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March 11, 2009 Issue 25

BUDGET CUTS GET DEEPER

Endowment returns worse than expected; $100 million to be cut next year
By NIKHIL JOSHI
MANAGING EDITOR
The worsening global economic situation
will lead to more severe University budget
cuts than previously expected. A $100 million
budget cut — close to a 15 percent reduction
for all individual units — will be made in its
entirety next year, according to a statement
by Provost John Etchemendy on March 9.
When the cuts were announced in January,
Etchemendy said the reduction would be
spread over two years.
Though Etchemendy began informing
University units of their final general funds
allocations for next year on Monday, stu-
dents and community members will not find
out about next year’s final budget until
June, when it is approved by the Board of
Trustees.
“I will report on the budget recommenda-
tions at the May meeting of the Faculty
Senate,” Etchemendy wrote in an email to
The Daily. “Between now and then, each of
the units will be working out their detailed
plans for how they are going to allocate the
general funds they’ve been given within their
units.”
Allocations to particular programs, such as
community centers, are yet to be determined.
That is up for units, like the office of the Vice
Provost for Undergraduate Education, to
decide over the coming weeks.
The impact of the budget cuts will vary
across the University, as different units
receive different proportions of their income
from general funds. The School of
Humanities and Sciences, which most under-
graduates fall under, takes 34 percent of its
$404 million budget from general funds,
according to a presentation Etchemendy
made to the Faculty Senate in January. The
School of Engineering takes 19 percent of its
$317 million budget from general funds.
The poor economy’s impact on the
University endowment is far greater than
Stanford has seen before.The lowest previous
return was an eight percent loss in the endow-
ment in 1974.According to Etchemendy, loss-
es to the endowment in the current recession
are trending higher than the 20 to 30 percent
loss previously estimated.
Over the last fiscal year and the next, the
University will spend $1.8 billion of the
endowment’s principal, just to cover operat-
ing expenses. Etchemendy emphasized that
the University cannot continue to spend
down the endowment.
“The endowment is meant to provide
long-term support to the University for
decades to come, not short-term relief for this
difficult economic cycle,” he wrote in
Monday’s letter. “Consuming more now
would simply delay unavoidable cuts by a
year or two, and the cost would be long-term
damage to the University’s future resources.”
The Daily will continue to cover the effect
of the budget cuts on the University, as indi-
vidual units like the Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Education (VPUE) and
School of Humanities and Sciences receive
more information in the coming weeks and
react to the reductions in their funding.
Contact Nikhil Joshi at nrjoshi@stanford.edu.

ADMISSION Students rally for community centers

Financial
aid safe
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Junior center Jayne Appel goes for a layup against Arizona State on Saturday. Appel
scored 29 points as the Cardinal earned the top seed in this week’s Pac-10 Tournament. from cuts
Univ. promises no change

CLINCHED
Women claim ninth straight regular-season title
in financial aid policies
By LIZ STARK
SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Stanford has been hit hard by the cur-

By NATE ADAMS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Stanford women’s basketball team
closed out the regular season with a win
over Arizona State on Saturday afternoon
at a crowded Maples Pavilion, securing its
ninth consecutive Pacific-10 Conference
title in the process. The win was the
Cardinal’s 13th in a row, and capped off an
undefeated season at Maples.
Leading the No. 2 Cardinal (26-4, 17-1
Pac-10) was junior Jayne Appel, who had a
career night. She shot 65 percent from the
field and recorded 10 rebounds along with
a season-high 29 points. Sophomore
Jeannette Pohlen was a big difference-
maker as well, scoring 19. Stanford head
coach Tara VanDerveer was pleased with
their efforts.
“I’m proud of our team — to come out
and handle [ASU’s] defensive pressure,
and getting the ball to Jayne,” she said.
“And Jayne really delivered. So the passing
inside was great, and her getting a double-
double — she really put the team on her
back. Jeanette had a great game too, and
ran our team’s offense and got us really
going.”
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will head into the weekend’s conference tournament
as the top seed. The Cardinal women will take on
the winner of the Washington State and Arizona
game tomorrow night. Stanford beat Cal in last
year’s Pac-10 championship match.
Other Cardinal players of note were
freshman Nneka Ogwumike, who went 4-6
from the field and scored nine points in
only 16 minutes, while senior Jillian
Harmon tied for the game’s lead in
rebounds with 10. Kayla Pederson and
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rent recession — a 25 to 30 percent
decrease in the value of the University
endowment has led administrators to cut
$100 million of next year’s $800 million
general funds budget.
Despite the dismal economic situation,
however, University administrators
assured The Daily that financial aid will
not be cut.
Instead, the University will spend
more money on aid,according to Director
of Financial Aid Karen Cooper, in a move
that will be funded by an increase in the
rate at which money is taken from the
endowment.
“There’ll be no change in our policy
this year,” added Dean of Admission
Richard Shaw, noting that the University
recently finished its evaluation of the cur-
rent program. “Stanford has understood
that we have implemented sweeping
changes over the last three [admissions]
cycles,and our commitment is to maintain
that program for the coming class.”
Last February, the University
announced major enhancements to its
financial aid program, which allows stu-
dents from families making under
$100,000 a year to not pay for tuition.
According to Cooper, the University
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HOUSING

Campus construction downsized

By CHRISTINE MCFADDEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Stanford is clearly a campus under con-
struction — the University is in the midst of
a multi-billion dollar construction campaign
that will shape every corner of the campus.
But the economic recession has complicated
matters, leading administrators to suspend
$1.3 billion in construction projects. Still, sev-
eral projects remain underway.
“We are in the middle of the largest con-
struction program in recent memory,” said
Jack Cleary, associate vice president for
Academic Projects and Operations.
Trimming down the University’s ambi-
tious construction plans has been a careful
balancing act for administrators, who must
deal with an unprecedented decline in the
value of the endowment, but do not want to
cause long-term damage as they make cuts.
As early as Oct. 30, 2008, President John
Hennessy addressed the need to downsize
the University’s multi-billion dollar con-
struction plans.
“We will act decisively, but not foolishly,”
Hennessy wrote. “We are in the midst of a
major capital program that includes some
vital construction projects. Halting projects
in mid-construction, even temporarily,
would cost us more money in the long run.
But not all our projects will be built on the
schedule we had originally hoped. We will
reexamine the need for projects that would MASARU OKA/The Stanford Daily
Students in White Plaza demonstrated Friday against possible cuts to the budgets of community
Please see BUILDING, page 7 centers. Protesters argued that community centers are vital for maintaining diversity on campus.

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TRUE LIFE: “I’m Bisexual”

By E. BLAIR LAING same situation. Take, for example, the who is also bisexual. Since coming to college, Casey has most-
STAFF WRITER bisexual doctor 13 on “House,” or the “I feel like I’m still figur- ly had relationships with men.
lack of bisexual men on “The L-word,” a ing all of this out every “Part of it is that there are so many more
TV show about an LGBT community in day,” Tan said. “Every opportunities with guys,” Casey said,

W
e all recognize the label
bisexual, and most of us are
familiar with terms like
fluid and queer. But what
about pansexual? Bi-curi-
ous? Hetero or homoflexible? What does it
all mean?
We’ve heard the stereotypes about bisex-
uality, particularly in relation to women —
it’s just a phase, they’re just sluts, they’ll
grow out of it or that bisexuality is just a
stepping-stone on the way to accepting
homosexuality. But are these stereotypes
true?
SOCIOLOGY
The results of a 2008 study done by
Professor Lisa Diamond of the University of
Utah showed that bisexuality is not merely a
“transitional stage” for women, but is in fact
potentially a “third orientation.” This study
may reflect what some of us already believe,
but sociology’s understanding of sexuality,
particularly bisexuality, is still rough.
“The deep question underlying any study
of sexuality is where do we get our sexual
orientation,” said sociology professor Paula
England. “And that is too big of a question.”
England believes that both genetics and
society may have their influence.
“There may be a lot of people who, based
on their biology, could be bisexual,” England
said, “but because of culture they end up
heterosexual.”
DOUBLE STANDARD
“Kissing girls is something I do for the
same reason I do a lot of other things — it’s
fun,” said Taylor ‘10. “I don’t think I have to
be bisexual because of what I do, or a het-
erosexual-gone-wild. I’m just sexual. And
happy.”
In society today, it is becoming more and
more common — and acceptable — for
women to kiss each other and claim to be
straight. In fact, it is something of a fashion
statement at the moment for women to kiss
other women or be bisexual. And men often
think it is ‘hot.’
However, it is very rare to see men in the
Los Angeles.
“A lot more women than men identify
as bisexual,” England said. “Why that is is
a whole other question.”
England’s personal theory relates to
the changing nature of gender roles. It is
now more acceptable for men and
women to do the things that the other
gender traditionally did. However, the
push is stronger for women to adopt male
roles, as female roles were often portrayed
as inferior.
“For women to want women as an object
of sexual desire is kind of doing what men
have always done,” England said. “But it is
much more stigmatized for men to be bisex-
ual. There is a little more permission in the
system for women than men.”
BIVERSITY
Chrysanthe Tan ‘10, along with girlfriend
Alexis Ortega ‘09, is the current co-presi-
dent of Biversity, the Stanford group for
both men and women who identify as bisex-
ual.As someone who struggled with her own
sexual identity, she has had to come to terms
with many of the stereotypes surrounding
bisexuality.
“Bisexuality can be a stable identity — it
is not necessarily just a stepping stone,” Tan
said, “although lots of people do go back
and forth on the Kinsey scale.”
The Kinsey scale is one of the simplest
scales for determining sexuality. Everyone is
assigned a number from 0 to 6, with 0 being
purely heterosexual, 6 being purely homo-
sexual, and 3 being equally heterosexual and
homosexual, or bisexual. A term such as
homoflexible would refer to people who
identify as mostly homosexual, but are
somewhat fluid, or a 4-5 on the Kinsey scale.
So much of the discussion surrounding
bisexuality sounds very abstract and techni-
cal — the numerical scales, sociology and
evolving gender roles. What effect do these
studies and stereotypes have on the people
around us, the people who might be less —
or more — than straight or gay?
CRIS BAUTISTA/The Stanford Daily
TRUE STORIES
Chrysanthe Tan ‘10
Tan had been attracted to girls since
kindergarten, but had always assumed this
was normal and had heard bad things about
bisexuals. The first time she kissed a girl, she
was 16 years old and had a boyfriend. Then
she met a girl at camp.
“Growing up, I assumed I was going to be
straight,” Tan said. “After the first time I
kissed a girl, people were pressuring me to
identify myself. I thought that every girl has
this phase, and that I just needed to get it out
of my system.”
She ended up deciding she would allot
herself a certain number of kisses with the
girl, then stop. Unfortunately this didn’t
work, and she was almost kicked out of
camp. She has since had a boyfriend who
knew she was bisexual and was okay with it,
and is currently dating girlfriend Ortega,
now and then, I’ll be
attracted to a guy and
remember that it’s not
so simple. I want to
keep supporting the
bisexual identity.”
Alexis Ortega ‘09
Ortega’s story is
a little different.
“I think I’ve always had
some sort of idea that I
wasn’t entirely straight,”
Ortega said, “but I was busy
with other things.”
In high school, she had a
boyfriend when she realized
she was starting to like her
best friend, a girl.
“That was the starting
point,” Ortega said,“but I was-
n’t sure if I really wanted to
be bisexual.”
After this, Ortega
went through an anti-
girl period, until dat-
ing Tan at Stanford.
“I use bisexuality as something to help
explain my identity,” Ortega said. “I think
you can switch at different points in life.”
Casey ‘10
Casey is another openly bisexual woman
at Stanford.
“I never thought I was a lesbian because
I was always attracted to men,” Casey said,
“although I had lesbian Barbies as a kid,
and that should have been an indicator. I
have self-identified as bi since I was 16.”
Casey’s first kiss was actually with a girl,
although she has explored sexual relation-
ships with both genders.
“I sort of discovered myself with my for-
eign exchange student in high school,”
Casey said. “You always wonder if it’s a
phase. However, I eventually began to think
that everyone is bi. There is a sexuality spec-
trum, and few people are actually complete-
ly at one end or the other.”
“although when I am with one for too long,
I miss the other.”
Kelly ‘10
So far, Tan, Ortega and Casey have all
been women who have been openly bisexu-
al for a number of years. Kelly, however, is a
woman who only recently came out pub-
licly.
“It’s all really recent for me, so I’m still
trying to figure it out,” she said. “The reason
I came out as bi is because I can see myself
dating both men and women. I self-identify
as a lover.”
Kelly had been in a long-term relation-
ship with her boyfriend of many years when
they broke up this year. Prior to coming out
as bisexual, she had only dated men and had
never really worried about publicly labeling
herself as bisexual.
“I’ve only dated guys before, but I’ve
always kind of known I was bi,” Kelly said.
“I never really thought it was an issue
because I dated guys, but it started bother-
ing me more and more.”
Kelly recently went on her first date with
a girl, and has yet to come out to her par-
ents, although she has come out on campus.
“I’m afraid to tell my parents because
I’m afraid they’re not going to believe me,”
Kelly said. “We’re really close, but the ‘it’s
just a phase thing’ is a little intimidating.”
Robert ‘11
Robert is a man who hasn’t yet come out
officially, either to his family or friends,
although he has told some people that he is
not quite straight.
“If you had to give me one label, I guess
bi would be the best,” Robert said.
He first began to suspect that he wasn’t
completely straight when he was 16. He had
befriended another guy on his swim team,
when he started to realize that he paid more
attention to the friend than the friend paid
to him.
“I knew something was up and I started
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Profs get check-plus

for looks
By MELANIE SCHEIBLE
, likability
dents seeking out Feola’s attention.
“Other TFs [Teaching Fellows] give me a hard time
MASARU OKA/The Stanford Daily about the perceived preponderance of female stu-

“I
went on Facebook to choose my TA
During dead week, many students ditch the library and hit the books at coffee shops like Peet’s in Town and Country. [teaching assistant],” said a freshman
who prefers to remain anonymous
because he is still enrolled in the section.
dents who want to speak to me outside of class,” Feola
noted.
Feola approves Facebook friend requests from stu-

Off-campus study spots “I wanted a female, because I can’t pay
attention to a man.”
That freshman is out of luck, though: Scientifically,
the classic excuse that “I learn better from someone
attractive” doesn’t hold up.
“There is no evidence of students learning better
By JESSICA WERTHEIM Coupa.
from attractive professors,” said beauty and discrimi-
“They order, usually a coffee or chai, and then will just
nation expert Deborah Rhode, a Law School profes-
dents, but never initiates them. And he certainly
denies any responsibility for the “Feola is hot/best TF
in the world” Facebook group, comprised of 22 mem-
bers of the Stanford student body.
Other faculty, though, are more inclined to actively
seek out and forge friendships with current students.
Donna Hunter, a lecturer in the Program in Writing
and Rhetoric (PWR), tries to know all of the students

