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GETTING CHEEKY
Swab a cheek, save a life
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THURSDAY
January 20, 2011
Marching to Their Own Beat
Members of Stanford Taiko perform at the group’s debut show in Wilbur dining on Wednesday.
UNIVERSITY
Custodians’ arbitration underway
Move to new contractor
triggers process
By ELLEN HUET
MANAGING EDITOR
Stanford’s transition to a new con-
tractor for campus custodial services on
Dec. 1 created complications for a small
number of custodial employees, who are
now scheduled to enter an arbitration
process through the employees’ union
and the new subcontractor, UGL
(UNICCO).
NEWS BRIEFS
Stanford grad
student awarded
Pearl Internship
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Alexandra Wexler M.A. ‘11
has been awarded the 2011
Daniel Pearl memorial journal-
ism internship, which funds a
summer internship in a foreign
bureau of The Wall Street Jour-
nal.
Wexler is a master’s student
in communication with an em-
phasis in journalism. She grad-
uated from Duke University in
2010 with a bachelor’s degree
in political science.
The internship commemo-
rates Daniel Pearl ‘85, a Wall
Street Journal reporter who
was kidnapped and murdered
in Pakistan in 2002.
A native of New York City,
Wexler first became interested
in journalism her freshman
year at Duke, when she took an
international relations class
that required her to read The
New York Times every day.
Since then, she has had several
journalism internships, includ-
ing stints at The Durham Her-
ald-Sun, the broadcast station
ABC Eyewitness News in
Durham, N.C., and Global-
Post.com.
Wexler views Pearl’s legacy
as one of global discourse and
communication. She hopes to
use the internship “to promote
cross-cultural understanding”
through her stories, she said.
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News of the change in contractors
sparked e-mail petitions throughout the
school and a lunchtime protest claiming
that employees of the previous contrac-
tor, ABM, would not be guaranteed job
security or seniority in the transition.
Provost John Etchemendy Ph.D. ‘82
called those claims “not accurate” at an
ASSU joint legislative meeting on Dec.
1.
UGL is required by union contract to
offer all ABM employees the chance to
stay on with the same seniority, wages
and benefits they held previously. In the
rehiring process, however, “several
dozen” of the 134 ABM employees did
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GAME NOTES: Stanford and UCLA are the
only remaining teams in the Pac-10 with
perfect conference records. The Cardinal
has won its last two games by a combined
73 points. Stanford has beaten UCLA in
eight of the last nine meetings between the
two teams.
Card, Bruins
face off for
Pac-10 lead
By NATE ADAMS
DESK EDITOR
It only takes a quick glance at the
banners in Maples Pavilion to see
just how much Stanford has ruled
the Pac-10 in recent years. The Car-
dinal’s reign of continued domi-
nance stretches back to 2001, and it
has won a regular season confer-
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CARDINAL TODAY
Volume 238
Issue 60
Special fees
bill stumbles
with grads
Council looks ahead to
winter programming
By ANNA SCHUESSLER
STAFF WRITER
At Wednesday’s Graduate Student Council (GSC)
meeting, members welcomed a new voting member, dis-
cussed winter quarter programming and voted on a bill
passed by the Undergraduate Senate.
Opening the meeting was the swearing in of Fanuel
Muindi, a graduate student in biology, as a voting member
of the GSC. In previous years, Muindi has been an active
participant at GSC meetings, often acting as a proxy for
other members. Muindi will fill a vacant seat in the voting
KOR VANG/The Stanford Daily contingency.
Addy Satija, one of the GSC’s programming coordina-
tors, said the programming committee is in the process of
finding a venue for the spring quarter Grad Formal. Satija
invited other members to brainstorm ideas and dates for an
additional winter quarter activity. Headed by Justin Brown,
GSC co-chair and doctoral student, and Imeh Williams, ed-
ucation representative, a small committee formed to plan
the Pajama Jam-E Jam, a nocturnal-themed party slated for
Friday, Feb. 18.
The GSC approved funding requested by the Graduate
Student Programming Board on behalf of Rains communi-
not initially pass the security back-
ground check or the identity verification ty assistants.The Rains staff hopes to extend a campus-wide
invitation to its annual Karaoke Night and has arranged to
required by federal law, said Stanford
spokeswoman Lisa Lapin. Since then, at have a higher-quality karaoke machine for the night. After
least 18 have been rehired, and the rest a few brief concerns were addressed, the GSC awarded
are being given 120 days to obtain the funding to the event.
necessary documentation required to “Does the system have YouTube capability?” asked
work legally in the U.S., Lapin said. Satija. “There are always people who want Katy Perry and
The University re-bids the school’s ‘The Sound of Music’ at the same time.”This year’s event is
janitorial contract every few years, ac- scheduled for Friday, Jan. 28.
cording to Etchemendy, and it’s “not un- In the evening’s final proceedings, the council turned its
common” for a new company to replace attention to a special fees bill passed by the Undergraduate
the current one. Senate on Tuesday. The bill sparked a debate about the
At the Dec. 1 meeting, Etchemendy GSC’s position toward special fees. Zachary Warma ‘11,
Please see CUSTODIANS, page 2 Please see GSC, page 2
LUIS AGUILAR/The Stanford Daily
The Stanford women’s basketball team will take on its toughest opponent since UConn when it faces UCLA tonight.
The Cardinal and Bruins own perfect 5-0 records in the Pac-10 and currently share the conference lead.
ence championship every year ed record and are hot off a sweep of UCLA upperclassmen — Jasmine
since. As the current Pac-10 season the Oregon schools, clocking in with Dixon, Darxia Morris, Doreena
hits its stride, however, it seems that the nation’s No. 8 overall ranking. Campbell and Rebecca Gardner —
adding a mark for 2010-11 may “They’re athletic and they’re ag- average between 20 and 30 minutes
prove to be anything but routine. gressive,” said Stanford head coach per game. Dixon and Morris are the
Facing what may be its toughest Tara VanDerveer. “They get their most dangerous of that group, each
obstacle to that goal, the No. 4 Cardi- hands on balls, and they disrupt you. averaging 11.6 points per game.
nal (14-2, 5-0 Pac-10) battles for the You can’t just come into the gym Against Oregon State last Saturday,
outright conference lead as it hosts a and stroll along and run your of- Dixon went 5-for-6 from the floor
vastly improved UCLA team fense anyway you want.” with 11 points in just 15 minutes.
tonight. The Bruins (15-1, 5-0) own The Bruins may be athletic, but
the conference’s only other undefeat- they’re also experienced. Four Please see WBBALL, page 6
Recycle Me
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Dance the Night Away

