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Volume 238A
August 12, 2010
SUMMER EDITION Issue 7

From the farm to the Farm:

Socioeconomic diversity at Stanford
News Page 2

Opinions 5 Sports 6 Features 8 Entertainment 10

Cima on food as an artistic form; Negotiations underway for future The Stanford Summer Chorus fills Hard Summer calmly passes the festival
McDonald on generational judgments divisions, network deals in the Pac-12 Memorial Church to perform Verdi torch to the approaching Outside Lands
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The composite picture of socioeconomic diver- Claire Slattery

sity at Stanford is a patchwork, both in the data
available and the efforts made to achieve it.
The first class of students at Stanford, in 1891,
famously required no tuition. Among the ranks of
the Farm’s “pioneer class” was a young man born
in an Iowa village, the son of a blacksmith and a
minister, who at the time of his admission was or-
phaned and living in Oregon.
Herbert Hoover’s enrollment at Stanford has
served for more than a century as the University’s
archetypal story of success and meritocratic inclu-
sion. Ensuring a diversity of class and background
at Stanford, however, has only grown more compli-
cated since the days of Leland Stanford’s recruiting
trips across the American West.
Competition is extremely high to enter Stan-
ford, with an admit rate of 7.2 percent. And those
who make it in are, as a group, financially better off
than the rest of the American population. Accord-
ing to Director of Financial Aid Karen Cooper, the
median family income at Stanford is approximate-
ly $125,000; by contrast, the median family income
in the United States in 2008, the last year for which
data are available, is $61,521.
Beyond establishing a rough baseline, however,
determining the actual economic diversity of Stan-
ford’s students becomes a far more complex ques-
tion.
Stanford’s financial aid office only has reliable
information for the half of the student population it
provides aid to, and the Office of Undergraduate
Admission does not assess financial details during
its need-blind admission process. No University of-
fice looks at the total economic composition of the
incoming freshman class, nor does any office actu-
ally carry out demographic breakdowns by levels of
income.
At the lowest levels of income, 14 percent of the
undergraduate population received Pell Grants for
the 2008-09 academic year, typically rewarded to
families that make under $40,000 a year.
More broadly, 46 percent of Stanford students
receive need-based scholarships. While only ap-
proximately 50 percent of the Stanford undergrad-
uate population receives need-based financial aid,
an additional group of slightly over 30 percent re-
ceives some other form of assistance, such as out-
side or athletic scholarships, while 20 percent at-
tend Stanford without any aid at all.
Of those families receiving need-based aid, only
about 15 to 20 percent earn more than $150,000 a
year, according to Cooper, and roughly 60 percent
make less than $100,000.
“What I have heard students say, both white and
black, is that, ‘I didn’t know I was low income until
I came to Stanford,” said Sally Dickson, associate
vice provost and dean of educational resource cen-
ters.
While the Office of Undergraduate Admission
strives to ensure the representation of minority
racial and ethnic groups in each class, Stanford does
not obtain a complete picture of a student’s family
income until the student applies for financial aid.
As a result, the process of seeking economic diver-
sity is not what Cooper would call an exact science.
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The full economic picture of Stanford’s undergraduate population is, given available data, impossible to
determine precisely. There are indicators that Stanford’s student body is less diverse in geographic and Ivy Nguyen
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“You really can’t make any assumptions on tion dedicated to addressing that community, a
someone’s income based on race or ethnicity or post that was only quarter-time position during the
even where they come from,” Cooper said. 2009-10 academic year. Her office also sends spe-
Stanford’s administration emphasizes the diver- cial invitations to students who are first generation The Stanford Daily is an independent
sity of background and life experience in its student or of “low income” — from a household under newspaper published by students of Stan-
body, but specific data are not made public by the $100,000 — during New Student Orientation. ford University. It has been serving the
Office of Undergraduate Admission beyond broad “I think what is important is that our overall cli- Stanford community continuously since
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Put on your dancing shoes
High school students Chris Reed, Michael Libby and Jordan Treistan flash mob the audience with a dance to Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” at the
Summer College staff talent show in the FloMo Courtyard last Friday. Stanford’s normal undergrad population returns in mid-Sept.
RESEARCH
PETE could improve solar tech
By UTTARA SIVARAM
DAILY INTERN
Stanford engineers have found a new method for converting sun-
light into electricity, which could significantly improve existing pho-
tovoltaic and solar thermal technologies.
This new method, called photon enhanced thermionic emission
(PETE), was discovered by a University research group headed by
materials science and engineering Prof. Nick Melosh. Melosh went
public with the research on Aug. 1, publishing a paper on the subject
in Nature Materials.
“Despite some of the outrageous claims on the Internet,” Melosh
said, “this is not a panacea, but is a unique method that can capture
both heat and light, and may one day be a valuable part of the ener-
gy solution.”
Photovoltaic solar technology currently relies on semiconduc-
tors, which use photons from the sun to excite electrons, ultimately
generating an electrical current. This mechanism, however, becomes
less efficient with high temperatures, precluding the possibility of
using the waste heat to fuel a secondary generator. As a result, pho-
tovoltaic and thermal energy conversion are mutually exclusive
processes, and current scientific efforts have focused on optimizing
one of the two.
Melosh’s new approach, if successful, would solve this dilemma
by making high temperatures favorable to semiconductor-mediated
energy conversion. By using the semiconductor gallium nitrate,
coated with cesium, the researchers constructed a parallel plate
thermionic emission device, in which higher temperatures will excite
more electrons from the semiconductor cathode and generate cur-
rent.
When photons strike the cathode, they increase the population of
electrons that can participate in the thermionic emission process,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2010
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which Melosh and his team dubbed “photon enhancement.”
Since higher temperatures increase the efficiency of this process,
the researchers envision solar concentrators, which can multiply the
sun’s intensity by 500 times, focusing light on a PETE device and si-
phoning unused heat to drive other thermal conversion systems.
While current monocrystalline solar panels boast an efficiency of
around 26 percent, Melosh expects this new process to increase effi-
ciency to 50-60 percent.
And since PETE’s optimal temperature point is achieved well
after 200 degrees Celsius, it can function in areas such as the Mojave
Desert, whereas today’s solar technology usually fails in tempera-
tures above 100 degrees. However, this new technology is not limit-
ed to such high-temperature climates, if large parabolic dishes are
used to concentrate the direct sunlight.
“It will actually work a little better in cold but sunny climes,”
Melosh said, “but mostly as long as there is direct sun, it should be
able to work.”
“This needs solar concentrations of at least a few hundred times,
thus is most likely to be used for large scale utilities, though could
also be used for remote areas as well,” he added.
While the cost of these dishes, in addition to the semiconductor
material and cesium, is not inexpensive, the output of this process
has the potential to rival that of fossil fuel combustion.
At the moment, tests have been run using gallium nitride, a com-
mon material for household electronics. While the research team
has demonstrated the PETE process, stability and cost-effectiveness
remain obstacles for the technology.
“We have currently only shown the proof of principle experimen-
tally, and shown theoretically that it could be quite efficient,”
Melosh said.
Contact Uttara Sivaram at uttaraps@gmail.com.