T
he library — a place for concentration, papers hunker down for the rest of the day on their laptops.
Sometimes a larger group will come in for dinner and sor. “There are only perceived differences. Students in her classes very well.
and problem sets. Unfortunately, it can also
group studying, usually girls, and they won’t stay longer rate physically attractive professors better, and profes- “Nobody loves their students more than I do,”
make you neurotic as hell.
than two or three hours,” Paulette added.“But for the most sors rate physically attractive students better.” Hunter said. “I’m interested in what they have to say,
part, the students study individually.” Attractive Stanford professors’ high ratings, how- interested in them as people. With only 15 students in
Paulette’s co-worker, Diego, Coupa’s barista, remarked ever, may not be entirely based on biased perceptions. each of my classes and three required conferences
“There are creaky chairs in Bender,” said Olivia Haas
on the greater influx of Stanford students over the last few Several of Stanford’s faculty members who are seen as with each, I get to know them well.”
‘11. “It’s like an echo chamber in there. The truth is I
days. the most attractive have particularly good relation- Treating students as equals and adults is important
haven’t studied in the library all quarter. It’s too quiet in
“I can usually tell when Stanford students are about to ships with their students. From open door policies to to Hunter.
there. You sit down, and it sounds like fireworks. Unzip
take finals,” he said. “There are always more of them here, actively taking an interest in student life, these faculty “I’m not attached to a hierarchy; I don’t need to
your backpack, and you might as well have brought in a live
and they tend to look heavily caffeinated.” members make students feel respected and comfort- hear myself talk,” she said. “If you’re going to call me
band. And good luck if you have any Velcro.”
Linn Kuo, owner and manager of University Cafe, is in able. professor, I’m going to call you student.”
Other students opt not to study in the library simply
the business of providing stressed Stanford students with “I’m an open book,” said Michael Feola, a post- She can, however, see how friendships with stu-
because it is too far away from their dorms.
their caffeine fix. doctoral fellow in the Introduction to the Humanities dents may be perceived negatively.
“I’m so lazy,” said Brian Pesin ‘12,“and my desk is much
“There are always students camped out here,” she said. (IHUM) program, whose students put him above a “I have as many former students who are now my
closer.”
“They order coffee and a cookie, then work on their lap- seven on the attractiveness scale from one to 10. “The friends that are female as male, and I’ve never seen a
Sterling Camden ‘10 agrees.
tops.” most interesting people I deal with in the course of the negative reaction to this from colleagues,” Hunter
“The libraries are too far away, and are not open late
“Some students are here until we close, especially on typical day are my students.” said. “I imagine it would be harder, though, for male
enough — except Meyer. Meyer is open, but Meyer is ghet-
weekends,” she added with a laugh. “We have to ask them So how does Feola — whose students simply call teachers. I don’t know if a male teacher could get away
to,” he said. “It’s more like a tech lab; there aren’t even
to leave as we are cleaning the counters and closing the him “Michael” or “Feola” — create such talkative and with the hug I require from each student at the end of
books in there and there is horrible neon lighting.”
doors.” dynamic discussion sections? Feola believes it may be the quarter.”
Instead, Camden frequents the dining halls when he has
Anne St. Geme ‘10 is one such weekend studier. the laid-back classroom atmosphere that he nurtures. Empathy seems to be a common trait amongst
work to do, preferring the supply of unlimited coffee to the
“I usually just leave campus on the weekends,” she said. “I’m not really interested in the petrifying heirar- Stanford’s best-looking faculty. While Hunter sympa-
cross-campus trek.
“I have something against cooping myself up in the library chy, or talking at them,” he said. “A relaxed classroom thized with the predatory stereotypes associated with
And then there are those who prefer being completely
when the weather is nice.” personality may have something to do with it. I think males, Feola identified a supposed double standard in
off campus to study. University Avenue is consistently a
Anne is the oldest of six children, so for her, a little I’m just interested in what they have to say.” appearance.
winner for this crowd.
background noise is often necessary to be productive. Daniel Porsche ‘12, a student in Feola’s class, “The way that women are criticized for being suc-
“I actually don’t work well in the library,” said Meghan
“I often work at Peet’s Coffee in Town and Country agreed. cessful because they are attractive rather than smart is
Vinograd ‘11. “It’s a little too quiet and not conducive to
Center,” she said. “I’m a fuzzy, so I’d say I get my best “I can’t think of anyone who doesn’t like Michael a complete double standard,” Feola said. “No matter
the way I study. But at the same time, when I go off cam-
writing and brainstorming done in that sort of environ- Feola,” he said. “He relates very well to students and how good-looking a guy is, the system is set up so he is
pus, I also can’t be in a place that’s really noisy or has a lot
ment.” goes the extra mile to summarize points we sometimes judged by his talent, whereas women are always faced
of distractions. I try to find a balance.”
But when it’s crunch time for St. Geme, she resorts to miss in a nice, compressed way.” with some kind of tension between being pretty or
For Vinograd, that balance is found at Coupa Cafe.
Green Library, avoiding Meyer at all costs. But let’s be honest, now — what about Feola’s smart and not both.”
“Coupa is my favorite, mainly because it isn’t too silent,
“I’m really not a big fan of Meyer,” she said. “It kind of looks? Mai El-Sadany ‘11 recalled the first impres- Some women in academia choose to dress especial-
and the noise isn’t overwhelming,” she said. “There is a
smells funny, plus the lighting is awkwardly bright and sions of a current sophomore, who preferred to remain ly conservatively, wearing little makeup and choosing
calm lull of other conversations going on in the back-
there are no comfy chairs. I would rather be in Palo Alto.” anonymous in order to avoid crossing any student- unremarkable hairstyles. According to Rhode, though,
ground.”
Lucky for St. Geme and countless others like her, the teacher lines. these women in academia are in the minority.
“I find that when I’m in a new place,” she added, “it
restaurant owners on University Avenue seem to enjoy “We were talking about Feola and how cool he was, “Appearance matters less in our occupation than it
gives me a fresh perspective and focus, which is especially
the Stanford students who flock to their businesses. and she was like ‘Dude, if that guy asked me to marry does in many others,” she said.
helpful for writing assignments.”
“They are quiet and respectful, and always order him, I would do it in a heartbeat,’” El-Sadany recalled. Hunter said she has encountered this double stan-
Coupa Cafe seems to attract a more permanent crowd,and
something,” Kuo said. “They’re good kids.” Whether it’s his dashing good looks or simply the dard on rare occasions, noting that “there have been
apparently, some students almost never leave.
“Many of the Stanford students who come are here generous way he makes himself available to students,
longer than I am,” said Paulette, the shift manager at Contact Jessica Wertheim at jessw89@stanford.edu. there is no denying the predominance of female stu- Please see PROFS, page 3
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PROFS
Continued from page 2
two male students who did not give
[her] the respect they would give a
male instructor.”
Disrespect and discomfort,
though, are very different problems.
On campus, the Sexual Harassment
Policy Office aims to address con-
cerns about sexual harassment in the
Stanford community before they
become severe. These concerns may
be between two students, two facul-
ty members or between a student
and faculty member.
“Student-faculty is the smallest
segment of the concerns that our
office handles,” said Nan Andrews,
assistant director of the Sexual
Harassment Policy Office. “It does-
n’t happen with as much frequency
as some people might think. When it
does happen, it’s more often with
the graduate student population.”
Andrews also noted that physical
sexual harassment is rare.
“Verbal and written, including
email as the biggest portion, are the
most common forms of harass-
ment,” she said. “Physical sexual
harassment is quite uncommon this
day and age. Most of our cases
include some kind of email.”
Although Feola received some
“dodgy propositions” via email
when he was a TA at UC-Berkeley,
students have never made him
uncomfortable at Stanford.
In general, students seem not to
be interested in dating or harassing
their hot TAs, TFs, lecturers or pro-
fessors, although “it’s refreshing to
see someone good-looking up
there,” according to El-Sadany.
Attractive faculty may just
encourage freshmen to enter the lec-
ture hall. Students in “Freedom,
Equality and Difference” stared
dreamy-eyed at Prof. Bill Koski
twice a week at 10 a.m. during fall
quarter. Adoration is obvious from
tilted heads and sighs as Koski,
whom a group of students call “Hot
Bill,” walked across the stage.
Students know, though, that phys-
ical attractiveness is not what makes
a professor a quality educator.
“I like Professor Koski as a
teacher,” said Sharada Jambulapati
‘12, “but not because he’s hot.”
“The teacher has to be a good
teacher who I can learn from,”
added Omar Chehabi ‘12. “Being
hot is just a plus factor.”
Koski declined to comment.
Contact Melanie Scheible at scheible
@stanford.edu.
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Continued from page 2
to wonder,” Robert said. “That was
disconcerting. Then I wondered, so if
I’m not totally straight, what are my
options? Does that make me com-
pletely gay? Maybe these feelings
aren’t genuine?”
He continued to fluctuate in his
attractions, and later had a crush on
a woman on his same swim team.
“I still haven’t settled on bisexu-
ality,” Robert said. “If you’re in the
middle, you don’t know; it’s case by
case.”
Robert has had his first
boyfriend since coming to Stanford,
but has still not decided to officially
come out as bisexual.
“There were moments where I
was like ‘that’s okay, you think I’m
gay, whatever,’” Robert said. “I’m
really concerned with the question
of how the world beyond Stanford
will view [me]. I’ve known men who
have been scared into pretending to
be straight.”
Biversity Members
People have differing views on
whether they are willing to let other
people assume they are either
straight or gay, depending on their
current relationship.
“You only observe the relation-
ship people are in at the time, not
the whole spectrum of their rela-
tionships,” said a female member.
“It always feels like I’m hiding
something when I let people assume
I’m lesbian, like I’m back in the
other closet.”
“I had a girlfriend in high school
that was involved in the gay commu-
nity,” said a male member,“who did-
n’t believe that bisexuality was real.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 N 3
I never told her.”
“When talking about exes, I just
use non-gender specific pronouns,”
said a different male member, “to
avoid coming out to everyone.”
DON’T JUDGE A BOOK
BY ITS COVER
Even while self-identifying as
bisexual, many bisexuals feel
uncomfortable about advertising
their orientations. Many prefer to
blend in based on their current rela-
tionships. However, the fact that
someone is in a relationship with
either the opposite or same sex does
not automatically mean they are
straight or gay.
“Don’t conflate behavior with
identity,” Tan said. “It is also impor-
tant to differentiate between bisexual-
ity as an act and as an identity. It is not
necessarily a stopping point, although
it is a legitimate orientation.”
“There are some who identify as
bisexual now who may be pushed by
social pressures to heterosexuality,”
England said. “But for some, it is a
permanent identity.”
Due to the sensitive nature of the
subject of this article, most intervie-
wees asked to remain anonymous.
Taylor, Casey, Kelly and Robert are
pseudonyms.
Contact E. Blair Laing at eblaing@
stanford.edu.
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
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f you’ve read — or even just picked up —
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C RIME AND P UNISHMENT
Fright makes might
t is often true that a bad bill can be worse
I than no bill at all (ask ducks and counter-
feiters), and climate and energy policy bills
are particularly vulnerable to the ‘bad bill’
problem. On the international stage, fear that
the world will fail to act has provoked substan-
tial extra effort by certain countries, notably
the promise by some of Europe that it will in-
crease its emissions reductions commitment to
one and a half times what it is pledging now if
other countries promise to take similarly sig-
nificant action. Basically, they’re scared, so
they’re trying harder.
In the American microcosm, California
leads the efforts of a loud minority of states
that are playing the role of Europe in our bat-
tle for a federal policy on climate change miti-
gation. With the Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006,known locally as AB32,California
is attempting to regulate its greenhouse gas
emissions much as it would if it were a country.
Numerous states have pledged to adopt Cali-
fornia’s system after its implementation. The
point that has reminded Californians that our
state actually is not its own country: the feder-
al government must grant the California legis-
T OO B IG TO FAIL
In defense of art, humor and freedom
Kevin
Webb
I
n my short time at Stanford, I’ve seen our
arts program strengthen. Granted, I could
just have gotten closer to it through staffing,
helping to run a student group and yes, writing
a column; the most artistic thing I did freshman
year, in contrast, was building a potato cannon.
But more likely, the arts community has im-
proved due to the hard work of students, staff
and organizations that have worked tirelessly
to make Stanford as creative as it is didactic.
We have Off the Farm grants to let dorms
take residents to shows and exhibits off campus.
We have a dedicated arts Web site (studen-
tarts.stanford.edu) that we proudly show to all
es as possible.Aside from large administrative
expenses, our editorial staff has seen a 30 per-
cent pay cut — writers, editors and I are all
being paid less than what might already have
been considered a pittance for the incredible
amount of time, effort and energy we put into
this newspaper.Additionally,many of the pre-
vious “perks” of working at The Daily, such as
food, travel to sports and other newsworthy
events and even reviewing expenses (for
music, eating out, etc.), have been cut.
At the same time, however, The Daily has
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Our hard-working advertising and business
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As you can see, The Daily is not going
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for Stanford, despite these challenging times.
Now, more than ever,The Daily is your source
for information and entertainment. This is a
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lature a waiver permitting the state to institute
its own standards.
California is unique among states in its abil-
ity to apply to the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) for permission to impose
stricter-than-federal environmental stan-
dards.This special treatment dates back to the
adoption of the Clean Air Act, when the Unit-
ed States implemented environmental regula-
tion after Cali-”Living in Los Angeles is Like
Being a Heavy Smoker”-fornia already had.
To avoid complication, California was granted
the right to create its own standards as long as
they are stricter than federal standards and ap-
proved by the EPA;other states are allowed to
implement either federal or Californian stan-
dards. The federal government has not yet
deemed California’s need to regulate green-
house gases to be larger than the federal need,
and so California’s greenhouse gas waiver re-
quest has become the first waiver denied to
the state.
Real quick, as you lift your heads feebly off
your stacks of finals review sheets to take a
well-practiced jab at the Bush administration
for that waiver denial: I won’t deny you that
incoming freshmen,and an Art Affair to let our
artists show off their work. And we have the
CoHo again, with its student art, live bands and
(if you come on the right night) tangoing grad
students.
Recently, I even saw President Hennessy,
who traditionally has funded science and engi-
neering projects, talk about the importance of
the arts in a basketball game commercial.It was
the ad where the camera rushes alarmingly fast
across the oval to the main quad as a Stanford
official’s head floats Wizard of Oz-like in a cor-
ner.
While we have made progress, there’s still
more room for improvement. Take, for exam-
ple, cost.A big inhibitor for attending Stanford
group performances is that paying five bucks a
pop to go to all your friends’ shows adds up.But
with performance spaces costing hundreds of
dollars to book, it’s hard not to charge people
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Cranking the ratchet
mechanical ratchet is a simple device
A whose primary defining characteristic
is that it allows motion in one direction
while simultaneously preventing any motion
in the other direction.A ratchet,once cranked,
can only continue to be cranked — it cannot
reverse course and backslide.
In his 1987 work “Crisis and Leviathan,”
political theorist Robert Higgs coined the term
“ratchet effect” in reference to government.
The idea was as simple as the device itself —
that once a government grows, it cannot de-
crease in size.A government that claims power
is unwilling and unlikely to cede that power
after its use is fulfilled.
Particularly, Higgs warned of the constant
threat of “crisis” and “emergency” that the
government uses to convince the public that
immediate expansion of government power is
absolutely essential to survival.
The primary obstacle that stood in the way
of this growth of government was the social
contract the government signed with the peo-
ple: the Constitution. In order to prevent the
government from gaining too much power,the
Framers explicitly put into the Constitution
the powers that were delegated to the govern-
ment.
These powers came to be known as the
“enumerated powers.” Including the ability to
levy taxes, raise armies and establish a postal
service,they clearly defined the role of the cen-
tral government. No power beyond that grant-
ed in the enumerated clauses was to be given to
the government for any reason short of a con-
stitutional amendment.
To drive this point home, the final amend-
ment of the Bill of Rights spelled out this limi-
tation on power even more clearly by stating,
Emily Grubert P ITH
pleasure, but know that there are a few rea-
sons to hesitate over letting the EPA control
carbon legislation besides hating the planet.
Notably,the Clean Air Act is ridiculously com-
plex, rules are tailored to pollutants emitted in
relatively small volumes and officially deem-
ing CO2 a pollutant by the EPA definition
hugely complicates what we’re allowed to do
with it.Think about pumping food-grade CO2
— a federal pollutant? — from underground
reservoirs to make soda. Whatever your take,
the Obama administration is currently review-
ing the waiver denial.
Especially in light of the new administra-
tion’s reconsideration of California’s waiver
request, the question of whether a so-called
patchwork of state policies is better or worse
than a single federal policy becomes very im-
portant.The threat of a bad federal bill is very
real. A cursory treatment of climate change
with a bill that treads too carefully around a
hospitalized economy and petulant special in-
terest groups could lock in a poorly-designed
pricing and accounting scheme for carbon. It
could include protectionist clauses for car-
bon-intensive industry that set off global tar-
iff wars after long, expensive battles over
World Trade Organization (WTO) compli-
Please see GRUBERT, page 5
admission.
As it’s unlikely these spaces will get any
cheaper given the budget deficit,why not take a
page from athletics’ book and sell students an
All-Axess arts pass? Groups that buy in would
accept the pass in lieu of tickets, and at the end
of the quarter, the amount put into a person’s
pass would be split evenly amongst the groups
whose performances he attended. This might
reduce the cost barrier to coming to shows, and
hopefully it would keep more people posted on
what shows were happening each week.
The next big barrier to greater arts success is
audience involvement; those of us in student
groups should be finding ways to engage our
audiences better.Take SImps — their shows lit-
erally depend on audience participation.While
I don’t expect every group to follow their lead
Please see WEBB, page 5
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M ARK M Y W ORDS
“The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it
to the States, are reserved to the States respec-
tively, or to the people.”
Unfortunately, even the best written docu-
ments created with the most noble of inten-
tions are perverted by those in the hunt for
power.
The true downfall of the checks on federal
power and the legitimacy of Constitutional au-
thority began under President Franklin De-
lano Roosevelt in the late 1930s.
FDR, knowing that nearly all of his New
Deal policies were completely unconstitution-
al, sought to push them through regardless of
legality.
At first he attempted to stack the Supreme
Court in his favor by proposing that six judges
be added to the Supreme Court (all to be ap-
pointed by him, of course) to rule on the con-
stitutionality of proposed laws.
Fortunately, this blatant power-grab failed,
but it did not stop FDR’s relentless attack on
Constitutional checks. The White House
waged a brutal media war against the Supreme
Court, with four particularly oppositional jus-
tices picking up the nicknames “The Four
Horseman of the Apocalypse.”
FDR even sent letters to Congressional
committees considering legislation he sup-
ported that suggested Congressmen not let the
Constitution get in the way of doing what they
felt was right.
Eventually, public and executive pressure
prevailed and the Supreme Court caved, pro-
viding a reading of the Constitution that effec-
tively gave the federal government limitless
power via creative interpretation and frank,
blatant intellectual dishonesty.
AND P LEONASM
Dead, weak — A remembrance
of Cabo San Lucas
have seen a glistening horde of flesh and
I sweat grinding and gyrating until it could
barely stand, and velveteen curtains a
very blood-like red, framing the whole scene
like a play. I have watched two-standard-de-
viations-above-the-mean chemistry all-stars
sip gin like lavish, insouciant kings, and I
have heard the whiz kid from Introduction
to the Humanities unable to speak in a way
that resembled any aspect of the humanities
in any language.
I have seen every cut, brand, style and
shade of men’s polo shirt on the planet, and
I have heard one of my classmates respond
to a bartender’s broken English plea of “I
can’t serve you no more” with,“Do you even
know where I [common expletive in its ad-
verb form] go to school? S-T-A-N [pupils di-
late, pauses here to remember the spelling,
fails miserably] uh, FORD!”
I have, at that point in my night, been
very, very embarrassed.
I have seen cleavages that spent the dark
months of winter hunched over laptops and
hidden beneath cable knits displayed so fe-
rociously in the gleaming Mexican night that
the tops which contained them surely had
the interior architectures of Rube Goldberg
machines, and cleavages suspended and held
at angles so fundamentally impossible that
understanding their violations of physics
would likely require research at SLAC.
I have seen a man rip off his shirt and re-
veal,at the very least,fourteen individual ab-
dominal muscles, each of which looked like a
clenched fist that was ready to punch me in
the face, and men flexing their muscles for so
many activities that did not require the sus-
tained flexing of muscles (speaking, eating,
sucking face and thinking, for example) that
I have wondered whether such men were
even capable of not flexing, both in a physi-
cal sense and an emotional one.
I have heard fraternity songs belted like
war chants by men arching their backs and
shouting at the sky like Vikings, while bar-
keeps cheered along and activated horns
that could only be described as world-end-
ing. I have seen my peers, without irony, refer
to each other as ‘bro’ for the entirely of an
evening. I have ducked through endlessly
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Mark
Kogan
The founders spent the entire Constitution-
al Convention and the majority of the Federal-
ist Papers specifically defining the limits of
government. What sense would it make for
them to put clauses into the Constitution that
would negate the rest of the document?
FDR won and the ratchet cranked forward.
Many of the agricultural subsidies from the
New Deal still exist. The federal government
constantly exercises power that it attained ille-
gally via the New Deal.
Presidents down the line, Democratic and
Republican, have expanded those powers
through additions such as signing statements,
selective enforcement and simply ignoring
Constitutional challenges.
All because it was an emergency. All be-
cause it was a crisis.Answer me this:How much
of a crisis is the Great Depression today? How
many people are still suffering from the effects
of the Great Depression, so much so that they
still need that legislation to protect their inter-
ests? The ratchet does not move backward.
President Bush, using the crisis of terrorism
and the emergency of imminent threat, passed
ordinances that allowed illegal surveillance,
revocation of rights and the unimaginable ex-
pansion of the federal budget. The PATRIOT
Act and Guantanamo were both created be-
cause there was an emergency and there was
no time to deal with that damn “piece of
paper.” The government had to act and it had
to act now! And so the ratchet got cranked
again.
Now we have a new direction of Hope and
Please see KOGAN, page 5
Matt Gillespie
reveling crowds that would rather see the
head of the OSA stripped of her powers
than see Chairman Mao overthrown.
I have seen cheeks caked in foundation,
eyes slathered in mascara, crew cuts fer-
mented in what looked like motor oil and at
least one young hombre who very literally
began to evacuate Ralph Lauren Polo Sport
from his pores anytime Akon thumped on
over the speakers. I have grimaced in terror
as a friend nicknamed ‘the Lobster’ turned
shades of red so grotesque that they will
haunt my dreams until the day I die.
I know recently there have been various
travel advisories — from Stanford, the U.S.
State Department, those kinds of folks —
about going to Mexico, about the “escalating
incidence of robbery, car-jacking, kidnap-
ping and homicide.” Don’t let these fool you
— there is no greater threat to your safety
and well-being in Mexico than yourself. I
have been there, and trust me, you will learn
very quickly what it feels like to become a
machine of complete self-indulgence and
consumption, and what it feels like to be
treated as a machine of complete self-indul-
gence and consumption. I now know there is
nothing more dangerous than taking a pack
of students fresh off fighting tooth and nail
to keep their sanity during Stanford’s dreari-
est quarter and giving them 85-degree
weather and an astonishing dearth of alco-
hol regulations.
I now know that you haven’t really met
your friends until you’ve seen them strip for
a bachelorette party, rip multiple pairs of
jeans while booty dropping, narrowly avoid
being tazered with a cattle prod for wander-
ing too close to the wrong hotel or make out
with a 30-year age range of women in a sin-
gle night (17 and 47, for those of you keeping
score at home).
As for me personally, I now know what it
feels like to dance on platforms, inside cages,
with a 6’ 3” UCSD volleyball player sporting
a two foot tall margarita and a broken femur
and with a high school senior from Boulder,
CO, who at the time made a remarkably con-
vincing case for being a 24-year-old British
Please see GILLESPIE, page 5
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GRUBERT
Continued from page 4
ance. And it will almost certainly not
be something that Congress wants to
revisit with another bill later on. Per-
haps worst of all, a poorly-designed
and/or poorly-implemented federal
bill would eliminate the possibility of
state-led reactionary crusades
against federal inaction.
Which brings us back to the point
that fear can be a good thing.
Just as European nations are offer-
ing extra effort in a somewhat desper-
ate attempt to lure reluctant countries
into the climate change mitigation
fold, states, communities and individ-
uals will often make Herculean ef-
forts to address a problem they per-
ceive as underemphasized. A 2005
paper by Berkeley scientists suggests
that the impact of major grassroots ef-
forts could exceed that of a state poli-
cy that convinces people that things
are under control;a third scenario that
assumes a good federal policy that in-
spires patriotic behavioral changes
like those in the grassroots scenario
performs best of all.
The virtue of a good federal sys-
tem is clear: the problem is ensuring
that a mediocre or even bad federal
system does not eliminate the posi-
tive reactionary efforts by states and
individuals. Replacing fear of inac-
tion with complacency could disas-
trously reduce positive behavioral
changes. A good federal policy is
something the United States needs
for itself and for the international
community.However,if a federal pol-
icy cannot guarantee it will capture at
least as much effort as dismayed state
and grassroots efforts can attract, the
EPA should grant California and
other states the right to take climate
matters upon themselves.
Emily has rigged finals-shaped ban-
shees all around her room to scare her
into trying really hard. She also applied
to graduate this week. Call the number
on your screen to make sure she gets in,
or email letters of recommendation to
gruberte “at” stanford “dot” edu.
Grubert Column 5 3.5.09
KOGAN
Continued from page 4
Change in the White House. But the
direction seems to be awfully familiar
— it’s still forward with the ratchet.
The new stimulus bill pumped out
by this administration was not vetted
to the public nor even read by Con-
gress. Why? Because, in President
Obama’s words, it was an “economic
emergency” and we needed “to act
now.”Who gives a damn about rule of
law — this is a crisis!
It seems that Higgs was right. The
government, much like the ratchet,
only moves in one direction, and the
more we sit by and let it grow, the
sooner we will discover that we have
lost our power altogether.
Mark is heartened to know that there
are still citizens, lawyers and judges
who fight this overreach of govern-
ment. If you would to learn how you
can get involved, email him at mko-
gan@stanford.edu.
LETTER
Continued from page 4
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WEBB
Continued from page 4
(can you imagine if Talisman took
song requests?),I think our arts groups
can definitely involve our audiences
more. STAMP does well here; recent-
ly,they took students’ stories of mental
trauma and turned them into mono-
logues. But what if Cantor and Old
Union student art exhibits featured
unfinished paintings or sculptures that
attendees could contribute to?
Beyond that,we arts groups should
be finding ways to collaborate in new,
unique, exciting ways — and I don’t
just mean Group A performs for 30
minutes, and then Group B goes on.
Imagine how awesome it would be if
the Stanford Steppers danced as Taiko
went at it on drums behind them. Rec-
ognizing the strengths of other groups
— yes, even a cappella groups — and
finding ways to synergize with them
could breed a wave of shows audi-
ences have never seen before,while si-
multaneously drawing new fans for all
involved parties.
Why did I mention a cappella
specifically? Well, as some of you
might angrily recall, a few weeks ago I
wrote a column expressing my distaste
for the medium. The points I wanted
but failed to drive home were A) that
a cappella as a collective receives more
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 N 5
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That may sound oxymoronic con-
attention than plenty of other kinds of
groups on this campus, and B) that
many people are afraid to express any
criticism of a cappella for fear of of-
fending their friends.
Where I went wrong was in taking
cheap digs at individual groups;when I
wrote the column,I tried to write jokes
that seemed relatively harmless. The
Mendicants drunkenly singing Brown
Eyed Girl late at night is, factually, an-
noying. Is that really that offensive? I
do, however, genuinely apologize for
how I insulted MixedCo and the Har-
monics — I wrote their lines without
having any groups in mind,and I chose
those two randomly.
The point this all brings me to is
that we as groups and individuals also
need to get better at accepting criti-
cism. Adopting an attitude of preten-
tion,while a hallmark of the stereotyp-
ical latte-sipping, Mac-using, arugula-
eating artist, spells death for creativity,
self-improvement and the growth of a
stronger arts community at Stanford.
And if I can’t make a small joke about
Talisman taking itself a touch too seri-
ously,no matter how fantastic its music
sounds or how meaningful its words, I
believe we have a serious problem.
So let’s move on and keep working
toward the supportive arts community
we all deserve to have, where we can
appreciate our differences,occasional-
ly poke fun at one another and, most
importantly, find ways to help each
other out.
sidering The Daily’s depleting finan-
cial resources, but newspapers are
most important, beneficial and need-
ed in times like this. The Daily is al-
ways welcome to feedback,(construc-
tive) criticism and ideas for coverage,
but with so many areas of campus af-
fected by the financial crisis,The Daily
can fill its role as a source of informa-
tion and campus dialogue more than
ever.
With your support and under-
standing during this difficult time for
The Stanford Daily, we will hopefully
come out as an even stronger newspa-
per and campus community.
Sincerely,
Yes, even Testimony.
Kevin would like to point out that Jenna
Reback and Zachary Warma are re-
sponsible for stealing the Lindbergh
baby, hunting the Loch Ness Monster
and making Pogs uncool. Contact him
at ktwebb@stanford.edu.
GILLESPIE
Continued from page 4
au pair (thank you, two-for-one’s).
In retrospect, I have now briefly
thought myself a very clever writer,
who immersed himself in a wild sub-
culture and then went on to detail its
absurdities in a syndicated publica-
tion. In further retrospect, I have re-
alized that I’m just a dumb college
student who paid an obnoxious
amount of money to go on a very
silly trip.
I have, as they say, experienced
something profound.
Matt Gillespie wishes way more than
luck to anyone headed to the happiest
place on Baja this Spring Break, and
also apologizes profusely to the ghost
of David Foster Wallace for this col-
umn. Nail him for plagiarism at
mattg3 ‘at’ stanford ‘dot’ edu.
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OFF-CAMPUS
AID
Univ.warns against student travel to Mexico Continued from front page

