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January 24, 2011
RESEARCH
SLAC looks
to upgrade
key facilities
Norm Bobczynski to
head renovations
By LAURYN WILLIAMS
SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory will undergo millions
of dollars in renovations to its ma-
chinery in the next few years, re-
placing most of the facility’s infra-
structure and aiming to extend its
life another five decades.
SLAC hired Norm Bobczynski
in August as the head of its opera-
tions and maintenance unit to over-
see the forthcoming facility up-
grades.
In the past, maintenance strate-
gies have been mainly reactive, but
according to
Bobczynski, SLAC
has had to deal
with the issues that
are inherent to a
lab built 50 years
ago and infrastruc-
ture that “is near-
ing the end of its
useful life.” Bobczynski
Underground
utilities, including low-conductivity
water tanks and electrical systems,
have fallen into disrepair over the
past few months and will be among
the first problems to be tackled
during the upgrade.
The age of SLAC’s machinery
has led to a few rare emergencies.
Within the last few months, water
lines deteriorated by corrosion
have failed as a result of changes in
temperature and pressure. SLAC’s
emergency response team has han-
dled problems quickly in the past,
but the increasing frequency of
these problems prompted
Bobczynski and the maintenance
unit to focus on a proactive ap-
proach in the facility’s overhaul
plan to prevent such emergencies
from happening at all.
“In total, replacements will cost
in the hundreds of millions of dol-
lars over several years, and are ex-
pected to extend the life of SLAC
for at least another 50 years,”
Bobczynski said.
At this point in the upgrade,
SLAC is taking a “long-term strate-
gic approach” to extend the life of
the hardware in use while not dis-
rupting ongoing scientific experi-
ments.
“Eventually all SLAC hardware
and infrastructure will need to be
replaced, but we will focus our at-
tention on a prioritized list based
on condition and age,” Bobczynski
said. For example, the lab plans to
prevent failures like breaks in un-
derground piping by replacing the
current pipes with state-of-the art
materials that will provide the
equipment with more longevity.
“All equipment has a different
useful life expectancy, so failure
frequency always tends to increase
as time goes on,” Bobczynski said.
Stanford hosts and operates
SLAC for the U.S. Department of
Energy. The refurbishment budget
will be largely covered by funds
from the Department of Energy.
Lauryn Williams at lauryndw@stan-
ford.edu.
NEWS BRIEFS
Junior dies after multi-year
battle with cancer
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Sarah Adicoff ‘12 died Thursday morning
after a long battle with cancer that began when
she was in high school. She was 21.
Adicoff was diagnosed with rhabdomyosar-
coma, a cancer of the body’s soft tissues, when
she was 16. She relapsed multiple times, most
recently in February 2009,after her first quarter
at Stanford.
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John Dorman, above, was one of about 15 donors who gave blood at Vaden’s blood drive on
Friday. Eleven units of blood were collected on Friday.
HEALTH
Blood Center reaches
out to dorms, PHEs
Seeks to keep up momentum after
November’s ‘Rivals for Life’
By STEVEN SMALLBERG
Stanford Blood Center, coming off its most
successful “Rivals for Life” blood drive in four
years, is looking to keep the momentum going
in 2011 with more regular White Plaza blood-
mobiles and dorm outreach. Some students,
however, say they are still deterred from donat-
ing because of time and inconvenience.
The center supplies more than 100,000 units
of blood and blood components each year for
patients and research purposes.
“The trends we’ve been seeing the past few
years have been really encouraging, and we’re
always looking for new ways to boost our blood
draws,” said Elisa Manzanares, Blood Center
account manager.
“Rivals for Life” in November, an event
Manzanares created, was the center’s most suc-
cessful drive this year with 234 units collected by
the Blood Center.
“It’s a great kickoff drive for the year be-
Adicoff lived in Branner her freshman year,
Toyon sophomore year and Storey this fall
quarter before taking a leave of absence in the
winter. She was a member of Alpha Delta Phi
Society, an unhoused co-ed fraternity on cam-
pus.
When members of Alpha Delt received
word of Adicoff’s passing on Thursday after-
noon, they organized an evening vigil at Lake
Lagunita’s fire pit. Haley Knapp ‘11, a member
of Alpha Delt and family friend of Adicoff’s,es-
timated that 20 to 30 people from Alpha Delt
and Storey came to show their support and
share stories of Sarah.
“There were lots of silences because no one
really knows what to say when you’ve got a loss
like that,”Knapp said of the vigil.“But it turned
out well.”
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cause it’s so large,” Manzanares said. “It gives
students a great opportunity to get involved
early.”
The mobile blood drives in White Plaza also
have become more fruitful since the center’s
bloodmobile has become a regular fixture each
month rather than a sporadic presence, as it has
been in the past.
Now, the center is organizing drives in stu-
dent houses, beginning in February and extend-
ing through the spring.
“We attract a lot of donors [at house drives]
because it’s so convenient for students,” Man-
zanares said.“These drives are pretty compara-
ble to White Plaza drives in terms of the amount
we can collect.”
Though the blood drives have been general-
ly successful overall, students still see room for
improvement.
“My only complaint is that [donating] is a bit
of a time commitment,” said Connor Raikes ‘13,
a regular donor. “There are a couple times that
I’ve had to wait an hour or more to make a do-
nation. I’ve always waited, but I could imagine
other students who want to, but get turned off
Please see BLOOD, page 2
Avinash Achaibar ‘12, a friend of Adicoff
who lived with her in Braner and in Storey this
year, remembers Adicoff for her optimism and
ability to appreciate each moment.
“Sarah was probably more full of life than a
lot of people I know, and she knew probably
more than anyone how to live in the moment,”
Achaibar said.“She never let her sickness be a
crutch or let it limit her. She would always talk
about going to Disneyland and the Galapagos.
At Stanford, I think living in the moment is
something that we forget.”
Storey will host a support services meeting
for those affected by Adicoff’s passing on Mon-
day at 7 p.m.in the side lounge,according to res-
ident assistant Andy Hiller ‘11.
— Amy Julia Harris
Sunny Mostly Sunny
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Volume 238
Issue 62
Summit
tackles
transit
Lack of stable funding
could permanently
derail Caltrain
By AMY JULIA HARRIS
DESK EDITOR
If Caltrain doesn’t find a stable funding
source to offset its $30 million deficit, the
commuter transit system could go belly up,
transportation and local officials said at Stan-
ford on Friday.
