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January 31, 2011 Issue 1

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Cantor art Arts Initiative eyes GSB

Group envisions current buildings as part of planned arts district
draws on By ZOE LEAVITT
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
domino effect across campus, as
other departments and offices
shuffle into the newly vacated
tion, we hope to create a vibrant
environment that connects well to
the surrounding area of campus.”
Wolf, co-director of the Stanford
Arts Initiative.
According to Wolf, the district

technology As the completion of the fu-

Museum adds online
catalogs, video displays
By MATT BETTONVILLE
DESK EDITOR
An art museum is not the first place
most students go to find new uses for tech-
nology. However, Cantor Arts Center is
implementing several new initiatives to
augment and expand the museum experi-
ence, including Google mapping, gallery
ture home of the Stanford Gradu-
ate School of Business looms, an-
ticipation is heating up among
groups vying to take over the
school’s current buildings. How-
ever, the biggest change that this
transition might bring to campus
is the creation of a new arts hub.
The new Knight Management
Center opened the doors to four
of its eight buildings in January
and will open the rest in March.
The GSB’s move will create a
spaces.
Decisions about which depart-
ments will gain access to the
school’s current buildings —
namely, GSB South and the Lit-
tlefield Management Center —
remain in the application process.
“The decision will be made
based on programmatic priorities,
the best fit and most efficient use
of the space,” wrote Laura Gold-
stein, a building project manager,
in an e-mail to The Daily. “As it is
an important and prominent loca-
The development of an arts
district, which has been under
consideration for several years
and was approved by the Office of
the President, is one possibility.
The Cantor Arts Center, the new
Bing Concert Hall and offices in
the current GSB buildings would
serve as cornerstones for the dis-
trict.
“In the same way we have an
engineering quad on campus,
we’ll have an area where the arts
are concentrated,” said Bryan
UNIVERSITY
would be an area “saturated with
arts activity.”
“It faces out to Palo Alto so it
will be the part that greets the
community, an announcement to
the world about the importance of
[the] arts and their centrality to
the vision of Stanford education,”
he added.
The Arts Initiative, established
in Oct. 2006, hopes that the dis-
trict will enhance opportunities
Please see GSB, page 3

video displays and online visual catalogs.
“It’s about providing another way to
get people to interact with the art,” said
Oliver O’Donnell, Cantor outdoor sculp-
ture technician, of the new technologies.
“They’re ways of trying to get you to slow
down and look at the art.”
Video screens mounted beside the typ-
ical museum gallery display plaques are
meant to provide museumgoers with a
more immersive experience into the back-
ground,process and history of the artwork.
“It’s just to create an opportunity for an
interaction with the viewer, so that you’re
not just going into the gallery and standing
in front of the artwork and being ennobled
by its presence,” O’Donnell said. “You’re
interacting with it on some more involved
level.”
Cantor administrative associate Kristin
Olson, who headed up the video screen
project, said that the museum installed
video screens based on which pieces
begged for additional information. The
videos range in content from footage of
artists such as Alice Neel in the process of
painting the works on display to explana-
tions of some newer pieces of art,including
Bay Area-artist Richard Diebenkorn.Ac-
cording to Olson, this should help some
viewers who might otherwise struggle to
appreciate the art.
Cantor is also using Quick Response
(QR) codes alongside its artwork to direct
patrons’ smartphones to websites or
videos that may supplement their museum
experience. Olson said that QR codes are
going to see much greater implementation
in the near future.
QR codes incorporate the Web with the
internal experience of the museum, but
outside in the Rodin Sculpture Garden,
Olson is taking things a step further. The
outdoor collection can be viewed entirely
on Google maps.The purpose of the map-
ping project is to provide a paperless alter-
native to the hard copy maps that the mu-
seum has available; however, it also allows
access to photos of the sculpture collection
from anywhere by hovering a mouse over
a map location.
The next major project currently un-
derway for the museum is an online cata-
ECDC on
track for
fall opening
New East Campus dining
hall will relieve pressure on
Stern, Wilbur Dining
By ELLORA ISRANI
STAFF WRITER
Stanford Dining expects the new East Cam-
pus Dining Commons (ECDC) to open its
doors in late summer 2011, slightly ahead of its
projected completion date. ECDC will serve
the approximately 600 residents in Crothers
and Toyon, and will be located between those
two residence halls.
“We have passed several significant mile-
stones in the project,” wrote Eric Montell, ex-
ecutive director of Stanford Dining, in an e-
mail to the Daily. “The project, construction
and operations team are keeping the opening
date on target.”
Montell also said that the complex would
stay within the $20.3 million budget approved
by the Board of Trustees.
“Considering that the project didn’t start
too long ago, it’s been amazing progress,” said
Aditya Singh ‘13, head dining ambassador.
Catering to students
According to Stanford Dining’s website,
ECDC is “designed to accentuate both sustain-
able building and food programs.” It will not
have a cultural focus similar to those at other
dining halls — for example, FloMo’s Indian
KYLE ANDERSON/The Stanford Daily night, Wilbur’s pan-Asian cuisine or Stern’s
The Cardinal got a huge boost on Satuday night from Anthony Brown (No. 3). The freshman Mexican focus.
forward, making his first career start, posted 21 points and eight rebounds in the win. “Generally, the way we go about doing
these specialized dinners . . . is once the dining
hall has been opened, we have a menu which is

Please see CANTOR, page 3
NEWS BRIEFS
Kappa Sigma retains
charter after conference
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Kappa Sigma returned yesterday from
its conference before the national
Supreme Executive Committee (SEC)
with its charter intact. The fraternity’s on-
campus housing remains at the discretion
of the University.
The fraternity was placed on provision-
al alcohol and party suspension last Octo-
ber for violating the Controlled Sub-
stances and Alcohol Policy.Student groups
that breach this policy risk suspension of
social privileges and loss of University
recognition and housing.
Kappa Sigma allegedly hosted an un-
registered event during New Student Ori-
entation, which is a “dry” week. Stanford
subsequently ruled that the fraternity
could not host large-scale events in which
alcohol is served or consumed.
This weekend’s conference,which took
Please see CHARTER, page 2
ABOUT TIME
Card bashes Beavers, snaps losing streak
By ZACH ZIMMERMAN
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Freshman forward Anthony Brown
recorded career highs on Saturday night with
21 points and eight rebounds, helping the
Stanford men’s basketball team beat Oregon
State, 70-56, and snap a four-game losing
streak.
