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www.stanforddaily.com Volume 238
November 2, 2010 Issue 33
UNIVERSITY STUDENT LIFE

Buildings get Americans in Paris:

new Parisian
limestone
Science-engineering quad
uses French material
By DANA EDWARDS
The same type of stone used to build
the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Lou-
vre now adorns Stanford’s newest build-
ings.
Lutetian limestone, a high-quality,
cream-gray stone extracted from quar-
ries in the Oise region of France, is the
primary facing material in a dozen new
buildings on campus.Those buildings in-
clude those in the Science and Engineer-
ing Quad, and, most recently, the Lokey
Stem Cell Building that was dedicated
last Wednesday.
BOSP students
report on strikes
Those abroad experience unique
aspect of French culture, travel
By ELLORA ISRANI
Students studying in Paris with the Bing Overseas
Studies Program this fall are getting an authentic taste of
more than escargot and creme brulee as they live and
work in the midst of strikes that have been disrupting the
country since Oct. 12.
As many as 3.5 million French workers took to the
streets this month to protest proposed pension reforms.
JULIA TURAN/The Stanford Daily As President Nicolas Sarkozy attempts to negotiate be-
Marloes Sijsermans ’11 writes, “Vote for Boxer to take a strong stance against genocide” in White Plaza on Monday. Campus tween his people and his Parliament, Stanford students
studying abroad in Paris are maneuvering their own lives
groups organized the chalking event on Monday to encourage students to voice their motives for voting in Tuesday’s election.
around the chaos

STUDENTS SET TO VOTE

The new constructions mark a shift
away from the tan walls and red-tiled
roofs that defined early Stanford archi-
tecture. Sandstone gave the Main Quad
and Memorial Church their distinctive
look,which is reminiscent of early Span-
ish missions. Now, lutetian limestone,
which is paler in shade and harder to the
touch, has become the modern face of
Stanford’s cutting-edge research facili-
ties.
Lutetian limestone has long been a
hallmark of classical Parisian architec-
ture. In the last decade it has seen resur-
gence in popularity, attracting attention
from architects outside of Western Eu-
rope and taking its place as the material
of choice and something of a status sym-
bol for high-profile celebrities.NBA leg-
end Michael Jordan and eBay founder
Pierre Omidyar are among those who
have chosen to include the stone in their
homes.
The appeal of the stone goes beyond
its aesthetics. In many senses, the lime-
stone is structurally superior to sand-
stone, which degrades over time and
may require periodic refurbishment.
“The high quality of the stone is at-
tributed to its hardness (durability as a
cladding material) and its overall consis-
tency in range (color and texture),”
wrote David Lenox,University architect
and director of campus planning,in an e-
mail to The Daily. “The fossils that are
embedded in the stone provide a unique
layer of interest as well.”
Indeed, some layers of the limestone
contain “coquillages,” ancient fossils of
shellfish and other marine invertebrates,
former inhabitants of a shallow sea that
covered northern France 45 million
years ago.While Parisian builders in the
19th century eschewed these portions of
Please see STONE, page 3
Students prepare for Tuesday’s
elections with campus efforts
By KURT CHIRBAS
Today is Election Day, and for many
student activist groups at Stanford who
have spent the past weeks participating in
campaigns and organizing voter-aware-
ness efforts, it’s the moment of truth.
Students for a Sustainable Stanford
(SSS), an organization on campus focused
on environmental issues, has been phone
banking twice a week in preparation for
the election since the beginning of Sep-
tember.
The group teamed up with CREDO
Action, a company co-founded by Stan-
ford lecturer Michael Kieschnick, to speak
out against Proposition 23, which if passed
would suspend pollution control laws until
HEALTH
Stanford medical project offers flu vaccines at polling places
By CAITY MONROE
DESK EDITOR
Thanks to a new effort to bring politics and
public health together in an accessible way,
voters on Tuesday will now be able to receive
influenza vaccines and cast their votes in one
convenient trip. School of Medicine faculty
and students have been working with local
government officials to provide free or low-
the unemployment rate falls below 5.5 per-
cent for four quarters. A week ago, the
group also started campaigning against
Proposition 26, which would require fees
to be subject to the same two-thirds major-
ity requirement in legislature as taxes are.
With the end of the election cycle in
sight, SSS decided to increase its efforts,
holding a four-hour phone-bank each day
since last Friday. Over the course of the
season, the group has shifted its strategy
from educating people about Proposition
23 to reminding people to vote, said Hanni
Hanson ‘13, co-leader of the climate
change subgroup of SSS.
In addition to the phone banks, SSS has
held rallies at Valero gas stations, whose
parent company has been a supporter of
Proposition 23, and created an electronic
voter guide, which gives recommendations
on Propositions 21, 23, 25 and 26 on the
basis of their environmental impacts.
cost vaccines at two polling stations in Palo
Alto and San Jose.
“What’s unique about this is people can
vote and not get a vaccine or they can get a vac-
cine and not vote,” said Walter Newman ‘74,
clinical faculty advisor to the student-initiated
program.“But we obviously encourage both.”
So-called “Vote and Vax” programs have
previously been successful in other locations,
but this particular initiative is the first to come
throughout the
city.
Yet students
said their every-
day commutes
have not been af-
fected as much as
“Every item on the ballot is going to be one might expect.
a complex issue,” SSS co-president Molly “I have noticed
Oshun ‘11 said,“so our hope is really just to that the Metro is a
inform voters on the environmental con- bit more crowded
cerns of these propositions.The purpose is in the mornings
SERENITY NGUYEN/
not necessarily to demand a vote in one and afternoons, The Stanford Daily
way or another, but to show the repercus- but nothing to re-
sions of any given bill.” ally complain about,” said Fabiola Camacho ‘12 in an e-
Alok Vain-Menon ‘13, who leads Stan- mail to The Daily.
ford Students for Queer Liberation, a gay- Students have, however, noted that parts of the city
rights organization on campus, participat- have become unsafe. For the first few days of strikes,
ed in phone banks for a different cause this protests affected the area around Institut Superieur d’-
election cycle. Electronique de Paris, or ISEP, where Stanford students
On Oct. 14 and Oct. 24, Vain-Menon in Paris study. It is located near the major railway station
held phone banks in conjunction with Montparnasse, which makes it a center for protestors.
Equality California, a statewide gay rights “The first day of protests, someone threw a firework
organization,in support of pro-LGBT can- right at me as I was walking past the protest — it explod-
didates. ed about a meter away from me,” wrote Max Markham
Stanford in Government (SIG), a non- ‘12 in an e-mail to The Daily.
partisan organization that aims to promote Airplane and train travel has been more deeply affect-
Please see ELECTION, page 3 Please see PARIS, page 2
to the Bay Area as well as the first to be led by “We’ve really been ramping up for two
a medical school. years getting ready for Stanford Vote and Vax
Newman has led an influenza vaccination on Election Day,” Newman said.
program for the past 10 years. He first men- By setting up vaccine clinics at these con-
tioned the idea of offering those vaccines at venient locations, Stanford faculty and medical
voting booths to two of his medical students students hope to reach sections of the local
during the 2008 presidential election season. population that they might not be able to help
At that point, it was too late in the season to otherwise.
start a local effort, but they quickly started
preparing for the next voting cycle. Please see FLU, page 3