provided $102 million in aid for the

Admin. follows on State
Department Travel Alert
By RYAN MAC
DESK EDITOR
Late last month, the State Department
issued a Travel Alert to all U.S. citizens travel-
ing to Mexico, including the over 100,000 esti-
mated young adults who will travel south for
spring break. Recently, the University fol-
lowed suit, making sure that students are well
aware of the situation in Mexico.
“The U.S. State Department has issued a
Travel Alert, warning of a recent increase in
crime and violence in Mexico and highlight-
ing security concerns for those considering
travel there,” wrote Greg Boardman, vice
provost for Student Affairs, in an email to stu-
dents. “Reports which indicate an escalating
incidence of robbery, car-jacking, kidnapping
and homicide are quite alarming.”
Boardman explained that though sending
a University-wide email warning students
about a spring break destination is unusual,
he hopes to make the student body aware of
the dangers in Mexico.
“My purpose in sending the message about
recent problems in Mexico was simply to alert
students to the situation and make sure they
were aware of the information available on
the State Department Web site,” Boardman
told The Daily. “I realize that Mexico offers
many attractions and students will make their
own decisions about where they will travel,
STUDENT LIFE
but I hope they can be well-informed and
travel safely.”
Boardman echoed the University’s
International Travel Policy, which ultimately
leaves the choice to travel in the hands of the
individual.
“With respect to individual faculty, staff
and graduate student travelers, Stanford
University strongly recommends against, but
does not prohibit, travel to countries where
the U.S. Department of State has issued an
official Travel Warning,” said Provost John
Etchemendy in the most updated travel poli-
cy from 2005. “The final decision about mak-
ing a trip to such a country is up to the indi-
vidual making the trip, however the
University reserves the right to require the
execution of an appropriate release or waiver
before permitting such travel.”
In addition to the State Department, the
Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has
also urged travelers to avoid certain parts of
northern Mexico over spring break.
While the Travel Alert is for all of Mexico,
it specifically warns of cities near the U.S.-
Mexico border, where drug cartels are cur-
rently fighting to gain control of valued traf-
ficking routes into the United States.
According to El Norte, a Mexican newspaper,
there have already been 1,169 drug-related
killings this year alone, with a notable concen-
tration of violence in a popular tourist desti-
nation, Tijuana, and another border town,
Juarez.
Yet, the U.S. State Department warns trav-
elers to be cautious wherever they go, even in
“She was the least
collegial colleague I
can remember of any
academic I met at
Stanford in more than
forty years.”
— Paul Seaver,
history professor emeritus
places like Cancun, Cabo San Lucas and
Ensenada, where tourists may think they are
distanced from the violence.
“U.S. citizens traveling throughout Mexico
should exercise caution in unfamiliar areas
and be aware of their surroundings at all
times,” the Travel Alert warned. “Mexican
and foreign bystanders have been injured or
killed in violent attacks in cities across the
country, demonstrating the heightened risk of
violence in public places. In recent years,
dozens of U.S. citizens have been kidnapped
across Mexico.”
Diego Guzman ‘11, a resident of
Monterrey in the state of Nuevo Leon,
agreed. Citing common tourist destinations
such as Acapulco and Cancun, he claimed
that travelers could be victimized for crimes
such as robbery and kidnappings simply
because of their foreign standing.
“I feel like these places aren’t possibly as
dangerous in terms of drug killings, but these
places are dangerous simply because the
country is so chaotic,” Guzman said. “The
country is so chaotic that people feel like they
can get away with anything. If they see any-
one who is an American, [criminals] may say
‘You know what, I’ll just go for it.’”
For Tijuana-native Fausto Bustos ‘11,
crime may be elevated in tourist cities, but the
fact that tourists are being targeted is nothing
new.
“I’m sure that in big resort cities crime is
higher than usual because [criminals] know
that it is a hotspot for money and provides a
big opportunity to get the kind of clientele
with the kind of money that they normally
don’t have,” he said. “With the elevated vio-
lence and crime-related problems that have
spread across Mexico, I’d venture to guess
that crime within these cities is higher but I
haven’t heard any massive crime reports like
those in Tijuana.”
“Definitely don’t go into Juarez or
Please see MEXICO, page 7
2008-2009 academic year and projects
that it will provide $110 million for
next year. She added that this increase
in funds also accounts for an expected
increase in the number of new stu-
dents requesting financial aid.
Both Shaw and Cooper said they
anticipate an increase in need for next
year because of the national economic
crisis.
“We anticipate the challenge will
be that there are more families that
will have demonstrated need,” Shaw
said, “but our intent is to meet their
demonstrated need.”
Most colleges,like Stanford,are not
cutting financial aid, even as they must
make substantial cuts to other pro-
grams due to the recession.
The New York Times recently
reported that only eight percent of
schools — among 372 surveyed by the
National Association of Independent
Colleges — plan to cut financial aid as
a means to combat the economic
downturn.
Shaw said he believes Stanford’s
peer universities,such as Harvard,Yale
and Princeton, will also maintain their
generous financial aid programs.
“I would be quite surprised to see
much change on the horizon for any
institution,” Shaw said. “We’re simply
going to maintain the programs that
we already have.In our particular envi-
ronment, that is going to be the status
quo.”
Cooper said that the economic
downturn is already affecting the fam-
ilies of current Stanford students.
“We are seeing families coming to

