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WINTER SLUMP
Depressed temperatures,
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February 1, 2011
Gaieties controversy continues
Forum produces dialogue in wake of Ujamaa walk-out of annual Ram’s Head production
By BRENDAN O’BYRNE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
At a forum held last night in Roble Hall,
members of the Stanford community gath-
ered to discuss this year’s Gaieties perform-
ance,the student-run production put on by the
Ram’s Head Theatrical Society the week be-
fore Big Game.
The meeting was in response to the contro-
versy surrounding Gaieties last year, and cen-
tered on the walkout of 32 Ujamaa residents
during the performance. The forum sought to
foster dialogue and was open to the public.
The town hall, described by Ram’s Head as a
mea culpa, was headed by Olivia Haas ‘11 and
Michael Rooney ‘11, both members of the
board of directors of Ram’s Head.
While acknowledging the hard work of the
Gaieties staff, Ram’s Head executives also
said the play was “plagued by a lack of over-
sight” and suffered from “a failure of respon-
sibility.”
Haas began the meeting on an apologetic
note, saying it was a regrettable and embar-
rassing situation.
“We see the issue this year as starting with
the board’s lack of oversight that we are sup-
posed to exercise,” she said, adding that the
board of directors should have been more in-
volved in the writing process.
While Haas noted that the members of
Gaieties harbored no ill will in writing this
year’s play, she acknowledged that, “regard-
less of the intent,the impact was that harm was
caused. That’s what matters and that’s what
we are here to address, acknowledge, and ac-
cept.”
Following opening statements from
Rooney and Haas, the floor was opened to
members of the panel and audience to ask
questions or make statements regarding the
future purpose and content of Gaieties.
One commenter noted that Gaieties
sought to address stereotypes that already
exist by lampooning them in an over-the-top
manner. Ujamaa RA Yvorn Aswad-Thomas
‘11 disagreed with the effectiveness of Gai-
eties in this regard.
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SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Poet explores
meaning of
life in reading
Dobyns discusses passage of
time through dark humor
By ANGELIQUE DAKKAK
Mohr Visiting Poet Stephen Dobyns gave a
reading last night in Cubberley Auditorium.
Dobyns, who received fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation and the National En-
dowment for the Arts, read poems that ex-
plored human condition, the passage of time
and the questioning of meaning.
Dobyns, has taught at the University of Iowa
and Boston University, holds an M.F.A. from
the University of Iowa. He has published ten
books of poetry and twenty novels.
He began with a comedic yet cynical poem
entitled “The Gardner.” Written before the fall
of the Berlin Wall, it explores human flaw and
the ease with which humans are convinced
wrong.
The next poem that Dobyns read, “How to
Like It,” was a dark yet comedic dialogue be-
tween a dog and a man. The dog is character-
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“Of all the opportunities to discuss these is-
sues and analyze these divisive stereotypes,
why do we choose the series of nights when we
are supposed to be bringing campus togeth-
er?” he asked.“Just putting images up without
discussing or getting into it, we fall short of the
goal of tearing these stereotypes down.”
One of the most commonly suggested im-
Ram’s Head Theatrical Society, the group that produces Gaieties, held a forum last night in response to the controversy that arose from this fall’s
performance. Ram’s Head executives said this year’s play was “plagued by a lack of oversight.”
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Visiting poet Stephen Dobyns, who has taught at Boston University, delivered a reading
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provements was that Gaieties approach mem-
bers of different community centers on cam-
pus to elicit feedback about their production.
Haas agreed, also suggesting that a panel of
different student groups read over the script
and watch rehearsals. She emphasized, how-
ever, that the groups would be responsible for
providing feedback and not have editorial
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control.
In one of the tensest moments of the night,
an audience member accused Gaieties of “bla-
tant sexism, racism, and homophobia,” a
charge that went unchallenged by members of
Gaieties staff and members of Ram’s Head.
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STUDENT LIFE
NMB protests
potential return
of ROTC to Farm
Group cites violation of non-
discrimination policy
By DANA EDWARDS
The National Marriage Boycott (NMB) — a
group founded at Stanford to protest marriage
discrimination in the wake of Proposition 8 —
is spearheading a national effort to prevent the
return of ROTC at certain colleges.
The youth-led organization has more than
15,000 members and encourages college ac-
tivism by providing an established support net-
work across campuses.
Although the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell”
(DADT) in December ended the ban on gay
and lesbian soldiers from serving openly in the
military, transgender individuals are still ex-
cluded from service. NMB opposes the return
of ROTC to college campuses whose non-dis-
crimination clauses apply to transgender indi-
viduals, on the basis that the ban violates those
legal clauses.
Stanford, Columbia and Harvard are three
universities with such non-discrimination claus-
es. NMB is focusing much of its efforts on these
campuses.
“What we’re working on right now with
NMB is to create material to disseminate to
other college campuses so that they can wage
some large campaigns, or begin to think critical-
ly about their own ROTC campaigns at their
own schools,” said Alok Vaid-Menon ‘13, NMB
publicity and communications director.
Vaid-Menon sees the ROTC debate as a lu-
crative opportunity to raise awareness about
transgender discrimination.
“I really see the role of NMB in the debate as
a reminder to a lot of LGBTQ people that it’s
important not to forget about trans people,”
Vaid-Menon said. “A lot of the time, the T gets
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GAIETIES
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When asked about the state-
ment, Haas said in an interview with
The Daily after the forum that she
agreed with the statement. She clar-
ified that while there were tones of
racism, sexism and homophobia,
“there was absolutely no intent to
be hurtful by any member of Gai-
eties staff.”
Haas also noted that all of the
potential producers for next year
were in attendance at the meeting,
which she said showed that Gaieties
will be better moving forward.