GSC
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who is also the Daily editorial

board chair, attended the meeting
to persuade the council to vote
against the bill, which would allow
student groups that have received
special fees in the year prior to the
election to grow their budgets by 10
percent without petitioning to get
on the ballot. Passing the bill would
undo a measure approved by the
Undergraduate Senate last year,
when Warma was a senator.
“To be perfectly honest, it’s an
almost 100-percent undergrad
issue that this bill was trying to ad-
dress,” said Krystal St. Julien, GSC
funding committee chair.“Since it’s
such an undergrad issue, I would
just say that we should support
what the Undergraduate Senate
needs. If they believe that enacting
this bill is the right thing to do, then
that’s where I put my support.”
But eventually, seven voting
members voted in favor of the bill,
four voted against it and two ab-
stained from voting.The bill did not
receive the two-thirds majority re-
quired for approval by the GSC.

Contact Anna Schuessler at

annas7@stanford.edu.

CUSTODIANS Eager learners participate in salsa lessons at the Axe and Palm on Wednesday. Los Salseros offer lessons every Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m.
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said 19 employees still had prob-

Small Town, Big Drug Problems

American Heart Association Tributes
lems with their identification. Jus-

Celebrate
tine Griffin, a UGL spokeswoman,
said “less than 20 percent” of the
134 employees still have problems

Life
and are going through an arbitra-
tion process to resolve their identi-
fication issues.All employees going
through arbitration remain em-
ployed in the meantime, Griffin
said.
The arbitration process, accord-
ing to union agreement, is worked Mark special events in
out between the union and UGL the life of a friend, relative or
and brings in a third party. Griffin
colleague — and continue
said the process should be resolved
by late April or early May. the fight against heart
disease — with an American
Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stan-
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FEATURES

Today in White Plaza, a bone marrow registration drive hopes to save lives
By KELSEY GEISER

