.
“I thought that there was certainly
not enough meat in the lecture,”
Adamosuki said. “I was definitely not
pleased with Powell’s cheap attempts at
humor in place of real information.
Someone who had as deep an experi-
ence as Powell did should share the les-
sons they learned.”
He added that the lack of open dia-
logue with the student body in the form
of a question-and-answer session par-
ticularly compounded his frustration
with the event.
“The fact that he didn’t want stu-
dents to ask him the tough questions
shows that he viewed this entire lecture
as a bit of a charade,”Adamosuki said.
“I am very disappointed.”
Contact Kamil Dada at kamild@stan-
ford.edu.
because they can’t afford it.”
Smith was awarded $4,000 in
Work-Study funds, which helped pay
for her apartment in San Francisco
while working as a mentor to foster
children.
“[With community service Work-
Study] students don’t have to choose
between what they want to do and
getting paid,” Smith said. “And it’s
valuable. There’s a lot of things you
want to do post-graduation that you
need to apply for. Graduate schools
want to see that you have something
more to you than being able to take a
test, and work experience is a really
good way to show that.”
Morrison reiterated the impor-
tance of the Work-Study program.
“The advantage to having federal
money is that students would be paid
mostly by the government instead of
by the department,” Morrison said.
“We [hope there will be] more money
to give to people to make it easier for
them to find jobs on campus. People
who really need a job from the gov-
ernment’s point of view will have a
job because of this extra money.”
Contact Kate Abbott at kmabbott@
stanford.edu.
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impressively diverse student body hail-
ing from every corner of the planet, faculty
experts in dozens of foreign cultures and po-
litical systems and the capacity to offer stu-
dents fluency in almost as many languages as
you would hear at a typical United Nations
summit. Our enormous linguistic fortune
begs the question: What good is our foreign
language requirement if it is apparently not
designed to encourage students to capitalize
on these resources?
The foreign language requirement of one
year of basic language study, and the abun-
dance of ways students are able to effective-
ly escape it, grossly underemphasizes fluency
and maintenance of foreign language skills
for students admitted to Stanford. Under-
graduate students who pass a proficiency
exam at any time in their Stanford career are
not required to follow up ever again with a
language advisor, or even take a basic re-
fresher tutorial. Even more egregiously, any-
one who crammed enough verb conjugations
into her or his head in high school to score
sufficiently high on an AP or SAT II test re-
ceives a free pass on the language require-
ment and is never compelled to revisit for-
eign language study again.
While the University does not recognize a
high school English or history class as an ac-
ceptable substitute for any of the general ed-
ucation requirements, we seem willing to ac-
cept that a rudimentary survey of a foreign
language in our teenage years precludes us
from needing to retain or enhance valuable
language skills as adults at an internationally
renowned — and internationally engaged —
university.
The editorial board understands that the
minimal requirements were not expressly de-
signed to discourage language study and that
many students and prospective freshmen ap-
preciate the chance to avoid a three-quarter
foreign language requirement that is a hassle
for the uninterested to fulfill. Furthermore,
there are many self-starting students who do
opt to take a foreign language and go well be-
yond the year’s study required to graduate in
networking, job applications and relation-
ship-building with people from other coun-
tries. We would merely like to point out the
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as a means of achieving any sort of meaning- Theodore Glasser Head Copy Editor
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Rather than imposing more placement
tests on students who place out of first-year
language classes at Stanford — a solution
which has been met with vehement and un-
derstandable objection in the past — the
University could introduce major-specific
language tutorials with relevance to specific
fields. The popular Spanish for Medical Stu-
dents tutorial offered periodically already
could serve as a model for tutorials in other
subjects, building a student’s vocabulary and
conversation skills in engineering, computer
science or philosophy, in a foreign language
spoken by one of the professors from that
field. Picture Francophonic history majors
learning about the French revolution in
French, or perhaps German-speaking philos-
ophy students reading “The Critique of Pure
Reason” in its original form.
Given the international diversity of facul-
ty members across the academic spectrum, it
seems highly feasible for these tutorials to be
built into the curriculum without needing to
hire more professors or greatly over-burden
departments. In a more intimate and tailored
way, students could retain and revisit foreign
language skills, and apply them to their fu-
ture goals more aptly.
This is just one way foreign language
could be re-emphasized so as not to be lost in
the shuffle. The loss to the University if we
fail to encourage a multilingual student body,
especially when the world (and job market)
is becoming increasingly globalized, is unde-
niable and demands attention. The editorial
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T HE D UDE A BIDES Zack Warma

C RIME P UNISHMENT Emily Grubert
Our conflict with Sad’m AND

T
he old adage that “you can never go
home again”just got ripped to shreds by
a ferocious glare that gave even Vlad
Putin the willies. For all of you who read the
exceptional Daily articles last Monday, Condi
is coming back to the Stan! Putting aside our
personal feelings regarding her previous em-
ployment and the catastrophe of an adminis-
tration that she helped run into ground (not
unlike USC students and the demise of their
parents’ Mercedes), it cannot be denied that
the good doctor’s return is certainly a cause
for reflection.