Branner
us with difficult situations, because a
parent has been laid off, and that’s not
unusual; we see that in most years,”
Cooper said.“The volume is starting to
pick up since January, and we [are see-

commits to ing] more of this than we see in a regu-

lar year.”
Cooper, however, went on to quali-
fy the increase in requests for aid.
“I think people have this image of

public service hundreds of people lining up in front

All-frosh dorm to become
public service house next year
By CHRISTINE MCFADDEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
When it makes the transition from an all-
frosh residence to an upperclassmen-only
dorm next year, Branner Hall will also
become the University’s Public Service Focus
House.
Nancy Buffington and Clyde Moneyhun, the
current Branner Resident Fellows (RFs), have
been working to define an identity for Branner
next year, as the residence will be shedding its
current all-frosh party dorm image.
“We’re looking for a diverse community
that we can unite around common beliefs and
causes,” they said. “Branner has always had an
identity and a tight community. It’s going to
lose the identity of an all-freshman house, but
it still needs to have a sense of community.”
“The transition of Branner from being a
freshman-only residence back to housing
upperclass students only provides an excel-
lent opportunity to explore topics upon which
to focus and with which Branner can develop
the next phase of its personality as a resi-
dence,” wrote Executive Director of Student
Housing Rodger Whitney in an email to The
Daily. Whitney has previously served as an
academic advisor to students in Branner.
The public service focus won’t be tied to
any particular major and would include two
Focus Assistants (FAs) in addition to the
usual staff members. Students interested in
living in Branner will be able to apply for one
of the pre-assigned rooms that are being set
Currently an all-frosh dorm, Branner will become the Universiy’s first public service focus house in 2009-2010. While it is famous for its lively
atmosphere, next year the dorm will exclusively host upper-classmen. A portion of the dorm will be reserved for public service-oriented students.
aside for public service-oriented residents.
“We thought that the kinds of students
who apply to be here will already be involved
[in community service] and will have a project
that they are already involved in and can
bring with them,” Moneyhun said.
These students will be guaranteed space in
Branner and exempted from the housing
Draw. These pre-assigned residents will have
specific duties within the house. About a third
of Branner will be assigned to these students,
with the remaining space to be open to the
Draw.
“The culture of service here is very
strong,” Moneyhun said. “We know that a lot
of students are doing service anyway. It’s basi-
cally letting them come in, have a really sup-
portive culture and community where people
can collaborate in different kinds of projects,
and talk about issues relating to service in the
dorm and in the lounge so they can do better-
quality service that’s more meaningful to
them. We hope that this culture will be conta-
gious.”
The focus was originally Buffington’s idea,
though both RFs are involved in public serv-
ice. Both Moneyhun and Buffington work in
the Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR)
and Buffington serves as both the coordinator
of the Community Writing Project (CWP)
within PWR and assistant director of the pro-
gram. Moneyhun is director of the Hume
Writing Center and additionally serves as
associate director for PWR.
“As soon as she [Nancy] suggested it, it was
like, ‘That’s it!,’” Moneyhun said. “It’s not tied
to a particular major and can appeal to any-
body. There is a spirit of service at Stanford;
students take initiative and do astonishing
service work. With the [outcome of the] cur-
rent election, it’ll probably be on the national
agenda as well.”
Among the potential activities that could
take place in Branner next year are participa-
tion in Stanford’s annual Community Day
(though that program was recently put on hia-
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tus due to budget cuts) and Martin Luther
King Jr. Day, among many others. CWP sec-
tions of PWR 2 might be offered in the dorm
as well, and have already previously been
taught by Buffington in Branner.
Buffington and Moneyhun hope to spon-
sor a campus-wide annual service fair for
undergraduates, centered in Branner. The
event would let students know about the wide
range of volunteer opportunities available
both on and off campus.
They also hope to book nationally known
speakers involved in public service to keep
students constantly motivated. Last year,
Sandra Day O’Connor, who previously lived
in Branner, spoke in the lounge. Her main
topic of discussion was public service.
When professional make-up artist Bobbi
Brown visited Branner last month, part of her
discussion stressed the need for contributions
to charity programs, such as her company’s
Please see BRANNER, page 7
of the financial aid office, but it hasn’t
been like that,” she said.
According to Cooper, financial aid
draws 75 percent of its funding from
specific financial aid funds within the
Stanford endowment. The remainder
of funds is drawn from The Stanford
Fund and unrestricted endowed funds
under the control of University
President John Hennessy.
The endowment’s increase in out-
put for next year, from its current 5.5
percent to 7.25 percent, will cover the
majority of financial aid costs in light of
the economy, Cooper said.
“We’re confident that we have the
funds in place to move forward for
next year,” she added.“If this situation
continues, then we’re really going to
have to scramble to figure out where
the money is going to come from.”
Shaw echoed Cooper’s sentiments,
saying that financial aid is a priority for
the University.
“The goal of the institution is to tap
whatever resources we have to meet
our commitment to financial aid,”
Shaw said.
He was unable to predict, however,
what effect Stanford’s sustained finan-
cial aid program and the economic cri-
sis will have on yield — the percentage
of admitted applicants that eventually
enroll at Stanford — for the Class of
2013.
“Financial aid has been significant
already in attracting the largest appli-
cant class in history,” Shaw said. “I
don’t know if it will sustain the highest
yield we ever had last year or
increase.”
Contact Liz Stark at estark12@stan-
ford.edu.

FACULTY & STAFF STUDENT LIFE

DAILY POLL
“Sleep”lost over GER mishap Columbae visitor
By AN LE NGUYEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Prof. William Dement’s popular “Sleep and Dreams”