Moving forward was an impor-
tant theme for Aswad-Thomas as
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left out of LGBTQ.”
Vaid-Menon and other mem-
bers of the NMB saw the repeal of
DADT as a huge victory for
LGBTQ rights, but was frustrated
by President Obama’s State of the
Union speech last week, in which he
said, “starting this year, no Ameri-
can will be forbidden from serving
the country they love because of
who they love.”
This statement was made hand-
in-hand with Obama’s call for col-
lege campuses to bring back ROTC
on the basis that LGBTQ discrimi-
nation had ended.
For Vaid-Menon and others,
Obama’s remark brought a sense of
disillusionment.
well. He said that he was happy with
the talk, especially because it
marked the start of a much bigger
movement.
“I saw this as the beginning of a
process that all parties involved
wanted to be a part of,to address the
points of hurt and to look towards
improving things,” Aswad-Thomas
said in an interview with The Daily
after the discussion. “One of the
most important things is people re-
alizing there’s no one Stanford.
“If Gaieties can do a better job
including all of the different experi-
ences we’ve all had here at Stan-
ford, it will be a lot more compre-
hensive, a lot funnier, and much bet-
ter,” he added.
Contact Brendan O’Byrne at
bobyrne@stanford.edu.
“We felt very disenfranchised,
and we immediately created a na-
tional petition,” Vaid-Menon said.
“The White House had forgotten
about trans people, and Obama was
simply lobbying for political inter-
est. He was being strategic, but in
the process [was] ignoring a group
of people who are stilled barred
from military service.”
The petition,issued in conjunction
with Stanford Students for Queer
Liberation (SSQL), was forwarded
via e-mail earlier last weekend.
“Tell President Obama that the
military is not an open or affirming
institution as the State of the Union
address would have us believe,”
NMB education director and SSQL
leader Janani Balasubramanian ‘12
wrote in the appeal.
Vaid-Menon mentioned that
while most of its efforts are focused
on student involvement, NMB also
pursues other venues, such as com-
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Continued from front page
ized as living an escapist life, while
the man desires to confront his dif-
ficulties and past through constant
reflection.
The dog attempts to distract the
man with idle actions and eventual-
ly succeeds in breaking the man’s
reflection. The poem highlights an-
other failure by man to achieve his
full potential. Despite the dark na-
ture of the poem, the audience
picked up on Dobyns’ humor.
Communication and the impact
made by its absence were central
themes in Dobyns’ reading.
“Tenderly,” the third poem read
municating with certain members
of the military and collaborating
with other national LGBTQ-rights
organizations.
SSQL has also been prominent
in coordinating campus events and
facilitating debate about the pro-
posed return of ROTC to Stanford.
Next month, SSQL plans to hold
“Transgender Awareness Week”
from Feb. 28 to Mar. 4.
“With NMB, I’m trying to work
with sensitive people in the military
to get them to recognize that dis-
crimination is arcane and not really
necessary anymore, and encourage
a lot of people to lobby the military
to try to change it,” Vaid-Menon
said.
NMB also provides financial as-
sistance to its college branches, and
it has backing from Get Equal, a
San Francisco-based LGBTQ ad-
vocacy group, and the National
Center for Transgender Equality.
by Dobyns, approached this theme
in a light-humored, graphic way
that was simultaneously disturbing
and comedic. In the poem, the pro-
tagonist attempts to dismember
himself with a butter knife in order
to assuage his frustration. The way
he chooses to articulate his pain
contrasts with the reactions of
those who witness his disturbing
act, juxtaposing communication
through action and communication
through observation.
While “Stars” and “Morning
Doves” also address the issue of
communication in a humorous
way, their tone was heavy.
“Stars” narrates a husband and
wife’s long journey to a friend’s
home. As the couple gets increas-
ingly lost on their trip, the wife be-
comes frustrated and ceases to
Vaid-Menon plans to implement
a monthly conference call between
NMB activists at schools nation-
wide to formulate new ideas for
their platform.
“In the end, the effort is really
about gaining wide support and
media attention,”Vaid-Menon said.
The group is gradually becoming
more visible. Vaid-Menon was re-
cently quoted in a New York Times
article for his work with NMB, the
first time the group’s ROTC objec-
tion was publicized nationally.
“If Harvard, Columbia, Stanford
were to make a decision not to re-
turn ROTC to campus on the basis
of transgender exclusion, the sheer
cultural capital of that would help
effectively prove to the military
that it needs to change,” Vaid-
Menon said.
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speak. Soon, both become filled
with critical, negative thoughts of
each other.
They consider the possibility of
divorce,but forget their conflict once
they find their way. The effects of si-
lence are portrayed as a force that
overdramatizes reactions and cre-
ates false thoughts. They highlight
the importance of communication.
“His style of writing is really
straight forward and easy to under-
stand,” said Sharia Mayfield ‘13,
who attended the reading.“A lot of
the meaning of the poetry came
from his tone of voice.”
Mayfield also noted that
Dobyns’ readings encompassed a
wide variety of poetic genres.
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FEATURES
HERE COMES
THE SUN?
Students,faculty shed light on the
dreaded “winter slump”
By MARWA FARAG
DESK EDITOR
U
nfortunately, winter
quarter at Stanford
is not just fun-filled
Lake Tahoe ski trips
and cozy North Face
jackets. Year after year, the ten-
week period between winter and
spring breaks has a tendency to
bring with it the dreaded “winter
slump,” the Stanford undergrad-
uate equivalent to the couch po-
tato syndrome.
