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GANG OF 14
Undergrads balance ROTC
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The Stanford Daily
WEDNESDAY
February 9, 2011
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
N+1 founders share
startup experience
By MILES UNTERREINER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
N+1 founders Mark Greif and
Keith Gessen spoke Tuesday evening
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
Writer Keith Gessen recounted the
early days of his magazine, n+1.
According to co-founder Mark
Grief, they faced many ‘sleepless
nights’ and ‘dreary afternoons.’
“We would not
run out of beer
again as long as
our magazine
lives.”
— Keith Gessen, n+1 founder
NEWS BRIEFS
Three scientists named
2010 fellows ofAmerican
Physics Society
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Three Stanford scientists — two
professors and one research scientist
—> are slated to join the ranks of
the American Physical Society
(APS), according to an announce-
ment released Tuesday. Associate
professor of materials science and
engineering Mark Brongersma, sen-
ior research scientist Igor
Moskalenko and mechanical engi-
neering professor Juan Santiago will
join more than 200 other 2010 fel-
lows.
Brongersma, whose lab special-
izes in building and studying
nanoscale electronic and photonic
materials such as optical sensors,was
selected for his pioneering work in
plasmonics and silicon nanophoton-
ics.
Moskalenko works as a senior re-
search scientist in the Hanson Ex-
perimental Physics Laboratory
(HEPL) and the Kavli Institute for
Particle Astrophysics and Cosmolo-
gy. He was nominated for his work in
gamma-ray astronomy and for mak-
ing computations of high-energy
charged particle and gamma radia-
tion from the galaxy available to the
astrophysics community at large.
Santiago directs the Stanford Mi-
crofluidics Laboratory. He was se-
lected for his work in discovering
new measurement methods and new
ways to characterize and explain
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on the pleasures and perils of starting
a small literary magazine. In a presen-
tation filled with humor and flecked
with colorful anecdotes, Greif and
Gessen offered advice to aspiring
writers and entrepreneurs, sharing
stories about the humble beginnings
of what has in the last five years be-
come a successful literary enterprise.
Greif, a current co-editor at n+1,
opened the evening with a public
reading of what he called “The Truth
about n+1,” a piece he wrote for the
Welsh journal Raconteur, about
starting one’s own magazine. His
work has also appeared in Harper’s
and The New York Times.
Discussing his early doubts about
founding a literary and political jour-
nal, he said,“it’s a foolish act to start a
magazine.”
Nevertheless, he launched one.
“I write things that nobody will
publish, and my friends do, too,”
Greif said.
Greif also recounted the financial
troubles that plagued the magazine’s
earliest volumes.
“The real source of worry, as it is
for all small magazines, was money,”
he said.
Greif told tales often as colorful,
and as unpredictable, as n+1 itself.
From conflicts with Gessen, whom
Greif said he frequently wanted to
“throttle” during the magazine’s
tough early days, to the unexpected
pleasures of unpaid literary achieve-
ment, Greif offered an unconven-
tional inside look into the world of lit-
erary startups.
“All of my life, I had wanted to
find out what Bohemia was like, and I
did,” Greif said.
Though he suffered from sleepless
nights writing content to dreary after-
noons looking for distributors, it was
all worth it in the end, concluded a
smiling Greif.
“People at small magazines work
for free, because freedom is what’s at
stake,” he said.
Please see MAGS, page 2
Law and Order
Visiting professor of law Michael Asimow spoke about the portrayal of lawyers
on televesion shows such as Law & Order and Boston Legal. The talk was spon-
sored in part by the Stanford Entertainment and Sports Law Association.
Tomorrow
HOLDING COURT
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CARDINAL TODAY
Volume 239
Issue 8
Tuition to
increase by
3.5 percent
Trustees announce fee hike across
schools to ‘improve faculty’
ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily
By AN LE NGUYEN
UNIVERSITY MANAGING EDITOR
RecycleMania
The Board of Trustees approved a combined tuition,
room and board increase of 3.5 percent for the 2011-
2012 academic year. This rise will be applied across the
University, with the exception of Stanford Law School,
contest begins
which will see a 5.75-percent hike in its fees.
In a press briefing Monday, Board President Leslie
Hume said revenue from the tuition increase would ad-
dress the University’s “need for unrestricted operating
funds.”
Approximately 57 percent of Stanford’s general
Stanford to compete with universities funds — the portion of the University budget that can
in nationwide effort to reduce waste be used flexibly — comes from tuition revenue. This
money is typically used for faculty raises, programmatic
purposes and, occasionally, capital projects.
Hume noted that the trustees felt positively about
By SAMANTHA MCGIRR
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Stanford kicked off RecycleMania on Sunday,
the newly approved tuition, room and board fees. She
explained that next year’s revenue could pay for faculty
salary increases and the gradual reinstatement of posi-
tions frozen during the recession.
marking its fifth year as a participant in the na-
“It is going to enable the University to achieve an im-
tionwide competition measuring recycling on col-
lege campuses.
The contest runs until April 4 and requires
provement of the faculty,” Hume said.
According to the trustees, this will be a balanced tu-
ition increase since financial aid is expected to go up in
Stanford to regularly report its recycling and trash
tandem. Financial aid totaled $66 million in 2007 and is
tonnage, with RecycleMania compiling weekly
rankings of participating universities in eight cat-
egories.
630 colleges are participating in this year’s
projected to reach $122 million in 2012.
Hume said the trustees “are very conscious about fi-
nancial aid.”
“Any tuition increase will be met with additional
event, according to the tournament’s website.The
contest is a project of the College and University funds for families whose financial circumstances are un-
changed,” she added.
Recycling Council, an arm of the nonprofit organ-
At the same time, Dean of Admission Richard Shaw
ization National Recycling Coalition.
is spreading the word about Stanford’s need-blind fi-
At Stanford,the program represents a joint un-
nancial aid policy.The University aims to make this pol-
dertaking of Peninsula Sanitary Services, Inc.
icy visible because it does not want prospective students
(PSSI), Buildings & Grounds Maintenance
to turn away from applying simply because of the tuition
(BGM) and the Sustainability and Energy Man-
hike. Currently, students whose families make under
Please see RECYCLE, page 2 Please see TRUSTEES, page 2
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Senate puts ROTC
question on ballot
By MARGARET RAWSON
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The ASSU Senate passed three bills Tuesday evening: one to add
an advisory question on ROTC to the April ASSU general elections
ballot, a second involving significant special fees reform and a third
to fund Green Events Consulting.