The Cardinal (11-9, 4-5 Pac-10) surpassed
60 points for the first time in eight games be-
hind 50-percent shooting from the field.
Brown, who notched his first start of the sea-
son, hit seven of his 11 attempts in 37 minutes
of action.
“It’s great to get the W,” Brown said.“It’s
been a long time since we got a win. I just
wanted to be a sparkplug. I tried to be a lit-
tle more vocal and get everyone to keep
fighting.”
Stanford head coach Johnny Dawkins had
high praise for his emerging freshman star.
Please see MBBALL, page 8
a general menu,” Singh said. “Then we try to
accommodate a specialty depending on the
staff and the demand that we have.”
“It’s supposed to be an award-winning com-
plex,” said Cindy Chang ‘14, dining ambassa-
dor for Stern Hall.
“There’s also a servery, a wellness room
[and] late night at Stern would be shifted,”
Singh said of the new dining commons. In addi-
tion, east campus residents would also have ac-
cess to the complex’s lounge and study areas.
MEN’S BASKETBALL “Students who stay on Escondido Road end
up studying in libraries, and sometimes you
1/29 vs. OREGON STATE W 70-56 need this kind of environment,” Singh said.
He added that Dining is also “seriously de-
UP NEXT bating” creating a 24-hour eatery in ECDC.
Dining’s head “cuisine team” — including
its head chef and chief nutritionist — will be
ARIZONA housed in the complex. Its core management
team will not move, but Dining hopes the
(18-4, 7-2 Pac-10) change will make the organization more acces-
2/3 Maples Pavilion sible to students.
6 P.M. “It’s going to be, from the management
point of view, one of the two pivot points of
COVERAGE: Stanford Dining on campus,” Singh said.
RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM “Right now, our head office is at Pampas Lane,
(kzsu.stanford.edu) near the Archery Field, which is kind of far
away for students to go to.”
GAME NOTES: After snapping a four-game losing streak
against Oregon State, the Cardinal will return to Fixing capacity issues
Maples Pavilion to host the Arizona Wildcats this
Thursday. The Wildcats are second in the Pac-10 The new dining hall will ease pressure on
standings and are coming off a sweep of the Los Wilbur and Stern, each of which serves about
Angeles schools.
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CHARTER
Continued from front page
place in Las Vegas,mainly focused on
how Kappa Sigma’s Stanford chapter
can more closely abide by national
guidelines. The meeting had tangen-
tial implications for the chapter’s vio-
lation of Stanford’s alcohol policy.
“We were called to present why
we deserve our charter,” said Sam
Gould ‘11 of the meeting.
Had its charter been revoked, the
fraternity would have been at greater
risk of losing its campus housing.Ac-
cording to Kappa Sigma president
ECDC
Continued from front page
1,000 students per meal. By com-
parison, FloMo serves 350 students
per meal.
“That is the one main reason
why East Campus Dining Com-
mons is being built — so it diverts
the main population of Crothers,
CroMem and Toyon into ECDC,”
Singh said. “Because we already
have Branner Dining, Manzanita
Dining, Wilbur and Stern, it’ll be
the fifth dining hall in the same
row.”
According to Singh, an addition-
al east campus dining commons is
necessary “because so many stu-
dents stay there.”
Prior to this year, Linx at Toyon
served as a fifth dining hall option
for Escondido Road residents, but
Stanford Dining chose to close the
facility last fall despite capacity is-
sues at Stern.
“We weren’t getting enough
people over there. It wasn’t turning
out to be a viable business option,”
Singh said. “Sometimes, we used to
get like 50 students at a meal.When
you’re talking about a mass busi-
ness like Stanford Dining, the cost-
benefit doesn’t work out.”
Since then, Linx has been used
as a study space for Toyon resi-
dents; according to Montell, the
space is referred to as “Toyonito.”
Montell added that Dining is
making an effort to offset the strain
on the current dining halls, adding
The Stanford Daily
Celebrating the Undead
Brian Barnes ‘12, this is no longer a
main concern.
Since the fraternity will retain its
charter, the disciplinary meeting
“does not reflect on the current case”
with the University of maintaining
campus housing, Barnes said.
Speaking on the future of Kappa
Sigma’s presence on campus, former
president Harris Brown ‘11 was opti-
mistic about finding a solution.
“We view it as privilege to have a
place that we can call ‘home,’”Brown
wrote in an e-mail to The Daily. “As
such, we look forward to remaining
in our house for the foreseeable fu-
ture.”
— An Le Nguyen
additional staff and hours at Stern,
Branner and Manzanita. Addition-
ally, Manzanita is now open seven
days a week and serves breakfast
on weekdays.
“The dining rooms in Stern, with
the additional tables and chairs,
have enough capacity to accommo-
date 80 percent of the students liv-
MEHMET INONU/Staff Photographer
ing in Stern, Crothers and Crothers
Memorial at one time,” Montell Professor Steve Watt of Indiana University gave a lecture in Cubberley Auditorium on Friday night titled “The Histo-
said. “This is identical in seating ca- ry of Zombieland: Or Why it’s So Much Fun to Kill the Undead.” A screening of Zombieland followed the lecture.
pacity to all of the other Stanford
dining halls.”
Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-
ford.edu.
Correction
In the feature “Gearing up to take
flight” (Jan. 28), The Daily incorrect-
ly referred to Euphonix, a company
co-founded by Professor of Aero-
nautics and Astronautics Andrew
Kalman ‘85, as “Euphonics.”
The Stanford Daily
Chinese Spring Festival Gala
To celebrate Chinese New Year, which falls on Feb. 3, the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Stanford hosted a gala event on Sunday night
in Memorial Auditorium. The event featured traditional Chinese song, dance, drama and instrumental performances to bring in the Year of the Rabbit.
GSB
Continued from front page
for interdisciplinary work and
make the arts more accessible for
the student body and the Palo Alto
community.The goal is that the dis-
trict will encourage synergies be-
tween classroom work and ex-
tracurricular arts activity.
The tentative plan includes a
new classroom building next to the
Cantor Arts Center, which would
allow classes to better integrate the
art displayed there with curricula.
The initiative intends to use space
in the GSB’s current Littlefield
buildings for administrative offices,
offices for fellows and multipur-
pose classrooms.
Arts walks — outdoor spaces
with sculpture and performance art
leading viewers from the Bing Con-
cert Hall to Cantor and around the
rest of the district — would also
provide students a chance to design
outdoor projects and enhance art
around campus.
