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Rabushka plays key role in Republican flat tax

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Before Texas Governor Rick Perry announced that a flat-rate tax plan would be part of his platform in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign consulted Hoover fellow Alvin Rabushka. Rabushka, along with Hoover fellow Robert E. Hall, popularized the flat tax idea in the early 1980s, first in an article in the Wall Street Journal and later in several books. While the flat tax has been popular internationally, having been adopted in Russia and most of Eastern
Europe, it was not a national topic of debate until Herman Cain began receiving attention for his 9-9-9 tax plan. Herman Cain made this idea hot, Rabushka said. When Cain didnt go away and because Perry started to slip, Perry jumped on board with the flat tax. While Rabushka said he is excited that Cain reignited the discussion and does see the 9-9-9 plan as a version of the flat tax, he is careful to distinguish the 9-9-9 plan from his own vision. The 9-9-9 plan, as described by Herman Cain on his blog, is a 9 percent tax on business, a 9 percent in-
dividual income tax and a 9 percent national sales tax. On Oct. 21, in a speech in Detroit, Mich., Cain modified the tax to include an exemption from income tax for households below the poverty level. In areas of economic hardship which are given tax exemptions, such as businesses outside of opportunity zones, Rabushka pointed out that the business tax exempts business investments, but does not exempt labor expenses. He described the business tax as essentially a 9 percent tax on labor. In effect what youve got is labor paying a 9 percent tax, labor again paying 9 percent on income
above a poverty threshold, and then again paying 9 percent as consumers, Rabushka said. While Rabushka acknowledged the 9-9-9 plan as a simpler, cleaner system, he believes the plan disproportionately taxes labor because of its emphasis on capital investment and saving.Rabushka also pointed out that some of the additional taxes on labor would be balanced out by getting rid of existing taxes, notably the social security tax. Rabushka suspects that if Cain remains in the race, his tax plan will receive further challenges and will probably need further tweaks. I have read several reputable
analyses of the Cain tax and it seems that advanced models are saying that it will lower revenue and increase the deficit, and that was before he added in a poverty line exception, Rabushka said. I would guess he will have to raise it to the 12-12-12 plan or something in that range. Rabushka was less able to evaluate Perrys tax plan, despite having direct conversations with Sean Davis, an economic policy advisor for the Perry campaign. One of the major stumbling blocks to evaluating Perrys plan is the choice the
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Faculty assessOccupyprotests
Professors weigh in on future of Occupy Wall St. movement
ANTHONY DING In spite of the ripple effect created by the Occupy Wall Street movement, several Stanford professors indicate that they believe the movement, while noteworthy, will not last. The movement began on Sept. 17 and within days, spread throughout the nation. On Nov. 8, Stanford students showed up as part of the Occupy Stanford movement to protest a Goldman-Sachs recruiting event on campus. Despite all the momentum in the movement, history professor David Kennedy 63 said he believes the movement will die down. Call me cynical, but I believe it will peter out as the weather turns less benign, Kennedy said. Kennedy, however, said that Occupy Wall Street represents legitimate concerns. I think the problems are real enough, especially mounting income and wealth inequality, he said. The emergence of the Occupy movement is not surprising. Kennedy noted that the emergence of the Tea Party, in response to the recession, seemed lopsided. He expected another movement would arise to counter the conservative lean. John Taylor, economics professor and senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, said that the rise of both the Tea Party and the Occupy movement can be attributed to similar causes. Actually I think the same frustrations with government policy are what got the Tea Party movement going, though the manifestations are quite different, and of course that has already had a huge impact, Taylor wrote in an email to The Daily. In terms of the historical context, Kennedy noted that while the Occupy movement is not one-of-a-kind, the movement differs from past forms of social protest. Examples that come to mind are the bonus marchers in the 1930s and the anti-Vietnam War movement, but all those had specific, concrete policy objectives, Kennedy said. Susan Olzak, a professor of sociology, echoed Kennedy, saying that national news reports were misleading in emphasizing the lack of any distinct organization or leadership body as compared to past social protest movements,
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such as the Civil Rights movement. She added that while there may not have been a distinct organization that arose from the Occupy movement, the movement can, to some degree, be broken down into the organizations which largely create it. Observers of local movement activity in Oakland and San Francisco suggest that there is a substantial presence of organized labor unions, local community organizations and grassroots activist associations, Olzak said. Though riots and violence that have occurred since the Occupy movement began, Kennedy said these acts of violence do not appear to provide any significant benefit to the movement.
Cardinal Nights events well-attended

MARSHALL WATKINS The Cardinal Nights initiative, an effort by the new Office of Alcohol Policy and Education (OAPE) to offer alcohol-free programming for students, has gradually become increasingly relevant in the campus social scene, according to students and University officials. Cardinal Night events, which have included a viewing party of the USC-Stanford football game and a FLiCKS screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, have consistently attracted hundreds of attendees. According to OAPE Assistant Director & Community Engagement Coordinator Angelina Cardona 11, the viewing party was the best-attended event, with more than 1,000 students turning up. Attendance at Cardinal Night has risen since the start of the quarter. Upcoming Cardinal Nights include Stanfords Got Talent and Big Game Party, jointly hosted by West Campus dorm staff. The OAPE has sought to market Cardinal Nights to students largely through email, social networking, student leadership and word-ofmouth, Cardona said. Before planning Cardinal Nights, I researched what events students wanted to have on campus through focus groups, a survey, as well as through informal input, Cardona wrote in an email to The Daily. Cardona said that the Cardinal Nights initiative stemmed from the recommendations of an Alcohol Study Group, consisting of staff, faculty and students, that supported expanded options for socializing on weekends without the pressure to consume alcohol.
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RESEARCH
Study seeks depression prevention

Bias training helps depression-prone girls
CHRIS KREMER According to a recent psychology study, it may be possible to prevent depression in some adolescent girls at-risk for the disease through attentional bias training, which trains individuals with certain biases toward specific stimuli to remove themselves from their biases. Ian Gotlib, psychology professor, recently found that attentional bias training could help prevent depression in girls ages 10 to 14,who have already demonstrated signs of elevated emotional stress. The research focused on girls whose mothers were diagnosed with depression. We know about half of them are going to experience some kind of a depressive episode within the next 10 years, Gotlib said. What we have been finding is that [the girls whose mothers have depression] are more biologically reactive to stress in the environment than girls without a family history. In his first experiment, Gotlib used real-time neural feedback training.The eight subjects simultaneously looked at images provoking negative emotional stimuli as well as an MRI image of their brains, depicting their response to the negative images. When the subjects were shown the
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SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Zoglin has hope for Tunisias democratic future

