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www.stanforddaily.com Volume 238
September 28, 2010 Issue 8
WORLD & NATION
Piano In the Plaza
Aid through
education in
Afghanistan
The Law School project writes
legal textbooks for Afghanistan
By CAITY MONROE
DESK EDITOR

For countries in turmoil, an aid greater than im-

mediate help is the sustainable development of
legal institutions — a mantra that a group of Stan-
ford law students have taken to heart in expanding
a foundation for rule of law in Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan Legal Education Project
(ALEP) is working to provide legal education and
an essential foundation for a stable and successful
rule of law in Afghanistan. It is also filling a void
left by other international and domestic efforts to JIN ZHU/Staff Photographer
rebuild Afghan society, work that was recently rec- Christina Goeders, a biology co-term who has studied music at Stanford, plays a piano placed in White Plaza by Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCA).
ognized by a U.S. State Department grant.
“Right now, the world is pouring billions of dol-
lars into Afghanistan to establish institutions for

AlcoholEdu costs weighed

the rule of law,” said Stanford Law School dean and
project faculty advisor Larry Kramer. “For all of
those institutions to work, they require lawyers to
run them.What we were looking at [before the start
of ALEP] was a system in which there would be no
lawyers in 10 years.”
Founded in 2007 by Stanford Law students
Alexander Benard J.D. ‘08 and Eli Sugarman J.D.
‘09, the project researches, writes and publishes
legal textbooks to help students in Afghanistan
learn about their country’s developing legal sys-
tem. The project has partnered with the Kabul-
based American University in Afghanistan and
also has all of its materials free and available to
anyone who wants them online.ALEP is set to pub-
lish its fourth legal textbook this winter.
“They’re pretty much the only comprehensive
textbooks about Afghan law that have been written
in the last 20 or so years,” said team leader and
third-year law student Morgan Galland.
Not only do these textbooks provide the much-
needed legal foundation for the future leaders of
Castro, county officials discuss the methods behind AlcoholEdu’s renewal,
assess costs of program and alcohol-related emergencies
By ELIZABETH ROSEN cess” was part of an alcohol policy pack- tations about the program’s influence.
STAFF WRITER age Stanford used to win an exemption
from Santa Clara County’s “social host” AlcoholEdu by the numbers — and
Although the decision has already ordinance earlier this year.Under the or- methods
been made to renew funding for four dinance, the county fines landowners for The survey was developed by Ralph
more years of the online alcohol educa- underage drinking that occurs on their Castro of the Substance Abuse Preven- ANASTASIA YEE/
tion program AlcoholEdu, University property. tion and Policy Office and vetted by The Stanford Daily
and county officials are still monitoring Data from a survey of students about Mickey Trockel of the psychiatry and be-
the ramifications of the survey data that
in part bolstered the program’s renewal
AlcoholEdu released this summer indi-
cate improved alcohol-related safety on
havioral sciences department. It was
given to freshmen for four years during
STUDENT LIFE

Afghanistan’s justice system, but they do so with sta-
bility and sustainability — two important character-
Please see ALEP, page 5
bid.
Stanford this year heralded Alco-
holEdu as a success when it renewed the
program’s funding until 2013. That “suc-
campus, but the methodology and con-
clusions of the survey — specifically, the
lack of a control group and debatable
causality — preclude definitive interpre-
Printing fee
the spring quarter after they participated
in AlcoholEdu. Of the 1,685 students
Please see ALCOHOL, page 5

NEWS BRIEFS WORLD & NATION

Stanford endowment
recovers slightly to
Obama talks
$13.8 billion
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
education and
Stanford’s endowment grew 9.6
percent to $13.8 billion for the year
ending Aug. 31, 2010, the University
the economy
said Monday. Its merged pool, which
includes most of the endowment,
Obama discusses policies
took a nearly 25.6 percent hit the year
before, ending June 30, 2009.
with college-age journalists
Return on the pool’s investment
for the year ending June 30, 2010 was
14.4 percent, according to Stanford
Management Company. On an annu-
alized basis, the pool has yielded a re-
turn of 6.9 percent since 2000,outpac-
ing the U.S. equity market, which
slipped an average of 1.6 percent per
year, as well as the U.S. bond market,
which grew 6.5 percent per year.
“Our investment managers took
advantage of strong equity and credit
markets through the first three quar-
ters of the fiscal year, allowing us to
make up some of the ground lost in
fiscal 2009,” said John Powers, Stan-
ford Management Company’s chief
executive, in a statement.
Still, Stanford’s endowment re-
mains $3.4 billion, or 20 percent,
smaller than it was two years ago.The
University responded to the impend-
ing recession by cutting budgets
across its schools and smoothing the
endowment’s payout formula in
order to retain funds.
Please see REPORT, page 3
By DEVIN BANERJEE
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
President Obama devoted the first half of
his Monday to talking about his vision for the
future of education in America, first on
NBC’s Today Show and later on a conference
call from the Oval Office with a group of col-
lege journalists.
In a wide-ranging conversation on educa-
tion, health care, the economy and occasion-
ally college football, Obama told The Daily
and other publications on the call that the
current generation of students in America
will emerge from the economic downturn
with job opportunities and the chance to
build for themselves a “great” generation.
“If you think about it, what we called the
greatest generation, my grandparents’ gener-
ation, they had a situation where unemploy-
ment reached 30 percent,” the president said,
“and they ended up essentially building the
entire American middle class to what it was
and making this the most powerful economy
in the world.”
But it’s not that easy. The United States
ranks 12th in college graduation rates,and the
President Barack Obama participates in a conference call with college journalists in the
Oval Office, Sept. 27, 2010.
economic downturn has only made it more
difficult for students to pay for higher educa-
tion. Obama said his administration is taking
steps to make college more affordable.
“The single most important step we can
take is to make sure that every young person
gets the best education possible,”he said,“be-
cause countries that out-educate us today are
going to out-compete us tomorrow.”
The president said more than $60 billion in
federal loan subsidies is being redirected to
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
support community colleges and eight mil-
lion students.Also,he said,the administration
is tripling the investment in college tax cred-
its for middle-class families.
The president repeatedly touted his recent
health care bill, the Affordable Care Act,
which allows people to stay on their parents’
health plans until age 26.“And that obviously
provides relief to a lot of young people who
Please see OBAMA, page 5
loophole
now closed
Students can no longer cancel
print jobs to avoid paying
By ANNA SCHUESSLER
Following a restructuring of the University’s
printing system, students are no longer able to
cancel print jobs, whether they seek to cancel a
botched job or are just looking to print for free.
In the past, students looking to minimize
printing costs could cancel print jobs on Univer-
sity printers at the last second, skirting the $0.10
per page printing fee. But in response to the in-
creasingly frequent use of the loophole first ac-
knowledged by the University last spring, Stan-
ford Academic Computing Services has now dis-
allowed the canceling of any print jobs that have
begun printing in library or computer cluster
printers.
Designed to allow students to cancel print jobs
with bad print feeds or streaky toner, the old
printing system did not charge students for their
print jobs if they canceled them before printing
was complete. But staff in Academic Computing
Services became suspicious that students were
abusing this feature of the print system after they
noticed a high number of canceled print jobs last
year.
“Unfortunately, some students began taking
advantage of this [feature] to cancel jobs after
they had begun printing, merely to avoid being
charged, even though there was nothing wrong
with the printouts,” wrote head of Academic
Computing Technology Services Surajit Bose in
Please see PRINTING, page 3