I
f you could take 15 minutes out of your day to help save a life,
would you do it? Efforts are underway on campus to use so-
cial media to make that answer a “yes” and provide hope for
the 3,000 U.S. patients who every day are in need of life-saving
bone marrow transplants.
The National Marrow Donor Program, through its “Be The
Match” registry, has assembled more than 9 million possible donors,
resulting in more than 43,000 transplants since its creation
in 1987. Although there is no guarantee of survival if a pa-
tient finds a match, it is the first and often the only step to-
ward a chance at life.
According to the New York Blood Center,while about 80
percent of Caucasians who require transplants are able to
find a match in the donor registry, the chances for minorities
are far slimmer.The 100K Cheeks website reports that a per-
son of South Asian descent in need of a transplant has a 1-
in-20,000 chance of finding a match.
Now, Stanford’s own 100K Cheeks campaign hopes to im-
prove those odds and hopefully ease the pain for thousands of
families by using social media to increase the number of bone
marrow registries, with an emphasis on those of South Asian de-
scent.
The campaign recently joined forces with the CureSonia cam-
paign for its first bone marrow registry drive, which is set to take
place on Jan. 20 in White Plaza and the Graduate Community Cen-
ter Havana Room. Their
The CureSonia campaign shares the goal of 100K Cheeks, but friends
with more urgency and focus on donors of South Asian and Asian began a
decent. It is looking for a transplant match for Sonia campaign to
Rai,who has been diagnosed with acute myeloge- add 25,000
nous leukemia (AML), a cancer of the blood. people to the
Kamini Rai Cormier, Sonia’s first cousin registry. Once
and an active participant in the CureSonia they reached this
campaign, said she has found that for success- goal, however,
ful drives, “the more volunteers, the more the first words out
people we are able to register.” The CureSo- of their mouths
nia campaign has 50 bone marrow drives were, “Let’s double
planned in the next two weeks alone. that,”Aaker said.
By combining the resources of the Haas Despite finding
Center and the National Marrow Donor Pro- matches, both Bhatia and
gram with the outreach efforts of 100K Cheeks Chakravarthy passed away. In
and CureSonia, the groups hope to achieve a large their honor,Aaker had the idea to not
increase in the registry. only fulfill their wishes, but also exceed
100K Cheeks, which was launched in November them by striving for 100,000 registries.
2010, has the goal of registering 100,000 people, at least “What we wanted to do was double
80 percent of whom are of South Asian decent, within a the 25,000 and then double it again, in honor
year. Joining the registry requires one to fill out paper- of both of them,” she said.
work and provide a cheek swab.The option of ordering an Bhatia and Chakravarthy’s struggles
at-home bone marrow donor registration kit further eases inspired Aaker to write a book, called “The
the process. Dragonfly Effect,” with her husband Andy
As Vineet Singal ‘12, co-executive director of the cam- Smith, an tech marketer. The book addresses
paign, noted,“The only obstacle is that enough people are how individuals or groups can effectively use
not registered. It seems like something that is very solv- social media for a greater cause.
able.” It focuses on the four “wings” of iden-
The idea behind the 100K Cheeks campaign came from tifying and attaining focus, grabbing atten-
business professor Jennifer Aaker. Her two former stu- tion, engaging an audience through story-
dents and friends, Sameer Bhatia and Vinay telling and enabling others to take action.
Chakravarthy, were diagnosed with leukemia and decid- Aaker outlined a strategy for the
ed to take action and actively seek potential bone 100K Cheeks campaign around this model
marrow donors. and joined with Thomas Schnaubelt, the ex-
ecutive director of the Haas Center for Pub-
lic Service. Their intent was to find eager
students and begin to make an impact
through the CommonWealth Challenge, a
new initiative through the Haas Center
that works with faculty to identify one spe-
cific goal and recruits ambitious students.
Schnaubelt described the Common-
Wealth Challenge as a project “to see how these
students would self-organize and network given
the goal.” Aaker and Schnaubelt both agreed
that 100K Cheeks campaign would be an ideal
vehicle for the challenge and eventually assem-
bled a team of eight undergraduate students and
two graduate students.
Although Schnaubelt and Aaker have acted as
advisers and periodically help the students, they see
the campaign as a student-driven endeavor.
Donovan Barfield ‘12, co-executive director of the
campaign, believes that personal storytelling is effective
in recruiting the target audience because “it makes it all
the more rewarding to know that when you donate, you
are actually saving a life as opposed to contributing and

A person of South being a statistic within the donor bank.”

The campaign has YouTube,Twitter and Facebook ac-
counts, a website and an e-mail campaign to nearly every
dorm and group on campus. The campaign has also
begun a friendly inter-collegiate competition, mainly
Asian descent in with USC, to see which campus can get more registries.
Cormier believes that “the biggest thing that prevents
people [from registering] is fear.” With more educa-
tion on the process, the campaign has the potential to
make more people feel comfortable and eventually
need of a transplant achieve more registries.
The 100K Cheeks campaign does not plan to
stop at 100,000 registries — it hopes to achieve more
than a million and eventually bring a convenient

has a 1-in-20,000 bone marrow registry to India, where the

registry is costly to join.
For now, however, the campaign’s
main focus is achieving its 100,000 cheek
swabs.As Barfield said,“If we save one

chance of finding a life, we could save a thousand lives.”

Contact Kelsey Geiser at ksgeiser@stan-

ford.edu.

match.

