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September 24, 2010 Issue 6

After three big wins, the Cardinal hits the

road to face a struggling Notre Dame
By KABIR SAWHNEY
MANAGING EDITOR

In its first and only trip outside the West Coast

this season, the No. 16 Stanford football team
travels to South Bend, Ind., this week for its annu-
al game with rival Notre Dame. The Cardinal (3-0,
1-0 Pac-10) has not won at Notre Dame since 1992
and has lost seven straight games at Notre Dame
Stadium, but recent history favors it — Stanford
won the last meeting between the two teams, last
season’s finale in Stanford Stadium.
The Fighting Irish (1-2) enter Saturday’s game
desperate for a win to salvage its first season
under new head coach Brian Kelly. After winning
its first game of the season against Purdue, Notre
Dame has dropped its last two games. It lost to
Michigan by four points before losing last week to
Michigan State, this time by three points.
For Stanford, a team ready to justify its highest
national ranking at this point in a season since
1972, this game provides the first big test of the
season.The Cardinal also is looking to start 4-0 for
the first time since 1986 and keep up its momen-
tum heading into its two biggest games of the sea-
son: Oct. 2 at No. 5 Oregon and Oct. 9 at home
against No. 20 Southern California.
Through its first three games, Stanford looks
like a team capable of winning its first Pac-10 title
since the 1999 season. After flattening cupcake
Sacramento State, the Card went on the road and
dismantled UCLA 35-0 before coming home and
routing Wake Forest 68-24.
The Cardinal can thank quarterback Andrew
Luck more than any other player for its hot start
to the season. The redshirt sophomore’s perform-
ance thus far doesn’t just have Stanford fans
dreaming of the Rose Bowl; he has shot to the top
of ESPN’s NFL draft board and has emerged on
Heisman watch lists around the country. His num-
bers certainly have been gaudy. He has thrown for
674 yards and 10 touchdowns while completing
64.3 percent of his passes and throwing no inter-
ceptions, and has a passer rating of 192.3. He also
has shown a lot of athleticism, and while he isn’t a
true dual-threat quarterback, he can create of-
fense with his legs, rushing for 140 yards through
Stanford’s first three games.
Luck has emerged as an extremely capable and
effective offensive leader as well. In last week-
end’s game against Wake Forest, Luck was at the
helm for eight Cardinal drives, and all eight went
for touchdowns.
The Stanford running attack hasn’t slowed
down at all either, even though it is employing a
rotation of backs. Led by the sophomore duo of
Stepfan Taylor and Tyler Gaffney, the unit is
ranked 14th in the country, rolling up 242 yards
per game. The Cardinal offensive line has shown
NOTRE DAME
(1-2)
South Bend, Ind. 12:30 P.M. PST
COVERAGE:
TV: NBC
RADIO: KZSU 90.1 FM, (kzsu.stanford.edu)
UP NEXT OREGON
10/2 Eugene, Ore.
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RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM (kzsu.stanford.edu)
NOTES: No. 16 Stanford takes its only road trip outside of the
West Coast as it visits Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish are on a
two-game losing streak, after dropping close games to Michi-
gan and Michigan State. Stanford’s pass defense, led by junior
Michael Thomas, is currently ranked No. 1 in the nation, and
will be tested by Notre Dame quarterback Dayne Crist.
why it is praised as one of the country’s best, open-
ing up big holes for Taylor and redshirt freshman
Usua Amanam and pushing the pile forward for
Gaffney’s power runs. Both the running and pass-
ing games should have a good day against a Notre
Dame defense that is ranked 102nd in the country.
Notre Dame’s offensive attack is no pushover,
however. The passing offense, led by first-year
starter Dayne Crist, ranks eighth in the nation in
yards per game. Crist has thrown for 851 yards and
seven touchdowns while surrendering two inter-
ceptions. He will provide a solid test for a Stanford
defense that is currently No. 1 in the nation in pass
defense.
Indeed, it is Stanford’s defensive performance
that most will be keeping an eye on. Entering this
season, Luck and the offense were expected to
power the team, but the defense seems much im-
proved from last season, especially after shutting
down UCLA and holding Wake Forest to 10
points before the starters were removed. Overall,
the defense is ranked sixth, and while this ranking
might slip as the Card moves into the teeth of its
Pac-10 schedule, it should provide enough SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
With the departure of Heisman runner-up Toby Gerhart, the Cardinal has employed a backfield by committee in 2010.
Please see FBALL, page 4 One of the biggest contributors has been sophomore Stepfan Taylor, above, who is averaging more than 50 yards a game.

GAINING MOMENTUM CROSS COUNTRY

Card hopes to continue
turnaround this weekend
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
The Stanford men’s soccer team opens
the Stanford Nike Classic under the lights
Friday night, playing St. Mary’s at 7 p.m.
The team is set to face Denver on Sunday
afternoon in its final tune-up game before
conference play begins.
The Cardinal (2-4) came into the season
ranked 14th in the national polls, but was
left dumbfounded after dropping the first
four games of the season in heartbreaking
fashion. A late goal by senior forward Do-
minique Yahyavi finally put the team in the
win column against USF, however, and a 4-
1 beat-down of Santa Clara at home gave
the players some much-needed confi-
dence.
Senior defender Bobby Warshaw was
impressed by the way the team handled the
losing streak.
“Those were really tough losses, but the
guys are taking the lessons they learned
from them and getting better,”he said.“We
weren’t ever panicking,and we knew it was
going to come,but having the wins does im-
prove the morale.”
Head coach Bret Simon is also opti-
mistic with the season still in its infancy.
“The first few games weren’t great, but
we played better than the results showed,”
he said. “We came into the game against
USF knowing it might be the most difficult
game of the year because they always play
us tough, but we scratched and clawed our
way though that game.We need to keep up
that concentration and focus, but that type
of win can go a long way to giving you be-
lief.”
St. Mary’s, the Cardinal’s opponent on
Friday, is full of confidence after moving
into a national poll (Soccer America has
them at No. 18) for the first time since 1991
and only the second time in history. The
Gaels are 4-1-1 and coming off back-to-
back shutouts of San Jose State and No. 17
Cal State Bakersfield.
The matchup also pits standout junior
goalkeeper Doug Herrick of St. Mary’s
against Stanford’s leading goal scorer,
Yahyavi. Herrick has three shutouts in just
six games and was recently named WCC
Player of the Week. Yahyavi has been hot
of late: his three goals this past weekend,
including the aforementioned game win-
ner against USF, led to him being named
Pac-10 Player of the Week for the first time.
It was the 12th time a Stanford player has
ever been awarded the honor.
The Cardinal will go on to face Denver
on Sunday at 1 p.m. and will have to work
hard to slow down junior Jarod Stigall.The
midfielder has three goals this season and
found the back of the net twice to help
Denver draw with then-No. 16 Portland
two weeks ago. He was named MPSF Play-
SAINT MARY’S
(4-1-1, 0-0 WCC)
Laird Q. Cagan Stadium 7:00 P.M.
UP NEXT DENVER
9/26 Laird Q. Cagan Stadium
NOTES: After opening the season with four disap-
pointing losses, the Cardinal will look to build on
the momentum of two recent wins when it takes on
Saint Mary’s and Denver at home this weekend.
er of the Week for his efforts.
Denver (4-2) is coming off a bad home
loss to No. 21 Penn State, but was unbeaten
in four previous games, a stretch in which it
tied Portland and pulled out a 3-1 win over
then No. 20 Georgetown.The Pioneers will
face No. 14 California later on Friday.
Please see MSOCCER, page 4
Men, women
looking tough
By ZACH ZIMMERMAN
DESK EDITOR
The Stanford men’s and women’s cross country teams
will kick off their full-squad seasons on Saturday, staying
on the Farm to entertain a home crowd at the Stanford In-
vitational.
The No. 1 men’s team, which obliterated the competi-
tion in last year’s meet by sweeping first through fifth
place, will be favored again this year.This time, however,
it will not be as easy.
No. 4 Northern Arizona, led by senior David McNeill,
will be the toughest test for the Cardinal and will pose a
legitimate threat to steal an early-season victory. McNeill
finished second at the 2009 NCAA Cross Country Cham-
pionships and is entering his final campaign as a frontrun-
ner for a national title.
Stanford has two stars of its own in junior Chris Der-
rick and senior Elliott Heath. Derrick was the overall
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NEWS
STUDENT LIFE

Foursquare
“checks in”
at Stanford
Social networking app joins
forces with 20 universities
By LISA WALLACE

Foursquare recently announced a special

“universities edition,” and Stanford is among
the company’s first 20 college partners trying to
facilitate social connections and event publicity
on campus.
The mobile-phone social networking appli-
cation allows users to update their physical lo-
cations by “checking in” at events and address-
es. By syncing with other social networking
tools such as Facebook and Twitter, Foursquare
lets its users track their friends’ favorite campus
ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily landmarks.
The idea behind Stanford’s Foursquare page
is that campus-specific information should help
CRIME & SAFETY students and faculty feel more connected so-
cially by giving them better access to informa-

Campus preps for quake drill

By CAROLINE CHEN
STAFF WRITER
If an earthquake struck at Stanford to-
morrow, would you know what to do?
If not, you’ll have a chance to practice
during a campus-wide earthquake evacua-
tion drill on Oct. 7.
The Office of Emergency Management
(OEM) is organizing the drill at the request
of Provost John Etchemendy Ph.D. ‘82 and
President John Hennessy to teach students,
staff and faculty what to do in case of a
major earthquake.
While the University has previously
conducted drills to test the school’s ability
to triage information and organize a re-
sponse, this will be the first drill focused on
residents and campus employees.
“We really want to get people to become
more aware of the appropriate response,”
said Keith Perry, emergency manager.
“They need to know what their personal
role is.”
The upcoming exercise will begin with
the outdoor warning system — seven sirens
— going off simultaneously. Perry said the
start time is not specified because “emer-
gencies never arrive on schedule.”
The AlertSU system will also send a text
message to all students, staff and faculty.
Everyone will then be expected to duck,
cover and hold on to something until the
sirens stop, then evacuate whichever build-
ing they are in and head to the nearest
emergency assembly point (EAP).
Campus currently has 115 assembly
points,which can be found on the emergency
evacuation maps in every residence and
building. The locations are also marked by
gray posts with the symbol of a blue triangle
in a white circle. Once students arrive at the
assembly points, they should check in with
faculty, instructors or residence staff there.
Perry suggested that students locate the
assembly point nearest to their dorms and
classes so they know where to go instantly
in case of an emergency.
Accounting for every person on campus
is the difficult aspect. Besides the Universi-
ty’s 16,000 students, there are also thou-
sands of faculty and staff. In hopes of count-
ing how many participate, the OEM is try-
ing a new program that will send an auto-
mated phone call through the AlertSU sys-
tem to everyone after the evacuation.
“They’ll be asked to press one, two or
three [in response to] the question,” Perry
said. “They really need to listen to that
phone call. If they don’t respond, we won’t
be able to log the fact that they’ve checked
in.”
Of course, there is no way to account for
every single person, especially within the
half-hour time slot scheduled for the drill.
However, Perry believes the exercise will
give the OEM a baseline percentage to
work with so officials can improve the sys-
tem.
While students may feel silly ducking,
covering and holding with a class of stu-
dents during the drill, Perry stressed that
the exercise was for their benefit.
“It’s not a question of if we’re going to
have an earthquake,” he said. “It’s a ques-
tion of when we’re going to have an earth-
quake. We know we will experience large
earthquakes in the Bay Area in the future.”
Bay Area native Chad Meirose ‘11 said
that the drill was “nothing out of the ordi-
nary” for him, as he has done many similar
drills before.
“If many students aren’t aware of how to
do it,[this drill] might be necessary,”he said.
“But I think a handout with pictures would
suffice.”
However, some students appreciate the
chance to rehearse an earthquake scenario.
“In the event of an actual serious earth-
quake on campus,” said Grove residential
assistant Bob Clark ‘11,“I think we’ll all be
glad that everyone has had a chance to do
a test run.”
Contact Caroline Chen at cchen501@stan-
ford.edu.
tion about events and places. Once a user has
“checked in” to a location, he or she can write
reviews and leave insider tips for other users to
see, creating a collaborative, user-modified re-
view book.
But will students use it?
Some say other social-networking sites hold
more unique and important socializing fea-
tures.
“I would try out the application to look at
different events on campus and to find out
about food places — more as an information
resource than for social networking,” explained
Rebecca Amato ‘14, who recently downloaded
Foursquare on her iPhone. “I would look to
other social networking sites like Facebook to
feel connected.”
Socializing is not the only purpose of the
service, however. While Foursquare primarily
focuses on information exchange, users can also
participate in a rewards system based on their
check-in histories. Each “check-in” earns a
badge and a number of points depending on the
location.
For example, a user who checks in to a partic-
ular location most often may become the
Foursquare “mayor” of that place. Another user
who collects the most locations in a week can ob-
tain the “adventurer badge.” While the points
Please see FOURSQUARE, page 7