CRIME & SAFETY NEWS BRIEFS

Groups fight ‘geek factor’to promote bike helmets
By CAITY MONROE
DESK EDITOR
Students now have an extra incentive to prac-
tice better bicycle-safety habits while biking
around campus. Parking & Transportation Ser-
vices (P&TS) launched its first bike safety dorm
challenge on Oct. 26 in an effort to encourage
students to pledge to follow the rules of the road
and wear a helmet. The dorm with the highest
percentage of participants in the challenge will
win a bus charter to Tahoe.
“This is the first time we’ve done this chal-
lenge,” said Brodie Hamilton, director of P&TS,
“and we really want to get all the undergrads en-
gaged in this.”
To participate in the challenge, students take
educational quizzes online and pledge to wear
helmets when biking. The challenge will run
through the end of fall quarter and the winner
will be announced on Jan. 5. In an effort to mon-
itor these bike safety efforts, “Sprocket Man,” a
P&TS character championing bike safety, will
conduct random spot checks.
The challenge is one of Stanford’s most re-
cent attempts to make bike safety a higher prior-
ity among students.
“The University has had a number of ongoing
efforts,” Hamilton said, citing NSO outreach,
bike safety classes, dorm road shows and White
Plaza bike registration.
“But trying to get students to wear helmets
has been a real challenge,” he said.
“So this idea came up over here and it felt like,
‘Well, if we get the dorms involved and provide
them with something that they might really be in-
terested in winning,that maybe we could get a lot
of people involved,’” he said.
According to Hamilton, there are approxi-
mately 30,000 bikes on campus on any given day.
A significant number of bikers are students,
many of whom do not wear helmets.
“I think wearing a helmet is important but not
enough people do it,” said Ganesh Raj Ku-
maraguru ‘13, a participant in the bike safety
dorm challenge. “I feel like a lot of people want
to do it but don’t because it looks funny.”
Hamilton agreed, citing a common reason
students give for not wearing helmets.
“Part of it is the geek factor,” Hamilton said.
But Hamilton hopes that the dialogue,collab-
orative effort and motivation of inter-dorm com-
Supreme Court to hear
Stanford-Roche case
petition that the new safety chal- Simmons said. By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
lenge will foster might help to Kumaraguru agreed that the
mitigate students’ reserva- risks of an accident first motivat- The Supreme Court announced Mon-
tions about wearing hel- ed him to start wearing a helmet. day it will review a lawsuit between the
mets. Hamilton emphasized the se- University and biotechnology firm Roche
“If everyone was rious consequences of particu- Molecular Systems.The suit will test stand-
wearing a helmet larly bad bike accidents. ing interpretations of the Bayh-Dole Act,
you wouldn’t feel so “Why not protect the most a 1980 intellectual property law, by decid-
geeky,” he said. important asset that you have . ing whether a university’s right to patents
“Let’s get every- . . your brain?” Hamilton said. that arise from federally funded research
one wearing a helmet “Kids are spending a lot of can be terminated by the researcher
and it would be a much CAROLINE MARKS/ money to come to school at through a separate agreement with a third
safer environment for every- The Stanford Daily Stanford and you don’t want party.
body.” to lose it all in one accident.” The case stemmed from a licensing
While the charter bus trip to Tahoe is hopeful- Citing places with especially high traffic like dispute between the University and
ly a good incentive,those involved with bike safe- the “circle of death” at the southeast corner of Roche over the ownership of patents
ty efforts pointed out that the risks of not wear- the Main Quad, Simmons also emphasized the used in the company’s HIV test kits.
ing a helmet should also be a powerful motivator. importance of bike safety for anyone on the road School of Medicine professor Mark
Carolyn Simmons ‘13,a member of the ASSU — not just bikers. Holodniy developed the technology be-
Undergraduate Senate’s Student Life, Housing “When you’re biking it’s not only about your hind the kits. As a researcher at the Uni-
and Education Committee, is working with the safety but its also about everyone else’s safety,” versity, patents from his work would nor-
group to promote better bike safety on campus she said.“Because ultimately you’re not only en- mally be automatically assigned to Stan-
as well. dangering yourself but also other bikers, other ford. But because of a contract Holodniy
“Most of the senators have personal stories walkers.”
and most of us know someone . . . who has got-
ten in a serious crash or been in an accident,” Contact Caity Monroe at cmonroe@stanford.edu. Please see ROCHE, page 3

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2 ! Tuesday, November 2, 2010 The Stanford Daily

FEATURES
CAMPBELL ON CREATIVE SOLEMNITY
RACE Former Stanford graduate student Elif Batuman wins

By JENNY THAI
STAFF WRITER
prestigious writing award
lieved the lives of contemporary
graduate students could match the
“I have a tendency to create my
own job,” Batuman said. “One sum-
models of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in mer, I had gone over to Moscow.
Stanford professor discusses events leading to his obsessiveness, wanderlust and belief They initially didn’t want me, but I

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lif Batuman Ph.D ‘07 and
interest in African-American race relations nine other young authors
Courtesy of James Campbell received the 2010 Whiting
Writers’ Awards late last
month at the Morgan Li-
By SUZANNE STATHATOS became part of his identity. States differently.
brary & Museum in New York City.
Campbell recalls discovering an in- “South Africa offers a very stark
The awards, currently set at
in the power of literature to trans-
form the world?”
Making connections across works
of literature is nothing new for Batu-
man. Even in her earliest years of
writing, Batuman has enjoyed ex-
ploring multiple works and seeking
went over there anyway and invent-
ed [the job].”
Another zany episode of literary
academia that Batuman highlighted
in “The Possessed” was her un-
planned immersion in Uzbek culture
in 2002.

