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SSQL starts
UNIVERSITY

BCS gains
accrue to
Stanford
Orange Bowl leads to
higher national profile
By STEVEN SMALLBERG
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With last season’s unprecedent-
ed success, Stanford football and
the University by extension re-
ceived tremendous national expo-
sure and publicity. Administrators
say, however, that it has been diffi-
cult to quantify the benefits accrued
to Stanford from its accomplish-
ments on the field.
“Stanford was being held out to
the nation as a shining example of
an institution that focuses on excel-
lence among its student-athletes —
on the field, court, classroom and
laboratory,” wrote Martin Shell,
vice president for development, in
an e-mail to The Daily. “I have to
believe that some very real benefits
are accruing to the University be-
cause of this.”
Though gift support to Stanford
increased in the first five months of
the fiscal year starting Sept. 2010,
Shell cited the improving economy,
the stock market and The Stanford
Challenge fundraising campaign as
the primary causes for this growth.
He said athletic success in multiple
sports led to intangible gains.
“[The week] was quite special,”
Shell said, referring to victories in
women’s basketball over the Uni-
DONNI WANG/The Stanford Daily
Students converged on White Plaza on Friday afternoon to show solidarity with the
protests demanding democracy in Egypt. The demonstrators echoed their Egyptian
counterparts in calling for the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 years of autocratic rule.
UNIVERSITY
petition
Opponents gather signatures to
protest ROTC’s return to campus
By DANA EDWARDS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Stanford Students for Queer Liberation (SSQL) started
an online petition last week to gain student support for ef-
forts to block the reintroduction of ROTC to campus.The pe-
tition had gathered 116 signatures at the time of publication.
A formal letter to the Faculty Senate headlined the peti-
tion, outlining SSQL’s objection to ROTC on the grounds
that the military continues to discriminate against transgen-
der students. In the letter, SSQL argued that the return of
ROTC would “constitute a violation of our very own
nondiscrimination policy,” a policy that prohibits exclusion
from campus programs and activities on the basis of gender
identity.
Last year, the Faculty Senate formed the Ad Hoc Com-
mittee on ROTC and tasked it to investigate the potential re-
turn of the military to Stanford. The SSQL letter called for
the Faculty Senate to “remain at status quo and declare sup-
port for transgender students’ identity.”
Mario Villaplana ‘14 and Alok Vaid-Menon ‘13, both ac-
tive members of SSQL, authored the letter.
Though other campus groups such as National Marriage
Boycott (NMB) endorsed the petition, SSQL is chiefly re-
sponsible for its rhetoric and for rallying students in support
of its cause.
“We’re building momentum on this issue, trying to reach
out to concerned groups and students,” said SSQL leader
Janani Balasubramanian ‘12. “This affects all of us who are
invested in the maintenance of the non-discrimination
Please see PETITION, page 2

Faculty Senate focuses on student mental health

versity of Connecticut and men’s
basketball over UC-Berkeley in the
days leading up to the BCS Orange
Bowl game.
“The spectacular Orange Bowl
victory came the next night,” Shell
said. “Then, two days after the foot-
ball team returned to campus, [red-
shirt sophomore quarterback] An-
drew Luck announced that he is re-
maining on The Farm to complete
the academic work toward his de-
gree. From a national exposure
standpoint, it was a remarkable
sports week for the Cardinal.”
The publicity generated by the
Please see BCS, page 5
By AN LE NGUYEN
MANAGING EDITOR
The Faculty Senate convened Feb. 3 to ad-
dress three topics: declining interest in the hu-
manities, the opening of the new Graduate
School of Business campus and student mental
health.
The senate first broached the topic of under-
graduate and graduate studies in the humani-
ties, ceding the floor to University President
John Hennessy.
“We’ve seen across the country, not only at
Stanford but at many institutions, a decreasing
interest among students majoring in the human-
ities,” Hennessy said. He stated he and Provost
John Etchemendy have begun a discussion
about possible ways to address this trend.
“We explored in a preliminary fashion five
possible ideas,” he said.
The first of these ideas was to rethink the In-
troduction to the Humanities (IHUM) experi-
ence, with the possibility of replicating the
Structured Liberal Education (SLE) program.
The second was to find ways to “attract more
students in courses in the humanities, above and
beyond meeting their minimum GER require-
ments.”
Hennessy also underscored the need to pro-
vide better guidance and information to current
and potential humanities majors about future
careers with their humanities degrees. He next
mentioned efforts to draw undergraduates to
these degrees in the first place.
“We’ve also begun early discussion about
what we could do to attract more students to a
traditional liberal arts degree, focusing on ma-
Please see FACSEN, page 3

SUN DEVILS STUDENT LIFE

SCORCHED
Juniors lead Cardinal to
home victory over ASU
By JACOB JAFFE
DESK EDITOR
In one of its best offensive per-
formances of the year, the Stanford
men’s basketball team beat Ari-
zona State, 83-75, on Saturday af-
ternoon to salvage a split of its
four-game homestand. The Cardi-
nal (12-10, 5-6 Pac-10) won despite
giving up 51-percent shooting to
the last-place Sun Devils (9-14, 1-
10).
MEN’S BASKETBALL
ARIZONA STATE 75
STANFORD 83
2/5, Maples Pavilion
This uncharacteristically poor
defense was offset by uncharacter-
istic success from two areas where
Stanford usually struggles — the
three-point line and the free-throw
line. The Cardinal ranks 204th na-
tionally (out of 346 teams) in three-
point shooting and 272nd national-
ly in free-throw shooting, with
marks of 33.5 percent and 65.3 per-
MEN’S BASKETBALL
2/5 vs. ARIZONA STATE
W 83-75
UP NEXT
WASHINGTON
STATE
(16-7, 6-5 Pac-10)
2/10 Pullman, Wash., 7 P.M. PST
GAME NOTES: Stanford has momentum after
a big win at home over Arizona State with
career performances from Jeremy Green
and Jarrett Mann. The Card heads to
Washington State to face the Cougars, who
return home after a down-to-the-wire, 61-
55 road win against Oregon State.
cent, respectively. On Saturday,
Stanford made 10 of its 18 three-
point attempts and was 25-for-34
from the free-throw line. Both to-
tals nearly doubled the Cardinal’s
season averages.
Despite much of the press re-
garding Stanford men’s basketball
Please see MBBALL, page 8
Burst pipe
threatens
Bob House
First floor nearly
floods on Friday night
By KABIR SAWHNEY
DESK EDITOR
On Friday night, a broken water
pipe in Bob nearly flooded the first
floor of the house and caused a tem-
porary water shutoff to three Row
houses. Bob residents managed to
keep the water contained to the
area of the initial leak in the dry-
wall.
Samir Siddhanti ‘12, one of the
Bob residents who initially noticed
the leak, said it started around 10
p.m., when several residents noticed
a “mist” emanating from a “dime-
sized” hole below a first-floor sink.
Siddhanti called Bob RA Sam
Svoboda ‘11, who is a former editor
for The Daily, and Student Hous-
ing’s emergency maintenance
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
around 10:30 p.m. By that point,
water had streamed out of the hole
Junior guard Jeremy Green, above, combined with fellow juniors Jarrett and threatened to damage furniture
Mann and Josh Owens for 53 of the Cardinal’s 83 points in Saturday’s
victory over Arizona State. Please see BOB, page 5

