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PETER LEWIS
FRIDAY
The Stanford Daily
January 21, 2011
STUDENT LIFE
Feds
shorten
FAFSA
Gov’t aims to get more
low-income applicants
By CASSANDRA FELICIANO
DESK EDITOR
In an effort to further simplify
the college application process, the
U.S. Department of Education has
released a new version of the Free
Application for Federal Student
Aid (FAFSA) to ease the financial
aid application for students and
their families.
The changes, which include
shorter questions and a color-cod-
ing system to help applicants stay
organized, are an annual occur-
rence, said director of financial aid
Mary Morrison.
“The idea in the government is
to make it so simple that low-in-
come families wouldn’t be afraid,”
she added.
Results from a study conducted
by Stanford’s School of Education
in 2009 in collaboration with Har-
vard, the University of Toronto and
the National Bureau of Economic
Research showed that making it
easier for parents to fill out the
FAFSA form, even if just with the
help of their children, boosted col-
lege enrollment rates by 30 percent.
“There are
good stats that
you can find
that show
families just
don’t think
there’s money
out there.”
— MARY MORRISON
Efforts to drastically change the
FAFSA began two years ago, with a
25 percent reduction in questions,
according to a briefing from Educa-
tion Secretary Arne Duncan. How-
ever, a national study from Gallup
and Sallie Mae, the nation’s only fi-
nancial services company that spe-
cializes in education, showed that
50 percent of college-bound fami-
lies did not fully complete the
FAFSA before sending it in and 28
percent of families did not submit
the form at all.
Families said that “they did not
complete the form because they
were not aware or did not think
they would qualify for aid,” wrote
Sallie Mae spokeswoman Erica
Eriksdotter in an e-mail to The
Daily.
In order to facilitate applying for
student aid through the FAFSA,
from which students can receive
grants of up to $5,000, both Sallie
Mae and the FAFSA website offer
tips and how-to videos. The former
will host an online chat forum on
Jan. 27, where parents and students
can receive live help from certified
financial planners on how to fill out
the forms and how best to save
money on higher education costs.
Please see FAFSA, page 5
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pressive blowout of then-No. 8
UCLA last night, cementing its posi-
tion atop the Pac-10. The Cardinal
will host the USC Trojans tomorrow
afternoon, who lost to Cal in Berke-
ley yesterday, 82-71.
Continuing his strong season, Brad Lawson, right, was named the MPSF Player of the Week after
totaling 39 kills in two matched against BYU. The junior leads his team with 4.17 kills per set.
ISLAND-HOPPING
Season continues against struggling Hawaii
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
STAFF WRITER
After an impressive two-
match sweep of then-No.2 BYU,
the men’s volleyball team is say-
ing goodbye to the continental
U.S. and hitting the road for the
first time since last April. In a
rare westward trip, the men are
headed to Honolulu to face No.
13 Hawaii in a two-match series
starting tonight.
The bi-annual trip to the is-
lands is Stanford’s favorite trip
for more than just the sunshine
and nice beaches — seven of the
team’s 21 players call Hawaii
home,as do assistant coach Chris
McLachlin and technical direc-
BUST A MOVE
By JACK BLANCHAT
and NATE ADAMS
In a duel for supremacy atop the
Pac-10, the No. 4 Stanford women’s
basketball team (15-2, 6-0 Pac-10)
thumped the No. 8 UCLA Bruins
(15-2, 5-1 Pac-10), 64-38, on Thurs-
day night at Maples Pavilion.
The Bruins, previously undefeat-
ed in Pac-10 play, came in riding
high after dismantling the Oregon
schools last weekend,but the Cardi-
nal proved that the road to the Pac-
10 title will go through Maples once
again in 2011.
Head coach Tara VanDerveer,
pleased with the tough victory, gave
credit to her leaders.
“I’m really pleased with how our
team battled,” she said.“UCLA is a
very aggressive team, and I think
our leadership and our frontline re-
ally battled.”
Stanford’s “Big Three” of senior
forward Kayla Pedersen, senior
guard Jeanette Pohlen and junior
forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike
were dominant, as all three finished
in double figures on the scoreboard.
Pedersen was the MVP of the
three,dropping in 18 points on 6-for-
9 shooting from the floor, as well as
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tor Daniel Rasay. The players
admit they’ll be hard-pressed to
ignore the many extracurricular
opportunities a trip to Hawaii
presents.
“There will be a lot of distrac-
tions,” said senior Spencer
McLachlin. “We have a lot of
family and friends there. But we
are going to try our hardest to
focus on staying together as a
team and focus on volleyball.
Even though it is home for a lot
of us, it’s really a business trip.”
The No. 2 Cardinal (3-0, 2-0
MPSF) is starting to find its
rhythm offensively and at the
service line. That development
could spell trouble for the War-
riors (0-3,0-0),who actually have
Leading her team to its biggest victory of the conference season, Kayla
Pedersen, No. 14 above, posted a game-high 18 points against UCLA
last night. It was the senior forward’s second-highest point total of the year.
adding 10 rebounds en route to her
fourth double-double of the season
and her second-highest point total
of the year.
The Bruins came out challenging
the Cardinal at every turn in the first
half, including pressing the entire
length of the court on every Cardi-
fewer native Hawaiians on the
roster than Stanford does, with
five.
In the first match against
BYU,Stanford barely eked out a
victory. The Cardinal had 21
service errors with no service
aces and hit just .292, needing
five sets and a thrilling come-
back to stave off three match
points and narrowly beat the
Cougars. But in the rematch last
Saturday, the Cardinal got things
rolling much more smoothly, rid-
ing junior Brad Lawson’s hot
hand and Evan Barry’s 48 assists
to a four-set victory. Stanford
registered seven service aces and
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UCLA may have been making
Stanford earn its baskets, but the
Cardinal was also the only team
scoring early on. The Bruins’ first
basket of the game came with 15:15
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Card takes
tough loss
at USC
Trojans humble Stanford
in lopsided defeat
By LAUREN TAYLOR
STAFF WRITER
In the first portion of its southern Califor-
nia road trip last night, the Stanford men’s
basketball team suffered one of the most
brutal losses it has experienced in the past
several seasons. With a final score of 65-42,
the Cardinal scored an uncharacteristically
low number of points and fell to USC (11-8,
3-3 Pac-10).
Stanford (10-7,3-3) was previously fourth
in the Pac-10 standings, coming off a home
split with the Washington schools that includ-
ed one of its biggest victories in the past few
years, coming over the then-No. 17 Huskies,
along with a close 61-58 loss to Washington
State.
The Trojans’ win over the Cardinal marks
the end of a losing streak. After being swept
by both Oregon teams and losing three of
their last five games, the Trojans were previ-
ously ranked sixth in the preseason media
poll and have averaged 68.1 points per game.
Though the team has collected several clutch
wins against national powerhouses such as
Texas and Tennessee, USC has remained at
the middle of the conference because of
overall inconsistency.
Last night, however, the team’s offense
delivered, as junior forward Nikola Vucevic
racked 20 points and nine rebounds for the
Trojans and redshirt senior forward Alex
Stepheson completed his seventh double-
double of the year with 10 points and 11 re-
bounds.
Stanford was not able to match USC’s of-
fense, as the Card scored went only 14-for-63
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NEWS
UNIVERSITY

Survey says students want more BOSP

By KURT CHIRBAS
STAFF WRITER
At Thursday’s Faculty Senate meeting,
ASSU Undergraduate Senate representative
Deepa Kannappan ‘13 gave a presentation con-
cerning student opinions on academic advising
and the potential expansion of the Bing Over-
seas Study Program (BOSP) to the Middle
East.
In a survey taken by 332 undergrads, Kan-
nappan found that the majority of Stanford
students ranked their undergraduate academ-
ic advising experience as average, with more
students ranking it as below average than
above.
The survey also asked where students felt
they received the most helpful advising.
Friends, online resources and residential staff
all topped formal sources of advising like aca-
demic directors and pre-major and major ad-
visers.
“Considering the caliber of majors that
Stanford offers — the highly ranked, very in-
terdisciplinary, very unique majors offered
here — this number should be much higher,”
Kannappan said. “I wanted to look into why
students were not satisfied with their academic
advising experience.”
Kannappan said she decided to repeat the
survey when she realized that each individual
class had a different academic advising experi-
ence, with Undergraduate Advising and Re-
search (UAR) slightly shifting its policies each
year.
The new survey, which asked for the partici-
pants’ class years, was taken by 150 undergrad-
uates, and showed that the number of students
who found academic directors and pre-major
advisers helpful doubled between those re-
spondents from the Class of 2014 and other un-
dergraduates.
“The difference here was a change on
UAR’s behalf,” Kannappan said.
Starting with the Class of 2014, undergradu-
ates are now required to meet with their pre-
major adviser before they can enroll in classes
each quarter.
Both Provost John Etchemendy Ph.D. ‘82
and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Educa-
tion Harry Elam Jr.said they were pleased with
the results of the second survey.
“We’ve seen the results of these kinds of sur-
veys from other universities as well, and advis-
ing is just across the board ranked the thing stu-
dents are least satisfied with at every universi-
ty,” Etchemendy said. “But that doesn’t mean
that we shouldn’t try to improve it . . . and
[these numbers] are an improvement over
what we saw two years ago when we were even
worse.”
Kannappan then talked about student opin-
ions regarding a potential expansion of BOSP.
In a survey taken by 300 students, 200 said
they would be interested in a Middle Eastern
study-abroad program. The top four locations
students said they were interested in were
Dubai, Israel, Egypt and Jordan.
Elam said the new director of overseas stud-
ies, professor Robert Sinclair, has also ex-
pressed interest in establishing study-abroad
programs at other non-European campuses,
specifically in the Middle East.
“How we would do that is a major ques-
tion,” Elam said, “but it’s good to see there’s
student interest.”
In addition to Kannappan’s presentation,
ASSU President Angelina Cardona ‘11 spoke
about sexual misconduct on campus.
Last October, the Partnership to End Vio-
lence Against Women sent out a survey regard-
ing this issue, and by December, it had collect-
ed more than 4,000 unique responses from
around campus.
The data is currently being complied before
aggregate results are released.
But Cardona said that in professor Anne
Murray’s class,“Critical Issues in Internation-
al Women’s Health,”last quarter,50 percent of
students reported in a survey that they had
known someone at Stanford who had experi-
enced sexual misconduct or relationship
abuse.
She said ASSU has been having conversa-
tions with administrators, specifically with Vice
Provost of Student Affairs Greg Boardman,
about the issue, and will be putting on campus-
wide training workshops this quarter in part-
nership with the Center for Relationship
Abuse Awareness.
“This is not unique to Stanford,” Cardona
said. “This is happening all across the board at
every campus,but I think as Stanford is a leader
in everything else,we have an opportunity to be
a leader in this issue, and in this movement, as
well.”
Contact Kurt Chirbas at kchirbas@stanford.edu.