More than 230 attendees convened at the
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Re-
search for a “Save Caltrain” summit to brain-
storm solutions for the transit agency’s fiscal
problems. Friday’s summit was the first of
two such meetings and was sponsored by the
Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a network
of companies that addresses regional public
policy issues.
“Can we imagine if we had no Caltrain?”
said Sean Elsbernd, San Francisco Supervisor
and Caltrain Joint Powers board of directors
chairman. “What would it do to the environ-
ment?”
On Thursday, the day before the summit,
Caltrain announced that it faced a potential
loss of $30 million from its $100 million annu-
al budget if transit agencies cut back their
contributions. Caltrain, unlike other regional
transit agencies, doesn’t have a stable rev-
enue stream and instead relies on about 34
percent of its funding contributions from its
three partner agencies — San Mateo Coun-
ty’s SamTrans, Santa Clara County’s VTA
and San Francisco’s transit (MTA), according
to initial figures by the MTC’s Transit Sus-
tainability Project. SamTrans is expected to
cut its annual contribution to Caltrain by $10
million, and if the two other agencies follow
suit, Caltrain faces even deeper cuts.
Given this fiscal outlook, Caltrain is con-
sidering slashing its service to 48 weekday
trains from 86, cutting weekday service out-
side of peak hours, axing its weekend service
and service south of San Jose’s Diridon Sta-
tion and suspending service at up to seven
stations. If these cuts go through, the more
than 38,000 weekday commuters who rely on
Caltrain could be left in the lurch.
Panelists at the event weren’t willing to
entertain that option.
“None of us want to face the prospect that
12 million riders per year will return to our
highways,” Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto,
told attendees via a broadcast.
Instead, officials proposed money-making
solutions like funneling revenue to Caltrain
from a high occupancy/toll lane on Highway
101 and introducing a voter-approved gas tax
to prop up Caltrain.
In the last few years, Caltrain has tried dif-
ferent quick-fix solutions to generate more
revenue and cut costs, but even these were
not enough to pull Caltrain out of its budget
woes. Beginning Jan. 1, Caltrain raised fares
by 25 cents per zone and cut service for two
northbound trains and two southbound
trains from its midday schedule. Caltrain also
spearheaded a three-month pilot program of
weekend “baby bullet” express trains to rake
in additional ridership revenue. About 44
percent of Caltrain’s funding this year will
come from passenger fares.
State Assemblyman Jim Beall, D-San
Jose, spoke for many when he suggested that
merging some of Caltrain’s contributing
transportation agencies into one entity could
streamline costs.
“We should get rid of some of these organ-
izations,” Beall said. “We need a regional
source of funding for a regional agency.”
The elimination of Caltrain would be dev-
astating for both the environment and local
communities, said Yoriko Kishimoto, who
heads the grassroots coalition Friends of Cal-
train.
“Caltrain is at the heart of where the
peninsula needs to go,” she said. “Our econo-
my, our environment . . . everything is predi-
cated on a healthy Caltrain.”
Stanford relies heavily on Caltrain to re-
duce traffic congestion on campus and meet
its environmental sustainability goals. In
Please see CALTRAIN, page 2
Recycle Me
2 ! Monday, January 24, 2011
OBITUARY
Sarah Adicoff,
1989-2011
Born in San Jose, Calif., on Sept.
14, 1989, Sarah died Jan. 20, 2011, in
her parents’ arms of complications
from cancer treatment.
Sarah sang with gusto from the
age of 15 months and carried her
musicality and ability to remember
any lyric to high school and local
stage productions,such as “The Boys
from Syracuse,” “Pirates of Pen-
zance” and “Hair.” She enjoyed
playing soccer, skiing and swimming
competitively for many years, even-
tually concentrating on swimming
year-round with her wonderful
coaches and peers on the 5B Swim
team.
School was one of Sarah’s pas-
sions, and she was lucky to attend
Mulberry School in San Jose, where
she formed deep friendships with
both teachers and kids, learned to
work out problems and mediate be-
tween others, enjoy learning and
participate in so many creative proj-
ects. From about the second grade,
Sarah organized her own parties
and made her own Halloween cos-
tumes. True to form, in 2004, Sarah
organized a well-attended reunion
of her fifth grade class in Sun Valley,
where the kids played hard, hung
out and made good use of the infa-
mous “Adiconner” costume box to
produce skits and other hilarity.
After moving to Sun Valley, Idaho,
in 2000, Sarah attended Wood River
Middle School, then graduated
from The Community School in De-
cember 2007. She was selected for
the Laura S. Flood Foundation
award and received a National
Merit Letter of Commendation.
Rhabdomyosarcoma interrupted
Sarah’s life when she was 16, arriving
at a time of normal transition and sep-
aration, making her once again very
dependent on parents and causing
her to miss much of her schooling and
regular young-adult life. Cancer took
much of her strength, her singing
voice and, she felt, some of her ability
to think and remember. Nonetheless,
her treatment afforded her some
longer periods of relative “health” in
which she was able to pursue her
studies or travel extensively with var-
ious family members. Her caretakers
have been amazed by her resiliency
and accomplishments throughout her
treatments. Her death is an illustra-
tion of the appalling lack of improve-
ment,over the last 35 years,in survival
Sarah Adicoff ‘12 in 2007.
rates among 15- to 40-year-olds with
cancer.
We will miss Sarah’s humor,
grace, enthusiasm for engagement
and keen observation and interest in
the animal world.
Sarah is survived by her loving
parents, Samuel Adicoff and Susan
Conner; her younger brothers,
William and Jacob; grandparents
Arnold and Ruth Adicoff and
William and Marilyn Conner; uncle
Charles (Anne Simpson) Conner;
aunts Cathy (Ted Furst) Conner, Jill
Conner, Annie (Mark Schneider)
Adicoff and Carrie Adicoff; and
cousins Alison and Madeline Con-
ner, Rebekkah and Ariel Adicoff
BLOOD
Continued from front page
by the wait time.”
Convenience is another factor
that may impact student donations.
A drive at Vaden Health Center
on Friday attracted about 11 units of
blood from about 15 donors, com-
pared to White Plaza drives, which
usually bring in 30 to 40 units.
“People don’t want to be incon-
venienced, even on campus,” Man-
zanares said. “The White Plaza
drives are hard to miss, because stu-
dents are always passing through.
Vaden is a little out of the way, and
out of mind for a lot of people.”
