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SPEAKERS & EVENTS STUDENT LIFE

Hennessy Student sees

kicks off
iDeclare
By JENNY THAI
STAFF WRITER
President John Hennessy and Rev-
erend Scotty McLennan, dean of reli-
gious life,led a discussion titled “Trans-
lating Your Passions into Academia”
yesterday. The session kicked off iDe-
clare Week, a newly established event
series designed to assist sophomores
Egypt revolt
firsthand
University has limited contact
with student in Cairo
By ELLORA ISRANI
STAFF WRITER
ANNA MARIA IRION/The Stanford Daily
With a focus on dancing for a full 24 hours, Dance Marathon kept up the energy well into the night. An Egypt’s political revolution has impacted the
estimated 90 percent of the dancers were freshmen, while upperclassmen worked in shifts to rally them. Stanford community directly and indirectly as

Dancing for awareness

with the major-declaration process.
The discourse led by Hennessy and
McLennan was a lively one,punctuated
with anecdotal accounts of their under-
graduate careers.
Hennessy spoke about his long-
standing passion for computer science.
He recounted the rewards of approach-
ing computer science — at a time when
Dance Marathon proceeds will
the field was relatively new — from an
electrical engineering background.
go to health program in Rwanda
“I was interested in computers, but
[Villanova University] didn’t have a
computer science major at the time,”
Hennessy said. “People interested in
computers either majored in applied
math or EE.”
“When I went on to grad school to
study CS, most students came into that
class with a pure mathematics back-
ground,which I was lacking,”he added.
“It was a real scramble. There was an-
other branch of mathematics I’ve never
had to do before,like group theory,and
I was excited to see if I could apply the
math concepts to computer science.”
While Hennessy’s academic inter-
ests remained fairly constant, McLen-
nan’s undergraduate career was much
less linear, as his law school prospects
expanded to make room for his grow-
ing interest in religion.
“I was trying to pursue a psychology
major and wanted to be a lawyer,” he
said.“I was following my passions and
actually ended up being very interested
in religion.I ended up going to both di-
vinity and law school.”
McLennan acknowledged the diffi-
culty that students face when con-
fronting their parents with their deci-
sion to pursue a “less-than-practical”
field of study.
“The parent piece can be hard,” he
said. “I never forgot the day when my
dad said to me,‘Oh,wait a minute,divin-
ity school? I mean we’re all religious,
but that’s something you can do on the
side. Go get a real job!’ I had to push
back on that a bit and show him my pas-
sion for social justice.”
Hennessy encouraged undergradu-
ates to take academic risks while they
still can.
“You learn by doing,” Hennessy
said,“[The undergraduate years] are a
time when you can afford to take risks.
It becomes much more difficult later
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events continue to unfold overseas.
According to University RegistrarTom Black,
there are no Stanford students “in active statuses
or in sponsored programs in Egypt.” Students
who wish to study overseas outside of Stanford’s
Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) are re-
quired to take a leave of absence,and the Univer-
sity does not keep track of the whereabouts of
As in years past, dancers pledged to raise $192
prior to the event. Ninety percent of Dance these students.
“On the one hand, technically, the student is
Marathon’s proceeds go to Partners in Health,
which will use the funds for a community health not a Stanford student,” said BOSP director
workers’ program in Rwanda. This represents a Robert Sinclair.“If we know how to contact the
By KABIR SAWHNEY change from previous Dance Marathons, where student, we would be, of course, interested in
DESK EDITOR the money raised went to a variety of Partners in doing so, but the primary responsibility lies with
Health projects. The remaining 10 percent will go those organizations that students are studying
In what has become an annual tradition at to Bay Area Young Positives, which provides sup- with.”
Stanford, more than 500 dancers, hackers, port to HIV-positive young people. BOSP has dealt with crises in the past at sever-
moralers and observers packed into the Arrillaga “[Partners in Health] is taking the people who al of its campuses,such as the earthquake in San-
Alumni Center this weekend for the 24-hour are members of those communities, who know all tiago, Chile and the wildfires that threatened
Dance Marathon.The event strove to raise AIDS of those people who are being affected by Moscow last year.According to Sinclair,the pro-
awareness and fundraise money to battle the dis- HIV/AIDS and utilizing them as employees of gram has “procedures that are executed immedi-
ease in Africa. their hospitals,” Morrison said.“They identify the ately” in the event of a crisis, but no such contin-
Though final fundraising figures were not pro- community health workers, they cultivate that re- gency plans exist for those who participate in non-
vided to The Daily by the time of publication, lationship and then they send those workers out BOSP programs.
Stephanie Morrison ‘11, one of Dance after they’ve trained them.” Currently, there is at least one Stanford stu-
Marathon’s co-directors, said in an interview with Morrison added that the $192 contribution dent who is getting a close look as events unfold in
The Daily on Saturday that she did not expect the represents the amount of money required to train Egypt. Rachel Antonsen ‘12 took a leave of ab-
event to meet its goal of raising $100,000. The ex- one health worker and pay their salary for a year. sence between her junior and senior year and
pected drop from last year, when $178,000 was On the other side of the Alumni Center was studied at the University of Cairo through the
raised, comes largely because FACE AIDS is no the “Hackathon,” which is now in its third year. Center for Arabic Study Abroad,which is run by
longer matching Dance Marathon’s contribu- Approximately 65 hackers worked on 15 projects, the University of Texas at Austin. Her program
tions. mostly to benefit nonprofit organizations. Unlike began in June 2010 and will continue through
“In the past, [FACE AIDS] has been able to the dancers at Dance Marathon, the program- May, under the condition that classes remain in
match, dollar for dollar, what our dancers raise,” mers participating in the Hackathon didn’t raise session.There is a possibility that these courses will
said Anand Habib ‘11, another co-director. “Un- money prior to the event — rather, they partici- be canceled.
fortunately, this year they weren’t able to do that. pated in projects ranging from biomedical re- On Feb. 1, when a million protestors packed
We had to take on that extra burden of pushing
ourselves to really hit our goal.” Please see DANCE, page 2 Please see EGYPT, page 2
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Conference promotes student happiness
By DANA EDWARDS ices at Vaden,was chiefly responsible decade.
STAFF WRITER for organizing the event.She opened “If you focus on misery,you don’t
Saturday’s discussion with her col- lead a happy life,” he said.
A host of leading researchers and league, Dr. Fred Luskin, director of He proposed “how you feel in
campus luminaries presented at Sat- the Stanford Forgiveness Project. Whole Foods” as a metric of happi-
urday’s Happiness Within Reach “We live in a stressed out and ness,quipping that if you’re not over-
conference. The event featured overwhelmed planet,”Pertofsky said. joyed when surrounded by the abun-
prominent neurobiologists, medita- “We need to make a commitment to dance in the grocery store, you need
MEHMET INONU/Staff Photographer tion instructors, psychologists and healing ourselves and each other.” to work to become happier.
Carole Pertofsky, the director of well- authors, who sought to educate at- Luskin, who has conducted re- Dr. Rick Hanson, a renowned
ness and health promotion services tendees on the “science of happi- search internationally on the health neuropsychologist, delivered the
ness” and empower them to take benefits of forgiveness and stress re- keynote speech. “Any kind of last-
at Vaden Health Center, placed the control of their own well-being. duction,emphasized the importance ing mental activity will leave traces
focus of Saturday’s conference on Carole Pertofsky, director of of positive psychology, a field that
the happiness of Stanford students. wellness and health promotion serv- has gained popularity in the last Please see HAPPINESS, page 2

