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Study examines drug prescriptions diary in the spread of information,” Cohen said.
Cohen cited Afghanistan, where imprisoned
Al Qaeda members have orchestrated suicide
bombings from cell phones, as one instance
where connective tools were harnessed for hos-
By ELLORA ISRANI fessor of medicine.“And then also among all choses, autism, bipolar disorder, delirium, tility as opposed to empowerment.
STAFF WRITER of the uses, to what extent were antipsychot- dementia, depression and personality disor- “A handset can be as powerful a weapon as a
ic medications being used for conditions ders. Side effects range from weight gain to tool or a gun,” Cohen said, “because hostiles in-
A recent study by researchers at Stan- that were not part of their FDA approval for diabetes to heart disease. novate like crazy.”
ford and the University of Chicago found the drug.” “When drugs are approved, it’s not a Though hostiles may innovate to inflict dam-
that a significant proportion of prescrip- The study tracked prescriptions of both blanket approval. It’s approval for a very age in repressive societies, democratic societies,
tions for atypical antipsychotics, currently typical and atypical antipsychotics between specific use,” he said. “For instance, al- too, are subject to the dangerous tide of tech-
the top-selling class of drugs in the United 1995 and 2008 using data from a physicians’ though antipsychotics could be used for a nology, according to Cohen. In a world where
States, lack sufficient evidence for their ef- survey by private health-care information whole range of psychiatric conditions, many individuals have the power and means to “tag”
fectiveness. company IMS Health. of them were first approved for schizophre- someone and inflict embarrassment, connectiv-
Atypical antipsychotics are a newer gen- “Basically what we found was that there nia and over time have gradually been used ity is not always a positive.
eration of antipsychotic medications intro- was a substantial use — actually more than for many other psychiatric conditions.” Though “technology isn’t the silver bullet an-
duced to the market in 1989. While their half of the uses for the newer-generation an- The study determined that prescriptions swer,” it has met some success in the past few
“typical” first-generation predecessors tar- tipsychotics did not have strong evidence for atypical antipsychotics nearly tripled to years, Cohen said.
get dopamine pathways in the brain thought behind them,” Stafford said.“Not only were 16.7 million in 2008 from 6.2 million in 1995, Mediums such as Facebook and Twitter
to be the origins of psychotic symptoms, these uses not approved by the FDA, they and Stafford estimates that in recent years, allow for self-training in civil society activism.
atypical drugs address a variety of other didn’t even have the sort of evidence that $15 billion per year has been spent on the In such cases, “social indulgence has political
neurotransmitters whose influences are less we expect of drugs that are going to be wide- drugs. Of the $6 billion spent in 2008 for off- prescriptions,” Cohen said, describing a handful
obvious but equally significant. ly used.” label uses, $5.4 billion was for uses with “un- of instances when technology led to broad polit-
“What we were interested was,first of all, Physicians frequently prescribe atypical certain evidence.” ical results, such as in 2009 after Iran’s presiden-
the shift from the older generation to the antipsychotics to address illnesses for which “At best, what we have here is practice tial election.
newer generation,” said Randall Stafford, their effectiveness has yet to be proved by
senior author of the study and associate pro- the FDA. These illnesses include other psy- Please see DRUGS, page 2 Please see STATECRAFT, page 2
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Corrections
In an obituary on Jan. 11, Claire
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DRUGS
tions have serious side effects,”
Stafford said. “From the consumer
point of view, I think it’s always
Continued from front page worth asking physicians,‘What’s the
evidence that leads you to believe
that this drug will be helpful for
getting ahead of the evidence,” he me?’”
said. “At worst, what we have is However, Stafford remains
practice being influenced by the hopeful about the future of atypical
substantial marketing that went on antipsychotics and their ability to
for these drugs.” effectively aid most patients. For ex-
Stafford suggests that the major ample, the study found a decrease in
solution to preventing unfounded prescriptions between 2006 and
prescriptions lies in curbing the ad- 2008 after the FDA issued a “black
vertising done by pharmaceutical box” warning against in the drugs in
companies in order to provide con- 2005 because of their role in in-
sumers — both patients and physi- creasing the risk of death for pa-
cians — with “objective informa- tients with dementia.
