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UNIVERSITY

FAO to remain
unaffected by
Pell Grant cuts
Admins will rely on other sources to
cover gaps from lower gov’t funds
By MARIANNE LeVINE
STAFF WRITER
Federal funding for Pell Grants may de-
crease significantly if the Senate also passes
the H.R.1 bill recently passed by the House of
Representatives. Stanford’s Financial Aid
Office is confident that these proposed cuts,if
enacted, would have a limited impact on the
University’s need-based financial aid policy.
The Pell Grant program helps low- to mid-
dle-income undergraduates pay for college
and also provides funding for working low-in-
come adults who want to return to school to
specialize in certain interests and skills.
Under the proposed H.R.1 bill, the Pell
Grant program could face a 24 percent reduc-
tion, totaling $5.7 billion, which leaves each
student with $4,015 instead of $4,860 in grant
money.
According to the Center on Budget Poli-
cies and Priorities (CBPP), one of the coun-
try’s leading policy organizations on legisla-
tion affecting low-income families, H.R.1’s
stipulations could be detrimental to the de-
mographic they affect.
The Pell Grant is unique in that it consists
of two different types of funding, mandatory
and discretionary.The former is a legal guar-
antee that each student will receive $690 an-
nually to help finance his or her education.
But the bulk of Pell Grants are funded by dis-
cretionary means; an annual appropriation
bill essentially allows the government to
spend money to support these grants.
Cuts are, for the most part, directed at the
latter. However, the CBPP claims that H.R.1
threatens to eliminate the mandatory compo-
nent altogether by 2014.
“Proponents of cuts in assistance to lower-
income individuals and families often claim
that America should strive to achieve equali-
ty in opportunities rather than equality in
outcomes,” according to the CBPP website.
“Cuts in programs like this, which help pro-
vide improved opportunities for success in
school and work to otherwise-qualified dis-
advantaged young people, make a mockery
of such claims.”
According to CBPP research, downsizing
the discretionary awards could lead to $64 bil-
lion in cuts in mandatory funding for Pell
Grants in the next 10 years.
Representatives for the CBPP declined to
comment to The Daily on the issue.
Stanford’s director of financial aid, Karen
Cooper, does not believe the decision on Pell
Grants will have a significant effect on the
University’s financial aid policies.
“The Pell Grant program is very helpful to
us and makes a difference in our overall
budget,” Cooper said. “If it’s a short-term
change,we should be able to absorb that with
institutional funds . . . in the long run we may
need to expect a little bit more of all of our
students before we take in Stanford scholar-
ship funds.”
Each Stanford student’s total financial aid
award is determined by calculating both par-
ent and student contributions as well as
awards and scholarships that make up the dif-
ference.Cooper indicated that cuts to the Pell
Grant program might require increased stu-
dent loans.
Still, Cooper remains optimistic.
“For the last four or five years, we’ve been
expanding our financial aid pool,even during
Please see GRANTS, page 2
Night Lights
Case brought
against ASSU
ROTC bill
SSQL president’s petition questions
constitutionality of advisory bill
By KATE ABBOTT
DEPUTY EDITOR
Alok Vaid-Menon ‘13, president of Stanford Stu-
dents for Queer Liberation (SSQL), filed a petition to
bring a case against the ASSU with the Constitution-
al Council, which was approved this week. Constitu-
tional Council case W2011-1,Vaid-Menon v. Cardona,
will determine the constitutionality of a bill passed by
the Undergraduate Senate to place an “advisory ref-
erendum” question on the spring elections ballot,
which is intended to gauge student opinion regarding
ROTC.
The Constitutional Council is the judicial branch
of the ASSU, but Vaid-Menon’s case will be the first
the body has heard in over one year. However, the
Senate recently passed a bill redefining some of the
roles of the Constitutional Council and of the solici-
tors general so that both can become more active
bodies.
According to Constitutional Council Chair Samir
Siddhanti ‘12, before the Council’s Rules of Order
were passed two weeks ago,“there was no framework
for how to accept or try to a case.”
Siddhanti said that Vaid-Menon’s petition was
filed late Sunday evening, and both parties were noti-
fied by Tuesday. He said that given the new rules, the
five-member Council hopes to set a precedent by hav-
KYLE ANDERSON/The Stanford Daily
ing a quick turnaround for trials.
Stanford students gathered for a candlelight vigil, sponsored by the Muslim Student
“This is the very first trial we’ve gotten since the
Awareness Network, in the Old Union Courtyard last night to honor thousands of men
and women fighting for their freedom in Libya and the Middle East. Please see ASSU, page 2
RESEARCH
Crime metaphors sway public opinion
By SAMANTHA MCGIRR used. In one study, 71 percent of subjects pro- tistics held the most sway in determining their
SENIOR STAFF WRITER posed more law enforcement when told crime policy decisions.
was a “beast,” compared to 54 percent of sub- Psychology assistant professor Lera
When it comes to crime, one word may be jects who did so after reading crime was a Boroditsky, who co-authored the study, said
enough to sway people’s perceptions. “virus.” these findings show the extent to which people
This finding came from the Stanford study When asked to cite the most influential part underestimate the role of language in decision-
“Metaphors We Think With: The Role of of the report, only 15 of the 485 participants se-
Metaphor in Reasoning,” published in the Feb. lected the metaphor; the majority said the sta- Please see CRIME, page 2
23 edition of PloS ONE. The study shows that
people are more likely to support harsher laws
and increased jailing of offenders when told
crime is a “beast” preying on a community.
When crime is described as a “virus”infecting a
city,however,people are more likely to propose
social reform.
First-year psychology graduate student Paul
Thibodeau, the study’s lead author, said the re-
sults demonstrate the powerful influence of
metaphor in shaping solutions to complex
problems.
“Things like crime and other difficult social
issues are very abstract and complicated,” he
said. “It’s hard to think clearly about how to
solve the issue.Metaphors about crime are a lit-
tle easier to talk about.When we use metaphors
for crime, we import structures from other do-
mains.”
In a series of five experiments, participants
were given one of two versions of a report on
rising crime rates in the fictional city of Addi-
son. The versions framed crime either as a
“beast” or a “virus” but offered identical statis-
tics detailing the rise. Participants were then
asked to propose solutions to the crime.
Researchers found that the subjects’ re-
sponses varied depending on the metaphor SERENITY NGUYEN/The Stanford Daily