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2 ! Monday, February 7, 2011 The Stanford Daily
STUDENT LIFE

Sustainable Stanford celebrates 10-year anniversary

Student group focused on
Lotus One dorm concept
By NARDOS GIRMA
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In a two-hour event last Friday, Students

for a Sustainable Stanford (SSS) celebrated its
10th anniversary, reflecting on its past and de-
tailing its goals for the future. The event fea-
tured speeches from current leaders Sid-
dhartha Oza ‘11 and Molly Oshun ‘11, as well
as former president John Mulrow ‘09 and Julie
Kennedy, a senior lecturer in the School of
Earth Sciences.
“We want to be able to have SSS be around
for the next 10 years, for the next 50 to 100
years,” Oza said in an interview with The
Daily. “So taking a minute at the 10-year
benchmark to look back and look forward
gives us an opportunity to understand what
change in continuity, in the context of sustain-
ability, is really about.”
SSS recently became one of three student-
led, Haas-affiliated service organizations and
focuses on four areas in sustainability: climate,
water, recycling and environmental justice.
Past SSS projects include campaigns for a
“sustainable civilization” course requirement,
policies to improve campus waste manage-
ment and a “production farm.”
One of Sustainable Stanford’s largest on-
going projects is Lotus One, a proposed
“green dorm” that has been in the works since
2002. Lotus One would not only provide sus-
tainable housing, but would also function as a
forum for sharing ideas and increasing envi-
ronmental awareness.
“What’s really the most important thing is
that it’s an incubator for student ideas,” said
Alex Luisi ‘12, one of two student representa- ALISA ROYER/The Stanford Daily
tives working on the project. “We test them In its 10-year history, Students for a Sustainable Stanford has become one of the largest sustainability-advocacy groups on campus. Aside from
out there and we’ll be able to scale their ideas its work on the Lotus One sustainable dorm, SSS has a number of short-term initiatives, including a festival in the spring called “visioneARTh.”
out to the real world so that we have more of
an impact than just on campus.” One, SSS has a variety of other short-term legacy as the largest and most active environ- Sharon Tan ‘14. “What attracted me to SSS
The planners envision Lotus One being lo- goals. These include organizing “vision- mental group on campus is another important was its energy. People here were really pas-
cated behind Casa Italiana.Although funding eARTh,” a festival to be held in the spring, priority. sionate and open.”
issues have slowed its progress, it may be exe- and raising student awareness about SSS “I was looking for a group that was in-
cuted in the next two years. projects and the broader topic of sustainabil- volved with sustainability efforts in Stanford Contact Nardos Girma at ngirma@stanford.
In addition to continued work on Lotus ity. Attracting new students to continue SSS’s and reaching outside of Stanford,” said edu.

