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THURSDAY
February 17, 2011
Security guards will now be required to patrol campus landmarks and question
visitors with professional camera equipment about their motives. In an effort to
increase enforcement of photo policies, commercial requests will be denied.
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RESEARCH
Biomarker
linked to
knee pain
Med school“truth serum”
helps to explain discomfort
By ERIN INMAN
STAFF WRITER
Researchers at the School of
Medicine identified a biomarker for
pain associated with cartilage injury
in the knee. The biomarker can fa-
cilitate the diagnostic process and
reduce costs for patients.
According to Gaetano Scuderi,
professor of orthopaedic surgery
and leader of the research team, the
knee joint has two crescent shaped
menisci comprised of cartilage.
Menisci are often torn by physical
activity or natural degradation, but
these tears are not always painful or
noticed.
While surgeons can use MRIs to
try to discern the root of a patient’s
knee pain, MRIs often cannot dif-
ferentiate between inflammations
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT
GSC approves 3 of 4 special fees reforms
By MARGARET RAWSON
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The Graduate Student Council
(GSC) unanimously confirmed for-
mer Senate Chair Michael Cruz ‘12
as the new ASSU Vice President
Wednesday and passed most com-
ponents of a special fees reform bill
authored by Cruz.
When introducing her bill to
nominate Cruz as vice president,
ASSU President Angelina Cardona
‘11 described him as “the best
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Bass-baritone singer Nicholas Isherwood, known around the world for his impressive vocal range, displays
his musical talents for students at a Lively Arts-sponsored event held last night at Campbell Recital Hall.
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CARDINAL TODAY
University tightens
photo policies
Authorities increase restrictions on commercial photos
By DANA EDWARDS
STAFF WRITER
The University recently stepped
up enforcement of its photography
policy, leaving photographers un-
certain about whether they are
technically allowed to photograph
Stanford landmarks. Security
guards patrolling the Main Quad
and other campus landmarks have
been instructed to question the in-
tent of individuals with professional
camera equipment.
Jeff Keller, a local photography
enthusiast, was tweaking the set-
tings of his professional-grade cam-
era atop a tripod in the Main Quad
on Feb. 9 when he was approached
by two security personnel and asked
to leave. Keller runs “The Digital
Camera Resource Page”(DCRP),a
photography review website. He
took photos in the quad to test the
image quality of his new camera and
later posted the test results online.
“I take the same picture in the
hallway of the Main Quad with dif-
ferent cameras, at the same time,
with the same conditions, and I’ve
been doing it for at least 10 years,”
choice” and said he had been in-
volved with the ASSU his entire
Stanford career.
Cruz resigned as senate chair at
Wednesday’s GSC meeting, and will
replace former vice president Kelsei
Wharton,who is currently taking the
quarter off. At Tuesday’s Senate
meeting, former Senate Deputy
Chair Madeline Hawes ‘13 was se-
lected to become Senate chair. In a
nine to five vote, the Senate selected
Pat Bruny ‘13 to serve as deputy
chair.
Today
Keller said. By taking photos
from the exact same spots and con-
trolling for external factors, Keller
allows his website visitors to accu-
rately compare the resolutions of
different digital cameras. The Main
Quad shots and those taken from
four other locations around campus
have been DCRP’s hallmark
method of comparison for over a
decade.
The security guards who stopped
Keller instructed him to contact as-
sociate director of University Com-
munications Kate Chesley for ques-
tions regarding the policy. The poli-
cy states “commercial [photogra-
phy] requests are not compatible
with the teaching and research mis-
sions of the university and with its
non-profit status.”
In a letter to Chesley, Keller re-
quested permission to continue tak-
ing photos on Stanford’s campus,ar-
guing “these photos are never
resold” and are not of commercial
value. Chesley rejected his request.
“Although you are not selling
the photographs, your site is of a
commercial nature,” Chesley wrote
in an e-mail to Heller. Chesley em-
The GSC also passed three of
four main components to special
fees reform legislation. The first
component, which stipulated a time-
line for the creation of special fees
policies, passed unanimously. It also
changed the reserve policy for stu-
dent groups,allowing them to hold in
reserves an amount equivalent to
100 percent of their expenditures in
the previous year.
The second component allowed
student groups to increase their
budgets by up to 10 percent plus in-
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phasized that the photo policy is not
new, but that enforcement had in-
creased recently.
“The amount of commercial
photography we have been experi-
encing recently simply has become
unsustainable, especially given
Stanford’s strict privacy policies,”
she said.
Lisa Lapin, associate vice presi-
dent of communications, said Stan-
ford has a “simple, compelling legal
reason” to prevent commercial
photography and that photogra-
phers have become a “nuisance.”
As a private trademark, Stan-
ford “wants to protect its brand,
image and identity from unautho-
rized use,” Lapin said.
“Stanford has become unbeliev-
ably popular,” she added. “Now we
have all sorts of entities trying to af-
filiate themselves with Stanford.We
don’t want anyone to profit from a
perceived affiliation with us.”
Similarly, the University does
not want to be negatively impacted
by appearing to endorse institutions
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flation without petitioning the stu-
dent body. It passed 11-2, with GSC
co-Chair Justin Brown and Addy
Satija, one of the GSC’s program-
ming coordinators, voting against it.
“I find your position on this in-
credibly disrespectful of their time,”
said GSC Secretary Erik Lehnert,
arguing that student group leaders’
busy schedules make petitioning dif-
ficult.
The third component of the bill
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UNIVERSITY
Tuition hike
will not hurt
financial aid
Aid resources unaffected by
board’s 3.5-percent increase
By ELLORA ISRANI
STAFF WRITER
The increase in tuition, room and
board costs for the 2011-12 academ-
ic year, approved by the Board of
Trustees at a meeting early this
month, may not have significant
ramifications for financial aid.
The 3.5 percent price hike will
apply to both undergraduate and
graduate students, with the excep-
tion of law students, who will see a
5.75 percent jump. This puts next
year’s undergraduate tuition at
$40,050 and room and board at
$12,291, compared with this year’s
$38,700 and $11,876, respectively.
The increase is reminiscent of last
year’s 3.5 percent rise in costs.
Campus Health Services Fee for
fall 2011 will be bumped up to $173
per quarter, reflecting a similar 3.5
percent increase.
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Based on the Board’s announcement earlier this month, undergraduate families will be responsible for $40,050 in
tuition costs, compared to last year’s $38,700. Financial aid, funded by the endowment, will not be affected.
TUITION
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Students on financial aid will not
be impacted by these changes as
long as their financial situation has
not changed, said director of finan-
cial aid Karen Cooper.
“Every year students reapply for
financial aid and we assess their eli-
gibility,”she said.“As long as circum-
stances haven’t changed in their
family, then I estimate they will have
the same estimated family contribu-
tion as last year, and therefore will
have more eligibility for aid.”
In fact, the financial aid budget
will expand to $122 million to offset
the jump in tuition and room and
board fees. According to Cooper,
this will take place despite a “slight
decrease” in applications for finan-
cial aid this year. This expansion in
financial assistance only represents
a one percent increase from the cur-
rent $118 million.