HASSAN KARAOUNI Undergraduate and graduate students alike gathered on Wednesday evening to kick off the official meeting of the Arab Studies Table, a new interdisciplinary forum that aims to be an opportunity to present research, debate issues on the Arab world and engage with outside speakers visiting Stanford. At the first meeting in Encina Hall, they weighed in on the origin, process and aftermath of democratic elections in Tunisia. Katie Zoglin, a Harvard Law School graduate and former Stanford professor, chaired the event, which began with a brief discussion about Tunisias Jasmine Revolution. The revolution bloomed from the self-immolation of a Tunisian flower vendor and, in the months that followed, Tunisians utilized Facebook, Twitter and other social media to swiftly upheave the government of Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. Zoglin, who observed the Tunisian electoral process as an elections monitor for the Carter Center, cited the Tunisian revolution as the residue of long-term grievances that had been long ignored. But the blithe atmosphere of a successful, liberating revolution was short-lived. According to Zoglin, although Tunisians initially found unity in revolution, they still encountered difficulties in establishing a new government. In the political vacuum created by the end of President Ben Alis 23-year regime, over 100 political parties vied for popular support in Tunisia. On Oct. 23, Tunisians overcame political divisiveness to cultivate a much more peaceable product of the Arab Spring: national, democratic elections. Instructional voting posters, the location of polls in readily accessible domestic areas such as schools and government funding of political parties all contributed to a remarkable 70 percent voter turnout.
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[Tunisians] know that other countries look to them as an example, and . . . are very cognizant of [their] role [as leaders of the Arab Spring], Zoglin said. In spite of the recent elections, participants of the Arab Study Table pointed out a number of key problems with the electoral process. First, Tunisian elections faltered in the wake of poorly implemented voter registration. While organizing elections, Tunisian officials did not effectively advertise voter registration opportunities. Likewise, a number of uniformed Tunisians were unable to register and the provisional government eventually responded by allowing any citizen to vote in his or her hometown upon displaying a national identification card. Second, the large number of political parties stifled voters and encouraged Tunisians to base their votes on familiarity with parties rather than an understanding of them. In opposition to government campaign regulations, many parties bought votes and advertised in mosques, a term Zoglin referred to
as electioneering. The weaknesses were all to be expected in the first round, Zoglin said. When the final votes were polled, the self-proclaimed Islamist moderate party Al-Nahda, emerged with 41 percent of the popular vote. Members of the table zeroed in on this result as potentially harmful to the legitimacy of Tunisia. As opposed to the predominately male-dominated governments of many Arab nations, Tunisia is distinguished by an unshakeable protection of womens rights. In Tunisia, theres a lot of women in top ranks where a lot of power is, Zoglin said. Some participants expressed concern that Al- Nahda could corrupt Tunisias precedence of gender equality. In defense of Al-Nahda and Tunisias prospects, Zoglin countered that Al-Nahda officially declared to maintain womens rights and that Tunisians strongly support equality. Although Zoglin admitted that reason for concern remains, her hopes reflected her greater optimism regarding Tunisias future. It has a lot of challenges ahead, but I have a lot of hope for Tunisia, Zoglin said. Contact Hassan Karaouni at hassank@stanford.edu.
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Katie Zoglin, a Harvard Law School graduate and former Stanford professor, chaired the first official meeting of the Arab Studies Table, a new interdisciplinary forum that promotes discussion among issues regarding the Arab world.
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Stanford Emeritus President Gerhard Casper named new director of FSI

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF On Wednesday, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) announced that President Emeritus Gerhard Casper will serve as the intermediary director for the Institute for the 2012-2013 academic year. Caspers term as Stanfords ninth president began in 1992 and ended in 2000. Casper has been a senior fellow at FSI since 2000. Prior to his move to Stanford, Casper taught law at the University of Chicago, where he served as both provost and dean. He also was an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His academic research includes constitutional law and legal theory. Casper will replace current director Coit Blacker, who plans to take a one-year sabbatical leave. Blacker has served as director of FSI for the last nine years. He will return to teaching at Stanford after his sabbatical. Among Caspers goals as new
director of FSI is to initiate a search for a permanent director of the Institute.

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images, researchers instructed them to think positive thoughts to diminish their negative response. Were trying to teach the girls a skill that will make them less biologically reactive to stress with the hope that it [will] reduce the likelihood that they will have a depressive episode, Gotlib said. The control group was shown the same negatively stimulating images, but each subject in this group was shown an MRI image of a brain other than her own. This process contrasted the initial part of the experiment, in which girls were able to observe the impact their thoughts were having on their brains in realtime. The experiment indicated that the experimental group was much better able to reduce stress caused by the negative pictures. For the second experiment, eight
Palo Alto voters pass Measures D,E

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF A provision, which allowed firefighters and the police to use outside arbitrators in the settlement of contractual disputes, came full circle Tuesday night when Palo Alto voters approved Measure D with a 67.28 percent majority and repealed binding arbitration. In 1978, voters added the provision to the City Charter, giving arbitrators the ability to make binding rulings when the two parties reached impasses on pay and benefit disputes. The move was attributed at the time as a way of counterbalancing the fact that the citys firefighters and police officers do not have the right to strike. However, with the passage of Measure D, Palo Alto has now repealed the provision following a statewide trend. Vallejo voters also
subjects were presented with two images of faces on a screen, one of them neutral and the other either sad or happy.The subjects were instructed to click on a dot, which replaced the more positive of the two faces.For the control group of the second experiment, the dot replaced one of the two faces at random.The eight subjects in the experimental group showed fewer signs of stress after practicing the dot exercise once a day for a week. One of the things we know about depressed people is that they cannot stop from processing negative information, Gotlib said. I think one of the things we are doing here is immediately making them look away [or] disattend from negative stimuli. Gotlib said that such training had rarely been used for treating depression and is almost never used with children, whose risk of developing the condition is growing.He believes the stress-reducing techniques in the study can be taught to other children who are at risk for depression. He also stated his research may help de-
velop drugs to treat depression. Gotlibs research may in the future be expanded using real-time neural feedback in deep brain stimulation. During this process, an electrode is implanted in the brain and sends electrical pulses to a particular structure. So if we can identify where in the brain that should be, then that should be another possibility, Gotlib said. Colin MacLeod, a professor of psychology at the University of Western Australia, has done research on attentional bias training and sees great potential for the applications of the Gotlibs results. One reason that hes really cutting edge is that he is looking not at people who already have problems and trying to fix them up, but hes looking at the children who we know are vulnerable but who do not show symptoms and use these technologies that prevent rather than repair dysfunctions, MacLeod said. Contact Chris Kremer at ckremer@ stanford.edu.
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licans should be aware of this problem and should address it, Taylor said. Kennedy offered insight on the movements impact on President Barack Obama. If it signals disaffection with Obama by a significant part of his base, then it will spell trouble for him in the election, Kennedy said. Although the movements demands have yet to be resolved, Kennedy and Taylor offered suggestions for the movement in general. According to Kennedy, taxing the top 1 percent would not provide sufficient revenue to change the United States economic landscape. He noted, however, that as political theater, and as a way to mobilize broad popular sentiment, maybe the focus on the top 1 percent will work. Part of the answer is to remove the too big to fail problem in which the government protects the politically powerful at the expense of everyone else, Taylor said. Contact Anthony Ding at ading93@ stanford.edu.
OCCUPY