RESEARCH

Study finds new breakthrough for lethal brain tumor

ANASTASIA YEE/
The Stanford Daily
By CASSANDRA FELICIANO
DESK EDITOR
Scientists at the School of Medicine
have created an animal model of a rare
and fatal brain tumor affecting young
children. This model is the first of its
kind and will allow scientists to better
study Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine
Glioma (DIGP), a disease that is fatal
for nearly all children who are diag-
nosed, according to a paper published
in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
Led by pediatric neurologist
Michelle Monje, the team found that
these models could be made by inject-
ing human DIGP cells, donated by the
parents of deceased patients, directly
into mice. Using this model, the team
found new molecular signals that
prompt the cancer to grow.
“In a mouse,that population of cells
is responsive to the Hedgehog path-
way, a signaling pathway important in
normal development and many forms
of cancer,” Monje said. “We tested the
role [of the pathway] by regulating it
genetically, and in mice with regulated
pathways, [ . . . ] cells didn’t look as
strange.”
These signals could also one day
hold the key to curing the cancer by
acting as signals for anti-tumor drugs.
Monje and her team said they planned
to pursue potential cures.
The animal model represents some
of the biggest advances for this partic-
ular disease, where treatment ad-
vances have been stagnant for 35
years, Monje said.
Part of the problem is the lack of
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TUMOR
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available samples.
“The tumor is not biopsied, as
diagnosis can be made radiologi-
cally (by MRI) and biopsy is dan-
gerous because of the tumor loca-
tion,” wrote senior author
Philip Beachy, professor of devel-
opmental biology, in an e-mail to
The Daily.
Although Monje declined to
give names, she said other research
institutions have attempted to cre-
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new group was brought in,” he said,
“but that’s what we would like to
do, especially given the time sensi-
tive nature of this case.”
ASSU President Angelina Car-
dona ‘11 authored the bill to place
an “advisory referendum” question
on the general elections ballot ask-
ing student opinion on the poten-
tial for ROTC to return to campus.
Both the Senate and the Graduate
Student Council voted to pass the
bill at the beginning of February.
At the time, Cardona said that
Vaid-Menon was consulted on the
drafting of the language of the bill so
that it could be presented with “neu-
tral language.” In an interview with
The Daily,Vaid-Menon said that de-
spite consultation, he was “frustrat-
ed by the passing of the bill.”
“In no way did I ever give my
complete acceptance of this bill,”
he said. “This is a way for me to ad-
dress my concerns.”
For Vaid-Menon, asking for stu-
dent opinion by voting on support
for the ROTC issue is like “putting
civil rights on the ballot box.”
Vaid-Menon and SSQL oppose
the return of ROTC to Stanford
because it does not allow transgen-
der students to participate.
“It frames ROTC as a question
and not as a policy,” he said. “The
University is very firm in its non-
discrimination policy, which in-
cludes gender identity. It seems
generally silly to have a question
that violates this University policy.”
Siddhanti said that the evidence
required to prove constitutionality
of an ASSU bill or action varies
from case to case.
he said. “We need to consider the
ethics of voting on this bill.”
Although Vaid-Menon filed the
petition as an individual, he said
that his effort to aid SSQL’s oppo-
sition to ROTC means that his ac-
tions can be interpreted as on be-
half of the group.
“I think, from my perspective,
the distinguishing factor that does-
n’t make the bill unconstitutional is
that it’s a non-binding referendum,
equitable to other avenues of input
that the ad hoc committee has wel-
comed,” Cardona said. “That’s def-
initely within my bounds as presi-
dent to have proposed and I still
support [the bill].”

ate samples as well. Stanford, how-
ever, is the first in the world to
achieve any success.
DIPG is particularly difficult to
treat because the cancerous cells
entwine themselves with healthy
cells in the brain stem. Since the
brain stem is necessary for the
body’s survival, surgery is not an
option.
As a result, Monje’s findings
“give a lot of hope,” said Danah
Jewett, whose late son, Dylan, was
one of the earliest donors to
Monje’s research in January 2009.
“For 35 years, parents were told
that their child was going to die,”
Jewett said.
“These children need it so badly
and their families need it so badly,”
she added.
DIPG, which primarily affects
children ages five through nine, is
one of the more common pediatric
tumors, Monje said. It affects up to
400 children annually in the U.S.
Less than 1 percent of victims live
through the first five years once the
cancer has set.
Six other families have followed
in the Jewett’s footsteps and decid-
ed to donate their tumor cells,
Monje said.
Her team has also been contact-
ed by a number of other re-
searchers interested in further
studying the disease.
For their part, Beachy said that
the team has two future studies
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the economic recession,” she said.
“Even though endowment has re-
duced, the University remains com-
mitted to need-based financial aid.
Money gets taken away from other
things to keep our financial aid pro-
gram whole.”
Cooper indicated that programs
ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily
like The Stanford Fund (TSF) have
been helpful in bridging financial aid
gaps. In the past, about half of the
money from TSF has gone to provid-
ing scholarships. This year, the num-
ber increased to 75 percent due to a
decline in endowment funds.
“Stanford re-prioritizes funding
to make sure the University meets
the expectations of its students,”
Cooper said.
Contact Marianne LeVine at mlevine2
@stanford.edu.
“Most of the arguments are
[ASSU] constitutionally based, and
the petitioner argues why or why
not there’s a violation, and in some
cases people can bring witnesses,”
he said. “It’s pretty much anything
allowed in real court.”
“There’s also a segment for
friends of the court to be heard,”
Siddhanti added. “We want to
make the process much more trans-
parent and open to the public.”
Cardona said that she was “not
surprised” to hear about the case.
She said that she recommended the
Constitutional Council as an av-
enue for Vaid-Menon to explore
when he initially voiced concerns
over the bill.
“When I showed [Vaid-Menon]
the original draft, he had concerns
about the bill in and of itself,” Car-
dona said.
“Situations like this is why the
Constitutional Council exists and so
I think that the trial will be good and
the process will be an educational
one for everyone,” she added.
Vaid-Menon argues that it is the
responsibility of the ASSU to up-
hold University policies in addition
to its own, including the non-dis-
crimination policy.
“There’s this rhetoric for its still
okay for people to vote and have a
say on civil rights of other people,”
“That being said, I do under-
stand where [Vaid-Menon] is com-
ing from and want to do everything
I can to support and represent the
transgender community as well.”
Both Vaid-Menon and Cardona
recognize that ultimately, the deci-
sion to recognize ROTC will be
made by the Faculty Senate after
receiving the report from the ad
hoc committee in May.
“I don’t see this as that big of a
deal, to be honest, because at the
end of the day, people understand
that the students themselves aren’t
making this decision,”Vaid-Menon
said. “This is much more of a sym-
bolic campaign, and it’s time for
students to hold the University ac-
countable.”
“I hope the rhetoric behind this
case doesn’t dwindle down to
ROTC: should it return or should it
not, because that’s not what this
case is about,” Cardona said. “The
question this case is focusing on is
whether or not posing an advisory
question to the campus community
is constitutional or not.”
The trial will be next Wednes-
day, March 9, at 8 p.m. and open to
the public. The location has not yet
been determined.
Contact Kate Abbott at kmabbott
@stanford.edu.