TROY OXFORD/MCT
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OPINIONS
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Samantha McGirr
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F
irst point: trees fall in forests.
Sometimes people hear them.
Stop, for a few seconds, and
imagine the sound of a tree falling
in a forest . . . The loud cracking of
branches, the cacophonous rustling
of the leaves against the other
plants. Some kind of “thud.” No tree
just fell, but did you hear a sound in
your head?
Second point: in a previous col-
umn, I encouraged people to play
music at random times and in ran-
dom places because it’s always
pleasing to run into live music unex-
pectedly.
Third point: modern composi-
tion often involves strange musical
instruments, and even stranger no-
tation. Regular sheet music isn’t al-
ways necessary.
Based on these three points, I’m
going to turn this column into
music. Right here, right now.
Don’t worry; I’m not going to
ask you to perform anything out
loud. Though if you are inspired to
sing a song all of a sudden, then by
all means feel free. But in the same
way that Beethoven heard his
compositions in his head after he
lost his hearing, this piece of music
will take place entirely in your
head.
This is how it’s going to work. A
newspaper will be the imaginary in-
strument. It will be used to produce
four distinct, imagined sounds. One
is the sound of ripping the paper in
half. The second is crumpling it up
into a ball. The third is shaking it
like a sheet, and the fourth is no
sound at all - a stationary newspa-
per. So instead of little filled-in
notes, I will write, “rip” “crumple”
“shake” and “none.”
To denote time, or rhythm, I will
demarcate each quarter-note beat
with a period. When there are two
hyphenated words before a period,
they will be eighth notes, like this:
“Rip-Rip.” I’ll write four beats to a
line, like a regular 4/4 measure. The
tempo and the dynamics (loudness),
I leave up to your interpretation.
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play through the piece, you might Sophia Vo
hear the sound of the word in addi- Jane LePham Vivian Wong Staff Development Copy Editor
tion to the sound it represents. Try Shelley Gao Managing Editor of Photography Business Staff
to remove the sound of the word, Zachary Warma
and just hear the sound, but keep Begüm Erdogan
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Rip. Crumple. Rip. Rip.
Rip-Rip. Crumple. Rip. Rip.
Rip. Shake. Rip-Rip. Rip.
Rip. Shake. Rip-Rip. None.
Rip. Shake. Rip-Rip. Rip.
Rip. Shake. None. Crumple.
Shake-Shake. Crumple. Rip-Rip. Rip.
Shake-Shake.Crumple.Rip-Rip.Rip.
Rip-Shake. Crumple-Rip. None. Rip.
Rip. None. None. Crumple.
(End)
It’s pretty short. Not too compli-
cated. Clearly not something you’ll
“listen to” over and over again,
since it lacks the usual fun parts like
melody and harmony.
But how did it go? Did you find
yourself miming along with the
verbs? Was it difficult to “hear”? Try
accenting some beats, or see what
it’s like to increase the volume in
your own head. You could also per-
form it in real life with a couple peo-
ple and some newspaper to see
what it “really sounds like,” but I
think that’s against the spirit of the
piece.
Because even though it’s all in
your head, that doesn’t mean it’s
not real.
Or tell Lucas he’s a crackpot at lu-
caswj@stanford.edu.

T HIS C OLUMN I S I RONIC

I <3 Twitter #pleasedontjudgeme Shane

Savitsky

“I
bet you tweet, too.”
I hear those five words ut-
tered all the time by my
friends. Usually, they’re in some dis-
dainful tone. It’s like using Twitter is
some sort of uber-hipster thing to
do. I’d like to think that Stanford is
the world’s most technologically
keyed-in campus, so I often can’t
believe that people think using
Twitter has some social stigma at-
tached. Look, if it’s good enough to
be a source of breaking world news
and facilitate political revolutions
in Iran, Moldova and Tunisia, I
think it’s good enough for all of us,
okay?
That’s not to say Twitter doesn’t
have its share of inanity. I’ll admit,
among others, I follow Taylor Swift,
Katy Perry, The Stanford Daily and
Ke$ha. Can you really blame me,
though? I guarantee you that
Ke$ha’s tweets about not knowing
her dad’s identity or her sexual es-
capades are infinitely more enter-
taining than anything that could
possibly pop up on my Facebook
news feed. (The lone exception:
photos of babies of my high school
classmates — that always serves to
help me feel better.) In fact, it’s the
inanity that keeps me coming back
to Twitter. I can read party tips
straight from the “King of Partying”
himself, Andrew W.K. Verbatim ex-
ample: “PARTY TIP: Blacking out
is a great way to relax.” Most of the
Row is probably nodding in agree-
ment after this three-day weekend.
Honestly though, you haven’t
experienced Twitter until you stum-
ble across the feed of one Mr.
Kanye West. I could write an entire
column about his tweets alone.Take
this tweet from July 29th: “I specifi-
cally ordered Persian rugs with
cherub imagery!!! What do I have
to do to get a simple Persian rug
with cherub imagery uuuuugh.” Or
this one from August 28th: “Do you
know where to find marble confer-
ence tables? I’m looking to have a
conference . . . not until I get the
table though.”This is the part where
I’m supposed to include a joke or
some witty retort, but I think Kanye
has me beat on this one. I mean,
what am I supposed to say? This guy
is vainer than most Thetas — and
that’s saying something.
Twitter is also a place that’s al-
lowed me to talk to some (relative-
ly) famous people. Does Facebook
let you do that? My favorite celebri-
ty Twitter conversation thus far was
one I had with Christopher Chu,
lead singer of The Morning Ben-
ders, an awesome indie band. We
discussed the notion of arranged
marriage in Taylor Swift’s “Love
Story” and how it made the song
seem pretty sad in the end. I’m still
not sure if that conversation was se-
rious or sarcastic, but you can’t
make this stuff up.
However, my best celebrity Twit-
ter coup will forever go down in the
annals of history. This summer, I
wanted to see Keane live,but tickets
for their concert were something
like $60 each. Being a poor college
student, that wasn’t working for me.
So I tweeted Richard Hughes, the
drummer of Keane. He promptly
Does Facebook let
replied back to tell me that he had
two tickets reserved for me on
Keane’s guest list for their show in you do that?
Philadelphia. It’s been six months
and I still can’t believe that actually
happened. Do you want to continue
to tell me that Twitter is stupid? I ple who fascinate you. It’s pure fri-
didn’t think so. volity in its concept, but pure genius
Trust me, it is Twitter’s absolute in its execution.
inanity that will keep you coming A sample tweet to illustrate that
back. Sure,Twitter is definitely your last point:“i love my ipod touch, but
best place for up-to-the-minute 8GB really just doesnt allow me the
news. How did I follow every single musical diversity i desire some-
twist of the Jim Harbaugh saga on a times. #firstworldproblems”
second-by-second basis? Twitter. Okay, that one was from me.
But after a while, you can get that
news anywhere. More than any- Follow Shane on Twitter: @ssavitsky.
thing, Twitter is a place that allows Still not convinced? Then just e-mail
you to get unfiltered access to peo- him at savitsky@stanford.edu.