The Civil Rights movement was doctrinally nonviolent, and shrewdly capitalized on the several instance of police violence visited upon civil rights demonstrators, Kennedy said.I dont see anything that sophisticated happening here. Kennedy said he is also wary of the comparison some organizers of the Occupy movement make between Occupy and the Arab Spring, a series of recent revolutions that spread through the Middle East and North Africa. We have yet to see what season will follow the Arab Spring, he said. While it is impossible to predict what impact the movement will have on future events, Kennedy, Taylor and Olzak independently agreed that the movement has the potential to sway the 2012 presidential elections. Regarding the 2012 elections, I think both Democrats and Repub-
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plan would offer. Under Perrys taxation plan, citizens would be able to choose between a 20 percent flat tax system and the current system. Rabushka estimated the Perry plan to be about 75 to 80 percent in line with the Hall-Rabushka flat tax. The revival of notable support for the flat tax in this election campaign has also revived sharp criticism of the flat tax. The flat tax is often criticized as being regressive, meaning it puts a greater burden on poor tax payers than more wealthy ones. This accusation has been leveled at both the Cain and Perry plans, even by other Republicans. Mitt Romney, who does not favor a flat tax, has spoken out against the 9-9-9 plan in recent debates, calling it a non-starter because it raises taxes on middle-income families. Paul David, an economics pro-
fessor, points out that there are many varieties of flat tax plans, and a flat tax can be progressive or regressive depending on a number of variables. The proposals that are attracting popularity right now are extremely regressive, David said.As nice as the plan sounds, it is a further step in the march towards greater inequality and greater conservation of wealth. While sympathetic to many of the underlying goals of flat tax plans, David is also skeptical of the long-term simplicity of any tax plan in our current economic and political environment. You need to understand the processes that created the complexity of the tax plan we have, otherwise it will come back, David said. If we woke up one day with a flat tax, there would still be people working on redefining the tax code and they would keep redefining it to give themselves the best deal. Contact Josh Hoyt at jwghoyt@stanford.edu.
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Spreading the butterflys wings
many resources. Formerly called the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies until 2008, the Center was renamed when it received an endowment, as well a graduate fellowship and a visiting professorship, from the HCBSS. The HCBSS is dedicated to promoting the academic study and public understanding of the Buddhist tradition. It conducts a number of research projects and seminars and brings research fellows to the campus.According to Lin, applicants from around the world are accepted depending on how closely their research projects correlate with existing studies. The rigor of the application process ensures applicants will be able to contribute to and learn from the Center. Carl Bielefeldt, co-director of HCBSS and chair of the Religious Studies Department, is involved in the Soto Zen Text Project, which works at translating the materials used for the practice of Soto Zen, a sect of Zen in Japanese Buddhism. Harrison, too, is working on research on the study of Buddhist literature. At present, that study is undergoing a kind of boom period because of the discovery of large numbers of new Buddhist manuscripts in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Harrison said. There is also material coming out of the Peoples Republic of China, which was previously held in Tibet. Harrison added that the Buddhist manuscript project will contribute to a better understanding of the Buddhist tradition from both the perspectives of the Buddhist scholar and practitioner, which are becoming more integrated, he said. According to Harrison, many scholars are also practitioners who have an insiders perspective on the tradition. At the same time, he said, practitioners who read research benefit from new analyses and translations of the texts. Its not as if the two worlds are entirely separate, he said. Harrison added that the Center holds events that expose students to the practitioners perspective. I think [students] should have some appreciation of what Buddhism is like as a living tradition, he said. Its not just something thats dead and pinned to the wall like a butterfly. According to Bielefeldt in an email to The Daily, despite current research efforts, the Center lacks multi-disciplinary perspectives including history, literature, art and anthropology because of the fact that the faculty works within the Religious Studies department. Furthermore, the coverage of Buddhism in the Religious Studies department does not extend much beyond India, China and Japan. [Coverage is] as broad as we can make it given that we only have two faculty members at present, Harrison said.But we try and compensate for that by inviting people who can give our students and interested members of the public a different perspective. According to Bielefeldt, these weaknesses are also compensated through library facilities and research funding. HCBSS holds research seminars, workshops, conferences and lectures for scholars. Each quarter, the Center brings a speaker to talk about different practices. Around one-third of all the events are directed specifically towards the public, all or most of which are free, with no registration required, Lin said, and the theme of the event varies according to demand. For instance, there have been a series of events related to Buddhist art and Tibetan Buddhism. According to Lin, the events have attracted a considerable amount of campus interest, with about 100 to 300 attendees at each event. What makes Buddhist Studies so relevant today? Lin emphasized Engaged Buddhism, which examines the different ways Buddhism can be applied in society, from social work to healing to working at corporations. Harrison stressed the importance of studying and keeping religions alive in an age she said is becoming increasingly secular. Its important to know the religious traditions that have affected peoples lives, Harrison said.That is no less important these days than it has ever been, if not more important. Contact Alya Naqvi at anaqvi@stanford.edu.
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By ALYA NAQVI
uddhism is one of the most practiced religions in the world. It is not merely a series of meditative exercises but a complex philosophy entrenched in the cultural traditions of East Asian peoples. The University, through the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford (HCBSS), is dedicating time and resources to an area of study, which in the past, has not been emphasized academically on
campus. Buddhism is often not well understood in the United States, said religious studies professor Paul Harrison.Just under half of Americans, according to a recent survey done last year, do not know that the Dalai Lama is Buddhist, which is a surprising finding. As a student, Harrison grew interested in Buddhist Studies and Buddhist literature in particular after majoring in Chinese and Japanese. He is now the co-director of the HCBSS, which contributes to
the Buddhist Studies Program and is dedicated to raising public interest and awareness of different aspects of Buddhism.A unit of the Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies,it is closely affiliated with the Department of Religious Studies, the Tibetan Studies Initiative and the Buddhist Community at Stanford. According to HCBSS associate director Irene Lin, part of the purpose of its founding in 1997 was that the field of Buddhist Studies and humanities in general did not have
BUZZ
Daniel Haarburgers portable iDevice stand generates tech world interest
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By CHRIS YANG
f you try to reach Daniel Haarburger 14 on his cell phone and he doesnt automatically relegate your call to voicemail, his reply will invariably be a businesslike, Hi. This
is Daniel. This professional response is not the result of a lack of social wherewithal, but is rather the upshot of the fact that he receives business calls on a regular basis. While the rest of the student body has been enjoying The Dish at Arrillaga and bemoaning the onset of rain season, this Boulder, Colo. native and soon to be product design major has been
and will be for the rest of fall quarter in his home state, attending meetings with potential investors and courting large retailers interested in his most recent brainchild the WINGStand. The WINGStand is an injectionmolded clip made from recycled plastic, which allows one to attach most portable devices to an Apple wireless keyboard. It garnered recognition from WIRED and a host of other technology review websites and received $58,869 in seed money from 1,485 backers far exceeding the original target of $9,600. The WINGStand isnt Haarburgers first project. Ive always been kind of a builder, Haarburger said in a phone interview with The Daily. Creating things has always made me happy. Haarburger received a first scroll saw at the age of eight, and in subsequent years he took to simply making stuff. However, as he got older, his love for physical creations coupled with entrepreneurial drive. The result was the birth of Mundi Treeworks in his junior year of high school, a woodworking company that uses excess lumber and hardwood salvaged from large manufacturers to make cabinets, guitars and
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artisan cutting boards sold to customers throughout Colorado. His most recent projects have run the gamut from refugee tents to bike mounts and an online library subscription to ebooks and editorials. He is also pursuing Mobile Change, a system that would utilize cell phones to create a direct link between debtors and loan providers and the Buetos Backpack, a backpacking bag for adventure travelling. However, many of those projects were put on hold after the advent of the WINGStand, which, ironically, started out as a side project. I had received an iPad for Christmas, and I wanted a bit more functionality considering that I was-
nt really using it at all. So I created the WINGStand as something for personal use, Haarburger said. It turns out that it was a product people actually wanted. The enterprise quickly snowballed as Haarburger received requests from personal acquaintances for the innovative product, which led him to believe that it could be a success in a very specific and littleexploited niche in the accessory market. The closest competition was a few less-ergonomic keyboard docks. Using Kickstarter, a funding platform for creative projects and the help of a couple close friends and advisors, Haarburger created the WINGStand. It was very easy to execute, he said. The other projects that I was working on required a lot of upfront capital . . . the WINGstand project only needed a few thousand dollars in seed money. Today, an injection molding company based in Olney, Ill. is churning out WINGStands to supply mounting orders, and Haarburger is looking to take advantage of the holidays to generate the proceeds with which he plans to build a brand and fund future products. Contact Chris Yang at cyang2@stanford.edu.
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and lightened my depression when I felt I could not get my schoolwork done. Because I ended up taking so many incompletes, I was placed on academic probation. Although that may sound scary, its just a way for the University to identify students that are having trouble and to get them the help they need. I had to meet with my advisor and talk with her about how to get back on track, including options such as taking time off. For my needs, we decided that I should reduce my load to eight units a quarter, spend time working on my incompletes, and continue checking in. Often students who dont reach out can disappear in the masses, but I think its great that Stanford has some mechanisms to find students who are really having trouble to help turn things around. Because Im fairly open about it, Ive told a really wide range of students that I suffer from depression, many of whom Im not that close to. My candidness has sparked many conversations in which people who dont often talk about it have shared their experiences of depression. Often it comes as a relief to other students to be able to talk about these things in the open. It always surprises and encourages me to find out how many other people are having similar difficulties; Im currently taking an extra quarter to finish off my last three incompletes, something I was loath to do, but through talking about it Ive discovered just how common this is and that Im really not alone. Ive found amazing support here by owning my depression, talking to my friends, being upfront and asking for help from teachers and taking advantage of the resources Stanford has for people with mental health issues.I have never experienced any social stigma associated with mental illness here or been treated like anything less than a fully capable person. So, despite all of the discussions about the Stanford duck syndrome and how difficult it can be to measure up in our culture of achievement, this is a place thats there for you if you do find yourself having trouble. If you are depressed, Stanfords got your back medically, academically and socially.All you have to do is ask for help. Continue this conversation with Jamie at jamiesol@stanford.edu.
ccording to the National College Depression Partnership, approximately one in eight students will suffer from depression during college. I am one of them.Although dealing with this has been the most difficult thing Ive ever had to do, Stanford has been an amazing community to be a part of during this struggle. Once I recognized my depression and sought help, I found both Stanford students and teachers to be incredibly supportive, as well as an abundance of institutional support from the school. I want to share the resources that Ive used both to commend Stanford for its supportive environment and to share with other students that may be floundering how Ive made my way through school. My biggest ally in this journey has been the Office of Accessible Education. The staff allows people with mental illnesses (and other disabilities) to sign up with their office to request academic accommodations. The fact that Stanford has an office that helps students with depression navigate through the academic difficulties they face speaks volumes about how seriously Stanford takes mental health problems. I have signed up with this office, requested accommodations from my professors (permission to reschedule tests, turn in work late and arrange incompletes) and taken a reduced load (which unfortunately affects financial aid and scholarship money),all of which have helped me to complete schoolwork and classes that I otherwise could not have. When I have discussed my depression with professors (a good thing to do before issues arise), they have all been incredibly caring. Most of them have told me that they or someone close to them has also dealt with depression, so they understand how hard it is. They have generally been willing to do what they can to help me by granting me accommodations. Ive been pointed towards Stanfords resources (Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), OAE, the Bridge) again and again and professors check in to make sure that I am getting the help I need. I have only visited CAPS on a few occasions, so I cannot speak to the quality of the counseling, but I have never had trouble getting an appointment. They also have both psychiatrists and psychologists so students have access to both therapy and medicine (if needed). When Ive had trouble getting work done and finishing incompletes,my academic director and the academic coaches through Adina Glickmans office have helped me figure out how I was going to tackle my work, which reduced my stress
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live in a co-op. You may have heard of them.Theyre those really grimy, dirty houses on campus where people dont shower and grow excessively long body hair. Or at least, thats what they are to those who have been too frightened by the prospect of dirt to actually walk inside. But heres where I separate fact from fiction. Yes, Ive never had to wait in line for one of five showers in Columbae (interpret as you will), but no, we are not Neanderthals, more related to apes than humans. In fact, Im going to make a bold statement. After having spent a year in a freshman dorm followed by a housed sorority, Columbae is by far the cleanest of the three. No, really. Im dead serious. Okay, maybe its all psychological, but hear me out. For those of you completely unfamiliar with the co-op lifestyle, let me break it down. Life in a co-op means no cleaning staff and no chef. Through a system of weekly and biweekly jobs, we do all of our own chores. It doesnt really matter what individual job you sign up for whether its scrubbing the woodblock after lunch or tidying the common area or cooking dinner; taken all together, the job system ensures that daily life in the house runs smoothly. As someone who never did her own laundry growing up, I had the sudden realization in college that dirty clothes would well stay dirty if I didnt wash them myself. Living in a co-op has taught me the same lesson about cooking and cleaning. Plates that arent washed stay unwashed. Common areas that collect clutter stay cluttered. And toilets that dont get scrubbed . . . let me just say that they get really gross.
How long does it really take to wash out your cereal bowl in the morning before running off to class? Not long enough to make you significantly later, but just long enough to justify leaving it for someone else. And once the first dirty dish is left in the sink, forget trying to stave off the tide of dirty dishes that will follow in its footsteps. Unfortunately, thats the reigning mentality in most houses: creating a mess entitles you to bequeath cleaning it to someone else. Most people clean their own rooms when necessary, but when it comes to the kitchen or the lounge, the tragedy of the commons is hard at play. And why wouldnt it be, when messes magically disappear overnight with the arrival of the cleaning staff in the morning? Theres no way to prevent messes or clutter. After all, were college students! Were bound to raid the pantries at all hours and scatter crumbs all over the floor, drop our books in the computer cluster and then forget about them or amass upwards of 20 cups in our rooms. That part will never change. Its how you deal with the mess that makes all the difference. Things are far from perfect in coops. Ill be the first to admit that neat freaks might want to reconsider pre-assigning to Columbae. But from everything Ive seen, people in co-ops take more pride in their living space than most anywhere else. Maybe we dont clean up our messes as well as a maid might, but in general, co-op residents have learned to take ownership of the individual impact they can have on the community. Its the job system that kick-starts this incredible community buy-in. Instead of hating cleaning up, people learn to love the sound of Hobart! as a sign to flock
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to the kitchen and help unload dishes and silverware. Weekly cleaners blast music and sing as they wash pots. Dinner cook crews have lifechats while chopping carrots. Ideally, the system creates a community of individuals who wash their dishes not because they have to, but because they truly care about respecting not only their own living space, but that of all other 50 residents. Youd think people would freeride, but somehow, they generally dont. Shirking your weekly job makes you look bad in front of all your peers. Furthermore, as much as the time commitment is hard, the satisfaction makes up for it.Whenever you make a positive impact on the house, you feel a sense of connection to your community. These small actions on the part of individuals on behalf of the whole are what makes co-ops not just survive, but thrive. Last Tuesday, I spent approximately six hours baking English muffins for the house. And while I cursed my life flipping 250 individual balls of dough over a hot griddle at 1 a.m., there was nothing like the feeling of satisfaction after I had pulled the last batch out of the oven. Knowing that you that you defied the laws of physics and made this chaotic universe a little less chaotic (take that, Newtons second law!) is, in a word, awesome. Leslies always looking for baking partners,so email her at labrian@stanford.edu.
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dividual and dont want to dance like everyone else, then it becomes prideful and stupid. (However, I also think its a brainwashing tool by the government to make humans accustomed to taking orders from robots.) Donald Glover raps about how he can get any girl he wants (like every other rapper ever does). But he gets really vulnerable when he admits that after whatever sexual conquest with whatever girl, he never gets what he really wants.The problem with rooting our identity in our fears or our desires is that both eventually fracture and fall away. And then who is left? Chase is happy to make you even more connected to pop culture. Just email him at ninjaish@stanford.edu. opposed the measure and called it a power grab in an interview with Peninsula Press that was also posted on YouTube. He said that firefighters would no longer be able to push back during negotiations over their contract, which will expire in three years. I think its another way of having control of your workforce and having them have little or no say in what happens to them, he said. Spitaleri expressed disappointment that the measure passed Tuesday night. Were going to end up with nothing resolved, he said to the Peninsula Press. A group of people treated like second class citizens. Palo Alto voters also passed Measure E, which would un-dedicate 10 of Byxbee Parks 127 acres in hopes of building a compost facility, with a 64.38 percent majority. Support for Measure E allows further research of the waste-to-energy facility options, said Mary Alice Thornton, the president of the League of Women Voters of Palo Alto, to the Peninsula Press. Kurt Chirbas
both. DO: Listen to Childish Gambino DOO-DOO: Do The Cha-Cha Slide Im usually not into rap, but Ive been spinning the new Childish Gambino album all week. (When I say Im not into rap, I mean I dont know how to listen to it. I know youre supposed to make an angry face, bob your head and drop some uhs and mmhs here and there, but I still look like an Orange County Asian Kid Trying To Be A White Kid Trying To Be A Black Kid while doing it.) Childish Gambino is the rap moniker of actor-comedian Donald Glover, most famous for playing Troy on NBCs Community and writing for NBCs 30 Rock. (Ya, thats right. Pop culture columns two weeks in a row. You can stop reading now, Grandma. Sorry about it.) I would highly recommend Glovers commercial debut album, CAMP, to anyone that enjoys music and isnt easily offended by offensive language, suggestive lyrics, racist and homophobic slurs, or tracks that will make you poke your roommate while hes sleeping and say, Yo, these beats iz tiiiiight! (In Glovers defense, most of the derogatory titles are satirically directed toward himself.) Thematically, the album is about searching for identity. Glover, a black rapper, dishes about the diffi-
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culties of not belonging; being too white for the black community, but still not being white. He raps, No live shows, cause I cant find sponsors/ For the only black kid at a Sufjan concert. Furthermore, he refers to himself as the only white rapper whos allowed to say the n-word. Theres also the element of Glover being a crossover act.While hes been releasing music for the last three years, he fears people view his music as a secondary gimmick to compliment his primary role as a comedian. (As for comedian, he has a hilarious bit about how he had to change his Twitter name from @DonGlover because people kept calling him Dong Lover.) He wants to be respected as a musician, and not as a gimmick, saying I used to get more laughs when I got laughed at/ Oh you got a mixtape? Thats fantastic. And I can relate with the fundamental question of identity, the difficulty in negotiating How People Perceive Me against How I Want To Be Perceived against Who I Actually Am. More often than not, how I want to be perceived by others is a direct response to my fear of how others perceive me, and neither honestly depicts who I am. I dont own Stanford clothes. No sweatshirts, no shirts, no nothing. (And not just because its #NoShirtNovember.) Pre-admission to Stanford, I remember seeing students from elite colleges strutting around in their school
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paraphernalia acting like snobby, elitist ____________. (Its a madlib. Feel free to write in your best, nastiest derogatory word in the comments section online. Winner gets a prize!) So I dont wear Stanford clothes for fear people will think Im a snobby, elitist [insert same word]. Is it illogical? Probably. Does the logic fall apart even more once Im on campus surrounded by thousands of (mostly) humble and kind-hearted people? Definitely. Its dangerous to allow your fears and desires dictate who you are. If you place your identity in being successful, youll hold onto success like its your life (because in a way it is now.) You may start only seeing people as obstacles to reaching your goal or as stepping stones to boost you higher. It works for anything. If you place your identity in beauty or good looks, youll start doing everything to keep it (until youre a plastic Botoxd vegetable owned by Armani.) Worse, you start valuing others for how they fit into your shallow scale of worth. I have a deep desire to be creative and rebellious to be an individual which is not bad in itself. But when I refuse to do the Cha-Cha Slide dance when the song comes on because Im an in-
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repealed binding arbitration in its June elections, and San Luis Obispo voters in August. The San Jose Mercury News called the measure a test of the clout of public unions in a Democratic stronghold. Yoriko Kishimoto, a former mayor of Palo Alto and a Measure D supporter, told the Peninsula Press in an interview posted on YouTube earlier in the week that the measure comes after years of growth in the funds delegated toward areas like the fire department, which as a result,has crowd[ed] out other services. She said that Service Efforts and Accomplishment (SEA) reporting has shown that funds dedicated toward fire safety have grown by 31 percent over the past five years, while funds for community service have remained unchanged. Tony Spitaleri, president of the Professional Firefighters Union,
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Slow your roll a bit, BCS haters
pitch. For the second year in a row, Stanford fans have had the good fortune of being active participants in this conversation. (Isnt it much more fun to complain about the BCS when your team is actually in the hunt for one?) But this week, after Stanford polished off Oregon State to extend its record to 9-0 and Alabama fell to LSU in overtime, the Crimson Tide still stayed ahead of the Cardinal in the latest BCS standings.Stanford sat at number four,Alabama dropped from two to three. This,of course,provoked some vitriolic reaction from the Cardinal faithful, who maintained that it was unjust for Bama to keep its high ranking despite losing a 9-6 snooze-fest at home. A fantastic example of this outrage can be found in Wednesdays San Francisco Chronicle,where columnist Bruce Jenkins calls out the BCS for giving Stanford absolutely no respect.Clearly,Jenkins says,the BCS has a pro-SEC bias that is conspiring to keep Stanford out of the title game and rig an Alabama-LSU rematch in New Orleans on Jan.9. I dont encourage you to go and read the whole column it appears to have been written while he was under the influence of bath salts but lets look at a few choice quotes: First:You cant get robbed if theres no money in the safe, but the burglars are circling Stanfords football program. Theyre wearing BCS sweatshirts and singing fight songs from the Southeastern Conference. Next: In other words, go ahead, West Coast teams,run up an impressive record in a conference rich in talent. Well continue to be bribed sorry,influenced by the SEC people. And finally:Its possible that if Stanford beats Oregon,it could jump ahead of Alabama because the Cardinals schedule will have gained some teeth. An epic takedown, right? Feel your blood boiling? Ready to storm the warehouse where the BCS Illuminati conspire create the rankings? Not so fast,my fellow Stanford fans. Dont fall into groupthink with Jenkins. Let me assure you: There is absolutely no reason at all to get upset about one week of injustice in the BCS. While I agree that Bama should have fallen beneath the teams that remained undefeated (except for Boise State), the bottom line, no matter what happens this Saturday,is that this weeks BCS standings wont matter anyway. If Stanford loses, it will fall well behindAlabama (and the one-loss Ducks) in the BCS standings.If Stanford wins,it will easily leapfrog the Tide.Its not just possible, as Jenkins suggests. If the Cardinal pulls off its biggest win of the season, it will, without a doubt, pass the Tide. Second, suggesting that prejudice prevents a West Coast team from surpassing an SEC team is simply not true. Look a little further down the BCS standings,and youll notice that Oregon, after an unimpressive win over Washington, leapfrogged Arkansas, which beat No. 9 South Carolina by 16 points on Saturday.Looks like the work of proSEC conspirators to me,Shaggy. So ease off those online message boards and step back for a minute,Stanford fans.Remember,theres no need to be upset. If your favorite team takes care of business this weekend, all it will need to do to assure itself a shot at a national championship is to win out and have Oklahoma State fall on its face. But dont take the Chicken Little approach to things just because Alabama is still microscopically ahead in the standings with four weeks of football left to be played. Instead, keep in mind the words of Stanford head coach David Shaw. The BCS ranking has absolutely no bearing on what happens on Saturdays, he said on Tuesday.It only matters when all the regular-season and conference-championship games are over, because thats when you decide what bowl games you go to. Up until then,its a TV show. Wise words for every Stanford fan myself included to keep in mind as this season winds to its dramatic close.
ts that time of year again:the last few weeks of the college football regular season, when the daily whining and moaning about the BCSs inequities reaches a fever
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Shaw,Hamilton,Bloomgren craft nations third-best offense