(PSYC 135) course was stripped of its natural science
general education requirement (GER) because of a
breakdown in the GER approval process. A change in
the process required School of Medicine Dean Philip
Pizzo to petition for the course to retain its GER status;
when Pizzo failed to petition, the course lost its GER.
But in an administrative error, the Registrar mistakenly
listed “Sleep and Dreams” as fulfilling the natural sci-
ence GER for this quarter and allowed it to retain the
status.
Dement told The Daily that the University has not
informed him about any of these complications, which
led to the confusion and controversy surrounding “Sleep
and Dreams,” as previously reported on by The Daily.
According to Religious Studies Prof. Hester Gelber,
former chair of the Committee on Undergraduate
Standards and Policy (C-USP), complications arose
when the GER certification process underwent a major
overhaul four years ago. Previously, departments and fac-
ulty had to submit course syllabi to the Senate
Subcommittee on General Education Requirements in
order to obtain GER standing for the five disciplinary
breadth requirements. The subcommittee on GERs
reviewed the courses before awarding them GER desig-
nations.
This system was subsequently replaced by one in
which the departments and faculty had full responsibili-
ty for deciding which courses fulfill GER standards. But
oversight of the certification process was restricted to
departments within the School of Humanities and
Sciences and the School of Engineering due to their close
involvement with the undergraduate curriculum.
As indicated by Gelber, procedural hurdles have
emerged because “Sleep and Dreams” is taught in the
overstays welcome
psychiatry department, which falls under the School of
Medicine. By MIKE DING both him and his student friends.
“[PYSC 135] is not in one of the designated depart- DESK EDITOR “I’m experiencing extreme
ments,” Gelber explained. “[In regards to] counting it as stress and anxiety,” he wrote in an
a GER, the only way to do it is for the medical school Chris Duffield has been a mem- email to The Daily. “The Gaieties
dean to petition the S-GER committee. As far as I know, ber of the Stanford community for sketch of a sexual predator, unmis-
that has not happened.” nearly 10 years. But residents of takably referring to me, was untrue
Dement told The Daily that Lindi Press, academic Columbae, the dorm that Duffield and (hopefully unintentionally)
committee coordinator for the Registrar’s Office, reaf- could most frequently be found in, cruel. The lurid, fearful assump-
firmed the Senate Subcommittee’s ruling against “Sleep confirmed that Duffield was under tions many students made from it
and Dreams” in an email last Friday. investigation this quarter by the are false and damaging. And even
“The Subcommittee confirmed the decision made by Sexual Harassment Policy Office. worse, Dean Griffith, while slowly
the S-GER last year to remove the DB-Natural Sciences While under review, he has investigating clearly baseless alle-
GER from PSYC 135,” Press wrote to Dement. been banned from all student resi- gations of sexual harassment, has
“Students taking the course this quarter will be eligible dences and all student events, ripped me away, for three-plus pre-
for the GER . . . but this will be the last quarter that the including parties, and student-pro- cious months (a whole quarter!),
course carries the certification.” duced shows. Associate Vice from my student friends and com-
Dement maintained, however, that he was never Provost for Student Affairs Chris munity. And she has threatened to
given an explicit explanation as to why “Sleep and Griffith is expected to reach a final make it permanent!”
Dreams” lost its natural science GER. Nor did he receive decision on Duffield’s status with Columbae resident Jacob
clear-cut information about the means through which he the University in the next few Boehm ‘11 is a friend of Duffield’s,
might secure that GER designation in the future. weeks. and has started a petition that asks
“They should be as explicit as they possibly can and Duffield is listed as a University for the University to treat Duffield
then I should have the opportunity to respond or not affiliate in the Pediatrics- fairly in this issue. Boehm said that
respond,” Dement said. “But I need to know the require- Hematology/Oncology depart- while details regarding the allega-
ments in detail, so I can do it. ment. He is a visiting scholar, tions against Duffield have not
“It is really poor form not to notify someone,” working in the lab of Pediatrics been released, he believed the
Dement added. “It is conceivable that the memo didn’t Prof. Harvey J. Cohen. problem that most people have
Duffield said that his current
Please see SLEEP, page 8 situation has been very painful for Please see DUFFIELD, page 13
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BUILDING
Continued from front page
require us to incur significant
amounts of debt, and likely postpone
such projects.”
In Monday’s letter to the commu-
nity, Provost John Etchemendy also
cited construction cuts as the
University institutes a salary freeze.
“We have also worked hard to
identify other sources of savings,” he
said. “As announced earlier, we have
cancelled or delayed $1.3 billion in
proposed construction projects. We
will move forward only on those proj-
ects that are already under way, or
would be too costly to delay, or have
significant sources of funding from
outside the University budget.”
Several projects will continue
Some construction projects are
continuing, despite the recession. The
Board of Trustees approved several
projects in its meetings on Feb. 9 and
10.
“Typically, four approvals are
required by the Board during the
design and construction process,”
Cleary said. “The buildings currently
under construction or in the later
stages of design have spent many
months, and in some cases, years mov-
ing through the approval process.”
Among the main projects is the
$22.5 million reconstruction of
Crothers Hall, which will become an
undergraduate dorm next year. Part
of the first phase of the
Undergraduate Housing Master Plan,
the newly renovated dorm will pro-
vide an extra 376 beds for undergrad-
uates, allowing for surrounding dorms
to be less crowded. Crothers will
eventually have its own dining com-
mons as well, which is slated for con-
struction next year.
“The newly renovated Crothers
building will also have great advan-
tages for the students who live in
them over the years to come,” wrote
Executive Director of Student
Housing Rodger Whitney in an email
to the Daily. “Attention to deferred
maintenance on systems such as heat-
ing and gutter repairs and new win-
dows will make students more com-
fortable.”
Whitney went on to list additional
structural upgrades, such as exit sig-
nage, extra lighting to improve safety,
larger computer clusters, card access,
new kitchenettes, larger bathrooms
and new finishes and furniture.
Crothers formerly housed gradu-
ate students, the majority of whom
relocated to Buildings 2 and 3 of the
Munger Graduate Residence when
the dorm went under construction.
Currently under construction itself,
Munger will eventually provide 600
new beds for graduate students. The
housing at Munger will include stu-
dios, singles, two-bedroom units and
four-bedroom units, all of which will
be premium quality housing with
their own private bathroom attached.
“Buildings 1 and 5 are scheduled
to open in June 2009,” said Project
Manager Mark Bonino in an email to
the Daily. “Our aggressive target is to
open the last building for fall 2009,
with the conference center completed
at the end of the year.”
In addition to the new rooms,
Munger, which spans between four
and six stories among its five build-
ings, will additionally boast a great
hall, convenience stores, meeting and
conference rooms and food services
as well as a business center, computer
cluster, cafe and space for administra-
tion.
Among other main projects under
various steps of approval are renova-
tions to the Law School, Kresge
Auditorium, the Stanford Avenue
Faculty Homes, the Knight
Management Center and the
Automotive Innovation Facility.
The Law School is projected to
include a new, three-story building,
which will allow for more researching
and faculty space, as well as offices.To
compensate for Law School expan-
sion, Kresge Auditorium and the
Business School’s Bishop Auditorium
will be demolished in June.
The Knight Management Center,
which has received partial construc-
tion approval thus far, is to include a
600-seat auditorium to replace Kresge
and Bishop. The center is to be on the
new campus for the Graduate School
of Business, next to the Business
School’s Schwab Residential Center.
Construction, if approved throughout
the process, is projected to finish in
April of 2011.
In Stern, a project started last year
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Continued from page 6
Tijuana,” Bustos added, citing the
major drug problems and corrup-
tion in his hometown.
Still, some students who have
been planning spring break trips to
Mexico won’t be adjusting their
weeklong vacation plans. Wyatt Roy
‘11 has been planning on going to
Cabo San Lucas with friends for
months.
“We’re all aware of the current
situation in Mexico,” he said. “A
friend more educated on the matter
said much of the trouble wasn’t
where we were going.”
“It is good that these parties issue
alerts, however slightly unhelpful
that they issue them so late,” Roy
added. “We didn’t ‘rethink’ our
plans . . . after reading the alerts.”
Molly Weiss ‘09, decided to take
a cruise instead of road trip into
Mexico, but is going nonetheless,
finding comfort in the fact that
thousands of Americans will be
heading south.
“We plan on staying in a group
together, and only going to the pop-
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 N 7
to completely remodel and upgrade
restrooms will be completed this year,
including upgrades to restrooms in
surrounding buildings. In Arroyo and
Cedro, a new construction project will
renovate bathrooms, add porter pil-
low computing, electrical improve-
ments, new fire sprinklers, upgraded
fire alarms, new carpet and fresh paint
throughout.
On the Row, Grove Mayfield will
be given a full kitchen remodel, and
current Row offices will be converted
into student rooms. Grove Lasuen, as
part of the Housing Master Plan, will
be made into the new Lasuen Row
Center. The center will provide cen-
tralized resources for Row students
and include the Housing Front Desk,
housing supervisors, academic advis-
ing staff and Residential Education
staff.
Managing the financial impact
According to Cleary, all of the cur-
rent campus construction adds up to a
building cost of approximately $1 bil-
lion. With the struggling state of the
economy, the funding for all of this
construction naturally comes into
question.
ular tourist spots,” she said.
Yet, Stanford-affiliated activities
have had to rethink plans because of
the Travel Alert. While the
University cannot limit individual
travel, its International Travel Policy
states that Stanford-sponsored or
organized trips are prohibited from
visiting countries that have outstand-
ing State Department warnings.
One such program, an Alternative
Spring Break (ASB) studying immi-
gration on the California-Mexico
border was forced to rework their
travel itinerary.
“After confirming a visit with [a
migrant house in Tijuana] and plan-
ning our means of transportation
there, we applied to Stanford’s
Office of Risk Management for
approval,” said Amasia Zargarian
‘10 who is coordinating the trip with
Minh Dan Vuong ‘11.
“We were informed by Risk
Management about a week later
that we were not granted permission
to visit Mexico,” Zargarian said. “Of
course, we are disappointed about
not being able to visit Tijuana; this
would probably have been one of
the highlights of our trip.”
Contact Ryan Mac at rbmac@stan-
ford.edu.
“Most of the projects you see that
are under construction, or have
received recent construction
approval from the Board, have been
in the works for many years and their
funding was identified well before
the recent economic crisis,” Cleary
said.
Whitney noted that the Board of
Trustees has identified some Student
Housing capital projects to be
placed on hold due to the economic
situation, although some projects
were too far along schedule to delay.
Other projects, like the renovation
of Munger, are donor-driven, and
thus not directly affected by the
economy.
“Although the recent downturn in
the economy has required a more
focused look at each project’s priori-
ties, most of the projects in the bidding
and construction phase have actually
realized significant cost savings due to
a more competitive pricing environ-
ment and the availability of interested
subcontractors and vendors,” Cleary
said.
Contact Christine McFadden at cnm714
@stanford.edu.
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Continued from page 6
partnership with Dress for Success,
an organization that provides
underprivileged women with cloth-
ing for job interviews.
“We want people of that caliber
to come in and say, ‘This is why
you’re here, this is what your life is
about. Keep your eyes on the
prize,’” Moneyhun said.
Both Moneyhun and Buffington
are very excited about the upcom-
ing change, noting that they don’t
want to see the dorm lose the sense
of purpose it has had in past years,
providing a smooth transition for
freshmen into Stanford.
“There seems to be a lot of
enthusiasm for it; it’s not like a per-
son who is not interested in service
will be unhappy,” Buffington said.
“The general community and spirit
is going to be lighter, happier and
more supportive because of the
kinds of collaborations that I hope
people will have.”
Contact Christine McFadden at
cnm714@stanford.edu.
8 N Wednesday, March 11, 2009
STUDENT LIFE
Univ. protects PHE program
By MARISA LANDICHO
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
This is the first in an occasional series
by The Daily, looking at how specific
University programs are coping with
the recession.
When a student catches a cold or
feels overwhelmed, their first trip is
often down the hall rather than to
Vaden Health Center. The Peer
Health Educators (PHEs) are seen
as the front line in promoting stu-
dents’ health, but in a situation that is
being played out with various pro-
grams across campus, the PHE pro-
gram is shelving possible reforms and
expansions, and instead simply look-
ing to retain the services it already
provides.
Started by Wellness and Health
Promotion Services (HPS) at Vaden,
the PHE program places trained stu-
dent staff members in residences to
deal directly with a variety of health
issues. Supervised by both HPS and
Resident Fellows (RFs), PHEs offer
one-on-one counseling, plan out-
reach programming within the dorm
and refer students to available health
resources at the University. Many
times, students will first hear about
Vaden and various counseling servic-
es from their PHE.
Faculty and student mental health
advocates have championed PHEs
for promoting wellness on an individ-
ual level, and students in the past
have defended the expansion of the
program. There are currently 32
PHEs working under HPS and
Residential Education (ResEd).
Efforts for expansion, though,
have come to a halt, as all depart-
ments are readying themselves for an
approximate 15 percent cut across
the board.
Like many other programs at
Stanford, the PHE program is now
looking to avoid cuts — with the
grim financial outlook, expansion is
out of the question.
“Nothing is safe”
Peer Health Education
Coordinator Jarreau Bowen ‘07 said
a request for increased funding for
the PHE program was submitted to
the University at the beginning of the
academic year. By winter quarter,
however, all requests had been
frozen by the University.
“Before any decisions were made,
we were faced with a struggling econ-
omy and requests for increased fund-
ing were put on hold until the econo-
my stabilized,” Bowen said.
The status of the PHE program is
not in jeopardy at this time, Bowen
promised. There have been no
announced cuts in HPS and the PHE
program will be intact next year.
In comparison, Vice Provost of
Undergraduate Education John
Bravman announced the elimination
of a different ResEd post — that of
Head Peer Academic Counselors
(HPACs) — in a letter to the
Stanford community on Jan. 30.
“We’ve seen HPACs get cut
already — it’s not like every ResEd
position is safe,” said ASSU Vice
President Fagan Harris ‘09. “Nothing
is safe.”
Although mental health was
included in the four budget advocacy
priorities pushed by the ASSU, there
has been little advocacy for the PHE
program itself.
“There has been no advocacy on
that front, but that doesn’t mean that
PHEs aren’t important,” Harris said.
“We have let ResEd know how
important PHEs are.”
Director of Wellness and Health
Promotion Services Carole Pertofsky
asserted that students should not
worry about the PHE program being
eliminated.
“We are in full swing,” Pertofsky
wrote in an email to The Daily.
Applications for the 2009-2010 year
are currently being reviewed.
Bowen warned, though, that the
University is in the process of review-
ing all programs and deciding how
best to save money.
“No final decisions have been
made and we have now way of know-
ing if, or how, this could impact the
PHE program,” he said.
The Role of the PHE
Depending on the residence,
PHEs frequently take on different
responsibilities, ranging from being
on-call to leading workshops on yoga
and meditation. At any rate, PHEs
will attest that they are far from just
a condom and cough drop dispenser.
Most PHEs, like Cardenal’s
Sandra Yen ‘10, end up assuming
many of the duties of a full-time staff
member.
“A lot of the things I do are gener-
al staff stuff, like planning with the
other RAs,” Yen said. Having previ-
ously worked at the Bridge and the
Sexual Health Peer Resources
Center (SHPRC), Yen also leads a
weekly athletic class in the dorm.
She added that while her PHE
duties change every week, her staff
responsibilities make up a near 24-
hour-a-day commitment.
Castano Residential Assistant
(RA) Mignote Yilma ‘10 had a simi-
lar experience with the blending of
duties.
“We have a PHE on staff, and
she’s excellent — she often acts as a
third RA,” Yilma said. “Not only
does she do her own position, but she
helps out when we’re in need.”
Larkin RFs Geoffrey Baker and
Patti Hanlon-Baker try to make the
PHE an equal member on staff.
“Our PHE is here for all the staff
meetings and takes part in all the
staff events,” Hanlon-Baker said.
While many PHEs take on
responsibilities similar to RAs, their
first responsibility is to take care of
the wellbeing of their residents.
“PHEs play a critical role in not
only promoting wellness in the dorm
but also providing support for stu-
dents suffering from mental and
physical health issues,” said Harris,
who is also currently an RA in
Branner.
An often-overlooked job of the
PHE is to refer students suffering
from more serious conditions to
other resources, such as the Bridge,
SHPRC and Counseling and
Psychological Services (CAPS).
“Beyond the preparation they get
in the PHE program, [PHEs] really
act as a bridge to the other resources
that support mental health,” Baker
said. “PHEs are trained in the
resources that Stanford has, and that
really is their primary role.”
All PHEs are required to take a
Please see PHE, page 13
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SLEEP
Continued from page 6
make it to me . . . but something like
this, you want the person to
acknowledge that they’ve received
notification. You don’t just send it
into a black hole.”
The procedure for approving
“Sleep and Dreams” as a University
requirement is further complicated
because the School of Medicine
lacks the appropriate committees
for monitoring courses that might fit
the undergraduate curriculum.
“The School of Medicine,
Business, Law [and] Education —
those four schools are what we call
formula schools,” Gelber said. “They
don’t ordinarily teach undergradu-
ates — they may offer a course occa-
sionally [and] they may have some
small program for undergraduates,
but they are primarily graduate
schools.”
When this discrepancy became
known to C-USP, Gelber wrote let-
ters to the deans of each of the for-
mula schools, providing them with MICHAEL LIU/The Stanford Daily
the opportunity to submit informa- Prof. William Dement’s popular “Sleep and Dreams” course was stripped of its
tion about the classes in their
respective schools that might fulfill natural science GER because School of Medicine Dean Philip Pizzo failed to
undergraduate GERs. The former petition the Faculty Senate Subcommittee on General Education Requirements.
C-USP chair asked the deans to
submit course syllabi and explana- already in place. may think.
tions as to why these courses should “If the dean of the medical school “We think that the students will
qualify as GERs to the Senate and Dr. Dement want to avail them- be badly served by a course that ful-
Subcommittee. selves of that process, they can peti- fills a GER in a way not substantial
Since the Senate Subcommittee tion,” Gelber said. “It’d be up to the enough intellectually,” Buc said. “If
did not receive such an application dean to bring it forward to the S- it is a GER requirement, students
for “Sleep and Dreams,” the course GER committee as a petition.” should do some work.”
lost its natural science GER certifi- Philip Pizzo, dean of the School He added that there is a need for
cation. The class only counts as a of Medicine, declined to elaborate better-publicized communication
GER for the current quarter on the subject in an email to The between the committees of the
because of an administrative error; Daily, and wrote that he was “not Faculty Senate and the Stanford stu-
when the Registrar’s Office updated knowledgeable about the issues” dent body.
class information on PeopleSoft, the concerning “Sleep and Dreams.” Dement previously decried this
computer system used by the Pizzo did mention, however, that he lack of communication as “bureau-
University, the GER designation is acquainted with Dement and the cracy at its crassest.”
was not stripped from “Sleep and popularity of his course. “I think we should, as commit-
Dreams” as it should have been. The Should Dement and Pizzo decide tees, explain to the general public
Registrar did not think that it was to seek GER certification for “Sleep the tenor of our debates,” Buc said.
fair to deny students GER approval and Dreams,” they would have to “We’re making policy, but we’re
due to a technical mistake. subject the course to review by the making policy in the context of a
“[The GER designation] didn’t senate subcommittee on GERs. But Socratic dialogue among ourselves
get taken off of that course because gaining certification is not an auto- and the faculty and the students. It’s
of a mishap in the Registrar’s Office matic thing, Gelber said. Philippe really just wasted work if we just
— that’s why it’s counting this year,” Buc, the current chair of C-USP, make a decision and we don’t
Gelber said. “But next year, it will indicated that a course must fully explain the pros and cons of that
have to go through its process.” meet the GER mandates in order to decision.”
Gelber also emphasized that the be accredited. He explained that
mechanism for PSYC 135 to regain these mandates are much stricter Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen@
its natural science designation is and more detailed than students stanford.edu.
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SPORTS 


SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING: Ready for nationals
W. GYMNASTICS: Gymnasts lose a close one
M. TENNIS: Card sweeps Santa Clara



M. VOLLEYBALL: Stanford claims two more wins
TRACK AND FIELD: Card looks to bounce back
W. SWIMMING: Team heads for NCAAs

CARDINAL MEN’S SWIMMING

Men continue
SCORCHED Pac-10 streak
Card claims 28th pretty excited about racing and
suiting up,” Jason Dunford said.
Arizona catches fire, drops Stanford in straight title “That first night, we smashed two
school records, but we came in sec-
regular season finale By KENAN JIANG and
ond in both. That’s how fast this
meet was.”
Stanford took the lead on the
CHRISTIAN L. TOM
STAFF WRITERS second day, though, and never
By HALEY MURPHY looked back, with the Card scoring
DESK EDITOR The No. 2 Stanford men’s swim in all events. Stanford’s 200 free
team won its 28th consecutive Pa- relay set a school and Pac-10
Coming off back-to-back wins against No. 21 Arizona cific-10 Conference title on Satur- record in 1:15.64, and was swum by
State and USC, Stanford arrived at Olson Court looking to day, when it finally edged out rivals sophomore Alex Coville, Staab,
mark another “W” in the books against Arizona on Satur- California and University of Ari- junior David Dunford and Jason
day.The odds were in the Card’s favor: Stanford had defeat- zona. The Cardinal showed its in- Dunford. In a show of freestyle
ed the Wildcats by 16 on Jan. 4, and the Cats had lost their credible depth throughout the dominance, Stanford took five of
last four games. However, Saturday showed a revived Ari- meet, but the Golden Bears con- the top eight spots in the 50 free
zona team, and the stantly lurked behind by a few final, with all the swimmers from
Card came up short points, ready to strike in any weak the earlier relay and sophomore
in its season finale, MEN’S BASKETBALL Stanford event.
“We’re pretty excited; it’s al-
Jake Allen.
Coville sprinted to a Stanford
falling to the Wild-
ways great to continue the tradi- third-fastest all-time mark at 19.16
cats, 101-87. 3/7 Arizona L 107-87 tion [as Pac-10 champions],” senior in the prelims, while Cal’s
Stanford (17-12,
6-12 Pacific-10 Con- captain Paul Kornfeld said. “We Olympian sprinter Nathan Adrian
ference) got out to a UP NEXT made it through our four years de-
fending that. You don’t want to be
won the event in 18.82. Stanford
also placed five in the top eight in
slow start, allowing
Arizona (19-12, 9-9) PAC-10 TOURNAMENT the first class to lose it, and it was a
harder battle than we thought. Cal
the 500 free with freshmen Chad
La Tourette, Trevor Scheid and
to jump to a 14-4 3/11-14 Los Angeles
lead within the first made it a two-team battle; they Bobby Bollier; sophomore David
four minutes of play. COVERAGE: fought hard to the end.” Mosko; and senior Phillip Morri-
Although the Cardi- TV FSN The meet began last Wednes- son.
nal worked to trim RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM day when Stanford established Senior captain Nate Cass fin-
the lead, eventually new school records in the 200 med- ished third in the 200 IM, while
(kzsu.stanford.edu) ley and 800 freestyle. Stanford’s freshman Curtis Lovelace finished
pulling within two
with 6:50 remaining, GAME NOTES: Stanford will begin its postsea- medley team of Kornfeld, junior eighth. Cass also finished third in
the Wildcats consis- son play tonight as it takes on Oregon State Eugene Godsoe, senior Jason the 400 IM. Senior diver Dwight
tently answered to in the opening round of the Pac-10 Tourna- Dunford and sophomore Austin Dumais contributed to the effort
maintain separa- ment. The Cardinal, seeded ninth in the Staab finished second to Cal. The with a victory in the one-meter div-
tion. By halftime, tournament, will be looking to notch its first Cardinal finished second again to ing event held last week.
Arizona led 50-39. Arizona by two hundredths of a On days three and four, Stan-
victory of the year over the Beavers, who ford brought home titles in the 100
In the first 20 swept the season series for the first time second in the 800 free, where Staab
minutes of play, since 1993. broke the school record with an fly from Staab, as well as the 100
Stanford’s biggest opening leg of 1:32.71.
production came from an unlikely source: Freshman Jere- “Leaving Stanford, we were all Please see MSWIM, page 13
my Green (who finished with a career-high 22 points)
hoisted four of his six treys of the night, keeping the Card
alive with the help of senior Lawrence Hill, who added 10
points in the opening period. WOMEN’S TENNIS
Meanwhile, the Cats were all business, shooting 71.4 per-

Stanford upsets
cent in the first 20 minutes, and an even 70 percent on the
game. Arizona’s junior class matched Stanford’s 39 points
before the break, with forward Chase Budinger and guard
Nic Wise posting 14 each, and forward Jordan Hill adding
another 11. Despite a less-than-stellar performance by the
Cardinal defense, Stanford head coach Johnny Dawkins ac-
knowledged that shots were falling for the Wildcats in even

Please see MBBALL, page 11

ALVIN CHOW/The Stanford Daily
Senior forward Lawrence Hill scored 21 points and added 10 rebounds in Stanford’s loss to Ari-
zona on Saturday. Hill was named to the All-Pac-10 honorable mention team after the game.
Cal at home
By ANTHONY NGUYEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER WOMEN’S TENNIS
23 wins and Daniel
Bohm
The story could not have been
written any better.
No. 7 California was in town for
a match that Stanford couldn’t af-
3/7 vs. California W 4-3

UP NEXT

counting
On My Mind ford to lose — especially not after
its sub-par showing at the Nation- SAN FRANCISCO
al Indoor Championships earlier
this month. (5-2, 2-1 WCC)