Colder temperatures, tough
coursework, social inertia, de-
pleted stocks of NyQuil and tis-
sues and generally lower morale
all leave their marks on students’
experiences in the school year’s
middle quarter, depressing
moods to the extent that even
playing the age-old cure for win-
ter blues, the Beatles’ “Here
Comes the Sun” on repeat, can’t
brighten up a rainy day.
Yet many students believe
that the winter slump is only a
myth, a “self-perpetuated psy-
chological thing that’s not really
that pertinent,” in the words of
Otero resident assistant Harry
Spitzer ‘12.
Little darling, it’s been a long,
cold, lonely winter
Winter quarter heralds both a
drop on the temperature scale
and a change in pace.
“It’s not like, all of a sudden,
misery,” said Otero Resident Fel-
low Clifford Nass, “but winter
quarter is sort of a down time,
and the weather has a lot to do
with it.”
Otero peer health educator
Elise Gibbs ‘12 agreed.
“We’re so used to it being so
nice out that when it’s cold and
we have to change our lifestyle,
we get a little stir crazy,” she said.
“Having less hours of daylight
and being colder has a bit of a
constricting effect,” Director of
Wellness and Health Promotion
Services Carol Pertofsky said.
“We go through certain changes
biologically. The shifts in light
patterns have an effect on our
body rhythms.”
According to Pertofsky, this
biological change translates to a
slower pace.
“Students who understand
that winter is a quieter time, that
nature has got us built so that we
need to slow down and sleep
more, do fine. Winter is a time to
be peaceful and calm, to sink into
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 ! 3
a different gear.”
Few will argue that dreary
weather doesn’t manifest itself in
cranky attitudes, especially when
coupled with illnesses.
“People are already a little
more tired, a little more cranky
in winter, and if you’re not feel-
ing 100 percent, then that con-
tributes to those two,” Spitzer
said.
Pertofsky and Spitzer are
wary, however, of explaining
away depressed attitudes through
weather alone.
“You can say to yourself,‘This
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is a darker time of the year, but I Courtesy of Linda A. Cicero
COLOGICAL
am going to focus on the good
and make a point of noticing
good things in my day and being
engaged with them,’” Pertofsky By BILLY GALLAGHER
said.
XPLORER
She warned against settling
A
for unhappiness, saying, “When mong the wide array of
students are feeling blue, they books, stacked papers
feel stuck but there’s a lot of sci- and coffee cups, Profes-
ence that shows there are prac- sor Harold Mooney’s
tices we can do to help ourselves office is littered with
feel happier.” more prestigious awards than can
In other words, while the be counted.
weather might get students But above the professorial trin-
down, it only takes a little effort kets and the plethora of awards, it is velopments of his interest in ecosys- Despite this appreciation,
to get that back up. the large map of the world covering tems and the field of biology. Mooney’s life plans did not immedi-
Spitzer echoed this view. the entire wall behind his desk that “I gained an appreciation for the ately revolve around the life sci-
“There’s nothing inherently tells the most about Mooney, his variety of life on earth . . . all the ences, and the high school student
wrong with winter quarter. It’s work and the indirect path that he pretty things,” he laughed.“Why we body president instead accepted a
just another phase of the year,” took to reach his current position as have so many things,how they inter- scholarship to enter the University
he said. the Paul S.Achilles Professor of En- act and work and how we can un- of California at Berkeley as a polit-
vironmental Biology and FSI Se- derstand where they are, where ical science major. But when finan-
Little darling, it feels like years nior Fellow at Stanford. they grow.And now, more and more cial woes hit soon after, he was
since it’s been here Mooney credited early back- in recent years, concern for the loss forced to drop out of school and get
Stanford’s quarter system packing trips to the Sierra Nevada of diversity and what we can do
also seems to play a part in the Mountains and working in nurs- about stopping some of the adverse Please see MOONEY, page 5
winter slump. eries in high school as the initial de- trends.”
“There’s a cycle to the quar-
ters,” said Lourdes Andrade, As-
sistant Director at Undergradu-
ate Advising and Research. “In
autumn, people come back re-
freshed.They still have that ener-
gy. Winter quarter is that sand-
wiched quarter where students
are starting to get a little bit more
run-down.”
“Spring is tiring, but they can
see the light of the end of the tun-
nel,” she added.
The long stretch of winter and
spring quarters, separated only
by one week of vacation, can be
taxing.
“That one week of spring
break never feels like enough,”
Serra RF Ross Shachter said.
Nathanial Williams ‘13 had a
similar opinion.
“You come back from winter
break and realize that there are
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either here nor there: that
sums up my feelings about
returning to Stanford after
studying abroad. I had been eager
to return to campus, and my fall
quarter had been dotted with wist-
ful visions of sun and palm trees
even as I enjoyed traipsing across
Europe. But once I got my first
glimpse of Campus Drive in
months, unsettling feelings of dis-
junction crept in. It was a question
I’d thought I’d settled during my
freshman year, but now it arose in
new ways: was Stanford really the
place for me?
Now, from my perspective, this
experience was not altogether un-
expected. Nor, really, does it seem
unusual. Several of my friends ex-
pressed similar feelings of discon-
nect after their abroad experiences
last year, and probably expressed it
best by saying they felt troubled at
how well Stanford had carried on
without them. Once, they might
have been dependent on their cam-
pus-oriented world, their structure
of friends, classes and activities, but
that world did not return the favor.
It was perfectly capable of continu-
ing on its own, thank you.
It strikes me that the feeling of
returning to a familiar, yet changed
place is one of physically encoun-
tering our memories. Old convic-
tions and emotions greet us along
the way, remnants from the people
we were then, and we find our-
selves at an ambiguous crossroads.