PETITION
Continued from front page
clause.”
On the other side of the issue, a
pro-ROTC coalition of students is
contemplating authoring a counter-
petition, but nothing official is cur-
rently circulating. Recent weeks
have seen a surge in the number of
people advocating for the military’s
return to Stanford, including an en-
dorsement from Professor Con-
doleezza Rice and Hoover fellow
George Shultz, both of who are for-
mer Secretaries of State.
Some proponents of ROTC
groups argue that barring transgen-
der people from military service
does not clearly violate Stanford’s
non-discrimination clause. They
claim that the clause only protects
against unlawful discrimination,
and that ROTC’s policy is by defini-
tion lawful.
Balasubramanian responded to
these claims by stating that legality
often comes down to a matter of se-
mantics.
“It depends on which law
you’re privileging,” Balasubra-
manian said.“We think that a rein-
troduction of ROTC would not be
aligned with the way that Stanford
has protected gender identity in
the past, for instance in their ef-
forts to provide sensitive housing
and health care to all members of
the community.”
Balasubramanian hopes SSQL’s
petition, which confirms signers’
Stanford affiliation by requiring e-
mail addresses, will help sway the
Faculty Senate as the University de-
cides whether or not to reinstate
ROTC. Balasubramanian and Vil-
laplana both said the ad hoc com-
mittee has been unclear regarding
the date of the announcement and
the degree to which it will take into
account popular student opinion.
Contact Dana Edwards at dana727@
stanford.edu
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NEWS BRIEFS
Palo Alto rail
commission
widens scope
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
In a meeting Thursday morning,
the Palo Alto City Council’s High-
Speed Rail Committee voted to
change its name to the “City Council
Rail Committee,” in an effort to tie
together the future of both the high-
speed and commuter rail in the city.
Though the committee was ini-
tially formed to examine and cri-
tique the state’s plans for a high-
speed rail corridor, several factors
pushed it to consider the Caltrain
commuter-train service as well. The
committee cited an overall funding
struggle as one factor. The fact that
Caltrain and the proposed light rail
service would run on the same tracks
is another.
Specifically, the committee hopes
to use its clout to influence plans to
fund the Caltrain, a commuter serv-
ice that links Palo Alto to San Fran-
cisco and San Jose. Unlike other
public transportation services in the
Bay Area, including BART and San
Francisco’s Muni, Caltrain lacks a
dedicated funding source.
Including Caltrain in its mandate
could also put the Rail Committee in
a better bargaining position for use
of the tracks with Caltrain, which
FACSEN
Continued from front page
jors in the humanities,” he said.
The final point Hennessy ad-
dressed was enhancing the experi-
ence of Ph.D. students in the hu-
manities. He stressed, in particular,
the need to prepare these graduate
students for careers outside of aca-
demia.
GSB does show and tell
Following Hennessy’s discus-
sion, GSB dean Garth Saloner gave
a presentation on the business
school and its new Knight Manage-
ment Center.
He commenced his talk with the
GSB’s two-fold mission statement:
to create ideas that enhance under-
standing of management and the
development of innovative, princi-
pled and insightful leaders. The
GSB is currently comprised of 799
MBA candidates, 56 Sloan students
and 94 Ph.D. students.
Saloner stated that there had
been a major overhaul of the MBA
curriculum in the past few years.
“The MBA degree has really
matured, and a lot of students start
to think very early . . . about going
to business school,” he said.
According to Saloner, many of
these students came to the GSB as
“pre-MBA students,” who already
did the “bread and butter of the
MBA program” as undergraduates
or professionals.
“That would not be a such prob-
lem except for the fact that there’s
an equivalent number of students
who never headed down this
track,” Saloner said.
To that effect, he stated that a
“one-size-fits-all” model is no
longer appropriate for the diversity
of students at the GSB.The curricu-
lum has since changed to enable
students to choose from a “menu”
of required courses. It has also been
revamped so that first-year MBA
students are required to have a
global immersion experience, such
as an overseas study trip or an in-
ternship abroad.
Finally, Saloner spoke about the
new Knight Management Center,
which boasts eight new buildings,
structured around three quads. Ac-
cording to the dean, “The impor-
tant characteristic of this complex
from our perspective is that it is
much more flexible space.”
He noted that this flexibility
matches “the needs of the new cur-
riculum.”
ONLY YOU CAN
Please
Mental health becomes focal point
PREVENT WILDFIRES. The topics of mental health and
well being took up the latter half of
the meeting.The senate opened the
floor to a six-member panel, which
smokeybear.com provided recommendations on
how faculty members can be more
attuned to student mental health is-
sues.
The panel consisted of Dr. Ira
Friedman,Vaden Health Center di-
rector and associate vice provost
for student affairs; Dr. Peter Kao,
associate professor of medicine and
Castaño resident fellow; Dr. Rob
Albucher, director of Counseling
and Psychological Services (CAPS)
and clinical associate professor of
psychiatry; Sally Dickson, associate
vice provost for student affairs;
Chris Griffith, associate vice
provost for student affairs; and
ASSU President Angelina Car-
dona ‘11.
“We’re seeing more press cover-
age of stressed-out students,” Fried-
man said.
News coverage of national sur-
veys and campus reporting echo
this sentiment. But Friedman was
currently has the right-of-way.
The committee will continue to in-
vestigate the proposed design and cost
of high-speed passenger rail, which
will connect Sacramento, San Francis-
co, San Jose, Los Angeles and San
Diego. The San Francisco-San Jose
corridor would run through Palo Alto.
—Kabir Sawhney
Policymakers,
scholars present state
of the economy
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
The Stanford Institute for Eco-
nomic Policy Research (SIEPR)
and the Bill Lane Center for the
American West hosted the first an-
nual State of the West Symposium
last Friday.The event aimed to mo-
tivate a lively discourse about the
economic and fiscal health of the
western United States and Pacific
region.
The symposium commenced
with an address on the West’s eco-
nomic outlook by John C.Williams,
executive vice president and re-
search director at the Federal Re-
serve Bank of San Francisco.
“After what was perhaps the
Please see BRIEFS, page 5
quick to add, “Let us keep in mind,
however, that being on a college
campus is a protective factor.” Col-
lege students are actually better off
in measures of well being and
health than their age-matched
peers who do not attend college, he
said.
Kao emphasized the importance
of mental wellness among students
and said that the University has a
robust support network to foster
health and wellness.
To communicate some of the is-
sues felt on campus, Cardona read
from an anonymous e-mail she re-
ceived last year: “I think I can be
fun sometimes, and I sure know a
lot of people, but I don’t have any
real friends . . . I feel socially awk-
ward and out of place and commu-
nity-less.”
“I realize that
generally
everyone is
overwhelmed
here.They’re
overstressed.”
— ANGELINA CARDONA ‘11,
ASSU PRESIDENT
Cardona’s description of stu-
dent life demonstrated that the
“Stanford Duck Syndrome” — a
topic that was raised on multiple
occasions — was very much a reali-
ty. Speaking on this “syndrome” at
the undergraduate level, Cardona
said, “The more I talk to my peers,
the more I realize that generally
everyone is overwhelmed here;
they’re overstressed.”
Graduate students and medical
students in residence in particular
also face a high level of stress on
campus. Efforts are underway to in-
crease resources available to these
particular populations, the panel
said.
In addressing these mental
health and wellness concerns, the
panelists highlighted prevention ef-
forts and the University’s “safety
net.” The panelists also noted that
while faculty members sometimes
put stress on students, they can also
serve as positive anchors.
“We would like to make sure
that the faculty here as well as your
colleagues know how and when to
access support from our safety net,”
Friedman said, pointing out resi-
dence deans, Graduate Life Office
deans and CAPS.
“A simple answer is: when you
are feeling beyond your comfort
level in response to a student’s con-
cerns or demands, that’s when to
call,” he continued.
“We have strengthened our re-
sources and threat assessments . . .
that can help determine whether a
student is possibly going to engage
in dangerous behavior,” he added.
The panelists encouraged facul-
ty to be mindful of student stress, to
be good listeners and to model a
healthy work-life balance.
Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen@
stanford.edu.
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OPINIONS
T HE T RANSITIVE P ROPERTY
Drinking and Driving
S
o I buy a lot of alcohol (hooray
for being in college!), and due to
my rather youthful appearance,
I always get carded. It’s gotten to the
point that whenever I’ve got a six-
pack of Coronas (I don’t care what
you say, Coronas are magical) at the
register I pull out my driver’s license
without prompt. For many a cashier,
the illusion of maleness is foiled — I
get awkwardly looked at from top to
bottom, and then awkwardly
“ma’am”-ed until I’m on the verge of
punching myself in the face. (Of
course, that should deter me from
buying alcohol, but for some strange
reason it doesn’t.)
Last Friday, I finally mustered up
the courage to go to the DMV and
renew my driver’s license under my
new name so I could finally buy alco-
hol with dignity. Getting my new dri-
ver’s license was also special because
it would be the only official govern-
ment document that would have pre-
ferred gender on it. For other docu-
ments, such as social security and
passports, I would have to remain
legally female until I’ve gone
through sexual reassignment surgery
(or SRS, for short), an option that if I
decided on it, would be far off in the
future. But for the driver’s license,
things are a bit different — at least in
the state of California, one can
change one’s gender on a driver’s li-
cense with the signed consent of a
psychologist or physician licensed in
the United States. So, of course I
would take the opportunity to finally
be recognized as male.
After I got a haircut and put on a
nice collared shirt for my new li-
cense picture, I arrived at the DMV
around 9 a.m., hoping to skip the
horrendously long lines — of
course, with it being the DMV,
things had to be as inconvenient as
possible.Already there were hoards
of people with the same mindset as I
had. I was already grumpy because I
had to wake up early. Not a good
start to the morning.
I was quite nervous. Not to men-
tion I also had a cold, I was stressing
out about some dorm events I had to
take care of, and I’ll admit the last
week or two hadn’t exactly gone ide-
ally for me. Let’s just say that I wasn’t
in the mood to be discriminated
against. I had heard of a transwoman
who had been told at the DMV when
she tried to file her name and gender
change that she was going to hell —
so I was strangely comforted by the
fact that if anything bad went down I
could just sue.
I had to wait for an hour — and
time slows down in the DMV so one
minute feels like an entire day. I was
on the verge of punching myself in
the face to relieve my boredom (I
tend to almost punch myself in the
face a lot, apparently). When it was
Cristopher
Bautista
“I’ve been
waiting for this for
a while”
my turn, I finally hurried over to the
designated window. There, a rather
bored looking woman looked at me
with dull eyes. I couldn’t blame her
— after all, this was the DMV, which
was anything but the most exciting
place to work.
“Hi,”I said.My voice croaked half
due to the T, half because of the fact I
hadn’t spoken in such a long time. “I
need to change my name and gender
on my driver’s license.”
“Do you have a new social securi-
ty card?” she asked.
“Yeah.” I handed her the request-
ed document. “I also have my court
order.” I gave her that, too.
“Wow, you’re on top of every-
thing,” she told me.
“I’ve been waiting for this for a
while,” I said.
“I can tell.”
She told me she had never filed a
gender change form before. But she
was very sensitive about it. No ques-
tions, no weird looks. I felt respected.
She walked us both through the
process. I think it was a good change
to her day, to finally see someone
who looked happy in the DMV,
which I think was why she was so nice
to me.
Some stamped paperwork and a
handsome new picture later.I was of-
ficially Cristopher Marc Soriano
Bautista (and male!) on one more
government document. And it was
no big deal, either. I probably would
have experienced the same thing if I
were simply changing my address.
Overall, it was a wonderfully un-
eventful experience.
Now I just have to wait three to
eight weeks for my beautiful new dri-
ver’s license to arrive in the mail. In
the meantime, I had to turn in my old
driver’s license and it wasn’t until I
got back at Stanford did I realize that
without a valid photo ID I can’t buy
alcohol anymore. How on earth am I
going to manage now?
Cristopher is suffering from withdraw-
al now that he’s run out of Coronas. E-
mail him at cmsb@stanford.edu.
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N O F REE LUNCH
A Big Show
F
or the 2010-2011 academic year the Stanford Con-
cert Network (SCN) received $133,055 in special
fees, more than any other student group. SCN is
tasked with providing contemporary live music to the
Stanford undergraduate community, and the majority
of their funding — $96,000 in 2010-2011 — goes direct-
ly to artists, paying to have them perform on campus.
Although the group does a great job of putting on a
consistent variety of high quality small performances,
when it comes to large performance with big-name
artists, they’re somewhat lacking. When was the last
time you went to a big-name concert on campus? Or
better yet, when was the last time you went to a concert
with more than a couple hundred people there? Obvi-
ously large venue shows, with big-name artists, are a rar-
ity at Stanford — we sure haven’t been to any recently
— but why can’t Stanford have big-name concerts?
If you ask SCN the answer is budgetary and goes
something like this: $133K is in the neighborhood of
what it would cost to bring one really big name to cam-
pus once, and a group tasked with facilitating all the live
music on campus can’t justify spending it’s entire budg-
et on one or two shows. This combined with strict regu-
lations on event sponsorship keeps most big-name tal-
ent out of Stanford’s price range. Fair enough. But su-
perstar talent aside, why can’t the few bigger name con-
certs we have take place in a venue more conducive for
live performances than the Alumni Center?
The quick answer: because Stanford has an adminis-
trative department for everything, and usually an over-
sight committee or two for good measure. Planning
major events at Stanford is a bureaucratic and logistical
nightmare, with enough red tape to make anyone want
to keep things small. Take Frost Amphitheatre, by far
the best venue for a big live concert on campus: to
schedule an event there requires a request to the Reg-
istrar’s Office to reserve the space, then an application
to the Office of Special Events & Protocol followed by
a review from the Committee on Public Events, all sim-
ply to tentatively book the space. Once that’s taken care
of, you have to deal with the fact that there is limited in-
frastructure in place to handle these kinds of events
easily. So it’s off to 12 or so other departments to handle
everything from sound and lighting to security, ticket-
ing, crowd control, trash and recycling, janitorial servic-
es and temporary restrooms. Then again it’s not impos-
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sible, either. In spring of 2006 SCN hosted a sold-out
show in Frost featuring Mos Def who charged $40K to
be there, a big chunk of their budget. But who wouldn’t
happily trade the concerts we have now for a sold-out
show in Frost every quarter, even if the tickets were
$18? Perhaps most telling is that there are only two
events scheduled at Frost for the remainder of the
school year — an Admit Weekend performance and
Multicultural Springfest, both put on by University de-
partments with full time staff to plan and coordinate.
So what’s the answer? Well for starters, the SCN
could shift their focus from small, niche shows, to host-
ing a broad interest show in a major venue every quar-
ter. The University already requires that all shows in
Frost be ticketed, so they might as well charge a nomi-
nal ticket fee for those who actually choose to attend.
Considering that Frost’s capacity is around 6,000 peo-
ple, a full house with everyone paying 10 bucks to at-
tend would be nearly half of SCN’s annual budget in
ticket revenue. Pulling this off would require an enor-
mous amount of energy on the part of SCN and more
hours spent filling out forms and navigating confound-
ing University regulation than we care to imagine. We
don’t envy whoever has to do it, but someone should
and SCN looks like the best candidate.
The underlying issue is that while the University ex-
pressly prohibits few things, they do a great job of regu-
lating to death. If you make the activation energy for
student planned events too high, they simply don’t hap-
pen.There are university employees tasked with every-
thing from promoting diversity, to planning cultural
events and organizing community building activities, so
why can’t we have one or two whose sole purpose is to
put together big events where a wide cross-section of
the student body shows up and has a great time?
Sounds like community-building at its finest to us.
Zack and Dave are recruiting for the new Office of Under-
graduate Fun, interested applicants should direct their in-
quiries to zhoberg@stanford.edu or daveg4@stanford.
edu.
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BOB
Continued from front page
and flood three adjoining student
rooms on the first floor.
“A few of our residents actually
tried to block the hole,” Svoboda
said.“They put some caulk in it and
some tape and tried to stem the
flooding.”
BRIEFS
Continued from page 3
worst recession of the postwar era
and a recovery that proceeded in
fits and starts, the economy final-
ly seems to be attaining escape
velocity,” Williams said. “That is
to say, the recovery appears in-
creasingly to be becoming self-
sustaining, driven primarily by
private-sector demand rather
than relying so much on govern-
ment support.”
A subsequent talk, moderated
by SIEPR director John Shoven,
broached the topic of state pen-
sion liabilities. It centered on a
debate between Joseph Dear,
chief investment officer of Cali-
fornia Public Employees’ Retire-
ment System (CalPERS), and
California state assemblyman Joe
Nation, who is also a professor of
the practice in public policy.
The pensions debate was fol-
lowed by a panel discussion on
climate change policies and in-
vestments in alternative energy.
Jon Christensen, executive direc-
tor of the Bill Lane Center, mod-
erated the discussion, which fea-
tured professors Lawrence Goul-
der and Donald Kennedy, as well
as Nancy Pfund of DBL In-
vestors.
Another talk focused on the ef-
fects and challenges of the “Great
Recession.” It included commen-
tary from Edward Leamer, direc-
tor of the UCLA Anderson Fore-
cast; Kenneth Rosen of UC Berke-
ley and David Kennedy, co-direc-
tor of the Bill Lane Center.
The symposium wrapped up with
a keynote address by Brian
Schweitzer, governor of Montana.
— An Le Nguyen

