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The Stanford Daily www.stanforddaily.com Volume 238
January 7, 2011 Issue 52

OUR LUCKY DAY

UNIVERSITY

New gym
set for W.
ANDREW LUCK
Campus TO RETURN
Board of trustees By KABIR SAWHNEY
gives concept approval MANAGING EDITOR

The picture for Stanford football in 2011

for new Roble gym
By KURT CHIRBAS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Stanford board of trustees
gave concept approval for a new
75,000-square-foot recreation center
to be built on the west end of Roble
Field at its December meeting.
Construction for the project, esti-
mated to cost around $30 million,will
be funded entirely by a group of
major donors, which currently in-
cludes John Arrillaga ‘60 and the
Avery family, among others.
The University will foot the bill
for development and pay daily oper-
ational costs.
Those involved with the project
say the facility will fill a void for in-
door recreational areas on the west
side of campus.
“The campus map speaks to the
situation,” project manager Mark
Bonino wrote in an e-mail to The
Daily.“Most of the recreation and fit-
ness facilities are located around the
Athletics zone in the East part of the
campus while the West part of cam-
pus has few fitness facilities outside of
Tresidder, West Campus tennis
courts, and outdoor fields at Roble
and Sand Hill.”
Roble Gymnasium used to satisfy
this need: it contained a basketball
court, locker rooms, ping-pong tables
and a cycling area.
But when the dance division
needed more space, much of the
gym’s equipment was packed up and
moved over to the Arrillaga Center
for Sports and Recreation,located on
the east side of campus, which
opened its doors in February 2006.
became a little clearer yesterday when two of
its players announced their NFL intentions.
Redshirt sophomore quarterback Andrew
Luck, the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy,
announced his intention to return for his jun-
ior season, while redshirt junior linebacker
Thomas Keiser declared that he will enter the
NFL Draft this spring.
The big news of the day was Luck’s deci-
sion to pass up millions playing in the NFL to
return to the Farm. Many expected Luck to
forgo his final two seasons of eligibility —
had he chosen to enter the draft, he would
have been chosen first overall by the Caroli-
na Panthers.
In a statement released to the media, Luck
said, “I am committed to earning my degree
in architectural design from Stanford Univer-
sity and am on track to accomplish this at the
completion of the spring quarter of 2012.” He
was not made available for interviews.
Because he redshirted his freshman year,
Luck has two years of NCAA eligibility re-
maining, but is currently an academic junior.
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
The announcement intensified the specu-
lation around the future of Stanford head Orange Bowl MVP Andrew Luck, left, said Thursday he intends to stay at Stanford next year
coach Jim Harbaugh, who has spoken to at to earn his degree. The announcement intensified speculation around the future of Stanford
least two NFL teams since the Cardinal won head coach Jim Harbaugh, right, who has spoken to at least two NFL teams since Jan. 3.
the Orange Bowl on Jan. 3. According to the
San Jose Mercury News’ Tim Kawakami, 49ers have reportedly offered Harbaugh $6 have to replace four of its starters on the de-
Stanford has offered Harbaugh an estimated million per year, including bonuses. fensive front seven next season.
$5 million to be its head coach next season, in- Impending labor action in the NFL could In an interview with The Daily, Keiser dis-
cluding bonuses. Luck’s return may bring also keep Harbaugh from moving to the pros. cussed his decision to leave Stanford early
Harbaugh back to the Farm as well, which With the league’s collective bargaining and declare for the draft.
would turn Stanford into an early contender agreement with its players set to expire in “What it really came down to was what me
for the Pac-12 title and help put it in the pre- March, the owners could lock out the players, and my family thought was best for me next
season top 10. effectively preventing the season from going season,” he said. “It was really where I pic-
The Miami Dolphins met with Harbaugh forward. tured myself on the football field — it wasn’t
yesterday in the Bay Area, but according to Meanwhile, Keiser became the first Stan- playing for Stanford, it was playing in the
ESPN, the team has chosen to retain Tony ford underclassman to declare for the draft.
Sparano as its head coach. The San Francisco His departure means that the Cardinal will
Please see RETURN, page 8

Please see GYM, page 8

RESEARCH FLYING FOOTBALL

For Luck,
Keeping a HIGH school is the
brave face Card keeps rolling with right move
convincing win over ASU
online
By WYNDAM MAKOWSKY
MANAGING EDITOR

By LAUREN TAYLOR Let’s face it: Andrew Luck’s decision to

Study shows social net-
working sites can under-
emphasize loneliness
By JENNY THAI
STAFF WRITER
Facebook has a notorious reputa-
tion for helping college students pro-
crastinate. But recent Stanford re-
search suggests that social network-
ing sites are toxic to more than just
the academic wellbeing of students.
Stanford professors Benoit
Monin, Carol Dweck and James
Gross and doctoral student Alex Jor-
dan found in their December paper
that underestimating the unhappi-
ness of others correlates with loneli-
ness.
Inspired by the phenomenon of
social networking websites such as
Facebook,the research was conduct-
ed in four distinct studies, drawn
from a sample of around 460 first-
year Stanford undergraduates.
“College students are a good
population to work with,” Monin
said. “We can circumscribe who the
other people the [individual] is inter-
acting with [are], such as peers,
friends and roommates.”
Please see SADNESS, page 2
STAFF WRITER
Despite multiple road losses this season, and
facing an opponent that has consistent home-
court advantage, the Stanford men’s basketball
team powered past Arizona State last night in its
first Pac-10 road game. With a 55-41 victory over
the Sun Devils (8-6, 1-2 Pac-10), the Cardinal is on
a three-game winning streak and remains unde-
feated in conference play.
The win for the Card (9-4, 2-0) is particularly
impressive because of Arizona State’s overwhelm-
ing success on its home court in Tempe. During the
past three years, the Sun Devils have won 80 per-
cent of their games in Wells Fargo Arena.This sea-
son, however, the team has only competed at
home six times, including its loss to the Cardinal.
With such a travel-heavy schedule, Arizona State
has had more away games than any other major-
conference school so far this season.
Nonetheless, the Sun Devils’ lack of recent
home experience worked in Stanford’s favor, as
the Card held the lead for the entire duration of
the game, with the exception of the first three min-
utes.
The game was not decided until the second
half, when Arizona State’s offense crumbled, se-
verely weakened by the absence of injured senior
point guard Jamelle McMillan. Poor play from
both teams marked the first half,with seven Cardi-
nal turnovers and 12 from the Sun Devils. The
prospect of a Stanford victory was especially un-
certain at the half because of Arizona State’s dom-
ination on the glass, which was an unexpected sur-
prise for a team that was ranked 176th in rebound-
ing heading into conference play.
Stanford Daily File Photo
Jarrett Mann, above, was a big factor for the
blossoming Cardinal offense last night, going 3 for
5 from the field and 5 for 7 from the line en route to
11 points, second best for either team.
During the second half, however, Stanford’s of-
fense exploded and scored 30 points, compared to
just 18 for the Sun Devils.The Card also racked up
25 rebounds and compensated for its lack of pres-
ence on the boards in the first half.
Please see MBBALL, page 8
return to school does very little for his foot-
ball future. He’s a finished product who was
the guaranteed No. 1 choice in 2011. He’d be
a multimillionaire multiple times over come
April. So why come back?
“It’s a Rorschach test for people’s values
system.”
That’s his father, Oliver Luck, talking to
the (many, many) people who question
Luck’s choice. Because for his son, it’s not
about the millions: it’s about education, and
it’s about the potential to take Stanford to
heights unseen in the modern era. In an era
where the idea of the amateur athlete is ques-
tioned on a seemingly day-to-day basis,
Luck’s decision epitomizes the concept of the
student-athlete. And the rub is this: it’s not
that surprising. His public statements hinted
at him staying, and the decision fits exactly
with his humble, studious persona.
But armchair quarterbacks, wallowing in
their ignorance, will always question that
which they do not know. So let’s break this
down,and look at why Luck stayed.To do so,
let’s first look at the reasons to leave. They
number exactly two: money and injury risk.
To the first: the NFL is currently negotiat-
ing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement
(CBA), with one of the tenets being a rookie
wage scale. Simply put, the idea of first-year
players making the most money at their posi-
tion before playing a snap is troubling to
many. When the new CBA is signed, the
salaries are expected to be far lower than
Please see LUCK, page 6

