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Student interest group to have endorsed majority of next years Senate
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Current ASSU VPoutsources student data

MacGregor-Dennis cites academic interest to explain ODesk activity
By BRENDAN OBYRNE
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In recent years, perhaps no campus group has been more influential in determining the outcome of ASSU elections than the Students of Color Coalition (SOCC), which both endorses candidates and offers campaign assistance. The last three executive slates supported by SOCC Cruz-Macgregor-Dennis in 2011, Cardona-Wharton in 2010 and Avula-Jones in 2007 have been elected to office. SOCC did not endorse executive

slates in 2008 or 2009. Last year, 12 of 15 SOCC-endorsed candidates were elected to the 13th Undergraduate Senate. Candidates for the ASSU Senate and the Executive, as well as current senators, sat down with The Daily to discuss the significance of the SOCC endorsement for ASSU elections as well as the ASSUs legislative agenda in the upcoming year. SOCC is a coalition of six groups: the Asian American Students Association (AASA), the Black Student Union (BSU), Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de

Aztln (MEChA), the Muslim Student Awareness Network (MSAN), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Stanford American Indian Organization (SAIO). Candidates cited SOCCs extensive student network, as well as campaign experience garnered by the coalition in previous elections, as valuable assets in election season. It gives you a base of people to work

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CIA recruitment draws protesters

ASSU Vice President and current Executive candidate Stewart MacGregor-Dennis 13, along with a friend whom he declined to name, has paid for over $2,000 of personal and ASSU-related services through an ODesk account, including one task that involved giving access to student names and emails to third-party contractors to aggregate the data. The account on ODesk has over 50 jobs posted since May 2011, including paying for Facebook likes, YouTube hits and Tumblr followers. MacGregor-Dennis denied ever paying for Facebook likes and YouTube hits, though he said he hired social media managers whose main responsibilities were generating likes, hits and followers. Additionally, the account paid a thirdparty contractor listed by ODesk under the name Rebecca S. and as living in the Philippines, to scrape first names, last names and email addresses of presidents, financial officers, additional officers and E-commerce officers of student groups from MyGroups, the ASSUs student group software. The contractor organized the data into a spreadsheet in August 2011. These student email addresses were all

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Approximately 25 people protested at a CIA recruitment event at the Career Development Center Wednesday morning. We encourage our peers to not use their college education to kill innocent people and to torture people, said Josh Schott 14, who organized the protest.

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Zimbroff/Wagstaff garners support from campus groups

Stanford Dems maintain support of MacGregor-Dennis/Druthi slate
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Panelists discussed the viability of outside presidential candidates with moderator Larry Diamond, director of the Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law, at CEMEX auditorium Wednesday evening.

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Americans Elect seeks third option

By AARON SEKHRI
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Group aims to expand candidate selection, move from party politics

What would happen if the most talented people in the country, the politicians, the business people, the activists, the engineers, what if all of them could run for the presidential nomination, unaffiliated from any party? This question, posed by Peter Ackerman, chairman of Americans Elect, was the focus of a panel discussion Wednesday night entitled Americans Elect: A Third Candidate in 2012 held at CEMEX Auditorium. The GSB Government and Politics Club and Americans Elect hosted the event while Larry Diamond 73 M.A. 78 Ph.D. 80, director of the Stanford Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, moderated the dialogue. The goal of the group, as described by the Americans Elect website, is to nominate a presidential ticket that will answer directly to voters not the political system. Ackerman described Americans Elect as not a party, but a platform for candidates not associated with a party. He added that the vot-

ing process offered by Americans Elect could, if successful, lead to a different type of governance and more selection among candidates, and that better leaders would come from this non-partisan system. The last thing this country needs is a new party, Ackerman said. Ackerman said he experienced a lot of difficulty in his efforts to make Americans Elect a reality, which he attributed to the dedication of the Federal Election Committee (FEC) to preserving a monopoly of power between the two parties. History raises some formidable challenges for the success of this enterprise, said Professor David Kennedy, Pulitzer-winning historian and director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Since the Civil War, only in five elections has a non-traditional candidate won any electoral votes. Kennedy added that these candidates have traditionally aimed to be spoilers or to change the political agenda, and that a third candidate would face a particularly difficult election without a presence in lower levels of government. Tucker Bounds, a political strategist who worked closely with both John McCains 2008

For most students interested in running for ASSU office, an essential part of the process is seeking endorsements from various on-campus students groups. These student organizations help the candidates they endorse by tapping their large mailing lists, putting up flyers, posting on Facebook and holding events to introduce the candidates to voters. To see what goes into the endorsement process, The Daily contacted the leaders of several major endorsement groups to explain how they choose which candidates to support. The Daily contacted the Womens Coalition and the Green Alliance for Innovative Action multiple times but did not receive a response in time for publication.

First-Generation Low Income Partnership (FLIP) Not everyone has the opportunity to speak to the candidates directly, wrote Lena Sweeney 12, co-president of FLIP, in an email to The Daily. If they trust the leaders of FLIP, the endorsements provide information on how candidates support and understand the first-generation/lowincome community on campus. According to Sweeney, the group selects candidates by reviewing applications submitted by candidates online. From that pool, some of the candidates are invited back for an interview. The FLIP leadership team then votes on all the candidates interviewed to determine whether or not to endorse them. This year, FLIP endorsed nine candidates for Senate and Robbie Zimbroff 12 and William Wagstaff12 for ASSU Executive.

Please see ASSU, page 6

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

TEDxStanford sells out in four hours

By FELIX BOYEAUX TEDxStanford was not one persons idea, but rather an idea that blossomed after numerous students and alumni began discussing it, said Melinda Sacks, director of media initiatives at Stanford and producer of TEDxStanford. The Office of Public Affairs is producing the event in partnership with the Graduate School of Business and the School of Engineering. A similar prototype event, STAN (Science, Technology, Art and Nature), was

Event with Tom Brokaw, Dean Julie, to be streamed live for free
Tickets to TEDxStanford, an independently organized offshoot of the wellknown TED talks series, sold out in less than four hours early Monday, leaving students without a ticket to post on Facebook and email classmates in hopes of gaining entrance to the May 19 event. The event will also be streamed live free of charge online.

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BREAKING DOWN SPECIAL FEES

An analysis of all groups requesting special fees this year, comparing their 2012-13 request to their 2011-12 request and highlighting one line item from their budget.
TOTAL REQUEST $209,493.69 $187,462 $152,650 $125,175 $92,185 $91,308 $87,000 $84,760 $84,350 CURRENT BUDGET $185,622.40 $175,162 $135,090 $121,371 $89,500 $81,338 (NONE) $80,358.25 $77,300 PERCENT CHANGE 13% 7% 13% 3% 3% 12% 5% 9% ORGANIZATION LINE ITEM OF INTEREST
$20,000 - Horse Polo. $7,000 - Two rst-class tickets for speakers from the East Coast. $115,000 - Artist fees. $70,400 - To have attorneys on campus two afternoons a week (one during summer). $92,185 - All goes to printing costs. $20,850 - Travel expenses. KZSU broadcasts more than 40 Cardinal away games a year. $6,000 - Maintenance of the projector. $9,500 - Cheap housing for hundreds of students going on week-long trips. $10,000 - Security. The University requires Band to pay for police during the student tradition of Band Run? Come on Stanford $530.45 - Hiring a drum leader for Drum Circle. $3,400 - Buy booms, sails, masts and boards. $4,398 - New rims. #PimpmySolarCar. $17,095 - Event food. $2,300 - Fee for guest speaker for Frosh Convocation 2012. $2,160 - To put out a newsletter to important government ofcials and SIG afliates. $2,000 - For the recipient of an award celebrating prominent Muslim-Americans.. $39,000 - Purchasing publications (such as The New York Times) which are distributed for free. $12,000 - Pyrotechnics for Big Game rally. Bonre/reworks show. $4,000 - To feed volunteers and students during tutoring trips. $2,100 - What Stanford charges to rent out Dinkelspiel Auditorium. $500 - Postage. $24,000 - To record their ninth studio album. Costs $2k a song to produce. $9,000 - Paying room, board and travel for 18 members to go to Sundance Film Festival. $8,000 - To hire a part-time Martial Arts director to better coordinate the groups on campus. $11,400 - Operating budget for Arbor Free Clinic. $2,000 - For videographer/DJ to create an intro video for their performances. $1,250 - To fund Challah for Hunger, so all the proceeds can go to charity. $5,000 - To pay a composer for concerts. $14,000 - Speaker fees. $1,880 - Registration expenses. $1,650 - Postage to send magazines to subscribers. $21,580 - All the money goes toward travel/registration expenses of members to Model UN competitions. $1,690 - For a leadership retreat for the core members . of the NAACP $10,500 - For condoms, dental dams, pregnancy tests, sex toys and all kinds of fun things. $600 - Gas for a road trip down to UC Irvine for a competition. $1,200 - For an off-campus retreat for 12 members. $10,000 - Amount Stanford charges the charity organization to rent and clean Arillaga Alumni Center. $5,850 - Total speaker fees for all events. $140 - Phone cards, so they can call their families while they volunteer in Latin America. $5,000 - To make art for Greenfest. $500 - A generator for their outside show, which they put on for all students every year. $12,000 - To fund Music 157, a class open to all students that the Music department does not support nancially. $6,591.40 - Car rentals so they can drive to tutoring sites. $14,000 - Guest fees for performers at quarterly shows. $4,000 - The amount charged to rent Dinkelspiel Auditorium. $500 - To pay the person who organizes the airport shuttle program. $0 - They aren't asking for a second Segway. $12,000 - Printing cost. The remaining money is spent for online software. $3,250 - Honoraria fees. $1,620 - Conservation Cup data collection supplies. $2,000 - Photographer fees. $1,800 - Queer Formal, open to all students. $5,500 - Programming expenses and free goodies to give out to frosh to promote the center. $5,500 - To fund a trip for 12 members to Hollywood. $14,000 - Speaker fees. $80 - SPOON is only requesting half of the registration fee to send two members to the Universities Fighting World Hunger Conference.