ACADEMICS LOCAL

SLE profs take Leaders talk East Palo Alto ties

Shakespeare Five miles away, city has unique
relationship with University
was not listed as a factor affecting Stanford. The median in-
come for a family of four is $48,000, according to Carlos
Romero ‘80, the city’s vice mayor — a number that is at least
half the median income in Palo Alto.

to big screen By CASSANDRA FELICIANO

Professors create instructional
DVDs for Shakespeare plays
By WILLA BROCK
Greg Watkins and Jeremy Sabol, Structured
Liberal Education (SLE) professors, one-upped
SparkNotes with the Aug. 14 release of their latest
collaboration, “This is Hamlet.”
The instructional DVD follows “This is Mac-
beth,” released in October 2008, in their series of
humorous feature-length films introducing Shake-
speare’s plays.
“The goal is really to bring people towards the
text,” Sabol said. “Since we teach in SLE, we’re in
the business of helping students try to appreciate
the classics and feel some ownership over great
Amazon.com
Stanford students star in “This is Macbeth”
(pictured above), precedessor to the recently
released “This is Hamlet.”
tween stagings of key scenes, which are performed
by professional Shakespearean actors in a black-
box theater,and a talk-show format where the char-
acters discuss their motivations with host Ralph
Holinshed, played by Sabol.
“When we’re in the theater, it’s pure Shake-
speare,” Sabol said. “We want those clips to serve
another pedagogical function — that if you just
want to see Macbeth 1.7, you can just see it, and it’s
not adulterated in any way. But the studio is more a
space for exploration of that language, commenting
about the language and trying to get what Shake-
DESK EDITOR
The lack of a Stanford presence in East Palo Alto is for sev-
eral reasons. For one, the University does not own any land in
the area, as it does in cities such as Menlo Park, Palo Alto and
Redwood City, said Larry Horton, senior associate vice presi-
Although East Palo Alto is only five miles from Stanford,
the two places’ economic relationship varies greatly from
dent of government and community relations at Stanford.
Although Romero said Stanford’s largest economic impact
on the city comes from employment opportunities at the Uni-
Stanford’s connections with other mid-peninsula cities.
Nonetheless,the campus remains tied to the city through com-
versity, even those numbers are marginal. According to the
Public Affairs report, only 302 University employees came
munity service efforts.
from East Palo Alto of more than 20,000 total employees, de-
Flanked by affluent neighboring cities, East Palo Alto car-
spite a rising unemployment rate in the city.
ries remnants of its notorious reputation from the 1990s, when
“There’s a rather significant number, I can’t say how much,
the city was known as the country’s “per-capita murder capi-
of undocumented citizens in East Palo Alto,” Romero said.
tal,” according to the San Jose Mercury News.
“Generally, those folks don’t work for the University because
But even now, a report released by the Stanford Office of
they look for documents like that.”
Public Affairs in 2008 with data collected in 2006 shows that of
What the University doesn’t invest in dollars, it may try to
all the communities affected by the Stanford economic foot-
make up for in time. East Palo Alto is a hotbed for communi-
print, East Palo Alto falls very close to the bottom, with ap-
ty service endeavors spearheaded by programs at the Haas
proximately $49.1 million in overall spending in 2006 com-
pared to approximately $1 billion spent in Palo Alto.
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works of literature and philosophy.”
Directed by Watkins, a filmmaker before his
teaching stint at Stanford, both DVDs switch be-
NEWS BRIEFS
Renovated Row house
kitchens open
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Three Row house kitchens are set to open for
business at 10 a.m. on Friday after renovations and
county inspections delayed their openings last week.
Approximately 150 students and their chefs in
Bob, Casa Italiana and Storey could not use stoves,
toasters, washers or ovens and kitchen managers
could not stock the open kitchens when students
began arriving last Thursday, said Cristiana Giannini
‘11, kitchen manager at Casa Italiana.
Instead, chefs cooked meals in neighboring resi-
POLICE BLOTTER
speare is doing.”
Finding the middle ground between those two
Please see PLAYS, page 7
By IVY NGUYEN locked bike was stolen from the
DESK EDITOR bike racks on the Oval side of the FRIDAY, SEPT. 17
This report covers a selection of
Graduate School of Business. " Between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.,
the victim’s cable-locked bike was
incidents from Sept. 14 to Sept. 23 as " Between 11:20 a.m. and 1:20 p.m., stolen from the bike rack on the
recorded in the Stanford Department the victim’s unlocked bike was northwest corner of the Graduate
dences and transported them by golf cart, and stu-
dents took up additional hashing duties to cover
of Public Safety bulletin.
A series of bike thefts, car burgla-
stolen from the east side of the Mc-
Cullough Building.
School of Business.
gaps in cleaning equipment. SATURDAY, SEPT. 18
“Everyone was pretty patient and they all pitched
ries and drug citations occurred dur-
ing this period. THURSDAY, SEPT. 16 " Between the hours of 12 a.m. and
in,” Giannini said. “Everyone’s been really under- " Between 12:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., 6:45 p.m., unknown suspects en-
standing because it’s construction so they know TUESDAY, SEPT. 14 the victim’s U-locked bike was tered the Arbuckle Lounge in the
there’s going to be delays.That’s just how it is.” " On Sept. 11 between 8:00 and 9:00 stolen from the courtyard of Wilbur Graduate School of Business,
Affected students on Thursday got $10 in Cardi- p.m. at Meyer Library, the report- Hall. broke into the vending machine
nal Dollars, which are set to expire today. ing party lost her key ring with her and stole approximately $450 in
“In an attempt to lessen the impact of the delay, Stanford I.D. attached to it.The key " On Sept. 13 between 6:00 a.m. and cash.
we wanted to provide students with some options ring was later returned without the 10:30 a.m., unknown suspects stole
around breakfast in particular, as often students Stanford I.D. several bicycle tire repair tools " At 1:15 p.m. at the intersection of
make use of the open kitchen for that purpose,” said from the seat bag of the victim’s bi- Campus Drive and Lasuen Street,
Nate Boswell, associate dean of Residential Educa- WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15 cycle, parked at the bike racks out-
tion. " On Sept. 13 or 14, the victim’s U- side Mudd Chemistry Building. Please see BLOTTER, page 7
— Cassandra Feliciano
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FEATURES
PIAZZZA-PALOOZA
A look at how Nath’s
homework-help
Stanford startup
went public
By STEPHANIE SARA
CHONG
DESK EDITOR
A
hypothetical (or, for
many, a very real) sce-
nario: you’re stuck on a
problem set. It’s four in
the morning, and you
have only six hours left to tackle that
seemingly impossible problem,show-
er (it’s been a few days) and survive
the long haul to your teaching assis-
tant’s office just to hand in your hard
work.
So, where can you turn for help?
Let’s be honest — your professor
went to bed long before you even
started your homework. You’re not
quite on a texting basis with your
classmates. Everyone in your fluores-
cent-lit dorm — with the exception
of that insomniac kid who spends
every night playing Internet
backgammon — is asleep.
“Stuck? Need help? Just ask.”
That’s the tagline of www.piazzza.
com.
Perhaps best described as the
mule of Coursework and Wikipedia,
Piazzza is an online — and, conse-
quently, 24/7 — homework helper.
Piazzza, whose name comes from
the Italian word “piazza” (a com-
mon place for people to come to-
gether), aims to mimic the classroom
setting. Using a question-and-an-
swer format, students, TAs and pro-
fessors alike can post questions and
offer answers. Piazzza employs a
wiki-forum interface to facilitate on-
line discussion, whereby users can
repeatedly edit each other’s answers
so as to ultimately produce a single,
comprehensive answer to each ques-
tion.
Pooja Nath, founder and CEO of
Piazzza and recent graduate of Stan-
ford Graduate School of Business,
was inspired by her undergraduate
experience. One of four women in a
computer science class of 60 at IIT
Kanpur (India), she said she em-
pathized with any confused and help-
less student.
“I’d been in students’ shoes —
frustrated, up late nights, unable to
get help on problem sets when I
needed it,” Nath said. “Existing solu-
tions didn’t cut it . . . I was too shy to
interact with the majority of my class-
mates.The few I knew often would be
stuck like me.”
It was Nath’s experience in the
working world — she has held jobs at
Oracle, Kosmix and Facebook —
that taught her the value of personal-
ized mentorship. Later, as she was
completing her two-year master’s at
Stanford this past spring, Nath finally
recruited a group of developers and
brought Piazzza into fruition.
In its initial stages, Piazzza started
out in private beta.
The Piazzza team had to reach out
directly to professors, who then intro-
duced the website to their students.
Developers have worked all summer
to improve the website in prepara-
tion for public launch this autumn
quarter — and upping last quarter’s
user count of 200 tenfold.
Professor Peter DeMarzo of the
Graduate School of Business, one of
the first to experiment with Piazzza in
the classroom, affirmed that he
would continue utilizing the website
in future classes. For
him, Piazzza helped
most in reducing e-mail
traffic of the same ques-
tion over and over.
The big advantage for
my class was the fact that
teaching assistants could answer
a question once and many students
could see that answer,” DeMarzo
said.“This became a repository avail-
able to all the students.”
Despite its usefulness, Marzo
noted that Piazzza was not without its
flaws. He disliked the website’s op-
tion for users to show up anonymous.
“It was more effective when ques-
tions were not anonymously asked
versus anonymously asked,” he ob-
served. “People were just more
thoughtful about their questions
when it wasn’t anonymous.”
Another likely concern about
anonymity concerns the honor code:
would easily accessible information
on the Piazzza wiki-forum provide
more opportunities to cheat?
“We actually haven’t had profes-
sors running into honor code issues,”
said Ravi Sankar ‘12, a Piazzza team
member.“I think part of it is that pro-
fessors tell their students what’s rea-
sonable. And out of respect for their
professor, even if they’re able to be
anonymous, it seems like students
have been observing that.”
Sankar’s unique perspective as
both a Piazzza user and developer
has helped him define clear objec-
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Professor Snapshot
The Daily e-mailed faculty a short questionnaire that
strayed beyond their work at Stanford. Here is a
glimpse into the personalities behind your profes-
sors.
Mark Applebaum
Hometown: Chicago, Ill.
Undergrad: Carleton College, music major
Grad school: UC-San Diego, doctorate in
music composition
Fan of: The 1990s Chicago Bulls
Hobbies: Inventing silly games with my
daughter, cooking, tap dancing, traveling
to places where people have different as-
um
sumptions about life
lebea
#1 on my playlist: I try not to listen
k App
to music because it’s a job for me.
f Mar
Favorite book: anything by Chuck
Klosterman
tesy o
Favorite movie: This Is Spinal Tap
Cour
ory.” Winter,
If you could only eat one food group for the “Rock, Sex, and Rebel-
rest of your life, would it be grains, meat, lion.” Spring, “The British Inva-
vegetables or fruit?: Which food group is the sion.”
Pop Tart in? How about a group comprising only salt,
MSG, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenat- Primary research interest/project: I com-
ed vegetable oil, sodium nitrates and Bacos? I think pose uncompromising and unmarketable experi-
ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily that might even be vegan... mental music and build sound-sculptures (instru-
ments made of junk, hardware and found objects
If I hadn’t gone into academia, I’d be: in mounted on electroacoustic soundboards and
prison played with chopsticks, wind-up toys, violin bows and
Department: Music plectra).
tives for the Classes taught: This fall, “Readings in Music The- — Chelsea Ma, Managing Editor
product. One
was trying to
build a sense of
online community
among classmates.
The developers have
also sought to exploit
game mechanics, which would incen-
tivize students to post more frequent-
ly.
“We have this sidebar that says,
like, ‘X person answered this ques-
tion in less than three minutes — for
the win,’” described Sankar. After
conducting more than 50 hours of
surveys, the developers learned that
users — even non-computer science
majors — enjoyed playing this virtu-
al game that they had, in a sense, in-
vented for themselves.
To use or not to use: that is the
question.Those students who already
have suitable study groups may not
be jumping for joy at the thought of
another homework helper. But for
new students about to dive headfirst
into their freshman year, Piazzza may
be something of a lifejacket.
“With Piazzza, collaboration be-
comes flexible and it complements
the classroom experience anytime,
anywhere with anyone,” summarized
Cyrus Khajvandi ‘11, another Piazzza
team member. “I wish I had Piazzza
when I first came to college.”
Contact Stephanie Sara Chong at ss-
chong@stanford.edu.
Interested?
Learn more and apply today at http://bit.ly/JoinDailyBoard.
Deadline: Sept. 24, 5 p.m.
4 ! Friday, September 24, 2010 Cardinal Today The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
POURING IT ON
Tom Taylor

