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TUESDAY
February 22, 2011
STUDENT LIFE
Class of
‘11 starts
job hunt
Some seniors look beyond
CDC listsings, career fairs
By JOSHUA FALK
DESK EDITOR
Many current seniors are
branching out to different career
paths after graduation, looking be-
yond Career Development Center
(CDC) listings and career fairs in
their job search.
“Students seem to be more open
to alternative types of careers dur-
ing a recession,” CDC Director
Lance Choy wrote in an e-mail to
The Daily.
Choy noted that applications to
Teach for America and the Peace
Corps have increased in the last two
years. But the most common way
for students to find jobs is to use
their personal networks, he said,
stressing the importance of con-
necting with alumni.
Alli Stuppy ‘11, a psychology
major who plans to pursue a career
in clinical psychology, hopes to
complete a research fellowship next
year.
Stuppy said she was interested in
clinical psychology, but hasn’t had
much exposure to it at Stanford.
“I don’t really have the best idea
of what clinical psychology entails
from Stanford, which is more re-
search oriented,” Stuppy said.
She emphasized the importance
of gaining research experience for
those interested in pursuing gradu-
ate studies in psychology.
Chemical engineering major
Abraham Berhane ‘11 hopes to se-
cure an entry-level position at a
pharmaceutical company. His long-
term goal is to work in research and
development in biotechnology.
“Right now I’m focusing on try-
ing to find a job for next year,”
Berhane said. “A lot of [the search]
has just been Googling top pharma-
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Louisville Slugger Classic to help the No. 18 Stanford softball team take down No. 3 Tennessee. The Card
beat the Volunteers and No. 23 BYU and lost only once, to No. 9 Hawaii, in the five-game tournament.
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Arthur Emergy discussed the case of Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi citizen who was wrongly accused of Al
Qaeda involvement by the U.S. government and remains imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.
Emery focuses on
Guantanamo victim
By ANGELIQUE DAKKAK
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Noted speaker Arthur Emery discussed the
story of Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu
Zubaydah, a Saudi citizen whom the United
States government mistakenly suspected of Al
Qaeda involvement, last night at the Law
School.
Abu Zubaydah has been imprisoned in
Guantanamo Bay for nine years.
Former President George W. Bush claimed
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Stanford baseball takes two of three
from Rice to begin season
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Abu Zubaydah was one of the three top leaders
in Al Qaeda. Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of de-
fense under George W. Bush and a former
Hoover fellow, believed he was a senior Al
Qaeda official who had been intimately in-
volved in a range of activities.
However, recent evidence has suggested
that Abu Zubaydah was ideologically opposed
to Al Qaeda, Emery said. In 2000, Zubaydah’s
Khalden camp was told that it either had to sup-
Please see EMERY, page 2
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
DESK EDITOR
For the Stanford softball
team, the UNLV Louisville
Slugger Classic was an oppor-
tunity to prove it belonged
among the nation’s best. The
No. 18 Cardinal made quick
work of Utah State and Port-
land State in the opening dou-
bleheader on Friday, split a
pair of Saturday games by
knocking off No. 23 BYU be-
fore falling to No. 9 Hawaii
and then topped off the week-
end with a big 5-0 upset win
over No. 3 Tennessee.
SOFTBALL
TENNESSEE 0 member nurses to approve strike
STANFORD 5 authorization in response to an ongoing con-
2/20, Las Vegas
Stanford (8-2) showed
flashes of brilliance over the
weekend and certainly justi-
fied its lofty preseason rank-
ing by hanging with Hawaii
and then shutting down a po-
tent Tennessee offense thanks
to pitcher Ashley Chinn’s one-
hit shutout on Sunday.
Chinn, a senior, struggled
at times last year with her con-
trol, but appears to have put
those issues to rest with a mas-
terful performance against the
Volunteers.
Stanford’s bats came alive
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Volume 239
Issue 18
UNIVERSITY
Humanities
Ph.D.s face
job crunch
Hiring freezes and budget cuts reduce
positions open to doctoral students
By ZOE LEAVITT
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Although some on campus attribute hav-
ing a Stanford degree to cushioning many of
the recession’s effects on employment, doc-
toral candidates studying the humanities still
face a number of difficulties.
“Hiring freezes because of budget cuts, es-
pecially at state universities, have made a dif-
ference across the board,” said English pro-
fessor Ramón Saldivar, who works as a job
placement officer for his department’s doc-
toral students. “There are definitely 30 per-
cent — almost 40 percent — fewer jobs than
last year.”
However, the picture for Stanford gradu-
ates is not nearly as bleak as for students from
other programs, Saldivar said. Of the 12 doc-
toral candidates in the English program grad-
uating this year, only three are likely to not
find a job placement, a number Saldivar said
was “not unusual.”
“Our graduate students are, of course, con-
cerned about the job market,” he said. “They
worry about it with some anxiety, but they’re
also optimistic they’ll be okay. The record
shows there’s good reason for the optimism.”
The tightening of the job market over the
past several years, however, has caused a
backlog of job applicants, pitting older gradu-
ates who didn’t find employment against re-
cent graduates.This increase in the number of
applicants combined with a slashing of posi-
tions has created a tougher job market.
Many doctoral candidates hope to earn a
tenure-track position in academia, but univer-
sities have learned to get by with fewer hires.
“At this stage, it’s fairly daunting,” said Ben
Miller, a third-year doctoral candidate in phi-
losophy. “Even if you’re quite good in your
year, there might be all these people from the
year before who’ve had an extra year to polish.”
Philosophy students face a disadvantage
that other humanities departments may not,
Miller said.
“The Stanford name doesn’t so obviously
have the same kind of pedigree [in philoso-
phy],” he said.
Stanford’s location creates a “distinct out-
sider feeling,” since the American Philosophi-
cal Association is situated in the East.As a re-
sult, many job interviews take place there as
well.
Although Stanford graduates might fare
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NEWS BRIEFS
Nurses vote in favor of
strike authorization
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Nearly 90 percent of unionized nurses who
cast ballots Feb. 17 voted in
favor of strike authorization against Stanford
Hospital and Clinics (SHC) and
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH).
The Committee for Recognition of
Nursing Achievement (CRONA) urged its
tract dispute with the two hospitals.
“Last December, the nurses rejected a ten-
tative agreement,” CRONA
President Lorie John wrote in a press release.
“When we asked the hospitals to
make what for them would be minor revisions,
but which are important and
objectionable to the nurses, they refused.”
“We hope that the hospitals will now listen
to our concerns so that a strike
will not have to be called,” Johnson said. “The
ball is in their court.”_
In order to obtain strike authorization,
CRONA leaders needed at least
two-thirds of their approximately 2,700 nurses
to vote in favor of the move. Last
Thursday’s vote saw 77 percent of the mem-
bership vote “yes.”
— An Le Nguyen
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better than others, the tight job
market has added lag time between
graduation and finding a job. Many
graduate students now have to
apply over several consecutive
years before being hired, said assis-
tant professor of English Saikat
Majumdar, who also works as a
placement director for English and
Modern Literature students.
While this lag provides students
with extra time to perfect their re-
sumes and publish more of their
work, it also adds a heavy burden
for those who do not have a steady
salary in the meantime.
Reacting to employment con-
cerns, more doctoral students in the
humanities chose to apply to post-
doctoral fellowships or become ad-
junct professors. According to Ma-
jumdar, there are distinct disadvan-
tages for those who choose the latter
track.
“An adjunct professorship does-
n’t pay much, it doesn’t leave much
time for research,” Majumdar said.
“A postdoc is a full-time position. It
has a better salary.”
Faced with seemingly bleak op-
tions, some students have shaped
their plans more creatively to be-
come more attractive candidates in
the world of academia. Students in
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“newer or more marginal fields”
such as minority literature or digital
humanities often have greater em-
ployment success that those who
study more traditional topics, Ma-
jumdar said.
But he also noted that students
should not necessarily change their
field of study for the promise of
higher future salaries.
EMERY
Continued from front page
port Al Qaeda rule or close.
“Abu Zubaydah, number three
in Al Qaeda, and his camp was
closed by Al Qaeda?” Emery said.
“It’s incredible to believe that the
U.S. government believed that
when he wasn’t involved in Al
Qaeda from the very beginning.”
Emery argued that Guan-
tanamo Bay’s location is incredibly
strategic.
“It’s outside of the United States
— U.S. laws can’t control it,” he
said. “It’s not a part of Cuba be-
cause it’s land-leased from Cuba.
It’s really a black hole for justice by
law.”
When the FBI first interrogated
Abu Zubaydah, its goals were to
gain his confidence in order to gath-
er actionable intelligence.
“You should do what really ex-
cites you, so I don’t think you
should define your scholarship for
marketability,” he said. “But that
said, it doesn’t hurt to look exter-
nally. You have to have a dialogue
between the two.”
Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@stan-
ford.edu.
“Beating someone until they
talk doesn’t give them incentive to
talk,” Emery said.“It gives them in-
centive to shut up.”
The FBI recognized this, where-
as the CIA did not, he added. CIA
interrogators subjected Zubaydah
to waterboarding in an attempt to
obtain information. Emery de-
scribed Zubaydah’s situation as “a
world of torture and human de-
basement.”
“This is what we allowed, and we
continue to debate whether it is jus-
tified,” he said.“You can’t do that to
a human being and still think of
yourself as a human being.”
“We have to stand up and say we
won’t let our country be this sort of
bastion of destruction in the
world,” he said.
The event was co-sponsored by
Amnesty International.
Contact Angelique Dakkak at angel-
dak@stanford.edu.