Winter SNAPS
lined up: the first on the new tumor
model to determine what kinds of
therapies might be useful, and an-
other to understand the possible
cell of origin and changes in nor-
mal cell function that cause the tu-
mors.
Several pharmaceutical compa-
nies are also working to develop
drugs that will treat this cancer.
Monje’s new mouse models will
test some of the drugs.
The research was funded in part
by the National Institutes of
Health, the National Brain Tumor
Foundation and the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute.

Ivy Nguyen contributed to this re-

port.

Contact Cassandra Feliciano at ccfe-

lici@stanford.edu.

CRIME
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making.
“These studies show the power of
language in framing our decisions,
especially in cases where we don’t
realize it,” she said. “We all like to
think we make rational decisions,
but even a single word can bring a JIN ZHU/The Stanford Daily
whole knowledge structure that
Bellydancers, jugglers and playwrights, oh my! It was a night of food, drinks and merriment at Sigma Nu as art-lovers stopped to look and listen at this
guides our reasoning.”
The study also accounted for po- year’s Winter SNAPS, where fellow students showcased their musical, poetic and overall artistic talent.
litical party affiliation,with Republi-
cans being 10 percent more likely
than Democrats to suggest enforce-
ment-based solutions. Subjects who
read that crime was a “beast” were
about 20 percent more likely to sup-
port such solutions, regardless of af-
filiation.
Law professor Robert Weisberg
said the study reveals how crime rhet-
oric itself has become a metaphor for
political and social unease.
“Crime enters political discourse
in a way where it substitutes for
other issues,” he said. “It’s a good
metaphoric issue for people express-
ing their anger or frustration at other
things.”
Since crime is an inherently
loaded topic,policy makers and pub-
lic officials should ensure the lan-
guage used to describe it does not
unduly inflame passions, Weisberg
said.
“Colorful language is not always
accurate,” he said. “We have a huge
apparatus of criminal justice in the
United States and we want to see if it
is solving problems efficiently. It is
not a military machine or something
out of a sci-fi movie . . . neutralizing
the language with which crime is dis-
cussed would be a good thing.”
Thibodeau cautions, however,
that language is just one of many fac-
tors that influence people’s opinions
on crime and other issues.
“It worked pretty well when we
gave people a report on crime and
they didn’t have background con-
text,”he said.“In the real world,peo-
ple have more information. All
things being equal,subtle metaphor-
ic clues can help us structure how we
think about abstract and complex is-
sues.”

Contact Samantha McGirr at smcgirr

@stanford.edu.
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FEATURES
BEYOND BANDURA’S
BOBOS
How serendipity flung Albert Bandura into the
spotlight as a leading social psychologist
By JENNY THAI
STAFF WRITER
W
ith twinkling eyes
and a gently wrin-
kled face in a per-
petual half-smile,
Albert Bandura
looks every inch the quintessential
kindly grandfather, from the muted
burgundy sweater to the soft lull of
his voice.
Bandura, a man of many talents,
has had a long and illustrious aca-
demic career spanning over six
decades. The David Starr Jordan
Professor Emeritus of Social Sci-
ence in Psychology, Bandura has
contributed immensely to the field
of social psychology, and is the fa-
ther behind the theory of self-effica-
cy and social learning theory.
Ranked as the most cited living psy-
chologist in the world, Bandura has
authored seven books to date and
has written over 180 articles.
Bandura was born and raised in
Mundare, a small hamlet in northern
Alberta, Canada with a population
of approximately 400 people, mostly
immigrants from Poland and
Ukraine. His elementary and sec-
ondary school years at the only
school in town were “very limited in
education resources,” recalled Ban-
dura. Usually, limited educational
resources would be seen as a hin-
drance, but Bandura looks back on
his schooldays as an opportunity for
self-learning, a major skill that is the
center of his social learning theory.
Courtesy of Albert Bandura “We pilfered a teacher’s
trigonometry book, so that we could
study it ourselves,” Bandura said.
“The students had to take charge of
their own education.”
Bandura’s early resolve for
scholastic success was largely due to
his upbringing because his parents,
though they received no formal edu-
cation, placed enormous emphasis
on academic development.
“My mother told me I could till
the land, play pool and drink myself
to oblivion,” Bandura said. “Or I
could get an education.”
“Needless to say, I chose the lat-
ter,” Bandura added with a light-
hearted chuckle.
Bandura’s summers were spent
picking up carpentry, a skill set that
would later help pay for his college
education. One memorable summer
after high school graduation, Ban-
dura ventured farther north, where
he worked at Whitehorse in the
Yukon filling in holes along the
Alaskan highway.
Bandura recalled the shock he
received almost immediately upon
his arrival.
“I pulled up to the base camp,
and the first thing I saw was an am-
bulance. I asked someone if there
had been an accident, and someone
told me, ‘No, that’s our cook. He
drank all of the lemon extract for the
alcohol, so we have to take him in to
get his stomach pumped out.’”
The robust, quirky life of the
workers at Whitehorse was an excit-
ing time for Bandura, who saw the
Yukon tundra as a backdrop for “the
blossoming of the psychopathology
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OPINIONS
I H AVE T WO H EADS The Stanford Daily
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Begüm Erdogan
letting guests view the striking tail
feathers that are his namesake. No,
they don’t eat fish too often. Yes, he
activities beyond the Sales Manager