Women’s soccer: offense erupts as Card routs Hawaii 9-0
PORTLAND
(10-0-0, 0-0 WCC)
Laird Q. Cagan Stadium 7:00 P.M.
UP NEXT
SANTA CLARA
10/3 Laird Q. Cagan Stadium
NOTES: No. 2 Stanford continued its undefeated season last
night in a rout of Hawaii, but will face a much tougher test
tomorrow when takes No. 3 Portland. The Pilots, perfect
through ten games, defeated No. 16 Cal yesterday.
By SAM SVOBODA
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The No. 2 Stanford women’s soccer team
began its three-game homestand in impressive
fashion Thursday night at Cagan Stadium,
trouncing Hawaii (2-8) by a final score of 9-0.
The Card was dominant in all aspects of the
game, getting goals from seven players and out-
shooting Hawaii 33-3 overall.
“The team is coming into mid-season form,
starting to play well,” said Stanford coach Paul
Ratcliffe. “There were a lot of different faces
scoring goals tonight, so it was really good to
see.”
Stanford (7-0-2) kicked off the scoring less
than three minutes into the match. Junior for-
ward Lindsay Taylor received the ball just out-
side of the box on the left side before cutting in-
side to create a shooting angle. She was still a
long way out but struck a beautiful curling shot
over the keeper and in off the underside of the
crossbar.
Just a minute later, senior forward Christen
Press had a chance to double the advantage as
she found herself one-on-one with Hawaii
keeper Kanani Taaca after a beautiful long ball
by center back Alina Garciamendez. However,
her near-post attempt was kept out by the div-
ing keeper.
In the ninth minute, Press put junior Teresa
Noyola in behind the defense, and the midfield-
er unselfishly played the ball across for Taylor
to tap in her second goal of the game.With that
score, the Cardinal went up 2-0.
Stanford did not let up and the barrage con-
tinued a minute later. Taaca slid to collect a
loose ball in the box but could not hold onto it,
and Press swooped in to slot the ball into the
open net.
Noyola hit the post from the top of the box
in the 18th minute, and Morgan Redman struck
the post after some nifty footwork in the 32nd
minute. Redman got her goal in the 37th
minute, again displaying some good dribbling
to win a penalty and then smashing the ball in
from the spot.
Once again, the Cardinal struck within a
minute of the previous goal. Sophomore Mar-
jani Hing-Glover blasted a left-footed effort in
off the far post from 25 yards out on the right to
make it 5-0.The half would end with that score,
with Stanford holding an 18-1 edge in shots.
Stanford had its starters back in to begin the
2nd half, and Noyola made it 6-0 six minutes
Please see WSOCCER, page 5
Continued from front page
Our‘other’
problem:
fixing
matches
I
t’s not a great time to be a fan of
the Pakistani cricket team. In
March 2009, gunmen attacked a
bus carrying the Sri Lankan team
during its tour of Pakistan. Six
policemen and a driver died, while
seven players and an assistant coach
were injured. In response to the attack
and the security fears it raised,other na-
tions canceled tours to Pakistan and
the International Cricket Council
(ICC) stripped the country of its host-
ing privileges for the 2011 World Cup.
Adding insult to injury, its great rival
India will now jointly host the event
with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
This summer, the Pakistani team
was given a home in England, allowing
it to continue playing “home” interna-
tional fixtures. After several games
against local sides and a couple of good
results against Australia,it then went on
to play an ill-fated series of matches
against England.
Allegations of match-fixing
emerged at the end of August, and as
the police began to investigate, three
players were suspended and sent
home. Then, just as it looked like Pak-
istan was finally managing to put this
behind it, last Friday, with a good win
over England, the whole thing resur-
faced. The very next day, evidence
emerged of spot-fixing in that same
game, calling into question whether or
not the two remaining matches could
even be played.
Spot-fixing is a less extreme form of
match-fixing.Players might be made to
bowl a certain number or pattern of
wides — when the ball is thrown too
far from the stumps — or told to score
fewer than a certain number of runs
when batting. The whole point is that
some shadowy character behind the
scenes bribes a player to do this and
then makes large sums of money by
betting on these pre-determined out-
comes.
Now, bending the rules is so much a
part of all sports that someone coined
the term “gamesmanship” to make it
seem a little less dishonest. But there
are two types of cheating that should
anger even the most blasé fan: doping
and match-fixing.
Both of these have repeatedly con-
spired to shake the very foundations of
major sports and teams.
Every year or so, one Olympic
champion or another has his or her
gold medals stripped after taking ille-
gal substances, and in one particularly
strong example, the 2007 Tour de
France was brought to its knees as
rider after rider failed blood tests.
Even as the drug-testing agencies be-
come more adept at catching cheats,
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
those producing or administering the
Playing with a full student body on campus for the first time this season, the Cardinal was firing on all cylinders Thursday night. The scoring start- substances still manage to remain one
ed early, with junior forward Lindsay Taylor, above, scoring the first goal in under three minutes. It was all the Card would need in the 9-0 shutout. step ahead with new chemicals and
new ways to fool the tests.
Evidence of serious match-fixing

FBALL|Card looks to stay strong as it hits the road XCOUNTRY

Three of The Daily’s football gurus give their take on Saturday’s game. strength to hold back the
Fighting Irish. Junior safety
Michael Thomas, who has
emerged as the leader of a
much-improved Stanford sec-
ondary, will be an especially
important player to watch.
On the injury front, Stan-
ford head coach Jim Harbaugh
continued to be tight-lipped on
the status of several key play-
ers with injuries, including sen-
ior receiver Ryan Whalen, the
leader of the Cardinal receiv-
No. 16 Stanford (3-0) vs. Notre Dame (1-2) ing corps. As of now, Whalen is
not listed on the depth chart.
KABIR SAWHNEY He went off the field against
STANFORD 38, NOTRE DAME 28: The Cardinal defense can’t keep up Wake Forest with what seemed
to be a fairly serious injury, did
the same level of play it sustained against UCLA and Wake Forest, but performs
not practice this week and was
adequately. Andrew Luck shreds a weak Notre Dame defense, going for four seen on campus in an arm sling.
touchdowns through the air. With the Irish still trying to find their identity in the Scout.com reported rumors
Continued from front page
winner at the 2009 Stanford Invita-
tional and finished just behind Mc-
Neill for third place at nationals.
Joining the two is a slew of talented
runners, including three additional
track All-Americans:redshirt juniors
Jake Riley and J.T. Sullivan and red-
shirt sophomore Dylan Ferris.
The No. 13 women are also look-
ing to recapture the magic of last
year’s competition.The Cardinal was
absolutely dominant in its race last
season, notching 24 points compared
to runner-up Cal’s 100.
Nearly all of last season’s scorers
return to a team that is looking to im-
prove upon a disappointing finish at
the NCAA Championships. Sopho-
more Kathy Kroeger, an All-Ameri-
can in track, finished in third place
overall in the 2009 meet. Redshirt
junior Steph Marcy, another track
All-American, returns to the Stan-
ford Golf Course after a ninth-place
finish.
Sophomore Alex Dunne and sen-
ior Alex Gits, who finished sixth and
seventh respectively at last year’s
race, round out the top of a very im-
pressive women’s team that has now
gone two years without a national
title after winning the award in three
consecutive seasons.
The Stanford Invitational kicks off
on Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Stanford
Golf Course. The men’s 8,000-meter
collegiate race will begin at 10:50 a.m.,
followed by the women’s 6,000-meter
competition at 11:30 a.m.
Contact Zach Zimmerman at
zachz@stanford.edu.
brought serious consequences for four
of the major clubs in Italian Serie A in
2006, with league winner Juventus
stripped of its previous two titles and
relegated to Serie B. At the Singapore
Grand Prix in 2008, the Renault team
took the idea to extremes by ordering
one of its drivers to crash, and in so
doing, put its other driver in a position
to win the race.On a close-walled street
circuit, this could have led to serious in-
jury or even death.
Both doping and match-fixing de-
value sport,robbing spectators and par-
ticipants of the chance to watch and
play an honest contest. Renault even
proved that both can be physically dan-
gerous, making match-fixing in that
case seem even riskier than injecting
unknown substances into one’s veins.
As a fan,though,I have to say that dop-
ing is the lesser of the two evils.
While I definitely don’t condone it,I
can understand why, in the highly com-
petitive world of professional sports,
some might choose to take illegal sub-
stances.This is a world where the differ-