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2 ! Friday, January 7, 2011 The Stanford Daily

NEWS
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS

Caltrain debuts new weekend bullet service Obama administration

aims to get more
By NARDOS GIRMA in the first six months of the 2010-2011 fiscal year.

Despite several service cuts in the past year as

Caltrain struggles to overcome a $2.3 million
budget deficit, the rail agency rang in 2011 test-
running a new weekend baby-bullet service on
Jan. 1, part of an effort to revive its plummeting
ridership.
The three-month pilot program stems from
Caltrain’s commitment, approved in 2010, to
service reductions, fare increases and revenue-
generating strategies. Ticket prices went up 25
cents for each zone on New Year’s Day
“We’re in the business of providing customer
service,” said Caltrain spokeswoman Christine
Dunn. “So we look for things that will attract
riders.”
This new service, which already existed on
weekdays, stops at seven stations instead of 22,
bringing commuters from San Jose to San Fran-
cisco in a third of the time and arriving at the Cal-
train station on King Street in San Francisco in
little more than an hour.
Keeping with its goal for cost-efficiency, only
one crew will run the program’s four trains. In
fact, the seven stations where the baby bullet
stops were strategically chosen based on their
proximity to locations that attracted more foot
traffic. Mountain View, for example, is just blocks
away from the San Antonio Shopping Center
RESEARCH
Stanford Daily File Photo
Caltrain, after prolonged budget difficulties, is
adding weekend bullet train service, which will
run with fewer stops and a shorter travel time in an
attempt to bring in new ridership.
and Millbrae is a principal point of transfer to
other public transportation, such as BART.
“We’re relying on ridership . . . to have full
trains [750 people] and a lot of people using the
service to make this worthwhile,” Dunn said, not-
ing that the future of the service depends heavily
on its ability to bring in new riders.
According to Dunn, the total cost for the pilot
project is estimated at $107,000; however, Cal-
train expects ticket sales to offset this amount by
$82,620, leaving a total net cost of $24,380, which
it will shoulder using savings in fuel costs accrued
While Caltrain has not yet evaluated last
weekend’s debut, Dunn says the general re-
sponse in anticipation of the new service was
nothing short of positive.
But the project still has its skeptics, including
at Stanford.
Some, like Jujhaar Singh ‘14, don’t think that
20 minutes “makes that much of a difference.”
“I take the weekday bullet train to San Mateo
a lot and I’ve been planning on going to San
Francisco this quarter so it will be super benefi-
cial,” said Ana Rosa ‘14, a Caltrain regular.
“[But] it only stops a few times, so it is still a lit-
tle limited.”
The weekend bullet service only makes two
round-trips, offering a run in the morning and an-
other in the afternoon for each direction — a
drastic change from the regular service, which
stops at its destinations every hour.
Although she maintained that conclusive evi-
dence on the success of the weekend baby bullet
is yet to be determined, Dunn is not worried.
“When we introduced [the baby bullet serv-
ice] on the weekdays, our ridership increased by
40 percent,” she said. “We’re very hopeful and
optimistic that the same thing will happen on the
weekends.”
Contact Nardos Girma at ngirma@stanford.edu.
Asians in business
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
President Obama’s Advisory
Commission on Asian Americans
and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs)
kicked off a campaign today to
promote entrepreneurial growth
among AAPIs. The 9 a.m. summit,
held on the Microsoft campus in
Mountain View, is part of the
White House Initiative on Asian
Americans and Pacific Islanders.
The Initiative was created
under the Clinton administration
as a response to grassroots efforts
to address health disparity issues,
a problem that the advisory com-
mission is still working to address,
said commission chair Daphne
Kwok.
Since then, the project has ex-
panded to address other problems
like bullying and the “model mi-
nority myth.”
While the need for more Asian
entrepreneurs may not make
sense in Silicon Valley, where a
large majority of the tech compa-
ny bigwigs come from this demo-
graphic group, Kwok said AAPIs
still face obstacles, especially in

Zimbardo begins Heroic Imagination Project places outside of the Valley.

By ELLORA ISRANI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Three decades after his infamous
Stanford Prison Experiment proved
that “terrifyingly normal” individuals
can commit alarming atrocities,Philip
Zimbardo, professor emeritus in psy-
chology, has set out to communicate
the opposite: that in all situations,
these same people can speak out
against evil and become heroes.
Zimbardo has substantiated this
notion through the inception of the
Heroic Imagination Project. The
project, which currently includes a
comprehensive website as well as ed-
ucation programs for high schools
students, seeks to publicize the term
“heroic imagination,” referring to the
idea that anyone can become a hero
by utilizing his or her imagination.
He intends to “democratize the
concept of heroism”and erase the no-
tion that heroes are “extraordinary
people.” He explains them instead as
“ordinary people who in a particular
situation do an extraordinary thing.”
Although the project was original-
ly a collaboration between a number
of unpaid individuals, funding has re-
cently come from a number of indi-
viduals and foundations. This money
has been used to set up a small office
in San Francisco’s Presidio district
and expand the website to include a
comprehensive explanation of the
“heroic imagination.”
The Heroic Imagination Project’s
pilot program began last September
at two local high schools: ARISE
High School in Oakland, which has a
mostly low-income, minority student
body, and Foothill Middle College in
Los Altos, a more middle-class envi-
ronment.
Students spent the fall semester
learning the principles of social psy-
chology that relate to heroism. They
watched videos of such famous ex-
periments as Stanley Milgram’s 1963
study on obedience to authority and
Zimbardo’s own prison study.
Through a basic knowledge of psy-
chology, students gained an under-
standing of the power of the situation
over their own behavior as well as
how to surpass these influences and
act heroically regardless.
“I came up with the idea that
there’s kind of a pause button,” said
Clint Wilkins, the project’s director of
education. “What we hope to teach
kids is to push that pause button in
their soundtrack and have some of
the lessons from social psychology
seep in and,in psychological terms,fill
that space between stimulus and re-
sponse.”
Zimbardo says the initial impetus
for the project came from his own ex-
periences while writing his 2007 book
“The Lucifer Effect: Understanding
How Good People Turn Evil” and a
personal realization that the psycho-
logical mechanisms mediating “evil”
Please see HEROES, page 5
“There are many parts of the
community with huge drop-out
rates and high poverty rates,”
Kwok said. “We need to make
sure [AAPIs] have access to poli-
cies and programs, and that we’re
included in their development.”
In fact, Kwok added, most
AAPI business owners, who rep-
resent 10 percent of the country’s
entrepreneurs, do not have access
to loan contracts or capital.
The advisory commission,
which is expecting a full crowd for
today, will use the four-hour long
event to guide their plan of action
for the rest of this campaign.
— Cassandra Feliciano
Please see BRIEFS, page 5