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2 ! Tuesday, September 28, 2010 The Stanford Daily

FEATURES
Professor
Snapshot

ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily

The Daily e-mailed faculty a short
questionnaire that strayed beyond
its work at Stanford. Here is a
glimpse into the personalities be-
hind your professors.
Valerie Miner
Hometown: San Francisco;
New York City
Undergrad: UC-Berkeley, Eng-
lish Literature major
Grad school: UC-Berkeley,
master of journalism
Fan of: the Harlem Globetrotters
Hobbies: hiking in the moun-
tains
#1 on my playlist:
“Unchained Melody,” Harry Be-
lafonte version
Favorite book: “A Fine Bal-
ance” by Rohinton Mistry
Favorite movie: “Beaches of
Agnes” by Agnes Varda
If you could only eat one
food group for the rest of
your life, would it be
grains, meat, vegetables or
fruit? potatoes
If you hadn’t gone into aca-
demia, you’d be: an archeolo-
gist
Department: Feminist Studies,
iner
rie M
f Vale
tesy o
Cour
Classes taught:
Women and the Creative Imagi-
nation, Writing Women’s Lives,
Imagining Women: In Print and in
Person, Honors Thesis advising:
creative theses, etc.
Primary research inter-
est/project: I am a novelist,
story writer and essayist. I also re-
view for The Boston Globe, The
LA Times, etc. I’m particularly in-
terested in fiction from South Asia
and Africa and in writing from any-
where about Feminist and GLBT
issues.
— Chelsea Ma, Managing Editor

CR
English, Clayman Institute

A
L

OSS N T
-CONTIN E
MARATHON
By JESSICA WERTHEIM “Social entrepreneurship is not I believe social entrepreneurship is
STAFF WRITER simply about making money,” best symbolized by the training re-
Kiefer said.“It’s about finding inno- quired to run a marathon.Both take
vative ways to help people improve work, effort and a lot of self-sacri-

M
eet Travis Kiefer ‘11:
He runs. A lot. In
fact,he is in the midst
of running a Kiefer thought up the ambitious
marathon on every
continent, in an effort to foster
awareness for poverty alleviation
through social entrepreneurship.
So far, Kiefer’s marathons have
taken him to: Cork, Ireland; Rosario,
Argentina; San Francisco, Calif., and
most recently,Victoria Falls,Zimbab-
we.But he is far from finished.He has
plans to complete marathons in
Japan and Australia and finish off on
Dec. 12 of this year by running the
Antarctica Ice Marathon, which he
will train for by setting up a treadmill
in a meat locker.
Kiefer is currently the executive
director of Gumball Capital, a non-
profit organization that challenges
students to combat poverty through
entrepreneurship. The Gumball
Challenge (which will take place on
Stanford’s campus on Nov. 15) is a
microfinance benefit competition,
beginning by giving students $27, 27
gumballs and one week to create
value.
According to Kiefer, the return
is at least twice as much as the initial
loans. All of the student-raised
money from Gumball Capital goes
directly to provide aid to the work-
ing poor.
their quality of life despite a lack of
resources or constraints on what
they are able to do.”
project winter quarter of his junior
year. He went for a run one day,
then the next and then the day after
that — all the while keeping Twitter
updated of his mileage.
“On the third day of consecutive
running, a friend of mine said on my
Twitter profile he would give a five-
dollar donation to the organization
of my choice for every day I ran,”
Kiefer said.
And so it began.
At first, he wanted to log 500
miles in 50 days in order to raise 250
dollars, but according to Kiefer,
“Five-hundred miles is cool, but I
wanted to up the stakes, so I decid-
ed to run a marathon. I started out
running four miles a day,adding two
miles a day each week until I was in
marathon shape.”
Kiefer ran his first marathon
while he was studying abroad in Ox-
ford spring quarter of his junior
year. Continent number one. He
later went to visit a friend in Ar-
gentina. Continent number two.
For Kiefer, “Running a
marathon symbolizes the globaliza-
tion and interconnectedness of the
world — no matter where I go there
are people who run,” he said.“Also,
fice and self-discipline. Similarly,
you can’t just get up one day and
run a marathon. Becoming an
overnight success takes years and
years of hard work.”
The marathon has also given
Kiefer an opportunity to see much of
the world on foot. His most recent
marathon took place in Zimbabwe.
“It was absolutely beautiful!” he
exclaimed. “I saw Victoria Falls at
dawn and baboons alongside the
road.The scenery was an incredible
motivator.”
However, the people he met
while traveling most affected
Kiefer: other runners, those who
cheered on the sidelines and the
people native to Zimbabwe.
“I was able to experience first-
hand the poverty situation,” he said.
“But I was most surprised by how
similar people’s stories were.Every-
one is working hard to put food on
the table; they are working for the
hope of a better future.”
Kiefer hopes to raise $125,000
for Gumball Capital within the next
year and to inspire others to get in-
volved in social entrepreneurship.
“I want to make a difference,” he
said.“And I see entrepreneurship as
the way to do that.”
Contact Jessica Wertheim at jessw
89@stanford.edu.