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Continued from front page
ceutical companies in the area.”
Berhane said he found positions
despite the economic downturn.
His professors often provided ad-
vice on where to look for openings.
Outside of the sciences, many in-
dustries have taken a hit in the eco-
nomic downturn, among them en-
tertainment and advertising, Choy
said. But some students haven’t
been deterred from pursuing arts
careers.
Juliann Ma ‘11, who is majoring
in music and minoring in creative
writing, hopes to continue her musi-
cal training and take a stab at a ca-
reer as a concert pianist. She has ap-
plied for a Fulbright in Paris and to
music schools on the East Coast.
“The most important thing for
me is doing something I love,” Ma
said.“I would like to see how far my
music career can go.”
At the same time, Ma is well
aware of the challenges that musi-
cians seeking performance careers
face.
“It takes a lot more than just
training and performing,” she said.
“It has been in my considerations
for a long time to get a job or some-
thing much more secure than being
a concert artist.
“If that’s what I’m good at, I
should just try it,” she added.
Olivia Haas ‘11, an English
major, would eventually like to
work in theater, film or television.
For Haas, the first stop after gradu-
ation is the MFA Playwrights’
Workshop at the Kennedy Center
in Washington, D.C.
“The resources and connections
through Stanford are actually pret-
ty remarkable for someone with my
interests,” Haas said.
She emphasized the importance
of being proactive and reaching out
to potential employers. For Haas,
one key resource was the Stanford
Institute for Creativity and the Arts
(SICA), through which she com-
pleted an internship with the Public
Theater in New York last summer.
For students pursuing careers in
the arts, flexibility is key, Haas said.
“I both enjoy and am terrified of
the uncertainty and the unknowns,”
Haas said. “That’s just part of the
process.”
Contact Joshua Falk at jsfalk@stan-
ford.edu.
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W
hen I saw a piece in The
Guardian on the similari-
ties between foodie-ism
and indie rock, I did a double-take
— somehow they’d stolen my idea!
Well . . . I guess it’s not actually
that hard to see the parallels. Indie
fans like discovering new bands (or
even listening to bands that don’t
even exist yet); foodies like discov-
ering ethnic hole-in-the-walls and
being the first to post about them
on Yelp. Indie fans pooh-pooh Top
40 pop music produced by the big
labels, perhaps admitting to liking J.
Bieber in an ironic or “hey look,
I’m not that snobby” way. Foodies
talk all sorts of smack about Olive
Garden and other chains, perhaps
admitting a weakness for McDon-
ald’s fries (you can say what you
want about McDonald’s, but those
fries are perfect). Indie fans are all
about “authenticity” and turn their
backs on bands that “sell out”;
while foodies compete to find the
“most authentic” dining experi-
ences and denigrate Food Network
“sellouts” like Bobby Flay and
Emeril.
And like indie fans, foodies can
be really annoying. I should say that
I’m probably a bit of a foodie my-
self, although it’s not a term that I
like to associate myself with. When
you think of a foodie, you probably
imagine food-obsessed crazies who
lug DSLRs into restaurants and let
their food get cold while they snap
photos for their blog, culinary
snobs who insist on knowing the
provenance of everything they’re
eating and can never just enjoy a
meal for what it is, or people who
waste too much time hunting
around for their next meal and who
are attracted like flies to buzzwords
like “artisanal,” “house-made,”
“local,” “seasonal.” Sometimes, I
come across a blog written by one
of these uber-foodies and wonder
how surreal it must be to be at one
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Like Indie fans,
foodies can be
really annoying
of these dinners where all the
guests are other bloggers, showing
each other their cameras and using
phrases like “upon mastication” to
describe their eating. (I’m not even
joking about that last one — it’s a
catchphrase of sorts for one partic-
ularly pompous food warrior.)
Just as Arcade Fire’s Grammy
win shows how indie music has
been moving slowly into the main-
stream, a lot of the attitudes em-
braced by foodies have been em-
braced by non-foodies. Chains like
Chipotle are moving toward using
naturally raised meats and local
produce, big bad Wal-Mart is stock-
ing more organics and more and
more people are discovering new
restaurants and recipes through on-
line communities like Yelp. At the
same time, there’s a contingent of
foodies who mock these small
steps, either having a very indie-
like fear of McNugget-scarfing pro-
les entering the foodie ranks or
being dissatisfied with anything
that’s not authentic/local/seasonal
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I H AVE T WO H EADS

Out of Sight, T HE T RANSITIVE P ROPERTY

Out of Mind An Argument Against ROTC’s

Return, from an Actual
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hat was she thinking?”