tion about the drugs.” Although “My hope is that they will be
consumers have won hundreds of some recalibration of the use of
millions of dollars from the compa- these medications,and that their use
nies in what is the single largest class will be more appropriate in the fu-
of litigation filed under the federal ture,”Stafford said.“There’s greater
False Claims Act, this remains an in- attention on these drugs. And in all
significant financial blow to the in- likelihood that will result in better
dustry. practices and more evidence-based
“For physicians, part of the mes- practice.”
sage here is that we need to be care-
ful about the medications we’re Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-
using, particularly if those medica- ford.edu.
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The annual Viennese Ball is an el-
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students to people who are danc-
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ollege students are notorious or $199 per quarter. They proceeded to get the word out on
for waiting to do laundry until Before Siegal and Dorda launched campus about their new service by e-mail-
they are down to their last pair Cardinal Clean, they did research to ing lists and posting flyers. However, what
of socks. To help remedy this gauge how interested the campus would they found to be most successful in at-
predicament, Bennett Siegal be in their organization. tracting new customers was word of
‘13 and Alexandra Dorda ‘13 have taken “We needed to make sure everything mouth.
their own initiative to expand services was perfect so that when we started, we Dorda said that there has been interest
available to Stanford students. would execute it well,” Siegal said. so far because “everyone at some point
When Siegal arrived on campus last They sent an e-mail survey to several needs dry cleaning done. It is just in-
fall, he was upset to find that, unlike many groups and dorms on campus and re- evitable.”
other universities, there was no laundry or ceived a surprising amount of interest. Of Many students who have used the serv-
dry-cleaning service on campus. Over this 250 people surveyed, 60 percent reported ice have been pleased with the process.
past summer, he started having discus- they would want to use the dry cleaning “Everything was done very profession-
sions with Dorda, who also felt the cam- service, and 25 percent said they would ally, and it was a very hands-off process for
pus could use such a service. The two take part in the laundry service. me,” said Casey Finch ‘13, who subscribed
began brainstorming together and even- Along with confirming customer inter- to Cardinal Clean during fall quarter this
tually launched Cardinal Clean in the est, they contacted more than a dozen year.
middle of fall quarter. similar organizations at other universities Finch also enjoyed the online nature of
Siegal and Dorda covered the start-up to gain some insight into the ins and outs the service, which she said made her inter-
costs of their company, which seeks to of starting a small business. actions convenient and efficient.
provide Stanford students with an afford- They contacted most of the laundry Siegal said he feels optimistic about
able, door-to-door laundry and dry clean- services in the area and decided to use the Cardinal Clean’s performance so far and
ing service, Dorda said. same commercial dry-cleaning organiza- that “room for growth is unlimited be-
Customers can sign up online for laun- tion that does the dry cleaning for many cause the campus is so large.”
dry service or dry cleaning for the quarter area hotels. The duo said it hopes to continue to se-
or the entire academic year. The laundry Although funding and generating in- riously evaluate feedback from customers
service is set at a fixed rate, while the dry terest in the idea was relatively easy, and improve the service. According to
cleaning service is based on a deductible Dorda and Siegal soon discovered that Siegal, he and Dorda are “always trying to
points system. starting their own small business was get feedback along the way to make sure
The service provides a laundry bag, harder to do than it appeared on paper. that the product that we are providing is
which is picked up from a collection bin The number of important details began to top.”
outside of dorms before 1 p.m. on either pile up quickly. But despite the workload,
Tuesday or Friday and is returned to that they remained the only two partners in Contact Kelsey Geiser at ksgeiser@stan-
bin after 5 p.m. the next service day.Week- the endeavor. ford.edu.