Still, Manzanares sees potential
for growth for drives at Vaden, with
a new outreach strategy launched
by the center this year.Vaden is now
CALTRAIN
Continued from front page
2010, 19 percent of Stanford em-
ployees used Caltrain as their
number-one transportation
source. In 2010, 52 percent of
University employees regularly
used some form of alternative
transportation, such as transit, bi-
cycling, walking, ride-sharing or
telecommuting, compared with
an estimated 22 percent within
Santa Clara County, according to
Courtesy of Sue Conner
and Kyle and Kurt Schneider.
A memorial is being planned for
the Sun Valley, Idaho, area in Febru-
ary, and later this spring in the Stan-
ford area. Details are pending and
will be published in The Daily.Dona-
tions for research are suggested for
Seattle Children’s Sarcoma Re-
search, Fred Barr’s lab at University
of Pennsylvania, St. Baldrick’s Foun-
dation or one of the wonderful or-
ganizations from which she benefit-
ed greatly: Camp Rainbow Gold,
Idaho Make a Wish or Ronald Mc-
Donald House.
— Courtesy of Sue Conner and
Sam Adicoff
The Stanford Daily
working closely with peer health ed-
ucators (PHEs) in student houses to
raise awareness about blood drives.
“Some dorms do have the ‘vam-
pire’ position within the dorm gov-
ernment to take care of that,and the
PHE serves as a middleman, work-
ing with vampires to raise aware-
ness,” said Junipero house PHE
Anna Grummon ‘11.
The blood center encourages
student involvement at all levels,
and Manzanares hopes to see the
current trends continue.
“It’s as simple as finding the
nearest blood drive and helping us
save a life,”she said.“You watch [re-
cipients] get a unit of blood, and all
of a sudden they have so much ener-
gy. They become themselves. It’s
amazing that people can provide
that.”
Steven Smallberg at smallber@stan-
ford.edu.
Parking and Transportation Ser-
vices.
Other ideas floating at the sum-
mit included hikes in traffic-im-
pact fees on new construction, a
sales tax increase and a parking-
fee increase at Caltrain stations.
They also suggested that Caltrain
add Wi-Fi service on trains to en-
tice new riders.
Another public meeting on this
issue will be hosted by Friends of
Caltrain on Jan. 29 at the Sam-
Trans offices in San Carlos.
Contact Amy Julia Harris at har-
risaj@stanford.edu.
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I
feel extremely anxious in male-
dominated spaces. Going to all-
boys floors scare me. Going to the
gym scares me. Even going to the
men’s bathroom scares me. Maybe
it’s this recurrent nightmare of mine
that these guys will find out my bio-
logical sex and then end up hurting
me (or worse) for it. So of course,
ending up in a place like a fraternity
house to talk about my experiences
as a trans person left me absolutely
terrified.
I’m a panelist for Safe and Open
Spaces at Stanford (or SOSAS), a
program run by the LGBT-CRC to
help educate the Stanford communi-
ty on LGBT issues.The program op-
erates mostly by panels, consisting of
about four panelists and a modera-
tor.My experience with SOSAS pan-
els consisted of freshman dorms,
where I mostly spoke to freshmen
who had never encountered anyone
LGBT before.This was the first panel
of the school year at a fraternity
house — Kappa Sigma, to be exact.
Me? I felt mostly petrified. I
found that I was particularly quiet
during this panel, not necessarily be-
cause I had nothing to contribute to
the conversation, but because I
couldn’t really open my mouth to say
anything.It took me a while to realize
why I felt so anxious and uncomfort-
able in a place like a fraternity house.
There was always this insecurity
when it came to my masculinity.
Maybe it’s this deep-rooted trauma
from my childhood, when I had al-
ways wanted to be “one of the guys”
but I was never allowed this privilege,
not for 20 years, not until now. And
I’m still getting used to being a man,
interacting with other men and inter-
acting with women. These guys
seemed to get it down perfect. They
were fraternity men — men in the
most traditional, mainstream sense
of the word.This fraternity house was
a foreign space to me, a space in
which I did not feel welcome — not
necessarily because of the occupants,
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raised his hand and directly ad-
dressed me. He asked about my ex-
perience at Stanford as a transguy,
and asked how my transition was
going. I finally managed to say some-
thing. It didn’t even seem like me
talking — I just heard myself talk. I
talked about how I was nervous
about being here, about my anxieties
about not feeling quite masculine
enough, about my excitement over
my transition, about my legal name
change, hormones. I don’t really re-
member much of what I said, actual-
ly. I thought I had contributed noth-
ing to this panel but my answer that
was less of an answer and more of a
bumbling ramble.
But after the panel several of the
frat guys came up to me and told me
they appreciated my story. Hand
shakes and back thumps were ex-
changed. I felt — validated.
When I was at the Lou Sullivan
Society’s meeting two weeks ago, I
was accepted as a man as well, but it
was under another context — a
queer context. I was accepted as a
man,but under a different doctrine of
the transman.They were my brothers
in the fact that we were all trans.
But in this frat house, I was also
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tudents tend to scoff at the word
“participation,” especially
when it’s written on a syllabus
with a big percentage of their grade.
But it is, in math, English, language,
biology and chemistry, a profoundly
good thing. We have a tendency, we
freshmen, to disparage it, perhaps
because we feel just a touch too self-
assured, too comfortable in the be-
lief that we already have the materi-
al under control. Participation is
often written off as useless,an unnec-
essary accessory.Why do we need to
talk if we can simply learn this on our
own? We can all pass the tests,get the
grades and get degrees without pay-
ing lip service to professors.
The fundamental truth about col-
lege is that you will not use, or even
remember, much of what you learn.
However, the intention of the pow-
ers that be is that you develop some
general skills along with the knowl-
edge you retain. Those skills are the
most important draws from your col-
lege experience, I’d say, with proper
keg-stand and beer pong technique
close behind.
When we lend our voices into
class, to question or raise concerns,
to poke holes in an argument or
force teachers to justify their stud-
ies, we exercise a muscle that will
serve us our entire lives long. What
critical participation does is hone
systems for processing information
and, from it, creating belief. Instead
of just being a vessel for test- and
essay-applicable knowledge, engag-
ing with material critically allows
you to not only individualize the
message you get from it, but ensure
it is one that fits in your own world-
David Spencer
Nelson
Do not
be a
bystander.
view. If it doesn’t, and it often won’t,
it will help you improve and expand
your perspective. It’s this sort of crit-
ical participation that, in written
form, is the Socratic dialogue that
scholarship exists in.
