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April 3, 2009 Issue 29

Cardinal just two wins away from national title

AGUSTIN RAMIREZ/The Stanford Daily
By NATE ADAMS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Pacific-10 Conference Cham-
pion Stanford women’s basketball
team is headed to St. Louis this week-
end for its second consecutive appear-
ance in the NCAA Tournament’s Final
Four. The Cardinal will square off
against undefeated Connecticut in
semifinal play on Sunday evening,
where a win would send them to Tues-
day’s championship game against ei-
ther Louisville or Oklahoma, and give
the Cardinal a shot at its third national
title.
Stanford and UConn are both en-
tering familiar territory, having last
played each other in the 2008 semifi-
nals. The No. 2 Cardinal (34-4, 17-1
Pac-10) emerged victorious in that
meeting, defeating the Huskies 82-73
before losing to Tennessee in the finals.
Stanford boasts an all-time record of 5-
3 against UConn, including a 2-1
record in tournament play.
This year’s Connecticut team (37-0,
16-0 Big East) is only two wins away
from its program’s sixth national title
and undoubtedly poses the biggest
challenge Stanford has faced all sea-
son.The Huskies, led by Geno Auriem-
ma in his 24th season as head coach,
entered the tournament as the top
overall seed and have been ranked No.
1 in both national polls all season.They
remain undefeated since losing to the
Cardinal a year ago, and perhaps more
impressively, have not won by less than
10 points over that span. The Huskies
boast two Wade Trophy finalists on
their roster, Maya Moore and Renee
Montgomery; each is averaging nearly
20 points per game. The Huskies are
widely favored to defeat Stanford in
Sunday’s rematch.
Despite the national media’s exten-
sive and favorable coverage of
UConn, the Cardinal remains un-
daunted by the highly touted zero in
Connecticut’s loss column. Stanford
CONNECTICUT
(37-0, 16-0 Big East)
St. Louis, Mo., Sunday 6:30 P.M. PT
COVERAGE:
TV: ESPN
RADIO:
KZSU 90.1 FM, (kzsu.stanford.edu)
UP NEXT
TBD 4/7 St. Louis, Mo.
COVERAGE:
TV ESPN
RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM (kzsu.stan-
ford.edu)
NOTES: The second-seeded Stanford women
will take on their sport’s top dog on Sunday,
when they face UConn in the Final Four round
of the NCAA Tournament. The Huskies have
not lost a game yet this season, and it hasn’t
even been close. Connecticut has won by at
least 10 points in each of its games this sea-
son. Stanford was the last team to defeat
UConn in the semifinal round of the NCAA
Tournament last year. The Cardinal is coming
off of a dominant, 74-53 win over Iowa State
in which junior Jayne Appel scored a team-
record 46 points.
head coach Tara VanDerveer empha-
sized that the outcome of Sunday’s
game depends not on past statistics or
what is said about the teams in ques-
tion, but on what actually unfolds on
the court.
“UConn gets a lot of press and at-
tention, but they still need to come out
and play,” she said. “They still travel,
they still foul — there’s so much hy-
perbole [surrounding them]. Let’s just
play the game. Let’s roll it out and see
what we’ve got.”
While it always helps to look on the
positive side of things regardless of the
situation, Stanford has some very real
reasons to be optimistic. One is its re-
cent stretch of great play; indeed, al-
though UConn has effectively coasted
from win to win for an entire season,
the Cardinal enters Sunday’s game rid-
ing a no-smaller wave of momentum.
Stanford is fresh off both tournament
and regular-season conference cham-
pionships, and currently owns a 20-
game winning streak that dates back to
Jan. 18. The Cardinal extended its
dominant play into the NCAA Tour-
nament, winning three of its four tour-
nament contests by over 20 points.
No Cardinal player has felt this mo-
mentum more than junior center Jayne
Appel, who bested Candice Wiggins’
‘08 school record for points in a game
when she scored 46 against Iowa State
on Monday. Appel, a Wade Trophy fi-
nalist herself, was honored as the Pac-
10 Player of the Week four times this
season and is a member of the Associ-
ated Press All-American Second
Team. Her recent string of particularly
dominant performances has lent Stan-
ford at least a measure of hope going
into its game against the undefeated
Huskies.
Appel agreed with VanDerveer
that the aura surrounding UConn
means nothing compared with what
actually takes place during their game.
“Last year, [UConn was] ‘sup-
posed’ to win it as well,” she recalled.
“It’s important to not be intimidated
— they’re going to make some shots,
so are we.They’re going to make some
rebounds, so are we. That’s why you
play the game: to see who wins. It all
happens on the court.”
Please see BASKETBALL, page 7

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

No. 2 Stanford ready to battle Beavers
By DANIEL BOHM
STAFF WRITER
The second-ranked Stanford softball team will
travel north this weekend to take on conference ri-
vals Oregon State and Oregon.
The Cardinal will first travel to Corvallis to face
the Beavers on Friday before leaving for Eugene
and a pair of games against the Ducks on Saturday
and Sunday.
Stanford is one of the hottest teams in the coun-
try, having risen through the ranks by winning 31 of
its last 32 games. Just this past weekend, the Cardi-
nal pulled off a pair of upsets against then-No. 2
Washington.
After suffering just its second loss of the season
to open the weekend against UCLA, Stanford re-
bounded by riding the right arm of senior pitcher
Missy Penna to the two wins over Washington.
In the two games combined, Penna pitched 18
innings without allowing a run, while striking out
21. For her performance, Penna was named USA
Softball Player of the Week for the second time of
her career. In addition she was named Pac-10
Pitcher of the Week for the fourth time this season.
Penna has been a rock for the Cardinal since ar-
riving on the Farm. This season has been her best
thus far, as she is 21-2 with a miniscule 0.75 ERA.
She has also amassed a whooping 193 strikeouts
this year.
Please see SOFTBALL , page 7
No. 5 Card
crushes Pacific
Set to face ‘49ers, Tritons this weekend
By JACOB JAFFE
DESK EDITOR
OREGON STATE The Stanford men’s volleyball team hopes its recent momen-
tum will carry over this weekend, when it takes on two top-10
(16-16, 1-3 Pac-10) teams in its final road trip of the season.
Corvallis, Ore., 3 P.M. The No.5 Cardinal (17-8,10-6 Mountain Pacific Sports Feder-
ation) easily dispatched MPSF bottom-dweller Pacific on Tues-
COVERAGE: day,30-22,30-23,30-18.The win was the Cardinal’s ninth in its last
RADIO: 10 matches and its sixth straight victory in league play.
“Our team is starting to get on a roll,”said junior opposite Evan
KZSU 90.1 FM, (kzsu.stanford.edu) Romero,who was recently named MPSF Player of the Week after
totaling 36 kills in the Cardinal’s two matches last week.“It’s excit-
UP NEXT ing because not only are we gaining momentum, but we are also
learning new things every day. Put those two together and our
OREGON team is just getting better and better.”
Pacific, which has lost 31 consecutive MPSF matches, is the
4/4 Eugene, Ore. only team in the 12-team MPSF that is not ranked among the na-
tion’s top 15 teams, and it showed immediately. Stanford scored
NOTES: The No. 2 Stanford women will take
five of the first six points in the match and never looked back,trail-
to the road and head north for Oregon to
ing for only three points all match.
face off against a pair of Pac-10 rivals this
The Cardinal used a balanced attack to defeat the Tigers,as six
weekend. The Cardinal will look to build on
players tallied at least five kills, led by sophomore outside hitter
its two-game winning streak, having recently
Spencer McLachlin with 12,freshman outside hitter Brad Lawson
upended Washington in a pair of shut-out
with 11 and Romero with 10. Though the Cardinal was out-
victories after losing 7-4 to UCLA last Friday
blocked by three,Stanford dominated in nearly every other statis-
at home. Stanford is entering the heart of its
tical category.The key to the victory for the Cardinal was hitting,
conference schedule, and will play 18 of its
as Stanford had 21 more kills than Pacific in the same number of
remaining 20 games against Pac-10 foes
attempts,leading to a hitting percentage of .427 compared to only
heading into the NCAA Regionals, which
open on May 15. AGUSTIN RAMIREZ/The Stanford Daily Please see VBALL, page 7