The basic fact that we have the most recent
Secretary of State working at this school
brings with it a variety of intriguing opportuni-
ties, not least of which is the ability to cultivate
a dynamic discussion about international rela-
tions and geo-politics with the former top U.S.
diplomat. I personally could not stand the
woman as a politico,but should she teach a So-
viet history course sometime before June
2011, I will be on Axess the moment registra-
tion starts up.
As I finished reading the aforementioned
Daily articles, a chilling notion suddenly
dawned upon me: Condi, to a large degree,
symbolizes much of Stanford. Similar to the
seminal moment of the cinematic classic
“Clue” — “Mrs. Peacock’s a man?” — the
“Condi is Stanford?” had me a tad shell-
shocked, but upon further contemplation,
began to really make sense. Before the pitch-
forks are sharpened and my effigy doused in
lighter fluid for daring to make such a claim,
please allow me to explain.Condoleezza Rice,
in both her personality and career, possesses a
variety of characteristics that seem to define
both Stanford’s student body and its organiza-
tional nature.
On a rather banal level, let’s start with her
musical talents. Condi not only saw Queen
and its durn dundies; she actually played a
piano concert for QE2. And the last time I
checked, one of the basic laws of Stanford is
that some musical savant has to be playing a
heart-wrenching sonata at every hour of the
day. In a far broader sense, both our under-
grads and Rice seem to share an absurd capac-
ity for “higher” talents.
Madame Secretary also seems to possess
an iron will and determination to succeed.The
youngest provost in Stanford history, Rice-o-
roni’s tenacity ultimately led her to the reins of
the State Department, where she . . . helped
just a moment, because there are a bunch of
amazing human beings on this campus who
are already shaping the world in profound and
innovative ways (though some of us are rele-
gated to doing a poor job of deriding humani-
ty in a weekly column . . . *tear*).
But interestingly enough, one of the kick-
ass Daily articles had a professor’s remark that
Condi’s scholarship was mediocre, which fits
with one of the common complaints that we as
an undergrad population do not put a premi-
um on intellectual development. Very fasci-
nating . . . [insert protracted invisible beard
stroke here] We have a woman who tenacious-
ly charmed and willed her way into the rungs
of power while not digging deeply enough into
the wellspring of knowledge, and a student
body that desires to do exactly that!
Yet Con-Con’s connection to the Stan goes
far beyond the fact that many of us are actual-
ly mini-Condis.As a former provost and politi-
co,Condi is the perfect symbol for the increas-
ing inflexibility of University administration
when dealing with the student population.The
authoritarianism that marked Rice’s tenure as
provost seems to have not left with her (OSA
RISK MANAGEMENT OSA).
But on a shockingly serious note, Condi’s
turn as second in command of the HMS Le-
land Stanford Jr. had run-ins with the very is-
sues that continue to hang around the school.
Racial politics, a terribly polarized and fasci-
nating aspect of campus life, came to a sizzle
with -Leeza’s run-ins with the community cen-
ters and faculty diversity. Rice was also re-
sponsible for dealing with massive budget cuts
(though not our $100 million boondoggle),
with her receptiveness to input being a bone of
contention amongst the Stanford polity.
The Provost also pushed through IHUM,
which in my estimation does make her a per-
petrator of crimes against humanity. But she
did also bring us Introductory Seminars and
Sophomore College. In short, Condi’s impact
(would it be too outlandish of me to also ven-
ture “musk”???) hangs heavy over the Stan,
and I for one think having our prodigal pitbull
back is a good thing. But I will not hesitate in
stating loud and clear, once she urges Hen-
nessy to turn Wilbur into a detention center
and raid Mirlo for “seditious activities,” that
“this aggression will not stand, man.”
Not just ice: Climate change is about justice
admit to listening to Depeche Mode on
I occasion. Stop judging. I have my reasons.
( . . . something something, almost at a
concert, something something, municipal golf
course sprinkler systems, something some-
thing . . . ) Anyway.
I was listening to “A Question of Lust,”
which almost gets the “The Doors” prize for
its innovative rhyming scheme in places (cf.“I
need to drink/ More than you seem to
think”).At the phrase,“It’s a question of lust/
It’s a question of trust/ It’s a question of not
letting what we’ve built up/ Crumble to dust,”
I leapt out of my seat. No, I cried. It is not a
question of not letting what we’ve build up
crumble to dust, nor is it “all about pants,” as
Banana Republic might have you believe
(three days only!).