is native to the area. A red tailed
hawk wings past far overhead to
make my case in point, no doubt
wondering why the sulky looking
male on my glove isn’t making bet-
ter use of the day. An older gentle-
man strolls over, a giant STAN-
FORD reading in stark relief across
his chest.We talk briefly about cam-
pus news before questions turn to
me. Am I here with some sort of
Stanford volunteering committee?
I can’t help but laugh. Oh, Stanford.
People on campus are quick to
say they want to leave the Stanford
bubble, but I don’t think putting ge-
ographic distance between yourself
and campus is going to necessarily
work. I’ve never felt as detached
from campus as I do when at the
zoo, and the PAJMZ is a mere nine
blocks off campus.There are groups
that venture further for service
based goals and still drag the bubble
with them. What about those that
don’t necessarily have a passion for
the topics targeted by the group, but
are looking for a way to escape cam-
pus living? Really, unless you dis-
tance yourself from the remnants of
the Farm, you aren’t doing much ex-
cept toting the pressures of Stan-
ford living around with you.
Similarly, loading up on the
“Stanford University (insert club
name)” extracurriculars isn’t going
to cut it either. Your friends from
section are your friends on Face-
book; your friends from your club
are in your lecture, and there gets to
be a point when going to unwind
with some juggling turns into talk-
ing about whatever you were talk-
ing about in lab class.There is some-
thing to be said for meeting people
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can forge a reputation
based on your
character,and not your
image amid the group
zoo, I can let go of that Alex tied
into the workings of Stanford, and
meet people as just another animal
zealot. As I’ve expounded in “New
GER Required,” there isn’t a way
to show, via transcript or admission,
that you are a decent person. By
seeking out activities beyond the
reach of Stanford, you can forge a
reputation based on your character,
and not your image amid the group.
I’m the type of person that revels in
cutting up squid for the shark tank,
sharing my knowledge of ferret
anatomy with kindergarten science
classes and forcing the raccoons to
get some exercise by running
around their enclosure with grapes.
If I were just another volunteer
amid the Cardinal swarm, I would
probably be constantly reminded of
some bit of busywork or stress I
should have left on Palm Drive.
Even more importantly, for
those who feel misrepresented by
their transcripts, pursuing opportu-
nities outside the University shows
initiative and drive that otherwise
might not be emphasized on paper.
My boss at the zoo, for example, S EEING G REEN
wanted to be sure I was diligent

The Octopus’s Garden

who have no idea why Professor enough to arrive on time to my shift
Doe gave you 17 problems for next indefinitely. Even before I arrived
week, and hopefully, don’t care.
I know that, when I get to the Please see HICKS, page 5

I
t took me 24 years to find an stock are the products of hundreds
abalone shell. Granted, I’d spent of years of domestication, so too are
T HIS C OLUMN I S I RONIC the first 23 years of my life living
on a coastline where abalone don’t
aquaculture species chosen — and
bred — for domestic viability.
— but I’d faithfully combed West Holly These species are transported to
Coast beaches at every opportunity Moeller farms around the world, where their

Paradise Lost
to no avail until, last weekend, a escape means introduction of a
crescent of mother of pearl finally non-native species. Atlantic salmon
caught my eye. reared in British Columbia are the

(But Only Temporarily)

I pulled aside some rocks, and postcard example: in the last 15
there it was: four inches long with a years, one million have escaped into
freckling of barnacles and delicate the Pacific Ocean. Today, an
arch of pores — the perfect red
abalone shell.
There are plenty Alaskan recreational fishing permit
comes with strict quotas for native

