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March 28, 2011 Issue 28

ResEd explains Kappa Sig decision

Fraternity enters appeals process to reverse removal of its housing
By AN LE NGUYEN
MANAGING EDITOR
After the University stripped Kappa
Sigma of its on-campus housing at the end of
winter quarter, the fraternity has begun the
appeals process to reverse that decision. Its
leadership is preparing materials for Vice
Provost for Student Affairs Greg Boardman,
who will deliver a decision in about a week.
The decision to divest Kappa Sigma of its
house fell into the hands of Dean of Residen-
tial Education (ResEd) Deborah Golder
after making its way through the Greek life
system. According to Golder, Kappa Sigma
has been of concern to the University for the
past two years.
“The house has had patterns of behavior
that go beyond what I would call shenanigans
. . . to a level that was dangerous,” Golder
said.
She highlighted “an alcohol culture that
was dangerous” and student complaints
about feeling unsafe in the house as com-
pelling problems. These concerns came to a
head last fall when Kappa Sigma violated its
probationary status.
“At that point, we would have been well
within our rights to say, ‘Look you violated
your probation.You’ll be suspended from the
University,’” Golder said.
University officials instead decided to give
the fraternity a final chance to demonstrate
its campus relevance and developed a multi-
faceted process to remedy the most pressing
issues. As part of this process, Kappa Sigma
conducted a membership review and gave a
presentation to show its campus relevance.
Please see KAPPA SIG, page 3

STUDENT LIFE

ON TO THE ELITE
OGWUMIKE SISTERS TAKE DOWN TAR HEELS
BOSP helps
Kyoto-bound
students
By NATE ADAMS
MANAGING EDITOR

On a night when the Cardinal

needed it most, Stanford’s sister
show came through in a big way.
Nnemkadi and Chiney Ogwu-
mike scored 12 of their team’s final Program canceled due to State
15 points, boosting the top-seeded
Cardinal (32-2) to a 72-65 win over Dept. travel warning for Japan
a North Carolina squad (28-9) that
managed to keep pace with the
By BRIANNA PANG
Pac-10 Champions, even in the final
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
minutes.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Following the Bing Overseas Studies Pro-
NORTH CAROLINA 65 gram’s (BOSP) decision to cancel its Kyoto pro-
gram for spring quarter, the University has for-
STANFORD 75 mulated alternative plans for students who
3/26, Spokane, Wash. planned to spend the term in Japan.
Junior forward Nnemkadi scored According to BOSP Executive Director Irene
consecutive baskets with 4:35 re- Kennedy, the decision was finalized when the
maining to pull Stanford out of a 59- State Department issued a travel warning for
59 tie, and she put down another Japan. BOSP consulted with numerous universi-
critical basket with 3:08 on the ty offices in deciding to cancel the program, in-
clock. Chiney, her freshman sister cluding the offices of the President, Provost, Vice
and fellow forward, put up a huge Provost for Undergraduate Education, Risk
two-pointer with 1:59 remaining Management, Vaden Health Services and Envi-
after the Tar Heels worked their ronmental Health and Safety.
way into another deadlock at 65-65. “Stanford has a long-standing policy of not
Chiney Ogwumike all but sealed sending undergraduates on Stanford-sponsored
the deal with just 39.7 seconds left, programs or with Stanford funding to countries
putting back a missed shot from her with State Department warnings,” Kennedy
sister to pad the Cardinal’s lead to wrote in an email to The Daily.“At the same time
69-65. we reached our decision, all Stanford faculty, staff
“I was really sorry that I couldn’t
make that shot,” Nnemkadi Ogwu- Please see KYOTO, page 3
mike said, “but when I turned
around and saw [Chiney] got the re-
bound, I wasn’t surprised at all. But
that’s just kind of a characteristic of
her — she’s very aggressive and re-
lentless, and she does a really good
UNIVERSITY

NYC campus
job of firing the team up.”
“We just try our hardest to per-
form as well as we can,” she contin-
ued. “When you see something like

plan takes
that,it’s just kind of exciting to know
that you tried your best to take care
of the ball and contribute as much as
you could on the court.”
Nnemkadi led the team with 19
points and Chiney, recently named
the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year,
put up 16 of her own.