Softball outscores opponents 25-1 Students, With the score tied 3-3, the
match came down to senior veter-
an Jessica Nguyen, who had been
struggling to find her game all sea-
3/21 Taube Tennis Center
3 p.m.
GAME NOTES: No. 13 Stanford edged out
son. No. 7 Cal with a strong match by Jessica

en route to home tournament sweep

By DANIEL BOHM
AD need to And somehow, the No. 13 Stan-
ford women’s tennis team found a
way to pull off an improbable
comeback victory over Cal, nar-
Nguyen, whose victory gave the Cardinal
a slim, 4-3 victory. The Golden Bears led
2-0 and 3-1 before Stanford’s comeback.
The Cardinal has now won 142 straight

fill seats
STAFF WRITER rowly escaping with a momentum- matches at home.
building win.
Another weekend, another tournament, another Stan- “It’s obviously huge to pull out
ford softball sweep. a win against our rival at home,” “I thought she played really
The Cardinal went 6-0 this weekend, hosting the Stan- sophomore Hilary Barte said. well,” Barte said of Lindsay. “The
girl she played was really good —

S
ford Louisville Slugger Classic. Stanford is now 24-1 on o with finals approaching and “After a rough Indoors, I think it’s
the season and has won a school-record 23 consecutive loads of work to be done, I did great that we could pull out such a she was solid. Lindsay did a great
games. what any logical Stanford stu- match. It showed all of us how job of coming back in that second
The story of the weekend for the Cardinal was pitch- dent would do this weekend: I went to tough we are — we just got to be- set. For her to come back was huge
ing. Sophomore Ashley Chinn and senior Missy Penna some Cardinal sporting events. lieve in each other.” — I know it definitely motivated
each pitched three games and combined to give up just Actually that’s a bit of a lie. One Cal began the match by nar- me.”
one run all weekend. Penna, an All-American a year ago, thing I’ve learned is that most Stanford rowly taking the doubles point, de- One match away from the vic-
threw three complete-game shutouts. students don’t go to sporting events. In spite facing multiple match points. tory, Cal seemed likely to break
The Cardinal began the tournament with a 3-0 win fact, very few Stanford alumni or com- “We let some leads get away in the Cardinal’s decade-long win
over Illinois State on Friday. Chinn picked up the victory munity members go to the games ei- the doubles,” said Stanford head streak on the Farm.
for Stanford in the circle. ther. The worst part about it, however, coach Lele Forood.“We were a lit- Down 3-1, freshman Veronica
MASARU OKA/The Stanford Daily Li won 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 over Marion
The sophomore hurler allowed five hits and walked is that Stanford does nothing to change tle devastated at the end of dou-
one, while striking out five in the complete-game victory. The Cardinal bats stayed hot over the weekend, but this sad fact. bles.When we got back in, we were Ravelojaona to relieve a bit of the
Although the Cardinal offense was sluggish for much pitchers Missy Penna and Ashley Chinn stole the show. The Here is a story: I sat at the Stanford a little deflated, so we had to re- pressure.
of the game, the contest was broken open in the bottom of duo combined to pitch five shutouts in six games. vs. Texas baseball game Friday night. bound from that.” “We had to win at No. 1 and No.
the sixth with a pair of doubles courtesy of a pair of fresh- The stadium was half-empty. There Unfortunately, the Cardinal 3 — it was clear to everyone in the
men: Jenna Becerra and Ashley Hansen. were far more Texas fans — at a game dropped another quick point as stadium,” Forood said.
In the second game of the day, Penna picked up where SOFTBALL 3/8 UC-Davis W1-0 in Palo Alto, mind you — than Stan- sophomore Carolyn McVeigh fell At No. 1, Barte amped up her
game with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 win over
Chinn had left off. The senior pitched all six innings in ford fans. My four friends and I made 6-2, 6-2 to seasoned Cal senior Bo-
Stanford’s 8-0 win, which was shortened by the mercy up about half of the students at the jana Bobusic. Jana Juricova.
rule. Penna gave up four hits and struck out five Nittany
Lions.
UP NEXT STANFORD INVITATIONAL game, even though the games are free
for Stanford students.
Stanford freshman Courtney
Clayton would answer, however,
“It was definitely not one of my
prettier wins,” Barte said. “I was
The Stanford offense was not fooled by Penn State 3/20-22 Smith Family Stadium We decided to move down to the with a 6-4, 6-1 win, and the Cardi- struggling, but I found a way to
starter Lisa Akamine, as it sprayed line drives all over the third row,as there was nobody sitting in nal would win four first sets in sin- win.”
field. Junior third baseman Shannon Koplitz led the Car- GAME NOTES: Stanford will take part in its final tournament be- the front three rows.On arrival,howev- gles play, giving hope to the home And so, the match came down
dinal offense,hitting two home runs and knocking in three fore the conference season begins, as it hosts the Stanford Invi- er, we were met with the resistance of crowd at the Farm. to the final court that showcased
runs. The versatile infielder now has a career-high five tational next weekend. The Cardinal, currently riding a 23- the red coats. “The stadium was awesome,” the veteran player who had re-
homers on the season. game win streak, will take on Princeton on March 20, then Much like their British army prede- Forood said of Taube Tennis Cen- cently swapped to the No. 3 spot in
Stanford kept rolling on Saturday with Penna and cessors, the red coats at baseball games ter that day.“The support from the the lineup.
Winthrop, Santa Clara and Pacific over the following two days.
Chinn again splitting the doubleheader victories. are normal men, who when in uniform fans was great.” The match continued to look
In the first game, Stanford jumped on San Diego State decide that they must do anything in And then, the drama kicked in grim as Nguyen found herself
early. The Cardinal, facing the Aztecs for the second time their power to make the lives of us once again. down 3-0, 4-2 and 5-3 in the final
sity of Vermont 6-1.The Stanford offense jumped all over frame.
this season, scored two runs in the bottom of the first and young Americans completely miser- Stanford would go on to lose
Catamount starter Jocelyn Abaray, scoring five runs off But, in the third set, Nguyen
never looked back. able. three second sets to tighten up the
her in just two-and-a-third innings pitched. somehow regained her old form
Hansen went two for two, stole a base and scored a run My friends and I were informed that heavily contested match. C a l
The offense was led by junior Alissa Haber, the team’s and showed the crowd what she
for Stanford. we could not be in the first three rows, would soon put Stanford on the
leading hitter, who went three for four with two runs has been capable of all along.
Penna completely overwhelmed the Aztec batters, as they were saved for “sponsors.” edge of defeat as junior Lindsay
scored from the top of the lineup. Despite her good game, “I tell the team this all the time
throwing a complete-game one-hitter. Penna struck out That really looks good.This is a na- Burdette fell 6-4, 7-5 to Mari An-
though, Haber recognized the importance of Chinn’s that Jessica does this certain
10 and walked three, while San Diego State never threat- tionally televised game and the first dersson. Despite the loss, Bur-
ened. dette’s strong effort inspired her
In the second game, the Cardinal defeated the Univer- Please see SOFTBALL, page 12 Please see BOHM, page 11 fellow teammates. Please see WTENNIS, page 13
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the most contested situations.
“We just didn’t defend as well as
we would’ve liked, but they got hot,
to be quite frank,” Dawkins said.
“They were about as hot a team [as]
I’ve ever seen shoot the basketball.
Ten-of-16 from three — they pretty
much hit everything.When we went
back and watched tape, [on] some
of the shots they hit, the guys had
hands in their faces and were pres-
sured, and they hit fade-aways and
threes. They had it going.”
The second half saw more of the
same, with Arizona immediately
lengthening its lead to 16 off a
three-pointer by Budinger and a
layup by Wise. On the game, Wise
was a perfect 9-9 from the field, in-
cluding 2-2 from long range, finish-
ing with 27 points and nine assists.
Kyle Fogg helped out in the back-
court as well, scoring nine and dis-
tributing another eight assists.
Budinger and Hill brought their
own totals for the night to 28 and 20
points, respectively, helping the
Cats to go to work inside. Arizona
outscored the Cardinal 38-24 in the
paint.
In addition to Green’s 22, senior
Anthony Goods and junior Landry
Fields gave Stanford 10 points
apiece, and Hill posted his second
double-double of the year (21
points and 10 rebounds). Even with
these contributors, though, the
Card never managed to tie the
game in the second period.
Overall, Dawkins wasn’t disap-
pointed with the team’s perform-
ance, and believes the meeting with
Arizona will help the team with the
fast-approaching Pac-10 Tourna-
ment.
“You score 87 points in a 40-
minute game, you have a good
chance to win,” Dawkins said. “And
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Continued from page 10
three rows are empty because we save
these seats for some corporate bigwigs
who think they are too important to
come to the games.
My friends and I would have gladly
they scored 101. They shot the ball
extremely well, so . . . I don’t want
our kids going down [to Los Ange-
les for the tournament] thinking
we’re not hitting stride or playing
well because that would be untrue.
We are playing well. And we’re
playing well at the right time. We
just have to be able to take it one
game at a time and see what hap-
pens.”
Hill agreed, and noted that Stan-
ford is optimistic about tournament
play.
“Obviously on Saturday, [de-
fense] was a problem,” he said. “We
slipped up Saturday, but we know
we can defend . . . and I think guys
have a better grasp of what we’re
looking to do. So, that’s something
positive to look forward to.”
Stanford opens the Pac-10 Tour-
nament tonight at 6 p.m. in Los An-
geles against Oregon State; the
game will be broadcast on FSN. The
Cardinal needs to win all of its four
potential games in the tournament
to earn a bid to the NCAA Tourna-
ment as the conference tourna-
ment’s champion, but Stanford has
fallen in both regular-season en-
counters with the Beavers.
But Hill doesn’t believe the
Card’s season is over, given the
team’s relatively positive end to the
regular season.
“We have a good momentum
going into the tournament, and
that’s what every team wants,” he
said.
Dawkins agreed, but is hesitant
to look too far ahead.
“We’re taking it one game at a
time, and that’s all you can do in this
kind of tournament,” Dawkins said.
“The main thing you realize when a
tournament comes up, everyone’s
back to 0-0. That’s the beautiful
thing about it for us . . . It’s a fresh
start, and that’s how we have to ap-
proach it. It’s an opportunity.”
Contact Haley Murphy at hmmur-
phy@stanford.edu.
moved if there were people who had
tickets for those seats. Instead we were
told by mister red coat that we had to
“get the hell out of this row.The spon-
sors of those seats pay for your scholar-
ship.”
Well I’m not on a scholarship, so I
guess I actually pay his salary.
Anyway, cutting to the chase, treat-
ing people who actually show up to the
game in this manner is no way to en-
Trampled by Texas
By DENIS GRIFFIN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
It was a weekend of more of the
same for the Stanford baseball team.
For a time, the Cardinal offense
showed its fans heartening signs that
there is a real offense somewhere be-
hind the facade of a season-opening
slump against No. 2 Texas (12-1), but
in the end, Stanford (3-8) mostly
Stanford baseball lost two of three to Texas last weekend. Cardinal pitchers
held the Longhorns to just 12 runs over three games, but the Stanford bats
were silenced in two losses. The team starts Pac-10 play next weekend at Cal.
courage people to come to the games.
But why would I be surprised by
that? Stanford doesn’t market games
to anyone. If students don’t read The
Daily or look on their own volition for
game times,they likely will be left in the
dark.The athletic department has also
done an anemic job of ingraining the
culture of Stanford sports into the
greater Silicon Valley community.
If I were a Stanford athlete, or a re-
proved that it still has a long way to go
if it hopes to make a return trip to
Omaha and the 2009 College World
Series.
Stanford was coming off of a five-
game losing streak when it welcomed
the previously undefeated Longhorns
to the Farm, having dropped two
games to St. Mary’s and three to Cal
State-Fullerton after taking two of
three from Vanderbilt to open the
AGUSTIN RAMIREZ/The Stanford Daily
cruit, I would not exactly be turned on
to Stanford when the visiting team’s
fans, from 1,500 miles away, are louder
and more obnoxious then the Stanford
contingent.
I mean, for the students, who make
up most of the people reading this, yes
there are finals approaching, but it was
a completely beautiful weekend, and
everybody can use a study break.
The athletes are students, too.They
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 N 11
season. The Cardinal offense strug-
gled mightily over that span, scoring
just 2.8 runs per game, so Stanford
went into its weekend series with
Texas hoping to liven up its bats in
preparation for the opening of con-
ference play, March 21 against Cali-
fornia.
The Longhorns’ pitching, though,
refused to allow the Cardinal offense
the opportunity to break out of its
season-long slump. Stanford opened
the series with a 6-2 loss on Friday
night and closed it with a 5-1 Sunday
defeat. On Saturday, though, a 7-1
Cardinal romp offered at least a glim-
mer of hope for the latent potential of
the Stanford roster.
It was freshman right-hander Jor-
dan Pries who carried the day for the
Cardinal, throwing 7.1 strong innings
before being relieved by sophomore
closer Drew Storen. Pries was named
Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week for his ef-
forts.
“[I was] just staying within myself
and pitching my spots,” Pries said.
“Just overall executing my pitches,
making sure all of them are being
thrown for strikes and not trying to
get too ahead of myself and just kind
of relaxing and not letting the mo-
ment get to me, just kind of focusing
on what I’ve done my whole life.”
The Stanford offense, meanwhile,
was led by strong games from the top
of the order, as sophomore second
baseman Colin Walsh led off and
went 2-5, while usual lead-off man,
sophomore third baseman Zach
Jones batted second, going 3-5 with a
home run and three RBI. Sophomore
first baseman Jonathan Kaskow,
meanwhile, went 2-3 with a solo
homer to lead off the sixth and senior
Jeff Whitlow also homered in his only
at bat of the day.
“I’ve been able to get into the line-
have finals, too. It can’t hurt to support
them.
Stanford is supposed to be the pre-
eminent athletic university in the coun-
try, having won 14 consecutive Direc-
tors Cups, yet barely anyone shows up
for athletic events. It’s depressing.
There is no other way to put it.
I’m not sure if the problem is in the
athletic department, in marketing or if
it is just the students and people in the
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up consistently and I’m just feeling
more and more comfortable at the
plate, and whenever that happens it
just feels good and the hits kind of
take care of themselves,” Kaskow
said.“It’s always nice when you’re hit-
ting to get in a groove like that.”
Behind their efforts, Stanford had
taken a 4-0 lead by the fifth inning and
answered Texas’ lone run in the top of
the eighth with three runs in the bot-
tom half of the inning.
“That’s definitely the best we’ve
played all year, that game.And I think
definitely that’s the level we’re capa-
ble of playing at everyday,” Kaskow
said.“It’s somehow finding out how to
go out there and put a performance
like that out there everyday — I think
we can definitely do that, so it’s just
over the next couple of weeks finding
how we can be more consistent to put
that kind of product that we had on
Saturday out on the field everyday.”
But it was the games that came be-
fore and after Saturday’s offensive out-
burst that were more characteristic of
the way the Cardinal has played to date.
Friday night, the Longhorns’ Chance
Ruffin (3-0, 2.31 ERA) was absolutely
dominant, throwing a complete-game
four-hitter,striking out seven.
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Stanford community, but the luke-
warm interest in Stanford sports is a
norm that needs to be changed.
So let this be my plea, to the admin-
istration, to the students and to the
community at large: Come to the
games. They are fun. The teams are
good. Show some support.
Contact Daniel Bohm at bohmd@stan-
ford.edu.
12 N Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Sophomore midfielder Karen Nesbitt makes a run past a William and Mary defender on Sunday. Nesbitt notched two goals and an assist to help
the Cardinal beat the Tribe, 18-9. The team also beat Saint Mary’s over the weekend to push its record to 6-2 overall.
Magic No. 18 for lacrosse
By SARAH OHR
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The No. 18 Stanford women’s lacrosse
team had a stellar weekend, downing St.
Mary’s 18-7 on Friday and No. 20 William and
Mary 18-9 on Sunday.
The win against St. Mary’s keeps the Car-
dinal (6-2, 4-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Feder-
ation) undefeated in MPSF play, while the
victory over William and Mary marks the
Cardinal’s first against a top-20 opponent this
season.
Stanford showed its depth this past week-
end with 10 different players scoring at least
one goal between the two games. Juniors Julie
Christy and Amanda Schwab led the way at
St. Mary’s, scoring four and three goals, re-
