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February 28, 2011 Issue 22

ASSU officers reap large stipends

Vice president earns highest salary at $10,000
By MARGARET RAWSON
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Though elections for ASSU offices are
rapidly approaching, a point that is often
overlooked during the voting process is
compensation for student government offi-
cials.A significant proportion of ASSU offi-
cials, both elected and unelected, receive
stipends, with the largest peaking just under
$10,000.
ASSU salaries change slightly year to
year. The budget is calculated each spring
following elections, reflecting important
changes.Each new president determines the
composition of their cabinet, so the number
of paid officials is never the same.
Currently, under the operating budget
for 2010-11, the president receives a per-
sonal stipend of $8,250, while the vice pres-
ident receives a stipend of $8,500. Both typ-
ically receive an additional $1,500 stipend,
meant to cover summer housing expenses.
Last spring, former ASSU Vice President
Kelsei Wharton ‘12, who resigned earlier
this quarter due to an injury, transferred
$1,000 of his stipend to general discre-
tionary funds because he spent part of his
summer off-campus.
As a point of comparison, the executive
Total Amount Paid to Officials: $79,350
Elections Misc.
Commission 1%
stipends are at a similar level as resident as- 12%
sistant (RA) salaries. RAs earn 75 percent
of the cost of room and board. Nominations
ations
This year, under ASSU President Angeli- Commission
mission
9%%
na Cardona ‘11, executive cabinet chairs
each earn a stipend of $800. Cardona’s chief Executive
of staff earns $2,500, bringing the total of all 48%
cabinet stipends this year to $35,750, down GSC
from $40,550 for last year’s cabinet. 21%
Last year’s ASSU President, David Gob-
aud ‘08 M.S. ‘10, gave up $2,000 of his own Senate
9%
salary to provide $1,000 in salaries for mem-
bers of his larger cabinet, including new
*Class presidents and their cabinet members are unpaid
Please see SALARIES, page 2 ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily

STUDENT LIFE
Snowchella rocks the Row
Petition for
ROTC’s return
launched
Conservatives respond to SSQL,
quickly gather over 800 signatures
By DANA EDWARDS
STAFF WRITER

A group of campus conservatives started a pe-

tition in support of ROTC’s return to Stanford.
This petition has gathered 812 signatures at the
time of publication.
The petition is the latest development in the
ongoing campus debate over the potential rein-
troduction of the ROTC program to the Farm. It
serves as a response to a similar initiative
launched several weeks ago by Stanford Students
for Queer Liberation (SSQL), which oppose the
return of ROTC on the grounds that it would vio-
Courtesy of Joey Mezzatesta late Stanford’s non-discrimination clause.
Students braved the cold on Saturday night to attend the second annual Snowchella concert, held on the front lawn of Sigma Nu. The When SSQL’s petition launched, several stu-
concert featured OCD: Moosh + Twist and Pance Party and will benefit a program that places American students in Tanzanian villages. dents who support ROTC’s return began talking
about issuing a counter-petition. Thomas Schultz
‘11, one of the leaders of the Stanford Conserva-
tive Society (SCS), spearheaded the effort by cre-
STUDENT LIFE ating the pro-ROTC petition on Feb. 22.

Parents’Weekend draws 3,500 to Farm

By LAURYN WILLIAMS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Parents’ Weekend,an annual showcase for
the parents of current undergraduates,
brought more than 3,500 pre-registered fami-
ly members to campus over the weekend.This
attendance level represented a six percent in-
crease from last year’s 3,300 attendees.
“We have had a pretty steady increase in
attendance in the past, but over the last three
years, particularly, it has continued to grow,”
wrote Elaine Enos, executive director of the
Office of Stanford Events and Protocol, in an
e-mail to The Daily.
According to Enos, the increase in atten-
dance may be due to a reconfiguration of the
Parents’ Weekend website for this year’s
event.She said the site included a “more user-
friendly online registration system” and an
extended online registration date to give fam-
ily members additional time to plan. Enos
added that promotion of the weekend during
New Student Orientation (NSO) in Septem-
ber was another contributing factor to the
bump in attendance.
Parents’ Weekend organizers followed the
strategy of attracting parents of students in all
Please see PARENTS, page 2
By the end of the day, Schultz’s petition had
gathered several hundred signatures, surpassing
SSQL’s total of 172 to date. It is hosted by Peti-
tionOnline.com, the same website that hosted
SSQL’s petition. Unlike SSQL’s, however,
Schultz’s petition does not make signatures view-
able, only displaying the latest cumulative total.
“When creating the petition, the PetitionOn-
line site seemed to indicate that if names were dis-
played, then e-mail address and phone number
would also be displayed,” Schultz wrote in an e-
mail to The Daily. “Therefore, we did not want
that information to be made public. It states be-
Please see PETITION, page 2

SPEAKERS & EVENTS Helmet Hookup

Figueres talks Cancun,
Copenhagen meetings
UN official explores
chances for future accords
By KABIR SAWHNEY
DESK EDITOR
Following the UN Climate
Change Conference and the Con-
ference of the Parties (COP) last
December, Christiana Figueres,
executive secretary of the UN
Framework for Climate Change
Convention, discussed global ef-
forts to mitigate climate change
and deal with its effects in a talk at
the Stanford Law School on Fri-
day.
Figueres touched upon the two
most recent conferences in
Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2009,
and in Cancun, Mexico, in 2010,
outlining how key differences in
the conduct of each conference
led to drastically different out-
comes.
Despite high expectations, del-
egates left Copenhagen without
an agreement to rework the glob-
al climate change regime. Accord-
ing to Figueres, much of this fail-
ure stemmed not from intractable
differences, but from procedural
mishaps.
At the end of the conference,
25 countries were invited to ham-
mer out an agreement, leaving the
opinions of many smaller coun-
tries out of the process.
“We’re all affected by climate
and all of our opinions need to be
on the table,” Figueres said.
“Countries already arrived in
Copenhagen not feeling happy
with what we call the ‘transparen-
cy and inclusiveness’ of the MEHMET INONU/Staff Photographer
Helmet Hookup, held in White Plaza on Friday, sought to increase use of bike helmets on campus and awareness
Please see CLIMATE, page 2 of bike safety issues. Free drinks at Coupa Cafe were offered to helmet-wearing riders, among other inducements.