SADNESS
Continued from front page
One contributing factor to this self-
induced melancholy is the contrasting
levels of transparency regarding the
social norms of displaying happiness in
social situations.
In the first study, participants gen-
erally reported that their negative
emotional experiences tended to hap-
pen in private settings.
“When you’re at home watching
TV, there’s no one who can see you,”
said Benoit Monin, professor of psy-
chology. “All you see are the people
dressed up to go to parties — very vis-
ible things. You don’t see the lonely
people.”
The transparency of seeing people
having fun leads to pluralistic igno-
rance, or the situation where a majori-
ty of group members secretly reject
what they perceive to be a social norm,
but erringly assume that most others
accept it.
“We hide our negative emotions,”
Monin said. “You don’t tell your
friends about how miserable you are
because that wouldn’t be ‘cool.’ You
only tell them the good events of your
day and as a result, you perceive your
peers’ lives as better off.You think that
you’re unique,that you’re the only one
who is suffering.”
Social networking websites,such as
Facebook, create virtual “socializing
spaces” that connect friends with each
other.However,mimicking socially ac-
tive environments also invites a similar
enforcement of the social norm of hap-
piness. The knowledge that one’s on-
line profile is open to others leads to
self-censorship of negative thoughts
and a steady flow of positive content
and photos.
“People are really unlikely to
say on Facebook that
they’re depressed or
lonely,” said Sarah
Sterman ‘13. “Face-
book is your so-
cial persona
and you don’t want people to think
you’re generally a depressed person.”
The subsequent studies investigat-
ed the relationship between loneliness
and the social misperception that one
is alone in feeling miserable. Study
findings revealed that loneliness has a
positive correlation with the underesti-
mation of the unhappiness of others.
The more we underestimate the sad-
ness of others, the lonelier and more
alienated we feel. Interestingly
enough,the number of confidants one
has appears to do little in avoiding mis-
perception.
“In the study, it was surprising to
find how even close friends and room-
mates still overestimate each others’
happiness,” said Monin. “This study
didn’t find the cause of loneliness but
just the correlation.”
Fortunately,the solution to alleviat-
ing loneliness may not be quite as elu-
sive. Being aware of the problem is a
major step in resolving it.
“It’s not that Facebook is bad, but
we should realize that the photo of [the
friend] parachuting off the Eiffel tower
does not mean he or she has no boring
moments,”Monin said.“People’s lives
have highs and lows. Understanding
that one is not unique in one’s unhap-
piness should make one feel closer to
other people.”
Additionally, Monin proposed
opening the communication lines,
both in the private and public spheres.
“We’re not saying that you should
go crying to everyone about how mis-
erable you are,” Monin said. “But if
people can at least open up a bit more,
you’d feel better.The Internet also has
anonymous support groups to help
people dealing with these things find
solace.”
Contact Jenny Thai at jthai1@stanford.
edu.

ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily

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FEATURES

YIBAI SHU/The Stanford Daily

Each year more than 500 undergraduate and graduate Stanford stu-
dents work on innovative projects at the state-of-the-art Product Realiza-
tion Lab located in Mechanical Engineering 160.

BUILDING IT more time in the lab than their classes doctors to work with 10 different stu- own enterprises.

BIGGER
require.
Under the philosophy that Stan-
ford graduates should not only be
good citizens but also excel in a pro-
fession, “making things” has been an
important part of a Stanford engi-
neering education,Beach said.
Design comes to life at the Product Every year more than 500 stu-
dents, from freshmen to doctoral stu-
dents, use the lab. Two thirds of the
Realization Lab people who use the lab are under-
graduates. Sign-up is simple, and the
shop-license fee is relatively afford-
ed just across the street from the Axe able, given the array of high-tech ma-
ByYIBAISHU chines and equipment available,
and Palm.At the lab, a light is almost
always on. People swirl in and out of Beach said.
dent teams on developing medical de-
vices. For example, one team worked
with a physician to develop new tools
for tonsil removal operations.
For many students, one of the
biggest perks of the lab is access to its
machinery.
“The cool thing is that we have
standard equipments, and we have
[the] best equipments in the world,”
said Peter Miller, a graduate student
in mechanical engineering and a
teaching assistant for ME 203. Some
of the lab’s cutting-edge machines
have even won world competitions.
For example,the laser CAMM can
Most importantly, students have
been using the knowledge and experi-
ence they gained to benefit people
around the world, particularly in de-
veloping countries.
“We’ve got two teaching assistants
working on a device for children from
Cambodia as a foot replacement,”
Milroy said.
A course named Entrepreneurial
Design for Extreme Affordability
often receives attention for its social
entrepreneurship projects.It is a grad-
uate-level project course where stu-
dents design solutions to challenges
faced by the world’s poor.

F
or Ankur Shah ‘11, a me-
chanical engineering stu-
dent, the Product Realiza-
tion Lab has been the “bread
and butter”of his time on the
Farm.Shah started working in the lab
during his junior year, but continues
to work on projects in the lab on a reg-
ular basis.
“A lot of my project classes took
place in the lab,” Shah said. “Some-
times I went there at the end of the
quarter for projects. Sometimes I had
to spend much more time on it — for
example, when I was taking ME 203,
Manufacturing and Design. But I to-
tally loved it.”
The lab is housed in Mechanical
Engineering 610, conveniently locat-
the building and the noise of buzzing
machines reverberates throughout.
Professor of mechanical engineer-
ing David Beach, a co-director of the
lab who has been working at Stanford
for 39 years, described the lab as one
of the most unique teaching projects
in the world.
Most engineering students have
some experience taking courses in the
lab, such as Manufacturing and De-
sign, Medical Devices Design and
Computer-Aided Product Creation.
But the lab is much more than a place
for students to do coursework.
Students can pay $184 a quarter
for access to the lab facilities from 8
a.m. to 11 p.m., 15 hours a day, seven
days a week. Most choose to spend
Students from any major at Stan-
ford, whether mechanical engineer-
ing, material science, product design
or even English can pursue projects at
the lab.Final products can range from
skateboards, guitars and golf putters
to complex machines.
While many of the projects are re-
lated to students’ research, some are
simply an extension of students’ hob-
bies.
“We don’t tell people what to do
here,” said Craig Milroy, professor of
mechanical engineering and associate
director of the lab.“We help them do
what they want to do.”
Milroy described how his mechan-
ical-device design class uses the lab.
For the course, Milroy brought in
be programmed to cut out any shape
in a wide range of materials,from fruit
to plastic. The lab also features one
Haas 3-Axis VF-0 machine. Apple
uses 4,000 of these machines to make
iPods, iPhones and all the Macbook
models.
Collectively,the lab’s machines are
capable of producing almost anything
that could be manufactured in a real
factory.
The lab has often served as a step-
ping-stone for students interested in
innovative entrepreneurship. Stu-
dents sometimes get patents for proj-
ects they worked on in the lab.Others
generated ideas and found team-
mates while working in the lab with
whom they later worked to build their
Some of the successful projects,
such as Mighty Light, have been
used worldwide and have been
helping people in countries such as
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Pana-
ma, Guatemala, Rwanda and South
Africa. The the lab can claim much
of the credit for several of those
projects.
Another successful project incu-
bated in the lab is Driptech, an ex-
tremely low-cost water-efficient irri-
gation system for small-plot farmers
in developing nations. Its low-tech
design eliminates about 90 percent
of all the parts of a traditional drip-
per system.
Please see LAB, page 8