The victory was Stanford’s first
away from Maples Pavilion in the
step forward
tournament and puts the team just
one win away from its fourth con-
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Freshman forward Chiney Ogwumike, above, along with sister, junior forward Nnemka-
Stanford submits ‘expression of
secutive appearance in the Final
di Ogwumike, led the Cardinal to a Sweet 16 victory over the North Carolina Tar Heels. interest’ for Roosevelt Island site
Please see WBBALL, page 9 The Cardinal will play Gonzaga in Spokane, Wash. for a spot in the Final Four.
By JANELLE WOLAK
WOMEN’S TENNIS Stanford has submitted a formal “expression

SPRING BREAK SWEEP

Card keeps pace with
four wins over break
By WILL SEATON
STAFF WRITER
After two weeks off for final exams,
the Stanford women’s tennis team (17-0,
4-0 Pac-10) returned to face four teams in
seven days. Beginning with matches
against No. 71 Utah and No. 30 Pepper-
dine,the Cardinal then recorded two con-
vincing wins on the road against quality
opponents — No. 8 UCLA and No. 13
USC — to remain undefeated for the
season.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
STANFORD 6 the singles before both teams decided not
USC 1 to play doubles. All six players recorded
3/26, Los Angeles, Calif.
Keeping fresh for each match proved
essential.
“The most important thing is to make
sure you’re relaxed when you’re not on
the court,”said senior Hilary Barte.“Kick
your feet up, make sure you do whatever
makes you feel loose or comfortable.”
The first few matches were marred by
repeated rain in the San Francisco area.
Against Utah (5-8, 0-0), Stanford swept
straight set wins for the 6-0 decision.
“That first Utah match was such a
struggle for me, but I think everyone did
well,” Barte said. “For me, it was extra
Please see WTENNIS, page 10
of interest” to New York City to build a satellite
campus. The proposed campus, which is slated to
be located on Roosevelt Island in the East River,
would incorporate both applied sciences re-
search and graduate education.
“The campus will build on Stanford’s
strengths,” said Jim Plummer, dean of the School
of Engineering. “Our goal is to try and create
something analogous to Silicon Valley in New
York City.”
Stanford is just one among a number of insti-
tutions competing to fulfill Mayor Michael
Bloomberg’s vision of a new science and technol-
ogy center in New York City. In sum, 18 proposals
were submitted to the New York City Economic
Development Corporation (NYCEDC). These
proposals represent 27 institutions, some of
Please see NYC, page 5

Index Opinions/6 • Sports/10 • Classifieds/13 Recycle Me

2 ! Monday, March 28, 2011
UNIVERSITY
GSB claims top U.S.
News ranking
Small class size, new MBA
curriculum boost Stanford
By HENRY ZHU
After sharing the top spot with
Harvard for the past three years in
the U.S. News & World Report’s
ranking of the country’s top busi-
ness schools, the Stanford Graduate
School of Business (GSB) has
claimed sole possession of No. 1 in
the newly released 2012 rankings.
Harvard Business School dropped
to second place.
The GSB, however, remains
modest about this achievement.
“Because of our belief in the in-
herent limitations and subjectivity
of any ranking system, we are care-
ful not to read much into our stand-
ings, especially when the changes
are so small,” GSB Dean Garth Sa-
loner wrote in an email to The
Daily. “The margins among schools
at the top of this and other surveys
are very thin.”
“Just as there is no ‘best’ city in
which to live or ‘best’ career path to
pursue, we don’t believe that there
is a ‘best school.’”
Saloner said he encourages ap-
plicants to decide which school best
suits them based on their own per-
sonal values, aspirations and inter-
ests. Applicants’ independent re-
search and visits to different busi-
ness schools provide a richer and
more meaningful picture than a
simple aggregate ranking, he said.
The U.S. News methodology is
based on a qualitative assessment
by peer deans and corporate re-
cruiters, placement success and
school selectivity.
Measures of placement success,
an area in which the GSB excels, in-
clude starting salary and percentage
of graduates employed at gradua-
tion or three months after gradua-
tion. Measures of student selectivity
include undergraduate GPAs and
GMAT scores of entering students,
as well as the acceptance rate.