“Our financial aid budget is al-
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from natural degeneration and a
full-fledged tear.
“Traumatic and degenerative in-
juries look the same on MRI,”
Scuderi said. “In a 50-year-old, we
can’t tell the difference.”
However, correctly identifying a
cartilage tear is only one obstacle.
Sometimes, patients sustain pain
after corrective surgery because
the tear is not actually the root of
pain.
“Sometimes you would think
you did a great job but the patient
still had pain,” Scuderi said. “Why
did this person not get better when
another person did?”
According to Scuderi, MRI
scans of people with no previously
known knee problems sometimes
reveal incidental meniscus tears.
Since an imaging study cannot
ways created with the caveat that
we are need-blind in our admission
process and need-based in our fi-
nancial aid process,” Cooper said.
“We have a commitment to meet
the demonstrated need of all the
students that enroll. Even though
we have a $122 million budget, if we
need more, we will spend more.”
Financial aid will remain unaf-
fected partly because it is funded by
the University endowment, not the
tuition.Tuition covers 57 percent of
the University’s general funds
budget, said Board of Trustees
Chair Leslie Hume.
“This is a balanced tuition in-
crease, it is going to enable the Uni-
versity to achieve the recruitment
of faculty and salary increases that
we would like to do, as well as grad-
ual reinstatement of positions that
when the recession hit were
frozen,” Hume said in a previous
press briefing.
Only international students,
whose financial aid is not need-
based, and students with financial
responsibility will be affected by
the rise in costs.
identify pain due menisci tears,
there must be another responsible
mechanism, he said.
“Tapping the joint for biomark-
ers is more likely to tell us of actual
processes inside the joint rather
than an imaging study which tells us
anatomy,” Scuderi said.
This new biomarker assay acts as
a “truth serum” to identify the
source of the patient’s pain. The
study took a sample of synovial
fluid in the knees of 30 patients with
pain, mechanical symptoms and
MRI findings consistent with
menisci tears. Synovial fluid was
also aspirated from 10 asympto-
matic patients — those with no
knee pain, despite imaging evi-
dence of menisci tears.
The study found comparatively
high levels of fibronectin-aggrecan
complex in those patients with pain
in contrast to asymptomatic pa-
tients. As a result, fibronectin-ag-
grecan complex was deemed a bio-
marker for knee pain related to
menisci tears.
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“For all students, both continu-
ing and current students, we’ve in-
creased the amount of student re-
sponsibility by $250,” Cooper said.
“By that, I mean the student’s ex-
pectation to work during the sum-
mer or during the academic year
has been increased by a total of
$250.”
Many students expressed apathy
toward the tuition increase.
“It sucks, but I’m assuming the
Board isn’t just gratuitously raising
tuition,” said Sharad Bharadwaj
‘14. “It’s to pay for professors, stu-
dents and good programs.”
“I’m not that worried about it,
because the increase in financial aid
will take care of the students who
it’s going to affect the most,” said
Greg Greiner ‘14.
Regardless of their approval or
disapproval, students acknowledge
that their opinion will not change
what has happened.
“Honestly, there’s nothing I can
do about it” said Eva Hellman ‘14.
Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-
ford.edu.
According to the study, protein
biomarkers can be utilized as diag-
nostic tools, prognostic indicators
and candidates for future drug ther-
apies.
In a clinical setting, this bio-
marker could effectively differenti-
ate knees with pain-inducing
menisci tears that are responsive to
surgery from knees with only natu-
ral cartilage degradation.
This is especially beneficial to
older patient populations. For this
group, MRIs “are a waste of time
because they always show degener-
ation,” Scuderi said. A biomarker
test offers a cheaper and more spe-
cific identification of pathology.
The research team includes re-
searchers at New York University,
the University of Pittsburgh,
Jupiter Medical Center in Florida
and Cytonics, Inc. It hopes to image
the molecule noninvasively as op-
posed to aspirating it for assay.
Contact Erin Inman at einman
@stanford.edu.
NEWS BRIEFS
Researches discover
how to make
radios listen
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Stanford students can now speed
on the information highway thanks to
researchers in computer science and
electrical engineering who have de-
veloped the first wireless radios that
can simultaneously send and receive
signals, making these devices twice as
fast as already existing ones.
“Textbooks say you can’t do it,”
said Philip Levis,assistant professor of
computer science and electrical engi-
neering, in a press release Monday.
“The new system completely reworks
our assumptions about how wireless
networks can be designed.”
Although radios know exactly
PHOTO
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that reflect poorly on it. The photo
policy also seeks to protect the pri-
vacy of the students and faculty,
some of whom might be exploited
by photographers.
“The Main Quad is not a public
park,” Lapin said.
Controversy surrounding the
policy does not chiefly revolve
around the ban on commercial pho-
tography per se, but how “commer-
ciality” is defined.
Keller acknowledged that Stan-
ford, as a private institution, re-
serves the right to prohibit any kind
of photography. But he rejected the
notion that his photos present a
threat to Stanford’s image or its ac-
ademic mission.
“Enforcement is uneven,” Keller
said. “Stanford needs a clear, more
realistic way of determining what
commercial photography is. If I did-
n’t have a tripod, I wouldn’t have
been noticed.”
Keller also questioned how
Stanford security guards could
identify whether a person was
shooting for commercial reasons.
On the one hand, someone with a
tripod and a high-end camera could
simply be shooting photos for his
own use.Someone with a point-and-
shoot camera could post his photos
on “a blog that generates money
from advertisements,” Keller said.
“The bottom line is there is no
shooting in the Quad or Memorial
Court without permission, no mat-
ter what the purposes or who the
sponsor or who you are,” said
Megan Miller, communications
manager at the Stanford Institute
for Creativity and the Arts (SICA).
“It just isn’t allowed.”
In an e-mail sent to the Stanford
photography mailing list, Miller
warned students against violating
the photo policy. List members re-
sponded with concerns about the
policy’s legitimacy, one joking that
he would file a request to take a pic-
ture with his iPhone.
“After a debriefing with some
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what they transmit, these messages
are often much louder than ones from
surrounding devices.As a result, each
has to take turns in “talking” in order
to be heard by the other. But the new
devices work in very much the same
way as the brain, filtering out its own
sounds in order to better “hear” the
other radios.
These machines, built by three
electrical engineering graduate stu-
dents — Jung Il Choi, Mayank Jain
and Kannan Srinivasan — took sev-
eral months to construct.
The team, which also includes
Sachin Katti, assistant professor of
computer science and electrical engi-
neering, is currently working to com-
mercialize their product by increasing
both the strength of the transmissions
and the distance they are able to travel.
Such improvements will make the
technology more useful for Wi-Fi net-
works.
— Cassandra Feliciano
communications staff, I felt respon-
sible to let everyone know about the
policy, so they wouldn’t get in trou-
ble,” Miller said.