spectively.
“[It was] really awesome to see the whole
team working together as a unit from the de-
fense through the midfield and into the at-
tack,” said junior Eleanor Foote. “A few peo-
ple certainly had standout games, but I think
the key thing was everyone being in sync with
WOMEN’S WATER POLO
Stanford dominates on road
Women beat ASU, Davis,
Bakersfield over weekend
By MICHAEL LAZARUS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
At the halfway mark of the season, the
top-ranked Stanford women’s water polo
team showed just how much progress it has
made during its rematch against No. 5 Ari-
zona State on Saturday.
When the Cardinal last faced the Sun
Devils during the Stanford Invitational on
Feb. 8, Stanford had one of its toughest
matches this year, barely hanging on to win
15-14. That game was marked by poor de-
fense and overall inconsistent play.
However, Stanford looked like a com-
pletely different team this time in Tempe, de-
stroying Arizona State, 13-6.
The Cardinal started the game with a goal
from Melissa Seidemann, who kept it up from
there. The freshman scored on Stanford’s
opening possession, less than 30 seconds into
the game, for her first of five goals on the day.
The Sun Devils managed to score once to
even the game, but the tie would not last for
long, as Seidemann and junior Kelly Eaton
gave the Cardinal a 3-1 lead. Following an-
other Arizona State goal, the Cardinal scored
twice on goals from senior Koree Blyleven
and senior Kira Hillman to close the first pe-
riod at 5-2.
In February, Stanford clung to a 2-1 lead at
the end of the first due to sloppy defense and
inconsistent offense. Since that game, the
Cardinal has outscored opponents 30-11 in
the first period, one of the many ways the
team has improved.
Junior Alex Koran kept Stanford’s mo-
mentum alive in the second period, scoring
two goals within the first two minutes. An-
chored by junior goalkeeper Amber Oland’s
SOFTBALL
Continued from page 10
dominance in the circle.
“I saw Ashley really improve this week-
end,” Haber said.“It will be important for her
to pitch well come Pac-10 season, not only to
give Missy a rest, but also to pick up wins her-
self.”
Chinn struck out 10 Catamounts in her
complete-game victory.
Then, Sunday morning, she improved to 9-
one another.”
During the William and Mary game, junior
Lauren Schmidt (who received the MPSF
Player of the Week accolade last week) and
sophomore Sarah Flynn had standout per-
formances. Schmidt scored an impressive six
goals and Flynn scored five.
“The great thing about Schmitty is she
goes 100 miles per hour the whole time,”
coach Amy Bokker said. “You know you’re
always going to get her best effort . . . She and
Flynn are so different. Schmidt is explosive
and beats defenders one-on-one, and Flynn is
a receiver and can score as well. It’s a great
balance.”
Another key player in the game against
William and Mary was junior Claire Hub-
bard, with five assists. Hubbard is now only
one away from her single-season high.
“The attackers were playing with so much
confidence,” Bokker said.“A lot of that has to
do with Claire Hubbard. If you draw the de-
fenders, your teammates will make you look
good, and Claire Hubbard made everyone
look good.”
Senior Kira Hillman looks for an opening for the Stanford women’s water polo team. The
Cardinal collected three wins this past weekend, outscoring its opponents 43-14.
eight saves, Stanford took an 8-4 lead into
halftime.
“We got a lot of good opportunities at two
meters against their press defense,” head
coach John Tanner said. “Melissa and Alex
were effective in finishing those chances.”
In the third period, the Cardinal crushed
any hopes the Sun Devils had at making a
second-half run. Goals by junior Jessica Stef-
fens, freshman Alyssa Lo, Seidemann and
Koran gave Stanford an unbeatable, 12-4
lead.
The real story, though, was Stanford’s de-
fense. During the match-up earlier this sea-
son, Stanford allowed open shots and easy
0 on the season with her second consecutive
victory over Vermont.
Much like the previous day, Haber led the
offense while Chinn pitched a gem. Chinn al-
lowed three hits and struck out nine in the
win.
Haber, meanwhile, went two for three with
her fourth home run of the season in the win.
Sophomore first baseman Melissa Koutz had
two hits, a run and an RBI in the victory.
Stanford closed out the tournament with
its closest game of the weekend, a 1-0 victory
over UC-Davis on Sunday afternoon.
The Cardinal got its lone run of the game in
the bottom of the fifth on a two-out, RBI sin-
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The defense also came up big. The Cardi-
nal has a number of regularly starting players
out with injuries, but that didn’t appear to
faze the women and they again showed their
team depth.
“The high-pressure defense got us a lot of
knockdowns and turnovers that we were able
to capitalize on by safely transitioning the ball
into the attacking end and getting the ball
into the back of the net,” Foote said.
Sophomore goalkeeper Annie Read also
had several big saves in both games as she
gains more experience in the goal. Read had
13 saves combined between the two games.
“There was a flow to our game,” Bokker
said. “Everyone was playing together. I feel
like we found our rhythm.”
This past weekend’s wins give the Cardinal
a great deal of momentum going into its
spring break games. Stanford has some time
for rest before facing its next opponent,
though, and will travel to No. 14 Johns Hop-
kins on March 27.
Contact Sarah Ohr at sohr@stanford.edu.
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goals. On Saturday, the Cardinal defense
proved it was worthy of Stanford’s No. 1
ranking, shutting out the high-power Sun
Devil offense in the third period.
“We played pretty well on 5-on-6 defense,
which kept them from coming back on
us,” Tanner said.
Seidemann netted her fifth and final goal
of the game in the fourth period — also the
only Cardinal score of the period — to seal
Stanford’s victory at 13-6.
After the Arizona State game, Stanford
flew back to California to take on No. 11 UC-
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gle from Koplitz.
The game was never in question, however,
as Penna remained in control throughout, giv-
ing up just four hits and walking one.
Stanford now has 12 days off for finals. It
will play again on March 20 as host of the
Stanford Invitational.
Although the Cardinal has won 23 consec-
utive games, Haber likes the idea of having a
small respite.
“I don’t think it will break our momen-
tum,” she said.“After playing so many games,
everyone is ready for a bit of a break.”
Contact Daniel Bohm at bohmd@stanford.edu.
NEW GROUP AIMS
TO UNITE FANS
By ZOE LEAVITT
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
S
everal
weeks ago,
a rabid new
Stanford fan
group burst onto the
Cardinal scene with a
mission to galvanize the en-
tire student body to higher
levels of sports fandom.
The Cardinal Conservation
Corps (CCC) brings together Stan-
ford students, alumni and community
members to try to raise Stanford sports
fandom to the highest level it can be.
Jim Rutter ‘86, a self-proclaimed
fourth-generation Stanfordian, founded
the CCC to fill what he saw as shallow-
ness in the Cardinal’s fan base.Complete-
ly unaffiliated with Stanford University,
the CCC hopes to use Stanford’s most
avid fans to electrify others to similar lev-
els of enthusiasm.
“Single voices, even those raised in
Cardinal song, won’t move mountains,
but we believe the equivalent of an ‘army
reserve,’ consisting of passionate, ‘Card-
core’ Stanford supporters, can create a
thundering chorus that can rally the Stan-
ford sports community,” wrote Jim Rut-
ter in an email to The Daily.
While their take-no-prisoners attitude
may cause some consternation through-
out the Stanford athletic department, the
burning motivation of the CCC springs
from a sincere love for all things Cardinal.
By tossing the occasional barb, the CCC
hopes to spur the Cardinal fan body to ac-
tion.
Among the CCC’s goals, Rutter listed
“a sincere desire to see our Stanford ath-
letic programs be the very best they can
be. We can fill our new football stadium
despite the downturn in the economy, we
can have a rabid, 1,000-person Sixth Man
Club, we can get non-alumni . . . to adopt
our Stanford’s sports teams . . . We want
people to get on that magnificent band-
wagon, check out our incredible stadium
and help make Stanford football game
days the best overall sports entertain-
ment and social experience in America.”
Many have already bought into this vi-
sion. For reasons stretching from alumni
status,present or past varsity sports mem-
bership or living in the area to simple Car-
dinal devotion, people of all ages have
signed up for the CCC.
“I think the CCC has the potential to
create a strong student-alumni bond, one
that really ought to be more prevalent in
my opinion,” said freshman CCC mem-
ber Ben Laufer. “We students can learn
so much from Stanford alums; they are a
fantastic resource. This transcends sports
in many ways. Stanford has given me so
much already and this is one of the ways I
want to give back to the University.”
Cardinal love propels the CCC, but
anger jumpstarted the motor. Rutter and
many other CCC members feel that the
Stanford community lacks true invest-
ment in its sports. Trash-talking students
who do not worship at the altar of the
Cardinal goalposts may prove controver-
sial, but Rutter is no stranger to contro-
versy. His publication, “The Bootleg,”
founded in 1994 as a sort of rebel Stan-
ford sports newsletter, faced questions
for its sarcastic criticism of Cardinal
coaches and administrators.The adminis-
tration faced it in good humor, and the
criticism stems from desire to improve.
However, the CCC reserves harsh words
SPORTS BRIEF
Men’s gymnastics takes second
in Minnesota meet
Stanford men’s gymnastics was on the
road in Minneapolis this weekend, meeting
No. 2 Oklahoma and No. 7 Minnesota in a
tri-meet on Saturday. The Cardinal came in
second as a team, falling by a margin of just
1.45 points to the Sooners, 357.850-356.400,
but beating the Golden Gophers, who
trailed with only 347.950.
For the close finish, Stanford got contri-
butions from many sources. Redshirt junior
Greg Ter-Zakhariants took second on hori-
zontal bar (15.050) and fourth on floor exer-
cise (15.450), his two best finishes of five
BASEBALL
Continued from page 11
Stanford’s pitching, meanwhile, was un-
able to hold back the Longhorns’ assault. Ju-
nior starter Jeff Inman allowed four runs
through the first two innings, though part of
his difficulties were due to defensive lapses
in the second,where the Cardinal committed
two errors to allow one unearned run to
cross the plate. Inman pitched another three
innings before giving way to the Stanford
bullpen, but the damage was already done.
Sunday’s rubber match was more of the
same for the Cardinal, as Stanford managed
just one run on a solo shot from sophomore
outfielder Kellen Kiilsgaard, who belted his
team-leading third of the season in the fifth
inning. Freshman starter Scott Snodgrass
lasted just 3.1 innings, walking four, and was
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for the undedicat-
ed.
“I was pretty
disappointed by
the 67 percent of
students who didn’t
join the Sixth Man
Club citing as their
reason that the $65 fee
was ‘too expensive,’”
Rutter said. “Respectful-
ly, I disagree that we
should find generous alumni to
make Sixth Club member game
attendance free . . . What we need are
more student fans who will value the
Sixth Man Club experience enough to at-
tend, despite the apparently ‘prohibitive’
cost.”
The CCC recognizes, however, that it
will have to inspire the Cardinal religion
in people’s souls, rather than just preach-
ing the gospel. Rutter insisted that the
group is not anti-establishment, but
rather a forum for open dialogue and
fiery dedication between students, alum-
ni, faculty and area fans. One of the
group’s main goals is to spread love for
Stanford sports far beyond the Stanford
community itself.
But despite its democratic attitude,the
CCC does not consider itself a “club” like
the Sixth Man or any other more familiar
student group. Rutter, who calls himself
the “Self-Appointed Catalyst for
Change,” emphasized that while they
value student participation, it consists of
only a part of the CCC core. The Face-
book group (Cardinal Conservation
Corps [CCC]) requires approval by Rut-
ter to join — to keep out rival schools’
fans that might cause conflict, but also to
ensure all members can muster the prop-
er enthusiasm for the Cardinal and white.
In keeping with the spirit of Palo Alto
and Silicon Valley, the group hopes to uti-
lize social networking to strengthen the
bonds between members and spread its
message throughout cyberspace. The
group believes Facebook can integrate
Cardinal love into people’s daily lives
more easily than person-to-person face
time.
“Keeping track of people’s current
phone numbers, emails and physical ad-
dresses (not to mention wives’ and kids’
names) can be a royal pain, but one’s con-
nection to ‘friends’ on Facebook is essen-
tially effortless to maintain,” Rutter
wrote. “The majority of our CCC mem-
bers will be less likely to publish hourly
‘status updates’ or wage virtual ‘food
fights,’ but we believe they will enjoy the
benefits of a powerful network, the abili-
ty to receive communication, and gain ac-
cess to user-generated content.”
Rutter has also founded a “Cardinal
Sports Museum”Facebook group to instill
a sense of history and pride in interested
viewers.While the CCC boasts almost 300
Facebook members after a few weeks,
eventually it hopes to feed the Cardinal
fire to enflame the entire Bay Area.
“In my view, choosing to become a
Stanford fan is not a four-year decision, it
is an 80-year decision,” Rutter said.
With their motto “Semper Cardi-
nalis!” the CCC hopes to launch a verita-
ble crusade of Cardinal that time will
never fade.
Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@stanford.
edu.
events on the day. Sophomore Josh Dixon
won the floor exercise with a score of
15.750, and came in third on horizontal bar
with a 14.95.
Season bests were also achieved on floor
exercise by junior Eric Hergenrader (14.05)
and redshirt senior Sho Nakamori (15.4),
helping the Cardinal to win the event title
and registering a score of 15.25 or better by
all the competitors whose scores were
counted toward the team total.The Cardinal
also found a season-best team total of 59 on
parallel bars, led by Nakamori with 15.25.
Stanford returns home on March 28,
when it takes on Illinois-Chicago at 7 p.m.
— By Haley Murphy
charged with two earned runs in the fourth
as he was relieved by freshman Brett
Mooneyham. Mooneyham, however, was
unable to limit the damage, allowing both of
his inherited runners to score. He also sur-
rendered Texas’ other three runs of the game
in the fourth — a disastrous five-run inning
that spelled defeat for the Cardinal.
Stanford next faces Cal after nearly two
full weeks off to start its Pacific-10 Confer-
ence season.
“We know what we need to do,” Pries
said. “We haven’t been hitting and we
haven’t been getting the pitching that we
could’ve, but we’re a good team and this two
weeks off is probably going to be good for us
to kind of fine tune a few things and just kind
of get our minds right and bounce back when
the Pac-10 starts.”
The series with the Golden Bears opens
on Saturday, March 21 at 1 p.m. in Berkeley.
Contact Denis Griffin at djgriff@stanford.edu.
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with Duffield simply stems from un-
familiarity.
“Chris Duffield is basically kind
of a weird guy,” he said. “He’s in his
50s or something, and he’s got a pony
tail, and he’s up at the middle of the
night. He’s at all sorts of Stanford
events. ‘Who are you — what are
you doing around here?’ That’s a lot
of people’s first impression of him,
because there aren’t other people
like him doing things he is doing.”
But Boehm believes that misper-
ceptions of Duffield are unfounded.
“One time, Chris congratulated
me on a Fleet Street performance
that I was in,” he said. “It was cool;
that started conversation. He found
out I was in Chamber Chorale, and
he said that he loved it. I started to
ask him about his background, and I
became more comfortable with him.
I realized he was a nice guy. He liked
to hang out, make weird smoothies,
and he liked the college scene. He
was basically living an undergradu-
ate college life in the body of a 50-
year-old guy with a pony tail.”
Boehm said that Duffield was an
eating associate (EA) at Columbae,
which meant that he paid a fee to be
able to eat meals with the house and
use the open kitchen.
“He’s invited to special dinner,”
Boehm said. “He helps out with
cleaning. He’s pretty much a part of
the community, except he doesn’t
have a room in the house.”
Still, not everyone shares
Boehm’s sentiments.
One female Synergy resident,
who asked to remain anonymous
when discussing Duffield, said she
was uncomfortable with his atten-
dance at certain events like Full
Moon on the Quad.
“Basically, he’s old enough to be
my father, and him coming to dinner
is one thing, but him going to Full
Moon on the Quad or going to par-
ties where people quite literally run
around in their underwear, I found
highly inappropriate,” she said. “I
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don’t get why that hasn’t bothered
more people that he has attended
Full Moon and he’s old enough to be
our father.”
The Synergy resident also criti-
cized the fact that a 20-year-old male
was circulating the petition for
Duffield.
“Most of the people who’ve taken
on his cause have been quite literally
younger guys in the community,” she
said. “And, I just don’t see a 20-year-
old guy deciding whether or not it’s
comfortable for young women to
have [Duffield] around.”
Boehm said that one reason why
he thought students were becoming
increasingly uncomfortable with
Duffield was because of a Gaieties
performance this year, which fea-
tured Duffield as an aged sexual
predator on the prowl for young
women on campus.