We can either embrace our differ-
ent, present selves, or allow that by-
gone world to envelop us again. In
the end, it seems like we actually
do neither.We are always renegoti-
ating the ground on which we
stand.And that stark impression of
renegotiation, of uncertainty,
rather than the illusion of continu-
ity that extended time in the same
place gives us, seems to be what un-
derlies my feelings of removal.
“Tell me all about Oxford!” my
friends exclaim, as I insist to know
the same about their fall. But how
much of what we say to each other
is just a reinterpretation, taken
from our present lens of self? In
the end, I walk away realizing how
far five thousand miles really is.
Realizing how much I missed, and
how little.
Those memories we encounter
sometimes surface as ghosts, more
vivid than ever because of the in-
tervening time of change. Lately, I
have been feeling the ghosts of my
first two years on campus: places I
used to live, people I used to see.At
the same time, I have felt the ghosts
of my time abroad, which surface
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the multiple possibilities that exist
outside of Stanford is what the
abroad experience is all about.
Meeting new friends and learning
about a foreign country are part of
the journey, but we return to the
Farm understanding that we are
less dependent on our immediate
surroundings than we might have
believed. We have a center of self
that can adapt to new circum-
stances better than we might have
expected. We find that we have the
strength to change and to discover
new possibilities. At its core, this
realization can be as simple as:
Hey, I survived. What’s next?
Realigning my perspective this
way, I feel more optimistic, less dis-
jointed, less concerned about the
future and the shadows that lurk
there. During my first month back
on campus, I’ve realized that Stan-
ford might not be the place for me,
for no such place exists. Rather,
Stanford is a place, a possibility for
me to shape after my expanding vi-
sion of the world. Clinging to this
interpretation, I feel liberated.
Even while living in the campus
bubble rather than the “real
world,” there is no saying that we
can’t embrace new possibilities
and make the same mundane situ-
ations feel radically different. For
me, it took going to Oxford to real-
ize how dynamic my identity is, and
how much I can alter in my every-
day world. I can transport myself to
new surroundings, but to achieve
real satisfaction I need to give part
of myself back to those places,
wherever they might be.
At the beginning of this quarter,
I was afraid I was returning to the
same old Stanford. But I’m not. I
don’t have to, and neither do any of
us.
Rachel wants to know if you’ve seen a
slant of light that doesn’t exist in Cal-
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Strawberry Girl
A Stanford Student- I kind of hate strawberries.
They’re ridiculously good-look-
School, that’s just the way it is,
Cooperation, Consideration,

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caps perched atop plump red bod-
ies, but every time I eat fresh straw-
berries, my lips get a little itchy, my
Tim
Moon
Confidence, Concern,
And Courtesy is the last one, it’s
there for you and me,
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belong to a student group that
listens to stories. People ask,
“What’s the point?”
Social change begins with your
guts. At some gut level, we respond
to injustice. I see a fellow commu-
nity member sleeping on a bench
and I know something is wrong
with the bigger picture, although I
don’t yet know what. We try to re-
solve our gut repugnance to injus-
tice. We seek out answers by listen-
ing to the stories of others. Some-
day, we build our own answers. The
point is emergent.
Consider the story of Kiva. Jes-
sica Jackley met business owners in
East Africa, from herders to crafts-
men. After getting to know these
entrepreneurs, Jackley founded the
first microlending website. Since
2005, Kiva’s loans total $100 mil-
lion.
What’s the point? Jackley says,
“While those numbers are really
fun to talk about, to me, Kiva’s re-
ally about the stories. It’s about
retelling the story of the poor, and
it’s about giving ourselves an op-
portunity to engage that validates
their dignity.”
The point is that listening is the
first step to social change. Effective
services use approaches reached in
partnership with those served.
Night Outreach builds friend-
ships with unhoused members of
our community. We volunteer at
the Opportunity Center and go on
walks to meet people who live on
the streets of Palo Alto. Through
our service, we’ve found we’re
equally in need — perspectives. In
partnership with people we’ve met,
we’ve reached new understand-
ings.
There’s nothing healthy about
the situation we now meet, not for
our society and not for community
members experiencing homeless-
ness. Individual causes of home-
lessness are complex. In Santa
Clara County, the top reason cited
for unhoused status is loss of job.
Even for people whose personal
choices contribute to their un-
housed status, no society should in-
flict the experience of homeless-
ness without adequate options.The
health risks should be coercion
enough — we need to act. No
human being should experience
the exposure to weather, circulato-
ry problems, trauma and injury
risks of homelessness. Shelter is a
human right. Boston Healthcare
for the Homeless found the aver-
age age of death for a group of
chronically unhoused individuals
was 51 years. This is our society.
And frankly, this is morally abhor-
rent.
The need for shelter far surpass-
es services available. There are 178
unhoused individuals in Palo Alto,
while the only shelter has 15 beds.
What about low-income housing?
The national average wait for Sec-
tion 8 rental subsidies is 35 months.
Our local and national communi-
ties do not provide adequate shel-
ter options.
As Stanford students, we can
offer a community initiative that
helps meet the need for shelter in
Palo Alto. Since July, I’ve worked
with Aparna Ananthasubramani-
am, Heidi Chen, Kurt von Laven
Please see OP-ED, page 5
stomach starts grumbling and com-
plaining, and I seriously question
my intelligence for putting myself
through this yet again. I suppose
that I might just be very slightly al-
lergic to strawberries, but I refuse to
consider the possibility that I might
be allergic to any foods. Besides, I
actually really like things like straw-
berry jam, ice cream, and shortcake;
I’m pretty sure that
macerating/boiling/processing the
strawberries takes the evil out of
them.