Index News/2 • Opinions/5 • Sports/6 • Classifieds/8 Recycle Me

2 N Friday, April 3, 2009 The Stanford Daily

NEWS
SPEAKERS & EVENTS

DISCUSSING NEWS’ FUTURE Farm to

New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller talks about his visions for print journalism
By ROBERT TOEWS
STAFF WRITER
New York Times Executive Editor
and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Keller has
seen the best of times and the worst of
times in the newspaper industry.
Thursday, he shared his insight and
opinions on the current state of print
journalism, as well as his visions for its
future, in front of an audience of
Stanford alums and students at Kresge
Auditorium.
The talk was the first of a series of
events for the dedication of the new
Lorry I. Lokey Stanford Daily Building.
Lokey ‘49, whose $2 million donation
funded much of the construction of the
new facility, was present for the speech,
as were some 200 former and current
Daily staffers.
Keller discussed the dire situation
facing the print newspaper industry,
which he saw as the result of both the
emergence of online news sources and
the economic downturn. As representa-
tive examples, he cited the Los Angeles
Times news staff, which is half of what it
once was, and his own staff’s five per-
cent pay cut for the rest of this year. In
VIVIAN WONG/The Stanford Daily
light of the current situation, he quipped
In spite of the hard times that have hit the newspaper industry, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller that the ceremonies surrounding the
assured the Kresge crowd that there remains a need for print journalism in the current information era. building dedication might feel like “a
STUDENT GOV’T
ribbon cutting at a new Pontiac dealer-
ship.”
Still, the editor was guardedly opti-
mistic about the future, both of his
newspaper and of the industry as a
whole.
While acknowledging the increasing
number of people who read news
online, Keller argued that Web reader-
ship far from belittles that of established
print sources, such as The New York
Times. Furthermore, he maintained
there is still an enormous profit oppor-
tunity for traditional newspaper jour-
nalism, simply because of the quality of
news content available through such
organizations when compared to their
online-only counterparts.
“[The Internet] has yet to become a
significant indigenous source of the
kind of high-quality reporting that I
have been talking about,” Keller said.
“Wikipedia, for instance, does not have
reporters stationed in Baghdad or
Beijing, following stories up at their
source.”
The lecture was followed by a Q&A
conversation moderated by Phil
Taubman, a former New York Times
editor and a former Stanford Daily edi-
tor in chief.
Please see KELLER, page 4
host Service
Summit
Over 300 participants
expected Saturday in Y2E2
By ELLEN HUET
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Public service has been a theme for
ASSU Executives Jonny Dorsey ‘09 and
Fagan Harris ‘09, tracing all the way back
to their campaign last spring. This
Saturday, members of the Stanford com-
munity will gather at the Y2E2 building for
the first Stanford Service Summit, which is
meant to be the culmination of Dorsey and
Harris’ election promise.
Comprised of a Service at Stanford
Showcase, nine different focus area forums
and a variety of speakers, the Summit will
focus on discussing the role of public serv-
ice as a part of the University’s mission and
identity. Currently, over 300 participants
have already signed up for the events.
The original inspiration for the Service
Summit came when ASSU President
Jonny Dorsey ‘09 attended the Service
Nation Summit last summer in New York.
Last fall, an assembled student team began
to plan an event that would realize this
vision.

Public service is key for ASSU hopefuls
By MARISA LANDICHO
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
While typical candidates for student gov-
ernment malign sitting office holders, this gen-
eration of ASSU hopefuls is almost idolatrous
of their predecessors. Current Executives
Jonny Dorsey ‘09 and Fagan Harris ‘09 have
inspired not only imitators and humorous par-
odies, but also a bevy of determined students
pledging to tackle “serious issues.”
Beginning with their initial campaign, the
two current Executives have attempted to
transform student government from a resume
booster to an effective organization, according
to Harris. They began with an attack on the
perception of a trivial and petty ASSU.
“The whole reason we decided to run is we
HOUSING
felt the ASSU had the ability, capacity and
responsibility to work on more serious issues
on campus,” Dorsey said. “We don’t think
we’re hot shit, but we do think we’ve succeed-
ed in changing the tone of the ASSU.”
A crop of young candidates seems to be in
agreement. Citing the example of Dorsey and
Harris, many students have enthusiastically
embraced student government.
A record 60 students initially announced
their intention to run for Undergraduate
Senate, nearly twice the amount as last year.
The candidate list is full of students who for-
merly served the Dorsey-Harris executive
cabinet in some unelected capacity.
Six of the 2008-2009 Executive Fellows,
freshmen who shadowed executive cabinet
members, are currently running for either
sophomore class president or for undergradu-
ate senate.
The two main executive candidates were
even part of the Dorsey-Harris cabinet them-
selves.
As the ASSU Executive Operations
Manager, David Gobaud ‘08 M.S. ‘10, running
with Jay de la Torre ‘10, was the technical advi-
sor for the ASSU and created the online stu-
dent events calendar.
His competition is ASSU Executive
Cabinet Cost of Living co-Chair Bennett
Hauser ‘10, who is partnered with Matt
Sprague ‘10, director of ASSU Capital Group.
Hauser and Sprague were motivated to
run after seeing how student government
works from the inside. Both were complimen-
tary of Dorsey and Harris, and plan on adopt-
ing and expanding the current executive pro-
grams for promoting mental health, public
service and sustainability.
“I think every exec brings a unique focus, a
unique flavor,” Sprague said. “[Dorsey and
Harris] left big shoes to fit, and they set a
tremendous example for the next execs.”
Gobaud similarly admired the changes
wrought by the current executives. If elected,
he vowed to continue and increase the num-
ber of town halls, a forum utilized by Dorsey
and Harris throughout winter quarter.
Not to be outdone, the last executive slate
of John Lyman ‘11 and Garrett Werner ‘10
made their connection to the public service
gurus Dorsey and Harris perfectly clear.Their
Please see ASSU, page 4
“The impetus for the Summit came
from the ASSU Execs, but our role has pri-
marily been to bring the different stake-
holders together for a community conver-
sation,” explained Anuraag Chigurupati
‘09, one of the co-organizers of the
Summit, in an email to The Daily. “The sin-
gle biggest goal for the Summit is to gath-
er the community together to develop a
ten-year vision for advancing public serv-
ice at Stanford and a roadmap with specif-
ic action steps for achieving the vision.”
Organizers hope that participants will
find plenty of inspiration for public service
in the large number of planned events and
panels for Saturday. One event, the Service
Showcase, will focus on service work done
in academic departments, as well as by stu-
dent organizations such as Stanford in
Government and Students for a
Sustainable Stanford.
“Hopefully, this particular showcase
will help enhance the roles of existing serv-
ice [Voluntary Student Organizations] on
campus, because what these groups have
been doing is not negligible,” said Philippe
de Koning ‘10, the Summit’s student group
outreach coordinator.
Focus area forums will also take place

Farm receives throughout the afternoon, addressing

areas such as education, the environment,
health and public interest law. Each panel
will have three to five speakers, drawing