It’s a question of justice.
Of course, as it usually does, “it” here
stands for “the hyper-complicated blight of
climate change, mitigation strategies and all
the rights, honors and privileges pertaining
to” it.
And that, my friends, is indeed a question
of justice.
It is well understood that the climate
change will probably disproportionately af-
fect the poor and those least able to adapt. It
is also well understood that historically, at
least, these same groups have been least re-
sponsible for the climate forcing caused by
global greenhouse gas emissions: non-indus-
trialized countries weren’t really a part of the,
er, Industrial Revolution.
The United Nations Framework Conven-
tion on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the
Kyoto Protocol’s mom, recognizes this justice
disparity with an almost universally agreed-
upon principle: “common but differentiated”
responsibility. (It’s also almost universally
poorly defined so people don’t have to admit
they disagree.)
Probably the most public result of the
“common but differentiated” clause is the
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the
international carbon market that was estab-
lished to allow developed countries buy car-
bon offset credits from developing countries.
The general idea is that by establishing a mar-
ket, carbon offsets will be procured at least
cost, and wealth will flow from the industrial-
ized, historically responsible countries to the
less developed countries that can mitigate
more cheaply.
This makes sense, but is predicated on the
assumption that developing countries are not
and will not be asked to reduce their carbon
emissions. If developing countries eventually
do take mandatory targets for reducing emis-
sions, things get sticky fast since the emissions
reductions suddenly have value at home.
Let’s consider what pricing un-emitted green-
house gases means.
Commoditizing carbon is one of the larger
paradigm shifts that accompany climate regu-
lations. Essentially, by placing a price on
greenhouse gases, we turn the right to emit
into a tradable resource. Much as you might
buy a barrel of oil to enhance your activities
(here, by providing fuel for some process),
you will now buy some amount of not-emit-
ted greenhouse gas.It’s invisible,but nonethe-
less a real product with real monetary value.
What this means in the justice context is
that there is potential for resource exploita-
tion. Namely, if developed countries buy car-
bon credits from developing countries under
the current system, where developing coun-
tries have no legal obligation to reduce emis-
sions, competitive markets will tend to lead
developing countries to sell their cheapest
mitigation potential. Fast forward several
years. Now, either the entire world has obliga-
tions to constrain emissions, or a developing
country is deemed sufficiently developed that
it must begin to limit its emissions.
What jumps out here is that countries have
already sold much of their cheap, easy solu-
tion. Gone are the low-capital cost projects
like efficiency, prevention of deforestation
and the like. Now, these either still-develop-
ing or newly-developed countries must tackle
more technically difficult, more expensive
projects to meet their targets.
For those of us who would like to see cli-
mate change policy be as much about pro-
moting global well-being, the potential for
sustainable development and long-term in-
frastructural upgrades as it is about immedi-
ately reducing carbon emissions, a better sys-
tem might entail foreign investment in carbon
mitigation projects that are too expensive for
developing countries to implement, but still
cheaper than what is possible in the devel-
oped world. Think about food drives — it’s
more helpful for affluent people to donate
nutritious, more expensive foods like vegeta-
bles and soups than it is to donate the cheap
staples that the poor are more likely to be
able to afford, like rice.
The issue of mining cheap negative carbon
emissions may be a good argument for devel-
oping countries to voluntarily assume limited
carbon constraints or targets, particularly on
the order of magnitude of what is achievable
at zero or negative net cost, like efficiency
measures.This can ensure that national cheap
“negative carbon” reserves belong to and are
valued by domestic governments, and may
lead to a more just outcome than “no devel-
oping world targets” proposals can deliver.
Emily’s got her claim staked on a really nice
seam of negative carbon emissions somewhere
in the Congo. California’s drought has us in a
statewide State of Emergency as of Friday.
Email her (California) at gruberte@stanford.
edu.

Zack one day hopes to take tea with former Sec-

royally botch our conflict with Sad’m.But hey,
minor details. Unyielding work ethic and de-
sire for advancement are traits that we as a stu-
dent body, generally speaking, seem to share
with Doc Rice. And let’s eschew humility for
retary Rice, but is fearful that his “Proud to Be a
Write to us. We want to hear from you.
Democrat” bumper sticker is going to get him
banished to Kimball. If you have the perfect
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4 N Tuesday, March 3, 2009
SPORTS
CARD
DOUBLES
DOWN
Men sweep Hawaii in Honolulu
for first time since 1992
By JEFF LU
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Stanford men’s volleyball team will add two
more notches to its belt as it returns this week after en-
gineering two consecutive sweeps against the Univer-
sity of Hawaii. The pair of victories extended the Car-
dinal’s winning streak away from the Farm to three
games, bolstering what would have been an otherwise
disappointing season on the road.