The Senate also discussed a bill to revise the rules of order for the
Constitutional Council.
ROTC
The Senate passed a bill authored by ASSU President Angelina
Cardona ‘11 to include “advisory referenda” on the spring 2011 bal-
lot. The bill would gauge student opinion on the potential return of
ROTC to campus.
“Hopefully there’s enough time . . . for people to educate them-
selves” on ROTC before the vote, Cardona said.
The advisory question will include three response choices. Stu-
dents will be able to vote to support the return of ROTC to campus,
oppose the return or abstain from the question.
The measure to include the advisory question on the ballot will
require majority approval by the Graduate Student Council (GSC).
Special Fees
The GSC rejected a bill last week passed by the Senate to allow
student groups receiving special fees to grow their budgets by up to
10 percent without having to petition for student signatures. But
Tuesday saw the Senate passing a new, more comprehensive version
of the bill.
Last night’s bill includes the change to the 10 percent budget
growth and stipulates that the chair of the two legislative bodies must
meet during the fall and winter to decide special fees policies. This
change will be added as an appendix to their joint by-laws. The bill
also clarifies the policy governing reserve funds of the student groups
and the release of the names of students who petition for special fees
refunds.
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily “It’s a big bill. I find it surprising that we’re not discussing this in
any way,” said Will Seaton ‘13, expressing his disappointment as the
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SENATE
Continued from front page
senators moved quickly toward a
vote at the end of the meeting with-
out discussion.
Senate chair Michael Cruz ‘12
then offered to outline the most im-
portant components of the bill,
which was later passed unanimously.
One of the GSC’s main com-
plaints about the first version of the
bill “was that it wasn’t a robust bill,”
Cruz said after the meeting. “Com-
ing back to the drawing board, we
wanted to address all of the prob-
lems in the special fees process.”
Last night’s bill will require ma-
jority approval by the GSC.
Constitutional Council
The Senate discussed a bill co-
sponsored by the Constitutional
Council to establish more codified
rules of order for the council, whose
members were present to discuss the
measure.
Previously, very little documenta-
tion existed to determine the Coun-
cil’s structure, “to the really serious
detriment of the ASSU,”said council
member Mateo Willmott ‘11.
The aim is to make the Constitu-
tional Council’s work an “expedient,
TRUSTEES
Continued from front page
$60,000 receive full financial aid.
Families making less than $100,000
are only obligated to pay room and
board.
In Feb. 2010, the Board of
Trustees approved a similar 3.5-
percent increase in undergraduate
Teaching
efficient and really transparent
process,”Willmott said.
“All of this is to the benefit of the
student” over the council, said coun-
cil member J’vona Ivory ‘11.
Other items of importance
The Senate also passed a bill to fi-
nancially support Green Events
Consulting (GEC), a program
founded last year to encourage stu-
dent groups to make their events
more sustainable. The Senate allo-
cated $1,500 from its advocacy and
programming budget to GEC, an
amount that will be matched by the
ASSU Executive discretionary
fund,Cardona said.ASSU executive
chair of sustainability Theo Gibbs
‘11 heads Green Events Consulting.
On the agenda for next week is a
bill formalizing the transition
process from one Senate body to an-
other, after the spring election. Car-
dona also announced that she plans
to announce her nomination for
ASSU vice president, who will re-
place Kelsei Wharton ‘12, at next
Tuesday’s Senate meeting. Wharton
recently stepped down from his po-
sition due to an injury.
Cardona’s State of the Associa-
tion speech will take place in the
eighth week of the quarter.
Contact Margaret Rawson at
marawson@stanford.edu.
tuition for the current academic
year.
The Law School will implement
a more dramatic increase in tuition,
room and board. Hume explained
that the school was “under-pricing”
itself relative to its competitors.
“There was a feeling that we
were delivering a quality product
equal to or better than our competi-
tors, and yet our tuition costs less,”
she said.
In other news, the Board of
Trustees gave concept and site ap-
proval for Phase 2 of the Stanford
Auxiliary Library project.The Aux-
iliary Library, which is located in
Livermore, expects to double its
storage capacity at a $35.5 million
price tag. The West Campus Recre-
ation Center, which was approved
in December, received design ap-
proval.
In April, the Board of Trustees
will take a more in-depth look at
land use on the Farm.
Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen@
stanford.edu.
BRIEFS
Continued from front page
electrically driven flow instabilities.
—Ivy Nguyen
CRONA decries new
hospital contract
changes
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Committee for Recognition of
Nursing Achievement (CRONA),
which represents 2,700 nurses at
Stanford Hospital and Clinics and
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospi-
tal, released a press release Tues-
day condemning a decision by the
hospitals to impose a new employ-
ment contract on the nurses.
“Stanford and Lucile Packard
Hospitals have decided to put cor-
porate needs and greed ahead of
RECYCLE
Continued from front page
agement Department (SEM).
According to Fahmida Ahmed,
associate director of the Office of
Sustainability, which is a branch of
SEM, the University plans to
achieve a 10 percent increase in
overall recycling by focusing on ed-
ucation and outreach.
“The most common problem we
hear from students is not knowing
what to recycle and what not to,”
Ahmed said, adding that new labels
have been placed on recycling and
compost bins this year to address
this issue.
Additionally, Stanford Recycle-
Mania will feature a new individual
recognition component. To enter a
weekly raffle, students, faculty and
staff must submit a pledge agreeing
not to throw any recyclable items
into the trash.Winners will receive a
small prize.
“It’s really important for conser-
vation programs aiming for behav-
ior change to include incentives,”
Ahmed said.
Stanford has generated varied
rankings during its four years of par-
ticipation in RecycleMania. The
the welfare of their nurses, doctors
and patients by imposing these new
working conditions,” Lorie John-
son, president of CRONA, wrote in
the press release. “We believe the
imposition of these provisions is a
declaration of war on nurses and
could put patient care at risk at
both hospitals.”