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NEWS BRIEFS
Plane crashes shortly
after takeoff from
Palo Alto Airport
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
A single-engine Cessna 140
crashed in the mud flats on the
Alameda County side of the bay
shortly after takeoff from Palo Alto
Airport on Saturday. No one was
hurt in the crash, and the pilot es-
caped mostly unscathed. According
to authorities, the plane crashed
around 12:40 p.m.
The crash comes just a year after
a plane crashed shortly after takeoff
in East Palo Alto last February.That
crash killed three Tesla employees
and destroyed a day-care center.
In Saturday’s crash, the Menlo
Park Fire Department rescued the
retired commercial pilot, who was
flying to Illinois. The pilot, who re-
mains unidentified, has more than
30,000 hours of flying experience
and declined transportation to a
hospital for further medical treat-
ment.
— Kabir Sawhney
SALARIES
Continued from front page
graduate student-specific positions.
The Graduate Student Council
(GSC) also includes several paid
positions, most notably the body’s
chair, who receives $4,700.
The Undergraduate Senate
compensates select members, as
some positions entail a higher time
commitment. The Senate Chair re-
ceives $3,000, while the Deputy
Chair receives $1,000. The senate
secretary is compensated $800.The
chair of the Senate’s Appropria-
tions Committee, Rafael Vazquez
‘12, receives a stipend of $2,000.
In a winter quarter meeting be-
fore the transition, some senators
expressed confusion about which
of their peers receive compensa-
tion. From last year to this year, the
Senate decreased salaries for the
Chair and Deputy Chair, by 29 and
50 percent, respectively. The Sen-
ate parliamentarian is no longer
compensated.
For students hoping to run for
class president, there is no mone-
tary incentive — those positions
are unpaid.
“I think the current compensa-
tion levels are adequate for the po-
sitions,” said former Senate Chair
and recently appointed Vice Presi-
dent Michael Cruz ‘12. “There’s a
lot of work that goes into each po-
sition, so any compensation is
much appreciated.”
Cruz said he did not weigh com-
pensation as a factor in his decision
to run for elected office; he pre-
ferred instead to focus on “how
much social good and social
change I can make.”
Cruz took office following
Wharton’s resignation. He admit-
ted that he still does not know how
the ASSU will handle the transi-
tion in terms of compensation.
CLIMATE
Continued from front page
process because there were many
countries that felt left out.”
She also mentioned that deci-
sions at UN conferences are taken
by consensus and drew an impor-
tant distinction between “consen-
sus” and “unanimity.” The hosts of
the Copenhagen conference did
not draw that distinction, making
it more or less impossible to come
to a framework agreement.
Figueres said that the atmos-
phere in Cancun was much more
hospitable and that the hosts
learned from the failures at
Copenhagen. She called the agree-
ment that came out of Cancun a
“miracle.” The hosts strove to en-
sure that every country’s voice was
heard on at least one issue.
The actions of one country, Bo-
livia, were emblematic of the
changes between Cancun and
Copenhagen. According to
Figueres, the Bolivian govern-
ment’s anti-capitalist ideology led
it to reject any form of agreement,
PARENTS
Continued from front page
class years, rather than focusing on
the freshman class.This approach ap-
pears to be successful; nearly half of
President Hennessy talked to parents on Friday in Memorial Auditorium, answering numerous questions about life
at Stanford. His talk was just one of a number of events in a weekend packed with programming for parents.
“We’ve been more focused on
making sure the transition of the
work has been going well,” Cruz
said.
Cardona said that the ASSU
would try to prorate salaries for
those who moved to different posi-
tions following Wharton’s resigna-
tion, using time spent on the job as
the main metric to determine com-
pensation levels.
Cruz discussed the pay level of
student government officials in
terms of the amount of time an in-
dividual can commit and the indi-
vidual’s financial situation.
“I think it depends on the indi-
vidual’s circumstances,” he said in
reference to students’ decision to
run for office.
Unelected paid positions in the
ASSU include representatives on
the Nominations Commission and
the Elections Commission. The
chair of the Nominations Commis-
sion is currently compensated
$1,650, while the Elections Com-
missioner is compensated $3,000.
GSC Stipends, ASSU and Senate Salaries per Year
Vice President
President
GSC Chair
Senate Chair
Elections
Commissioner
Executive
Chief of Staff
Appropriations
Committee Chair
Nominations
Commission Chair $1,650
Cabinet Chairs (each) $800
but this intransigence made other
countries coalesce around the
agreements.
The agreement eventually
passed because the Mexican For-
eign Minister, who presided over
the conference, ruled that consen-
sus was not the same as unanimity
and that she “would not ignore the
will of 192 countries versus one.”
Figueres moved on to substan-
tive differences between the two
conferences, specifically in their
approach to getting agreements
on the table. Copenhagen adopted
a “top-down” approach, where a
target was set and countries wran-
gled over how to get to it.
In contrast, Cancun employed a
“bottom-up” system, where coun-
tries tabled what they thought
they could achieve in terms of
emissions cuts and adopting green
technologies. Emissions cutback
commitments only came up to 60
percent of the desired total, but
still represented a significant step
forward.
Figueres went on to explore the
economic impacts of climate
change and how mitigation is in
the economic interest of many
countries.
all registrants were parents of upper-
classmen, with almost equal num-
bers from each of the three classes,
Enos said.
Many freshman parents were
eager to participate and, on the
whole, made up the largest block of
attending parents. The weekend was
the first major event designed specif-
“The time commitment for
being on the Elections Commis-
sion is particularly high,” wrote
Elections Commissioner Stephen
Trusheim ‘13 in an e-mail to The
Daily.
He described the job as requir-
ing “year-round work” and “about
two months of constant round-the-
clock work” to ensure that ASSU
candidates, class president slates
and special fee groups meet ballot
deadlines.
Salaries for ASSU officials
were under scrutiny last spring,
when then-senator Alex Katz ‘12
presented two amendments to a
bill before the Senate to cut execu-
tive salaries. His final amendment,
to collectively cut the salaries by
$3,000, was rejected 7-1.
For further information, includ-
ing a full breakdown of all salaried
positions in the ASSU, please visit
www.stanforddaily.com.
Contact Margaret Rawson at
marawson@stanford.edu.
$10,000
$9,750
$4,700
$3,000
$3,000
$2,500
$2,000
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“China is the most responsible
country,” she said. “They’re not
doing it to save the planet —
they’re doing it because they know
that’s their competitive advan-
tage.
“Just for their own economic
development, they need to bring
up the cost of labor, i.e. raise
wages,” she added. “They know
they’re going to lose that competi-
tive advantage, but they are al-
ready thinking forward to say,
‘Okay, where is our next piece of
competitive advantage?’”
Figueres ended her talk by re-
viewing the prospects for a new,
legally binding agreement to cut
carbon emissions to the necessary
level to mitigate climate change.
She said that the “price signal” has
not been strong enough to moti-
vate enough research and devel-
opment of new technologies, but
soon many companies and nations
would find it economically advan-
tageous to be green.
“Are we going to do it? Yes!” she
said.“Why? Because we don’t have
an option!”
Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawhney
@stanford.edu.
ically for parents since NSO and al-
lowed them to interact with their
children in the campus setting.
“I loved having the opportunity
to see my son play in the band during
the sporting events that are taking
place this weekend,” said Kathy
Griffis, mother of Max Praglin ‘14.
In addition to visiting with chil-
MEHMET INONU/Staff Photographer
PETITION
Continued from front page
fore you sign your name that you
must be affiliated with Stanford
University, and our promotions
have only been to Stanford Univer-
sity students, faculty or staff.
Schultz publicized the petition
by forwarding it widely to numer-
ous e-mail lists across campus, but
emphasized that it is not officially
endorsed by SCS or any other or-
ganization.
Like SSQL’s petition, Schultz’s
petition is prefaced with a short let-
ter addressed to Stanford’s Faculty
Senate, the body that commis-
sioned the exploration of ROTC’s
potential return. Last spring, the
Senate created an ad hoc commit-
tee to investigate the issue, taking
into account popular opinion. Stu-
dent efforts have been largely di-
rected at swaying this committee,
which is set to announce its recom-
mendation in May.
The letter articulates the stance
that both Stanford and the military
suffer from ROTC’s absence on
campus.
“Our nation’s military deserves
the best officers we can give it,”
Schultz wrote in the letter. “There-
fore, elite colleges such as Stanford
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dren informally and formally at resi-
dence receptions and in dining halls,
parents’ itineraries included many
workshops, panels, specialized tours
and classes to occupy their time on
the Farm.
In recent years, the variety of
tours has expanded to include sites
such as the Jasper Ridge Biological
Preserve, the new Science and Engi-
neering Quad and Sustainability on
the Farm. Staples such as the Stan-
ford libraries and the Campus and
Architecture Tours were still offered.
“Our ‘Back to School’ classes
continue to be a highlight of the
weekend for parents,” Enos said.
These classes covered a range of
topics, covering fields such as music
and medicine. Keynote events in-
cluded Provost John Etchemendy’s
official “Welcome to Parents”on Fri-
day and President John Hennessy’s
Q&A session later that afternoon.
Parents from California constitut-
ed the largest percentage of atten-
dees, but many came from far and
wide to explore the University. Enos
said that of the 1,857 households that
registered online, about 50 percent
were from California, with the rest
traveling from across the U.S. and
even some from foreign countries.
Contact Lauryn Williams at
lauryndw@stanford.edu.
should drop their historical sever-
ance in order to enable students to
serve this vital public interest.”
Kyle Huwa ‘13, another member
of SCS and a signer of the petition,
said it was important for the ad hoc
committee to see how many stu-
dents support ROTC’s reintroduc-
tion.
“There’s been a lot of pushback
against ROTC,” Huwa said. “We
want to show the committee that
there are a lot of students support-
ing [ROTC’s return], especially
since the decision is drawing near-
er.”
In response to the argument ar-
ticulated by SSQL — that a cam-
pus ROTC presence would exclude
transgender people who are barred
from service — Huwa said a boy-
cott could not effectively change
the military’s policies because “the
military is not subject to market
conditions.”
“It can’t hurt to have talented
Stanford students in the military
working on the policy internally,”
Huwa said.
The success of the petition has
buoyed the optimism of advocates
for ROTC’s return.
“I am very hopeful that the Fac-
ulty Senate will vote to reintroduce
ROTC to campus,” Schultz said.
Contact Dana Edwards at dana727@
stanford.edu.
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The Stanford Daily
FEATURES
BREAKING IT DOWN
Digging up the dirt on campus composting
By RUOKE YANG
F
or many students, the
bright red and green com-
post bins in campus dining
halls might simply be part
of a mundane, meal-time
ritual. It’s easy to sort one’s scraps
and napkins into separate bins, or
the same bin for the less conscien-
tious, and not really know what hap-
pens after the scraps are taken away.
However, according to Julie
Muir, an employee of Peninsula
Sanitary Service, Inc. (PSSI), the
University’s recycling and waste
management company, students’
understanding of the composting
process is central to getting com-
posting initiatives to take flight.
The compost journey starts in
large dumpsters at campus loading
docks, where the compost is picked
up every few days.The waste is then
transported offsite to the Newby Is-
land Sanitary Landfill. There, or-
ganic waste is ground up and stored
in open fields in windrows, or rows
100 feet long and eight feet tall, in
which the food decomposes for 180
days. Any impurities in the decom-
posed product will surface as white
particles that can be removed be-
fore the finished compost is sold,
Muir said.
“The facility has a zero-contam-
ination policy that gives them the
ability to reject any load they don’t
like,” Muir added. “So we try our
best to keep our loads as clean as
possible.”
Muir described how current
composting practices are much
greener than previous methods in
which compostable material was
simply sent to landfills.
“The food waste degrades but
leads to methane production that
goes into the air,” Muir said. “In a
composting facility, we do this an
anaerobic way that creates some
carbon dioxide, but no methane,
which is a much more powerful
greenhouse gas than carbon diox-
ide. In addition, we are making
something new out of the waste and
it goes back into the earth.”
Despite the noble ends com-
posting facilities help achieve, com-
posting is still a business, and Stan-
ford’s participation isn’t free. Al-
though composting is less expen-
sive for the University, which pays
$45 per ton of trash, composting
still typically costs between $30 and
$38 per ton. The finished decom-
posed product is then sold by PSSI,
and Stanford typically orders some
compost from the company to use
in landscaping, mulching and com-
munity gardens.
The smell of compost dumpsters
in one consideration that compli-
cates the incorporation of compost-
ing into residential life.
Surprisingly enough, these
“dumpsters rarely smell when ex-
posed to air,” Muir said, adding that
the dumpsters only smell when they
are exposed to anaerobic bacteria.
However, the most significant
obstacle with the current system,
Muir said, is that students are not
fully informed about which materi-
als are truly compostable.
“We need some improvement
on the customer side in knowing
what should go where,” she said.
Aditya Singh ‘13, head dining
ambassador, agrees that education
about composting is critical to the
success of the process. He has been
reaching out with other coordina-
tors “in making compost bins more
user-friendly and making people
more aware of landfills and the en-
vironmental impact,” he said.
Monday, February 28, 2011 ! 3
Recent changes to clarify the
composting process are pictures of
trash or compostable material post-
ed on the distinct red and green
bins to further help direct students.
“If you have a list [of text], peo-
ple wouldn’t stop by to read it,”
Singh said.
One initiative Muir is currently
undertaking is to help inform cafes
and eateries on campus about
which composting options are
available to them and how they can
more effectively collect waste on
both sides of the counter.
The Green Living Council has
also been active in efforts to ex-
pand composting through projects
such as Composting Awareness
Week. According to Graham
Provost ‘13, a member of the Green
Living Council, the student group is
also trying to bring composting to
student residences because much
waste in dorms is actually com-
postable food.
“This quarter we have a number
of projects where students are put-
ting compost bins in their resi-
dences,” Provost said.
Muir spoke to the potential of
the campus to become even more
efficient.
“From Stanford’s perspective,
30 percent of what we throw into
the landfill is compostable,” she
said.“We could take this 30 percent
now and turn it into compost if we
could get it out of the garbage
stream.”
Just as the Stanford campus has JAMES BUI/
room to grow in its composting The Stanford Daily
journey, the state of California has
its own battle to face in taking re- the amount of composting pro- the near future.
sponsibility for waste.According to duced within state borders. “We expect to see a huge growth
Muir, California currently has more Like her vision for sustainability in composting facilities,” Muir said.
composting facilities than any at Stanford, Muir is hopeful that
other state. However, the state still the state’s composting capacity can Contact Ruoke Yang at ruokey@
lacks enough facilities to manage be expanded to match demand in stanford.edu.
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Rethink the Conservation Cup Board of Directors