No. 7 Stanford (11-7, 7-6 Mountain Pacific Sports
Federation) arrived in Honolulu on Thursday for its
second-to-last road trip of the season. With six Hawai-
ians in the Cardinal lineup, two more than host No. 11
Hawaii, the match was a homecoming of sorts.
Any lingering feelings for home, however, were
kept off the courts. Honolulu natives junior Kawika
Shoji and freshman Erik Shoji, set season highs for a
three-set match as they respectively contributed 49 as-
sists and 23 digs to Stanford’s 30-28, 30-26, 30-27 victo-
ry. Junior Evan Romero knocked in a match-high 21
kills and Hawaiian outside hitters, freshman Brad
Lawson and sophomore Spencer McLachlin, chipped
in 11 and eight kills respectively.
“Evan Romero was definitely on,” said Stanford
head coach John Kosty. “He was the deciding factor
for us by far.”
A short, daylong intermission proved insufficient
for Hawaii to recuperate and formulate a winning
strategy, as the Warriors found themselves over-
whelmed once again on Saturday, losing to the Cardi-
nal 30-27, 30-21, 30-26 before a crowd of 3,565 at the
Stan Sheriff Center.
Stanford began the first set neck-and-neck with
Hawaii and was only able to edge out a lead after a
pair of kills by senior middle blocker Brandon
Williams gave the Cardinal a 21-19 advantage. Al-
though the Warriors came back to tie up the game on
three separate occasions, they were unable to ward off
an ace by Kawika Shoji and a kill by Lawson, giving
Stanford the necessary momentum to wrap up the set
in its favor.
The Cardinal dominated the next two sets, refusing
to allow Hawaii the lead.The Warriors were able to tie
Stanford in the second set, but a 12-3 run helped the
Cardinal take control of the game.
Romero, Williams and junior middle blocker Gar-
rett Werner had four blocks apiece. McLachlin led
Stanford with 15 kills.
Overall, the Cardinal hit at least 70 percent in each
set and managed to limit Hawaii to a .160 hitting per-
centage. The Cardinal also served at an incredible 89
Wyndam
Makowsky Women drown Spartans, 16-8
Between the lines
The match had every making of an early
blowout, but No. 1 Stanford women’s water
Kenny Brown’s polo had to wait until the fourth period to fi-
nally relax and celebrate their 16-8 victory
over No. 8 San Jose State on Saturday.
The Cardinal jumped out to a 3-0 lead with
moment in goals by freshman Melissa Seidemann, senior
Card history
S
ome performances stick with
individual fans long after
they’ve been forgotten by
the rest of the sports world.
They seem inconsequential years
down the road, but to that one per-
son, or to that one fan base, they exist
as far more than a footnote in histo-
ry. It isn’t John Paxson winning the
championship with a single shot, or
Vince Young trotting into the end
zone to take the BCS crown — those
are tremendous moments that tran-
scend time. No, these instances are
smaller in magnitude, but carry
heavy significance.
Take this December, for example,
when New York’s Derrick Ward ran
wild over the Carolina Panthers. In
his last regular-season game in a Gi-
ants uniform, and with the top play-
off seed on the line, the reserve tail-
back took to the icy field and carried
his struggling team to a second half
resurgence and overtime victory. His
line on the night: 15 carries, 215 yards
and a No. 1 seed.
In the end, it was all for moot:The
Giants were bounced in their first
postseason game, and a season of
high hopes ended in disappoint-
ment. But Ward’s performance was
emblematic of more — it was his
The Stanford women’s water polo team jumped out to an early lead on Saturday to defeat San Jose State. Despite exhibiting shaky defense at times,
Please see MAKOWSKY page 5 the No. 1 Cardinal was able to use its offensive firepower to its advantage, proving too explosive for the Spartans.
The No. 7 men’s volleyball team bounced back from its previous road woes by crushing the University of Hawaii in
Honolulu last weekend. The Cardinal did not lose a set during the weekend doubleheader.
percent efficiency.
“It was a good effort by all of the team,” Kosty said.
The double-header wins against Hawaii mark the
first time since 1992 that the Warriors were swept by
Stanford at home, and the first time in six years that
the Cardinal has managed a win on Hawaiian soil.
The long overdue wins over Hawaii weren’t the
only groundbreaking events that Stanford was able to
celebrate last weekend. On Friday, the NCAA an-
nounced that the Cardinal would be the host of the
2010 National Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Champi-
onships, marking the first time in Stanford history that
the event will grace the Bay Area.
“The Bay Area has long supported men’s volley-
Please see VBALL, page 5
By MIKE LAZARUS Kira Hillman and junior Kelly Eaton. The
Spartans managed to get one shot past junior
goalkeeper Amber Oland, but Stanford im-
mediately countered on a goal by junior Alex
Koran to bring the first period to a close.