STANFORD CLUB SPORTS SPEAKERS BUREAU STANFORD CONCERT NETWORK LEGAL COUNSELING OFFICE THE STANFORD DAILY KZSU STANFORD 90.1FM FLICKS ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY MARCHING BAND STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS STANFORD OUTDOORS STANFORD SOLAR CAR PROJECT ASIAN AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION BLACK STUDENT UNION STANFORD IN GOVERNMENT MUSLIM STUDENTS AWARENESS NETWORK STANFORD NEWS READERSHIP PROGRAM STANFORD AXE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM (SPLASH) MOVIMIENTO ESTUDIANTIL CHICANO DE AZTLAN (MECHA) STANFORD AMERICAN INDIAN ORGANIZATION STANFORD HARMONICS STANFORD FILM SOCIETY STANFORD MARTIAL ARTS PROGRAM CARDINAL FREE CLINICS STANFORD DIL SE (HINDI FILM DANCE) JEWISH STUDENT ASSOCIATION STANFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA STANFORD AFRICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION STANFORD MOCK TRIAL STANFORD CHAPARRAL HUMOR MAGAZINE SOCIETY FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AT STANFORD STANFORD NAACP SEXUAL HEALTH PEER RESOURCE CENTER BASMATI RAAS STANFORD BHANGRA STANFORD DANCE MARATHON STANFORD WOMEN IN BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS IN LATIN AMERICA STUDENTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE STANFORD STANFORD SHAKESPEARE COMPANY MARIACHI CARDENAL BARRIO ASSISTANCE STANFORD JAZZ ORCHESTRA STANFORD WIND ENSEMBLE ASSU STUDENT SERVICES DIVISION STANFORD FLIPSIDE THE LELAND QUARTERLY LOS SALSEROS DE STANFORD GREEN LIVING COUNCIL VIENNESE BALL COMMITTEE QUEER STRAIGHT ALLIANCE THE BRIDGE PEER COUNSELING CENTER STANFORD STUDENTS IN ENTERTAINMENT CARDINAL BALLET COMPANY STANFORD PROJECT ON HUNGER (SPOON)
Data compiled by Brendan OByrne

$61,918.47 $56,386.50 $55,398 $52,850.50 $48,170 $41,981.54 $39,971 $39,540 $38,400 $35,520 $33,812.40 $33,305 $32,350 $31,852 $31,283.09 $31,200 $29,550 $28,810 $26,490 $22,485 $22,332.22 $21,950 $21,580 $21,373.50 $20,250 $20,100 $19,610 $19,525 $19,456 $18,999 $16,340 $15,680 $15,640

$60,357 $50,453 $50,000 $49,808.50 $42,700 $37,421 $36,976.05 $38,855.52 $9,161.19 (NONE) $30,208.40 $29,500 (NONE) $50,000 $18,529.82 $31,900 (NONE) $25,550 $26,490 $20,627.50 $21,579 $22,150 $19,400 $21,073.50 $14,088 $20,100 (NONE) $18,640 $19,520.31 $18,079 $16,700 $13,900 $15,874.60

3% 12% 11% 6% 13% 12% 8% 2% 319% 12% 13% 0% -36% 69% -2% 13% 0% 9% 3% -1% 11% 1% 44% 0% 5% 0% 5% -2% 13% -1%

$14,726.83 $14,000 $13,725 $12,875 $12,400 $12,240 $11,630 $10,256.18 $10,000 $9,360 $9,310 $9,020 $8,966.90 $6,953.08

$13,032.60 $13,380 $13,725 (NONE) $14,400 $12,540 $14,045 $9,967.3 $25,000 $9,360 $9,310 $8,451.70 $8,477.53 $8,169.06

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study conducted by the University of Virginia showed that the average American spends about five hours a day with his mind idle. This includes time spent commuting, exercising and getting ready in the morning valuable time that could be spent learning. And what better way for students aspiring to create start-ups than to learn through a podcast by some of the worlds leading entrepreneurs? Named by Forbes as one of the best podcasts, the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series is a podcast that promotes innovative thinking. Evolving from the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (MS&E 472), the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) podcast first started in 2001 as short video clips of guest speakers uploaded to the Stanfords Entrepreneurship Corner website. In 2005, the full-length lecture recordings became available, and the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Podcasts series was born. The ETL is now a weekly seminar series on entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, BASES and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP). While mainly targeted at students interested in entrepreneurship, the podcast also aims to encourage faculty to think about how entrepreneurship should be taught, to prepare educational resources from the high-technology industry for access by the general public and to develop an archive of digital recordings to provide a network of resources for entrepreneurship educators. The series features over 2,000 free online videos and podcasts of leaders in entrepreneurship and innovation thought. Speakers for the podcasts are nominated each quarter and then voted upon by faculty and students within STVP and BASES. The speakers come from a variety of backgrounds, all interested in the technology sector. They are usually founders or executives in technology companies, venture capitalists who have invested in a high-technology

uning in to entrepreneurial thought

By JANE YOON
startup or authors and philanthropists whose efforts are focused on high-technology entrepreneurship. One of the successes of this podcast is the diversity of speakers we have had so far, said Matt Harvey, ETL communications director. We try to vary the speakers from background, perspective and topics. The podcasts emphasize that speakers are not only entrepreneurs in their respective fields, but also role models to students in the engineering community. Past podcast topics have included start-ups, inspiration for entrepreneurship, venture capital success and building an entrepreneurial career. They focus on sharing knowledge that students feel is critical to impart to new entrepreneurs. The most successful lectures blend lessons learned about entrepreneurship and leadership with engaging stories from the speakers career journey to illuminate these insights, Harvey said. Past speakers include: the founders of Google, Jet Blue and Yahoo!, venture capitalist John Doerr, executives from market leaders such as Cisco and social entrepreneurs from The Global Fund for Women and Craigslist The podcast format of these lectures has allowed ETL to reach out to a diverse international audience not only in higher education, but also reaching listeners who tune in purely out of interest in entrepreneurship. We frequently receive letters from listeners from around the globe who thank us for providing them with a front row seat to the speaker series, said Tina Seelig, executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. They tell us that the content of these talks has had a profound influence on their lives. With 98 percent of the previous class recommending the course to other students, it is considered a gateway course into entrepreneurship. Currently, the

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ETL is the top iTunes podcast in higher education with 11 million downloads since its inception. Each lecture is broadcast live on SITN channel E2 and all presentations during the quarter are archived and made available through iTunes, SoundCloud and STVPs Entrepreneurship Corner. These podcasts show the audience that entrepreneurship is more than just starting companies. The speakers talk about life lessons and insights they have learned along their entrepreneurial journeys that can apply to anyone who is curious and willing to learn. The students love the candid nature of the talks from the speakers, Harvey said. Even though the class is being recorded, they feel a sense of honesty and authenticity from the speakers. Its a very intimate opportunity to hear from these people in that format. Contact Jane Yoon at janeyoon@stanford.edu.