W
ith his comfortable
ebony pullover and
his silver hair, James
Campbell Ph.D. ‘89
looks the part of a
typical modern academic.Turns out he
transcends the ordinary professor —
he is one of Stanford University’s
gems.
( ) “Jim’s a chill dude,” said Lantana
resident Lauren Gokey ‘13.
“He’s really friendly, inviting and
relatable,” Helena Cross ‘13 said.
In addition to serving with his wife
as a Lantana resident fellow, Camp-
bell — director of the Research Insti-
tute for Comparative Studies and
Race and Ethnicity, co-chair of the
Study of Undergraduate Education at
Stanford (SUES) committee, history
professor and family man — has had a
long career of research and teaching
that has taken him far and wide, from
his humble roots in Morrison, Ill., to
Yale, Stanford, South Africa and back
to the Farm again.
Campbell commented on the fact
that he developed a passion for
African-American race relations de-
spite growing up in a small town in the
Midwest with a sparse African-Amer-
ican population.
“I often pondered that myself,”
Campbell said, describing two pri-
mary influences.The first, he said, was
growing up in the 1960s.
“Issues of race entered my con-
sciousness through television,mostly,”
he said, recalling the assassination of
Martin Luther King Jr.and the riots of
them ‘60s.
Campbell recalled landing in De-
troit in the winter of 1960 and seeing
the physical damage that resulted
from the social conflict.
“I still have an image in my mind of
seeing square miles of city blocks that
had been burned out,” he said.
Challenges of the civil rights move-
ment and inquiries about what it
means to be an American became part
of Campbell’s consciousness despite
his growing up in what he described as
a rural, “white world.” Issues of race
terest in race relations as a child when
he went to a local bookstore that had a
display table with books about race
and African-American history.
“I remember reading ‘The Autobi-
ography of Malcolm X’ when I was 10
or 12,”he said.“A lot of the books I use
in my classes now, I read as a kid.”
Campbell began to see African-
American history as essential to the
discussion of what it means to be
American. He saw the stories of
African-Americans as part of the cul-
ture and history of every American.
Although Campbell studied histo-
ry at Yale as an undergraduate, he did-
n’t specialize in African-American
history until he was a graduate student
at Stanford.
“Coming out of the 1970s,African-
American history and the study of
slavery was really one of the most ex-
citing fields in U.S. history,” he said.
The African Methodist Episcopal
Church, or AME Church, which es-
tablished missions in South Africa in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
became the subject of Campbell’s dis-
sertation and first book. Campbell
made his first trip to South Africa
doing research on the topic.
He described living in South Africa
as “transforming.”
“For one thing, I met my wife
there,” he said. “She was, at the time,
also doing a graduate degree in South
African history. But also, it was an ex-
traordinarily dynamic and challenging
time.”
In particular, the end of apartheid
and the South African government’s
self-declared state of emergency left
an impression on Campbell.
There was a fair amount of vio-
lence, he said, but also a lot of hope
that this “crusty, reactionary racial
regime was cracking. . . . it was a time
where history felt relevant.”
While in South Africa, Campbell
developed a deeper awareness of po-
litical power and race. When he came
back to the United States, he found
that his experience in South Africa
conditioned him to look at the United
example of the ways in which political
$50,000 each, have been given annu- to find the hidden links among them. “It was a two-month-long sum-
power is deployed to establish and
ally by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foun- “I learned to write when I was mer program in Samarkand, Uzbek-
perpetuate racial advantage,” he said.
dation to exceptionally gifted writers five,” Batuman said. “I’ve always istan,” she said. “I thought I was
“And I think much the same thing is
who show promise in their early writ- liked to write.When I was little, I had going to teach Uzbek but it turned
true in the United States; but for a va-
ing careers. this project to tie up all of the fairy out I wasn’t eligible for the Stanford
riety of reasons it is much harder for us
The 250-person crowd included tales together. You know how there teaching position there. I had gotten
to see.”
Whiting foundation members, pub- always seems to be a witch in every the grant money already and could-
“In a way South Africa is a sort of
lishing colleagues, award recipients’ story? I wondered, ‘What if the fairy n’t return it. So I ended up going and
Braille version of a racialized econo-
editors, family and friends. The tales’ witches were all the same when I got there, I was the only stu-
my, a version that even the blind can
keynote speaker was Peter witch? I like the idea that everything dent. Four hours every day, one-on-
see,” he added.
Matthiessen, an award-winning might be connected and is one big one tutoring in Uzbek culture and
In the classroom, Campbell uses
writer, who has written more than 30 story.” history. It was really strange and
South Africa as a case study to help
books, including “The Snow Leop- Batuman, during her undergradu- touching at the same time.”
students better understand United
ard” and “Shadow Country,” both of ate studies at Harvard, initially wrote It is Batuman’s strange adven-
States history, the economy and the
which won National Book Awards. fiction, but her writing interests shift- tures where she draws inspiration
United States’ relations with the rest
Batuman’s winning book, “The ed to nonfiction, particularly mem- from for her own writing, which
of the world.
Possessed: Adventures with Russian oirs. She has published articles in The brings forth absurd events in a curi-
After Campbell finished his doc-
Books and the People Who Read New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and ous blend of creative solemnity.
torate in 1989,he taught at Northwest-
Team,” published by Farrar, Straus n+1. Batuman sees literature of all “Some people see my book as an
ern, Brown and Wits University in Jo-
and Giroux, is a collection of mem- genres as possessing the power to re- academic absurdity,” she said.
hannesburg. Two years ago, he got an
oirs drawn from experiences during veal things about the world. “I find that ridiculousness human
offer to come back to the Farm, which
her years as a Stanford graduate stu- “The world is a mysterious place,” and likable,” she added.“My mood is
he said he was delighted to accept.
dent. Described as “an antic romp Batuman said. “We need books to solidarity in the face of adversity.You
Campbell said he embraced the fact
through literary academia,” Batu- provide some sense of quest for share this observation that some-
that he “teaches in a department
man’s work was praised for its liter- meaning.” thing is absurd and then it’s comfort-
where the people who are now my col-
ary wit and distinctive humor. “The Possessed”is based on Batu- ing — it makes you feel less alone.”
leagues were the people who 20 years
“She doesn’t take herself too seri- man’s miscellaneous “ridiculous ex- Batuman looks forward to work-
ago were my teachers.”
ously, but she takes her enterprise periences” along her journey in aca- ing on her next book. In the coming
Beyond the classroom, Campbell
completely seriously, even while re- demia. Many of these consist of com- year, she will be a writer in residence
contributes to University life in other
maining funny about it,” wrote the parative literature conferences and at Koc University in Istanbul.
ways. This year, he and his wife took
Whiting selection committee in a funded research in pursuits such as
positions as resident fellows in Lan-
press release. “She is sly, charming the murder investigation of Russian Contact Jenny Thai at jthai1@stan-
tana. Like many other Stanford par-
and erudite. Who would have be- author Leo Tolstoy. ford.edu.
ents, Campbell and his wife recently
became empty nesters.
“The youngest of our three chil-
dren went off to school,” he said,“and
we filled the empty nest with 108 Stan-
ford students.”
Although Campbell has devoted
much of his life to his passion for race
relations and African-American stud-
ies, his role as a resident fellow reflects
an outside interest in promoting the
well-being of his students.
“It’s funny when you’re a professor
how much you don’t know about
what’s actually going on in your uni-
versity,” he said.“It’s interesting to see
at least one more facet about what
Stanford students’ lives are like.”
Contact Suzanne Stathatos at
sstat@stanford.edu.

PARIS
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ed as many flights and trains out of
Paris have been cancelled. This
caused some scheduling issues in the
students’ Bing trip to Savoie, as the
students’ departing train was
changed at the last minute. On their
return, they found themselves
crammed into an already overfull
train, but most did not seem to mind.
“Despite those changes, the trip
was still amazing,” Camacho said.
“And yesterday we went to the Opera
and due to the strikes there was no
set.We still got to see the opera with-
out it, and it was still amazing but we
were missing the set.”
Strikes are a fixture of French civic
and political life, prompting much of
the public to take a nonchalant atti-
tude toward the disturbances. Stan-
ford students are following suit.
“No one here stops taking the
metro or makes drastic changes to
their daily routines just because a few
people have decided to stage a
protest,” said Jasmine Rodriguez ’12
in an e-mail to The Daily. “They just
continue about their normal business
like nothing happened. That’s the
same attitude that I have taken to-
wards these recent events.”
Students have also been surprised
by the efficiency with which the coun-
try runs despite the strikes.
“I remember there was a strike in
NYC (where I’m from) one winter
during my high school exams . . .
school was cancelled, people didn’t go
to work, it was crazy,” Markham said.
“In Paris, people just shrug it off and
continue along in their daily routines.
It’s like second nature to them.”
The commonality of these strikes
does not,however,imply that they are
accepted or approved by the entire
population. Two of three students in-
terviewed noted that their host fami-
lies are opposed to the strikes.
“They would also rather pretend
that they are not even happening,”
Rodriguez said of the members of her
host family. “Both of them are not in
favor of the strikes and they don’t ex-
actly have a positive opinion about
those taking part in them.”
Despite the complications they
provoke,the strikes have provided in-
sight into a common aspect of French
life. Students and professors alike
agree that the viewpoint provided by
traveling to Paris during the strikes
has been unique.
“Students have witnessed some-
thing completely new to them, which
has clearly intrigued them and led to
some interesting discussions, includ-
ing in my class on French Politics,”
said Patrick Chamorel, professor of
political science, in an e-mail to The
Daily.“In that sense, it is an enriching
experience culturally and one they
are unlikely to forget.”
Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-
ford.edu.