This development continues a
yearlong contract dispute between
CRONA and the hospitals, in which
both sides were unable to agree on
a new contract to replace the one
that expired last March.The debate
extended through late summer,
when the two sides reached a dead-
lock that required the involvement
of a federal mediator.
Though the nurses voted on a
tentative agreement in December,
the majority of nurses rejected the
agreement, prompting CRONA to
inform the hospitals that it would
recommend a new tentative agree-
ment if the proposal were changed.
In response, the hospitals declared
an “impasse” and implemented this
current contract.
CRONA will be meeting with
its member nurses this week to out-
University has consistently placed
among the top five contenders in
the “Gorilla” category, which refers
to total tons recycled. It won first
place in the category in 2008.
However, in the category of
waste minimization, which meas-
ures the tons of waste generated per
person, Stanford has performed
poorly.The University placed 147 of
148 schools in 2009 and 191 of 199
schools in 2010.
Julie Muir,PSSI community rela-
tions manager, said the mixed per-
formance reflected the unique chal-
lenges of recycling at a large univer-
sity.
“The Gorilla prize gives credit to
larger universities, which have to
handle a lot more material,” Muir
said.
The large volume of material,
however, poses difficulties when
sorting the waste.
“We recycle a lot, but we do a re-
ally good job of wasting,” Muir said.
“Through recycling audits, we can
study what goes to the landfill. We
found that about 25 percent of what
goes to the landfill is actually recy-
clable, and about 30 percent is com-
postable.”
Angela Kwok ‘13, co-president
of the student-run Green Living
Council (GLC), pointed out that
composting is not always a readily
available option for students.
MAGS
Continued from front page
Co-editor and co-founder
Gessen, who has written for The
New Yorker, The Nation and the
London Review of Books, took
center stage for the last half of the
event. Dryly observing that his
chief inspiration for starting a mag-
azine was really just to “get out of
the house,” Gessen lit up the audi-
ence with snippets of startup life,
from post-publication parties to
late-night editing woes.
Lamenting the fact that n+1’s
first two staff parties ran out of beer
— a disaster he described as “very
traumatizing,” and which led the
staff to proclaim that “we would not
run out of beer as long as our mag-
azine lives” — Gessen proceeded
to elicit appreciative laughter from
The Stanford Daily
line its next steps, the press release
said.
— Ivy Nguyen
Stanford student’s
death ruled suicide
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
The Denver County, Colo., med-
ical examiner has ruled the recent
death of a 22-year-old Stanford stu-
dent a suicide caused by a drug over-
dose.
Claire Roscow ’10 died Dec. 28,
2010,in Denver.A former class pres-
ident, Roscow studied biomechani-
cal engineering. As an undergradu-
ate fellow at the Center for Compas-
sion and Altruism Research and Ed-
ucation, she organized volunteers
for the Dalai Lama’s visit to Stan-
ford in October.
A local memorial service is set for
Feb. 22 at 4 p.m. in Memorial
Church.
— Elizabeth Titus
“Composting is lacking in resi-
dences,” Kwok said.“In dining halls,
it’s convenient [to compost], but
when people bring food back to
their room, a lot of them don’t take
the time to bring what can be com-
posted back to the dining hall.”
Muir acknowledged that the
composting program, which began
in 2003, has been an integral compo-
nent of sustainability on campus.
She nevertheless stressed the need
for strategic and cautious expan-
sion.
“With composting, you have to
pay [sanitation services], and it’s
only slightly cheaper than a land-
fill,” Muir said. “You also have to
consider factors like odor and pest
control. If you move too fast, you
could have problems that set you
back.”
According to Muir, all the dining
halls and half the cafes on campus
currently have compost options.
Ahmed hopes the RecycleMania
competition will prompt individuals
to reconsider not only their recy-
cling and composting habits, but
also the entirety of their consumer
behaviors.
“One question we should ask is:
‘how can we create less waste to
begin with,’” she said.
Contact Samantha McGirr at smc-
girr@stanford.edu.
the audience as he lambasted his
alma mater, Harvard.
“The Lampoon was not funny
[and] the Crimson was not inform-
ative,” he said.
Citing the bad impression he got
from Harvard’s literary magazine,
the Advocate, which he called “pre-
tentious,” Gessen criticized aca-
demic atmospheres that promote
“a psychology of constantly trying
out for something, but never pro-
ducing anything for the people
around you.”
In the ensuing question and an-
swer session, Greif and Gessen
took questions from the audience,
which ranged from how best to deal
with stubborn writers to the advan-
tages of moving into book format.
Concluding the lecture, Greif said,
“no one could pay us for what we
do.”
Contact Miles Unterreiner at mile-
su1@stanford.edu.
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FEATURES

By BILLY GALLAGHER Akhil Iyer ‘11

CONTRIBUTING WRITER
He is an international rela- A look at the handful
T
he clock reads 3:30 a.m. on a Monday. tions major who spent this
Most people across campus are fast past summer studying Arabic
asleep; others are finishing papers and
problem sets. For Aly Gleason ‘13 and
Kirk Morrow ‘11, the day has already
begun. They need to make it to San Jose by 5 a.m.
in Jordan, serves as the vice
president of the Sigma Nu fra-
ternity and is a research assis-
tant to Martha Crenshaw fo-
of Stanford students
for their early morning physical training for Air
Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC).
As elite universities across the nation weigh the
pros and cons of reinstating ROTC on their cam-
cusing on terrorism in India.

Aly Gleason ‘13

involved with ROTC
puses, Stanford students and faculty have begun lin-
ing up on both sides of the argument. Yet for as She is a human biology major
much debate and discussion that these four letters pursuing a medical degree with
have stirred all over campus this year, very few a focus on emergency medicine
within the Stanford community know much about while competing as a goalkeep-
the fourteen students currently participating in the er on the varsity women’s soc-
program. cer team.
Fourteen out of 6,887 students — the ROTC
community on campus is approximately the same
size as an IHUM section. Hailing from all over the Jimmy Ruck ‘11
United States,spanning all four classes,bringing dif-
ferent backgrounds, they represent the diversity, He is a deputy editor for the
talent and passion of Stanford students. But as the Stanford US-Russia Forum, a
national spotlight has shifted to their program,most member of the Committee for
of the individual cadets don’t notice much of a dif- Undergraduate Admission and
ference between those in ROTC and their peers. Financial Aid, who studied Urdu
“We’re just like anyone else who got into Stan- on a cultural immersion trip to
ford,” said Lillian McBee ‘14. “We got in through northern India and is majoring
the same selection process. We’re not that different in history with honors in Inter-
from everyone else.” national Security Studies.