Zach Zimmerman
Managing Editors

Kate Abbott Kristian Bailey

Tonight’s Desk Editors
Kabir Sawhney

O
n Feb. 14, Stanford’s Green
Living Council (GLC)
began its fourth annual
Conservation Cup, which will run
through March 15. The goal of the
Conservation Cup is, according to
the GLC website, “to use teamwork
and the competitive spirit to pro-
mote sustainable behaviors while
engaging the campus community in
a fun event.” This is clearly a laud-
able goal, but there is little evidence
that the Conservation Cup as it is
currently structured is an effective
way to achieve it.
The Conservation Cup works by
comparing dorms’ electricity and
water use during the contest period
to fall quarter averages, and reward-
ing dorms showing reductions of 10
to 20 percent. Reductions of 10 per-
cent earn all of a dorm’s students free
metal water bottles, and reductions
of 20 percent earn all of a dorm’s stu-
dents free tickets to the California
Academy of Sciences (CAS). Last
year, Hammarskjold and 717 Do-
lores achieved 20 percent reductions
while six other residences crossed
the 10-percent threshold.
If the Conservation Cup really
reduces energy and water use by 10
to 20 percent in so many dorms,than
that is truly an impressive achieve-
ment.However,there is another less
favorable interpretation of the re-
sults.Dorm electricity and water use
can vary by more than 10 percent
month-to-month during other times
of the year, so reductions of 10 per-
cent during the competition period
might have nothing (or very little)
to do with adoption of better con-
servation practices. Given the limit-
ed awareness of the Conservation
Cup within the student body, ran-
dom variance seems like the most
probable source of the observed re-
ductions.
Since small residences tend to
have higher variability in their elec-
tricity and water use, results arising
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house residents take the Conserva-
tion Cup seriously. The GLC needs
to make sure that it is rewarding en-
vironmentally conscious students,
not handing out free goodies to stu-
dents living in houses with greater
energy use variance.
Another problem with the Con-
servation Cup is the menu of prizes
it uses as incentives. Hundreds of
students received steel water bottles
after last year’s competition for 10
percent energy and water use re-
ductions. This might seem like a
“green” gesture, but according to
The New York Times,each recipient
would have to save at least 500 plas-
tic cups by using his or her water
bottle to prevent the bottle from be-
coming a net contributor of toxic
pollution to the ecosystem. Consid-
ering the fact that most Stanford
students either own reusable water
bottles already or can access them in
dining areas, this is a wasteful prize
unbecoming of the GLC’s mission.
The prize for 20 percent energy and
water use reductions is a trip to the
CAS in San Francisco. Getting
dozens of students to San Francisco
and back almost certainly negates
most or all of the energy savings re-
sulting from the competition.
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T
here has been a low buzz this year about the Stan-
ford alcohol policy in freshmen dorms, a conver-
sation that is most relevant as Resident Assistant
(RA) candidates for freshmen dorms finish their inter-
views and Resident Fellows (RFs) make their selec-
Zack Hoberg
tions. For years, Stanford has had a liberal alcohol poli- & Dave Grundfest
cy, dedicated to the idea of informed personal responsi-
bility. But conversations we hear today fundamentally

Spring Break
question this ideal. If these talks become anything
more, then students needs to be fighting the change
tooth and nail, and freshmen RAs should be leading the comparison — we have indeed had a number of close

Dreamin’
fight.
The Stanford alcohol policy is uncommon at other
schools.We’ve all heard stories from high school friends
silently pounding drinks behind closed doors, avoiding
calls, and it is probably inaccurate to compare the Stan-
ford student population directly to national college sta-
tistics because of socioeconomics and other factors —
something is working.
Perhaps more important than safety, though discussed

I
don’t know about you, but I’m
getting spring fever — spring
break fever that is. At just over
three weeks away, it’s not too late to
make travel plans.
First, you have to decide where
you’re going. Consider if you want
to go someplace warm or not. An
“unconventional” destination can
be just as hot as the Mexican beach
if you want it to be.Also think about
your price range. Factor in at least
$150 per day on a vacation, adding
on your “social dues” on top of that.
My picks for this year are
Madrid, Amsterdam, London, Ha-
vana or Costa Rica.A cursory flight
search says that all these destina-
tions are reasonable given their
normal average prices. For Mexico
consider Cabo or Cancun. At this
point, you’ll probably want to stay
away from more upscale Mexican
Johnny
Bartz
those of the rest of the month, but if
you are creative in your dates, you
can usually work around this. If you
are done with finals early, try leav-
ing a few days before and then com-
ing back early. Or you may con-
versely want to leave a few days into
spring break and come back late.
The first few days of class aren’t all
that important anyway, right?
The plane ticket is only half of
the trip, right? Well, not necessarily.
It saves you a lot of money if you
can stay with someone you know,
but pay for a hostel if you have to.
their RAs. Contrast that with the relationship that most
less frequently, is the promotion of personal responsi-
Stanford freshmen have with RAs — friendly and co-
bility.Whether or not our parents are comfortable with
operative.The decisions regarding treatment of alcohol
consumption are, within reason, left up to fellow stu-
dents who are much more in touch with actual danger
the idea, Stanford students are adults.While we are not
in the real world yet, we are rapidly approaching it.
and risk than any one-size-fits-all policy ever could be. When we get there, whatever choices we make will be
ours, and we will be wholly responsible for their reper-
Potentially dangerous behavior can be openly watched,
cussions.
simply because students trust their RAs to use their lee-
Many of our generation are raised far away from the re-
way wisely and reasonably.
alities of responsibility. While it is obviously not repre-
This arrangement seems to protect students’ well-being
sentative of everyone’s experiences, our generation is
relatively well. Depending on whom you ask, there are
around 1,400 college alcohol related deaths annually,
yet we have not had any in years. While not a perfect Please see LUNCH, page 5
O BSESSIVE KOMPULSION
Poking Holes in the Illusion