“I believe social
entrepreneurship is best
symbolized by the training
required to run a marathon.”
— Travis Kiefer ‘11 Courtesy of Travis Kiefer
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PRINTING
Continued from front page
an e-mail to The Daily.
One student canceled 52 print
jobs and another six students can-
celed more than 20 print jobs each
in March, Bose told The Daily in
April.
After some consultation with
residential computing consultants
(RCCs), Academic Computing Ser-
vices decided something had to be
done. Bose said Academic Comput-
ing Services chose to forego the
cancel option when configuring this
year’s system in light of the abuses.
“This means, sadly, that students
who do experience streaky toner,
torn paper or other such problems
will have to contact their RCCs or
library staff to initiate a refund for
damaged jobs,” Bose said. He re-
ported that SULAIR has processed
fewer than five refunds this aca-
demic year.
Word about the tighter policy
has been getting around. After a
question was raised during a discus-
sion at RCC training this fall, RCCs
were instructed to tell their resi-
dents it would no longer be possible
to cancel print jobs.
“One of the people leading the
discussion [during RCC training]
said we should tell people that they
can’t do that,” said Durand RCC
Chris Anderson ‘11.
Contact Anna Schuessler at annas7
@stanford.edu.
REPORT
Continued from front page
“We made the difficult budget
adjustments that are enabling the
university to continue operating
smoothly with less annual payout
from the endowment,” said Randy
Livingston, Stanford’s chief financial
officer, in the statement.
In fiscal year 2010, Stanford re-
duced individual endowment fund
payouts by 10 percent, then in
FY2011 by another 15 percent. The
budgeted payout for this fiscal year
is $758 million, or 5.5 percent of the
endowment’s beginning-of-year
value.
— Devin Banerjee
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 ! 3
RESEARCH
Images of Mexico’s Past
Consumer preferences
may have genetic link
Research on twins shows erences between options that pro-
duced large rewards later versus
certain heritable effects smaller rewards sooner, as well as
preferences in product variety.
This is not to say that people are
born with a “Prius gene” or a “jazz
By ERIN INMAN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER gene.” Instead, these tendencies re-
flect a combination of genetic ex-
pressions influenced by the interac-
Feel strangely compelled to buy a
Prius? Marketing strategies may not tion between nature and nurture, say
the researchers.
be the only thing driving you to do so.
It may be in your genes. The study proposes as a “tentative
hypothe-
Consumer preferences may re-
flect genetically heritable prudence
dispositions, a new study in the Jour-
nal of Consumer Research sug-
gests. Led by business professor
Itamar Simonson and Aner Sela,
an assistant professor of market-
ing at University of Florida, the
study gives weight to the role of
genetics in consumer decision-
making.
“We try to identify underlying
patterns by simultaneously test-
ing a wide range of potentially
related choices, judgments and
personal characteristics,” Si- ANASTASIA YEE/
monson wrote in an e-mail to The Stanford Daily
The Daily.
Researchers compared
study pools of fraternal
and identical twins and
found greater similarities
between the latter
group. Because identi-
cal twins share 100
percent of their
genes, while frater-
nal twins do not,
the researchers
could therefore
determine that genet-
ics influenced those trends
in consumer preferences.
According to a summary of the sis”
study provided by Simonson, largely that the ob-
heritable effects included, for exam- served heritability patterns reflect a
ple, tendencies to either engage in or genetic disposition for “living on the
refrain from compromising or gam- edge or in the mainstream.”
bling. Research also showed a herita- “At the present time, we do not
ble preference for specific products, know how genes might affect . . . the
such as mustard, hybrid cars, science tendency to choose a compromise
fiction movies, chocolate and jazz, versus an extreme option, a risky ver-
JIN ZHU/Staff Photographer while tattooing and ketchup had no sus safe option or batteries versus
The Green Library exhibit “Celebrating Mexico: the Grito de Dolores and the Mexican Revolution” commemorates observed genetic linkage. Godiva chocolate,” Simonson said.
Other tendencies with no signifi-
the 200th anniversary of Mexico's independence from Spain and the 100th anniversary of Mexico's revolution.
cant heritable effects included pref- Please see GENES, page 5
4 ! Tuesday, September 28, 2010
OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
Difficult questions persist
after endowment report
L
ate Monday, Stanford Management
Company released the investment fig-
ures from the 2010 fiscal year and the
endowment figures for 2011. From this devel-
opment, there is much in which we can take
heart.The University’s 14.4 percent return on
the Merged Pool (MP), the main pot of in-
vestment funds for the school, means that
those controlling the purse strings of the Farm
are doing a damn good job.
In addition, the endowment stands at a
heady $13.8 billion, more than securing Stan-
ford as one of the world’s richest institutions
of higher education. Over the course of the
2009 fiscal year, the endowment plummeted
from $17.2 to $12.6 billion. The fact we have
recouped a significant portion of those losses
in only a year is a very good sign. Provost
Etchemendy, in his report to the Faculty Sen-
ate last spring, spoke of a nearing end to
salary freezes. From this body of evidence, is
not unreasonable to say that Stanford weath-
ered the storm and is on its way back up.
But before we break out the bubbly and
pass out the Cubans, there are still some
deep, overriding issues that this University
and its community must grapple with. While
a 14.4 percent return on the Merged Pool is
more than double the average for the past
decade, the aforementioned fund lost a wal-
loping 25.9 percent in 2009, and we are still
not close to our overfilling coffers of the mid-
2000s. Our endowment currently is only 80
percent as large as it was in 2008. It is lunacy
to deny that Stanford is not absurdly well-off.
But after a freeze on faculty salaries, one of
the third rails of the academy, and a halt or
delay on a great many construction projects,
the effects of the recession remain with us.
This increasingly rosy but still muddled
financial situation invariably leads to a dis-
cussion of prioritization. For myriad rea-
G IRL YOU K NOW I T ’ S T RUE
What Stephen Colbert Has
In Common with Elmo
S
tephen Colbert testified before Con-
gress on Friday on the matter of farm
labor and immigration. Very serious
people such as David Corn of Mother Jones
raised objections along the lines of “Colbert
is making a mockery of this hearing.”Though
Corn is probably most upset that Colbert
claimed “‘corn-packer’ is a derogatory term
for a gay Iowan,” others have taken up the ar-
gument as well.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) — a man who
was once the lone vote against acknowledg-
ing the role of slave labor in building the
Capitol — took a few minutes to turn up the
heat on Colbert and demand that he answer
whether he was packing or unpacking the
corn and described the whole affair as “an in-
sult to the time, an insult to the intelligence of
the American people.” Reporters from Na-
tional Review,The Washington Post and Rep.
Steve Cohen (D-TN) all labeled the affair a
mockery as well.
But let’s drop some R. Kelly-style Real
Talk here: nobody would ever, ever care
about this particular hearing if there weren’t
a famous person there. Even with Colbert
there, at least one congresswoman — I’m
looking at you, Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
— was seen texting during the hearing.
So, if it takes Lil’ Wayne to spice up a hear-
ing on the reauthorization of the National
Flood Insurance Program (“Mr. Carter, what
exactly do you mean by ‘make it rain?’”) by
all means, go for it, attention-starved con-
gressmen. Pulling some random celebrity to
testify on an issue where they lack expertise
is nothing new. In fact, I have four examples
of even less dignified moments in legislative
history.
Novelist Michael Crichton testifies before
the Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works on climate change, 2005
The late author of such works as “The An-
dromeda Strain,” “Congo” and “Jurassic
Park” and onetime member of People Maga-
zine’s list of the “50 Most Beautiful People”
was called to testify on the matter of climate
change in large part due to his 2004 novel
“State of Fear,” which chair James Inhofe (R-
OK) made required reading for the commit-
tee. Considering the novel is the story of a
bunch of evil eco-terrorists operating under
the umbrella of organizations with such
bizarrely un-menacing acronyms as NERF
and ELF getting ready to kill large numbers
of people in a tsunami they’ve created to
raise money for environmental causes, it may
come as no surprise that Crichton was there
to talk about how fake global warming is.
The Brookings Institute described “State
of Fear” as “notable mainly for its nuttiness,”
which is surprising, since it is, you know,
called “State of Fear.” Though he did have
some credentials, being a Harvard Med
sons, the average Stanford student will not
have a chance to substantively impact the
course of budget decisions made by admin-
istrators. For those who were on campus
during the 2009 school year, it is not difficult
to recollect the sheer amount of hours stu-
dent government poured into lobbying,