Given my extreme distaste for
strawberries, you can probably
imagine how bewildered I was
when I first heard about Strawberry
Girl. I didn’t live with Strawberry
Girl myself, but a bunch of my
friends did, and every so often they
just had to vent about this girl. Ap-
parently, every time that fresh
strawberries were stocked for lunch
or dinner, Strawberry Girl would
get there first and clean house, fill-
ing multiple take-out boxes (or
buckets, in some versions of the
story) to the brim with the straw-
berries and taking them all back to
her room, leaving a couple of token
strawberry rejects for everyone else
to fight over.
This raised a whole bushel of
questions. I know that most people
who aren’t me actually like straw-
berries, but who likes strawberries
that much? Was she really eating all
of those strawberries in one sitting?
How did she get her strawberry fix
before college? But I thought
about one question the most: what
exactly went through her head
every time she nabbed all the
strawberries? Either she was obliv-
Who likes
strawberries
that much?
ious to the fact that taking all the
strawberries was a super inconsid-
erate thing to do, or she knew and
just didn’t care. I’ve met my fair
share of spacey/oblivious people,
but given how many people were
getting mad about the whole situa-
tion, I’d have to imagine that it was
the second case.
To be fair to Strawberry Girl,
and despite what the people who
lived with her might tell you, hoard-
ing’s not something that she invent-
ed. Just last week, I was passing
through Wilbur Dining when I saw
a girl swagger up to a cereal dis-
penser with a giant Tupperware jug,
shove its mouth under the dis-
penser chute, and hold down on the
dispenser lever. She looked like she
was filling up her car with gas. I’m
not without sin either, I’ll admit to
taking an extra candy or two “for
the road,” but every time I get
tempted to take much more than
my fair share, a little ditty from
childhood pops into my head.
“There are 5C’s in Lower
hope you’ll live them too!”
Despite it not rhyming in the
slightest, it somehow managed to
be incredibly catchy, and that catch-
iness, combined with the fact that
we sang it every single week at our
lower school assemblies for five
straight years, burned the 5C’s into
my brain. Sure, we really shouldn’t
need reminding that we should be
being cooperative, considerate, etc.
at our age, and the song is really
only cool for 6-to-10-year-olds (and
even then it’s debatable), but see-
ing as how there’s been tension
over inconsiderate behavior in my
dorms/houses every single year, we
clearly can all still use a little re-
minder every once in a while.
Building community in a dorm or a
house isn’t always easy, especially
given how many other things Stan-
ford students always have going on,
and it becomes close to impossible
if we forget these C’s. Things like
cleaning up after ourselves, coming
to dorm/house events, and not
hoarding might seem like silly
things to be worrying about, but it’s
these little things that set the tone.
It’s fine to do what you want to do,
but it’s pretty rare that you’ll derive
so much more pleasure from leav-
ing that dirty pot on the stove than
from taking a couple of seconds to
wash it out, so why not take those
couple of seconds and make the
house a little nicer for everyone
else? You don’t want to be the next
Strawberry Girl, do you?
Tim is taking suggestions on how to
overcome his very slight allergy to
strawberries. Email him at tim-
moon@stanford.edu.
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MOONEY
Continued from page 3
a job.
He accepted a position on a
Norwegian freighter and embarked
upon a journey down the west coast
of the Americas, through the Straits
of Magellan, along the east coast of
South America, back through the
Panama Canal and on to San Fran-
cisco.
Unbeknownst to him at the
time, this seemingly odd job would
provide the inspiration for his life’s
work.
While traveling through the
Panama Canal, Mooney read an ar-
ticle in Reader’s Digest that de-
scribed working for the United
States Department of Agriculture’s
Plant Exploration unit. This article,
combined with the variety of natu-
ral wonders he saw in his trip
throughout the Americas, fostered
a deep interest in biology.
With that, both his political sci-
ence degree and Berkeley career
were things of the past. Upon re-
turning to the States, Mooney de-
cided to go back to school at his
local community college, where a
field course on ecology in the
Rocky Mountains convinced him
that his calling was to become an
ecologist.
Mooney noted that his personal
intellectual journey has led him to
place a strong value on academic
exploration.
“I think it’s really important to
test the waters and to take a broad
array of courses that first year,” he
said.“ It just depends. Some people
see something early in their careers
and go on to it for the rest of their
lives. For other people, it takes a
while to find their passion.”
WINTER
Continued from page 3
literally no breaks until spring
break, and then it’s straight into
spring quarter,” he said. “Looking
ahead, it looks like a really long
time and people get weary or
homesick.”
It doesn’t help that at the start of
winter quarter, students must also
deal with the fact that their friends
in other schools are halfway
through the year, and they still have
two-thirds remaining.
“The fact that there’s no break is
important because it’s like nonstop
study, study, study,” Elena Ayala-
Hurtado’14 said.
But Gibbs, who seems to be in
the minority, objected.
“It’s a great system,” she ex-
claimed. “We get more spring. I
love that we’re here so late because
it gives us more time to enjoy spring
and be happy, healthy people.”
Little darling, I feel that ice is slow-
ly melting
When it comes to academics,
students may feel the effects of the
winter slump the least. Data from
the Office of the Registrar show
that freshmen, on average, load up
on units in the winter quarter,
whereas sophomores, juniors and
seniors remain fairly consistent
with course loads.
“In the winter, students tend to
work hard and take harder course
loads,” Nass said. “I’ve heard facul-
OP-ED
Continued from page 4
and Mindy Phung to evaluate the
feasibility of a student-run shelter.
We’ve interviewed service
providers, unhoused individuals
and faculty to define ideas. The
only student-run shelter, at Har-
vard, was established in 1983. Our
adaptation relies on two princi-
ples: (1) Shelter is a human right
and (2) Effective service is a part-
nership.