T
his is the last edition of “This
Column Is Ironic” you’ll read
that was written on the Farm.
Scary, isn’t it? Sadly, my ever-pro-
lific course load of political science
papers precludes me from barrag-
ing you with wit during our Dead
Week issue. (I promise you, politi-
cal science actually requires me to
do some work.) When The Daily
resumes in spring quarter, I won’t
be here. Instead, I’ll be living it up
at home in Scranton, Pennsylvania
for a few weeks until I begin my
quarter abroad. That’s right, guys:
I’m going to Oxford, and you’re
coming with me. Don’t worry,
things won’t change that much. I
might start throwing a random “u”
into my words here and there. I
might also talk about tea more. Get
excited.
Yet, before any of that can hap-
pen, I still have roughly two weeks
left here on campus. I thought I’d
be feeling sad about leaving. How-
ever, as March 18 looms nearer and
nearer, I’ve never been more ready
to leave. It’s time. Personally, these
past two quarters have been filled
with their share of ups and downs
— most of which are intrinsically
tied to Stanford. When so much of
your life takes place in one concen-
trated area, it can get kind of hard
to dissociate things. So for all of its
fantastic resources and opportuni-
ties, there’s one thing that this
place can’t give me: a fresh start.
Oxford does just that. It’s what I
need right now.
(Come to think of it, I think that
this stands in the upper echelon of
“first world problems.” Let’s go
over my situation in the clearest of
terms: I currently feel complacent
and stagnant at the elite university
I attend. To solve this problem, I’m
going to jet set across the Atlantic
to another elite university to get
myself back on track. Jesus, life’s
Shane
Savitsky
tough, isn’t it?)
This isn’t to say that leaving
Stanford won’t be extraordinarily
difficult. The Farm is my second
home. Even though I’m ready to
leave, I’m not sure I can deal with
six months away from this Eden we
all inhabit. (Plus, I’m going to be
missing spring quarter at Stanford.
Big mistake. The sun! The heat
waves! The sorority girls!) I keep
asking myself, “How am I ever
going to live life without the Bro-
muda Triangle or the Axe and
Palm?” The answer there is, “Quite
easily.” At the same time, I also
keep asking myself, “I know I’m
ready to take a break, but can Ox-
ford ever measure up to Stanford?”
Ah, now there’s a better ques-
tion. Because no matter how in-
credible Oxford may be, it will cer-
tainly have a lot to live up to. In
England, I won’t be able to climb
up on the roof of The Knoll or stroll
on Stanford Golf Course for mid-
night talks about life. I won’t have
offensive and hilarious sessions of
poker and/or Halo well into the
wee hours with my best friends.
And as beautiful and medieval as
Oxford may be, there’s nothing
like walking through the Main
Quad on the sunniest of spring
days. These are just a few things
that Oxford will never be able to
replicate. Then again, I don’t want
it to. There are certain memories
and experiences — both good and
bad — that are indelibly tied to
Please see SAVITSKY, page 5
Although any long-term Califor-
nia resident who’s really looked
knows abalone shells aren’t impos-
sible to find, they are quite rare
these days. In the late 1900s,
abalone — once so common that it
was considered a “trash fish” eaten
only by the poor — fell victim to the
combined pressures of overfishing
and Withering disease (a bacterial
infection that starves the mollusk to
an untimely end). Today, the sole
abalone fishery in California is
recreational,with each license limit-
ed to only 24 red abalone each year.
The few restaurants that still serve
abalone — at a premium — ac-
quire their portions from Mexico
or, increasingly, from local abalone
farmers.
Today, with only 22 percent of
US fisheries sustainably managed
and at least 14 percent of global
fisheries collapsed, piscivores in-
creasingly turn to the products of
aquaculture — the captive rearing
of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and
even algae. Abalone farming — in
which juveniles are reared in shal-
low-water pens on a diet of fast-
growing kelp in tidally flushed wa-
ters — is touted as one of the most
sustainable examples of the ex-
panding industry. It is also a labor of
love: it can take half a decade for
abalone to reach harvestable size.
(Before it died, the owner of my
shell would have been a scanty
mouthful.)
Mariculture — as practiced by
abalone farmers, for example —
harnesses the natural ocean system
by placing enclosures adjacent to or
just off the shoreline. Such farming
strategies use seawater to flush out
waste products and provide clean
water for captive animals. Other ex-
amples include shrimp ponds in
Southeast Asia (sadly, known for
their role in mangrove habitat de-
struction), salmon farms in the Pa-
of ways to make
aquaculture
sustainable
cific Northwest and tuna “ranches”
off the coast of Mexico (which pro-
duce “laxfish,” as the Japanese call
the LAX airport-marked meat).
Aquaculture has intuitive appeal:
it seems like an ideal way to conserve
wild populations while shrinking hu-
manity’s marine “footprint” by con-
centrating biomass production in a
small area. Yet modern aquaculture,
as it is currently practiced, is hardly a
viable substitute for sustainably
managed fisheries.
Most fish farms bear eerie (but
unsurprising) resemblances to high-
density terrestrial livestock opera-
tions. Farmed fish require huge in-
puts of food and regular doses of
antibiotics and hormones, and they
produce high concentrations of
waste products. Many farm-reared
species are predatory in the wild
and require high-protein diets in
captivity; even ecological herbi-
vores, like tilapia, grow faster on
fishmeal and oil. So fish farms can
actually intensify pressure on wild
fisheries while converting an-
chovies into bluefin. Densely
packed pens are incubators of dis-
ease; farmed salmon are believed to
spread sea lice to migratory wild
populations as they swim by.
Farm denizens can also have di-
rect effects on their wild cousins if
and when they escape their watery
corrals. As much as terrestrial live-
salmon — but you’re welcome to as
many Atlantics as you can hook.
Even when farms rear local
species, escapees can dilute the wild
gene pool by introducing maladap-
tive traits acquired over years in
captivity. Such “outbreeding de-
pression” disrupts the balance be-
tween the native population and the
environment it has adapted to.
And farmed replacements for
wild catches don’t necessarily pro-
tect at-risk fisheries. Bluefin ranch-
es, for example, rear ocean-caught
juvenile fish, removing a subset
from wild populations. And the
reintroduction of abalone to com-
mercial markets, where today a
pound of meat can sell for a whop-
ping $58, has whetted the appetites
of poachers. Just last month, two
San Francisco men were arrested
after their third illegal harvest of
wild red abalone.
Still, there are plenty of ways to
make aquaculture sustainable: using
closed circulation systems that pre-
vent contamination of local waters,
choosing native herbivorous fish and
exercising patience instead of boost-
ing natural growth rates with wild
fish biomass. Like the creation of the
abalone shell I’m holding, though,
these methods take time and a sense
of the delicate balance between or-
ganisms and nature.
Today, aquaculture produces 45
million tons of food each year (com-
pare to: 100 million tons extracted
annually from the ocean). It’s a
growing business sector and a criti-
cal protein source — something we
cannot ignore as we look for ways to
feed a burgeoning human popula-
tion. So it’s important that we learn
to do it right — right away.
Do you know where your seafood
comes from? Send your thoughts and
comments to Holly at hollyvm@stan-
ford.edu.
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HICKS
Continued from page 4
on campus for fall quarter, my re-
solve to volunteer there was tested.
My boss didn’t return my calls, ig-
nored my e-mails and generally hid
from me.When I finally got to Cali-
fornia, I wasn’t greeted as just an-
other member of a Stanford affiliat-
ed program — I had to go through
all the paperwork and finger print-
ing and waiting associated with get-
ting a volunteer position with the
city of Palo Alto. I couldn’t just rely
on students from previous years to
have made a good impression on
the zoo staff. As strange as it may
sound, the fact that I had to struggle
a bit to earn my place at the zoo
makes me all the more proud and
thankful for the opportunities I’ve
found there.
While I enjoy hearing about
Stanford affiliated “giving back”
programs, I can’t help but mull over
the state of institutions wholly un-
connected to the Farm. The staff at
the PAJMZ didn’t realize anyone
on campus would be interested in
helping out at the zoo, and I expect
many nearby organizations have
much the same mindset. How mu-
tually beneficial it seems, then, to fi-
nally escape the Stanford bubble by
venturing outside of the clubs and
organizations tightly knit into its
structure.
Have you found your own way to de-
feat the bubble? Tell Alex about it at
ahicksne@stanford.edu.
SAVITSKY
Continued from page 4
this place. I’d never change that.
You know, I poke fun at Stan-
ford in this column a lot, but that’s
only out of love. That’s something
my friends know all too well. I can
be bitingly sarcastic to them some-
times, but I only make fun of the
people and things I care about the
most. Oh, and last I checked, I’ve
written whole columns making fun
of myself, too. In the end, I guess
that just makes me a sarcastic
Stanford-loving narcissist. Seems
about right.
See you on the other side, Stan-
ford. I may need a quarter away,
but there’s no place I’d rather
spend my senior year.
Shane welcomes any tips for surviv-
ing Oxford in spring quarter, but
first he has to survive a month in
Scranton. Any ideas? E-mail him at
savitsky@stanford.edu.