resort towns, such as Acapulco,
Mazatlan, Manzanillo, Puerto Val-
larta — flights are just too expen-
sive. If you’re willing to spend a bit
more on the flight, check out
Bangkok or Buenos Aires. Both
places are cheap once you get there.
Within the U.S., you might want
to just get away to NYC or go up to
Seattle. Miami, Panama City and
San Padre Island are, of course, our
spring break destinations. I would
avoid Honolulu if you haven’t al-
ready made reservations. Flights
and hotels are too expensive, and
while it is very nice, things are very
pricey. It’s better off-season or on
your parents’ dime. Closer to home,
there is nothing wrong with spend-
ing a few days up in SF followed by
catching a few rays in SoCal. Call
me Captain Obvious, but staying in
the U.S. can be also be an issue if
you are underage.
When looking for flights, like
many, I prefer Kayak.com. Fares
are generally 50 percent higher dur-
ing the week of spring break than
Just make sure the place checks out
on HostelWorld or a related site be-
fore you go. I’ll never forget the Pi-
rate Hostel in Rio de Janeiro that I
was supposed to stay at — there
were actually bugs crawling on the
mattress, and as I first entered the
communal room, a dog took a num-
ber two in the corner. Needless to
say, my friend distracted the owner
of the “lovely” hostel as I grabbed
all of my things and tore down the
street, not looking back.
Despite it all, I tend to go the
cheap route on lodging because
honestly, tell me how long you are
going to stay in the hotel. Actually,
my only real criteria are that things
don’t get stolen and no bedbugs.Al-
beit a bit unwarranted, my largest
fear in life is bedbugs — I’m itchy
just thinking about them. I’m not
even comforted knowing that all
beds have microscopic dust mites
— “bugs” — crawling around and
that bedbugs don’t carry disease.
Please see BARTZ, page 5
S
o, the interesting thing about
having a column is that it puts
me into a very public sphere.
As someone who considers himself
an introvert, this presents a couple
of issues: (1) being misunderstood
and not having the chance to clarify
others’ misconceptions, even if I
what I wrote makes sense to me;
and (2), more problematically, that
there is only so much I feel comfort-
able revealing about myself in this
setting — what I say in my column
is very different than what I write in
my journal.
I see these issues as part of a larg-
er problem, one that a friend and I
discussed last Saturday — a prob-
lem that has resonated as a zeitgeist
of last week in my conversations
with peers and in some of last
week’s other columns: reality and
the Illusion.
My friend and I discussed the no-
tion that most of what we say and do
in our interactions with others is an
“Illusion,” a projection of how we
want ourselves to be perceived.
Kristian
Bailey
Some of us are better than others at
packaging and marketing these pro-
jections, but it still exists.
For example, I say things like,
“I’m fine, thanks — and you?” even
to those who are physically or emo-
tionally closest to me. And in social
settings, like the dorm, the class-
room, Happy Hour at Terra, I some-
times feel like I’m the only one who
feels as insecure or unhappy as I
sometimes do — like I’m the only
one who’s struggling to finish one
paper as I start another and keep up
with the reading in SLE, while man-
aging other academics and ex-
tracurriculars; like I’m the only one
who has trouble striking up conver-
sations with people I don’t know at
Happy Hour, even though I’d like
to; like I’m the only one who is awk-
ward about expressing interest in
other people or who is hurt when
that interest is not reciprocated.
My friend said that part of the
solution is to feel better knowing
that others are just projecting —
but this doesn’t deal with the larger
problem of the Illusion’s existence.
So my friend suggested “Radical
Honesty” as a way to puncture the
Illusion — of always expressing
what we think and how we feel, with
the idea that life would be better in
the long run if everyone were hon-
est.
I argued that there are some nec-
essary and practical functions to the
Illusion and that honesty isn’t al-
ways productive. And even if this
isn’t true, many times it’s uncom-
fortable to speak the truth — white
lies are what maintain the peace
that we see on the surface. At the
same time, though, these small fab-
Please see BAILEY, page 5
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EDITORIAL T HE T RANSITIVE P ROPERTY

of investment would decrease energy
use significantly, demonstrably and

Why Transgender Awareness

permanently, rather than slightly, un-
Continued from page 4 convincingly and temporarily.
The GLC must continue to pursue
its noble mission of promoting sus-

The GLC needs to consider ways
to motivate more students and better
direct its nearly $10,000 of students’
special fees money towards energy
conservation. With the money it will
Week Is Important
tainable behavior at Stanford, but it
must also evaluate its work with a
more critical eye to ensure that its ef-
forts (and students’ money) are being
directed towards successful projects.

spend on water bottles, CAS tickets
and publicity for the Conservation
Cup, the GLC could outfit hundreds
of hallways and rooms with motion
sensors that ensure lights are off
when they are not needed. This kind
The Conservation Cup should only
see a fifth iteration if it can justify its
existence on statistical and environ-
mental merits.If it can,it should be im-
proved; if it cannot, it should be re-
placed.
T
his week is Transgender
Awareness Week at Stanford,
and of course, I love it when
people are aware of me. But I feel
like whenever I write a column dur-
ing a week that is important for
LGBT issues, I always end up writ-
ing about something depressing.
one event (they’re going on all
week, so you have no excuse). Get
educated. Start a conversation with
a friend. Forward this column to
Cristopher someone you know. As I said last
Bautista week, the transgender voice has
been marginalized for far too long.
That’s what Transgender Aware-

BARTZ
Resist the tendency to get judgey, When I was younger, the only trans- ness Week is for — to provide a
and either join the crowd or just vic- gender people I heard about were space for us to speak for ourselves.

Continued from page 4

Never put your bag on, next to or
especially under your bed. It’s a
good idea to immediately wash
your clothes upon returning home.
For security, bring a small padlock
to lock your things. More impor-
tantly, leave your unnecessary valu-
ables at home!
Now you’re ready for that spring
break you’ve always dreamed of. If
you do go to Cabo, be sure to check
out College Beach. It’s just like a
frat party with more light, everyone
in swimwear and all with a tinge of
sunburned pink. Don’t expect a cul-
tural experience in Cabo — or any
other Mexico beach destination for
that matter. Nearly everyone you
see will be American and also in-
toxicated — at any hour of the day.
ariously partake in that wet t-shirt
contest.
One word of caution — drink-
ing and being in the sun all day may
seem like the perfect mix, but much
like drinking on a long flight, you
must drink plenty of water as well
to avoid feeling exceedingly un-
comfortable. Don’t outdo yourself
too early — think special dinners.
I’m sorry, but passing out for the
night at 6:30 p.m. is not classy.
Whatever you end up doing
over break, have fun and relax.You
deserve it. If all else fails, remember
that all of spring quarter at Stan-
ford is like an eternal spring break.
So if you’re not quite in speedo
shape, you’ve got four weeks. See
you at the claw.
Johnny wants to hear about your
cures (past or future) for “the fever.”
Drop a line at jbartz@stanford.edu.
the ones who had been wronged,
who had been murdered.The lesson
I learned as a young child, watching
the news and reading the newspa-
pers, was that transgender people
are bad, deserving the things that
come to them.As I grew up, I was so
scared to be myself, so scared that if
anybody found out about me, that
I’d end up that way too.And I’m not
going to lie, that impression left on
me during those childhood days still
hasn’t left me. There are days when
I get out of bed sad and think how
easy and great and convenient my
life would be if I had just been born
with, you know, the “right” parts,
that I’d meet an early end because I
put myself too far out there.
But this week is not the week to
get depressed. For me, Transgender
Awareness Week is important be-
cause it’s a reminder to me that yes,
my life has been unconventional,
but that doesn’t mean it’s not legiti-
mate, or that it’s not valid — my hu-
To have a whole And your job is to listen. I promise
we’ll make it interesting.
There is still lot of work to be
week devoted to done. Recently the Gay and Les-
bian Task Force released a report on
transgender discrimination, titled
people like me? “Injustice at Every Turn: A Report
of the National Transgender Dis-
crimination Survey.” According to
the report, transgender people are
It’s empowering. four times more likely to live in
poverty compared to their non-
transgender counterparts and are
I’m special and two times more likely to be unem-
ployed. One fifth of transgender re-
spondents also reported homeless-
valid enough to ness during some point of their lives
— and perhaps the most frighten-
ing of statistics, 41 percent of re-
spondents reported to have at-
be celebrated. tempted suicide, compared to 1.6
percent of the general population.
There is a sad truth out there —
there is still change that needs to be
there is usually only one event, if made. I hope one day, I can look
any, dedicated to transgender back years from now and remember

