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January 26, 2011
STUDENT GOV’T
Undergrad
Senate hears
ROTC debate
Student groups present
views to ad hoc committee
By MARGARET RAWSON
DESK EDITOR
The ASSU Undergraduate Senate head
from representatives of the Faculty Sen-
ate’s ad hoc committee on ROTC at its
weekly meeting Tuesday evening and dis-
cussed the issue of ROTC’s possible return
to campus.
Student representatives from Stanford
Says No to War and Stanford Students for
Queer Liberation (SSQL) attended and
contributed to the debate.
“It’s your party,”said psychology profes-
sor Ewart Thomas, chair of the ad hoc com-
mittee on ROTC, welcoming questions
from the senators.
Thomas outlined some of the central is-
sues surrounding ROTC’s potential return
to campus, such as academic freedom and
academic quality for ROTC students.
Holding a copy of the San Jose Mercury
News,Thomas referenced a Jan. 24 opinion
piece by Stephen Zunes,a politics professor
at the University of San Francisco. Zunes
said he takes issue with a Dec. 8 ROTC
memo prohibiting student use of classified
information from WikiLeaks for course as-
signments, a policy he regards as sacrificing
academic freedom.
“What this looks like is,censorship could
be imposed on a class that Stanford has a
hand in managing,” Thomas said. “This, I
think, would be problematic.”
Sam Windley L.L.M. ‘11, president of
Stanford Says No to War, also commented
on the opinion, describing “a slippery
slope” when a university allows an outside
institution, such as the military, to deter-
mine what is appropriate course material.
“Academic freedom is something Stan-
ford should, and does, place a lot of empha-
sis on,”Windley said.
“This is an issue affecting us in a larger
context than just ROTC,” said Hester Gel-
ber, committee member and professor of
religious studies,in reference to students in-
terested in diplomacy careers being advised
to avoid looking at WikiLeaks documents.
Senator Ben Jensen ‘12 raised the issue
of class disparity in military service and ref-
erenced his own experience. He weighed a
career in the Air Force against coming to
Please see SENATE, page 5
Assault investigation
continues
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
The police investigation into an alleged as-
sault on Jan. 3 is ongoing, according to Bill Lar-
son of the Stanford Department of Public
Safety (DPS). No suspect been identified, and
DPS is contacting local law enforcement agen-
cies for reports of similar incidents.
A female student
was allegedly assault-
ed near Manzanita
Field, where she was
walking alone. Ac-
cording to an e-mail
alert from DPS, a man
approached the stu-
dent from behind and
covered her mouth Courtesy of SUDPS
with his hand. He fled Police released a
after she tried to bite sketch of the alleged
him.
DPS has deter- assailant in the Jan. 3
mined that the case is assault. The investiga-
not related to an as- tion remains ongoing.
sault that occurred
near campus over Thanksgiving break.
“The Department of Public Safety reminds
the community to always be aware of your sur-
roundings,” Larson said. “Travel in pairs, use
lighted paths, be familiar with the locations of
the blue 911 emergency towers and to call 9-1-
1 immediately to report suspicious persons or
activities.”
— Ivy Nguyen
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HOSPITALOFFERS $173MDEAL
Palo Alto City Council to discuss hospital expansion Jan.31
By WILLA BROCK
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Stanford Hospital will increase
its payment of community bene-
fits to the city of Palo Alto in order
to offset the impact of its pro-
posed expansion, it announced
last Wednesday.
The new $173 million offer is
$49 million more than the original
proposal, an increase that Stan-
ford hopes will help its chances at
a Jan. 31 study session at the City
Council.
“Our ability to put forward a
revised community benefits offer
is a result of hearing and respond-
ing,” said Shelley Hebert, execu-
tive director of public affairs at
Stanford Hospital and Clinics,
“both to the issues raised in the
dialogue with the community and
the information available
through the environmental im-
pact report.”
The proposed benefits now in-
Technicians work to repair a water main that broke Tuesday morning, flooding classrooms in the
basement of Building 260. Classes in the flooded rooms will be relocated until the damage is fixed.
THE FUTURE IS
BRIGHT
clude $126 million in transporta-
tion-related benefits, $12 million
to the city for use in projects and
programs addressing climate
change and $23.2 million to the
city to support affordable housing
and sustainable neighborhood
and community development, ac-
cording to a Stanford Hospital
news release.
The community-benefits pay-
ments aim to ease some of the
city’s concerns about possible ef-
fects of the Stanford University
Medical Center Renewal Project,
including traffic, housing and en-
vironmental impacts.
Council member and former
mayor Pat Burt cites increased
traffic from the project as the
most significant challenge.
“We have to figure out how we
can accommodate a major expan-
sion without putting the streets in
a gridlock,” he said.
Stanford has agreed to pur-
chase Caltrain Go-Passes for all
its current and future hospital em-
ployees in order to mitigate the
traffic impact. The recently in-
creased price of these
passes is a
NEWS BRIEFS
factor in the enhancement of the
community benefits.
Burt sees this result, which
could possibly reduce the expect-
ed traffic by 75 percent, as more
than just a financial success. “I’ve
tried this past year to reframe the
public discussion,” he said. “It’s
not about dollars. It’s about cre-
ative solutions.”