“For half an
hour,we were
doing damage
control.”
— SAM SVOBODA ‘11
Svoboda and Siddhanti both
said that Housing was slow to re-
spond to their emergency request,
since the necessary technician had
to come from his home.
“For half an hour, we were just
doing damage control,” Svoboda
said. “We set up some trash cans to
try and catch all the water that was
spraying out, and we kept remov-
ing those as they got full. A few of
us were just consistently mopping
for an hour or two hours, just to
make sure that the water didn’t
build up and flood.”
Svoboda added that, since the
burst pipe carried hot water, a
steam buildup triggered the fire
alarm. Both the fire and police de-
partments were called to the house.
After the maintenance techni-
cian arrived at Bob around 11:30
p.m., he was able to seal the leak in
the pipe. Repairs necessitated a
brief shutoff of water to Bob, as
well as to Casa Italiana and
Xanadu, as all three houses share a
water piping system.
Svoboda said that the fix put in
place by Housing was only tempo-
rary, and that the pipes would ne-
cessitate more complete repairs at
a later date.
MEHMET INONU/Staff Photographer
Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawh- John Williams, an executive vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, was a featured speaker at Friday’s State of the West Symposium,
ney@stanford.edu. hosted by SIEPR and the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Brian Schweitzer, the governor of Montana, delivered the keynote address in the evening.