Courtesy of Anneka Gerhardt

Stanford students studying abroad in Paris reported that the strikes have made subways more crowded.
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FLU
Continued from front page
“This will be the first time that
Stanford is going to the broader com-
munity,” said Vote and Vax coordina-
tor and medical student Shah Ali.Ali
was one of Newman’s original stu-
dents who became interested in the
Vote and Vax program.
“We vaccinate at the free clinics,”
Ali said. “But this is us going and
meeting with all sorts of people and
vaccinating them, hopefully.”
Ali also said that this type of pro-
gram “has a track record,” reporting
that research has shown that about
30 percent of people vaccinated by
Vote and Vax at the voting booth
were not vaccinated the previous
year.
Because the effort is new this
year, those involved aren’t sure what
to expect on Election Day. Accord-
ing to Newman, each polling location
will be equipped with 350 vaccina-
tions, which will be distributed until
the stations run out.
“We have no idea how it’s going
to be received, how many people will
show up, but whatever happens
we’re going to have a good time,”
said Ali, who was especially im-
pressed by the cooperative effort
made by the Stanford Medical
School and local Santa Clara County
officials and departments.
“For me what was most interest-
ing was the collaborative nature of
this program,” Ali said. “We worked
hand in hand with local govern-
ment.”
The “Vote and Vax” initiative is a
result of cooperation between the
Stanford School of Medicine faculty,
medical students, the Santa Clara
County Health Department, the
Santa Clara County Registrar of Vot-
ers and the Santa Clara County
Board of Supervisors.
Contact Caity Monroe at cmonroe@
stanford.edu.
STONE
Continued from front page
the stone, opting for those with a more
uniform quality, a modern sense of aes-
thetics favors the speckled patterns that
the fossils create.
The limestone originates from only
one source in the Saint Maximin Quar-
ry, 30 miles north of Paris, and Stanford
has reserved its own section in Saint
Maximin for future use.
“We have reserved a section of the
quarry to ensure that we have color and
texture consistency and sufficient quanti-
ty for future use,” Lenox said.“We typi-
cally review a mockup of the stone pan-
els for each building. Stone is a natural
material and often has variations even
within the same section of a quarry,so we
review mockups to establish an accept-
able range of color and texture for each
specific building.”
Lenox makes personal visits to the
site to oversee the selection and cutting
process to ensure consistency and pre-
vent errors.
Lenox thinks the new material has
ROCHE
Continued from front page
signed, ownership isn’t so clear.
While a postdoctoral fellow at Stan-
ford, Holodniy worked at Cetus, an
early biotechnology firm where poly-
merase chain reactions (PCR) were
first developed. As a condition of his
employment, he signed an agreement
that assigned the rights to inventions
derived from PCR to Cetus, which has
since been acquired by Roche.The fun-
damental technology behind Holod-
niy’s HIV-detection process is PCR.
Stanford argues that the Bayh-
Dole Act negates any act Holodniy
took that might assign ownership of his
invention to Cetus, making Stanford
the whole owner of the disputed
patents. Roche contends that nothing
in the act permits Stanford to void the
agreement between Holodniy and
Cetus, arguing that the University and
Roche hold dual ownership over the
patents.
Arguments for the case, Board of
Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior
University v. Roche Molecular Sys-
tems,09-1159,will be heard in the com-
been well received here on campus.
“Most people we have talked to are
happy that we are using a warm,durable
and elegant material that helps provide
a consistent architectural character for
many of Stanford’s recently constructed
buildings,”Lenox said.
Contact Dana Edwards at dana727
@stanford.edu.
Corrections
In “‘Blackout in a can’ sparks con-
cerns” (Oct. 25), The Daily reported
in an accompanying graphic that one
can of Four Loko had the equivalent
alcohol content of three beers. The
story stated it held the alcohol con-
tent of four beers.A can of Four Loko
is 12 percent alcohol by volume in a
23.5 ounce can, putting it at about 4.7
beers per can of Four Loko, assuming
beer is 5 percent alcohol by volume.
In “Campus celebrates ‘tradi-
tions’” (Nov. 1), due to an editing
error, The Daily misspelled the
name of Marie Caligiuri, a junior
class president.
ing months and a ruling is expected by
the first half of next year.
— Tyler Brown
Polling locations
open today
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
The Graduate Community Center
(GCC) is hosting the only polling place
on campus today for the midterm elec-
tions.
The GCC, located between Cam-
pus Drive and Running Farm Lane, is
set to run a polling place in its Havana
Room.Registered Santa Clara County
voters can vote in person tomorrow,
and vote-by-mail voters in the county
can drop off their ballots in person.
Nixon Elementary School, near
Raimundo Way, is also holding a
polling location in the school’s music
room. Find a complete list of Santa
Clara County polling locations at
www.smartvoter.org.
All California polling places are
open between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.
— Ellen Huet
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Kinley discusses finance, human rights
By ANGELIQUE DAKKAK
David Kinley, chair of human
rights law at the University of Syd-
ney,addressed economists,financiers,
consultants, human rights activists
and students in his talk Monday
morning entitled,“Principle, Pragma-
tism or Prostitution? Speaking
Human Rights to Global Finance.”
He focused on the possibility of
establishing a relationship of equal
reciprocity between global finance
and human rights.
“The whole thing is very murky,”
he said.“To use Dick Cheney’s terms,
of course in a different sense, we are
working in the shadows.”
Kinley emphasized that construc-
tion of a global economy and finance
will act as an engine to push for
greater attention to human rights
within the sphere of the worldwide
economy.
“A global economy and finances is
not an end, but rather a means to a
better life for as many individuals as
possible,” he said.
Yet Kinley said that so far, global
finance and human rights efforts
have not been as cooperative as they
should be, and sometimes seem to di-
rectly oppose each other.
Kinley analyzed three major con-
cepts: the composition of the global
economy and its relationship with
human rights, the attitudes of both
sides and, ultimately, the effort to
make a connection between both
camps.
The global economy consists of
two parts: a real, tangible economy,
including such things as foreign and
direct investment and taxation that
normal citizens are fairly familiar
with, and a surreal economy, which
ELECTION
Continued from front page
civic engagement, created a voter
guide.The guide was composed of in-
formation from the non-partisan
website CaliforniaChoices.org as
well as from the state voter guide
site.
“I know personally when I was
filling out my mail-in ballot, I got to
the proposition section, and there
were a few that were really clear and
I knew exactly I felt about those,”
said SIG director Leah Karlins ‘11,
“but there were a few others that I
didn’t really know anything about,
and I wasn’t sure where I stood, and
it wasn’t super easy to find resources
that would explain them in an objec-
tive way.”
“It was the kind of thing that was
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 ! 3
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Panel discusses new
financial reform
By JOANNA XU
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
A panel of experts convened yes-
terday afternoon to discuss the
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act of 2010
(Dodd-Frank Act), enacted in July
2010.The Rock Center for Corporate
Governance, a joint initiative of the
Stanford Law School (SLS) and the
Stanford Graduate School of Busi-
ness (GSB), convened the panel.
Panelists included Neel Kashkari,
managing director at bond house
PIMCO, former assistant secretary of