The new proposal would also
accelerate the payment schedule.
“We think one of the positive fea-
tures of this new proposal is that
not only does it increase very sub-
stantially in terms of its financial
value,” said Hebert, “but it makes
funds available to the city soon-
er.”
Hebert was careful to empha-
size that the money for these com-
munity benefits will not come out
of the Stanford endowment.
“Many people mistakenly be-
lieve that the hospitals have ac-
cess to university endowment
funds,” she said. “These funds
come directly from the hospitals.”
The $3 billion renewal project
allows for the demolition and re-
construction of the Stanford Hos-
pital and Clinics complex and the
renovation and expansion of
the Lucile Packard Chil-
dren’s Hospital for a
total addition of 1.3
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million square feet.
Hebert cites several reasons
for the importance of the expan-
sion.
“We need to comply with the
state seismic safety laws,” she said.
“We need to ensure that we have
adequate capacity to take care of
our patients and the community
and we need to bring some of our
1950s-era facilities up to modern
standards so that the advances in
both medical care and technology
that are going to be happening in
the 21st century are available to
all our patients here at Stanford.”
She is optimistic that the pro-
posal will be well-received by the
city council, and Burt agrees.
Praising Stanford’s efforts to mit-
igate the environmental impacts
of the project by designing green
buildings, he said they have also
helped to reduce “town-and-
gown” contention.
“It’s not only good for this
project,” he said, “but I think it’s
setting the foundation for a much
stronger and more positive rela-
tionship between the University
and the city.”
Contact Willa Brock at wbrock@
stanford.edu.
ANASTASIA YEE/
The Stanford Daily
Broken water main
floods classrooms
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
A water main broke Tuesday
morning between Buildings 260 and
300, causing some classroom dam-
age and prompting several classes to
relocate.
After the main broke between 10
and 11 a.m., water flooded the base-
ment of Building 260, known as the
language corner. About an inch and
a half of standing water covered
classroom floors in the basement,
causing extensive damage to the car-
pet, said Julie Hardin-Stauter, asso-
ciate director of zone management.
All basement classrooms in the
building are closed, and classes nor-
mally held in those rooms will be re-
located for two to three weeks while
damages are repaired.
Meanwhile, technicians worked
Tuesday afternoon to repair the
main between the buildings.The six-
inch plastic line is about 10 years old
and surrounds Building 300, accord-
ing to Bob Park, the University
water shop’s lead technician. He ex-
pected repairs would be finished by
the end of the day, restoring water to
Buildings 40,50,260 and 300,Memo-
rial Church and a nearby men’s rest-
room.
— Elizabeth Titus and Ellen Huet
Recycle Me
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SLAC researcher Uwe Bergmann presents an X-ray of an Archeopteryx fos-
sil as part of his lecture, titled “Archeopteryx: Bringing the Dinobird to Life.”
The fossil was scanned at SLAC to study the evolution from reptiles to birds.
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FEATURES
Junior Lucyann Murray skips winter quarter to
snowboard competitively
By KELSEY GEISER
L
ucyann Murray ‘12 has loved and
lived for snowboarding since child-
hood. Now she’s making bigger
strides for the sport: she is taking win-
ter quarter off to train. Since high
school, Murray has struggled to balance tough
classes with her training regimen and travel
schedule. Now she is focused on finding out just
how far she can push her competitive passion.
Murray is originally from Washington, D.C.
She learned to snowboard at age 9 and started
competing in freestyle events at 14 with the
Wintergreen Snowboard Team in Virginia.
When her family moved to Greenwich, Conn.,
after her freshman year of high school, Murray
continued her devotion.
She joined the Stratton Mountain Snow-
board Team in Vermont to compete regionally,
despite the lengthy commute. Training with
that team “opened my eyes to what I could be
doing,” she said.
She faced setbacks, including tearing her
ACL in the spring of her senior year of high
school. But Murray was not discouraged.
“I believe there are a lot of barriers, but
when you set your heart to something that is
worth it, those barriers only make things more
exciting, and I’m ready to take on those barri-
ers with all I’ve got: sweat, tears, frustration and
all,” she wrote in a blog post documenting her
quarter away.
Murray entered Stanford with a goal: “I
needed to focus on school and see if I got full
recovery,” she said.
She succeeded, recovering enough to com-
pete in national events her freshman year. Now,
her recovery has progressed to the point where
she does not even need to wear a knee brace
while practicing.
Her return demanded hard work, including
strength and conditioning training with Carl
Paoli, founder of Naka Athletics, six days a
week in San Francisco for the past year.
Paoli and Naka Athletics use a variety of
techniques to prepare extreme athletes for the
unusual moves they are expected to perform
every day. For physical performance, they focus
on basic gymnastics skills, weightlifting, track
and field and trampoline training. They also
apply nutrition knowledge to fuel the athletes
for intense physical activity.
Courtesy of Lucyann Murray
This kind of training will enable Murray to
practice for more extended periods with
greater ease. It “creates an awareness of how
the body works that is really going to translate
into all the skill she does,” Paoli said.
As to how strength training improved the
condition of her injured knee, Murray said, “I
don’t think I would be where I am without it.”