But that questioning, that critical
eye, needs to extend beyond the
classroom, especially here at Stan-
ford. Leading universities’ adminis-
trative decisions have echoes and
imitators across the academic
world, and Stanford is no exception.
The school, currently grappling
with budget pressures forcing it to
choose what it considers important,
i.e. financial aid or research and the
possible reversal of the 1973 aban-
donment of ROTC, often leads
trends in American universities.
What this means for students is that
part of life. This is what we say
in funerals and obituaries,over
tear-streaked faces in rooms with
mahogany wallpaper. And we have
said it for a long time now. Our an-
cestors have made up all kinds of sto-
ries where the bad guy is hard to kill
and somehow is blessed with eternal
life. Some cultures have focused on
the positive — by honoring the elder
and somehow conflating the pres-
ence of wrinkles with wisdom.
In the modern era, such a narra-
tive continues with paperback and
silver screen science fiction
dystopias that tell of the horrors of a
society that learned to live forever.
Recent meetings of the president’s
commission on bioethics reveal a
measured stance against the notion
of “age retardation” (the federal
term for such a phenomenon) for the
society and the individual.
If this story is so engrained in us,
then where did the notion of the
Fountain of Youth come from? Why
is it so persistent in a place that
seems to have so well accepted the
inevitability of death?
Here’s my theory:we haven’t real-
ly surrendered to death.We can’t be-
lieve that this life is going to come to
an end. It seemed that all of us once
assumed eternal life in childhood,
then longed for it, then used religion
O P-E D
tute for it. But that initial wellspring
of hope remains in us somehow.
Such a quest for the Fountain of
Youth has actually materialized in
recent years all over the world: in the
Bay Area, in NYC, in the UK.There
is a whole network of controversial
professors, scientists and researchers
that believe that living forever is a vi-
able possibility. They come from the
SENS foundation, Halcyon Molecu-
lar, from labs in the Albert Einstein
School of Medicine and the Wake
Forest Institute for Regenerative
Medicine, from nondescript build-
ings mere miles from this campus.
There is so much controversy, so
many philosophical implications
emerging from this idea, so many
minds involved — and yet they are
just barely piquing the interest of the
media. Why? Perhaps they haven’t
done enough — haven’t had enough
impact on American society. Yet the
days of the development of the nu-
clear bomb were just as heady. De-
spite that era’s necessary culture of
secrecy, everyone was immensely in-
terested long before a single test
bomb was deployed.
But boy, they are lucky that the
rest of the world doesn’t care — for
whatever reason. In this way, minds
can keep on working, getting closer
to a solution before the govern-
ments of the world get suspicious
and nervous about its profound im-
plications.
I admire these people for daring
to dream beyond the horizon of
mainstream biology and engineer-
ing. I don’t know if this vast network
will succeed. It may possibly fail. But
Stanford needs to put itself onto this
map in either case. This university
has a varied history in risk and inno-
vation. It has nothing to lose and
everything to gain with such an in-
vestment in human immortality.
Why, you ask, is this so? Can’t
Stanford lose a lot of respect for
funding such an intrinsically selfish
thing for humanity? In the midst of
poverty and human health and dis-
ease, funding a cause like this seems
frivolous, right? No. Funding efforts
at human immortality are funda-
mentally a good thing because it
gives us the option to rewrite our bi-
ological destiny. Not having such a
therapy at hand chains us to our bio-
logical degradation. The latter is
clearly a better society than the for-
mer because it consists of freer peo-
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L ETTERS TO THE
Stop means stop
Dear Editor,
Why don’t smart Stanford stu-
dents wear bike helmets, have bike
lights and reflectors at night, or
obey the traffic laws?
I was almost hit several times in
the past few weeks since daylight
started fading at 5:30 p.m. I decided
to do an informal count on Thurs-
day night at 6:30 p.m. On my way
from Meyer Library, along Galvez
Mall and Galvez Street to the end of
the C-lot near the stadium, I en-
countered about 50 bikers. Only six
had both headlights/reflectors and
were wearing a bike helmet (12 per-
E DITOR
cent), three wore a helmet but had
no lights (6 percent), four had lights
but no helmet (8 percent) and the
rest had neither (74 percent).
That’s an accident waiting to
happen and can result in injury, per-
manent disability or death.
Sharing the sidewalk with pedes-
trians is another problem. They
speed, weaving in and out among
people walking, not paying atten-
tion because they are using commu-
nications devices or are otherwise
distracted.
Obey the law. A stop sign means
stop, especially at a pedestrian cross
Please see LETTERS, page 5
Time to Stop the Alcohol Nonsense
T
his weekend, a Stanford un-
dergraduate was brought to
the emergency room at Stan-
ford Hospital with a blood-alcohol
level (BAC) of .40. There is evi-
dence that “approximately 50 per-
cent of all people with a BAC of .40
or higher will die.” Happily, be-
cause the coin flip landed the right
way, the student survived.
While the Stanford community
did not have to bury this student,
this “coin flip” death should lead to
the burial of three extremely de-
structive beliefs about alcohol.
Destructive belief 1: “The Stan-
ford alcohol policy is working be-
cause no one has died in X years.”
The recent coin-flip death ends this
claim. We must move past this su-
perior attitude that has made the
alcohol problem on campus more
and more severe and has endan-
gered the physical and emotional
health of an enormous number of
students.
Destructive belief 2: “Each stu-
dent is responsible for her or his
own alcohol consumption.” While
each individual must be responsi-
ble for his or her own behavior,that
view is dangerously simplistic.
Here is what has happened in virtu-
ally every single alcohol incident
(more than 25) that I have encoun-
tered on campus (including the
coin-flip death):
— A student or students other
than the person who lands in the
hospital knowingly provides a dan-
gerous amount of alcohol to the
student who becomes intoxicated.
Are those students who provided
the alcohol not responsible and not
guilty of a Fundamental Standard
violation?
— Multiple students watch the
student drinking extremely large
quantities of alcohol over a short
period of time and do not get a staff
member (who is always in the dorm
or minutes away on speed-dial),the
RF or any other knowledgeable
person. Are those students who
watched and did nothing not re-
sponsible and not guilty of a Fun-
damental Standard violation?