RESEARCH NEWS BRIEFS

Biotech 5-SURE set to

expand service

video game By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

5-SURE is expanding its service

goes live
Stanford professor uses real
organisms in new video games
By ELLORA ISRANI
STAFF WRITER
A Stanford professor of bioengineering has de-
veloped the first video game that allows players to
influence the actions of live microorganisms in
real time as they interact with a computer.
Bioengineering professor Ingmar Riedel-
Kruse, who conceptualized the game, says he cre-
ated it to explore the concept of educating peo-
ple about microorganisms and biology by en-
abling “lay people to interact with biology and
microscopic processes and better understand
how these work.”
To fully accomplish this goal, Riedel-Kruse
created not one but eight different games, which
can be classified into one of three categories
based on the type of organisms they work with.
One of these “biotic games” uses single-celled
organisms, called paramecia, and allows partici-
pants to use a video game controller to “move”
these microorganisms on the screen. By manipu-
Please see GAMES, page 5
to run from 9 p.m. to 1:45 a.m. seven
nights a week effective on Monday,
the service announced yesterday.
Previously, 5-SURE service started
at 10 p.m. every night.
5-SURE provides free rides to
Stanford students at night, helping
ensure they have safe and reliable
transportation back to their housing
after dark. The change comes in re-
sponse to a spate of suspected crimi-
nal activity on campus,including sev-
eral recent assaults and a “hot
prowl” threat.
5-SURE also said it is undergoing
a name change. Previously, the
acronym stood for “Students United
for Rape Elimination.” Now stands
for “Students United for Risk Elimi-
nation.”
“The change was made due to a
shift in the mission of the SURE pro-
gram over the years,” the organiza-
tion said in a statement. “All mem-
bers of the Stanford community use
the service in order to safely get
across campus when they feel they
may be at risk. Our mission has
grown to eliminate these risks in
what ways we can.”
5-SURE rides can be arranged by
calling 650-725-SURE during oper-
ating hours, or at 5-sure.stanford.
Courtesy of Ingmar Riedel-Kruse edu.
Players can manipulate the movement of single-celled microorganisms, called paramecia, by
changing the polarity of the electrical field in the fluid chamber (center of black stand). — Kabir Sawhney

RESEARCH

Keep goals vague,says prof

GSB study says no to
detailed resolutions
By DANA EDWARDS
STAFF WRITER
Ever wondered why New Year’s
resolutions to work out so often
fail? It could be because people set
goals that are too precise, according
to business professor Baba Shiv.
In a forthcoming paper for the
next issue of Psychological Sci-
ence, Shiv says numerical ranges
and vague deadlines are more ef-
fective at sustaining motivation
than precise numbers and dead-
lines because they give people
more psychological leeway.
“The individual desires a biased
outcome,” Shiv said. “The brain
functions on that which is favor-
able out of a desired range. But if I
force the individual to look at all
the precise measures and informa-
tion, then the brain will tend to
focus on the negative.”
In other words, if people see
their targets as spectrums, their
minds will focus on the more easily
attainable portions of those spec-
trums, Shiv said. They will perceive
their goals as within reach, and
they will stay motivated.
By contrast, if sprinters, for ex-
ample, are reminded of their pre-
cise previous performances and
told to shoot for precise improve-
ments, they will tend to focus on
the negative, Shiv said. That atti-
tude will lead them to interpret any
minor setbacks as discouragement
or failure, and they will lose moti-
vation.
“Precise information doesn’t
allow the individual the leeway to
process the information in a biased
fashion,” he said.
In addition, Shiv said, frequent
updates can only discourage.
“There is evidence that the more
people keep track of their exact
progress, the more likely they are
to give up,” he said.
Shiv conducted several studies
from late 2009 to early 2011 that
led him to draw these conclusions
about the relationship between the
language of goal-setting and sus-
tained motivation as a function of
success.
In one study, Shiv told 106 par-
ticipants that flavanol, a chemical
present in cocoa, aids mental acu-
ity, adding that one gram of cocoa
was necessary for the effect to
manifest. He gave identical choco-
late candy bars to all the test sub-
jects. Half of the participants were
told that the bar contained exactly
one gram of cocoa, while the other
half were told that the bar con-
tained between 0.5 and 1.5 grams.
All the participants then com-
pleted several exercises in Brain
Games, a program that assesses
and trains mental capacity.
“I observed that the people who
were told that their bar contained a
range had brain age scores that
were more favorable than those
who were told their bar contained
exactly one gram,” Shiv said.
The data suggest that those who
believed their bar could have con-
tained up to 1.5 grams assumed the
maximum and were subsequently
inspired, validating the hypothesis
that people respond more positive-
ly to vaguely presented informa-
tion.
“It’s a classic placebo effect,”
Shiv said, “which gives rise to a
self-fulfilling prophecy.”
In another study, Shiv brought
in 39 participants and evaluated
them on the fictional “Holistic
Health Index” scale, telling all of
them that they exceeded the de-
sired value, between 45 and 55.
However, he told half the subjects
their exact scores at the start, and
half a rough range that captured
their scores. The participants all at-
tempted to lose weight through
their own means.
Shiv found that, like in the
cocoa study, the recipients of the
vague information were more suc-
cessful at their respective goals:
they lost more weight on average
than the group who were given an
exact figure.
These ideas have far-reaching
implications in the fields of busi-
ness, education, athletics and gen-
eral life strategies, Shiv said.
“These days, it’s all about numbers
— course evaluations, employee
evaluations . . . those are the in-
stances when precise information
can end up hurting rather than help-
ing.”
Contact Dana Edwards at dana727
@stanford.edu.
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FEATURES
F R U I T O P I A
Stanford Glean picks campus fruit to fight poverty
By SOPHIAVO berlain began surveying campus fruit posted flyers stating, “If you want us
trees as part of a larger movement for to glean your tree, we can do that for

“N
o orange from
Safeway is going
to smell like the
perfume of this
Stanford orange
hanging out in nature,” said Jovel
Queirolo ‘14.
“It’s all compostable,”she said.She
smiled as she tossed some peels into
the shrubbery.“This is how life should
be.What else would you rather do on
a Friday afternoon before partying?
Be in nature!”
Queirolo is part of Stanford Glean,
a student organization that picks fruit
from trees on campus every week.
The team currently works through
the Haas Center for Public Service to
donate fruit to the Free Farm, an
urban farm in San Francisco.
“What completes the entire expe-
rience and makes it tangible is to [de-
liver food] in the city,” said Hannah
Kohrman ‘11.“How incredible it is to
see food pass from here to there and
into people’s hands.”
Susannah Poland ‘12 started Stan-
ford Glean during the spring of her
freshman year with Page Chamber-
lain, a professor of environmental
earth system science.
“I had been collecting fruit inde-
pendently around campus,” Poland
said, describing how she and Cham-
poverty relief.
The gleaners gathered by Tresid-
der before searching for persimmons,
oranges, tangerines and avocados.
The sun lingered low in the sky, cast-
ing a warm glow on the afternoon.
Gabriela Leslie ‘14 described how
Bay Area weather makes a huge dif-
ference when it comes to picking fruit
in January.
“At no East Coast school would
you be able to walk around in flats
picking fruit,” Leslie said.“This is ab-
solutely my stress reliever.”
As main campus slowly emptied
itself of students, the hustle of the
weekday disappeared to make room
for the weekend.
For Leslie, the activity has person-
al and philanthropic benefits. “When
you’re working on a farm or in a gar-
den, your physical work produces
tangible results . . . rather than your
mental work producing esoteric re-
sults,”she said.“After being so caught
up in the mental life at Stanford, it’s
refreshing to do physical labor.”
Stanford’s grounds are home to
hundreds of trees with 31 kinds of
fruit, according to Tim Huang ‘14, an-
other gleaner.
One of Huang’s favorite gleaning
experiences took place in the faculty
neighborhood where the team had
you and we’ll leave whatever you
want,” Huang recalled.
An elderly man came outside of
his home to ask the team for help
with picking fruit from his per-
simmon tree, which Huang de-
scribed as laden with “beauti-
ful orange orbs like pearls.”
Huang was struck by the
generosity of the man, who in-
sisted on donating much of his
fruit to the team.
“There was abundance, and
they were willing to share with
the less fortunate,” Huang said.
Gleaner Kohrman described JAMES BUI/The Stanford Daily
how much she and her team mem-
bers appreciate being able to pro-
vide their service. Before getting to she said. “After reaching the very top they deserve healthy, sustainable
work at the Free Farm, the team of a tree with the fruit picker, it was fruit.”
stands together in a circle to hold satisfying to have the apple fall into Queirolo said any Stanford stu-
hands and share something they are my hands.” dent is welcome to become a gleaner.
grateful for. Queirolo said she sees her work “Something like food justice is perfect
Gleaners are often proud of the with Stanford Glean as part of a long- because anyone can do it and you’re
variety and beauty of the trees they term goal to improve the structure of learning at the same time,” she said.
spend so much time with. the United States’ food economy. “All of us agree on the same thing,and
“The first time, I was so amazed “The way agriculture works in our we’re doing it to help others. I love it.
that we have all these crazy fruit trees country is that fruit is really expensive You could do this. Do you eat food?”
here,” Leslie said. “There’s avocados, when it shouldn’t be,” she said. “Tan- “Yes. You eat food and you like
figs, pomegranates.” gerines and oranges and persimmons food. . . . so you should care about this
For Leslie, being around the trees are hard to get if you’re poor.As Stan- group,” she added.
made her much more appreciative of ford students, it’s our responsibility to
fruit.“Normally,I would walk around, change the way people think about Contact Sophia Vo at sophiavo@stan-
spot a beautiful apple [and move on],” food and show the underserved that ford.edu.

STORYTELLING GETS DIGITAL

SUZANNE STATHATOS/The Stanford Daily
Peter Lewis, Hearst visiting professor
in communication, has been tracking
developments in information technol-
ogy since the birth of the Internet.
By SUZANNE STATHATOS
wrote a novel in Argentina and was that eyeglasses with holographic dis- Lewis said the fundamentals of news “Open your eyes,” he said.“Look
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his plays of information might even be writing will remain the same, across around.There are so many great sto-
coverage of the birth of the Internet. commonplace one day. radio, television, podcasts, print and ries to tell and so many interesting
As a Knight fellow,Lewis worked Although newspapers and maga- social networks alike. people.”
on a project that studied how people zines are shifting their resources and Whether in print or in pixels,
would pay for journalism in a new time to remain relevant in the digital Lewis said journalism will continue Contact Suzanne Stathatos at
economic climate. He wanted to find world and reach larger audiences, to serve a critical role in society. sstat@stanford.edu.
a way to pay reporters in order to
maintain a flow of high-caliber jour-
nalism. Although he did not find a
“best way” to pay, he was pleased to
find that there are many viable op-
tions.
It may have helped that Lewis un-
derstood the importance of the In-
ternet and computers at their incep-
tion.
“People really didn’t understand
how rapidly the change was going to
take place,” Lewis said. “I started
writing about computers for The
New York Times in 1982.Very quick-
ly after that, I realized that comput-
ers were interesting . . . but the real-