BAILEY
Continued from page 4
rications, alterations, illusions are
what allow the Stanford Bubble
(and other bubbles) to exist.
Wouldn’t Stanford be even
more of a genuinely happy place
(for despite the existence of the
Bubble, I still think I am the happi-
est college student I could possibly
be at this campus) if we were more
candid about our thoughts and feel-
ings, more honest to ourselves and
to others?
Part of an Esquire article I read
on Radical Honesty said that, with
respect to resentment, it’s meant to
be expressed directly in person: “so
that you can experience in your
body the sensations that occur
when you express the resentment,
while at the same time being in the
presence of the person you resent,
and so you can stay with them until
the sensations arise and recede and
then get back to neutral — which is
what forgiveness is.” (Include other
feelings besides resentment here
and I think this gets at the essence
of how we should interact with one
another — these interactions are
what meaningful relationships are.)
Yet, still — and I apologize for
vacillating so much, but this is a manity and masculinity are simply a events. One event is not enough to these sad statistics as something
complex issue — I am too much of bit different than the standard devi- express how diverse the transgen- from the distant past. I hope that by
a coward to take the first step. Little ation. A week like Transgender der community is. To have a whole that time, in years ahead, that trans-
white lies still get me by, and I am Awareness Week gives me the op- week to people like me? It’s em- gender people are more accepted,
portunity to reflect on myself, to powering. I’m special and valid that we no longer have to justify our
honest enough to reveal part of my
real self, but still hide behind some- embrace my own identity. It’s a re- enough to be celebrated. And that existence and we can be regarded as
what of an Illusion in this column. minder that the transgender com- means a lot to me. people. It’s a long way off, but hey,
I don’t think it’s bad to have pri- munity — a community that I am But how is Transgender Aware- one step at a time.
vate areas of the self, or necessary proud to be part of — contributes ness Week important for you, my Yes, many transgender people
that the public know you, but you to the richness and diversity of both reader? It’s an opportunity to be do suffer, but the other side of that
are more than the public — you are the queer and general populations. educated, to learn about a margin- coin is that we come out of that
my peers, my deans, even my fami- The primary reason for this alized and often silenced small but process stronger. And this week is
ly, and you should know more. So, week is to celebrate us, to know that potent slice of the general popula- dedicated to our strength, to our
as a semi-action, to find a medium there are people like me who thrive tion. This week isn’t just a week to perseverance, to our bravery in that
between my column and my jour- and who are happy, who deserve to become aware of transgender peo- we are willing to live as we are.And
nal in which I can semi-publicly be be happy — because sadly, there ple. To be aware is not enough. If believe me, that’s not celebrated
Radically Honest, I’ve started a isn’t enough of that message out we’re going to change things, we enough.
blog. It’s invite only. Only two peo- there. The “T” in LGBT is heavily need to do something about it. We
ple besides me see it at the moment. marginalized, especially in months need to take action and get peo- Cristopher thinks you should hug a
But I’ve done my best to be com- and weeks dedicated to LGBT is- ple’s attention. I have several transgender person this week. E-mail
pletely honest about what makes sues. In LGBT awareness weeks, propositions for you: go to at least him at cmsb@stanford.edu.
me upset, what I desire and why I
make the choices that I do. And so
far it’s been rewarding.
If we can’t collectively break the
Illusion, maybe all we each need is
our own “semi-public” outlet to
which we can vent and be radically
or naturally honest to more people
than just ourselves. I certainly will
try more to avoid the Illusion in my
future columns.
Kristian wants to know if you want
access to the blog. You probably
won’t get it, but shoot him a line at
kbailey@stanford.edu.