ACADEMICS
Students find
new ways to
study abroad
Hold on BOSP’s overseas seminars forces
undergrads to explore different options
By JESSICA LIEBERMAN
DAILY INTERN
Due to financial problems, the University an-
nounced last year that it would be placing its three-week
undergraduate overseas seminars on hold for 2010 — a
decision that has caused students to look to other
sources and programs in order to travel abroad.
Former Bing Overseas Study Program (BOSP) di-
rector and history Prof. Norman Naimark said that after
looking at different options carefully, the decision to cut
the seminar program made the most sense.
“The basic problem was financial,” Naimark wrote in
an e-mail to The Daily. “As part of BOSP’s need to cut
costs, the suspension of the seminar program turned out
to be the easiest and most viable way to meet budget.”
BOSP, which at its height supported 10 seminars
with 150 students, has not helped students pursue their
own trips abroad during this period.
“Generally, BOSP does not get involved in individ-
ual student opportunities, unless they are directly relat-
ed to the students’ study at one of our centers,” Naimark
said. “In those cases, we do support individual research,
internships, and other student activities.”
The cuts to this summer’s overseas seminars have
forced students to search for other means to travel
abroad. Student in Government (SIG) offers overseas
fellowships for students during the summer, but
whether the hold on the seminars will largely affect SIG
remains unseen, according to SIG chair Valentin Bolot-
nyy ‘11.
“I can say with confidence that the high demand
we’ve seen specifically for our international fellowships
is a very good indicator of the popularity of internation-
al experiences in general among Stanford students,”
Bolotnyy said. “It’s hard to say whether or not SIG has
been affected or will be affected by cuts to overseas sem-
inars.”
“ SIG fellowships and the overseas seminars are not
exactly perfect substitutes because the students that
apply to our fellowships look for a full summer work ex-
perience in public service rather than the shorter and
more academic experience that the overseas seminars
used to offer,” he added.
But even if students did look to SIG to support their
trip abroad, Bolotnyy said that, due to financial con-
straints, SIG and other student groups would not be able
to support them all.
“We would simply not have the resources to soak up
the excess demand for international fellowship opportu-
nities that the overseas seminar cuts have left in their
wake, even if we wanted to,” he said.
The lack of overseas seminars this summer has com-
pelled students to find new means to study abroad —
and some have found that the new opportunities
they’ve pursued fit their needs better than the short
summer trip.
“While I would have immensely enjoyed attending
an overseas seminar, I have decided to pursue a quar-
ter-long program instead,” said Jessica Pih ‘12. “I think
that a quarter abroad is much more enriching than sim-
ply three weeks abroad for a seminar.”
But a short overseas trip can be just as gratifying as
a more long-term study abroad program, and other
Stanford offerings allow some students this experience.
“I would imagine those three weeks would resemble
a glorified, educational vacation rather than a cultural-
ly edifying experience,” Pih said. “I had the opportuni-
ty to do so though Bill Durham’s Sophomore College
class to the Galapagos, so I know that two-week semi-
nars can truly make a difference in one’s intellectual de-
velopment.”
Please see OVERSEAS, page 4
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 NEWS BRIEFS
POLICE BLOTTER
operation that has brought on pioneering breakthroughs. By AARON BRODER painted graffiti on the exterior
Patterson to become new Hume and Paul Golan, the DOE site manager at SLAC, DAILY INTERN stairwell of Pigott Hall. The graf-
fiti, however, is not believed to be
signed the lease.
director of Admission At a time when the results of the first user experiments
at the Linac Coherent Light Source, operated by the Uni-
This report covers a selection of
incidents from July 28 to Aug. 10,
gang-related or hate-motivated.

versity for the DOE, are being published, and proposals as recorded in the Stanford De- WEDNESDAY, AUG. 4
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF partment of Public Safety bulletin. " It was reported that an unknown
are being made for multi-purpose experimental research
facilities at SLAC, officials say that the lease was signed at A series of bike thefts and med- suspect entered the Taube Fam-
Stanford has hired Bob Patterson, currently the deputy a significant moment. ical emergencies occurred during ily Stadium between June 24 and
director of undergraduate admission at UC-Berkeley, as “SLAC is a tremendous resource for Stanford, and this period. Bike thefts occurred at July 21, without forcing open a
the Farm’s new director of Admission. Patterson begins over the next 33 years I anticipate that the research facili- the Avery Aquatic Center, Encina door, and stole three laptop com-
his new post on Sept. 13, according to Judith McCoy, a tated by SLAC will have a transformative impact on our Hall, Lucas Center, Herbert puters from the Epatt Academy.
spokeswoman for the Office of Undergraduate Admis- society,” Hume said in an interview with the Stanford Re- Hoover Memorial Building, Grad-
sion. port. uate School of Business, Studio 4 THURSDAY, AUG. 5
As the director of Admission, Patterson will have broad and Sigma Chi. " At 10:40 a.m., an individual was
Representatives from both the University and the De-
influence over the increasingly competitive Stanford ad- partment of Energy expressed favorable opinions toward arrested and transported to the
mission process. Stanford’s admission rate dropped to a the extended contract. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 San Jose main jail. He was
record-low 7.2 percent for the 32,022 applicants to the "A victim discovered that her booked for parole violations,
Class of 2014. The rate for the Class of 2011, at the start of — Buyan Pan wallet had been snatched away driving without a license and
former director Shawn Abbott’s tenure, was 10.28 percent. by an unknown suspect when possessing burglary tools.
Patterson will also directly affect the makeup of fresh- she left her purse unattended " Between 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 4 and
man and transfer classes and affect the University’s longer- between 12:15 p.m. and 12:18 8:30 a.m. the morning of Aug. 5,
term admission strategy, including international and ath-
letic admission. He will report to Dean of Admission
Stanford prof. working to find p.m. by the Claw.
" A victim reported that she had
an unknown suspect kicked out
an antique glass window on the
Richard Shaw and oversee four assistant deans, who each been receiving unwanted, flirta- north side of the Cantor Center
manage a set of admission officers. “stress vaccine” tious calls from an unidentified for Visual Arts.
Patterson, 34, has worked in Berkeley admissions since male caller since May 1. " At 6 p.m., a man was bitten by
Spring 2009, where he oversees a staff of 30. Berkeley had By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF another individual’s dog. Al-
50,312 applicants for Fall 2010 and admitted 25.6 percent, THURSDAY, JULY 29 though the bite was minor and
according to its website. Some anxious Stanford students in future years may
" Between 5 p.m. on July 28 and both parties were cooperative,
From 2005 to 2009, Patterson was the associate director have a new weapon in fighting stress about midterms, ca- 5:45 a.m. the morning of July 29, San Jose Animal Control was
of undergraduate admissions at the University of North reers and how to tell their parents they’ve changed their an unknown suspect broke into still contacted.