Brian Kelly era, they are unable to equal the Card’s scoring output, but manage to that he suffered a dislocated
keep it close and avoid a blowout at home. elbow and will be out at least
four to six weeks.
Senior running back Jeremy
ZACH ZIMMERMAN Stewart, who sustained an ankle
STANFORD 47, NOTRE DAME 20: Notre Dame’s offense is far less po- injury three weeks ago against
tent than last year, but they will still be the hardest test thus far for the Stanford D. Sacramento State, is listed on
this week’s depth chart, though
Nonetheless, Andrew Luck and the rest of a passing attack should have a field day
Harbaugh refused to give any
against a beat-up Irish secondary. If I wasn’t on a student’s budget, I’d wager my indication over whether or not
home and first born on this game. he would play.
Stanford will kick off
JACOB JAFFE against the Fighting Irish at
12:30 p.m. on Saturday in
STANFORD 41, NOTRE DAME 23: Stanford’s pass defense is currently South Bend, Ind.The game will
ranked No. 1 in the nation. It won’t be after facing Dayne Crist and Brian Kelly’s be nationally televised on
spread option attack. Still, Stanford has the best playmaker (Andrew Luck), the NBC.
best offensive line and (surprisingly) the more complete defense in this game. The
Cardinal will win in South Bend for the first time since 1992. Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawh-
ney@stanford.edu.
MSOCCER
Continued from front page
The team’s defense has been its
usual staunch self,allowing only eight
goals in the first six games. Redshirt
freshman goalkeeper Jason Dodson
has stepped into the role filled by
graduated John Moore, who finished
with a staggering nine shutouts last
year and 18 in his four years as a
starter.
“I’m stepping in, and I have some
big shoes to fill,” Dodson said. “My
job is just to be as solid as possible. I
want to be doing all the little things
right. I can’t give up any soft goals,
and if I don’t do that, I think the guys
can really rely on me.”
This weekend will provide a
chance to see if the Cardinal has re-
covered from its early-season slide
and is ready to take on what is certain
to be a rigorous Pac-10 schedule.
“We found ourselves in an unfor-
tunate position after the first games,”
said sophomore midfielder Dersu
Abolfathi. “But we aren’t feeling
sorry for ourselves, and we’re just
taking it one game at a time. If any-
thing, we are stronger as a result, and
we know that we can’t take anything
for granted.”
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-
bs@stanford.edu.
ence between gold and forgettable can
be just a few tenths of a second.Athletes
risk a lot, both their careers and their
health,but at the end of the day,they are
still doing what comes naturally: trying
to win.
Though in some cases of match-fix-
ing there is still someone cheating to
win,there is always someone doing the
opposite: trying to lose or, at best, to
play at a certain level less than his or
her ability.That is something that goes
against every axiom of sporting. No
child grows up dreaming of the day
they can walk out onto the field and
pretend to play just enough to fool the
watching crowds into believing they
saw a real game.
Please see TAYLOR, page 5
The Stanford Daily Cardinal Today Friday, September 24, 2010 ! 5