Listeners from around the globe...tell us that the content of these talks has had a profound influence on their lives.
TINA SEELIG, STVP executive director
worked with was interested in state elections, which was, of course, a really big topic. To further arm PWR students with the tools necessary to conduct meaningful research, the Information Center arranges library research workshops, which teach students how to not only physically navigate their way through the library but also to consider a large array of sources beyond the traditional books and reference material. Student feedback on the PWR library workshops has been overwhelmingly positive. In a survey in which PWR students in fall and winter quarters of this academic year were asked to rate the usefulness of the workshops on a scale of one to four, over 80 percent of students rated the workshops at least a three. Evaluations on the helpfulness of librarians have also contributed to student enthusiasm for class projects. Stanfords libraries can be very overwhelming and intimidating to search as a freshman, a student wrote in the survey. [The] librarians really make things simpler and clearer.
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mong the many rites of passage for Stanford during their freshman year is stumbling, often aimlessly, through the labyrinthine stacks of Green Library, looking for relevant sources for their research. For students enrolled in mandatory Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) courses, the library can be an essential, if sometimes overlooked, reservoir of information. According to a PWR student survey conducted by Green Library in 2009, when asked what resources students used the most in their research, 99 percent cited the librarys catalog as the most preferred resource, edging out Google search, which achieved a score of 94 percent. Green Library is home to the Universitys main research collection in the social sciences and humanities, a collection comprised of nearly 3 million books. In addition, Green also houses approximately 6,500 current periodicals and journals, as well as 350 current newspapers. With such an enormous collection, it is no wonder the library remains an extremely popular site for student research.

The numbers of circulation materials checked out are staggering, said Chris Bourg, assistant university librarian for public services. According to the circulation data, in 2011, Stanford undergraduates checked out over 150,000 books. Do the math and that makes roughly 22 books per student. Greens sheer size, however, can be rather daunting for students unaccustomed to navigating their way through research databases and reference collections. The questions we get are a mixed bag, said James Jacobs, a government documents librarian at the Information Center Desk. We get our share of basic questions, like Wheres the bathroom located? or What time does the library close? but we also get lots of questions on a variety of research topics, some very specific and others more general in nature. According to Jacobs, some of the most commonly asked research-related questions involve the use of databases. Sometimes they come to me already knowing exactly what they want to look for, like an article in an academic journal, Jacobs said. Other times, I help them refine their topic. For example, a student I just

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ne of the things that I noticed last fall, when I was lucky enough to be studying in Florence, Italy with the Bing program, was the incredible regionalism of Italian food. For a country that is about two-thirds the size of California, it is amazing that each state, and sometimes each town, has its own slate of typical dishes that are either not eaten anywhere else or simply never prepared as well. Pasta with Bolognese sauce is all over Italian menus in the U.S.; in Italy, its mostly confined to Bologna. Picture how weird it would be if there was a certain great sandwich that you could only find in Stockton, or a drink that was delicious in San Diego and mediocre everywhere else. Naples is known as the birthplace of pizza. I was there for two days, and I ate five pizzas at five different pizzerias. Admittedly, I didnt choose the pizzerias randomly; they had all been ranked as being among the best or most famous in the city. As different as Italian pizza is from American pizza its wetter, and is eaten with a fork and knife Neapolitan pizza is distinctly different in style from all of the other pizza I had in Italy. And its really good: there are a handful of great pizzerias in Florence and Rome that might compete on some levels, but those five Neapolitan pizzas were possibly the five best pizzas I had during my three months in Italy. At worst, they were five of the seven best. Of those Neapolitan pizzas, one clearly stood out from the others. That was the pizza margherita I had at Gino Sorbillo, located on Via Tribunali, 32. It was an incredible experience, as I knew from the first bite that it was the best pizza I had ever tasted. The price was 3.30, or about $4.30 with todays exchange rates, for a personal pizza around fourteen inches across. Thats less than a Dominos pizza or a foot-long Subway sandwich, and it was also more food. How is it possible that a pizza can be prepared by a master pizzaiolo using the best dough recipe, the best tomato sauce and fine mozzarella, with the result costing less than fast food? The farther you go from Naples, the worse the pizza gets. When I visited Venices top pizza place, there was no comparison. The pizza was good by most standards, but in Florence and Naples the toppings were more flavorful and the crusts more complex. Part of this is due to the availability of high quality local ingredients, something that is very important to Italians. Since rural Campania (the state Naples is in) is known

Jeff Mandell

The farther you go from Naples, the worse the pizza gets.
for both its tomatoes and its buffalo mozzarella, its not surprising that Neapolitan pizzas often feature top-notch toppings. But its not like Campania is the only place in the world with a climate favoring tomatoes and cheese; Naples superiority comes just as much from pride in its traditions. Whenever Neapolitans overheard me talking about pizza, their ears perked up, and many of them could not resist telling the American their favorite places. When you get out of Italy, there is a dramatic drop in the quality of the average pizza. It becomes a challenge to find even a decent slice. I find it totally bizarre that this is true in an era of electronic communication and rapid transportation. Since people all over the world love pizza, I think that there would be tremendous economic incentive for individuals who know the secrets of great pizza to open restaurants in new markets. And while pizza-making may be an art, I doubt it is necessary to grow up in Italy to learn how to do it well. Finding good pizza isnt easy in the Bay Area. My favorite place around here is A Slice of New York, on El Camino Real in Mountain View. New York-style pizza now seems like an entirely different product from what I had in Italy, but I like it. There are some expensive Italian restaurants that people say make great pizza, but my experience in Italy suggests that white-tablecloth restaurants neednt be our only source. Chefs, entrepreneurs, Italian expatriates: this is a call for some new pizzerias in town. If you dont act soon, I might have to start one myself! Questions, comments, suggestions, anonymous tip-offs? Contact Jeff at jeff2013@stanford.edu.

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ost of my fieldwork in New Zealand took me inland, up to the mountains alongside the spectacular route traced by the TranzAlpine rail line. The route is popular among tourists for its views of the Southern Alps: each morning, a 10-car passenger train studded with viewing platforms and caf cars winds its way slowly through the passes on the east-west traverse. In all our to-ing and fro-ing between field sites and our home base, my field team and I spotted only two such sightseeing tours. But we saw the sleek black outlines of coal trains almost daily. Dozens of cars long, the industrial trains freight 70-million-yearold coal mined on the West Coast to shipping ports on the East. Given that New Zealand gets 6 percent of its electricity from coalfired plants, I initially assumed the trainloads were destined for local (or at least, national) use. Actually, no, Kathrin, the only Kiwi among us, said. Its headed to China and Japan; we only burn the cheap, dirty stuff here. Apparently, New Zealands bituminous coal is some of the best in the world. Its lack of impurities means it burns hot and clean, just the stuff for steel mills in foreign lands. In todays globalized world, the laws of economics say its best to sell your high-quality coal on the international market and buy someone elses lower grade stuff for home use. Like most people occasionally dismayed by the degree to which money runs the world, I was as disconcerted to hear Kathrins statement as she was to make it. And unlike me, Kathrin spent

years living on New Zealands West Coast, and knew all too well how the ecosystems there are threatened by coal mining. Similar to controversial recent mining in the United States, New Zealands industry favors opencast mines, which dynamite off vegetation, topsoil and up to 400 feet of rock to expose near-surface coal seams. As someone made rather squeamish by stories of trapped miners and cave-ins, I admit Id much rather work in an open-cast mine. But they sure are hell on the environment theres a reason weve coined the term mountaintop removal for coal minings latest incarnation. At least New Zealand seems to have a decent handle on environmental restoration. Apparently the (largely government-owned) mining firms take their cleanup responsibilities seriously, likely a response to the Kiwi culture of environmental stewardship. Thats not to say, of course, that its all smooth sailing for the unique snail and beetle populations often displaced by mining efforts. Meanwhile, back home in the USA, whatever the claims of the mining company lawyers, no one seems too pleased with the outcome. Mountaintop mines may generate jobs, but they also literally turn mountains into dust. And once thats done, its simply impossible to restore the wildlife habitat, local hydrology or iconic views of someones childhood. Thats why so many people have added their voices to campaigns against strip mines and mountaintop removal. For some,