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OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
Unfinished Business
S
o much has been written
about Andrew Luck in the
past few weeks speculating
about his future, but it appears to
have all been for naught. Luck an-
nounced that “[he is] committed to
earning [his] degree in architectur-
al design from Stanford University
and [is] on track to accomplish this
at the completion of the spring
quarter of 2012.” The Editorial
Board would like to take this op-
portunity to say what every Stan-
ford Football fan is thinking:
“THANK GOD.”
We applaud Luck for making
the decision to emphasize the “stu-
dent”in student-athlete and for up-
holding the spirit of college athlet-
ics — that is, the emphasis on the
team and the university. He for-
went millions of dollars to play an-
other season with his teammates
and to finish his studies. In a year
when some of college football’s
brightest stars and most storied
programs have been marred by the
morally ambiguous actions of play-
ers, boosters and family members,
Luck has been the rarest of things:
a morally upright, likable football
star.Girls think he’s cute;guys want
to have a beer with him. His humil-
ity can lead to less-than-riveting in-
terviews, but that is not a legitimate
fault. Both on the field and in the
classroom, Luck has been an elo-
quent spokesman for the great
virtues of this university.The Edito-
rial Board is proud to have Andrew
Luck represent Stanford to sports
fans across the country.
Now the other question re-
mains: What will Jim Harbaugh
do? Reports of Harbaugh’s depar-
ture have been consistently circu-
lating since last season with each
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O H ! S WEET N UTHIN
Greatest American
Rock Band
C
lassic rock. Think about it. The
British have the Beatles and
the Who.
The Stones feel like they should
be American because they’re bluesy.
But they’re not.
Led Zeppelin . . . is also British.
Pink Floyd? Nope.
Cream! Why not Cream?!
It took me this long to hit The
Doors and Jefferson Airplane, who
are American Bands through and
through.And they’re good, but by no
means better than Zeppelin, (or
Cream or Pink Floyd).And even the
second tier/generation of Good
Rock Bands is pretty dominated by
Non-Americans. AC/DC’s Aus-
tralian. Motorhead. The Sex Pistols.
Black Sabbath.
And I think of rock and roll as
such an American sound! I mean, we
invented it, in the sense that our po-
litical system treated a certain race of
people badly enough they had to sing
the blues, which, when combined
with enough sex, drugs and electrici-
ty, turned into rock and roll (an apoc-
ryphal history). It should be ours!
The Solo Act seems to be the key
figure in American Rock. Chuck
Berry, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens,
Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Jim Morri-
son, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Eric
Clapton.In fact,I’d venture to say we
dominate here. Meatloaf? We’ve got
Meatloaf, guys. A lot of frontmen
outshine their bands. Buddy Holly
had the Crickets. Hendrix had The
Experience.And Kurt Cobain was in
Nirvana, remember? Gwen Stefani
had . . . who again? I think the
British phenomenon is separate, but
it doesn’t seem far fetched to specu-
late that there might something in
the Psyche of American Rock hostile
to The Band,(folk,and they’re Cana-
dian, (along with Steppenwolf and
the Guess Who (famous for the hit,
“American Woman”))), as a concept.
It makes some sense. The popu-
larity of foreign bands on the
American scene shows this is not a
question of what The People want.
It’s a question about the Individual
American Genius and how it be-
“expert” being surer than the last.
There are also reports of a new con-
tract offered by Stanford athletic
director Bob Bowlsby that would
substantially increase Harbaugh’s
compensation, although Stanford
cannot compete with the pay arms
race that is the NFL. Stanford is a
world-renowned university for its
academics, and it has a history of
excelling in sports, albeit typically
not in football. Given such prece-
dent, fan expectations are general-
ly not high, and we would not try to
run him out of town for losing a few
games here and there, leeway he
would not get at most other univer-
sities or professional jobs. Har-
baugh has the option to build a dy-
nasty of his own making at Stan-
ford and we at the Editorial Board
hope he chooses to do so.
So what lies ahead for these
two? Unfinished business. Luck is
instantly a preseason favorite for
the Heisman Trophy, and Stanford
should begin the season nationally
ranked.The Pac-12 will play its first
season and will be Harbaugh’s best
chance to deliver the first of “multi-
ple conference championships,”
one of the goals he laid out at his in-
troductory press conference four
years ago. Four years ago no one
believed that an FCS coach could
take a 1-11 football team and turn it
into a BCS bowl-winning team in
four years. We want to see what he
would do with a fifth year. Regard-
less of Harbaugh’s decision, Luck’s
decision is a breath of fresh air for
college athletics. The 2010 season
was nothing short of historic (2011
Orange Bowl Champions!), but
should Coach Harbaugh return
next season, everything would in-
deed be “All Right Now!”
Roseann
Cima
haves. It seems like talent, here, is
more likely to strike out on its own,
(or just be at a total loss to hold any
kind of close relationship together
for very long). Maybe we’re un-
compromisingly individualistic. It
seems like a pretty American thing
to be.
Speaking as an American, collab-
orative creative projects are hard. If
you’ve taken an art or design class,
you might know what I mean. Hell,
creative projects are hard in general.
You have to give up so much (any)
control! Hard to imagine Dylan
being Dylan without the ability to
ramble alone. If he had to square it
with his bandmates before deciding
to Go Electric.And maybe this com-
fort with working alone has some-
thing to do with The Culture.We sure
do like our heroes here.
But, if you look at those bands,
that is some really great music. Quite
arguably on average higher quality
than our solo acts.The solo acts were
visionaries,were tragic romances,but
they were short-lived or just hope-
lessly, hopelessly . . . solo. It doesn’t
matter if it’s Dylan singing gospel or
Dylan singing pop: it’s still just Bob
Dylan. He needs to bring someone
else in to achieve a certain volume of
sound. And when those people
you’ve brought in were actually there
all along, are very talented fellow
artists, coauthored the song, under-
stand the vision, contribute their
own, care, its not hard to see how
something like The Wall, which
stretches my mind to its absolute lim-
its, is possible.
That’s the sound of synergy, peo-
ple. (The soul being greater than the
sum of its parts.) I encourage it.
Want to harmonize? I’ve got rhythm.
Contact me at rcima@stanford.edu.
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S ENSE AND N ONSENSE
Diversity and Friendship
I
n Albert Camus’s “The Plague,” me similar stories of communities
Dr. Rieux and Tarrou develop a with fewer iPods but, in my friends’