pleading and even slightly cajoling the ad-
ministration to take into consideration
some of the issues central to the student
body. And while some small successes were
achieved, they were by and large peripheral
to bigger and more daunting issues.
Stanford, as a center of higher learning, is
tasked first and foremost with educating stu-
dents. But at a university as complex as ours,
we need to realize we are merely part of a
much larger equation.
That is no excuse to simply check out.
Rather, this should motivate a greater con-
templation of what, exactly, the Stanford ex-
perience entails. The Farm likes to tote itself
as a research university, but then why hasn’t
research funding (ignoring stimulus funding)
substatively increased over the last half
decade?
As this school year progresses, take time
to think and talk about what makes Stanford
. . . well, Stanford. Is it your peers, many of
whom are here because Stanford’s financial
aid is paying their bills? Is it the professors
and TAs, whose positions and fiscal security
have been precarious for the past year? Is it
the physical residences in which you live,
many of which are in states of disrepair? Or
could it be your student groups, which have
been impacted by the reduced hours of Stu-
dent Affairs? As a university, we must not
shirk from frankly and openly discussing
these matters, because the choices made
now will affect the long term course of this
institution.
Jordan
Carr
School graduate and all, Michael Crichton
was a climate expert in the same way that Dr.
Phil is a podiatrist.
Rapper Hurricane Chris Performs “Halle
Berry (She’s Fine)” on the Floor of the
Louisiana Legislature, 2009
Remember that song, “A Bay Bay”? No?
It was a thing in 2007, I swear. Anyway, the
Louisiana House of Representatives saw fit
to honor its creator, Shreveport-native Hur-
ricane Chris, by giving him the floor for a few
minutes, during which he performed a class-
ily self-edited version of his song “Halle
Berry (She’s Fine).”
That said, this cannot be regarded as that
big of a disgrace on the Louisiana legislature
because 1) Mr. Chris was wearing a suit, and
2) as Rep. Billy Tauzin, who left to work as a
pharmaceutical lobbyist promptly after over-
seeing the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill
of 2003, once noted, “Half of Louisiana is
under water, and the other half is under in-
dictment.” And for what it’s worth, New Or-
leans isn’t exactly Vatican City, either.
Muppet Elmo testifies before the Education
Appropriations Subcommittee, 2002
Say what you will about Stephen Colbert,
but he’s not a puppet made out of red felt that
speaks in the third person. And Elmo was
asked to testify by Randall “Duke” Cunning-
ham, whose corruption and bribery convic-
tions stemmed in part from an illegally ob-
tained yacht named the “Duke Stir.” If “Con-
victed Bribe Recipient Invites Puppet to
Give Expert Testimony” is no longer an obvi-
ous sign of bad governance, perhaps we’re
getting too jaded.
Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson testifies
before Senate Subcommittee on Environ-
ment and Public Works, 2002
Backstreet’s back to testify about the
damaging practice of coal mining in Ken-
tucky? Alright! Not surprisingly, Sen. George
Voinovich (R-OH) described calling on Mr.
Richardson’s expertise as “a joke.” Richard-
son, who was always the socially conscious
one, noted “I am not a scientist, but I do know
what I’ve seen in flights over the coal fields.”
Want to say something without being sworn in?
E-mail Jordan at jcarr1@stanford.edu.
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Party Like a Grown-Up
I
spent much of last week entrenched in ily than my supposed bachelor-level expert-
party-planning mode, frantically prepar- ise on science.
ing for my slightly belated housewarming. Jade I don’t think that community and pride
It was quite the success, and if I sound a little and ownership are exclusive to the Stanford
smug about it, it’s because I am. Wang experience, but I do think that I learned them
The planning process involved the kind of on campus. (I never did seriously consider
stubborn persistence that only my favorite the aesthetics of the bookshelves in my par-
things, parties and making lists, can inspire. I ents’ house while I was in high school, and I
threw myself into this task with a fervor that certainly never mopped anything three times
surprised even me, eventually resorting to in one day.) For many of us, Stanford is where
using spreadsheets to organize my RSVP- we do a lot of our growing up, a large part of
tracking system and tiered to-do lists.
The day of the party was devoted solely to
preparation, which included a marathon af-
Is this normal? If which, for me, is asserting my independence
and identity through engaging with my
home, one of the first things over which my
ternoon of making hors d’oeuvres and an parents had little to no control.
evening of artfully arranging the living room
and mopping.
not,is it at least This might manifest itself in the question-
able choices we all make in covering every
As my fellow hostesses and I swept and inch of white walls in our first dorm rooms
sliced summer squash, I wondered if it is nor-
mal to prepare for a housewarming with such acceptably close to with posters, photographs, ticket stubs, a loud
announcement to the world, “This is what I
intensity.What drove me to the state of party
planning where I actually made a flowchart
like! This is who I am!” I devoted my life to
running my house’s kitchen one year, a labor
of the ideal tempo and mood of my meticu- normal? of love born of my giddy independence.
lously timed playlist? Is this normal? If not, is This is not to say that my throwing of one
it at least acceptably close to normal? successful housewarming marks a smooth
While I cannot attribute all of the insanity and clean-cut transition into adulthood. In
to the Stanford effect, upon reflection, I cer- come a manic version of myself when prepar- fact, I would venture a thought that a real
tainly think I drew heavily from the past four ing my home for company. The competitive adult might merely smile indulgently upon
years. As an undergraduate who was lucky streak I try so hard to hide rears its less-than- witnessing the obsessive process I took to
enough to spend three years on the Row, I pleasant face in the unnecessary perfection- get there, thinking about the next stage of
relished the sense of community and pride ism that causes me to rethink and overana- growing up that has yet to make its way into
generated from my place of residence, per- lyze both the appearance and gastronomical my conscious mind. Ultimately, I am relieved
haps to a degree that I am ashamed to say oc- cues of garnishes on dips. that the love of home that I found at Stan-
casionally bordered on belligerence. It seems, somewhat unexpectedly, that ford is something that is so easily trans-
Even as a freshman, though I scoffed at this part of my Stanford experience has fol- ferrable — and that I have managed to con-
the incessant dorm chanting asked of me dur- lowed me faithfully, and though I would hes- vince myself that throwing parties is just a
ing the entire first month of school, I had itate to say I am ready to create and start part of growing up that I should indulge in as
somewhere to expend this energy. Now, with much as possible.
no repetitive chants and a lack of bi-weekly
shrieking a chant about my apartment, I do
invest a great deal of my identity in my
social gatherings through which to funnel my domicile. This is an instinctive feeling for Want to be on the guest list for the next event?
instinctive and fierce pride, I apparently be- me, coming to the surface much more read- E-mail Jade at jadew@stanford.edu.
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ALEP
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istics of initiatives in Afghanistan —
as guiding principles.
“In Afghanistan, laws may not
last as they are,” Galland said. “The
way that we are teaching the law is
getting people to think about how
to interpret law, think critically
about law and about how to change
law. They are skills that will be im-
portant even if the law changes. So
it’s kind of a long-term ambition
rather than kind of a short-term,
‘We’ll teach you the laws as they are
now.’”
Law student and team member
Stephenie Gosnell, who served as a
Marine Corps officer for seven
years, spoke to the importance of
legal education in stabilizing the
country.
“One of the more important les-
sons I learned from serving in
Baghdad is that stabilizing a coun-
try like Iraq or Afghanistan is an
extraordinarily complex task,” she
wrote in an e-mail to The Daily.
“Legal education is one of the
many aspects that contributes to
the growth of civil society,” she
added.
The project’s success in provid-
ing Afghan society with viable solu-
tions for the future of their infant
legal system has been recognized
by more than just the students and
professors who use the textbooks.
Most recently, the U.S. State De-
partment awarded ALEP with a
$1.3 million grant this fall to contin-
ue its work.
In addition to providing for the
basic resources necessary to re-
search, write and publish these text-
books, the grant will help fund con-
sultation with legal experts, trips to
Afghanistan to evaluate the cur-
riculum and the positioning of a
postdoctoral fellow on the ground
in Afghanistan, Kramer said.
ALEP’s success has extended
beyond the university classroom in
Afghanistan. The textbooks have
shown to be useful in educating
other members of Afghan society
— including military personnel and
civilians working on the rule of law
— about new laws and developing