UNIVERSITY
Stanford HR taps David Jones as new head
By IVY NGUYEN
DESK EDITOR
David Jones, the associate vice
president for employee and manage-
ment services, has been promoted to
vice president of human resources.
Jones will replace current head of
human resources Diane Peck, who
announced her decision to retire last
fall.
Prior to coming to Stanford in
2007, Jones worked at Catholic
Healthcare West,Harvard University,
Southern California Edison Co.,
Georgetown University, the Federal
Bureau of Prisons and Howard Uni-
versity. Shortly after his promotion
was announced,Jones spoke with The
Daily about his upcoming job.
The Stanford Daily (TSD):How do
you plan to improve the services avail-
able to Stanford staff members? What
have you done during your current
tenure to that effect?
David Jones (DJ):Well, first of all, I
think that continuing some of the pro-
grams that began under Diane Peck
— continuing and expanding our
leadership and management develop-
ment program,focusing on employee
development — will be cornerstones
of the things that I hope to work on.
Beyond that, I think that this kind of
leadership transition offers an oppor-
tunity for reflection around future di-
rection, so I hope to be meeting with
lots of people across the University to
hear about their hopes and dreams,
hearing about their concerns, hearing
about what’s working, what’s not
working. And because I serve the
community — I don’t serve myself —
my hope is that whatever we do will
support the mission of teaching and
research.
TSD:Has the recession had a signifi-
cant impact on staff hiring and reten-
tion? What plans are there for contin-
uing to deal with its impacts?
Waltzing the Night Away
DJ:In some ways it was negative
early on when we had to lay off 500
of our staff — and that was a very
difficult decision to make — since
that time, the University has been
performing much better. We have
seen greater grant money, we’ve had
some improvement in our budget
outlook and lots of talent around the
Bay Area is looking at Stanford as
their potential employer. We’re
doing much better in terms of at least
attracting talent.
TSD:How will you continue to pro-
mote diversity in hiring?
DJ:I think it’s a really important
focus and I think it’s imperative that
we always seek out the perspective of
a diverse staff as we look to address
the many issues that come our way
— and we’re stronger for doing that. Courtesy of Tamer Shabani
I’m going to continue the work of my The Viennese Ball, which has become an annual Stanford tradition, took
current boss. I think she’s done a
place on Friday at the Hyatt in Burlingame. Above, Ashley Artmann ‘12
Please see JONES, page 2 dances with her father, who flew in from Nevada just to attend the dance.