Leading 4-1 at the start of the second peri-
od, Stanford continued its offensive on-
slaught, scoring three unanswered goals in a
two-minute span.With San Jose unable to cre-
GIULIO GRATTA/The Stanford Daily
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
2/28 vs. Hawaii W 3-0
UP NEXT
UC-SANTA CRUZ (10-6)
3/3 Burnham Pavilion 7 p.m.
GAME NOTES: Stanford’s victories against Hawaii marked the first time
since 1992 that the Warriors were swept by the Cardinal at home. On
Friday, the NCAA announced that Stanford would host the 2010 Nation-
al Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Championships. Today’s opponent for the
Card, UC-Santa Cruz, is hitting only .267 on the season.
ate any scoring opportunities on offense or
stop the Cardinal on defense, it looked as if
Stanford could safely notch another tally
under its win column.
Yet the Spartans would not go down with-
out a fight.San Jose immediately responded to
Stanford’s three-goal streak with one of its
own, cutting the lead to 7-4 at halftime.
“Each time we had a chance to put our
CHRIS SEEWALD/The Stanford Daily
The Stanford Daily
WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS
2/27 vs. San Jose State L 194.7-193.95
UP NEXT
ALABAMA
(5-5, 6-9 Pac-10)
3/6 Tuscaloosa, Ala. 5:30 p.m.
GAME NOTES: Stanford’s loss to San Jose State was its first of the season.
The Cardinal narrowly edged out Alabama in their only meeting last
year. Stanford’s point total of 193.95 against San Jose was its lowest of
the season.
Gymnasts
suffer first loss
of season
Ladies sneak by UC-Davis, but lose
perfect record to San Jose State
By KENAN JIANG
STAFF WRITER
The No. 3 Stanford women’s gymnastics team lost for
the first time this season, falling victim to San Jose State on
the road.The loss brought the Cardinal’s overall record to
12-1. Stanford’s 12-0 start to the season was a school
record.
“We were unable to stop the snowball effect of mistakes
that started on the first event,” said senior Kelly Fee. “It
showed us that we need to work on our mental toughness
a bit more. We came off a bad practice a few days before,
but we warmed up well and expected to deliver a solid per-
formance.
“We have already bounced back from last weekend,”
Fee added.“We are determined not to waste this opportu-
nity to grow as a team.We’re getting tougher each day and
building confidence in the process. Alabama won’t know
what hit it when we leave Tuscaloosa.”
Stanford will face the Alabama squad on the road on
March 6 for their final regular season meet. The team will
then go on the Pacific-10 Conference championships on
March 21, which will be hosted at the Maples Pavilion on
campus beginning 4 p.m.
The Cardinal had a poor start against unranked San
Jose State and suffered from miscues in the opening rota-
tions of the three-team meet at UC-Davis. Stanford’s mis-
takes set the tone for a poor performance by the team’s
high standards. San Jose would go on to win 194.7, with
Stanford and Davis close behind with scores of 193.95 and
192.7, respectively.The score was a season low for the Car-
dinal, and Stanford had not lost to San Jose State since
2005.
San Jose State also had a subpar performance, failing to
win a single event outright and totaling fewer than 195
points. Stanford still managed to win all four of the events,
Please see WGYM, page 6
WOMEN’S WATER POLO
2/28 vs. San Jose State W 16-8
UP NEXT ARIZONA STATE
(9-6, 0-1 MPSF)
3/7 Tempe, Ariz. 12 p.m.
GAME NOTES: Stanford narrowly beat Arizona State 15-
14 in the teams’ only meeting this year. The Cardinal fin-
ished the month of February with a 10-1 record. Three
Stanford players scored three goals apiece against San
Jose State.
stamp on the game and put it out of reach
emotionally, we couldn’t do it,” said head
coach John Tanner.
After a quick goal by freshman Pallavi
Menon to open the second half, San Jose
scored two straight goals to draw within two
points of the Cardinal. That, however, was the
closest the Spartans would come to upsetting
the best team in the land.
Seidemann stopped San Jose’s momentum
with a goal off a Stanford steal. Menon then
followed by scoring on an outside shot to give
the Cardinal a little breathing room.
From that point on, it was all Stanford.The
Cardinal outscored the Spartans 6-2 for the
rest of the game and shut them out in the
fourth period. Eaton, Seidemann and Koran
led Stanford with three goals each, while
Menon and Hillman each had two.
The victory was Stanford’s second over the
Spartans this year. The Cardinal defeated San
Jose 13-7 en route to winning the Irvine Invi-
tational on Feb. 21.