So who really can photograph in
the Main Quad?
Technically, every person needs
permission, but security personnel
do not prevent tourists and students
with small personal cameras from
taking snapshots. Everyone else —
including news agencies,commercial
photographers,students shooting for
academic purposes and people with
professional-grade equipment —
must file requests.
Requests are sometimes granted.
But commercial requests will
nearly always be denied, with sever-
al notable exceptions. If a Stanford
alumnus, faculty member or student
wants to get married, professional
photographers may document the
wedding; weddings with non-Stan-
ford affiliated individuals are barred.
“That way, it makes it more
meaningful for the brides and
grooms that do have an affiliation,”
Lapin said.
Contact Dana Edwards at
dana727@stanford.edu.
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failed, with eight votes against and
five abstaining.It would have permit-
ted the release of information about
students who request specials fees
refunds to student group leaders.
The fourth component of the bill
passed with 12 in favor and one ab-
stention.
Stephen Trusheim ‘13, ASSU
elections commissioner, said he does
“worry about the implementation”
of the bill because it affects the up-
coming elections. Cruz responded
that the Appropriations Committee
of the Senate is open to holding more
budget meetings to help student
groups adapt to the changes.
Contact Margaret Rawson at
marawson@stanford.edu.
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FEATURES
A Suite all-nighter By CAROLINE CASELLI
SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A
ll necessary preparations have been made:the post-dinner nap taken,
the over sized mug full of strong black coffee consumed and the aptly
named “Jet-Alert” caffeine pills and 5-Hour Energy drink placed
ominously on the desk in front of me.With a Spanish presentation to
draft,rehearse and memorize by tomorrow afternoon,an already-late
problem set to conclude and a three to five-page paper ( . . . 2.75 with some creative
spacing) to conquer,I plan to accomplish what I’ve amazingly managed to avoid thus
far in my junior year — the all-nighter.
Having successfully procrastinated away the evening, I glance down at my tortoise
shell watch,knowing that this workathon must commence in the near future.The hands
point perfectly to midnight, and for a brief second I snicker to myself about how cliche
that seems.Then, the unmistakable feeling of dread sinks in.
“I should have started this earlier,” I think to myself, imagining all of my more or-
ganized,better-time managing classmates finishing up their assignments and settling down
to some television on Netflix right about now.“This is going to suck.”
Full backpack slung over my shoulder, I walk into the common room of my suite to
find my three living companions joyously sharing a freshly popped bag of buttery popcorn
and circulating a bottle of Yellow Tail chardonnay.Several handfuls and a depressing zero
sips later, however, it is off to the Suites computer cluster for me — the CD-Rom on my
Mac is making some very unfriendly noise and refusing the software disc required for my
p-set.An inauspicious start.
I trudge through the brisk air toward the cluster, and Governor’s Corner is (if pos-
sible) even quieter than usual,aside from a brief yelp coming from an unlit game of pick-
up basketball on the FroSoCo court. Lights are still on in most students’ rooms as they
work quietly at their desks,and I enviously detect a hint of weed smoke as I walk by one
of the four Suites residences.
When I arrive at the computer cluster,it is just me and the girl in the yellow peacoat.
She looks up at me with an expression of quasi-irritation as I come into the room, prob-
ably annoyed that she now has to silence her music. It’s 12:22 a.m., and I can’t even fig-
ure out how to load the software on one of the cluster computers, nonetheless start the
assignment. Expletives about the uselessness of computer clusters, RCCs and Mac CD-
Roms are filling my head as grumpiness and semi-heavy eyelids already begin to set in.
After some 10 minutes of dumbly staring at the screen, I finally realize that
the software is already installed on these computers. Hallelujah! I make a mental
note to take back my premature RCC cursing.
The glee is short lived.I am trying to follow along with the notes that my TA
sent me, but all of these software commands make me feel like I’m reading
a foreign language.When my boyfriend calls me at 1:06 a.m., I still haven’t
figured out how to open the data set that I need to analyze.Yikes. But alas
ANASTASIA YEE/ — now at 1:27 in the morning — the data is open! I can now start the prob-
The Stanford Daily lem set.
The next hour passes pretty uneventfully, and I guess I’ve gotten fair-
ly absorbed in STATA, the statistical analysis software that I’ve come to
realize is kind of cool in a super nerdy way.Yellow peacoat girl stands up
to leave,and out of nowhere “All by myselffff”starts playing in my head (a
Google search tells me that this is Celine Dion’s voice that I have random-
ly drawn out of my subconscious memory).
No longer feeling the judgmental stares of my counterpart in the computer
cluster, I quickly check my Facebook and Twitter, and have a moment of soli-
darity with Tennessee Titan Chris Johnson who so eloquently tweets,“Ima try n
stay up all night.” I contemplate commenting on a comment on Facebook, but snap

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F
ew people embody scientific
glamour more than my friend
Jeff, who dropped in two weeks
ago on his way home from a two-
month research mission in Antarcti-
ca. Aboard Swedish and American
ships, Jeff towed an underwater cam-
era recording footage of the Southern
Ocean sea floor. So, in addition to de
rigueur snapshots of Adelie penguins
and towering icebergs, Jeff has a col-
lection of king crab portraits.
The problem is that the crabs
aren’t supposed to be there.
The hefty claws of the king crab
are more familiar to your dinner plate
than they are to animals on the
Antarctic sea floor, which have
evolved thinner shells and exposed
juicy body parts over 40 million years
in the absence of crabs.Now,warming
ocean temperatures (increased by
nearly two degrees Fahrenheit in re-
cent years) have allowed crab popu-
lations to creep pole-ward into waters
once too cold for their metabolisms,
nearing shelf waters where they can
decimate the local community.
Most of us are more familiar with
invasive species introduced directly
by humans, like cane toads, zebra
mussels or, here in California, the
mighty eucalyptus. Indeed, the most
worrisome predictor of the Southern
Ocean’s future comes from Norway,
where scientists introduced the red
king crab (hoping to produce a fish-
ery rivaling Alaska’s “deadliest
catch”).Today,the crabs expand their
range by 50 km per year — the dis-
tance between Stanford and San
Francisco — clear-cutting the seabed
as they advance.
But today, climate change —
whether you ascribe to its anthro-
pogenic drivers or not (hint: you
should) — is boosting temperatures
and shifting rainfall patterns, produc-
ing dramatic changes in “natural”
communities as plants and animals
adjust ranges and behaviors to com-
pensate.
Biological responses come in sev-
eral forms. First, as Jeff and the
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Such changes decouple delicate
ecological balances fine-tuned over
millennia. Spring arrives earlier and
autumn later. Birds, whose migra-
tions are often timed to capture a rich
spring insect boom, are among the
hardest hit: a recent study of 100 Eu-
ropean migrant birds found that birds
that weren’t heading north sooner
had declining populations. But some
species,able to jump-start their clocks
with the shifting season, were doing
better than ever.
Closer to home in North America,
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climatic release of native insect pests.