For her first two years on the Farm, Murray
had to plan her academic schedule around a
strenuous schedule of training and snowboard-
ing competitions. She took no classes on Fri-
days and spent every Friday, Saturday and Sun-
day traveling to Lake Tahoe to participate on
the Squaw Valley ski team. She lived with the
Stanford ski team on the weekends.
Such restrictions limited her academic
choices, and often she was unable to take the
classes she either wanted or needed to take.
She spent much of her time catching up with
classes that she missed due to competitions and
took many exams on the road.
“It wasn’t always easy, but it was definitely a
learning experience,” Murray said.
She found a flexible home in the human biol-
ogy program. With her major in order, Murray
could complete all the necessary courses for
winter ahead of time, allowing her to take this
quarter to focus on her snowboarding and, as
she says,“get a grasp on how far I can take it.”
With the support of her family, friends and
coaches, Murray is currently practicing and liv-
ing with her teammates on the Wasatch Project
Grom Squad in Utah and training with coaches
Ryan Bever and Dustin Linker. She is compet-
ing in freestyle snowboarding, which includes
jumps and rails.
Her results in 2010 included third place at
the Burton AM Series Halfpipe, ninth place at
the Burton AM Series Slopestyle and third
place at the USSA Revolution Tour Slopestyle.
Previously, she was named Red Bully Snow
Warz Best Female Rider in 2009 and received
first place at the Volcom Peanut Butter Rail
Jam in 2008.
To keep her family, friends and supporters
up to date on life away from Stanford, Murray
has been keeping up her blog.
“This season,” she wrote there, “is about
pushing boundaries, defying odds and dancing
with dreams.”
Contact Kelsey Geiser at ksgeiser@stanford.edu.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 ! 3
FREEING
KNOWLEDGE
Public Knowledge Project works
to make research easier to
publish, access
By KELSEY GEISER
T
he intellectual inquiry occur-
ring each day at Stanford
prompts the question of how
research can best be accessed
and put to use for the benefit
of all.
Enter the Public Knowledge Project.
The project works on how to make
precious new information easily avail-
able to anyone who wants it. Education
professor and project director John
Willinsky has been working on the proj-
ect since 1998. He began with the prem-
ise that research should be made more
widely available. Since then, the project
has taken a more technological direc-
tion.
It revolves around free, download-
able software that provides scholars
with the means to launch new or exist-
ing journals and the option to make
those journals free and publicly avail-
able. With this “open-source” option,
the project aims to have many scholars
join it in its mission to improve the qual-
ity of public research not only in the
U.S., but also all over the world.
“We can make knowledge available
online more easily, more widely and
more cheaply,” Willinsky said.
The project involves mainly soft-
ware developers, researchers and li-
brarians, who together created open
journals and conference systems and
are currently working on an open
monograph press. The journals system
provides a publishing platform that al-
lows scholars not only to make their
hard-earned information widely avail-
able, but also to easily manage the jour-
nals, edit and peer-review submissions
and carry out the overall publishing
process.
The scholars who use the software to
publish their journals do not have to go
through commercial publishers. This
means the project does not publish the
journals itself. Rather, it facilitates the
publication process so scholars can do
so easily and efficiently.
More than 7,500 titles in 35 lan-
guages are using the software, half in
developing countries. The journals ad-
dress a wide range of topics, from arts
and poetry to medicine, and can be pub-
lished by anyone from a high school stu-
dent to a university professor.
One of the journals is printed in
Kiswahili, making it the program’s first
journal in an African language.
“We are trying to help developing
countries use their own language to
contribute from their own perspective
but still with scholarly standards,” Will-
insky said.
Juan Pablo Alperin, a researcher and
systems developer in the project, has
spent time researching and running
workshops across Latin America to dis-
cover how best to help editors in the re-
gion publish research journals.
“I see the open-access movement
and the work that we do as aimed at
helping journals in these regions that
are not currently valued by the system
achieve visibility, recognition and pres-
tige,” Alperin said.
He and others working toward this
goal around the world have found it dif-
ficult to encourage people to change
how they publish their work. Alperin
has been working to reverse this aver-
sion to open forums for research by
“using technology to shift the landscape
of what is possible.”
Jamie O’Keeffe, a fellow researcher
in the open-access movement, is mak-
ing similar strides in the medical field.
She is working on a journal researching
the impact of open journal resources by
looking at health care providers.
O’Keefe’s research is “an explorato-
ry study to investigate the ‘current’ state
of access,” she said in an e-mail to The
Daily. She found through interviews
with health care providers that critical
decisions physicians needed to make
depended on their access to particular
research articles.
The project’s open conference sys-
tems allow users to easily manage large
meetings. It helps them to create web-
pages, to schedule, to review submis-
sions, to create registries and to organ-
ize the small but important details of
conference planning.
The program is also working on an
open monograph press, which will allow
for free access to monographs, edited
volumes and scholarly editions, many of
which are especially difficult for devel-
oping countries to access.
The project plans on expanding its
mission, especially in the field of stu-
dent journals and in further supporting
the active participation of developing
countries in the global network.
The project has taken technological
leaps towards making journals easily
available. However, its long-term goal is
to make all scholarly information open-
ly accessible.
“About 20 percent of research is now
freely available, and we are not going to
stop until it is 99.9 percent,” Willinsky
said.