“They played us differently this time,”Tan-
ner said.“They mixed it up well.The first time
they had two post players, but only one today.
That threw us off a little bit.”
With a 10-1 record in February, Stanford is
reluctant to step into March. Even worse, the
Cardinal opens the new month with a match
against No. 6 Arizona State this Saturday.
Stanford barely survived the Sun Devils in
their previous meeting, narrowly winning 15-
14 during the Stanford Invitational earlier this
season.
“ASU is a lot like San Jose,” Tanner noted.
“They have good shooters and good balance
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lasting imprint on his tenure with
team. It summarized, in just over 60
minutes of football, everything that
Ward brought to the Giants: a gritty
runner who could trample defenses
that forgot about him in focusing on
more well-known threats. His end-
less motor, even as he was kept in the
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 N 5
“It was pretty amazing.”
— KENNY BROWN, senior point guard
game without rest, was representa-
tive of a career that took him from
Fresno State to Ottawa (Kansas, not
Canada), to the Jets’ practice squad
and finally to a regular role with the
Giants; despite the obstacles, he
never stopped running.
I was one of the fans in atten-
dance that night. I stood and
watched from the upper deck of Gi-
ants Stadium. I had on four pairs of
socks and three layers of pants for
what was sure to be an epically
windy and cold affair. Instead of
worrying about how many extremi-
ties I could lose to the frost, I found
myself admiring Ward’s tenacity,
even as the game extended close to
midnight and respites were hard to
come by.
It was a great and lasting per-
formance, but one that fans of other
NFL teams have likely already for-
gotten — that is, if they were ever
cognizant of it at all. But now that
Ward has signed a long-term deal
with Tampa Bay, that is the memory
that will remain with me. And that’s
why he’ll always be a Giant in my
eyes.
Athletes move on to different
teams and careers, but as sports fans,
we remember them in the ways we
see fit, and keep them stuck in the
time. After Sunday, Kenny Brown,
even if he goes on to be a celebrity
dentist extraordinaire, will forever
be clad in Stanford white, falling
back against the Cardinal bench as
he drains a three-point dagger.
Why? Because on a night in
honor of him and his classmates, in
front of a crowd and teammates
looking for any salvation to a largely
lost season, Brown delivered a shot
that few would take and even fewer
would make.
The Cardinal was up by five at
this specific moment, but USC re-
fused to quit, and given Stanford’s
tendencies to lose leads late, nothing
was certain. Anthony Goods missed
a three, and the ensuing rebound
began to carom out of bounds.
Brown leaped and, in the air, tossed
the ball back to Landry Fields.
Brown immediately headed to the
corner, took the pass and, fading
away with a hand in his face, stayed
true to his nickname and knocked
down the prayer.
It deflated the Trojans and threw
Maples into a frenzy. There were
nearly five minutes left in the game,
but the outcome was practically se-
cured.
“Kenny showed the moxie of
stepping back and having the three-
ball go,” said coach Johnny Dawkins.
“No hesitation, bottom of the net.”
Barring a miracle, Stanford will
miss the NCAA Tournament. They
may not even have an NIT bid se-
cured. It’s been a frustrating and
heartbreaking season for the Cardi-
nal, which, just a year removed from
the Sweet 16, has battled everything
from three one-point conference
losses to struggling attendance. But
on Sunday, all was right. Stanford
showed resiliency and flashed bril-
liance — and Brown summarized it
all with one play.
It’s moments like those that make
a season of tribulations worth the ef-
fort.
“It was pretty amazing,” Brown
said.
He wasn’t going to be a Cardinal
this year — he was supposed to be at
dental school, and had already been
accepted when Dawkins invited him
back. He returned, and with his shot
and performance on Sunday, Down-
town Kenny Brown became more
than just a loveable fan favorite —
he secured his place in Stanford lore.
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When Cardinal fans remember this
season, they’ll recall the ups and
downs, but they’ll also remember
that on Senior Day, the former walk-
on made his mark.
At the press conference after the
game, Brown was asked if it was
worth it to come back and play this
year — if it was worth it to go out
with a team that would likely not
have the same success as its direct
predecessor.
Without hesitation, Brown
laughed and delivered a perfect an-
swer: “Yes.”
Wyndam Makowsky is grateful for
Kenny Brown and all the seniors who
have left their mark on Stanford bas-
ketball. Contact him at makowsky@
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Lacrosse falters in South Bend WGYM Continued from page 4

By SARAH OHR
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Stanford women’s lacrosse team suffered a disap-
pointing loss in Indiana over the weekend as it dropped
its game against No. 12 Notre Dame, 17-8.
The Fighting Irish outscored Stanford 9-3 in the first
half,making a recovery near impossible.The Cardinal im-
proved its performance after halftime, but a second-half
score of 8-5 in favor of Notre Dame left the game in the
hands of the Fighting Irish.