A
lmost every inch of the
Stanford campus is
“wired,” and one of the
key reporters tracking
the development of the
World Wide Web, Peter Lewis, is cur-
rently teaching on the Farm.
With his charcoal turtleneck and
blue jeans, Lewis, the Hearst visiting
professor in the communication de-
partment, looks the part of an intel-
lectual. As a physics enthusiast and
professional journalist, Lewis grew
up combining science and writing.
He analyzed changes around him
through a scientific lens, a way of
thinking that shaped his work in dig-
ital journalism. But how did he get
there?
Lewis originally did not intend to
be a journalist. He wanted to write
fiction, move to Paris and produce
the next great American novel, he
said.
“A friend of my father’s took me
aside and told me I would starve,and
it might be nice to get some writing
experience that would actually pay
for groceries,” he said.
So he left the University of
Kansas, where he had studied
physics and journalism, and took a
job at the Osawatomie Graphic
News. A year later, The Des Moines
Register hired him as a reporter. He
went back to school and finished his
degree in journalism at Drake Uni-
versity in Des Moines in 1982. He
hasn’t left journalism since, going on
to spend 17 years at The New York
Times.
“He definitely knows what he’s
talking about,” said Kat Lynch ‘11, a
student in his digital journalism
course. “All the stuff we discussed in
class . . . I feel like I’m going to be
able to use all of it.”
In addition to teaching introduc-
tory and higher-level journalism
classes, Lewis spent a year as a
Knight fellow at Stanford in 2010,
ly cool thing about computers was
that they were a communications de-
vice.”
Because he understood the sig-
nificance of the Internet, he became
an early advocate for opening jour-
nalism to cyberspace. He argued to
New York Times editors, “There are
more people on the Internet right
now than the population of Poland.
We send a foreign correspondent to
Poland, so why don’t you send me to
cyberspace, and I’ll be the foreign
correspondent there?”
Early on, Lewis felt optimistic
about the Internet’s potential. “Any
time you have a tool that enables
people to communicate better, it’s
going to be successful,” he said.
In addition to making informa-
tion more available to a wider audi-
ence, the Internet eliminates the en-
vironmental damage inherent in
printed news, Lewis noted.
“Newsprint is environmentally
unfriendly,”he said.“You chop down
trees. You print them on these big
noisy presses, and then you throw
them on trucks that spew pollution
and burn gasoline. And it comes out
the day later than something hap-
pens.”
Lewis’s work at Stanford is fo-
cused on preparing student journal-
ists for an increasingly technological
world.
“It’s always gratifying to see your
name in print,” he said, but “at this
stage, it’s less important to me than
giving back and training a new gen-
eration of journalists.”
Lewis speculated that mobility
will continue to be a defining feature
of media technology. He predicted
that “flexible, printable displays,” or
computer screens that can be rolled
up and stored in one’s pocket, will be
available in five to 10 years.He noted
that Piko Projectors in some Asian
cell phones already contain small
video projectors, and he suggests

“Any time you have a tool that enables people to

communicate better, it’s going to be successful.”
— Peter Lewis, Hearst visiting professor in communication
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subject but the witness will not let