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DANCE
Continued from front page
search to helping recycle medical
supplies.
According to Sam King ‘12,one of
Hackathon’s directors,the goal of the
event was twofold: to provide direct
services to worthy causes and to con-
nect hackers to the possibilities for
public service in computer science.
King emphasized that, while
Hackathon and Dance Marathon
may seem to share little in common
other than a public service focus,the
connection between the two events
is very important.
“This is a 24-hour dance party, so
there’s clearly a lot of energy in the
atmosphere,” he said. “There’s a lot
of cooperation with Dance
Marathon . . . our sponsors all go
into the same account, so when an
organization sponsors us,they spon-
sor Dance Marathon as a whole.”
This year’s Dance Marathon
turnout saw a significant decrease
from last year’s numbers, which to-
taled approximately 1,000 stu-
dents. Morrison attributes this
drop to a renewed focus on keep-
ing dancers at the marathon for the
full 24 hours. Previously, many
dancers would only stay for a short
time or not come at all.
Though having fewer dancers
makes it more difficult to raise
funds, Morrison explained that fo-
cusing on retention served Dance
Marathon’s goal of promoting
awareness of HIV/AIDS among
students.
“We wanted to have an event
with us symbolizing what people go
through with HIV/AIDS — the
EGYPT
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into Tahrir Square in Cairo, Antonsen
ventured into the square.
“I found a peaceful,cooperative and
celebratory atmosphere with all social
strata of Egyptians present,” she wrote
in an e-mail to The Daily.
She spoke with various protesters,
who asked her to communicate certain
messages to the American people.
“Tell people in America nobody
wants an Islamic government,” Anton-
sen said,relating her conversations with
hardship of standing 24 hours,” she
said. “Wanting to make sure our
dancers are here for the full 24
hours leans more toward the aware-
ness side of things. It can be debated
which is more important, but I think
that this year it was very important
for us to make sure everyone was
fully engaged with the cause.”
Habib explained that changes in
the registration process could also
be a factor in halving the number of
participants. In the past, student
only had to fill out a form when
they signed up for Dance
Marathon and had the option of
paying the $15 registration fee
later. This year, they were required
to pay the fee upfront.
“We were working with a slight-
ly tighter budget, so we didn’t have
the luxury of separating the two . .
. that’s probably the key factor in
why it’s half of what it was last
year,” Habib said.
“What we’re doing today, over
the 24 hours, is an act of solidarity,”
he continued.“When you hit a criti-
cal mass of people and you get that
much energy in the room, it’s more
fun for everybody.”
Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawh-
ney@stanford.edu.
JONES
Continued from front page
great job, and if you just look at her
hiring record,she has been a model of
putting together a very diverse staff
that has been quite successful. My
hope is that I’ll not only continue that,
but expand that.
numerous Egyptians. “Tell people in
America Muslims and Christians are
out here together.Tell people in Ameri-
ca how civilized we are being;we are not
violent people.”
“We know the difference between
American people and the American
government . . . ask them to speak out
against their government and support
what we are doing,”she continued.
Antonsen added her own perspec-
tive as well.In a subsequent Skype inter-
view with The Daily, she said,“For me,
these [conversations] are much more
important than my daily life and deci-
sion to evacuate from Cairo.”
“My whole attitude toward political
participation is going to change,” she
HAPPINESS
Continued from front page
behind for better or for worse,” Han-
son said.
In light of this principle, he urged
people to “direct their attention skill-
fully” in order to form the neural con-
nections that lead to happiness.Hanson
added that, evolutionarily, happiness is
the natural state of the human brain
when a person is not threatened or ill.
In a panel discussion, Luskin
asked his fellow speakers what Stan-
ford students could do to benefit
from happiness.
Dr. Kelly McGonigal, a Stanford
health psychologist, described the
importance of self-compassion. She
said self-compassion exercises have
been shown to increase success in
battling obesity, tobacco addiction
and procrastination.
“Each one of us needs to find
some unique, pro-social contribution
to the world to be happy,” Luskin
said.
“It’s one thing to understand all
these principles of well-being and sci-
ence,it’s another to embody the prin-
ciples in your actions,” echoed James
TSD:Do you have any specific plans as
to how you would do that?
DJ:That would be part of the reflec-
tion and listening tour that I go on,but
I can say that I was very much in-
volved in these kinds of efforts while I
served at Harvard. We did a number
of things — we did diversity confer-
ences to help create awareness and
understanding around the power of
diversity and we partnered with many
professional organizations of color to
added. Antonsen evacuated to Jordan
on the evening of Feb.5.
“I would say this was not as a result of
the protests which, as I mentioned, I
found safe, peaceful and thrilling,” she
said.“Rather,it was because state-spon-
sored media was circulating the idea that
foreign agitators were responsible for
the protests, and some ordinary folks
who are tired of disruption of daily life
believed these ideas and vented anger
on foreigners.”
Antonsen’s decision was prompted
by a friend’s experience at a checkpoint.
“There was a kid,about fifteen,who
was super angry at [my friend] because
he’d gotten this impression from the
state media that foreigners has instigat-
Baraz, a meditation instructor at
Spirit Rock.
Throughout the event, Pertofsky
sought to bring attention back to
Stanford students.
“Students at Stanford are the
focus of this conference,” she said.
She was concerned that a great num-
ber of students are overly stressed
and suffering from anxiety disorders.
Speaking on this topic, she cited the
“Stanford Duck Syndrome”as an ap-
propriate metaphor.
“We don’t just want to survive, we
want to thrive,” Pertofsky said.
She noted that the psychological
health resources available to students
are directed only to those students in
serious crisis, thereby neglecting the
other 85 percent of the student popu-
lation. Pertofsky is working, through
various campus venues, to start a
movement on positive psychology at
Stanford.
The presenters at Happiness
Within Reach agreed on the enor-
mous importance of disseminating
knowledge on happiness and well-
being.
“We need to teach our students
how to self-nurture,”Pertofsky said.
Contact Dana Edwards at dana727@
stanford.edu.
make sure we had relationships with
them and to make sure that they un-
derstood what great opportunities ex-
isted at Harvard. I expect that we will
be doing some similar things at Stan-
ford.
TSD:Do you think you will work with
students in any capacity? Have you
had a lot of interaction with students in
the past, either undergraduates or
graduates?
ed the protests,” she said.“He was con-
vinced that my friend was an Israeli,
even though he showed him his Ameri-
can passport.He tried to run off with his
passport,and then he tried to stab him.”
Antonsen said that Arcadio
Morales, the residence dean for Stern,
Toyon, BOSP and off-campus under-
graduates, contacted her on Feb. 4. He
checked to make sure she was safe, en-
couraged her to register with the Amer-
ican embassy and asked about her plans
for the near future.Apart from Morales,
Antonsen has not been in contact with
any other University official.
Antonsen and her fellow students in
Egypt struggle with the reliability of
news reports, as media in the region is
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IDECLARE
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on, when you’ve already invested so
much time and money into a field you
want to switch out of.”
When one attendee asked about
what course students with multiple ac-
ademic interests should follow,
McLennan strongly cautioned against
double majoring.
“To double major is to destroy the
concept of an undergraduate career,”
McLennan said. “That is, achieving
both breadth and depth in a particular
field. With a double major, you aren’t
going to get the breadth and depth of
the two subjects.”
President Hennessy agreed on this
point, adding that “overseas studies,
honors theses writing and independ-
ently run research”truly make the un-
dergrad experience worthwhile.
“Choosing a major is like going to a
dance,”Hennessy said.“It’s fun to have
a lot of partners to dance with but it’s
nice to go home in the end with the
partner you’re going to stick with.”
Contact Jenny Thai at jthai1@
stanford.edu.
DJ:Certainly. This is university num-
ber four for me,and at every place I’ve
served, I’ve had connections with stu-
dents in one form or another and I ex-
pect that will continue here. In many
ways students are the reason why
we’re here, so I certainly will have an
open door and will always be willing to
engage students.
Contact Ivy Nguyen at iknguyen@stan-
ford.edu.
often politically biased.
Antonsen speculated that there was
“a power struggle” occurring in Egypt
because information was “so inconsis-
tent.”She also said she was unsure about
Egypt’s future.
“The thing that everybody has al-
ways been wondering this whole time is
that this movement is incredibly re-
markable for the fact that it doesn’t seem
to have a leadership, and it seems to be
relatively disorganized,except also very
effective somehow,” Antonsen said.
“That works well if you’re opposing
something,but how is it going to work?”
Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@
stanford.edu.
The Stanford Daily
FEATURES
LESSONS IN LOVE
By HELEN ANDERSON
DESK EDITOR
I
t may be true that all you need
is love. Still, your typical elite
university would probably
argue that you need a little (or
a lot) of math, chemistry and
philosophy thrown in as well. Do-
minique Youkhehpaz ‘11 learned this
lesson the hard way when she ap-
plied to major in love through the In-
dividually Designed Major program.
Love is a common aspiration for
most students, but it doesn’t seem an
intuitive course of study. The idea
wedged its way into Youkhehpaz’s
mind during the summer before her
sophomore year.
“I was thinking about the mean-
ing of life, anticipating ‘The Meaning
of Life’ Sophomore College,” she
wrote in an e-mail to The Daily. “I
was listening to the Beatles a lot. I re-
alized that when I rephrased the
question, ‘What is the meaning of
life?’ to ‘What makes life meaning-
ful?’ My answer was clear: love. I
knew I wanted to dedicate my life to
figuring out what it meant — I decid-
ed I want to study love as a means to
dedicating my life to learning how to
be love.”
Even though she had a clear di-
rection, implementing this plan
turned out to be more difficult than
she had anticipated.
“When I met with the head of the
IDM department, I was all but
laughed at when I stated that I want-
ed to study love at Stanford,” said
Youkhehpaz. “The woman I met
with told me not even to bother ap-
plying; that I had no chance of being
accepted. I found it appalling that I
wasn’t even encouraged to find a way
for Stanford to accommodate or
somehow work with my interests; I
was flat out rejected.”
After this discouraging experi-
ence, Youkhehpaz turned to other
major options, floating from depart-
ment to department. She tried inter-
disciplinary studies in the humani-
ties, but just as she was about to de-
clare, the entire department was cut
for budgetary reasons. Then she
switched to feminist studies, but she
found that that it didn’t offer her
enough flexibility. Finally, she ended
up in the anthropology department.
“Switching to anthropology, I had
to let go my ego’s desire to graduate
from Stanford with the label ‘Love
Studies,’” said Youkhehpaz. “Be-
cause in the end, that’s what it would
have been — just a label.In their cur-
rent state, Stanford’s infrastructure
and departments have no way for me
— or anyone — to study love.”
Still, she thinks that assimilating
the study of love into a more tradi-
tional college curriculum would be
immensely beneficial.
“I think that if love were integrat-
ed into academia, we would not feel
such a disjunction between our per-
sonal and professional lives, and they
would not have to contradict each
other,” she said.
In the world of education, the
emotional realm tends to take a
backseat. But this divide actually
makes very little sense, Youkhehpaz
argued.
“People dedicate their entire lives
for what they deem an academic
cause, becoming chemists, physicists,
sociologists, etc.,” she said. “They
place an illusory barrier between
their personal life and academic/pro-
fessional life. Perhaps they discover
some pioneering idea or technology
in their respective field. But at the
end of the day,they still have to come
home to their family or lack of fami-
ly, however [dysfunctional].”
The practicality of an education in
love extends beyond the personal,
though, and into the global sphere.
“There is plenty of space in acade-
mia to study what is wrong with the
world — in psychology, sociology, in-
ternational relations, economics,
earth systems, human biology,”
Youkhehpaz said.“We can easily ob-
tain grants and enroll in classes to
study pain, suffering, violence, dis-
Courtesy of Dominique Youkhehpaz
Dominique Youkhehpaz ‘11
answers the question, “Why do
you do what you do?” through an
art project at Burning Man Decom-
pression in San Francisco.
ease and genocide. But what about
what is right with society? What
about studying love, and how its lack
— or its miscommunication — caus-
es what we seem ‘not to understand’
about society [like] violence, crime,
suffering?”
She consents that, at the moment,
love as a college major is probably
unrealistic.
“There simply aren’t enough
classes explicitly related to love, or
professors with backgrounds in relat-
ed subjects, for love to be studied in
an academic setting,” she said. “For
now.”
But she remains hopeful. She
thinks that if anything could serve as
“a point of entry for love in acade-
mia,”as she puts it,it is anthropology,
because of its immense breadth.
“Anthropology envelopes the
study of the entire world,the study of
the ‘other,’ of anything, really, tied to
a culture and a moment in time,” said
Youkhehpaz.
Despite her claim that the formal
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Monday, February 14, 2011 ! 3
VALENTINE’S DAY
AROUND THE WORLD
By JENNY THAI
STAFF WRITER
I
n the weeks leading up to Feb.
14, consumers are bombarded
with commercials and adver-
tisements for chocolates,
restaurants and business ven-
ues especially catered to the season
of romantic love. Couples plan for
this special occasion, with celebra-
tions ranging from a fancy dinner for
two to extravagant gift giving to sim-
ple card exchanges. Others, less en-
thralled by the idea of a holiday
founded in romance, dub Valentine’s
Day “Singles Awareness (or Appre-
ciation) Day,”appropriately abbrevi-
ated to SAD.
But while many view Valentine’s
Day as less of a “real” holiday and
more a product of blatant commer-
cialism and Hallmark products,
Valentine’s Day has a surprisingly
long and multicultural history.
Legends of Saint Valentine
Valentine’s Day, named after one
(or more) Saint Valentine, finds its
beginnings in ancient Roman and
Christian tradition.
“Valentine’s Day originate[d] in
the Middle Ages,” wrote English
professor Michelle Karnes,who spe-
cializes in medievalism, in an e-mail
to The Daily.“Or at least Valentine’s
Day as it’s associated with love. The
cult of Saint Valentine is much older
— Valentine was a Christian martyr
of the third century, one who began
to be commemorated by the church
on Feb. 14 around the fifth century.”
However, the exact story of Saint
Valentine is confusing, entrenched
deeply in the depths of age-old myth
and legend. One popular legend in-
volves an imprisoned Valentine,who,
in love with his jailor’s daughter, sent
her the first “valentine” card before
his death.The letter was signed “from
your Valentine,” a signature that is
still popularly used today.
According to Karnes, Geoffrey
Chaucer, best known for writing
“The Canterbury Tales,” made the
first reference to Valentine’s Day as a
holiday celebrating love. In the Mid-
dle Ages,people believed that Feb.14
was the first day of the bird mating
season, a day appropriate for the
young to express their love.
“As far as we know, Chaucer
made the first reference to Valen-
tine’s Day as a holiday that’s above
love, as a day when lovers choose
their mates,”Karnes said.“He makes
the reference in one of his dream vi-
sions, the ‘Parliament of Fowls.’
There, he’s referring specifically to
birds who choose their mates every
year on St.Valentine’s Day.”
Valentine’s Day became an occa-
sion for friends and lovers to ex-
change handwritten letters of affec-
tion during the 17th and 18th cen-
turies. By the end of the 18th century,
printed, ready-made cards replaced
letters. They were a convenient way
to express one’s feelings during a
time when public, direct love confes-
sions were discouraged.
While Valentine’s Day cards are
still popular — according to the
Greeting Card Association, Valen-
tine’s Day is the second largest card-
sending holiday — shows of affec-
tion between couples have expanded
to include dinner dates, chocolates
and flowers.
Chinese Valentine’s Day (Double-
Seventh Festival)
The idea of a holiday celebrating
love is not exclusive to Western coun-
tries. The Chinese have traditionally
celebrated a holiday similar to Valen-
tine’s Day called the Double Seventh
Festival, or Qi Xi Jie.
Qi Xi Jie is based on a Chinese
folktale involving a cowherd and a
spinning maid that fall madly in love.
Tragically, they are separated for
eternity by the spinning maid’s moth-
er, a goddess, who created the Milky
Way as a barrier to divide them. But
on the seventh day of the seventh
month, a flock of magpies create a
bridge for the lovers to unite for one
night.
Traditionally, the Double-Sev-
enth Festival was an occasion to cel-
ebrate women’s works, rather than
to encourage young and rebellious
romance.
“Once upon a time, mainly
women came up to [the festival] to
plead for skills in embroidering and
weaving,” Chinese professor Haiyan
Lee said.“It was a time for women to
congregate, as they usually didn’t get
to see other women all that often.”
Although the Double-Seventh
Festival folktale is a “pan-Chinese leg-
end,”according to Lee,Chinese Valen-
tine’s Day is actually no longer as com-
monly observed, especially with the
rising popularity of Western Valen-
tine’s Day practices in urban areas.
“Many Chinese will regard the
Western version of Valentine’s Day
as more authentic,” said Lee. “The
idea of a ‘Chinese Valentine’s Day’ it-
self is rather paradoxical because
while the Chinese had love stories
such as the [Double-Seventh myth],
these stories precisely exist because
there was no romantic love,given the
traditional family structure then.”
“Now, romantic love has become
entrenched in modern China [be-
cause it] has embraced Western
ideals,” she added.
Valentine’s Day and White Day in
Japan
As in China, Western Valentine’s
Day practices have been incorporat-
ed into Japanese culture, but with a
twist. On Valentine’s Day, also cele-
brated on Feb. 14, women present
men with homemade chocolates,and
the men return the favor a month
later on an occasion called White
Day.In recent years,this tradition has
expanded to include women giving
chocolates not only to their lovers,
but to other people as well.
“[Valentine’s Day] used to be con-
Please see VALENTINE, page 8
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E
ach year, millions of dollars in
special fees are given to a broad
array of student groups on
campus. This week, the Undergradu-
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Council (GSC) will vote on a proposal
to reform the process by which these
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ject efforts to repeal the improve-
ments made last year, but approve a
measure to close the loophole that al-
lows students to enjoy free services
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Last year, seeking to lower the
number of students who request a fee
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tive bodies voted to make it more dif-
ficult for Voluntary Student Organi-
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cial fees requests. Under those rules,
to request any budget increase be-
yond inflation on the spring Special
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collect the signatures of 10 to 15 per-
cent of the student body.The Under-
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complished the stated goal of in-
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the refund period from the first three
weeks to the first two weeks of the
quarter.This was a mistake.TheASSU
should lower the refund rate by re-
N O F REE LUNCH
warding financial participation,not by
erecting ever-stricter deadlines.One of
the proposed changes up for a vote this
A Motion to Express
week would provide such a solution.
By releasing the names and
SUIDs of those who seek refund re-
Support for a Non-Binding Referendum
quests to the groups they deny fund-

