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July 29, 2010
SUMMER EDITION Issue 5

Hospital Expansion: An Update

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In September 2005, Stanford purchased a Theodore Glasser

35-acre portion of land at MidPoint Technolo-
gy Park in Redwood City, intending to use the Michael Londgren
MidPoint facilities for administrative offices
that did not need to be housed on the Palo Alto AILEEN LU/The Stanford Daily Robert Michitarian
campus.
But five years later, the Redwood City cam-
pus remains undeveloped. LOCAL Shelley Gao
Since the Stanford University General Use
Permit limits building and development on the
main University campus, the Redwood City
campus was intended to provide the Universi-
ty with additional space, “thus reserving core
City Council concludes EDITORIAL STAFF

campus space for Stanford’s highest academic
priorities and objectives,” read the Stanford
University 2007-08 budget.
Phase 1 of the proposed development was
also included in the 2008-09 Capital Plan, with
a projected cost of $379 million, according to
Randy Livingston, vice president for business
affairs and CFO.
“However, as the financial crisis unfolded
during that year, this was one of the projects
that was suspended,” wrote Livingston in an e-
mail to The Daily. “This project remains on the
suspended list today.”
No groundbreaking date is set, but the Uni-
versity has submitted an application to the city
of Redwood City requesting approval to rede-
velop the property, said Lucy Wicks, assistant
director of community relations.
“We’re in the process now of putting to-
gether a proposal into the city,” Wicks said.
“We’re looking to draft environmental impact
reports that will come out later this fall.”
However, the economic crisis has left the
University with decreased demand for admin-
istrative office space, according to Livingston.
“While we hope to build out the campus at
some point after the entitlements are complet-
ed, the University faces less pressure to do so
than was the case a few years ago,” Livingston
said. “In the aftermath of the financial down-
turn, many administrative positions were elim-
inated, and future staff growth is anticipated to
be slower than in the years leading to the
downturn.”
The 48-acre MidPoint park, formerly an
Ampex research and manufacturing site, also
houses the eight-acre Stanford Medicine Out-
patient Center, part of Stanford Hospital &
Clinics.
The Outpatient Center hosts all outpatient
services for orthopaedic surgery and sports
medicine, dermatology, sleep medicine and
pain management.
Currently, 65 percent of the property pur-
chased by the University in September 2005 is
being leased. Tenants include the social net-
Please see REDWOOD, page 12
expansion discussions
By BUYAN PAN
DAILY INTERN
Lengthy discussions of a key component of
the Stanford hospital expansion have conclud-
ed, marking a crucial milestone for the project.
The Palo Alto City Council held a meeting
on Monday, July 26 for final discussion of the
Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR)
concerning the University’s Medical Center Fa-
cilities Renewal and Replacement Project. The
City Council’s Planning and Transportation
Commission has been holding meetings to dis-
cuss different chapters of the report over the
past two months, and Monday’s meeting was the
last in the series, focused on a review of the re-
port’s Alternative Chapter and Mitigation Mea-
sures.
The DEIR is a report written by PBSJ, an en-
vironmental, architecture and program man-
MONEY
Financial aid undergoes shifts
By KABIR SAWHNEY
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
With concerns abounding about the fiscal viabil-
ity of the University’s significant financial aid com-
mitments, Stanford announced new changes in its
2010-11 budget designed to ensure that the pro-
gram can continue to meet the “demonstrated fi-
nancial needs” of all admitted undergraduates.
Projections for next year forecast a drop in the
overall amount spent on undergraduate financial
aid to $124.3 million, the first decrease in well over
a decade.
According to Karen Cooper, the director of fi-
Elizabeth Titus
Editor in Chief
eic@stanforddaily.com
Eric Messinger
Summer Managing Editor
agement company that Palo Alto had selected messinger@stanford.edu
to be its consultant for the University’s Medical
Center project. PBSJ had been producing the Jane LePham
report since August 2007. News Editor
California requires submission of these re- jlepham@stanford.edu
ports in order to oversee how major construc-
tion projects would affect their environment. Nate Adams
The Medical Center’s construction project Sports Editor
involves a $3.5-billion plan to be implemented nbadams@stanford.edu
over the next 20 years. It would expand the Lu-
Marisa Landicho
cile Packard Children’s Hospital and recon- Features Editor
struct the main Stanford Hospital at 300 Pasteur landicho@stanford.edu
Drive, the School of Medicine, as well as two
buildings of office space for community practi- Annika Heinle
tioners. Along with the buildings, the facilities Entertainment Editor
will be renovated to meet seismic safety stan- anheinle@stanford.edu
dards.
Overall, 1.3 million square feet will be added Vivian Wong
Photo Editor
vtwong@stanford.edu
Please see HOSPITAL, page 4
Wyndam Makowsky
Opinions Editor
Ivy Nguyen
Copy Editor
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nancial aid, the Office of Financial Aid is “essential-
ly using the same formula” to calculate a family’s
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 CRIME & SAFETY

DSA awaits new labor contract,

DPS runs “lean operation”
By AN LE NGUYEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Stanford University and the
Deputy Sheriffs’ Association (DSA)
are putting the finishing touches on a
new labor agreement that will be re-
vealed and put to vote the first week
of August.
The DSA represents 26 of the 65
employees working at the Depart-
ment of Public Safety (DPS). The ex-
isting Stanford-DSA contract —
which governs work conditions,
wages and labor stipulations — is
valid through July 31, 2010.
In an e-mail to The Daily, Chief of
Police Laura Wilson said that the
eliminated unfilled, non-sworn posi-
tions, and reduced equipment and
maintenance expenditures to absorb
the effects of the budget cuts.
Wilson noted that her department
was able to meet this cutback “with-
out reducing the number of sworn
personnel who patrol the campus.”
“We run a lean operation, which
means employees have their sched-
ules adjusted on a regular basis in
order to meet the demands placed
upon the department,” Wilson said.
“This includes schedule adjustments
to work events, participate in train-
ing and simply cover patrol.”
DPS officers are also often asked
to change their schedules to deal with
football games, weekends and digni-
tary visits.
“Stanford can be a demanding
community to serve from the stand-
point that people expect exceptional
service and are not hesitant to let it
be known when they are displeased,”
Wilson said. “Some might consider
this to be a negative aspect of work-
ing here, but I think the high expecta-
tions force us to be the best we can
possibly be and not to become com-
placent.”
Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen@
stanford.edu.

FINAID
Continued from page 2
$250 per year, to a total of $4,750, that
must be contributed before students
can be considered for scholarship eli-
gibility. Students meet this require-
ment through summer and academic
year earnings.
In addition, Cooper said that the
Office of Financial Aid has increased
the campus minimum wage by two
percent, to about $12 per hour.
“We think students will be able to
handle that $250 increase without any
major impact,” she added.
Families making above $200,000
can also expect to see a bigger bill
from the University in the fall.
“In some situations, at those upper
income levels, our formulas were per-
haps more generous than would be
equitable for families,” Cooper said.
“There are some cases at the highest
income levels of eligibility, where
there is more than one family mem-
ber in college, a new applicant might
see a higher expectation.”
While Cooper said that the formu-
las were not changing, financial aid
officers, who have been generous in
the past when making allowances for
family assets and obligations, would
be stricter in awarding aid to families
at higher income levels.
Adjustments are not being made
to the financial aid program for inter-
national students, which is distinct
from the program for U.S. citizens
and residents. While domestic admis-
sions are need-blind, admission deci-
sions for international students do
percent of the overall budget.
To overcome this shortfall, the Uni-
versity is dipping into the General
Fund, with $10 million pledged to fi-
nancial aid next year. It will mark the
first time these funds are being used
for aid since the 2006-07 year. Stanford
is also making use of money from the
Stanford Fund and the Tier II Buffer,
collectively known as President’s
funds, to contribute $32.7 million, well
above pre-recessionary levels.
“We’re hoping to be able to [use
these funds] until the endowment re-
bounds,” Cooper said.
“We think students
will be able to
handle that $250
increase without
any major impact.”
— Karen COOPER,
director of financial aid
Stanford’s Capital Campaign has
also increased its expected contribu-
tion to financial aid.
Lastly, the budget predicts a three-
percent drop in the number of stu-
dents requiring need-based financial
aid, from 3,350 students to 3,250 in the
upcoming academic year. The Uni-
versity is therefore expecting that, as
the economy recovers, family fi-
nances will rebound and students will
need less support in paying the full
cost of tuition, room and board.
University and DSA “recently
reached a tentative agreement on a
contract.”
“Given the reductions, layoffs and
furlough days that many government
agencies are experiencing, I am
pleased that the University was able
to reach an agreement with the DSA
that includes reasonable salary in-
creases for DSA members without
asking them for reductions,” Wilson
said.
Still, the DSA membership must
ratify the contract before it becomes
official. At present, members have
only seen the agreement’s highlights,
presented in a joint memorandum by
Stanford University and the DSA.
“We’re going to expose it to our
membership on [the] first week of
August,” DSA vice president Ken
Bates said of the full agreement. “I
think we should have a vote to ratifi-
cation soon after.”
Bates, however, declined to com-
ment on the intricacies of the new
contract. He noted that the DSA is
“not really in a position to talk about
the differences between this tenta-
tive agreement” and the preceding
one until its membership has “full
awareness of what’s going on” and
places a vote.
“It’s still a work in progress,” he
said.
Bates also did not say whether last
year’s budget cuts influenced the
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drafting process.
In the coming weeks, the University and the Deputy Sheriffs’ Association are
But these cuts clearly played a
putting the finishing touches on a new labor contract that will govern wages and
role elsewhere, as DPS took a sizable
reduction to its budget last year. DPS work conditions for 26 employees of Stanford’s Department of Public Safety.
STUDENT LIFE