water award from students, local leaders, alumni and

Univ. recognized for water
conservation efforts
CRIS BAUTISTA/
The Stanford Daily
By CHRISTINE
MCFADDEN
SENIOR STAFF
WRITER
The controversial
showerheads installed
across campus last year
may finally be paying divi-
dends, as the Silicon Valley
Water Conservation Awards
recently recognized Stanford for its achievements in
water conservation. This is the first time the event has
taken place, debuting at De Anza College’s Kirsch
Center for Environmental Studies in Cupertino.
Stanford was among the eleven local businesses, agen-
cies, organizations and individuals to be awarded.
Stanford, nominated in the “Large Organization”
category, was commended for reducing its water usage
from 2.7 to 2.3 million gallons per day over the past
eight years through its comprehensive water conserva-
tion program.
“Student Housing, with its 4.2 million square feet of
buildings covering about one-third of the campus, over
the years has undertaken a number of measures to
help the University conserve water,” said Executive
Director of Student Housing Rodger Whitney in an
email to The Daily. “These include simple things such
as installing flow restrictors on our faucets and chang-
ing our landscape irrigation systems from domestic
water to lake water taken from various natural sources
on Stanford lands, as well as putting our landscape irri-
gation on a soil moisture detection system rather than
a traditional time-clock management system.”
In the third consecutive year of a drought,
California has found itself concerned with water con-
servation. Recently, in response to the climate change,
Please see WATER, page 4
Volume 235 Editor in Chief Christian Torres presents a gift to Lorry I. Lokey. The new building’s naming donor, Lokey is a for-
mer editor in chief himself; he is one of many alumni who made significant contributions toward The Daily’s new home.
Daily dedicates its new home
Former and current staff
celebrate new building
By JENNY REMPEL
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Thursday’s dedication ceremonies
for the opening of the Lorry I. Lokey
Stanford Daily Building brought
together generations of past and pres-
ent newspaper staffers, who shared in
celebrating a new home for The
DAILY NEWS
Stanford Daily.
The $3.75 million building project,
almost 20 years in the making, was fund-
ed by over 500 individuals, with numer-
ous alumni, including Lorry I. Lokey
‘49, a former editor in chief and the
founder of Business Wire. To many who
have been involved in the publication,
the Lokey Building is the culmination
of almost 20 years’ work, and represents
a new era for The Daily.
“I’ve raised money for it [the new
building], but you don’t know what it’s
really like until you see it,” said Harry
VIVAN WONG/The Stanford Daily
Press ‘39, a former Daily editor in chief.
“Seeing this new building really thrills
me.”
Those speaking at the dedication
event included Lokey, as well as Provost
John Etchemendy Ph.D. ‘82, Vice
Provost of Student Affairs Greg
Boardman and The Daily’s current edi-
tor in chief, Christian Torres ‘09.
Etchemendy remarked that this par-
ticular dedication was one that embod-
ied Stanford’s embrace of student
Please see BUILDING page 4
professionals in fields of public service.
According to organizers, the keynote
address will be given by Steve Westly ‘78
MBA ‘83, managing partner of The Westly
Group and former California State
Controller. Video messages will also be
played from the chair of the Board of
Trustees, Leslie Hume Ph.D. ‘79, and
President John Hennessy. The day will
conclude with a Fireside Chat with Dr.
Larry Brilliant, Google’s Chief
Philanthropy Evangelist.
While the Summit’s goals are ambi-
tious, organizers are optimistic of its long-
term benefits, already developing plans for
what is to come after the event.
“We were very concerned with building
a follow-up plan, to make sure that the
energy and vision that came out of the
Summit didn’t fizzle the Monday after,”
Chigurupati said. “We have decided to
develop an oversight body of students, fac-
ulty, and staff to push the roadmap for-
ward after the Summit.”
Chigurupati stressed that the Summit
will not be a yearly event. Instead, its focus
is to gather the community for a long-term
vision. The Summit organizing team hopes
to see a shift in the focus on public service
at Stanford, such as with Branner’s recent-
ly announced change to become a public
service focus dorm.
“Branner’s public service focus for next
year is not directly connected to the
Summit, although we’re obviously quite
excited about it, said Chigurupati.
“Branner RF Nancy Buffington was one of
the core members of our Summit Task
Force.”
As for this weekend’s event and its far-
reaching influences, the Summit organizers
have high hopes for its timeliness and last-
ing impact.
“We simultaneously have enormous
national challenges, a president who has
made a call to service a large part of his
message, and bipartisan support for things
like the Serve America Act,” Chigurupati
said. “I think you see that there couldn’t be
a better time for the Stanford community
to come together to talk about service.”
Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stanford.edu.
The Stanford Daily
POLICE BLOTTER
By ELLEN HUET
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
This report covers a selection of crimes from
March 17 to March 23, as recorded in the
Stanford Police Bulletin.
TUESDAY, MARCH 17
I At 1:30 p.m. at Memorial Hall and
Auditorium, the first party was contacted by
the second party, who asked a series of per-
sonal, intrusive questions.
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 18
I At midnight, the arrestee was caught, taken
to the main jail and booked for trespassing
in Cubberley Auditorium. The motives for
sneaking into Cubberly remain an utter
mystery.
I Two arrestees were stopped at Campus Dr.
and Alvarado at 1:15 a.m. They were both
taken to the San Jose main jail and booked.
One was cited for driving under the influence.
The other was booked for possession of ecsta-
sy, psilocybin and marijuana, as well as for
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being under the influence of hallucinogens.
I At 7:50 p.m. the remnants of burning incense
caught fire in a garbage can at the Columbae
Co-op. No damage occurred and the housing
supervisor was notified of the incident.
FRIDAY, MAR. 20
IA reporting party stated that Thing 1 has
been making threats against Thing 2 in
Jordan Hall since Mar. 14.
I At 9:43 a.m., a suspect was found to have
been making harassing phone calls to victims
in the President’s office.
SATURDAY, MAR. 21
I Between 12:30 and 8:30 a.m., unknown sus-
pects spray painted “650” and “YOUNG
LIFE” on seven cars parked in the lot in
front of the SAE house.
I Between 3 p.m. on March 20 and noon on
March 21, an unknown suspect entered an
unlocked room at Chi Theta Chi and stole
power tools belonging to the victim.
I At 10:10 p.m., at the intersection of Campus
Dr. and Galvez Dr., a suspect was stopped for
Friday, April 3, 2009 N 3
a traffic violation, then cited and released for
possession of less than an ounce of marijuana
in a vehicle, thus reminding us all to obey
traffic laws especially when carrying illegal
substances in the car.
MONDAY, MAR. 23
I Between 5 p.m. on March 22 and 6 a.m. on
March 23, three large patio umbrellas at
Tresidder Memorial Union were damaged by
unknown suspects.
I The driver of a truck struck a fire hydrant
near Vaden Health Center at 4 p.m., flooding
a portion of the parking lot and damaging
one car.
I Between 6 p.m. on Mar. 19 and 7:30 a.m. Mar.
23, an unknown suspect kicked in a garage
door on Gerona Road and took tools and
scrap metal.
I Between 5:30 and 7 p.m. in the Wilbur park-
ing lot, an unknown suspect pried open the
window of a victim’s parked car and took a
GPS unit and iPod.
Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stanford.edu
4 N Friday, April 3, 2009
KELLER
Continued from page 2
and authority of The New York
Times and other reputable print
news sources, features that are
absent from online news sources.
“Online, there are few clear
markers between blogs and news
sites that operate independently
under specific professional guide-
lines,” Keller said. “Online news
sources can be short on objective
fact-checking or reporting, and long
on incendiary gossip and opinion.”
At the same time, he stressed the
central role the Internet would
surely play in the future of journal-
ism, and predicted that higher stan-
dards for online news sources
would ultimately have to develop.
“People often talk about how
Gutenberg’s printing press revolu-
tionized peoples’ access to informa-
tion, and it did,” Keller noted. “But
in the years immediately following
its invention, there was chaos. It was
hard to know what printed material
was worth reading, and there was a
lot of uncertainty about where soci-
ety was going.”
“This is what real revolutions are
like,” he added. “Eventually,
Gutenberg’s innovation led to
widespread literacy and the dawn of
the Renaissance.”
Keller emphasized that a central
goal for his news organization going
forward would be figuring out how
to increase online revenue.
Many in the audience found
Keller’s remarks insightful.
“It was interesting to hear from
a high-ranking editor for a paper
like The New York Times, and how
his paper is dealing with the chal-
lenges facing the newspaper indus-
try today,” said Will Atwood ‘11.
“And it was comforting to hear how
confident he was that the paper
would survive.”
The editor certainly remained
optimistic throughout the after-
noon talk. He said he was confident
that the printed New York Times
would be around for many years to
come, appealing to, among other
things, “that certain elusive quality
found in a newspaper’s physical
presence.”
Contact Robert Toews at rtoews@stan-
ford.edu.
BUILDING
Continued from page 2
opportunity.
“I have an opportunity to give
remarks at many building dedica-
tions,” he said. “I like to note that,