BY JACK BLANCHAT
DESK EDITOR
ver the last several years, much has been made of the Oregon Ducks innovative, electric offense. Unique formations, placards with weird pictures,a breakneck pace and lopsided point totals more befitting a basketball scoreboard have made the Ducks offense the fascination of fans and the media. But take a look at the Pac-12 statistics, and youll see that the Ducks offense is looking up at one squad: the Stanford Cardinal.
Oregon averages 46 points per game, the fifthmost in the nation. Stanford checks in at 48.2 points per game, third-best in the country and its offense couldnt be any more different from the Ducks. Three tight ends, seven offensive linemen, few spread formations.The highest time of possession in the conference. No funny pictures. No need for YouTube videos that explain the offense. Just results. So how does one of the nations most potent offenses come together without the flashy style and weird formations the Ducks have made so popular? The answer lies somewhere among the brains of Stanford head coach David Shaw, offensive co-
ordinator Pep Hamilton and run-game coordinator Mike Bloomgren the trio of NFL-tested play-callers who work together to craft the Cardinals offensive plan. Shaw, the Cardinals first-year head coach, hand selected Bloomgren and Hamilton to work with when he was creating his offensive staff last year, promoting Hamilton from his position as wide receiver coach and pulling Bloomgren from the New York Jets staff.Together, the three bring 21 years of NFL coaching experience and three inimitable but compatible viewpoints to the table. We dont exist in three different worlds, the head coach, the pass game guy and the run game
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Matchup with Oregon sends ticket prices up