F OREIGN C ORRESPONDENCE Max Markham ‘12

Spain, Country of Contradictions

A
fter arriving in Madrid with
only 1.5 hours of uncomfort-
able airplane sleep, navigat-
ing through Barajas airport, with-
drawing, ever so painfully, 80 Euros
to hopefully last me more than one
day, and getting a cab into town, I
arrived with a friend at the Francis-
co I Hotel where orientation was
scheduled to begin. I had already
been jaded by Europe after spend-
ing fall quarter in the expensive and
inefficient city some like to call
Paris. Like a true snob, I was less
than excited to be back in Europe
for another quarter.
The famous blue Madrid sky was
covered by grey overbearing
clouds, seemingly ready to spray
down at any hint of irritation. The
hotel, under construction, was lo-
cated in the heart of the old city cen-
tre on Calle Arenal, just off Calle
Mayor, one of the biggest, most cen-
tral streets in Madrid. After some
awkward introductions with people
from the program, a margherita
pizza and a Fanta naranja, orienta-
tion began. We were promptly told
our living situations and that the
next day at 9 a.m. we’d be shipping
off to the province of Andalucia
until Tuesday night, with stops in
Granada, Nerja, Cordoba and Tole-
do.
The Spanish-only pledge was in
full effect the next day, and we were
packed onto a surprisingly comfort-
able bus for the six-hour trip to
Granada, stopping at an even-
more- surprisingly nice service sta-
tion for lunch. Soon after our depar-
ture from the service station, I
began to notice a change in archi-
tecture. The houses and rest stops
on the side of the road began to
seem less Roman and Western-in-
fluenced and more Middle Eastern.
Restaurants began to have bilingual
Spanish/Arabic signs, and the ter-
rain changed to resemble more of a
desert. We were approaching.
We arrived at the Alhambra in
Granada around mid-afternoon
and proceeded on our tour with one
of the staff, who was unbelievably
knowledgeable and gave us an
amazing historical account of the
significance of everything, some of
which was sacrificed in order to
take an inordinate amount of pic-
tures to inevitably end up on Face-
book. Before we had time to even
process what we were seeing (or
look at our newly taken pictures),
we were on top of a tower with a
360-degree view of Granada, the
Alhambra, the snow-covered Sierra
Nevada mountains and the distant
Mediterranean, with Spanish, Por-
tuguese and EU flags flying proud-
ly in the wind atop the tower. In-
credible. It was literally like being in
three different countries at once.
One part Spain, one part ancient
Rome, one part Middle East. This
was a recurring theme for the rest of
the orientation trip — along with
the “tiny” feeling that accompanies
visiting any kind of site with struc-
tures and history older than can ac-
curately be measured.
That night we arrived in Nerja, a
town I had never heard of before,
but which would quickly become
one of my favorite places I’ve ever
visited. Our hotel was located on
top of a cliff overlooking the
Mediterranean Sea with our own
private inlet beach below us (in fact,
if you Wikipedia the town of Nerja,
the photo of the beach is taken from
the cliff beside our hotel). The next
day, sunny and warm, was spent
lounging and tanning, wasting away
our parents’ tuition money on a
Mediterranean beach in the middle
of January. I don’t think anyone
would have protested if we had
spent the rest of orientation there,
but alas we had more to learn about
Spain, and more places to visit.
The next day we headed to Cor-
doba, once home of both Roman
and Islamic empires.We visited one
of the most immensely beautiful
buildings — the Great Mosque of
Cordoba — built originally as a
mosque, converted into a cathedral
by the Roman Empire and located
in the Jewish quarter. It had been
mentioned offhand by one of the
program coordinators when we ar-
rived that Spain was a country full
of contradictions, but it wasn’t ap-
parent to me how beautifully true
the sentiment was until we reached
Cordoba. The belittling and ageless
beauty of Cordoba was enough to
silence even the rowdiest of frat
boys during our tour of the Great
Mosque.
As if we hadn’t seen enough
mindboggling architecture over the
past three days, we managed to
squeeze in a day-trip to Toledo, also
a mixed hub of Muslim, Christian
and Jewish culture. We skipped
from a cathedral over to a mosque-
cathedral hybrid to a synagogue-
cathedral hybrid before arriving
back on the bus, exhausted. Back to
the airport to fly back to Stanford,
right? Nope. Back to Madrid for 10
more weeks. It was inconceivable to
think that we had only just begun
our adventures in Spain.
Jealous? E-mail Max Markham at
mmarkham@stanford.edu.
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“Global Utopias of Futures Past,” a site-specific wall painting by Yulia Pinkusevich, is part of a first-year MFA exhibition in Thomas Welton gallery called “Heretical Hierarchy.”