close bond with each other Aysha eyes, more meaning. I suspect
while working tirelessly to combat Bagchi many students can find similar ex-
the spreading disease in their town. amples even at home.To the extent
At the end of a long day, they find that a diverse campus can feel iso-
themselves alone together on an lating, returns home over winter
empty terrace and Tarrou asks break to families and communities
Rieux: “Rieux, have you never with a common cultural identity re-
tried to find out who I am? Do you mind us of what closeness without
see me as a friend?” Rieux re-
sponds saying yes, they are friends,
This kind of effort is like.When basic values are
shared, mutual understanding does
but amid all their work they have not require explicit curiosity and
not yet had time to better under- exchange.
stand each other.Tarrou asks, then,
that they make this time on the ter-
friendship is the Going to a school that aspires to
be a microcosm of the world makes
race their “hour of friendship.” He achieving deep friendships tough
proceeds to tell Rieux his life story, work. In this spiritual melting pot,
emphasizing the experiences that
led him to this town and motivate challenge Stanford knowing and being known isn’t
easy. But the rewards of such inti-
him to combat the plague. For one macy are far greater. When we de-
fleeting hour, he tries to be seen by velop deep friendships with those
his friend.
Deep friendship, most would poses to us. who are different, we experience
an irreplaceable exchange: we fa-
agree, is an extremely important cilitate another’s growth and our
source of meaning and support in own world is expanded. Sometimes
our lives. It is something to be this expansion comes when our un-
treasured. In college especially, friends: we are unused to failure, conscious prejudices are chal-
when we have been plucked from and often the last thing we want to lenged. Sometimes it comes when a
our home environments and acknowledge is having fallen short friend illustrates a preferable set of
placed in a strange new world, we of expectations. But it also seems values or helps us shift our aspira-
want to be understood. In this true that the tremendous diversity tions. In whatever form, these ex-
sense, college students emblemize on campus poses an extra chal- changes help us become our better
the basic human desire to connect
with others.
lenge for cultivating deep friend-
ships.
selves. Deep friendship in the con-
text of diversity is the richest, most
Stanford students are lucky to This point is highlighted for me rewarding kind.
be at a very friendly place. Campus
is, in general, a congenial atmos-
phere, and within a week at Stan-
when I think of the experience I
had during the summer after my
freshman year volunteering in two
But it usually takes more than
an “hour of friendship.” In a di-
verse environment, the truest of
ford many of us make friendships villages in western Hungary. After friendships require trusting and
that last four years and beyond.Yet three weeks in a village called Soj- sharing to be implicit and perenni-
despite being at a place that is con- tor, I was in love with a place and a al. Whether we are happy or down-
ducive to friendship, students often people. Part of me wanted to stay trodden, liberals or conservatives,
there, to belong.Why? One reason,
feel alone. We see expressions of privileged or from disadvantaged
I thought, was that Sojtor was a
this in discussions in our houses backgrounds, in all these ways and
tight-knit community with a shared
and dorms, in mental health aware- many more, meaningful bonds re-
ness efforts or perhaps when a
friend unexpectedly takes a break
sense of identity, a place where mu-
tual understanding developed or-
quire being ourselves, and being
seen.
from school. ganically. Through intimate con- This kind of friendship is the
nection in a rooted environment,
When I try to reconcile this par- challenge Stanford poses to us
my friends there found rich sources
adox between friendliness and when it deliberately admits a di-
of meaning in their lives. Closeness
feelings of isolation on campus, a verse class and deliberately diver-
came easily.
few observations stand out: Stu- sifies our dorms and classrooms.
I found myself envying people
dents are extremely busy and our For our own sakes, we need to con-
who were materially less fortunate.
hyper-intensive lives can make it sciously take that challenge up.
Friends who have volunteered in
difficult to go beyond the surface in
remote places in other parts of the
cultivating friendships. Students Send Aysha your comments at
world — from Papua New Guinea
are also not very eager to share the abagchi@stanford.edu.
to Ghana to Ecuador — have told
difficulties we are facing with our
L ETTERS TO
THE E DITOR
So much to be proud of
Dear Editor,
As a Stanford alum (Class of
1952) who has always been proud of
our university’s achievements and
high standards, I am really strutting
today thanks to Andrew Luck’s
stellar decision to continue his edu-
cation. What a role model he is in
this time of “value only by dollar.”
Congratulations to him for his wis-
dom and to his family for anchoring
him.
VILMA KENNEDY PALLETTE ‘52
Notice
The January meeting of the
members of The Stanford Daily
is set for Thursday, Jan. 13 at 9
a.m. at the Lorry I. Lokey Stan-
ford Daily Building.
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BRIEFS
Continued from page 2
Teen dies in Caltrain
accident
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
A southbound Caltrain killed a
19-year-old Palo Alto man less than
half a mile north of the California
Avenue station at about 1:20 a.m. on
Thursday. According to a statement
from Caltrain spokeswoman Chris-
HEROES
Continued from page 2
behavior are far better researched
than those regarding “good” behav-
ior.
The book “is fifteen chapters of
grim,grim,grim,and I was up to here
in evil,” Zimbardo said. “And I felt
that I needed a respite and the read-
er would too. So the last chapter is
essentially about goodness. [The]
first part of it is, how do you resist
these powerful forces that I had
helped create — dehumanization,
deindividualization, obedience of
authority, diffusion of responsibility.
. . . and then I realized,during the lit-
erature search, we know almost
nothing about heroism. There’s no
systematic research.”
This spring, students will develop
their own service projects in order to
exercise their “heroic imaginations.”
They plan to identify those ordinary
individuals around them who have
committed heroic deeds and to docu-
ment their stories.
Furthermore,the project has part-
nered students from Woodside High
School with residents at Palo Alto’s
Sunrise Senior Living in the “Tech-
Heroes” program, in which students
help the elderly use technology to im-
prove their quality of life and archive
their wealth of knowledge.
“There’s an old Indian saying I
love to quote. I don’t know who said
it,but I love what it means,”said Jenny
Donegan, manager of the Tech-
Heroes Project.“It says that when an
old person dies,a library burns.So one
of the beautiful things about every
participant in the TechHeroes pro-
gram is that they have opportunities
to become heroes in their own stories