The spruce beetle can now complete
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and the U.S. Rocky Mountains in the
last decade, is also enjoying warmer,
drier conditions which weaken the
defenses of the trees it drills.
Of course, the relationships be-
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can show that many organisms grow
faster under higher temperatures.
And the changes we’re witnessing are
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P
T HIS C OLUMN I S I RONIC erhaps it was last weekend’s ing, and played along with their Johnny
memorable Casa party, or just
nostalgia of my freshman year,
game. Later, I flawlessly ordered ein
bier. Knowing fully well the need to
Bartz

Indie Music Is on
but this week I’m sharing my first rehydrate in the dry cabin air condi-
foray into spontaneous international tions, I ordered wasser. There is a
travel. My upperclass partner-in- choice of waters? Remember Ger- drivers, attempted phoning my

(Arcade) Fire
crime had gone abroad to Florence,
and one day while in my sad and de-
ranged state mourning her loss, I
serendipitously came across a very
cheap flight to Florence. My room-
man conversation class, Johnny!
Ahh of course — mineralwasser
bitte! Huge mistake. Sparkling water
friend to no avail, and yet, soon with
crisp Euros in hand and a less crisp
Google printout map, I met my
friend for a glass of Chianti on the
Duomo steps. What I was thinking

T
ext from a good friend of
mine on Monday afternoon:
“So did you wet yourself
when Arcade Fire won last night?”
My response:“The Grammys are
so mainstream, dude.”
As you may know, Arcade Fire’s
“The Suburbs” won the Grammy
Award for Album of the Year on
Sunday night. The win was a mas-
sive coup for the independent music
scene, especially since the nomina-
tion alone was considered some-
thing of a surprise. You could tell it
was a big deal when my Twitter feed
absolutely exploded in the space of
about four and a half minutes. Even
Kanye got in on the action, saying,
“Arcade fire!!!!!!!!!! There is
hope!!! I feel like we all won when
something like this happens!”
It goes without saying that I’ve
been a huge Arcade Fire fan for the
past half-decade. Their three al-
bums stand among my all-time fa-
vorites. I finally saw them live in Big
Sur in October at a 300 capacity
show. It changed my life. They’re
that good, so the shocked reaction
from the general public kind of took
me by surprise. Were they that
much of a long shot? Furthermore,
did anyone even look at their com-
petition for Album of the Year? To
Shane
Savitsky
music, I tend to listen to artists who
are lesser known by definition. Yet
this Arcade Fire thing continues to
confound me. They sold out two
consecutive nights at Madison
Square Garden last summer — one
of which was simulcast on Youtube!
They’re kind of a big deal, but be-
cause their music isn’t played on
Top 40 radio stations, they remain
unknown to a huge portion of the
general public.
Arcade Fire isn’t the only indie
artist making big news these days
either. Another of my favorite
bands, LCD Soundsystem, an-
nounced that they would play their
farewell show at Madison Square
Garden in early April. Considering
I’ll be home for a long pre-Oxford
spring break at that point, I figured
I would try to get tickets. No dice.
Somehow they managed to sell out
the Garden in the space of roughly
10 seconds. Once again, my Twitter
mate certainly thought I was crazy,
but his approving “go for it, Johnny”
was all I needed. Logically, I booked
the flight right in the middle of the
quarter — Valentine’s Day week-
end. Soon enough my phone was
“lost,” I came down with a “really
bad cold” and I winged my way
across the Atlantic for some wine,
gnocchi and gelato.
I’ll never forget that memorable
flight to Munich on a Lufthansa
A346. I had pulled an all-nighter
right before in order to finish up
some assignments, or maybe I was
“getting on Europe time,” of course
warranting an extra bout of “social-
izing.” If you show up exhausted to a
long-haul flight, you’ll be more like-
ly to sleep, right? Just be sure to stay
awake for the meal service!
I was a bit taken aback when I
was greeted in German upon em-
barking the aircraft. Was my Ger-
man heritage fooling this flight
crew? Or perhaps it was the flair of
my European style. Regardless, I
nodded, pretending to know exactly
what the flight attendants were say-
O P-E D
Courtesy of Claire Menke
— not the most rehydrating. Not los-
ing face, I pretended as if sparkling
water were exactly what I had want-
ed, all the while growing ever thirsti-
er.Let’s just say that after 11 hours of
this behavior the descent and re-
pressurization was less than pleas-
ant. Stupid freshman Johnny.
Upon arrival in Florence it was
night, I overcame my fear of taxi
not bringing a jacket to Europe in
February, I may never know, but
after a few days and the acquisition
of a quintessentially Italian puff
jacket with fur collar, I “walked and
talked” like a “local.”*
*(Just my perception,not actually
true).
Florence is small,so in a couple of
days you can hit up all the must sees
— sweeping views from the top the
Duomo, Ponte Vecchio, the Medici
palace, Galileo’s house, kiss your
sweetheart in the Boboli Garden.
Leave a bit of staring time at the Uf-
fizi’s Botticellis, not to mention the
required appreciation of the mascu-
line beauty of Michelangelo’s David
at the Galleria dell’Accademia.Note
that the Academia, as well as many
other museums, is closed on Mon-
days.A free and always open gallery
of Renaissance sculptures is the Log-
gia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Sig-
noria. Be sure to check out my fa-
vorite work — Rape of the Sabine
Woman — from a variety of angles.
Please see BARTZ, page 5

It’s all fun and games . . .

refresh your memory: Lady Gaga, feed was blown up. Theories
Eminem, Lady Antebellum, and abound that ticket brokers some-
Katy Perry.Just for reference,here’s how rigged the Ticketmaster sale.
Whatever the case may be, I didn’t

until you call it a Fiesta

a bit of the chorus from Katy Perry’s
“Peacock”: “Come on, baby, let me
see what you’re hiding underneath /
I wanna see your peacock, cock,
cock / Your peacock, cock.” I’m re-
get any tickets.Truly heartbreaking,
I know.
I don’t mean any of this as some
sort of snobbish hipster critique on

ally not making that up. According
to the Grammy Awards, that song
was part of one of the five best al-
bums of the year. When you throw
in the fact that a documentary
about Justin Bieber grossed over
$30 million at the box office this
weekend, my only response is:
“America, you scare me some-
times.”
I know that my feelings about
music don’t really correlate with
those of the general public. (My ob-
session with Ke$ha remains a no-
table exception.) As a fan of indie
mainstream recognition for my fa-
vorite bands. I’m not going to stop
listening to Arcade Fire because
they won a Grammy. (I don’t think I
can really talk, considering the Ar-
cade Fire poster on my dorm wall is
hanging next to a Taylor Swift one.)
Instead, what I’m trying to say is
that the rise of the Internet has
started to blur the line between
“hip” and “mainstream” — and it’s
all for the better. Hopefully the ini-
tial confusion and backlash by the
Please see SAVITSKY, page 5
I
opened my email Tuesday and
read “Fiesta at Men’s Basket-
ball.” My gut instinct told me to
ignore the email, or delete it, but I
gave it the benefit of the doubt, and
opened it anyway.Was I surprised by
what I saw? Not really, but I was def-
initely disappointed. Of course the
Sixth Man Club would be hosting a
taco bar, and they would be handing
out free sombreros before the bas-
ketball game — what else could “fi-
esta” mean?