Matthew Tiews, executive direc-
tor of arts programs, said that the
new buildings would make a
“major statement about the arts”
The Graduate School of Business South, above, is the current home of the
GSB, as the school’s classes and administration remain in the process of
moving to the Knight Management Center. The Stanford Arts Initiative is a
strong contender to occupy the building once the GSB completes the move.
and could mobilize arts program-
ming at Stanford.
IT
“It will raise the profile of arts
on campus,so we’re very,very excit-
ed about that,” Tiews said.
The full timeline for the arts dis-
trict stretches over the next 10 to 15
PREVENT WILDFIRES.
years, and the program’s applica-
tion for the current GSB buildings
is not yet confirmed. The decision-
making timeline with regards to al-
location of the GSB’s current space
is still indeterminate.
However, Wolf is confident that
the administration had integrated
the idea of an arts district into its
overall goals for the University.
“Because the space is so valu-
able, I’m sure many groups will
want it, but it seems fairly clear
we’ll be moving in,”Wolf said.“The
University has been very commit-
ted to maintaining the strength of
the Arts Department and expand-
ing it in tough budgetary times.”
Tiews said the University is be-
coming a model for expanding art
imitative throughout campus. He
mentioned that Harvard, which has
been considering a similar district
on its campus, recently came to
Stanford for advice and ideas.
Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@
stanford.edu.
MEHMET INONU/Staff Photographer
Monday, January 31, 2011 ! 3
CANTOR
Continued from front page
log of the more than 20,000 works in
Cantor. Cantor administrative serv-
ices manager Susan Roberts-Man-
ganelli described the initiative as an
online, public view of the entire mu-
seum containing photos of each
piece along with “tombstone infor-
mation” like name, artist, medium
and dates.
“It’s to create...
interaction with
the viewer.”
— OLIVER O’DONNELL
Photos are taken in a studio set up
in the basement of Cantor.The entire
collection will cycle through the stu-
dio over the course of the next three
to four years. She said that Harvard
and Princeton both have online col-
lections and putting Stanford’s on-
line was a natural step.
In addition to allowing access to
Cantor’s collection from anywhere,
photo libraries limit the amount of
handling and wear on a piece of art.
“The idea is before you come
here you can look it up online,”
Roberts-Manganelli said. “You can
find out what you want to see, what
you want to know,where it is and you
can come here and go directly to it.”
Olson said that the trend toward
higher-tech has not pervaded most
classical museums, but that many
JENNY CHEN/The Stanford Daily museums of contemporary art have
embraced putting video and other
supplemental material alongside
their artwork.
“Because we’re a university mu-
only TAKES A SPARK.
seum, we have this comfort with try-
ing different things and looking at
how people learn,” Olson said.
“We’re not going to be plugging
everything into the wall, but there
Please will be places to sit down and watch
video and places to sit down and lis-
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OPINIONS
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Editor’s Welcome
T
his might be a bit cliché. The
guy that has spent nearly his
entire Daily existence in the
sports department is going to begin the
new volume with a sports analogy.
Bear with me.
As a young football player pursu-
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Sure,he was quick as lightning,but at
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pounds, he was a boy trying to make
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But he kept working, kept im-
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During an exhibition game in
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Twenty-five years later, Green’s
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“They said no.He said go.”
The Stanford Daily can learn a lot
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We’re not the biggest,not the rich-
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T HE T RANSITIVE P ROPERTY
Homecoming
S
o, last week I went to my high
school to speak about my expe-
rience as a trans person. I know
that nobody is really what they were
like in high school — but for me, it
was kind of extreme. I don’t think
many people switch genders after
they graduate. (During my high
school years, I went by my former
name and gender pronouns.) So
going back was, to say the least, per-
haps one of the stranger things I’ve
experienced in my life.
I’ll admit that I was pretty miser-
able during high school. I had low
self-esteem, I was confused about
my body and I had friends who
taught me I didn’t deserve to be
happy and that I’d never be good
enough for anyone. I was also
stressed out all the time — try tak-
ing every AP and honors class pos-
sible, playing sports, plus working as
editor in chief of the school newspa-
per (Stanford students,I’m sure that
you can relate wholeheartedly).
Part of me is surprised I managed to
get out of it alive.
Coming back was strange. Ms.
Dwyer, my former honors English
teacher (and I admit, the person
who started my love for English),
met me at the front desk, and we
headed toward the room where I
was going to speak. I passed by
classroom after classroom, recalling
I had English there, AP U.S. history
there. I remembered where my old
locker was. I could even recall
where I sat during class. The bell
rang the same incessant ring that
had separated my days into chunks
and made each day rhythmic and fa-
miliar — and the high schoolers
streamed out, clutching their books,
talking among themselves, opening
and slamming shut lockers, walking
like turtles with their overstuffed
backpacks.They were so young, and
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yet, I remembered when I was that
young — I remembered when I was
always nervous, always risking dam-
age to my spine from carrying
around more books than recom-
mended by an orthopedic doctor. It
was all so familiar.
But at the same time, it didn’t
feel like my school at all. It was as if
some phantom had occupied this
space of me while I was in high
school, and I could no longer claim
this space as my own. The soul who
currently took up my body was
merely a shell of who I was back
then — or maybe back then I was
merely a shell of who I am now. Ei-
ther way, the person who had gone
to high school in my body and the
person now seemed like two com-
pletely different people — hell,
they literally were two different
people.
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.
No doubt, I did feel old. I thought
that I’d get maybe a max of 10 stu-
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amusement and horror, that my visit
had been publicized school-wide.
My arrival was announced on their
school-wide television broadcasts
and everything.And when I arrived,
each chair was occupied — we had a
full house.And I was terrified.
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sentence “Hi,I’m Cris.I’m a senior at
Stanford studying English and femi-
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A IN ’ T N O S UCH T HING AS A F REE LUNCH
The Teaching Conundrum
I
t sounds great on the campus tour. The enthusiastic
tour guide tells you how amazing it is to have class-
es taught by real professors, researchers exploring
the cutting edge of their field. Sounds like a great idea. Zack Hoberg
And it isn’t until a couple years later that you realize
how risky this is. & Dave Grundfest
There are just so many things that can, and will, go
wrong. Does your professor care at all about the class?
If you were doing groundbreaking research on the
topology of moduli spaces, how interested would you
be in teaching basic linear algebra? The same applies
cause tangents are almost invariably more interesting
than the math. It stops being fine, however, weeks later
for physics, economics, computer science or any intro- when you have to maximize a multivariable function on
ductory engineering class.