— Students carry the extreme-
ly ill student back to his dorm and
do not tell a staff member, the RF
or any other knowledgeable per-
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LETTERS
Continued from page 4
walk when someone is in the cross-
walk!
Be safety-conscious.
ROSE RAJEFF
University Libraries
Nothing ‘sophist’ about
ROTC debate
Dear Editor,
Sam Windley L.L.M.‘11 wrote in
this space about the Jan. 11 ROTC
forum, claiming that ROTC sup-
porters had offered little but “dis-
gusting” “sophistry” (Letters to the
editor, Jan. 18). Mr. Windley’s ac-
count does a disservice to both the
participants and to the Stanford
BAUTISTA
Continued from page 4
accepted as man, but I was also ac-
cepted in a space where a majority of
the people there were not only men,
but men who were biologically born
males. They respected me, and they
respected my masculinity. Although
I was different, they acknowledged
me as their brother too. And I’ll
admit, it was a surprise for me. I
never thought I would reach this
point, where I would feel like a legit-
imate young man acknowledged
and respected by other men outside
of the queer community. For so long
I felt like I was merely masquerad-
ing as a guy, that everyone was using
male pronouns for me just because I
asked them to, not because they had
any inherent sense of me as a man.
But that night gave me a new sense
of courage and a new sense of mas-
culinity that I never quite allowed
myself to be part of,simply because I
didn’t feel entitled to it. But that
night, the fraternity brothers at
Kappa Sig proved to me that I was an
idiot for even thinking I wasn’t good
enough to be a guy.
I wish I wasn’t a senior. Rushing
sounds pretty appealing right now.
Cristopher thinks you should rush
Kappa Sig.E-mail him at cmsb@stan-
ford.edu.
Eight
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community, which deserves a fuller
record of the proceedings.
As expressed at the event, the
primary anti-ROTC position is sim-
ple: even after the repeal of “don’t
ask, don’t tell,” the military still
does not accept transgendered per-
sons. That type of exclusion is dis-
crimination. Discrimination vio-
lates Stanford policy. Ordinary em-
ployers who discriminate in that
way are barred from campus.
Therefore, both because we will not
participate in discrimination and
because we wish a change in the
policy, we should not devote Uni-
versity resources to ROTC or per-
mit the program on campus.
That’s fair, as far as it goes, but it
makes two critical assumptions
with which many disagree.
First, the military is not an ordi-
nary employer. Our ties to such em-
ployers extend no further than to
their recruiting presences on our
campus and, perhaps, to employ-
ment statistics in our admissions
NELSON
Continued from page 4
our advocacy here at Stanford can
drive change across college cam-
puses.This in turn can influence na-
tional politics and change the opin-
ions of progressive people across
the nation.
There are, whether we’re aware
of it or not, debates going on behind
the scenes about University proce-
dures. ROTC, policies concerning
athletic admissions and IHUM are
not only on the table for discussion,
but are fundamentally changeable.
The current review of IHUM is a
perfect example; students spoke, re-
views were initiated. We should feel
free to question University institu-
tions, whether they are morally or
pragmatically good, or whether they
contribute to Stanford in a positive
way.
SHIDHAM
Continued from page 4
ple: those in charge of their own
mortality. We have every obligation
to give our future society that pow-
erful and profound a liberty.
valuable
as our own
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the eight Stanford students who will be joining us full-time this summer.
Congratulations to them on all their success.
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brochures. That’s not the case here.
Our tax dollars train and equip our
warriors, and our elected represen-
tatives send them into battle. In the
eyes of the world, PFC Lynndie
England was more than an individ-
ual — she was an American soldier
and an agent of U.S. foreign policy.
Like it or not, the actions of our
armed men and women are,and will
remain, our actions, and a boycott
would neither sever our ties with
nor end our support for the Ameri-
can military.
Further, it’s hard to believe that
a boycott is the most effective path
to equality in the military. By keep-
ing ROTC off-campus, we turn
down opportunities to meet and de-
bate military officers, to introduce
the military to the transgendered
(and vice versa), and to earn the
credibility that comes from having
served ourselves. Does anyone be-
lieve that a military with more Stan-
ford graduates as flag officers
would be less likely to welcome
Jacob Bronowski, a famous
mathematician, said,“It is important
that students bring a certain raga-
muffin, barefoot irreverence to their
studies;They are not here to worship
what is known, but to question it.”
This attitude, that of the critical par-
ticipant, is one that we should take
beyond the classroom. Do not be a
bystander, or worse, a sycophant to
convention.
Many of our parents were baby
boomers, a generation whose ag-
gressive questioning culminated in
some incredible acts (for example,
the 1968 burning down of Stan-
ford’s ROTC building).The accusa-
tion that we don’t care about much
other than material goods and
transparent, selfish philanthropy is
often leveled at our generation. We
should strive to be principled, and
not just when we’re talking about
human rights abroad or obvious in-
equities in far-flung countries.
Don’t instinctively move your criti-
cal tendencies to obvious, unam-
Why, you ask, is a freer society a
better one? The answer lies in our
history: gains in liberty have a pos-
itive precedent in the human story.
Agriculture freed us from the
chains of a hunter-gatherer socie-
ty; the written and spoken word
freed us from imprecise communi-
cation; the advent of flight freed us
from our location. Human empiri-
Monday, January 24, 2011 ! 5
anyone of sound mind and body
who wished to serve?
If we short-sightedly banish
ROTC, we take ourselves out of the
fight. The University’s founders be-
lieved that “[t]he public at large,
and not alone the comparatively
few students who can attend the
University, are the chief and ulti-
mate beneficiaries of the [Universi-
ty] foundation.” Where would they
fall on the choice between making a
statement and making a difference?
We are confronted with incom-
patible moral goals, necessitating a
difficult choice. How great is the in-
justice done by the policy against
transgendered recruits, and how
great an injustice would we commit
if, in service to country, to civic dis-
course and, possibly, to equality, we
allowed them on campus anyway?
Reasonable people disagree on the
right answer. But there’s nothing
“sophist” about the debate.
JONATHAN MARGOLICK J.D.‘13
biguous targets. Use them in every-
day life.We need to bring our ideals
home, and that’s most important
when they’re controversial. Pursue
them with a little more care than
our forbearers did. (For legal rea-
sons, I’m going to make it clear that
I’m not advocating arson or de-
struction of University property in
anything’s name.)