Carolina-Chapel Hill, according to an office newsletter an- an office in the basement of " In an incident that occurred be-
major.
nouncing his arrival to Berkeley. Prior to that, he spent After 30 years of research into cures for stress, neuro- Encina Hall and stole over tween 11:50 a.m. on July 20 and
seven years as an admission and financial aid counselor at science Prof. Robert Sapolsky has discovered a possible $3,000 worth of equipment. 12 p.m. July 21, but was reported
the University of Pittsburgh, from which he earned his vaccine-like treatment for chronic stress, devising a genet-
" Between 5:30 a.m. and 7:00 a.m., on Aug. 5, an unknown suspect
bachelor’s degree. He also holds a master’s degree in high- ically engineered formula to influence the chemistry of the an unknown suspect entered a stole the victim’s unattended
er education. brain to counteract hormones that cause stress in the temporary construction com- backpack and its contents from
“It is a honor and privilege to represent such world class human body. pany office at Casa Italiana, and Room 200 in the Packard Elec-
university,” Patterson said in an e-mail to The Daily. “I am Sapolsky had been conducting research on chronic stole tools and computer equip- trical Engineering building.
anxiously awaiting my start at Stanford.” stress treatment for 30 years. After graduating from Har- ment valued at about $2,700.
McCoy said the University opened its search for a new vard in 1978 with a degree in biological anthropology, he
" At 8:00 a.m., an unknown sus- FRIDAY, AUG. 6
admission director in May and finished last week. She said pect broke a window at Bldg. " Between 12:30 p.m. and 3:40
went to Kenya to study the influence of baboons’ social
Shaw, who was on vacation Wednesday, involved senior standings on their health. Through studies such as deter- 360. p.m., an unknown suspect found
administrators and admission staff in the hiring decision — mining the level of cholesterol and stress hormones in ba- slim pickings when he broke into
one she called a “very intensive and long” process. boons’ blood, Sapolsky saw chronic stress as a dangerous FRIDAY, JULY 30 the victim’s locked car in Park-
Patterson was one of four finalists invited to Stanford to condition linked to many serious health issues, including
" At 3:10 a.m., an unidentified ing Structure 5, stealing only
interview after a national search, McCoy said. He replaces Alzheimer’s, depressive disorder and heart attacks. male suspect, most likely trying loose change and a pair of iPod
Abbott, whom Stanford hired in 2006. Abbott left in May He also found that in humans, hormones called fluco- to get his early morning brew, earbuds.
to become assistant vice president for undergraduate ad- broke a coffee vending machine " At 1:05 a.m., an individual was
corticoids, released when undergoing stress, were pro-
missions at New York University. duced in more levels than necessary and lingered after a re- in Meyer Library. arrested, cited and released for
sponse to a momentary alert. He therefore applied gene
" At 6:50 p.m., an accident oc- being a minor in possession of al-
— Elizabeth Titus therapy to tackling flucocorticoid levels, using the herpes curred between individuals on a cohol.
skateboard and in a vehicle on " Later that night at 1:50 a.m., an-
simplex virus as a carrier of the stress-counteracting genes.
The virus, already being used for other gene therapies, the corner of Campus Drive other individual was cited and re-
and Medical Lane. There were leased for being drunk in public.
University, Dept. of Energy could pass through blood-brain barriers, capillaries that
prevented excess materials in the blood from entering the injuries.
" On July 30, the victim reported SUNDAY, AUG. 8
brain.
sign new lease for SLAC By replacing the dangerous genes in the herpes virus
with neuroprotective ones that would neutralize stress
that an unknown suspect used
his credit card on Nov. 29, 2009
" At 2 a.m., an arrestee was cited
and released for being in posses-
hormones, Sapolsky thus created a vaccine-like injection to fraudulently purchase inter- sion of marijuana in a vehicle.
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF national plane tickets. " Also at 2 a.m., a suspect used a
to counteract stress.
When given to rodents, an injection of the modified fire extinguisher in the hallway
The University signed a new lease with the Department virus triggered the release of neuroprotective proteins that SATURDAY, JULY 31 of Branner Hall. The suspect
of Energy (DOE) on Aug. 4, extending a contract original- slowed cell death and limited damages to the brain. While
" Between 12:10 p.m. and 1:10 fled on foot and is outstanding.
ly signed in 1962. The signatory parties agreed that the p.m., an unknown suspect broke " Between 3 a.m. and 3:25 a.m., an
the vaccine-like treatment for stress is not yet available for
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Ac- clinical trials on humans, Sapolsky’s team has proved that the window of a vehicle parked arrestee was transported to the
celerator Laboratory will continue to function on Univer- it is a possible means to tackle stress response. in the Stanford Community San Jose main jail and booked
sity land for another 33 years. Sapolsky was unavailable for comment at press time. Recreation Association parking for intoxication.
Leslie Hume, chair of Stanford’s Board of Trustees, lot and stole a purse.
said that she believed the extended contract between the — Buyan Pan MONDAY, AUG. 9
University and the DOE would continue to foster the co- SUNDAY, AUG. 1 " It was reported that between
" Between July 27 and Aug. 1, an July 18 and July 24, an unknown
unknown suspect entered three suspect stole an iPod from the
unoccupied rooms in Stern inventory at the Stanford Book-

OVERSEAS
Continued from page 3
“It is a great opportunity to meet
people who have similar academic in-
terests and to truly get to know a
Stanford professor outside of the tra-
ditional classroom environment on
campus,” she added.
Some students, like Annie
Kramer ‘12, however, have not been
as affected by the hold as others, opt-
ing to design their own study-abroad
plans.
“Since I am not participating in
any Bing programs, the hold will not
directly affect me,” wrote Kramer,
who is taking a leave of absence for
2010-11 to travel, in an e-mail to The
Daily.
“I won’t be ‘studying’ abroad in the
traditional sense,” she added. “In-
stead, I’m hoping to immerse myself in
other environments by working and
volunteering so that I can have some
‘real world’ interaction with local pop-
ulations and other travelers.”
Yet while students are finding new
ways to travel abroad, they still hope
BOSP and Stanford will resume the
seminars.
“Without the overseas seminars,
the University misses an opportunity
to educate its pupils beyond its walls
and to bring them to the teacher that
is the larger world,” said Kip Hustace
‘11. “I trust that, when the time is
right, the University will reinstitute
the overseas seminars.”
Contact Jessica Lieberman at jlieberm@
stanford.edu.
Hall and stole about $900 from
juvenile camp attendees.
MONDAY, AUG. 2
" Between 9:15 a.m. and 12 p.m.,
an unknown suspect entered an
unoccupied multi-bedroom
dorm room at the Escondido-V
Highrise, and stole three laptop
computers and a digital camera
belonging to three victims. The
stolen property had a value of
over $9,000.
" An unknown suspect spray-
store.
" At 12 a.m., a non-injury hit-and-
run, vehicle-vs.-vehicle collision
occurred in the Roble Hall
parking lot.
MONDAY, AUG. 10
" At 10:40 a.m., an injury bike-vs.-
vehicle collision occurred the
corner of Lomita Drive and
Mayfield Avenue.
Contact Aaron Broder at abroder@
stanford.edu.

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SPORTS
DIVIDE AND
CONFERENCE The future of the Pac-12
By JACOB JAFFE
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
After the confusion of June’s conference ex-
pansion bonanza, the Pac-10 will now officially
become the Pac-12 when Colorado and Utah
join the league, which is expected to be in 2011.
This much is known. What remains to be seen is
how this new conference will function, particu-
larly with respect to the most popular and lucra-
tive college sport — football.