Second, there’s personality. Some people, brilliance
aside, have personalities that are simply incompatible
the final and realize that the lecture when that was sup-
posed to be covered was instead spent talking about Pe-
ruvian dye.
with lecture-format teaching. This commonly presents Finally, perhaps the most pervasive: the language
itself as the absent-minded professor. They start off ex- problem. Everybody has experienced this at least once.
plaining how to take the partial derivative of a function, Your professor is almost certainly brilliant, and hell,
leading into a topography example, but get derailed let’s give him the benefit of the doubt, good at teaching
talking about the construction of terraces in mountain- introductory classes. In another language. In English,
ous agrarian societies, which quickly gives way to a dis- however, he speaks with such a heavy accent that your
cussion about prehistoric art and the types of dyes used only hope of deciphering the lecture is one of the head-
and the potential modern application of ancient build- phones they use at the U.N. General Assembly. Better
ing technologies in third world villages. This is all good hope that the lecture notes are really good and posted
and well for the academic process — go ahead, publish online. But on the bright side, this does help you justify
a paper about the application of math on issues of rural sleeping in, or through, class (as if you need any extra
development, people will eat that up, after all, it’s inter-
disciplinary — and fine for the students at the time, be- Please see TEACHING, page 5
O P-E D
Looking beyond Gaieties
W
e really believe that the is not the point. The point is that actions of others can make stu-
students who wrote, pro- these moments are not ones to sim- dents of particular groups feel
duced and acted in Gai- ply let pass by and repeat them- pushed to the fringes of campus
eties had no intentions of hurting selves year after year. It is an op- and unable to comfortably express
their peers’ feelings. In the same portunity for each group to under- that aspect of their identity. That is
light, we think they would say that stand where others are coming certainly articulated in Ujamaa,
we didn’t come to Gaieties “look- from and to learn and grow from but it is far from the only place
ing for trouble.” What started as these different perspectives. We where similar sentiments are ex-
different groups coming to Memo- hope tonight’s Town Hall spon- pressed. The disagreement about
rial Auditorium for the same rea- sored by Ram’s Head, 7-8:30 p.m. the content and nature of Gaieties,
son — to share our love for Stan- in Roble Theater is a start. then, is a symptom of a campus cul-
ford and unify the student body be- What compels us to write this ture that does not engage issues of
fore Big Game — ended with all article now — just over two diversity as well as it could. The
parties involved feeling hurt and months after 36 residents of Uja- University can and must do a bet-
misunderstood. On the one hand, maa decided to walk out of the ter job in making sure that students
many students of all backgrounds show in protest — is not just be- don’t let instances like these pass
felt alienated by the portrayals of cause we as a school haven’t fully by without real discussion. More-
various sub-groups in our student fleshed out what the intentions of over, the University has an obliga-
body. On the other hand, those who Gaieties are and should be, but also tion to make sure students do some
enjoyed the show don’t necessarily because we see this unfortunate in- soul searching while they are here
feel like they have done anything stance of misunderstanding as a to understand their own identities
wrong by being able to take the part of a broader campus problem. and how they participate in race,
show lightly and enjoy Gaieties for Gaieties is just one of many in- ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual
what it is. And honestly, this isn’t a stances that have made students of orientation and all other aspects
rare phenomenon; every day, peo- various communities feel disen- that compose one’s identity.
ple come to very different conclu- franchised at their own school.
sions about the same subject. That Often unwittingly, the words and Please see GAIETIES, page 5
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BAUTISTA
Continued from page 4
more impressive than I actually was.
But from the beginning, they were
riveted.I told my life story,how I was
confused during high school,the two
times I came out. I even read two of
my columns. I just started talking,
and for the first time, I managed to
form a coherent narrative of my life.
I was surprised they were so inter-
ested in me, of all people.
The residual bitterness I felt
GAIETIES
Continued from page 4
This isn’t the first time students
have disagreed about how diversity
is handled on campus. It’s not even
the first time Gaieties has been a
catalyst for this debate. But it is the
first time in a long time that the
University is in a position to make a
statement by supporting the virtues
of diversity it so passionately es-
pouses. The last time might have
been 1989, when, after a series of in-
stances of perceived racial insensi-
tivity, Stanford published a report
about my high school years slowly
faded away as I spoke. As I heard
my voice speak, I came to terms
with myself, with my past experi-
ences. Yeah, high school wasn’t the
best for me — I was moody and
miserable and confused most of the
time — but all that moodiness and
misery and confusion allowed me
an opportunity to grow, to learn, to
mature. I managed to feel out who I
was and who I wasn’t. I realized that
while I was rambling on that podi-
um. Perhaps for the first time stand-
ing there, on my high school cam-
pus, I genuinely felt at ease. I gen-
uinely felt — happy. I wasn’t vying
entitled “Building a Multiracial,
Multicultural University Commu-
nity.” In the first section, “A Vision
for Stanford,” the report under-
scores “the need to reach deeply to
the underlying causes below the
hurtful symptoms, so that the learn-
ing process results in fundamental
change.” It also emphasizes “the
need for immediate and continuing
action to achieve durable results.”
We couldn’t have said it better. Un-
fortunately, many of the recom-
mendations of the committee were
left under- or un-implemented. It is
saddening that we are asking for the
same things this report recom-
mended before most of us were
born. It’s really an indictment of the
for anyone’s attention or approval
anymore. The students there re-
spected and acknowledged me as
me, as Cristopher. And to be ac-
knowledged in a space where I did-
n’t feel acknowledged at all when I
was a student — that meant a lot to
me.
So thank you, students of More-
au Catholic High School. You may
have learned a lot from me, but I
learned a lot from you, too.
Cristopher has been going through a
lot of self-realizations these past cou-
ple weeks, apparently. E-mail him at
cmsb@stanford.edu.
school’s past willingness to drag its
feet and let pass by another oppor-
tunity to bolster meaningful diver-
sity education beyond FACES and
Crossing the Line. But today is an-
other opportunity to make good on
the promises of that report of 21
years ago and on the type of educa-
tion Stanford advertises in its ad-
mission brochures. It will take
strong leadership from the very top
of this University, and we are count-
ing on you for just that, President
Hennessy.
YVORN ASWAD ‘11, CATHERINE
HOWARD ‘11,AUTUMN WILLIAMS
‘11, ROBBIE ZIMBROFF ‘12
Ujamaa House RAs
Monday, January 31, 2011 ! 5
TEACHING
Continued from page 4
help with that one).This affliction is
certainly not restricted to profes-
sors either — the TA population
suffers from it just as acutely, and
better yet, they’re your designated
saviors from incomprehensible
professors.