“We didn’t play anywhere near our caliber,” said
sophomore midfielder Karen Nesbitt, who came away
with one goal and one assist. “We played frantic and re-
acted to them.It was a terrible feeling,and I know it won’t
happen to us again because none of us want to feel like
we did after that game.”
Head coach Amy Bokker blamed the loss on a lack of
aggression and too little selfishness. This was also a rea-
son for Stanford’s first loss of the season last weekend
against a very physical Syracuse team.
“It was a really physical game,” Bokker said. “I felt
that we needed to be a little bit tougher. Everybody’s
scoring and we have different threats; that’s a positive.
But we need to get more physical to allow ourselves to
take advantage of our skills.”
Senior defender Maris Perlman agreed.
“Our team has a very different feel than past years,”
Perlman said. “Everyone in the offense is a threat; we
don’t really have ‘superstars’ who score the majority of
the team’s goals, like some other teams.
“This is a huge strength of ours as our offense is really
well-rounded and hard to shut down,” she continued.
“This can also be our weakness sometimes as everyone
plays as a team player, and sometimes you just need
someone to be a little selfish and make the decision that
today, in this game, they are going to score four goals —
and that didn’t really happen in our game against Notre
Dame.”
Looking forward, the Cardinal hopes to maximize in-
dividual efforts in an attempt to strengthen team play.
The team resumed practice on Monday and has four
practices before its next game.
“I think this weekend was an eye-opener for everyone
and showed us the importance of needing to bring our
best game and individual effort for 60 minutes of every
“I think that our performance on
Friday night was a combination of a
lot of things,” Janiga said. “After the
first event, it seemed like we never
front of 10,000 people at Alabama
and Nationals. The meet made us
more fired up for this weekend in Al-
abama. They may be counting us out
turned the meet around and it snow- because of our score this past week-
WOMEN’S LACROSSE balled into the other events.” end, but we are ready to bring it.”
but the supporting cast performed “We are definitely prepared to hit Alabama is currently ranked No.
2/28 vs. Notre Dame L 17-8 poorly despite the efforts of the win- our routines, as we’ve shown consis- 11 and will be led by All-Americans
ning rotation. tently all of season,” Janiga contin- Kayla Hoffman and Casey Overton.
In the opening event, junior cap- ued. “We are just writing it off as a Last year, Stanford hosted Alabama
UP NEXT tain Carly Janiga withdrew from the fluke night that will never happen and narrowly edged out the four-time
meet after winning the balance beam again. We are looking at it as a wake- national champions. Alabama came
SAINT MARY’S (1-3) with a 9.875. On the floor, senior up call that even we can never get too in second in a tri-meet over the week-
3/6 Moraga, Calif. 4 p.m. Nicole Ourada tied San Jose’s comfortable.” end against Penn State and Ohio
Thomasina Wallace to win the floor Despite the Cardinal setting 21 State, but has beaten some tough
GAME NOTES: Stanford was outscored 9-3 in the first half of its loss at with a score of 9.9. Freshman Alyssa season-best scores against Cal on competition this year, including cur-
Notre Dame. Four of Stanford’s final eight games come against ranked Brown and sophomore Shelley Feb. 22, Fee’s uneven bars perform- rent No. 5 Auburn.
teams. Saint Mary’s has yet to win a home game on the season. Alexander tied San Jose’s Lily Swann ance marked the only season best Stanford will face off against Al-
with a 9.85 to win the vault. Fee score against San Jose. abama on Friday, March 6 in
capped things off by clinching victory “Last week, we had the men’s Tuscaloosa. The meet is scheduled to
game,” said senior attacker Bess Siegfried. “In moving on the uneven bars with a score of 9.9. crew team shout and heckle us as we begin at 5:30 p.m.
ahead, we are going to be working on holding each other Still, Stanford was unable to went through a beam line-up,” Janiga
more accountable in practice and taking more individual muster enough points in the closing said. “Those scenarios are what are Contact Kenan Jiang at kenanj@stan-
responsibility and initiative. We all know the talent is events to land a comeback victory. going to prepare us to compete in ford.edu.
there, but it takes each player’s belief and confidence in
herself to achieve team success.”
Sophomore goalkeeper Annie Read agreed that the
Cardinal has tremendous potential, and that this overall
team potential is what needs to be focused upon.
“I think we all just want to try to move forward and
not let the loss dictate the rest of our season,” Read said.
WPOLO “We just need to be more assertive
Continued from page 4
“We have so much talent and potential on our team and
hope that these traits will shine over the next few weeks.” on defense.”