By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR
Jack Blanchat is trying very hard to hide the fact that deep down, he bleeds SEC colors. If youd like to discuss the East Coast, West Coast or any other regional bias, shoot him an email at blanchat@stanford.edu or follow him on Twitter @jmblanchat.
Supporters of college footballs Bowl Championship Series often argue that while the ranking system has its flaws, it makes every matchup more exciting by turning them all into playoff games. Last weekends LSU-Alabama clash may have been the Super Bowl of the college season 100,000-plus screaming fans made Tuscaloosa seem more like Lollapalooza.But this week,the spotlight is fixated on the Farm, and the matchup between No. 4 Stanford and No. 6 Oregon is the hottest tick-
et around. Prices for the game have spiked in the last three weeks, jumping from an average price of $174 per ticket all the way to a peak of $420 per ticket this week. All told, there has been a 300-percent price increase for sales through secondary ticketing sites since September. Will Flaherty is the Director of Communications at SeatGeek.com, a sporting event and concert ticket search engine that promotes its data-driven ticket search, allowing users to look at prices from over 50 secondary ticket sites like StubHub, eBay and RazorGatos. Flaherty noticed some remark-
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able trends when he examined the data for Saturdays game, particularly considering the enormous spike in demand in the immediate lead-up to game day. If you had bought tickets to this game in August, or even early September,you could have gotten in for
$100 dollars no problem, he said. Now youre seeing prices that are putting it right in the rarefied air that usually is reserved only for the fiercest rivalry games and things like LSU-Alabama.
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PRIDE ON THE LINE IN FINALE