BANDURA
Continued from page 3
of everyday life.”
“Booze was their main nutrient,”
Bandura said. “They were ordering
large quantities of sugar that they
used to brew up. This one morning
they go up early, [to check] on the
deepest alcoholic mash. What they
found there instead was half a dozen
drunken grizzly bears lumbering
around camp.Fortunately,they were
a little too tipsy to actually be really
dangerous.”
According to Bandura, fortuity
— a factor generally avoided by psy-
chologists,who interpret such events
as unpredictable — plays a more
important role in shaping people’s
lives.
“In psych, we avoid fortuity,”
Bandura said. “Fortuitous events
are just nuisances in our causal theo-
ries. I tried to bring some science to
bear on my fortuitous life, and that’s
how I got into psych.”
It was, in fact, fortuity that led
Bandura to ultimately choose psy-
chology as his field of study for his
bachelor’s degree at the University
of British Columbia, a decision
largely based on a chance encounter
with a course catalog.
“I had originally planned to major
in biology,”Bandura said.“I was with
pre-meds and engineers who had re-
ally early schedules. I didn’t have
classes that early — those were at a
time that I didn’t know even existed!
So I had a lot of time. I noticed some-
one had left a course catalog. While
flipping through it, there was a psych
course that fit in with my schedule
that I decided to take.”
Bandura was hooked on psych.
Making use of his carpentry skills,he
was able to speed through his educa-
tion, earning his B.A. in three years
and receiving his M.A. and Ph.D.
from the University of Iowa in three
additional years. It was also during
his graduate student years,by anoth-
er stroke of luck, that he met his
wife, whom he married in 1952.
“One morning, we were late to
our golf time,so they bumped us to a
later time,” Bandura said. “Two
women were ahead of us.They were
slowing down, and we were speed-
ing up.I met my wife in the sand trap.
Had we been at the earlier time, our
lives would have never converged.”
In 1953, Bandura joined Stan-
ford’s faculty, where he has re-
mained ever since. He has taught
thousands of students and prolifical-
ly contributed many research arti-
cles and studies involving various as-
pects of social psychology.The Bobo
doll study, which looked at the social
patterns of behavior associated with
aggression, is his most well known
piece of research.
“That study always seems to
haunt me,” Bandura admitted. “The
great thing about psychology is that
it is the only study that integrates in-
terpsychic events,social relations,bi-
ology and socio-structural events.
There’s no other discipline that inte-
grates all of these very different dis-
ciplines.”
Bandura and his wife, Ginny,
have two daughters, Mary and
Carol, both of whom grew up to fol-
low careers within the fields of ei-
ther clinical or social psychology.
Over the years, Bandura has be-
come an expert at juggling several
roles at once — as professor, as fa-
ther and more recently, as grandfa-
ther.
“He loves his grandchildren,”
said Ian Gotlib, also a David Starr
Jordan Professor of Psychology.
“And he appreciates good wine.”
Now in the twilight of his career,
Bandura has more time for leisure
activities, which include wine tours,
backpacking in the Sierras and gar-
dening.
“I maintain some of my rural
roots,” Bandura said. “I have a huge
garden,where I am the major suppli-
er of tomatoes, which have been
claimed as ‘the golden standard’ by
my colleagues.”
But Bandura still likes to keep
busy. Instead of settling back into
the comfort of his armchair, basking
in the glow of his numerous achieve-
ments, Bandura’s back is erect, lean-
ing slightly forward toward the fu-
ture, while always having a number
of current projects buzzing away.
One of his major current projects is
the application of social learning
theory and the self-efficacy model to
address major concerns on a global
level, such as human rights in devel-
oping countries, environmental sus-
tainability and the AIDS epidemic.
That’s not bad for someone who
stumbled into psychology by fortuity.
Having learned from a lifetime of
serendipity,Bandura believes in max-
imizing every chance opportunity.
“You can take [hardships] and
turn them into enabling experi-
ences,” Bandura said. “You can’t af-
ford to be a realist. Realists will
abort if they run into difficulties, or
they will become cynical. Learning
how to work through it when en-
countering setbacks and conflicts is
a life-long skill, but an important
one for success.”
“You don’t get bored that way,”
he added.
Contact Jenny Thai at jthai1@stan-
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SPORTS
JUST ONE MORE
Jacob
Jaffe
Fields of Failure

Back-to-back perfect How do

Pac-10 records in sight
By NATE ADAMS
we define
Just one more win.
MANAGING EDITOR

That’s all it will take for the Stanford women to com-

success?
plete their second perfect Pac-10 season in as many years,

S
as they close out conference play by hosting rival Cal tanford men’s basketball
tonight. For a team that’s made a habit of running away has one more regular-sea-
with conference titles and setting records for win streaks, a son game left. After the
perfect season sure doesn’t seem like much. team squeaked out a win
No. 2 Stanford (26-2, 17-0 Pac-10) clinched its 11th con- Tuesday night,the Cardinal
secutive regular season Pac-10 championship last Saturday sits at 15-14.With the NCAA Tourna-
with a 99-60 rout of ment out of reach (barring a miracu-
Oregon, a win that ex-
tended the program’s
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL lous Pac-10 Tournament victory) and
the NIT likely to pass on Stanford as
best-ever home winning 2/26 vs. OREGON well,the question has to be asked:was
streak to 61 games. The this a successful season?
team has won every W 99-60 There can be arguments on both
game in Maples Pavil- sides,and it all really boils down to an
ion since beating San
Francisco, 96-61, on UP NEXT ever-more difficult question to an-
swer: what is a successful season for a
Nov. 28, 2007.
Tonight’s matchup CAL team like Stanford?
This is a question that most Stan-
with Cal (15-13, 7-10)
also marks the team’s (15-13, 7-10 Pac-10)
ford teams don’t have to answer.
Women’s basketball can be a top-five
annual Senior Night, 3/4 Maples Pavilion
team all season, but if it doesn’t at
where guards Jeanette 8 P.M.
least reach the Final Four,this season
Pohlen, Melanie Mur- COVERAGE: will be a disappointment. Both gym-
phy and Hannah Don- nastics teams and tennis teams ex-
aghe will be honored TV FSN/CSNBA/FOX pect to be contending for national ti-
along with forwards RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM tles, so an early postseason exit —
Kayla Pedersen and not to mention missing the postsea-
Ashley Cimino. Other (kzsu.stanford.edu) son entirely — would be disastrous.
than the redshirt Mur- On the flipside, the wrestling team
phy, Stanford’s senior GAME NOTES: The Cardinal are striving has never won a conference or na-
class is per3fect at to complete its second consecutive tional title, so just finishing in the top
Maples and has ended undefeated season in the Pac-10 half of the conference can be seen as
every year with a Final against the Cal Bears this weekend somewhat of a success.
Four appearance — after clinching its 11th consecutive People often look at the teams at
with one more, it would Pac-10 regular season title last the top of each sport when thinking
set a Stanford record. weekend against the Oregon schools.
about a “successful” season, and
“Our senior class is teams that greatly improved or dis-
amazing, and me along with everyone else is going to miss appointed compared to preseason
them so much,” said freshman guard Toni Kokenis. expectations. The majority of teams,
“They’ve definitely taken us under their wing and helped though, fall into a somewhat nebu-
us out . . . we all get along super well and we’re really good lous middle ground between success
friends, so it’s definitely going to be emotional for us.” and failure, and only fans of these
She may lack the experience of phenoms like Pohlen particular teams pay close attention
and Pedersen, but Kokenis has managed to work her way to assessing the end result.
into Stanford’s lineup and make some serious contribu- It is this category where Stanford
Stanford Daily File Photo tions this season. The Oak Brook, Ill. native has averaged men’s basketball finds itself. The
Kayla Pedersen (No.14) and Jeanette Pohlen (No. 23) will be two of five seniors hon-
team is flirting with a .500 record and
ored on Thursday’s Senior Night against Cal in the last Pac-10 regular season game. Please see WBBALL, page 8 a sub-.500 Pac-10 record. The Cardi-
nal is coming off a 28-8 season in