legal system. The project also is
working on efforts to translate the
books into Dari and Pashto, which
will further expand the use of the
textbooks throughout Afghanistan.
ALEP has even inspired efforts
outside Afghanistan’s borders, with
similar Stanford Law School proj-
ects now being implemented in
Bhutan and East Timor.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot
more of these projects pop up,”
Galland said, “which would be
great. It’s awesome to be able to in-
spire others to do similar things.”
The project, with its focuses on
long-term sustainability and edu-
cating Afghans themselves, may
offer a promising form of interna-
tional peace-building. Galland, who
previously spent two years in Laos
doing development work, said the
particular mission of ALEP was
one thing that attracted her to the
project in the first place.
“I had a mixed bag of experi-
ences and kind of came to realize
that I thought that education was
probably one of the most important
ways to contribute to a developing
country,” she said.“It’s also a way to
teach people how to think instead
of what to think, if you do it well.
And I had kind of gotten sick of
people who come to different coun-
tries and tell them what to do.”
Contact Caity Monroe at cmonroe@
stanford.edu.
The American University of Afghanistan, pictured above, uses legal textbooks researched, written, and pub-
lished by the Law School’s Afghanistan Legal Education Project.
ALCOHOL
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who responded, 71 percent rated Al-
coholEdu as “somewhat to very effec-
tive” in educating them about college
alcohol issues,and 77 percent said they
learned something useful from the
program.
In his recommendation that Stan-
ford continue to fund AlcoholEdu,
Castro cited a decision-making model
developed by doctoral student in deci-
sion analysis Somik Raha that quanti-
fied the program’s effects and value to
the University. Raha weighed the
$18,000 annual cost of AlcoholEdu
against the monetary values of staff re-
sponse time, emergency room bills,
missed classes, litigation and public re-
lations costs, as well as core values
more intrinsic to the University, like
education and student welfare.
“What we wanted to know is, can
we make decisions that honor our in-
trinsic values?” Raha said.
Castro noted that alcohol-related
trips to the emergency room have
dropped at Stanford to an average of
about 60 per year from 119 in 2004-05.
According to Raha’s statistical analy-
ses, Stanford needs to drop to at most
59 annual “minor injuries” — any-
thing less than permanent incapacita-
tion or death — for AlcoholEdu to
make financial sense.
“There’s definitely a correlation”
between AlcoholEdu and a decrease
in emergency room trips, “but there
was no randomized control trial,so we
can’t draw any conclusion about
causality,” Castro said.
According to Castro, the lack of a
control study is due to the survey’s
original purpose, which was to obtain
feedback and assess how students felt
about AlcoholEdu and not to formal-
ly evaluate the program’s effective-
ness. Castro noted the possible effects
of the New Student Orientation alco-
hol policy, increased focus on hard-al-
cohol consumption in alcohol educa-
tion programs on campus and recently
implemented changes in residential
OBAMA
Continued from front page
are looking maybe at their first job
not providing health insurance,” he
said.
At the same time, Obama urged
universities to disclose how students’
tuitions are spent so that students
may “have some good understand-
ing” of the use of their payments.
“There should be a pie chart at every
university that says, out of every dol-
lar you spend in tuition, here’s where
your money is going,” Obama said.
Calling the Senate’s failure last
week to pass the DREAM Act a “set-
back,” the president emphasized his
administration’s backing of the bill,
which would grant permanent resi-
dency to undocumented immigrants
who came to the United States as chil-
dren and wish to pursue higher edu-
cation or service in the American
armed forces.
“Their parents brought them
here,” Obama said of young undoc-
umented immigrants. “They may
not have been documented, but
they have, for all intents and pur-
poses, grown up as American young
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 ! 5
staff training regarding alcohol. He
added that although AlcoholEdu is
only one small piece of a larger pro-
gram, it’s the most comprehensive be-
cause every single student participates
in it.
“Can we make
decisions that
honor our
intrinsic values?”
— SOMIK RAHA
Randomized control trials spon-
sored by AlcoholEdu have taken
place on a national scale and have
shown quantifiable decreases in the
negative consequences of drinking in
groups that have gone through the
program.AlcoholEdu is used by more
than 500 college and university cam-
puses nationwide, according to its
website. The Stanford Alcohol Advi-
sory Board spent three quarters
studying national studies in peer-re-
viewed journals, Stanford data and
anecdotal data before making a for-
mal recommendation to continue the
program.
“We reviewed other programs,and
they paled in comparison to Alco-
holEdu’s richness and depth,” Castro
said.“It’s not just a PowerPoint,and its
messages complement [Stanford’s].”
He added that although he prefers
person-to-person education tech-
niques, online education is a more ef-
fective way to reach students on a
large scale.
The county perspective
Another financial motivation for
the University to invest in alcohol ed-
ucation is its exemption from Santa
Clara County’s “social host” drinking
ordinance, which allows the county to
impose a fine of up to $700 on anyone
responsible for hosting underage
drinking gatherings.Stanford’s contin-
people.”
Responding to questions about
health care costs and rising tuition,
Obama continually referred back to
the strength of the economy as his ad-
ministration’s number-one priority.
“One of the things that I can do to
help is to make sure that the economy
is growing,” he said. “States then are
taking in more tax revenue . . . then
they don’t have to try to pass on in-
creased costs to students because
they can maintain levels of support to
institutions of higher learning.”
GENES
Continued from page 3
“This is a preliminary investigation,
and given the difficulties of under-
standing such heritable tendencies, it
may take decades until we have a
good understanding.
The research suggests that envi-
ronmental effects alone do not guide
consumer behavior, but that herita-
ble preferences play a key role as
well.
Genetic research could reveal
promising target consumer seg-
Courtesy of Hamid Khan
ued exemption from the ordinance is
contingent on the University continu-
ing to promote alcohol education and
minimize alcohol-related incidents.
Santa Clara County District 5 Su-
pervisor Liz Kniss said the terms of
Stanford’s exemption from the drink-
ing ordinance were negotiated by the
University counsel office,the Stanford
University Police Department, Castro
at Vaden and the Santa Clara County
Sheriff’s Department.
Kniss cited two major stipulations
developed by the county Department
of Alcohol & Drug Services (DADS)
for maintaining the exemption. First,
all University alcohol policies and pro-
grams are designed to meet the pur-
pose of the ordinance and then re-
viewed and approved annually by
DADS. Second, Stanford bears all
costs for annual review and alcohol-re-
lated emergencies, as well as responsi-
bility for the outcomes.
“They made a very strong argu-
ment that they would monitor this
[and] have education in place,and that
it would be reported in a regular and
sustainable way,” Kniss said. She
added that the county considers the
exemption a “big deal [and] does not
take this kind of ordinance lightly.”
For the county, the success of alco-
hol education at Stanford is defined in
“big picture”terms:whether or not the
University is conforming to the best
practices established at similar institu-
tions, how closely University officials
adhere to their own policies,the degree
of genuine support for the programs
within the administration and student
responses to the University’s efforts.
Although the county has not yet re-
ceived all the data on AlcoholEdu, it
has a summary indicating that infor-
mation about alcohol might lead to an
increase in responsible behavior,
which seems to be the case with self-
reporting as well, Kniss said.
“It seems to me that the result of
this exemption is that Stanford has
taken underage drinking very serious-
ly and has really focused on educa-
tion,” Kniss added.
Contact Elizabeth Rosen at ejrosen
@stanford.edu.
The president plans to hold a rally
today at the University of Wisconsin
in Madison to mobilize young voters
before the November elections in a
battleground state he won handily in
November 2008.
“I love Madison because when I
was just out of college . . . I used to
drive up there and have fun times,”
Obama said, “which I can’t discuss in
detail with you.”
Contact Devin Banerjee at devin11
@stanford.edu.
ments for certain types of products.
For example, if a preference for mo-
tion sensitive devices is found to be
heritable, the Nintendo Wii or Apple
iPhone could benefit from under-
standing these genetic predisposi-
tions.
While there is still progress to be
made on pinpointing the underlying
biological causes for these consumer
preferences, the researchers remain
hopeful that the consumer market
can benefit from further study of the
role of genetics in judgment and
choice.
Contact Erin Inman at einman@stan-
ford.edu.
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SPORTS
KILLER Jacob
Jaffe
Fields of Failure