I invite you to hear logistical
ideas for a student-run shelter and
help shape this initiative at our
roundtable discussion Feb. 5 in
Old Union. As an introduction,
consider the following advantages
of a student-run shelter for all
members of our community.
First, student volunteers save
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 ! 5
“That’s what you’re looking for,
something you can become pas-
sionate about,” he added.“And you
have to find that out by experi-
menting.”
Experimenting has paid off for
Mooney, who has found a way to
combine his early interest in politi-
cal science with his aptitude in ecol-
ogy to enact change in the world of
environmental policy. For the past
five years, he has been working with
the United Nations to establish an
intergovernmental process that fol-
lows biological diversity globally,
similar to the Intergovernmental
Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).
Called the Intergovernmental Plat-
form on Biodiversity and Ecosys-
tem Services (IPBES), the resolu-
tion has already been approved by
93 governments.
At Stanford, Mooney has en-
joyed his role as both a teacher and
researcher. His current courses in-
clude an introductory seminar
called “Plants and Civilization” as
well as a junior-senior course enti-
tled “Ecosystems of California.”
Driven by a strong belief that
the scientific community must im-
prove its ability to share findings
with the public at large, Mooney
also works with several organiza-
tions that help scientists further
their communication skills. At
Stanford, he is deeply involved with
a program that trains young scien-
tists to communicate via television,
write op-eds and provide effective
Congressional testimony.
“I think all scientists have an obli-
gation to convey their findings to a
larger community than their immedi-
ate peers,” Mooney said, “and to use
their understanding and knowledge
about an important issue and make it
available to a wider audience.”
Contact Billy Gallagher at wmg2014
@stanford.edu.
ty members say that students study
more, but sections are less fun be-
cause the students aren’t as vi-
brant.”
Spitzer communicated a certain
familiarity with winter quarter.
“Fall quarter takes some time to
get back in the groove, but come
winter quarter you’re already back,”
he said. “Historically, I have always
done my best in winter quarter.”
Many students also choose to
take GER courses or classes re-
quired for majors in the winter
quarter. The abundance of critical
offerings at this time of year could
help explain why lower numbers of
students choose to travel abroad
with the Bing Overseas Study Pro-
gram in winter rather than in fall or
spring.
“A lot of the courses offered this
quarter are the less interesting re-
quirements,” Williams said.
Winter quarter’s stereotype as
the quarter where students buckle
down and get serious about work
seems to be well-earned.
“While [class time] may not be
the traditional springtime-on-the-
lawn-in-bikinis type of fun, it still
has its redeeming qualities,” said
THE AURORA FORUM AT
Steven Crane ‘11.
And one redeeming quality
might just be that extra quarter of
maturity, especially for freshmen.
STANFORD LIVELY ARTS
“I definitely think the winter
slump is a myth,” said Issra Omer
‘14. “I’ve learned from the first
quarter and made better choices
2010–11 SEASON
about classes.”
Contact Marwa Farag at mfarag@
stanford.edu
time, energy and funding for service
providers. Because of students’ dif-
ferent dynamic from professional
employees, our shelter also allows
focus on guests’ experience. Finally,
we as students stand to grow, in-
formed in our future careers by di-
rect experience and a service-learn-
ing course related to homelessness.
To that end, our shelter is commit-
ted to increasing representation of
unhoused individuals in shelter de-
cisions and beyond.
Through representation and
service-learning, we will listen to
the stories entrusted to us. This is
where the idea of the student-run Mingus, Music, and the Struggle for Civil Rights
shelter comes from. More than
anything else, it will be a place for
our community to come together
Sue Mingus in conversation with Clayborne Carson
and learn from each other. Mark Gonnerman, moderator
MARIE BAYLON ‘12 TUESDAY / FEBRUARY 1 / 7:30 PM
Email shelter.roundtable.info@gmail.
PIGOTT THEATER AT MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM / FREE
com for an overview of our proposals.
6 ! Tuesday, February 1, 2011
SPORTS
EARLY SUPREMACY
By KEVIN ZHANG
DAILY SPORTS INTERN
After a dominant tournament
performance in Ann Arbor, Mich.,
last month to begin its 2011 cam-
paign, the No. 1 Stanford women’s
water polo team (4-0) goes into the
two-day Stanford Invitational
looking to continue its strong start
at home.
The team had last weekend off
after the Michigan Kickoff, in
which the Cardinal outscored its
opponents 57-11 to sweep its set of
four games.
During that tournament in Ann
Arbor, the Card stomped over a
gauntlet of top-15 opponents. The
team started by dusting off No. 14
Hartwick, 14-3, and No. 6 Loyola
Marymount, 14-1, on Jan. 22, the
first day of the tourney. The fol-
lowing day, the women showed lit-
tle signs of fatigue, continuing
their exceptional play in a 14-1
rout of No. 13 Indiana and a 15-6
win over the host school, No. 8
Michigan.
Juniors Pallavi Menon and
Melissa Seidemann combined for
16 goals over the weekend, with
Menon’s nine goals marking a
team high. In the cage, all three
Cardinal goalies had playing time,
including sophomore Kate Bal-
doni, who totaled 22 saves.
The veterans were solid, but the
team enjoyed contributions from
its young talent as well. Freshmen
driver Kaley Dodson was named
MPSF Newcomer of the Week
after racking up six goals during
the tournament, scoring a pair
each against Hartwick, LMU and
Indiana. Sophomore driver Jillian
Garton matched Dodson’s six
goals. The two underclassmen are
tied for third on the team in total
scoring, behind Seidemann’s
SPORTS BRIEFS
Top-ranked women’s swimming
continues home dominance
Stanford women’s swimming
won its 33rd consecutive dual
meet, and 22nd straight at home,
as the Cardinal dispatched of
ranked UCLA and USC teams
over the weekend.