All of these are obviously prob-
lems only in the extreme. Most pro-
fessors are passionate about what
they teach, occasional musings and
eccentric tangents can keep you en-
gaged and many accents just make
the speaker sound more interesting
or (in the case of the Queen’s Eng-
lish) more intelligent.The extremes
are, however, relatively common on
the Stanford campus. This is the
price we pay for having such a
renowned faculty — sacrificing
some quality of the undergraduate
student experience. Although that
is an oversimplification, it is proba-
bly less of one than most of the ad-
ministration would like to admit.
So how do we transform Stan-
ford into a great place for introduc-
tory teaching? The Program in
Writing and Rhetoric department
has actually realized this problem
and addressed it quite effectively.
PWR teachers tend not to be nor-
mal tenure track professors, but in-
stead specialized teachers, and ex-
ceptional ones. Most people like
and appreciate their PWR profes-
sors, even if they do hate the class it-
self. This strategy could easily be
applied to other introductory class-
es. You simply don’t need to be an
expert in fractal geometry to teach
Math 51 or a Nobel Prize winner to
teach the Physics 40 series. Instead,
for these introductory courses, let’s
hire great teachers who are assessed
on their ability to educate students
rather than publish papers.
This would be difficult. For one,
it’s expensive, and it would proba-
bly take somebody cutting a big
check to make it happen. Second,
there’s the Faculty Senate, which
would need a little convincing be-
fore they agreed to hire a secondary
teaching staff that could step on
professors’ toes. Neither is insur-
mountable, but we’re not exactly
holding our breath. In the mean-
time, find the office hours schedule,
organize a study group and bring
the lecture notes to class if you can.
A Russian-English dictionary
might not be a bad idea either.
Dave and Zack are considering start-
ing a PWR course on the rhetoric of
introductory teaching. Send them
your thoughts at daveg4@
stanford.edu and zhoberg@stanford.
edu.
6 ! Monday, January 31, 2011
SPORTS
HALFWAY THERE
Card perfect in Pac-10 at mid-point
By NATE ADAMS
MANAGING EDITOR
Halfway through the Pac-10 sea-
son, the Cardinal women’s basketball
team has left little room to doubt who
is in control of the conference. No. 4
Stanford (18-2, 9-0 Pac-10) made
short work of Oregon State in its
most recent trouncing of a Pac-10 op-
ponent last Saturday, earning a 74-44
victory and extending its winning
streak to 12.
Senior forward Kayla Pedersen
shot 6-for-7 from the field and posted
a season-high 21 points in the win
over the Beavers (7-13, 0-9), who lost
their ninth straight game despite jun-
ior Earlysia Marchbank’s career-best
19 points. Stanford’s Jeannette
Pohlen added 15 points of her own, all
from beyond the arc.The senior point
guard also dished out five assists,
pulled down four rebounds and made
one steal.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
STANFORD 74
OREGON STATE44
1/29, Corvalis, Ore.
Stanford has now played every
team in the conference, defeating all
nine by an average of 35 points. The
closest any opponent has come is a
less-than-threatening 26 points, when
then-No. 8 UCLA lost at Maples
Pavilion, 64-38, on Jan. 20. The Cardi-
nal, winner of nine straight regular
season Pac-10 championships, has
failed to break the 80-point mark
only twice since December, and still
won both of those games, a 78-45 win
over Cal on Jan. 2 and Saturday’s 74-
44 win over OSU, by 30 or more
points.
“I think right now we’re playing
pretty well together and for each
other,” Pohlen said.“One thing about
our team is we stick together no mat-
ter what. It’s a special team, and
hopefully we’ll keep it going through
the second half.”
The Cardinal opened the game
with a 12-0 run, capped off by one of
Pohlen’s five buckets from long
range.After a brief Beavers rally that
pulled them within five after a
Marchbanks three-pointer, OSU
couldn’t find an answer for Stanford’s
balanced offensive attack. No Cardi-
nal player scored consecutive baskets
from the field in the first half, with
Pohlen and junior guard Lindy
LaRocque peppering in long-range
shots and dishing the ball down to
forwards Chiney and Nnemkadi Og-
wumike. Stanford scored only 10 of
its 39 first-half points in the paint, and
at one point made four consecutive
threes.
Stanford’s starting five kept up the
pressure in the second frame, extend-
ing the Cardinal lead to 55-26 with
13:22 left to play. Head coach Tara
VanDerveer started to insert her
bench players at that point, beginning
with redshirt junior Sarah Boothe
Card
pulls off
sweep
Stanford perfect in
dual-match play
By DASH DAVIDSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Stanford men’s tennis
team continued its impressive sea-
son last weekend, hosting and de-
feating No. 54 Santa Clara on Fri-
day and No. 41 Nebraska on Satur-
day. The No. 8 Cardinal won both
matches with ease, blanking the
Broncos, 4-0, before cruising past
the Cornhuskers, 6-1.
MEN’S TENNIS
NEBRASKA 1 WOMEN’S TENNIS
STANFORD 6 STANFORD
1/29, Taube Tennis Stadium
Stanford head coach John
Whitlinger said at the beginning of
the weekend that these two
matches were about “getting our
feet underneath us, getting a little
confidence going and performing
at a high level.”
The convincing pair of wins,
which came after Stanford’s sea-
son-opening 7-0 victory over
Sacramento State on Jan. 25, put
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STANFORD SCOREBOARD
MEN’S BASKETBALL
OREGON STATE
STANFORD
1/29, Maples Pavilion.
TOP PERFORMERS Points Shooting Pct. Assists Reb.
A. BROWN, STAN 21 7-11 63.6% 3 8
A. STARKS, OSU 17 6-13 46.1% 0 0
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
STANFORD
OREGON STATE
1/29, Corvallis, Ore.
TOP PERFORMERS Points Shooting Pct. Assists Reb.
K. PEDERSEN, STAN 21 6-7 85.7% 3 4
E. MARCHBANKS, OSU 19 7-14 50% 0 6
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
STANFORD 0 (25-21, 25-21, 25-13)
LONG BEACH STATE 3
1/29, Long Beach, Calif.
MEN’S TENNIS
NEBRASKA 1
STANFORD 6
1/29, Taube Tennis Stadium
WOMEN’S TENNIS
OKLAHOMA 1
STANFORD 6
1/29, Charlottesville, Va.
All-star apathy:
What’s the point?