KLINEMAN Stanford vs.

Senior outside hitter racks up Oregon:the
60 kills to lead Cardinal rundown
I
By KATHERINE KNOX
n 1997, 13 years ago yesterday,
In the opening weekend of Pac-10 Conference play, the No. 1 Stanford football outlasted Ore-
Stanford women’s volleyball team (11-0, 2-0 Pac-10) won swift gon 58-49 in the most exciting
victories over both Arizona State (5-8, 0-2) and Arizona (10-4, 0- game I had ever seen live. I was
2). only seven at the time, tagging
The Card left Tempe with a slim 3-1 victory over ASU, 25-23, along with my parents at their reunion,
27-25, 23-25, 25-21. but I’d had enough training in football-
Early service and at- watching from my family to under-
tacking errors from both
sides kept the first set close.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL stand the game. (Dad, the brainwash-
ing worked — I still love Stanford and
After getting over its con- 9/26 at Arizona W 3-0 football.) Both teams traded touch-
ference-opening jitters, downs, with Stanford’s Chad Hutchin-
Stanford strung together a son and Oregon’s Jason Maas and Akili
streak of six first-strike UP NEXT Smith combining for 10 touchdowns
through the air. Young, naïve me be-
side-outs at 16-16, en route
to winning its first set of
Pac-10 competition, 25-23.
OREGON STATE lieved that I’d often see games with 107
points in which my favorite team came
The second set likewise (8-8, 1-1 Pac-10) out on top.I miss that version of myself.
went to Stanford, 27-25. 10/1 Maples Pavilion Fast forward to last year.I had expe-
Each team posted its low- rienced 12 more years of football, yet
7 P.M. nothing had quite matched the explo-
est hitting percentage of
the night with .216 and .259 GAME NOTES: Stanford, currently the siveness and emotional swings of that
for ASU and Stanford, re- unanimous No. 1 team in the nation, will 1997 game.That all changed when No.
spectively. Effective de- play its first conference home games this 7 Oregon came to town. In a game that
fense by the two experi- weekend against Oregon State and No. was more detrimental to my cardiovas-
enced liberos, Stanford 11 Oregon. The Beavers are 1-1 in the cular system than a year of the “Super
senior Gabi Ailes and ASU conference after losing to Washington Size Me” diet, Stanford held on 51-42
senior Sarah Johnson, was and beating Washington State last week- against one of the most potent offenses
critical in preventing either end, while the Ducks beat both the in the nation.
team from gaining a signif- Huskies and the Cougars. It was high-scoring (93 total points
icant offensive edge. Ailes and more than 1,000 total yards).It was
earned a match-high 24 close (the nine-point margin of victory
digs, while Johnson was runner-up with 21. masked the momentum swings and
ASU demonstrated renewed spirit after the break, pulling general feelings of terror any Cardinal
out the third set, 25-23.The Cardinal fell four points behind mid- fan felt every two or three seconds). It
set after three consecutive hitting errors, each from a different was a major upset (Stanford was un-
player.The Sun Devils were led by the offense of senior outside ranked and riding a seven-year bowl
hitter Sarah Reaves and sophomore middle blocker Erica Wil- absence, while Oregon was considered
son, who hit .250 and .500 respectively on the match. a national title contender). It featured
The Cardinal took the fourth set 25-21 under the leadership remarkable performances (Toby Ger-
of senior outside hitter Alix Klineman, who reeled in 11 kills in hart broke the Stanford record for
the fourth set en route to earning a career-high 39 kills on the rushing yards in a game with 223). It
match. ASU’s Reaves totaled the next-highest 23 kills on 68 at- was the Cardinal’s coming-out party (it
tempts,as both players took over twice the number of swings and brought Stanford national attention,
merited twice as many kills as any given teammate. made Stanford bowl-eligible for the
Arizona, though boasting a better record than ASU, dropped first time since 2001 and put Stanford
quickly to the Cardinal in straight sets, 25-14, 25-19, 25-23. into the national rankings for the first
The Wildcats were at a disadvantage before the first set even time in years). Quite frankly, it was the
began, as a submission of the wrong line-up forced them into an best game I’ve ever seen.
unconventional format. The ensuing confusion prevented Ari- SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily Why do I bring up two exciting
zona from gaining momentum against the Card. Senior outside hitter Alix Klineman scored a career-high 39 kills against Arizona State on Friday before adding 21 more on Stanford-Oregon football games, you
A well-executed side-out game from Stanford brought it the Sunday at Arizona. Klineman is the Card’s top offensive threat and will be critical as both Oregon schools visit this weekend. ask? Well, if you actually need to ask
first set easily, 25-14. that question, you must live some-
While a serving run by sophomore setter Karissa Cook gave on the match, as the weight of the Arizona offense rested large- ing her the uncontested kill leader for the seventh consecutive where devoid of football (and there-
Stanford a decisive six-point lead in the second set,it was the crit- ly on the pin hitters.The performances of these key players yield- match. fore happiness). This Saturday, Stan-
ical timing of service errors by the Wildcats that ultimately cost ed crucially timed kills — from Karst and Owens in particular — “It felt really good to start off the Pac-10 2-0.Everyone knows ford and Oregon will face off yet again,
them the set going into the break. that nearly cost the Card its sweep down the stretch. how hard it is to win on the road, especially in this conference,” but this matchup could be the Cardi-
Arizona posted its best score of the night in the third set, led Stanford rested Cook in the third, moving away from its tra- Klineman said.“Arizona State definitely showed us that we still nal’s most important game since the
by junior opposite Courtney Karst and senior outside hitter ditional two-setter offense. Senior setter Cassidy Lichtman took have some things to work on, but it always feels good to walk 2000 Rose Bowl. Oregon is the No. 4
Tiffany Owens, who brought Arizona back to tie the score at 20- control of the set, setting up Klineman for the three kills that
20 after being down 17-12. Owens led her team with 39 attempts closed out the match. She contributed 21 kills on the night, mak- Please see WVBALL, page 7 Please see JAFFE, page 7