on one level, any building is just
nails, wood, some mortar, glass and
so on. But, on another level, a good
building is a symbol of what
Stanford values. This building is a
good building. It represents our
commitment — and that of gener-
ous supporters like Lorry Lokey —
to our students and to supporting
their dedication to creating a better
community and a better world.”
The dedication ceremonies
ended with Torres presenting a gift
to Lokey, who then gave a short
speech. The ceremony also doubled
as a unique opportunity for Daily
alumni to reconnect and recollect
on their days of reporting for the
now 116-year-old campus newspa-
per.
“[The Daily] started me off and
I’ve been a newspaperman ever
since,” said Press, who worked at
The Daily over 70 years ago.
Press was joined by almost 200
other alumni, many of whom were
also greatly influenced by their
years of writing for the campus
newspaper.
“At The Daily, I found the calling
of my life, which was journalism, and
that’s not too shabby for an extra-
WATER
Continued from page 2
servation. Recently, in response to
the climate change, Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger called for a
20 percent reduction in water usage.
The Silicon Valley Water
Conservation Awards were present-
ed in hopes of drawing attention to
those, like the University, that serve
as role models for conservation.
Whitney went on to list other
ways in which Stanford has con-
served water, including the installa-
tion of over 2,000 low-flow toilets in
all restrooms and bathrooms, low-
flow sprayers in all campus kitchens
and the current implementation of
curricular,” said Phil Taubman ‘70.
Taubman, after whom the new
editor in chief’s office is named,
found more than just his job at The
Daily. It was at the Storke Building,
The Daily’s previous home, where he
met his wife, Felicity Barringer ‘72.
“It’s a community of talented
people who care about one thing in
common,and that’s The Daily.”
— CHARLIE HOFFMAN ‘73
Taubman went on to serve as the
Washington bureau chief for The
New York Times before moving
back to California with his wife, who
is currently an environmental corre-
spondent for The New York Times.
Both husband and wife were struck
by the significance of the dedication
ceremonies.
“It memorializes all the mosaic
of experiences of all the people who
are here,” Barringer said.
Taubman echoed her remarks
saying, “There won’t be another day
like this until this new building is
replaced.”
Despite The Daily’s current
financial difficulties and the decline
of the newspaper industry, the dedi-
cation events were filled with a
sense of pride for The Daily’s
low-flow washing machines.
Yet even with its noble inten-
tions, these preservative actions
have not been without controversy.
The installation of low-flow shower-
heads in all undergraduate resi-
dences last year caused a stir among
students.
In response to these new shower-
heads, hundreds of students circulat-
ed petitions calling for their
removal. Some students even went
so far as to remove the showerheads
themselves in a boycott that
received national attention.
However, the showerheads,
invented by Stanford student Jonas
Ketterle ‘08, were one of the main
reasons Stanford was able to
achieve this recent recognition.
“In the end, it did have an
impact on the award and the
accomplishments thus far and a
sense of optimism for the years to
come.
“It’s a community of talented
people who care about one thing in
common, and that’s The Daily —
and that’s why we have this build-
ing,” said Charlie Hoffman ‘73, the
president and founder of the
Friends of The Stanford Daily.
“Most of all, it’s very rewarding.”
“What we have here in this
room, it’s worth caring about,” he
added.
Hoffman was joined by a large
contingent of Daily alumni from the
1970s, but there were many other
generations represented as well.
Reb Rebele ‘57 recalled working
on a “big story” following President
Truman’s recall of General Douglas
MacArthur from Korea during the
1950s. He still remembers traveling
to the airport and then the Saint
Frances Hotel in hopes of interview-
ing Truman at this key point in his-
tory.
“It was a good case study in
University was commended for its
proactive approach to water con-
servation, specifically mentioning
the showerheads,” Whitney said.
“This measure along with other
campus-wide water conservation
measures undertaken by the cam-
pus utility division resulted in sig-
nificant water savings across the
entire campus.”
The showerhead controversy
was resolved last year when
Resident Assistants agreed in a
campus-wide meeting to their
installation with the compromise of
including either one handheld
showerhead or higher-flow shower-
head in each bathroom.
“The reactions of a few students
caused us to consider the timing of
our projects and to address some
peripherally related issues about
working with other journalists and
understanding what motivates jour-
nalists and editors and columnists,”
said Rebele, who went on to own a
chain of seven daily newspapers
with his wife Pat.
The keynote speaker for the ban-
quet was Rajiv Chandrasekaran ‘94,
associate editor for The Washington
Post. Chandrasekaran, a former edi-
tor in chief of The Daily, directed his
remarks to the current generation of
Daily staffers.
“In my career thus far, I ran the
Washington Post Bureau in
Baghdad, I ran the Post’s national
news staff, but still the most respon-
sibility that I’ve had in life thus far
has been running The Daily,” he said
in an interview. “I never thought I’d
actually see The Daily in a swanky
new building. It’s a little more like a
tech start-up than a newspaper, but
I’m sure it will look suitably grimy
in a short time.”
Michael Londgren ‘90, chairman
of the Board of Directors of The
Stanford Daily Publishing
Corporation and former Daily busi-
ness manager, also spoke at the ban-
quet, thanking students, donors,
alumni and the University for their
collaboration in making the Lorry I.
Lokey Stanford Daily Building a
reality.
“We could not have asked for a
better location,” Londgren said of
the new building. “It will serve as a
great campus hub for journalism.”
Contact Jenny Rempel at jrempel@
stanford.edu.
shower head height,” he added.
“With minimal modification, we
were able to keep the installations
and the net result was a considerable
contribution to water conservation.”
Student housing is responsible
for 28 percent of the water used
daily across campus, while contribut-
ing to about 30 percent of the cur-
rent overall campus water savings.
The Silicon Valley Water
Conservation Awards were present-
ed by the Water Awards Coalition,
which consists of 10 local, environ-
mentally-award organizations.
Among them is Acterra, which also
awarded Stanford for sustainability
efforts at the Annual Acterra
Awards last year.
Contact Christine McFadden at
cnm714@stanford.edu.
The Stanford Daily
ASSU
Continued from page 2
paragraph of a slate title reads,“Just a
Couple of Affable, Public-Service
Oriented Guys Trying to Exercise the
Student Voice While Bridging the
Gap between Our Peers and the
Faculty/Administrative Complex.”
Lyman, speaking on the
Executives, said,“I think they’re both
pretty handsome guys, and pretty
charming.”
The Lyman-Werner slate has gone
so far as to release a video parodying
the “elbow touch” from Dorsey and
Harris’ YouTube video directed
towards the student body last quar-
ter.
Most of the Dorsey-Harris fans,
however, are entirely sincere.
Senate candidate and Executive
Fellow Sam King ‘12 rethought his
attitude on student government after
hearing a presentation by Dorsey
and Harris last fall.
“Jonny and Fagan are of course
the people who inspired me,” he said.
“Before I became an executive fel-
low, I wasn’t even thinking of going
into the ASSU at all.”
Another senate candidate and
previous Executive Fellow Ben
Laufer ‘12 shared the same positive
view of the two execs.
“Those two guys are pretty
incredible,” he wrote in an email to
The Daily. “Talk about two guys who
have made an impact far beyond the
Stanford Bubble — their legacies will
be felt on the Farm for years to
come.”
The talking points of the Dorsey-
Harris platform — sustainability,
mental health, student outreach —
are littered in the voter guide briefs
of the candidates. Notably, though,
only three out of 37 Senate candi-
dates included public service, a major
focus of Dorsey and Harris, in their
briefs.
The execs themselves are glad
that people have been inspired, but
maintain their humility.
“These guys are running after
they’ve seen us tired and grumpy,”
Dorsey said. “The fact that they still
want to run shows that they realize
how difficult [the ASSU] is to come
into.”
Contact Marisa Landicho at landi-
cho@stanford.edu.
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ter. It is relatively straightforward and not
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labi accessible to students, a week or more
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number of syllabi not online.This may create
additional difficulty for students juggling
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syllabus to make their course decisions,
many also like to see the teaching style of the
professor first-hand in order to discern
whether the class looks as good in person as
it does on paper.Video is certainly not an ad-
equate substitute for actually attending
class, but it can give a student a sense of the
professor — perhaps enough of a sense that,
along with a syllabus, she can opt not to cram
another class into her first week.
With many lectures and some entire
classes on Stanford’s iTunes University
page, the editorial board believes that we
have a tremendous resource that can still be
better utilized to provide students with a
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portunities.
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sources we already have — perhaps encour-
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S TEAL THIS C OLUMN