“I think he thinks that you . . . “

“You know, I think I’ve finally Rachel Transgender Person’s Perspective
figured him out.” Kolb

I am convinced that we spend
much of our time and speculative
energy imagining the contents of
other people’s minds. After all, we
are relatively familiar to ourselves,
but the other half of an interactive
exchange feels foreign to us and
therefore fascinating. The question
of how we understand unknown
minds seems to be such a strong
preoccupation that it affects not
only our personal deliberations, but
also many academic fields, at least
peripherally. Art and literature try
to express it, neuroscience tries to
explain it through investigating
consciousness and the mind-body
conundrum, computer science tries
to imitate it, philosophy tries to
apply it to issues of ethics and sub-
jective experience.
Yet, if we are so interested in un-
derstanding other people’s minds,
why aren’t we better at it? Even at a
place like Stanford, with the afore-
mentioned areas of study as well as
student groups dedicated to cham-
pioning alternative worldviews, any
curiosity we have about other peo-
ple still comes into tension with our
tendency toward self-preoccupa-
tion. Over the last few weeks, I’ve
had several experiences that have
emphasized to me how surprisingly
different two individuals’ appraisals
of the same event can be. It’s not
that one of those accounts is truer
learning to think about different is-
sues from multiple perspectives.
But in the sphere of our social lives,
we sometimes struggle to embrace
this paradigm of mental flexibility.
In a way, our college environment
encourages a self-preoccupied,
Kurtz-like mentality: my problem
set, my paper, my athletic activity,
my resume, my future career. The
real world is little different, and so
we could all very well keep living
our lives in reaction to our own sub-
jective experience. We are curious
about others, yes, but at the same
time very self-interested, especially
in situations of high personal invest-
ment or emotional pressure.
So, fair enough. In a social con-
text, the emotions of the moment
can make us blind to anything out-
side ourselves. This statement
strikes me as oversimplified. Emo-
tional systems, in themselves, con-
tribute to essential components of
social understanding, such as empa-
thy. There’s a reason why “I know
how you feel” can be such a power-
ful contributor to building rapport
in a relationship. And there’s a rea-
son why public messages frequently
use emotional appeals to change
our perceptions. Emotions can pro-
vide a framework for understand-
S
o currently Stanford has been
arguing about the return of
ROTC (Reserve Officer Train-
ing Corps), the student branch of
the U.S.military.ROTC was at Stan-
ford until the 1970s, before it was re-
moved from campus. The repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which
would allow gay and lesbian people
to serve in the military, has revived
the debate on ROTC. Many stu-
dents argue that since the military
doesn’t discriminate against gay
and lesbian people anymore,
ROTC should come back. Also,
both The Stanford Daily and The
Stanford Review have printed opin-
ion pieces on the ROTC’s return.
The Stanford Review’s Jan. 31,
2011, editorial, “No Excuses Left
for ROTC’s Ban,” stated that trans-
gender people will benefit from the
military’s return to Stanford, be-
cause if we let more open-minded
people in the military, eventually
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transgender people will be allowed
to join.
It was while reading that editori-
al I realized that there was no trans-
gender voice within this editorial, or
within any of the opinion pieces
presented in any Stanford publica-
tion so far.And if transgender issues
are going to be at the center of an
issue like the military, then some
transgender person is going to have
to get a word in — thus, this week’s
column.
So there has been the argument
that transgender people are not
able-bodied due to the fact that
their physical bodies don’t match
up with their minds. Transgender
people have Gender Identity Disor-
der, people claim. Gender Identity
Disorder is a mental illness, which
makes trans people unsuitable to
serve in the military.
But this is not a matter of mental
illness. I don’t disagree that many
transgender people go through a
period of mental and emotional dis-
tress. For some people, it lasts for
years. However, it doesn’t last for-
ever. Our emotional pain doesn’t
ruin us or make us unable to live our
full potential. In fact, it makes us
stronger. It makes us never take
anything for granted. It makes us
work harder on our bodies and our
minds. It makes us more deter-
mined. It makes us leaders. Now
who wouldn’t want someone with
this drive to work for them? The
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than the other, not exactly. It’s that
neither of these individuals has ac-
cess to any personal lens besides his
own. I keep being reminded of the
old adage that there are two sides to
every story. This is one of those
head-nodding, yes-I-know truths
that each of us has likely heard from
a young age, but that doesn’t make
it any less easy to forget.
Stanford students are exemplary
for their concern about a variety of
worldviews,and it seems that part of
receiving a liberal arts education is
ing someone else in a way that ra-
tional facts cannot.
Maybe it isn’t only our emotions
that block us from understanding
the other side of the story. Maybe
it’s simply that we don’t know the
whole story, and that if we did, we
wouldn’t be as likely to jump to con-
clusions. When we lack knowledge,
all we can do is project ourselves
onto others. This problem seems to
be particularly relevant in our age
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O
n Jan. 24, The Unofficial
Stanford Blog posted a pic-
ture of me handing out free
condoms in White Plaza to cele-
brate the anniversary of Roe v.
Wade. Excited to share the news, I
sent out the link to family and
friends. Within a half an hour, I re-
ceived a reply from my mom: “Oh
well, I guess my daughter won’t be
president.”
Like the photo of President
Obama smoking marijuana in col-
lege, the photo of me in a t-shirt that
says, “I am Pro-Choice” could lose
me a nice chunk of the country’s
vote. Women’s reproductive rights
have been the subject of ongoing
debate since forever. But today, this
issue deserves our attention be-
cause the efficacy of one of the most
important healthcare providers to
women across America is at stake.
Four bills — most prominently,
the Title X Abortion Provider Pro-
hibition Act introduced by Repre-
sentative Mike Pence (R-IN) — re-
cently passed by the House of Rep-
resentatives, dared to cut funds
from health care providers that also
provide abortion care with private
funds. Never mind that federal
funding does not directly fund abor-
tions. Apparently, it’s even too dan-
gerous to let organizations like
Planned Parenthood, that provide a
myriad of other crucial health care
services to women, receive any fed-
eral support at all.
In 2009, three million women
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KOLB
Continued from page 4
of 24/7 information access, when we
assume that knowledge is at our fin-
gertips and feel anxious when it
isn’t.As a simple example, I think of
something that I have done a
ridiculous number of times: text a
friend and start to worry when he or
she doesn’t reply right away. Am I
that low of a priority? I ask myself.