Their schedule, however, is far from typical.
Depending on the week, with service and their
ROTC-given jobs, cadets commute anywhere from Lillian McBee ‘14
two to six times per week to their respective ser-
vice’s location. Stanford’s ROTC program was offi- She interned at a non-profit
cially phased out from campus in 1973 and the Uni- research institution in labs
versity declined to award academic units for stu- focused on proteomics and Courtesy of Akhil Iyer
dents who remotely participated in the program.As chemical engineering, is her
a result, Stanford’s current Naval and Marine The 14 Stanford undergraduates involved in ROTC programs (above)
dorm captain for Dance must commute to neighboring campuses to participate in the pro-
cadets go to UC-Berkeley, the Air Force cadets go Marathon and plays on the
to San Jose State University and the Army candi- women’s rugby team. gram. ROTC has been removed from the Farm since 1973.
dates go to Santa Clara University.
The commutes to these schools, which range
from half an hour to an hour on a good day, impact
the course selection and extracurricular activities of Oliver Ennis ‘11
the cadets.
“The commute is part of the time commitment,” He has studied abroad in
said Morrow. “There’s definitely been a few times Spain and Vietnam, is fluent
where there’s been a class that I wanted to take but in Spanish, is a research assis-
I couldn’t because I would need to be leaving to go tant to Hoover Fellow Dr.
to ROTC at the tail end . . . It was more of the com- Thomas Henriksen and
mute that kept me from taking a class than it was serves as social chair for the
ROTC events.” Sigma Nu fraternity.
“The fact that it’s not on campus has inhibited
my ability to have academic freedom in terms of
choosing classes,” added Jimmy Ruck ‘11.
The cadets are required to take ROTC classes, Isabel Lopez ‘14
which differ from their Stanford course-load.
“The classes are not exactly the same as Stanford She works with Stanford Din-
classes because they’ve been fine tuned to give us ing Services and will travel to
the officer development that we need,” added Mor- the Philippines this summer
row.“So they would be a great supplement to Stan- to work with the Filipino mili-
ford classes.” tary in a cultural immersion
“For both ROTC classes I’ve had to work way program.
more than I’ve ever had to work for IHUM,”
McBee said. “And sophomores and upperclassmen
have even harder classes . . . the whole thing about Ernest Haleck ‘13
classes not being hard enough is definitely unfound-
ed.” He is a political science
The difficulty of ROTC classes has prompted major from American
some to question why Stanford does not award ac- Samoa who hopes to be
ademic credit for the courses. the first in his family to
“The main issue for me is that Stanford doesn’t graduate from college.
even recognize this as credit. If you took yoga, you
get one unit of non-academic credit,”said Ruck.“At
the very least, Stanford can grant that to ROTC.
There’s no doubt in my mind that it’s comparable, if Kirk Morrow ‘11
not a lot more strenuous and time-intensive and
physically demanding, than some of these non-aca- He is majoring in civil engi-
demic units.” neering while pursuing a co-
Most ROTC students spend at least part of four terminal master’s degree in
days per week with their battalion performing a sustainable design and con-
wide range of activities including physical training, struction and enjoys motorcy-
leadership activities, classes and meetings. cle riding and playing guitar.
Every Wednesday morning, ROTC cadets from
all four branches meet together on campus for
physical training. All Stanford military-affiliated
persons are invited, and it is the only time the cadets
are together as Stanford students, not at their sepa- Darien Bailey ‘13
rate schools.
The days can be long, especially on Thursdays He has taken time off this
when the cadets often leave around noon and do year from the track team to
not return to campus until after 10 p.m. Gleason, focus on his studies and
who is also a Division I athlete, noted that the bal- core classes for his civil en-
ance can be difficult at times. gineering major.
“Our coaches are pretty understanding that
ROTC is where I want to go with my life. . . . I’m in
15 units right now and I couldn’t take another class Ann Thompson ‘11
if I tried. I would actually fail it.”
However, it is clear to these students that Stan- She participated in a cultural
ford academics come first. immersion program in Slova-
“Our main priority is school and our second pri- kia, has studied abroad at Ox-
ority is ROTC, and everything else comes after ford University and is pursu-
that,” McBee said. “While ROTC is a big part of ing research for an honors the-
what we do, our academics come first, which is ex- sis through the Center for
plicitly stated in the program.” Democracy, Development and
Ruck believes the return of ROTC is important the Rule of Law.
for the education of students and future officers
alike.
“People will become more exposed to the per- Pierre Allegaert ‘14
sonal side of the military and learn more about what
this aspect of our nation does on a daily basis,”Ruck He speaks French and Ger-
said. man, is majoring in German
“Whether we like it or not, the military is going studies and is interested in a
to be a fundamental part of foreign policy that career that will require the
shapes our events and world events for decades to use of foreign languages
come, so its something that I feel like any citizen of
any country should have at least a baseline knowl-
edge of the American military.” Graham Bazell ‘14, Chloe Taub ‘14 and Krista
Fryauff ‘14 are current ROTC members who could
Contact Billy Gallagher at wmg2014@stanford.edu. not be reached for comment.
4 ! Wednesday, February 9, 2011
OPINIONS
E DITORIAL
ResEd Should Allow
Row Houses to Refund
Social Dues
S
uppose you were at the ATM,
intending to withdraw cash to
go grocery shopping. You
have a shopping list and a general
idea of how much each item will
cost. You intend to withdraw
enough money to ensure that you
can buy all the groceries on the list,
and you’ll just deposit any excess
funds back in your account later.
Now a particularly clever friend
happens to pass by and makes the
following suggestion: “withdraw
money under the restriction that
you cannot redeposit any unused
funds; instead, you’ll lose any un-
spent cash.This way,you’ll buy a lot
of food!” How should you re-
spond?
That wasn’t a trick question.The
analogy above should illustrate the
absurdity of ResEd’s new policy
that bars Row houses from refund-
ing unspent social dues to residents.