TAYLOR
Continued from page 4
That is simply not sport. It deserves
to be on a stage or a movie screen,
where everyone knows the participants
are acting out a script.
In the very worst way, match-fixers
let down everyone.For the sake of a few
extra pennies, they sell out their teams,
their fans and those closest of all to
them:their teammates.
Tom Taylor wrote this column just well
enough to make you believe that he
tried. Get in on the scheme at tom.tay-
lor@stanford.edu.
WSOCCER
Continued from page 4
after the interval. Defender Rachel
Quon popped up on the left side to
head a high ball into the box back
across the face of goal, and Noyola
poked it home.
As was the trend on the night, it
was 7-0 inside a minute later. Senior
midfielder Allison McCann stole the
ball at midfield and drove all the way
down the pitch before coolly slotting
it past Christina Ehrett, who had re-
placed Taaca in goal at halftime, into
the corner of the goal.
Press headed in number eight off
a cross from Noyola with 28 minutes
remaining, and that was the last
touch of the ball before all the
starters were subbed out for good.
Still, the Cardinal scored once more
with nine minutes remaining as
freshman Taylor McCann knocked
in her first collegiate goal on a long-
range missile that a diving Ehrett
could not get a hand on. Hing-
Glover nearly made it double digits a
few minutes later, only to see her
blast tipped against the crossbar by
Ehrett. The match ended 9-0.
Stanford will now turn its atten-
tion to the marquee matchup of the
weekend, a home date with Portland
on Saturday night. The Pilots (10-0-
0) currently sit third in the national
rankings, just behind Stanford. Last
weekend they had another top-10
clash, defeating No. 6 Texas A&M 1-
0 at home. Last night they took on
Cal in Berkeley, earning a 3-1 road
victory over the Golden Bears.
The game on Saturday will be a
rematch of the 2008 NCAA quarter-
final match between Stanford and
Portland. The Cardinal won that
match, earning a berth in the College
Cup, where the team made a return
trip last year. If the team can get a
victory tomorrow night, it would cer-
tainly be a statement that the Card is
ready to make it three trips in a row.
With No. 1 North Carolina losing to
Boston College last night, the na-
tion’s top ranking will likely be on
the line.
Still, Ratcliffe maintains that na-
tional rank is not a concern.
“We just want to take care of busi-
ness, just win the game,” he said.
“Portland’s a great team. We have a
lot of respect [for them], so it’ll be a
tough opponent. Hopefully we can
play our best and get a good result.”
The match kicks off at Cagan Sta-
dium at 7 p.m. tomorrow night.
Contact Sam Svoboda at ssvoboda@
stanford.edu.
6 ! Friday, September 24, 2010
OPINIONS
O H , S WEET N UTHIN ’!
The Summer of
Infinite Jest
“I
nfinite Jest” is one of those post-
modern supernovels. It clocks in
around 1,000 pages and has more
than 400 footnotes.And everybody’s reading
it.
I had this impression a few months back. I
figured it was either selective attention on
my part, or one of those more-or-less local-
ized book fads that occasionally occur in the
more pretentious circles. Finally it happened
that when I swung home and couldn’t find
my copy of “Catcher in the Rye,”i I found
that giant blue-sky-jacketed behemoth was
just about levitating off the shelf and into my
backpack.ii At page 250, I mentioned it to an-
archist friends, and one informed me that
reading the book was actually an Internet
meme this summer. So everybody is reading
it. (So much as can be said for a post-modern
supernovel.)
In fact, the last time I knew so many peo-
ple reading the same book I was reading was
high school, and those books were mostly
forced upon us.That was top-down organiza-
tion, fodder from the Powers That Be. This is
grassroots.This is a whole generation of read-
ers Saying Yes.
I feel like a book like this, one without sexy
vampires or prepubescent wizards, hasn’t
been said yes to in quite some time. The last
few decades were dominated by video and
music.iii These things are easy to acquire,
consume and pass along. Books, on the other
hand, take time to read. Send someone a
YouTube link and he knows that it’s a 2:53
commitment. Ask him to read a book and
you’re asking for weeks, maybe months. A
personal recommendation just isn’t going to
cut it.iv But now that we have a Cloud, and
things like it, the Cloud can recommend
reading material. My News Feed knows that
a friend of a friend of a friend is reading “In-
finite Jest” and thinks it’s possibly the Best
Book of All Time (the B-B.O.A.T). And if I
need to hear somewhere around 20 glowing
recommendations of a book by people I
judge to have reasonably similar tastes to
mine before I read it, I’m going to hit that
tally, well, about three weeks ago.
Written by the late great David Foster
Wallacev in the mid ‘90s, the book jacket plot
to “Jest” revolves around a video so enter-
taining that you’ll die watching it. The way
the book approaches this with a myriad of
tight plots and complex characters, an ele-
gant dystopia and some sometimes-moving,
sometimes-mind-bending lyrical-essay-type
things, is nothing short of dazzling. It’s very
appropriate that the book is eponymous with
the Highly Addictive video. I’m not halfway
through, but if I were the kind of person to
call artistic endeavors “triumphs,” I would
call it a triumph.
What percentage of current “Jest” readers
will become “Jest” veterans remains to be
seen. But all of a sudden there’s something
O P-E D
Stanford football should be
held to higher standard
Let us reject a six-win total for Stanford
football’s bowl eligibility. Let us set a new
standard for ourselves and for the nation to
consider: Stanford University will send its
football team to a bowl game only if it has
won at least nine games of a 12-game season.
It seems to me that my personal history
with college football and with Stanford foot-
ball provides a vivid and valuable back-
ground and grounding for my suggested inno-
vation.
Until my senior year as an electrical engi-
neering student at Buffalo Technical High
School in Buffalo, N.Y., I was barely aware of
the existence of Stanford University. My fa-
vorite football team was Bud Wilkinson’s Ok-
lahoma Sooners. It was the early 1950s.
In those days, there were virtually only
four bowl games — Rose, Orange, Sugar,
Cotton. Only the very best teams played in
them. (A couple minor bowls — Sun, Gator
— and a few specialty contests such as the
East-West Shrine Game, which was played to
benefit crippled children,completed the post-
season picture.)
By the time of my senior year at “Tech,”
travels to California had brought Stanford
University brightly to my attention. I quickly
decided it was the school for me, and it was
the only one to which I applied.
In my freshman year, 1953-54, we upset
No. 1 UCLA at Homecoming. We came to
our last game, the Big Game. If we won, we’d
go to the Rose Bowl. If we tied — games
could end in ties back then — we wouldn’t.
We raced to a 21-7 lead. Final score: Stanford
21, Cal 21. I’ll never forget the headline in The
Stanford Daily the following Monday: NO-
BODY WON, BUT WE LOST. It still hurts.
I played sousaphone in the Stanford
Marching Band, reveling in the rehearsals
and performances of halftime shows for the
football team. A music major, I was the lead
composer for Big Game Gaieties of 1955 and
1956. In the summer of 1955, I was house
Roseann
Cima
If this is the Next Big
Thing,at least it’ll be
endlessly entertaining.
new in our cultural vocabulary. Sure it was
written by a bandana-wearing white guy who
signed love letters “Young Werther,” had an
ex-girlfriend’s name carved into his arm and
said shit like “Fiction’s about what it means
to be a fucking human being.”vi, vii But he
was also a genius and I think this sudden
wave of influence is going to have a lasting
impact. Call it a pivot point. A revolution.
Goethe may have caused a spike in the rates
of suicide by sensitive young Germans when
he released “The Sorrows of Young
Werther,” but he also kicked off the Roman-
tic Movement. If this is the Next Big Thing, at
least it’ll be endlessly entertaining.
Infinite Jester? E-mail rcima@stanford.edu to
start a rally.
i I intend to reread it soon. I have theories
about this book, no doubt forthcoming in
later columns.
ii Though as someone who’s been lugging a
hardcover copy around for the past few weeks,
I can tell you it does not actually levitate.
iii There’s also something to be said here about
the grassroots v. broadcast media. The only
way grassroots popularity happened before
the Internet was word-of-mouth, which only
worked with music because TV and cinema
were too expensive to make on your own, and
there’s something about a catchy tune, even
with low-production values, that makes it
spread like wildfire.
iv Unless he really loves you.
v AKA DFW (BTW)
vi These things were published in a New Yorker
article shortly after his death. I remember
thinking to myself, “Dear God, this is going to
spawn such an annoying cult.”
vii It is now that I admit, with some horror, to have
recently started wearing a white bandana.
manager at Toyon Hall for the football team’s
preseason practice. I got to know legendary
coach Chuck Taylor and ate at the training
table with the team. Stanford football and I
have a richly varied history.
On Nov. 7, 2009, when we brilliantly upset
No. 8 Oregon, 51-42, I was deeply disapprov-
ing as well as ecstatic.It was a downer because
we had become “bowl-eligible.” It was our
sixth win of the year, and these days, all one
has to do to become eligible to go to a bowl is
win six games in the season. We play a 12-
game schedule. Do we really want a 6-6 Stan-
ford football team to go to a bowl? I say no.
Bowl games have multiplied and cheap-
ened ridiculously since my student days on
the Farm. There are 35 now. I remember well
a cartoon of almost half a century ago that
joked that a new bowl had been created for
left-handed redheads from the Dakotas.
Last year, I wasn’t exactly excited when
our 8-4 team went to the Sun Bowl. Most
ironic for me was the 7-5 team that beat us
there, 31-27: my old favorites, the Oklahoma
Sooners.
I swell with pride over academically pres-
tigious Stanford repeatedly winning the Di-
rectors’ Cup for No. 1 overall excellence in
NCAA Division I collegiate athletics. That is
the Stanford I prize — a Stanford of out-
standing value from head to toe.
I urge President John L. Hennessy,Athlet-
ic Director Bob Bowlsby, head coach Jim
Harbaugh and the whole Stanford family to
come together and repudiate six-wins bowl
eligibility for Stanford football, saying that a
Stanford football team will go to a bowl game
only if it has won at least nine games in a 12-
game season.
Let us lead the way to a new realm of high
standards and high quality in human en-
deavor.
James T. Anderson ‘57 is a composer in Palo
Alto, Calif.
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S ENSE AND N ONSENSE
The Grounded Student Explorer
O
n a beautiful, sunny day this past sum-
mer (one that seemed made for an
outdoor adventure), I visited the
beach in San Francisco. As I was looking out Aysha
over the Pacific Ocean, I was struck by a
sense of the possibility so many must have
Bagchi
felt over the past hundreds and even thou-
sands of years when what lay beyond that
vast expanse was a true and total mystery.
Even to my modern self, simply thinking that
undiscovered country (undiscovered, at
least, by me!) lay beyond my sight seemed to with little relation our public pursuits.
infuse life with greater promise. It felt a bit There are legitimate strengths to this
like my first day at Stanford three years ago: modern trend. It reflects student acknowl-
possibility abounded in the fog of an unde- edgment of economic and family pressures,
termined four years. and a student population that is not suffi-
College is a unique opportunity in life to ciently privileged to ignore them. And just
broaden our perspectives, to let new experi- imagine the seemingly self-indulgent atti-
ences upend our views of the world,to reserve tude of a student whose life is entirely about
a few years in order to delve into unknown journeying into the world with no tangible
territories. We have at our fingertips so many objectives in mind, whose aims in life amount
different troves of knowledge, ways of think- to nothing beyond voyages for self-discovery.
ing, opportunities to branch out on campus as Her attitude is founded on the premise that
well as experience more of the world.Yet this she has no ties holding her down to the world,
sort of exploration is, at least in the tradition- no fellow beings to take into account when
al sense, increasingly undervalued. directing her life course. She is aloof, perhaps
The formal exploration apparatus re- even solipsistic. This is no foreign image: the
mains intact with such things as study-abroad traditional Princeton man of the 1950s who
opportunities, two years to choose our ma- spent his college career “developing charac-
jors, breadth requirements and a hugely di- ter” while not showing much concern for
verse set of options to explore. Yet students things that actually seem to matter in the
feel intense pressure to settle down, to focus, world comes to mind. Today, students care
to excel in narrow areas.A fear of bad grades about many things beyond themselves, and
can keep us from other disciplines. Anticipa- pursue them; and that’s progress.
tion of the job market can turn us toward pre- Yet I want to push back against this mod-
professional tracks. Our desire for the es- ern trend, if only a few inches. A time for in-
teem of those around us can push us toward tellectual, artistic, social and personal explo-
specific targets that others have chosen for ration is so important for those who go on to
us. Even the University, in following immedi- try to benefit the world. Indeed, without this
ate financial incentives, can nudge us toward kind of discovery, we would foreclose every
paths in which we directly see how what we possibility we cannot see lying before us,
do is applied to a narrow aim. If college is a would limit our futures to the specific objec-
time of questioning and exploring, it is in- tives we already have in mind and the steps
creasingly only on the most personal levels, we have worked out to get us there. That is
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the arrestee was cited and re-
leased for driving on a suspended
license.
" At 2 p.m. a golf cart was stolen
from 436 Mayfield Ave.
" As the Card stole all of Wake For-
est’s chances of bringing the foot-
ball game to a tie, a rented genera-
tor was stolen outside of Stanford
Stadium.
MONDAY, SEPT. 20
" At Adams House in Sterling
Quad, a victim reported that un-
known suspects used his debit
card information to make several
fraudulent transactions in Fre-
mont, Calif.
" The victim’s U-locked bike was
stolen from the east side of Otero
between 11:00 a.m. and 12:25
p.m., making that freshman’s first
day of school the worst ever.
" A victim at the Law School re-
ported that another party had
been telephoning and leaving
FOURSQUARE
Continued from page 2
and badges are largely virtual re-
wards, they provide real-world ben-
efits as well. Businesses can use
Foursquare to track customer traf-
fic, potentially giving their loyal pa-
trons special discounts and rewards.
“I think if you’re able to scan or
use your discount directly from
your phone without printing it out,
that would be beneficial, like Pay-
Pal is doing,” said Jeremy Fine ‘13.
“However, if the service requires
you to print out the discount in
order to reap the benefit, it is un-
likely to be used by many people.”
One Stanford business, Fraiche
rambling messages.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 21
" At 12:00 p.m., the victim’s un-
locked bike was stolen from a stor-
age facility at Donner.
" Between Sept. 20 at 3 p.m. and
Sept. 21 at 9:30 a.m., the victim’s
U-locked bike was stolen from the
east side of Casa Italiana.
" Between Sept. 18 and Sept. 19, the
victim’s U-locked bike was stolen
outside of Potter House.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22
" Between 4:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.,
unknown suspects stole a power
washer from a storage room in the
kitchen of Wilbur Hall.
" Between 5:30 a.m. and 8:40 a.m.,
the victim’s U-locked bike was
stolen outside Casa Italiana.
" Between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.,
the victim’s U-locked bike was
stolen outside Durand.
Tyler Brown contributed to this re-
port.
Contact Ivy Nguyen at iknguyen@
stanford.edu.
Yogurt, has already taken advan-
tage of Foursquare’s customer
tracking as a consumer incentive.
Foursquare “mayors” of Fraiche
get their first yogurt topping free
with proof of their status.
The application just began to
gather a following. Because the ap-
plication’s benefits depend heavily
upon the core number of users will-
ing to “check in” and write reviews,
building its consumer base on cam-
pus will be crucial to Foursquare’s
success.
Currently, 50 businesses and 35
other location tags have been
added to the Stanford page, along
with 45 insider tips and users con-
tinuing to post each day.
Contact Lisa Wallace at lisaw2@stan-
ford.edu.
Friday, September 24, 2010 ! 7
PLAYS
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venues is as much an art as the the-
atrical masterpieces.
“It’s a fine line, because we want
to make it come alive, but we also
want to interpret as little as possi-
ble,” Sabol said. “So we push that
buck to the students.They have to be
the ones to choose.”
Although the casts consisted
mostly of professional Bay Area ac-
tors, two Stanford students have
roles in “This Is Macbeth,” and
Austin Zumbro ‘09 wrote and per-
formed all the music for both films.
Sabol, who had little acting expe-
rience, was nervous about perform-
ing, even though “it was not a very
big acting job,” he said with a smile.
“I was kind of acting like an exag-
gerated version of myself,”he added.