By the time we next meet in person,
I’m feeling unsettled about our en-
tire relationship, only to find a sim-
ple explanation for the miscommu-
nication: forgetfulness, phone died,
a personal crisis. I have taken my
slice of the world too seriously, and
only this infusion of rational fact al-
lows me to relax.
But wait a minute — do we re-
ally want to know the whole story?
It seems to me that we are often
MOON
Continued from page 4
enough for them. Snooty foodies,
we’ll call them, the equivalent of “I
listen to bands that don’t even exist
yet” indie fans.
This makes no sense! What ex-
actly is the problem with having
more people appreciate good
food? I mean, sure, having more
people know about your favorite
restaurants might mean that you
have to wait longer, but that’s cer-
tainly preferable to having it go out
of business.And so what if it’s a big
chain that’s pushing its way into
local and organic? If foodies want
people to eat more local and organ-
ic food, having the support of a big
chain that a lot of non-foodies like
is certainly going to be more help-
ful than another blog post about
how Americans need to get their
act together.
OPED
Continued from page 4
visited one of Planned Parent-
hood’s 800 healthcare centers.
Those women received not only
family planning counseling and
contraception, but also breast and
pelvic exams, lifesaving cervical
cancer screenings, STI exams and
postpartum care. For six out of
every 10 of those women, centers
like Planned Parenthood were
their only source of healthcare of
any kind, not just a convenient
place to grab a free condom. That’s
because 85 percent of them live
right at the poverty line, and two-
thirds lack health insurance.
On that sunny morning in White
Plaza, I would often stuff two or
three condoms into the hands of a
passerby, but I knew that at Stan-
ford, condoms aren’t hard to find.
We are so lucky to have services
like the Sexual Health Peer Re-
source Center, the Women’s Com-
munity Center and Vaden Health
Center that provide many of the
same services as Planned Parent-
hood to students on campus. But
not everyone goes to Stanford.
Stanford students often think
that because the campus is over-
whelmingly liberal, participating in
activism on behalf of reproductive
health issues is unnecessary. This is
not the case. It’s time for students at
our university to get over our ob-
BAUTISTA
Continued from page 4
military is missing out on a small
but potent subset of the population.
We deserve to be empowered
and create change for ourselves.
The only way that the military can
be improved for us transgender
people is if we are allowed to par-
ticipate ourselves and make choic-
es for ourselves.The National Cen-
ter for Transgender Equality, the
premiere national transgender ad-
vocacy organization, has released
a statement in solidarity with ef-
forts to prevent the return of
ROTC to Stanford on the basis of
continued discrimination against
transgender people. How do publi-
cations like The Review feel as if
they are more competent to decide
what is “best” for transgender peo-
ple than transgender students and
transgender activists who have
been working on transgender jus-
tice for decades?
Also, the ROTC members of
Stanford will have to take their
ROTC activities and training for
academic units. ROTC will basical-
ly become equivalent to class for
them. This is a blatant violation of
the non-discrimination policy,
which includes gender identity. If
Stanford were to allow ROTC to
return to campus, Stanford would
be violating its own policy and tak-
ing a step back in its support for
only interested in understanding
others in the same terms as we un-
derstand ourselves. When we meet
new people, this is frequently what
piques our interest in them: we
identify with some aspect of their
lives that applies to us. When peo-
ple are too different from us, we
might be rationally able to under-
stand them, but we still fail in inte-
grating their subjective experience
into our perception of the world.
Differences in personality might
provide spice to a relationship, but
the fundamental ingredients are
often based on similarities.
Interested in what your neigh-
bor thinks? I’m almost inclined to
say that the best intentions, or the
best education, might not be
enough to truly “get it.” Only time
and well-aimed conversation can
do that.
Rachel is trying to figure out what’s
going on in your mind.Tell her at rkolb
@stanford.edu.
There’s also a (completely un-
derstandable) growing backlash
against foodie-ism, driven in a
large part by people’s dislike of the
somewhat ridiculous heights that
foodie-ism has been reaching and
of the snooty foodies that embody
these worst traits. This is really too
bad, because while there’s a lot
about foodie-ism that probably
can’t be integrated into the main-
stream, there’s also a lot that can,
and that can really benefit every-
one. Things like eating locally and
seasonally, eating humanely raised
animals, supporting local restau-
rants over chains, trying food from
different cultures, making food
something to think about and take
pleasure from rather than just
something to shovel into our
mouths.
So, you know, think about food.
But not too much.
Tim is trying his best not to become a
snooty foodie.Tell him what not to do
at timmoon@stanford.edu.
We are so lucky to
have places that
provide many of the
same services as
Planned Parenthood
session with the Stanford bubble
and pick up the phone. As the vote
goes into the Senate, we must let
our elected representatives know
how we feel about this issue. Pick
up the phone and call your senator.
Pick up the phone and call your
parents and tell them to call their
senators. Leave a message. It takes
30 seconds.
President Obama was elected
even though he smoked pot. I’m
okay giving up my dream of becom-
ing president if it means that mil-
lions of women around the world
are guaranteed the life-saving
health services that they deserve.
NATALIE GOODIS ‘11
transgender people.
Have the Review state its argu-
ment to the transgendered young
people who want to join the mili-
tary. Its editorial told them that
they cannot change the military
themselves, that their voices do not
matter, that if they want change,
they need to shut up and let other
people do it for them. Non-trans-
gender people matter and have
more power. But just because I take
up a small minority of both the
queer community and the general
population does not mean I am no
one. I am a human being. We have
been marginalized for so long, in
both the general and the queer
community, and I am sick of it.Why
should my existence somehow be
less legitimate than somebody else
simply because of a matter of statis-
tics?
Placing transgender people into
one group and telling us what’s for
our own good tells us that we are
not capable of making change our-
selves. This is a blatant insult to our
humanity. I refuse to be told to sit
quietly and let people who do not
know me tell me what I should and
should not do. I reserve the right to
speak my opinion as a human
being. Only I know what is truly
good for me, and only transgender
people know what is good for them-
selves. Thus, I say NO to the return
of ROTC to Stanford.
Agree or disagree with Cristopher
about ROTC? E-mail him at
cmsb@stanford.edu.
6 ! Tuesday, February 22, 2011 The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
INDOOR
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Cardinal
CHAMPS shut down
by Trojans
Card takes tourney to By CAROLINE CASELLI