the Treasury and the first TARP
chief; business professor Darrell
Duffie and law professor Joseph
Grundfest.
When asked to grade the Dodd-
Frank on a scale of one to 10, with
10 most effective, Duffie and
Grundfest granted the bill an “in-
complete” while Kashkari rated the
bill a three.All three agreed that the
legislation fails to address certain
important issues.
“‘Too big to fail’ is insufficiently
addressed,” Kashkari said. The act
“doesn’t attempt to address Fannie
and Freddie, and at 2,500 pages, it’s
only about 2,300 pages too long.”
The Dodd-Frank Act attempts to
address the problem of “too big to
fail” — the idea that certain financial
institutions were so huge and systemi-
cally important that the government
could not let them fail — by giving the
government receivership authority.
“However, you have to separate a
normal crisis from an extraordinary
crisis,” Kashkari said. “In an extraor-
dinary crisis, where the entire system
is at risk, these tools can’t work, be-
cause if you wind down one institu-
tion,you risk destabilizing other insti-
tutions.”
Duffie, an expert on derivatives
and the financial system, credited
the Dodd-Frank Act for improve-
ments in the safety and competi-
tion/market efficiency of derivatives
transactions, the main problems of
which occurred in the over-the-
counter (OTC) market.
JIN ZHU/Staff Photographer
David Kinley, above, discusses the
relationship between human rights
and global finance with an audience
on Monday. The CDDRL’s Program
on Human Rights put on the talk.
consists of such things as derivatives
and remittances, which everyday citi-
zens are less aware of, Kinley said. He
described the real economy as hinged
and the surreal as unhinged.
Kinley stressed the importance of
taking action in redistributing funds
to benefit the population at large and
in doing so, advocating for human
rights and a better understanding of
the surreal economy.
Kinley also discussed the attitudes
between global finance and human
rights. At its extreme, the attitude of
global finance is that human rights is-
sues are for the state, and because
corporations are private, they are not
accountable for the rest of the popu-
very easy for us to take an hour or so
and put together, but students other-
wise may not have done on their
own,” Karlins said. “We want people
to feel empowered to make a decision
that really encompasses their own
views.”
SIG also participated in a voter
mobilization drive with materials it
received from an organization
called “Trick or Vote,” which uses
Halloween as a motivation to re-
mind people to vote.
Last Thursday, 12 SIG members
went around to residences to distrib-
ute 500 “Trick or Vote” door hangers.
“It may not seem as exciting as
the election two years ago,” Karlins
said, “but there’s a lot of important
issues at stake, so we wanted to en-
courage all students to go out and
vote.”
Yesterday, a rally entitled “Why
Vote,” run by Stanford Democrats,
Students for Barbara Boxer and var-
The press has probably overdone
it in terms of reporting on the size of
the role that derivatives actually
played in the financial crisis, Duffie
said.
Nonetheless, the Dodd-Frank Act
made headway in requiring standard
derivatives to be cleared on ex-
changes and to be guaranteed by
clearinghouses; a new classification
of derivatives exchanges, called Swap
Execution Facilities, was also created
for smaller order books.
“Such infrastructure improve-
ments provide the greatest promise
of improving financial regulation,”
Duffie said.
The panel also discussed the issue
of corporate governance and its role
in the financial crisis. While all three
panelists agreed that failures in cor-
porate governance were not the main
cause of the financial crisis, they dis-
agreed on the magnitude of its contri-
bution.
Grundfest argued that greater
contributors to the crisis were infor-
mation failure and the collective fail-
ure on the regulatory side in terms of
risk analysis and management.
“The government of the U.S.A. in
the banking sector and in the securi-
ties sector had all the necessary au-
thority and data to prevent this crisis
from happening,” Grundfest said.
“But OTS [Office of Thrift Supervi-
sion] . . . did not understand the im-
plications of the data it had access to.”
Kashkari, however, argued that
“it’s very hard to be the one wise per-
son in a sea of fools,” and it may be
unrealistic to expect anyone to be
wise in advance.
In response to a further question
that it is the responsibility of regula-
tors to anticipate asset bubbles by
“[taking] away the punch bowl right
when the party gets going,” Kashkari
responded that every regulator lives
in a political world and cannot be
prescient.
“You can’t legislate wisdom,”
Kashkari added.
Contact Joanna Xu at joannaxu@stan-
ford.edu.
lation.
Kinley said that in order for
human rights ideals to be achieved in
cooperation with global finance, this
attitude needs to change. He said
global finance is still largely discon-
nected from reality and from the gen-
eral population. The human rights
camp, at its extreme, holds the atti-
tude that commerce is inherently
bad.According to Kinley, though, this
view is unrealistic, as there cannot be
pure evil in the economy and pure
good in human rights.
Kinley’s final point was about
making a connection between these
two stances.
“The need to augment leadership
is an issue of engaging global finance
and human rights,” Kinley said.
“Here, political leadership is key. Po-
litical leadership will push the pri-
vate sector leadership, causing there
to be less lip service and more real
service.”
“I expected the talk to be all
about corporate responsibility,” said
Masako Ichichara, a Stanford stu-
dent’s spouse and a volunteer with a
human rights program. “But it was
news to me that Kinley’s point of
view extends beyond the corporate
economy to shareholders and outside
things.”
Linda Kimball, manager of invest-
ment responsibility at the University,
asked how discussion might change
perceptions of aid and finances in a
global setting.
“How can we get everyone to rec-
ognize philanthropy as a good thing
but furthermore to realize that equity
is key?” she asked.
Contact Angelique Dakkak at angel-
dak@stanford.edu.
ious LGBT groups, was held in
White Plaza. Students were enticed
by the promise of a slice of pizza to
write down their personal reason for
voting in chalk on the sidewalk.
Responses included “I vote be-
cause I can and my grandparents
couldn’t,” “I vote for the DREAM
Act,” and “I vote because I want a
brighter future.”
“A lot of times, when you turn on
the news, everyone tells you why
you should vote or what they think
the important issues are,” said Stan-
ford Democrats member Sarahi
Constantine Padilla ‘11. “But they
might not be important to you.
Everyone has a stake in this elec-
tion, so we want to give students the
opportunity to say what’s at stake
from them.”
Contact Kurt Chirbas at kchirbas@
stanford.edu.
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bara Boxer will do a better job serv- through on either of these priorities. Marisa Landicho Jin Zhu
ing the people of California and this On energy and climate, Sen. Boxer has Bob Michitarian
Managing Editor of Intermission Jane LePham, Devin Banerjee Photo Editor
nation in the U.S. Senate than Carly Fiori- followed the CIA and the U.S. military in Jane LePham Vivian Wong Staff Development
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na relies primarily on a review of key poli- calling climate change “one of the very im- Shelley Gao Managing Editor of Photography Business Staff Copy Editor
cy issues. portant national security issues we face” Zachary Warma Begüm Erdogan, Marie Feng
On the economy, Sen. Boxer supported and boldly working to overhaul our na- Editorial Board Chair Sales Managers
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citing sound academic research from ever, has said she is “not sure” about the re-
Princeton economist Alan Blinder and ality of climate change and made a televi-
John McCain’s former chief economist,
Mark Zandi. Blinder and Zandi estimate
sion commercial deriding worries about
“the weather.” It does please us that both
C ONTINUED
that these interventions saved 8.5 million candidates support increased federal fund-