Among the 11 current FBS conferences, five
of them — the ACC, Big 12, Conference USA,
MAC and SEC — have at least 12 teams. Per
NCAA guidelines, all five of these conferences
have been split up into two divisions, allowing
these conferences to hold a conference champi-
onship game. When the Pac-12 and Big Ten join
this list (while the Big 12 leaves it), both will also
split into two divisions. Like nearly everything
surrounding conference realignment, this move
is rooted in monetary interests, because a con-
ference championship game is estimated to
bring the conference around $10 million in rev-
enue.
The issue is now how to split the conference
into its two divisions. Pac-10 athletic directors
have met in the past few days to discuss possible
solutions, but a final decision is not expected
until October. For now, any proposed divisions
are merely speculation, although several ideas
have been championed by different coaches
and media members.
Four of the five aforementioned conferences
are split geographically into either North and
South Divisions or East and West Divisions,
with only the ACC’s Atlantic and Coastal Divi-
sions representing a non-geographical split. An
east-west split would not work in the coastally
dominated Pac-12, but a north-south split seems
at first glance seems feasible — although it is
not without its issues.
One problem with a north-south split is
where to draw the dividing line. The Washing-
ton schools and the Oregon schools would
clearly be in the North Division, while the Ari-
zona schools and the Los Angeles schools
would be in the South Division. The Bay Area
schools could conceivably play in either divi-
sion, leaving the two new members to fill in the
remaining slots.
However, either choice of split would leave
six teams in a North Division, and by all indica-
tions no team wants to be part of a North Divi-
sion. The northern schools would not get to play
UCLA or USC every year, so they would only
travel to Los Angeles every few years, while
South Division teams would go there every sea-
son. The Los Angeles area is the most impor-
tant recruiting region for all the teams in the
Pac-12, so exposure there is crucial for building
a successful program.
Numerous coaches have spoken out against
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a divisional split that would isolate northern
schools from the benefits of playing in southern
California, so Pac-12 officials are looking at
other options.
The most popular alternative being consid-
ered is the “zipper” format, named because the
split would bisect the pairs of schools like a zip-
per. This would give both divisions equal expo-
sure because each division would have one of
the new schools and a team each from Wash-
ington, Oregon, the Bay Area, Los Angeles and
Arizona.
While this strategy solves one problem, it
creates more. The most pressing is that long-
time rivals would be split into different divi-
sions. The schools would never agree to forgo
the rivalry games, so they would be forced to
add the game as an annual non-divisional game.
While being fairly simple for scheduling pur-
poses, this could lead to a rivalry game being re-
peated a week later in the conference champi-
onship game — which could lessen the champi-
onship game, though Stanford Athletic Direc-
tor Bob Bowlsby has downplayed the issue.
Schools might instead move the rivalry game to
earlier in the year, which in turn might down-
play its significance.
Another potential issue with the zipper is fig-
uring out how to split the teams. There are many
Stanford’s Andrew Luck waits for the snap at Big Game 2009, which Stanford lost 34-28 to its rival
Cal. Among the potential complications of the “zipper plan” for dividing the Pac-12 is
separating traditional rivals, whose matches are presently part of the annual conference schedule.
more possible combinations for making the two
divisions in a zipper format, and any choice is
completely arbitrary. Therefore, the Pac-12
would have to be very careful to make the divi-
sions relatively equal talent-wise in order to
avoid stacking one division at the expense of the
other.
Both scenarios have flaws, and not everyone
will be content with the outcome. For instance,
Stanford has played Cal, USC and UCLA every
year since 1936 (other than during World War
II), but few scenarios would allow that tradition
to continue. Problems like this have made hy-
brid divisions (splitting up some rivals while
keeping the rest geographical) a third idea, but
those create as many dilemmas as they solve.
Stanford will likely end up playing some, but
not all, of its current rivals in the new Pac-12,
and while Big Game with Cal will undoubtedly
continue, it could lose some of its flair when di-
visional supremacy comes to the fore.
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The Pac-12’s final decision, however, like the
conference realignment that has made deliber-
ations necessary, will in all probability come
down to money.
A major component of the revenue for col-
lege football comes from television contracts,
and the Pac-12 will have to negotiate a new con-
tract before the 2012 season. This contract will
be vital for the conference because a lucrative
contract means more exposure as well as more
revenue for its member programs.
The Pac-10 currently has contracts with
ESPN and Fox Sports Net totaling $44.4 million
per year. This puts the conference at a signifi-
cant disadvantage compared to the other major
conferences. The Big Ten is due over $200 mil-
lion per year through 2016, the SEC will receive
over $200 million per year through 2023, the
ACC is signed for over $150 million per year
through 2022 and even the almost-collapsed Big
12 is set to make at least $60 million per year
through 2015.
This deficit has spurred new Pac-10 Com-
missioner Larry Scott into furious action.
Along with the additions of Colorado and
Utah, Scott has worked to increase nationwide
exposure of the Pac-10. He sent Pac-10 coaches
and players to New York for a highly publicized
press conference in Times Square and a tour of
ESPN before heading back to the Rose Bowl.
Scott even unveiled a new Pac-10 logo and web-
site.
All the press is aimed at making the Pac-10 a
presence around the country, which Scott hopes
will lead to a better television contract. The Pac-
10 hopes to at least match the ACC, which more
than doubled its previous contract with ESPN
just last month.
A more profitable television contract would
mean more money for all the schools in the con-
ference, and athletic departments rely on foot-
ball to pay for many of their other sports. Unlike
most conferences, however, the Pac-10 does not
split its television money equally. Instead, the
teams that play on television receive 55 percent
of the money, making televised games even
more important for each school.
For Stanford, an improved television con-
tract, more conference exposure and a football
program on the rise could coincide to bring Car-
dinal football to the next level. Until then, the
television contract and the future of the Pac-12
remain unclear.
Contact Jacob Jaffe at jwjaffe@stanford.edu.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2010
Dear spurned SF
sports fans: place
hope on Giants
By JOSEPH BEYDA

I
f you’re a San Francisco sports fan having wait-
ed since 2003 to see a professional team make it
to the playoffs, you may be in for a Giant sur-
prise this fall.

After a 20-8 month of July, the Giants are in the

midst of close division and wild card races with a chance
of reaching the playoffs for the first time in seven years.
Though making the playoffs is far from certain —
San Francisco remains one game behind division leader
San Diego and is tied for the wild card lead — the Gi-
ants have a better shot at playing in October than the
49ers do in January. The Orange and Black’s depth,
though often criticized, is not too shabby, despite a
range of challenges: last year’s hitting core has for the
most part been traded away, fan-favorite Pablo San-
doval has experienced a 70-point drop in batting aver-
age down to .264, and the starting rotation has become
much less dominant. Even with that, the streaky Giants
are still in the mix late in the season.
San Francisco’s success is thanks to the contribu-
tions of 3-4-5 hitters Aubrey Huff, Buster Posey and
Pat Burrell, additions this year that are all hitting better
than .280. The team’s spectacular July was sparked per-
haps most of all by Posey, who went .417 in the month
and had hits in 21 consecutive games.
As Posey has cooled off somewhat since the end of
his hitting streak, gracing us mere mortals with his pres-
ence by hitting under .400, the question becomes: Can AUDREY WU/The Stanford Daily
the Giants hold on to their slim wild card lead, or have Stanford’s All-Sports Camps provide local children with an opportunity for low-key, healthy fun and exposure to various activities. In one
they peaked too early?