Holly Moeller
its about protesting a local eyesore or demanding compensation for a polluted water supply. For others, its about protecting nature or reducing carbon dioxide emissions to slow climate change. For everyone who knows the story, its deeply personal. The fundamental question well all have to wrestle with as climate change accelerates and fuel prices rise is simple. How far will we let money drive us? According to most estimates, the United States has enough coal in the ground to last through this century longer, depending on the estimator. We also have the largest proven coal reserves in the world, a reassuring piece of knowledge for those of us worried about the fossil fuel aspects of energy security. The thing is, getting coal from our backyard means putting mines in our backyard. It means blowing apart mountains, killing off entire populations of endangered species and changing ecosystems in irreversible ways. Were already realizing how little we want to live with those consequences. So maybe, just maybe, the local damage of coal mining will do what the distant downsides of coal burning cannot. Maybe well decide that some things are better left in the ground. Dig the column, or want to take a dig at the author? Use coal-fired electricity to email her at hollyvm@stanford.edu.

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n recent years, ASSU Elections have achieved near-joke status with students outside of a small group who are intimately involved with the operation of student government. This state of affairs is due in part to widespread apathy among voters and a chronic inability of candidates to deliver on stereotypically vague campaign proposals. As the election approaches, the Executive Board of the Stanford Democrats would like to reaffirm our belief that the ASSU still has a role to play in the lives of Stanford students, specifically as a bridge between administrators and the student body and as a platform that facilitates a wide variety of student-based initiatives. As a result, the Stanford Democrats are endorsing Shahab Fadavi 15, Lauren Miller 15, Jack Weller 15, and Garima Sharma 15 as candidates for ASSU Senate. These candidates share a realistic idea of what the Senate can be and what they can and, more importantly, cannot achieve if they were to be elected. Specifically, Shahab, Jack, Lauren and Garima all convinced us that they were passionate about changing the current Senates hostile atmosphere and lobbying for a specific set of issues, not just the glamorous topic of appropriations reform. Their individual commitments to student wellness, advising reform and ASSU accessibility (rather than transparency), are the first steps towards redirecting the focus of Senate from internal reform and bickering to providing tangible progress and changes for the student body. Three executive slates, MacGregor-Dennis/Ghanta, Mwaura/Mbatia and Zimbroff/Wagstaff, applied

for our official endorsement. The board was generally impressed with all three slates. Mwaura and Mbatia presented a fresh and clear set of objectives that emphasized a commitment to achievable goals that would safeguard student interests and refocus ASSU actions on the needs of the average student who does not care about the specific wording of the ASSU Constitution, for instance. The Zimbroff-Wagstaff slate shared this common sense approach to campaign priorities and a clear focus on the student body along with a collaborative demeanor that would be well suited to the position. The board felt, however, that these two slates had the same general goals as other slates running in this and, more importantly, previous elections. While we appreciated the sincerity and fresh personalities that Zimbroff and Wagstaff offered, we regret that they reverted to the many of same buzz words and promises that we have heard from several past ASSU Execs. As such, the Stanford Democrats believe that Stewart MacGregor-Denniss prior experience as an ASSU Senator and current ASSU Vice President makes him the most qualified candidate to be the next student body president. Specifically, he has a thorough understanding of the ASSUs rules, procedures and abilities that will enable him to effectively lobby for student interests and start achieving his tangible campaign goals from day one. In the past, as MacGregor-Dennis himself is quick to acknowledge from personal experience, ASSU Executives have wasted significant portions of the year because they lack this type of institutional knowledge and personal relationship with University administrators. We also believe that Druthi Ghanta pro-

vides the slate with the necessary balance of an ASSU outsider who can bring new perspectives to the table. MacGregor-Dennis and Ghanta believe that the ASSU should actively facilitate the various initiatives brought to it by passionate students, rather than just promote the platforms of its endorsers. The Stanford Democrats firmly believe that such an inclusive approach, which will certainly produce a mix of successes and some failures, will lead to the development of initiatives that benefit all students in the long term. It is not the endorsing boards job to defend all of MacGregorDenniss actions; however, based on our understanding of the facts right now, he is being accused of using his own money to engage in actions that were legal at the time he did them. We feel that the amount of attention given to the recent Stewart MacGregor-Dennis outsourcing scandal highlights the extent to which non-issues per-

vade the current ASSU campaign, but we also understand and can relate to the anger and outpouring of concern towards MacGregor-Denniss actions. Hiring a company to boost his social media profile is misleading, but legal and does not determine whether he can achieve his platform or not. Finally, while MacGregor-Denniss life plan has reached quasi-meme status with the student body, we believe that such attention to detail, self-reflection and refinement of his goals are something the Exec should constantly be doing and will only help the ASSU create tangible changes for students. Whether his choices were ethical is a decision to be made by each individual voter, but we sincerely hope that level heads will prevail as the elections approach. In conclusion, the Stanford Democrats believe that the ASSU should be composed of individuals that have a realistic understanding of how the ASSU functions and

what it can actually achieve. Institutional knowledge and personal relationships can in this case better help an Executive team and senators take full advantage of their term to achieve the goals in their platform. Therefore, we urge the student body to consider Stewart MacGregor-Dennis 13 and Druthi Ghanta 14 for ASSU Executive and Shahab Fadavi, Lauren Miller, Jack Weller, and Garima Sharma for ASSU Senate. The Stanford Democrats Endorsement emphasized the candidates ability to work for the student body rather than just their political affiliations. The endorsement process consisted of an application and interview conducted by members of the executive board: Lindsay Lamont 13, Rahul Sastry 13, Namir Shah 14 and Russ Islam 15. Jack Weller, who is the current co-chair of social media for the Stanford Democrats, was not involved in any aspect of the endorsement process.

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publicly available at the time, though the MyGroups system was later updated to require an SUID web login to access the information. This shift was made, according to director of Student Activities and Leadership (SAL) Nanci Howe, out of consideration for students, who were receiving spam. It hasnt been public in many years; weve directed them to the directory, said Howe, whose department oversees MyGroups, since updated to MyGroups2. This means that only emails of students who had opted to have their emails publicly available would have shown up in this scrape. The Daily has not been able to get into contact with Rebecca S., the ODesk contractor. Her job is listed as complete. Several financial officers for student groups reported receiving personal emails from MacGregor-Dennis over the past few months asking to meet and talk about what the ASSU can do for their organizations. MacGregor-Dennis maintains that he has never broken University policy by paying for services through ODesk or directing contractors to student information. An email to Stanford Information Technology Services asking for clarification on the Universitys policy regarding distributing publicly available student information has not yet been answered. Other jobs on the ODesk account include a Social Media Manager who has been paid over $800, a Student Government Email Assistant who has been

paid over $100 and a Tumblr blog follower who has been paid $299.38 dollars. MacGregor-Dennis later clarified that the social marketing positions were largely related to marketing for the new eDorm and several other business ventures he was working on this year. His most recent ASSU Facebook updates have been liked by between 30 and 40 people, the majority of whom are fake Facebook accounts. They share similar likes in addition to MacGregor-Dennis campaign page, such as D9 music, a book about the antichrist and a company called MAK Financial. Facebook Like Generator, Entrepreneurship Website Content Creator and Get 1,000 views for my YouTube video are other items purchased through the ODesk account. The Tumblr blog followers job is listed as, I need someone to follow other blogs on Tumblr for my blog, and then later unfollow other blogs on a different day. None of it is ASSU money, MacGregor-Dennis said, citing academic interest in social media. All of this would be distributed among friends who are interested in the area. MacGregor-Dennis said he does not have a problem with students learning any this information. Students, on the other hand, have not taken kindly to MacGregor-Dennis strategies and what could amount to a political misstep. This is an area of academic research for me. I think there are huge social problems to be tackled [in the labor field], and I am happy to answer any questions about this, MacGregor-Dennis said. Contact Brendan OByrne at bobyrne@stanford.edu.