Rather, the excess money will be
funneled into the Capital Reserve
Fund (CRF) that future residents
can only use to buy long-term
equipment like furniture. The rea-
soning behind the policy goes
something like: “there is no longer
an incentive to spend less than the
collected social dues, so Row hous-
es will fully spend their budgets and
enhance social life on the Row.”
Analogously, we might expect
that you, the grocery shopper, will
get to the grocery store and decide
to buy less food so that you can re-
turn more money to your bank ac-
count. Perhaps this is true for those
of you with poor short-term mem-
ory, but most normal shoppers
don’t forget that they budgeted a
certain quantity of groceries for a
reason. Similarly, Row house staffs
probably don’t experience changes
of heart after planning four events
and host only two in order to re-
fund their residents; if they plan to
only have two events, they’ll revise
the budget downward and charge
less in social dues — this is obvi-
ously more palatable to residents,
since they pay less up front.
What about the case where a
house puts on all planned events
and still ends up with a surplus?
ResEd may have intended its poli-
cy to force the house to have anoth-
er social event, since there is basi-
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Midterm-inally Ill? Some Prescriptions to Avoid Your Work
T
hat time of the quarter we all
dread is in full swing again:
midterm season. Instead of
being allowed to enjoy our privi-
leged lives, professors are actually
forcing us to do work. I don’t know
about you, but I’m staring down a
slew of papers and exams right now.
(Can someone please tell Econ 1B
that scheduling exams two weeks
apart is just sadistic?) Luckily, I’m
here to offer you a variety of op-
tions to help you to survive this lat-
est round of midterms.
Procrastinate
If you’re supposed to practice
what you preach, then I’m definite-
ly coming through for you here. I re-
ally need to stop procrastinating. I’ll
do that later, though. Right now, I’ll
tell you how to avoid your midterms
entirely. Just get yourself a Netflix
account. Somehow, in the past two
weeks, I’ve managed to fly through
the first two seasons of “Parks and
Recreation.” I’m so busy that I’m
not really sure how that happened,
but it did. Netflix is actually scientif-
ically guaranteed to sap you of the
will to work. Haven’t watched all six
seasons of “Lost” yet? There’s no
better time than right now.
To top things off, in the midst of
this hellish week of midterms, one
of my good friends who graduated
cally no reason to relinquish those
funds to a CRF that will likely only
benefit future residents.Therefore,
the Row will host more social
events in aggregate than had al-
ready been planned. But why not
simply stipulate that the houses
plan more events when initially
budgeting? ResEd’s solution
seems like a clunky way to accom-
plish a relatively simple goal.
The disadvantages of the policy
are clear. There is now a disincen-
tive to include a cushion in the
budget for unforeseen expendi-
tures or uncertainty in prices.
Therefore, houses are much more
likely to run out of money before
making it through their whole so-
cial calendar. Conversely, an end of
quarter surplus would drive the
staff to spend freely and inefficient-
ly, probably on really expensive al-
cohol; would this really be a justi-
fied expenditure of student funds,
given most students’ recent belt-
tightening? Finally, this policy is
normatively questionable because
it amounts to a coercive money
transfer from current residents to
future residents.Had house staffers
been involved in the policy-making
process, they could have voiced
these concerns; instead, ResEd
moved unilaterally and without
consultation. Even more inexcus-
able has been the administration’s
unwillingness to clarify the policy
upon student request.
Every possible benefit that
ResEd could hope to capture with
the anti-refund constraint can be
accomplished in simpler ways. If
emergency CRF funds are neces-
sary, make residents pay some
nominal fee each quarter to the
CRF, independent of social dues.
To ensure that Row social life re-
mains vibrant, help staffs plan and
budget for more events at the be-
ginning of the quarter.There is one
inane argument that this policy
equalizes the disparity between so-
cial dues at large and small houses;
but refunding everybody nothing is
certainly worse than refunding
some people something. In sum,
ResEd has blindly implemented an
unnecessarily counterintuitive pol-
icy that’s attendant inefficiency
outweighs its non-unique benefits.
T HIS C OLUMN I S I RONIC
last year decided to visit. Needless
to say, a few nights this week turned
into Taco Bell-catered Halo fests
reaching well past 3 a.m. That’s
probably not the best idea when
you have a political science paper
(or this column) waiting to be writ-
ten, but neither is going to EBF at 2
a.m. on a Wednesday night.
Party
Speaking of EBF, you can always
just rage your face off if you don’t
want to work. I guarantee that you
probably won’t be worrying about
that paper you have due if you’re
blacked out. Personally, I’m pretty
glad that Kairos’ Wine and Cheese
night is biweekly. If I had to contend
with that this week, I’m not sure
how much work I could possibly get
done on Wednesday.
Seriously, if you’re that stressed
about midterms, then your only op-
tion is to get to the Bromuda Trian-
gle and let your worries flow out of
you. If you go hard enough tonight,
chances are that they won’t be the
only thing flowing out of you by
midnight.
Enjoy the sunshine
Ah, the weather! Seriously, this
is why we came to Stanford in the
first place. Look around and see
everyone taking advantage of the
beautiful California clime. Spot the
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S EEING G REEN
A stone’s throw away? Holly
I
haven’t had a TV in my life for because of their age, they are less
the past few years. So, when I fi- likely to feel the stabilizing influ- Moeller
nally caught video clips from ence of supporting a family. And so,
Cairo last week, I was astounded. with nothing to lose and everything
Still images,no matter how provoca- to gain, they turn against a president
tive, miss so many dimensions of the who has been in power longer than
conflict: the shouts and chants, the they have been alive, hoping that a The resource curse has
simmering resentment and dogged change in government will heal
commitment, the flying stones and Egypt’s ills.
sounds of gunfire that turned a rela- Will it? paralyzed their economies
tively peaceful protest violent. I find Perhaps in part. But the unem-
myself checking the news more
often now, hoping that the Egyptian
ployment rates and skyrocketing
food prices are symptoms of a scari-
and stratified their societies.