him: “No, wait, I have more to con-
fess, more forgiveness to ask for. I
just feel so awful about it, and I can’t
get past it.”And so on.
I think our family friend told the
story with a mixture of amusement
and cynicism. But imagining a sin-
cere situation, the strategy reflects
an earnest truth: Horrible misdeeds
are overcome through deep appreci-
ation and acknowledgement of their
horribleness.
In American political discussions
on race today, whites often express
frustration with what they see as the
inability of African Americans to
move forward and focus on the fu-
ture. Some individuals look upon
slavery, sanctioned discrimination
and the racial injustices that persist
as a bleeding wound, but the main-
stream looks upon most of the injus-
tice as in the past and not something
justifiably bound up in how African
Americans understand themselves
today.
The nature of our personal rela-
tionships should teach us the impos-
sibility of overcoming racial tensions
when most Americans fail to recog-
nize the legitimacy of feelings of so-
cial alienation among African Amer-
icans. When, in close relationships,
one person wrongs another, the
moral relation between the two peo-
ple is changed. If their future lives
are bound up together (as is the case
of fellow citizens), the wrongdoing
will eat away at the health of their re-
lationship. Only when the perpetra-
tor comes to emotionally appreciate
her past wrongdoing, to feel its
weight and express a regret in pro-
portion to the crime,does she help to
heal the festering wound. The result
is a cathartic experience for each,
and a contradiction:The past is both
memorialized and expunged.
If Americans hope to achieve a
post-racial America, we must grasp a
difficult truth: Our country’s identity
is not distinct from its past any more
than our individual identities are dis-
tinct from our pasts. We cannot di-
vorce the past. Even if we were to
eliminate all present-day racial in-
justice (one of the biggest “ifs” I can
think of), we would not have
“[bound] up the nation’s wounds,”as
Abraham Lincoln called upon
Americans to do nearly 150 years
ago. Our failure to address the past
in anything nearing the magnitude
of the crimes is why emotional divi-
sions run so strong.
This story should not be com-
pletely unfamiliar in the Stanford
context. We see the misunderstand-
ings here,too.Students believe in tol-
erance, yet many still fail to grasp the
importance of community for cultur-
al groups on campus, particularly
those who have suffered past injus-
tices in this country.We say that com-
munity centers divide when we
should aim to unite, that we are in-
terested in bridging gaps while cul-
tural communities exacerbate differ-
ences.
We fool ourselves into thinking
cultural identity can be based exclu-
sively on common philosophical
ideals, as if human beings are not
partly contingent creatures, partly
tied to our histories. We fail to grasp
why wounds will bleed for new gen-
erations, and, in that context, why
communities of people who share
experiences are essential sources of
strength and affirmation in the midst
of festering wounds.
The real ideal at Stanford would
be to maintain these strong commu-
nities while ensuring that cross-cul-
tural interaction is common and
meaningful. Community centers and
dorms should not be exclusive, nor
should students when making
friends.The truth is I see this more as
a one-way problem. Students who
belong to cultural community cen-
ters do a better job of living up to this
ideal. It is the mainstream that fails
to make the strides necessary to gain
an internal perspective. I was told
that one of the major donors who
helped create Stanford’s depart-
ment in Comparative Studies in
Race and Ethnicity in 1996 was a
white student who lived in Ujamaa
for a year.That is part of what places
like Ujamaa are about.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream
was not just about formal integra-
tion. It was also about mutual under-
standing. It is to be expected that
many students will come to Stanford
without ever having gained an inter-
nal perspective into other minority
groups. The shame is that too many
leave just the same.
Did MLK Day have you thinking?
Send Aysha your comments at
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or a lot of people I know, these
past few months have been
Application Time. Jobs, Ph.D.
programs, fellowships, whatever
you’ve got. Welcome to personal
statement season. The game? You.
It still astounds me how many peo-
ple that I’d consider strong writers
struggle with application essays.
I’ve had the occasion to read quite a
few applications for staff positions,
and the phenomenon is obvious.
“I’ve decided that what it is,” one
girl said, taking a break from her
third Ph.D. essay mid-midterms
week,“is that I’ve spent all this time
learning to write honestly. In my re-
search, in my writing. But here I’ve
got to sell myself.
“At this point in my life, the truth
about me is I’m uncertain about a
lot of things, my professional life in-
cluded.
“And that just doesn’t sell.”
ME104B, Designing Your Life, is
one official response to this prob-
lem — evidence that it is wide-
spread. Maybe it’s the freshman-
year humiliation that carries these
students past humble to downright
shy. ME104B, which meets once a
week, requires students to think
critically about what they want out
of their lives, what their strengths
are and how to use those strengths
to get what they want. A lot of stu-
dents report taking the class just as
Clear Mud
Roseann
Cima
a way to force themselves to allot
time to consider these issues. Stan-
ford keeps them busy enough that
they won’t otherwise.
I’m taking the class now, and I
am knee-deep. Right now all vec-
tors are pointing at prototyping:We,
as twentysomethings, are still in the
early stages of the design process.
(Those first odd years were need-
finding, maybe. Lots of self-obser-
vation activities.) So we must not be
afraid to try out lots of things! Go to
career fairs to practice getting job
offers. Try out jobs to figure out
what about them works and what
about them doesn’t.
This doesn’t eradicate the “cer-
tainty” issue. At least so far as the
long term is concerned. They don’t
want us to be certain; if we wait for
certainty, we might end up para-
lyzed for life.I kind of relish the idea
of an interviewer asking, “So how
much are you willing to commit to
us?” and the ME104B grad rolling
up his sleeves and saying, “Well,
what you have to understand here is
that this is a prototype.” But to some
extent, that’s legitimate. And once
we’ve really internalized how truly
legitimate it is, we can start execut-
ing these moves with conviction and
start selling ourselves on our
strengths in order to get what we
want, without uncomfortable com-
promise. But you’ve got to mean it.
Mark Applebaum, Stanford’s
resident experimental composer
and wacky music professor, has a
few pearls about conviction in un-
certainty.You need to sell it, he says,
and demonstrates by playing jazz
with a mitten on his right hand,
smashing all the wrong notes at all
the intentional times.As an artist, he
loves murkiness and he loves doubt.
He once had a composition assign-
ment returned to him because a
chord was “muddy.” His instructor
told him to write it again.
“No, it’s supposed to be muddy.
That’s how I want it!”
“No no no. Write it again. And
this time give me clear mud.”
It’s not about whether or not
clear mud sells on a resume. For
most of us, muddiness is inevitable,
and it’s no good covering it up. It’s
about whether we’ve learned to get
behind that muddiness and shine
through. With clear enough mud,
we’ll have ourselves a prism.
Scintillating? Rosie wants to learn the
art at rcima@stanford.edu.
The Stanford Daily
POLICE BLOTTER
By IVY NGUYEN
DESK EDITOR
This report covers a selection of
incidents from Jan. 13 to Jan. 20 as
recorded in the Stanford Depart-
ment of Public Safety bulletin.
THURSDAY, JAN. 13
" At 1:35 a.m.at the intersection of
McFarland Court and Olmsted
Road, a man was transported to
the San Jose main jail and
booked for public intoxication.
FRIDAY, JAN. 14
" At 2 a.m., a man at Sigma Chi
was cited and released for being
a public nuisance by urinating in
public.
" At 12:30 p.m. at the intersection
of Via Ortega and Serra Street, a
man was transported to the San
Jose main jail for being in posses-
sion of an imitation firearm and
for violating conditions of his pa-
role.
" Between 11:15 a.m. and 2:30
p.m., unknown suspects broke
into a car parked at Lomita
Drive and Museum Way, steal-
ing two backpacks containing
clothing, a camera, a Kindle and
other electrical equipment.
" Between 3:30 and 9:30 p.m.,
GAMES
Continued from page 2
lating a mild electric field around
the organism, players can influence
its movement in a particular direc-
tion.
While the computer base is
purely virtual, the organisms are
real.The game involving paramecia
has five different versions for play-
ers to choose from — including
PAC-mecium, which was created in
the image of Pacman, and a biotic
pinball game called POND PONG.
The other two categories in-
volve molecules and yeast cells.
Riedel-Kruse says the idea for
the current design, which took
about a year to develop, came in
2009 when he was a researcher at
Caltech.When he read on the Inter-
net about the history of video
games and realized that their ad-
vent was propelled by the rising
computer industry, he thought
about doing the same with the
biotech industry developing today.
“If we could use computer tech-
nology to create games, then why
aren’t we using biotech to create
games?” he said. “It was just an ini-
tial question.”
Furthermore, the games can col-
lect data as they are played. There-
fore, they essentially allow ordinary
individuals to serve the purpose of
research assistants. Instead of pay-
ing an intern to search for data,
Riedel-Kruse hopes to motivate
99% of Americans hope they don’t get fired at work.
1% of Americans hope they don’t get fired at.
someone entered an unlocked
dorm room in Roble Hall and
stole a laptop.
" At 8 p.m.,a man was transported
to the San Jose main jail for
being drunk in public and prowl-
ing between Trancos and Soto.
SATURDAY, JAN. 15
" Between 8 p.m. on Jan. 14 and 2
a.m. on Jan. 15, unknown sus-
pects entered an apartment at 71
Barnes Court, stealing a laptop
and other miscellaneous items.
" At 6:15 p.m., a dog bit a visitor to
the Rodin Sculpture Garden.
The injured visitor was trans-
ported to the hospital for med-
ical attention. The hungry dog
reportedly mistook the visitor
for one of the six Burghers.
SUNDAY, JAN. 16
" Between 8 p.m. on Jan. 15 and
3:30 a.m. on Jan. 16, an unknown
suspect entered an occupied
townhouse at 94 Thoburn
through an unlocked sliding
glass door, stealing a laptop and
money.
" At 8:45 p.m., an unlocked bike
was stolen from outside the Axe
and Palm.
" Between 9 and 9:05 p.m., water
widespread participation with the
enjoyable gaming environment.
The strategy presents certain chal-
lenges, however.
“Since the games are [designed
as] experiments, in order to enable
someone to play, we have to give ac-
cess to the experiments,” Riedel-
Kruse said.
Such difficulties stem from the
fact that some of the games require
an expensive laboratory apparatus
known as a PCR machine. Howev-
er, Riedel-Kruse hopes to over-
come this challenge with a grant
from the National Science Founda-
tion that would allow the game to
be played online using remote ac-
cess.
He also hopes to put the games
in the schools and museums within
a year to give way to wider con-
sumption.
“Definitely we hope that we
could make it available to the pub-
lic in the end,” Riedel-Kruse said.
“The next step is basically collabo-
ration with Daniel Schwartz of the
School of Education to do user
studies with schoolchildren to as-
sess educational potential and how
to design games to make them
more attractive to students.”
In the end, Riedel-Kruse’s goals
are not commercial; he does not
plan on founding a company. In-
stead, further research will concen-
trate on identifying what users find
attractive in order to allow broader
dissemination of the game.
Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-
ford.edu.
Friday, January 21, 2011 ! 5
leaked from a sink in room 376
of the Keck Building, flooding
a hallway and adjacent rooms.
Water dripped down from the
ceiling onto various lab equip-
ment and computers.
MONDAY, JAN. 17
" Between 1:40 and 2 p.m., un-
known suspects broke into a
car parked near the Track
House, stealing a backpack.
TUESDAY, JAN. 18
" Between 9 and 10 a.m., a
locked bike was stolen from
the front of the Science and
Engineering Quad teaching
center.
" At 3:30 p.m., a woman was ar-
rested for petty theft at the
Stanford bookstore.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19
" At 12 a.m. a resident of Mars re-
ported receiving multiple un-
wanted phone calls and text mes-
sages containing obscene materi-
al from an unknown suspect.
" At 3:20 p.m.,a man was cited and
released for vandalizing the Tan-
ner Fountain by setting fire to a
collage using torch fuel.
Contact Ivy Nguyen at iknguyen@
stanford.edu.
FAFSA
“Since it costs at least
$25,000 to go to a state school,
having someone pay $5,000
Continued from front page doesn’t exactly solve the prob-
lem,” said Morrison. “We’re
going to need more informa-
However, outside help is not nec- tion to help people.”
essary to facilitate applying for finan-
cial aid at all schools,Morrison said.In Contact Cassandra
fact, the numbers of financial aid ap- Feliciano at ccfeli-
plicants continue to increase for Stan- ci@stanford.edu.
ford,where the FAFSA is required for
entering students along with the CSS
Profile and parents’ W2 tax forms.
“At a place like Stanford, federal
aid is wonderful,but it isn’t what pays
most [of the costs],” Morrison said.
“FAFSA really only deals with fed-
eral grants, which are not anywhere
near enough to pay for coming to
Stanford. We have to supplement
with our own endowment and our
own scholarship funds.”
Morrison explained that even for
state schools and community col-
leges, a shorter FAFSA might not do
the trick. Plenty of students are still
unaware that when they apply there
are actually possibilities of getting aid.
“Many schools use their own
form or say they don’t have any
money,” she said, adding,“There are
good stats out there that you can find
that show families just don’t think
there’s any money out there.”
As a result, Stanford has taken
matters into its own hands.The Uni-
versity’s financial aid officers them-
selves often visit or get invited to
high schools “so parents better get
familiar with the forms.” ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily
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SPORTS
Continued from front page
MBBALL|Card needs quick recovery to face UCLA
from the field while allowing the Trojans
to shoot 55.6 percent. Freshman guard
Anthony Brown was Stanford’s leading
scorer,posting nine points for the Cardi-
nal and earning a significant amount of
playtime alongside several classmates,
such as forward Dwight Powell.
Head coach Johnny Dawkins has
high expectations for his freshman class,
particularly Powell, whom he said is
“working hard and getting better.”
“I think he’s getting more comfort-
able.” Dawkins said of Powell. “He’s
young and trying to feel his way through
Pac-10 play, but every game he’s getting
more active and rebounding for us more
consistently.”
Stanford will continue to rely on
Powell, along with juniors Josh Owens
and Jarrett Mann, as the team continues
through the conference season tomor-
row against UCLA.The Bruins (12-6, 4-
2) have been one of the Pac-10’s most
consistent teams of late, winning nine of
their last 11 games and narrowly defeat-
ing Cal last night, 86-84.
Like Stanford, UCLA pulled off a
huge win over a top-20 team, defeating
then-No. 16 BYU in mid-December, 86-
79. Averaging a high 71.3 points per
game,the team has five different players
who regularly produce double-digit fig-
ures in scoring.
Reeves Nelson and Tyler Honeycutt
average more than 13 points and nearly
eight rebounds per game apiece, and
Stanford will have to recover its domi-
nant defense from earlier in the season
in order to stop this high-scoring duo.
Despite its past two losses, defense
remains the strongest aspect of the Car-
dinal’s game. It will have to pick up the
slack on the offensive end, though, to
earn a win against the Bruins, especially
since five years have passed since Stan-
ford won a road game over either of the
southern California schools.
In fact, the Card has struggled in
most road games thus far,and the young
team hopes to turn this around tomor-
row by recovering its early-season suc-
cess,particularly by attacking the boards
and exploding on the offensive end.
Tipoff is at 11 a.m. at Pauley Pavilion
in Los Angeles.
Contact Lauren Taylor at ltaylor7@stan-
ford.edu.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
1/20 vs. USC L 65-42
UP NEXT
UCLA
(12-6, 4-2 Pac-10)
1/22 Los Angeles, Calif. 11 a.m.
COVERAGE:
TV CBS
GAME NOTES: After a blowout defeat at the hands
of USC last night 65-42, the Cardinal will try to
get back on track against the Bruins. UCLA has
bounced back from two losses to open Pac-10
play and now sits at third in the standings, a
game ahead of Stanford.
READY FOR REVENGE
By JENNY PETER
STAFF WRITER
After a tough loss to rival Cal last
week,the men’s gymnastics team will
look for redemption as it hosts the
Golden Bears in “The Big Flipoff.”
When the teams squared off a
After seeing his team fall behind in the final events of last week’s meet against Cal, Tim Gentry, above, will have
plenty to fight for as the two rivals clash again this weekend. Gentry is serving as a co-captain in his senior season.
USC’s Marcus Simmons shoots the ball past Stanford's Aaron Bright, left, and Jeremy Green (45) during the
first half at the Galen Center in Los Angeles. Bright and Green each finished with just two field goals.
week ago, Cal proved again why it is
one of Stanford’s toughest West
Coast rivals. The Golden Bears put
up a big high bar score on its second-
to-last event as the Cardinal fell twice
on the parallel bars, enabling Cal to
sneak past Stanford by .95 points.
According to senior captains
Tim Gentry and Abhinav Ramani,
the Cardinal had an intense training
week. The team is doing a high-vol-
ume type of training in preparation
— the focus is on getting comfort-
able with the routines by doing
more reps and making small adjust-
ments when necessary. The men
Stanford Daily File Photo
Kevin Sullivan/MCT
also increased the level of difficultly
in the skills they’re attempting this
week, hoping to build on their con-
fidence by improving endurance in
more intricate routines. The detail
work will probably start in mid-Feb-
ruary, when the team prepares for
conference and NCAA champi-
onships in the spring.
Of course, the team’s objective
for every meet is to improve from
the previous one.
“Last Friday, we had some un-
characteristic mistakes on parallel
bars and pommel horse, and we will
definitely be looking to not repeat
those mistakes on Saturday,” Gen-
try said.
Besides the boost in preparation,
the Card will get an extra benefit as
some of its competitors return from
the bench. The team wasn’t at full
strength last week because of some
minor injuries, including the loss of
sophomore Eddie Penev, the 2010
NCAA champion on vault. He will
be back for the meet tomorrow.
“We expect to compete the way
we’ve been training in practice,”
said redshirt senior Nick Noone.
“Our goal is to show that our work-
outs directly reflect our competitive
outcomes. We’re expecting Cal to
put up some very big scores, and we
expect to do the same.”
Stanford will take on Cal at
Burnham Pavilion on Saturday at 7
p.m.
Contact Jenny Peter at jpeter12@stan-
ford.edu.
The Stanford Daily
Tom Taylor
To the
haters:
Why?
“I
hate all sports as
rabidly as a person
who likes sports
hates common
sense.”
That quote comes courtesy of the
late journalist Henry Louis Mencken,
and he’s not alone. There are clubs,
blogs and Facebook groups dedicated
to people who would avoid this entire
section of The Daily like the plague.As
a fan committed enough to volunteer
my free time writing sports stories and
columns,it’s hard not to feel a bit insult-
ed by the simple blasphemy of the
haters, but there is something else
wrong here. Hating sports just doesn’t
make sense.
It’s like hating music or reading.
You might not have much interest in a
long and drawn-out opera,but howev-
er much you might not want to admit it,
there’ll be a tune somewhere that gets
you tapping your feet. You might not
be willing to work your way through
War and Peace,but when a new e-mail
drops into your inbox, I’m sure you
won’t mind reading the message.
I would be
impressed if
anyone could go
through even one
day without doing
something I could
classify as sports.
Many people who go along with
this claim must be simply confusing the
broader concept of sports with the
more organized “Sports” (capital S,
mind you) that monopolize our
screens. It’s the same as the difference
between spirituality and organized re-
ligions.The big, rich and powerful reli-
gious sects are just as desperate for be-
lievers, and there are more than a few
cases of religious leaders acting as if
they are above both reason and the
law.You don’t have to be a Catholic to
believe in a god (or gods) anymore
than you need to follow the NFL to like
sports.
Physical competition is an intrinsic
part of human nature, whether it be to
gain an advantage within society or
simply for the sheer fun of it.The spec-
trum of sport goes from any simple
challenge to go further,faster or higher,
all the way through to the heavily struc-
tured major professional sports. It
could be climbing Mount Everest or
just seeing who can get to class first,
playing in the Super Bowl or playing
on a Wii, vying with the world’s best
athletes or just competing against
yourself. I would be impressed if any-
one could go through even a day with-
out doing something I could classify
somewhere in there — in fact, even
trying to meet that challenge might dis-
qualify you.
Perhaps some of you have an axe to
grind with arrogant jocks at high school
or obnoxious fans from somewhere
else. But you can’t tar all of sportsdom
with the same brush — if those folks
weren’t jerks because of sports, they
were just jerks. There are also people
who take things too far, turning a sim-
ple pastime into a serious, maybe
slightly psychotic obsession — but
you’ll get them in any hobby,and most
people like that are ultimately harm-
less.
I suspect, too, that a few who say
they hate sports only do so because,
within their social circle, it is cool to be
apathetic about it — to pretend they
don’t care long enough that it becomes
a part of who they are. I hope they see
the irony of defining themselves this
way;sport becoming an important part
of their character.
If you consider yourself a hater, or
even a don’t-like-er, I implore you to
try an experiment.After all,that’s what
college is for. Go find yourself some
friendly fans and get them to take you
along the next time they’re heading to
Please see TAYLOR, page 8
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just 12 service errors to run its cur-
rent winning streak to nine matches.
Lawson was named MPSF player
of the week after totaling 39 kills in
the two matches, including four
straight in the fifth set last Friday.
But he waved off the honor as a nice
recognition.
“It’s certainly an honor, especial-
ly when you look at some of the
other players’ stats from this week
who weren’t recognized,” he said.
“So it is a good honor for me and the
team, but I don’t think it means too
much. Individual honors are nice,
but the ultimate team honor — and
our goal — is to win another NCAA
national championship in May.”
Hawaii is coming off a disap-
pointing showing in last week’s Out-
rigger Hotels Invitational, where it
lost three straight matches to Ball
State, Penn State and UCLA. The
three-game losing streak to open the
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left in the half.
The game moved quickly and qui-
etly until a Pedersen three-pointer
followed by a left-handed layup gave
the Cardinal a 15-4 lead with 11:02 to
go in the half.
For UCLA, preseason Naismith
Award candidate Jasmine Dixon
took the Bruins into her own hands.
Dixon, who finished with 12 points,
then made three consecutive buckets
for the Bruins, cutting the Stanford
lead to nine points with 6:20 left in
the half.
Freshman forward Chiney Og-
wumike made back-to-back buckets,
then redshirt senior Melanie Mur-
phy,playing for the first time this sea-
son,poked away a steal and took it all
the way for a layup to give Stanford
the 32-15 lead it held at the halfway
mark.
The “Big Three” then put the
game on ice, as they combined for 21
points on a 23-6 run in the first 10
minutes of the second half. Pedersen
ended the game with 18 points,
Pohlen with 14 and Nnemkadi Og-
wumike with 13.
Stanford’s defense was once
again solid, and UCLA struggled to
find the basket all night, shooting a
meager 29.4 percent for the game.
Bruin head coach Nikki Caldwell de-
scribed the shooting as “horrible,”
but also gave credit to a Stanford
team that has the advantage in the
Friday, January 21, 2011 ! 7
season is the first for Hawaii in 17
years and dropped the Warriors
from No. 5 in the AVCA rankings
back down to No. 13.
But Hawaii is by no means a
pushover. The Warriors have a trio
of excellent players in outside hitters
Steven Hunt and Joshua Walker and
opposite Jonas Umlauft, who com-
bined for 98 kills in the Outrigger
tournament. The Warriors own the
edge in the all-time series against
Stanford, 34-31, although the Cardi-
nal has won the last seven matches
and the last 19 consecutive sets, dat-
ing back to February 2008.
Head coach John Kosty is wary of
what he thinks is a sleeper in the tal-
ented MPSF.
“Hawaii is a very offensive team,
and they run a good offense with
three great pin hitters in Hunt,
Joshua Walker and Umlauft,” he
said. “They will give us all we can
handle. Umlauft just had 28 kills and
hit .477 against Penn State, so we
have to come out and look to neu-
tralize their outside attack.”
Two freshmen appear to be a
major part of the game plan for
Pac-10 once again.
“I think they have all of the mak-
ings of a championship run.You look
at the size, the shooters, the leader-
ship, the experience,” Caldwell said.
“They’ve been there, they know
what it’s like when you get to that
final game and you don’t walk away
with that trophy.When you’re in that
situation, you come back even hun-
grier.”
Stanford has now beaten three
top-10 opponents by a total of 75
points at Maples this season, but the
Cardinal still had a few troubles.
Stanford outrebounded UCLA 44-
27, but only had 13 offensive re-
bounds and turned the ball over 15
times.
“I’m not trying to be a killjoy, but
the bar is really high for this team,”
VanDerveer said. “In order to really
go where we want to go, we can’t just
say ‘Oh, everything was okay.’ Teams
are being physical, teams are being
super aggressive and we can’t have
the ball taken out of our hands.”
When asked if this was the best
the team could play, Nnemkadi Og-
wumike echoed her coach.
“No. At the same time, I think
we’ve improved. Obviously, we’re
playing well, but we want to win
game the way we really want to,” she
said. “With every project that we
have, we kind of forget about anoth-
er thing.”
Stanford will have another
chance to improve tomorrow after-
noon, when the Cardinal hosts USC.
The Trojans looked to be another top
contender for taking a share of the
Pac-10 lead, as they entered the
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Stanford. Both Eric Mochalski and
Brian Cook were heavily featured in
the first three matches of the year —
Cook is third on the team with 23
kills and Mochalski is fourth with 15
and a .448 hitting percentage.
Mochalski also came up with the
winning block in the first match
against BYU.
But tonight marks the first road
match of their young college careers,
and Mochalski said he was humbled
by the experience.
“I’m looking to just take every-
thing one point at a time,” he said.
“This is going to be an extremely
hostile environment, and even
though it’s my first time ever in
Hawaii, I’m just going to try and
avoid distractions and stay focused
on each play.”
The team left yesterday morning
to acclimate to the two-hour time
difference,and the Cardinal will face
off against Hawaii in the first match
tonight at 7 p.m. at the Stan Sheriff
Center in Honolulu.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-
bs@stanford.edu.
weekend with just one conference
loss. The Trojans (12-5, 4-2) lost a bit
of steam last night, however, falling
to Cal in Berkeley by a score of 82-
71.
Regardless, VanDerveer gives
praise for USC’s strong play this sea-
son.
“I’ve been really impressed
watching USC play,” she said.
“They’re a different team and some
teams match up better with other
teams. They played a really good
game against Xavier, and Xavier is a
great team with great players. They
have great speed, when I watch them
they’re not as athletic . . . but they
have some really talented offensive
players. They’re getting to be that
same team like UCLA, with more
experience.”
The Trojans ultimately lost that
early December game against
Xavier, 69-66. Regardless, the nar-
row loss against the then-No. 4 Mus-
keteers was enough to turn heads
around the Pac-10, if not the nation.
The Cardinal may see more of
Murphy tomorrow, too.
“I think that [it’s good] having an-
other option with [Murphy’s] experi-
ence,” VanDerveer said. “And she
feels quicker. She feels like she’s
moving really well. I think it would
be great to have another experi-
enced, healthy body out there.”
The Trojans will visit Maples
Pavilion Saturday afternoon, tipping
off with the Cardinal at 2 p.m.
Contact Jack Blanchat at
blanchat@stanford and Nate Adams
at nbadams@stanford.edu.
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KLAHN, CARD CRUISING
By DASH DAVIDSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Junior Bradley Klahn has started
the 2011 men’s collegiate tennis sea-
son much as he finished the 2010 one:
with an emphatic victory at a major
tournament. Last May, Klahn won
the NCAA singles title as a sopho-
more, becoming Stanford’s first
NCAA champion since Alex Kim in
2000.
Klahn didn’t play like a person
feeling a lot of pressure as the reign-
ing NCAA champion this past week-
end at the Sherwood Collegiate Cup,
thoroughly dominating the competi-
tion on his way to victory. He didn’t
drop a set throughout the five rounds
of the tournament, compiling a stag-
gering 60-22 advantage in games won
over the course of the weekend.
“The tournament went very well
on my end. Winning the singles and
the doubles is a great accomplish-
ment for me personally,” Klahn said.
“I also think the tournament was a
good early test for our team to kind of
see where we match up with some of
the best teams in the country. . . . It’s
certainly a good wake-up call for our
guys to know that we can play with
the top teams, but that there’s some
work to be done if we want to succeed
throughout the year and ultimately in
the NCAAs.”
Ranked No.15 and seeded second
heading into the tournament, Klahn
dispatched the two top players from
rival Southern California in the semi-
finals and finals — No. 3 seed Daniel
Nguyen and No. 1 seed Steve John-
son, respectively. The title is Klahn’s
second consecutive Sherwood Cup
crown, having defeated Baylor’s
Denes Lukacs in last year’s final.
The weekend’s tournament win is
nothing new for Klahn, who has won
an impressive five tournaments in just
over two years of collegiate experi-
ence with Stanford. In addition to the
two Sherwood Cup victories and the
2010 NCAA singles crown, he has
collected the 2010 ITA Northwest
Regional Championship and the
2009 Pac-10 singles title.
The Sherwood Cup was a good
showing for Stanford men’s tennis in
Stanford Daily File Photo general, with junior Ryan Thacher
joining Klahn in the winners’ circle
After winning the national singles title last season, Bradley Klahn continues for their triumph in the doubles por-
to impress in 2011. The junior earned a combined 60-22 advantage in tion of the bracket. This weekend
matches played during the Sherwood Collegiate Cup last weekend. marked the fifth time Klahn and
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a sports bar or, even better, to a real
Thacher have won doubles titles to-
gether. game. Having someone to explain
Overall, four players — Klahn, what is going on helps, but being
Thacher, sophomore Denis Lin and among people really passionate about
senior Greg Hirshman — all ad- anything is seriously infectious;it’s im-
vanced to at least the round of 16 in possible not to get carried along with
the singles draw. Freshman Jamin the tide of human emotion.
Ball accrued valuable experience and Or maybe grab a ball and go have a
showed some tenacity as he bounced throw-around the next time you need
back from a tough first-round loss a break.The great thing about sport is
against USC’s Johnson by resound- that it’s truly open to all and practical-
ingly winning his consolation match. ly free of the many barriers that seem
But Klahn, as has been the case to continually keep our species divid-
since the day he walked on campus as ed. You don’t need to know much or
a freshman from Poway High School have any special skills:all you need is a
in southern California,was the center competitive streak and an open mind.
of attention for the men’s tennis And so, in response to the quote I
team.A player like Klahn is “special,” started this column with, I’m going to
in the words of Stanford head coach end by misappropriating one from the
John Whitlinger. historical figure whose life was com-
“He’s just a really great kid,” memorated last Monday, someone
Whitlinger effused about his star who I hope would have liked the all-
player. “He’s an incredibly hard inclusiveness of sports.
worker, he’s a fun guy to be around “I have decided to stick with love.
and he’s just a real down-to-earth kid Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
who also does well academically.It’s a That,of course,comes from Martin
nice combination when you’re a good Luther King Jr.
student and a heck of a tennis player.
I’m really excited for the potential he Tom Taylor knows that with just a bit of
has and what his future will hold.” baseball and a touch of tennis, the
Klahn has already been to the world will be happier place. Bring him
peak of collegiate tennis, and he says back to Earth at tom.taylor@
the experience has only improved his stanford.edu.
preparations.
“Winning the NCAAs was a huge
accomplishment for me last year, and
it was a nice reward for all the hard
work I’d been putting in,” he said. “I
think that it gave me a lot of confi-
dence.”
With the success he’s had, there’s
no doubt Klahn has a bit of a target on
his back. His challenge is to maintain
focus amid his fame and lead Stan-
ford back to the top of collegiate
men’s tennis. The Cardinal hasn’t
reached the pinnacle of the sport as a
team since 2000, and it is in the midst
of the longest championship drought
since the 1970s.
The season will heat up next Tues-
day as the Cardinal hosts Sacramento
State. The following weekend brings
both Santa Clara and Vanderbilt into
town,making it a pivotal stretch in the
season’s early going as teams com-
pete for a spot in the National Team
Indoor Championships, which start
on Feb. 18 in Seattle.All three of next
week’s matches are at home.
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@
stanford.edu.
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The King, the