It may seem inconsequential.
After all, it is just a themed celebra-
tion like any other.But it’s really not.
Hosting parties and events centered
around ethnic and racial traditions
can easily turn into disrespectful
gatherings. What happens when
someone shows up to the event in a
poncho? A fake Pancho Villa mous-
tache? Singing la cucaracha? Flash-
ing a green card? Or doing that stu-
pid sound people make when they
try to imitate Speedy Gonzalez?
The line between offensive and
just-for-fun is blurry and I expect
more thoughtfulness from the Stan-
ford Athletics Department and the
Sixth Man Club.Events like this lead
to problems like last year’s “Comp-
ton Cookout” in UCSD where stu-
dents dressed up in chains and ate
chicken and watermelon to cele-
brate Black History Month. Similar-
ly, a lesser-known incident occurred
at a “Taco and Tequila Party” at the
University of Illinois, where students
arrived at the party dressed up as
pregnant girls and illegal aliens. This
type of event is an open invitation
for students to celebrate negative
Please see OPED, page 5
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MOELLER
Continued from page 4
tors. But, as any scientist will tell you,
in the real world biology is messy.
As with Europe’s birds, different
species can adapt — and shift ranges
— at different rates. Some will bene-
fit from the new conditions — at
least for now. Others will be left be-
hind, or not be affected at all. All, of
course, still face a multitude of other
threats: habitat loss, overfishing, pol-
lution, ocean acidification, and so
forth.
How do these issues compare to
climate change? In combination,
they are certainly wreaking havoc on
the world as we know it. In my mind,
the more pressing worry is this: How
fast can humanity adapt, and what
critical parts of our earthly life sup-
SAVITSKY
Continued from page 4
general public regarding Arcade
Fire’s win can translate into a larger
appreciation for their music. Some
people can start to realize that
there is a world of incredible music
beyond the Top 40. When it comes
down to it, LCD Soundsystem
should sell out Madison Square
Garden whenever they please, just
BARTZ
Continued from page 4
You can easily and cheaply subsist
on gelato and panini.
Head up to Venice, just a few
hours by train, and lose yourself in
the fairytale land amongst candy
cane striped poles, bridges, and
canals. Water taxis are great, but be
sure you know exactly which one
you’re supposed to get on! The
Modern Art museum is awesome.
Browse Venetian glass shops, but re-
member it’s tacky to take too many
pictures. If you go during carnevale,
be prepared to don a mask, ball
gown or cape, and revel in the carni-
valesque celebration. Remember:
no white socks, tennis shoes or
shorts. The dress code is always
trendy chic.Scarves in the winter are
a must.If it’s sunny,you should prob-
ably invest in a pair of brightly col-
ored sunglasses, but try not to pay
OPED
Continued from page 4
stereotypes and showcase their ig-
norance about other peoples’ tradi-
tions and cultures.
I don’t know what the Sixth Man
Club was thinking when they decid-
ed that hosting a “fiesta” would be a
good marketing strategy to bring
out basketball fans.Even more trou-
bling is the fact that someone from
Stanford University’s Athletic De-
partment had to approve of the
party in order for it to be sent out in
their official student newsletter. I
don’t know if the Sixth Man Club
also got an approval from the Stu-
dent Activities and Leadership
(SAL) office for this event, but as
they are a registered student group,
NIGHT
Continued from page 3
myself back into work mode. None
too soon, either, because Yellow Pea-
coat is back with a cup of what appears
to be Coke from the nearby eating
club in hand.
My attempts at feigning produc-
tivity don’t last too long this time
around, though, and my worn out
eyes are fading fast. After she leaves
for good this time circa 3 a.m., I real-
ize that I am simply clicking around
my bazillion (okay,26) open tabs and
getting absolutely nothing done. I
start thinking about how isolated and
creepy the Suites computer cluster is
(I mean, anyone could just wander in
from Alpine Road, and who would
even hear me screaming when they
attacked?) and I take this realization,
combined with Google docs’ server
suddenly becoming available, as a
sign to return to my suite.
Back at my suite at 3:29 a.m., the
pile of Valentine’s Day chocolate pre-
viously in the common room has
been completely pillaged and one of
my suitemates, also pulling an all-
nighter,says that she is going to “take
a nap”(read:never wake up).Feeling
extra tired and unpleasant myself, I
set my iPhone alarm for 4:12 a.m. —
just in case I should nod off — and
continue plowing through my work
at a snail’s pace. I’ve done what I can
with this problem set and can proba-
bly wing the presentation,but I’m yet
to even think about the paper (which
also requires some degree of re-
search).
Thursday, February 17, 2011 ! 5
port system will we succeed in sav-
ing?
On Jeff’s last day in California, we
drive north to Muir Woods, trailing
carbon dioxide emissions behind us,
to the place where the redwoods
stand hundreds of feet tall and hun-
dreds of years old.Here,in this cathe-
dral of light and shadow, the world
stands still for just a moment. I try to
forget that fog feeds these forests
during the dry months (providing 40
percent of the trees’ annual water
supply) and that fog frequency is
down 30 percent in the last half-cen-
tury (most likely due to climate
change). Because these forests are
part of my life support system, and I
cannot imagine a world without
them.
Holly welcomes reader feedback —
especially from fellow redwood com-
muners — via email at hollyvm@stan-
ford.edu.
as Arcade Fire deserves the top
prize at the Grammy Awards. Just
because an artist gains mass recog-
nition doesn’t diminish the quality
of their craft.
Of course, if Arcade Fire decides
to name their next album “Pea-
cock,” then I might have to recon-
sider.
Are you an upset Lady Gaga or An-
tebellum fan? Are you mad Arcade
Fire showed up Eminem or Katy our
lady (yeah!)? Tell Shane so at savit-
sky@stanford.edu.
more than 5. Also, as I’ve learned,
don’t jump into other people’s “pea-
cock displays.”Yes,I was wearing my
lime green one-piece ski suit with a
Brazilian flag cape. No, the sparkly
purple-feathered person did not
particularly appreciate my jumping
in front, diverting the tourist atten-
tion unto myself. I can only imagine
the look of disgust below that white
porcelain mask.
Power trips may be short,but they
are exciting, if you are up to the chal-
lenge. I’m still happy with my deci-
sion to go to Italy as a birthday pres-
ent instead of throwing an insane
birthday party for myself.Yes,consid-
ering my naïveté,my trip should have
been a disaster, but working against
the odds, I learned some travel les-
sons that hopefully you won’t have
to. In the end I ended up dancing in a
club alongside Coolio, which I con-
sider an epic win.
Johnny wants to know your favorite
gelato flavor. Email him at jbartz@
stanford.edu.