remain unbeaten SENIOR STAFF WRITER

With a disheartening 69-53 loss to visiting

By WILL SEATON
STAFF WRITER
The last time these two teams
met, Stanford won the 2010
NCAA title. This time, the No. 1
Stanford women’s tennis team
(9-0) again defeated No. 2 Flori-
da, 4-2, to win the prestigious
midseason ITA National Team
Indoor Championships.
“This team, we have a bull’s
eye on our back,” said head coach
Lele Forood. “We’ve now played
through a lot of tough competi-
tion and won. I think we’re han-
dling the ranking and the expec-
tations pretty darn well.”
WOMEN’S TENNIS
STANFORD 4 freshman Kristie Ahn. “I think we
FLORIDA 2 got outplayed on one and three,
2/21, Charlottesville, Va.
The Cardinal went into the
weekend playing very well. The
team blanked No. 28 SMU for its
third shutout in five matches and
had a convincing 5-2 victory over
No. 4 UCLA to prepare the team
for the stacked lineup at Indoors.
The teams competing in this tour-
nament included nine of the top
10 teams and 16 of the top 20.
“It was a grind,” said sopho-
more Stacey Tan. “Four matches
one after another against the best
teams in the country, getting used
to East Coast time . . . I felt like
competing against different
schools was kind of like NCAAs
again. It was cool to get into that
mindset.”
The team’s first opponent was
Arkansas, but Stanford, with its
five ranked players, overpowered
the Razorbacks quickly for a 4-0
win. In the next round, Stanford
faced No. 8 Michigan. A surprise
upset at No. 1 doubles came when
the 22nd-ranked team of Brooke
Bolender and Denise Muresan
upset Stanford’s third-ranked
squad of Barte and Burdette, 8-3.
The Card proceeded to drop the
doubles point, but fired off four
quick singles victories to win the
day. Barte got her revenge over
No. 8 Muresan, 6-2, 6-4.
“Their doubles was really solid
on courts one, two and three,” said
which doesn’t happen very often,
but they were really prepared. In
this tournament, every time [we
lost doubles,] we weren’t freaking
out. We knew they still had a long
way to go.”
Now playing in the semifinals,
Stanford was up against a very tal-
ented No. 4 North Carolina team
that included the No. 6 doubles
team of Shinann Featherston and
Lauren McHale and the No.13 sin-
gles player in Zoe De Bruycker.
Regardless, the Cardinal blanked
the Tar Heels, 4-0. No. 3 Barte/Bur-
dette defeated No. 6 Feather-
ston/McHale, 9-7, to clinch the
Please see WTENNIS, page 8
Stanford Daily File Photo
Senior Hilary Barte (above) has played No. 1 singles and doubles for
the top-ranked Stanford women’s tennis team, which beat No. 2
Florida 4-2 to win the ITA National Team Indoor Championships.
USC on Saturday evening, the Stanford men’s
basketball team failed to pick up a win in its
final conference homestand of the season.The
Cardinal (13-13, 6-9 Pac-10) extended its los-
ing streak to three games and fell to eighth in
the Pac-10 standings.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
USC 69
STANFORD 53
2/19, Maples Pavilion
USC (15-12, 7-7), which beat Stanford, 65-
42, and held the Card to 22.2-percent shooting
in Los Angeles last month, effectively shut
down the Cardinal’s offense once again,
though this time on the road at Maples Pavil-
ion. The Trojans have been responsible for
Stanford’s two lowest-scoring conference
games this season, limiting Stanford to 42 and
53 points, respectively. Junior guard Jeremy
Green, who had five straight 20-plus point
games prior to Saturday night, was held to just
11 points in light of USC senior guard Marcus
Simmons’ stingy defense.
“Jeremy is such a scoring threat that guys
are going to focus on him,” said freshman for-
ward Josh Huestis. “He’s a focal point of de-
fenses every single game. No matter where he
goes, he’s got someone on him.”
Though Stanford opened the game on a 7-
3 run,including a three-pointer from freshman
forward John Gage in his first collegiate start
and a dunk from Green, USC quickly took
control of the game. USC junior forward
Nikola Vucevic racked up seven early points,
aiding the Trojans to a 13-12 lead with 15:24 re-
maining in the first half.The Cardinal wouldn’t
lead for the remainder of the game.
“I thought we started off the first half well,
to be quite frank,” said Stanford head coach
Johnny Dawkins. “They’re a good team. They
get after you defensively and are really, really
quick. I think as they started to wear us down

REPELLING RICE
a bit, it took a toll on us.”
Daniel After a decent start, however, Stanford
couldn’t get anything going throughout the
Bohm middle of the first half. Led by Vucevic and
redshirt senior forward Alex Stepheson, USC

Stanford takes
On My Mind BASEBALL only two runs and holding Ren- went on a 22-4 run — Huestis scored all four
don to a 0-for-4 night at the for Stanford on back-to-back plays — to ex-
STANFORD 5 tend its lead to 30-16.After trailing by as much
plate.

series from Owls RICE 3 Down 2-1 after six innings, as 18 in the first half,Green,along with redshirt

Where did By JACK BLANCHAT

STANFORD
RICE
STANFORD
1
7
6
the Cardinal turned its offense
on, sneaking around the base
paths to score on an error and
then on a double play to take a
junior forward Josh Owens, freshman forward
Anthony Brown and freshman guard Aaron
Bright, gave the offense some life and nar-
rowed the deficit to single digits (40-31) at

Maples
DESK EDITOR
RICE 2 3-2 lead. halftime.
The Stanford baseball team The decisive blow in Fri- “I tried to find holes in the defense, things
2/18-2/20, Houston like that,” Huestis said. “When they tried to
opened the 2011 season the day’s contest came in the top
throw two guys at Jeremy [Green], the

mojo go?
right way this weekend, taking
two out of three games from
Rice down in Houston.
The Cardinal (2-1), ranked
Sophomore righthander
Mark Appel opened up the se-
ries on the mound in his first
career Friday start and did not
have an easy task in front of
half of the next inning though,
when sophomore first baseman
Justin Ringo clubbed an inside
fastball high into the night sky
and over the right field fence
matchups went in our favor.”
Stanford’s momentum did not continue
into the second half, with the Trojans pulling
away yet again. After USC junior guard Jio