Witch and the
Green Hornet
January movies, page 4
inside LITERATURE
page 6
Tamara Chalabi’s memoir delves
into Middle Eastern culture
Intermission reviews “The King’s Speech,” “The
Green Hornet,” “Season of the Witch”
Virginia Tech events
survivor promotes
gun-control laws
P
olitical activism has always
been integral to Colin
Goddard’s life — an inter-
national relations major and natu-
ral-born globetrotter, Goddard has
continually upheld a strong set of
political beliefs. Goddard, a recent
graduate of Virginia Tech, is one of
the 17 survivors of the 2007
Virginia Tech campus shooting.
After that experience, his beliefs
and convictions have only grown
stronger.
In “Living for 32,” a documen-
tary film based on Goddard’s reac-
tion to the Virginia Tech massacre,
Goddard voices his concerns about
gun control and his hopes for
change. “Living for 32” draws in
the media’s attention with its emo-
tional impact and call for action,
particularly resonant because of
the recent Arizona shooting. The
film, directed by Kevin Breslin, has
been shortlisted for an Oscar and
will be screening at the Sundance
Film Festival next week.
Thursday evening, Colin
Goddard spoke with Stanford stu-
dents after a screening of “Living
for 32” hosted by Stanford Film
Society in the Roble Theater. For
the Q&A session, he was accompa-
nied by another victim of gun vio-
lence, Mindy Finkelstein, who was
2 McCarthy, introducing a piece of
intermission
Cage the Elephant releases their follow-up
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injured in the 1999 Jewish
Community Center shooting, and
by Linda Platt, representative for
the Brady Center to Prevent Gun
Violence.
Four years ago, on the morn-
ing of April 16, 17 people were
injured and 32 killed in Norris
Hall, Virginia Tech. The film opens
with Goddard visiting the graves of
his classmates on a quiet morning,
and then builds into a sequence of
police reports, glimpses of Norris
Hall and the sounds of blaring
gunshots. Then we cut to Goddard
sitting in a half-lit classroom,
telling us his story with a steady,
determined voice.
At the onset of the attack,
Goddard called 911 — the first call
to alert the police of the situation.
Goddard was shot four times and
underwent intense physical thera-
py for many months following. He
had the choice to either suppress
what had happened to him or to
internalize and transform it into
positive action, into ideas and
information that could help
strengthen gun-control laws.
“I believe in this, and I don’t
want to move on until I’ve accom-
plished something,” Goddard said.
In the film, through the use of
his own camerawork, Goddard
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Roxy Sass makes the most of
her ski trip
ADVICE
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Colin Goddard and Mindy Finkelstein answer questions following a screening of “Living for 32.” The film
follows Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre, as he works to improve gun laws in the US.
helps demonstrate the availability
of guns to potentially dangerous
individuals. He secretly videotapes
his interactions with dealers at gun
shows, and in some instances, he’s
able to purchase a gun by showing
only his driver’s license to the deal-
er, and sometimes not even that.
Through this film, Goddard
hopes to raise awareness of his
story and perspective.
“I believe in the work and in
the message, and this is an oppor-
tunity to spread it and for other
people to hear it,” he said. He is
also directly involved with gun
control legislation — on Jan. 18,
he’ll be on Capitol Hill with
Congresswoman Carolyn
legislation that would prohibit the
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sale of high-capacity magazine
guns, which he believes has “a
direct relation to the shooting at
Arizona and also the shooting at
Virginia Tech.” According to
Goddard, at the Arizona shooting,
the shooter only had time to shoot
one ammunition clip, and had it
only contained 15 rounds instead
of 33, not as many people would
have died that day.
“By doubling the size of your
ammunition clips, you don’t get
double the amount of deer on
your hunting excursions, you don’t
kill double the amount of intrud-
ers that come into your home, but
you quite often have double the
amount of innocent people who
are killed,” Goddard said.
“Living for 32” ends with a
cover
dedication, listing the names of the
32 people who lost their lives at
Virginia Tech, a list that feels end-
less. The film is also dedicated to
the 32 people who are killed every
day in this country due to gun vio-
lence.
“That’s a Virginia Tech that
happens every day that people just
don’t know about, because it does-
n’t make the front-page paper. Our
generation needs to know that,”
Goddard said.
—armine PILIKIAN
contact armine:
ar minep@stanford.edu