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derstand that our cherished free- Advocates of assault-weapon
dom of speech does not guarantee ownership claim that they make us Zachary Warma Begüm Erdogan
us the right to yell “Fire!” in a the- safer, but events of last Saturday Editorial Board Chair Sales Manager
atre. Likewise, our right to bear suggest otherwise. No heroic as-
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On Jan. 8, a lone gunman shot spent,whereupon he was swiftly dis-
Rep.Gabrielle Giffords,D-Ariz.,in armed. The appropriate policy re-
the head at a “Congress on Your sponse to this situation is to limit the
Corner” event in Tucson and man- number of bullets that can be fired
aged to shoot 22 others while firing without reloading.This means a ban
31 rounds of ammunition.When he on high-capacity magazines and as-
stopped to reload his weapon, sault weapons in general. This type
shocked and furious bystanders of ban would not interfere with
wrestled him to the ground. Gif- hunting and it would not interfere
fords is expected to live,but six oth- with self-defense unless an unlucky
ers, including a 9-year-old girl, were gun owner happened to be beset by
not as lucky. The alleged gunman, dozens of armed assailants.
Jared Loughner, is believed to suf- The right to gun ownership is
fer from mental illness, and his mo- under no threat from any branch of
tives will likely remain a mystery. government or either political
In the wake of this madness, the party. Even Gabrielle Giffords, the
question we need to ask is a simple congresswoman targeted in the at-
one: why was the shooter able to tack, boasted a weapon similar to
fire 31 times before pausing to re- the one wielded by her attacker.At
load? The answer is equally simple. issue now is whether or not we
Until 2004, ammunition clips for want to place an outer limit on the
weapons had been limited to 10 destructive capacity of firearms.We
rounds as part of a general ban on support legislation recently intro-
assault weapons. When Congress duced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy,
failed to renew the ban,ammo clips D-N.Y., to re-establish the ban on
like the one used by the shooter in high-capacity magazines. This bill,
Tucson came onto the market and and any broader measure to curtail
vastly increased the killing power the sale of automatic weapons,
of gunmen. seems unlikely to win support from
If the shooter had been restrict- Republicans in Congress. Hopeful-
ed to 10 bullets, the incident would
still have been a bloody affair. Gif-
ly it will generate the kind of debate
and soul-searching that will make it
T HIS C OLUMN I S I RONIC
Bob Bowlsby,
that our next head coach is already shot of tequila after every incom-
here at Stanford. David Shaw? Vic plete pass. In addition, the
W
here do you listen to of other people on campus who have A Stanford sorority: Bowlsby
music? Probably not just the potential to be the next head showed that he could think outside
at concerts — it’s hard to
escape a set of speakers in a regular
day, pumping out tunes in your
dorm room, in a store, on a set of
Lucas Will
Johnson
coach of the Stanford Cardinal.Here
are my impressions regarding just a
few of them. Bob Bowlsby, are you
reading this? the box when he hired Harbaugh, a
relative unknown from the Univer-
sity of San Diego.Thus, he might ap-
reading this? preciate the unorthodox idea of
headphones, in your car, etc. We Andrew Luck: He obviously having an entire sorority chapter
enjoy the work of musicians all the loves this place — more than Har- coach our football team. Sorry, Bob,
time, so how exactly do we support baugh, anyway. After all, he turned but this choice would be a terrible
them? might be: how important is music to down roughly $60 million from the decision for the program. Theta?
It’s gratifying to artists when you? Perhaps you use it merely as Carolina Panthers to come back to The football team embodies “char-
and he’s coming back for another
people listen to their work, which part of the background environ- the Farm. Plus, did you watch the acter and cruelty,” not complete and
year, why shouldn’t he coach the
could be considered one form of ment in your daily life, or as a signif- coverage of the Orange Bowl? An- utter pretentiousness. Kappa? Did
team, too?
support. Sure, musicians play music icant emotional experience, or nouncers haven’t managed a love- you think the LSJUMB was a bad
Dean Julie: Initially, Dean Julie
because they like to, but rarely do something else entirely. Some fest for a single player like that since idea? We need the team to be sober.