The No. 1 Cardinal (8-0),
whose seniors will now end their
careers with a perfect home
record, first took on No. 21
UCLA on Friday. Of the 16
events, Stanford won 10 on its
way to a 169-131 win. Leading
the way for the Cardinal was jun-
ior Sam Woodward, who won
the 50-yard freestyle and con-
tributed to wins by both relay
teams. Woodward anchored the
200 medley relay and led off the
200 free relay, along with placing
third in the 100 butterfly.
The only other Stanford
swimmer with multiple victories
in the meet was freshman Felicia
Lee, who showed her versatility
with wins in both the 100 back-
stroke and the 100 free, as well as
the butterfly leg in the winning
medley relay.
Senior Meg Hostage won
both diving events for the Cardi-
nal, and freshman Stephanie
Phipps placed second and third
in the one-meter and three-
meter, respectively.
Stanford did not have much
time to enjoy its victory, though,
as it had an even tougher task
the very next day. Once again,
the Cardinal was up to the chal-
lenge, easily defeating No. 3
USC, 161.5-136.5, to cap off its
home season.
Two of Stanford’s five seniors
had particularly strong perform-
ances in their final collegiate
home match. Hostage once again
swept the two diving events,while
Phipps placed third in both. Se-
nior Kate Dwelley also had quite
a day, winning the 100 and 200
free and anchoring the exhibition
400 free relay win. Dwelley fin-
ished .03 seconds behind Wood-
ward in the 50 free as well, barely
missing out on another victory.
The Cardinal’s best event of
the day was the 200 backstroke,
which Stanford swept. Freshman
Maya DiRado won the event, fol-
lowed by sophomores Jessie
Hammes and Megan Fischer-Col-
brie. DiRado also won the 100
backstroke, placed second in the
200 IM and led off a second-place
finish in the 200 medley relay.
Stanford has a diving-only
meet at BYU on Feb. 11, fol-
lowed by a full meet at Califor-
nia on Feb. 12 before the Pac-10
Championships in late February.
The Stanford Daily
Wyndam
Makowsky
Between the lines
Plunkett
meets HOF
precedent
T
he two weeks between the
conference championship
games and the Super Bowl
are a media frenzy.With lit-
tle professional football in
between to cover — the Pro Bowl in
no way counts — it is a time of bound-
less speculation, where stories are fos-
tered to keep people interested.
The latest meme: Does a third
Super Bowl ring guarantee Ben
Roethlisberger a spot in the Hall of
Fame? It revolves around nothing ex-
cept his literal winning of champi-
onships. It’s not about his career —
much less Super Bowl — perform-
ance, and certainly not his off-the-field
transgressions. It’s simply this: with a
Stanford Daily File Photo ring,is he in?
Driver Kim Krueger is one of only three seniors on the Stanford women’s water polo team, but the Cardinal still faces The question isn’t so crazy, because
high expectations as the No. 1 team in the country. This weekend, the Cardinal will host the Stanford Invitational. the current metrics indicate that, well,
yes,he probably is.Of all of the quarter-
seven and Menon’s nine. season without recent graduates cant senior experience, with Kim backs who have won multiple champi-
The impressive start is a good Kelly Eaton, Kelsey Holshouser, Krueger joining Oland and Hall as onships, only one has yet to be elected
omen for a team that narrowly Alex Koran and Jessica Steffens. the only long-time veterans on the to the Hall. This column is about the
missed the sport’s highest honor Eaton, in particular, made a big 19-player roster. merits of those criteria — if we in-
last season. In 2010, Stanford fin- mark last year, scoring 51 goals on Despite not being a senior- stalled my draconian views on Hall of
ished one goal shy of a national the season and a team-high four laden team, Stanford will have a Fame eligibility, there would likely be
championship, falling against goals in the national final against plethora of talented upperclass- only about two-dozen people en-
USC, 10-9, and placing second in the Trojans. men including juniors Menon, Sei- shrined. Instead, it’s about that lone
the nation for the fifth time in Stanford will have plenty of demann and Cassie Churnside. outsider:Stanford’s own Jim Plunkett.
school history. That team finished carryover in the cage, however, Seidemann was the team’s leading Plunkett, the No. 1 overall pick in
with a 26-3 overall record, includ- with all three of its goalies — Bal- scorer last season, knocking in 54 the 1971 draft and the Cardinal’s only
ing a perfect 7-0 MPSF record and doni and seniors Amber Oland goals. Heisman Trophy winner,has two rings,
a 5-0 mark on the road. and Kim Hall — returning.
Stanford has begun the 2011 The team will not boast signifi- Please see WPOLO, page 8 Please see MAKOWSKY, page 8
Wrestling loses thriller to
San Francisco State
The Stanford wrestling team
lost a tough, back-and-forth 18-
16 dual match to San Francisco
State on Sunday, the Cardinal’s
third straight loss.
Playing in front of a home
crowd in Burnham Pavilion,
Stanford (7-9) jumped out to an
early 10-0 lead after the first
three matches. Freshman Dan
Scherer started off the scoring
with a come-from-behind 5-4
win over the Gators’ Zach
Jimenez at 184 pounds to get the
Cardinal on the board at 3-0. Fel-
low freshman Alan Yen followed
with the only major decision of
the day, a 13-5 win over Karam
Basa at 197 pounds. In the
heavyweight division, senior
Dylan Rush continued Stan-
ford’s hot start with a 6-2 victory
over Anthony Gonzalez.
The Cardinal could not main-
tain its momentum in the follow-
ing matches, though, as the
Gators responded with three
straight wins to take the lead.