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presidential bid and Meg Whitmans California gubernatorial campaign, used his personal experience to articulate the potential pitfalls of the Americans Elect experiment. Bounds said that presenting a candidate who has not been thoroughly scrutinized by the media is dangerous because of the 24-hour news cycle that prevails in todays culture. He added that the largest problem for Americans Elect is the

intensity of coverage from both traditional and non-traditional news sources because the group has yet to nominate a candidate that can then be vetted by the media. At least one student who attended the panel discussion saw potential in Americans Elect. I am shocked by how inflexible the framework is for allowing third candidates and found Ackermans vision incredibly appealing for changing the playing field for how we elect a president, said Stephen Cobbe 15. Contact Aaron Sekhri at asekhri@ stanford.edu.

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Jewish Students Association (JSA) The JSAs endorsement process has three parts: an application, an information session and an interview. In an email to The Daily, Doria Charlson 13, who runs the endorsement process for the Association, wrote that the group looks for candidates with passion, motivation and an interest in having a relationship with members of our community and organization. This year, the JSA endorsed Zimbroff-Wagstaff for the Executive post, and nine others for Senate positions. Queer Coalition The Queer Coalition looks for candidates with a spirit of allyship with the queer community, according to Alex Kindel 14, who heads the Queer Coalitions endorsement effort, in an email to The Daily. Kindel, an ASSU Senator, also currently serves as ASSU Parlementarian. Although all of the candidates the Coalition has chosen to endorse this year identify as heterosexual, Kindel said that they all showed an understanding of queer issues and a dedication to addressing issues that they arent personally affected by. The Queer Coalition has existed for four years and is composed of representatives from various Queer Voluntary Student Organizations (QVSOs), who together interview all candidates who apply for endorsement. This year, a majority of the candidates seeking election applied for an endorsement. Of that pool, the Coalition selected six candidates to endorse for Senate and one slate Zimbroff-Wagstaff for Executive. Stanford Democrats Like most of the other endorsing organizations, the Stanford Democrats select their endorsees after an application and an interview. In an email to the Daily, Campaign Director Namir Shah 14 wrote that the Democrats look for candidates who can make the most tangible impact on the lives of Stanford students, and not necessarily the candidates with the strongest liberal leaning. Shah wrote that no more than half of the candidates running typically seek out the Democrats endorsement. This year, a group of four interviewers, including Shah, selected the groups four Senate nominees as well as their choice for Executive, Stewart MacGregor-Dennis 13 and Druthi Ghanta 14. After MacGregor-Dennis received negative attention for his use of social media contractors, the group reconsidered its endorsment up until polls opened, ultimately deciding to stand by its initial decision. Stanford Review Like the Democrats, The Review has a defined political stance. According to Editor in Chief Nadiv Rahman 13, The Review does not seek conservative canSERENITY NGUYEN/The Stanford Daily

Considering endorsements, class years and campaign presence on social media, The Daily ASSU Elections Team has predicted the above winners for Senate. After SOCC goes 12/12, Senator Palpatine, who received 439 votes last year, will get a bump due to the smaller field.

The Queer Coalition looks for candidates with a spirit of ally-ship with the queer community.
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didates, but does support those who are responsible with finances and do not try to use the ASSU as an overreaching action committee. This year, The Review received endorsement applications from eight prospective Senators and three Executive slates. After reviewing the applications, The Review endorsed four candidates for Senate and one slate Zimbroff-Wagstaff for Executive. Rahman views the endorsements as signaling functions, helping people make voting decisions. Still, he sees some problems. While we are wary, and sometimes frustrated, by some particular groups whose candidates seem to have an unnatural success rate, he wrote in an email to the Daily, it would be beyond a conservative or libertarian paper to claim that there should be increased supervision on who can endorse a candidate. The Students of Color Coalition (SOCC) SOCC is composed of six ethnic community groups: the Asian American Students Association (AASA), the Black Student Union (BSU), Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztln (MEChA), the Muslim Student Awareness Network (MSAN), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Stanford American Indian Organization (SAIO). According to SOCC Liason guaranteed to again have supported a majority of incoming senators. The coalition has endorsed Ashley Harris 15, Branden Crouch 14, Brandon Hightower 15, Christos Haveles 15, Daniela Olivos 15, Garima Sharma 15, Ish Menjivar 15, Jack Weller 15, Janhavi Vartak 15, Kimberly Bacon 15, Lauren Miller 15 and Nancy Pham 14. SOCC-endorsed candidates disputed the notion that they might adjust their platform in order to attain the endorsement, or that they might pursue different agendas if elected. Weve been giving the same pitch to every endorsing group, that whatever the ASSU is doing should be grounded in common sense, Zimbroff said. That framework of thinking is something that a lot of people can get on board with. SOCC doesnt change who you are, Miller added. They may give you extra advice or a better platform, but its mainly about individuals who are already very motivated. While agreeing that SOCCendorsed senators embraced a range of perspectives and priorities in this years Senate, Senator Ben Laufer 12 expressed concern that relationships developed through SOCC-endorsed candidates collective campaigning meant that other senators were denied the opportunity to access leadership roles at the Senates first meetings. Laufer also expressed concern that the perceived significance of a SOCC endorsement for a successful campaign has led to a candidate pool of diminishing quality, in what DeLong deemed a self-fulfilling prophecy. Tina Duong 12, about 30 candidates apply for SOCC endorsement each year, making the groups endorsement one of the most sought after. This year, the group endorsed ZimbroffWagstaff for Executive and 12 candidates for Undergraduate Senate. With only 18 candidates running for Senate this year, SOCC is guaranteed to have endorsed at least nine of next years 15 Senators. All Stanford students have some vested interest in SOCC issues, Duong wrote in an email to the Daily. Our candidates are not homogeneous in their ideals, but they all align with SOCC values. The Daily Editorial Board The Stanford Daily Editorial Board is independent from The Stanford Daily editorial staff. Currently, five students sit on the board. The Editor in Chief of The Daily chooses the Editorial Board chair through an interview process. The chair then selects a number of students to the Board by application. The Daily Editorial Board only endorses Executive candidates. This year the Board, led by Chair Adam Johnson 13, endorsed Zimbroff-Wagstaff. Board members Mitul Bhat 12, Rebecca Johnson 11, Peter Johnston 14 and Meredith Wheeler 14 all participated in the endorsement process as none hold affiliations with other endorsing bodies. Contact Neel Thakkar at nthakkar @stanford.edu. If you dont get a SOCC endorsement, theres an unfortunate feeling that your chances of getting elected are much lower, Laufer said. The general consensus if that, if youre endorsed by SOCC, youll get 400-500 votes. That preconception may affect the candidate pool, and have adverse consequences in terms of getting the best possible candidates elected. I personally dont think endorsements are very healthy at Stanford, Laufer added. Theres no real correlation between endorsing groups and candidates that make that relationship fundamentally viable. SOCC-endorsed candidates expressed their desire for continued interaction with SOCC, and with other student groups, throughout their term in office as part of maintaining accountability to the student body. The important thing about ASSU office is that you dont retreat [from your platform], Zimbroff said. These groups do a lot of great work on campus, and those are the people that youre representing. You have to stay in touch with the student body as a whole, including those groups. The candidates also argued in support of group endorsements as a means of bridging the gap between the ASSU and the student body. Advocacy [from groups like SOCC] gathering minority interests helps create places like the Fire Truck House and the Black Community Services Center, Wagstaff said. Those are institutions to benefit all students. Contact Marshall Watkins at mtwatkins@stanford.edu.