would make a beast of a recruiter.
they perform like hermits. Music is would argue that if you like and lis- Tebow. (And Luck didn’t even have Chi O? Let’s be honest: no one real-
Just imagine: she would hold a big,
a social language; we play for each ten to music a lot, you should be to save the souls of Filipino orphans ly knows they exist.There’s really no
inspirational event in MemAud
other. So ignoring financial con- predicted to support the musicians using Bibles he wrote in his own good option here, no matter which
telling the incoming recruiting class
cerns, it seems like society supports more. Do you? blood!) Over the course of the way you look at it.
that they would be the “next great
music a lot, with our mp3 players This is where we get into the fi- game, Ron Jaworski and Jon Gru- Condoleezza Rice: Condi loves
Stanford football recruiting class of
blasting songs all over the place. nances. In the last decade, comput- den basically convinced themselves Stanford sports. We all saw her on
2011.” Morale would be sky high!
Although, what classes or locali- ers have changed the music record- that Luck is the second coming of However, the football program
ties of music does society support ing industry significantly — a topic Touchdown Jesus. If that’s the case Please see SAVITSKY, page 5
would soon fall apart because no
this way? The pop-music industry much discussed before. I don’t want
farms out a small number of songs to get into issues concerning what’s
to the entire country. And not just the most “fair” or “right” system to
Katy Perry, but over and over
again, people also “support” the es-
distribute recordings to people.
From Napster knockoffs to Inter- O P-E D
tablished, famous, great musicians. net radio to bands making their
From Beethoven to the Beatles,
every generation gives them a lis-
ten. Do we give lesser-known con-
music fully available, there are
many models to discuss.
What I want to ask is the finan-
Repeal of DADT doesn’t alleviate committee’s task
temporary musicians equal sup- cial side of this column’s title: do
port? It’s trendy, bumper-sticker you support musicians? How do The recent repeal of DADT in the military has ROTC’s presence on campus today. After reading the
identity politics to say something you participate in the system in ROTC proponents thinking they have the ball in the Ad Hoc Senate Committee on ROTC’s Majority Re-
like, “support local music,” which such a way that the musicians get red zone and the only thing left to do is run the ball in port of 1969, I am shocked that there’s even a discussion
isn’t the focus of what I’m suggest- paid for what they do? Be it for an easy touchdown. I’m baffled as to why.Why does about bringing back ROTC. I will discuss a few of the
ing. I take a more comprehensive through advertising revenue on Ewart Thomas, the chair of the Faculty Senate’s ad hoc many reasons, identified in that report, for Stanford’s
perspective, that we should pay at- Internet radio stations, concert committee on ROTC, think that the repeal of ROTC decision to discontinue its ROTC program. (All quota-
tention to the makeup of our music tickets, purchases on iTunes, some will alleviate the committee’s task? Stanford Universi- tions are from the 1969 report unless otherwise stated.)
portfolios. If you want to support donation mechanism or some- ty phased out its ROTC program in 1973. Congress ROTC creates a “conflict of interest.” Military offi-
the broader world of music but only thing innovative — if society passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in 1993; there- cers are granted faculty positions to administer the
listen to Top 40, that’s a pretty lim- wants to assist this part of the fore, DADT played no part in Stanford’s decision. So ROTC program.These officers’ primary allegiance and
ited scope of “support.” And lucki- workforce, it needs to use some why is DADT even a topic of discussion? And why are duty is to the branch of the military of which they are a
ly, we now have access to a much type of channel to do so. Clearly a proponents, and possibly even the committee, thinking member, the U.S. military as a whole and the U.S. gov-
wider “local” music scene online. lot of systems are in place and there are few roadblocks to ROTC’s return? What is ernment.Their primary commitment cannot simultane-
You don’t have to be in Seattle to revenue does flow to musicians. particularly concerning to me is that proponents and ously be to the university or to the “academic enter-
discover the bands there anymore, I’m simply trying to remind the the committee have rarely addressed the real reasons prise.”