I expect that they did. How can the
same office that finds a party named
Hot Prowl offensive not think the
same about a taco and sombrero
pregame called a Fiesta? Next time,
I suggest sticking to less controver-
sial themes.
I know tacos are delicious and
easy to serve to large crowds, but
using my culture to celebrate some-
thing completely outside of its tradi-
tions is insensitive. Why can’t you
serve tacos and call it a pregame? Is
it necessary to include sombreros, a
traditional garb of my people, and
call the event a Fiesta? The theme is
completely unnecessary and cheap-
ens the culture of many Spanish-
speaking countries.
And don’t even get me started on
Cinco de Mayo . . .
DIANA MARQUEZ
DE LA TORRE ‘11
Come 4:16, my only friend still
available on Gchat is a high school
classmate who goes to Cambridge. I
briefly wonder what time it is there,
but instantly abandon this effort at
mental mathematics. I close my eyes
for 30 seconds, wanting to accept de-
feat, but consciously begin engaging
myself in an inner dialogue.
“If I go to sleep now, it’s over,” I
tell the sleep-deprived me. “Must.
Fight.Through.”
After a slow 40 minutes of writing,
intermixed with a few Internet pit
stops (Facebook, NYTimes.com,
Cosmopolitan.com, some more
Facebook),I’m feeling pretty useless,
but then I remember the bottle of 5-
Hour Energy sitting on my desk. I’ve
never tried the stuff, but my suitem-
ates swear by it, and it’s only four
calories.
At 5:11, I’m still feeling tired after
downing half of it, though, so I swal-
low the rest,awaiting the instant pick-
me-up. Nothing comes. I desperately
swallow a highlighter yellow caffeine
pill,but decide to bring my work with
me into my bed, just for comfort’s
sake.Plus,there’s no physically possi-
ble way that I can fall asleep with
these stimulant levels in my body . . .
Next thing I know, I groggily rub
my eyes, with my still open and now-
dead laptop and assorted papers
spread out around me. Seeing the
gray sky of morning through my win-
dow, I frantically look at the clock on
my wall,wondering how long I dozed
off for.
It’s 10:36 a.m. Good morning,
sunshine.
Contact Caroline Caselli at caro-
linecaselli@stanford.edu.
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SPORTS
CARDINAL BASEBALL

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

Stanford heads to Houston to start 2011 race for Omaha
By JOSEPH BEYDA
DAILY SPORTS INTERN
With a full starting rotation returning and
an elite recruiting class coming to the Farm
for a second straight year, Stanford baseball
will begin its season with high hopes in a
three-game series at Rice this Friday
through Sunday.
After finishing fourth in a strong Pac-10
Conference in 2010, the squad will try to im-
prove on last season’s 31-25 record.
Though Stanford finished out of the final
rankings after dropping its first two games in
last year’s NCAA Regionals at Cal State
Fullerton, the Cardinal begins the season
ranked No. 16 nationally in the USA Today
Coaches Poll.
The team is not quick to buy into the high
preseason marks, however.
“I think that this early in the season, it’s
Sophomore Eric Smith (above) warms up on the infield. The Cardinal are stocked with
talented underclassmen, including the nation’s top recruiting class for 2011.
hard to tell which teams are going to be
good,” said senior catcher Zach Jones. “The
worst season that we’ve had since I’ve been
here, we were ranked in the top 10 [before
the season], and ended up not even making
the playoffs.”
This year’s optimistic ranking is in part
due to Stanford’s incoming freshman class,
which Baseball America considers best in
the country. Among the highly touted new-
comers are outfielder Austin Wilson, utility
man Brian Ragira, pitcher A.J. Vanegas and
infielder Danny Diekroeger, whose older
brother, sophomore Kenny Diekroeger, led
the Cardinal in batting average (.336) and
RBIs (41) last year.
At Bay Area Media Day on Feb. 3, head
coach Mark Marquess indicated that Ragira
and Wilson will have opportunities to play in
starting roles early on.
Despite the new group of impact players
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UP NEXT RICE (0-0)
2/18 Houston, Tex. 2:30 P.M. PST
COVERAGE:
RADIO KZSU 90.1 FM (kzsu.stanford.edu)
GAME NOTES: Stanford opens up the baseball season
against the No. 18 Rice Owls, who will bring out An-
thony Rendon - the reigning NCAA player of the year
- to face the Cardinal’s deep pitching staff and stellar
recruiting class.
joining the team,Jones doesn’t expect chem-
istry to be an issue.
“We mesh really well together,” he said.
“The nice thing about Stanford is that every-
one lives on campus, so we see a lot of each
other on the field and off the field. We’ve
gotten pretty close over these past five or six
months that we’ve been together.”
The incoming freshmen will help fill a
strong lineup that consists almost entirely of
returning sophomores, a group Baseball
America ranked as the second-best recruit-
ing class before last season.
Because of the Cardinal’s skilled
younger players, Jones will likely be Stan-
ford’s only upperclassman position player
on the field.
“I’ve had to take more of a leadership
role this year and lead by example,” Jones
said. “A lot of the guys coming in didn’t
know the system, and how we play, and what
the coaches expect of us.”
The Cardinal pitching staff is also fairly
young.Alex Pratcher, who led Stanford with
six wins in 25 relief appearances in 2010,
joins reliever Danny Sandbrink as one of
only two seniors. Stanford’s starting rotation
does boast two juniors, Brett Mooneyham
and Jordan Pries, who pitched exclusively as
starters last season.
Marquess expects experience to be key,
as pitching is bound to be a large factor in the
tightly packed Pac-10.
“There’s one strong favorite, and that’s
UCLA, and that’s basically because of their
Friday and Saturday pitchers,” Marquess
said at Media Day. “[Juniors] Gerrit Cole
and Trevor Bauer are as good as they get.
Nobody’s going to match them on Friday
and Saturday. They’re the two best college
pitchers in the country and they’re on the
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Stanford’s 2011 schedule features eight of
Baseball America’s top 25 teams, including
four top 25 teams in the Pac-10. The Cardi
open at home against Cal on Tuesday.
same team.”
In the preseason coaches’ poll, Stanford
was picked second behind UCLA in the
Pac-10, which featured eight different teams
in the postseason last year.
“We were all deserving — we were all
ranked number-one or number-two seeds
for the most part,” Marquess told the media.
“We had two teams in the College World Se-
ries: UCLA and Arizona State. It was as
strong as the league has ever been, and to be
honest with you,it’s probably as strong,if not
stronger, this year.”
Stanford won’t start playing Pac-10
games regularly until the beginning of
April, but the Cardinal will face arch-rival
Cal in the home opener next Tuesday at
5:30 p.m.
The Cardinal went 3-1 against Cal last
season, sweeping the Golden Bears in a
three-game series at Sunken Diamond in
April.But this year’s Cal team — likely in its
final season after budgetary issues have
forced the athletic department to cut base-
ball as a varsity sport — is determined to
make the most of its opportunities in 2011.