Contact Kelsey Geiser at ksgeiser@stan-
ford.edu.
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OPINIONS
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T
his is my last column. Four President and Editor in Chief Deputy Editor Columns Editor News Editor
months ago, I was frantically e- Mary Liz McCurdy Ellen Huet Stephanie Weber Zach Zimmerman
mailing my editors my colum- Chief Operating Officer Managing Editor of News Head Copy Editor Sports Editor
nist application.Two years ago, I was
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Vice President of Advertising
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Managing Editor of Sports
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Features Editor
a column,but was still scoping out the
perfect topic. Now I’m on the other
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Head Graphics Editor
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Managing Editor of Features Giancarlo Daniele
side of all that. It’s incredible. (Well, Michael Londgren Web Projects Editor
Photo Editor
at least for me, because there are few Marisa Landicho Esthena Barlow
things in life I contemplate lightly. terly valuable to me and questions Robert Michitarian Managing Editor of Intermission Jane LePham, Devin Banerjee Copy Editor
Read on — you’ll see.) that would make me feel selfish if I Jane LePham Vivian Wong Staff Development
Throughout this Daily volume, didn’t pose them to others. But no- Managing Editor of Photography Business Staff
Shelley Gao
an interesting thought has been body on the outside has seen me
flourishing in my noggin. Prior to Zachary Warma
transform 13 times. Maybe they’ve Begüm Erdogan
Editorial Board Chair Sales Manager
my first column, I was very con- seen a student hanging out with
cerned about how new topics would friends, chatting on the phone, meet-
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start and end neatly before 4 p.m. that one cliché, though? “Big things
deadlines. And I still assume that’s come in small packages?” I’m telling
true. But, somehow, I have always you,it’s true.I discover so much more
had something major to share each
week, something really important
about this world to be in awe about
just by hanging a weekly “what’s S ENT F ROM M Y I P HONE
to me. Particularly as my junior year up?” question over my head — just

Time to Stop the Paternalistic

has progressed (or basically half- in conversations about the day and
disappeared while I wasn’t look- our lives. I’ve grown more suspect of
ing), I’ve been realizing from where the word “ordinary”considering how
my biggest lessons truly come and many of those “ordinary” situations

Nonsense, Professor Nass

how I’ve been able to write about a have left me thoughtfully,speechless-
new aspect of my life here as each ly surprised. And then, you know, I
Wednesday approaches. I never wrote about them to you.
needed exotic countries or dramat- It now seems ridiculous to wait for

ic catastrophes or prize-winning ac-
complishments every seven days.
What I needed was what I’ve always
had, which is a world of people
around me that have unknowingly
revealed countless truths and reali-
ties, to me and about me. Our whole
lives are like this. It’s dawning on
me now.
Sometimes I think that we inad-
vertently play our lives like a waiting
game.We start seeing our current ac-
tions as investments, or intermediate
steps to a destination. Especially at
Stanford, we’re all quietly aware of
the pressure to achieve an amazing
feat quite soon, so we prepare our-
selves nonstop while we’re here. I’ve
been falling victim to that mentality
recently via Stanford’s trademark ob-
session for the big summer internship.
I was suffocating beneath the mission
to find that one amazing internship
that will best take me straight to the
killer post-grad career I haven’t cho-
sen yet.For a brief,mindless period in
my head, my summer was only as
worthwhile as how well it would serve
me afterward. Isn’t that the strangest
chronology? Since when is value only
future tense? It’s about time I re-
membered that my greatest experi-
ences are happening right now, liter-
ally, constantly . . .
The proof is this column. For the
past 13 weeks, I’ve been writing
about realizations that have been ut-
that “growth experience” to happen
— later. That phrase is always at-
tached to the future-thing-you’ve-
got-to-apply-for or whatever.No,this
doesn’t mean that I’m suddenly ig-
noring my GPA or the CDC website
or my resume, because yes, I do be-
lieve that our best-version future
usually requires big work before-
hand. We have the privilege of going
to a school that unlocks a zillion op-
portunities (and also the privilege to
complain about them). But in all of
these present moments that appear
usual or useful-for-later, I’ve found
myself growing, realizing and under-
standing in completely unexpected
ways. Today I’m going to overhear
something interesting or meet some-
one “weird” or get really annoyed by
an opinion and, at the end, have the
choice to sum it all up to just another
forgettable day.
But I can’t help it — I’ll probably
choose to see the extraordinary in all
of it instead. And that right there is
quite possibly one of the greatest, lit-
tlest everyday habits I’ve ever picked
up. It sounds extreme, but I’m seri-
ous.Dare I say it? I believe it’s chang-
ing my life.
Nina wishes you a final column
farewell, but this needn’t be the end!
You can find her at ninamc@stan-
ford.edu. She promises to get back to
you.
I
was going to use what might be
my last chance to make all of
Stanford listen to me with a very
pseudo-intellectual rumination
about the cultural history of the hot
prowl and its ubiquity as Stanford’s
latest party theme, but I just so hap-
pened to open The Daily on Mon-
day to discover that my entire
tenure at this great Western univer-
sity has existed in violation of the
Fundamental Standard, a public
service announcement courtesy of
Clifford Nass, Otero resident fellow
(“Op-ed: Time to stop the alcohol
nonsense,” Jan. 24).