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SPORTS
TROY Jacob
Jaffe

AWAITS Fields of Failure

Cardinal looks to right Sports fans,

the ship in Los Angeles
By ZACH ZIMMERMAN
DESK EDITOR
The Stanford men’s basketball team begins
one of its toughest road trips of the season
tonight when it heads to Los Angeles to take on
USC.
The Cardinal (10-6, 3-2 Pac-10) is looking to
continue a surprisingly strong start to its season.
The team, which now sits in fourth place in the
conference standings, is fresh off a weekend
split at home, in which it narrowly defeated
then-No. 17 Washington and lost to Washington
State.
In the defeat, Stanford head coach Johnny
Dawkins had no excuse for his team’s first home
loss for the year.
“They were long and tough to defend,” he
said of the Cougars. “We got beat.”
Dawkins and his young squad must regroup
immediately and will undoubtedly rely on vet-
eran leadership to overcome early troubles on
don’t pass
judgment
A
t any given time,
there are far too
many sports going on
in the world, or even
just on campus, to
keep track of. I mean, right now
we’ve got NFL playoffs, Australian
Open, NBA, NHL and college bas-
ketball,all in full swing in the nation-
al media. That’s not even counting
the endless offseason chatter about
JONATHAN POTO/The Stanford Daily other sports, and of course all the
Redshirt junior forward Josh Owens, above, will be called upon for his veteran leadership tonight sports that don’t reach the same
when Stanford travels south to battle USC. The Cardinal has struggled on the road this season and level of fame on American sports
faces one of its biggest challenges thus far against an unpredictable and dynamic Trojans squad. networks.

the road.
One of those upperclassmen, redshirt junior
Josh Owens, has come on strong of late and has
brought his per-game season averages up to 12.1
points and 6.5 rebounds. Owens, who missed all
of the 2009-10 campaign due to an undisclosed
injury, should come out with a vengeance in
Wazzu.
“Josh is improving and he has been working
very hard,” Dawkins said. “I think he’s starting
to get his timing back. He’s rounding into bas-
ketball shape and we’re excited.
“We’re happy he has the opportunity to
come back and do something he loves,” he
I know plenty of
the go-to guy for the Cardinal, but has seen his
scoring average drop to 15.5 points per game
due to a cold shooting streak and heightened
defensive pressure.
The Trojans (10-8, 2-3) have had their way
with Green in their four meetings, holding him to people who
just seven points per game. Starting junior guard

can’t get into

SoCal after missing a game-tying free throw in added.
the closing seconds of Stanford’s matchup with Junior guard Jeremy Green has emerged as Please see MBBALL, page 8