Though a given school’s accept-
ance rate is not heavily weighted in
U.S. News’ methodology, Stanford’s
rate of 6.8 percent is far below that
of other elite business schools. This
low rate is partially due to the fact
that the GSB’s class size is some-
what smaller than those of its com-
petitors.
NEWS BRIEFS
Election ballot
finalized,GSC
candidate list not
yet released
By THE DAILY
ASSU ELECTIONS TEAM
With the extended petitioning
deadline for junior class president
slates and Graduate Student Coun-
cil (GSC) candidates now passed,
the ASSU Elections Commission
has finalized the ballot for this
spring’s election, which will take
place on Apr. 7 to Apr. 8.
All petitions have been validated,
and the commission released the
voter guide over spring break. The
final deadline for candidates, slates
and Special Fee groups to submit
statements for the guide is Apr. 6.
Three slates for junior class presi-
dent declared before the extended
deadline, which was set for Mar. 18.
The Stanford Daily
With a self-reported tuition of
$53,118 in 2010, the GSB was also
the fourth most expensive business
school to attend in the country.
“Tuition is ‘information,’” said
Barbara Buell, communications di-
rector at the GSB. “It is not a factor
in the [U.S. News] ranking itself.”
Saloner said the GSB did not
take any deliberate action to im-
prove its performance in the rank-
ings.
“We set our vision and strategy
based on our deep knowledge of the
field of business and our abiding as-
piration to continue to provide an
outstanding management educa-
tion,” he said. “We do not use rank-
ings in our marketing. Rather, we
prefer to point to our records of re-
search and education and have
those who inquire speak directly
with our students and faculty.”
Saloner further believes that
the GSB’s curriculum set it apart
from other schools. The business
school boasts a new MBA curricu-
lum that debuted in 2007 and has
numerous collaborative efforts
with the University’s other gradu-
ate schools, including the School of
Medicine and the School of Engi-
neering.The GSB’s relatively small
student body size is also a distinct
advantage.
“We now offer a 16-person Crit-
ical Analytical Thinking seminar to
all entering students, along with
small-group leadership labs and a
required Global Experience (usual-
ly a study or service trip or global in-
ternship),” Saloner said. “All this
comes on top of the canon of busi-
ness knowledge necessary to the
strongest possible management ed-
ucation.”
“Together, these elements pro-
vide a transforming two-year expe-
rience for our students who apply
their leadership and passion for
management to a broad spectrum
of careers.”
While Saloner believes it was
still too early for the Knight Man-
agement Center, which fully opens
its doors on Apr. 29, to have made
an impact on the rankings, he ex-
pects the center and the programs it
supports to be a source of innova-
tive educational offerings in the fu-
ture.
Contact Henry Zhu at hz2014@stan-
ford.edu.
All three — “Leland Stanford Ju-
niors,” “Free Weezy” and “J-Six” —
gathered enough validated signa-
tures to appear on the ballot, clear-
ing the 100-signature minimum.
“Free Weezy” lists only four
members, whereas the two remain-
ing slates each have six members. A
recent rule change increased the
maximum number of individuals al-
lowed on a class president slate from
five to six.
Though the deadline for GSC
candidates to declare passed on Mar.
18 as well,the Elections Commission
has not released a list of candidates,
either through its website or its e-
mail list. Unlike Undergraduate
Senate candidates, GSC candidates
are not required to petition to ap-
pear on the ballot; they automatical-
ly gain a spot by declaring their can-
didacy.
The rest of the ballot will feature
three executive slates, 51 Special Fee
groups, 41 Senate candidates and an
advisory referendum question on
the return of ROTC to campus.
— Kabir Sawhney
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KYOTO
Continued from front page
and students currently in Japan
were urged to leave by Stanford’s
Department of Risk Manage-
ment.”
Though BOSP has previously
canceled two three-week overseas
seminars in China due to the SARS
outbreak in 2003, the Santiago pro-
gram remained in session during
Chile’s 2010 earthquake. Kennedy
attributed this decision to safer cir-
cumstances in Chile.
“There was no State Depart-
ment warning and Chile’s infra-
structure was able to respond
quickly,” Kennedy said. “The
events in Japan are tri-fold: earth-
quake, tsunami, radiation leaks.
Events in Chile were less com-
plex.”