Indications are that San Francisco has a good shot at session earlier this week, a group of campers, above, play a game of “Medic,” a fusion of dodgeball and freezetag that rewards agility.
making the playoffs. Despite strong wild card competi-

Sports camps invade campus

tion from Cincinnati, St. Louis and Philadelphia, the
Giants have solid hitters lying dormant in Sandoval,
Aaron Rowand, Freddy Sanchez, Juan Uribe and
Edgar Renteria. If a couple of those players can get hot,
San Francisco’s lineup will be strong enough to carry it
into the postseason.
Easing first-half woes by filling some gaps in the
bullpen, the Giants acquired relievers Javier Lopez and
Ramon Ramirez at the trade deadline, making their
playoff stock much stronger. On Wednesday, infielder
Mike Fontenot joined San Francisco, building a deep
lineup with room for injuries (such as Renteria’s cur-
rent bicep strain). And with a strong coaching staff, ex-
emplified when manager Bruce Bochy bought the team
a game after noticing a tiny ninth-inning gaffe by
Dodgers hitting coach Don Mattingly on July 20, the
Giants might have what it takes to make it further into
the playoffs than expected.
Regardless of how long a 2010 playoff run would last
(if it happens at all), it would surely be a welcome ex-
perience for fans, who have seen just one team make it
past the first series since 1989. That 2002 World Series
appearance came to a disappointing end after the Gi-
ants tossed away the championship with an eighth-in-
ning error in Game Six, and San Francisco’s playoff run
the following season was cut short in the first series.
Fans have been waiting seven years for the Giants to
get that far again. The San Francisco faithful already
seem to appreciate the strides that the Giants have
made, as home attendance is up nearly 2,000 per game
this year. It’s harder to find tickets nowadays, but that’s
just the way it should be to watch the exciting team that
the Giants have become.
Though success by the 49ers — whose last playoff
appearance also came in 2003 — would also be wel-
comed, opportunity in 2010 will be knocking on the
gates of AT&T Park, not Candlestick.
And San Francisco needs the Giants to answer that
knock.
Even as the winter sports approach, Joseph Beyda and the
Giants are keeping baseball on the brain. Debate potential
September call-ups with him at josephbeyda@comcast.
net.
By DANNY RUBIN
DAILY INTERN
“Great!” “Really, really good.” “I like
everything about it.”
Such was the praise Stanford’s All-
Sports Camp won this week — its eighth
and final of the summer — from a handful
of its 6- to 12-year-old campers.
“I really like it,” said a 9-year-old girl
from San Jose who has come to camp for
several years. “We get to play games and do
stuff like rock climbing and gymnastics.”
If you’ve been around campus this sum-
mer, odds are you’ve seen the camp in ac-
tion. But what exactly have the kids been
up to?
The better question is where, said Pam
Mahlow, camp director. The tiny athletes
have roamed from the climbing wall to
Manzanita Field, from Roble Field to the
SPORTS BRIEFS
Cardinal cracks top 25
in SI Preview
Stanford was ranked 24th in Sports Il-
lustrated’s college football preview, re-
leased Wednesday.
The Cardinal’s offense will be powered
this year by redshirt sophomore quarter-
back Andrew Luck, who will take the place
of Minnesota Vikings draftee Toby Ger-
west campus tennis courts, Mahlow said.
Traditional sports are a big component
of the camp. Counselors teach a variety of
sports, including baseball, basketball, vol-
leyball, soccer, tennis, track and field,
wrestling and gymnastics. On top of this,
they also squeezes in rock climbing, slip-n-
slide and, of course, Doctor and Spy, a
unique variant of dodge ball that is the
camp’s most popular activity.
Counselors are the key to the the camp’s
success, organizers say.
“Pretty much, our main job is to play
with the kids, making sure they are having
fun and staying safe,” said Emily Brown, a
second-year counselor and local high
school student. “It’s awesome to be able to
hang out and play summer games as part of
your job.”
“We do a little skill training, but mostly,
we just let them have fun,” said Alyssa
hart as the offense’s focus. Luck threw for
2,575 yards and 13 touchdowns with only
four interceptions during the 2009 season,
helping the team to an 8-5 record.
Also returning are strong receivers in
Ryan Whalen and Chris Owusu, along with
a rushing trifecta in Stepfan Taylor, Jeremy
Stewart and Tyler Gaffney. A maturing
secondary will help prevent defensive gaps
that led to 3,024 pass yards against last sea-
son, one of the worst in the Football Bowl
Brown ‘12, a counselor and Stanford gym-
nast. “If they want to learn more, they come
to us.”
Dan Hernandez, head counselor, says
counseling is a sought-after job. He said
about half of this year’s 23 counselors are
Stanford athletes.
“It’s very difficult to become a counselor
here,” said Emily. “It’s a summer job that
everyone wants, and being a Stanford
camp, we have the opportunity to hire the
best of the best.”
But it pays off, said Alyssa.
“It’s a great way for us Stanford athletes
to give back during the summer. And it’s
great for the kids too,” Alyssa said. “I have
been athletic my whole life, and it’s fun to
show them what I can do.”
Contact Danny Rubin at drubin1@
stanford.edu.
Subdivision.
Stanford was not ranked in the top-25 in
the preseason Associated Press and USA
Today Coaches Polls. It did, however, have
a strong showing in each; it received the
29th most votes in the country in the AP
Poll, and the 32nd most votes for the
Coaches Poll. Stanford has not received
preseason votes in football since 2002.
— Joseph Beyda

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FEATURES
Meet the Stanford Summer Chorus
Summer shines in song
The Stanford Summer Chorus, accompanied by German Junge Kammerphilharmonie Freiburg, entertained a packed Memorial Church on Friday evening with a performance of Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem.”
By NICOLA PARK
DAILY INTERN
H
anging from the high ceiling, the chandeliers
cast a dim light onto the packed Memorial
Church Friday evening. As I climbed to the
upper levels of the church, white program in my
hand, my attention was drawn to the illuminat-
ed stage, where the black-clad Stanford Summer Chorus and
Junge Kammerphilharmonie Freiburg, a semi-professional
orchestra from Freiburg, Germany, stood poised.
The air was expectant.
But then with a flick of conductor Andreas Winnen’s
hand, a soft minor note rang through the church. Slowly it
swelled and transitioned into an ethereal melody as the voic-
es broke off from each other, creating a perfect harmony.
The Stanford Summer Chorus, directed by Amy Stuart
Hunn B.A. ‘95 M.A. ‘00, and the Junge
Kammerphilharmonie Freiburg, collaborated this summer to
produce two performances: Giuseppe Verdi’s “Messa da
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Requiem” on Friday, Aug. 6 and Beethoven’s masterpiece,
“Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, ‘Choral’” on Saturday,
Aug. 7.
I attended the ensemble’s rendering of Verdi’s
“Requiem,” which was dedicated to “loved ones lost in 2010,”
according to the performance program. Although Latin and I
met and parted in my sixth grade language class, I’ve always
thought of the language as beautiful and noble. Hearing the
words from the chorus was soothing, as they floated gently
away from the singers’ vocal cords, each syllable carefully
pronounced.