SPORTS BRIEFS football, and at

Marecic, Fua selected for Senior
Bowl
Stanford football seniors
Owen Marecic and Sione Fua,two
of the team’s standouts,were invit-
ed to the 62nd Annual Senior
Bowl.The two are among 13 play-
ers that will represent the Pac-10
in the Jan. 29 game.
Marecic received significant
national attention this year for his
role as a dual-threat player. In his
career as a fullback, Marecic, a
first-team All-American and
first-team All-Pac-10 member,
has blocked for the likes of Toby
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Gerhart and Stepfan Taylor, both
Stanford seniors Owen Marecic, right, and Sione Fua will participate in 1,000-yard rushers. He also
this year’s Senior Bowl, an annual tradition for graduating players. tacked on five rushing touch-
Continued from front page
downs in his senior campaign.
Deemed “the perfect football
player” by former head coach Jim some point we
Harbaugh, Marecic also played
middle linebacker for the Cardi-
nal. He was fifth on the team in
tackles and recorded two inter-
all just have to
ceptions, one of which he re-
turned for a touchdown against
Notre Dame. respect that.
Fua, a nose tackle, was a staple
of Stanford’s new 3-4 defense.
The second-team All-Pac-10 star So with all these different sports
recorded 4.5 sacks on 23 tackles. vying for your attention, along with
The Senior Bowl is an oppor- all the Stanford teams competing in
tunity for collegiate seniors to the winter, what should you focus
showcase their talents before the on? So often this question is an-
NFL Draft.The game is tradition-
swered with the author’s preference
ally held in Mobile, Ala. for what you should be watching.
— Zach Zimmerman But the answer is far more obvious.
Whatever the hell you want.
You’re the one watching, so
watch what you like. I mean, sure, I