Students enrolled in the Kyoto
program were offered a variety of
alternative overseas studies oppor-
tunities, including the option of ap-
plying to study in Moscow, Santia-
go, Paris, Florence or Beijing in the
fall of the 2011-12 academic year.
Students applying for winter and
spring quarter next year will re-
ceive preference over other appli-
cants. Lastly, these students auto-
matically receive admission to next
spring’s program in Kyoto.
For spring quarter, all Kyoto
students will remain in their cur-
rent on-campus housing with only
one student moving within the
same dorm. Returning students
who were slated to occupy spaces
that would have been vacated by
Kyoto students have also been ac-
commodated in alternative, on-
campus housing.
“We traditionally have vacan-
cies [during] spring quarter in un-
dergraduate housing because more
students go overseas in the spring
than in winter and because some
students graduate early,” wrote
Rodger Whitney, executive direc-
tor of Student Housing, in an email
to The Daily. “Given the small
number of students affected by the
cancellation of the Kyoto program
this year, we have been working in-
dividually with the students staying
and the students returning from off
campus to provide all with the best
housing situations for spring quar-
ter.”
“As of this writing, we are grati-
fied to be able to report that all the
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“ResEd reached out to the na-
tional organization and to the
alumni, asking for their help and
partnership in trying to get Kappa
Sigma back on track,” Golder said.
In the end, these efforts demon-
strated that the organization had
taken a turn in a positive direction
but fell short of dissuading the Uni-
versity from taking further action.
“There is still a significant cultural
change that needs to occur,” Gold-
er said. “My very strong feeling is
that it is a privilege to be a housed
organization.
“Only 10 registered student or-
ganizations on campus get the priv-
ilege of being housed, and those are
seven fraternities and three sorori-
ties, out [of] over 600 clubs and or-
ganizations,” she continued.“There
are certain things a group needs to
demonstrate in order to have that
privilege, and some of that is a
shared sense of identity and pur-
pose.”
If Kappa Sigma loses its appeal,
its current house will enter this
year’s draw as a traditional Row
house. This would give the Kappa
Sigma leadership one year to prove
to the University that it should re-
gain its on-campus housing for the
2012-13 academic year.
“The industry standard when
there is this level of concerns for a
fraternity or sorority is to suspend
them from the University for four
years,” Golder said.
The idea behind the suspension
situations where rooms currently
assigned to students who are now
not departing which had been as-
signed to someone else for spring
quarter have been resolved,” he
added.
Vinh Bui ‘12 was the only Kyoto
student required to change hous-
ing for the spring. According to
Bui, Housing contacted him, ex-
plaining that his original room in
Mirrielees had been changed from
male occupancy to female occu-
pancy. Housing resolved the issue
by assigning him to a room down
the hall.
“If I had to move out of Mir-
rielees, I would have been very
upset because it would be a hassle
to move out of the dorm entirely,
and because I like living here,” Bui
said. “Fortunately, there were two
males who needed a roommate,
and one of them is a close friend
who lived only around the corner
on the same floor. It all worked out
in the end.”
Bui now hopes to co-term or
take a fifth year at Stanford in
order to participate in the Kyoto
program in the future.
Not all students, however, are so
lucky. Charles Naut ‘12 will not be
able to go abroad next year be-
cause he plans to be a Resident
Computer Consultant (RCC) in
Storey.
“I have been planning this trip
for a while,” Naut said. “I’ve want-
ed to study abroad in Japan since
high school and have been thinking
about the Kyoto program since my
freshman year at Stanford.”
Naut said the change in plans
would free up time for senior year
and allow him to be here for things
he would have otherwise missed,
including his roommate’s gradua-
tion. Naut hopes to independently
plan a trip to Japan and other parts
of Asia once the travel warning on
Japan is lifted.
Kyoto student Mindy Phung ‘12
spoke about the possibility of con-
tributing to relief efforts in Japan.
“There are a couple of us who
are interested in going to Japan to
do relief work even if it’s not
through Stanford,” Phung said. “It
would be a cool opportunity for
Stanford to coordinate efforts and
make a bigger impact, but it really
depends on the State Department
warning and Japan’s willingness to
accept volunteers.”
Contact Brianna Pang at bkpang
@stanford.edu.
process is to “clean house,” both lit-
erally and figuratively. The Univer-
sity has refrained from taking this
more severe approach.