LUNCH
Continued from page 4
characterized by less freedom, less
criticism, inflated egos, fluffy talk of
individuality and uniqueness and a
removal from the natural order of
cause and effect.
Realizing that we are powerless
to prevent parents from sheltering
their children, what better place
than college to introduce the future
leaders of the world, as we like to
refer to ourselves, to the idea of
consequences? If I drink to the
point where I am throwing up in the
bushes and am so hung-over that I
fail my midterm the next Monday,
that is my responsibility. I don’t get
to blame the person or house that
provided me the alcohol, or the
professor for scheduling the
midterm the Monday after the best
party of the year, or the random by-
stander for not jumping on me, de-
manding that I drop the shot glass
and step away from the handle. Be-
cause when I’m sitting over the toi-
let the next morning feeling like my
head was run over, or when I have
to tell my parents I’m retaking
chemistry, I’m the one who is re-
sponsible.
There are hints that we are drift-
ing away from this system. Pro-
grams like AlcoholEDU make
sense, helping students make in-
formed choices and realize the like-
ly outcomes of their actions. But
now students who have had alcohol
incidents are being forced to sign
agreements not to drink, and there
is talk of holding RAs responsible
for the trouble that their freshmen
get into. A month ago Professor
Cliff Nass, the Otero RF, even sug-
gested that those who supply alco-
hol to, or do not stop the alcohol
consumption of, those who get
themselves into trouble should be
found in violation of the Funda-
mental Standard.
We need to be aware of this
creeping paternalism, our reluc-
tance to blame individuals for their
actions or the outcome of their
drinking. Mistakes will inevitably
be made, and consequences will be
faced. These consequences may
hurt, and they may hurt a lot. But
something is working, and instead
of pretending that they are shocked
that houses, clubs and organiza-
tions give alcohol to underage stu-
dents when something goes wrong,
the University should accept these
incidents, except in the most bizarre
cases, as the responsibility of the
student.
To the next batch of RAs: we have
something good going. Don’t let
panic and paternalism take it away
from us. Don’t let yourselves be-
come the rubber-stamp enforcers
of a flawed policy. Whatever it says
on your official job descriptions,
there is one lesson you can teach
your freshmen that is one of the
most important they will ever learn:
how to live in a world where choic-
es matter and how to take responsi-
bility for one’s own actions.
To agree, disagree, or rant drunkenly
at the writers,contact Dave or Zack at
daveg4@stanford.edu or zhoberg
@stanford.edu.
6 ! Monday, February 28, 2011
SPORTS
CLINCHED
Stanford notches
its 20th conference
title in 25 years
By NATE ADAMS
MANAGING EDITOR
Two days after securing at least a
share of its 11th consecutive Pac-10
title, Stanford women’s basketball left
little doubt that it’s still on top of the
conference as the team cruised to a
99-60 victory over the visiting Oregon
Ducks, earning yet another outright
league championship in the process.
Senior point guard Jeannette
Pohlen wrapped up the No. 2 Cardi-
nal’s (26-2, 17-0 Pac-10) final two-
game series in emphatic fashion,
knocking down 20 points in a season-
low 20 minutes of play. Her classmate
and fellow three-time veteran of the
Final Four, forward Kayla Pedersen,
played just 19 minutes and went 5-for-
7 with 13 points.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
OREGON 60
STANFORD 99
2/26, Maples Pavilion
The win over Oregon (13-14, 4-12)
advances a number of remarkable
streaks and achievements for Stan-
ford. The Cardinal has now won 60
consecutive games in Maples Pavil-
ion, dating back to its home opener in
2007. That run includes victories over
two top-ranked opponents: most re-
cently, a 71-59 win over Connecticut
last December and another over Ten-
nessee back in 2007.
“The streak we have here at home
is very special,” Pohlen said.“We want
to give our fans a win every time we’re
at home.”
The conference championship is
Stanford’s 20th in program history
and the 20th in 25 years. For Stanford
head coach Tara VanDerveer, the
process has become almost routine.
After leading the Cardinal to all but
one of those titles, she barely even
cracked a smile as she handed the tro-
phy to her players on Saturday.
Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott
was on hand to personally deliver the
silver-and-blue crystalline cup.
Stanford got right to work in earn-
ing the win, going on a 17-5 run to
Junior starter Jordan Pries, above, allowed only two runs in seven full innings
in the Cardinal’s only win of the weekend series in Nashville. The win came
after two one-run losses on the road to the No. 3 Vanderbilt squad.
Baseball drops
2 of 3 to Vandy
Two close losses
spoil weekend
By JACK BLANCHAT
DESK EDITOR
The Stanford baseball team
fought hard against the Vanderbilt
Commodores in Nashville last
weekend, but a little bad luck came
the Cardinal’s way as it dropped the
first two games, 2-1 and 8-7, before
winning Sunday’s contest, 5-2.
The No. 8 Cardinal (4-3) per-
formed well against the strong
pitching staff of the No. 3 Com-
modores (7-1) all weekend, but
even though it outscored and outhit
the Commodores for the series,
Stanford didn’t have quite enough
to capture its second series win in as
many weeks.
Senior point guard Jeanette Pohlen, above, posted 20 points in just 20 minutes
of playing time as the Cardinal blew past the Ducks on Saturday. The victory
sealed Stanford’s 11th straight Pac-10 title and its 20th in the last 25 years.
open the game. After a 10-0 outburst
later on in the half, Stanford walked to
the locker room with a 56-25 lead.
The team may not have needed it
on Saturday, but the Cardinal re-
ceived an added boost from returning
starter Nnemkadi Ogwumike. The
junior forward injured her ankle last
weekend at USC, but played 12 min-
utes and scored four points, all on free
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
BASEBALL
STANFORD 1
VANDERBILT 2
STANFORD 7 aged more than eight points a game and
VANDERBILT 8
STANFORD 5 good player for the Cavs. That said, most
VANDERBILT 2 of Jim Durham’s call on the Bulls’ Radio
2/25-2/27, Nashville, Tenn.
Sophomore righty Mark Appel
went out first for the Cardinal on a
cold Friday night, where he squared
off against Sonny Gray, a right-han-
der who is expected to be a first-
round pick in this spring’s MLB
draft.
Both pitchers went a full six in-
nings, with Appel giving up two runs
on seven hits,but he couldn’t outduel
Gray, who weaseled past the Cardi-
Please see BASEBALL, page 7
The Stanford Daily
STANFORD SCOREBOARD
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
OREGON . . . . . . . . . . .60
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .99
2/26, Maples Pavilion
TOP PERFORMERS Points Shooting Pct. Assists Reb.
20
J. POHLEN, STANFORD 7-10 70% 3 3
K. FALLIN, ORE. 10 3-8 38% 0 4
MEN’S BASKETBALL
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .87
OREGON . . . . . . . . . . .71
2/26, Eugene, Ore.
TOP PERFORMERS Points Shooting Pct. Assists Reb.
J. OWENS, STANFORD 31 12-15 80% 21 11
M. ARMSTEAD, ORE. 22 7-15 47% 6 4
BASEBALL
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .1 STANFORD . . . . . . . .7
VANDERBILT . . . . . . . . .2 VANDERBILT . . . . . . .8
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .5
VANDERBILT . . . . . . . . .2 2/27, Nashville, Tenn.
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
UCLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 (24-26, 25-21, 22-25, 17-25)
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . . .3
UC-SANTA BARBARA . . .2 (25-21, 25-20, 23-25, 21-25, 10-15)
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . . .3
2/26, Maples Pavilion
MEN’S TENNIS
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .1
USC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
2/26, Los Angeles, Calif.
M. VOLLEYBALL
Card comeback
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
saves sweep
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH gain the lead at 16-13 with help
DESK EDITOR from six of junior outside hitter
throws, against the Ducks. Brad Lawson’s match-high 25
She wasn’t alone in getting limited A night after the Stanford kills.
minutes. Stanford’s starters hardly men’s volleyball team showed MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
played in the second half, when shoot- off its muscle in a four-set brawl
ing guard Toni Kokenis, a freshman, of a victory over No. 8 UCLA, UC-SANTA BARBARA 2
and her fellow Illinois native, redshirt the Cardinal was just two points STANFORD 3
sophomore forward Sarah Boothe, from what wouldn’t have been a 2/26, Maples Pavilion
pushed their point totals to 10 and 11, shocking, but certainly a sur-
prising and painful home sweep UCLA 1
Please see WBBALL, page 7 at the hands of UC-Santa Bar- STANFORD 3
bara.
Back to the wall, the Cardi- 2/25, Maples Pavilion
nal (12-4, 9-4 MPSF) steeled it- But a service error from
self, and, thanks to some timely
Daniel blocking, it kept the match alive
sophomore outside hitter Jake
Kneller gave the lead back to
Bohm and eventually pulled out a dra-
matic, 21-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-21,
Santa Barbara, 18-17. After
trading the next few points, the
15-10 victory in front of an ap- Cardinal clung to a precarious
On My Mind preciative crowd at Maples 23-22 lead. It was there that the
Pavilion. match turned, when Stanford
The Gauchos (10-7, 8-6) dic- scrambled during a furious rally
tated the pace of play early on and won a loose ball halfway in
Athletes on
in the match and dominated the crowd that ended up being a
just about everything else as kill for senior outside hitter
well. They hit .448 as a team in Spencer McLachlin.
game one and were almost as Now equipped with its first
the wrong efficient in game two — Stan-
ford held the lead just once in
the first two sets.
It looked like the Cardinal
set point of the match, Stan-
ford’s defense got a big stop
thanks to a team block by fresh-
man middle blocker Denny
side of fame was on its way to another let-
down at home, reminiscent of
the 3-0 loss to UC-San Diego
Falls and McLachlin, taking the
point and winning game three,
25-23.
I
earlier this month, as UCSB Coach John Kosty was ex-
nstead of the usual argumentative held a slim lead midway tremely pleased with the way
column, I’m writing a bit more for through the third set at 10-9. his team responded under pres-
fun today.You probably won’t have Stanford, to its credit, refused to
a strong opinion about it,other than roll over and battled back to re- Please see MVBALL, page 8
maybe wanting to tell me that I for-
got something — but I still think it should
be fun.
The other day,I was thinking about fa-
mous athletes. Not your Derek Jeters and
Kobe Bryants, but instead those athletes
that are famous for something other than
their own performance on the field or on
the court. For many, their stardom is a re-