jobs and prevented a 12 percent decline in
GDP. Fiorina, however, has called these
economic policies “a failure.”
Instead, Fiorina has proposed an end-
less array of tax cuts — extending all the
Bush tax cuts, eliminating the estate tax,
Nanny Diary
ing for clean-energy research and develop-
ment, but even in this area, Sen. Boxer has
shown much greater commitment. Addi- Jade
tionally, Fiorina has opposed the will of Wang
Californians by supporting offshore oil
drilling on the California coastline, even

temporarily eliminating the payroll tax
and eliminating the capital gains tax for
small business — that would leave a stag-
gering hole in federal budgets.While some
after the disastrous Gulf oil spill this sum-
mer.
On immigration,Fiorina has reasonably
proposed improved visa and guest worker
R
ecently, my car, which already chirps
inexplicably whenever the engine is
on, has been outfitted with a surpris-
ingly enormous car seat in the back, consid-
ering its passenger is so little. No, I am not ac-
where I could give nanny-child some water
and continue to slowly calm him down.Twen-
ty minutes of my best nurturing motions
later, I had finally calmed him down, only to
have a well-meaning woman ask him,“Is that

His recent potty

short-term tax cuts might be wise to stimu-
late the economy, Fiorina’s promises to
rein in piling deficits and debts have been
rendered utterly implausible by pledges
not to raise any taxes or cut any money
from the defense budget, which even polit-
ical science professor Condoleezza Rice
would not oppose reducing. The basic
arithmetic of these contradicting sugges-
tions does not add up.
In fairness, Sen. Boxer has not indicated
specific steps to curb long-term fiscal
shortfalls, but she has at least refrained
from painting herself into a corner with
impossible promises. Thus, we hope she
will join with the president in compromis-
ing on structural tax and spending adjust-
ments while continuing to make the criti-
cal investments necessary to revitalize the
economy in the short-term and lay the
foundation for long-run growth. Fiorina
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programs as well as heightened border se-
curity, which the Obama administration is
already working hard to impose, but con-
sistently deflected questions on what to do
with the undocumented immigrants al-
ready in America. Sen. Boxer supports a
path to legalization.
On social issues, we prefer Sen. Boxer’s
support for marriage equality and a wide
variety of LGBT rights to Fiorina’s oppo-
sition. Similarly, we reject Fiorina’s views
on the Second Amendment that tend to
border on extremism, including allowing
suspected terrorists to buy assault
weapons.
On virtually every political issue the
U.S. Senate will vote on in the next six
years, Sen. Boxer will make better choices
than her challenger. Thus, we urge you to
fill out your ballot today and vote in favor
of Sen. Boxer.
tually a parent,and no,I am not going to com-
plain about the state of my car for the entire
column (though any offers to pimp my ride
would not be unwelcome). The car seat has
surprised my infrequent passengers, and as it
turns out, joking, “I’m a mom!” is not good
date fodder. Its presence, though, is neces-
sary to my new life as a part-time nanny.
I nanny for several reasons: One, the child is
almost always adorable and entertaining.Two,
I like to remind myself that the world is not
made entirely of people between the ages of
18 and 25. And three, the income supplement
helps me make ends meet. The three lost
evenings a week is sometimes hard to bear,es-
pecially when midterms roll around or I want
to go out for dinner with someone who is not
approximately one-seventh my age, but I do
often walk away with some great stories.
Nanny-child and I started our relationship
off poorly.The first time I went to pick him up
from preschool, the sight of my face drove
him into an immediate tantrum. I meekly ap-
proached the screaming child, already acute-
ly aware of the horrified looks the real moth-
ers were giving me, while he resolutely de-
manded things I could not give him, primari-
ly his mother’s presence. My attempts at
soothing him by promising him his parents by
bedtime were completely ignored, with the
exception of making his demands more spe-
cific with a screamed, “Now!” punctuating
the end of each. Eventually, the daycare staff
took pity on me and led us into a quiet room
your mom?” remind him of his troubles and
start him off again. It took me nearly an hour
and a great deal of bribery to convince
nanny-child to allow me to drive him to his
house, and by the time we got there, we were
both so tired that we just sat at the dining
table, eyeing each other warily.
training
Since that first day, nanny-child and I have
gotten along much better, but his somewhat
recent potty training campaign has proven a
little difficult for us. One memorable night,
campaign has
he sat in his high chair as I made dinner, alter-
natively watching TV and demanding up-
dates on the food. He got quiet for a few min-
utes, and then, mid-oven-reach, I heard him
proven a little
scream my name. I hustled over as he com-
pleted his thought — “I peed!” — finding
him in his high chair, dripping a little, and
difficult for us.
somehow I managed to maneuver him free
while also holding a hot baking dish. His fa-
ther came home just as his son was running
around without pants and I was mopping up meets our agreement. He sings songs about
the kitchen, still holding the baking dish. I me and flamingos on the car ride home, and
he has come to demand my decadent maca-
meekly held up my food offering and then re-
capped the situation, and thankfully, dad roni and cheese when I have no time to fuss
took care of matters from there without over a bechamel. He remembers my car’s
name and addresses it properly whenever he
questioning my legitimacy as a provider of
sees it. Occasionally, he still whines, but over-
childcare.
The fun stories are always the disaster sto- whelmingly, he is cute and happy and surpris-
ries, but really, my time spent with nanny- ingly emotionally affirming for a 3-year-old
child is mostly pleasant. I masterfully use his boy.
bird obsession to bring a smile to his face and
convince him to be well-behaved, promising Know how to quickly remove and reinstall a
a Google image search of chickens if he car seat? E-mail Jade at jadew@stanford.edu.

G IRL YOU K NOW I T ’ S T RUE

Halloween Costume Review

H
alloween just passed, and most of the except Mickey Mouse, who is creepy, and
people here thought it’d be fun to com- Donald Duck, who doesn’t wear pants. He
memorate the occasion by dressing up may be an anti-Semitic popsicle, but that Walt
as a Na’vi or a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Disney left behind a company that can churn
Some view this as frivolous, but hey, it beats out loveable characters like it’s going out of
fighting the Nazis, which is what people our Jordan style,except Lilo and Stitch.Nobody likes Lilo
age would be stuck doing if it were 1943.Those
are so not our generation’s problems. Instead,
Carr or Stitch for some reason.

we have the much more important issues of Presidential Masks

debating whether or not a Sarah Palin cos- Presidential masks are good, but you know
tume is still appropriate in 2010 (it’s not now, what’s better? Vice presidential masks. Why
but give it two years and it will be again), or, not show up to the party as Spiro Agnew, Dan
God forbid, Napoleon Dynamite or Juno. Quayle or Hubert Horatio Humphrey? And
Given the grave importance of these issues,
I’ve compiled a handy list of what was big with
costumes in this, the year 2010.
There’s a fine let’s be honest,if you’re taking costume advice
from a column in a college newspaper, you
probably don’t have the stuff to handle the
pressure that comes with being the number
Vampires
“True Blood,” “Twilight” and others have
made vampires popular again, but rest as-
line between one guy anyway.

Couples Costumes
sured, they are still terrible — or, if you’re re- It’s a well-known fact that the only couples
ally into punnery, they suck (ha). Dressing as
The Count says one thing to anyone you may
encounter: “I’m pale and unimaginative. Ah,
nostalgic and that dress together on Halloween are the ones
who are destined to fail. You’ve seen them.
They come as salt and pepper or peanut butter
ah, ah, ah.” and jelly. Cumulus cloud and nimbus cloud,

“Jersey Shore”
The MTV documentary series “Jersey
Shore” accurately depicts all those stupid Ital-
ians who have funny hair and yell a lot. And
they have stupid nicknames for each other
too.What a bunch of idiots they are! Also, the
Snooki one is short, so if you want to mock
short people — and let’s be honest, they’re
kind of bringing it on themselves — she pres-
ents an easy way to do that too.
“Mad Men”
You should probably stay away from this.It
will only serve as an uncomfortable reminder
that people regularly and remorselessly in-
dulged their basest prejudices back then. For-
tunately, such stereotyping is no longer social-
ly acceptable in America.As such, it’s safer to
stick with the guido costumes.
Skanky Rabbit
Year in,year out,the skanky rabbit (e.g.un-
derwear and rabbit ears) makes an appear-
forgotten.
ance. Instead, I would suggest a few other less
cliched options: skanky chef, skanky violinist,
skanky optometrist, skanky lampshade,
skanky farmer, skanky skunk, skanky judge,
skanky hobo, skanky Helen Keller, skanky
scuba diver, skanky Eskimo, skanky Hurri-
cane Katrina, skanky candy bar (something
about the wrapper . . . ), skanky bald eagle.
Nostalgia
People always love dressing up as these,
but there’s a fine line between nostalgic and
forgotten. Explaining that you’re a represen-
tative of “The Oregon Trail,” “Teenage Mu-
tant Ninja Turtles,”“Power Rangers” or “Cap-
tain Planet” may be easy, but if you come
dressed as a VR Trooper, that might be a little
too obscure.
When in doubt, stick to Disney characters,
H2 and O. Bonnie and Clyde, Thelma and
Louise. Sadist and masochist, happy girlfriend
and whipped boyfriend.
If you find yourself unwittingly dragged
into one of these costume traps — ooh, bonus
idea: one of Lindsay Lohan’s characters from
“The Parent Trap” and the other one of Lind-
say Lohan’s characters from “The Parent
Trap”! — then you may as well dress up as
Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley (or
Michael Jackson and Brooke Shields, or
Michael Jackson and basically anyone other
than Bubbles the Chimp) because odds are
your relationship isn’t built to last.
Concept Costume
If your costume is so complex that you
have an explanatory essay pinned to your
chest,then it’s probably too confusing.Just put
on a fucking lizard suit like the rest of us and
get on with your life, you self-indulgent prick.
Have a costume to vent about? Let Jordan know
at jcarr1@stanford.edu.
The Stanford Daily Tuesday, November 2, 2010 ! 5

SPORTS
PERFECT
Zach
Zimmerman
Dishing the Rock

FALL The Farm

is too good
Lacrosse closes fall season undefeated
By JACK BLANCHAT
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
times we’ll do film study, but we’ll work on
some of the individual skills like eight-meter
to leave
shooting, draw controls, some of that stuff.”