Invitational wins for Cardinal XC

By ZACH ZIMMERMAN
DESK EDITOR

It was déjà vu at the Stanford Golf Course on Saturday,

as the Stanford men’s and women’s cross country teams
swept the Stanford Invitational once again.
The No. 1 men’s side looked to reclaim its dominance
from one year ago, when it took the first four positions in
the men’s 8,000-meter race. Although the individual title
went to a non-Cardi-
nal runner this year,
Stanford placed four CROSS COUNTRY
runners in the top 10.
Senior David Mc- 9/25 Stanford Invitational
Neill of Northern Ari-
zona won the race Men 1st, Women 1st
with a time of 23:18.
McNeill jumped out
to a big lead after 800 UP NEXT
meters, at one point
beating the field by al- NCAA PRE-NATIONALS
most 30 seconds. He 10/16 Terre Haute, Ind.
was chased by a quar-
tet of Cardinal run- All Day
ners — juniors Chris GAME NOTES: The Cardinal men put up a
Derrick and Ben- stiff defense of their No. 1 national rank-
jamin Johnson, red- ing with a team win in the Stanford Invita-
shirt junior Jake Riley tional last weekend, while the women’s
and senior Elliott team exceeded expectations by winning
Heath. their team event as well. Stanford’s next
Although Mc- event in Indiana will pit the Cardinal
Neill’s performance against much tougher competition than it
caught many of the faced last weekend on the Farm.
spectators off guard,
Stanford knew what
to expect from last year’s NCAA Championships runner-
up.
“It wasn’t necessarily surprising to see McNeill go out
fast, but it was a little surprising to see him make such a
rapid move after hanging back for the first six to eight
hundred meters,” Heath said. “He is a great runner, so we
were definitely expecting to see him at the front of the
race, but when he made his move early, we decided to let SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Rather than relying on a single runner, Stanford utilized a team running strategy to triumph in last weekend’s Stanford Invitational, held at the Stanford Golf Course.
Please see XCOUNTRY, page 7 The men’s team defended its No. 1 national ranking and will continue its defense as the team travels to Indiana in two weeks to face much stiffer competition.
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1237 him go a little bit and work together
as a team for a while.”
Toward the end of the race, the
front of the pack kicked hard. In an-
other classic finish, Heath, Riley
and Derrick crossed the line side-
by-side, just four seconds behind
McNeill with identical times of
23:22. Johnson dropped just behind,
but finished in 23:41, good for
eighth overall. Redshirt sophomore
Miles Unterreiner capped off the
men’s scoring with a 15th-place fin-
ish in 24:05.
Heath felt the team, which beat
second-place Arkansas by 12 points,
executed its strategy well on Satur-
day.
“Coming away from the race, I
think we generally ran the way we
wanted to heading in,” he said.
“There is always a lot of excitement
that goes along with the first meet of
TODAY’S RATING the year because it gives us some in-
Intermediate dication of how all the summer
training has set us up for the season.
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team in the country and one of the
fastest and scariest teams in all of col-
lege football. Stanford has coasted
through four easy victories, propelling
best mark since 1992.
The game is so important that
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ESPN moved the game from 8:15 p.m.
to 5 p.m. and from its own channel to
ABC in order to draw more viewers,
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also filming College GameDay live
from Eugene on Saturday, which is
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slightly surprising considering Alaba-
8 4 1 5 2 3 9 6 7 ma-Florida and Texas-Oklahoma will
9 1 3 6 7 8 5 2 4 take place on the same day.So what can
we expect from this game?
6 7 4 2 5 9 1 3 8 It’s the Pac-10 game of the year . . .
for now. Most of the media are billing
1 2 5 3 9 4 8 7 6 this game as the most important Pac-10
4 3 9 7 8 2 6 5 1 contest of the season. It sure looks like
it, as both teams are in the top 10 and
both have a legitimate shot at confer-
Solution ence and national titles if they win. On
the other hand, last year’s “Pac-10
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Heels, including nine in the second
period, ultimately allowing only two
goals while making eight saves. She
also managed to hold off a spirited
North Carolina attack throughout
the second period, keeping the Tar
Heels off the scoreboard from the
23rd minute onward.
However, Moss’ performance was
not enough to compensate for the
Cardinal’s overall lack of offense.
Stanford mustered just two shots in
the game, both in the first period, and
got one goal from senior Xanthe Trav-
los at the tail end of the first period.
Despite the tough loss, Stanford
had no time to recover, jumping back
in the next day for a game at Wake
Forest (6-4).
The Cardinal did not look promis-
ing early on, as the Demon Deacons
notched two quick goals in the first
nine minutes. The first goal, which
came at just 1:52, was deflected into
the net off a defender’s stick, while
We had a couple of guys that didn’t
have great races, but I think we ran
fairly well as a team overall.”
“The first meet is always a tough
thing to judge, because it is usually
quite hot and so much tends to
change as the season moves along,”
Derrick added.“I would say that the
meet confirmed a lot of the things
we have been seeing in training.”
The No. 14 Cardinal women also
came away victorious on Saturday,
breezing through the competition
with just 41 total points. They were
led by sophomore sensation Kathy
Kroeger, who placed first overall in
the 6,000-meter race with a time of
20:06.
Junior Georgia Griffin was close
behind, finishing in fifth overall
while running a personal-best time
of 20:45.
Also finishing in the top 15 were
sophomore Alex Dunne (10th),
freshman Jessica Tonn (12th), sen-
ior Alex Gits (14th) and junior
Steph Marcy (15th).
Aside from an overall team title,
Kroeger says the women set out to
accomplish another achievement
on Saturday.
“Our goal for the race was to win
game of the year” was Oregon-USC,
but that turned into a blowout and did-
n’t end up having nearly as much of an
impact on the conference as Oregon-
Arizona or Oregon-Oregon State. So
get excited for this game, but remem-
ber there are seven games on the
schedule after this one.
Replacements will play a role. Each
team in this game returns the majority