Stanford bridge team earns fourth

factor in financial needs, and the Uni-
versity only admits a “limited num-
ber” of international students who
qualify for financial aid.
These changes are certainly signif-
icant to students currently receiving
financial aid; however, the projected
savings are not enough to cover the
budgetary shortfall from reduced en-
dowment payouts. At its peak in the
2008-09 academic year, as the global
recession was beginning to take its
toll, the endowment contributed
$80.4 million to financial aid, repre-
senting 69 percent of the total aid
budget. Projections for the upcoming
year put the endowment’s contribu-
tion at $66.3 million, making up 53
The recession hit financial aid hard
in two ways last year — just as the
value of the endowment plummeted,
the number of students requiring fi-
nancial aid increased as their families
also lost income due to the crisis.
However, Cooper said the Office
of Financial Aid is prepared in case
place at collegiate championships
the planned decrease fails to material- By AARON BRODER most every year since, according to player Alex Lovejoy, a
ize. DAILY INTERN graduate student in biochemistry. It won the national
“The University will give the fi- championship in 1995, 2003 and 2009.
nancial aid office more money,” A Stanford bridge team advanced to the semifinals in This year, four members represented the team at the
Cooper said. “We monitor how much last weekend’s North American Collegiate Bridge Cham- championship: Lovejoy, C.J. Jameson ‘10, Zizhuo Wang, a
we need for the financial aid program, pionship in New Orleans, beating out four other teams and graduate student in materials science and engineering, and
and if we need more, they find more.” finishing the tournament in fourth place. Miu Wong, who just graduated with a master’s degree in
The team is an informal group of people who play every materials science and engineering.
Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawhney@ Tuesday during the school year at Old Union. The team
stanford.edu. has existed since 1995 and has qualified for nationals al- Please see BRIDGE, page 12

THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010 THE STANFORD DAILY ! SUMMER EDITION ! 3

STUDENT LIFE

Students anticipate fall midterm elections

By ASHLEY MENZIES

Nearly two years ago, an outbreak of

Obama-fever swept across Stanford’s campus,
permeating lecture halls, dorm rooms, dining
halls and even bathrooms. Many students
found out about the latest Obama rally or
phone-banking event by reading the flyer on
the bathroom stall.
“Barack the Vote” T-shirts, blue signs
boasting the word “Change” and Obama-
Biden ‘08 pins often attached to backpacks
flooded campus. Several rallies were held, with
students chanting campaign slogans such as
“O-bama, O-eight.” Stanford Students for
Barack Obama and the Stanford Democrats
were the cool kids that ran the school. And al-
most every weekend, students squeezed into
cramped vans and made the long trek to the
swing state of Nevada to canvas in either Reno
or Las Vegas.
Now that the 2010 midterm elections are
right around the corner and Obama-fever has
subsided, students are trying to maintain a high
level of political activity at Stanford this fall.
“I think Stanford student activists and polit-
ical types are definitely still in action and will
make a strong effort in the fall,” said Sarahi
Constantine ‘11, a student leader in the Obama
campaign in 2008.
Constantine described herself as personally
invested in a number of electoral contests, in-
cluding California’s races for attorney general,
governor, and United States senator. She is
also, through her work with Stanford Democ-
rats and other national projects, following
races in other states for congressional seats.
“There are definitely hardcore political ac-
tivists on campus, myself included, who will be
working hard this fall,” said Zev Karlin-Neu-
mann ‘11, another active Obama supporter, an
officer for the Stanford Democrats and mem-
ber of Organizing for America.
“That said, in an off-year election, and with-
out a candidate like President Obama on the
ticket, it does become harder to mobilize busy
Stanford students,” he added.
Political science professor Gary Segura
does not find the challenge to mobilize voters
during a midterm election surprising. Stanford Daily File Photo
“Without presidential candidates, the elec- Two years ago, students celebrated the results of the presidential election across campus and abroad. While Obama-fever and enthusiasm has
tion lacks the focal points that people tend to subsided in recent months, student activists and the politically minded will still be in action for state and congressional races in this November’s midterm elections.
rally around,” Segura said. “I don’t think this
year is any different.” such as gay marriage and abortion, Hirshman groups on campus because although he largely ilar to how the discontent with the Bush ad-
However, Greg Hirshman ‘11, vice presi- believes many also hold fiscally conservative subscribes to a theory of small government, ministration fueled enthusiasm for the Obama
dent of the new Stanford Tea Party, predicts views. He hopes this appeal sets them apart which is strongly tied to the Republican Party, campaign, Republicans are now dissatisfied
that this year will be different because of from other conservative groups on campus, Republicans do not adhere to a theory of small with Obama’s first two years in office.
strong activism among conservatives. and will help them mobilize students in the up- government when it comes to social issues. “It is a referendum on Obama,” said Hirsh-
“Now the liberals are a lot more disillu- coming election. “The conservatives try to advocate small man about the midterm elections.
sioned with Obama, and conservatives are Hirshman’s focus on fiscal issues as op- government concerning fiscal issues and then Whether that is the case or not, energy lev-
ready to take back power,” Hirshman said. posed to social issues could be a winning strat- turn around and try to legislate morality,” els could see a marked contrast in the fall. A
He believes that the Stanford Tea Party will egy for promoting action if he can attract stu- Threatt said. “I guess I’m libertarian more spring poll conducted by Harvard’s Institute of
resonate with students because it focuses on dents like Jimmy Threatt ‘11. than anything else.” Politics, a nonpartisan group, one of the most
fiscally conservative principles. Although most Threatt, a registered Republican, said he is Threatt predicts that conservatives will be
students hold liberal stances on social issues not involved in any conservative student more active in 2010 than in 2008 because, sim- Please see MIDTERMS, page 12

HOSPITAL
Continued from page 2
to the Medical Center, which is sur-
rounded by Sand Hill Road, Vineyard
Lane, Quarry Road and Pasteur
Drive, and which includes Welch
Road and Blake Wilbur Drive.
The chapters of the DEIR dis-
cussed in the City Council’s meeting
identified the impacts of the project
and proposed mitigation measures
through seven alternative plans.
Among the issues addressed were
traffic, air quality, preservation of his-
toric buildings and meeting the crite-
ria of the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA) in renewing the
Medical Center.
With regards to traffic, the DEIR as-
serted that expanding the Medical Cen-
ter would have more employees and
clients as daily commuters, leading to an
increase in traffic in the area. After
studying various routes, street segments
and intersections, PBSJ foresaw that
congestions could also affect neighbor-
ing cities such as Menlo Park. Emissions
would also increase, damaging the air
quality, and noise levels would affect
surrounding neighborhoods.
In response, PBSJ proposed in the
DEIR a “Village Concept Alterna-
tive,” suggesting that housing be pro-
vided in the vicinity for new employees
to reduce traffic.
Another possible alternative to the
original project was the preservation
of a historic building, the Stone Build-
ing Complex. The complex, construct-
ed in 1959, was where Norman
Shumway performed the first heart
transplant in the United States. In the
University’s plan, the complex would
be taken down for the expansion of
the Medical Center. The alternative
plan in the DEIR, termed the “His-
toric Preservation Alternative,”
hoped to keep the Stone Building
Complex intact.
The main concern of the DEIR re-
garding the environment was the
preservation of the “aesthetically and
biologically significant protected trees
at Kaplan Lawn, the FIM 1 Grove and
along Welch Road.” The University
was in favor of the alternative that
aimed to preserve the trees, as the
plans were very similar to the original
ones. This “Tree Preservation Alter-
native” proposed relocating some
trees and avoiding the construction of
hospital module on Kaplan Lawn.
In addition to discussing the Alter-
natives Chapter and Mitigation Mea-
sure of the DEIR, the council meeting
disclosed public comments on the ex-
pansion project and its alternatives,
with arguments typically centering on
the relative importance of specific cri-
teria, such as traffic or historical
preservation.
The period for the City Council to
accept public comments on the project
ended on Tuesday, July 27. After dis-
cussing the DEIR, Palo Alto will now
put together a final Environmental Im-
pact Report that will be brought back
to the Council in late fall.
Contact Buyan Pan at buyanpan@
stanford.edu.