In its final weekend of the fall, the Stan-
ford women’s lacrosse team took home
four more wins over Mountain Pacific
Sports Federation (MPSF) foes to com-
plete an undefeated fall season. The four
wins stretched the Cardinal’s record this
fall to an unblemished 14-0, including 10
straight wins in the last two weekends away
from the Farm.
By knocking off California, UC-Davis
and St. Mary’s twice, the Cardinal ended
the fall on a high note.
“We played well, rotated everybody
through the lineups, and we executed our
game plan,” said head coach Amy Bokker.
“We felt a good sense of control all week-
end.”
Bokker said the weekend was a good
one for her team to end the fall season, and
highlighted the Card’s excellent offense.
“We scored a ton of fast-break goals, so
that was nice to see,” Bokker said. “We felt
like we struggled with our draw controls in
Pennsylvania, so that was something we re-
ally focused on this weekend, and our tran-
sition game was definitely one of the high-
lights of the weekend.”
The playday at UC-Davis on Saturday
was the last time the Card would take to the
field before the spring championship sea-
son begins in February, so the team will
have plenty of time to prepare for its home
opener against Notre Dame on Feb. 13.
Bokker says that the team is going to con-
tinue to work hard to improve on last year’s
15-5 season during the winter break.
During the offseason, NCAA rules stip-
ulate that a team can have organized activ-
ities for eight hours per week — and only
two of those hours can be spent actually
playing lacrosse.
Bokker sees the break as an opportuni-
ty to prepare physically and mentally in
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ways other than just practice.
The Stanford women’s lacrosse team had an impressive fall exhibition season, going a perfect 14-0. “We’ll continue with small group work
The Cardinal will now get ready for its regular season, which begins in mid-February. until Thanksgiving,” Bokker said. “Some-
The fall season is the equivalent of
Major League Baseball’s spring training or
the NFL preseason — the games don’t
count, but they do matter. Bokker simulta-
neously praised her team for its excellent
play and made sure to emphasize that the
team will not rest on its laurels.
“We want to put our best product out on
the field, so I think it’s nice to say that we
went undefeated,” Bokker said,“But we’re
not results-driven during the fall; we’re
about accomplishing our small goals.
“The only time that scores were kept
was Saturday at Penn, which was the three
best opponents that we played,” she contin-
ued. “That weekend showed we have the
team speed to play an up-tempo game and
dictate the pace. That puts us in a good
place heading into the spring.”
The spring will bring a schedule that fea-
tures games against five opponents that fin-
ished in the top 20 last season, including a
road trip to Evanston, Ill., to end the regu-
lar season against Northwestern, last year’s
NCAA runner-up.
Bokker said that the team’s travel
schedule this fall put it in good condition to
compete for an NCAA title.
“It gave us a taste of what’s going on na-
tionally and it gives our players a lot of con-
fidence that they can compete with some of
the best teams in the country,” Bokker said.
“I’m hoping that confidence will carry over
when we start to have those opponents
here [at Stanford].”
It’s a long time before the Card needs to
worry about its next opponent, but the
team and the coach already know how they
are going to approach the season.
“Our preseason focus is about us, we
want to come out hard,” Bokker said.
“We’ll focus in on the other teams as we get
closer to the season.”
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@stan-
ford.edu.
A
s the Stanford football
community, we treat
head coach Jim Har-
baugh like our savior. He
has become a national
icon, and, hate him or love him, he has
completely revolutionized and trans-
formed the way this nerddom is
viewed by the American public.
Naturally,his name has been associ-
ated with several marquee coaching
vacancies on both the collegiate and
professional levels.The University has
tried to pony up enough for a sizable
extension, but at just over $1.2 million
a year, Harbaugh’s annual income is
pennies compared to his associates at
more esteemed programs.
His job has been difficult; taking a
bottom-feeder from irrelevance to the
top 10 while battling infamous aca-
demic standards and general apathy is
no easy task. The student body has to
be motivated with arbitrary “points”to
come to conference games, and alums
would rather invest in the linear accel-
erator than the offensive line.
Harbaugh
has all the job
security he
needs.
At dinner the other night in Seattle,
after Stanford dismantled Jake Locker
and the Washington Huskies in ar-
guably its best game of the season, the
conversation turned to Harbaugh’s

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GAME NOTES: No. 1 Stanford will face one of
its toughest tests when No. 15 Oregon State
comes to the Farm on Friday. The Beavers
have dropped only one match all season
and are undefeated in the Pac-10. Not only
is Stanford’s perfect season on the line Fri-
day, but the two teams very well may be
playing for the Pac-10 title.
By DASH DAVIDSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
On Friday night at the Sullivan
Aquatic Center in Santa Clara,
Calif., the Stanford men’s water
polo team romped its way to a com-
manding 17-6 victory over the
Santa Clara Broncos.
The No. 4 Cardinal, now 10-5
overall and 3-1 in the Mountain Pa-
cific Sports Federation (MPSF),
will return to competitive league
play this Saturday against No. 8
Long Beach State. The game will
take place at the Avery Aquatic
Center, just the Cardinal’s second
home game of the season.
The No. 11 Broncos (17-10), who
compete in the Western Water Polo
Association (WWPA), were thor-
oughly blown out by the surging
Cardinal. Stanford has now won its
past three games, outscoring its op-
ponents in that span by a combined
score of 50-18, all against quality
opponents.
The team peaked at the right
time, with four vital league games
remaining before the MPSF Tour-
nament at Avery Aquatics Center.
Friday’s win over the Broncos
was an offensive onslaught, mainly
courtesy of two of Stanford’s most
prodigious scorers, senior utility
Jeffrey Schwimer and junior driver
Jacob Smith. Each scored four
goals, paving the way for the Stan-
ford blowout.
Several other players con-
tributed heavily to the offense, in-
cluding sophomore driver Paul
Rudolph, who scored three times.
Sophomore two-meter Ryan
Brown and senior driver Alex Puli-
do scored twice each, and sopho-
chances of staying on the Farm after
this season.A buddy of mine put Jim’s
chances of leaving after this season at
80 percent. Eighty.
All things considered, this might
not be that outrageous of an estimate.
We know that Harbaugh’s favorite
players (and favorite humans), full-
back Owen Marecic and quarterback
Andrew Luck, are unlikely to be on
next year’s squad. The loss of two of
America’s best playmakers casts an
undeniable shadow on next year’s sea-
son regardless of the impact of the new
and returning talent. In addition, Har-
baugh’s recent surge in national atten-
tion has thrust him into the top tier of
coaching talents and thus, into the top
tier of coaching candidacy at major
programs.
We know he’s competitive. We
know he has ties to Michigan, a pro-
gram that would not hesitate to throw
away incumbent coach Rich Ro-

Cardinal
more drivers Tim Norton and
Porter Kalibus added a goal apiece.
To date, the bulk of Stanford’s
scoring has come from experienced
driguez for a shot at Jim.And we know
that, despite his public adoration, he’s
not particularly high on the Palo Alto
football environment.