Redshirt sophomore Matt Sen-
cenbaugh lost a close 5-3 deci-
sion to SFSU’s Pierre Bondoc at
125 pounds, and redshirt junior
Austin Quarles, wrestling at 133
pounds, lost to Brian Tharp. In
the only fall of the day, the
Gators’ Naveed Bagheri defeat-
ed freshman Donovan Halpin at
141 pounds to give SFSU six
points and a 12-10 lead.
Stanford rebounded after los-
ing its lead, winning two more
matches by decision to open up a
16-12 lead.Wrestling up a weight
class, redshirt freshman Jordan
Gray defeated SFSU’s Matt
Thomas 8-3 at 149 pounds to put
the Cardinal up one. At 157
pounds, redshirt freshman Sam
Umlauf won his first career
match, a 5-0 shutout win over
Dylan Phillipy.
With just two matches re-
maining, the Cardinal clung to a
four-point lead. However, the
Gators pulled out two victories
by decision to take the dual. At
165 pounds, freshman Garrett
Schaner lost a narrow 4-3 deci-
sion to Isaiah Jimenez, bringing
the overall score within a point.
In the final match of the day, red-
shirt sophomore 174-pounder
Kyler Hasson lost a 4-0 decision
to Gene Choi to give the Gators
the two-point victory.
The Cardinal will be back in
action on Friday when the team
hosts Cal Baptist at 6 p.m. in
Burnham Pavilion.
— Jacob Jaffe
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Alumnus Hall places second
Ryan Hall ‘05, in white, runs in the United States Half Marathon Champi-
onships in Houston on Saturday. Hall, the American record holder in the half
marathon, was passed by Mo Trafeh (middle) in the final mile for the title.
WPOLO
Continued from page 6
As it will this year, Stanford also
went into the 2010 Stanford Invita-
tional as the top team in the coun-
try. The team managed to win the
tournament for the first time in
seven years by defeating then-No. 4
Courtesy of Masaru Oka
California, 10-7, in the final.
Stanford will open up against
Arizona State at 8:30 a.m. and Cal
at 4 p.m. on Saturday. The Cardinal
will wrap up on Sunday against San
Jose State at 8 a.m. before a to-be-
determined championship match
on Sunday. All matches are at the
Avery Aquatic Center.
Contact Kevin Zhang at kevinzhangle
@gmail.com.
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MAKOWSKY
and Namath are within just a couple of Reexamine our criteria: if we ac-
points of each other in the overall rat- cept that quarterbacks with multiple
ing,and rank quite similarly overall. Super Bowl rings will almost always be
Continued from page 6 (For the record, I side with Broad- elected to the Hall, then the quarter-
way Joe,who followed through on per- back with that resume who doesn’t
haps the greatest and more improbable make it in must be dramatically worse
both won with the Oakland (and then- guarantee in professional sports history than the rest of that peer group. And
Los Angeles) Raiders in the 1980s. He and almost single-handedly saved the Plunkett is not.
was stellar in both performances,com- AFL in the process.But siding with him If we’re going to discuss Roethlis-
bining for four touchdowns against is to also side with Plunkett.) berger’s candidacy based solely on his
zero interceptions and amassing an av- It’s not just Namath. Terry Brad- jewelry,then we must continue an erst-
erage 122.8 passer rating. He was the shaw, with four rings, has a similar while discussion on Plunkett’s success,
MVP in Super Bowl XV,and if not for score. So do Bob Waterfield and too.
a superhuman performance from run- George Blanda.
ning back Marcus Allen in XVIII,like- Let’s not kid ourselves: Plunkett’s Wyndam Makowsky would have to be
ly would have won the honor again. career would place him in the bottom dramatically worse than other colum-
Contrast that with Roethlisberger, group, statistically, of enshrined quar- nists not to get your feedback. If he’s
for instance, who had one of the worst terbacks. But he would still be in that not, contact him at makowsky@stan-
performances by a winning quarter- group and not significantly below it. ford.edu.
back in his first Super Bowl, tossing
two interceptions and no touchdowns
while compiling a paltry 22.6 rating.
Needless to say, Plunkett came
through when it counted. So why no
love from the powers that be?
Plunkett’s career was not nearly as
impressive as his Super Bowl perform-
ances. He finished with 164 touch-
downs against 194 interceptions, went
72-72 in his career,only averaged about
165 yards through the air per game and
had a completion percentage (52.5 per-
cent) that modern analysts would scoff
at.Why campaign for him, then, as the
Raiders’ owner Al Davis has begun to
do in recent weeks?
Let’s get one aspect out of the way.
In the 1970s, when Plunkett was strug-
gling early in his career with the woeful
New England Patriots, football was
not nearly as open of a passing game as
it is today,and the stats are skewed ap-
propriately. The rules in place back
then were dramatically different from
the ones we have now, which heavily
favor the quarterback and put defend-
ers at a serious disadvantage.
But the crux of the matter is that in
the system the NFL currently uses to
select its Hall of Fame quarterbacks, if
you’ve won multiple Super Bowls you
should have to be significantly worse
over the course of your career than any
other quarterback of the same vein in
order to be excluded. And Plunkett
wasn’t.
Joe Namath, whose candidacy is
questioned frequently given his less-
than-stellar statistics, made the Hall of
Fame as a one-time Super Bowl cham-
pion with career totals of 173 touch-
downs, 220 interceptions and a com-
pletion percentage right at 50 percent.
He lost more games than he won.He is
in the Hall of Fame. He and Plunkett
overlapped for a number of years in
the pros,and if you normalize their sta-
tistics to try and reflect a general aver-
age across all eras — as Pro Football
Reference’s Advanced Passing Statis-
tics do — then you find that Plunkett