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POLICE BLOTTER
By JANE LEPHAM
NEWS EDITOR
This report covers a selection
of incidents from July 20 to July 27
as recorded in the Stanford De-
partment of Public Safety bul-
letin.
A series of bike thefts and
medical emergencies occurred
during this period. Bike thefts oc-
curred at the Avery Aquatic Cen-
ter, Stern Hall, Jordan Hall, Flo-
rence Moore Hall, the Rains
Complex, the Lyman Commons
and the Arrillaga Center for
Sports and Recreation.
TUESDAY, JULY 20
" Between 12:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.,
an unknown suspect entered
dorm rooms on the first floor of
Stern Hall and stole money.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21
" At 1:40 p.m., an injury, bike-vs.-
pavement collision occurred at
the corner of Serra Mall and
Lasuen Mall.
FRIDAY, JULY 23
" In an incident that occurred be-
tween 6:30 p.m. and 6:35 p.m.
on July 15, reported on July 23,
an unknown suspect stole a vic-
tim’s unattended purse from
the Taube Tennis Family Stadi-
um.
" At 10 a.m., a person was issued
a stay-away letter at Y2E2. The
person acknowledged and
signed the letter without inci-
dent.
" At 10:05 p.m., the reporting
party located an abandoned
bike on the sidewalk along the
Palm Oval. The bike was taken
to the Dept. of Public Safety for
safekeeping and tagged with
“#249.”
SATURDAY, JULY 24
" In an incident that occurred be-
tween July 21 and July 23, re-
ported on July 24, an unknown
suspect entered a victim’s
locked dorm room in the Ju-
nipero wing of Wilbur Hall and
stole money from the victim’s
wallet.
" Between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30
The bunnies have the
last word: “Some hop
forward, the rest hop
They will also see you
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010
p.m., another unknown suspect
entered two victims’ unlocked
dorm rooms in the Junipero
wing of Wilbur Hall and stole
money from each of their wal-
lets.
" In an incident that occurred be-
tween July 9 and July 16, re-
ported on July 24, an unknown
suspect stole two digital cam-
eras and a laptop belonging to a
victim from Room 205 in Haus
Mitteleuropa.
SUNDAY, JULY 25
" In an incident that occurred be-
tween July 11 and July 19, re-
ported on July 25, an unknown
suspect posted criminal threats
on a victim’s Web page.
MONDAY, JULY 26
" In an incident that occurred be-
tween 5:30 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.
on June 1, but was reported on
July 26, an unknown suspect
stole a woman’s wallet and its
contents when she accidentally
dropped it in the Main Quad.
" At 11:45 a.m. at 794 Tolman
Drive, the reporting party said
she received a threatening call
from an unknown person.
TUESDAY, JULY 27
" Between 4:30 a.m. and 4:45 a.m.
at 10 Comstock Circle, a victim
and suspect had a domestic dis-
pute involving a verbal alterca-
tion. The suspect made threads
toward the victim, causing her
to fear bodily harm.
" Between 7:15 p.m. on July 23
and 1:45 p.m. on July 27, an un-
known suspect stole a flat-
screen TV from the Eating
Clubs at 419 Arguello Way.
" At 3 p.m., a person was cited
and released on an outstanding
warrant out of Santa Clara
County.
" In an incident that occurred be-
tween 6:30 p.m. and 11:55 p.m.
on July 23, reported on July 27,
an unknown suspect stole a vic-
tim’s unattended notebook lap-
top from the Wilbur Dining
Hall.
Contact Jane LePham at jlepham@
stanford.edu.
backward.”
LATER.
Kumar named dean
of UChicago’s
Booth GSB
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Sunil Kumar, the senior associate
dean for academic affairs at Stanford’s
Graduate School of Business (GSB),
was named dean of the University of
Chicago’s Booth School of Business on
Wednesday. Kumar, a member of the
Stanford faculty since 1996, will begin
his five-year term at the start of 2011.
“I look forward to helping strength-
en and enhance Booth’s outstanding
research environment and its rigorous,
discipline-based approach to business
education,” he said to the University of
Chicago’s News Office.
While at Stanford, the 1998 Finmec-
canica Faculty Scholarship recipient
taught M.B.A. and Ph.D. classes in the
pperations, information and technolo-
gy area.
Kumar has served as an editor for
the journal Operations Research, and
has written dozens of research articles.
Much of his research involves the
analysis of mathematical models to
provide a course of action for improv-
ing business performance. Kumar also
helped develop “Littlefield Technolo-
gies,” a simulator for teaching opera-
tions management that has been used
at over 50 business and engineering
schools.
Garth Saloner, dean of the GSB,
emphasized the positive role that
Kumar played during his time on the
Farm.
“Sunil has been a major contributor
to our work on revising our curriculum
over the past few years,” Saloner wrote
in an e-mail to the Daily. “He was in-
volved in the early work on it and was
able to see the final refinements made.”
“While we will miss him, we wish
him everything of the best in his new
position,” he added.
— Joseph Beyda
Kosslyn appointed
director of CASBS
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Stephen Kosslyn, currently Har-
vard’s dean of social science, will take
over as director of the Center for Ad-
vanced Study in Behavioral Sciences
(CASBS) at Stanford on Jan. 1, 2011.
Kosslyn succeeds Iris Litt, current di-
rector of CASBS and professor emeri-
tus of pediatrics.
“It’s an exciting opportunity,” Koss-
lyn wrote in an e-mail to The Daily.
“Not only can I help to strengthen one
of the world’s most distinguished and
venerable institutions in the behavioral
sciences, but I also can help it grow in
new ways.”
Kosslyn, also a psychology profes-
sor, has been a pioneer in the field of
cognitive neuroscience and has exten-
sively explored the nature of mental
imagery and visual perception and
communication. He has published
more than 300 scientific papers, written
or edited multiple books on the subject
of neuroscience and received numer-
NEWS BRIEFS
ous honors as a result of his research.
He received his B.A. degree in psychol-
ogy from UCLA and Ph.D. in the same
subject from Stanford.
According to Kosslyn, his experi-
ence stretches beyond psychology and
cognitive neuroscience.
“I’ve had experience working with
many types of scholars and researchers,
and have also had a fair amount of con-
tact with the tech world,” Kosslyn said.
“I’ve also had experience with fi-
nances, which will no doubt be impor-
tant for ensuring that the Center con-
tinues to flourish.”
Kosslyn sees a bright future for the
center.
“I think CASBS is poised to make
even greater contributions to society,
particularly at the interface of behav-
ioral science and technology,” he said.
CASBS, founded in 1954, has a stat-
ed aim of sharing knowledge of human
behavior and providing a refuge for sci-
entists and scholars to think and be ex-
posed to a diverse array of ideas.
— Nicola Park
Sewage research
makes space for
rocket science
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Anyone who thinks that sewage
treatment isn’t rocket science may
have to think again.
University researchers have created
a new method of treating wastewater
that they say would have a positive en-
vironmental impact and drastically
lower the cost of the expensive and in-
efficient process. With the support of a
Woods Institute Environmental Ven-
ture Projects grant, researchers Craig
Criddle and Brian Cantwell led the
venture.
Criddle is a civil and environmental
engineering professor and an expert in
wastewater management; Cantwell is
an aeronautics and astronautics profes-
sor with interests ranging from fluid
mechanics to propulsion. While these
fields seem to hold little in common,
the researchers brought new meaning
to the word “interdisciplinary” by ap-
plying rocket technology to sewage
treatment, aiming to make the process
energy-neutral and emissions-free.
“If the energy savings we envision
work out, then anyone designing a new
wastewater plant will have to seriously
consider our approach,” Criddle said.
“In this case, the impact could be enor-
mous.”
The method uses anaerobic bacte-
ria to convert sewage into two green-
house gases, nitrous oxide and
methane gas. Aerobic bacteria re-
quire oxygen through a process called
“aeration,” in which air is pumped
into wastewater sludge, enabling the
bacteria to colonize and decompose
the waste. By using anaerobic, or oxy-
gen-independent, bacteria, however,
the amount of air that must be
pumped decreases along with costs.
The resultant nitrous oxide and
methane complete the cyclic process,
as methane powers the treatment
plant while the nitrous oxide fuels a
rocket thruster. Intact, the nitrous
oxide is harmful, but after fueling the
thruster, it is converted into harmless
THE STANFORD DAILY ! SUMMER EDITION ! 5
nitrogen and oxygen gas.
Ultimately, these gases are released
into the atmosphere, replenishing the
nitrogen supply that human activity has
depleted in processes such as the man-
ufacture of agricultural fertilizer.
While the concept for this process
has generated significant buzz, the re-
searchers haven’t yet determined the
technology required for its execution.
“The application to nitrogenous
waste treatment could turn out to be
the most important result of our re-
search,” Cantwell said. “But there is
still much to learn about the underlying
physics of the decomposition process.”
“I expect there will still be space ap-
plications we have not envisioned yet,”
Criddle said.
— Uttara Sivaram
Basque president
visits the Farm
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Currently on a larger tour of the
Bay Area and Silicon Valley, Basque
President Patxi Lopez visited campus
on Wednesday.
Lopez, who was elected the leader
of Spain’s autonomous northern com-
munity in May 2009, toured SLAC
National Accelerator Laboratory, the
main campus and the Center for Au-
tomotive Research at Stanford
(CARS), and also met with Stanford
Provost John Etchemendy.
The visitors particularly enjoyed
seeing the solar car project and the
autonomous vehicle at the CARS fa-
cility, according to Etchemendy. The
Basque delegation was interested in
discussing relations between Stan-
ford and industry during the tour, and
the group also spoke with former
Provost William Miller and Luis
Mejia from the Office of Technology
Licensing.
Etchemendy’s heritage and previ-
ous statements on Basque politics
added nuance to his meeting with
Lopez, who is the first president to
openly oppose Basque independence
in thirty years.
Etchemendy, of Basque heritage,
has a history of promoting Basque
culture and awareness. He sponsored
the formation of an introductory
Basque studies course in 2006. He
also signed the March 2010 “Brussels
Declaration,” which called for the ter-
rorist and nationalist Euskadi Ta
Askatasuna (ETA) group to cease vi-
olence permanently and also for reci-
procation on the side of the Spanish
government.
Lopez’s party, the Spanish Social-
ist Party (PSOE) is against an inde-
pendent Basque and has spoken out
against the Brussels Declaration.
“The declaration endorses the ini-
tiation in the Basque country of a
peaceful process patterned on that
used to solve the conflict in Northern
Ireland,” Etchemendy wrote in an e-
mail to The Daily. He said his signa-
ture was a personal endorsement.
“The desired outcome is to bring
to an end the use of violence as a
means to promote independence of
the Basque provinces from Spain,” he
added.
— Marisa Landicho
FEATURES
Hitting the pavement in a ‘tuk-tuk’
By DEVIN BANERJEE
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
From New Delhi
N
avigating city streets with the
wind in your hair may come in the
form of a Mustang in Los
Angeles, a Porsche in Berlin or a
Ferrari in Rome. But in India, the
convertible is replaced by a half-size, three-
wheeled taxi that many say offers a fuller trav-
el experience than any roof-down car: the
auto-rickshaw.
“The auto is open all around — no win-
dows, no doors,” touted Gopal Singh, the
owner of three auto-rickshaws that he man-
ages at a taxi stand outside a New Delhi shop-
ping center. “See everything, hear everything.
Better than a car.”
Since its introduction in New Delhi in the
1970s, the auto-rickshaw’s apple-green car-
riage and lemon-yellow roof have become
trademarks of urban transportation in India.
In the capital, the noisy, three-wheeled taxis