military remains ambivalent,fearing er disease: an overpopulated region
that the body counts will rise. (on an overpopulated planet) pre-
For many of us, the walls of the cariously propped up by subsidies able resource of all, compounds the
Stanford bubble are thick and from nonrenewable resources. In problem in producing states. The re-
opaque; we can afford only a little Egypt, one of the trembling but- source curse has paralyzed their
time to think deeply about the Mid- tresses is the Nile River, which sub- economies and stratified their soci-
dle East’s state of unrest. But we sidized the fertile delta that birthed eties. Oil wealth, flowing through the
should take that time, because the Ancient Egyptian civilization. hands of a powerful few, supports
current state of affairs is more than a A free-flowing Nile was both a populations that far exceed the
lesson on the perils of a 30-year-old blessing and a curse. It provided a desert region’s ability to provide.
autocracy. Indeed, many of the is- seemingly endless supply of water Most citizens are supported by heavy
sues faced by Egypt — and by its and nutrient-rich silt, but its roaring subsidies and a disproportionately
oil-rich neighbors — are fundamen- floods and devastating droughts large public sector. Educational sys-
tally ecological, the consequences of made farming on the delta a per- tems leave the youth with little op-
a human population decoupled ilous business. Today, dams harness portunity in the outside world, creat-
from its environmental base. Could the power of the world’s longest ing a population wholly dependent
the simmering chain reaction in the river, providing electricity and a on an unsustainable edifice.
Middle East today foreshadow a steady flow of water that has effec- As I wrote last week,internation-
global tomorrow? tively doubled the growing season. al trade allows us to economize pro-
On the surface, Egypt’s story With an abundance of food and duction by growing crops where
reads like a case study on the inter- modern medicine, infant mortality water is abundant, manufacturing
section of economics and demogra- dropped, and the population pyra- goods where labor is cheap and de-
phy. On the economics side: a 30- mid’s base swelled. But it was not to signing software where education is
percent jump in food prices coupled last: without annual floods to flush its good. But when your economy is
with a 9.4 percent unemployment back canals and lay down a new layer supported by a dwindling resource
rate and 30 million people living on of sediment, the Nile Delta becomes
and your population is not trained
less than $2 per day. On the demo- more polluted and sinks further to- for a transition, you are vulnerable
graphic side: the perils of the ex- ward the Mediterranean each year. to collapse.
panding population pyramid. Sixty Increased demand for water has cre- What does this say to the rest of
percent of Egyptians swell its youth- ated yet another thirst that cannot be the world? We all rely heavily on oil
ful base; 30 percent are between the slaked. Today, the fresh waters of the — to grow our crops, to run our ma-
ages of 15 and 29. Nile no longer reach the sea. chines, to transport our exports
These young Egyptians — our With natural resources stretched worldwide. If oil supplies were cut
peers — face an uncertain future. to their maximum, Egypt must look off tomorrow, and we had to look
The unemployment rate in the 15-29 elsewhere to feed its people. The within ourselves and our own bor-
age bracket is a staggering 25 per- Arab world as a whole imports 50 ders for support, how many stones
cent. Job prospects outside the percent of its food, rendering popu-
would fly across the National Mall?
country are not good: most have lations vulnerable to price fluctua-
completed many years of schooling, tions driven by flooding in Australia Holly’s column normally runs on
but the caliber of the educational or ethanol demand in the United Thursday. She welcomes reader feed-
system places their diplomas low on States. back — but not stones! — at hol-
the international scale. Meanwhile, And oil, the greatest nonrenew- lyvm@stanford.edu.
I know, I know, what a cheap way pieces of earlier advice with no
to end the column, right? I’m really qualms. By day, you could sunbathe
trying to give you some sensible ad- while watching “Arrested Develop-
vice. I know you expect better from ment” on Netflix. By night, you
Shane me. However, last week I somehow could engage in extreme debauch-
Savitsky managed to finish my econ problem
set (due Friday) by Wednesday
ery. That’s what I call “living the
dream,” Stanford.
evening. It was magical! I had time
for things! I wasn’t rushing to do You can always e-mail Shane at sav-
bros playing hardcore games of ulti- everything in a three-hour span on itsky@stanford.edu. Make sure e-
mate on fields around campus. Thursday night. mails are properly formatted: 12 pt.
Check out the sorority girls sunning Here’s the best part: if you man- Times New Roman, double-spaced
themselves on Cowell Lawn. Laugh age to finish everything on time, and proper margins. MLA citations
as computer science majors franti- then you can work in my three are acceptable.
cally try to avoid the sun. This is the
life. Why should midterms bring us
down?
Really, you can’t ask for any-
thing better than the weather at
Stanny U right now. Where’s the
winter quarter rain? How is it con-
sistently above 60 degrees in early
February? Don’t question it. In-
stead, alleviate your midterm blues
by cranking up some killer tunes
and loving the sunshine. (Protip: try
“Simple Graces” by Delorean. I
think it was made for this weather.)
Honestly, the Ivy League can suck
it. Blair Waldorf is still prancing
around Columbia in her Chanel
winter coat, but flip flops are al-
ready part of my everyday attire.
Score one for Stanny.
Actually get your work done early
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SPORTS
TENNIS WHACKS UTES Kabir
Sawhney
Follow the Money

With Bradley Klahn and Ryan Thacher gone, Alex Clayton, above, stepped up and played No. 1 singles for the Cardinal yesterday. The senior had an
easy two-set victory as the Cardinal defeated the visiting Utah Utes 7-0. With the win, Stanford stayed undefeated and improved to 5-0 on the season.
Stanford men roll
over visiting Utah
By DASH DAVIDSON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The No. 8 Stanford men’s ten-
nis team (5-0, 0-0 Pac-10) re-
mained undefeated in dual-match
play yesterday afternoon, domi-
nating Utah at Taube Tennis Sta-
dium by a score of 7-0. Even more
impressive for the Cardinal team
is the fact that the victory came
without two of the squad’s top
players — juniors Bradley Klahn
and Ryan Thacher.
MEN’S TENNIS
UTAH 0
STANFORD 7 night.
2/8, Taube Tennis Stadium
For their efforts, Thacher and
Klahn received a wild-card entry
into the doubles draw of the 2011
SAP Open at HP Pavilion in San
Jose this week and are scheduled
to play their first match Tuesday
evening. Klahn, the defending
NCAA singles champion, was
also awarded a wild-card entry
into the singles draw, where he
will play the No. 12 player in the
world, France’s Gael Monfils, in
the first round on Wednesday
The inactivity of Klahn and
Thacher forced head coach John
Whitlinger to reshuffle his lineup.