“I see the potential of Kappa
Sigma, and I think they need a year
hiatus,” Golder said. “They need
some time to get in touch with their
core values, to identify not just as a
group of tight-knit friends but as a
true fraternity by Stanford’s defini-
tion and Kappa Sigma’s definition
at Stanford.”
The decision to implement a
one-year hiatus stems, in part, from
the fact that younger Kappa Sigma
members were not involved with
disciplinary problems that sparked
trouble for the fraternity in the first
place.
“I think that the sophomores in
Kappa Sigma are very impressive,
and that’s part of what motivates a
one-year only hiatus, so that they
can come back as seniors and live in
that house and have it be a model
organization,” Golder said.
She emphasized, nevertheless,
the need for all Greek members to
recognize and accept a sense of
shared responsibility — past, pres-
ent and future.
“To be a member of an organiza-
tion like Kappa Sigma, to be a
member of a fraternity or a sorori-
ty, you get 112 years of Kappa
Sigma history and success . . . but
you also get the missteps, and you
get the mistakes,” she said.
Kappa Sigma president Brian
Barnes ‘12 declined to comment
until a ruling on their appeal has
been issued.
Contact An Le Nguyen at
lenguyen@stanford.edu.
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The Stanford Daily Monday, March 28, 2011 ! 5
NYC
Continued from front page
which are engaged in collaborative
efforts.
The list includes Abo Akademi
University in Finland, the Korea
Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology, Columbia University,
Cornell University and Purdue
University.
“It looks like [Stanford’s] is one
of the more substantive proposals,”
said University spokeswoman Lisa
Lapin.
If selected, Stanford’s New York
campus would not only provide an
opportunity for education and re-
search, but would also enable stu-
dents to start companies and take
technologies into existing compa-
nies on the East Coast — in short,
to bring the innovative spirit of the
West Coast to the East Coast.
With an initial focus on infor-
mation technology, such as com-
puter science and electrical engi-
neering, the New York campus
would draw especially from the
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design,
the Graduate School of Business
and the Technology Ventures Pro-
gram. Stanford hopes to later ex-
pand the campus to include fields
like green technology and biomed-
ical engineering.
“Stanford envisions a strategic
partnership that will blend
strengths of a great research univer-
sity with those of a great center of
commerce and creativity — and
generate significant and sustainable
economic development,” reads the
text of the Stanford proposal, ambi-
tiously named “Stanford and New
York City: Silicon Valley II.”
If Stanford wins the competi-
tion, it will begin construction in
2013 and convene the first classes
in 2015 with 440 masters and doc-
toral students. This first phase of
development is expected to cost
$250 million, paid for by Stanford
itself and supplemented by the city
of New York and philanthropists.
With a projected overall cost of as
much as $1 billion over 25 years of
construction, the current target
once the project is completed is to
enroll 2,200 graduate students and
to hire 100 faculty members.
“The New York City campus
would not really be a remote sepa-
rate campus, but a piece of Stan-
ford which is closely tied to the
campus here,” Plummer said. “The
programs and classes would be
very much the same, but the stu-
dents and faculty would just be liv-
ing and studying in the New York
area.”
The New York campus would be
closely integrated with Stanford’s
main campus in Palo Alto, relying
on distance education and telep-
resence systems to connect the two
locations. According to Plummer,
the University’s end goal is for
masters and doctoral students in
New York to never have to set foot
on the Palo Alto campus.
Stanford also hopes to explore
ways to involve undergraduate stu-
dents. Much like the current cam-
puses in the Bing Overseas Studies
Program and in Washington, D.C.,
the New York campus may become
a site where undergraduates can
spend an academic quarter.
Plummer said the site would
serve as a way to answer three im-
portant intellectual questions.
“Can a 21st century university
be geographically distributed?” he
said. “Are the distance education
and telepresence systems enough
to make a geographically separat-
ed campus look and feel like one
campus? Is it possible to create Sil-
icon Valley in a different place?”
Of four possible locations, Stan-
ford chose the Roosevelt Island
site as best suited for its purposes.
Located in the middle of the East
River, it has the advantage of being
close to Queens, Manhattan and
Brooklyn. It will serve as the home
for academic and research space
and provide housing for students
and faculty members.