Fortunately, it appears that the loss came early enough — similar challenges.”
as to not completely hamper the Cardinal’s playoff With Arizona State’s athleticism
hopes. Stanford has eight games left until the Mountain and scoring threats, Stanford’s de- — JOHN TANNER, head coach
Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Tournament begins. fense, which has been an issue for the
“Our goal is to make it to the tournament again this team all season long, will be tested. sertive on defense,” he said. Stanford’s biggest challenge may be
year,” Perlman said. “To do this, we need to beat the top Against San Jose, the Cardinal may After the Arizona State match, overcoming fatigue after what will
teams. Losing to Notre Dame hurts us, but we have more have found a solution for sub-par de- Stanford will make the quick flight be a very physical match against Ari-
games against top-ranked teams that we can use to prove fending: more offense. back home and head to Davis for a zona State. Luckily for Stanford,
who we are this year. I am confident in our team that we “We played well on offense and doubleheader against No. 11 UC- Davis plays Santa Clara earlier in the
can bounce back from this.” made them play tough defense,”Tan- Davis and No. 17 Cal-State Bakers- day before facing the Cardinal, so
The Cardinal will indeed have plenty of chances to ner said. “They never got comfort- field on Sunday. neither team will be completely
face top-ranked teams, as four of its final eight games are able on offense because of it.” Davis boasts an 11-5 record, with fresh and rested.
against teams currently ranked in the top 20. Even with the firepower Stanford quality wins over No. 18 UC-San Both the Arizona State and Davis
Stanford will take on St. Mary’s in Moraga, Calif. on has on offense, including the terrify- Diego and San Jose. Bakersfield is matches are scheduled to begin at
March 6, but returns home to face William & Mary on ing trio of Seidemann, Eaton and currently 9-4 on the year, with mar- noon, and the Bakersfield match will
March 8. senior Lauren Silver, Tanner is not quee victories over No. 13 UC-Santa start at 3 p.m.
planning on relying solely on his of- Barbara and No. 14 Michigan.
Contact Sarah Ohr at sohr@stanford.edu. fense. While neither team should pose a Contact Mike Lazarus at mlazarus
“We just need to be more as- serious problem for the Cardinal, @stanford.edu.

SALARIES
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around the country and at Stanford.
The average Stanford professor
made $173,700 in 2007-2008, accord-
ing to data form the American Asso-
ciation of University Professors
(AAUP).Assistant professors did not
crack six figures — they averaged
$94,300.
Prof. of Philosophy Chris
Bobonich was not surprised to learn
that medical specialists earn the high-
est salaries at universities.
“[The top five salaries are] actual-
ly a lot less than I thought they’d be
making,” Bobonich said.“If that’s ac-
tually what we need to pay them to
come here and work, then I’m not op-
posed to it.”
Bobonich also said he could un-
derstand why humanities professors
earn less.
“I’ve heard it said that humanists
are moveable,” Bobonich said. “[Sci-
entists are] harder to move such that
universities are bidding, trying to lure
people away. Salaries did rise to a sig-
nificant degree because of that, but I
don’t think it’s far to say that we’re
badly paid.”
English Prof. Emeritus Arnold
Rampersad agreed with Bobonich,
expecting medical faculty to be the
highest-paid University employees.
He said, however, more attention
should be given to support staff pay.
“I think everyone should be paid
more, especially the staff as opposed
to the faculty,” Rampersad said. “The
secretarial staff, the janitorial staff, the
mid- and lower-level staff — those are
the people I’m most concerned about.
The salaries are not what they should
be for them to live very well in an area
as expensive as this one. That’s what
concerns me the most.”
Contact Liz Stark at estark12@stan-
ford.edu.

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really have a position on this cam-
pus.”
Marcus Williams ‘09 also said that
he strongly disagrees with Santo-
rum’s statements about homosexu-
ality and homosexual rights. He was
surprised, therefore, to find Santo-
rum’s rhetoric on national security
to be particularly engrossing.
Though Williams remains unsup-
portive of Santorum’s arguments, he
remarked, “I was impressed by how
skilled of a politician he was.”
Political Science Prof. Morris Fio-
rina discussed student opposition to
Santorum’s lecture in an email to
The Daily.
“There is no denying that Santo-
rum is representative of an impor-
tant faction of the national Republi-
can Party that helped it reach major-
ity status a decade ago, a faction that
now threatens to turn the party into
a national minority for a genera-
tion,” Fiorina said. He acknowl-
edged that Santorum’s views might
run counter to those of a young and
largely liberal student body.
“Stanford students lead very shel-
tered lives, so exposure to points of
view that would rarely be heard on
campus has some educational
value,” Fiorina said. “College cam-
puses should be loud, raucous fo-
rums where students critically exam-
ine all manner of ideas.”
Contact An Le Nguyen at
lenguyen@stanford.edu.