Originally, Watkins and Sabol
planned a more straightforward
study aid for students.
“But I think the projects are a lot
EPA
Continued from page 2
Center, student organizations and
several professional schools, such as
the Schools of Education and Law.
In fact, Tom Schnaubelt, execu-
tive director of Haas, said the organi-
zations volunteering in East Palo
Alto are so numerous that keeping
track of exactly how many groups,
students and hours are devoted to
the city is almost impossible.
Haas itself runs five organizations
focused on East Palo Alto projects
and Schnaubelt said the center has
sent at least one student volunteer to
East Palo Alto every year since the
center’s opening in 1985.
“The University was founded as a
public service,” Schnaubelt said,
adding that in the founding grant,
Jane Stanford explicitly wished for
students to “become of greater serv-
ice to the public.”
more alive than that,” Watkins said.
“There’s a lot of humor. The writing
is inspired by a lot of different things,
so it didn’t quite become this crys-
talline thing students would pick up.”
Watkins and Sabol began to tar-
get teachers at advanced high
schools after the DVDs received
rave reviews from instructors at
Gunn High School in Palo Alto.
But any interested viewer is
bound to find some value,Sabol said,
especially because both SLE profes-
sors worked hard to ensure the
DVDs were companions for the
plays, not substitutes.
“One of the problems with a lot
of introductory materials is that
they’re a replacement for the thing,”
Sabol said. “If you read the Cliff
notes for ‘Wuthering Heights,’ you
kind of don’t need to read the book.
And worse, Cliff notes are boring!
So they don’t really make you want
to read the original . . . which we feel
is really much better than anything
we could make.”
Contact Willa Brock at wbrock@stan-
ford.edu.
But with the public-service im-
pulse come challenges.
While time and transportation
stand out as the most obvious obsta-
cles, there’s also the fact that Stan-
ford students are still outsiders in
East Palo Alto, a conundrum that no
amount of time, effort or money can
solve.
“One of our main challenges is to
ensure that students are prepared for
ethical and effective service in any
community, which requires, among
other things, that we set aside our
own hubris, avoid treating the com-
munity as a ‘laboratory’ for research
or experimentation with interven-
tion theories, and that we honor our
commitments,” Schnaubelt said.
“East Palo Alto has a rich history,
and students should be exposed to,
have a basic understanding of, and
learn to honor and respect this histo-
ry before attempting to ‘fix’ any-
thing.”
Contact Cassandra Feliciano at ccfeli-
ci@stanford.edu.
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Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke took to the San Francisco Mezzanine stage solo last Saturday, bringing the hits but no shirt.
I
t’s always a bit scary when a member of a
band you love gets his own little bit of
individualistic intuition and decides to
split off for a side project. Of course, it hap-
pens all the time, and there are some that revel
in success. But more often than not, it ends in
disappointment, unfair comparisons to origi-
nal work and leaving much to be desired.
On Saturday, Kele Okereke took over San
Francisco’s Mezzanine to provide the Bay Area
with its first taste of his debut solo album,
“The Boxer.” Delayed from the originally
scheduled July performance at Popscene, the
show represented something of a reincarna-
tion of the Bloc Party front man, whose
reserved front was left backstage as he opted
for an animated performance full of crowd
banter and shirtless dance moves.
But before Kele came on, the stage was
warmed by Pennsylvania’s Innerpartysystem
and the always-popular, radio announcer
nightmare Does It Offend You, Yeah? Touring
in support of their newest single, “American
Trash,” Innerpartysystem kicked off the night,
bursting through the smoke and lasers with
energetic synths and fat cymbal hits. Yet while
the energy was there, the trio was your average
group of laptop junkies, trapped behind their
synths and allowing for little to no crowd
interaction at such an intimate venue. Also,
someone please tell lead singer Patrick Nissley
that berets died with scrappy pop punk.
For some at Mezzanine, the main draw of
the night wasn’t Kele, but rather English com-
rades Does It Offend You, Yeah?, whose show
exceeded all expectations even with lead singer
James Rushent absent. Really, how many
bands can lose their singer and still play a
K e l e O k e re k e
a n d D o e s I t O ff e n d
You, Yeah? R e v i e w
Courtesy Brian Valdizno
solid 50-minute set? With Rushent out of
commission due to illness, the remaining
foursome stormed the stage with a variety of
mainly instrumental hits ranging from “Battle
Author Joyce Carol Oates
Royale” to new selections off their soon-to-be-
released sophomore LP, “Don’t Say We Didn’t
Warn You.”
brings personality for ‘I.D.’
Guitarist Matty Derham took over crowd
O
n a chilly Monday evening, tears almost apologetically as she concluded
conversation duty for the night, as the band
Cubberley Auditorium was packed, the reading.
used the gig to gauge crowd reaction to new
students and the public alike But while the content of the story was
material. And if circle moshes and obligatory
jammed into cushy seats, elbow-to-elbow, moving, her delivery was less so.
crowd surfing are any indication, the second
waiting for the event to start. Author Joyce Approximately 10 minutes into the
album should get the fast track to immediate
Carol Oates stood beneath the heavy blue reading, it was somewhat difficult to follow
release. Putting a rough tour behind them —
curtains in an airy white top, looking much the story’s trajectory. The story followed the
one which has seen band members fall ill,
tinier than her reputation would suggest. narrator’s stream of consciousness, and
mugged and sent to the ER after stage-diving
After participating in the annual Three without a clear destination, it was easy to
mishaps — DIOYY played an ear-raiding set,
Books event the day before, the prolific get lost.
as they alternated lead mic duties. Of particu-
author gave a reading and book-signing ses- This was partly due to Oates’ reading
lar note were new track, “We Are The Dead,”
sion sponsored by the Office of the Vice style, marked by little inflection aside from
whose live power overwhelmed the free
Provost for Undergraduate Education and her distinctive accent. She stood behind the
recording on the band’s website, and fan-
Stanford Continuing Studies. Oates, famed podium and read plainly, as if carrying on a
favorite, “We Are Rockstars,” which sent
for writing volume after volume, has writ- calm conversation. Less auditory audience
Derham flying into the crowd to close out the
ten over 50 books since 1963. members seemed to let their minds wander
set.
Monday night, Oates decided to read a as Oates evenly delivered her story.
While the crowd was already sweating
piece, “I.D.,” recently published in the The crowd, however, perked up for the
from the previous whirlwind, Kele took the
March 2010 edition of The New Yorker. question-and-answer session that followed.
stage well past midnight, insisting that the party
“I.D.,” a story about an adolescent forced to Having Oates inject the atmosphere with
was only just beginning. Sporting Adidas gym
identify a dead body, brought together her personality and humor was an engaging
shorts and a Public Enemy shirt, the Bloc Party
themes of fear, denial and loneliness that experience.
leader immediately cast aside reservations
many can relate to on some level. Playing to her setting, the author made
regarding his withdrawn stage persona, launch-
Her characters, particularly the young jokes about her time living in Phi Mu, a
ing into crowd conversations that ranged in
Lisette, were developed in a compelling sorority at Syracuse University, where the
topic from drug paraphernalia found on stage
fashion. Her language, too, was powerful, girls lived in “hovels” among “garbage,” only
to girl fights. Yet, even larger questions
evoking empathy and at the very end, a gut-
remained over Kele’s material: Could it sustain | continued on page 4 |
punch so characteristically Oates that even
a long set? Could it set him apart from earlier
the author herself was moved, wiping away
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Pass the CDs, please
Intermission taste-tests the latest music for your listening feast
T E
he Walkmen have a history
of making loud, drunken,
lamenting music, the sort of
songs that are good for yelling at
absent exes on particularly painful
nights. “Lisbon,” their sixth studio
album, generally a more subdued
collection of tracks than those
included in their past work, is a
wonderful achievement — not
because their signature tirades are
gone (they’re not), but because it
shows the band stretching itself and
expanding its range with offbeat
music genres. “Lisbon” upholds the
city and captures the best music the
band has to offer.
The track that sets the journey
off is “Juveniles,” a soft,
lumbering track in
which frontman
Hamilton Leithauser
wheezes and howls his
way through a vague
story of a loved one, to
end with the perennial
line for describing
teenage society: “You’re
one of us, or one of
them.” With the
depressing downbeat, it’s not diffi-
cult to imagine the band getting
inspiration from sitting at a
Portuguese café, listening to an
artist play mournful fado, a local
melancholy music genre much like
Latin American trova.
“Angela Surf City” brings back
a little bit of the fast, furious and
loud signature sound from The
Walkmen. Crashing cymbals, an
accelerated drum line and lyrics
hollered into the microphone make
the track a whirlwind tour, and the
most energetic one on the album,
hands down.
Although the album is inspired
by travels in Europe, there is a
healthy dose of Americana imbed-
ded in it, possibly as an allusion to
home. In the song “Blue As Your
Blood,” a constant, twangy guitar
riff throughout recalls the score of
Western movies, while “Torch
Song” resolutely sounds like rocked-
up bluegrass during the verses, with
a constant, steady beat played on
the guitar and drums. The band
even adds distinct instrumentation:
our own Mariachi Cardenal would
be proud to hear the mariachi
horns used to record the track
“Stranded,” a wailing affair about
the dismal existence of the narrator.
4 worth the ridiculous tax on
intermission
“Woe Is Me” is another rare
gem in the package. With an upbeat
guitar riff and simple opening lyrics
that sound like something by Ezra
Koenig (“There’s a girl you should
know/She was mine not so long
ago”), the track picks up the
rhythm of the album and, contrary
to what the title might suggest,
injects some youthfulness and beat
back into the musical experience.
All too soon “Lisbon,” the final
track, rolls around and brings the
imaginary trip to Europe to a close.
A slow, morose song, it shuffles
along during a few minutes, a sad
tune about an outsider in a country
where he does not know the lan-
the vital stats.
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guage or the place. It’s sadly touch-
ing in its loneliness and isolation as
Leithauser sings “All the younger
kids/Have gone away to sleep,” even
after the production arranged a
wonderfully swelling instrumenta-
tion behind the weary guitar lines
and soft drums that provide the
backbone for the song. It gently
fades down over a beautiful, lazy
and hesitant guitar solo.
The best part about “Lisbon” as
an album is that it feels fresh and
sincere. The characteristic Walkmen
quality of the recording is spot on
— Leithauser’s hoarse pleading
voice coupled with the fuzzy reverb
from the guitars and bass make it
feel very intimate, not glossy and
packaged like most studio albums.
Listening to it, images of a lazy
European vacation, catching trains,
watching country houses and green
fields go by, or people watching at
the local café, are impossible to
ignore. Over the nearly 45 minutes
that make up the album, The
Walkmen have pulled off the per-
fect soundtrack to the quintessential
European vacation.
—maria DEL CARMEN BARRIOS
contact maria:
m a r i a c b g @ s t a n f o rd . e d u
veryone grows up. For sad,
die-hard fans, that statement
also applies to Weezer, the
90s alternative rock band fronted
by Rivers Cuomo, lord of the nerds.
People complain that the latest slew
of Weezer records pales in compar-
ison to classics like “The Blue
Album” and “Pinkerton.” Well,
they’re right.
But it’s pretty impossible to
expect a band that’s been in the biz
for nearly 20 years not to experi-
ment and change. That’s not to
excuse their more awful albums of
late, particularly last year’s
“Raditude,” but let’s be real here —
Weezer hasn’t and probably never
will be as good as those “Undone
(The Sweater Song)” or “El
Scorcho” glory days.
So thank god for “Hurley.”
While it doesn’t hold a candle
to older Weezer classics, the album
comfortably settles somewhere in
phy, closer to “The Green Album”
and “Maladroit” than the newer
ones, which is probably the best we
can expect from them at this point.
It thankfully restores some hope to
exasperated fans.
The record, with its quirky
F
inding Jupiter is a year-
old, four-piece rock outfit
that hails from our own
institution of higher learning.
Born amid the perpetual sun-
shine and $50,000-a-year tuition
of Stanford, Calif., this futuristic
punk-rock band manages to
bring a much-needed edge to the
otherwise flawless veneer of the
Farm.
On their first studio album,
Sarah Masimore ‘11, Dean
Schaffer ‘10, Luke Georgette ‘10
and Peter McDonald ‘11 deliver
12 tracks of awesomeness.
(Disclosure: McDonald is also a
Daily columnist.) Although it is a
relatively young band, its sound
is a far cry from the grungy,
unpolished garage bands whose
MySpace pages populate our
generation’s collective conscious-
ness. The members of Finding
Jupiter, whose bathroom-stall
photo shoot The Unofficial
Stanford Blog noted in August,
are real musicians. Their latest
release is not a crappy demo; it’s
a full-blown rock album. And it’s
iTunes.
punk pop, is a step in the right
direction. Cuomo seems to be cop-
ing with his mid-life crisis in a
more mature manner, staying away
from gimmicky songs and, for the
most part, clichéd lyrics.
The album opens with new
single “Memories,” a hook-driven
throwback to the Weezer of yester-
year with lyrics like “watching all
the freaky Dutch kids vomit then
have sex,” which are just bizarre
enough to work. It’s followed by
“Ruling Me,” possibly the best track
off “Hurley,” filled with Weezer’s
trademark amped-up guitars.
“Unspoken” is more uncharacteris-
tic of Weezer, an almost stripped
acoustic ditty with a gentle flute
fluttering in the background that
masks its bitterer words about
unrealized dreams.
And then there are the mis-
steps.
“Trainwrecks,” while melodic
and nice to listen to, is crippled by
its hackneyed tripe about the trap-
pings of the rock star life. “Where’s
My Sex?” is easily the worst track
off “Hurley;” the tune gets particu-
larly weird toward the end, when
the band awkwardly segues into a
doo-woppy rock interlude that feels
Finding Jupiter’s sound is a
pleasant blend of punk rock,
funk rock and folk. They boast
great guitars and groovy drums,
highlighted by Masimore’s origi-
nal vocals. Think Tegan and Sara
meets Maria Taylor and they all
make sweet, sweet love.
The album starts strong with
“Hey Whitney,” a funkadelic ode
to unrequited love. If you’re a fan
of angst, heartbreak and synco-
pated beats, you’ll love this song.
The band will be known for this
hit once it makes it big. Be sure
to give the reprise a good listen.
The acoustic version will melt
your heart and make you want to
do some serious requiting of
Masimore’s love.
Other highlights include
“Carry,” which channels an
outer-space vibe with its ethereal
guitar riff. This song is every-
thing Incubus wanted to do but
couldn’t. “Raze the City” features
a fresh and funky acoustic riff,
complete with Masimore’s clear
vocals and sexy harmonies. She’ll
send shivers down your spine as
she sings, “This girl is gonna
break my heart, and there’s noth-
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even more out of place after the
track suddenly switches back to its
original punkier sound.
Thankfully, “Smart Girls”
counteracts any damage inflicted by
“Brave New World” or “Where’s My
Sex?” The joyous ode to the
brainier ladies is immediately lik-
able and guaranteed to get stuck in
your head.
Like most campfire gather-
rounds, “Hurley” is more about the
fun sing-a-longs than paving new
ground. It’s clear Cuomo and co.
are no longer striving for greatness
or perfection — but Weezer fans
are a fairly forgiving bunch so long
as the outfit supplies more enjoy-
able records like “Hurley.”
—lauren WILSON
contact lauren:
lhwilson@stanford.edu
ing I can do about it.”
Toward the latter half of the
album, “One More Night” has
the catchiest chorus, allowing
every member of the band to
show off their individual musical
styles.
All in all, it’s an album full of
college rock hits. Their distinct
sound is not to be missed, and
they’ve clearly given each record-
ing the TLC necessary to produce
a solid CD. My only regret is that
their brilliant rendition of
“Birthday Sex” didn’t make it
onto the final track list. Be sure
to check out their live shows to
hear said cover. You’ll thank me.
—holly FETTER
contact holly:
hfetter@stanford.edu
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Revealing the woman
behind Charles Darwin
‘Emma Darwin’ Review
HELENA VILLALOBOS/The Stanford Daily
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his new title from the
University Press of Florida
rides on the success of pop-
ular genres and trends in today’s
literature, namely biography, his-
torical romance and historical
accounts with strong female pro-
tagonists. Upon delving into my
review copy, however, it was quite
apparent why the authors James D.