BCS
Continued from front page
culmination of the football season
is difficult to measure. One poten-
tial gauge was hits on Stanford’s
homepage, which received in-
creased activity coinciding with the
Orange Bowl.
“On average, we get 45,000 hits a
day at Stanford’s homepage,” said
Lisa Lapin, assistant vice president
for university communications.
“On the day of the Orange Bowl,
we got 85,000 hits. That’s just the
homepage, not gostanford.com or
the Orange Bowl website. It’s hard
to say exactly what information
they were looking for, but it’s clear
that the Orange Bowl doubled our
homepage traffic.”
Arguably attracting even more
publicity than the Orange Bowl vic-
tory was Luck’s announcement that
he would stay at Stanford for an-
other season.
“On the day that Andrew Luck
announced that he would finish his
degree at Stanford, there were over
1,000 different articles on Google
News by the end of the day, and he
was the number one Internet
search term for that day,” Lapin
said. “That’s remarkable exposure
for the University, especially con-
sidering the positive reaction by
sportswriters and other pundits.”
Stanford’s appearance in the
Orange Bowl had fiscal benefits as
well, but these gains were not as
high as many expected. The rev-
enue from the game will be distrib-
uted among the schools of the Pac-
10 Conference.
“The money isn’t necessarily the
windfall that people think it is, but
we’ve got a lot of good national at-
tention, with East Coast media cov-
erage and nationally televised
games,” athletic director Bob
Bowlsby said. “That’s great to pro-
mote Stanford’s national brand.”
While the enthusiasm surround-
ing the football team’s success is
difficult to correlate with dona-
tions, Shell said that season ticket
sales increased by 12 percent this
season.
“Based on the number of new
accounts and traffic at the ticket
site, I trust there will be an increase
in sales this coming season as well,”
Bowlsby said.
With a consensus top-25 recruit-
ing class for next season, Bowlsby
said he has every expectation that
the Cardinal’s run of success shall
continue going forward. He hesitat-
ed, however, to characterize Stan-
ford as a “football factory.”
“That’s not consistent with the
way we do things,” he said. “Coach
[Jim] Harbaugh and his staff
demonstrated this season that you
can put of a team of academic
achievers in the classroom together
and have tremendous success on
the field.”
Contact Steven Smallberg at small-
ber@stanford.edu.