sult of something dubious,while others are
noted for being a part of a memorable mo-
ment.Here is a list of some of the most no-
table and some information about the
players themselves.
Craig Ehlo
I suppose this spot could also be given
to Bryon Russell, in the “I’m famous be-
cause of Michael Jordan” category. Ehlo
was actually a pretty valuable NBA guard
for the Rockets,Cavaliers,Hawks and Su-
personics.He played 14 seasons and aver-
for about four years, he was a pretty darn
people have heard of Craig Ehlo because
Network in a 1989 playoff game between
the Cavs and the Bulls.
The line, “Here’s Michael at the foul
line,the shot on Ehlo . . . Good! The Bulls
win! They win!”may be what is most asso-
ciated with what might be Michael Jor-
dan’s most iconic shot. It’s appeared in
countless commercials and tribute films
— and in every single one there’s little
Craig Ehlo.
Tommy John
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
How many people can say they have a
Senior outside hitter Spencer McLachlin, above, lifted the Cardinal
surgery named after them? It’s too bad
to a comeback victory against UCSB on Saturday. McLachlin had 14
Please see BOHM, page 8 kills, four assists, two aces, seven digs and six blocks.
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nal lineup without his best stuff, giv-
ing up only one run on three hits.
Stanford’s offense was frustrat-
ingly ineffective against Gray, who
walked four but stuck out six even
though he was missing the strike
zone on many first pitches and strug-
gled with command in general, de-
spite his impressive stat line.
The worst day went to freshman
right fielder Austin Wilson, who had
three strikeouts and grounded into a
double play — a particularly surpris-
ing result considering that the top re-
cruit had four RBI and a home run
last weekend against Rice.
Saturday’s game was completely
opposite to Friday’s contest, as both
teams clobbered the baseball on a
sunny afternoon, with Stanford and
Vandy combining for 30 hits (with 17
hits for the Card) and 15 runs.
Stanford jumped out to a 3-0 lead
in the top of the first, but the Com-
modores came back strong, knock-
ing sophomore starter Dean McAr-
dle out of the game after just one
and one-third inning.They rallied to
take a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the
third inning behind first baseman
Aaron Westlake’s missile home run
to right field that traveled well over
380 feet.
Stanford then battled back to
score two runs apiece in the fourth
and fifth innings thanks to three
RBI from sophomore shortstop
Kenny Diekroeger, who went 4-for-
5 on the game and helped the Card
back to a 7-4 lead with four innings
to go.
Then it all fell apart for Stanford
due to two unfortunate bits of luck.
Junior lefty Scott Snodgress came in
to get the last out of the fifth inning
and looked like he would get out of
the sixth unscathed. That is, until
sophomore second baseman Eric
Smith dropped a ground ball for his
second error of the day, which let a
run score to cut the lead to 7-5.
The mistake opened the door for
Commodore shortstop Jason Espos-
ito, who hit a slow roller up the sec-
ond base line that hit the bag, flipped
over Cardinal third baseman
Stephen Piscotty’s head and ended
up as a two-RBI double to tie the
game at seven.
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Vanegas came in during the eighth
inning, and it looked like he would
get out of the eighth safely after
Snodgress let a runner reach base.
But a potential double-play throw
from freshman second baseman
Lonnie Kauppila arrived just a sec-
ond too late and the Cardinal lost the
lead again, 8-7, on the fielder’s
choice.
Stanford’s final chance to rally in
the top of the ninth was snuffed out
when righty Navery Moore blazed
his way through three batters, firing
nothing but fastballs to complete his
third save of the year, an 8-7 Com-
modore victory that clinched the se-
ries win for Vanderbilt.
The Cardinal needed to save face
on Sunday after two tough losses, so
it turned to junior Jordan Pries. The
right-hander got his first win on the
season on Tuesday by pitching four
scoreless innings against the Cal
Bears in a 3-2 win.
Pries was nothing short of spec-
tacular the second time around, no-
hitting the Commodores through
the first four innings and cruising
through seven full innings (the
longest outing for a Cardinal starter
all season). He gave up only three
hits and two runs.
Pries also got some help from the
offense,with senior designated hitter
Ben Clowe and sophomore Stephen
Piscotty knocking back-to-back
home runs in the top of the second
inning to grab an early lead, with Pis-
cotty’s shot clearing the left field wall
and crashing into the roof of Vander-
bilt basketball stadium over 400 feet
away.
Stanford let the Commodores get
close — two Vandy runs in the bot-
tom of the fifth cut the lead to 3-2 —
but some effective small-ball pushed
two more runs across in the sixth and
eighth innings.The Cardinal had jun-
ior Chris Reed close out the 5-2 win.
The Commodores handed the
Cardinal its first series loss of the sea-
son, but the win on Sunday, coupled
with Tuesday’s victory over Cal,
helped Stanford to a 2-2 record in the
second week of the season.
The Cardinal returns home on
Tuesday evening to take on the
Santa Clara Broncos in a 5:30 p.m.
game before it travels to Austin to
battle the No. 6 Texas Longhorns in
a three-game series starting on Fri-
day night.
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat
@stanford.edu.
By CAROLINE CASELLI
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Behind its strongest all-around
shooting display of the year and a
dominant 31-point performance
from redshirt junior forward Josh
Owens, the Stanford men’s basket-
ball team picked up a much-needed
88-71 victory over Oregon on Satur-
day night.With the win,the Card (14-
14, 7-10 Pac-10) snapped a four-
game losing streak one more loss
would have matched the program’s
longest losing streak in 18 years and
improves to .500 on the season.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
STANFORD 88
OREGON 71
2/26, Eugene, Ore.
The Ducks (14-14, 7-9) got off to a
hot 8-0 start, opening the game with
two three-pointers and a dunk as the
Cardinal picked up three quick fouls.
Stanford remained scoreless until
3:40 had elapsed, when an Owens
layup turned into a three-point play
followed by four more consecutive
points from the veteran big-man.
A three from freshman guard
Aaron Bright with 10:29 left in the
half tied the game at 18-18, and the
Card took the lead on the next play
off another three-pointer from junior
guard Jeremy Green. Stanford con-
tinued to widen the gap in the peri-
od’s waning minutes,entering the half
with a 43-34 advantage.
Junior guard Jarrett Mann sunk a
layup to open the second period, and
the Cardinal would maintain a dou-
RAIN, USC SPOIL WEEKEND
By ALEX ECKERT
The Stanford men’s tennis team
went 0-1 this weekend and left
Southern California with a feeling of
disappointment.
In a weekend hyped up as a clash
of Pac-10 titans, it was the weather
that defined the weekend as rain
cancelled one match and abbreviat-
ed another.
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STANFORD 1 about the game.
USC 5 “I’ve gone down to L.A. many
2/26, Los Angeles, Calif.
First up was UCLA on Friday.
The Cardinal was itching to get back
at the Bruins after UCLA bounced
Stanford from last season’s NCAA
Tournament in the round of 16. Both
the Cardinal (8-3) and Bruins (9-2)
are off to fantastic starts this season
and were looking to prove them-
selves in Friday’s match. Unfortu-
nately,neither got that chance as rain
cancelled the match a few hours be-
fore it was scheduled to begin.
Then came two-time defending
champion USC on Saturday. Stan-
ford had gotten the best of its in-state
rivals last weekend at the ITA Na-
tional Indoor Championships, 4-3,
but USC had the edge this time
around, winning in a 5-1 rout.
With rain clouds on the horizon,
doubles play was foregone in order
to start singles and come to a deci-
sion as soon as possible. In the end,
cutting play short may have been un-
necessary, as USC rolled to five
straight singles wins. Only one went
to three sets.
Sophomore Matt Kandath pulled
out the only victory for Stanford at
the No. 6 spot after the Cardinal had
fallen behind, 5-0. Kandath won his
match, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.
Other players did not fare so well.
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Continued from page 6
respectively. Kokenis was perfect
with her shooting, going 3-for-3
from the field and knocking down
all four attempts from the line.
Redshirt senior Melanie Mur-
phy got 14 minutes on the court,
mostly as a point guard. Stanford’s
only fifth-year player, Murphy got
into double digits as she scored 10
points on 6-for-7 free throw shoot-
ing.
In short, Stanford was making it
look easy. In the last 10 years, the
team often has.
“I think maybe some people
might take it for granted some-
times,” Pohlen said of the streak of
conference championships.
“Maybe the fans or people who
don’t really follow Pac-10 basket-
ball closely. But a lot of work goes
into everything that we accom-
plish.”
With another title for the banner
and just one game left in the regular
season, Stanford can start turning
its attention to the playoffs — and
the big opponents it might meet
there.
At No. 2, the Cardinal is behind
only top-ranked Connecticut (28-1,
17-0 Big East), an opponent that
has often had Stanford playing sec-
ond fiddle in the National Tourna-
ment. The Huskies are in the midst
of another incredible year, having
Monday, February 28, 2011 ! 7
ble-digit lead — and complete con-
trol of the game — for the duration.
Shots continued to fall for the Card
lineup, while Stanford’s defense suc-
cessfully shut down Oregon forward
Joevan Catron, holding the senior to
just eight points — he averages 15.2
points per game — in his final career
home game.
Despite double-digit second half
performances from senior guard Jay-
R Stowbridge and junior guard Mal-
colm Armstead, with a respective 12
and 13 points in the period,the Ducks
failed to get into an offensive rhythm
and were outmatched by the bigger,
taller Cardinal squad.Stanford led by
as many as 20 points in the period be-
fore sealing the 17-point victory.
Armstead led the Ducks with 22
points on 7-for-15 shooting and five
steals. Stowbridge added 16 and
freshman guard Johnathan Lloyd an-
other 11,with both players coming off
the bench.
The star of the night on both ends
of the floor was Owens, who impres-
sively racked up a career-high 31
points on 12-for-15 shooting in addi-
tion to 11 rebounds and four blocks.
Four other Cardinal players ended
the night in double-digit scoring fig-
ures, including Green with 15, Bright
with 13 and freshmen forwards An-
thony Brown and Dwight Powell with
12 and 11 apiece. Powell matched
Owens’ 11 rebounds, recording the
second double-double of his Stanford
career,while Mann led the game with
seven assists.
Stanford’s shooting, which has fal-
tered at multiple points this season,
was notable, with the team shooting