for example. for ROTC leaving the campus in 1973.All except one of
A complementary question Please see JOHNSON, page 5 the reasons remain an issue and would apply to Please see OP-ED, page 5
The Stanford Daily Thursday, January 13, 2011 ! 5
OP-ED
straints restrict “students’ free par-
ticipation in all facets of intellectu-
al inquiry and legal political activi-
Continued from page 4 ty.” Academic prescriptions and
standards of personal conduct cre-
ated by an external organization on
“Training for a specific employ- campus violate the fundamental
er, by that employer.” ROTC is an concept of the University’s “rights
external, institutionalized organi- and obligations to establish, main-
zation that specifically trains stu- tain, and judge its own standards of
dents to acquire the skills needed to academics, course of study, and stu-
work for that organization. Such dent conduct.”
training is administered by the mil- “Contracts for service” in
itary, in the interests of the military, ROTC financial agreements legally
and fundamentally differs, there- bind students to serve in the armed
fore, from the “unrestricted cre- forces after graduation. If the stu-
ation and dissemination of knowl- dent doesn’t serve in the armed
edge” that one should receive by forces after graduation or decides
way of a college education. This he/she doesn’t want to continue the
type of training should not be a part ROTC program sometime
of the “academic structure of the throughout his/her undergraduate
university.” career, he/she is (at least potential-
ROTC is academically prescrip- ly) financially penalized. No other
tive. All three branches of the mili- academic programs have such a
tary legally require students to take condition.
“certain courses of study” and the DADT wasn’t an issue then. So
Navy even excludes other certain why is it now? The arguments ex-
courses of study from the program. plained above reflect only a few of
An external organization on cam- the reasons that supported ridding
pus should not be able to legally Stanford of ROTC in 1973. Noth-
bind students to a prescribed ing, except the use of “punitive
course of study when that external clauses,” has changed since. Why is
organization also has the power to the idea of bringing back ROTC
dictate the methodology and con- even being explored if so few of the
tent of that course of study. ROTC reasons for getting rid of it in the
for the three branches also requires first place have changed? It is quite
students to satisfy “certain academ- concerning that this fact isn’t being
ic standards.” Students should not publicly addressed by proponents
be legally bound to satisfy academ- of ROTC or the committee. That
ic standards created by an external said, I would like to thank the Uni-
organization that also determines versity for reaching out to the stu-
whether or not those standards are dent body and making the ROTC
met. question a collective, community
ROTC programs demand that decision.
students meet certain standards of
“personal conduct.” These con- JOSH SCHOTT ‘14
JOHNSON
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SAVITSKY
Continued from page 4
SPORTS
Battling the big dogs Jacob
Jaffe
Fields of Failure
By LAUREN TAYLOR
STAFF WRITER MEN’S BASKETBALL
Lessons
Now in the heat of conference
play, the Stanford men’s basketball
1/9 vs. ARIZONA L 67-57 from bowl
team faces its toughest test thus far
as it prepares to take on No. 18
Washington (12-3, 4-0 Pac-10)
UP NEXT
WASHINGTON
season
B
tonight at Maples Pavilion. The
matchup marks the Cardinal’s first owl season is over, college
meeting with a top-25 opponent in (12-3, 4-0 Pac-10) football is over, life as we
the 2010-11 season. 1/13 Maples Pavilion know it is over. What can
Stanford (9-5, 2-1) headed home 7 P.M. fill the void in our lives
from last week’s road trip with a without the What Would
split,defeating Arizona State,55-41,
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The Huskies, on the other hand, Many questions are probably run-
GAME NOTES: Washington is Stanford’s first ning through your head right now:Why
remain undefeated atop the confer- nationally-ranked opponent of the season.
ence due to sweeps of the Oregon would I want to spend more time
The Huskies are third in the nation in scor- thinking about college football after I
and southern California schools, as ing average at 88.9 points per game. The
well as a season-best six-game win- had to sit through 35 bowl games and
Cardinal has not lost at home this season. finish last in my bowl-picking pool?