By ISABEL SOSA Standing in the last two spots of the Pac-12, the Cardinal and the Golden Bears can hardly boast about their 2011 seasons. Friday afternoon, however, the annual Stanford-California matchup is bound to bring out Herculean performances from these long-standing rivals. Since 2007, the Bears (3-8-5, 0-63 Pac-12) have gone undefeated against the Cardinal (5-10-2, 2-6-1), but after six straight losses against their Bay Area rival, Stanford finally earned a draw at home earlier this year, in October. But unlike a month ago, when the teams came to the field with almost identical records on Saturday each had suffered conference losses to UCLA and San Diego State the Cardinal will arrive at Drake Field just slightly ahead of the Bears. As returning champions of last years Pac-12 conference, UCBerkeley has what can only be described as a very disappointing season this year.The Bears currently sit in last place in the conference and have yet to win a single game in Pac12 play. The loss of six of their players to the MLS paired with the addition of 10 new freshmen to the roster has taken its toll. However, Stanford coach Bret Simon is careful not to underestimate the Bears. The Cal midfield is very strong, and they have a lot of strong players in general, theyre just young and havent found a way to win some of the games they shouldve, or couldve, won, Simon said. In fact, he believes that his team will challenge a different Cal on Friday than the one they faced before. They have gradually improved over the course of the season, Simon said. We think they are a pretty good team even though their record hasnt been what it normally might be. As the Bears leading scorer and the author of the header that went past Stanfords Jason Dodson in the teams last encounter, junior John Fitzpatrick is definitely figure to watch out for. John Fitzpatrick has scored on us the last couple of games weve played and he is a strong forward, says Simon, But I dont know that theres one player we will focus on. The Cardinal has produced slightly more favorable outcomes since it last met Cal. It has amassed five conference wins, the last of
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which was an impressive 4-1 victory against San Diego State. Even so, Stanford is only one spot above Berkeley in conference standing and has had its share of missed scoring opportunities over the season. Simon, however, doesnt see conference standings as key for the upcoming match. I dont think that the game will be impacted by team records. Games between us and Cal are well played games, very competitive, and both teams will want to win very badly, he said. In fact, despite the absence of post-season intrigue, he has high expectations for Friday. I think its going to be a great game. The match against Cal is scheduled to kick off 2 p.m. at Edwards Stadium in Berkeley. Contact Isabel Sosa at isosa92@ stanford.edu.
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NORTHWEST TEST AHEAD