A matter of culture, not

regulation
This column was originally published on Jan.
23.

aise your hand if you have ever blacked L IKE A R OCK

R out from alcohol at a party.
You look around, and see who else has
raised their hand.You soon notice that no one
around you has.Self-consciously,you put your
hand back down, only to realize that the rea-
son no one else’s hands were raised was per-
haps because they, too, are self-conscious, or
more likely, because they are not currently
reading this column.But between you and me,
Mark
Donig
which many of us expect to come into our own
as people and become the person we want to
be.It is not a gross overgeneralization to claim
All sung out
This column was originally published Jan. this campus more proportionately involved
21. in school events. We could have fewer roll-
outs with Fleet Street singing in the lounge,
am not a fan of a cappella. For those of and more with Stanford Taiko pounding the

let’s be honest: they have probably blacked
out at a party.And so have you.
Does blacking out mean you have an alco-
hol problem? Not necessarily. That kind of
thing has happened to the best of us. But the
frequency with which it happens in our culture
— not American culture, per se, but modern
American college culture — is troubling.
I’m a senior who, by the time you read this,
will have turned 22 years young (so write
something witty on my Facebook wall, please,
if you haven’t already). This means that,
among other things, I do not frequent frat par-
ties as often as I used to.
But according to Stanford’s Alcohol Advi-
sory Board, “serious alcohol incidents” this
past fall quarter exceeded those of previous
fall quarters (See “Bd. reviews alcohol policy”
in the Jan. 9 issue of The Daily).As it happens,
this recent revelation coincides with the
Board’s upcoming review of the standing New
Student Orientation alcohol policy.
Of course, when the incidence of alcohol-
related emergencies on campus suddenly in-
creases, there ought to be cause for concern.
But what is at work here is much bigger than
something an Advisory Board policy can fix.
What we are dealing with here is a culture of
binge drinking.
As we all know,this culture is not unique at
all to our generation, nor does it belong solely
to our university or even to American univer-
sities at large. But the tolerance in universities
that, coming out of high school, a lot of us
Stanford students were nerds. Many of us ex-
perimented with alcohol for the first time as
freshmen.For such people,alcohol is a symbol
of their assertion of their own ability to feel
cool, contrary to the way they were seen in
high school. It is the feeling that, perhaps for
the first time, others around them are legit-
imizing them. In an attempt to maintain that
sense of legitimacy, some of us go overboard
when it comes to drinking without ever realiz-
ing it.And when we see others doing the same,
we feel no reason to assume there is anything
wrong with that.
Second, drinking at college has become a
sort of rite of passage. How many conversa-
tions with our friends involve weekend de-
bauchery? How many of those stories could
have happened without alcohol, or, dare I say,
without extremely copious amounts of alco-
hol? The reason that our conversations tend to
revolve so disproportionately around these
stories is that alcohol is, more often than not,
the place where we find that common bond
with our friends. Not as alcoholics, but as col-
lege students experiencing college life.
It cannot be denied that there is a certain
demographic of students at Stanford who, in
fact, do not drink at all. But for the majority of
us,alcohol was and is central to our social tran-
sition into college.To the incoming freshman,
the frat party, an “Animal House”-type expe-
rience, is synonymous with getting integrated
into college.
I
you who (somehow) don’t know, a cap-
pella is the tradition of taking perfectly
good songs and rearranging them so that
people sing all the parts that our forebears’
designed instruments do much, much better.
Stanford (somehow) has nine of these
groups.
Based on science, a cappella began in the
time of cavemen, when our primitive ances-
tors would harmonize their rudimentary
caveman utterances into a sound so vile that
it could take down a stegosaurus from 50
paces. How were cavemen and stegosaurus-
es, creatures separated by 150 million years,
around at the same time? Ask Testimony.
(For those of you who play drinking
games to my columns,“Testimony” should be
the top “buzzed-word” on your list for
today.)
Now, some may say that my dislike of a
cappella stems from the fact that my own
singing voice sounds like a cross between
Bob Dylan’s and some sort of cat pinned
down by a tractor. However, my sense of jeal-
ousy accounts for no more than 15 percent of
my antipathy. From two songs into the first
Fleet Street performance I saw at Admit
Weekend, I knew that I disliked a cappella,
with its overdramatic soloists and its progres-
sively less ironic use of beatboxing.
But unfortunately, a cappella has bur-
rowed itself deep into the intestines of Stan-
ford like no other system of groups here
Kevin
Webb
More frightening, unless you stop them, a
cappella groups will multiply. For every
singer given a spot in a group, three others
are jilted (This is an estimate. No one wants
to fess up to being rejected by Mixed Co.).
Nursing their wounds, these members re-
group into an even worse a cappella troupe,
calling themselves something revolting like
“the Harmonics.”
Now, this is not an attack on members of a
cappella groups — I count many (or, at least,
once counted many, depending on how many
people read this column) as friends, and I’m
happy to see people really enjoying them-
selves in performances after spending count-
less hours charting and learning to sing diffi-
cult songs. But why do we need nine different
a cappella shows every quarter? Why can’t
groups do more collaborative shows? The
number of new songs these groups come up
with per quarter is not particularly high, and
I think sharing shows might help whittle
down the best material from each.
On a more social level, I can assure you
from experience that nothing kills a party
quite as fast as the Mendicants drunkenly
hell out of drums. That’s sure to put a kick in
any freshman’s morning.
Maybe we could even see a day where a
cappella shows engage audience members,
instead of expecting them to pay for admis-
sion and sit through up to 90 minutes of songs
they have mostly heard before.
I think what I want most of all, though, is
to be able to say openly “I don’t really care
for a cappella,” without making it personal.
When the topic comes up, I don’t want to
have to see if anyone easily offended is
around.
I want to be able to state my dislike proud-
ly, because it means that I have discovered
something about my personal tastes, which,
really, is what the arts community we need
here should be about: self discovery through
interaction with art. So if you like a cappella
or if you’re a member of a group, that’s fan-
tastic — I hope you’ll keep doing what you
love and won’t hate me for writing this. But if
you don’t fall into either of those categories,
know that it’s OK not to like everything.
Even Testimony.
Send Kevin angry emails at ktwebb@
stanford.edu, though, if possible, he would pre-
fer angry serenades.