Now that I’ve made all you young
people iconoclasts, there should be
no shame in challenging existing
ideas. That’s how political systems
improve. Even when you agree with
an idea or a party, don’t be afraid to
question it and make people explain
themselves. Don’t let politeness get
in the way of pursuing the right, and
never accept a policy or stance that
isn’t justified.
But, whatever. I’m mostly writing
this because section gets awkward
when no one talks . . .
Feeling motivated? E-mail Spencer at
dsnelson@stanford.edu.
cism has resulted in tools like these
— tools that have allowed us to re-
script all kinds of once-fated ends.
Let us hope upon this irony: that
a university founded on death may
eventually destroy mortality.
Aging is God’s ultimate conspiracy
theory. If you don’t think so, let me
know at ashidham@stanford.edu.
James Darmody
Andrés García
Pia Hauch
Christine Kang
Salina Truong
David Vence
Thomas Westermann
Amanda Zhang
OP-ED
Continued from page 4
son. Are those students who carry
a student not responsible and not
guilty of a Fundamental Standard
violation?
— Sometimes, one or more
students “trick” or at least urge a
student to drink to a level that
causes risk up to a 50 percent
chance of death. Are those stu-
dents who urge the drinker not re-
sponsible and not guilty of a Fun-
damental Standard violation?
Destructive belief 3: “It is hard
to tell if someone is dangerously
drunk.” There is truth here, but
that is beside the point. You don’t
have to wait for an outcome to
know it has occurred.For example,
you see a student writing a paper
by copying out of a book,changing
a word here or there. The student
gives you the paper and says, “Is
this plagiarism?” It would be face-
tious to say, “Gee, I’m not an ex-
pert on plagiarism and it would be
impossible for me to assess that.”
The correct answer is:“Given that
you copied out of the book, I don’t
need to read the paper: you were
plagiarizing.” Students do not
drink alone and then collapse in
the street, forcing observers to de-
cide whether they are sleeping,
epileptic or in alcohol danger.
Every alcohol case I have encoun-
tered has unfolded with other stu-
dents around during the drinking.
Under these circumstances,you do
not need a medical degree to de-
tect a student’s dangerous behav-
ior with alcohol.
Stanford students’ views of al-
cohol, including students who do
not drink,are self-serving,lack per-
sonal or intellectual integrity and
violate the Fundamental Standard.
Almost no Stanford student will be
sent to the hospital;almost all Stan-
ford students will be knowingly
watching someone who is likely to
be sent to the hospital. It is time to
stop the self-congratulatory non-
sense about how successfully our
undergraduates deal with alcohol.
PROFESSOR CLIFFORD NASS
Otero resident fellow
6 ! Monday, January 24, 2011
SPORTS
CARDINAL
CRUSHES
TROJANS
Stanford sits alone atop
Pac-10 standings
By NATE ADAMS
DESK EDITOR
It might be a little early to give Stanford the
national trophy, but that didn’t stop USC head
coach Michael Cooper from making a firm pre-
diction following his team’s 95-51 loss to No. 4
Stanford women’s basketball on Saturday after-
noon.
“I think what you’re looking at here is the
next NCAA champion,” Cooper said. “We
played some of the best, and this is the best team
we’ve played this year.”
The lopsided victory marks the 10th consecu-
tive win for Stanford (16-2, 7-0 Pac-10), which
took sole possession of the Pac-10 lead after
trouncing No. 8 UCLA 64-38 on Thursday night.
Senior guard Jeanette Pohlen led her team
past USC (12-6, 4-3) on Saturday with 21 points
and 12 assists, helping Stanford shoot 52 percent
overall and reach its highest point total of the
conference season. Senior forward Kayla Peder-
sen added 16 points of her own, while sisters
Nnemkadi and Chiney Ogwumike each put up
14.
After three straight Final Four appearances
and no title to show for them, Stanford head
coach Tara VanDerveer knows she can’t take
anything for granted.
“I really want to play a more open game.This
year with people,‘Keep shooting until I strangle
you’ is my motto,” she quipped. “We want to
score more and run more.”
Those are high standards coming from a
coach whose team put up 10 three-pointers, 54
rebounds and 27 assists against a USC squad
that had just one conference loss entering the
weekend.
But Stanford was less than stellar in the open-
ing minutes. The Cardinal traded baskets with
the light-footed Trojan offense early on, missing
a few three-point attempts while letting USC
drive into the paint and crash the glass. Almost
four minutes in, USC and Stanford each had
three rebounds and the Trojans were ahead in
the scoring column, 8-7.
“After recognizing they’re getting a few
boards, we had to counteract that and be more
aggressive, and just make sure we take care of
the ball,” Chiney Ogwumike said. “And to take
care of the ball, we had to have the ball.”
TOUGH
TIMES IN
SOCAL
Card falls to UCLA, ending
disappointing L.A. trip
By CAROLINE CASELLI
DESK EDITOR
Struggles away from home continue to plague the
young Stanford men’s basketball team, which
dropped a 68-57 decision to UCLA (13-6,5-2 Pac-10)
on Saturday to conclude a dismal Los Angeles road
trip.After a promising start to the conference season,
including an upset over then-No. 17 Washington, the
Card (10-8, 3-4) has dropped three straight games to
fall into the bottom half of the Pac-10 standings.
Looking to bounce back after a disheartening 23-
point loss to USC on Thursday night, the Cardinal
appeared to be a different squad at the outset of Sat-
urday morning’s matchup, jumping out to an early 8-
0 lead over the Bruins. Stanford’s offense continued
to dominate, with contributions from redshirt junior
Josh Owens and junior guards Jarrett Mann and Je-
remy Green extending the Cardinal’s lead to 22-8
with 10:28 remaining in the half.
But when all appeared to be in the Card’s favor,
the Bruins came alive on both ends of the court, and
Stanford’s shooting took a turn for the worse. The
Cardinal — which made eight of its first 15 shot at-
tempts — would go 2-for-18 for the remainder of the
half, with its five points coming off a layup from
Mann and a three-pointer from freshman forward
Anthony Brown. UCLA sophomore forward Tyler
Honeycutt and junior guard Malcolm Lee would
combine for 20 first-period points to help the Bruins
claw their way to a mere one-point deficit, with a
score of 27-26 heading into halftime.
“I knew it was going to be a fight — we knew that
they would not let up,” Owens said. “They respond-
ed well to our run.”