Committee also tightened rules gov-
erning VSOs’ use of funds, for exam-
ple, by restricting the use of students’
tax dollars to purchase food.
Opponents of last year’s policies
have plenty of evidence to back their
criticism. Some groups, having decid-
ed to take the plunge and petition the
student body for a larger budget,real-
ized that asking for a 10-percent in-
crease was just as difficult as asking for
100 percent, and ratcheted up their
budget requests accordingly. Like-
wise,they argue that there is no reason
students who skim special fees ballots
are any more likely to scrutinize peti-
tions.As a result, student groups with
the manpower to launch large peti-
tion campaigns are almost assured of
securing a spot on the ballot.
Yet,by the most telling metric,last
year’s policies have succeeded in
serving the student body.As predict-
ed, the number of students request-
ing refunds and the total dollar
amount of student refund requests
declined over the previous year,
lending credence to predictions that
stricter fiscal controls would improve
voter confidence and lower the over-
all refund rate. Interestingly, the
number of students requesting a full
refund increased dramatically —
that is,the number of students choos-
ing to opt out of paying any money to
student groups, rather than funding
some but not others.While partial re-
funders by definition have chosen
which groups to fund conscientious-
ly, full refunds are likely the result of
an unprecedented effort by conser-
vative groups last year to raise stu-
dent awareness about the existence
of a refund policy. Since last year’s
changes succeeded in lowering the
dollar amount of refunds, they ac-
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ing, the ASSU can encourage more
prudent use of the refund option.
While requesting a refund is any stu-
dent’s right,continuing to enjoy serv-
ices free of charge is not.Last year,the
Undergraduate Senate suspended
such releases of personal information
due to privacy and legality concerns,
but the University’s Office of Legal
Counsel has since clarified that the
policy is legal.The ASSU should rein-
state this practice,as long as sufficient
safeguards are included to ensure
that refund request information is
used only to limit services to those
who pay for them,not to intimidate or
harass those who opt out.
Ultimately, bringing down special
fees costs and restoring voter confi-
dence in their elected representatives
will require addressing two inconven-
ient truths that are beyond theASSU’s
control.First,student voters are rarely
diligent in their examination of the
special fees ballot. Evaluating group
budgets takes time and effort, and
Stanford students have proven simply
too busy to make informed decisions.
As a result, virtually 100 percent of
special fees groups are approved each
spring. Second, the best defense
against wasteful VSO spending is not
some landmark reform, but the con-
tinual scrutiny of each year’s Appro-
priations Committees.
Yet, the ASSU is not powerless. It
can bend the cost curve down while
preserving the diverse community of
student organizations that thrive on
special fees.By keeping those policies
that have proven successful and link-
ing students’ financial support for
VSOs with access to their services and
events,the ASSU can address some of
the flaws in a funding system that is es-
sential to student life.
Y
ou have to love bureaucracy. Last week ASSU
President Angelina Cardona proposed that the
upcoming campus elections include what will es-
sentially be a poll on the student body’s opinion of the
ROTC debate.The “essentially” in that statement hides
a lot.
To do what CNN and Gallup do every day, but on a
smaller scale, Cardona has to wade through loads of ad-
ministrative detritus. She had to author it, then send it
to be approved by a majority of both the Undergradu-
ate Senate and the Graduate School Council, just to get
it on the ballot.Which all makes perfect sense procedu-
rally for any measure that carries force, but not for
something that is essentially what Congress refers to as
a non-binding resolution.At least in Congress, these are
useless. Some notably insignificant examples: a 2007
resolution demanded withdrawal from Iraq, another
established National Pi Day and a third, a personal fa-
vorite, articulated support for granting refugee status to
Haitian survivors of a 2008 hurricane. It didn’t actually
make it legal for these refugees to enter the country, or
provide any resources for them, but at least we know
that Congress supports the idea . . . in principle.
Furthermore, we’re not convinced that the non-
binding referendum (opinion poll) would even be an
accurate sample of the student body. Last year 5,804
votes were cast in the ASSU election across an under-
graduate and graduate population of 20,838 — a 28-
percent turnout. Freshmen and sophomores were vast-
ly overrepresented, together accounting for 63 percent
of the undergraduate vote and 39 percent of the total
vote. All in all, not quite a representative sample.
More important, however, is whether this kind of
issue should ever be subject to public opinion. From
what we’ve heard of the debate so far, it seems that
those opposed to ROTC regaining access to campus see
it as an issue of rights, holding that while the repeal of
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was enough of a liberalization to
warrant debate, the military’s policy regarding trans-
gender individuals is still discriminatory, which should
bar its return to campus. Simply put, they hold that the
equality rights of transgender people on Stanford cam-
pus would be infringed by the return of ROTC.
The pro-ROTC camp has not used the language of
rights as persistently or as effectively, but its claims can
be framed in the perspective of rights just as legitimate-
ly. Very simply this group is asking for the right to pur-
sue a path of service in the United States Armed Ser-
vices as part of its Stanford experience.
Temporarily put aside whether these rights claims
are legitimate and subsequently which violation would
be more significant: if we accept that this is an issue of
conflicting rights, we arrive at some interesting conclu-
sions.
First: both groups are dealing with their on-campus
rights. Students can already be a part of ROTC at other
campuses — a recent article in The Daily highlighted
several who are — and the United States Armed Ser-
vices bars service by transgender individuals. The out-
come of our debate about ROTC’s return to campus
won’t change either of these facts, so let’s drop the in-
Zack Hoberg
& Dave Grundfest
If we accept that this is an
issue of equal rights,we
arrive at some interesting
conclusions
flated sense of grandeur and look at just the effects on
students on campus.
Second: both groups whose rights might be violated
depending on ROTC’s fate on campus are small mi-
norities. So any voting on the issue — binding or other-
wise — is ostensibly the majority voting on the rights of
the minority. This should raise flags if you remember
the last civics course you took. One of the most basic
tenants of the American democratic system is that the
majority has no place in determining minority rights.
When there is a conflict between different groups’
rights, it is the role of a non-biased arbiter, or in our case
the Faculty Senate, to decide who has the more legiti-
mate claim.
This question really doesn’t affect most of us beyond
whatever impact ROTC would have on the campus
community as a whole — a question about Stanford’s
relationship to the ideals, values and culture of the
Armed Services, that is another issue altogether. It has
an undoubtedly huge impact, however, on those who
view the military’s policy as invalidating their identity
and right to equality and those who are denied financial
support for their education and the right to begin a life-
time of service to their country while at Stanford. The
rest of us have little at stake comparatively. So, instead
of putting the question to a campus-wide opinion poll
to which only 29 percent of the student body will re-
spond, or drowning out any productive discussion with
protest and petitions, let’s have a reasonable and civil
debate about the future of ROTC on our campus. Ulti-
mately, we’re not the ones who will — or should —
have the final say.
Those wishing to express formal or informal auxiliary
comments in support or opposition of the above motion
should post electronic mail to zhoberg@stanford.edu or
daveg4@stanford.edu.