Choreographer Rennie Harris leads a hip-hop class for the Institute
for Diversity in the Arts. Rennie Harris Puremovement will perform
in Memorial Auditorium on Saturday.
The Stanford Savoyards
present ‘Princess Ida’
C
alling all Gilbert and
Sullivan fans! The
Stanford Savoyards is
ready to kick off the new quar-
ter with their production of the
comedic opera, “Princess Ida,”
based on Lord Alfred Tennyson’s
acclaimed narrative poem “The
Princess.”
One of the lesser-known of
the celebrated partners’ collabo-
rative works, “Princess Ida” first
premiered in January 1884 at
the Savoy Theater in London. It
tells the story of a 21-year-old
girl who is determined to escape
her arranged marriage and
instead run a school for women.
As part of a political
maneuver, Ida (played by Alicia
Triana ‘13) was married to
Prince Hilarion, son of King
Hildebrand, at the young age of
one. On her 21st birthday, Ida’s
father, King Gama, was to bring
her to Hildebrand’s palace so
that the couple could live
together as husband and wife.
However, given her devotion to
the education of women, and
her desire to assert the rights of
her sex, Ida is not present on the
day in question. Living in one of
Courtesy Toni Gauther
Gama’s homes somewhere in
the countryside, Ida has started
a woman’s university called
“Castle Adamant.”
Furious at the violation of
the contract between the two
kingdoms, King Hildebrand
takes King Gama and his men
prisoner and threatens to kill
them should Ida be unwilling to
return from the school after
Prince Hilarion has arrived to
fetch her.
This lively musical is a
satire of feminism, women’s
education and Darwinian evolu-
tion, and given its innocent, eas-
ily understood plot, is sure to be
enjoyed by audiences of all ages.
Incorporating a number of
ridiculous characters — from a
woman obsessed with the
“mighty Must” who dreams of
being able to expound on her
theories on the intricacies of the
English language to her students
daily to a trio of somewhat
dimwitted soldiers, “Princess
Ida” will keep its audiences
laughing throughout the show.
The Stanford Savoyards is a
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A hip-hop history: dance
Rennie Harris Puremovement
A
n umbrella term for vari-
ous styles, hip-hop is the
culmination of social and
popular dance forms from the sec-
ond half of the 20th century,
explained choreographer Rennie
Harris in an interview with
Intermission last week. “There are
a lot of things people don’t know
about hip-hop,” Harris said —
misconceptions he addresses in
choreography, performances,
workshops and lectures across the
nation.
His company, Rennie Harris
Puremovement (RHPM), will per-
form an evening of his works from
the past two decades in Memorial
Auditorium on Saturday.
“Something To Do With Love,
Volume 1,” is Harris’ reflection on
the “trials and tribulations of our
relationships” and the ways they
“teach us about who we are and
why we are here.”
Like most of Harris’ work, the
2006 piece addresses universal
themes through dance to highlight
commonalities and transcend
social, economic, religious and
racial boundaries. Also on the pro-
gram are works set to Parliament-
Funkadelic and Groove Collective,
along with an original composi-
tion by ex-soldier and friend of the
choreographer Dru Minyard.
The company’s performances
are part of Harris’ Institute for
Diversity in the Arts’ (IDA)
extended residency this quarter. As
an IDA visiting artist, he also par-
ticipated in an Aurora Forum with
Vice Provost for Undergraduate
Education Harry Elam Thursday
evening, and is teaching “The Day
Before Hip-Hop,” a combination
lecture and technique course
offered by the Stanford Dance
Division.
The course covers the roots of
the hip-hop genre and its deep
connections to the history of
African-American and Latino
communities. Beginning in the
classroom with the question of
slavery, Harris traces paradigm
shifts in consciousness that
enabled the eventual growth of
hip-hop. He introduces the inno-
vators and pioneers of the mid-
1960s that ushered in the dawn of
hip-hop culture.
Later, in the studio, Harris
expounds on the ideas he has pro-
posed in the classroom, linking
theory to aesthetics and musicality.
He cultivates an understanding of
“the small things that make the
hip-hop,” with particular attention
to bodies creating music and
rhythm. “You become the compos-
er, and you should know what the
dance sounds like,” he told his stu-
dents.
Stanford is the third institu-
tion in the U.S. to offer its
students the opportunity
to make such a unique
foray into hip-hop his-
tory and theory; Harris has
previously taught similar
courses at UCLA and the
University of
Colorado.
Born and
raised in North
Philadelphia,
Harris has
been danc-
ing since he
was a teenager,
picking up his
first notions
of rhythm and
movement in
church, in clubs and on the
streets. For him, as is the case
for hip-hop in general, dancing
is an inherently social activity,
meant to be a shared experience
and part of a larger community
friday january 21 2011
ethos. He founded RHPM in 1992,
and has become internationally
renowned as a choreographer and
nationally recognized for his lec-
tures and workshops on the ori-
gins of hip-hop.
Harris strives to engage audi-
ences with hip-hop dance on the
concert stage to amend the stereo-
types and negative images televi-
sion has created. The media’s ten-
dency toward a narrow and super-
ficial portrayal of hip-hop has per-
petuated a simplistic view of the
form, one that doesn’t recognize its
myriad influences, inventive spirit
and potential to bring people
together.
Hip-hop, “the only thing that’s
new in this country,” and the most
truly expressive voice of this gener-
ation, Harris says, will bring
younger audiences to the theater, if
presenters are willing
to put hip-hop where
ballet and modern
are the standard
line. Lively Arts
has done just that, and
will present Rennie Harris
Puremovement on Saturday at
8 p.m., with an abbreviated
family matinee at 3 p.m.
—stav ZIV
contact stav:
sziv@stanford.edu
Dancer Brian Newby
Courtesy Brian
Mengini
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 movies
Y
ou know how some-
times you go to the
movies to see a comedy
and find that the only funny
parts in the movie had
already been shown in the pre-
view? That’s my biggest movie pet
peeve — second only to the people
who clap at the end of a movie —
and that’s exactly what I imagined
the “The Green Hornet” cinematic
experience to be like. Oh how
wrong I was.
Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is a
goofy 20-something party boy who
is forced to man up when his
father, owner of Los Angeles’ “The
Daily Sentinel,” unexpectedly dies.
As heir to the monstrous fortune
and responsibility, Britt does what
any other incredibly wealthy and
powerful young individual would
do: he decides to employ his
resources, one of which is his
father’s Swiss Army knife-like
mechanic Kato (Jay Chou), and
fight crime under the name “The
Green Hornet.” Even though
Rogen plays the same character he
seems to play in all of his movies,
his comedic manipulation of the
4 trouble in parbrodise — and
intermission
comic book hero makes
“The Green Hornet”
unconventional, funny and
simply entertaining.
Unlike most other sober,
melodramatic comic book hero
movies, “The Green Hornet”
rounds up all superhero clichés,
takes them for a spin in Britt and
Kato’s super sweet ride and then
shoots them with a fart gun.
Diversion from the norm sets this
movie apart. For example, instead
of a maniac demonic villain, we
get Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz
of “Inglourious Basterds”),
the insecure, self-con-
scious, wannabe bad
guy. Instead of a
crime-fighting team
that righteously fights
for justice, we get a
bromance that decides
to clean up the streets of
L.A. after realizing their
lives have been inconsequential
up until that moment. And instead
of guys in tights and capes, we get
dudes who kick butt in attire “GQ”
would be proud of. Again, disre-
gard for the traditional seriousness
that plagues most
films makes “The
Green Hornet” an unex-
pected breath of fresh air
in the comic book hero
genre.
The cast surprised me as well,
given that many notable stars
signed on to play arguably
insignificant roles. I mentioned
earlier that Waltz played
Chudnofsky, the bad guy, and
sadly did not take the character as
far as he could have, given his per-
the vital stats
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formance as über-Nazi Col. Hans
Landa in “Inglourious Basterds.”
Cameron Diaz (“There’s
Something About Mary”) plays
Lenore Case, the love interest of
both Britt and Kato — talk about
Edward James Olmos (“Stand and
Courtesy Columbia Pictures
Deliver”) plays Axford, papa Reid’s
most trusted advisor at “The Daily
Sentinel.” Neither star delivers a
poor performance, though neither
star has enough material to make a
remarkable performance either
way.
The star-filled cast did not add
or subtract to the quality of the
film and thus was unnecessary,
with the exception of Rogen and
Chou, who were a great goof-
ball/straight-man pair. Viewing the
film in 3-D was also unnecessary,
because the third dimension was
mostly used to display depth of
field rather than to have bullets
and kicks flying in your face. My
advice to you would be to get
yourself some popcorn with the
extra money you save not viewing
3-D.
Nonetheless, the superfluous
star cast and 3-D antics are neither
here nor there; the moral of this
story is that “The Green Hornet” is
a great movie to watch if you just
want to sit back and laugh.
— e l s a PA R R A
contact elsa:
eparra@stanford.edu
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“SAVOYARDS,” PAGE 3
student-run theater company
that has been organizing operas
since its inception in 1973. Each
year, the company produces two
Gilbert and Sullivan musicals
for the Stanford community
and the surrounding area. Not
limited to Stanford affiliates,
their shows attract a wide
assortment of members, from
students, faculty and staff to
Palo Alto residents to those
studying at other universities in
the region. As a part of the cast,
members have the opportunity
to explore the many aspects of
theater production, from help-
ing construct and decorate sets
to even working on some of the
costumes.
“They’re very self-reliant,
so it was very new for me to not
only be a part of the perform-
ance, but also part of the set
building,” Triana said. “It was
definitely cool to get in touch
with all the different parts of
the theater.”
This winter production,
comprised of a talented group
of performers, musicians and
crew members, is to be followed
by “Iolanthe” in the spring of
this year.
“We have people of all lev-
els of experience, so if you know
absolutely nothing about the-
ater, it’s a great way to learn,”
said director Greg Anderson.
Audition and production staff
information for “Iolanthe” will
be made available in the coming
weeks.
“Princess Ida” is playing in
Dinkelspiel Auditorium on
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.,
with a matinee performance on
Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are
$16 general admission, $12 for
Stanford staff and seniors and
$8 for students.
—jordan HART
contact jordan:
jchart@stanford.edu
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uick camera shots of a
1930s microphone accom-
panied by clever and
melodic piano tunes open another
stunning British film in which Colin
Firth is the shining star.
“The King’s Speech,” directed
by Tom Hooper, tells the story of
Albert Frederick Arthur George,
Duke of York (Firth), whose promi-
nent speech impediment promotes
an unexpected yet exceptionally
complementary relationship with
Lionel Logue, a speech therapist
played by the incomparable Geoffrey
Courtesy The Weinstein Company Rush.
The film, taking place in
“Season of the London just before England declares
the vital stats
Witch,” a thriller- war on Germany in 1939, engagingly
Season of
action movie featur- paints a portrait of Albert, nick-
the Witch
ing Nicolas Cage PG-13 named “Bertie,” the stammering son
(“National Drama of King George V. At the beginning
Treasure”) and Ron of the film, Albert reluctantly agrees
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Logue’s optimism and will to
succeed offset Albert’s lack of self-
confidence and constant embarrass-
ment. Meanwhile, Logue is aided by
Albert’s wife, Elizabeth, who shows
unfailing support for her husband.
Bonham Carter’s role is modest but
crucial, and she plays it flawlessly.
Not unexpectedly, Albert’s trust
of Lionel grows throughout the film.
The strength and courage in Albert
slowly emerge from their hiding
place, as does the truth of his sad
childhood. As in many other British
films, the drama and imperfections
of the royal family are revealed by
Albert’s past as well as through the
actions of Albert’s careless older
brother David, who becomes King
Edward VIII (Guy Pearce). David’s
relationship with the divorcée Wallis
Simpson (Eve Best) leads to his
abdication of the crown in favor of
Albert.