By MIKE SCHWARTZ
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Junior Dersu Abolfathi (above) and the Stanford mens soccer team wont be going to the postseason, but still face a big test for bragging rights this weekend against Cal. The Cardinal has lost its last six matches to the Bears.
While the Stanford womens volleyball team excels at home, its task this week will be to prove that it can win on the road with a trip to Washington and Washington State. The Card cruised to victory at Maples Pavilion when the teams last met, dominating both teams in three-set efforts. This weekend, the Cardinal
women will be looking to prove that it was more than the home crowed that propelled them to victory earlier in the season. With the season winding down, No. 3 Stanford (19-4, 13-4 Pac12) needs to put its stamp on the Pac12, and there is no better way to do that than by beating the No. 11 Washington Huskies (18-6, 10-6) and the Washington State Cougars (12-14, 412) on the road. First up for the Card is Washington, and the Huskies are only two-
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Freshman Morgan Boukather (leaping) and the Cardinal womens volleyball team are looking to press forward in the Pac-12 standings this weekend with matchups on the road against Washington and Washington State.
and-a-half games behind Stanford in the Pac-12 standings, making this game a must win if the Card hopes to get back into the race for the conference title (UCLA and USC are currently tied for the top slot.) Washington boasts an impressive 11-1 record at home, proving that it plays its best volleyball in Seattle. However, its coming off of two embarrassing straight-set losses to USC and UCLA, and will surely be looking to right the ship with a win against the Cardinal. Stanfords offense will have to be on top of its game, as Washington has the Pac-12 and arguably the countrys best defense. This is due in large part to the pair of seniors up front, Bianca Rowland and Laruen Barfield. Rowland is first in the Pac-12 in blocks per set at 1.57.Barfield is not far behind at third, averaging 1.46 blocks per set. Sophomore libero Jenna Orlandini also poses a threat on defense, as she is currently sixth in the Pac-12 in digs, averaging 4.38 per set. On Saturday,Stanford will take on Washington State in what looks to be a favorable matchup for the Card. What looked like a promising season for the Cougars has turned out to be very disappointing, as they are ninth in the Pac-12 with just five games remaining. The one bright spot for the Cougars this year has been senior sensation Megan Ganzer.The outside hitter leads the Pac-12 in both kills and points, averaging 5.32 points per set and 4.79 kills per set. In her last match against UCLA,Ganzer posted a double-double with 10 kills and 11 digs, leading the team in both categories. The question will be whether Washington State can stop Stanfords dynamic sophomore duo of outside hitter Rachel Williams and middle blocker Carly Wopat. The pair has been nearly unstoppable for the past few weeks, smothering their opponents both offensively and defensively. Wopat is second in the Pac-12 in blocks per set at 1.57, while Williams comes in at fifth in kills, averaging 4.3 per set. If Stanford is to make a run at first place in the Pac-12, coming out of Washington with two wins is essential. Currently two games behind the Bruins and Trojans with five games remaining, the title is not yet out of reach for the Cardinal. Stanford takes on Washington in Seattle at 7 p.m. on Friday and finishes the weekend against the Cougars in Pullman at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday. Contact Mike Schwartz at mikes23@ stanford.edu.
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guy, Shaw says. But I think the biggest thing is, weve got outstanding communication. We, by the end of the week, we make it all fit, so that theres not separate parts of our offense. It all fits together. Bloomgren, on the other hand,
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praises his boss for creating an environment that allows the offense to be successful. We all work together very well, and I think thats unique because Ive been places where that wasnt the case, he says. I think that all starts with Coach Shaw. Hes so easy to work for and so good,he has great knowledge of the running game as well as the passing game, hell bounce ideas off of both of us and we get together on a Monday night, and we kind of throw it all in a pot and see whats worth looking at. Together,theyve spawned a Cardinal offense that is powerful, balanced and efficient averaging over 500 yards of offense a game and in the top 25 nationally in both passing and rushing yards per game.Additionally, under the tutelage of Hamilton, the teams red zone guru, Stanford has scored every single time it has been to the red zone this season a perfect 52-for-52 the only team in college football to do so this year. The offense theyve created directly reflects each coachs experience at the pro level, Bloomgren says, and gives them a chance to succeed because teams are unprepared to handle a team that uses a NFLstyle offense. People are preparing for the spread more and more these days and building their defenses around it, he says. So when we have the opportunity to bring them into our phone booth and put seven linemen out there and say, now you have to fight us right here, weve done okay with that. Shaw also highlighted how his own time going against top-tier defenses prepared him to create his own offense. I spent four years at the Baltimore Ravens playing against, for a year, a [Dolphins defensive coordi-
nator] Mike Nolan defense,and then for three years, a [Jets head coach] Rex Ryan defense. It was hard, he says. Every single day, you better have multiple answers, you better have protection issues, and Im talking about the offseason youre just trying to get through a spring practice against Rex, because every single play is a blitz . . . So you learn how to diagnose your own offense against the worst possible looks. On game day,the coaches collaborative effort all goes into a game plan that could contain up to 300 plays, according to senior wide receiver Griff Whalen. Shaw and Bloomgren patrol the sidelines while Hamilton takes a birds-eye view from the coaches box to give himself a more complete perspective. Ill tell you thats one big difference for me, being in college ball as opposed to the NFL, you dont have those pictures in between series, Hamilton says. You have Polaroids in the NFL so you can get a better idea of what theyre doing and how we need to adjust, but we dont have that luxury in the NFL, so I have a better vantage point in the box. Bloomgren also says that his experience in the NFL has made it hard for him on the sidelines at times. You get so spoiled by [the Polaroids] in the NFL in confirming what you think you saw, he says. Down at USC in the first half, they didnt have the jumbotron replaying plays, and I felt so lost, because thats what Ive leaned on all year. If I miss something or think I saw something and I need to confirm it, I just get my eyes on the jumbotron after we make the next call. Each play call goes to quarterback Andrew Luck directly from Shaw,who Hamilton says has the ultimate veto power for any sugges-
tion, although he doesnt exercise that authority very often. He trusts in our preparation as a staff and the plays that make the [offensive] menu, Hamilton says. Together, the three play-callers have the ability to suggest a new plan of attack at any time, even when it might fall under another coaches point of expertise. Red zone in particular is one of the many areas that I take charge of, Hamilton says. But we all have input as to what schemes we use down in the red zone, its not just my ideas or my brainchild. Bloomgren does take a little credit for himself when it comes to one set of plays in particular that are new in the Stanford playbook this year. I had the opportunity to do our whole Wildcat package [with the New York Jets], he says. We called it the Seminole package in New York, and that was kind of my baby there. So while the Stanford offense might not have many of the unusual bells and whistles of the Ducks multifaceted attack, Shaw says that the teams success is a testament to the quality of his coaches. I give those guys a lot of credit being able to come back and put it all together, so that, number one, it makes sense for our players, Shaw says. Because we can go up there and try to be gurus and geniuses and confuse the heck out of our guys, but we make it accessible to them to help them play fast and do things,hopefully, that make sense. In the end, the results are all that really matters, right? The Cardinal and Ducks will match up their high-powered offenses on Saturday at 5 p.m. in Stanford Stadium. Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat @stanford.edu.
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The game has cornered the secondary ticket market in terms of price, with weekly averages mirroring those of USC and Notre Dames annual meeting, the Iron Bowl between Alabama and Auburn, and last years LSU-Bama brawl in Baton Rouge. With ESPNs College GameDay making its first-ever trip to Palo Alto to cover the game, both teams ranked in the top six, compelling figures on both sides of the ball in Andrew Luck and LaMichael James, as well as national championship implications, it comes as little surprise that prices have jumped up. But few at Stanford are used to seeing the glass ceiling shattered in such a manner, from players on the football team to older students that remember the half-empty stadiums of four and five years ago. Its great to see [demand for tickets so high], said junior running back Stepfan Taylor. I didnt know how much tickets were selling for, but thats amazing and really a testament to the players that we have and what we came and have fought together for. We want the crowds coming to the games, I guess high-priced tickets means people are coming to see us, he said. Also remarkable were the manner and speed with which the prices moved. On Monday, the average ticket price was up to $381 dollars, peaking on Tuesday morning at around $420 per ticket. Ticket volume the number of tickets actually sold was two times greater on Saturday night than it was a day earlier, according to Flaherty, as both the Ducks and Cardinal won their respective games to set up the showdown. People have had this date circled on calendars for months, Flaherty said, Maybe even since the second that Andrew Luck declared hed come back for his senior year. Pac-12 fans everywhere knew that was probably the game of the season in the conference, and now its getting recognition around the country. And while LSU-Alabama still ended up with much higher prices overall the cheapest tickets during the final week of buildup to that game were selling for a little under $400 dollars a pop it will still cost
you upwards of $200 to get in the door on Saturday night. That price spiked dramatically, as you could still find a few tickets for under $100 dollars on Sunday and even Monday evening. But by Tuesday at noon, General Admission tickets were up to $125, and five hours later theyd risen to $160. On Wednesday afternoon, the cheapest tickets on SeatGeek were going for $225 tickets that had a face value of about $30 dollars. David Vargas, Stanfords director of football marketing, said that although this game is clearly a oncein-a-decade event, the numbers cant be ignored. The secondary market is not a fad, he said, Its a reality. When people are buying tickets at $320 it says that there is enough appetite and discretionary income to afford those prices. From our marketing perspective, that isnt our objective, to raise costs. We want a full house and a great experience, and we will get that Saturday. When compared to many of the traditional football powerhouses, Stanford does not have a very large alumni base to draw support from, and what alumni it does have are more dispersed geographically, making for a tough environment. But Stanford Stadium has a capacity of 50,000 fans, half as many as can cram into Bryant-Denny Stadium at Alabama, and demand has certainly exceeded supply for what is going to be just the eighth sellout in the five years since the University renovated the old Stanford Stadium, knocking out 35,000 seats in the process. We are building the brand of Stanford Football and have invested in marketing to extend our reach and our awareness geographically more than ever, Vargas added. That being said, there is nothing like a successful team.Winning is the best deal in the sports world. As of Wednesday night, the most expensive tickets for the game were listed for just over $1,100 dollars on StubHub, with several tickets already sold in the $700-dollar range, according to SeatGeek. Its just awesome, said junior fullback Ryan Hewitt.You want to play in front of a sellout crowd and you want to play in front of a home crowd thats there supporting you. When they turnout and its a big game like this, thats all you can really ask for. Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@stanford.edu.
MENS WATER POLO

By DAVID PEREZ
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Quick breather from tough MPSF