ning streak. Washington’s only
three losses were delivered by Ken- What is there to say about a bunch of
tucky, Michigan State and Texas shooting), senior Matthew Bryan- games that already happened? Is there
A&M, all of whom are ranked in Amaning (15.3 ppg, 7.5 rebounds seriously a bowl game in Alaska?
the top 25. per game, 57.5-percent shooting) The first question has an easy an-
Stanford views tonight’s and senior Justin Holiday (11.5 ppg, swer: college football is the greatest
matchup as an opportunity to go 5.9 rpg, 52.4-percent shooting, 42.0- sport in the world, and we all need
toe-to-toe with one of the nation’s percent three-point shooting, 26 something to last us through the next
elite. steals). eight months.Plus,the only way to jus-
“They are a high scoring team, This trio poses the most signifi- tify your poor finish in your competi-
and they’re great on the backboard, cant threat for Stanford’s solid de- tion is to analyze the teams and find
so we have to be able to rebound fensive game, which is currently al- other people to blame for your inepti-
with them,” said head coach Johnny lowing only 60.0 points per game, tude. The third question can be an-
Dawkins.“They’re a terrific team, a which leads the Pac-10 and repre- swered just as easily: just look at the
terrific program, and we have to sents a major improvement from re- ceiling right above you where some-
play really well to have a chance to cent seasons. In fact, the 2010-11 JONATHAN POTO/The Stanford Daily one wrote “gullible.” Or, if you prefer,
compete.” Card has already kept five oppo- wait a few months until the announce-
Junior forward Andrew Zimmermann, above, is one of few upperclassmen ment of next year’s bowls, and the an-
If the Card can demonstrate the nents under 50 points, which had hoping to lead a young Stanford team to a victory over No. 18 Washing-
right combination of the strongest only been achieved once during the swer might very well change.
aspects of its game, it can certainly first two seasons under Dawkins. ton tonight. The Cardinal has not lost in Maples Pavilion this season, but In the meantime,though,I’m going
do just that. Defensive dominance, “We have defended fairly well, faces its toughest test thus far against the potent Huskies offense. to concentrate on that second ques-
for one, has been a huge factor in and I’m really excited about that,” he approaches the 1,000-point mark team’s offensive efforts against the tion.
Stanford’s success so far and will be Dawkins said. “We have a new for his career and remains Stan- Huskies. Well, for starters, yet another bowl
key against Washington, which group, and to see them come to- ford’s primary offensive weapon “Scoring and rebounding are season brought us surprises that few
boasts one of the most prolific of- gether defensively is always excit- with 15.9 points per game. two areas we have to focus in on and people saw coming. Washington, a
fenses in the nation. The Huskies ing.” Redshirt junior center Josh manage,” Dawkins said. “We have two-touchdown underdog, complete-
have maintained a scoring margin While Dawkins recognizes that Owens has boosted the Cardinal to value the basketball, which will ly outclassed Nebraska, a team that
of plus-20.8, and they average 88.9 defense is the team’s strength, he frontcourt, averaging 12.0 points help our offense in itself.We always clobbered the Huskies by five touch-
points per game with a 49.1 overall also emphasizes the importance of and leading the team in rebounding try to make it difficult for the oppos- downs just four months ago in Seattle.
shooting percentage. junior guard Jeremy Green and his at 6.4 per game. After sitting out last ing team to score, and that isn’t Tulsa, a double-digit underdog, de-
Washington’s offensive squad is teammates putting up big numbers. year’s season because of an undis- going to change against Washing- stroyed Hawaii in Hawaii,scoring one
led by junior Isaiah Thomas (16.0 Green is particularly stellar on the closed medical condition, Owens
points per game, 36.4-percent offensive end in Maples Pavilion, as will be relied upon to step up the Please see MBBALL, page 8 Please see JAFFE, page 7
CRUISIN’
CARDINAL
JAFFE
one of the four teams gave up more
than 22 points (and that was to Okla-
homa State, who got those points off
Continued from page 6 four costly Arizona turnovers).Pac-10
teams gave up 19.3 points per game,
fewer than the SEC (21.2), Big 12
point less than Boise State and Neva- (28.6) or Big Ten (30.9), despite play-
da had against the Warriors combined. ing the No. 3, No. 7, No. 21 and No. 38
The biggest blowout came against scoring offenses in the country.