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with in terms of manpower [and] flyering, said candidate William Wagstaff 12. Robbie Zimbroff 12 and Wagstaff received this years SOCC endorsement for the ASSU Executive. Theres a huge difference between supporters and voters, said Senator Dan DeLong 13. Some candidates are good at obtaining supporters [but] SOCC is excellent at ensuring that their community votes. DeLong was not endorsed by SOCC last year. He said he did not begin his campaign for Senate in earnest until after the groups deadline for candidates seeking endorsements. DeLong sought SOCCs endorsement this year as a candidate for the ASSU Executive along with Brianna Pang 13. The pair dropped out of the race due to several factors, DeLong said, including other interests and time commitments. We did keep endorsements in mind, he added. DeLong linked SOCCs clout in endorsing ASSU candidates to University-imposed budget cuts of 2008, which threatened funding for campus community centers favored by SOCC coalition members. I think that [SOCCs influence] happens when drastic events unfold, and the natural reaction is to ensure that you have candidates that wont let that happen again, DeLong said. For minority groups on campus, the stakes are higher. Having endorsed 12 of the 18 candidates this year, SOCC is

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Symposium connects art, medicine

By CATHERINE ZAW
STAFF WRITER

As part of an event Wednesday intended to celebrate the intersection of medicine and the arts, Stanford School of Medicine students displayed creative works ranging from an original violin piece to belly dancing. Three students were also recognized as winners of the Global Health Essay Competition. Held Wednesday night at the Li Ka Shing Center, the 11th annual Medicine and the Muse event featured keynote speaker Sheri Fink, a Pulitzer Prize winner for investigative journalism in 2010. Past symposiums have included speakers such as concert pianist Richard Kogan in 2011 and Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Blink, in 2010. This year was our inaugural year where we actually debuted a new fellowship on global health and the media, said Michele Barry, senior associate dean for global health at Stanford. In order to be an effective change agent to make a difference in global health, you have to be able to tell your story well. The winners of the Global Health Essay Competition, judged by Fink during its final

stages, were current medical students Laura Saucier, who won first prize, Amrapali Maitra, first runner-up, and Pria Anand, who placed third. The multitalented medical students maintained a balance between the arts, humanities and medicine, said Charles G. Prober, senior associate dean for medical student education, acknowledging the theme of the symposium: transcendence. According to Prober, the event was intended, to celebrate the juxtaposition and intertwining of the arts and medicine, since there needs to be a reminder of the balancing benefits of the two as way of cultivating and maintaining your outside interests. The medical student presentations included an original violin piece, Hermentos Woksape by Ben Robison, a belly dance performed by Patricia Ortiz-Tello, a group poem titled Body Parts, a comical song Ode to Advance Directives by Nicole DArcy and Anna Krawisz, and a speech Would you lie in a tub of cockroaches? by Shervin Wang. Many of you have experienced that urge to express yourself, whether it is through words, music or art, Fink said during her keynote speech, mentioning how different forms of expression can help peo-

ple cope and understand the emotions that they feel as they go through different experiences in their lives. Words have power, Fink added. Words matter, like notes of a song, colors of a painting, the moves of a dancer. We have to remain mindful of the power these forms of expression have. The floor was then opened to audience questions. The audience included around 200 medical students, graduate students, faculty and community members. Fink reminded her audience, as physicians venturing into different fields, to respect and be aware of the different standards and ethical obligations held by other fields. Remember that with your pens and paintbrushes, and with your laptops and lab benches and offices, that you have the power to do great good, the power to harm and the power to do the work that impassions you, Fink concluded. Audrey Shaffer, a professor of anesthesia and director of the program in arts, has organized all of the Medicine and the Muse events since the series inception. Medicine and the Muse is sponsored by the Center for Biomedical Ethics; the School of Medicines Arts, Humanities and Medicine Pro-

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Stanford School of Medicine student Patricia Ortiz-Tello performed a belly dance at the 11th annual Medicine and the Muse symposium. Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink was the keynote speaker at the Wednesday event.
gram; and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts, in addition to grants from the Stanford School of Medicine and The Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Funds. Contact Catherine Zaw at czaw13@stanford.edu.

STUDENT LIFE

Modest Mouse gets top billing at Frost Revival

GSC to fund revival concert despite alcohol-free venue
By LINDSEY TXAKEEYANG
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Frost Amphitheatre is set to come alive again on May 19 with a performance by Modest Mouse in the first Frost Revival Concert. Tickets for the show, with opening acts Eyes Lips Eyes and Benjamin Francis Leftwich, will go on sale April 23 at a student price of $20. Student-group funding of the concert totals about $130,000 according to Emily Pollock 13, codirector Stanford Concert Network (SCN). Pollock said SCN contributed $75,000 from the groups special fees while the ASSU Undergraduate Senate and the Graduate Student Council (GSC) dipped into buffer funds to provide another $55,000. Stephen Trusheim 13, one of the members of the organizing committee for the event, said that the total cost of the concert cannot be calculated until the end, when we reconcile all the accounts. Both Pollock and Trusheim are part of a committee that has been try to stage a concert at Frost Amphitheatre for about a year. Although the concert is being presented by SCN, it is also sponsored by the ASSU (including the GSC), Cardinal Nights, the Office of Special Events and Protocol, Student Activities and Leadership and the Vice Provost for Student Affairs. We all realize what each others expertise is, and theres times we make group decisions and, theres times we let, say, SCN decide something, Trusheim said. Trusheim said his primary role was ensuring that there was enough money for the event, one of the committees biggest issues. We were told that Frost is untouchable; its way too hard, Pollock said. But it seemed like all of the aspects were coming together last spring and we were like, Alright, lets go for it. Everyones in support of it. Were going to make this happen and its going to be great. Marine Denolle, co-chair of GSC, said that the GSC spent a lot of time discussing how they could contribute because all we saw was this amazing event.

The issue with graduate student involvement, however, was the fact that Frost Revival will be an alcohol-free event, Pollock said. Its hard for graduate students to not have the option of beer or alcohol, Denolle said. But we do understand that without our financial support the event would not have happened, so it was pretty clear we wanted to help let it happen anyways. Pollock and Trusheim agreed that the biggest hope financially would be to go beyond breaking even after ticket sales and have enough profit to go toward a reserve that will hopefully fund a concert of this magnitude on an annual basis. To choose a headlining act, surveys were sent out to ensure that the choice would be one favored by students. Event planners compiled a list of options from the 1,900 student responses. Modest Mouse landed in the top five. Once we start to narrow it down, it really depends on the artist timing, and all the stars just came together with Modest Mouse, Pollock said. Were really pleased with the headlining. We kind of have a progression from acoustic rock to high-energy rock, so its going to be fun. Eyes Lips Eyes is a band that has played at smaller Stanford venues before, so SCN had no problems booking the group, Pollock said. Alberto Aroeste 13, SCN codirector along with Pollock, reached out to Benjamin Francis Leftwich, an English singer-songwriter. In an effort to make Frost Revival more of a music and arts festival, the committee has been working with groups such as the Product Design Student Association (PDSA) to bring in artwork to line the entrance to Frost Amphitheatre. According to Pollock, if everything works out, there will be large and possibly interactive art projects around the venue. Hopefully the concert itself will just be an amazing capstone to the year, just showing off everything we love about Stanford: art, sustainability, music and hanging out together in Frost Amphitheatre, Trusheim said. Contact Lindsey Txakeeyang at ntxakee@stanford.edu.

NEWS BRIEF

BOSP Kyoto to run winter quarter 2013

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF The Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) will run a new winter quarter abroad experience beginning January 2013, according to a statement released Monday. Only one quarter of Japanese language study will be required to participate in BOSP Kyoto during winter quarter. However, the language requirement for students who are interested in obtaining an internships in Japan three quarters of Japanese for technical majors and six quarters for humanities and social science students will remain the same. Additional language and cultural training will be available for winter quarter students who want

to apply for summer internships in Japan. The program will be a shift from BOSP Kyotos spring focus on technology majors, offering humanities and social science courses on popular culture, Japans rapidly growing minority populations, the practice of religion in contemporary Japanese society and the challenges posed by memories of war and colonialism for Japan and its neighbors in Asia. The academic portion of the program is based at Doshisha University campus, while students studying abroad with Stanford in Kyoto stay with Japanese host families. Although Doshisha students are on holiday during February and March, clubs run year-round, so winter quarter students will still have an opportunity to interact with their Japanese peers.
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SPORTS
WATERPROOF CARD
DESPITE RAIN, STANFORD CRUISES PAST PACIFIC
By JOSEPH BEYDA
DESK EDITOR