On Apr. 14, President John
Hennessy will present and discuss
Stanford’s proposal at his annual
address to the Academic Council.
He will be joined by Plummer, Jen-
nifer Widom, computer science de-
partment chair, and Robert Reidy,
vice president for land, buildings
and real estate. The address will
begin at 3:30 p.m. in the NVIDIA
Auditorium of the Huang Engi-
neering Center.
Contact Janelle Wolak at jwolak@
stanford.edu.
6 ! Monday, March 28, 2011
OPINIONS
E DITORIAL
Another Misguided ResEd Policy
T
wo months ago, we criticized
Residential Education
(ResEd) for eliminating so-
cial dues refunds, because the poli-
cy was an inefficient and unneces-
sary attempt to enhance social life
on the Row. ResEd’s newest sur-
prise for Row FMs — banning the
use of social dues to buy alcohol —
is another poorly conceived policy
that is actually counterproductive
to the stated goal of banning re-
funds. Effectively, ResEd has crip-
pled social dues as a vehicle to
fund the kind of social activity that
has and will always characterize
the Row, forcing houses to acquire
the funds through unaccountable
and undesirable means that will be
fraught with unintended conse-
quences.
It is unclear what the University
is trying to do by banning alcohol
purchase with social dues (alcohol
accounts for over half of Row social
expenditures). Forecasting that un-
derage drinking will cease or even
decrease significantly would be an
astonishingly naive mistake on the
part of ResEd — houses will obvi-
ously collect some sort of unofficial
social dues to fund parties that are a
staple of student life. Rather, it ap-
pears that either ResEd or some
higher force in the Administration
wants to ensure that Stanford in no
way officially facilitates underage
drinking, which is basically what
University-sanctioned social dues
accomplish.
But what price are school offi-
cials willing to pay for a de jure pol-
icy modification that has the same
de facto implications, or worse? If
FMs collect unofficial social dues
and handle the finances through
personal accounts, Row residents’
money will suddenly be placed in a
very unaccountable situation with
great incentive for dishonesty in
bookkeeping and refunds. Even
granting full integrity to Row FMs,
there will be no formal infrastruc-
ture to guard against accounting
errors that will place thousands of
student dollars at risk.
Moreover, an unofficial, volun-
tary social due system threatens to
undermine the social atmosphere
and house bonding that ResEd’s
refund ban was supposed to en-
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O P-E D
The College Student’s
Case for Health Reform
A Let’s Talk About Sex
year ago last week, Presi-
dent Obama signed the Af-
fordable Care Act. The law
enacts significant health insurance
reforms that will take effect over
the next several years. But one very
important piece of that law is al-
ready in place. And it may directly
benefit you.
The Affordable Care Act en-
sures that college students and
young adults can stay on their par-
ents’ employer-provided health
care plans until age 26. Before,
many health plans and issuers
dropped young adults from their
parents’ policies because of their
age. That left countless college stu-
dents, recent college graduates and
other young people with little re-
course and worse — no health in-
surance. Historically, some 30 per-
cent of young adults have been
uninsured, a rate far higher than
that of any other age group.
But young people don’t need
health insurance, right? The statis-
tics say otherwise: one in six young
adults today are faced with a chron-
ic illness such as cancer, diabetes or
asthma. And nearly half of unin-
sured young adults report problems
paying medical bills.
The new law ensures you have
an option when it comes to your
health care.This is important as you
continue through school and as you
transition into the job market, since
you may find that health care cover-
age is not immediately available
through your employer.Or you may
hance. Presumably, only students
who agree to pay into the unoffi-
cial social due system will be al-
lowed to drink the house’s alco-
hol; this is conducive to a culture
of distrust, as students feel pres-
sured to act as vigilantes against
free-riding.
Finally, if the policy actually
succeeds in reducing house alco-
hol expenditure, students are
probably going to redirect funds
earmarked for social dues toward
private alcohol consumption. The
ensuing fragmented and isolated
drinking behavior is both a safety
risk and another impediment to
the shared housing experience
that makes the Row a fun place to
live.