buzz like bees around every corner and at
every hour of the day. They are so abundant
that a spokesman for New Delhi’s transport
department said he didn’t think anyone in his
office had ever really tallied the “tens of thou-
sands” of rickshaw permits filed in the city.
“Always find [an] auto,” Singh said, leaning
on one of his own. “They are everywhere.”
There’s good reason for their omnipres-
ence in urban India. A new auto-rickshaw
costs about $3,000, said Singh, an amount that
would seem high for a taxi operator were it not
for the vehicle’s low maintenance cost and
The interior of an auto-rickshaw features motorcycle handlebars for steering and not much else.
A passenger row behind the driver’s bench seats about four people, while the sides are left open.
6 ! THE STANFORD DAILY ! SUMMER EDITION
Sights and smells of New Delhi
long life. And the auto-rickshaw dominates
among urban taxis because of its small size,
allowing it to adeptly navigate city traffic.
“It’s the way to go if you need to get some-
where quick,” said Arjun Hari, a New Delhi
banker who often has to be at lunch meetings
out of his office. “My work is just two kilome-
ters away, but it takes forever if I’m not in an
auto. Plus, it’s cheaper.”
Though fare meters are built into most
auto-rickshaws, drivers rarely turn them on,
instead accepting whatever fare their passen-
gers are willing to shell out. Locals say an easy
formula to follow is halving a normal taxi’s
fare for the same distance.
“Really, you could give any fare,” Hari
said. “If you don’t know a normal taxi’s fare to
split in half, you could just ballpark it. That’s
the beauty of it.”
For others, the beauty of the auto-rickshaw
is its versatility.
“I take it to work, I take it to lunch, I take
it to the market and then I take it home,” said
Sheena Shah, an office assistant. “And when
[my friends and I] go out, we all squeeze into
one. There are no seatbelts or anything.”
Indeed, the layout of the auto-rickshaw’s
“interior” is as simple as they come. A bench-
like seat for the driver, which can also fit a pas- DEVIN BANERJEE/The Stanford Daily
senger, faces a pair of motorcycle handlebars
instead of a steering wheel. Behind, a passen- An auto-rickshaw waits outside the World Trade Centre in New Delhi for a lunchtime
ger row can seat about four. passenger. Nicknamed “tuk-tuk” for the noise of its engine, the three-wheeled auto-rickshaw
“And then we can sit on each other’s laps,” is the vehicle of choice for commuters and tourists wishing to weave through India’s streets.
Shah laughed. “So really, it can probably fit
like eight people if you really wanted to pack mode of sightseeing, admitted Bhupinder scenery, one must be exposed to it all.”
it in.” Singh, a four-door taxi driver in south New That includes being exposed to the reality
For tourists, who tend to visit the Indian Delhi. that in the morning and early evening, flag-
capital in fall and spring when the weather is “They like to see out, feel the wind, smell ging down a vacant auto-rickshaw may not be
temperate, the auto-rickshaw is the preferred the smells,” Singh said. easy.
And hear the noises. In fact, a nickname “I think there’s actually a skill to it. You
often given to the auto-rickshaw is “tuk-tuk,” can position yourself ahead of the others on
for the noise emitted by its small motorcycle the street, or some people actually stand a few
engine. meters into the road so that they can jump into
“The sound is part of [the experience],” the first one that drives up,” Hari said.
said Ariel Tandler, an Australian tourist who “Really, it’s all just part of the auto culture in
has mostly traveled by auto-rickshaw during India.”
the week she’s spent in New Delhi. “If one
really wants to absorb the culture and the Contact Devin Banerjee at devin11@stanford.edu.
BUNNIES!
I’m losing my
Kosslyn Students- head in all these
for-City-Jobs pages!
police.
DEVIN BANERJEE/The Stanford Daily
The Bunnies are puzzled.
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010
SPORTS
Financial forecast improving
Cardinal Athletics says all programs safe, looks to improve broadcast deal
By MARISA LANDICHO
FEATURES EDITOR
Stanford Athletics has regained its
financial footing at last, projecting a
balanced budget for the upcoming
2010-11 year — its first balanced bud-
get since the economic crisis in 2008.
To achieve this bottom line, however,
the Athletics Department will keep in
place the operating cuts from the past
two years.
“In order to balance the budget for
FY11, we have primarily maintained
previous budget saving measures and
have not undertaken many new, in-
cremental cuts,” wrote Stanford Ath-
letics Chief Financial Officer Brian
Talbott in an e-mail to The Daily.
When the endowment dropped 27
percent in fiscal year 2009, the Ath-
letics Department was faced with a $5
million shortfall.
Stanford Athletics responded by
eliminating 25 staff positions, freez-
ing salaries and slashing travel and fa-
cilities budgets, according to the
Local star returns
for chance in NBA
By KEVIN ZHANG
DAILY INTERN
Jeremy Lin’s basketball ca-
reer began just a few miles away
from Stanford in a Palo Alto
YMCA gym. Now Lin’s star is
rising as a new signee to the
Golden State Warriors — but he
hasn’t made it yet, he says.
Lin’s story began as a standout
youngster. He took his talents to
Palo Alto High School, where, as
a senior in 2006, Lin led the squad
to a state championship over
powerhouse Mater Dei. Despite
averaging 15 points, seven assists,
six boards and five steals per
game, Lin did not earn a Division
I basketball scholarship. He was
accepted to Harvard on academ-
ic merits and joined its squad.
The early years left an impres-
sion on Palo Altans.
“I’ve known Jeremy for a long
time through church and he has
always been a great leader of my
youth group,” said longtime
friend Elaine Liu, who attended
the Chinese Church in Christ
with Lin in Mountain View. “He
has always been a great listener
and inspiration at church.”
Lin also inspired other former
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010
2010-11 budget. After cutting $1.6
million in FY09 and an additional
$3.5 million in FY10, the department
still operated at a loss of $1.51 million
in FY09 and a projected $156,000 loss
for FY10.
The cuts, however, were enough
to stave off eliminating any of Stan-
ford’s 35 varsity sports, although the
fencing program had to self-fundraise
its $250,000 operating cost in FY09 to
keep varsity status.
For now, all the Cardinal sports
programs are safe.
“Given our current forecast, we
believe we will be able to balance our
budget and meet our financial obliga-
tions without discontinuing any sport
programs,” Talbott said.
At $85.7 million, the 2010-11
budget for Athletics operations and
financial aid makes up 9 percent of
the University’s billion-dollar ad-
ministrative and auxiliary unit ex-
penses. Stanford Athletics is an aux-
iliary unit of the University, mean-
ing it is a self-contained entity that
Paly students, such as Patrick
Liu.
“It’s amazing to have seen
such an amazing player develop
in such a short period of time,”
Liu said. “He’s like a little home-
town hero.”
At Harvard, Lin began to gain
national attention. Playing main-
ly as a point guard in his senior
season, Lin averaged 16.4 points,
4.5 assists, 4.4 rebounds and 2.4
steals and was unanimously se-
lected for the All-Ivy League
First Team. After Lin’s 30-point
performance against 12th-ranked
Connecticut, coach Jim Calhoun
said, “I’ve seen a lot of teams
come through here, and he could
play for any of them.”
After four years at Harvard,
including three as a starter, Lin
graduated as the college’s all-
time leader in games played (115)
and fifth in points (1483).
Although Lin enjoyed a stellar
senior season at Harvard, he was
disappointed on draft day when
he wasn’t selected in either
round. Donnie Nelson, the presi-
dent of basketball operations for
Please see LIN, page 8
runs on the revenues it generates.
According to Vice Provost for Bud-
get and Auxiliaries Management
Tim Warner, all the revenues that
Stanford Athletics collects go
straight toward paying its own ex-
penses.
“The basic idea is that [Athletics]
covers its costs, particularly the Inter-
collegiate Program, with the rev-
enues it raises through ticket sales,
TV revenue, fundraising, et cetera,”
Warner said.
Physical education and recreation
programs for the entire student body,
on the other hand, are supported by
the University’s general fund.
Hopes of bolstering the depart-
ment’s budget now rest on the rene-
gotiation of the broadcast deal once
the University’s television contract
expires.
The addition of Colorado and
Utah to the Pac-10 is expected to help
Stanford work out a better television
deal. Earlier this month, Director of
Athletics Bob Bowlsy told The Daily
As a guard at Harvard, Jeremy Lin, no. 4 above, made waves as one
of the school's best-ever players. The Paly alumnus will stay close to
home as he moves into the pros with the Golden State Warriors.
MARISA LANDICHO/The Stanford Daily
that the renegotiation of the media Athletics endowment will be most
contract is projected to increase fund- critical for the athletic scholarship
ing two- or three-fold. budget, which is typically funded
But this won’t occur for at least an- through endowment payouts.
other year, according to Talbott. “Athletic scholarships are paid
“It is unclear what impact the addi- through restricted endowments, so in
tion of Colorado and Utah to the Pac- other words people will give a gift to
10 will have on the conference’s the endowment for a particular ath-
broadcast revenue,” he said. “Howev- letic scholarship as opposed to a gen-
er, we fully expect that when a new eral need-based scholarship,” Warn-
deal goes into effect for FY13 that we er said.
will see a significant increase in broad- These endowments actually over-
cast revenue over the current deal.”
In the meantime, the drop in the Please see BUDGET, page 8
Cheating is a
part of sports
By TOM TAYLOR
I
t’s the last few seconds of the quarterfinal of
the World Cup. Tied 1-1 after regulation, the
opposing teams have already played through
most of the 30 minutes of additional time, and
the game looks certain to go to penalties.
As the clock ticks to zero, your team has one last
corner to defend and the opposition scrambles to
score the winner. The ball heads toward the net and
you find yourself standing on the goal line, the last
line of defense. What do you do?
Would you take the high road, desperately flailing
with your head and body as you attempt to save it
legally? Or would you realize this would only lead to
you watching the ball hit the back of the net and take
a more drastic move, punching it clear with your
hands? In short, would you cheat to keep your team
alive?
Luis Suárez faced exactly that situation in South
Africa, and his actions earned him a red card for a
clear breach of the rules, but also kept Uruguay in the
tournament at the expense of Ghana. The play was
shown over and over again on TV, and many lam-
basted him for this clear case of gamesmanship. Few,
outside of his home country, accepted the notion that
he really had no choice.
So what would you have done? Is it ever OK to
cheat?
CHUCK MYERS/MCT As Stanford students we are bound to abide by
both the Honor Code and the Fundamental Stan-
dard in our time on the Farm. The former concen-
trates solely on academic matters, and, I roughly
paraphrase, it says that students should not cheat or
Please see TAYLOR, page 8
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MLB’s integrity demands
expanded use of replay
By JOSEPH BEYDA
SPORTS BRIEFS
Grad student rockets to victory at the
San Francisco Marathon
Stanford Stadium, will be open to anyone who graduated
from Stanford between 2001 and 2010. Tickets go on sale
Aug. 2, and young alumni can request seating near friends
Stanford astrophysics student Keith Bechtol won this until Aug. 9.
year’s San Francisco Marathon on Sunday with a time of The season ticket package includes a T-shirt and costs
terference) is significant, the differ-
ence between scoring and being
2:23:28.
Bechtol has been running for 11 years, and after taking
$107, while the regular season ticket package in corner
areas of the stadium costs $145. Guest tickets can also be
thrown out at the plate is just as im- added for $20 per game, and $40 for the game against USC