I
didn’t have all that much to
do this weekend. Just your Daniel
usual college things —
homework, some partying,
Bohm
some relaxing. You know On My Mind
what didn’t make my list of things
to do? Watching the Pro Bowl or
the NHL All-Star Game. Did you Hawaii, and would clearly rather
watch either one? Probably not. be on the beach (or in the clubs)
Stanford Daily File Photo Why is that? These are sup- than on the field. That’s true, at
Kayla Pedersen, above, had a banner performance as Stanford secured a posed to be exhibitions of the least, for the players who actually
comfortable victory at Oregon State on Saturday. The senior forward posted greatest athletes in the world — make the trip — every year there
the best of the best on one field at are plenty of players who have
a season-high 21 points to go along with her three assists and four rebounds. the same time. But even as a mas- “injuries” conveniently come up
She was 6-for-7 from the field on the day. sive sports fan, I had exactly zero so they can’t go. (In their defense,
interest in either game. These after playing a 16-game season,
and sophomore forward Joslyn Tin- was 2-for-6. Stanford’s overall shoot- events are concocted and boring, the players are probably fairly
kle.Within a few minutes, the starting ing percentage slipped from 59.1 in and the players want to be there beat up — the thought of playing
rotation had completely rolled over the first half to just 38.2 in the second. just about as much I want to watch one more meaningless game isn’t
with the addition of sophomore for- “Moving on, we’re just going to them half-ass their way through all that appealing.)
ward Mikaela Ruef, redshirt senior have to figure out who can help us in the games. Oh, and because it is a week
guard Melanie Murphy and freshman tight games,” VanDerveer said. I’m fairly certain that if it before the Super Bowl, players
guard Sara James. Junior guard Grace Mashore pro- weren’t for the bragging rights from the two “best” teams in the
Notably absent from the parade of vided one bright spot amidst the re- that players gain — and the con- league can’t make the trip.
substitutes was freshman guard Toni serves’ score sheet, pulling down a tract leverage — these games Speaking of Super Bowl play-
Kokenis, who suffered a head injury team-high eight rebounds in just 12 wouldn’t even be played. ers, Steeler starting linebacker
last week. It remains unclear when minutes. The Pro Bowl is the worst. I LaMarr Woodley made a telling
she will be able to return. Despite her efforts,though,the Car- have to admit,I haven’t watched it tweet about the Pro Bowl last
Stanford’s bench played a com- dinal as a whole was less than stellar on in years, so my thoughts could be night:
bined 65 minutes, accounting for the boards. Even with the lopsided outdated, but I doubt it. “Really wish I was playing in
nearly a third of the total game time. score, the Beavers managed to garner It isn’t football. The rules are this pro bowl game right now . . .
Despite pushing the Cardinal to a 35 rebounds compared to Stanford’s actually changed (for player safe- NOT!”
game-high lead of 36 with 6:45 to 40, including a 19-to-16 advantage on ty, of course). If I recall correctly, I will admit that the NHL All-
play, the reserves weren’t particularly the offensive side.Senior El Sara Greer defenses can’t blitz, they have to Star Game seemed somewhat in-
impressive on offense, shooting just led the Beavers with 10 boards. play a 4-3 formation and offenses teresting this year. You have to
5-for-20 and scoring 11. Boothe shot are limited in what types of plays
just 2-for-9 from the field, and Tinkle Please see WBBALL, page 8 can be called. The players are in Please see BOHM, page 8
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Stanford
moves on
in NTICs
By WILL SEATON
STAFF WRITER
It didn’t start well against No. 39 Okla-
homa (2-1), but after dropping the dou-
bles point for the first time this year, Stan-
ford’s women’s tennis team (3-0) breezed
through singles play to defeat the Soon-
ers,6-1,in the second round of the Nation-
al Team Indoor Championships. Stanford
now qualifies for the main event of the
NTICs, which begins on Feb. 17.
Dropping the doubles point is some-
thing that occurs very rarely for the Car-
dinal. Last season, it happened just three
times, with two coming in the NCAA
Tournament.
6
OKLAHOMA 1
BRYANT TAN/The Stanford Daily 1/29, Charlottesville, Va.
Doing his part to boost Stanford past cross-town rival Santa Clara, junior Ryan Thatcher, above, earned a 6- “[Oklahoma] takes a lot of pride in
2, 6-2 win out of the No. 2 spot in singles play. Stanford won the abbreviated dual match, 4-0. their doubles,” said sophomore Mallory
Burdette, who sat out with an injury this
the Cardinal exactly in line with the 4-0 shutout. Despite the two- of the No. 2 and No. 5 spots, both past weekend. “They played super well,
that goal. hour and 20-minute delay,the Car- scored quick 6-2, 6-2 victories in and some days that is just going to hap-
Friday’s contest versus Santa dinal came out firing with two singles play. That left Stanford’s pen. They were happy to have won the
Clara was shortened due to wet quick doubles victories to secure No.1 player,junior Bradley Klahn, doubles point, but they still had a moun-
court conditions from the previous the match’s pivotal first point. to finish the match by defeating tain to climb if they wanted to beat us.”
night’s rain, but the match lasted Junior Ryan Thatcher and sen-
long enough for Stanford to secure ior Greg Hirshmann, playing out Please see MTENNIS, page 8 Please see WTENNIS, page 8
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On a trip that showed two different faces of Stanford’s team, Spencer McLaughlin (No. 14) was consistent in both
matches. The senior outside hitter had 15 kills against Cal State Northridge and 10 at Long Beach State.
SPLIT IN SOCAL
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
DESK EDITOR
One day after sweeping No. 13
Cal State Northridge and hitting
.349 as a team, the Stanford men’s
volleyball team fell flat against No.
5 Long Beach State, hitting just .021
as a team and losing in straight sets.
The weekend split showed how
tough the Mountain Pacific Sports
Federation can be, especially on
the road. Stanford (5-2, 4-2 MPSF)
dropped into a tie for third place
in the conference, sitting a game
behind Long Beach (6-3, 5-1) and
two games back of first-place
USC.
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
STANFORD 0 The third game saw the Cardinal
LONG BEACH STATE 3
1/29, Long Beach, Calif.
The Cardinal was done in by un-
characteristically poor outside hit-
ting. Junior Brad Lawson, usually
one of Stanford’s most consistent
attackers, had 10 kills, but hit just
.074 and had eight errors. Lawson’s
counterpart, senior Spencer
McLachlin, also had 10 kills, but like
Lawson, had a number of errors
and hit .107.