of its key playmakers from last year.
The main exceptions are Toby Ger-
hart, who left Stanford to make mil-
lions in the NFL,and Jeremiah Masoli,
who left Oregon to avoid NCAA back-
lash and to lose to Jacksonville State.
Gerhart was the best running back in
the nation last year (say what you will
about the Heisman, but he did win the
Doak Walker Award), and Masoli was
expected to be one of the best quarter-
backs in the country this year. Their
successors will have big shoes to fill,
and just how big their feet are (the
metaphor can only go so far) will play a
big part in determining Saturday’s win-
ner.
Oregon quarterback Darron
Thomas has been solid, if unspectacu-
lar, while leading the high-powered
Oregon offense. He has been at the
helm of an offense that leads the nation
in scoring, so he is clearly doing well.
But it remains to be seen how Thomas
will perform if or when he is asked to
win the game himself, rather than rely-
ing on his stellar skill position players,
especially LaMichael James and Ken-
jon Barner.
Stanford’s running game has han-
dled the loss of Toby Gerhart well so
far by using the rarely successful back-
field-by-committee. It seems to be
working for the Cardinal, though, as
Stanford is averaging 223 rushing yards
per game, which trails only Oregon in
the Pac-10. Still, the Oregon defense
will provide quite a test,so the ability of
Stepfan Taylor and Co. to step up will
be a major factor in Stanford’s success.
The old adages will apply. One of
the most widely used clichés in football
is that winners run and stop the run. In
big games, this does seem to hold true,
and both of these teams embody that
mantra.The Oregon spread rushing at-
tack could very well be the best in the
country, racking up over 320 yards per
game despite its best back,James,miss-
ing the first game of the season. Stan-
ford has greatly improved at stopping
the run, ranked 34th in run defense.
This ranking vastly underestimates the
performance of the defense, though,
because most of those yards came
against backups after the games were
more or less decided.The Cardinal de-
fense came up big against the best run-
ning team it has seen so far, the 15th-
ranked Wake Forest rushing offense,
but Oregon is a whole different animal.
On the other side of the ball, Stan-
ford’s collection of running backs has
adequately kept Andrew Luck from
having to shoulder the offensive load
alone. Stepfan Taylor, Tyler Gaffney,
Jeremy Stewart, Usua Amanam, An-
thony Wilkerson, Owen Marecic and
Luck have combined to keep defenses
off-balance, and Stanford could need
any or all of them in order to crack Ore-
gon’s underrated defense. The Cardi-
the second goal saw Wake Forest slot
the ball through Stanford’s defense
right to the front of the net, before
being powered home by Taylor
Rhea.
After that goal, however, the Car-
dinal found its spark, notching four
unanswered goals to ultimately over-
come the Deacons, 4-2. Stanford put
18 shots in throughout the game and
got goals from four different players
— senior Camille Gandhi, junior
Stephanie Byrne, redshirt freshman
Emily Henriksson and sophomore
Katie Mitchell.
The win over Wake Forest should
give Stanford a bump in the rankings
and will also give it momentum as it
continues its NorPac schedule. The
Cardinal will play UC-Davis in
Davis, Calif., this weekend, before
taking on Harvard at home in two
weeks.
—Kabir Sawhney
as a team and particularly to de-
stroy Cal,” she said. “We definitely
accomplished that and set the tone
for a strong season of improvement
ahead.”
The women ran a slightly differ-
ent race than the men, sending
Kroeger out in front of the rest of
the team. This strategy worked out
to their advantage on Saturday, but
the Cardinal women see this differ-
ence as room for improvement.
“The men’s team does a really
good job of running as a pack,”
Kroeger said. “On the women’s
side, we aren’t quite as good at that
yet. As we continue to consistently
train hard together and race more
together, we should be able to work
together better in races.”
Up next for both teams is the
NCAA Pre-National competition,
which takes place on Oct. 16 in
Terre Haute, Ind. There, the Cardi-
nal will face a stronger field, and
fans will be able to better gauge the
potential of both the men’s and
women’s teams.
Contact Zach Zimmerman at
zachz@stanford.edu.
It’s the Pac-10 game
of the year...for
now,anyway.
nal does have the luxury of one of the
best offensive lines in the nation, but it
will be up against the best defensive
front it has seen all year.
Who’s overrated? The statistics of
both teams have been Madden-like
through the first third of the season,but
neither team has faced a legitimate test
yet. Stanford’s only road games have
been against the then-hapless (and
pre-Longhorn-slaying) UCLA Bruins
and the perennially overrated Fighting
Irish of Notre Dame. Neither team or
stadium can compare to Oregon and
Autzen Stadium, so Stanford could be
in for a rude awakening under the
lights on Saturday.
On the other hand, Oregon could
be ill-prepared for its toughest game of
the season.Oregon breezed through its
first three games before getting its
money’s worth against Arizona State
last weekend. The Ducks were out-
played through most of the game and
gave up 600 yards of total offense —
more than they had given up all season
— to a decent Arizona State offense.
The saving grace for Oregon’s defense
was the ball-handling of Arizona State,
because the Sun Devils’ seven
turnovers cost them the game. Stan-
ford’s offense, which has only five
turnovers total in four games,is unlike-
ly to be so generous with the football,
so Oregon might have its hands full
with the No. 4 scoring offense in the
country.
Most likely, neither of these teams
will disappoint, and the game could
end up being a classic. The pollsters
predict it will be a close game, with the
spread favoring Oregon by a touch-
down
Who will win? Well, for that you’ll
have to wait for our predictions in Fri-
day’s paper and for the game on Satur-
day night.
Jacob Jaffe isn’t going to tell you any-
thing about who’s injured this week.
Start drawing the Harbaugh compar-
isons at jwjaffe@stanford.edu.
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away with a win.”
The Card will continue Pac-10
competition this weekend at Maples
Pavilion, facing Oregon State on Fri-
day and Oregon on Saturday. Both
matches will start at 7 p.m.
Contact Katherine Knox at kknox12@
stanford.edu.
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