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(“Hellboy”), sadly Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) The upcoming coronation adds
fails to meet the audi- to yet another speech therapy to the intensity and stress of the
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ence’s expectations with appointment, in an attempt to cor- plot, as Albert and his speech are put
a clichéd storyline, extreme rect his humiliating imperfection. to the test. He must prove himself to
Recaptured by the Church, Here he meets Logue, a modest his country and provide his people
predictability and distasteful
Behman and Felson are forced on Australian whose quirky manner- with the moral leadership and
gruesomeness. Furthermore, the
a treacherous journey to escort a isms, confident tone and unconven- courage they will need for the trials
movie is coarsely made, paying
young girl, the accused witch, to tional methods of speech correction ahead. The pressure of his family,
no respect to careful editing.
a faraway monastery to destroy initially shock and upset Albert. the press and the nation is on.
The movie opens with the
her power and save the world. Logue insists on calling the duke Colin Firth has just nabbed the
hanging of witches, a scene that
Such is the storyline that “Bertie,” emphasizing equality Golden Globe for best male per-
sets the dark tone of the movie.
serves as the bible for almost all between the therapist and patient, formance in a motion picture
“Season of the Witch” is a classic
action-hero movies. The only and their sessions include rolling on drama, and rumors of Academy
story of crusaders saving human-
problem with copying a template, the floor and rounds of heavy curs- Award nominations for “The King’s
ity from the curse of some evil
though, is the lack of creativity, ing and singing. Logue’s direct and Speech” are no surprise. This film
force. At the outset, the two disil-
which is the main defect that witty comments bring humor to the sits at the top of the year’s movies.
lusioned crusaders, Behmen
plagues this movie. Nothing is film as this commoner cleverly dis- And wears a crown.
(Cage) and his pal Felson
new, and the movie is so pre- regards the norms of interacting
(Perlman) are deserting the
dictable that the audience in the with royalty.
Church after fighting countless —nairi STRAUCH
cinema was constantly muttering Albert’s remarkably uncomfort-
bloody wars and murdering contact nairi:
lines before the actors themselves able attempts to speak are well-
many innocent people in the nstrauch@stanford.edu
did. We couldn’t help but admit
name of God. But what’s waiting
that this is an unsuccessfully
for them back home is the terri-
ble Black Plague, believed to be a 5
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 literature
Tamara Chalabi explores pre-Hussein Iraq
I
n “Late for Tea at the Deer Palace,” Tamara
Chalabi writes a colorful family history, a
story inextricably tied to the recent tumult
in Iraq. She follows several generations of her
family through domestic milestones like mar-
riage, detailing the inevitable public life that
came with being one of the prominent families
of Baghdad in the turbulent period from the
end of World War II until Saddam Hussein’s
rise and fall.
Chalabi reveals a side of Iraq that is often
overlooked amid today’s news reports about
strife and radicalism, one populated by real
people that easily capture the reader’s sympa-
thies. Chief among these characters is Bibi, the
author’s grandmother, who plays a prominent
role throughout the story. She is a self-assured,
vibrant woman who immediately hits it off
with her father-in-law, the politician Abdul
Hussein Chalabi, charming him with her unla-
dylike interest in current events and the outside
world. We see her eventually lay aside her abaya,
the long black veil by which conservative
Muslim women are often characterized, under
the influence of a progressive movement that
sweeps through Baghdad, and the Chalabi
household with it.
Bibi is an excellent portrayal of a three-
dimensional Iraqi woman, neither the terrified
and oppressed Muslim wife nor the recklessly
defiant runaway bride of conventional Western
media; her unexpected defiance gives the reader
rare insight into what is often seen as a mono-
lithic, alien culture. Indeed, one of the best and
most fascinating aspects of the book is its por-
trayal of the interaction between Western and
Middle Eastern culture in Baghdad as the city,
already diverse and populous by Middle Eastern
standards, struggles to modernize. (This is per-
haps best captured by Chalabi’s sensitive por-
trayal of the Iraqi Jewish community.)
Bibi, as a woman of means, the wife of a
prominent family, is the perfect mouthpiece for
such a conflict. Through her eyes, we see Iraq as
it once was, a society with a rich cultural her-
itage, clinging to vestiges of its former grandeur.
Hints of mosaic tiles and lush Persian carpets
and a city bristling with minarets all recall the
splendor of old Mesopotamia; throughout the
book, there is a palpable longing for the glory
days of yore.
The Chalabis were a wealthy and influen-
tial household; their estate was known as “Deer
Palace” for the distinctive statue of a deer that
graced its front lawn. There, they entertained a
number of luminaries of the day, including
King Faisal himself. Bibi saw much of her
extended family, including several of her chil-
dren, go into politics at a time of instability, fla-
grant abuse of power and cautious hope. While
Iraqi politics and the chronology of historical
events are, especially to a Western audience, less
engaging and often difficult to follow, Chalabi
handles them well, balancing the necessarily
drier parts with humor and personal anecdotes.
The reader’s confusion, especially with
regard to the morass of foreign names and his-
tories, is to be expected in this sort of book. If
anything, Chalabi would be guilty of oversim-
plification; perhaps in an effort to render the
story more accessible (though one could go as
far as to call her somewhat black-and-white
politics self-indulgent — her sympathies are
quite apparent), she writes the various factions
in a more heavy-handed, polarized manner
than is necessary.
It is apparent, regardless, that Chalabi, with
her doctorate in history, is more an academic by
trade than a storyteller. She writes with a mani-
fest passion for the subject matter but still man- Courtesy Harper
ages to deliver stretches of rather uninspiring common to memoirs written by those unfamil-
prose. She has an irksome tendency, particularly iar with the form.
at some of the critical, emotional moments in Tamara Chalabi is in the fortunate position
the tale, to tell rather than show, as if she were of having a compelling tale to tell, with the lin-
too cautious to tackle the subject matter head- guistic competence and editorial acumen to tell
on. After Bibi recovers from an illness, Chalabi it adequately, if not beautifully. The strengths of
says, rather tritely, “When she recovered, they the book lie in the uniqueness and inherent
appreciated just how precious she was to them, appeal of the story more so than the way she
just as she realized how important her family presents it. It provides, nonetheless, a refreshing
and her homeland were to her.” Equally awk- perspective on the circumstances leading up to
ward are her attempts to splice her experiences today’s conflicted Iraq.
of Iraq in the modern day with the stories of
her grandparents in a pre-Saddam Baghdad; —sarah GUAN
her transitions are invariably jarring. This is fur- contact sarah: sguan@stanford.edu
ther exacerbated by the meandering, somewhat
inconsistent pacing of her story, an affliction