WIN STREAK ON THE LINE

SPORTS BRIEFS
Softball heads to Fullerton for
DeMarini Invitational
The Stanford softball team moves
on to their next challenge this week-
end, heading south to Fullerton, Calif.
for the DeMarini Invitational.
The Cardinal (12-3) will play five
games over the three-day weekend,
with doubleheaders on Friday and
Saturday. Stanford will square off
against Southern Mississippi and
Iowa on Friday, UC-Santa Barbara
and Murray State on Saturday, then
finish up against Cal State Northridge
on Sunday.
The Cardinal is coming off a solid 4-
1 weekend at home last weekend in the
Stanford Nike Invitational that includ-
ed a 4-2 win over the No. 24 Kentucky
Wildcats.
Stanford’s only loss over the week-
end was a 2-1 defeat at the hands of the
Memphis Tigers, but the Card then
swept its final four games, blowing out
North Dakota State 12-0, knocking off
Kentucky 4-2, blasting Colorado State
16-2 and beating UC-Davis 5-3.
Sophomore Jenna Rich was an of-
fensive force for the Cardinal, tallying
eight hits with two triples and a home
run, and junior Ashley Hansen also
had eight hits, with five doubles and
eight RBI.
Sophomore Teagan Gerhart and
senior Ashley Chinn also continued
their dominant seasons in the pitch-
ing circle, as they split time over the
weekend with Chinn recording a 0.54
ERA and picking up two wins and a
save.
The Card’s biggest test this week-
end will come against UC-Santa Bar-
bara, which has a 9-5 record this sea-
son, a .313 team batting average and a
scoring differential of 66-44 in their
favor.
The solid weekend on the Farm
helped push Stanford’s ranking up to
No. 14 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball
poll and No. 16 USA Today/NFCA
poll.
After the weekend in Fullerton,
Stanford will take next week off as it
prepares for finals.The Cardinal will be
back in action the weekend of March
18-20 as it hosts the Stanford Louisville
Slugger Classic at Smith Family Stadi-
um.The Cardinal will wrap up the pre-
season tournaments at home the fol-
lowing weekend with the Stanford In-
vitational, March 25-27.
— Jack Blanchat
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
DESK EDITOR
The Stanford men’s volley-
ball team embarks on yet anoth-
er MPSF road trip this weekend
through Southern California,
this time to face UC-Irvine and
UC-San Diego in a two-game
series that begins Friday night in
Irvine.
The Cardinal (13-4, 9-4
MPSF) moved up a spot, to No. 3,
in the American Volleyball
Coaches Association rankings
with their third straight win last
weekend, a five-set thriller over
then-No. 3 UC-Santa Barbara. It
also marked Stanford’s third
three-game winning streak of the
season.
If Stanford is to build on its re-
cent momentum, it can’t afford a
letdown against the Anteaters on
the road.The last time the Cardi-
nal had a three-game win streak,
it was swept in a shocking home
loss to UC-San Diego in mid-
Junior Erik Shoji and the Cardinal are on a three-game conference winning streak, but Stanford faces a
tough challenge this weekend against MPSF rivals UC-Santa Barbara and UC-San Diego.
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
2/26 vs. UC-SANTA
BARBARA W 3-2
UP NEXT
UC-IRVINE
(10-8, 7-5 MPSF)
3/4 Irvine, Calif. 7 P.M.
GAME NOTES: Stanford looks for its fourth
consecutive win in the MPSF over the last
two weeks, but the test gets a little taller
this weekend, as the Card heads south to
take on UC-Irvine on Friday night and
UC-San Diego on Saturday.
February.
“We finally got our 2-0 week-
end, I’m really happy with the
way we played and battled
against a good [Santa Barbara]
team,” said head coach John
Kosty. “I don’t think we’ll have a
problem getting ready for the
[Irvine] game.”
Irvine gave the Cardinal just
about all it could handle in the
last meeting between the teams
on Feb. 12. Stanford took the first
set, hitting a robust .419 as a team
with just three attack errors, but
saw its offense stall in the second
and third sets, hitting just .182
and .061 as a team.
Junior outside hitter Brad
Lawson shouldered much of the
load, as the Cardinal roared back
and took the fourth set to extend
the match with a game-high 23
kills and just four errors for a .442
hitting percentage. Senior out-
side hitter Spencer McLachlin
rebounded from his struggles
early in the match to notch 13
kills across the fourth and fifth
sets while hitting .550.
The match against the
Anteaters has plenty of postsea-
Please see MVBALL, page 8
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
2007-08, a 20-14 season in 2008-09
and a 14-18 season last year, but it is
somewhat hard to compare each of
those teams.
The team three years ago reached
the Sweet 16 and was led by the
Lopez twins and head coach Trent
Johnson. All three of them left after
that season, along with three seniors,
so the ‘08-’09 team was all about re-
building under new head coach John-
ny Dawkins. That team got off to a
fast start, winning its first 10 games
during a very easy non-conference
slate. Once Pac-10 season rolled
around, though, the Cardinal re-
gressed, going 6-12 in conference
play.The non-conference success was
enough to get Stanford into the Col-
lege Basketball Invitational, where
the Cardinal won two games before
being ousted by Pac-10 foe Oregon
State in overtime of the semifinal.
After that season, Stanford lost
four key contributors — Lawrence
Hill,Anthony Goods, Mitch Johnson
and Kenny Brown — to graduation,
so the burden last year fell squarely
on the shoulders of Landry Fields.
Fields responded, reaching double
figures in points in all 32 of the Cardi-
nal’s games and rising from a relative
unknown to an NBA draft pick, but
the team around him was young and
inexperienced. Stanford finished
below .500 and missed the postseason
entirely for the first time in 17 years,
but the team actually improved its
Pac-10 record by one game, which is
surprising considering the team was
picked to finish last in the conference.
That brings us to this year. The
Cardinal lost Fields to graduation,
leaving the team with large shoes to
fill and no seniors on the team to fill
them. Instead, Stanford brought in a
highly touted group of freshmen and
plugged them in along with the re-
turning role-players. Jeremy Green,
who was the Cardinal’s second op-
tion when Fields was around, was ex-
pected to take the lead role, and Josh
Owens returned from a medical ab-
sence to give the team more physical-
ity down low.
Stanford was picked to finish
ninth in the conference, and current-
ly sits in eighth with one game to play.
The Cardinal has lost most of the
games it should lose (at Butler,at Ok-
lahoma State, etc.), won most of the
games it should win (vs. North Car-
olina A&T, vs.Yale, etc.) and pulled a
few surprises both ways (beating
Washington but losing to Oregon at
home). All in all, though, the record
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over 17 minutes per game in her
rookie season, and since recovering
from a minor head injury last
month, Kokenis has become a sta-
ple of Stanford’s score sheets with
7.9 points and 1.00 steals per game,
63.2 percent shooting from the
field, a 46.2 percent clip from be-
yond the arc and 9-for-10 shooting
from the charity stripe. Kokenis
posted six steals across Stanford’s
last three games, each of which saw
her break into double-digit point
totals.
“I’m definitely trying to bring
bounds per game — posted nine
points on clutch second-half shoot-
ing.
Rachelle Federico scored a ca-
reer-high 15 points from the guard
position — a fine performance for
the four-year veteran on Cal’s Se-
nior Night. It was her last game at
Haas Pavilion, but Federico was
making her first career start —
given her performance, her second
may come against the Cardinal.
After snapping the prolonged
losing streak, Federico says her
team’s confidence is ramping back
up.
“There was some sort of vibe
that we had,” she said. “Cal basket-
ball was back . . . A sense of pride
kicked in. For whatever reason it
was, we were able to get back to Cal
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son implications, as No. 7 Irvine is
just one game back of Stanford in
the loss column at 7-5. The Cardinal
is currently third,half a game behind
BYU and two games back of confer-
ence-leading USC with nine MPSF
matches remaining.
The first round of the Mountain
Pacific Sports Federation Tourna-
ment begins on April 23, and the
Cardinal seems almost assured of a
spot in the tournament as one of
the top eight finishers in confer-
ence play.
It’s hard to imagine that the Car-
dinal would repeat its last perform-
ance against the Toreros, when the
team hit .182 with 23 attack errors on
just 99 swings in the 3-0 loss. There
weren’t many bright spots, even
though freshman outside hitter
Brian Cook did tally 12 kills and
McLachlin had 11.
Normally reliable junior libero
Erik Shoji was also off his game,with
just three digs to his name, well
below his season average of 2.31 digs
per set, the ninth-best average in the
country.
After this weekend’s matches,
Stanford will have a mandatory two-
week layoff for Dead Week and fi-
nals, before resuming play on Satur-
day, March 19 in a non-conference
match against California Baptist at
Burnham Pavilion.
The Cardinal will be hard-
pressed to get back into the swing of
things before jumping right back
into MPSF play against Cal State
Northridge and Long Beach State at
home the next weekend.
Stanford kicks off the weekend
against the UC-Irvine Anteaters at
Crawford Hall at 7 p.m.Friday night.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-
bs@stanford.edu.