Fuck that, and here’s why: this
intelligent professor claimed that
“there is evidence that ‘approxi-
mately 50 percent of all people with
a BAC of .40 or higher will die’” and
that unnamed Stanford students
without integrity narrowly avoided
murdering someone. I have found
from Internet sources that I’m sure
are as reliable as the ones he quoted
in his op-ed that approximately 25
out of 12 million college students
die from alcohol-related incidents
(which may include more than
straight alcohol poisoning) every
year. I am quite willing to bet that
more than 50 college students reach
a BAC of > .40 every year.
The reason the report of this stu-
dent’s BAC came from the hospital
and not the morgue is that those
same Stanford students who drink
in a self-serving manner called 911
when they suspected that their
friend had drunk too much precise-
ly so he/she/ze would not die, de-
spite the administration’s inevitable
knowledge of it and all the fallout
that might result.That student’s sur-
vival was most certainly not a coin
flip.
Despite the fact that alcohol is a
drug, and that no one blames the
dealer whenever there’s a cocaine
overdose, the exceptionally learned
Dr. Nass still chastises students who
“knowingly” provide “a dangerous
amount of alcohol to the student
who becomes intoxicated.”With the
exception of some pledge horror
stories, no one at Stanford gives
people drinks that will take some-
one to .40. (For the record, that’s
eight shots in an hour for someone
who’s 90 pounds.)
A more likely culprit was some
unattended hard alcohol that the
hospitalee, who had pre-gamed be-
forehand, was still fiending for
when he/she/ze showed up at the
party. I think I missed the part in the
SAL Party Guide that requires
breathalyzer tests upon entry and
that the hosts conduct regular
sweeps for hard A, so where was the
Fundamental Standard violation
again?
But the provider should be irrel-
evant, because in your worldview,
all people with integrity would have
called the RF after they saw this
person “drinking extremely large
quantities of alcohol over a short
period of time” (because I’m sure
you really want to be called every
time that happens to one of your
residents), and upon notification,
what exactly would this clearly
more knowledgeable professor
have done? Probably call 911,which
is what happened to the student in
question in the first place. It is not
the job of every party attendant to
babysit everyone else. At the very
least, don’t hate on the kids who are
doing the right thing by walking
their friend home.
And if his affinity for the word
“nonsense” hadn’t already done so,
his plagiarism analogy fully betrays
his perspective as Angry, Out-of-
Touch Old Man Yelling at Whipper-
snappers. First off, no one plagia-
rizes from a book anymore, unless
it’s been uploaded to the Internet.
Second, the fluid and mobile nature
of parties means that usually no one
is aware of the entire contents of
someone’s stomach on any given
night. According to his logic,
Peter
McDonald
Where was the
Fundamental
Standard
violation again?
though, upon witnessing someone
copy and paste two sentences from
Wikipedia, I should be able to claim
with authority that he/she/ze plagia-
rized the entire paper.
I’m sure Dr. Nass is a competent
and fair RF. In a profile in 2008 he
admirably said that his residents
“need to feel that they’re not going
to be yelled at.” In Monday’s op-ed,
he’s yelling at them and the entire
student body and throwing around
his authority as a University-desig-
nated parent who deserves to know
about every drop of alcohol con-
sumed by his residents.
As long as there’s an environ-
ment where the oh-so-nebulous
Fundamental Standard gets bran-
dished as a blunt weapon and where
the only people whose job it is to
watch residents (i.e. the RAs) can’t
do so in drinking environments,
that’s not going to happen. I know
it’s easy to sit in one’s cottage and
make broad moral judgments about
students at some of the more vul-
nerable moments in their lives, but I
wish that the next time he’s feeling
curmudgeonly, he just channels it
into more research about how kids
are dumber today because they like
to multitask. I really would rather
be writing about hot prowls this
week, but when all my classmates
and I are told that we lack integrity,
I feel the need to defend them.
Shots, shots, shots shots shots, shots,
shots, shots shots shots shots, every-
body. petermc@stanford.edu.

F OREIGN C ORRESPONDENCE Evan Spiegel ‘12

Saturday Morning in Cape Town

I
t’s 9 a.m. on Saturday morning,
and I’m at the Cape Town
minibus taxi rank. It’s already
sunny out, and the wind is strong. My
friend and I walk towards the Nyan-
ga line, and as we approach we are
beckoned into the minibus at the
front of the line.
I move to the back and sit in the
fourth and last row. My friend and I
are squished between two Xhosa-
speaking high school girls. More pas-
sengers pile into the bus. Fourteen,
fifteen, sixteen, seventeen . . . the
rows magically accommodate more
people. A man moves an orange,
cloth-covered board into place in a
gap in the row in front of us to accom-
modate yet another passenger.
All five rows of the bus are filled,
including the front row that accom-
modates the driver on the far right.
The heat inside the small bus is start-
ing to intensify,and I can feel beads of
sweat on my forehead.The open win-
dow nearest to me can’t provide re-
lief from the hot sun beating down on
the taxi rank.
We are pressed so tightly together
that I have to shift my body sideways
so that I can force my hand deep
enough into my pocket to retrieve 20
rand to pay the driver our fare.