Sophomore Walker Kehrer and
freshman Jamin Ball were the
Please see MTENNIS, page 8
FRANK NOTHAFT/The Stanford Daily
UP NEXT
BYU
(4-3)
2/11 Taube Tennis Center
1:30 P.M.
GAME NOTES: No. 8 Stanford has cruised to
a 5-0 start to its season with strong play up
and down the lineup. Next up for the Cardi-
nal is No. 46 BYU. The Cougars have had a
shaky early season, but will arrive on the
Farm riding a two-match winning streak.
Hoping for
the NFL
lockout
W
ith the NFL’s own-
ers and Players As-
sociation locked in
a heated battle over
a new collective
bargaining agreement, it’s becoming
more likely every day that the league
is headed for a lockout. If a new
agreement isn’t struck by March 3,
the owners will lock out the players;if
a resolution isn’t reached by Septem-
ber, the NFL could cancel the entire
season.
There’s only one position that I re-
ally identify with,which is the players’
refusal to acquiesce to an 18-game
season. Such a long campaign would
increase injury risk tremendously and
dilute the value of each regular-sea-
son game.
Although I like the NFL, I have to
concede that I’m really rooting for
neither side to prevail, but rather to
see the lockout happen. An NFL
lockout would be an untold boon for
college football, dramatically increas-
ing TV viewership as disaffected fans
would flock from the pros to the
NCAA.
Next season would be a great one
for the nation’s collective sporting
conscious to focus firmly on college
football.The results of conference re-
alignment — and all the juicy story-
lines that fall from it — will be on full
display, as the new Pac-12, Big Ten
and Big 12 all commence play.As the
Ohio State Tattoo Five and the Cam
Newton sagas continue to unfold, we
could see even more pressure for the
sport to reform itself and curb the un-
savory practices that “football-facto-
ry” programs regularly engage in.
More viewership would be highly
beneficial to Stanford as well. Fans of
both NFL teams in the Bay Area

HOLDING
would turn to Stanford and Cal for
their football, and we might actually
get a full stadium pretty regularly
when disaffected 49ers fans discover
the (relatively) low ticket prices and

COURT
high-quality football just down the
road. Stanford’s football team will
likely enter next season with a top-10
ranking and its most hype in recent
memory, so the timing of the NFL
lockout would be fortuitous indeed.
An NFL-less season could also
Women beat USC in 3OT, take bring in more money for Stanford
and the Pac-12 in the long term. The
conference is due to renegotiate its
home Stanford Invitational title media deal soon and would be in a
much stronger bargaining position if
it had viewership numbers swelled by
By KEVIN ZHANG exiled NFL fans. Stanford is already
DAILY SPORTS INTERN set to see its slice of revenue from the
conference jump dramatically, but an
Top-ranked Stanford sent its opponents packing at added dollop of cash never hurts.
the 2011 Stanford Invitational last weekend, earning College teams could also schedule
four victories over Arizona, Cal, San Jose State and games for Sunday, giving us a full
USC. The team successfully defended its 2010 title, weekend of college football as op-
which, at the time, marked the first Stanford Invita- posed to just a single Saturday as we
tional it won in seven years. have now. College programs aren’t
This year’s invitational featured eight of the best technically prevented from schedul-
teams in the country, separated into two groups. Brack- ing games on Sunday — they only re-
et A consisted of No. 2 USC, No. 4 UCLA, No. 5 Hawaii frain from doing so because they
and No. 15 Indiana. Bracket B included No. 1 Stanford, don’t want to compete against the
No. 3 Cal, No. 8 Arizona State and No. 9 San Jose State. NFL for viewership.
WOMEN’S WATER POLO By contrast, the NFL is barred by
its antitrust exemption from staging
USC 9 Saturday games during the college
STANFORD 10 (3OT) regular season. If college football is
2/6, Avery Aquatic Center able to build a Sunday audience, big
programs could compete regularly
The Cardinal (8- and successfully against the NFL for
0) swept its four
games with a diversi-
UP NEXT years to come.
However,the biggest benefit from
fied attack, defeating
USC in a rematch of PACIFIC a college football-focused fall would-
n’t be monetary — it would be the in-
last year’s national (2-3) creased pressure for a playoff.Almost
championship game. everyone is dissatisfied with the BCS,
The final score 2/20 Stockton, Calif.
but part of the reason that it hasn’t
looked familiar, but 1 P.M. been blown up yet is that, after the
this time with the bowls are over, we can all sit back on
Cardinal on top, 10- GAME NOTES: After a hard-fought our couches and prepare to watch a
9, in a sudden-death Stanford Invitational championship few weeks of NFL playoff action.
thriller that went to last weekend, the top-ranked Cardi- Without the Super Bowl, the bowl
nal has two weeks off before a visit to
triple overtime. games would feel empty,and pressure
The team began unranked Pacific. The Tigers are 2-3 would intensify for college football to
the tournament this season, but will play five more crown its champion via an eight- or
against Arizona games before the Cardinal comes to 16-team playoff.
State on Saturday Stockton. After all, one only has to look at
morning. Led by this season to see why a playoff is bet-
sophomore two-meter Annika Dries, who scored half ter than the BCS system. The Super
of the team’s goals, Stanford cruised to a 10-1 victory Bowl champions, the Green Bay
with all goals coming from non-seniors, including Packers, got into the playoffs with a
freshman driver Kaley Dodson, sophomore driver Vic- six seed; if we had a BCS-type system
toria Kennedy and junior driver Pallavi Menon. in the NFL, there’s no way the Pack
Sophomore driver Vee Dunlevie added two goals. gets voted into the Super Bowl!
Later on Saturday, Stanford doubled up rival Cal,
10-5. Junior driver Alyssa Lo led the team with four — Kabir Sawhney is rooting for a
goals, and senior goalkeeper Amber Oland had 12 lockout. He clearly fell and hit his
saves. Dries continued her excellent play with a hat- IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
head this weekend. Wish him a
No 1. Stanford went 4-0 in the Stanford Invitational last weekend. In the championship speedy recovery at ksawhney@stan-
Please see WPOLO, page 8 game the Cardinal defeated defending-champion USC in triple overtime for the title. ford.edu.