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SPORTS
STANFORD SCOREBOARD
MEN’S BASKETBALL
ARIZONA STATE . . .91
STANFORD . . . . . .61
2/5, Maples Paviolion
TOP PERFORMERS Points Shooting Pct. Assists Reb.
J. GREEN, STAN 23 6-8 75.0% 3 4
J. MCMILLAN, ASU 17 6-10 60.0% 1 2
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
STANFORD . . . . . . .91
ARIZONA . . . . . . . .61
2/5, Tempe, Ariz.
TOP PERFORMERS Points Shooting Pct. Assists Reb.
J. POHLEN, STAN 17 5-11 45.4% 8 5
I. IBEKWE, ARIZ 19 6-17 35.3% 1 4
WOMEN’S TENNIS
UCLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . . . .5
2/5, Taube Tennis Stadium
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . . . .3
LOYOLA-CHICAGO . . . . . .1
2/5, Chicago
WOMEN’S WATER POLO
ARIZONA STATE . . . . . . . . .1
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . . . .10
2/5, Avery Aquatic Center
SAN JOSE STATE . . . . . . . .4
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . . . .16
2/6, Avery Aquatic Center
USC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . . . .10 (3OT)
2/6, Avery Aquatic Center

Super Bowl holes:

Stanford Daily File Photo
Senior Jeanette Pohlen, above, scored 17 in the Cardinal’s victory over the Arizona Wildcats on Saturday. The victory was
What’s overrated
I
the Card’s 48-th consecutive Pac-10 win.
t’s officially baseball sea-
son! I think that is my first Daniel

WILDCATS TAMED
No. 4 Cardinal tops
Arizona in Tuscon
By JACK BLANCHAT
DESK EDITOR
In an already remarkable season,
the No. 4 Stanford women’s basket-
ball team made more history on Sat-
urday when it beat the Arizona Wild-
cats, 91-61, for its record-tying 48th
straight Pac-10 victory.
The Stanford starters put the game
out of reach early as Stanford (20-2,
11-0 Pac-10) led by 10 less than five
minutes into the game.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
STANFORD 91
ARIZONA 61
2/5, Tuscon, Ariz.
Even though the Wildcats (13-9, 4-
7) cut the lead to just five a few min-
utes later, Stanford took back a 21-11
lead with 11:53 left in the first half on
a Lindy La Rocque three, and Ari-
zona never made a run again.
All five starters finished with dou-
ble-digit point totals, with senior
Jeanette Pohlen making five three-
pointers en route to 17 points, and
senior Kayla Pedersen and La
Rocque adding 14 apiece. Junior
Nnemkadi Ogwumike had 13 points
and tied her season high with 14 re-
bounds, and her sister, freshman
Chiney Ogwumike, had 11.
Stanford was coming off an un-
spectacular performance at Arizona
State, where it led by only five points
at halftime and finished with a 72-54
victory, its closest margin of the con-
ference season. But the Cardinal
reprised its role as the dominant force
in the Pac-10 with a 30-point victory in
Tucson.
Stanford’s effort handed the Wild-
cats their fourth straight loss, drop-
ping them to just 4-7 in the Pac-10.
Arizona got 19 points from Ify
Ibekwe, 16 points from Davellyn
Whyte and 11 points from Shanita
Arnold, but the trio didn’t get much
help.
Meanwhile, Stanford’s 48-game
Pac-10 winning streak tied the record
set by the 1995-1998 Cardinal, who
didn’t lose a game in conference from
Feb. 9, 1995 to Jan. 12, 1998.
Despite the somewhat sour game
at Arizona State, the Cardinal’s
record-tying win was the latest in a
good week for Stanford overall, and
especially for Pohlen.The senior from
Brea, Calif., had 36 points, 10 assists,
four steals and just three turnovers on
the trip to the desert, and she was also
added to the State Farm Wade Watch
List on Wednesday, joining Stanford
teammates Nnemkadi Ogwumike
and Pedersen in contention for one of
the most prestigious awards in colle-
giate women’s basketball.
So far, Pohlen is having her career-
best season in a Cardinal uniform, as
she is averaging 16.6 points per game,
4.86 assists per game, shooting a solid
45.4 percent from the floor and shoot-
ing 44.7 percent from three-point
range.
Should Pohlen’s dominant play
continue, the Cardinal will have no
trouble rewriting the history books
once again with a new Pac-10 streak,
especially in a season that has already
seen head coach Tara VanDerveer win
her 800th career game, Pedersen be-
come the all-time leader in minutes
played for the Cardinal and, of course,
the victory over then-No. 1 UConn to
snap the Huskies’ 90-game winning
streak.
The Cardinal returns to the Farm
on Thursday night when it puts its 48-
game Pac-10 winning streak on the
line against Washington State back.
Tip-off with the Cougars is scheduled
for 7 p.m.
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@
stanford.edu.
thought every year when
the Super Bowl ends. Still,
despite the apathy I ex-
pressed for this year’s big game
two weeks ago, this one turned
out okay, no?
Early in the game, it looked as
though it could be a rout, which is
the last thing a fan like myself,
with no invested interest in the
game, wants. But it went down to
the last possession — and that’s
all I can ask for.
Now, in what has become my
staple (or at least so I’m told by
my friends), I must be a bit of a
cynic and point out all the over-
rated parts of the Super Bowl —
because they were copious and
obvious this year.
First: a running game. This is
less about the Super Bowl and
more about the state of football
today. The Green Bay Packers
just won the Super Bowl with ba-
sically no running game,at all.Al-
most all year, they couldn’t run
the ball whatsoever, which can
normally be overcome for maybe
a game or two, but not for an en-
tire season. Their leading rusher
in the Super Bowl, James Starks,
was basically unknown prior to
the playoffs and wasn’t really a
factor in yesterday’s win.
Gone, I suppose, are the days
when teams felt the need to con-
trol the clock and grind out wins.
It’s a quarterback’s league now,as
evidenced by Aaron Rodgers’
Bohm
On My Mind
performance today and through-
out the season.
Second: Ben Roethlisberger. I
already know I’m going to get
some flak for calling Roethlis-
berger overrated.Yes,he has won
two Super Bowls, and yes, his ca-
reer numbers scale to about those
of Tom Brady. I acknowledge
both of those facts. Maybe it is his
off-putting nature, or his inability
to lead the Steelers on a game-
winning drive in the final two
minutes.Or maybe it is simply the
fact that he lacks the “wow” fac-
tor,but Big Ben just doesn’t instill
confidence in me.
I tweeted before the game
that maybe Roethlisberger was
the second coming of Stanford
legend Jim Plunkett — a two-
time Super Bowl champion who
will never make the Hall of Fame.
It’s not a knock on Plunkett, who
may well deserve a spot in Can-
ton,but more a point that winning
Super Bowls as a quarterback
does not necessarily mean you
are great.
Third: Joe Buck. This could
probably be widened to all Fox
Sports coverage. To be fair, I
found Buck less nauseating today
Please see BOHM, page 8