Loy and Kent M. Loy chose to pub-
lish with an academic rather than a
commercial press. While “Emma
Darwin” is a great resource for his-
torians, researchers and college stu-
dents with papers due, it is not the
sort of book that would appeal to a
wider readership, regardless of how
hard the authors seem to try.
The premise of “Emma
Darwin,” as presented on the back
flap, promises an insider’s view into
the extraordinary journeys (mar-
itime and otherwise) of the origi-
nator of modern evolutionary the-
ory and the equally compelling
woman who caught his eye, ran his
household and managed to put up
with her husband’s many eccentric-
ities and increasing irreverence for
religion. The reader is lured in by
the promise of adventures,
romance and heresy.
The book opens, however, with
a very dry, very dense account of
the Darwin-Wedgwood family’s
genealogy (Charles and Emma, née
Wedgwood, were cousins). It then
proceeds to explain, in great detail,
the family’s various business ven-
tures and political stances. Were it
not for the title of the book, the
reader would be hard-pressed to
tell which of the numerous
Wedgwood cousins was actually the
protagonist — or if there was a
protagonist at all. The only hint
thereof is a page here and there
about Emma’s various suitors, pre-
Charles, and her disinterest in all of
them.
The book gets better about 60
pages in, when we meet the intrep-
id, somewhat rebellious Charles
Darwin, who became a naturalist
and went gallivanting around the
world, despite his father’s original
insistence that he become a clergy-
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man. This is still, however, quite
problematic; the work is supposed
to be a biography of Emma rather
than Charles Darwin, and presum-
ably, the authors found her an
interesting and fruitful enough
subject that they wrote an entire
book about her.
However, they do seem to real-
ize, at this point, that they ought to
be writing for a broader audience;
they lay off the genealogy and soft-
en their rather clinical style. Here,
the authors betray their unfamiliar-
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ity with commercial writing. Their
attempts to sound more colloquial
and accessible are perhaps best
exemplified by their description of
Charles Darwin’s hesitancy to
marry: he was supposedly afraid
that “marriage might cramp his
style.”
While it is abundantly clear
that the authors are accomplished
historians — the book is meticu-
lously researched — it is equally
clear that they have very little expe-
rience with the craft of storytelling.
Most of the book reads as though it
were a very detailed plot summary
of a novel, rather than a compelling
story in its own right. While Green
Library would do well to acquire a
copy (and shelve it in the history
section), the average reader would
do better with traditional historical
fiction.
—sarah GUAN
contact sarah:
sguan@stanford.edu
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movies
T
he summer is cooling down
and the back-to-school blues
have put people in heat for a
good movie. If you are getting nostal-
gic for your high school years, then
grab a few friends and go see “Easy A.”
Despite the movie’s title, the film will
take your mind off the grades and into
the gutter just in time for IHUM read-
ing.
The movie follows the teenage
chronicles of one Olive (Emma
Stone). She is the generic smart school
girl who’s never done anything wrong
and generally goes through life unno-
ticed. Soon a rumor goes around
about her losing her virginity, brand-
ing her as the school trollop. However,
instead of quelling these rumors,
Olives begins selling stories about hav-
ing sex with the school’s charity cases
so they might gain social status. In
turn, she also faces scrutiny from the
Christian students on campus and
supposedly finds her life modeling
that of Hester Prynne’s from “The
Scarlet Letter.” I personally didn’t fully
buy the Hester Prynne metaphor, but
it works for the sake of the movie.
While the plot may read like an
overbearing tale of the trials and
tribulations of some high school out-
cast, the film was anything but.
Overall, “Easy A” is more humorous
than dramatic. Whereas “The Scarlet
Letter” focuses on the harsh scrutiny
and ostracism Hester Prynne faces,
“Easy A” focuses more on the potency
that white lies about sexual promiscu-
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accomplishments? Would it appeal to Bloc Party
followers?
Needless to say, these questions were put to
bed. Kele existed in a liminal space between indi-
vidualism and ties to his first band, allowing him
to transition between new materi-
al and old BP favorites. Swaying
like a prizefighter, he unleashed
“Everything
6 “Your Visits Are Getting Shorter.” And by the time
intermission
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to emerge at night to impress the stage presence.
young men that visited. The connection Oates developed
Comparing writing to practicing with the audience served as a strong
music, she also gave insight into the reminder that as prolific and intimi-
evolution of her writing process: both dating as she might sound on paper,
the constant revisions and her empha- genius does not mean distance from
sis on images and scenes rather than the lowly masses.
sentences.
Oates’ casual insight into the —samantha TOH
process of writing humanized the lit- contact samantha:
erary icon she has become. More than
samtoh@stanford.edu
being able to hear her short story
come alive, attendees could enjoy her
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Don’t get Hawthorne’s writing, trayal of Olive is completely winning. interest. Lisa Kudrow plays the useless
Easy A
me wrong. The but they can be equally So much so that it’s a bit of a reach to guidance counselor who dishes out
film gets dra- the vital educational. We learn imagine someone so attractive and more problems than advice.
stats.
matic. Yet even “The Scarlet that reading is more witty could be “the dorky, invisible However, the best characters have
Letter” meets
the movie’s most high school sex important than watch- girl” of her high school in the first to be Patricia Clarkson and Stanley
drives
heart-wrenching ing Demi Moore take a place. Tucci as Olive’s parents. Clarkson’s
moments are far over- bath — not to mention Some of the other characters mom is an easygoing free spirit who
shadowed by the frequent butter knives are clearly aren’t as much of a stretch. Amanda discloses way too much information
one-liners that fill the script. In fact, a gateway into far more destructive Bynes plays the preachy pastor’s about her sex life, while Tucci’s dad is
the film is so charming, humorous behavior. daughter who leads the flock of self- as bitingly sarcastic as he is cerebral.
and quirky it is sometimes hard to Still, the movie’s humor doesn’t righteous Christians into shunning So altogether, it’s a solid film.
properly empathize with the main solely thrive off its amusing script. Olive’s behavior. Penn Badgley plays Despite lack of literary merit and cast-
character when necessary. Instead, it’s the colorful and believable the corny yet lovable mascot. It’s only ing someone way too hot in the “out-
cast role” (this is Hollywood, after all),
the film’s only flaw is being too funny
to be taken as more than it is. So if
your first set of papers and problem
sets has got you down, you can be sure
to get at least one “Easy A” this fall.
—laura MALKIEWICH
contact laura:
lmalkiew@stanford.edu
! LEGENDOFTHEGUARDIANS: ! DEVIL
THEOWLSOFGA'HOOLE (PG-13) 11:05am,1:10,3:15, 5:20,7:50, 10:00
(PG) 12:10, 2:50,5:30, 8:10, 10:40 ! EASY A
! LEGENDOFTHEGUARDIANS: (PG-13) 11:40am, 12:55, 3:20, 4:45, 5:45,
THEOWLSOFGA'HOOLE3D 7:10, 8:15, 9:45, 10:35
Courtesy Sony Pictures (PG) 11:00am, 11:30am,1:30, 2:10, 4:10, ! JACK GOES BOAT I N G
Emma Stone’s Olive, right, may not be a believable outcast in “Easy A,” but she certifies her comedy
4:50, 6:50, 7:30, 9:30, 10:10 (R) 11:45am, 2:15, 4:55, 7:45, 10:20
! WALL STREET: MONEY RESIDENT EVIL:
chops with one-liners against the uber-religious Marianne, played by Amanda Bynes. NEVER SLEEPS AFTERLIFE 3D
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(PG) 11:10am, 11:55am, 1:40, 2:40, 4:10, EAT PRAY LOVE
You Wanted,” but assumed his collected stylings for walls, the crowd was delirious, grabbing at Kele as 5:10, 7:05, 8:00, 9:55, 10:40 (PG-13) 11:35am,6:35
! ALPHA AND OMEGA 3D INCEPTION
a Bloc Party medley which consisted of beefed-up he embraced crowd members before the lights cut
(PG) 11:25am, 1:45, 4:15, 6:30, 8:50 (PG-13) 2:55,9:40
versions of “Blue Light,”“The Prayer” and “One out on a memorable show.
More Chance.”
Losing his shirt before the encore, Kele was a
livewire, flashing his teeth and channeling Beyoncé —ryan MAC
as he strutted across stage. But the best was saved c o n t a c t r y a n : r b m a c @ s t a n f o rd . e d u
! THE TOWN
for last, as Kele and his backing band changed the
set list on the fly to submit to crowd requests of FRI 9/24-SAT 9/25 (R) 1:25, 3:00, 4:25, 6:00, 7:15, 8:50, 10:05
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Remote Nomad:
The return of the comedy Jedi
P
ut away your Bowflex — the fall come-
dies have returned and are ready to give
your abdominals a workout. The two
standouts from last year — “Modern Family”
and “Glee,” with the former capturing the
Emmy for Best New Comedy but splitting act-
ing and directing accolades with the latter —
returned this week to resounding audience
numbers.
Though I’m skeptical of the argument that
the Emmys matter enough to translate into
viewers, the ratings for this week suggest other-
wise: Wednesday’s “Modern Family’s” 12.6 mil-
lion just edged out the 12.3 million for “Glee”
on Tuesday. These numbers certainly affirm
both shows’ popularity, but the weak beginnings
to their sophomore seasons may have failed to
live up to the expectations of new audiences.
“Glee” set out to revisit the audition format
of the show’s seminal pilot, for which Ryan
Murphy won a directing Emmy this August. In
a surprise turn of events, however, the premiere
was directed by Brad Falchuk, and its writing
was credited to Ian Brennan, the other two-
thirds of the “Glee” triumvirate. That’s not to
say I expected the pilot to be any worse when
those credits rolled — the inconsistency of
Glee’s first 22 episodes disabused me of any log-
ical or formulaic approach to predicting which
episodes I will like. With “Glee,” you simply
can’t afford to be a fair-weather fan the way you
can in sports, simply because you’ll miss
moments like Charice Pempengco killing
“Listen” from “Dreamgirls” in this week’s
episode, and you’ll be out of the loop when
people quote Brittany’s deadpan quips such as
“Stop the violence.”
The episode itself was disappointment.
art
Cantor’s ‘Go
Figure!’ celebrates
the body in
various mediums
M
uch of the perplexity of modern art
centers on the question of abstrac-
tion. It is not uncommon to overhear
a museum-goer in a modern art gallery ques-
tion the merits of an all-black monochrome
painting or complain in front of a seemingly
messy canvas, “My child could do that.”
Lost in these concerns, however, is the way
in which many artists over the last half-century
have explored the body and figuration in their
work. “Go Figure!,” Cantor Arts Center’s new
exhibition of modern and contemporary art,
brings together more than 20 works by an inter-
national group of artists who have placed the
figure at the center of their artistic practice since
the 1950s. A handful of the works on display are
Fresh off its Emmy win, ABC’s Modern Family debuted with an oddly forgettable pre-
miere, while Glee kicked off its second season with its now trademark inconsistency.
Thematically, nothing has changed since last
year — Gleeks are uncool as ever; money is
tight at McKinley and the teens are schizo-
phrenic in their romance. The episode made no
attempt to ease new viewers into the show and
its shoddily crafted web of relationships, as we
spent the majority of the episode from the per-
spective of the new female football coach,
Bieste. Except for Brittany and the revelation of
Mike Chang’s abs, the episode was more cruel
than funny. From Rachel’s under-described plot
against Charice (where was the classic “Glee” cut
to a shot of the crack house?) to the mediocrity
of the new guy, I was wholly underwhelmed
and disoriented.
I attended an event in LA this summer at
which the Glee writers spoke, and, in hindsight,
their disarmingly charming demeanor masked a
variations of the familiar motif of an artistic
modeled form, yet the majority of works
explore the tension between abstraction and fig-
uration. Either way, those weary of the abstract
tendency of modern art can breathe a cultural
sigh of relief for “Go Figure!”
Entering the show in Cantor’s second-floor
Oshman Family Gallery, visitors first encounter
Richard Stankiewicz’ 1955 “Urchin.” Initially, the
work, made of steel and found objects, appears
to be little more than a fused junk heap of
industrial material. However, looking at
“Urchin” through the lens of the exhibition’s
figurative theme, the viewer sees the work trans-
form before his or her eyes. Circular tubing
knobs come into focus as eye sockets while steel
rods come to represent four limbs. Once aware
of the figurative quality of “Urchin,” anthropo-
morphic readings rush in. Can we see the sculp-
ture as having a nose and a belly button and
perhaps even being clothed? Suddenly, the pre-
vious heap of industrial materials becomes re-
envisioned as a bodily presence — a mischie-
vous street urchin made from reused materials.
The diverse variety of mediums represent-
ed within the exhibition is striking. Interspersed
among works in more traditional media,
including Appel’s painting and a bronze sculp-
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certain complacency about the show’s structure,
themes and characters. The show’s success is
undeniable, but someone needs to lay down the
law with these guys, though not before next
week’s Britney/Brittany episode.
I also attended a talk with the writers of
“Modern Family,” who effused the same unex-
pected humor and sentimental allegiance to
family as their little sitcom that could. Many
have called the show’s pilot the best of the last
five years, but the premiere on Wednesday fal-
tered with its “in medias res” introduction.
Although the first season provided us with
great bookends in the pilot and finale, this
newest episode seemed insignificant. Not only
were the families kept apart, but the characters
also felt surprisingly materialistic, with the castle
and the car dominating the screen more than
ture by Terry Allen,
are works in blown
glass by Martin Blank
as well as wood by
Sam Hernandez. In
painted marble, Manuel
Neri’s 1981 “Carriona Figure
No. 1” interestingly calls to
mind the mannequin figures by
Benjamin Hersh ‘10 on display
in Wallenberg Hall. In these
divergent views and media,
we come to see the
body in a variety of
materials and forms.
Perhaps surprisingly, it is work in ceramics bowl of the female portion takes a vaginal form,
that has the strongest presence in “Go Figure!”
Viola Frey’s glazed whiteware “Aquamarine
Man” and Peter VandenBerge’s coupled
stoneware sculptures provide a colorful ceramic can be read as a bizarre yet humorous take on
twist to the exhibition. Cantor’s strong collec-
tion of works from the loosely associated Bay
Area ceramic Funk movement shine in this dis-
play, highlighting the figurative quality that
largely distinguished modern art practices on
the West Coast.
One ceramic work in particu-
lar, Robert Arneson’s 1964 “His and friday september 24 2010
WHAT TO WATCH NEXT WEEK
Sunday at 9 p.m.: Premiere of
“Dexter” on Showtime. Will special
guest star Julia Stiles save the last
dance for Michael C. Hall?
Tuesday at 8 p.m.: Premiere of “No
Ordinary Family.” Julie Benz, formerly
of “Dexter,” takes up with a more nor-
mal husband, Michael Chiklis, in this
more adult, but not necessarily better,
version of “The Incredibles.”
Tuesday at 8 p.m.: Britney Spears
guest stars on “Glee”!
the actors themselves. The message of the
episode was “we, as families and a show, are
growing up so fast!” That realization, however,
washed over the parents instead of the viewers,
as things like the car or Manny’s girlfriend trig-
gered it.
The humor on Modern Family is so
nuanced that I do have trouble diagnosing my
problems with a particular episode. The best
adjective I can use to describe last night’s
episode is muted. The high stakes of moments
from season one, such as the “Lion King” allu-
sion, Luke’s birthday party and even the iPad,
made these characters simultaneously unreal in
their seriousness and familiar in their unique
obsessions. I’m confident there are better
episodes coming; I’m just surprised the team
behind “Modern Family” wanted to start on this
note.
Ironically, pilots or premieres are often the
least accurate reflections of a show’s future —
take “Community” or “Cougar Town.” With
comedies, however, particularly the more sit-
com-y ones that refuse to conform to season-
long arcs, it can be hard to justify scheduling
your life around them.
—liz STARK
contact liz:
estark12@stanford.edu
Courtesy Cantor
Arts Center
Richard Stankiewicz’s
“Urchin”(1995), made of
steel and found metal, is
currently on display in
Cantor Art Center’s “Go
Figure!” exhibition, run-
ning through Aug. 5, 2012.
Hers,” is the brashest and
arguably most provocative piece
of the exhibition. The work consists
of two constructed toilets, one desig-
nated “his” and the other “hers.” A
large phallus sits on the male-desig-
nated half of the piece while the toilet
topped with a set of breasts. The backs of the
toilets complete the ensemble with twinned
nude buttocks. Taken together, the pair of toilets
sexual difference and its resulting implications
for the bathroom setting.
“Go Figure!” loses a bit of steam as it con-
tinues into the H.L. Kwee
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advice Galleria and McMurtry Family