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After a fortuitous, weather-induced day off gave the No. 6 Stanford baseball team some much-needed rest, the Cardinal beat Pacific 8-3 at home last night and put away the Tigers in a midweek matchup for the second time this season. Redshirt sophomore lefthander Garrett Hughes pitched five brilliant innings for his first career win, and Stanford (21-8, 45 Pac-12) got more consistent production from its top six batters to control the action at Sunken Diamond from start to finish. Junior leftfielder Tyler Gaffney stole two bases while junior second baseman Kenny Diekroeger had one of his best games of the year, recording three extra-base hits. The Cardinal would have played 13 games in 17 days had rain not delayed the contest with the Tigers, which was originally scheduled for Tuesday. Instead, Stanford came in fresh and jumped on Pacific (10-21, 0-3 Big West) early and often to secure its third straight win. This is the kind of team we know we are, Diekroeger said of the Cardinals 27 runs in two games. Its definitely good news to just know that were back to the old ways. For Hughes (1-0), a former high-school All-American who missed all of 2011 with an injury and got his first career start against these same Pacific Tigers over two years ago, the win felt validating after two years of frustration. Its a great feeling to get out there and pitch again, he said. I went out there with a lot more confidence today than I did two years ago, as a freshman, and Im excited going forward. Stanford got on the board with a sacrifice fly from junior centerfielder Jake Stewart in the bottom of the second, and made it 3-0 with a two-out rally in the third. With Gaffney on second after being hit by a pitch and stealing second, junior third baseman Stephen Piscotty doubled him home and later came around to score on a single by sophomore first baseman Brian Ragira. Hughes cruised through the first three innings and looked poised to get out of a fourth-inning jam when he snagged a one-

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Junior second baseman Kenny Diekroeger (above) paced the Stanford baseball team with three extra-base hits and redshirt sophomore lefty Garrett Hughes threw five innings of one-run ball as Stanford beat Pacific, 8-3.
out, comeback chopper. The redshirt sophomore couldnt convert the double play, however, overthrowing second to bring home an unearned run. He added two more innings of solid work before departing, giving up only four hits. You could just tell that he was pitching with something to prove out there, said Diekroeger, Hughes roommate. You could really tell that he was giving it his all, and thats what we really need from our guys on the mound. Stanford quickly got that run back in the bottom of the fourth, as junior catcher Eric Smith and Diekroeger led off with a single and a double. Shortstop Lonnie Kauppila brought them both around to score on a double of his own just the fifth of the season for the sophomore and came home on a Gaffney single later in the frame, making it 6-1. Diekroeger launched his second homer of the year deep over the left-field fence to add another tally in the fifth. Pacific narrowed the margin by two runs in the sixth off sophomore righty Sam Lindquist, but an error and a wild pitch by the Tigers in the bottom of the seventh got Stanford an 8-3 lead that the Cardinal would hold. Diekroeger also added his second double of the night in the seventh, making for a teamleading 12 two-baggers on the season. Im just trying to see the ball well and put a good swing on it, Diekroeger said of his 3-for-3 performance. Sometimes you hit the ball hard three times and go 0-for-3. Stanford will now prepare to host No. 16 Oregon in a threegame series this weekend, with the opener starting Friday at 5:30 p.m. Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda @stanford.edu.

he story of this past weekends Masters was, of course, Big Bubba Watson bashing his way to his first major championship victory at Augusta. But even though Bubba took home his first green jacket, its impossible to dissect what happened at Augusta without at least paying a shred of attention to Stanfords most famous former athlete. Of course, Im talking about Tiger Woods and his selfdescribed atrocious play at Augusta. The 14-time major winner couldnt do anything right in Georgia this past week, as he recorded his worst-ever finish after making a cut in a major and his worst-ever finish in the Masters by a long shot. And as I watched Tiger cuss and mope his way around Augusta this weekend, it became clearer than ever to me that the greatest golfer of our generation has lost the magic that he once had, and that hell never be able to get it back. As of this week, I feel more confident than ever in saying that Tiger doesnt have a chance at passing Jack Nicklaus 18 major championship titles. Indeed, there have been many detractors that have said that Tigers game post-sex scandal will never be the same, but why did this week in particular make me so willing to bury the future of Tigers golf game? Three reasons: his top-to-bottom awful golf game, the fact that his terrible play came at Augusta and the ever-quickening hands of time. First and foremost, Tigers game is nowhere near where it used to be, and it didnt show any signs of life at a course that he used to dominate. Off the tee, in typical fashion, Tiger didnt even hit Augustas generous fairways 60 percent of the time. When he did hit the fairway, he hit the greens just 55 percent of the time a dreadfully low number for him. And when he did hit the greens, while Tiger didnt have that bad a week statistically speaking, he didnt make any bigtime putts to put himself into contention the putts he never missed when he was at his peak. Whats more, every time he did something right, he immediately turned around and messed it up

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TOP-FIVE TESTS AWAIT

By DAVID PEREZ
STAFF WRITER

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Junior Mallory Burdette (above) and the No. 6 Stanford womens tennis team have their toughest weekend of the season approaching as both No. 4 USC and No. 1 UCLA travel to the Farm to take on the Cardinal.

The undefeated Stanford womens tennis team is sure to be tested this weekend as two of the top five teams in the nation visit the Farm for conference matches. No. 6 Stanford (15-0, 6-0 Pac-12) will play No. 4 USC on Friday and then No. 1 UCLA on Saturday. Stanford, which has shut out its opponents in seven straight matches and has not dropped more than two points in a team match all season, is in the unusual position of being the underdog for both matches, at least according to the rankings. We are going in with an underdog mentality even though we think we can win both matches, said sophomore Nicole Gibbs. This is definitely the biggest weekend of our regular season. Fellow undefeated UCLA has also dominated its opponents this season, recording 11 shutouts on its way to a 20-0 start. The Bruins are tough from the top down, starting at the No. 1 position where No. 4 Robin Anderson will take on Gibbs, who is currently ranked one spot above her at No. 3. The competitive Gibbs, who is well aware of Robinsons rise to the No. 4 ranking this week, noted the added importance that national ranking implications give to her match. Gibbs has lost only once this year during Stanfords regular season, a three-setter to Floridas Allie Will, who is currently ranked No. 1 in the country.

Im looking forward to a tough, competitive weekend, said Gibbs, who will also face the No. 20 player in the nation in USCs Zoe Scandalis. Looking past the No. 1 spot, the entire Stanford team feels it has something to prove this weekend. The Cardinal lost its top ranking earlier in the season due to questions about its strength of schedule, despite being undefeated and having beaten defending national champion Florida. This weekend will be defining, said junior Natalie Dillon. If we win we know we are the best team in the country. USC also brings an impressive record into the weekend, which means Stanford cannot overlook either team. USC is 18-2 overall, with both losses coming to UCLA. We need to be fighting for every point all weekend because both teams are really going to push us, Gibbs said. USC and UCLA each have four nationally ranked singles players, the same number as Stanford, and all of their players have experience playing against quality opponents. There will be a lot of depth on both of these teams, and hopefully we will prove to be the deeper team, Gibbs said. Dillon, anchoring the No. 6 spot this weekend, is one of the players at the back end for Stanford a spot that is critical to

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produced last year at Stanford in order to test the concept of short talks interspersed with performances. It was a great success, Sacks said. TEDxStanford was the natural next step. TEDxStanford with the theme this year of Illumination will feature performances from Stanford Taiko and 14-yearold cello prodigy Ila Shon, as well as talks by speakers including Tom Brokaw, former anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising Julie Lythcott-Haims 89 and Jason Mayden, director of innovation at Nike, Inc. We are lucky that Stanford has so many wonderful stories to tell, such a variety of exciting, cutting-edge research underway and compelling speakers and performers from every school, department and center, Sacks said, adding that the only real problem while organizing the event was narrowing down which speakers and groups to include in the program. Its not a bad problem to have, she said. As opposed to the majority of other TEDx events, for which invitations are by application, the

580 available seats in Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center were distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, with tickets allocated evenly between students, faculty and general admission. Tickets cost $35 for students, $69 for faculty and staff and $99 for general admission. Revenue from ticket sales will be the primary source of financial support for the event. Partnerships with the Graduate School of Business and the School of Engineering will help fund the TEDxStanford showcase and reception. Perkins Coie LLC and Ridge Winery also contributed financing to the event. A team of nine undergraduates assisted the professional staff in planning the event. I am pretty confident we will be able to do it well, said Jay Patel 14, co-chair of the student organizing committee. There are obviously so many challenges to overcome, people losing their way and everything, but we can do it. Nick Ahamed 15 was one of the lucky few to claim a ticket. I am really excited to be going, but I feel bad that other people couldnt go, Ahamed said. I am most excited about seeing the 14-year old cellist and Tom Brokaw. Contact Felix Boyeaux at felix. boyeaux@stanford.edu.