I notice a bright green parrot sit-
ting on top of the driver’s seat,next to
the headrest, staring down the pas-
sengers as they cram into the
minibus.When we finally get moving,
the parrot braces itself between the
headrest of the driver’s seat and the
side of the minibus — its bright
green body is held sideways through
each quick turn and its long tail
brushes the drivers face.
I point it out to the girl next to me,
and she claims she’s never seen one
on a minibus before.
We drive quickly out of the sta-
tion, barely allowing a glimpse of the
tall office buildings and clean streets
of the city bowl as we get on the free-
way.Suddenly the suburbs fade away,
and in their place, on either side of
the N2 freeway, metal shacks are
lined up as far as the eye can see. On
a bright white cement wall, a black
serif font with perfectly formed let-
ters reads, “with you I am well
pleased.”
We’re getting close to Nyanga
now.
Cape Town’s minibuses form the
dense transportation network that
connects the glittering city and
beaches with the abject poverty of
the marginalized communities in the
Cape Flats. It’s the only way to get to
Nyanga without hiring a car — the
metered taxis don’t drive out here.
Sitting in the bus and looking out
the window, I am acutely aware that
my skin color makes me a minority
and that my nationality makes me a
stranger. It’s thrilling to be surround-
ed by so many unfamiliar faces.
When we finally arrive at the bus
station, we’re late for church — it’s
9:30 now.
The church elders greet us at the
bus station and drive us quickly to the
primary school classroom that dou-
bles as a worship space for the church
on Saturdays.The altar is a worktable
covered in purple velvet, and 50 plas-
tic chairs are assembled in three sec-
tions with aisles in between. Forty of
them are filled with members of the
congregation.
Two men deliver the sermon, al-
ternating between Xhosa and Eng-
lish, and tell the story of Nabal and
Abigail, David and the Eagle Chick-
en. The men go back and forth, and
their intensity builds.We sing along in
English, our voices mingling with the
Xhosa hymns filling the room.
As the church service enters its
third hour, my thoughts start to drift
and I remember the bright green par-
rot on the minibus. I really need to
start writing these things down.
Do you enjoy bus rides? Let Evan
Spiegel know at
espiegel@stanford.edu.
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Stanford.
“Stanford students are going to
be future leaders of the country and
the world,” Jensen said. “I hope
there’s a careful eye in the way that
we look at this.”
Committee members said open
discourse with the Stanford commu-
nity will inform their final decision.
“The issue of discrimination has
been front and center,” said Eamonn
Callan, committee member and edu-
cation professor.
“The fact-finding phase is a phase
during which we have a responsibili-
ty to keep an open mind,” Callan
added when asked more specifically
about the committee’s findings thus
far. “It’s our responsibility to listen,
and that’s why we’re here tonight.”
Senator Juany Torres ‘13 quoted
President Obama’s State of the
Union address on Tuesday evening,
when he said, “Starting this year, no
American will be forbidden from
serving the country they love be-
cause of who they love, and with that
change, I call on all our college cam-
Walk the Line
Roberto Goizueta, left, and Blake Crowe, right, walk a tightrope in the grass fields near Meyer Library. Though they consider tightrope walking
“just a hobby,” the two practice it often. “Whenever there’s sun, we’ll be out there,” they said.
puses to open their doors to our mil-
itary recruiters and ROTC. It is time
to leave behind the divisive battles of
the past.It is time to move forward as
one nation.”
Gelber said the president’s re-
marks reflect the “university grap-
pling with changing perspectives,”
along with the country as a whole.
Janani Balasubramanian ‘12 of
SSQL later questioned whether
Obama’s “one nation”includes those
who are transgender.
Student representatives from
SSQL raised the issue of military dis-
crimination against transgender indi-
viduals.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 ! 5
“We feel that bringing back
ROTC, a program that specifically
says transgender people are not al-
lowed, is a violation of [the Universi-
ty’s] non-discrimination policy,” Bal-
asubramanian said.
“We are appalled at how this de-
bate is being moved away from an
issue of discrimination, which it fun-
damentally is,” said Alok Vaid-
Menon ‘13, president of SSQL.
Gelber urged the senators to re-
member that there will be “some
pain for some constituencies” pas-
sionate about ROTC regardless of
the committee’s findings.
The committee is expected to re-
port is findings in May.
The Senate passed two bills Tues-
day evening, one to expand the re-
sponsibilities of the Communica-
tions Committee to include technol-
ogy and another altering the conflict-
of-interests section in the Senate
rules of order, no longer requiring
senators to report their officer titles
in student groups but accepting
membership as a bar to assess con-
flicts of interest.
All funding bills for the evening
were passed.
Contact Margaret Rawson at
marawson@stanford.edu.
BRYANT TAN/The Stanford Daily
6 ! Wednesday, January 26, 2011
SPORTS
The future is
BRIGHT
BY CAROLINE CASELLI
DESK EDITOR
A
aron Bright has three goals
for his Stanford career: win
a national championship,
get his degree — “My mom
would kill me if I didn’t get
my degree!” — and be considered an
All-Pac-10 player by the time that he
graduates.