across America when it comes to the idea of
drinking with the intent to get “hammered” is
at a level matched by few countries on earth.
How many of us have friends who drink
heavily three, four, five times a week? The cul-
ture in place at our school, and in our country,
tolerates this.Few people on this campus blink
an eye when one of their friends tell them they
got trashed three nights in a row. Quite the
contrary,in fact,we usually laugh and then ask
for some stories.This is not to say that such be-
havior is expected, but it is indeed acceptable.
But that is something that we as students
all know.What has been less explored,though,
are the real roots of what has caused binge
drinking to take hold as a cultural phenome-
non. I would propose a couple of theories:
Firstly, college is the place and time in
Finally, binge drinking exists at colleges
today because, well, it existed yesterday. It is,
just as all other cultures are, self-propagating.
College students will argue that, normatively
speaking,the fact that most other Western cul-
tures drink socially, rather than aggressively
and belligerently, does not make our drinking
culture more wrong or right.
Indeed, what is most important to under-
stand is that binge drinking is not a mindset —
it is a culture.And as with other cultures,it will
take more than administrative policy to affect
change; it will require a change of mindset on
behalf of the students themselves.
Mark Donig is currently having a bonfire in San
Francisco. Contact him at mrdonig@
stanford.edu.
have. Take, for example, The O Show — a
ceremony that essentially serves as a show-
case for all nine a cappella organizations and
one or two other performance groups. Not
only is having such a show unfair to the hun-
dreds of other groups we have on this cam-
pus, it’s also unfair to the hundreds of inno-
cent freshmen who sit through it in an al-
ready very busy orientation week.
Additionally, whenever dorms need
someone to perform for parents, dorm shows
or ProFros, a cappella groups are normally at
the top of their lists.Why not a dance troupe,
or, much cooler, a rock band? At least with a
rock band, you can stand up and dance; with
a cappella shows, you try to remember the
songs as you once loved them as you pray for
the whiskey you snuck in to hit soon.
Write to us.
belting “Brown-Eyed Girl.” Actually, I take
that back — I can only imagine how terrible
a party would be if an inebriated Talisman
started singing a 40-minute rendition of the
national anthem. And anything by Testimo-
ny, I fear, would be much, much worse. We want to hear from
I guess I don’t really know what I want to
come out of this column, though I have a few
ideas. Maybe we could see a couple groups you.
merge, or better yet, we could create a
school-wide ban on a cappella group prolif- SEND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR TO
eration. (If we don’t do something now, our
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maybe even a “jazz-infused Kabbalah
praise” group.)
Or maybe I’d like to see other groups on
6 N Friday, April 3, 2009
SPORTS
Senior first baseman Brent Milleville hits a two-run shot to help propel the Cardinal to a 6-5 win on Wednesday over Santa Clara. Next up for Stanford is a weekend series in Eugene, Ore. against a newly returned Ducks squad.
DUCK SEASON ONCE AGAIN
By CLAUDIA PRECIADO
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Extending its winning streak to three
games on Wednesday, Stanford baseball will
look to beat up an old foe, freshly returned
to action this weekend.
The Cardinal (9-11, 3-3 Pacific-10 Confer-
ence) continued its recent run of spring dom-
inance with a tight victory over Santa Clara
(10-13), aided by sophomore Kellen Kiils-
gaard’s single in the bottom of the eighth to
bring in sophomore shortstop Jake Sch-
lander for the 6-5 non-conference victory.
With Stanford down 2-3 entering the bot-
tom of the fifth inning, Santa Clara pitcher
Jason Westerberg was victimized by a pair of
Cardinal home runs as senior Joey August
hit a line-drive rocket over the right-field
wall to lead off the inning and fellow senior
The ultimate Cardinal fan’s
challenge:Test your knowledge
T
hink you know Stanford sports pretty
well? Think you’ve got the Cardinal’s his-
tory down pat? Let’s test your Stanford
athletics knowledge with this Cardinal Quiz:21
questions about everything there is to know
about Stanford sports.
Even if you don’t know any of the answers,
you will most likely learn something you prob-
ably didn’t know before.And you will become
a more knowledgeable Cardinal fan.
Any disputes with answers can be taken up
with the Internet. One point per correct an-
swer, and don’t just turn the page and look at
the answers right away, because no one likes a
cheater.
1. Stanford has not always held the nickname
“Cardinal.” The University’s athletic teams
have been called by two other names over its
history.What were they?
2. We all love the Stanford Tree. But do you
know it’s not just some random tree? Which
tree is the one that appears on our logo and
school seal based upon?
3. How many NCAA team championships has
Stanford won in its history? What school is it
trailing in this category?
4.Stanford has won the Director’s Cup in every
year of the Cup’s existence except for the very
first year (‘93/’94) when the school came in sec-
ond.Who won that year?
5. If Stanford were its own country at the 1996
Brent Milleville bombed one over left field
in a two-run shot. When August, sophomore
Zach Jones and Milleville all crossed home,
Stanford took the 5-3 lead over the Broncos.
“It was really nice to get a little rally
going in the fifth,” August said. “I was just
trying to hit a ball hard, and I was fortunate
enough to get a good pitch to hit. Then we
were able to get a guy on for Milleville, and
I can’t say enough about how huge his home
run was — it really gave us a spark and a lot
of confidence going into the later innings of
the game.”
Strong defensive play in the sixth made
for a scoreless inning, as Stanford’s defense
executed the play at first base for the first
out, won the squeeze play for the second out
and carried out an easy second to first play
to shut the Broncos down. But Santa Clara
came back with tough defense of its own to
Olympics in Atlanta, what place would it have
earned in the final gold medal count?
6. How many medals did Stanford alums and
coaches come home with from the 2008 Beijing
Olympics?
7. How many national titles has Stanford won
in football?
8. How many years did Tiger Woods stay at
Stanford? What was his declared major?
9. In what year did “The Play” take place?
10. How many players on current NFL rosters
went to Stanford?
11. How many players on current MLB rosters
went to Stanford?
12. Which Stanford team has won the most
NCAA Championships?
13. How many consecutive years has Stanford
won at least one NCAA Championship?
14. How many All-American awards did Stan-
ford athletes win in the 2007-2008 season?
15. Sally Ride, the first American woman in
space, went to Stanford. What sport did she
play?
16. Perhaps one of the most talked-about ath-
Cardinal Today
shut the Stanford bats down in the bottom
half of the inning.
“I really think that our pitching is step-
ping up for us when we need them to,”
Milleville said.“I feel like you can throw any
of our pitchers against anyone and they will
be able to get the other team out.”
In the seventh, though, the Broncos’ of-
fense showed signs of life against sopho-
more Michael Marshall, who gave up a pair
of runs. A strikeout, followed by a double,
two walks and a sacrifice rallied in the tying
runs, putting the score at 5-5. Stanford was
unable to respond with its own bats in the
bottom half of the inning, and sent out soph-
omore closer Drew Storen in the eighth,
who retired the side on three consecutive
strikeouts, all swinging.
Nearing the end, Stanford made noise in
the bottom of the eighth inning. A Sch-
Danny
Belch
On My Mind
letes from the 1996 Olympics was a woman
who later attended Stanford.Who was she?
17. Stanford is one of just four colleges to pro-
duce both a Super Bowl-winning quarterback
and a U.S. President. The president was Her-
bert Hoover.Who has won a Super Bowl?
18. Who is Stanford’s only Heisman Trophy
winner?
19. Which former Stanford athlete also ap-
peared in the movie “Jerry Maguire” and host-
ed a show on Nickelodeon?
20.Who leads the all-time series of Big Game?
21. Out of Stanford’s 34 varsity sports, how
many of them have won at least one NCAA
title?
BONUS! (2 points)
22. Herbert Hoover was a team manager for
the football team when he attended Stanford.
At the first-ever Big Game, what did he forget
to bring?
Scoring
0-7: Need some work
8-15: Solid fan
16-23: Diehard fan, but perhaps you’re spend-
ing too much time on GoStanford.com and
Wikipedia
Please see QUIZ, page 8
lander single, sophomore Colin Walsh’s
walk and sophomore Jonathan Kaskow’s
single loaded the bases with two outs. With
the count at 1-2, Kiilsgaard hammered a sin-
gle to bring in Schlander for the winning
run.
“I thought Drew did a great job for us,
coming in a shutting door like he always
does,” August said after the victory. “I also
can’t say enough about Kiilsgaard and his
big at bat in the eighth; he came through
again for us in the clutch, like he has all
year.”
Storen took the mound again in the ninth
and struck out two consecutive batters be-
fore the Stanford defense picked up the
third out for the 6-5 victory.
“After we went up in the eighth, I was con-
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SQUASH
Card extends helping
hand to archrival Cal
By ZOE LEAVITT
STAFF WRITER
Overcoming the rivalry to make the ri-
valry stronger. That’s men’s squash coach
Mark Talbott’s idea behind the latest Cal-
Stanford competition. However, this seem-
ingly normal face-off follows a higher call-
ing. On April 4, Stanford men’s squash will
travel to Cal to play both a regular and an
alumni match in order to help Cal raise
money to replace courts currently in faulty
condition.
“The Cal coach and I decided this would
be a good opportunity to raise funds and
raise awareness,” Talbott said. “We’re just
hoping we can help them raise awareness.
They really need new courts.”
While Stanford practices on new squash
courts that opened three years ago in the
Arrillaga Center for Sports and Recreation,
Cal has been suffering for many years, play-
ing on slippery floors, in dark lighting and
amid stale smells. Over the years, as the
courts have deteriorated, Cal squash coach
Ashley Kayler believes it has absolutely af-
fected his team.
“The poor state of the courts has hurt the
program in ways that are not easy to quan-
tify,” he said.
But he and the rest of his team look for-
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OREGON
4/3 Eugene, Ore.
GAME NOTES: Stanford baseball is set to take on Ore-
gon for the first time in nearly 30 years this weekend,
as the Ducks’ program returns from a 28-year hiatus.
Stanford is coming off of a close, 6-5 win over Santa
Clara, aided by the stellar efforts of sophomore clos-
er Drew Storen, who shut the Broncos down in the
eighth and ninth innings, giving the Stanford bats
time to pull the team into the lead.