B
aseball is a game of mis-
takes. Mistakes made by
pitchers lead to most
home runs in the major
leagues; mistakes made
by fielders (such as Bill Buckner’s in-
famous gaffe in Game 6 of the 1986
World Series) can give new life to
whoever’s at the plate.
But the worst of all are mistakes
made by umpires.
Sports are built around the ideal
of fair competition, but when an of-
ficial calls a play incorrectly, the
game doesn’t meet this standard.
Luckily, most sports now use in-
stant replay to ensure that officials
have made the right call. These
sports responsibly recognize that
referees are only human, employing
a backup plan to account for that in
important situations.
The list of such sports goes on
and on — both the NFL and the US
Tennis Association use challenge
systems; NBA refs can check
whether shots got off in time, or
whether a shooter’s foot is on the
three-point line; the NHL even has a
portant.
Opponents of instant replay in
baseball fear that it will make games
longer and more drawn out than
they already are. If we’ve learned
anything from home run reviews,
however, it’s this: the painless, five-
minute sacrifices for these relatively
rare occurrences are well worth it.
Although close plays in the in-
field are much more common than
controversial home runs, they
shouldn’t take much time to review,
either. These plays will be even
quicker to verify with instant replay,
as camera angles near the outfield
fences are much poorer than those
in the infield.
In the end, instant replay could
even save time in many cases, as it
would prevent managers from
throwing a 10-minute tirade every
time a crucial call went the other
way. (With Lou Piniella retiring after
this season, though, the time im-
provement might not be noticeable.)
Despite the ease of a single infield
review, the time that multiple stop-
pages take could add up in a game.
This means that the best way to con-
a three-year break from the sport’s competitive side as an
undergraduate student at William and Mary, he hoped to on Oct. 9.
use the marathon to see where he stood.
Bechtol would eventually stand at the finish line almost Men’s volleyball honored
two minutes before the arrival of the next competitor,
Michael Wardian from Arlington, Virg., even though the
for academic achievement
The national champion Cardinal men’s volleyball team
25-year-old had to balance his training with a NASA satel-
has added another accolade to its historic season.
lite project.
After winning the school’s second national title on May
After preparing for only six weeks, Bechtol knew he
6, Stanford made history again as the 13th team in the his-
could run at a six-minute mile pace, enough to give him a
tory of the AVCA Team Academic Award to win both a
shot at doing well.
national championship and the academic award. The team
“I knew that 5:30 pace per mile would have been com-
had a GPA of 3.54 and is one of two NCAA Division I
petitive in previous years of the San Francisco Marathon,”
teams (along with Harvard) to win the award, which is
he wrote in an e-mail to the Daily, “So I wasn’t afraid to go
given to volleyball teams that maintain at least a 3.30 cu-
out with the leaders and use their experience to my advan-
mulative team grade-point average.
tage.”
In addition to this team honor, individual Cardinal ath-
“I went into the day without any particular goal time in
letes were also recognized. A total of nine players from the
mind, but instead with a sense for how my body should feel
championship squad were named to the Mountain Pacific
at different stages in the race,” he added.
Sports Federation (MPSF) All-Academic team. The nine
University expands Red Zone included all four Cardinal All-Americans: Brad Lawson,
Evan Romero, Erik Shoji and national player of the year
for recent graduates Kawika Shoji.
Moreover, starting middle block Garrett Werner
At the start of the 2010 football season, a special section
for young alumni will be added to the Red Zone to allow earned the Elite 88 Award, which is for the player with the
highest GPA in the NCAA Tournament.
them to experience the atmosphere of a student cheering
section while still sitting with their friends and family.
The Red Zone Young Alumni Section, Section 101 in — Joseph Beyda and Kevin Zhang