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SECOND IS GOOD ENOUGH

By CONNOR SCHERER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Following a fourth-place finish in the Pac-12 Championships in which the Stanford womens gymnastics team put up its best score of the season with a 196.825, the Cardinal was looking to make a statement at Regionals as the team tried to qualify for the NCAA championships for the fifth time in six years. Facing five other teams, including a very strong Oklahoma team, the Cardinal faced a daunting task. The regional competition is among the most pressure-packed tournaments all year, as it determines whether or not teams

will qualify for nationals. However, Stanford was able to channel this pressure into success, as it posted its second-best score of the season with a 196.675. The team finished second in the group, behind only Oklahoma (197.025) and just beating host Illinois (195.725) for the final qualifying position. Starting on floor, the team scored a 49.075, led by freshman Pauline Hansets 9.875. Freshman Ivana Hong and senior Nicole Pechanec both put up 9.850s to support Hansets effort. While having freshman participants perform so well is not typical of most teams, it is nothing new for head coach Kristen Smyth and the Cardinal.

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The Stanford womens gymnastics team placed second at Regionals to advance to next weeks NCAAs. The mens team also qualified for NCAAs by finishing second at MPSFs.

From the beginning of the season, the freshman class came in and really contributed, and not just in competitions, Smyth said. Moving to the vault, Stanford kept up its strong performance by earning a 48.950. Senior Alyssa Brown led the effort on vault with a 9.900, earning her the individual victory in the event. It was her third individual victory of the season, but her first on vault (she won on beam twice before). Browns season was plagued by injuries, but she has made a comeback to be one of Stanfords strongest competitors in most recent competitions. Smyth, however, is used to Browns inspirational comebacks, and expected nothing less of the senior. A 9.825 by Hong also helped the Cardinal stay within striking distance of Oklahoma heading into the third round. On bars is where the Cardinal really made its statement, putting up a 49.400, tied for its season-best in the event. Stanford won this event handily, and its 49.400 was the second-best team score in any event behind Oklahomas 49.450 on floor. As has been the story all season, Pechanec was magnificent on bars, earning a 9.925 and the individual victory in the event. In fact, one judge gave her a perfect 10, a very rare and impressive feat for college gymnasts. Brown and freshman Sami Shapiro nearly matched Pechanecs score, as they each scored a 9.900, a season-best score in the event for both of them. Heading into the final round down 0.500 points to Oklahoma and up 0.675 to Illinois with two qualifying spots on the line, the Cardinal had to make sure it posted a strong final score on beam as it tried to solidify its nationals position. When Pechanec, one of the teams stronger competitors on beam, fell and earned just a 9.175 as the second of six competitors in the event, the pressure mounted on the four teammates behind her to pick up her slack with a spot in nationals at risk. But when the pressure got to be its highest, the Cardinal responded, as none of Pechanecs four teammates scored below a 9.800 to seal the teams spot at nationals. Sophomore captain Amanda Spinner led the way with a 9.900, which earned her a four-way tie for the individual victory in the event, while sophomore Shona Morgan put up a 9.850. Freshman Becky Wing scored a 9.875 to lead off the event, an important position for such a young competitor. Wing has handled the added pressure with extreme confidence throughout the entire year. When it was all said and done, the Card had earned a spot in nationals on April 2022 with Oklahoma. Smyth described how proud she was of her team: The way they fought the entire meet, stayed poised and

confident throughout it all, it was very inspiring. Heading into nationals, Smyth gives her team a good chance of winning, as long as it reduces its errors and executes its routines. Its a hitters meet. As long as we hit our routines, we should move on. We all know what were capable of. Smyth believes the season has followed its plan extremely well, as the squad started out slow and picked things up as the season progressed. Ranked 10th of 12 teams in nationals, Stanford will have to have a seasonbest performance in order to come home with the national title. And while the Cardinal women were securing their chance to compete for an NCAA title, the third-ranked Stanford mens team finished second in a four-team field at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Championships, with a score of 352.100, placing behind second-ranked Oklahoma (355.600) but ahead of No. 7 Cal (345.950) and No. 12 Air Force (335.950). Starting off on floor, Stanford got out to an early lead with a score of 60.950. Junior Eddie Penev earned the individual title with a 15.850, while redshirt sophomore Paul Hichwa finished fifth overall in the event (15.100) and redshirt junior Jordan Nolff and sophomore Cale Robinson tied for eighth (15.000). The Cardinal fell to second behind Oklahoma with a 56.750 on pommel horse, led by sophomore Chris Turners 14.750 and redshirt junior Gabriel Alvarados 14.600. Junior James Fosco earned the Cardinals second individual victory of the meet with a 15.300 on still rings, while Nolffs 14.750 and Penevs 14.500 helped the Cardinal earn a 58.800 in the event. However, the team still trailed Oklahoma as it headed into the fourth round. Penev scored a 15.350 on vault, good for his second individual victory of the night and Stanfords third, while redshirt freshman Sean Senters tied for third with a 13.000. The Cardinal earned a team score of 59.450 in the event to help cut Oklahomas lead. Redshirt junior Cameron Foreman got second overall on parallel bars with a 15.250, and even with four other top-10 finishers in the event, Stanfords deficit to Oklahoma grew to 1.600 points as the sixth and final round started. Hichwas 14.400 on high bar helped the Cardinal earn a 58.750 in the event, but the effort was not good enough to make up Oklahomas lead. Although the Sooners won the MPSF Championships, Stanford will see them again as it tries to defend its national title on April 19-21 in Oklahoma. Contact Connor Scherer at cscherer@stanford.edu.

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on the next shot. Hed hit a fairway then dump it in the greenside bunker. Hed knock it close to the pin then whiff a six-foot putt. His game, once a harmony of tee-togreen excellence, was an utter cacophony of catastrophe. Thats not the way you win a golf tournament, much less a major championship against the 100 best golfers in the world. But even though Tigers game was no good this past week, the bigger problem was the fact that he played that poorly at Augusta a course he has always dominated. Since turning pro, Tiger has played in 16 Masters tournaments, and hes finished in the top 10 a whopping 12 of those times, including four wins. From 2005 to 2011, Tigers worst finish was a tie for sixth place in 2009. Those stats are what make his most recent Masters performance so startling. Tigers game has so utterly failed him that he cant even play well on the course hes been the most comfortable on during his career. From a guy who made Augusta his personal playground for more than a decade, its utterly shocking to see him struggle so mightily. With that said, his performance at Augusta does not bode

well for his future in major championships, the one area where he still lags behind Nicklaus. Tiger is only 36 years old, with a decade or more of majors ahead of him, but if he cant even play well at Augusta anymore, how can we expect him to contend at any other major tournaments? Theres just no way Tiger can catch up to and pass Jack Nicklaus record if he cant even contend at Augusta anymore, the course that has always presented Tiger with his best chance to win majors. As time ticks further into the future and Tigers body and game continue to change and look less and less like the man who stormed his way to 14 major titles, how can we expect him to regain his greatness? While he might win another major or two (if hes lucky), its flat-out unrealistic to expect this iteration of Tiger Woods to dip into the fountain of youth and start carving up courses again. I didnt think it would ever come to this a couple years ago, but finally, in April 2012, this Masters finally showed me one thing: Tigers dominance has slipped away. And its never coming back. Jack Blanchat didnt take into account what would happen if Tiger gets ahold of one of Bubbas pink drivers. Tell Jack how well pink will match Tigers Sunday red at blanchat@stanford.edu or follow him on Twitter @jmblanchat.

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pick up team wins. She called the matches this weekend two of the biggest matches of my time here at Stanford, especially because most teams across the country do not have such quality players filling out their rosters. This weekend will also be crucial in deciding who the eventual Pac-12 champion will be. Stanford has a long history of winning the conference, and winning the final three matches of the season would guarantee another regular season championship. Both UCLA and USC are also undefeated in Pac-12 play, though, so a loss this weekend would severely hurt Stanfords chances of taking that trophy. Rain is forecasted for this Friday, which means the USC match could be moved to Sunday if the

Two of the biggest matches of my time here.

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courts are unplayable. Currently, though, Fridays match against USC is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. and Saturdays match against UCLA is at 12:00 p.m. Both matches will take place at the Taube Family Tennis Center. Contact David Perez at davidp3 @stanford.edu.