In game one on Saturday, the
Cardinal had opportunities to take
Continued from front page
MBBALL|Back on track
“Anthony has been working real-
ly hard, and he’s getting better,”
Dawkins said. “I was really proud of
his effort tonight. I knew he could
score, but I wanted to see how he re-
bounded. He stuffed the stat sheet
tonight.”
MEN’S BASKETBALL
OREGON STATE 56
STANFORD 70
1/29, Maples Pavilion
Brown was not the only Stanford
player who made his presence felt
across all facets of the game. Despite
attempting just a single shot in the
first half,redshirt junior forward Josh
Owens finished the game with 14
points, complementing his eight re-
bounds and two blocks. Owens was
the recipient of multiple second-half
alley-oops, hooking up several times
with junior guard Jarrett Mann, who
finished the game with seven assists.
Dawkins, critical of Owens’ lack
of touches in the team’s loss to Ore-
gon, was pleased to see his dominant
forward take initiative in the second
half on Saturday.
“I tried to explain to Josh at half
that he has to do a better job assert-
ing himself,” Dawkins said. “I
thought in the second half he did a
better job.“
The Cardinal was able to over-
come another careless game after
finding a solution to the Beavers’ (8-
12, 3-6) press. The two teams com-
bined for 37 turnovers on the night,
with most stemming from lazy cross-
court passes and high-pressure de-
fense.
Freshman guard Ahmad Starks
led the way for Oregon State, scoring
a career-high 17 points on 6-for-13
shooting. The pint-sized player was
able to slash his way through a Stan-
ford backcourt that’s faced its fair
share of troubles with quick guards in
the last decade.
The Cardinal sped out of the
gates, going on a 13-2 run to open the
game behind three-pointers by
Brown and Green. Oregon State
head coach Craig Robinson, brother
of First Lady Michelle Obama,
quickly resorted to a full-court press
that slowed down the Stanford at-
tack.
The Beavers fought back and
took their first lead of the game, 28-
27, with 2:57 left in the half.The Car-
dinal looked destined for another
the lead several times, including
late in the set. The score was tied at
12-12 before the 49ers went on a
five-point run to take a 17-12 ad-
vantage. Stanford battled back to
within a point at 18-17, but two con-
secutive attack errors swung the
momentum back to Long Beach,
and it closed out the set, 25-21.
Game two was close throughout,
with Stanford clinging to an early
lead and building a five-point lead
mid-way through the set at 16-11.
But Long Beach came back and
took a 19-18 lead before a McLach-
lin kill retied the score at 19. The
49ers did not flinch, however, and
rode the momentum from their
small crowd of 734 to take the sec-
ond set 25-21.
jump out to a 6-3 lead before six at-
tack helped put Long Beach back
up, 11-6. The 49ers didn’t look back
and rolled to a 25-13 victory.
“There’s the old adage that you
always learn more from a loss than
a win,” said Stanford head coach
John Kosty. “It’s not something we
wanted, but we’ll definitely need
to take advantage of it and move
on.”
It was a far cry from the scene a
day earlier against Northridge (2-6,
1-4). The rematch of last year’s
MPSF tournament final was all
“It’s been a long time
since we got a win.
I just wanted to be
the sparkplug.”
—ANTHONY BROWN
sub-60 point performance, but a
Brown three put Stanford ahead, 31-
30, at the break.
Neither team was able to pull
ahead at the beginning of the second
half. Oregon State sophomore guard
Jared Cunningham, who entered the
game as the Beaver’s leading scorer
at over 14 points per game,scored his
first and only point of the contest at
the 12:00 mark by splitting a pair of
free throws. Cunningham battled
foul trouble all game and eventually
fouled out,sealing his worst outing of
the season.
Dawkins gave credit to Mann’s
defensive effort when addressing
Cunningham’s struggles.
“I’m really proud of Jarrett,” he
said. “He looks forward to guarding
the opposing team’s best player.
The Cardinal eventually man-
aged to find a solution to the press,
taking advantage of slow defensive
switches by Oregon State and cat-
alyzing a Stanford dunkfest. Owens,
freshman forward Dwight Powell
and junior forward Jack Trotter were
left alone underneath the hoop time
and time again. A Mann-to-Owens
connection capped off a 16-3 run that
gave Stanford its largest lead of the
game at 67-51 with just 2:57 left in the
game.
Brown was excited about the re-
vival of a Stanford team that seemed
to have lost its focus after a hot start
to the season.
“It was very fun, he said. “I think
our team is getting a lot more chem-
istry.
Stanford hosts the Arizona
schools this weekend in the second
part of a rare four-game home stand.
Tipoff against Arizona is set for
Thursday at 6 p.m.
Contact Zach Zimmerman at zachz@
stanford.edu.
Stanford Daily File Photo
Cardinal from the onset. Stanford
led the whole way and hit .481 as a
team in game one, as the Matadors
made eight errors and hit just .182.
Lawson had five kills in the first set,
and Evan Barry had 13 assists.
Stanford had not won at North-
ridge since 2004 and had dropped
seven of the last nine matches, but
only looked vulnerable in the sec-
ond set with Northridge staving off
three Stanford set points before ul-
timately falling, 25-27.
Five straight kills, two from
freshman Eric Mochalski, gave
Stanford a comfortable 15-10 cush-
ion in the middle of the third set,and
the Cardinal took the third game of
its seven-game road trip that
spanned 9,186 miles over 16 days.
Once again,Stanford was helped
by big performances from its fresh-
men. Steven Irvin got his second
start of the year as an outside hitter
and had a solid all-around game
with seven kills, six digs and five
blocks.
Stanford finally plays at home this
week, hosting Pacific on Wednesday
night at 7 p.m. The team will hit the
road again next weekend, getting a
break from conference action against
Lewis and Loyola of Chicago.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at
milesbs@stanford.edu.
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The Cardinal’s No. 1 team of
senior Hilary Barte and sophomore
Stacey Tan suffered a surprisingly
lopsided 8-1 loss against the na-
tion’s No. 31-ranked doubles pair in
senior Ana-Maria Constantinescu
and freshman Alice Radu. Junior
Veronica Li and senior Carolyn
McVeigh dropped their match, 8-5.
In another promising showing, the
freshman pair of Kristie Ahn and
Nicole Gibbs dominated their op-
ponents, 8-1, for Stanford’s lone
doubles win.
“We went through a really bad
patch earlier this year,”Ahn said on
her partnership with Gibbs. “We
had four losses in a row after doing
really well with Regionals.We were
considering splitting up and trying
different things out, but since then,
I think we’ve stepped it up a lot.”