It may be the case that Stanford
places itself at severe legal risk if it
knowingly assists underage drink-
ing. If so, then ResEd really had no
choice but to pursue the current
policy. However, given the Univer-
sity’s historically laissez-faire
stance and the certain anecdotal
knowledge that social dues were
being used for alcohol, it seems
surprising that the legal issue was
suddenly discovered this year. If
Stanford can retain the legal im-
munity on the issue it seems to
have enjoyed for years, avoidance
of the various repercussions to
Row social life noted above is def-
initely worth it.
ResEd needs to articulate a co-
herent set of objectives and sort
out contradictory policies. If it
wants to enhance the vibrant social
atmosphere of the Row, which it
purported to protect by prohibiting
social due refunds,it should neither
obstruct a central ingredient (alco-
hol) of Row parties nor foster a cul-
ture of suspicion. If ResEd wants
to reduce underage drinking, it
should not effectively endorse a
roundabout social due system that
will continue to fund drinking in a
potentially unsafe and unaccount-
able manner.And if the University
merely wants to distance itself
from underage drinking that it ac-
cepts as a fact of life, it should col-
laborate with students to transition
to a private social due infrastruc-
ture with no official tie to Stanford.
That way, everybody wins.
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tunities.
It allows you to remain on your
parents’ plan or rejoin it until age
26, even if you no longer live with
your parents, are not a dependent
on their tax return or are no longer
a student. The new flexibility even
applies if you are married. You are
guaranteed the same benefits and at
the same price that is available to
other dependents.
More health care improvements
are on the way, and many may also
directly benefit you. Already, cover-
age cannot be denied for those
under age 19 because of a pre-exist-
ing condition. By 2014, denying cov-
erage to anyone based on a pre-ex-
isting condition will be banned. An-
nual dollar caps on care, which are
already limited, will be prohibited,
and state-based health insurance ex-
changes will create a new market-
place, giving more employers and
millions of Americans the ability to
purchase affordable coverage.
The Affordable Care Act is
based on the simple belief that
every American — and that in-
cludes college students — deserves
access to high-quality, affordable
health care. One year after it has be-
come law, that belief is becoming re-
ality.
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United States Secretary of Labor
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N O F REE LUNCH
SCSCOPSG: Stanford
Coalition for Skeptics, Cynics, Zack Hoberg
& Dave Grundfest
and Those Generally Opposed
to an Over Politicized
Student Government. pled with event planning and sponsorship responsibili-
ties. So what actionable steps can ASSU senators take to
“promote diversity”? They could seek to make funding
W
ith ASSU election season upon us,now is a good for minority student communities easier or harder to ac-
time to take a quick look at last year’s out- cess. So tell us specifically which you intend to do. They
comes. In 2010, the Stanford Students of Color could also plan or sponsor more events celebrating the
Coalition (SOCC) endorsed twelve candidates in the diversity of the Stanford community. Tell us, in exact
ASSU Undergraduate Senate race;ten were elected.The terms, what events you envision. “Special fees”? We’ll
Queer Coalition endorsed ten students; seven were take a wild guess and go ahead and say most candidates
elected. The success rates of candidates endorsed by this year will be pro-reform. But do you plan on making
these two organizations — 70 percent for the Queer funds more accessible or less accessible? Do you want
Coalition, 83 percent for SOCC and 86 percent for can- the process to be more direct — decided by the student
didates holding endorsements from both organizations population — or less direct — a greater role for the ap-
— is both astonishing, compared to the 43 percent suc- propriations committee? And what do you plan on doing
cess rate in the general field, and troubling.The fact that with the refund loophole? We could close it or make the
these two interest groups hold so much sway in ASSU groups that people request refunds for suffer the conse-
election outcomes is perhaps the best proof that Stan- quences of students voting with their feet.
ford student government has become intensely politi- And finally “wellness” and “mental-health.” How ex-
cized, with opaque interest groups, meaningless coali- actly do you plan to reduce the stress of a 10-week quar-
ter system at one of the most competitive universities in
tions and buzz-word laden empty rhetoric.