war-room set up in Toronto where
every goal scored in the league is re-
viewed.
But that list has one conspicuous
absence — baseball.
Though the MLB allows for in-
stant replay on home-run calls, clos-
er plays in the infield are left entire-
ly up to the umpires.
And they don’t always get it
right, either. Detroit Tigers pitcher
Armando Galarraga lost his perfect
game with two outs in the ninth on
June 2 when umpire Jim Joyce made
a bad call at first, while the San Fran-
cisco Giants lost on July 18 after um-
pire Phil Cuzzi missed a call on a
play at the plate.
Does it make any sense to reward
the team that should lose when there
are viable instant replay systems out
there, just waiting to be used?
The MLB did take a positive step
forward by instituting home run re-
view in 2008. Instant replay was used
on home run calls six times in just the
first month and a half under the rule.
Yet instant replay in baseball still
doesn’t extend far enough. While
the difference between a home run
and a double (in the case of fan in-
duct reviews in baseball would be a
challenge system similar to that used
for football. In the NFL, each team is
given two challenges, and a some-
times a conditional third one if both
of the other challenges are won,
while any controversial calls in the
final two minutes of a half are auto-
matically reviewed by the officials.
In baseball, this system would set
a reasonable limit on managers, pre-
venting games from going long while
ensuring justice in the all-important
ninth inning. Some adjustments
would have to be made — a manag-
er with an extra review could use it
to delay while a new pitcher warms
up — but a feasible framework for
instant replay is already in the hands
of MLB Commissioner Bud Selig.
Whatever impact instant replay
may have on the length of games, at
its core the issue is one of fairness.
And if the MLB doesn’t want to
make baseball fair, there’s only one
other way the sport can be.
Foul.
Joseph Beyda is holding tryouts for
new umpires. Send him your resumé
at josephbeyda@comcast.net.
BUDGET TAYLOR
Continued from page 7
funded athletic scholarships in FY09
and FY10.
In FY11, however, $2.5 million
must be transferred from the operat-
ing budget to the financial aid budget
to pay for the $19.6 million in schol-
arships for varsity athletes. Athletic
scholarships have increased from
$18.9 million last year in accordance
with the tuition increase.
In the next few years, Talbott
said, the department will make a
fundraising push to bridge the finan-
cial aid gap.
“We have a plan to raise $25 mil-
lion in new scholarship endow-
ments which, combined with mod-
est increases in endowment pay-
outs, will allow us to again fully
fund athletic scholarships through
endowment payouts within a few
years,” he said.
Contact Marisa Landicho at landicho@
stanford.edu.
Continued from page 7
knowingly allow others to cheat. The
latter sets a broader code of conduct
for students and stresses “respect for
order, morality, personal honor and
the rights of others.”
In the extreme, breaking either of
these could lead to expulsion from the
University.
Most all Stanford students are
here for academics first, but for many
the athletic department is also a huge
part of their life. The demands of var-
sity sports are no different than those
of professional sports, and so is the
pressure. Many student-athletes
across the country are quite literally
playing for their futures, and a bad
performance, or a string of them,
could lead to them losing their schol-
arship, losing their education and los-
ing everything they have worked and
trained so hard for.
A rare few succumb to this pres-
sure and cheat in extreme ways: taking
steroids and illegal drugs that could di-
rectly threaten their health, cynically
lashing out at their opposition when
Regardless of the setting, these
also break the spirit of the Fundamen-
tal Standard, even if that setting is the
football field, baseball diamond or
basketball court. Staying silent when a
referee makes a mistake might be one
thing, knowing that one of your team-
mates engineered that error through
deception or intimidation but still
keeping quiet is altogether more seri-
ous. And before you view this as a rant
against athletes, I include all of you in
the stands, too.
Every fan has berated or at least
criticized a referee for a bad call that
has hurt their team. Few have done
the same when getting a lucky call.
Maybe they’ll admit later, with some
embarrassment, that the referee got it
wrong, but they’ll more than happily
reap the benefits from that mistake.
While blatant acts like Suárez’s
“save” are comparatively rare, this
form of subtle dishonesty is deeply in-
grained in all sports. The Honor Code
and Fundamental Standard might
scream in protest, but the upside of
this is that the cheating is so wide-
spread that the playing field remains
surprisingly level.
It’s difficult to say it is alright to
cheat in sports, but trying to hold play-
ers and fans to the same high stan-