T HE T RANSITIVE P ROPERTY

Lesson of the week: gay people

can’t get married either. But hell, we
can certainly throw a good party.
One of the people honored was
Victoria Kolakowski, the first open-

throw the best parties ly transgender Superior Court Cristopher

judge elected in the entire country Bautista
and who I am proud to say is the
judge representing my home coun-

S
o on Saturday I went to San
Francisco for the San Francisco
Equality Awards, a banquet
event in which prominent figures in
the LGBT community are honored.
A staff member of Equality Califor-
nia, the organization holding the
event, had read one of my columns,
and she liked it, so she offered me a
free ticket to the event.I,always a fan
of both free things and LGBT peo-
ple, certainly obliged to attend the
banquet, which would be both free
and filled with LGBT folk. It was the
perfect combination.
The event was held at San Fran-
cisco City Hall. Before you gradu-
ate, my Stanford readers, you have
to visit San Francisco City Hall. It’s
a gorgeous space. It’s also a space
soaked in LGBT history — Harvey
Milk, the first openly gay elected of-
ficial in the country, was assassinat-
ed in this building. The very room
where the dinner was held was
where the gay marriages happened
in 2005. Both events changed the
face of the fight for LGBT rights
forever. Hundreds of gay couples
had wed on the very steps I climbed
to get to my table. And I was lucky
enough to have dinner there. Just
the very thought overwhelmed me.
I admit I certainly wasn’t accus-
tomed to the finery. I rented a tuxe-
do for the first time. (The invitation
stated that it was a “black tie” event.
For a while I thought I had to wear
a black tie, which I thought was kind
of weird. Fortunately, one of my res-
idents corrected me before I made a
fool of myself.) I didn’t have to
make my own drinks and imple-
ment my Terra Happy-Hour-
earned skill of pouring out a shot
(or two, usually two) by eye — in-
stead, waiters held trays with al-
ready mixed drinks and glasses of
white wine, ready to be consumed
(which I did, heartily). The before-
dinner cocktails also included hors
d’oeuvres I could not pronounce —
and don’t get me started on dinner.
I’ll just say that it was certainly a
step up from the dining hall (sorry,
Stern Dining).Afterward, there was
dessert and dancing, where, of
course, the DJ had to play Lady
Gaga. And after watching a room
full of lesbians sing to Katy Perry’s
“California Gurls,” I don’t think I’ll
be able to listen to that song the
same way ever again.
I also met many LGBT Stanford
alumni, from whom I learned that
apparently back in the day, 20 years
ago or so, there were less than 10
open LGBT people on campus. I
was glad to tell them we’ve certain-
ly improved since then. (The saying
“Branner sucks” was prominent 20
years ago, as well.) It felt good to
connect with people like me. Over-
all, it was a pretty amazing experi-
ence. Yes, we are marginalized. We
ty, Alameda County. She accepted
her award with grace — she told us
how important it was for LGBT
people — particularly transgender
people — to hold positions of
power, to raise awareness, to be out.
When we do these things, people
notice. And when people notice,
there will be change. Don’t just sit
there. Get out. Reach high. Take
risks.That’s the only way we can get
anything done.
That moment, I told myself I was
going to do something important,
too — something important enough
that both LGBT and the general
population are going to notice. It
was at that moment that I realized
that I didn’t just want any job; I
wanted a job that helped LGBT
people, that would further our cause
and improve the lives of those who
will come after me. I realized that I
wanted to work for transgender
rights. Trans rights are decades be-
hind lesbian and gay rights. Some-
thing needs to be done.And I’m one
of those people who can do some-
thing about it.
I know I have this column, that
I’ve got my writing. And one of the
pleasant surprises of this year is
how important this column has be-
come, not only to me and my
friends, but to people outside of
Stanford, to transgender people
who are thirsting for literature that
reflects their experience. I can do
something with this. I’ve found what
I wanted to do — no, it’s not some-
thing I want to do. It’s something I
have to do. No matter what, it’s
something I have to do. And no-
body’s going to stop me.
Cristopher has concluded that watching
elderly people dance to Lady Gaga is
the most adorable thing ever. E-mail
him at cmsb@stanford.edu.
The Stanford Daily Monday, February 14, 2011 ! 5