Card avenges
loss to UCLA
By CHRISSY JONES
Playing in front of a large, en-
thusiastic crowd at the Taube
Family Tennis Stadium, the Stan-
ford women’s tennis team strode
past the UCLA Bruins in ar-
guably one of its toughest match-
es this season with a 5-2 victory
on Saturday.
The No. 1 Cardinal (4-0) won
its fourth straight match of the
season against No. 4 UCLA (4-
2), maintaining its top national
ranking in the process.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
UCLA 2
STANFORD 5 of the match by securing an over-
2/5, Taube Tennis Stadium
“I think this was definitely an
important win for us,” said senior
Hilary Barte. “It is still pretty
early in the season, but I think
this win proves how tough we
are.”
Barte and sophomore Mallo-
ry Burdette defeated UCLA’s
top doubles team of Courtney
Dolehide and Andrea Remynse,
8-4, securing Stanford’s first dou-
bles victory. However, the Card’s
number-two doubles team of
freshmen Nicole Gibbs and
Kristie Ahn fell, 8-6, in a close
match to UCLA’s Noelle Hickey
and McCall Jones. That left it up
to the match on court No. 3, be-
tween Stanford’s Carolyn
McVeigh and Veronica Li and
UCLA’s Pamela Montez and
Carling Seguso, to break the tie.
The tandem of McVeigh and Li
gave the Cardinal the first point
all doubles victory with an 8-5
win.
“In addition to our usual
preparation of improving indi-
vidually and as a team, we also SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
focused a lot on our doubles play
Senior Hilary Barte, above, won in both doubles and No. 1 singles to lead the Cardinal women’s tennis team over UCLA
Please see WTENNIS, page 8 by a score of 5-2 at Taube Tennis Stadium on Saturday.
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CHICAGO
WIND-SWEPT
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
DESK EDITOR
After dropping the opening frame at
Loyola of Chicago,the Stanford men’s vol-
leyball team captured three straight sets
for a hard-fought 3-1 victory.With the win,
the No.2 Cardinal (8-2,5-2 MPSF) finished
off its sixth road match in its last seven
games, concluding a trip that began on Jan.
21 and saw Stanford play seven matches in
three different time zones, including stops
in Hawaii, Los Angeles and Chicago. The
Cardinal finished the tour with a 5-2
record.
Loyola (5-3) certainly didn’t play like a
Div.II opponent on Saturday,coming out in
the first set with a blistering .667 hitting per-
centage that overwhelmed the Cardinal.
But thanks to three early service aces, Stan-
ford jumped out to an 8-2 lead in game two
and didn’t look back, taking advantage of
seven Rambler service errors to take the
second set, 25-14.
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
STANFORD 3 Barry’s 37 assists.But it was the defense that
LEWIS 1 carried the Cardinal past the Flyers, 3-1. Se-
2/4, Chicago
STANFORD 3 a solo block on the first point of the match.
LOYOLA-CHICAGO 1 The Flyers hit just .270 on the night and
2/5, Chicago
“After losing the first set, we realized
that we had to be a little sharper on our side
of the net to compete with them, especially
after how they played in the first set,” said
junior outside hitter Brad Lawson.“Lucki-
ly for us,their serving game eased up and we
were able to get some better passes, which
helped us run a more balanced offense to
keep their blockers guessing.”
The third set was much tighter, with 16
ties and four lead changes. But freshman
outside hitter Steven Irvin had a breakout
match off the bench and carried the Cardi-
nal with seven kills in the third game alone.
With the score tied at 21-21, Irvin had a kill
to put Stanford up one,and then had anoth-
er kill just two points later to make it 24-21.
Lawson put the game away and put Stan-
ford up, two sets to one, with his third kill of
the game.
Lawson came on strong in the fourth set
JIN ZHU/The Stanford Daily
with seven kills,but it was the play of anoth-
Junior middle setter Gus Ellis (3) led the Cardinal to 3-1 victories over both Lewis and Loyola-Chica- er freshman that really made the difference
go. Ellis tallied seven of the Card’s 15.5 blocks against Lewis to help secure the victory. in another tight set. Freshman outside hit-
ter Eric Mochalski had four kills in the
fourth set,but more importantly,he did not
miss an attack opportunity,going 6-for-6 on
the match.The hot hitting of Stanford’s at-
tack killed a late rally by Loyola, and the
Cardinal hit .500 while only missing five
side-out opportunities as the Ramblers
missed nine.
“The key was really our serving and
passing,” said Stanford head coach John
Kosty. “The games we lost were due to the
other team being more efficient in their
passing and serving games.”
In its first match of the weekend, against
Lewis University (6-2) in Chicago,Stanford
stepped into a hostile environment at Neil
Carey Arena. Kosty called the student sec-
tion, “big and right in your face.” And with
an announced attendance of 1,356 in a
1,100-seat building, the match felt much
more like a playoff game than a non-confer-
ence match between Div. I Stanford and
Div. II Lewis.
Lawson had a match-high 19 kills and
the offense was certainly flowing behind a
.370 hitting percentage and junior Evan
nior middle blocker Gus Ellis had seven of
Stanford’s 15.5 blocks and set the tone with
were forced into 21 attack errors that put
their offense on its heels.
“They had some really good young play-
ers and a strong offense,” Kosty said. “But
we showed that we can play at a high level
on the road. Their fans were certainly loud
but we kept our focus on the game plan.”
Stanford got a great boost from its own
young players, most notably Brian Cook.
The freshman outside hitter from Santa
Cruz, Calif. had 10 kills, eight digs and four
blocks while hitting .500.
It was a contribution Kosty has come to
expect from his young players — Cook,
Mochalski and Irvin are third, fourth and
fifth on the team in kills, respectively.
With the last regular-season trip outside
California out of the way, the Cardinal re-
turns home and jumps right back into the
MPSF frying pan with matches against UC-
San Diego and UC-Irvine on Friday and
Saturday. The matches will both start at 7
p.m. at Maples Pavilion.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@
stanford.edu.