LIN ing the “We Believe” stretch in

Continued from page 7
the Dallas Mavericks and the only
person from the NBA to contact Lin
before the draft, gave him the op-
portunity to play in the summer.
Lin, 21, turned heads in the sum-
mer league, especially in a televised
match-up against the number-one
overall pick, John Wall. After his
performance against the Wizards’
point guard, calls came his way.
Soon after, the Golden State
Warriors, the team Lin grew up
watching and had cheered for dur-
2007, signed him.
The son of Taiwanese immi-
grants, Lin is only the fourth Asian
American to be signed in the NBA
since 1947 and has garnered signifi-
cant interest and loyalty around the
nation. At a game last season
against Santa Clara, many fans
sported shirts that read, “Welcome
to the Jeremy Lin Show.”
“Just my whole story is so
unique,” Lin told SI.com. “Not only
Asian-American, I’m from Harvard,
from the Bay Area, I was virtually
unknown coming into the draft
scene. Not once — never — was I on
anybody’s draft board coming in.”
He said he appreciates his fans,
but he plays for the love of the
game.
“When I put that pressure of
pleasing everybody else, the Asian
community and every other Asian,
that’s when I lose my joy for playing
the game,” he said, “and that is
when it’s not fun for me anymore
because I am playing for the wrong
reasons.”
And though he has inked a two-
year deal with Golden State, Lin
said his work is unfinished.
“I still need to prove I can play in
the NBA, and I have not proved
that yet,” Lin said.
Contact Kevin Zhang at kevinzhangle@
gmail.com.
the refs aren’t looking, even taking
bribes to lose games. Most have been
involved in some form of gamesman-
ship; all have turned a blind eye when
the referee has surprisingly given a
wrong call in their favor.
The exam hall is, though, no less
competitive than the sports field. Like
it or not, you are competing with every-
one else in that room, hoping to be
graded ahead of the curve. Intimidat-
ing other students, seeking to deceive
the examiners and gain an unfair ad-
vantage or bringing in banned equip-
ment would all be considered a breach
of the Honor Code and dealt with as
such. Knowing that someone else has
done any of these, but doing nothing,
would be viewed in a similar light.
dards we supposedly set ourselves
away from the field seems an almost
impossible task. Perhaps Stanford’s
code of conduct needs a get-out
clause, something to distinguish the
sports arena not just from the exam
hall but from the real world, too.
At the very least, we should re-
member not to feel too wronged when
we are caught for some infringement
and not to be so outraged when our
opponents aren’t.
Cheating might not be okay, but
it’s a fact of (sporting) life.
Tom Taylor plagiarized this entire
column. (Just kidding.) Drop him an
original, properly cited note at
tom.taylor@stanford.edu.