an 11-1 team (Michigan State), and On the other hand, the much-ma-
Troy scored more points than Auburn ligned Big East, which has precisely
and Oregon combined. The Big East zero of the top 50 scoring offenses in
and the Sun Belt had winning records the country, averaged 25.3 points per
in bowl games, while the Big Ten and game in the bowls.Half its bowl partic-
Big 12 had losing records. The two ipants broke 30 points, even though
teams that managed the fewest points they rank No. 63, No. 85 and No. 93 in
(Utah and Georgia) still rank in the scoring. That’s what makes bowl sea-
top 30 nationally in points scored.The son great;you can predict all you want,
Big Ten went 0-5 on New Year’s Day but you’ll still be wrong.
games and 3-0 during the rest of the In the end, six teams defied expec-
bowl season. The service academy tations more than any other. Troy,
that came in with the best record Tulsa,Illinois,Washington,Mississippi
(Navy) was the only one of the three State and Stanford all beat their re-
to lose. spective point spreads by at least 25
On the other hand, a whole lot points.A third of these come from the
went according to plan. Of the 35 Pac-10,and a third come from non-au-
games,23 were won by favorites.All 13 tomatic qualifying conferences. Half
bowl games from Jan. 1 on were won of them are not even receiving votes in
by the favorites, and three of the five the AP Poll, but that doesn’t make
BCS games finished within two points their wins any less important.
of the point spread.The SEC, regard- Anyone who saw the looks on
ed by many as the nation’s best confer- these teams’ faces, or those of Florida
ence, won five bowl games, all by International (won its first ever bowl
teams favored to win. Only six of the game on a last-second field goal),
top 25 in the BCS standings lost to a TCU (two-point victory in the Rose
team ranked below them. Bowl for its first ever BCS bowl win)
Still,there is intrigue to be found in and Army (two-point victory to se-
these bowl games. And while no one cure program’s first winning season
can legitimately claim that the Sun since 1996) can see the joy and passion
Belt is a better conference than the that college football’s bowl season can
SEC just because it had a better bowl bring. Sure, the system has flaws, and
record, some facts about conferences whether the BCS determines a true
can be quite illuminating. champion is a debate for another time.
The Pac-10 has a national reputa- What we do know is that these
tion for its high-scoring offenses. A bowl games — all 35 of them — mat-
combination of Oregon’s spread of- ter. They matter to the coaches, they
fense and stars like Andrew Luck, matter to the players and they sure
LaMichael James,Nick Foles and Jake matter to the fans.Anyone complain-
Locker (who deserves an award for ing about the number of bowl games
worst quarterback to be deemed a there are should pop in a tape of the
“star” on a mediocre team) have Kansas State-Syracuse game. Two
helped aid the Pac-10’s reputation as a thoroughly unremarkable 7-5 teams
finesse,offense-heavy conference that put on a show for four quarters,some-
would struggle against more physical thing you’d be hard-pressed to say
opponents. about almost any BCS bowl.And real-
Instead,the Pac-10 showed itself to ly,that’s what bowl season is all about.
be anything but an offense-heavy con- So go ahead, Klondike, give me
ference.Again,it’s a small sample size, Arkansas State-Idaho in Anchorage
but only one Pac-10 team out of four next year.I can’t wait to watch.
managed to score 20 points (you
might remember who), and only one Jacob Jaffe is entering an eight-month
of the four “stars”had anywhere close period of hibernation. Leave a mes-
to a good game (another one you sage for when he awakens at jw-
might recall). On the other hand, only jaffe@stanford.edu.