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Sophomore Matt Kandath, above,
tallied the only victory for Stanford
this weekend. Kandath won in the
No. 6 spot in a 5-1 loss to USC after
Friday’s scheduled match against
UCLA was rained out.
Defending NCAA singles cham-
pion and ninth-ranked Bradley
Klahn fell to fourth-ranked Steve
Johnson of USC, 6-3, 6-3. Johnson
seems to have Klahn’s number, as he
beat Klahn for the second time in as
many matches.
At the No. 2 spot for Stanford,
No. 52 Ryan Thacher fought valiant-
ly but ultimately fell to No. 16 Daniel
Nguyen, 6-3, 6-7, 1-0 (10-7). Thacher
had beaten Nguyen last week and
this was the closest match of the top
five spots.
The key difference between this
week’s match and last week’s was
the return of No. 37 Ray Sarmiento
secured the Big East Tournament’s
top seed with a win over No. 18
Georgetown last weekend. But
after Stanford’s upset earlier this
season, it’s understandable that not
everyone agrees with the current
national rankings.
“It’s debatable who’s the best
team in the country,” said Oregon
SPORTS BRIEFS
Men’s track takes MPSF title
The men’s indoor track team’s
107.5 points topped Arizona’s 102
to claim the team’s first ever Moun-
tain Pacific Sports Federation
(MPSF) championship last week-
end.The MPSF for track was found-
ed in 2002, and Stanford’s previous
best finish was its runner-up posi-
tion last year.
A key performance came when
Stanford placed four runners in the
top seven of the mile, led by senior
Elliott Heath’s MPSF title-winning
time of 4:00.52. Junior Amaechi
Morton also claimed an individual
conference title in the 400 with his
time of 46.50.
The Stanford women took third
in their MSPF tournament, as Ore-
gon took the championship. Senior
Whitney Liehr defended her MPSF
title in the triple jump for the
women’s only individual title. The
finish was the Stanford women’s
eighth consecutive third-place fin-
ish in the MPSF.
— Matt Bettonville
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Redshirt junior Josh Owens, above,
put up 31 points as the Cardinal
broke its four-game slide to improe
to a .500 record on the season with
an 88-71 win over the Oregon
Ducks on Saturday.
59.3 percent on the night and 65.2
percent in the second half alone. The
Cardinal also dominated the glass,
outboarding the Ducks, 36-21, and
recorded eight blocked shots to Ore-
gon’s one.
Tomorrow night, Stanford will
face non-conference opponent Seat-
tle University at 7 p.m. in Maples
Pavilion for its final home game of the
season.
Contact Caroline Caselli at caro-
linecaselli@stanford.edu.
to the Trojan lineup. Sarmiento was
inserted at the No. 4 spot and proved
too much for Sophomore Denis Lin
to handle,winning the match 6-4,6-2.
Sarmiento’s return shifted the
Trojan lineup favorably and USC’s
Emilio Gomez rounded off the Tro-
jans’ five victories, breaking Greg
Hirschman’s four-game winning
streak with a 7-6, 6-1 victory over the
Stanford senior.
Head Coach John Whitlinger did
have some positive notes to say
times in my years as a coach and at
times we’ve gotten blasted down
there, but then we still beat them in
the NCAA Tournament,”
Whitlinger said with a smile. “So
whatever happened, there is still a
long way to go before the NCAAs.”
However, after starting 7-0, Stan-
ford has dropped three of its last four
matches. All have been against top
competition, so it is not too much
cause for worry. However, as a na-
tional title contender, the Cardinal
will be hoping to develop more con-
sistency against tough opponents.
USC, Stanford and UCLA are
the three leaders in NCAA men’s
tennis titles with seventeen, sixteen
and fifteen titles, respectively. After
these Pac-10 powerhouses, the next
closest is Georgia with a mere six ti-
tles. It is safe to say these schools will
be relevant in the national title hunt
going forward and as Whitlinger inti-
mated, when they meet again, the re-
sult is far from determined by Satur-
day’s results.
Stanford travels to the Pacific
Coast Doubles Tournament before
the start of Pac-10 play and will have
another shot at the L.A. schools at
home on March 25 and 26.
Contact Alex Eckert at aeckert@stan-
ford.edu.
head coach Paul Westhead. “[Stan-
ford] would certainly get my vote.”
The Cardinal will wrap up its
regular season with an 8 p.m. match
against Cal this Thursday in Maples
Pavilion.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams
@stanford.edu.
Stanford women’s swimming
defends conference title
The Cardinal women successful-
ly defended their 2010 Pac-10 swim-
ming and diving title last weekend,
coming back to defeat Cal, 1567.5-
1545.5. Freshman Maya DiRado
(200 back), senior Kate Dwelley
(100 free) and senior Meg Hostage
(platform) all earned titles in their
respective events as Stanford edged
out its cross-bay rival. The string of
back-to-back titles is Stanford’s first
since 2005-06.
Stanford trailed the Golden
Bears entering the final day of com-
petition, but pulled ahead with wins
in three events. Dwelley came out
on top in the 100 and 200 freestyles,
with an excellent time of 48.14 sec-
onds in the 100. DiRado earned a
win in the 200 back, finishing in
1:53.04.
Stanford will next head to Min-
neapolis for the Zone Regional
Diving Championships, which start
on March 10.
— Nate Adams
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that many people don’t know that
Tommy John is more than an elbow
ligament replacement surgery that
keeps baseball players sidelined for
about 18 months — because the real
Tommy John was a pretty darn good
baseball player.
John arguably should be in the
MLB Hall of Fame.He pitched 26 sea-
sons and won 288 games. He was a
four-time All Star and he pitched 15
seasons after having the surgery that
now bears his name. Not bad. Still, if
you Google Tommy John,you first get
stories about players getting the sur-
gery and not articles about the player
himself.
Vic Wertz
Like John, Vic Wertz had a pretty
successful Major League career and
was a four-time All Star. He hit 266
home runs in 17 seasons. Yet Wertz,
like Ehlo, will always be remembered
for being the wrong end of a career-
defining play by a legend.
While playing for the Cleveland In-
dians in Game One of the 1954 World
Series,Wertz drove a ball to deep,deep
centerfield.The trouble was that at the
Polo Grounds, the home of the New
York Giants,the center-field fence was
483 feet away — and Willie Mays was
playing centerfield. Mays, of course,
ran down Wertz’s ball about 450 feet
from home plate and made an over-
the-shoulder basket catch. Today it is
simply known as,“The Catch.”
Adam “Pacman” Jones
Yes, he was a high draft pick (No. 6
overall pick in the 2005 draft), but had
it not been for his legal troubles, Jones
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Continued from page 6
sure, if a bit perturbed that the Car-
dinal let it come to that. He called
the team “simply resilient” and said
the team members really believe in
each other.
With the momentum finally on
Stanford’s side to start the fourth
set, the Gauchos started to have all
kinds of trouble against the Cardi-
nal’s blocking. After hitting .450 in
games one and two, UCSB hit .296
in game three, a paltry .138 in game
four, and .250 in game five — Stan-
ford never trailed in either of the
last two sets.
Lawson hit a season-high .564
for the match with 25 kills and eight
digs. Junior setter Evan Barry
chipped in 51 assists and eight digs,
and after enduring some early
struggles, McLachlin finished with
14 kills, four assists, two aces, seven
digs and six blocks.
But Kosty may have found a
budding star in Falls.The little-used
freshman from Orland Park, Ill.
came off the bench and sparked the
Cardinal with five kills,a service ace
and that critical block assist with
McLachlin.
“Denny’s just an athletic and ex-
plosive middle blocker,” Kosty said.
“We wanted to change something
up and we gave Denny the opportu-
nity. He came in, and he took full
advantage of it.”
The turnaround was even more
rare than it might appear at first
glance. In the last seven years, Stan-
ford has only come back from two
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likely would have just been known as
another NFL draft bust (ala Mike
Rumph or Phillip Buchanon).
Instead Jones is a consistent head-
liner,even though he has done little to
nothing with his immense talent. He
was suspended for more than a full
season for his multiple arrests and for
essentially spending more time in strip
clubs than weight rooms. Yet people
are fascinated by Jones and he contin-
ues to be a fan favorite.
Todd Bertuzzi
In the early 2000s,Bertuzzi was one
of the top power forwards in the NHL.
He had 46 goals and 97 points for the
Vancouver Canucks in 2002-03. He
has more than 700 points and almost
300 goals in his career.Yet Bertuzzi will
always be known for making one of
the most vicious cheap shots in the his-
tory of the NHL.
Near the end of an 8-2 blowout in
March 2004,Bertuzzi went looking for
revenge against Colorado Avalanche’s
Steve Moore, who injured one of
Bertuzzi’s teammates earlier in the
season. Bertuzzi followed Moore
down the ice, and when Moore de-
clined to fight, Bertuzzi sucker-
punched him in the back of the head
and fell on top of him.Moore suffered
a concussion and fractured three ver-
tebrae in his neck.His NHL career was
over.
Despite lots of tears and public and
private apologies, Bertuzzi will, right-
fully or wrongfully, always be known
for that hit, and it will haunt his career
until he hangs up his skates.
Obviously, this list could go on and
on.Don’t hesitate to tell me who else I
should have included.
Comfort Dan Bohm for only being
known as yet another Stanford Daily
columnist at bohmd@stanford.edu.
sets down to win twice, and never in
the last two seasons. But this year’s
Cardinal is now 4-0 in five-set
matches.
It only took four sets to dispatch
UCLA (9-9, 4-8) on Friday night,
but the victory was closer than it ap-
peared. Both teams hit over .400 on
the night, with Stanford coming in
at .458 to the Bruin’s .403, and the
theme of the night was certainly of-
fense.
The Cardinal took game one, 26-
24, thanks to seven kills from Law-
son and six from McLachlin. But
the lead was short-lived, as UCLA
stormed out to a four-point lead at
10-6 and didn’t blink in the face of
Stanford’s attacks to earn the set
victory.
The Bruins were led by fresh-
man Gonzalo Quiroga, who looked
very impressive and served five
consecutive points late in the third
set with three aces to retake the
lead for UCLA. Freshman outside
hitter Eric Mochalski had a nice kill
on another assist from Barry, one of
his career-high 54 in a four-set
match, to give Stanford a little mo-
mentum toward the set victory.
Stanford got stronger as the
match went on, culminating in a
.500 hitting percentage in set four.
The Cardinal took the lead early
and never gave it back, running
away with a 25-17 set-clincher.
The weekend firmly solidified
Stanford’s standing in the top three
of the brutal MPSF conference, but
there won’t be any room for a let-
down with trips to UC-Irvine and
UC-San Diego this weekend.
Contact Miles at milesbs@stanford.
edu.