WBBALL|VanDerveer confident in historically deep roster

If you ask VanDerveer, though, UCLA’s expe-
rience is a double-edged sword.
“I think a good thing for us is that we have
played against all of these kids time and time again,
so I don’t know that we’re going to be surprised,”
she said.“I know Darxia Morris is an outstanding
player, as is Doreena Campbell, and [Jasmine]
Dixon.We know what they’re capable of.”
Looking at recent history, Stanford certainly
has UCLA’s number. The Cardinal has faced off
with the Bruins three times in each of the past three
seasons, and owns an 8-1 record in that timeframe.
Stanford’s most recent victory was one of the most
emphatic, a 70-46 finish in the final game of last
year’s Pac-10 Tournament.
Tonight’s matchup looks to be more closely
contested, though, and regardless of the outcome,
that marks a bit of a change for the Pac-10’s com-
petitive dynamic. In a sport that isn’t known for its
parity, tonight’s match will mark the first time in
history that conference rivals Stanford and UCLA
have faced each other with mutual top-10 rankings.
“I think it’s great.We need it,”VanDerveer said.
“We need more than two, we need three and even
four in the top 25, I’d say. Especially next year,
when we’ll have 12 teams,we want to get the atten-
tion of the East Coast and the Midwest and say
‘Hey, we play basketball out here, too.’”
While VanDerveer gives credit to UCLA’s
disruptive defense this season, the Stanford
coach has more options than ever to counter it.
The Cardinal is nothing if not versatile this sea-
son, with eight players averaging 16 or more
minutes per game. Jeanette Pohlen is establish-
ing dominance as a shooting guard in her senior
year with 27 steals and 16.4 points per game,
while forwards Nnemkadi Ogwumike (16.4
points and 8.5 rebounds per game) and Kayla
Pedersen (11.1 points and 8.1 rebounds per
game) provide power in the paint. Nnemkadi’s
younger sister, freshman forward Chiney Ogwu-
mike, rounds out the team’s top scorers with 10.6
points per game and could make a major differ-
ence against a UCLA team that’s never shared
the court with her.
In a season that’s already had plenty of heroes,
one of the most recent players to step up is Lindy
La Rocque. After overcoming some injury con-
cerns early in the season,the junior point guard has
earned her way into the starting lineup with solid
defense and ball control.Against Washington State
last Sunday, she was second on the team in total
minutes with 29.Following her performance in that
game, La Rocque leads the team with a 2.8 assist-
to-turnover ratio.
“When I’m out on the court, it’s about bringing
energy,playing defense,and doing my job,whether
it’s knocking down an open shot or passing it down
to the post players,”she said.“I think we’re playing
well because everyone is focusing on what they
need to do, and that’s why the ball is rolling right
now and we’re playing some good basketball.”
VanDerveer wasn’t expecting such immediate
output from plugging in La Rocque as a starter,but
she’s certainly happy with the result.
“We went with some different people and when
we felt like we needed some stability in the lineup,
Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer has plenty of flexibility this season when choosing her line-
ups. The Cardinal is loaded with talent at all positions and has a strong frontcourt presence that
includes Joslyn Tinkle, above. The team will be tested tonight against a similarly deep UCLA squad.
we went with Lindy,”she said.“It’s the kind of thing
where we were like,‘She knows what we’re doing,
we’ll just give her a shot.’”
La Rocque and the rest of the Cardinal will tip
off with UCLA at 7 p.m. tonight in Maples Pavil-
ion.The weekend series will wrap up on Saturday
when Stanford hosts USC at 2 p.m.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@stanford.edu.
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can point out games that have par-
ticularly interesting backstories or
are particularly meaningful for the
teams involved.But at the end of the
day, you’re the one that’s going to be
experiencing it, so do what you
want. It’s the same reason I have
soundtracks to Wicked and Hair-
spray on my iPod and more albums
by John Williams than by anyone
else. It’s my music, and I’m going to
listen to what I want.
Why can’t it be the same way for
sports? I’m all about watching foot-
ball and will probably be that way
for the rest of my life. I encourage
every Stanford student to go to the
football games for the entire experi-
ence of the Red Zone. But I know
plenty of people who just can’t get
into football, and at some point we
all just have to respect that.
For some people it’s football, but
for others it’s baseball or water polo
or cricket or sailing or any number
of things. Just because some are
more popular does not mean they
are more valid. People have thou-
sands of reasons to prefer the sports
they do. Maybe you grew up doing
gymnastics. Maybe your best friend
runs track.Maybe that cute girl from
your psych section is on the squash
team and you want her to notice you
cheering her on.Who’s to say what a
“legitimate” reason is for watching a
sport?
I’m the kind of person that will
turn on the vast majority of sports
and just watch to enjoy the game it-
self.It can be bowling or Aussie rules
football or golf or the NBA Finals.
To me, most sports are fun to watch
just because of what they are. But
most people aren’t like me. Most
people do other things with their
lives than watch first-round cover-
age of the Australian Open and
SWAC college basketball. If it gets
people involved in sports and
watching them, I’m all for it. Even if
you’re really just there because you
like Tom Brady’s haircut (there’s
probably someone in the world that
does) or because your friend went to
the same high school as Andy Rod-
dick and can dish the dirt on how
he’s always been a douche bag.
Sometimes, personal connec-
tions can make watching sports that
much more special. Any proud par-
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Continued from page 6
Jarrett Mann has also struggled of-
fensively against the team, failing to
record a field goal in just 10 shot at-
tempts against USC.
That said, this Trojans team re-
mains an enigma. Despite eight
losses and a sub-.500 conference
record, the squad has recorded
marquee wins against Texas and
Tennessee, two clubs almost as-
sured a spot in the NCAA Tourna-
ment come March. USC’s strength
lies in its defense, which gives up
just 63.3 points per game on 40.9-
percent shooting.
However, Stanford is even more
dominant on the defensive end, tied
at No. 19 in the nation in scoring de-
fense. The team is holding oppo-
nents to 59.8 points per game
through 16 appearances.
The Cardinal’s defensive front-
court will have its hands full tonight
against USC 6-foot-10 junior for-
ward Nikola Vucevic. Vucevic has
been a double-double machine this
season, posting averages of 16.4
points and 10.1 rebounds per game.
His presence on the boards could
prove costly for an undersized
Stanford squad that has been rid-
dled by rebounding difficulties.
The Cardinal and Trojans have
JAFFE
Continued from page 6
ent can tell you what it means to see
little Billy out there winning the big
game. For me, one of the highlights
of my time at Stanford was watching
my good friend Chris Derrick set an
American Junior record in the 5,000
meters. I knew nothing about track
coming in, but the goosebumps I got
as he staggered down the final
straightaway with a chance to break
the record will stand up there with
any I’ve had in my life.
I also had the good fortune of
forming a connection with the men’s
volleyball team. With no back-
ground in volleyball (and being sev-
eral inches shorter than even the
liberos),I had no clue what I was get-
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GAME NOTES: Stanford and USC have each
won five of their last 10 matchups. The Tro-
jans, despite an average record, have de-
feated powerhouses Tennessee and Texas
this season. The Cardinal is giving up just
59.8 points per game to opponents, good
enough for 19th in the nation in scoring
defense.
one of the closest historical records
in the nation, with USC posting a
119-118 advantage in the teams’
237 meetings. The squads are 5-5 in
their last 10 matchups with the Tro-
jans notching a five-point victory
the last time the two met in L.A.
Stanford will look to even up the
series tonight when it visits the
Galen Center. Tipoff is set for 7:30
p.m.
Contact Zach Zimmerman at
zachz@stanford.edu.
ting into when I was assigned to
cover the team as a freshman. After
two seasons of watching these guys
play, I was so hooked that watching
the team’s national championship
victory in a packed Maples Pavilion
still rates among my top five sports
moments ever.
But that’s just me. For you it
could be rowing or figure skating or
equestrian. This is what people at
the Capital One Cup don’t under-
stand: sports are all great, regardless
of the amount of media hype or
money involved. Passion makes
sports — passion from the athletes
and passion from the fans.
Support the sports you love, and
try some new ones.You never know
when you’ll get hooked.
Jacob Jaffe is simply a man of passion.
Connect with him at jwjaffe@stanford.
edu.