“After Gaieties, which mocked
him as this person they called the
Synergy Guy [and] depicted him on-
stage as this old creeper, as a sexual
predator, there was a flow of com-
plaints on the part of people who had
seen Chris around,” Boehm said. “I
think what happened was that they’d
seen him around, but they didn’t
know what he was. Then they saw
him on stage as a sex predator, and
they concluded ‘This guy might be
dangerous.’”
Boehm said that over a hundred
current and former residents of
Columbae have signed his petition.
Nevertheless, some individuals with-
in Columbae have said that they can
understand why the administration
might’ve made the decision that it
did.
“Chris has been around Stanford
for nine years, and he’s always been
welcome at Columbae,” said one res-
ident who asked to remain anony-
mous when discussing the ongoing
investigation of Duffield.“He’s been
banned a few times from Synergy.
The second one person isn’t okay
with him, then you can’t do anything.
If someone’s uncomfortable [with
him being there], you can’t argue
against them. So in this house, I feel
like objectively no one agrees with
what’s happened to him. That being
said, there are definitely some peo-
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Davis and No. 17 Cal State-Bakers-
field in the Aggie Shootout.
In the first game, the Cardinal
defeated Davis, 12-5. Eaton and
Koran paced Stanford with two
goals each, while Oland turned in
one of her best performances of the
year in the cage.The game was close
at halftime, but the Cardinal ex-
ploded in the third quarter, outscor-
ing the Aggies 4-0 to put the match
out of reach.
In the second game, Stanford’s
third in a little over 24 hours, the Car-
dinal crushed Bakersfield, 18-3.
Sophomore Emily Clopp led the way
with three goals, as the Cardinal sim-
ply dominated the Runners in all
facets of play. The victory kept Stan-
ford’s perfect record in MPSF play
intact.
Unfortunately for Stanford, just
as it is playing its best polo of the
season, it will have to wait a while to
hop back in the pool. The Cardinal
will have a two-week break for fi-
nals, before playing unranked Har-
vard at home on March 21. Playing
in the notoriously weak Ivy League,
Harvard is 5-6 on the season.
Stanford will look to continue its
hot streak against the Crimson,
starting at 6 p.m. at Avery Aquatic
Center.
Contact Michael Lazarus at mlazarus
@stanford.edu.
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Pohlen each played for all 40 minutes
of Saturday’s contest. As a team,
Stanford out-rebounded ASU 43-29,
which made up for an uncharacteris-
tic 16 turnovers.
Despite Stanford’s recent hot
streak and the clear depth of talent in
its roster, defeating the No. 18 Sun
Devils (23-7, 15-3) was never a sure
thing. ASU entered the game on a
15-game winning streak of its own,
the longest by any Pac-10 team in
conference play this season. Despite
rarely holding a lead, the Sun Devils
kept the game close until the end,
and were down by only six points
with 23 seconds left in the game.
VanDerveer, who has consistently
emphasized her respect for ASU’s
team, remained appreciative of her
opponent after defeating them.
“We were glad to finish off play-
ing a great team in ASU, and winning
a championship and not having to
share it [with California or ASU],”
VanDerveer said. “We’re generous,
but we didn’t want to do that. This is
how we wanted to finish. It was a
tough battle, but we’re really pleased
with it.”
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back and 200 back from Godsoe.
Staab defended his 100 fly title from
last year, while Godsoe won Pac-10
titles for the first time. Staab’s 44.69
in the 100 fly broke the American
record of 44.72 held by Ian Crocker.
Godsoe went on to win the 100 back
in 45.85, the third-fastest all-time at
Stanford, and also the 200 back in a
Pac-10 meet record.
The 400 medley relay proved the
most exciting race of the entire meet.
Stanford’s team of sophomore John
Criste, Godsoe, Staab and Jason
Dunford swam to a time of 3:05.56,
but lost to Cal’s 3:05.30, with both
teams swimming under the NCAA
record. Godsoe and Staab proved to
be faster than Cal’s David Russell
and Graeme Moore on the fly legs,
but Criste and Jason Dunford lost
ground to Cal’s Damir Dugonjic and
Nathan Adrian on the breast and free
legs.
“We broke all five of our relay
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‘Come on,’ and I call it a scowl,”
Barte said. “I can’t really explain
what it sounds like, but when I hear
that I just know she’s going to battle
it out and find a way to win.”
And certainly, Nguyen battled
her way through the final set up to
the last point.
“It was a very close last game,”
Forood said.“The final point went 20
or something shots. It was quite dra-
matic.”
Nguyen would eventually clinch
PHE
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four-unit course in the spring that
covers nutrition, fitness, stress, rela-
tionships, substance abuse and sexual
health. PHEs return in the summer
for a weeklong training session on
coaching and counseling skills.
Throughout the year, PHEs also
meet once a week to trade ideas and
act as their own support group.
Popularity
Individual residents take advan-
tage of the PHE program differently.
Some people chat regularly with their
PHE, while others may only seek out
their PHE when they are sick.
“As a freshman, I went to my PHE
a lot,”Yilma said.
Others may be more reluctant to
approach their PHE for health issues,
but still develop friendships with their
PHE.
“I’ve never been to see the PHE,
but I see her in the hall and say ‘Hi’,”
said Rachel Kelly ‘12, adding that
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Harmon, playing in her last game
at Maples, had a similar deference
for ASU’s talent.
“I felt confident, but not comfort-
able with our lead as the game went
on,” she said. “They have the fire-
power to come back, and we just kept
playing one shot at a time, staying up
on them and not giving them too
much confidence at the end.”
ASU, still looking forward to a bid
in the Pac-10 and NCAA Tourna-
ments, ran into a big scare midway
through the first half, when junior
guard Dymond Simon landed awk-
wardly on her left leg and fell to the
floor.After not rising for a minute or
two, she was carried off to a standing
ovation. Arizona State head coach
Charli Turner Thorne, who reported
that Simon tore her ACL, was visibly
upset after the game, as much for her
team’s loss as for Dymond’s.
“We’re just completely devastat-
ed,” she said. “The kid has already
been through this. To do it this late,
and when it impacts her for next sea-
son, you just feel so bad about it.And
we’ll have to redefine ourselves of-
fensively moving forward.”
school records,” Kornfeld said. “That
usually doesn’t happen at Pac-10s.
But that’s what you have to do now:
You have to break NCAA records to
win events at these meets and break
school records just to make finals. It
certainly raises expectations. We just
want to keep getting faster and con-
tinue breaking records at our next
meet [the NCAA Championships].”
In the 100 breaststroke, Criste fin-
ished in 52.16 for second, Kornfeld in
fifth and Lovelace in sixth. In the 200
breast, Cal swept 1-2-3 and Kornfeld
finished in fourth, with Lovelace in
fifth and Criste in sixth.
On the last day, La Tourette cap-
tured his first Pac-10 title in the 1,650
in 14:39.01, the school’s third-fastest
all-time and second-fastest in the na-
tion this season.
Stanford finished off the meet
with the 400 free relay, winning in
2:48.32 with Coville, Allen, Jason
Dunford and David Dunford, for a
new Pac-10 record.
“In that last event, we managed to
beat them,” Jason Dunford said. “It
was really exciting and the best way
to cap off the meet.”
The team now has to look forward
the match for Stanford with a 6-4, 3-
6, 7-5 win, ending the drama on a
high note.
“She had a really transitional
match today,” Forood said of
Nguyen. “She hadn’t been playing
her best tennis, by her own admis-
sion, and she wasn’t competing very
well prior to today. She really
turned it around and turned it on
and became the player that we’ve
seen win a lot of great battles over
the years.”
“The biggest statement that we
made is that we got our senior back
up to speed and being competitive
and grinding out a tough win,”
Forood added.
With the win, Stanford is now 9-2
the PHE did arrange several health
speakers to come to her dorm,
Roble.
PHEs organize dorm program-
ming to teach residents about well-
ness issues, which in part reach stu-
dents who may be afraid to approach
a PHE for a one-on-one conversa-
tion. Programming ranges from the
popular freshman learning experi-
ence, “Crossing the Line,” to aware-
ness weeks and even free massages.
All agree, though, that going to a
PHE with a problem is less daunting
than searching out a resource individ-
ually.
“Our residents have appreciated
the PHE if they’ve had trouble with
the transition,” Baker said. “We’ve
had lots of residents tell us they ap-
preciate having someone their rela-
tive age to go to.”
Yen said that students often visit-
ed her for their cuts and colds but
there were always those who came
for counseling and advice.
“There’s the more tangible stuff
— band aids, cough drops, ther-
mometers — but there’s also the
more serious things like stress and de-
pression,” she said.
Simon tore the same ligament in
January 2007, during her freshman
season.
On a lighter note, Saturday was
Senior Night at Maples Pavilion.The
Cardinal’s senior class — consisting
of just Harmon and Morgan Clyburn
— was honored in a post-game cere-
mony. Harmon has been a big con-
tributor to the team all four years,
and recently scored her 1,000th point
for the Cardinal. Clyburn, who
missed the season due to foot sur-
gery, has recently had a more behind-
the-scenes, supporting role on the
team.
“For the two of them, it’s been a
case of extremes, in a way,” Van-
Derveer reflected. “Both have been
key to this team’s success in different
ways.We’ll be sad to see them go, and
I’m glad to have had both in our pro-
gram.”
Stanford’s next game comes on
March 13 in Los Angeles, against ei-
ther Washington State or Arizona in
the Pac-10 Tournament.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams
@stanford.edu.
to the NCAA Championships, where
for the first time in recent history
they are overqualified for the meet
— that is, they have more eligible
swimmers than spots on the travel
team roster.
“The team energy is incredible
right now,” Jason Dunford said.
“We’re going to have some tough de-
cisions next week. It is a good prob-
lem to have, but it can be disappoint-
ing for those left behind since they’re
qualified.”
Still,winning Pac-10s was huge for
the Cardinal, even if it is Stanford’s
28th consecutive title.
“It was emotional for us; many in
my class are done with swimming
now,” Kornfeld said. “It was a good
meet. Cal kept it close. The coaches
kept saying all we wanted was a good
‘dress rehearsal,’ and that’s what we
got. Cal came out ready to battle.”
The NCAA Championships
begin March 26 in College Station,
Tex.
Contact Kenan Jiang at kenanj@stan-
ford.edu and Christian L. Tom at
cltom@stanford.edu.
overall and 2-0 in the Pac-10.Though
Saturday’s win does not count to-
wards the Pac-10 title, Stanford took
away something much more impor-
tant from the victory.
“It showed each one of us that
we’re in the battle for that national
championship,” Barte said. “Today
confirmed that if we battle everyday,
we have a shot.”
Moreover, the comeback victory
was one for the ages.
“I was so proud to be a part of
that whole experience,” Barte said.
“It’s something we’ll never forget for
the rest of our lives.”
Contact Anthony Nguyen at an-
guyen9@stanford.edu.
Pay Equity
Earlier in the year, referencing the
workload and responsibilities of
PHEs, groups pushed for more equi-
table payment for PHEs.But that was
before the economic downturn.
“Right now, I think the RAs are
literally paid nine times as much as us,
which is significant,”Yen said.
Former Branner PHE Philip
Spitzer ‘09 is angered by the disparity
and said that while he loved his time
at Branner, he wished the pay situa-
tion was different.
“To be blunt, I would call my lack
of appropriate financial recognition
uninspiring at best, and infuriating at
worst,” Spitzer wrote in an email to
The Daily. “It is certainly harder to
motivate oneself when the University
is essentially saying one’s efforts are
less valuable than those of an RA,
HPAC or RCC.”
ASSU Executives Harris and
Jonny Dorsey ‘09 included increasing
PHE pay in their original platform,
and during the Feb. 20 ASSU Town
Hall, some attendees said that PHEs
should be paid more.
Dorsey and Harris, however, have
had to refocus priorities with the drop
in endowment funds, and instead are
fighting to save as many programs as
possible.
“The budget cuts took everyone
by surprise.We have had to postpone
any increases in the PHE program
until the University financial situa-
tion resolves,” Pertofsky wrote.
Baker hopes that the University
realizes the contributions of PHEs
and eventually compensates them for
their efforts.
“Anecdotally, RFs speak highly of
the program and have been strong
advocates of pay equity,” he said. “It
would be nice to have the issues of
pay equity addressed and to do some
research on the duties [PHEs] do in
residences.”
Contact Marisa Landicho at landi-
cho@stanford.edu
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HUMANITIES & SCIENCES
Financial woes force axing of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
By CALLA HUAN SHENG
STAFF WRITER
The Interdisciplinary Studies in
Humanities (ISH) program is the latest casu-
alty of University-wide budget cuts.The Dean
of Humanities and Sciences (H&S)
announced last week that the program will be
closed. Students currently enrolled as ISH
majors can complete the program in its pres-
ent form, but no new students will be accept-
ed.
Gregory Freidin, professor of Slavic lan-
guages and literatures and director of the ISH
program, was notified of the cut on Feb. 18.
“The reason given was that there would be
substantial savings obtained from the closure
of the program,” Freidin said. “H&S budget
has to absorb substantial cuts. In the past, the
budget reductions were handled by cutting
graduate fellowships and freezing faculty
positions. Dean Saller wants to ‘resist these
pressures as much as possible’ and, given the
choice, would rather reduce the number of
inter-departmental programs.”
First established in 1947, ISH is among the
oldest programs on campus.
Currently, 16 academic programs have classes
that are part of the ISH curriculum. Forty-one
graduate and undergraduate students are
enrolled as ISH majors; about 10 more stu-
dents are in the ISH gateway class, and con-
templating a major. The cost per student hov-
ers around $3,000 to $4,000.
According to Freidin, ISH provides unique
and important academic options for Stanford
students. Through ISH, students could write
an honors thesis outside their major field,
complete pre-med requirements while pursu-
ing a thematic concentration in humanities or
explore a subject too broad to fall within the
confines of any other department. Freidin
cited the example of one student, who wanted
to design her own major and study love.
Quite a few students are upset about the
closure of the program.
“I just think it’s a shame because ISH is
really the broadest, most interdisciplinary
program there is in the humanities and by a
long stretch,” said David Israelachvili ‘09, a
current ISH major. “There are other interdis-
ciplinary programs, like philosophy and litera-
ture, but modern thought and literature is
even broader. History classes count, religious
studies classes count, etc.”
Jenny Tiskus ‘11 was in the process of
declaring a major in ISH when she received
an email explaining that her major had been
cut.
“I am devastated that Stanford made this
decision to devalue the humanities,” Tiskus
said.“I feel that academic programs should be
the last things to go with budget cuts. Had I
known that this would happen, that this
malignant attitude existed toward the human-
ities at Stanford, I would not have chosen to
study here.”
Faculty echoed students’ concerns. Drama
and Classics Prof. Rush Rehm, described the
decision to close down ISH as a “terrible thing
for Stanford.”
Former ISH Director Helen Brooks
lamented the loss of the program in an email
to The Daily.
“The decision to terminate ISH is, for me,
a disconcerting move by the University,” she
wrote.“True, it may be assimilated into anoth-
er academic unit on campus, but the loss of
our program’s long-standing and respected
identity is, personally, unwelcome news.”
According to Dean Richard Saller, the
School of Humanities and Sciences is prepar-
ing to make some more cuts, with one partic-
ular program under consideration right now.
Saller explained that the main reason for the
closure of ISH was its low popularity and the
fact that the program’s intellectual justifica-
tion may have become obsolete.
“There are two basic criteria for creating
interdisciplinary programs,” he said.“The first
is the concentration of students and faculty
interest, and the second is a kind of intellectu-
The Stanford Daily
al justification that can’t be met in other ways.
In the case of ISH, firstly, the numbers [of stu-
dents and faculty] are small. Secondly, at the
time when ISH was first started decades ago,
it was really something new and different to
offer interdisciplinary approaches to humani-
ties.”
“Now, much of what’s offered through the
program can be done elsewhere,” Saller
added.“There are dozens of inter-departmen-
tal programs, most of them in humanities.”
Discussions are now underway to relocate
parts of ISH under the Division of
Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.
“Everybody’s disappointed,” Freidin
explained. “We understand, however, that
there are budgetary constraints. Stanford has
to cut $100 million, and we’ll have to pitch in.
If it’s possible to save the program and save
money at the same time, we’re all for it.”
Contact Calla Huan Sheng at hsheng@stan-
ford.edu.