SPORTS
HUSKIES TAMED
By NATE ADAMS
MANAGING EDITOR
Two days after reaching triple-digit
points and setting the record for con-
secutive Pac-10 victories, the Cardinal
found itself in unfamiliar territory as it
narrowly pulled away from a scrappy
Washington team on Saturday after-
noon, managing to hold on for a 62-52
victory.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
WASHINGTON 52
STANFORD 62
2/12, Maples Pavilion
Junior forward Nnemkadi Ogwu-
mike led the struggling Stanford of-
fense with 22 points, tying Washington
guard Kristi Kingma for the game lead.
Her sister, freshman forward Chiney
Ogwumike, had the best day from the
field, going 8-for-11 and scoring 21
points to go along with a game-high 10
rebounds.
Despite leading by only two points
late in the second half, the No. 3 Cardi-
nal (22-2, 13-0 Pac-10) capitalized on
free throws and second-chance oppor-
tunities, bouncing back from 24 per-
cent shooting in the first half to boost
its lead back into double digits. The
Cardinal’s next-smallest margin of vic-
tory to a conference opponent this sea-
son came against Arizona State on Feb.
3, when it won by 18 in a 72-54 contest.
The Huskies (10-12, 5-8), who had
won three of their last four games, got
into serious foul trouble, committing
27 personals and losing four players to
foul-outs in the second half. Three
members of Washington’s core —
STANFORD SCOREBOARD
MEN’S BASKETBALL
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .76
WASHINGTON . . . . . . .87
2/12, Seattle, Wash.
starting center Mackenize Argens,
starting forward Mollie Williams and TOP PERFORMERS Points Shooting Pct. Assists -eb.
the Huskies’ second-best scorer,center
Regina Rodgers (10.3 ppg) — were JEREMY GREEN, STAN01 2-45 156 7 40
sent to the bench after less than 15 min- ISAIAH THOMAS, UW 00 8-40 976 4 0
utes of total time on the court.
When asked how the game might WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
have ended without so many penalties, WASHINGTON . . . . . . .52
Washington head coach Tia Jackson
didn’t go so far as to say the Huskies STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .62
would have won. 2/12, Maples Pavilion
“It’s a mystery to everybody,” she TOP PERFORMERS Points Shooting Pct. Assists -eb.
said.“I don’t know.”
But the Huskies’ trouble with the of- C. OGWUMIKE, STAN 04 2-44 5:6 7 47
ficials certainly gave Stanford a boost
KRISTI KINGMA, UW 00 5-41 976 0 :
on a day it otherwise struggled to find
the basket. The Cardinal had 33 at- MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
tempts at the free-throw line, where it
scored 23 points despite shooting at a UC-SAN DIEGO . . .3 (18-25, 28-30, 16-25)
lower-than-normal 69.7 percent clip. STANFORD . . . . . . . .0
The team averages 75 percent shooting 2/11, Maples Pavilion
from the line on the season, led by con-
ference leader Jeanette Pohlen’s 91 per- UC-IRVINE . . . . . . . .2 (25-18, 20-25, 24-26, 25-20, 15-11)
cent accuracy. STANFORD . . . . . . . .3
“Any time you give 33 free-throw at- 2/12, Maples Pavilion
tempts . . . the fact that we kept it close
is by the grace of God,” Jackson said.
Pohlen, a senior point guard and co-
captain averaging 15.8 points per game, M. BASKETBALL
Green’s 24 not
didn’t make much of an offensive differ-
ence in Saturday’s affair, going 1-for-2
from the line and a miserable 1-for-9
from the field, including 0-for-6 from

beyond the arc.
Nevertheless, Stanford head coach
Tara VanDerveer gave Pohlen 28 min-
utes of game time, citing her leadership
and defensive skills.
“We need Jeanette out there, peri-
od,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if she’s
1-for-90, she’s out there, and she makes
a lot happen.She defends for us and she
has a very calming influence on every-
one else.”
The rest of the team struggled from
three-point land as well,going just 1-for-
21. Senior forward Kayla Pedersen —
who did manage to sink seven of her
eight free throws — blanked on each of
her eight shots from range. She went 3-
for-13 from the field on a day when her
team shot just 36.5 percent.
Freshman guard Toni Kokenis
scored the lone three for the Cardinal
and played for 19 minutes, with Van-
Derveer frequently switching her out
for junior guard Lindy LaRocque, who
started the game.
Those back-and-forth substitutions
may have been an effort to respond to
Kingma, who went on an offensive
tear in the second half that left Maples
Pavilion in stunned silence more than
once. The junior point guard took
command of the Husky offense in the
second half — when Stanford typical-
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
ly pulls away in close games — leading
Freshman forward Chiney Ogwumike, above, shot 8-for-11 from the field with every drive and doing most of the
21 points in an uncharacteristically close victory for the Card. The 10-point
spread was Stanford’s tightest against any Pac-10 opponent this year. Please see WBBALL, page 7
enough in Seattle
By CAROLINE CASELLI
MANAGING EDITOR
Given a chance to complete
sweeps of the weekend and of
the season series against Wash-
ington, the Stanford men’s bas-
ketball team failed to capitalize
as it fell to the Huskies on Satur-
day evening. The usually de-
fense-savvy Cardinal (13-11, 6-7
Pac-10), which dealt the Huskies
(17-7, 9-4) their first Pac-10 loss
on Jan. 13, fell in an 87-76 deci-
sion, giving up the most points it
has allowed to an opponent this
season.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
STANFORD 76
WASHINGTON 87
2/12, Seattle
Junior guard Jeremy Green
scored the first points of the
game on a jumper, but Washing-
ton’s senior forward Matthew
Bryan-Amaning would quickly
respond with a layup off a steal,
the first of many Cardinal
turnovers over the course of the
night.
“I thought [we] played well,”
said Stanford head coach John-
ny Dawkins, despite the loss. “I
thought we turned it over a few
too many times, which led to
transition and easy opportuni-
ties for them. And let’s face it,
they’re a very good basketball
team, and tonight we played
well.”
Playing in front of a sellout
home crowd of 10,000, the
Huskies swiftly took control of
the game,though largely without
the contributions of standout
junior Isaiah Thomas, who
missed his first four attempts
from the three-point line. Bryan-
Amaning, senior guard Venoy
Overton and junior guard Scott
Suggs combined for 21 of Wash-
ington’s first-half points.Thomas
wouldn’t remain scoreless for
long, however, coming alive in
the half’s final 2:38 to score 14 off
four three-pointers and two foul
shots.
“He’s a terrific player,”
Dawkins said. “He’s one of the
best players in the conference,
Please see MBBALL, page 7

Card rebounds vs. UCI SPORTS BRIEFS

By MILES BENNETT-SMITH was going right for me in that
DESK EDITOR match,so I could transfer it over to
the match tonight,” he said.
Softball makes strong showing
Daniel
Bohm
game was very close with 10 ties, in Kajikawa Classic On My Mind
and Irvine held a 20-17 lead be-
fore two service aces from sopho- The No. 18 Stanford softball team got
the season off to a solid start last weekend,

The No. 4 Stanford men’s vol-
leyball team was on the verge of
dropping two straight home
matches for the first time in over a
The match was extremely tight
throughout, though it didn’t look
that way early. Stanford jumped
out to an 8-3 lead in the first set
more outside hitter Jake Kneller
put Stanford up,21-20,for the first
time since it led, 12-11.
After trading points, the score
High hopes
winning four of five games in the Kajikawa
Classic in Tempe, Ariz. Over the three-day
competition, the Cardinal (4-1) prevailed
over Cal State Northridge by 9-0 and North

year after a stunning 3-0 loss at the
hands of No. 12 UC-San Diego.
But with its back to the wall, the
Cardinal rallied from a 2-1 set
and went on several more runs to
push the score to 14-6 on a Law-
son kill. The Cardinal won the
first set as it continued to pull
was knotted up at 23-23 before
Irvine got a kill from junior out-
side hitter Kevin Carroll to earn
its first set point at 24-23.Stanford
for Stanford
Texas by 5-2 on Friday,Portland State by 12-
4 Saturday and Nevada by 10-2 on Sunday.
The lone loss came to Nebraska in a nine-in-

deficit and earned a weekend split
with a five-set victory over No. 8
UC-Irvine.
Freshman outside hitter Eric
away, 25-18.
But Irvine used several runs
early in the second set to get out to
a 10-5 lead and didn’t look back as
got some help from the officials
when Irvine’s setter misplayed a
ball for a bad set to tie the score at
24, but another Carroll kill and an
baseball
ning, 3-2 decision on Saturday.
Stanford’s offense came out firing on
Friday, with junior shortstop Ashley
Hansen going 7-for-7 at the plate with a