Though all three may seem like long-
term aspirations for the freshman from
Bellevue, Wash., Bright — whose bas-
ketball career began at the young age of
three — is already well on his way to
carving out a niche as a major contribu-
tor on this year’s Stanford men’s basket-
ball team.
In his inaugural collegiate season,
Bright has already tallied significant
minutes on the court — the point guard
has played in all 18 of the Card’s games
thus far, earning starts in seven, and is
averaging 20.1 minutes per game, sec-
ond among all underclassmen. He
boasts a team-high 91.7-percent foul-
shot percentage, has dished out 42 assists
and is the team’s third-best from behind
the arc, with 18 three-pointers on the
year.
“Aaron is a terrific player, and
we’re very excited about his up-
side,” said head coach Johnny
Dawkins. “He’s a young man
who is very versatile. Even
though he’s a point guard, he’s a
capable shooter, he’s really quick,
he’s capable of getting to the basket and
making plays for
himself or his
t e a m m a t e s.
He brings the
ability to
make us
better.”
His sta-
tistics and
accolades
from Dawkins
are all the more
impressive consider-
ing that Bright has had to adjust to a
completely different role on the court —
from the leading scorer of his high
school team to a primary distributor in
college — within a matter of months, a
transition that he described as “a little
CARD STINGS HORNETS
By DASH DAVIDSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The No. 8 Stanford men’s tennis team
opened its dual-match season at home on
Tuesday afternoon with a resounding victo-
ry over Sacramento State at the Taube Fam-
ily Tennis Center. The Cardinal swept all
nine matches, resulting in a 7-0 victory over
the visiting Hornets.
Stanford did not drop a set on the day,
with junior Bradley Klahn,senior Greg Hir-
shman, sophomore Matt Kandath and sen-
ior Alex Clayton only dropping three games
each. Overall, the Cardinal outscored the
Hornets by 66 games, 97-31.
Stanford head coach John Whitlinger
spoke highly of his team’s performance.
“I was really pleased with our effort
today, regardless of the scores of the match-
es,” Whitlinger said. “I thought our guys
competed well, played well and were really
focused on the job at hand.”
There was little for Whitlinger to com-
plain about,but the veteran coach saw room
for improvement in the Cardinal’s debut.
“We have things we could work on,”
Whitlinger said. “I think there were some
nerves at the beginning for a couple guys,
but they settled down and looked good.
We’re just going to keep on working on im-
proving everybody’s game, mentally and
physically and technically. I’m looking for-
ward to our two matches this weekend.”
Tuesday’s victory was a great start for the
Cardinal in what promises to be an impor-
tant week. Friday brings a visit from Santa
Clara, followed quickly by Saturday’s
matchup against either Nebraska or Van-
derbilt.All of Friday and Saturday’s match-
es will be held at Taube Family Tennis Cen-
ter.
Whitlinger stressed that winning Tues-
day’s match in dominant fashion was a nec-
essary start to a challenging week.
“We’re just trying to get our feet under-
neath us, to maybe get a little confidence,
and then we just got to go out and perform,”
he said.“We have some tough matches com-
ing up.You better be ready for every match
you play.That’s all I can ask of the guys.”
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@stan-
ford.edu.
The Stanford Daily
Kabir
BCS hurts
Sawhney
Follow the Money
academic
bit” tough.
“In high school,
my role was to
score the ball,”
Bright ex- success
L
plained. “Then
when I came ike any self-respecting col-
here, my role lege football fan,I loathe the
changed dra- Bowl Championship Series.
m a t i c a l l y. I could probably spend an
I’m not the eternity going off on the sys-
first option tem’s many, many faults, including its
to score abominable “Every Game Counts”
anymore. slogan — I would love to see BCS ex-
My main ecutive director Bill Hancock go to
job is to Fort Worth,Texas and explain to TCU
set how all of its 13 victories and zero loss-
guys up, es counted when it got frozen out of a
and I’m chance to win a national title.
not really the The flaw to which I would like to
focus of attention bring attention today concerns aca-
on offense.” demics — specifically, how the BCS
In addition to his sig- contributes to undermining the “stu-
nificant role change, dent” part of “student-athlete.” Han-
Bright has also become cock and the BCS even go one step fur-
keenly aware of the in- ther, claiming that the BCS actually
creased physical and men- benefits the academic lives of students,
tal demands of Division I while a proposed eight- or 16-team
ball in comparison to his prep playoff would do a great deal of harm
career. by cutting into the academic calendar.
“I think the hardest Yet,despite all of this,I am fairly confi-
part of transitioning from high dent that the BCS does just as much
school to college is how every- harm to the academic missions of its
thing is so intense,” Bright ex- member universities as any playoff
plained. “In high school you think would.
you’re going hard,but then you go back to Let’s start with this year’s BCS Na-
your high school and you realize, ‘I had it tional Championship Game, held on
way easier than what I thought.’ Every- Jan. 10 in Glendale, Ariz. One of the
thing is faster and more intense and more participants,Oregon,had classes start a
tiring.” week before the game, meaning that
The sharp-shooting point guard stands players had to miss an entire week of
out from his teammates on the court for a class while they practiced and pre-
number of reasons, from his quickness to Stanford Daily File Photo pared for the title game (which they
his bicep tattoo to his stature. Listed at 5- lost to Auburn, 22-19). Forcing players
foot-11, Bright is physically smaller than to miss an entire week of classes at the
many of his peers, a characteristic that he start of a semester doesn’t really ap-
has both struggled with and learned to use pear to serve the academic mission of
to his advantage. the University of Oregon in any dis-
“On defense I just really try and pres- cernable way, especially when the rea-
sure the ball and use my quickness,” he sons for the game’s late date are purely
said. “I’m already low to the ground, so I commercial.