and in the stories of others.”
Zimbardo hopes to bring the con-
cept of “heroism” — a concept which
he believes has diminished over the
last decades — to the forefront of
worldwide thought.
Heroes “were always male war-
riors — Achilles, Agamemnon,
Odysseus,” Zimbardo said. “It elimi-
POLICE BLOTTER
By IVY NGUYEN
DESK EDITOR
This report covers a selection
of incidents from Dec. 15, 2010
to Jan. 5, 2011 as recorded in the
Stanford Department of Public
Safety bulletin.
A series of car and residential
break-ins occurred during this
period. Several of the residential
break-ins occurred while the
campus was closed for winter
break.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15
" Between 3 p.m. on Dec. 14 and
10:30 a.m. on Dec. 15, an un-
known suspect pried a win-
dow open and entered the
Kappa Alpha Theta house. It
was unclear if anything was
stolen.
THURSDAY, DEC. 16
" Between 8 p.m. on Dec. 15 and
10 a.m. on Dec. 16, unknown
suspects broke a bathroom
window in Anderson House.
MONDAY, DEC. 20
" Between 6 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.,
unknown suspects broke into
the victim’s car parked near
the Sunken Diamond and
stole a computer and other
miscellaneous items.
SATURDAY, DEC. 25
" A man was arrested and trans-
ported to the San Jose main
jail. He was booked for evad-
ing police officers and for an
outstanding warrant in Santa
Clara County.
" Between 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.,
an unknown suspect stole a
victim’s unattended guitar
from White Plaza, creating
discord.
THURSDAY, DEC. 30
" Allied Barton Security con-
tacted Palo Alto dispatch re-
porting that unknown sus-
pects had entered the Pi Beta
Phi house. It is unclear
whether any items were
stolen.
tine Dunn, preliminary investiga-
tions suggest that it was an “inten-
tional act,” as there is no vehicle or
pedestrian crossing area at the acci-
dent site and fences surround the
train tracks.
The man was former Berkeley
resident Kyle Hodder-Hastorf, the
San Jose Mercury News reported.
This marks the first Caltrain fatal-
ity in 2011. There were 11 deaths in
2010 and 19 in 2009. Although the
victim was a resident of Palo Alto, he
did not attend a Palo Alto high
school, according to Caltrain.
No one else was injured and nor-
mal service will resume this morning.
— Cassandra Feliciano
SERENITY NGUYEN/The Stanford Daily
nates women, it eliminates young
people. These are male, adult killers,
essentially.”
In fact, Zimbardo adds that even
modern heroes, like Mother Teresa,
Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther
King, Jr. and even Gandhi, “in a way
are wrong heroes for the average
people.”
“They organized their entire life
around service to humanity.For most
people,that’s too much of a sacrifice .
. . step one is to change the concep-
tion of heroes,” he said.
Zimbardo also mentioned a
number of future initiatives, includ-
ing a partnership with one of
China’s top science and technology
schools, whose position as a feeder
school to the Chinese technology
industry could potentially produce
additional funding, and an online
“Heropedia” of individuals who
have come to embody the Heroic
Imagination Project’s ideals. He has
already received commitments to
help build the site from individuals
at Google and Jimmy Wales,
founder of Wikipedia.
“The ultimate goal,” Zimbardo
said, “is to make as many people as
possible, in every city and every state
and every nation, to fit our definition
of heroes.”
Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-
ford.edu.
FRIDAY, DEC. 31
" At 10:42 p.m. a man’s New
Year’s Eve celebrations were
put on hold when he was cited
at the corner of Cowell Lane
and Campus Drive East for
possession of marijuana.
SATURDAY, JAN. 1
" Another New Year’s celebra-
tion was put on hold when an
individual at 618 Mirada Av-
enue was cited for providing
alcoholic beverages to mi-
nors.
SUNDAY, JAN. 2
" Between Dec. 14 and Jan. 2,
someone broke into the vic-
tim’s locker in Wilbur dining
hall and kitchen and stole his
toolbox, which contained sev-
eral expensive knives, timers
and thermometers for cook-
ing.
" At 8:15 a.m., two stolen utility
vehicles were discovered at
Arrillaga Plaza.
MONDAY, JAN. 3
" Between Dec. 17 and Jan. 3,
unknown suspects vandal-
ized a SUDPS digital mes-
sage board located at Cam-
pus Drive and Lane B by cut-
ting the air valves on both
tires.
" At 6:37 p.m., an unknown sus-
pect grabbed the victim by the
arm. He fled when she tried to
bite his hand. She escaped and
dialed 911 from a nearby
emergency tower.
" At 11:45 p.m., someone at
Theta Delta Chi was trans-
ported to the San Jose main
jail and booked for public in-
toxication.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5
" At 1:30 a.m., a fire occurred in
an Alondra dorm room, caus-
ing damage to an ottoman and
the carpet. No injuries were
reported.
Contact Ivy Nguyen at iknguyen
@stanford.edu.
6 ! Friday, January 7, 2011 The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
OUSTING ARIZONA
Card cruises in Pac-
10 home opener
By JACK BLANCHAT and
NATE ADAMS
Continuing a streak of impressive play,
the Cardinal women’s basketball team
dusted off a feisty Arizona team with a
second-half run to pull away for an 87-54
victory.
No. 4 Stanford (11-2, 2-0 Pac-10) opened
up strong, and junior guard Lindy La
Rocque’s three pointer made the score 9-0
after four minutes. The Cardinal was con-
tent to let Arizona fire up outside shots
while the Card used its imposing size ad-
vantage to take control of the game early
on.
Arizona (11-3, 2-1) went halfway
through the first half making only one of
its first eight attempts from beyond the
arc. Despite a solid start from Stanford’s
triangle offense, the Wildcats stuck to their
player-to-player defense, leading to three
Cardinal players cruising to layups on
three separate occasions.
The Wildcats made a push halfway
through the first half, making a few outside
shots and causing the Cardinal to commit
fouls, and with 7:43 left in the first half, the
Cardinal’s lead had shrunk to five points.
The lead remained five throughout the
first half, as Stanford’s defense on the block
was susceptible to Arizona’s quick pick-
and-roll offense.With 3:51 to play in the first
half, the Cardinal’s lead was still only five.
A late Nnemkadi Ogwumike layup
pushed the lead to seven, and the Cardinal
carried a 40-33 at halftime. Even though
the Card had a 31-17 rebounding advan-
tage at halftime, head coach Tara Van-
Derveer said her team came out sluggish.
VanDerveer said she called her team
out to play better at halftime, and the Car-
dinal responded.
Stanford came out playing tough de-
fense in the second half, feeding Nnemka-
di Ogwumike the ball early and often, let-
ting her attack the left block. She respond-
ed by shaking her defender for two easy
layups and a crisp fadeaway jumper, help-
ing Stanford go on a 13-0 run to start the
second period. LUIS AGUILAR/The Stanford Daily
“I met with [senior forward] Kayla Ped-
The Cardinal offense put on a show against the Wildcats last night, with Nnemkadi Ogwumike
Please see WBBALL, page 8 (30), posting eight rebounds and a game-high 24 points. She was 12 for 17 from the field.