UCLA took its first lead of the day just under
three minutes into the second half, and the Bruins
would not trail for the remainder of the game. The
Bruins outscored the Card 42-30 in the half, led by
Lee and junior guard Lazeric Jones, who together in
the second half went 14-15 from the line and scored
26 points. On the defensive end, UCLA forced five
Senior guard Jeanette Pohlen (23) posted 21 points and 12 assists against USC on Saturday,
leading the Cardinal over the Trojans, 95-51, in Maples Pavilion.
As has often been the case for Stanford, the gave her 11 total points less than 10 minutes into
early back-and-forth soon gave way to an offen- the game.
sive blitz.A Pedersen layup sparked an offensive
explosion for the Cardinal about four minutes member of Stanford’s versatile starting lineup,
in, as the co-captain combined with Pohlen and added to the onslaught with her own pair of
Chiney Ogwumike to jolt Stanford into a 17-2 crowd-electrifying threes in the half, including
run that put it up 24-10 at the game’s first media one from a full yard beyond the top of the key.
timeout. Just afterwards, Pedersen sunk an em-
phatic nothing-but-net three from the wing that
LUIS SINCO/MCT
UCLA’s Jerime Anderson, left, steals the ball from
Stanford's Josh Owens (13) in the second half at
Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on Saturday. UCLA
stifled Stanford, 68-57, handing the Card its third-
straight loss.
Stanford turnovers in the second period,but commit-
ted only one.
“They played great defense,” said Stanford head
coach Johnny Dawkins.“I’ve seen the improvement
on their defense, from this year to last year.”
“We couldn’t keep the execution together like we
had in the first half,” Owens added. “In the second
half, we had some defensive let-ups, as Lee started
finishing his shots and Honeycutt did as well. They
really played well, and to their strengths.”
Stanford’s shooting has been lackluster in its past
few games — the Card shot just 30.8 percent from
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MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Hawaii
nailbiter
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
STAFF WRITER
Two nights after having its nine-match
winning streak broken, the No. 2 Stan-
ford men’s volleyball team battled back
against No.13 Hawaii (1-4,1-1 MPSF) for
a grueling 3-2 win to earn a series split in
Honolulu.
The Cardinal (4-1, 3-1) was in danger
of losing two consecutive matches for the
first time since last January after getting
swept in front of a raucous Warrior crowd
of 3,551 on Friday.
However, senior outside hitter and
Hawaii native Spencer McLachlin, one
of seven Hawaii natives on Stanford’s
roster, put on an offensive show in the
second match, and freshman Eric
Mochalski had the two biggest kills of his
young career to avoid a sweep and keep
Stanford near the top of the Mountain
Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF).
McLachlin tallied a career-high 29 kills
Sunday while hitting .375 in the win,
which was a close battle from start to fin-
ish.
Stanford began Sunday’s matchup
better than Friday’s, winning the first set,
25-21, but Hawaii rallied behind another
big home crowd and dominated the sec-
ond set, 25-17, with another top-notch
performance from outside hitter Jonas
Umlauft. Last year’s MPSF newcomer of
the year, the 6-foot-9 sophomore had 29
kills on the night, including seven in the
second set. It looked like Umlauft might
swing the momentum back to Hawaii.
But the third set belonged to the Car-
dinal, who stood out early and held on
despite plenty of attack errors on both
sides. Stanford hit .257 while Hawaii hit
just .129,well below its average of .300 for
the match.
Up two games to one in the fourth set,
Stanford came out strong and held a slim
lead midway through the set. But Hawaii
again rallied and took a 21-19 lead on a
kill by Steven Hunt. Stanford head coach
John Kosty called a timeout and the Car-
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Daniel
Bohm
On My Mind
Predictions
for a not-so-
Super Bowl
A
m I the only person who
feels entirely ho-hum
about the upcoming
Super Bowl? Sure, there
are excited fans in Green
Bay and Pittsburgh,but something re-
mains to be desired about this Super
Bowl,at least for this sports fan.
It is probably an irrational feeling
— after all, the Packers and the Steel-
ers are two of football’s most histori-
cally rich teams. The Packers won the
first two Super Bowls,and the Steelers
have won the most Super Bowls —
yet the two storied franchises have
never met for the title.
Still, after the team I grew up root-
ing for, the Kansas City Chiefs, was
rightfully bounced from the playoffs in
the wild card round, an air of indiffer-
ence fell over me.This weekend, I was
hoping for the Packers and the Jets to
win, just so the Super Bowl champion
would be one of the teams Brett Favre
recently spurned — a last “screw you”
to a legend that lost his luster some-
where inside of his swollen ego. The
trouble is Favre might have enjoyed
that Super Bowl, because his name
would stay in the news even though he
wouldn’t be playing (yes, I know I am
perpetuating exactly what I am railing
against).
This is all without mentioning two
weeks of Rex Ryan sound bites lead-
ing up to the game . . . oh well.
Something
remains to
be desired
about this
Super Bowl.
I guess instead I will have to settle
for Packers-Steelers — a matchup be-
tween Aaron Rodgers, the quarter-
back that made everybody in Green
Bay forget about Favre, and Ben
Roethlisberger, the only quarterback
who may be more of an (alleged)
creep than Favre off the field. Good-
guy points go to Rodgers in that
matchup (despite the fact that he went
to Cal).
So now that I have gotten Brett
Favre out of the way,onto the game.
In all seriousness, this is a show-
down between two of the game’s best
quarterbacks. Rodgers may fly a bit
under the radar for whatever reason
— he wasn’t originally selected to this
year’s NFC Pro Bowl team, despite
having a fantastic season — but is just
as talented as any quarterback in the
league. If you watched Rodgers pick
apart the Falcons in Atlanta in the
NFC divisional round, you may have
been watching one of the best individ-
ual performances by a quarterback in
years.
Roethlisberger, on the other hand,
isn’t your prototypical precision pock-
et passer. Despite appearing unortho-
dox, the man is a load to tackle and
makes plays outside the pocket with
his arm and his legs.This is his shot at a
third Super Bowl title in just seven sea-
sons, making him a proven winner (a
term I dislike and don’t quite under-
stand).
While Rodgers vs. Roethlisberger
may get all the headlines,the matchup
of the two defenses is equally, if not
more, compelling. Pittsburgh, or
should I say Blitzburgh, is perennially
known for its defense, especially re-
cently under coordinator Dick
LeBeau.The Packers,however,have a
very impressive defensive unit of their
own, anchored by NFL sack leader
Clay Matthews and 175-year-old
Charles Woodson in the secondary.