I
t’s too bad I don’t know the first
thing about NASCAR,because
someone younger than me won
the Daytona 500 yesterday.
That’s a pretty darn good story
that I am ill-equipped to write, so in-
stead I, and you, am stuck with my
usual rants.
In case you hadn’t heard — and
you probably hadn’t — the Stanford’s
men’s basketball team hosted the Los
Angeles schools this past weekend.
Attendance at both games was under
5,900. Maples Pavilion, the beautiful
little arena that the Cardinal calls
home,seats almost 7,400 people at ca-
pacity.That’s 1,500 empty seats.That is
unbelievable.
Statistics like the ones I just pre-
sented used to be unthinkable. In
fact, when I was a freshman in 2006-
07,I had to camp out the night before
the UCLA game in order to get a de-
cent spot in the student section. Fans
were packed three deep in each row
of the all-standing student section.
When Stanford hosted UCLA
Thursday, you probably could have
showed up at halftime and stood in
the front row at center court. What
happened?
It’s not as if that ‘06-’07 team was
all that much better than this year’s
team. In ‘06-’07, the Cardinal men’s
basketball team was likely the last
team in the NCAA Tournament and
got absolutely annihilated by
Louisville in the first round. Plus,
back then, Sixth Man membership
actually cost money (I think it was
about $70 for the season).Before one
game either that season or the next, I
asked Steve Lavin, who is now the
head coach at St.John’s but at the time
was an ABC announcer,what some of
the best atmospheres for college bas-
ketball were in the country. Without
hesitation he said Stanford was right
near the top. Not anymore.
Today,the student section is free —
and still empty. Maybe if the Athletics
Department still charged for those
Please see BOHM, page 7
No. 13 to start the season by
Baseball America, captured the him. The lineup Appel had to for a two-run home run. Fontan sunk a three followed by two foul shots
from Vucevic, the Trojans took their largest
series over the No.18 Owls (1-2) face featured third baseman Junior lefthander Scott
lead of the night, 65-45, with 5:31 remaining.
with a 5-3 win on Friday, a 7-1 Anthony Rendon, last year’s Snodgress came in and closed
The Card only scored two field goals in the
loss on Saturday and a 6-2 victo- National Player of the Year, the game out for the Cardinal,
game’s final 10:30 — a jumper from Green
ry on Sunday. who had a .394 batting average allowing one run to score on a
and a layup from Owens — with free throws
The weekend was highlight- and 26 home runs in the 2010 wild pitch before settling down
constituting Stanford’s remaining eight points.
ed by excellent pitching — es- season. and getting the final strikeout
“It was a tough shooting night for all our
pecially from the Cardinal However, Appel did well to and the win.
guys tonight,” Dawkins said.“When that hap-
bullpen — and the impressive shut down the Owls’ potent The game was especially im-
power of some new starters in lineup, pitching five and two-
Please see BASEBALL, page 8 Please see MBBALL, page 8
the Stanford lineup. thirds innings while giving up
STANFORD EXTENDS
CONFERENCE LEAD
By NATE ADAMS Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer.
MANAGING EDITOR “They were more physical this time
around.”
Making the most of its final road trip of The Cardinal opened the second half
the regular season,Stanford women’s bas- on a 12-2 run, led by senior forward Kayla
ketball pulled away in the second half of Pedersen and her classmate, point guard
two crucial Pac-10 contests last weekend, Jeanette Pohlen.The duo scored 17 and 19
beating USC 78-64 and No. 9 UCLA 67- points, respectively, and both shot over 50
53. The pair of victories ensures a semifi- percent from the field.
nal berth in the Pac-10 Tournament for “Both Kayla and Jeanette, both sen-
No. 3 Stanford (24-2, 15-0 Pac-10) and iors on our team, they made big plays for
marks a significant step toward earning a us and really battled,” VanDerveer said.
10th consecutive regular season champi- “They did what they needed to make us
onship. successful.”
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Their performance is especially en-
couraging following the pair’s lackluster
STANFORD 78 performance in a 62-52 win over Washing-
USC 64 ton on Saturday.Pohlen shot just 1-for-9 in
that game, and Pedersen was 3-for-13.
2/18, Los Angeles “After playing Washington and seeing
how physical they were with us, we pretty
STANFORD 67 much expected that for the rest of the sea-
UCLA 53 son,” Pohlen said.
The seniors’ return to form was timely
2/20, Los Angeles for Stanford,which lost Nnemkadi Ogwu-
After losing by more than 40 points in mike to a sprained right ankle in the sec-
Maples Pavilion last month, the Trojans ond half against the Trojans.At the time of
(16-9, 8-6) put up a major fight in the her departure, the junior forward led the
Galen Center on Friday, keeping the Car- team with 16.8 points per game.
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
dinal on its toes with just a two-point lead Despite initial optimism from Van-
at the half. Derveer, Nnemkadi Ogwumike wasn’t With Nnemkadi Ogwumike sidelined due to injury, her sister
“USC came out,and it looked like they Chiney (left) and Jeanette Pohlen (right) had to pick up the
wanted to slow the tempo a little bit,” said Please see WBBALL, page 7 slack. They did, leading Stanford to a 67-53 win over UCLA.
The Stanford Daily Tuesday, February 22, 2011 ! 7

Struggles in Seattle SOFTBALL

Senior Greg Hirshman (above) had a strong weekend for the No. 7
Stanford men’s tennis team, winning all three of his singles matches in
straight sets. The team did not have as much success, though, as the
Cardinal went 1-2 in three matches against top-20 teams.
By DASH DAVIDSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Stanford men’s tennis
team had an up-and-down week-
end at the ITA National Team In-
door Championships in Seattle,
going 1-2 against quality oppo-
nents. The No. 7 Cardinal fell on
Friday to No. 11 Florida, defeated
No. 2 USC on Saturday and lost to
No. 16 Georgia on Sunday.
MEN’S TENNIS
GEORGIA 4 Klahn, ranked No. 7 nationally in
STANFORD 2 ones,” said freshman Jamin Ball.
2/20, Seattle
Such erratic play is uncharac-
teristic of the Stanford team thus
far this year — the squad was off
to a perfect 7-0 start before this
weekend, its best opening since
2002. Consistency has been an im-