LUCK
Continued from front page
they are now — that is to say, Sam
Bradford’s $50 million in guaranteed
money is a thing of that past. But not
so fast:the CBA discussions are heat-
ed, and a lockout is entirely possible.
If that happens, a draft will still occur,
but no scale will be implemented. If
that is the case,then Luck would have
one shot to make a dramatic sum of
money off the bat.
By 2012, a scale will be in place,
and he’ll stand to make tens of mil-
lions of dollars less. But Luck comes
from a financially secure back-
ground, and has made it clear over
and over that money is not an object
for him; his father’s comments con-
firm it. Even if the wage scale lowers
his earning power to about three mil-
lion a year — Peter King’s projection
— he’s still in the top two percent of
wage earners in the United States.
More than enough to live comfort-
ably, and if he really is as good as he’s
projected to be, he’ll make his tens of
millions on his next deal.
To the second:Luck is the guaran-
teed No. 1 pick in 2011. He is also all
but guaranteed No. 1 in 2012. Any
scout from coast to coast will tell you
that he is a historically gifted
prospect; some say he’s the best since
Peyton Manning, while others say
he’s the best since John Elway. No
player will supplant him if he stays
healthy. (Perish any Jake Locker
comparisons — one guy is a quarter-
back; the other is a superior athlete
who throws the ball occasionally.)
Manning was projected No.1 after his
junior year, remained in school, and
went No. 1 after his senior season. If
he’s injured, it’s still unlikely, unless
it’s (knock furiously on wood) career-
ending. Bradford was projected to go
first overall in 2009, went back to
school,got injured and barely played,
then still went No. 1 in 2010.That is to
say, Luck is almost certainly going to
be the first person walking across the
stage in New York in April 2012,even
if his arm is in a sling. He’s not exact-
ly hurting his draft stock by staying.
With those two concerns aside,
why go? If there is indeed an NFL
lockout, he won’t be able to partici-
pate in mini-camps and might have to
miss part of the season.Luck is a foot-
ball player; he doesn’t want to sit on
the sideline. The team he’d be going
to, the Carolina Panthers, is notori-
ously cheap to the point where it re-
fuses to sign free agents.It’s not exact-
ly the best situation.
But forget the NFL. Luck, a high
school valedictorian and a dedicated
student in a time-intensive engineer-
ing degree program, gets a chance to
finish his degree. In its press release,
Stanford made that seem like his pri-
mary reason for staying.
In a football sense, with Luck
under center, Stanford is a legitimate
national title contender next season,
even with the team hemorrhaging
seniors. And, in terms of Jim Har-
baugh, let’s not overlook the timing
of this announcement — from the
time Luck came out with his decision
until The Daily’s print deadline,Stan-
ford’s chances of keeping its coach
have seemingly risen dramatically,
with the Miami Dolphins dropping
out and the Cardinal reportedly
matching San Francisco’s offer. Luck
gives Harbaugh an incentive to stay
when 24 hours prior, it seemed like
Harbaugh had one foot out the door.
Finally, if he cared about individ-
ual accomplishments — he doesn’t,
but everyone else does — Luck is the
clear Heisman favorite going into
2011 and almost surely a consensus
preseason first team All-American.
Which is all to say:the chance for a
title,the ability to complete his under-
graduate academic career and the
knowledge that he’s practically guar-
anteed to be the top pick in 2012
means there’s more than enough rea-
son to stay in school.
Contact Wyndam Makowsky at
makowsky@stanford.edu.
The Stanford Daily Friday, January 7, 2011 ! 7
Senior Alex Buscaglia, above, has been a bright spot for Stanford — and
men’s gymnastics as a whole — in an uncertain time for the sport.
A HIGHER
PURPOSE
By JESSICA YU
STAFF WRITER
It’s a high-pressure year for
Stanford men’s gymnastics. After a
disappointing loss to Michigan at
last year’s NCAA Championships
in West Point, N.Y., the Cardinal
enters the 2011 season as the top-
ranked team in the nation and
hopes to retain that honor through
April at this year’s championship
in Colorado Springs, Colo. The
road starts with an intrasquad
competition on Friday evening. At
the same time that the Cardinal
works to uphold Stanford’s pro-
gram, it also works to uphold the
tradition of men’s gymnastics as a
whole.
Earlier this year, the UC-
Berkeley Chancellor Robert Bir-
geneau announced that the school
would be dropping five of its ath-
letic programs at the end of the
2010-11 season; among these pro-
grams were men’s and women’s
gymnastics.
Only 15 schools have men’s
gymnastics programs that com-
pete in the NCAA, and the pro-
grams at Cal and Stanford are the
only ones in California. The an-
nouncement affects the futures of
both Stanford and men’s gymnas-
tics. Cal and Stanford have long
had a feisty and friendly rivalry in
their academic and athletic arenas
— and men’s gymnastics is cer-
tainly no exception.
Each year, for example, the two
schools come together for the Big
Flip Off, their head-to-head com-
petition that has been a source of
great pride, competitive spirit and
humor for both programs. This
year’s Flip Off will be a bittersweet
event for both teams as they bid
farewell to their competitive inti-
macy.
Stanford head coach Thom
Glielmi said he was both saddened
and surprised by Cal’s decision to
drop men’s gymnastics.
“[The Cal men] have had a
tremendous impact on the sport
not just in the Bay Area, but in the
country,” he said. “What doesn’t
make sense to me is that men’s
gymnastics has been one of Cal’s
most successful varsity programs
both in the athletic arena and class-
room.”
Furthermore, Glielmi notes
that losing Cal is potentially a sign
of the weakening popularity of
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and even Olympic Team.
“Beyond the Stanford-Cal ri-
valry, we lose a great source of
gymnastics and a program that has
allowed junior gymnasts to contin-
ue in their chosen sport on the col-
legiate level,” he said.
Reflecting on the past few
months and looking towards the
current season, Glielmi believes
his team is hungrier for success
than ever. After last year’s second-
place finish — and 2009’s first-
place finish — his gymnasts are ex-
tremely motivated to bring the
championship back to Stanford.
His athletes certainly have the
talent to win. In past years, individ-
uals such as seniors Alex Buscaglia
and Tim Gentry have been pegged
as the Cardinal’s most talented be-
cause of their national rankings,
but this year the entire team is
ready for competition. Fans can get
a glimpse of this during Friday’s in-
trasquad, where the Cardinal will
display its dynamic, exciting and
highly difficult routines in front of a
crowd for the first time this season.
“There are several guys that are
dynamic on the events they com-
pete, and there is not one specific
athlete that can win this champi-
onship for Stanford,” Gliemli said.
He adds, though, that his seniors
— Buscaglia, Gentry, Josh Dixon,
Ryan Lieberman, Abhinav Ra-
mani and redshirt senior Nicholas
Noone — have emerged as lead-
ers, taking ownership of the train-
ing and success of their team.
Assistant coach Brett McClure
agreed.
“The big players of this team are
definitely the entire senior class,”he
said. “They have really taken con-
trol and instilled the Stanford phi-
losophy on work ethic and expecta-
tions.”
Senior Ryan Lieberman echoed
that sentiment.
“The senior class turned into the
class we knew we could be,” he said.
This Friday’s intrasquad will be
held at 7 p.m. in Burnham Pavilion.
Contact Jessica Yu at jsyu@
stanford.edu.
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NFL.
“When it was all said and done, it
seemed like that was the path that
was laid out for me,” he added.
Keiser also said that the NFL
evaluated him — the league assess-
es the draft prospects of college
players on request. The NFL told
him that he would be drafted, but,
according to Keiser, “they don’t re-
ally know where right now.”
The speculation surrounding
Harbaugh’s return did not play a
big role in Keiser’s decision, either.
“This was a decision based per-
sonally off of what I felt was best for
next season,” he said.“It was sort of
independent of [Harbaugh’s deci-
sion].”
Though Keiser will leave Stan-
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ersen and [senior guard] Jeanette
Pohlen, I told them they needed to
do their job better, and it shows
what kind of leaders they are that I
can get on them and they can re-
spond in a positive way,” Van-
Derveer said.
Arizona broke its scoring
drought with 13:48 left in the game
when forward Ify Ibekwe hit a
layup, but the damage was already