People will talk a lot about the
quarterbacks,but I see this game being
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settled the Cardinal. Stanford’s
blocking slowed Hawaii’s attack,and
a key team block by McLachlin and
junior blocker Gus Ellis brought
Hawaii’s lead to 13-12.
A kill by Hawaii’s Joshua Walk-
er gave the Warriors match point at
14-13, but a service error squared
everything at 14. Hunt had another
kill to give Hawaii yet another
match point at 15-14, but Stanford
junior outside hitter Brad Law-
son’s kill off junior setter Evan
Barry’s 62nd assist of the night tied
the match at 15.
It was then that Mochalski took
over in the spotlight, earning a point
off a Hawaii overpass to make it 16-
15, and then spiking a pass by Ellis
for his seventh kill of the night — a
match winner.
Several of the team’s Hawaii na-
tives had big matches, led by
McLachlin and junior libero Erik
Shoji, who had 16 digs. The match
lasted two hours and 54 minutes, the
team’s longest of the year by over
half an hour.
It took Hawaii just an hour and
45 minutes to dispatch a jet-lagged
Cardinal in the opener on Friday,
when Stanford hit just .200 as a team
and held the lead only twice in the 3-
0 loss.
Stanford will hit the road again
to continue league play this Friday
against Cal State Northridge.
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WBBALL
Continued from page 6
Pohlen capped off the half with a
mid-range jumper, sending her
team to the locker room with a 46-
27 lead.
The point guard stepped up the
pressure in the next frame, playing
her way to a team-high 30 minutes
and scoring 11 second-half points.
Her 12 assists marked a career
high.
Saturday’s performance was the
latest in a great season for Pohlen,
who averages 16.5 points and 4.9 as-
sists per game, has 29 steals and is
shooting 90 percent on free throws
and 43 percent from beyond the arc.
After shooting only 2-for-11 against
UCLA on Thursday, her turn-
around to Saturday’s game was
quick.
“I think some of the shots against
UCLA went in and out, and to me
that’s just the little things to fix in
your shot,” she said. “It’s not like I
was way off.”
Pohlen’s dominance helped
Stanford push the lead to 71-38 mid-
way through the half, and that mar-
gin was enough for VanDerveer to
start making substitutions from
across her roster.
By the end of the contest, 12
MBBALL
Continued from page 6
the field against UCLA,its third con-
secutive sub-35-percent perform-
ance, and 34-for-128 (26.6 percent)
on the weekend. Green, typically the
Card’s primary scoring threat, strug-
gled to get into his groove in both
Los Angeles games, scoring only five
points against USC and 12 points on
4-for-15 shooting against the Bruins.
“Jeremy Green is a great player
— he’s very confident in who he is,”
Dawkins said of Green’s recent
shooting woes. “I think his main
thing now is to find what shots he has
to take.”
Owens led the Card with 14
points and 12 rebounds, notching his
third double-double of the year.
Brown had all 10 of Stanford’s bench
points, and classmate Dwight Powell
added nine points and seven re-
bounds.
UCLA’s Reeves Nelson (22) blocks a shot by Stanford's Josh Owens (13) in
the second half at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on Saturday.
BOHM
Continued from page 6
low-scoring — if one team scores 20
points, it will probably win.
There is one aspect of the game
where Pittsburgh has a decided ad-
vantage — the running game. Sure,
Green Bay has discovered a bit of a
rushing attack in the playoffs with
James Starks, but it is still a pass-first,
pass-second, pass-third offense. The
Steelers, on the other hand, have a
very capable running game led by
Rashard Mendenhall, who, as the Jets
learned today,is quite adept at bounc-
ing would-be losses outside and gain-
ing positive yardage.
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Stanford players had seen at least
four minutes of game time and ac-
counted for 24 Stanford points.That
included a 19-minute showing from
redshirt sophomore Sarah Boothe,
who had the highest point total, 11,
of any non-starter. Redshirt senior
Melanie Murphy got seven valuable
minutes at guard, playing in her sec-
ond game since a knee surgery that
had kept her on the sidelines all sea-
son. Murphy found the basket once,
scoring on a fade-away jumper that
sent her stumbling into a smiling
Stanford bench.
The Trojans stuck with their
starters deep into the game, though
they weren’t able to stem the tide.
Briana Gilbreath went 6-for-12 with
17 points, but no other USC player
broke into double digits.
The inflow of bench players
means that Pedersen will have to
wait at least another game to be-
come Stanford’s record-holder
for career minutes played. She has
4,141 minutes overall, just eight
shy of breaking Virginia Sourlis’
record of 4,148, set in 1982-86.
Pedersen will have an opportu-
nity to break the record when Stan-
ford travels to the Pacific Northwest
next weekend, facing Oregon at 6
p.m. on Thursday and Oregon State
at noon on Saturday.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams
@stanford.edu.
For the home team, Lee led all
players with 23 points on 6-for-11
shooting, tallying nine points from
the line.Jones finished with 17 points
— 14 of which came in the second
half — and Honeycutt added anoth-
er 16 for the Bruins. Sophomore for-
ward Reeves Nelson was held to just
four points, significantly below his
average of 14.5 points per game,
though he maintained a strong pres-
ence down low, leading UCLA with
10 rebounds.
Despite the disappointing week-
end, Dawkins commended his
team’s effort and willingness to com-
pete.
“I’m really proud of our guys —
they are giving us great contribu-
tions,” he said. “But it’s a work in
progress.”
The Card will return to Maples
Pavilion for four straight games,
starting with a matchup against Ore-
gon this Thursday at 7 p.m.
Contact Caroline Caselli at caro-
linecaselli@stanford.edu.
LUIS SINCO/MCT
So who is going to win? My heart
first tells me to pick the Steelers, be-
cause I tend to root for AFC teams. It
then reminds me, however, that I am
sick and tired of the Steelers winning
Super Bowls — it is getting boring, so
maybe some new blood would be a
good thing.My head also first tells me
to go with the Steelers. They are the
better team on paper. But then I am
reminded that the Super Bowl is not
played on paper, and that Green Bay
has looked white-hot recently.
A prediction: Green Bay 20, Pitts-
burgh 17.
Daniel Bohm’s head and heart say the
Steelers will win the Super Bowl, but
his gut is going with the Packers. Tell
him your prediction at bohmd@stan-
ford.edu.
TAKES A SPARK.