ward to a concrete vision of what the Cal
squash program could be like — with the
addition of money and support.
“A nicer facility, where all the courts are
in the same area — not divided by three-
floor stairwell and two security gates —
would make practices seem less divided,
and allow the coach to work with each of
the players more easily,” Kayler said. With
the improvement of the facilities, he hopes
to attract more and better players, as well as
a highly qualified coaching staff.
But Kayler recognizes the underlying is-
sues that will require the money, time and
effort of many to fix the program from the
ground up.
“There are ground water leakage issues
in the ‘dungeon’ courts,” he said. “These is-
sues are very [expensive] to fix, and given
the perennial budget deficits in California,
unlikely to get fixed. And while there are
water issues, the university is unwilling to
renovate the courts for fear of water dam-
age to the new courts.”
While this alumni match will make a
start towards raising the first funds towards
updating Cal’s facilities, it will only serve as
a jumping-off point from which to base fur-
ther fundraising efforts. The team hopes
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.175 for the Tigers.Hitting so consistent-
ly and avoiding lapses is important for
the Cardinal to succeed in the final
stretch of the season.
“[The Pacific match] was proof that
we could remain focused and play our
game throughout the match no matter
what caliber team we’re facing,” said
senior middle blocker Brandon
Williams.
Much of this focus comes from in-
creased competition in practices, which
has helped the Cardinal improve
throughout the year.
“Everyone has stepped up in their
own little way,”said junior setter Kawika
Shoji,who led Stanford with 39 assists.“I
will give a lot of credit to our bench guys
for challenging the starters during prac-
tice. They were instrumental in helping
us prepare for last weekend.”
“The second-team players have
brought a lot of fire to practices lately,”
Williams said. “[They have been] chal-
lenging everyone to keep playing at the
top of their game every day.”
The Stanford men know that they
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Stanford may have yet another,
less apparent advantage: its losses.
VanDerveer, recalling her time at
the helm of an undefeated Olympic
team, knows all too well that a per-
fect season, while impressive, doesn’t
teach lessons or foster the fierce
tenacity of a team that has ground
BASEBALL
Continued from page 6
fident that we could hold them in the
ninth,” Milleville said. “Drew is
throwing extremely well right now,
and I was completely confident he
could hold them off for the win.”
“I think that we won today’s
game on pitching and defense,”
Milleville added. “When you pitch
and play defense as well as we did,
you really have a chance to win.”
Stanford will next head to Ore-
gon this coming weekend for a
three-game conference series. This
year marks the return of the Ducks
to collegiate baseball. The Oregon
program was disbanded in 1981 due
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
3/31 Pacific W 3-0
UP NEXT
LONG BEACH STATE
4/3 Long Beach, Calif.
GAME NOTES: The No. 5 Stanford men dis-
mantled Pacific on Monday, but will face
tougher challenges in the near future, as the
Cardinal travels south to take on MPSF foes
Long Beach State and UC-San Diego.
will have to be at their best this weekend
when they play road matches at No. 7
Cal State-Long Beach and No. 10 UC-
San Diego. Long Beach already came
within a point of sweeping the Cardinal
at Maples in January before Stanford
rallied for a five-set victory.The Cardinal
knows it will face a very tough test
against this same team on the road.
“The Pyramid is a tough venue to
play at,so we are looking forward to the
challenge,”said Romero,who ranks first
in Stanford history in career kills during
the rally-scoring era.
“Historically, Long Beach State has
out plenty of close wins, while also
experiencing defeat.
“UConn has a terrific team, we
know this,” she said. “But our losses
have taught us things. We’ve learned
and benefited from them, and we’re
in a situation where we’re playing
very well right now. We learn a lot
from a loss — I can’t deal with an un-
defeated team.”
Jillian Harmon, the only senior
likely to start for Stanford on Sun-
day, agreed with her coach as she
heads into what she hopes is not her
to budgetary issues, but is back on
the field this year as the Pac-10 once
again has its 10th team in the fold.
Oregon has been led this season
by starting pitchers Erik Stavert (3-
1) and Tyler Anderson (1-3), who
boast ERAs of 2.92 and 3.68, re-
spectively. Closer Drew Gagnier,
meanwhile, has a 1.20 ERA and
four saves on the year. Offensively,
Caleb Tommasini has led the
Ducks’ charge, with a .327 average
in 98 at bats.
The Ducks are 11-15 overall and
1-2 in conference play, with their
lone win coming against Oregon
State. They will head into the series
with a 1-3 non-conference loss
against Portland.
Contact Claudia Preciado at claudi-
ap@stanford.edu.
Cardinal Today
always had a strong digging and jump-
serving team,” Williams said. “We will
have to control their servers so we can
run our offense consistently.”
In order to succeed against Long
Beach, the Cardinal must slow down
junior opposite Dean Bittner,who ranks
second in the nation with an average of
nearly five and a half kills per set.
After the Long Beach match, Stan-
ford will travel to San Diego to take on
the Tritons.UC-San Diego boasts an im-
pressive 6-2 record at home,with its two
losses coming against the top two teams
in the nation.The Cardinal knows it will
face a tough test playing a team that has
won four of its last five home matches
against ranked teams.
“San Diego is a rapidly improving
team with plenty of energy and heart,”
Williams said.“They have the potential
to create large upsets, so we will need to
maintain focus and keep the pressure on
them as we did with Pacific.”
The Cardinal will face Cal State-
Long Beach tonight and UC-San Diego
tomorrow,with both matches scheduled
to start at 7 p.m.Next week,Stanford will
return home for a two-match series
against No.6 BYU.
Contact Jacob Jaffe at jwjaffe
@stanford.edu.
last game in a Cardinal uniform.
“We’re definitely tested, and that
will help us,” she said. “We’re confi-
dent in a close game.”
Stanford and Connecticut begin
their semifinal matchup on Sunday
at 6:30 p.m. PT. The game will be tel-
evised from St. Louis’s Scottrade
Center on ESPN, while it will also be
covered by KZSU 90.1 FM and Web-
streamed at kzsulive.stanford.edu.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@
stanford.edu.
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Continued from front page
Despite her stellar accolades,
Penna refuses to take all the credit
for herself.
“My team was really behind me
this weekend, played great defense
and came through to score runs in
key situations,” Penna told
GoStanford.com. “I’m excited by
how our team is playing right now
and hope to carry that momentum
into the rest of the Pac-10 season.”
As she indicates, Penna has not
been the only Stanford player to
excel this season. In fact, she is one
of three Stanford players to recent-
ly earn a spot on the 25-person
WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS
Stanford falls short in Pac-10
By KENAN JIANG
STAFF WRITER
The Stanford women’s gymnastics
team finished third at the Pacific-10
Conference Championships this season
and was not able to defend its confer-
ence title from a year ago. Stanford
lacked the depth of UCLA, which fin-
ished with 196.725 points.The Cardinal
finished third with 196.525 points.
Stanford was led by the Pac-10 all-
around champion, junior Carly Janiga,
as well as senior Nicole Ourada, who
won two Pac-10 individual titles. Jani-
ga’s performance continues the strong
tradition of all-around titles at Stanford,
as Cardinal gymnasts have won the all-
around four times in the last six years at
the Pac-10 Championships.
Stanford head coach Kristen Smyth
won Coach of the Year honors as the
Cardinal took four out of five individual
titles.This was Smyth’s fourth Coach of
the Year award after eight seasons with
Stanford.
The Cardinal was on the verge of re-
peating as conference champions going
into the final rotation, but two poor
floor exercise routines resulted in a sub-
optimal finish. UCLA and Oregon
State then took advantage of the Cardi-
nal’s poor final rotation and overcame
Stanford’s lead by nailing their final
routines.
“Going into Pac-10s, we wanted to
compete like we train in practice,” Jani-
ga said.“If we did that, without a doubt
we would have had another Pac-10 title.
Unfortunately, we had some mistakes
in the final event, which made us drop
below UCLA and OSU.When it comes
USA Softball’s Collegiate Player
of the Year award watch list. Join-
ing her on the list are junior left-
fielder Alissa Haber and freshman
shortstop Ashley Hansen.
On the year, Haber is leading
the team with a .441 batting aver-
age, 39 runs scored and 10 stolen
bases.
Hansen is right behind her with
a .427 batting average to go along
with 33 RBI.
After facing a menacing slate of
competition last weekend, Stan-
ford (31-2, 2-1 Pacific-10 Confer-
ence) stands to have an easier time
with Oregon (10-20, 0-4) and Ore-
gon State (16-16, 1-3) who are cur-
rently in last and ninth place in the
Pac-10, respectively.
The Beavers are coming off a
weekend in which they were swept
Friday, April 3, 2009 N 7
to championship meets, it doesn’t mat-
ter how many personal bests that you
have if you have to count a fall.You just
can’t miss.”
Janiga notched the balance beam
title with a score of 9.95. The Cardinal
was also aided by Ourada, who tied for
first on the floor exercise and was one of
four athletes, including Janiga, to tie for
first on the uneven bars with a score of
9.9.
Stanford sophomore Shelley
Alexander stepped up with three per-
sonal bests. Senior captain Kelly Fee
also brought her best performance on
the bars,beam and floor,earning at least
9.825 on all three.She was especially in-
strumental in replacing injured fresh-
man Alyssa Brown on the bars, where
she earned one of her three personal
bests.
“Our goals going into Pac-10s were
to hit 24 for 24 routines, which is always
our goal in any meet,”Ourada said.“We
knew that was what it was going to take
to win the Pac-10 title.We were also try-
ing to improve each routine by .05.”
“At practice we have been working
on cleaning up details in our routines,so
our goal was to make these changes in
our routines at the competition,” she
continued.“The key to winning Pac-10s
is hitting 24 for 24 routines. When you
have to count a miss, it allows the other
teams to sneak in.”
On bars, Stanford as a team scored
49.275, with Ourada and Janiga leading
the way, both scoring 9.9s as five girls
tied for first.Stanford,however,tallied a
9.675 on the beam, on its way to a
49.125,which proved devastating to the
Cardinal’s chances at the Pac-10 title.
at the hands of Arizona and Ari-
zona State.
Pitching has been a problem for
Oregon State, as they have failed to
get consistency out of returning
starter Kelly Dyer, who has strug-
gled to a 7-11 record. Recently,