After the first song ended, I was scribbling on my notepad
when the next song started with a “BANG!” — and I nearly
jumped in my seat. Throughout the next movement I could
feel the drum vibrations reach my bench, even on the church’s
second level. The performance ebbed and flowed between
loud, powerful and dynamic measures to gentle, fragile and
graceful ones, for a delightful variety. The seventh and last
movement, “Libera Me” closed the performance solemnly
and gracefully.
I especially admired the quartet at the forefront: the
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sonorous bass Adam Lau, the dynamic tenor J. Raymond
Meyers, the sweet vibrato of alto Lisa Van der Ploeg and the
high-reaching yet graceful soprano Mary Linduska.
Their performance earned a deserved standing ovation,
one that was nearly three minutes long.
First-time summer chorus member and high school stu-
dent Andjelija Janicijevic was impressed with the perfor-
mance as well.
“It exceeded anything that I expected; it was powerful and
I didn’t expect [the church] to be so full,” she said. “It was
incredible, I never experienced anything like it.”
“I take choir back home and I love choir and I sing,” said
the high school junior from Belgrade, Serbia. But she saw the
Summer Chorus as a refreshing change from what she was
familiar with.
“Our school choir songs are not very advanced, but here
we sing some of the most amazing, the most beautiful, pieces
of all time,” she said. “The German orchestra was so amazing.
Even outside rehearsals I saw them everywhere. They were
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such a positive influence on cam-
pus.”
Many of the singers, like scientif-
ic programmer at SLAC and alto
Joanne Bogart, have been partici-
pating in the choir for years.
Bogart’s first performance with the
summer chorus was about a decade
ago, and she has participated in it
for the majority of the past decade,
including this summer. She also has
been a member of the year-round
Stanford Symphonic Chorus for
over 20 years.
“Singing choral music is quite a
wonderful experience,” she said.
“There’s the sense of community
and building something beautiful
together which you can’t possibly do
independently. Everybody’s impor-
tant.”
The participants in the chorus are
Stanford faculty, staff and students,
of varying ages and singing abilities.
The chorus is non-auditioned and
sponsored by Stanford’s music
department.
This non-auditioned aspect of
the chorus appealed to Carol
Charlton, a Stanford Hospital Life
Science research assistant.
“I had never even heard the
Verdi before, although I’ve heard
Beethoven,” she said. “It seems like
a tremendous amount to learn in
eight weeks. We’re a lot of people
and 50 percent of the people knew
about the pieces before. It was a lot
of work, but at the end of the day,
when I started to learn the songs, it
became more fun.”
The members praised Hunn and
Winnen, the two directors.
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“Amy [Hunn] was sweet and
amazing and she considered all age
groups,” Janicijevic said. “There
were people who were younger and
people who were decades older, so
she knew that some people are not
as advanced as others.”
“[Winnen is] a very fine conduc-
tor and was a joy to follow,” Bogart
added.
The chorus met weekly through-
out the summer, with rehearsals two
and a half hours long, turning to
daily practices as the performance
dates approached.
“When we first started rehears-
ing, it was a bit rocky. It was a lot of
music to learn in a short time,”
Bogart said. “By the time we got to
the dress rehearsals I knew that
these were going to be very fine per-
formances.”
For Bogart, the rehearsals were a
refreshing change from her day-to-
day life.
“It’s the kind of experience dif-
ferent than what I do in my working
life, so it creates a nice balance,” she
said.
The choir became more than just
a hobby for Charlton.
“I didn’t feel confident a week
before the performance, then I sat
down and practiced for half a day,”
she recounted. “It really started
coming — then by the time I did
decide to perform it, it just became
really part of me. I’m still singing
those songs.”
And for the young Janicijevic,
the Stanford Summer Chorus may
be more of a draw than the
University’s famed academics.
“I told [Hunn] that if I come back
next summer, it’ll only be because of
the choir,” Janicijevic said.
Contact Nicola Park at npark917@
yahoo.com.
again?
Tracing the nuances of learning vocabulary
Are children colorblind
or color confused?
By DANIEL RUBIN
DAILY INTERN
A
series of color swatches
are laid in front of you
— each swatch a differ-
ent color. A researcher
asks you which one is
red, and you pick the one you
believe is red. You then repeat the
name game for every color present.
This was the initial test adminis-
tered by psychology Prof. Michael
Ramscar and his staff to 34 subjects
in his study on how children learn
color words. Sounds easy, right? Not
quite. While the test would have
been easy for anyone with even a
basic knowledge of color, the vast
majority of the kids failed.
“Is my child colorblind?” worried
the concerned parents.
Not necessarily, said Ramscar.
He attributed the high percentage of
failures to the quirkiness of the
English language, not the subjects’
personal ability to distinguish colors.
His hypothesis, published last
month in Scientific American, was
that English-speaking children do
not learn color words as well as chil-
dren who speak other languages
because in English, color identifiers
are said before the noun.
Ramscar’s hypothesis was based
upon a unique view on how lan-
guage works.
“Basically, you’re predicting
what I’m going to say as I’m speak-
ing,” he said. “In the gap between
what you’re expecting and what I’m
actually saying, you are predicting
the probability of what I’m going to
say based on signals I give you.”
But why does this make learning
colors so difficult? According to
research assistant Melody Dye ‘07,
children still learning colors in any
language may have difficulty isolat-
ing which hue is being indicated by
specific color words.
In most languages, this is not as
prominent a problem because nouns
are generally said first. For example,
in Spanish, if you wanted to refer to
a blue chair, you would say “la silla
azul.” When directly translating to
English, “silla” means chair, while
“azul” means blue. The color comes
after the noun, meaning that a child
learning colors will fix his attention
on the noun and will thus be able to
see how the color word describes the
hue of the object.
Unfortunately for English speak-
ers, English is relatively unique in
the fact that the noun is said after
the adjective.
“There is a 70-30 probability that
we would say ‘the red ball’ rather
than something like ‘the ball that’s
red,’” Dye said. “[The more com-
mon phrasing] is really informative
if you know colors, but if you don’t
know what red is, then you get no
signal from the word.”
This phenomenon is also why it is
difficult for a child to learn quantity
and size words, Ramscar said.
However, Ramscar explained that
those three types of adjectives —
color, quantity and size — are the
only ones where this problem
occurs.
“Kids have no problem learning
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most adjectives, such as ‘wet’ and
‘broken,’” he said. “If you look at
statistics, we are more likely to say
‘the chair is broken’ or ‘the dog is
wet.’ You wouldn’t say ‘the broken
chair’ until you have both estab-
lished that the chair is broken.”
Ramscar tested his theory by giv-
ing all the children from the original
color test a crash course in color
training. For one group, the training
was done as conventional English
dictates: “the yellow house.” For the
other group, the noun went before
the adjective: “the house that’s yel-
low.” After this, the children admin-
istered the swatch test again. The
results matched the hypothesis; the
first group barely improved, while
the second group improved signifi-
cantly.
The findings point toward poten-
tial alternatives to early language
education.
“One reaction we often got from
parents is ‘How should we train our
kids? Should we put them in cram-
mers [cram school]?’” Ramscar
said.
“But it isn’t really about that,” he
added. “To train more efficiently,
just think about how you talk to
kids. You could say ‘the red ball,’
but you will get much better results
if you say ‘the ball that’s red.’”