Terrace. One is hard-pressed to see
figuration in works by Willie Cole
and Mel Edwards; instead, the
That said, an effective education-
al feature of the exhibition that must
be acknowledged is the use of video
monitors in the space of the gallery.
artists’ exploration of the figure.
“Go Figure!” runs alongside and
in complement to Cantor’s perma-
nent-collection display of modern
Figure!” is a thought-provoking and
much welcomed counterpoint to
Cantor’s modern art collection.
“Go Figure!” is curated by

How to abstract qualities overwhelm any fig-

urative reading. Further, the place-
On these monitors, museum-goers
can view clips of three artists’ studios
and contemporary works. Only in
concluding the exhibition and con-
Hilarie Faberman, Cantor Arts Center
curator of modern and contempo-

Seduce a
ment of works by Robert Graham (Blank, Frey and ceramicist Richard tinuing into these galleries can the rary art. It runs through Aug. 5, 2012.
and GÇrard Quenum, artists from Shaw). Though the videos are a slight perspective afforded by “Go Figure!”
different regions and generations, on distraction from the works them- be seen, drawing connections to well- —alex FIALHO

Freshman
the same platform with little explana-
tion as to their pairing, leaves a bit to
be desired.
selves, they provide a fascinating per- known abstract works by Richard contact alex:
spective on [SW1]the studio-based Diebenkorn, Isamu Noguchi and
afialho@stanford.edu
practice that is so essential to these Tony Smith. In this sense, “Go

I
t’s the most wonderful time of
the year. Roxy loves September.
It’s a chance to see, once again,
how kids (read: freshmen) just keep
getting younger . . . and foxier.
Yes, these freshmen are so
young they were never taught cur-
sive and have only heard Nirvana
on classic rock stations. Still, they
make juicy prey. And as any good
hunter knows, the cardinal rule
holds true here more than ever:
location, location, location.
Roxy has always been respect-
ful of the law (“Hello, officer”).
Remember: drunk “consent” is
never consent. Be aware that some
frosh are still under 18.
Now, without further ado . . .
on weekend nights, and it’s the only
one that asks for your phone num-
ber. She’s particularly looking for-
ward to initiation activities.
Remember, also: it’s not really
incest if you’re just hooking up
with your “little sib.”
Safeway and In-N-Out
Another key way to snag a
frosh is by offering them something
they can’t find in their classmates: a
vehicle. Roxy’s ride takes you many
places you’ve never been before . . .
but Safeway is also a useful destina-
tion for a little pre-romp grocery
shopping. Baby, you can drive my
car. Beep beep, beep beep . . . yeah.

Wilbur Dining
Talk about a Sunday brunch.
The sizzle of the egg white at the
omelette station will mirror the siz-
zle when your eyes meet with that
cutie from Colorado who’s still
wearing his lanyard. Come to
mama. Oh, and grab some bananas
on the way.
Frat Parties
If it’s on Facebook, the frosh
will be there in hordes, determined
to “experience college.” Roxy enjoys
this opportunity to show off her
knowledge of the frat houses’ dark
hallways. Extra points if you live in
the fraternity: “Come on . . . my
futon is lonely.”
Flicks
For freshmen, MemAud is still
a place of wonder: Three Books
(read me all night long), The Real
World, endless dorm chants and
now, a dark room and some Sass.
When that new romcom hits the
auditorium screen, it’s the perfect
chance to capitalize on the dark
lighting and sentimental music
with a class of students who still
think on-campus movies are a cool
event.
Fountain Hopping
Everyone’s wet.
Freshman year is full of firsts.
Upperclassmen, make sure you’re
one of them.

Activities Fair —roxy SASS

Start a new club — Roxy contact roxy:
always wanted to be a booth babe.
intermission@stanforddaily.com
Her club is the one with meetings

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