Continued from front page

BOHM
that weird body armor to make dou-

MBBALL | Green posts 23 in Cardinal win

revolving around its stellar fresh-
man class, the Cardinal was led on
Saturday by its trio of junior starters
— guards Jeremy Green and Jarrett
Mann and forward Josh Owens.The
three combined for 53 of Stanford’s
83 points, 15 of its 26 rebounds and
12 of its 18 assists while going 24-
for-33 from the free-throw line.
Green led the way with a season-
high 23 points on highly efficient 6-
for-8 shooting from the floor, in-
cluding 5-for-5 on three-pointers.
Mann set a career high with 14
points, highlighted by his 8-for-12
performance from the free-throw
line. In addition, Mann dished out
seven assists and grabbed four
steals — both game highs — while
giving up only one turnover.
“That’s the best game Jarrett and
Jeremy ever had in a Cardinal uni-
form,” said head coach Johnny
Dawkins.“It was more than scoring,
it was about how they stepped up
and made plays that were needed to
close out the game.”
as the two teams traded punches.
Neither team built a lead of more
than five points, and the lead
changed hands 13 times. With
Owens sitting in foul trouble, the
Sun Devils dominated inside,
outscoring Stanford, 16-8, in the
paint. However, thanks to strong
performances by Green and Mann,
as well as boosts off the bench from
freshmen John Gage and Aaron
Bright, the Cardinal led, 36-32, at
the break. Those four players com-
bined for 34 of Stanford’s 36 points
in the half.
In the second frame, Stanford
scored nine of the first 12 points to
open up a 10-point lead at 45-35,
and the Cardinal never looked
back. During the remaining 16:42,
Arizona State never got within
three points of Stanford, but the
Cardinal could not open up its lead
to more than 10. Instead, the margin
floated around seven for the entire
half, as neither team went on a sig-
nificant run. This contrasts starkly
to secure the win. Green did the
final damage, hitting six free throws
in the final 1:21 to ice the game.
“We got the wrong guy to the
line in Jeremy Green,” said Arizona
State coach Herb Sendek. “A cou-
ple times we didn’t use the best dis-
cretion; not that we were in a posi-
tion to be choosy a few of the times.
When Jeremy Green’s at the line,
Stanford is going to make a lot of
free throws.”
For the game, senior point guard
Jamelle McMillan led Arizona
State, scoring a career-high 17
points on 6-for-10 shooting and
matching Mann with four steals.
Sophomore guard Trent Lockett hit
his average with 14 points and led
the Sun Devils with five assists. Se-
nior guard Ty Abbott, who is second
on the team in scoring at over 13
points per game, was a nonfactor,
taking only three shots and scoring
just three points before sitting out
the second half with an injured
back.
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than I do when he is paired in the
booth with the incredulous Tim Mc-
Carver for baseball, but still, for the
most watched sporting event ever,
fans deserve fewer inane or down-
right senseless comments. There are
plenty of examples of silly state-
ments, but maybe the finest is when
Buck was shocked that there was no
personal foul called on Brett Swain
for a perfectly legal hit he made cov-
ering a punt.I wasn’t particularly sur-
prised, and maybe I am being harsh
— calling a game is probably very dif-
ficult — but CBS, ABC and NBC all
consistently do a better job than
FOX.
Fourth:The Black Eyed Peas.And
the rest of the Super Bowl halftime
show, for that matter.
Where do I begin? First off, what
the hell were those outfits? Was that
a protective helmet on will.i.am’s
head? Did they make Fergie wear
ble sure that there wasn’t another
“wardrobe malfunction”?
And what about the microphones
— you’d think they would make sure
they functioned correctly prior to this
ultra-hyped show — or maybe it was
something wrong with the singers’
voices. I’m no music expert. Lastly,
the cameos by Slash and Usher were
simply weird. It was as if the promot-
ers were trying to pack a million ideas
into ten minutes (which is, I’m sure,
exactly what they were trying to do).
People thought the conservative
halftime shows with performers like
The Who and Tom Petty were boring.
They were way better than the Black
Eyed Peas.(Side note:How strange is
it for 50- and 60-year olds to see the
word “conservative” describing the
performance of a band like The
Who?)
Despite these overrated aspects
of the day, it was a great game and a
great day to be a sports fan.
Remind Dan that some people still
care about the Super Bowl at
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Owens picked up two quick fouls
to start the game and sat for most of
the first half without scoring. He re-
sponded with a vengeance in the
second half, scoring 16 points and
making 10 of his 12 free throws, and
he finished with a game-high eight
rebounds.
The result was very much in
doubt through the first 20 minutes
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Stanford’s game Thursday night
against Arizona, which had five
consecutive runs of at least six
points.
As the Sun Devils tried to claw
their way back into the game late,
Stanford found itself at the free-
throw line yet again. This time,
though, the Cardinal converted,
sinking 11 of its last 15 free throws
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Up next for the Cardinal is a
road trip to the Washington schools.
Stanford plays in Pullman against
Washington State on Thursday
night before traveling across the
state to take on Washington on Sat-
urday.
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for this match,” Barte said. “I think
it showed and I’m very proud of the
team.”
Riding its momentum from the
doubles victory, the Cardinal
quickly jumped ahead in singles
play, capturing the first set of the
match on five of the six courts.
In the No. 4 spot, Burdette took
the first singles victory, easily de-
feating Dolehide, 6-0, 6-1. This was
Burdette’s first time playing in
both doubles and singles matches
since battling an undisclosed in-
jury. Gibbs finished next as she
notched an equally impressive win
over Hickey, 6-3, 6-1, on court No.
3.Third to capture a win was Barte,
beating Jones at the No. 1 spot and
effectively sealing the win for Stan-
ford, though there were three more
matches to be accounted for. Ahn
also produced a 6-4, 6-3 win over
Remynse on court No. 2.
After seeing them bounce back
from a doubles defeat, the veteran
Barte had nothing but good things
to say about the performance of
Ahn and Gibbs in winning their
singles matches.
“I think it is great that we have
two freshmen playing so high in
line,” she said. “It sends a strong
message out about our team, and
they both have obviously been
doing a fabulous job. Nicole is so
gritty, so fierce, and Kristie fights
just as hard. I love looking down
and playing next to them.”
Stanford’s two losses came at
the No. 5 and No. 6 singles spots. Li
dropped both sets, 6-4, 6-4, to
UCLA’s Maya Johansson. After
winning the first set in a tiebreaker
by 7-6 (5), Cardinal sophomore
Stacey Tan lost the next set, 2-6, to
Pamela Montez, and fell in the
tiebreaker 1-0 (10). Despite these
two singles losses, the Cardinal still
pulled out an inspiring victory over
the Bruins.
Playing at home certainly
helped the Cardinal, as many fans
came out to cheer in the beautiful,
sunny weather. With the Bruins
handing Stanford its only dual-
match defeat last season, the Car-
dinal was no doubt seeking re-
venge on its home court.
The Cardinal will have this op-
portunity when it faces UCLA
again on March 25 in Los Angeles.
The matchup will officially count
for the Pac-10 conference stand-
ings, and will give UCLA the
chance to avenge its defeat.
Stanford seeks to pick up its
fifth victory in its next home match
on Thursday, Feb. 10, against
Southern Methodist University at
1:30 p.m.
Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissyj@
stanford.edu.