For many children, this minor
vocabulary switch could mean the
difference between passing and fail-
ing a test crucial to diagnosing color
blindness.
Contact Daniel Rubin at drubin1@
stanford.edu.
ENTERTAINMENT
MUSIC REVIEW
Hard Summer made
having a great time easy
F
or a culture normally defined by
bright lights, uninhibited danc-
ing, infectious music and instant
personal connections, this past summer has
been relatively tumultuous and macabre for
the rave scene across the globe. Over
Memorial Day weekend at ETD POP, the
rave held at the local Cow Palace, three con-
certgoers died from apparent ecstasy over-
doses, while a month later at the much larg-
er Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles,
an underage girl also died from too much of
the popular rave drug. This caused city and
state officials to begin to rethink and
restructure everything from security to loca-
tion at future electronic concerts. However,
both tragic incidents are minimal in compar-
ison to the disaster
at Germany’s Love
Parade, where the
death toll has risen
to 21 after poor
planning led to a
fatal stampede in
the festival’s only
tunnel entrance.
While not billed
as a “rave” and
attracting an
arguably different
crowd, this past
weekend’s Hard BRIAN PESIN/The Stanford Daily Green
Summer festival in The Hard Summer festival in downtown Los Thomas Pentz, bet-
downtown Los
Angeles was placed Angeles came after a summer marked by tragic took the stage for
under a lot of scruti- deaths at three events: ETD Pop, the Electric Daisy an even larger
ny as the biggest Carnival, and Germany’s Love Parade.
L.A. dance festival
since the widely publicized death at EDC.
Effective security was of the utmost impor-
tance, and it became increasingly hard to
ignore the fact that last year’s Hard Summer
was shut down after riots ensued. However,
this year’s festival, featuring major dance
and electro acts like Erol Alkan, Major
Lazer and Crystal Castles, seemingly went
off without a hitch, not only because of the
minimal arrests and speedy, yet thorough,
security line, but because of the consistently
incredible musical performances and the
collective great time had by the 10,000 peo-
ple attending.
When Intermission arrived at the Los
Angeles State Historical Park in the after-
noon, we immediately headed to the Hard
Stage, while many opted for the other stage,
appropriately named Harder — those with
a palette for dubstep and heavy electro got
their fix at the smaller and more intense
option. The first act that we caught was
Theophilus London, an urban pop artist
straight out of Brooklyn. Accompanied by
famed producer Skeet Skeet, Theophilus
charmed his way into our hearts with slick
10 ! THE STANFORD DAILY ! SUMMER EDITION
dance moves, even slicker hip hop and a
charisma perfect for warming up the crowd.
The day really started to pick up when he
called for all of the ladies out in the audi-
ence and announced, “It’s time to make this
a rave!” while Skeet Skeet mixed dance
beats into Whitney Houston’s “I Will
Always Love You.”
From then on out, the crowd was dancing
into the night. Sets from Breakbot and The
Twelves heavily favored disco elements, and
aside from a minor technical glitch at the
beginning of Breakbot’s set, all three DJs
proved to be up-and-coming talents with Courtesy of www.kingsofleon.com
infectious sounds. Smoothly transitioning
from the Twelves’ set of disco and hit pop MUSIC PREVIEW
tunes was seasoned DJ Green Velvet.
OUTSIDE LANDS
Dressed in a casual all-white suit, wearing
perhaps the biggest grim of anybody attend-
ing, Green Velvet dropped “My House,” the
Rhythm Controll classic that proclaims,
PREVIEW 2010
preacher-style,
“And in my house,
there is only house
music” to wild
cheers. He contin-
A
ued to spin electron-
ic and house music of success are there, but whether they all gel
after this weekend is another story.
that kept the crowd
not just dancing, but rmed with a concentrated line- How eco-friendly Outside Lands fits into
smiling. up of modern rock heroes and the summer concert calendar is a work in
As the sun began progress. If Indio’s Coachella is a sunburned
70s throwbacks, Outside Lands
to set on the amaz- attention hog and the maturing Treasure
Music and Arts Festival is looking to survive
ing talent that is Island is a soggy but lovable eccentric, then
its gawky adolescent stage this weekend. As
Erol Alkan — who Outside Lands 2010, held in the heart of
Grateful Dead devotees and cardigan-wear- urban wilderness, is the newly-minted vegan
took the stage after
Velvet — ing teenagers spill out of the BART, the sandwiched in between. It’s the type of festi-
scaled-down festival, entering its third year in val that bills its headliners, wine menu and
ter known as Diplo, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, will still bike parking at the same height.
be figuring out its niche in the otherwise well- Surprisingly, up until 2007, music-rich San
established Bay Area music scene. Think of Francisco was still without a music festival to
audience. After this Saturday and Sunday as the fest’s soul-
gaining consider- searching period: all the bands and elements Please see RIOT, page 11
able popularity by producing many of
M.I.A.’s best songs (not to mention dating
her), as well as working with many other
major artists, Diplo is enjoying the peak of
his career — and his set at Hard Summer
did not disappoint. After an hour of dancing
to his electro house set, the audience eager-
ly awaited his return as half of the wildly
popular Major Lazer. Once back on stage
with Switch and the rest of the gang for
Major Lazer, Intermission was glad to see
that this outrageous show lived up to the
high bar previously set at this year’s
Coachella.
Headliners Crystal Castles opened with
eerie chords from Ethan Kath on the syn-
thesizer, surrounded by swirls of fog and
hazy lasers. Frontwoman Alice Glass
appeared on the drum set, swaying and
singing in a seemingly drug-induced trance.
With music sounding like a perfect mix of
hypnotic tones, thumping drums, video
game synths and screeching vocals, the live
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show is every bit as confusing,
haunting and captivating as their
recorded work. With Ethan
hunched over his equipment in the
back of the stage, a hoodie thrown
almost completely over his head, we
were enraptured with Alice, throw-
ing herself into the crowd from
every side, moaning and screeching
with seemingly no direction as the
security guards made sure that she
made it out from the crowd surfing
somewhat safely. Their set seemed
to go by in the blink of an eye, leav-
ing the crowd with not just goose-
bumps and awe, but also the senti-
ment of “what in the hell just hap-
pened?”
Closing out the night was
Belgian electro-rock band Soulwax.
Dressed in their standard blue
leisure suits, the four-person band
took the stage with little to no fan-
fare, playing many new tracks that
left audience dancing with their
mouths wide open, in shock that a
rock group could be so intense and
non-stop at such a high energy.
When the clock struck midnight, the
set was abruptly over, and the music
stopped for good. Concertgoers
trickled out of the park, disappoint-
ed at the night’s end, but thrilled
with memories of the events prior.
Despite all of the danger, death and
sadness of this summer’s rave scene,
Hard managed to pull together not
only a safe and well-run event, but
one with music that reminded
everybody why dance festivals are
so amazing in the first place.
— annika HEINLE
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call its own. Noise Pop and Another
Planet Entertainment whetted
appetites with the creation of
Treasure Island Music Festival in
September of 2007, but floating off
the Bay Bridge, TIMF never man-
aged to inspire any homegrown pride.
As beloved as TIMF has become, it
hasn’t been the defining music event
for the City by the Bay.