crushes
veterans,with talented younger play-
ers starting to chip in and contribute.
Santa Clara’s six goals were
scored by Stephen Hobbs, James
With all that said, my question is
this:Why would anyone in his position
want to leave this school?
Let’s start with the basics. Har-

rival Cal
By BROOKE DAVIS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Stanford women’s soccer shut out
unranked California on Saturday and
returns home after three road games
with three victories to its name.The No.
1 Card (16-0-2, 7-0-0 Pac-10) also took
down Pac-10 foes Arizona State and
Arizona by identical 3-0 scores last
weekend. Stanford’s victory over Cal
kept its streak of 3-0 wins alive with two
goals from senior forward Christen
Press and one from junior forward
Lindsay Taylor.
For the majority of the game,the ball
stayed at Stanford’s feet, and the first
goal came in the 19th minute.Press fired
a shot that Cal goalkeeper Emily
Kruger narrowly deflected,and the ball
rolled outside for a corner. Sophomore
defender Courtney Verloo stepped in
to take the corner for Stanford and sent
the ball into the box, where the Cal de-
fense attempted a clear. Junior mid-
fielder Teresa Noyola was there for the
settle and passed the ball off to Taylor,
Please see WSOCCER, page 6
Case, Marcus Akerland, Joshua
Luebke, Nick Poggetti and Patrick
Weiss.These goals came too late for
the Broncos, who had won nine of
their past 10 games before their
contest against Stanford.
A tag-team in the net anchored
the Stanford defense, a rare occur-
rence for the Cardinal, which
boasts one of the country’s top
goalies in redshirt junior Brian Pin-
gree. With the large lead, head
coach John Vargas put redshirt
freshman Hunter Ploch into the net
for the second half.
Both players performed ad-
mirably in their critical role as stop-
per, each recording four saves and
letting in three goals.
Stanford came out of the gate
hot on Friday, overwhelming the
Broncos from the beginning with
three unanswered goals in the first
period. This trend has become
rather normal for a Cardinal squad
that has gotten off to quick starts in
several of its recent games.
Stanford will need to be just as
sharp in its final five games of the
season, starting Saturday at home
Stanford Daily File Photo against Long Beach State.
As its season winds down, the Stanford men’s water polo team is getting hot at the right time. The Cardinal squad Contact Dash Davidson at
beat up on Santa Clara 17-6 on Friday. Stanford has played well recently after an up-and-down early season. dashd@stanford.edu.
baugh, as you’ve probably heard, left
11-1 San Diego to come to 1-11 Stan-
ford. In three seasons, he took one of
the worst teams in the nation, churned
out eight wins and booked the Cardi-
nal a bowl game for the first time since
2001.This season, at 7-1, Stanford now
ranks among the nation’s elite and is a
popular pick as the best one-loss team
in the country.
Simply put, in a profession devoid
of job security, Harbaugh is set for life.
We could churn out four consecutive
five-win seasons and Jim could replace
practice with Pilates, and he would still
have a job.Two straight losing seasons
at Michigan puts you on the hottest of
hot seats and, if fired, relegates you to
coordinator positions for the rest of
your career.
Harbaugh gets to live comfortably
in one of the most desired areas in
America, and his family has access to
all that comes with the Stanford com-
munity. More importantly, he can
maintain his privacy, something that is
unheard of in a Michigan-type school
that forces every ounce of a coach’s life
into the public eye.
While I am undecided on whether I
agree with the sums of money paid to
athletes and coaches at every level,Har-
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6 ! Tuesday, November 2, 2010
WSOCCER
Continued from page 5
who put the ball in the back of the net
for the Cardinal’s first goal of the game.
As the rivals continued to face off,
Stanford kept high pressure on the
Golden Bears’ defense. Minutes after
the first goal,in the 25th minute of play,
redshirt freshman defender Annie
Case fired a throw-in to Press’s feet.
Press pounded a shot across the net
into the back right corner to raise Stan-
ford’s goal count to two.
At the end of the first half, the Car-
dinal had outshot Cal 11-2, while Car-
dinal freshman goalkeeper Emily
Oliver didn’t need to get her hands on
a single save. The Golden Bears were
playing Saturday’s game without sen-
Junior forward Lindsay Taylor has been one of Stanford’s offensive leaders throughout her career. Saturday’s win over Cal was no different as Taylor notched
the Cardinal’s first goal of the game. Taylor and the No. 1 Cardinal look to remain unbeaten when No. 15 Oregon State comes to town on Friday night.
ior forward Alex Morgan, the team’s
leading scorer.For Cal’s past three sea-
sons, Morgan has held the title of lead-
ing scorer, and Cal had to do without
her contributions in Saturday’s game
while she played with the United
States national team at the Confeder-
ation of North and Central American
and Caribbean Football World Cup
qualifying tournament.Stanford soph-
omore defender Alina Garciamendez
played for the Mexican national team
in the same World Cup qualifier.
The second half of play varied
slightly from the first, as the Card con-
tinued to pressure Cal’s defense with
12 more shots.The Golden Bears final-
ly put their shots on goal, and Oliver
made her only two saves of the game.
Even though Oliver didn’t make a wild
number of saves on Saturday,her pres-
ence is always felt and valued by the
team.
“Emily’s a very good goalkeeper,”
said Stanford head coach Paul Rat-
cliffe. “Whenever she’s asked, she
makes big plays.”
In the 87th minute, redshirt fresh-
man goalkeeper Aly Gleason subbed
in for Oliver. Gleason’s time on the
field during Saturday’s game marked
her first minutes of collegiate play.
Just a few minutes before the goal-
keeper substitution took place, Chris-
ten Press scored the final goal of the
game and her 21st of the season. Press
is second in the Stanford record books
in goals scored in one season,as Kelley
O’Hara still holds the record at 26
goals. Using her speed, Press took ad-
vantage of a breakaway and beat
Kruger, putting the ball away in an
open net in the 81st minute of play.
Press had 10 shots in the game, fol-
lowed by six from Taylor,whose goal in
the 19th minute was her ninth goal of
the season. Overall, Stanford took a
total of 23 shots and held the Bears to
only five, continuing its 3-0 shutout
streak.
“It was a dominating perform-
ance.” Ratcliffe said.“The entire team
played well. We had a good marking
on the ball, great goals. It was a top-
class performance.”
The Cardinal will close regular sea-
son play and defend its unbeaten sea-
son when it faces both Oregon State
and Oregon this weekend. Last sea-
son, Stanford had a perfect record of
25-0 before losing 1-0 to North Caroli-
na in the final of the NCAA Tourna-
ment.
Stanford will play Oregon State at 8
p.m.on Friday and Oregon at 1 p.m.on
Sunday at Laird Q.Cagan Stadium.
Contact Brooke Davis at bedavis@stan-
ford.edu.
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baugh’s current salary is insulting.For a
coach of his stature, he deserves, as far
as the precedent goes, at least two to
three million dollars a year. However,
his current seven-figure deal isn’t
chump change, and although Stanford
may be hesitant to shell out the neces-
sary cash,the program’s boosters,how-
ever absent they have been, should be
willing to pick up the slack.
(As a tangent, in relation to the
grossly expensive projects that are
constantly happening around campus,
$15 million to keep the best thing that
has ever happened to Stanford foot-
ball is a worthwhile investment. The
University and its alums are making a
laughable mistake by keeping Har-
baugh’s salary where it is. I have
friends at home in Florida who didn’t
know Stanford had a football team
until this year. I would hope that the
bill payers recognize the benefit of a
strong football program and react ac-
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Luck have already made up their
minds and have made reservations
for the NFL. Maybe Michigan has al-
ready picked out Jim’s Ann Arbor es-
tate and is waiting for Rodriguez’s in-
evitable loss to Ohio State to formal-
ly make the switch.
But I have hope. Eighty percent is
too high. My gut feeling, as foolish as
it may be, is that Harbaugh fends off
the hordes of potential suitors and
sticks with Stanford. Many variables
need to fall into place for this to hap-
pen, but I believe they will.
The Cardinal is Jim Harbaugh’s
baby.He has done a miraculous job of
reviving one of the most pathetic and
depressing programs in America.
Stanford is finally developing a re-
semblance to a football community
and he sees it. It’s not all about the
money — if it was, he would have
taken $20 million from the Oakland
Raiders and called it a day.
But this isn’t Oakland. This is one
of the greatest places on Earth.
Jim is here for the long haul.
Zach Zimmerman took a big gulp of
the Stanford Kool-Aid. Help him with
his indigestion at zachz@stanford.edu.