The No. 4 Stanford mens water polo will take a break from its conference schedule this weekend as it hosts No. 14 Santa Clara and No. 12 UC-Davis at Avery Aquatic Center. With only two weeks until the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) tournament, the Cardinal (15-4, 4-2 MPSF) is looking to round into shape for a postseason push. Senior utility Peter Sefton talked about how this weekends games will help prepare the team for the stretch run. As always, we are working on defense, and you can always work on that no matter who you are playing, Sefton said. While Stanford has pointed to defense all year as its key to success, it could also benefit from some offensive improvement. The defense has been stellar throughout the season, allowing only 5.45 goals per game. That mark is second-best in the MPSF, behind only top-seeded USC. The offense, on the other hand, is eighth in the league in goals per game, and the lack of offensive output seems to be the difference be-
This weekends games give the Cardinal a needed respite.

tween Stanford and the top three teams. No. 1 UCLA, No. 2 USC and No. 3 Cal are all in the top three in offensive production, as well as the top four in defense. Stanford has been held to four and six goals in its two MPSF losses, and even in its wins the offensive output has been less than incredible. Only twice this year has the team surpassed the double-digit scoring mark against conference opponents. Encouragingly, those two double-digit scoring outputs
came in the Cardinals last two games. This weekends games against teams outside of the MPSF give the Cardinal a brief respite from what is one of the countrys dominant conferences. The nine teams in the MPSF also make up the top nine nationally ranked teams. The Cardinal also hosts an alumni game that should give Stanford a chance to loosen up before it heads into the crucial regular season finale against No. 3 California. It will be fun playing with all the older guys, a lot of people usually come back, Sefton said. The game against Cal will help determine seeding in the MPSF Tournament, which is crucial to Stanfords chances of making it into the NCAA Championship. Stanford is currently fourth in the MPSF while Cal is second, but a Stanford win would give both teams two total losses, with Stanford owning the head-to-head tiebreaker. The start time for the matchup against Cal, the annual Big Splash, will be announced on Monday. Contact David Perez at davidp3@ stanford.edu.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Womens soccer sweeps Pac-12 awards
Led by senior forward Lindsay Taylor and her Pac-12 Player of the Year award, the top-ranked womens soccer program swept the annual conference awards, as announced on Wednesday. In addition to Taylor, forward Chioma Ubogagu was named Freshman of the Year and Paul Ratcliffe picked up his fourth consecutive Coach of the Year award. It was the third straight year that a Cardinal player has captured the Player of the Year award, as Taylor follows last years winner, Christen Press, and Kelley OHara in 2009. Taylor, a Los Altos native, led the Pac-12 in points (38) and goals (17) on the way to Stanfords third consecutive undefeated regular season. Two days before the Cardinal kicks off postseason play with a first-round NCAA Tournament match at home against Montana on Friday, Stanford had eight players named to the All-Pac-12 teams. Those named to the First Team include Taylor, senior midfielders Camille Levin and Teresa Noyola, junior defender Alina Garciamendez-Rowold and sophomore goalie Emily Oliver. Ubogagu and junior defender Rachel Quon earned Second Team honors, and junior midfielder Mariah Nogueira was an honorable mention pick. In addition, Ubogagu and defender Kendall Romine both made the All-Freshman Team. Ratcliffe, a two-time National Coach of the Year, continues to rack up the accolades, as Stanford went 19-0-1 (11-0 Pac-12) in the regular season. Over the past four seasons, his team has gone 37-1 in conference, 49-0-1 at home and 894-4 overall. The Cardinal is trying to win the programs first national title after losing in the NCAA Championship game the past two seasons. Its postseason road opens on Friday against the Grizzlies at 7 p.m. from Laird Q. Cagan Stadium.
Miles Bennett-Smith
Cardinal swimmers test skills against Cal in scrimmage

After almost three weeks of uninterrupted training, the mens swim team traveled to Cal for a scrimmage-like meet against rival California on Wednesday. If ever there was a friendly competition between Stanford and the Golden Bears, this meet might have been it. Far from what one would call a conventional dual meet, the day consisted of six tri-distance categories of events, including butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, individual medley, short distance freestyle and long distance freestyle. Cardinal swimmers won three of the six tri-distance categories. Distance standout senior Chad La
Tourette won the 500 and 1000 freestyle to claim the overall tridistance title. In the 1000 freestyle, La Tourette showed his continued dominance in endurance events with a comfortable seven-second victory over the rest of the field. Likewise, veteran Bobby Bollier won the 100 and 200 butterfly for the overall butterfly title. Bollier finished third in the 50 fly, but the defending 200-meter butterfly national champion took control in the longer events. Not to be outdone, freshman David Nolan swept the 100, 200, and 400 individual medleys to grab the tri-medley win. Nolan was the only swimmer, other than Cals Tom Shields, to win all his events. Cal was impressive in the backstroke events, with Shields and Mathias Gydesen going one-two in the overall category. While this scrimmage may not have been considered one of the bigger competitions this season, it certainly gave the Cardinal swimmers a chance for some short-rest racing and a crucial preview of Cal, the defending NCAA Champion. Stanford will see the Golden Bears at least three more times down the road this season their next reunion will be in mid-February in a conference dual meet. The Pac-12 Championships will follow suit in late February.And if the two teams still dont get enough of each other by then, theyll duke it out at the NCAAs in March. George Chen
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many different types of events to see what events are most enjoyed by students, Cardona said. While Cardinal Nights is intended to provide alcohol-free experiences accessible to all Stanford students, staff and students alike noted that freshmen have been the primary event participants. Castro indicated that while the events have received positive feedback from some upperclassmen and their student leadership, many upperclassmen remain ambivalent about the initiative. The programming is pushed towards freshmen, and upperclassmen can feel that, said Sarah Bolmer 13. Nevertheless, focusing on the freshman class may prove to be more effective in changing the class social dynamic and avoiding ingrained habits retained by upperclassmen, who may be more hesitant to try the new alcohol-free initiative. Cardona wrote that many of the upperclassmen surveyed commented that the existence of such a program in their first year at Stanford would have made the transition to college a lot easier. While between one quarter and one third of Stanford students refrain from drinking at the University, students highlighted the need to emphasize that the initiative is there for both drinkers and nondrinkers. While the initiative is something the campus has needed, there is the perception that the events are exclusively for non-drinkers, said Paige Romer12. Bolmer added that the initiatives programs are more effective when they build on communities that already exist on campus. Nevertheless, students expressed cautious approval of the initiatives intent, even if the impact thus far has been limited. Students praised the OAPE for establishing a far more coherent alcohol policy than in past years. Theres a lot of room for improvement, but it has created a more balanced social scene that will develop in the future, said Stefan Norgaard 15. Contact Marshall Watkins at mtwatkins@stanford.edu.
CARDINAL
The intent was to offer alternatives that complement the existing social scene [on campus], said Ralph Castro, associate dean of student affairs and director of OAPE. Castro noted that Cardinal Nights is only one aspect of OAPEs efforts. He highlighted OAPEs outreach education initiatives, which are aimed at increasing student awareness of alcohol issues. The goal is to encourage students to think critically about alcohol and to target high risk drink-
ing, he said. Castro said that the office is continuing to develop relationships with other student groups. Cardinal Nights has several ways for [the] community to engage with the program, including a grant application that any student or student group/dorm/house can fill out to co-host a Cardinal Night, Cardona said. Castro noted that the short duration of the Cardinal Nights initiative means any judgment on its effectiveness may be premature. Nevertheless, both he and Cardona have received positive feedback from students. Surveys are circulated during events and in an effort to improve future programming. We are open and willing to try
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Cardinal Nights events well-attended

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Stanford Emeritus President Gerhard Casper named new director of FSI

director of FSI is to initiate a search for a permanent director of the Institute.

Palo Alto voters pass Measures D,E

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Center for Buddhist Studies works to expand presence

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Being depressed at Stanford

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Matchup with Oregon sends ticket prices up

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FOOTBALL|NFL experience gives offense a boost

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