done. The two Ogwumike sisters
were far too busy putting on a clinic.
In the first 10 minutes of the sec-
ond half, older sister Nnemkadi
Ogwumike had 10 points, three re-
bounds and two blocks, and
younger sister Chiney Ogwumike
had four points, three rebounds,
one block and one steal.
Pohlen said the super sisters
were the missing piece in the slug-
gish first half.
“[VanDerveer] knows our po-
tential, and we’ve shown the whole
country now what we can do,” she
said. “She made us focus on run-
ning more . . . to push it and to get
the ball to Nneka on the block.”
Bolstered by her strong second
half, Nnemkadi Ogwumike led the
way for the Cardinal with 24 points
and eight rebounds. Pohlen fin-
Stanford Daily File Photo
ford for winter quarter to prepare
for the scouting combine, he plans
to return to school for the spring
quarter, and will need only one
more quarter after that to complete
his degree.
Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawhney
@stanford.edu.
ished with 13 points, and Pedersen
and Chiney Ogwumike finished
with identical 11-point, 11-rebound
games. Freshman guard Sara James
also added seven points in the sec-
ond half.
Recovering from a two-game
skid in mid-December, Stanford
will have an opportunity to extend
its winning streak to seven when it
hosts Arizona State on Saturday.
The Sun Devils (10-3, 2-1) coast-
ed through their non-conference
schedule and opened Pac-10 play
with a sweep of the Oregon
schools.The latter feat was particu-
larly impressive, as ASU was able
to hold the Ducks’ offense to just
67 points. Oregon had been leading
the conference with 89 points per
game going into the contest.
The Sun Devils hit a bit of a
stumbling block last night, though,
falling to Cal, 67-55. Stanford de-
feated Berkeley convincingly last
weekend, 78-45.
Recent history certainly favors
the Cardinal, but things look good
for Stanford even if you go farther
back — the Cardinal cruised past
ASU, 62-43 in Tempe in their most
recent meeting, last February.
Stanford will tip off against the
visiting Sun Devils in Maples Pavil-
ion tomorrow at 2 p.m.
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat
@stanford.edu and Nate Adams at
nbadams@stanford.edu.
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“We kind of lost a foothold for
recreational activity,”deputy director
of athletics Ray Purpur said, “and
we’ve had a lot of comments and a lot
of feedback over the five years that
there’s just no indoor recreation
areas on that side of campus.”
The building’s location has also
been chosen to account for future
University expansion. According to
the University’s master plan, there
will be future development of resi-
dential halls on that side of campus.
“With campus development
heading west,” Bonino said, “there’s
an increasing demand for these facil-
ities.”
And while a general lack of fund-
ing and limitations under Stanford’s
General Use Permit have posed ob-
stacles in the past, the financial sup-
port of donors — as well as new Uni-
versity-wide initiatives emphasizing
fitness and wellness — have finally
made the project a reality.
The center will include basketball
courts, fitness and recreation studios,
a rock-climbing wall and a new out-
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Junior forward Josh Owens was a
key contributor to Stanford’s win,
leading the team with 15 points and
11 rebounds.
Trent Lockett, Ruslan Pateev
and Carrick Felix had 10 points each
for Arizona State.The team’s overall
offensive effort was weak, scoring
only one of 14 from the three-point
range.
Hoping to tack on a third consec-
utive Pac-10 win, Stanford now
heads to Tucson to face Arizona (13-
3,2-1).The Wildcats have won five of
their last six games, including last
night’s 73-71 win over California,
and have not been defeated in back-
to-back games so far this season.The
Cats lead the Pac-10 in field goal
shooting percentage and average
78.5 points per game, posing a seri-
ous challenge to the Cardinal de-
fense.
Derrick Williams (18.6 points per
game), Solomon Hill (53.2-percent
door 50-meter swimming pool. In
coming up with the design of the facil-
ity, Purpur said they looked at feed-
back left on comment cards at exist-
ing campus recreation centers to get
input from students.
“One of our common feedbacks is
that the rock-climbing wall [at Arril-
laga] is very inadequate,” Purpur
said.“So we are going to be putting in
a new rock-climbing wall in the new
building.”
The facility will not only be the
same size as the current Arrillaga
Center. It will also look the same.
“We love the look of that build-
ing,” Purpur said,“so we are going to
copy it.”
The difference, Bonino said, will
be on the inside.
“There will be more studio space
to house a variety of different well-
ness and fitness programs, and of
course, the swimming pool provides
water fitness to match the recreation
pool at the Avery Aquatics Center,”
Bonino said, “and we will have lock-
ers and showers, which are not pres-
ent in the Arrillaga Center.”
To make room for construction,
an existing swimming pool by Roble
Field and a group of temporary build-
ings will be removed, and the locker
rooms behind the pool will be con-
field-goal shooting) and Lamont
Jones (8.1 ppg, 81.8-percent free-
throw shooting) are expected to lead
Arizona’s offensive effort. Stanford
intends to counter this trio by utiliz-
ing junior guard Jeremy Green, who
has been very effective in his four ca-
reer games against the Wildcats.
Green has averaged 16.5 points
against Arizona, with 24 total buck-
ets and 66 total points, more than
against any other Pac-10 team. Ju-
nior guard Jarrett Mann has also ex-
perienced significant success when
facing the Wildcats, having made
eight of his 11 attempts from the
field and averaging 7.3 points in his
three career matchups with Arizona.
But even with these offensive
contributions, Stanford’s ability to
knock down perimeter shots and
remain strong on the defensive end
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Many Stanford graduates from
the lab go on to work in highly inno-
vative engineering teams after grad-
uation. According to Beach, about
40 percent of the engineering staff
at Tesla Motors are lab alums. Both
of the co-founders of Icon Aircrafts
are, too.
The lab’s success has inspired the
formation of similar creative work-
spaces in other Stanford engineer-
ing buildings, such as Room 36 in
Huang Engineering Center, as well
as commercial workshops beyond
The Stanford Daily
verted into another space.
However, there are no plans to
alter any existing campus recreation
centers.
The Department of Athletics will
monitor the usage of the gym at
Tresidder Union — which opened in
1995 and is the site in closest compe-
tition with the new facility — to see if
attendance decreases as a result. If
this is the case, the gym may be re-
moved, but Purpur does not expect
this to be the case.
“I think they’ll augment each
other,” Purpur said.
This week, the Department of
Land, Buildings & Real Estate plans
on submitting its first entitlements for
architecture and site approval. With-
in the next couple of months,building
permits will be submitted as well.
While no timeline has been set
yet, construction is anticipated to
begin in the summer of 2011 with
completion estimated by late 2012.
“I think this will bring a new desti-
nation to the community,” Purpur
said. “It will be a recreation destina-
tion where you can jog, swim and
take a shower after you work out on
that side of campus.”
Contact Kurt Chirbas at kchirbas
@stanford.edu.
will be the key to success against
Arizona. The Card currently allows
just 61.0 points per game, a figure
that leads the Pac-10 and was essen-
tial in its wins over Yale and Cal. In
fact, Stanford has held four oppo-
nents to fewer than 50 points this
season and has also held the edge
on the glass, averaging 34.9 re-
bounds per game.
The continuation of this defen-
sive dominance, coupled with the
momentum from the current win
streak, should help Stanford as it
hopes to head home after the week-
end with a sweep in the Southwest
and a perfect Pac-10 record.
Tipoff on Saturday is scheduled
for 3:30 p.m. PST in Tucson.
Contact Lauren Taylor at ltaylor7
@stanford.edu.
campus in Oakland and Menlo
Park.
Although many universities
have created similar labs, the caliber
of Stanford’s remains unrivaled,
Beach said, noting that the number
of students who use the lab and the
degree of integration between de-
sign and manufacturing.
Beach said that the emphasis on
constructing actual projects as op-
posed to only conceptualizing de-
signs on a computer screen is what
makes Stanford’s product realiza-
tion lab so special.
“Engineers and designers are
much more powerful if they have
built things,” he said.
Contact Yibai Shu at yibai@stanford.edu.