freshman Paige Hall has been see-
ing more action as a starter with
marginally better success.
Offensively, the Beavers are led
by catcher Audrey Roderfield. The
sophomore leads the team in most
offensive categories, as she is hit-
ting .330 with seven home runs and
23 RBI.
The Ducks are still looking for
their first Pac-10 victory, having
started the conference season with
a loss to Oregon State before being
swept in Arizona.
Oregon is led offensively by out-
UCLA led the nation in the vault, but
did not stick its routine at Pac-10s.Stan-
ford followed up with two falls on the
floor routine, but Janiga and Ourada
salvaged the floor exercise by scoring
9.85 and 9.9, respectively. Stanford’s
mistake cost them the title, as UCLA
won its 14th Pac-10 title.
Overall, Stanford had a very solid
meet with Janiga,Alexander and junior
Allyse Ishino earning first-team all-
conference selections, while Fee and
Ourada earned second-team selections.
The Stanford team will go on to the
NCAA Regional on April 4, ranked as
the No.1 seed at the NCAA South Cen-
tral Regional in Fayetteville,Ark.
Stanford is ranked fourth overall in
the country and will compete against
No. 2 Arkansas, No. 3 Michigan, No. 4
Arizona, No. 5 Southern Utah and No.
6 Arizona State. The top teams at the
Regional will advance to the NCAA
Championships in Lincoln, Neb., April
16-18.
“We are glad that this didn’t happen
at the Regional competition,” Janiga
said,referring to the Cardinal’s final few
mistakes. “We learned that the meet
isn’t over until the last person finishes
their routine. A lot can happen on the
last event, which can be a good or bad
thing.
“Regionals should be a good com-
petition,”she continued,“and we will go
into it again with the same goals as be-
fore: doing what we train, hitting our 24
routines and focusing our attention on
us.”
Contact Kenan Jiang at kenanj@stan-
ford.edu.
fielder Neena Bryant. The junior is
hitting .357 with four home runs
and 23 RBI on the year.
In the circle, Sam Skillingstad is
the leader of a quartet of pitchers
for the Ducks. Skillingstad is 8-7
with a 2.20 ERA on the season.
Now that it has established itself
as a national power, Stanford
would be disappointed with any-
thing less than three victories this
weekend, as the rest of its upcom-
ing Pac-10 schedule looks to be in-
credibly grueling. Next up for the
Cardinal women after this week-
end’s action is a three-game set
against California, with the first
contest slated to be played at Stan-
ford and the latter two at Berkeley.
Contact Daniel Bohm at bohmd@
stanford.edu.
8 N Friday, April 3, 2009
WOMEN’S WATER POLO
No. 1 Stanford rolls into spring
By MIKE LAZARUS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
As the Stanford student body was
relaxing on the beach over Spring
Break, the No. 1 Stanford women’s
water polo team was busy in the
pool, winning five games in seven
days with an average margin of victo-
ry of more than eight goals per game.
Stanford’s final game of the week
against No. 17 Cal State-Long Beach
was its toughest outing.The Cardinal
persevered against the 49ers in a de-
fensive struggle, winning 7-2. It was
the first time that Stanford failed to
reach double-digits in scoring since
the second game of the season.
Stanford jumped out to a 3-0 lead
at the end of the first period, ensur-
ing a Cardinal victory early on. Ju-
nior goalkeeper Amber Oland’s
seven saves anchored the Cardinal’s
defense, which has been steadily im-
proving over the second half of the
season.
“We held Long Beach to two
goals in 12 power play chances and
no even-strength goals,” head coach
John Tanner said. “That was one of
our better defensive efforts this sea-
son.”
On the offensive side of the ball,
freshmen Melissa Seidemann had a
game-high two goals, while senior
Lauren Silver, junior Kelly Eaton,
sophomore Kelly Krueger and fresh-
men Alyssa Lo and Pallavi Menon
each scored once.
The victory extended Stanford’s
win streak to 17 games and improved
the Cardinal’s record to 20-1 on the
season.
Stanford kicked off its Southern
California swing with an 11-5 victory
over No. 16 UC-San Diego on March
24. The Tritons managed to pull off a
feat only accomplished by a few
teams this season — taking a lead
against the Cardinal. San Diego
scored two quick goals to open the
match, but that would prove to be the
WOMEN’S WATER POLO
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4/3 Avery Aquatics Center
GAME NOTES: The top-ranked Cardinal
women are set to take on the No. 3 Bruins
tonight at 6 p.m. Stanford has lost just one
game this season, all the way back on Feb. 7
against USC. The Cardinal has since won 17
straight, including a 10-5 win over UCLA on
Feb. 8. Stanford has been led offensively by
freshman Melissa Seidemann, with 50 goals
on the season, including two in the team’s
most recent win over Long Beach.
only time it led.
In the final four minutes of the
first period, Silver and fellow seniors
Koree Blyleven and Kira Hillman
scored three unanswered goals to
give Stanford the lead. Two more
three-goal periods put the game out
of reach. Junior Kim Hall took care
of business in the goal, blocking five
shots.
The most important match of the
road trip was its only conference
match, a contest with No. 7 San
Diego State on March 25. Stanford
knocked off the Aztecs 11-6 to re-
main undefeated in Mountain Pacif-
ic Sports Federation (MPSF) play.
Entering the second period with a
slim, 3-2 lead, Stanford’s defense,
with Oland in the cage, shut out San
Diego to allow the offense to give the
Cardinal a little breathing room.Two
goals later, Stanford went into half-
time up by three.
After each team scored twice in
the third period, the Cardinal
outscored the Aztecs 4-2 in the
fourth to cement the win. Seidemann
Cardinal Today
led Stanford with four goals, with Sil-
ver tacking on another hat trick.
While the San Diego State victory
was the most significant in terms of
the postseason, the March 21 match
against Harvard was perhaps the
most gratifying for Stanford.
The Cardinal did not show its
East Coast academic rival any hospi-
tality, simply dismantling the Crim-
son, 20-2. Stanford jumped out to a 7-
0 lead by the end of the first period
and was up 12-0 at halftime. The
Crimson managed to score twice on
Hall in the third period, but eight sec-
ond-half Stanford goals drowned out
any chance of a comeback. Twelve
Cardinal players scored in the match,
with Silver and Blyleven leading the
way with three goals apiece.
Stanford will return to MPSF play
tomorrow against No. 3 UCLA. The
Cardinal knocked off the Bruins ear-
lier in the season 10-5, but both
teams have undergone considerable
transformations since then.
Stanford was without Silver in the
first match-up, which forced the of-
fense to rely on Seidemann and
Eaton. Since Silver’s return, oppos-
ing defenses have been unable to
slow down the Cardinal’s multi-
pronged offensive attack.
The Bruins are 21-3 on the season,
including two one-goal losses to No.
2 USC and No. 4 Hawaii. UCLA is
peaking at the right time, riding a 10-
game win streak into the Stanford
contest.
“UCLA has several dynamic, ath-
letic goal scorers who present chal-
lenges in all phases of offense,” Tan-
ner said. “We hope to slow them
down and take advantage of the op-
portunities we expect to generate.”
The final home game of the sea-
son for the Cardinal is set to begin at
6 p.m. tonight in Avery Aquatic Cen-
ter.
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eventually to raise over a million
dollars, and the Stanford team stands
behind them 100 percent.
“Originally, Cal had offered to do
a joint match to promote both pro-
grams,” Talbott said. “But I felt we
should promote one strong message.
My idea was to make the entire focus
on helping Cal.”
As Talbott has built up the Stan-
ford squash endowment and spear-
headed fundraising on the Farm, he
would appear to be more than quali-
fied to aid the Golden Bears in their
time of need. But some at Stanford
might find the very idea troubling:
Why should the Cardinal colors be
used to help the school’s greatest
rival, while receiving nothing in re-
turn? In fact, this support goes to-
wards not only that school across the
Bay, but furthers the entire dream of
the future for West Coast squash.
QUIZ
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Answers
1.The Indians (1930-1972), the Cardi-
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2.The tree is called El Palo Alto,a red-
wood tree that grows in Palo Alto on
the banks of the San Francisquito
Creek. It is also California Historical
Landmark No. 2.
3. 95. UCLA has the most with 103.
4. North Carolina
5. Fourth (United States, Russia, Ger-
many, Stanford)
6. 25
7. One, in 1926 (Coincidently, the fa-
mous Pop Warner was our coach)
8.Two years. Economics.
9. 1982
10. 21
11. 30
12. Men’s tennis (17)
13. 32
14. 95
15.Tennis
16. Kerri Strug, the gymnast who seri-
ously injured her ankle on her first
vault and had to perform another one
in order to clinch the gold medal for
the women’s gymnastics team.
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18. Jim Plunkett
19. Summer Sanders (women’s swim-
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20. Stanford (55 wins, 45 losses, 11
ties)
21. 19
22.The football
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First, as any true Cardinal fan
knows, rivalries are only exciting
when both teams have the potential
to take home the victory. Since Stan-
ford men’s squash has played far
more strongly than Cal’s in recent
years, Talbott hopes to bolster the
competition by revamping the Cal
facilities. Not only will the existing
Cal-Stanford rivalry help generate
more funds from blue-and-yellow-
bleeding alumni, but as Cal im-
proves, it will push Stanford to keep
up. The squash programs will flour-
ish in sync, and so the vision for more
exciting competitions has rallied
support from both schools.
“We don’t have a great rivalry
right now because they don’t have a
great team,”Talbott said.“They want
a better team. We’d like to have a
better rivalry.”
Broadening the outlook from just
two schools, the Cardinal squash
team believes the publicity from this
fundraising, and from the ever-im-
proving rivalry, will push the sport
forward along the West Coast.
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fied Ivy League halls and New Eng-
land prep school gymnasiums, has
yet to reach the same heights of pop-
ularity out west. Talbott and Kayler
hope to instigate increased western
interest.
“[Squash] has really grown at a
collegiate level, and it’s just amazing
how it’s started to boom out here,”
Talbott said. “Cal recently formed a
women’s team; it’s quite exciting.
[With the better facilities] it will be
nice to see Cal and Stanford making
inroads to the national rankings.”
Stanford’s work for Cal demon-
strates that sometimes rivalries need
to be overcome for the bigger pic-
ture and the good of the sport. It also
shows, however, that sometimes, aid-
ing an enemy can sometimes boost
two opponents at the same time.
Riding in the stream of these ideas,
the Beat Cal banner will continue to
fly at Stanford, perhaps someday for
a squash match, as well as before Big
Game.
Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@stan-
ford.edu.