pressive aspect of the team so far
this year, but was disrupted during
the weekend tournament.
Friday’s match versus Florida
was a tight one from the very be-
ginning. The Gators claimed the
early doubles point when courts
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
two and three went the way of the
Gators, and from there, Florida
was able to build a substantial 3-
1 lead by winning two of the first
three singles matches. Stanford
refused to go away, though, and
fought back as seniors Greg Hir-
shman and Alex Clayton posted
clutch wins for the Cardinal.Tied
up at 3-3, the outcome of the con-
test came down to the third set of
the No. 1 singles match.
Stanford junior and reigning
NCAA singles champion Bradley
singles, had battled back against
Florida’s ninth-ranked Alexandre
Lacroix to hold a 2-1 lead in the
pivotal third set. Lacroix stormed
back, winning five of the final six
games to clinch the set, the match
and the victory for the Gators.
The Cardinal showed great re-
solve on Saturday, bouncing back
from its tough loss to Florida by
posting its most impressive victo-
ry of the year, a 4-3 nail-biter over
USC. This contest also came
down to a final, three-set match,
this one occurring at court four,
where sophomore Denis Lin was
ened to six innings by the eight-
run rule.
But the bats seemed to fall
Continued from front page silent after the initial offensive ex-
plosion. It took a masterpiece
pitted against the Trojans’ Emilio from Gerhart (8IP, 5H, 1R, 0BB,
with production from all over the 9K) in the nightcap against Port-
Gomez.
lineup to back the player affec- land State and some timely hitting
Gomez fought to force the
tionately known as “Chinny” by from the pitcher herself in extra
third set by winning the second,
her teammates. Junior shortstop innings to knock off the Vikings, 3-
and, like Klahn did the day before
Ashley Hansen had three hits, and 1, in eight innings.
him, managed to carry that mo-
freshman designated player Gerhart again carried the load
mentum into the close final set.
Danielle Miller got things started against BYU, going the distance
But Lin remained strong, holding
in the first inning with a run-scor- while giving up just one earned
off a final charge and securing the
ing single. run. She had plenty of help from
victory for Stanford with a 6-3
Freshman left fielder Corey second baseman Jenna Rich. The
third set win. Lin had a great day
Hanewich gave Chinn some breath- sophomore from El Segundo,
against USC, winning the point-
ing room in the fifth inning when Calif., didn’t waste any time in
clinching matches in both singles
she doubled in two more runs. putting Stanford on the score-
and doubles.
That was plenty of support for board, smacking a 1-0 pitch over
On Sunday, Georgia was the
Chinn, who threw her first com- the wall in right-center field with
team pulling off the upset, defeat-
plete game of the year and im- two outs in the first inning for a 1-
ing the Cardinal by a score of 4-2.
proved to 4-0, lowering her ERA 0 lead.
Stanford was down early on, as the
to 3.54. The righthander used a The Cougars equalized in the
Bulldogs jumped out to a quick 1-0
continuing mix of pitches to keep bottom half of the inning, but Ger-
lead with wins on courts one and
the Volunteers offbalance, striking hart hit a two-run home run to
three during doubles play.
out six and retiring the last 14 bat- deep center field to put the Cardi-
Stanford momentarily had
ters in a row. nal on top for good. BYU pulled
the score tied after Hirshman dis-
“I think the biggest thing that within one run after errors by
posed of his opponent on court
five, but it was fleeting, as the
helped me in yesterday’s game Hanewich and Hansen allowed
was staying relaxed and confi- three unearned runs to score. But
Bulldogs posted victories on
dent,” Chinn said. “We were all Rich homered again in the top of
courts two and four, over senior
pumped for that game and I really the seventh inning to provide the
Ryan Thacher and Lin, respec-
just wanted to go out there and get final 7-4 margin.
tively. Klahn kept the Cardinal in
the job done for the team. I was Facing a tough Hawaii team in
the match with a straight-set win
feeling very confident yesterday, the second game of the Saturday
on court one over No. 24 Javier
from start to finish,” she said. doubleheader was a difficult
Garrapiz, before sophomore
“And [associate head coach Trisha matchup for the Card, especially
Matt Kandath fell to Bulldog
Ford] and [catcher Maya Burns] because the Rainbow Wahine sent
freshman Hernus Pieters on court
did a great job with pitch calls. I their junior ace, Stephanie Rick-
six, thereby clinching the victory
felt confident and aggressive with etts, to the circle.
for Georgia.
each pitch I threw.” Ricketts didn’t disappoint; a
The stiff competition in Seat-
The Card started off the tour- home run from Miller was the only
tle gave the Cardinal a gauge of
nament hot in a game against blemish on the San Jose native’s
its current place in the collegiate
Utah State that featured plenty of pitching line.
tennis landscape.
offense on both sides. The presea- Stanford finished second be-
“We had a good win against
son All-American Hansen had hind Hawaii in the tournament,
USC but also lost some close
four hits, including a double and and will look to build off this early
her first home run of the season. It season success as it hosts the Stan-
“We’re right there with the best
came as part of a Cardinal hit pa- ford Nike Invitational this week-
teams, we just need to get a little
rade — four players had multiple end.The Cardinal opens the three-
better. The sky really is the limit.
hits, including four each from jun- day tournament with a double-
Our next five matches are all
ior Sarah Hassman and Hansen. header on Friday against Mem-
against top-15 schools which will
Sophomore pitcher/outfielder phis and North Dakota State at
be a good, tough test for us.”
Teagan Gerhart hit her second Smith Family Stadium.
That stretch will start this
home run of the year, and in all,
weekend as the squad heads down
Stanford banged out 19 hits and 18 Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at
to Los Angeles for two difficult
runs in the 18-10 victory, short- milesbs@stanford.edu.
road matches: at No. 6 UCLA on
Friday and then against USC on
Saturday.
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@
stanford.edu.