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WPOLO
Continued from front page 6
trick against the Golden Bears.
She was later named Mountain
Pacific Sports Federation Player
of the Week for her excellent tour-
nament.
Stanford concluded its bracket
play the following morning with a
dominant 16-4 victory over its
South Bay rival, San Jose State.
Stanford had another balanced at-
tack featuring goals from 10 dif-
ferent players.
“A key to our strong start has
no doubt been our depth,” said
head coach John Tanner.“We have
great depth at every position.”
At 4:30 p.m. on Super Bowl
Sunday, Stanford got in the pool
for a much-anticipated matchup
with No. 2 USC. A sizeable crowd
was present for the back-and-
forth affair, with both teams gain-
ing momentum in separate
stretches. The game was tied after
the first quarter at 2-2, after the
second quarter at 3-3 and at the
end of regulation at 7-7.
After USC senior Kristen
Dronberger notched her fourth
goal on a backhand shot that tied
the score at seven apiece with 1:17
to play, drama unfolded at Avery
in the final minute of regulation.
A Stanford turnover with 10 sec-
onds to go followed by an exclu-
sion seconds later gave USC one
last shot for a goal. However,
USC’s last-second prayer sailed
far wide of the cage, and USC
head coach Jovan Vavic was visi-
bly upset about what he thought
was a clock malfunction that
forced the wild shot.
In overtime, Menon had a
beautiful, arcing bar-in goal with
three seconds left in the first over-
time period, which put Stanford in
front, 9-8.
The Cardinal seemed to have
the game in check in the second
overtime period with a 9-8 lead,
but a turnover and exclusion with
under 30 seconds left enabled
USC freshmen two-meter Made-
line Rosenthal to tie the score with
a goal inside with 13 seconds left.
In sudden death, the teams
were scoreless in the first frame,
which included several huge saves
by both goalies and a bar-out 5-
meter penalty by Menon. The
nail-biter ended with a skip shot
by Dodson with 16 seconds left in
the second sudden-death period.
“The emotional victory really
showed the team’s resilience,”
Tanner said. “We missed opportu-
nities to go by three goals multiple
times. However, whenever we had
a setback, we rebounded quickly.
Also, it didn’t help that the USC
goalie had a great game.”
USC’s freshman goalie Flora
Bolonyai had 10 saves, including a
breakaway save mid-way through
the second quarter and an athletic
stop in the second overtime peri-
od that kept USC within striking
distance. She was named MPSF
Newcomer of the Week after her
impressive outing during the
weekend.
Stanford sported another di-
verse offensive outing with goals
coming from seven different play-
ers. Dodson, Dries and junior two-
meter Melissa Seidemann led the
team with a pair each.
Once the season heats up, Stan-
ford plans to see Cal, UCLA and
USC again, whether in the sched-
uled MPSF season or the playoffs.
“We need to be more methodi-
cal. Against these teams, we need
to find and finish opportunities,”
Tanner said.“Overall, we were not
decisive enough this weekend,
and we need to be crisper on of-
fense.”
The Card is out of action for
two weeks, but is scheduled to
travel east to Stockton, Calif. to
face Pacific on Feb. 20.
Contact Kevin Zhang at kev-
inzhangle@gmail.com.

MTENNIS
Continued from front page 6
beneficiaries, and both recorded
their first collegiate dual-match
whom is looking to contribute
something to a Stanford team that
has been perfect this season.
This weekend looks to be an
important one for the Cardinal.
The team will face No. 38 BYU on
Friday, and on Saturday, Stanford ΣΑςΕ Α ΛΙΦΕ. ∆ΟΝ∏Τ ∆ΡΙςΕ ΗΟΜΕ ΒΥΖΖΕ∆.
will head over to Berkeley for a ΒΥΖΖΕ∆ ∆ΡΙςΙΝΓ ΙΣ ∆ΡΥΝΚ ∆ΡΙςΙΝΓ.

victories in the win. match with the No. 19 Golden

The tone was set early for the
Cardinal, who blitzed the Utes in
the doubles matches and the top-
three singles matches, securing a
victory in the contest early on. Se-
nior Alex Clayton and sophomore
Denis Lin filled in admirably for
the absent Klahn and Thacher as
the Cardinal’s top two players and
dispatched their opponents with
ease in their singles matches,
outscoring them by a combined
tally of 24 games to six.
Ball, who was making his first
collegiate appearance, won out of
the No. 6 spot.
“Everyone played pretty solid
and it went well,” Ball said. “For
me personally, it was great to get
my first win under my belt — I
was pretty nervous at first but
managed to pull it out in the
end.”
Senior Greg Hirshman won at
No. 3 in singles play, and sopho-
more Matt Kandath at No. 4.
Kehrer was a straight-set winner
Bears.
Ball thinks that this type of lop-
sided win will be good for the team Is this your idea of a healthy heart?
as it prepares for the weekend.
“It’s definitely good, it gets
everyone match-tough and on top
of their game,” he said.“Cal will be
a great match, and there’s defi-
nitely a lot on the table with them
being our rivals.”
Ball added that he doesn’t
think the absence of Klahn and
Thacher will negatively affect the
team.
“If anything, it fires us up to
know that one of our guys will play
someone ranked No. 12 in the
world on Wednesday night,” he
said. “I think it’ll definitely get
Brad ready for this weekend.”
The Stanford men’s tennis
team must believe it’s in a good
place when it can coast to victory
without its top two players. The
duo will return for this weekend’s When you smoke or breathe secondhand smoke, your heart works harder with
action, which opens against the less oxygen, increasing your risk for cardiovascular diseases. Each year, more than 170,000
Cougars at 1:30 p.m. on Friday at people die from smoking-related heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases

at No. 5. Taube Tennis Stadium. but you don’t have to be one of them. Your heart’s health is in your hands.

Ball, a top recruit out of nearby Heart Disease and Stroke. You’re the Cure.
www.americanheart.org/yourethecure
Menlo School, is one of three Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@
freshmen on the team, each of stanford.edu.