Please see BASEBALL, page 7

INDOOR TOUGH DRAW

TOP TEAMS LEFT IN FIELD
I have a dream ...that all
CHALLENGE fans are created equal
No. 2 Florida
No. 3 Baylor
No. 4 North Carolina

By CHRISSY JONES
With a still-perfect record and
good momentum coming off a 7-0
victory over Southern Methodist
University, the Stanford women’s
tennis team heads to Charlottesville,
Va. this weekend to compete in the
2011 ITA National Women’s Team
Indoor Championships.
The Cardinal (5-0, 0-0 Pac-10)
looks to capture victories over other
top-ranked programs that it typically
does not face during the regular sea-
son.
Currently ranked at No. 1, the
Cardinal will play as the top seed in
this weekend’s indoor champi-
onship, where it will be joined by a
slew of nationally ranked foes, with
14 of the top 25 teams coming to Vir-
ginia.
Senior Hilary Barte was excited
about the strong competition.
“The fact that the schools we play,
such as Florida, UNC and Duke, all
have extremely high caliber teams is
very exciting, and at the same time
challenging,”Barte said.“It’s basical-
ly going to be similar to the NCAA
tournament. I think it will improve
our team to get this practice earlier in
McVeigh describes as a “typically ag-
gressive team dependent on deep,
powerfully hit balls.”
McVeigh describes her personal
style as more of a counterpunch
strategy anyway.
“I tend to play relatively far be-
hind the baseline and counterpunch
more, with higher elevation on my
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W
No. 5 California
hy do you like one
No. 6 Duke
team more than
No. 7 UCLA any other? Jacob
No. 9
No. 11
Miami
Tennessee
Jaffe
It’s a simple question for any
No. 12 Clemson Fields of Failure
level of sports fan,yet the number of
No. 13 Georgia Tech reasonable responses is staggering.
No. 18 Washington Everyone has a favorite team, and years of my life in Southern Califor-
most sports fans have several fa- nia. The first baseball games I ever
No. 20 Northwestern vorites across multiple sports.Clear- went to were Angels games,and I’ve
No. 23 Virginia rooted for them for as long as I can
ly it’s something we all do.
remember — since the days of
So, why?
Chuck Finley, Gary DiSarcina, Jim
The most common response is
Edmonds,blue uniforms and every-
something like “I grew up there.”
one recognizing that Anaheim is not
Obviously, this makes a lot of sense:
Los Angeles. I have never wavered
if you grow up in Boston,you’re a lot
on this, and I cannot imagine ever
more likely to root for the Red Sox
switching allegiances, no matter
than the Royals. Advertisements
how many Bay Area fans stop talk-
are all around you, the stadium is
ing to me when I mention 2002.
nearby, the games are televised.
Why not root for them?
I can certainly relate to this phe-
nomenon, having spent the first 18 Please see JAFFE, page 8
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the season.”
The tournament will begin with
16 top-tier teams and will be con-
ducted in a typical dual match for-
mat, with a group of three doubles
matches counting for one point, and
six singles matches counting for one
point each.
But there is one major factor dif-
ferentiating this tournament from
the Cardinal’s usual matches.
“We have been practicing indoors
the last couple of days, both because
of the dreary weather and because
the tournament is, of course, in-
doors,” McVeigh said.“The ball trav-
els faster without wind and outside
conditions, so we’ve been hitting in-
side to get most closely acquainted
with the different conditions.”
“We have been focusing on both
doubles as well as real point situa-
tions in preparation,” Barte added.
“As always, we are looking to im-
prove individually and as a team
week-in and week-out.”
However, the fast-paced condi-
tions might help the Cardinal, which
By NIC REINER-PARRA 2/12 vs. WASHINGTON
The Stanford men’s basketball L 87-76
team returns home to face UCLA
Thursday night, fresh off last week’s
trip to the Pacific Northwest, where UP NEXT UCLA
the Cardinal earned a victory over (18-7, 9-3 Pac-10)
Washington State but suffered a loss
to Washington.
2/17 Maples Pavilion
The Cardinal (13-11, 6-7 Pac-10) 7:30 P.M.
will attempt to avenge last month’s COVERAGE:
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The Cardinal squares off against
a hot UCLA team tonight that has GAME NOTES: Stanford will attempt to
won five straight and nine of its last avenge a 68-57 loss to the Bruins in
10. January on Thursday night at Maples
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily Pavilion. The Bruins have won nine of
The Bruins have powered to sec-
Senior Carolyn McVeigh (above) will lead the No.1 Cardinal into sweet 16 ond place in the Pac-10 thanks to a their last ten games and are in second
of ITA National Women’s Team Indoor Championships against the place in the Pac-10, just one game
Please see MBBALL, page 7 behind Arizona.
Arkansas Razorbacks on Friday night. Should Stanford advance, they will
face a field that boasts 14 of the top 25 teams in the country.
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MBBALL
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league-leading defense that has al-
lowed just 0.97 points per posses-
sion. In conference play, UCLA has
held opponents to 44 percent
shooting overall and 32 percent
from the three-point range, both
good enough for second place in
the Pac-10.
In the first matchup on Jan. 22,
the Cardinal stormed to a 22-8 lead
with a little over 10 minutes remain-
ing in the first half. However, they
were unable to maintain that mar-
gin, going 2-for-18 from the field for
the rest of the half as UCLA came
back to trail by one at halftime.
UCLA then went 25-for-33 from
the free-throw line in the second
half and the Cardinal was
outscored, 42-30, in the second peri-
od.
UCLA’s well-balanced offense
has five players who average 10 or
more points per game. In last
month’s matchup, Malcolm Lee
scored 23, Tyler Honeycutt had 16
and Lazeric Jones went for 17.
The Cardinal will look to the im-
proved play of junior guard Jeremy
Green to help them knock off the
Bruins this weekend.
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adversity.”
—JOHNNY DAWKINS
eraged 11.6 points per game and
shot just 32 percent from the field,
Green has bounced back in Febru-
ary, shooting 53 percent from field-
goal range and scoring more than
20 points in four straight games.
Stanford Coach Johnny
Dawkins attributes Green’s resur-
gence primarily to better prepara-
tion.
“I credit it to his work ethic, to
his dedication to the game. He did a
lot of studying the game and learn-
ing more about himself as a player,”
Dawkins said.“Sometimes you find
more about yourself through adver-
sity than at any other time. He’s be-
coming a better all-around player
because of what he experienced.”
Dawkins noted how he’s had to
face unique on-court challenges in
this Pac-10 season.
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who, last year, always guarded
Landry Fields,” Dawkins contin-
ued. “He’s learned to free himself
better and create better offense for
himself.”
Another indication of a strong
finish by the Cardinal has been the
maturity and leadership of junior
guard Jarrett Mann.
Dawkins noted several signs of
Mann’s progression over the course
of the season.