Mochalski had another solid
game with six kills and a .455 hit-
ting percentage, and junior libero
Erik Shoji had a typical, efficient
match with 12 digs. But the star of
the night for Stanford (9-3, 6-3
MPSF) was Brad Lawson.
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
UC-SAN DIEGO 3
STANFORD 0 seven innings.
2/11, Maples Pavilion
UC-IRVINE 2 contest against Nebraska.Hansen recorded
STANFORD 3 an RBI triple in the loss, while Rich tied the
2/12, Maples Pavilion
The junior outside hitter from
Honolulu had a match-high 23
kills to go with a career-high 16
digs, neutralizing a very balanced
Anteater attack — five UCI play-
ers had at least 12 kills.Lawson hit
.442 with just four attack errors on
43 chances.
“I think it all boils down to
preparation,” Lawson said. “I
spent a lot of time scouting
Irvine’s attackers and also learned
from the mistakes I made against
UC-San Diego, which mainly in-
cluded tentative serving and not
working to get my feet to the ball
when I was attacking.
“I even spent a little bit of time
watching the national champi-
onship match from last year to
motivate myself and to see what
it took game two, 25-20.
The third set would prove to be
a heartbreaker for the Card. The
Junior outside hitter Brad Lawson, above, had 23 kills and a career-
high 16 digs to power the Card past UC-Irvine in a five-set battle. The
victory helped the Card recover from a tough 3-0 loss against UCSD.
attack error by senior outside hit-
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double, a triple, two RBI and four runs
across both games. Sophomore second
baseman Jenna Rich added to the outburst,
hitting 5-for-6. Against Cal State North-
ridge, she had two home runs.
Sophomore pitcher Teagan Gerhart
pitched a complete game shutout in the win,
striking out six Matadors in the five-inning,
mercy-rule victory. Senior Ashley Chinn
turned in a solid performance against North
Texas, striking out six and walking one in
Things took a slight downturn on Satur-
day, with Stanford losing the extra-inning
game with an RBI single in the seventh.Tea-
gan Gerhart took the loss, pitching 8.1 in-
nings before Cornhusker Megan South-
worth knocked in the winning run.
Stanford’s lineup came back strong in
the nightcap, outhitting the Vikings, 11-4.
Chinn struck out eight batters in 5.1 innings
before stepping out for Teagan Gerhart,
who sent away four batters on strikes.
Freshman DH Danielle Miller led the Car-
dinal attack with three hits, two home runs
and four RBI.
Chinn and Gerhart teamed up again to
shut down Nevada on Sunday,holding them
to just two runs. Stanford got to Nevada
pitcher Karley Hopkins early, sending her
to the dugout with a four-run third inning.
Stanford will return to action this Friday,
kicking off the five-game UNLV Louisville
Slugger Desert Classic in Las Vegas against
Utah State at 11:15 a.m.
— Nate Adams
T
oday is a big day for many
Americans. It is a day in
which you think about
whom you love most,treas-
ure them and celebrate
their existence.
No, I’m not talking about your
valentine, silly. I’m talking about your
favorite baseball team! Today is the
first official day of Spring Training, so
it is now baseball season! For hun-
dreds of players it is a time to show
you belong on a Major League team
and for the fans of all 30 teams it is a
time of hope — and irrational expec-
tations. (Maybe only for 29 teams; the
Kansas City Royals mortgaged their
2011 season for the future.)
When I was deciding what to write
my column on this week, I figured I
could do something cheesy and dis-
cuss the things I love most in sports,
since it is Valentine’s Day and all.Then
I realized what I probably love most in
sports is that fresh-cut grass, sunshine
and optimism that comes with Spring
Training. (So we’ve been spoiled with
sunshine here in California all winter,
but the rest of the country hasn’t been
so lucky.)
Even at Stanford, this week marks
the official start to the baseball season.
Sure, the team has been practicing for
quite awhile now — but this week-
end, the games begin.
After hauling in arguably the na-
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squad shocked them on Friday.

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ter Spencer McLachlin put Irvine up
two games to one.
McLachlin struggled early in the
match, particularly in the third set,
when he had just one kill and a -.232
hitting percentage. But the Cardinal
captain stepped up with his team
trailing in the fourth set. After a kill
by Irvine’s Cory Yoder knotted
things up at 8-8, McLachlin ripped a
kill off the block and didn’t look
back,notching seven more kills in the
next 16 Stanford points, including
two consecutive kills to win the game
and push the match to a fifth set.
“We all have confidence in
Spencer’s ability,” said head coach
John Kosty.“Even if he may be play-
ing poorly at times, we’re very confi-
dent that we’re going to see the true
Spencer come through. And we did
in the last part of that match.”
Irvine went up 2-0 in the fifth, but
by then, Stanford had regained its
lost momentum and used a four-
point run with Mochalski serving be-
fore putting the match away with a
Mochalski kill.
Saturday’s match saw Lawson
square off with Irvine’s Carson
Clark,one of the top outside hitters in
the country, but Lawson clearly got
the better of Clark with 23 kills to
Clark’s 13 and a hitting percentage
over .300 points higher. But Irvine
senior Jordan DuFault, a two-time
All-American off to a slow start this
season, picked up the slack with 14
kills and a .414 hitting percentage.
Stanford overcame Irvine’s depth
Saturday, but a plucky San Diego
The Cardinal never really threat-
ened in the first set, and a five-point
Triton run put the game out of reach.
Game number two was much
closer — but San Diego was red-hot
at the net and the game needed extra
points to decide the outcome. Stan-
ford squandered two set points, and
the Tritons broke through on their
third match point to take the game,
30-28.
The loss seemed to break Stan-
ford’s resolve, as the Cardinal could
not find an answer for San Diego’s at-
tack. The Tritons hit an otherworldly
.477 as a team for the match — Stan-
ford hit .182.
“I think the biggest problems for
us were energy,preparation and real-
ly just a lack of determination,” Law-
son said.“I think a lot of us went into
the match thinking that UC-San
Diego would just roll over, but like
we found out, every team is talented
in the MPSF this year.”
The MPSF conference has had
every member ranked in the AVCA
top-15 at some point this season, and
the top five teams all lost on Friday
night. Stanford is currently fourth in
the conference standings with plenty
of games to play.
“Like Coach Kosty said in our
meeting after the match [against
Irvine], we’re at the point in the sea-
son where it’s either sink or swim,”
Lawson said. “And although we did
show tremendous heart on Saturday
night,from here on out we’re going to
have to play more consistent,focused
volleyball.”
Next up is a trip to USC on Friday
night.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-
bs@stanford.edu.
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Junior guard Jeremy Green, above, posted 24 points
and 12 rebounds for a double-double against
Washington. His efforts were not enough, however, to
stop the Huskies, who rolled past the Card 87-76.
but also in the country. You’re not really going to stop
Isaiah, you have to try to contain him as best you can.”
Green carried the team both offensively and de-
fensively on the half, leading the team with 12 points
and six rebounds. Freshman forward John Gage was
another bright spot for the offense, going 2-for-3 from
range for six points in his seven first-period minutes.
But despite the team’s respectable 46.2-percent
shooting, Stanford’s 10 turnovers combined with the
Huskies’ eight three-pointers to give Washington a
48-31 halftime advantage.
“We got off to a late start a few times in the first half,
and that was difficult,” Dawkins said. “We have to go to
counters, we need to go to our pressure releases more,
and we didn’t really do that.”
The Cardinal was more impressive in the second half
than the first, outscoring Washington 24-20, but the ef-
fort was not enough to overcome the Huskies after the
lackluster first period. Stanford had a quick nine points,
including an Owens dunk and a Green three in the half’s
opening minutes to bring the score within 12, but Wash-
ington would turn around and widen the gap to 18.
“They made it hard for us to get into the offense, and
they turned defense into offense a number of times,”
Dawkins said.
The Huskies would take their largest lead of the
night, going 21 points up with 5:25 remaining before
Stanford — with key contributions from its freshman
class — staged a late-game comeback attempt. Gage hit
another three, followed by a layup and a jumper from
fellow freshman forward Anthony Brown. The Card
outscored the Huskies 11-2 in the game’s final three min-
utes, with six points from freshman guard Aaron Bright,
three from Brown and two from freshman forward Josh
Heustis.
Green earned his first career double-double, finish-
ing with 24 points and 12 rebounds,his season and career
bests, respectively. Brown added 15 points on 5-for-8
shooting, and Owens had 12 points on 6-for-8 shooting.
Still, the Card looks to improve after the big loss.
“We’ve got to continue to get better,” Dawkins con-
cluded.
Four Washington players scored in double digits, led
by Thomas, who had 22 points on 6-for-12 shooting.
Bryan-Amaning had 15, Overton had 12 and freshman
guard C.J.Wilcox tallied 10.
Stanford will return to Maples Pavilion this weekend
for its final conference homestand. The Card will face
UCLA on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Contact Caroline Caselli at carolinecaselli@stanford.edu.