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in basketball than just about any batter’s box for the Cardinal, pitching a pair of gems and driving in multi-
other sport.
Right now,the Cardinal has a very ple runs over the weekend to help No. 18 Stanford softball to a 4-1 record.
solid freshman class, so perhaps at-
tendance will improve along with the
team over the next few years. But

even so,it would be nice if fans would
consistently support the team even if
it were struggling (Note: I’m not say-
ing the team is necessarily struggling;
in fact, I believe Stanford is definitely
improving).
Regardless, I think that interest in
men’s basketball is the sort of thing
that could snowball.If small groups of
people start going to games more con-
sistently and being rowdy, more fans
will come because packed basketball
games are incredibly fun for fans.
The Maples Pavilion Wikipedia
page describes the student section as
“raucous,”which right now is essential-
ly an indictment of Wikipedia’s credi-
bility.There has been nothing raucous
about Stanford home games for a few
years.How about students make home
games raucous again? It will be good
for the team and fun for all.
Daniel Bohm conveniently forgot to
mention how many games he has
been to in the past few seasons. Invite
him to stand next to you at the last
home game of the season at
bohmd@stanford.edu.
WBBALL
Continued from page 6
able to return for Sunday’s game
against UCLA (22-3, 12-2), as soph-
omore forward Joslyn Tinkle got the
call when the lineups were an-
nounced.
While the seniors made all the
difference two days earlier,Stanford
got a huge boost from a pair of fresh-
men at Pauley Pavilion on Sunday.
Toni Kokenis,a rookie guard,played
37 minutes and scored 13 points off
the bench, while starting forward
Chiney Ogwumike, Nnemkadi’s
younger sister, led the team with 18
points and 15 rebounds.
“We affectionately call our fresh-
man ‘babies,’ and our babies grew up
today,” VanDerveer said. “Toni and
Chiney had just fabulous games, re-
ally just so poised, making big free
throws and making big plays all
game long.”
The younger Ogwumike scored
13 after halftime,when Stanford was
in a 28-28 deadlock with the Bruins.
In their last meeting, the Cardinal
held UCLA to just 15 first-half
points in a 64-38 victory.
VanDerveer, who said she was
working with an unusually small and
agile lineup in the absence of
Nnemkadi Ogwumike, told the
team to start driving the ball to
Chiney in the post.
“A lot of times when Chiney is
out there, the ball is going to Nneka,
and Chiney’s getting the O-boards,”
VanDerveer said. “And in this par-
ticular game, without Nneka,
Chiney was our number-one low-
block presence. In the first half, we
didn’t really do a good enough job
getting her the ball,and I don’t know
if she understood that’s what we
needed.
“But at halftime, it was made
pretty clear,” she continued.“This is
what you have to do.”
The Cardinal jumped out of the
gate in the second frame, extending
its lead to 47-37 on a Kokenis three-
pointer.The Bruins,meanwhile,shot
just 19-for-61 from the field, includ-
ing a miserable 9-for-32 after half-
time.
Stanford is the only Pac-10 team
to defeat UCLA this year, and Van-
Derveer still holds the Bruins in high
regard.
“They have a great team and a
great season,” she said. “We could
easily play them again in the Pac-10
Tournament,and they’re going to go
on and do really well in the NCAA
Tournament.”
The Cardinal made quick work
of UCLA in their last postseason
meeting, dealing the Bruins a 70-46
loss in the final game of the Pac-10
Tournament last March. Like last
season, the conference champi-
onships are set to be played in Los
Angeles next month.
In the near future, though, Stan-
ford will play its final two-game se-
ries of the regular season against
the Oregon schools this weekend.
The Cardinal opens the weekend
slate against Oregon State at 7 p.m.
on Thursday night in Maples Pavil-
ion.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@
stanford.edu.
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pens, you have to find other ways to
win. You have to get to the free-
throw line,you have to get to the bas-
ket, you have to make plays in other
ways, and that’s where our maturity
has to be.”
Owens led the way for the Card
with 13 points on 6-for-10 shooting
and seven rebounds. Freshman for-
ward Dwight Powell finished the
game with 10 boards and Green tal-
lied 11 points on 3-for-13 shooting.
Huestis had the best game of his
Stanford career, scoring 11 points on
4-for-5 shooting and grabbing five
rebounds.
For the Trojans, Vucevic led all
players with 19 points, 14 rebounds
and three blocks. Three of his team-
mates also scored in double digits:
Stepheson with 15, redshirt senior
guard Donte Smith with 13 and
Freshman forward Josh Huestis (above) had the best game of his young
Stanford career, scoring 11 points on 4-for-5 shooting. The rest of the team
did not fare as well, particularly on the offensive end, in a 69-53 loss to USC.
freshman guard Maurice Jones with
10.
Stanford shot only 33.3 percent
on the evening, with an especially
lackluster second half in which the
team shot 20 percent from the field
and went 0-for-11 from behind the
arc. USC shot 53.2 percent from the
floor and 57.1 percent from long
range on the night.
“It was just tough,” Huestis said.
“It was a rough shooting night for
everybody. We just have to get back
into the gym and get better.”
“Basically, we have to get better
as a team,” Dawkins agreed.“I think
that it showed tonight, and I think
that it was good for our players to see
that. It’s all about improving from
here on out, both individually and
collectively.”
In desperate need of a win, the
Cardinal will travel to Corvallis,
Ore., where it will face Oregon State
on Thursday at 6 p.m.
Contact Caroline Caselli at caro-
linecaselli@stanford.edu.
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pressive for Appel, who was forced
to be the Friday starter after two
junior pitchers — Brett Mooney-
ham and Jordan Pries — were
scratched from the lineup with in-
juries.
The Cardinal was unable to fol-
low up the solid performance on
Friday night with a comparable ef-
fort on Saturday though, as the
team lacked any timely hitting in a
7-1 loss.
Stanford’s offense was all but
shut down in a nice effort from Owl
starter Matthew Reckling, who
threw six shutout innings and gave
up only four hits.
Reckling’s performance stood in
contrast to Stanford’s junior starter
Chris Reed, who struggled with
command and gave up four runs in
the bottom of the second and three
runs in the bottom of the third.
However, junior A.J.Talt had a stel-
lar performance out of the bullpen,
sidearming his way through three
and one-third innings without giv-
ing up a hit or a run.
The only offensive highlight of
the day was when freshman right
fielder Austin Wilson blasted a solo
shot in the top of the seventh inning
that rocketed over 350 feet to clear
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doubles point, and Stanford had
wins on courts one, two and four in
singles.
In the final, Stanford faced No.
2 Florida, who came into the
match at 10-0 for the season. The
Gators’ singles lineup includes
five ranked players: No. 7 Allie
Will, No. 19 Joanna Mather, No. 31
Olivia Janowicz, No. 36 Lauren
Embree and No. 40 Alex Cercone.
The two programs appeared des-
tined to meet in the finals in a
matchup of No. 1 versus No. 2.
Despite struggles at the second
spot, the Cardinal managed to win
the doubles point, a reversal of
what happened last year in the
NCAA finals when the Gators
took the doubles. Barte/Burdette
recorded an upset of the No. 1
team of Will and Sofie Oyen, 8-5.
Stanford Daily File Photo
Sophomore pitcher Dean McArdle
(above) gave Stanford five strong in-
nings in the finale of a three-game
series with Rice. The Cardinal won
two out of three games in Houston.
the left field fence.
With the series tied 1-1 heading
into Sunday’s contest, the Cardinal
called on sophomore righty Dean
McArdle to bring the series home.
McArdle, who went 5-0 last sea-
son, gritted out five tough innings,
giving up only one run after a bases-
loaded, no-out situation in the top
of the first inning.
On court three, McVeigh/Tan de-
feated Cercone and Janowicz, 8-6.
Florida recovered from the dou-
bles by quickly winning matches at
the second and sixth spots to go up,
2-1. McVeigh lost in straight sets, 6-
1, 6-1, and Burdette lost to Embree,
6-4, 6-4.
“She lost to a longtime nemesis
who is a very good player,” Forood
said. “[Embree] played No. 1 for
them last year. [Burdette] got down
early in both sets and then came
back, but couldn’t quite get there in
the end.”
Stanford’s phenomenal fresh-
men delivered, though, coming off
the court in succession to put Stan-
ford back on top 3-2. Ahn finished
with a 6-4, 6-2 win. Gibbs won a
tiebreaker and then took a 7-6 (2),
6-3 victory for the lead.
“I had never been this pumped
before,” Ahn laughed. “My hand
was shaking after the first set and
after the match.”
Perhaps one of the stars of the
weekend, Tan then clinched the
The Stanford Daily
From then on, the story of the
game was left up to the Cardinal
freshmen. Stanford took the lead
and never gave it up after rookie
first baseman Brian Ragira ripped
an RBI triple into the right field gap
in the fourth inning, which was
promptly followed by a Wilson sin-
gle that scored another run to make
the lead 3-1.
McArdle then handed the ball to
fellow righthander Danny Sand-
brink, who closed out with four in-
nings of solid pitching, only giving
up one run of his own.
Sandbrink also got a little help
from the youngsters when fresh-
man second baseman Lonnie
Kauppila hit a solo shot that barely
cleared the left field wall in the sev-
enth inning, Wilson had another
RBI single, and Kauppila brought
another run home on a fielder’s
choice to notch the 6-2 final tally.
The two wins stretched the Car-
dinal’s all-time record against Rice
to 9-3, and set Stanford off on the
right foot for a tough season where
it will face off against eight of the
top 25 teams in the nation.
The Cardinal will return to the
Farm to host California in its home
opener at Sunken Diamond today
at 5:30 p.m. before heading to Van-
derbilt for a three-game series start-
ing Friday night.
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat
@stanford.edu.
tournament on court five with a 7-
5, 3-6, 6-4 victory.
“Stacey was fabulous the last
few days,” Forood said. “She had
some big wins the past few days. She
was really composed and really
won the mental battle against her
opponents. It was a great weekend
for her.
“It was a nice experience, espe-
cially since we won it,” Forood con-
tinued. “It’s the kind of thing
where you play a bunch of big
matches back to back. You have
different people get in with singles
and doubles, and it feels like a
great team effort when you finish
this tournament. We’re a young
team, a talented team, clearly, but
you have to go through a few chal-
lenges too.”
Stanford will host Oregon and
Washington State this weekend,
taking on the Ducks at 1:30 p.m. on
Friday at Taube Tennis Stadium.
Contact Will Seaton at wseaton@stan-
ford.edu.