kind of have an advantage in that aspect, In fact, if given one question to ask
and if guys try to like post me up or, you Bill Hancock,I would ask him to point
know, get real close to the basket then I out exactly how playing the game a
just get low and they can’t get the ball. week after the start of the semester
helps to preserve the integrity of the ac-
Please see BRIGHT, page 8 ademic calendar. After all, the game
could have been played on or around
New Year’s Day, which falls squarely
inside the winter break of virtually
every university in the FBS.Blathering
on about preserving “traditions”, as
Hancock is wont to do, wouldn’t cut it
either,since the BCS title game is a fair-
ly new creation with no history or tradi-
tion to speak of. Of course, he could
point to the early January bowl games,
but excuse me if I don’t find it especial-
ly necessary to uphold the grand tradi-
tions of the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.
Indeed, playing the game that late
automatically knocks out the BCS’s
own argument against a playoff: that it
would disrupt athletes’ class schedules.
In a playoff, most of the games would
be played over winter break, with per-
haps one game intruding into the first
week of January, precisely when every
BCS game is played.
The BCS also causes intrusions dur-
ing the regular season, when smaller
schools routinely play games on week-
nights to get exposure on national tele-
vision.In the BCS’s system of selecting
schools for games by their poll posi-
tion, it helps if as many voters as possi-
ble can see a team play.For schools that
aren’t name brands, the only way to
make this happen is to play on a week-
night.
Earlier this year at the University of
Washington, a controversy erupted
over whether afternoon classes and as-
signments would be dismissed to ac-
commodate a Thursday game on cam-
pus.The school chose to continue aca-
demics as usual, but professors saw
empty classrooms and lecture halls as a
large number of students chose to at-
tend the game instead of class. Of
course,playing games during the week
has a disproportionate effect on the
athletes as well,since they have to cram
in more practice time during the short
week,miss class on game day and have
to go to class the very next morning.
If nothing else, academic concerns
should prompt university presidents
and chancellors to push the BCS to
make changes to the system.At a min-
imum, the national title game and all
other BCS bowls should be played
when every NCAA school is on winter
break. However, only a playoff can
truly eliminate all of the academic
problems the BCS brings on by dimin-
ishing the influence of polls on the se-
lection process and allowing teams to
prove their merits on the field.
FRANK NOTHAFT/The Stanford Daily
Kabir Sawhney wants you to believe
The No. 8 Stanford men’s tennis team began dual-match play with a convincing win over Sacramen- that he’s never prioritized football over
to State on Tuesday. No Cardinal player lost a set during the afternoon match, with the team winning school. Call his bluff at ksawhney@
97 of 128 games in singles play. stanford.edu.
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BRIGHT
Continued from page 6

“It’s been hard because I can’t do

the stuff that I could do in high school
in college,”he added.“In high school,
I could just go by my man,lay the ball
up and not have to worry about it.
Now if I go by my man, I’m going to
get my shot blocked or something.So
I just have to find alternative ways to
score and make my team successful.”
But blocked shots and competi-
tive Pac-10 foes are just some of the
new challenges that the freshman
faces. Not only does Bright have to
adjust to a new life on the Farm, he
has to do so while balancing the rig-
orous task of being both a Stanford
student and athlete, with little free
time to relax in between.
“I usually wake up,go to class and
then after class, I’ll go shoot,” he de-
scribed.“And then after I shoot,we’ll
have practice, and after practice, we
go eat at Jimmy V’s — by that time
it’s probably 8:00 or 8:30.Then home-
work, and then it’s a wrap.”
“So just class, shoot, practice,
that’s my day,” he laughed.
But in many ways, Bright — who
insists that he is no celebrity in his
FloMo dorm — is not so different
from his non-athlete peers.He is still
undecided about what he plans to
study (after a brief dabble in psy-
chology, he is now considering
music), he can’t get enough of the
blue skies and sunshine in January
and appreciates the opportunity to
“take a nap here and there” in the
middle of the day. He enjoys shop-
ping and weekend dinner outings to
University Avenue.
He is less fond, however, of the
lengthy cross-campus bike rides that
he makes every day between Maples
Pavilion and his residence.
“Biking after practice is so tiring.
You do not want to do it,” he said.
“It’s like a legit 10-minute bike ride.
It’s uphill and the campus is so big.
And I don’t like it.”
Bike woes aside, Bright’s primary
focus for this season is to improve
himself as a player.
“I mainly just want to get better
and to secure a starting position,” he
said.“I don’t want to put a lot of pres-
sure on myself because then I’ll start
playing badly.I just want to get better
and see where that leads.
“And to make the crowd like me,”
he added with a smile.

Contact Caroline Caselli at caro-

linecaselli@stanford.edu.