BOHM
Continued from page 5
tion’s top recruiting class two years in
a row now, this is one of Stanford’s
most anticipated baseball teams in
years — even more touted than the
2008 squad that went to the College
World Series. Depending on who is
doing the ranking, the Cardinal is
placed somewhere between 10th and
13th in most preseason polls, despite
a regional exit in last year’s NCAA
tournament.
Offensively, freshman outfielder
Austin Wilson is being billed as the
top newcomer in the nation this year,
while sophomore shortstop Kenny
Diekroeger, whose younger brother
Danny is a freshman on the team,has
been called a leading candidate to be
the No. 1 overall pick in the 2012
MLB draft. With those two cogs and
a cavalcade of other budding stars
such as sophomores Stephen Piscot-
ty, Jake Stewart and Tyler Gaffney
and freshman Brian Ragira, the Car-
dinal seems poised to score lots of
runs this season.
With all the hype surrounding the
program — which was common-
place in the 1980s through the early-
2000s — this is a big year for head
coach Mark Marquess to show he can
put a juggernaut of a team together
and not just a group of uber-talented
recruits. Year-in and year-out, Stan-
ford has just about as much talent as
any program in the country; whether
or not that talent translates into wins
depends on the season.
It won’t be easy to meet, or ex-
WBBALL
ceed, expectations this year. I am by Cardinal. Conversely, a strong early ble of, we’ve seen her day in and day
no means an expert of college base- season could catapult the Cardinal out, and obviously Kayla gets the fire
ball scheduling, and I don’t normally into the conversation of who the best going as well,”she said.I have faith in
like to go on the record with large, team in the nation is. Continued from page 5 my guards, absolutely . . . this isn’t
sweeping claims.But I’ve got to think Either way, it doesn’t matter how how they shoot,and I think everyone
that Stanford’s schedule this year you spend your Valentine’s Day, be- knows that.”
must be one of the hardest in the his- cause you can remember it as the be- work herself,dishing out just two as- With the final road trip of the sea-
tory of college baseball. The Cardi- ginning of baseball season, and thus it sists while scoring 18 points. She son taking Stanford to Los Angeles
nal’s first three series of the year are is great. And this weekend, when made five of her six three-point at- next weekend,VanDerveer is glad to
all against top-20 teams and all on the Stanford takes the field at Rice, it will tempts, including a 25-foot bomb have the wake-up call.
road in different time zones (at Rice, officially begin for the Cardinal, and that pulled Washington within 47-45 “I like this a lot more [than a big
Vanderbilt and Texas). After that, we’ll see if the team can live up to the with just 6:11 to go. win],”she said.“It gets people’s atten-
Stanford plays host to Michigan and hype. It took until the 6:36 mark of the tion about playing people a second
Long Beach State, neither of whom second half for the Cardinal to score time, and I couldn’t ask for a better
are slouches. Then Stanford begins As he dreams about the upcoming its 46th point, a milestone it reached game to lead into our LA weekend.”
play in the nation’s toughest confer- season, Dan Bohm can’t help but no- at halftime against Washington State Stanford faces USC on Friday at 7
ence, the Pac-10, which boasts six tice that baseball diamonds are on Thursday. p.m., and then travels to UCLA for a
teams in the preseason top-25. vaguely heart-shaped. Also, dia- Nnemkadi Ogwumike wasn’t match on Sunday at noon.
To make matters more complicat- monds are a girl’s best friend.Contin- concerned with the poor shooting,es-
ed, Stanford has some question ue this nonsensical blurb with him at pecially from the perimeter. Contact Nate Adams at nbadams
marks with its pitching staff early on. bohmd@stanford.edu. “We know what Jeanette is capa- @stanford.edu
A few returning players are battling
injuries,and it remains to be seen how
highly-regarded freshmen like A.J.
Vanegas will perform. It will be inter-
esting to see if and when Marquess
settles on a weekend rotation, as
there is a group of pitchers (senior
Danny Sandbrink, juniors Brett
Mooneyham,Jordan Pries,Brian Bu-
sick and Scott Snodgress, sopho-
mores Dean McArdle and Mark
Appel, and Vanegas) vying for the
three spots. (Note:Appel is expected
to be the team’s closer, but could, po-
tentially, see time in the rotation).
Having that kind of pitching
depth should be a great asset for a
team, so long as the pitchers know
their roles. To gain a rhythm, Mar-
quess will want to solidify his rotation
early on.
Because of the hard schedule and
the week-to-week grind of the Pac-10,
a rocky start could spell doom for the

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infrastructure to study love at Stan-
ford doesn’t exist, Youkhehpaz
seems to have had no dearth of love-
related experiences that have fur-
thered her education. She has stud-
ied love unofficially by taking the
sophomore Introductory Seminar
‘Love as a Force for Social Justice,’
‘The Meaning of Life,’ ‘Value-
science,’ ‘Liquid Flow,’ ‘Interperson-
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Improvising.’ In her extracurricular
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sidered an opportunity for women to
give their love to men,” history pro-
fessor Jun Uchida said in an e-mail to
The Daily. “But in recent decades
women have begun to give chocolate
to their male bosses, colleagues, even
teachers (called “giri choco” or
“chocolate out of obligation”).”
Valentine’s Day at Stanford
Fondly dubbed “Singles Aware-
ness (or Appreciation) Day” by
many Stanford students, Valentine’s
Day tends to have a relatively low
impact on students’ lives, especially
given its arrival in the hectic middle
of the quarter and the high frequen-
cy of singles on campus.
“It comes at a kind of bad time,”
said James Acevedo ‘13. “People
have been so busy with midterms;it’s
hard for anyone to plan.”
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and is an active member of Project
Love.
And that’s not even to mention
her experiences working on organic
farms and her six-month-long travels
through India, adventures that con-
tributed significantly to her experi-
ential knowledge of love. But
whether at school or far from home,
her personal mission to study love,
even in the face of academic opposi-
tion, has changed her life.
“My life has turned upside down
and inside out,”she said.“Love is the
driving force in all I that am and all
that I do.”
Contact Helen Anderson at helena1@
stanford.edu.
Nonetheless, Valentine’s Day is
indeed existent on the Stanford cam-
pus, be it Resident Assistants giving
single roses to their residents, or cou-
ples at Stanford taking time out of
their busy schedules to commemo-
rate the holiday.
“Last year, we had dinner in San
Francisco,”Avecedo said.“This year,
we’ll do dinner, too.”
Some couples go above and be-
yond the simple dinner date, spend-
ing large sums of money on presents
for their significant others, planning
unique love-filled outings or simply
incorporating cultural traditions to
enhance the romantic experience.
“Although there’s no rule or
Mexican tradition about it, there is
something special and very romantic
about serenading your partner with
a mariachi serenata,” said Laura
Pulido ‘13, a member of Stanford’s
mariachi ensemble. “It’s acknowl-
edged as something romantic that
everyone can appreciate.”
Contact Jenny Thai at jthai1@stanford.