“Mann has gotten better all sea-
son,” he said. “He’s probably the
most selfless player on the team
from a standpoint of what he’s
called upon to do. He started off
[last year] as a wing player and con-
verted to a point guard, and then
this year played off the ball — and
now he’s back on the ball. Yet, the
young man has never wavered. He
asks ‘what can I do to help the
team?’”
The Cardinal also looks to win
the turnover battle, as UCLA
coughs the ball up on a conference-
worst 23.2 percent of possessions in
Pac-10 play. Conversely, the Bruins
struggle to force turnovers, only
doing so 16.8 percent of the time,
the conference’s second-worst per-
centage.
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“They’re going to have a lot of
motivation to play this year, for
good reasons,” said sophomore
pitcher Dean McArdle,who is slated
to start on Sundays for the Cardinal.
“I think we all feel here that it’s ter-
rible what happened to their pro-
gram. But we have a lot of motiva-
tion to succeed as well.”
This weekend’s opening series
at No. 17 Rice is also going to be a
challenge. The defending Confer-
ence USA champions are led by
junior Anthony Rendon, who won
last year’s Howser Trophy — the
Heisman of college baseball — and
was first in the conference in
homers (26), runs (83) and RBIs
(85).
Even though the Stanford pitch-
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Junior Jeremy Green has been an offensive juggernaut for the Cardinal in
February after a poor month of January. The Texas native has scored 20 or
more points in four consecutive conference games.
ers haven’t specifically discussed
Rendon, McArdle explains that the
key will be facing him with the same
attitude as with other hitters.
“I think if you really change your
mindset, that’s when you’re going to
get hurt,” he said. “You’ve got to at-
tack him like any other hitter,and be
careful — but not overly careful.”
Though Rendon is coming off an
ankle injury in the offseason and the
Owls lost eight-win starter Jared
Rogers to the draft, Rice brings in
Baseball America’s ninth-ranked
recruiting class.
In last year’s season opener,
Stanford swept the then-No. 5 Owls
at Sunken Diamond, winning all
three games by a combined score of
27-15.
After the rivalry matchup against
Cal, Stanford will travel to Vander-
bilt for a three-game series, face
Santa Clara once at Sunken Dia-
mond, and then play another week-
end trio of games at Texas.
The Cardinal won’t have a multi-
game set at home until it faces
Michigan on Mar. 18 and 19.
“I don’t know who does the
scheduling,” Marquess joked at
Media Day. “I like to blame it on
[Assistant Coach Dean] Stotz, but I
did it . . . [We have] nine of the first
11 on the road, so if it doesn’t kill us,
we’ll be better.”
Stanford will face its first pitch of
the season against Rice tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30 p.m.
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balls,” she said. “In these upcoming
matches,I will try to stay on the base-
line more often and hit the ball earli-
er to take advantage of the speed of
the court.”
Stanford’s first match will be
played on Feb. 18 at the Boar’s Head
Sports Club. If the team can acquire
a victory over the Arkansas Razor-
backs, it will move onto the quarter-
finals on Saturday against the winner
of No. 8 Michigan and Georgia Tech.
The Cardinal departs on
Wednesday in order to arrive in
Charlottesville with enough prepa-
ration time before the tournament.
A cross-country trip prior to numer-
ous important matches could prove
daunting for the team, but McVeigh
says that the Card has already taken
precautions for the long trip.
“Though it is definitely difficult
to fly across the country and then be
completely ready to play, we do get
in Wednesday night,” McVeigh said.
“Our first match isn’t until Friday
night, which gives us enough time to
get over jet lag. It shouldn’t be too
big of a problem.”
Stanford will be facing unseeded
Arkansas at 4:30 p.m.PST on Friday,
Feb. 18 in the first round of the tour-
nament.
Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissyj@
stanford.edu.
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The location-based reasoning has
several corollaries like,“I live in Pitts-
burgh,but my dad’s always been a big
Giants fan,”“I’m from Seattle,but my
family is all from Dallas, so I like the
Cowboys” and “I go to Stanford,
duh!”Again,who’s to say that rooting
with your family is wrong? Most (but
certainly not all) sports fans receive
their first exposure to sports from
their families, so it’s natural to contin-
ue their rooting interests. And of
course,almost any sports fan roots for
his or her college team.
For me,this reasoning had a major
impact on me, because I have been a
Stanford fan since birth. While obvi-
ously I now root for the Cardinal as a
student first, I was foremost a son of
two Stanford alums growing up. As
Wyndam discussed earlier in the
week,it’s hard when your favorite col-
lege team from childhood clashes
with your current college team.Luck-
ily for me, those are both Stanford, so
I can root doubly hard without ques-
tioning it.
Beyond the “it’s-been-with-me-
since-birth” logic, though, things
change a little. People will accept you
as a Yankees fan — even if they feel
that cheering for the Evil Empire
should be punishable by firing squad
— if you come from New York. If
your whole family has gone to USC,
they can’t be surprised that you root
for the Trojans (although they can still
make sure you know what a rotten
hellhole U$C is and rejoice in every
failure of your pitiful excuse for a
school, all while wearing Biggest
Upset Ever shirts).
Still, many people feel that these
from-birth reasons are the only legiti-
mate ones for liking a team. But what
makes your reason for liking one
team “legitimate”? Is it necessarily
true that growing up in Green Bay is a
better reason for supporting the
Packers than liking green and yellow?
I say no.
When I tell people that I’m a Colts
fan, people invariably question my
choice. No, I’m not from Indianapolis
or Baltimore, and no, nobody else in
my family likes them. In fact, I’ve
never been to Indianapolis or Balti-
more, and I’ve never seen a Colts
game in person. My question is: why
does this make me any less of a fan
than someone who grew up in Indi-
anapolis?
I started cheering for the Colts a
little more than a decade ago because:
1) As mentioned before, I live in
southern California, far enough away
from the Chargers that I wouldn’t
consider them a “hometown team,”
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so I had to choose for myself,2) I real-
ly liked Peyton Manning from his
days at Tennessee, and I loved the
Colts’ style and 3) Yes, I’ll admit, blue
is my favorite color, and I like the
blue-and-white combo.
The decision to root for them was
truly my own, and it was not based on
any fair-weather fandom (the Colts
hadn’t been to a Super Bowl since the
days of Johnny Unitas). Not living in
the Indianapolis market, I had to
work to follow the team,and I still do.
I’m not pretending I know more
about the Colts than anyone in the
world, but I do follow them pretty
closely and I have confidence saying I
follow them more than most Indi-
anapolis natives. As far as I can tell,
that is at least as legitimate as my rea-
son for supporting the Angels.
As I see it, who cares why you
started rooting for a team? Maybe it’s
because you grew up there,maybe it’s
because you like the mascot, maybe
it’s because your uncle knew the
owner, maybe it’s because your girl-
friend likes the team or maybe it’s be-
cause your boyfriend hates the team.
However it started, if you’re pas-
sionate about that team, you’re a real
fan in my book.
Jacob Jaffe also roots against the
Toronto Raptors because Jurassic
Park was really scary. Help comfort
him at jwjaffe@stanford.edu.
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