Cut to the other side of the
Peninsula in August 2008. Another
Planet Entertainment struck again,
dropping big-name acts such as
Radiohead, Ben Harper and Jack
Johnson into the iconic park for the
first Outside Lands, which drew in
around 100,000 music and nature
lovers. Though the event garnered a
smaller attendance in its sophomore
year, its sturdy lineup of Pearl Jam
and Dave Matthews Band assured
Outside Lands of its “annual” status.
For 2010, the festival has moved
past survival to self-reflection and
improvement. Unable to lock in an
anchor act for Friday, organizers
shaved off the third day early on, con-
densing the music and arts fest into
Saturday and Sunday. The ahough
the identity of this year’s Outside
Lands seems to be split between scen-
ester indulgence and hippie-chic.
On Saturday, ennui-effusing indie-
rock vets The Strokes are juxtaposed
against Grateful Dead successor
Furthur, featuring original Dead
members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir.
It’ll be an interesting mix of jaded and
free spirits — expect to see hippies’
bare feet sharing turf with trendily-
aged European leather shoes — a fit-
ting combination for a city famous for
both its Summer of Love roots and its
Whole Foods-consuming yuppies.
Nevertheless, the central attrac-
EVENTS
YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
PROGRAM. Registration is now
open for Avalon Yoga's newest
200-hour Yoga Teacher Training
Program, which extends from
August 27th to December 12th.
Avalon, one of Northern California's
best-known and most beautiful
Yoga Studios and Yoga Teacher
Training Centers, is located less
than 1 mile from the Stanford cam-
pus, at 370 South California
Avenue. Our 15th consecutive
Teacher Training Program will be
taught by the largest and most
prestigious group of regional and
international yoga specialists ever
assembled for the Program. The
Program is fully accredited by the
Yoga Alliance. Classes meet every
Saturday and Sunday afternoon
and about half of Wednesday and
Friday evenings during the four-
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requisites, see
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650-324-2517. Enrollment space
is limited.
tion of the festival, the music, promis-
es to deliver on the sonic end. Furthur
has the advantage of an excited, if a
bit aged, hometown audience. And
with a will-they-won’t-they fourth
album in the works, the Strokes still
enjoy superstar status, even after
spawning multiple (and questionable)
side projects in their three-year hia-
tus. Louisville rock natives My
Morning Jacket, currently between
albums, and now-sober belter Chan
Marshall of Cat Power round out the
rest of Saturday’s lineup.
They are followed up by Kings of
Leon on Sunday, who are looking to
finally escape all those pigeon refer-
ences (unlikely, considered the arbo-
real nature of the park). The rock
outfit may have broken into the main-
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Menlo Park family seeks part-time
stream, but fans of both early “Youth
and Young Manhood” and commer-
cial “Only by the Night” will roll out
for their headlining performance.
Festival mainstays Phoenix, Social
Distortion and Edward Sharpe & the
Magnetic Zeros ensure that this
year’s sound system will go out with a
bang. A smattering of newcomers
such as Freelance Whales, The
Temper Trap and the Soft Pack have
also been thrown in to satisfy the
Bay’s indie tastes.
Equally committed to the arts end
of Outside Lands, organizers this year
have placed almost as much market-
ing weight on the wine and food
offerings as the festival soundtrack.
Attendees will have their pick of 33
restaurants and 26 vineyards to get a
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International Study to Predict
Optimized Treatment in
Depression
Compensated 52 Week Research
Study at Stanford University
We are seeking people who are cur-
rently depressed to participate in a
research study to predict responses to
the treatment of depression. If you
have been feeling the symptoms of
depression (depressed mood, loss of
interest in daily activities, poor concen-
tration, lack or increase in appetite, low
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sampling taste of the Bay Area.
The vision for Outside Lands 2010
may be the experience of sipping
local merlot out of a compostable
wine glass on Speedway Meadow,
with Phoenix strumming in the back-
ground. And there’s nothing wrong
with that.
Tickets, which are “affordable” in
this age of jacked up ticket monopolies,
are still available. Proceeds go to the
San Francisco Recreation and Park
Department, which will have the joy of
clearing out all those reusable bottles
and . . . once everyone clears out of
Golden Gate Park on Sunday night.
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contact marisa: landicho@
stanford.edu
energy or disturbed sleep) or have
been diagnosed with depression you
may be eligible to participate in this
study.
You must also fit into the following criteria:
• Men and Women ages 18-65
years old
• No seizure disorder or history of
head trauma
• No impediment to vision, hearing
and/or hand movement
This study requires three visits to the
Depression Research Clinic and eight
phone appointments over a 52 week
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psychiatric history, meet with a study
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the study.
Participation is confidential and com-
pensation is provided.
If you are interested in participating or
learning more about the study, please
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areas or states, a relatively small yet
substantial segment of the student
body. While they don’t have a dedi-
cated community center and aren’t
greeted as a group during New Stu-
dent Orientation, the challenges they
can face at Stanford are often similar.
Jon Christensen ‘81, the executive
director of the Bill Lane Center for
the American West, said students
from rural areas have to navigate in-
grained attitudes or prejudices to-
ward their background.
“There’s a part of the whole mod-
ern project and the Western intellec-
tual tradition, that in some ways posi-
tions itself toward urban life and
away from rural experience,” Chris-
tensen said.
“There are students who come
from rural America who feel that
they still study under that burden,
and that their experience is not as
valid and that it is not recognized,” he
added.
Bea Gordon ‘10, who majored in
English and environmental history
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and grew up on a cattle ranch in
Wyoming, also said relating to her
classmates could be a challenge.
“You can’t really talk about dri-
ving a truck when you were seven
when you’re with a bunch of people,”
she said.
But both Gordon and Christensen
said the classroom could provide a
means for students to feel more com-
fortable, and that through academic
study rural students could connect
their experience with higher educa-
tion to their life before Stanford.
“For me that was really nice, be-
cause I got to learn more about my
home,” Gordon said.
She emphasized that to view rural
students as one group would be to
oversimplify their experience — a
problem that Christensen points to as
an additional challenge in reaching
out to students with diverse back-
grounds.
“Everyone has a different rural
background,” Gordon said. “I’m not
really going to be sympathetic with
someone who grew up on a corn farm
in Nebraska.”
Christensen, who attended Stan-
ford in the late 1970s, was upbeat in
his assessment of the culture of inclu-
sion on campus.
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“I think there is more room for en-
couraging and understanding and re-
specting rural experience,” he said.
“There is still some of that bias, but I
think there is more understanding
now, and that students feel more
comfortable and confident with
bringing that experience here to
Stanford.”
In assessing diversity at Stanford,
one thing is clear: the picture is
murky, and in upcoming years it
won’t become any more easier for
Stanford to match its practices to its
stated commitments.
“The world is becoming more di-
verse, as we know, as well as the real-
ization that there are students with
multiple identities,” Dickson said.
But the role of diversity in provid-
ing a crucial aspect of education at
Stanford seems to be an area of broad
agreement — so long as the Univer-
sity can allow a shared place at the
table for what Christensen calls the
“richer conversation” provided by
someone with a distinct background.
“It’s about making space for that
kind of experience,” Christensen
said.
Contact Eric Messinger at messinger@
stanford.edu.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2010