more energy off the bench and
make our pace go a little bit faster,”
Kokenis said about her recent con-
tributions. “I want to speed up the
tempo a little bit by definitely pick-
ing up the defense and pushing the
ball, getting it out of my lane so we
can get some fast-break opportuni-
ties and speed the game up.”
That speed has been one of Ko-
kenis’ unique additions to a power-
heavy Stanford roster. Against
Oregon State last Thursday, she
sparked a number of fast breaks
and fired up the crowd with cross-
court runs to the basket.
She also impressed in Stanford’s
first game against Cal, scoring 12
points on 4-for-7 shooting in a 78-45
victory in early January.
After a solid start, the Golden
Bears have struggled mightily in
the back half of the conference sea-
son, plummeting into a six-game
losing streak that they just snapped
with a 58-49, come-from-behind
victory over the visiting Oregon
State Beavers. Sophomore forward
DeNesha Stallworth — Cal’s lead-
ing scorer at 14.5 points and 6.7 re-
basketball.”
With a postseason berth secured
and the Final Four only a month
away, it might be easy for Stanford
to see tonight’s matchup as a step-
ping stone — a final chance to pre-
pare for single-elimination play.
Kokenis acknowledges that a
game like this can provide a tune-
up before the Big Dance, but says
the team needs to focus on funda-
mentals and coming away with a
win.
“Cal’s definitely an aggressive
team, so it’s good for us to be play-
ing against them since they pres-
sure so much, that’s something
we’ve definitely been working on,”
Kokenis said. “But’s really it’s just
taking care of the ball . . . and mak-
ing sure we know what we’re doing
on each possession and getting
good shots.”
Stanford will tip off with Cal at 8
p.m. tonight in Maples Pavilion. A
ceremony for the team’s senior
class will follow the game.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams
@stanford.edu.
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stands about where most people ex-
pected it to: around .500 overall and
a touch below .500 in Pac-10 play.
Apart from just the wins and loss-
es, the product on the court has been
everything you would expect from
this team.The returners have shown
some ability to take over games (see
Green’s 7-for-7 start on Tuesday
night and Owens’ 31 points and 11
rebounds last weekend) and some
ability to fall flat on their faces (see
Jarrett Mann’s one point and six
turnovers against Seattle University
and Owens’ 3-for-11, two-rebound
performance against Oregon State).
For as up-and-down as the juniors
have been, the freshmen have been
even more volatile, which is every-
thing you expect from teenagers
thrust into big-time roles on a Pac-10
team. A starter most of the year,
Dwight Powell has had performances
befitting his athleticism, notching two
double-doubles and as many as 20
points in a game, but he has also been
held to five points or fewer nine times
this season and has looked visibly
frustrated on the court more than
once. Anthony Brown has been a
starter for the past month and a half,
scoring 21 points on two separate oc-
casions and giving glimpses of elite
talent, but he has also disappeared at
crucial times (three points total in 51
minutes in home games against the
Arizona schools).Aaron Bright,John
Gage and Josh Huestis have also had
significant ups and downs in their first
season on the Farm, and all have
given signs of future promise.
That promise could be the key
take-away point from this year, be-
cause the 2010-11 campaign can’t be
labeled as a major success or failure.
Instead, this season was almost an
extended introduction to the team
we’ll see for years to come.
And in that sense, this season was
successful.
Jacob Jaffe just wants to be,just wants
to be successful. Give him career ad-
vice at jwjaffe@stanford.edu.

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