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OPINIONS
Cory Doctorow
A
new website has gone viral. It’s called
“I write like,” and you can find it at
http://iwl.me. Enter any text and it tells
you which, of the works of 50 famous authors,
the writing is most similar to. The software was
developed by a Russian computer program-
mer, living in Montenegro, who claims it uses
a simple Bayesian algorithm (like a spam fil-
ter!) to determine likeness. Among the fea-
tures considered are: vocabulary, sentence-
length and the frequency of commas or peri-
ods. It is an excellent toy.
I discovered I write my column like
Margaret Atwood and was flattered. “Good
job!” the HTML badge said. I thought so too.
Then, I read that someone found that Mel
Gibson drunkenly rants like Margaret
Atwood. Who, in turn, is supposed to write
like Stephen King (she tweeted this result her-
self). I discovered that Madonna’s preteen
daughter has been proven to blog like
Vonnegut, which made me choke a little, and
finally, I discovered I write my emails like
David Foster Wallace and was flattered. Good
job, Rosie. Good job.
With the exception of the “Dan Brown”
result, which has inspired the indignation of
many a netizen, the website is vacuously vali-
dating. The creator said he wanted to encour-
age people to write more, and he’s probably
For A New Generation, Life Begins with “Inception”
O
f all the complaints old people level at
newfangled technology and its impend-
ing destruction of society, one that
seems actually based in reality is the complaint
that the Internet, DVDs and iPods have
ruined the communal aspect of entertainment,
of the entire country sharing a cultural experi-
ence. Precious then, is the movie that truly suc-
ceeds at captivating the public’s attention, like
“Inception” has done in the past two weeks.
Just search “Inception” in the “Posts By
Friends” tab on Facebook and you’ll see what
I mean. And though I’m quite sure that
“Inception 2: The Undreaming” is only a few
years away, for now we can actually sit back
and appreciate a movie-going experience that
doesn’t involve titles with colons nor the name
Spielberg or Cameron. Debates about the
meaning of “Inception” have sprung up all
over the Interwebs, even though most critics
seem dedicated to keeping it in summer block-
buster territory. However, considering how lit-
tle that we actually know about each other,
endless analysis of summer Hollywood block-
busters is a necessary intellectual exercise
because at least we can all agree on having
seen the same movie. Warning: intertextuality
approaching.
Released right at the crystallization of the
Digital Revolution, and also right at the
moment to be a lot our generation’s first R-
rated movie, “The Matrix” was the first film
my friends and I would talk about for hours
just for the sake of understanding. Ten years
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010
O H ! S WEET N UTHIN ’
succeeded in this. But he also seems to want
people to write better: your result comes with
a link to “On Writing,” by Stephen King. I’m
sure many find this confusing. I’ve just been
patted on the back for writing like James
Joyce, why would I bother with pointers from
a pop novelist?
First I thought that the application could be
made much more valuable very easily, without
altering the algorithm. Similarity is subjective,
and the software is certainly picking out some-
thing. If we extended the database to include a
few classes of writing other than The Best, the
majority of text might gravitate to the more
ordinary genres. If we included Lourdes’ fash-
ion blog, for example, my best friends’ 9th-
grade Xanga entries would likely be much
more “like” it than the writing of J. D.
Salinger. There could even be an option to add
your writing to the database whenever you
analyze it, filling out a short survey on the
work — when was it written, is it published,
the age of the author, that kind of thing. Sure
it’d probably be less popular, but under these
conditions, if your writing turned up as “David
Foster Wallace” and not “67 percent of emails
between friends aged 18-30,” that might mean
something. And many people who considered
themselves excellent writers, but were ana-
lyzed to be ordinary, would rise to the chal-
T HIS C OLUMN S ENT
later, it has come to define how my generation
views technology and its relation to reality.
The popularity of a movie dedicated to the
danger of machines knowing too much about
our personal lives undoubtedly feeds into our
current paranoia about social media. Also, for
a generation raised on D.A.R.E. and
metaphorical frying eggs, the framing of true
discovery through the taking of a pill provided
a strong counterpoint to all those gratuitously
fear-inducing anti-drug PSAs. The interpola-
tion of existential questions between kick-ass
CGI action (or the other way around) has let
these ideas marinate into the chicken breast
that is our cultural subconscious to the point
that if you ask anyone our age to peel off the
skin of our superficial understandings of the
world and take a bite, the subtle tang of the
Wachowski brothers is unmistakable.
Chris Nolan stands on the verge of accom-
plishing the same feat with “Inception,” leav-
ing a whole bevy of nuggets for this cultural
prognosticator to explore. I guess what follows
next is the obligatory spoiler alert, though
since I’m not a film critic I won’t be devoting
three paragraphs solely to plot summary. Even
so, be forewarned. “Inception” stands to do to
neuroscience just what “The Matrix” did to
electronic connectivity. Dreams are perhaps
the last part of the human experience out of
the reach of technology, but with biochemistry
researchers exploring the rabbit hole that is
the “cognitive neuroscience of dreams”
(thanks Wikipedia) with increasing fervor, it’s
Roseann
Cima
“I write like” has no way of
knowing whether my
subplots, metaphors or
motifs constructively
interact with my overall
concept.
lenge and work to “beat” the program.
I thought for a while about how satisfying it
would be to have that badge, which you could
tack onto your C.V. along with your SAT and
IQ scores. Take that, New Yorker, I’d say.
Reject the fiction I submitted in high school
will you? Well, I wrote that story like Proust,
and some statistics, somewhere, say so! It has
FROM MY I P HONE
only a matter of time until the development
potential of dreams manifests itself in the pri-
vate sector or the Department of Defense. In
fact, Leo’s character learned all he knew ‘bout
dreams from Professor Michael Caine. The
Army probably already has a Delta Force:
Somno Division, and you can bet Mark
Zuckerberg is already looking into how we can
upload our dreams to Facebook. Dreams
stand to get so much coverage in the next
decade that Neil Gaiman may end up on the
editorial board of the New York Times.
And with this all in mind, Chris Nolan actu-
ally finds a narrative function for the line
“What if your world isn’t real?” as well as the
legitimate use of action movie slow-mo and
Siberian fortress set pieces. It speaks to his
craftsmanship that most of the debate about
this movie is happening only on the ideological
level, and this debate will continue in some
form or another for the rest of the decade.
That’s because everyone likes having reali-
ty questioned, trumped only by having reality
questioned and then answered as plot device
in an action movie. Movies like “The Matrix”
and “Inception” provide fun little diversions
into the world of uncertain perceptions but
still leave you with a happy ending (that top
was about to fall, dammit). They won’t really
alter your thinking for life, or make you recon-
sider the world in any meaningful way. Most of
the dialogue, if someone were to actually say it
to you, sounds like a person tripping on mush-
rooms, which, by the way, made people ques-
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similar words, punctuation and sentence-
length. So . . .
So style just isn’t an indicator of real quali-
ty. The best writers are also great thinkers.
And style is only valuable so far as it serves the
author’s message. “I write like” has no way of
knowing whether my subplots, metaphors or
motifs constructively interact with my overall
concept. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but this
definitely looks like the wrong tree to me. If
Holden Caulfield was real, if he had written
“Catcher in the Rye” as an account of his
experience, it wouldn’t be a great work of lit-
erature. It would be the journal of a relatively
ordinary, troubled youth. A different message,
but, to “I write like,” an identical style. As it is,
“Catcher” is a forceful exploration of authen-
ticity and identity. The first-person voice con-
fronts the issue of perspective. It adopts a con-
versational, introspective tone, because that
feels authentic while consciously being an arti-
fice. And the narrator is the way he is because
the people most actively reflective about these
issues are self-obsessed, obnoxious teenagers.
If I, instead of Lourdes, had written, “so
I’m gonna bring my camera to East London
and take pictures of cool looking people and
come off as weird cuz I’m gonna ask people to
like stand still so I can take pics of them . . . “
in an epistolary novel, it might come close to
qualifying as a work truly in the style of
Salinger. But “I write like” wouldn’t know it.
Write like Rosie? Let her know at rcima@
stanford.edu.
Peter
McDonald
I guess what follows next is
the obligatory spoiler alert,
though since I’m not a film
critic I won’t be devoting
three paragraphs solely to
plot summary.
tion reality in much more profound ways thou-
sands of years before “The Matrix” came out.
Even so, in the right context, “Inception”
could leave a huge mark on the psyche of our
nation’s adolescents. After all, it would be way
weird if we were dreaming this whole time,
wouldn’t it?
Is “Inception” really worth this much talk?
Prove Peter’s point at petermc@stanford.edu.
ENTERTAINMENT
TELEVISION REVIEW
It’s a Mad Mad
Mad Mad World
I
f there had been VHS in 1964, I
can say with confidence that Peggy
Olson from “Mad Men” would have
owned a copy of the 1963 film the title
alludes to. Alas, the Video Home
System didn’t rock the worlds of secret-
ly promiscuous homebodies until 1976,
so the season premiere of the fourth
season of “Mad Men” presents us with a
1964 Thanksgiving, sans VHS.
Somehow it managed just fine.
I spent the week leading up to
“Public Relations” poring over thinly
veiled promotional journalism about
Matt Weiner’s universe of 1960s adver-
tising titans in Manhattan. Even though
that research led me to descriptions of
the first words of the new season, “Who
is Don Draper?”, those five syllables still
sent chills up and down my spine.
AMC’s greatest triumph (who needs
American movies anyway?) began with
surprisingly dramatic and farcical tones
this past Sunday. Nearly a year has
passed in the world of the Draper
divorce and the new Sterling-Cooper-
Draper-Pryce. As a result, we the loyal
viewers of the show find ourselves ask-
Courtesy of AMC ing the same question as the reporter at
Courtesy of AMC
At the start of the fourth season of “Mad Men,” the AMC series about an advertising agency in the middle of the 20th century, Don Draper (Jon
Hamm) experiences a number of challenges. How he rises to meet them relates the core themes of the show to this season’s very altered status quo.
10 ! THE STANFORD DAILY ! SUMMER EDITION
the outset of the episode, “Who is Don
Draper,” simply because the premiere
unveiled many new aspects to the char-
acter, navigated artfully by Jon Hamm.
For Don, his home and work lives
have been reversed: the loner of Sterling
Cooper has become the Alex Rodriguez
of SCDP; the Draper patriarch has
become Don the bachelor. These rever-
sals are clearly wearing on Don, who in
the course of the episode commits
uncharacteristic missteps of failing to
bed a Mount Holyoke graduate and
bombing a magazine interview. Just as
Don never fits comfortably into his new
roles, the audience is never fully com-
fortable with Don’s lack of control. When
we see Don waiting late at night on the
couch of his former family home for
Betty to return, the magnitude of the
upheaval is glaringly apparent. Don
returns to form, by which I mean he art-
fully assumes a form, by the end of the
episode, when he gives a second inter-
view to a Wall Street Journal writer with
all the bravado of a man who could have
been Paris Hilton’s great-godparent
(refer to season three for said reference).
To be honest, this episode put me on
edge even more than the caper-style sea-
son three finale, simply because the sta-
tus quo had changed so much. Matt
Weiner is not afraid to drop us in medias
res with not only plot but even character
development. The Peggy Olson of sea-
son four has a new haircut and new
power at the firm: the command she
exerts over both the new art director
Please see MAD MEN, page 11
Matt Weiner is
not afraid to drop
us in medias res
with not only plot
but even character
development.
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010
THEATER REVIEW
The hero with five faces
Odyssey adapted at Stanford Summer Theater
T
he sheer scope of the
“Odyssey” would seem to
preclude theatrical adapta-
tion. The story leaps from island
to island with a multitude of char-
acters. Its narrative tropes, too, are
anything but performance-friend-
ly. Third-person narration is ellip-
tical and verbose, frequently
employing paragraph-long “epic
similes” that are pretty much
exactly what they sound like.
To perform this tale in a way
that is not only comprehensible
but also entertaining seems next to
impossible, but Rush Rehm and
Stanford Summer Theater have
managed to do both.
The production follows the first
12 books of Homer’s “The
Odyssey,” abridged and adapted
for the stage. It begins, as the
books do, with Odysseus trapped
on an island, the consort of a god-
dess but pining for home. He is set
free by the Olympians and washes
ashore at the court of the seafaring
Phaeacians, where he recounts the
many adventures that led to his
arrival.
The performance is intimate,
featuring a cast of only 10, each
sharing portions of the narration
and assuming roles as needed.
This technique is used to great
advantage. Each actor’s perfor-
mances emphasize particular
moods and draw parallels between
characters. For example,
Courtney Walsh plays both the
goddess Calypso and the fearful
Cyclops. Though physically and
emotionally opposite, they both
demonstrate misapplications of
hospitality when they prevent
MAD MEN
Continued from page 10
(yes, Sal is gone for good) and
Pete creates an illusion of control,
until their promotional hunt for
hams requires Don to bail her
out. Even when Don familiarly
calls her into the office, Peggy is
not afraid to say what the others
are thinking, namely that Don is
the king and the others merely
jesters. I’ll be interested to see
where Peggy goes this season —
not only the beds she sleeps in
but the corporate ladders she is
brave enough to climb.
And then there’s Betty
Draper, more repugnant than
ever as January Jones presents
an uncanny portrait of bad par-
enting in the role. Betty was
afforded some of the best
moments of the episode in action
and symbol: her force-feeding
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010
Odysseus from leaving their the production give the show a
islands. sense of interconnectedness and
Odysseus himself is played by naturalism. We are presented with
five different cast members a story told more than 2,700 years
throughout, changing actors in a ago, and it remains resonant
way that highlights the talents of today. “The Wanderings of
each. When Odysseus is adventur- Odysseus” is alternately exciting,
ing on the high seas, Alex funny, moving and majestic, whol-
Ubokudom takes the reins with a ly unique in a time when story-
wry wink. Paul Baird demon- telling is dominated by exploita-
strates the hero’s skill with diplo- tion and spectacle.
macy. And when the epic power of “The Wanderings of Odysseus”
a storyteller must be invoked, the plays through Aug. 15. Tickets are
booming presence of L. Peter $20, $10 for students. More infor-
Callendar steps into the charac- mation and show times are at sum-
ter’s shoes. While at times the mertheater.stanford.edu.
transitions from actor to actor can
be jarring, the switches are justi- — sam JULIAN
fied and well chosen. Odysseus contact sam:
himself is slippery and clever, a ssjulian@stanford.edu Courtesy of Stefanie Okuda
trickster hero in the vein of Anansi
or Brer Rabbit, and the technique
effectively emulates that.
Whoever isn’t playing a char-
acter serves as a dynamic Greek
chorus, adding commentary and
color as the plot moves forward.
The choreography is deftly exe-
cuted, and movement is lively
and varied. The actors climb
through rafters and swing on
ropes, inventing and creating a
new space on the stage. The min-
imalist approach to props is par-
ticularly innovative. Cloth, wood
and rope are used in so many dif-
ferent manners you wonder why
one would bother with anything
more elaborate. The show asks
audience members to use their
imaginations. Ordinary objects,
such as a blue scarf, are imbued
with complex symbolism through
repeated use.
The intimacy and sparseness of
Sally Draper on Thanksgiving,
the mother and daughter match-
ing pink pajamas, and the moth-
er and stepdaughter matching
red outfits at Thanksgiving din-
ner. Betty, now married to
Henry Francis, wants to have
her cake and eat it too, or, more
appropriately, have her divorce
and milk it too. I can’t wait to see
further interactions between an
even more entitled Betty and an
even less tolerant Don.
Weiner withholds informa-
tion about Joan, underlining the
fact that the show’s creator
knows what the audience wants
better than the audience does.
In true “Mad Men” fashion,
“Public Relations” raised more
questions than it answered, and
I’ll be here to bemoan my igno-
rance along the way.
— liz STARK Courtesy of Stefanie Okuda
contact liz: estark12@ Members of the cast of “The Wanderings of Odysseus” perform the scene of the Lotus Eaters.The play adapts the first
stanford.edu 12 books of The Odyssey, with five different actors playing Odysseus himself. Rush Rehm, drama professor, directs.
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REDWOOD
Continued from page 2
work services company RockYou,
energy efficiency firm Silverspring
Networks, Big Band Networks, a
multinational digital video and data
processing platforms and services
provider, and MokaFive, a software
firm founded by Stanford computer
science Professor Monica Lam and
several of her Ph.D. students.
Some buildings are vacant, while
others are being used by the Uni-
versity for storage, according to
Wicks and Steven Elliott, managing
director of real estate development.
Stanford’s cash flow from the
properties is positive and operation
costs are paid by the tenants, they
added.
The University purchased its 35-
acre portion of MidPoint Technolo-
gy Park for $78.5 million in Septem-
ber 2005.
Contact Joshua Falk at jsfalk@
stanford.edu.
BRIDGE
Continued from page 3
The group qualified for the colle-
giate national championship through
an online tournament in February
against 27 other teams, including one
other from Stanford. Once it had
qualified, the team spent the next five
months practicing and working out
the partnerships, both of which were
new.
“We knew we weren’t as good as
last year’s team,” Lovejoy said, “but
we still expected to make it through
qualifying. I certainly wanted to make
at least the semifinals, and we did
that.”
Stanford pays tribute
A drawing of Stephen Schneider, a professor of biological sciences at Stanford
who died July 19 of a heart attack, still adorns the row of caricatures on the wall
of the CoHo eatery. A green heart was added alongside as a memorial.
12 ! THE STANFORD DAILY ! SUMMER EDITION
No groundbreaking date has been set for the development of the University’s Redwood City campus, located at Mid-
Point Technology Park. Currently, 65 percent of the property purchased in September 2005 is being leased to local firms.
Bridge is a partnership game, sim-
ilar to Spades, in which players work
with their partners to try to earn
“tricks,” or sets of cards. During each
hand, one pair is on the “offense” and
tries to collect a number of tricks that
the team agreed to earlier, while the
other is on “defense” and attempts to
keep the opposing team from making
its goal. Each hand normally takes
less than 10 minutes to complete.
Tournament bridge has an extra
twist on the rules known as “duplicate
bridge,” which is intended to level the
playing field and eliminate the luck
common in card games. Once a hand
is completed between two opposing
pairs, the cards are passed to the next
table, where two other pairs from
each team have to play with the cards
their opponents were dealt earlier.
JING RAN/The Stanford Daily
On Saturday, the team made it
through round-robin eliminations in
third place, advancing to the semifi-
nals. They were defeated on Sunday
afternoon by Yale, which had placed
first in the round robin. Stanford later
lost its third-place match to Harvard.
“It’s sort of a downer to lose twice
in one day,” Jameson said. “But mak-
ing it out of the round robin was pret-
ty exciting. There was some pressure
to repeat [last year’s victory], but the
teams change every year so you never
know who’s favored.”
“There were a few things we could
have done better in the Yale match,”
Lovejoy added, but “the whole expe-
rience was fun, as it always is.”
Contact Aaron Broder at abroder@
stanford.edu.
MIDTERMS
Continued from page 4
recent to address the issue, shows 18
to 29-year-old Republicans more
politically energized than young
Democrats and more inclined to
vote in this fall’s elections. Forty-
one percent of young Republicans
said they plan to vote in November,
compared with 35 percent of De-
mocrats and 13 percent of Indepen-
dents.
Although conservatives are en-
ergized and ready to vote their can-
didates into office, most students
acknowledge that Stanford’s politi-
cal activity will simply not live up to
the excitement of the 2008 election
and its eventual victor.
“He was one of the youngest and
most vibrant candidates since JFK,”
said Hirshman about President
Obama.
“Many students were attracted
to the campaign because it was the
cool thing to do,” said Karlin-Neu-
mann — and he’s hoping students
still think it’s “cool” to support
Obama’s party in the fall.
Contact Ashley Menzies at amenzies@
stanford.edu.
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