Faced with a 1-0 deficit, the Car-
dinal quickly came out and erased
any momentum Oklahoma gained
from their doubles wins. Playing at
the No. 2 spot, Ahn was first off the
court, conceding just one game in a
6-1, 6-0 drubbing of Oklahoma’s
Whitney Ritchie. Soon after, Gibbs
posted an equally impressive 6-0, 6-
2 win over Marie-Pier Huet.
“I was really fired up yesterday,”
Ahn said. “Especially after losing
the doubles point. I think at [posi-
tions] 1, 2 and 3, we were just so
pumped, and we were cheering
each other on. At one point, Hilary
and I won a point at the same time.
We looked over, our eyes met, we
both got fired up and I just got real-
ly into it from there.”
Barte put Stanford within one
point of victory with her 6-0, 6-2 de-
feat of Constantinescu. Tan
clinched the match with a quick
three-setter, dropping the first set
before finding her zone and surren-
dering only one more game for a 3-
6, 6-1, 6-0 victory. Li defeated her
opponent, 6-4, 6-0, and McVeigh
finished hers off as well, 6-4, 6-2, as
Stanford swept the singles.
“I was especially impressed after
we dropped the doubles point that
everyone bounced back and took
care of their business,” Burdette
said. “My freshman year, we had a
bad experience the first time we
dropped the doubles point. We
ended up losing to UCLA, 6-1. It’s
good the freshmen experienced
that and bounced back as well as
they did.”
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the Broncos’ Kyle Dandan 6-4, 6-4,
earning Stanford its fourth win and
clinching point.
In addition to looking to build on
momentum from the win over
Sacramento State, the Cardinal
needed a strong weekend to clinch a
berth in the prestigious National
Team Indoor Championships. Stan-
ford’s victory over Nebraska on Sat-
urday sealed a trip to trip to Seattle
for the February event, an impor-
tant achievement for any high-as-
piring team early in the dual-match
season.
Despite upsetting the Vanderbilt
Commodores a day before, Nebras-
ka stumbled out of the gate on Sat-
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Stanford will kick off the second
half of Pac-10 play away from
home, traveling to Arizona next
weekend for its second consecutive
road trip. Neither Arizona nor Ari-
zona State posed much of a chal-
lenge when they visited Maples
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give the NHL some credit.Ever since
the league’s lockout, hockey’s popu-
larity has dwindled in the states,so the
league is continually innovating to
become more watchable.The idea of
having two players act as team cap-
tains and draft their teams like a
bunch of kids in the schoolyard is
pretty cool, if you ask me.
But that’s only the lead-up to the
game.The NHL All-Star Game itself
is still not hockey. In fact, the only
game in any sport in which there is
less defense would be the NBA All-
Star Game (where you might need a
calculator to keep score).
Players don’t tend to play aggres-
sively, which is understandable given
that it is the middle of the season and
an injury during the all-star game
would be devastating, if not contro-
versial. That’s one good thing I can
say about the Pro Bowl is that it
doesn’t take place during the regular
season.
(Off the top of my head, I can’t
think about a player getting injured
After Stanford fell in a surprising doubles defeat, Kristie Ahn, above, did her
part to kickstart the Cardinal. Playing at the No. 2 spot, the freshman
crushed Whitney Ritchie by scores of 6-1 and 6-2. Stanford won the dual-
match, 6-1.
Earlier in the weekend, Stanford
faced No. 65 Cal Poly (1-2) in the
first round of qualification. Cal Poly
was making its first-ever program
appearance in the 60-team Kick-
Off Weekend for NTICs, but failed
to record the upset.
Stanford swept the doubles with
Barte and Tan clinching the point
with an 8-2 victory. Ahn and Gibbs
won, 8-3, and Li and McVeigh won
their match, 8-2. In singles, Tan was
the first one off the court with a 6-1,
6-0 victory over Jennifer Cornea.
The Stanford Daily
urday. The Cornhuskers were
blitzed early and often by the Cardi-
nal, starting with a doubles match
that took a mere 42 minutes.
All of Stanford’s big guns came
through in the singles matches, with
each of the top-five matches going
Stanford’s way. The Cardinal was
anchored by Klahn, who fought
hard in a tough match to defeat Ne-
braska’s No. 1 player, Christopher
Aumueller, 7-6 (0), 7-6 (4).The lone
defeat of the day for the Cardinal,
and its only loss of the year, came
when Nebraska’s Sebastian Flor-
czyk defeated sophomore Matt
Kandath, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, in the No. 6-
spot game.
Stanford’s next match is set for
Thursday, Feb. 3rd, at home against
Texas Tech.
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd
@stanford.edu.
Pavilion earlier this month, with
the Wildcats suffering an 87-54 loss
and the Sun Devils falling by a
score of 82-35.
The Cardinal’s desert tour will
kick off against Arizona State on
Thursday at 5:30 p.m. and then
conclude on Saturday afternoon
when Stanford faces Arizona at
1:00 p.m.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@
stanford.edu.
during the NHL, NBA or MLB all-
star games in the middle of the sea-
son, but the fact that it can occur and
affect the rest of the season is trou-
bling.)
That said, Robert Edwards had
just finished his rookie season in 1998
as a running back for the New Eng-
land Patriots when he blew out his
knee playing in a rookie flag football
game, one of the Pro Bowl-week
events at the time. Edwards almost
had his leg amputated, and although
he made it back to the NFL briefly,
his career was never the same after
the injury.
And what is it all for? Guys like
Edwards can have their careers ru-
ined for what, exactly? I’m sure the
league probably profits off the games
and players can pad their egos for
getting invited, but in the grand
scheme of things, I have to ask: is
there really much more to an all-star
game than a media spectacle? I don’t
think so.
Dan Bohm,just a few inches too short
to make it as a professional quarter-
back, is just lamenting the fact that he
won’t be eating roasted boar at a
Hawaiian luau. Sympathize with him
at bohmd@stanford.edu.
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Gibbs playing at No. 3, finished up
next after recording a 6-0, 6-3 score.
Li clinched the point with another
6-1, 6-0 win over Jocelyn Davis.The
remaining three matches were not
finished.
Stanford will continue NTIC
competition in Virginia on Feb. 17.
Before that, though, the Cardinal
faces a tough test in visiting UCLA
on Feb. 5 at 12 p.m.
Contact Will Seaton at wseaton@
stanford.edu.