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mundane exploration into the
theme of heroes, crusaders,
knights, gods and witches.
Other than sporadic humor,
the whole movie portrays the jour-
ney as a dark, hard struggle
between the escorts and the witch
girl. The escorts are attacked, natu-
rally, and director Dominic Sena
surely intends to excite the crowd
with some graphic fighting scenes.
Yet again, action is just average in
this movie, and the suspense built
in the film is a yawn. In a word,
the movie is simply not that
Courtesy Atlas Entertainment thrilling.
Not even a sickening depiction
6 of the Black Plague spices up the
plot. The dying and the dead all
bear gross, monstrous appearances
that outrageously exaggerate the
real symptoms of the bubonic
plague. The only thrill you’ll get
from the visual is the turning in
your stomach.
However, what is most unac-
ceptable about this movie is the
editing. In a scene with two people
on their rugged horses looking
into the distance, the epic atmos-
phere created by the limitless sky
enveloping the vast land beneath
completely vanishes when a furry
microphone hangs down the top,
contrasting sharply with the back-
ground. The microphone shows up
three times in that scene, and we
have to wonder how that kind of
editing mistake could have possi-
bly been overlooked.
That being said, what else can
we expect of Cage after last year’s
equally predictable “Knowing”? It
seems Cage is past his prime. An
Academy Award proves Cage’s skill
as a thespian is certainly indis-
putable, but you’d think he’d have
the skill to pick better projects
than the disappointing “Season of
the Witch.”
—cindy NI
contact cindy:

intermission hni@stanford.edu
 music
the vital stats
Thank You,
Happy Birthday
LE OF
CA
S
ON A
C
age the Elephant are anti-establish-
ment and they want you to know it.
A grunge album for angsty
teenagers that want to affirm their individ-
uality but are too young to know of
“Nevermind,” “Thank You, Happy
Birthday” makes a great listen if you’re
looking to buy into the fallacy of commer-
cial independence. And if you’re one of
those “Indy Kidz,” then stay away — Cage
The Elephant are serious artists and want
nothing to do with your poser, sheep-herd
ways.
Although the album is good enough,
with a fair mix of head-bangers and
restrained ragers, the band’s vocalist and
frontman Matt Schultz spends much too
much time protesting the system to be able
to deliver a sound record. Nevertheless,
with his slurred vocals and unbridled ener-
gy, this latest release makes for a fun trib-
ute to the grunge generation of the early
90s.
One such testament to the Seattle
scene comes in the second track, wittily
titled “Aberdeen” after the childhood home
of Nirvana members Kurt Cobain and
Krist Novoselic. Coincidence or not, the
song features the distorted guitars, raging
vocals and distant background effects of
bands such as Nirvana and The Pixies.
Instead of a Wall of Sound, the heavy gui-
tar riffs build up a Wall of Noise so thick
that even Schultz’s characteristic husky
growl becomes difficult to discern.
Next on the track list, “Indy Kidz”
pokes fun at mindless indie music fans, but
at times its cynicism proves to be too
much, as does its raucous racket of guitars
and shameless drumming. “Shake Me
Down,” the obvious pick for first single,
provides a welcome rest from the dissonant
chords, and instead builds a more passive
version of grungy rock. One of the most
enjoyable songs on the album, its
restrained vocals and rhythmic guitar
plucking are reminiscent of another Cage
the Elephant single with staying power,
CAGE THE
ELEPHANT
Rock
1
TO
10
Courtesy Jive
“Back Against the Wall.”
“2024,” an absurdly catchy, short num-
ber that revitalizes the album like a shot of
adrenaline, is followed by the heaviest track
on the album, “Sell Yourself.” An angry,
uninhibited rager, it voices mock lyrics
apparently inspired by their label. “You are
ready for the masses . . . Sell yourself, don’t
be a fool,” a decidedly pissed Schultz
screeches into the mike. Coupled with
MGMT’s “The Handshake,” these may be
the two strongest tracks to antagonize the
music industry. To counter the outrage,
“Rubber Ball” follows. Gentle strumming
on the guitar and breathy vocals make for a
beautifully muted acoustic session that lulls
and comforts the way “2024” energizes.
The best track on the album is by far
“Right Before My Eyes,” an indie pop keep-
er which refreshingly pays service to no
one. Schultz drops his voice to a straight-
forward drone, while the restrained guitars,
drums and cymbals deliver the easiest lis-
ten on the album. The lyrics convey the
deepest introspection and the muted power
chords the best wrap-up on the album.
After a couple of other scruffy punk
numbers, “Flow,” the last track on the
album, rolls around. A twangy Americana
song, it develops slowly, unfolding swirling
vocals, hand drums and some shaken per-
cussions to end on a subdued tribal mood.
After a good 15 seconds of silence, a
stripped down version of “Right Before My
Eyes” makes an encore.
As a whole, the album presents a sur-
prisingly wide array of genres, but is still
deeply indebted to the rule-bending bands
of the early 90s. And while there are subtle
gems in the track list, it suffers too much
from its uneasy, redundant attacks on the
music scene’s hypocritical standards to be
taken for a stellar release.
—maria DEL CARMEN BARRIOS
contact maria:
mariacbg@stanford.edu
Grading the
Golden Globes fashion
T
he Golden Globes are notoriously
known as the Academy Awards’ less
important, boozier cousin. While they
may not have as much clout as their fellow
Oscars, the Globes certainly aren’t lacking in
the fashion department. Intermission presents
the good, the “meh” and the tragic from
Sunday’s award ceremony.
THE BEST
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Green was certainly the color of the night
— see Angelina Jolie and Mila Kunis. However,
none did it better than a regal Zeta-Jones in
her stunning Monique Lhuillier gown.
Olivia Wilde
The “TRON” star made a splash with her
fabulous princess gown and balanced out the
drama of the Marchesa with a casual hairdo.
Dianna Agron
The “Glee” star’s glamorous old-
Hollywood look was perfectly complemented
by her gorgeous retro waves.
Anne Hathaway
It’s not easy to pull of the “Dynasty”-
esque shoulder pads of Hathaway’s Armani
Prive, especially when you’re competing
against Angelina Jolie. After the equally sleek
Armani Prive Hathaway wore to the 2009
Academy Awards, we think we’re sensing a pat-
tern here and we certainly don’t mind.
Eva Longoria
Why so sad Eva? The newly single
Longoria seemed to be channeling Morticia
Addams in her jet-black Zac Posen. But with
the gown’s perfect, curve-hugging fit, mourn-
ing never looked so good.
ALMOST THERE
Emma Stone
Stone could have stunned in her orange
minimalist Calvin Klein but her borderline
Wayne Newton spray-tan made it uncomfort-
ably difficult to differentiate between fabric
and skin.
Nicole Kidman
Remember when Nicole Kidman’s red
carpet dresses were something to be excited
friday january 21 2011
fashion
about? There was the chartreuse Dior, the ice-
blue, feathered Chanel and the bright-red, big-
bowed Balenciaga. She looks perfectly lovely in
this year’s one-shouldered, pale-yellow Prada
but the safe, bland choice makes us long for
the Nicole Kidman of red carpets past.
THE WORST
Helena Bonham Carter
Bonham Carter had several plum roles
last year as the Red Queen in “Alice in
Wonderland,” psychotic Bellatrix in “Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I” and
Queen Elizabeth in “The King’s Speech.” Too
bad she chose to channel the craziness of
Bellatrix and not the elegance of the Queen
with her crazy hair, confused dress and mis-
matched shoes.
Jennifer Lopez
J.Lo’s known for her bold, fierce fashion
choices. So how does she explain this matronly
snore of a dress? The white Zuhair Murad
gown looks like a David’s Bridal cast-off
topped with some sort of weird, see-through
lampshade.
Halle Berry
You can’t really blame Berry for flaunting
her rockin’ bod in this Nina Ricci bustier dress.
However, the deconstructed black dress with
its tulle mullet of a train comes off as more
tacky than classy.
Lea Michele
The usually reliable red-carpet darling
made a misstep with her unkempt hair and
disorganized, bubblegum-tinted Oscar de la
Renta. After similarly monochromatic and
dramatic gowns at last year’s Emmys and
Golden Globes, it may also be time to shake
things up.
Natalie Portman
Portman was radiant with her newfound
maternal glow. Unfortunately, she tarnished it
with the cheap, craft-store rose awkwardly
glued to the front of her dress.
—lauren WILSON
contact lauren:
lhwilson@stanford.edu
7
Roxy Sass’ guide to
winning at ski trip
S
ki trip comes at a delicate
time in the school year. Let’s
face it — for most, Roxy
included, the beginning of fall
quarter is a time filled with utter
and unfettered potential: from the
cute guy upstairs to that hot rower
down the hall to the programmer
in her class that Roxy wants to pep-
per with talk both nerdy and dirty.
But by the time January rolls
around, fall flings have awkwardly
faded, the regrettable dormcest
hookup still passes your door every
time you’re headed to a meal and
rumor has it that the cutie down-
stairs dumped the significant other
over break. It’s a whole different
ball game.
When it comes to ski trip,
Roxy knows that the combination
of mountain air, close quarters and
(Smirnoff) ice can catalyze some
awkward and some completely
delicious drama up in Tahoe. For
maximum enjoyment of your time
in the snow, Roxy’s foolproof tips
will guarantee a little extra soreness
— no, not from snowboarding —
as well as a chance to leave behind
a creative snow angel after a tryst in
the snowbank.
The first setting for the art of
ski trip flirtation is on the slopes.
Roxy’s feminist side usually argues
that girls can do anything guys can
do, but even she’ll admit that girls
have it easier in situations like
group sports. If you’re an alpine
master, boys will be impressed; if
you’re stuck on the green slopes, it’s
still easy to look cute even when
you fall. Roxy’s a pretty skilled skier
herself, but even she wouldn’t be
above spending her day on the easy
slopes if it means getting some
“help” from that cute ski instructor
or from a ruggedly handsome dor-
mmate. Shoop, shoop, indeed.
8 COVER
intermission
Then, after the lifts close for
the day, the inevitable question
back at the cabin creeps up: hot
tub? Brief disclaimer: Roxy’s got a
high tolerance for the questionable,
but she’ll admit that sometimes hot
tubs are gross — and drinking in a
hot tub can lead to increased dehy-
dration. But more often, drinking
in a hot tub can also lead to, for
lack of a better word, results. This,
Roxy thinks, could be the begin-
ning of a beautiful affair.
And finally, when all has
calmed down for the night and
people are passing out left and
right, Roxy advises readers to keep
their wits about them: a strategical-
ly chosen sleeping placement
amidst the general brouhaha could
be key to future endeavors. Even if
nothing goes down during ski trip,
waking up next to a dormmate
plants a seed in one’s mind that can
later blossom into the planting of
seed elsewhere. Don’t question
Roxy’s inception skills.
—roxy SASS
FRIDAY
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