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
1/8 vs. ARIZONA STATE
W 82-35
guard Kristi Kingma, Washington
was unable to complete the week- UP NEXT
end sweep and fell to Oregon, 68-64.
Kingma has been a force for the
Huskies this year, averaging 17.0
WASHINGTON
points per game. However, she will (6-7, 1-3 Pac-10)
pose problems for the Cardinal on 1/14 Seattle 7 P.M.
both ends of the floor,as her defense
remains among the strongest in the GAME NOTES: Stanford has won its last three
conference. games by a combined 113 points. Wash-
Washington State (3-13, 1-3) also ington is led by junior guard Kristi Kingma,
appears to be rounding the curve who averages 17 points per game. Cardi-
after dropping seven straight in De- nal standouts Nneka Ogwumike and Kayla
cember. After starting the Pac-10 Pedersen were recently named to the mid-
season with losses to USC and season Wooden Award watch list.
UCLA, the Cougars had an offen-
sive explosion of 10 three-pointers to be concerned when it heads up to
in a 77-72 loss to Oregon, and then Seattle and Pullman.She had a near-
battled hard down the stretch to pull ly perfect weekend, going 19-for-28
out a 58-50 victory over Oregon from the floor, grabbing 16 re-
State.The win over the Beavers was bounds and pouring in 40 points in
the first victory for the Cougars two games.
since Dec. 5. The defending Pac-10 player of
The Cougars have a trio of scor- the year is averaging 17.2 points and
ers who average over 10 points per 8.4 rebounds per game, and was re-
game in redshirt freshman Ireti cently named to the midseason
Amojo, freshman Sage Romberg Wooden Award watch list, along
and junior Jazmine Perkins. Perkins, with teammate Kayla Pedersen.
a Berkeley native, scored a season- Pedersen, a senior forward, also av-
high 24 points in the loss to Oregon, erages more than eight rebounds a
and Romberg notched 21 against game, in addition to 11.5 points.
Oregon State. The Wooden Award,given yearly
On the other side of the ball, a to the nation’s best player, selects 20
strong road trip may be just what the student athletes to the midseason
doctor ordered for the Cardinal, as watch list. Stanford and North Car-
the team has struggled this season olina were the only two schools to
when it has strayed too far from the have multiple players selected to the
Bay. list.
The Cardinal scraped out two Stanford takes on Washington
single-digit victories on a trip to tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Seattle, and
Utah and Gonzaga earlier this year, will tip off against Washington State
then had its only two losses of the on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Pullman.
season in back-to-back defeats at
DePaul and at Tennessee. After the Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@
overtime loss in Knoxville, Stanford stanford.edu.
has only played two road games —
at San Francisco and Cal.
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The Cardinal has never lost to
Washington State, taking a 50-0
mark into this weekend, and the
Huskies haven’t beaten the Card in Continued from page 6
their last nine tries. Stanford has
won its last three games by a com-
bined 113 points, including an 82-35 ton.
thumping of Arizona State. “We have to go out there and
According to Stanford head play with the same energy that
coach Tara VanDerveer, this stretch we’ve been playing with all season,”
of play shows how the Card is thriv- he added.
ing. Some of this energy should de-
“I really feel like nothing suc- rive from home-court advantage.
ceeds like success for our team,” The Card is 47-11 in its last 58 home
VanDerveer said. “We’re playing games, dating back to the 2007-08
very confidently.” campaign. Snagging the 48th win
The Cardinal’s surge of late can today will be a challenge, but by
be attributed to several factors, and matching the Huskies’ offense with
the stellar play of junior forward a strong game on the boards and in
Nneka Ogwumike has been critical the backcourt, Stanford could pull
to the team’s success. off the upset.
Ogwumike has had three dou- Tipoff is set for tonight at 7 p.m.
ble-doubles this season against in Maples Pavilion.
ranked teams, and if the tall Texan
pulls off a repeat performance of last Contact Lauren Taylor at ltaylor7@
week, the Cardinal has little reason stanford.edu.