Start with the interest groups.They represent the idea the world? The Stanford student body is already the
that the interests of colored, queer, Jewish, first-genera- proud owner of the most expensive pre-school class-
tion,low-income,or environmentally conscious Stanford room imaginable, the ASSU Wellness Room.We proba-
students are somehow separate and different from the bly don’t need another one or a playground for that mat-
general interests of the student body. For one, this seems ter, but if you want to build either, tell us. Or let us know
flawed considering the stated goal of most of these inter- exactly what promoting “wellness” means for the aver-
est groups is to strengthen community as a whole. How is age Stanford student.
voting in a block of similarly self-identified students ad- We understand that most campaigns in the “real
vancing this cause? Second, if an ASSU senator actively world” are won and lost on vague and idealistic promis-
advances a pro-colored, queer, or Jewish agenda, they es, but this is exactly why Stanford student government
risk failing their more important duty, representing the should not try to emulate California state government.
interests of the entire student body. The ASSU Election Those we elect to ASSU Senate will be dealing with small
Commission makes matters worse, adding legitimacy to detailed changes and specific events, which (sorry to say)
the endorsement system by making them centrally avail- will not change the world. And yet we as students allow
able on the official website. Banning endorsements alto- candidates who avoid anything vaguely resembling a de-
gether is obviously extreme, but the Election Commis- tail in favor of sweeping,general,fluffy campaigns to win.
sion has no reasonable interest in recognizing them. The take home message is three fold. For the ASSU
On to the coalitions and buzz-words. Last year 12 sen- Election Commission: there is a legitimate, community
ate candidates ran as a part of the Stanford United Now building interest in refusing to recognize endorsements by
(SUN) coalition with a platform centered on promoting any group or person.For those seeking elected office:rhet-
“student government that enacts pragmatic change on oric is cheap, especially buzz-words like “diversity,” “spe-
the issues important to all students.” Will all those op- cial fee reform” and “wellness.” Tell us what you actually
posed to pragmatic change or those who don’t care about plan to do,and do it by using words that have actual mean-
issues that students care about please stand up? It’s bare- ing. Finally, for everyone: don’t vote as a block.And more
ly a stretch to assume every member of SUN was also for importantly, demand from candidates an actionable plat-
promoting wellness, mental health, special fee reform form that differentiates them from others. Everyone
and diversity. And don’t forget they were all green, too. wants a more cohesive, diverse, inclusive Stanford com-
While a platform comprised of tackling these buzz-word munity. Let’s decide for ourselves who can deliver.
issues sounds admirable, it is nearly universal, and conse-
quently meaningless. If you’re interested in joining, being endorsed by, or ranting
The ASSU Senate itself is a glorified “Ways and Means
committee,” holding the key to the special fee chest, cou-
about SCSCOPSG email daveg4@stanford.edu or
zhoberg@stanford.edu.
T HE T RANSITIVE P ROPERTY
Cristopher
T
oday marks the beginning of to do the job.I’m not very sure how a
my last quarter at Stanford.It’s girl would feel at the prospect of hav-
Bautista
strange,thinking that this is the ing sex with a transman. Maybe I’m
last time I’m going to experience the stressing out over this a lot more
first week of a quarter and the last than I should be. But it terrifies me
time I’m going to register for classes. that I would be rejected from my
It’s so weird to think about.
So I’ve always considered myself
a late bloomer. I didn’t learn to write
first sexual experience because of
my body, which is why I don’t take
the risk in the first place. I might be
We don’t exactly
an essay until my junior year (and confident as a man in all other areas
I’m an English major . . . for
shame!). I didn’t realize I was a boy
in my life, but when it comes to the
topic of sex, I feel inferior and not
have,you know,
until the age of 19, and I didn’t start “real.” To a degree, I feel like I
male puberty until the age of 21. I
know I’ve taken a lot of great strides
shouldn’t be allowed to have sex be-
cause I’m not a legitimate man. It’s the right
in terms of my own maturity, but I something I admit I’m still trying to
still haven’t touched a lot of the mile-
stones that are part of normal com-
ing-of-age narratives. I feel like I’ve
work through.
And call me a prude, but I don’t
really see myself having sex with
equipment to
missed out, and here I am, almost at
the end of my Stanford career. I feel
like I’ve just started.
anyone until I am in a committed re-
lationship with them. It might be be-
cause my rather strict Catholic up-
do the job
For one thing, I’m still a virgin. bringing has made me this way. Or
I’ve hesitated about focusing on sex maybe it’s because of my inherent
in my column, mostly because I terror of physical intimacy. Either that guy who went too far with a girl
never thought of myself as a sexual way, I’m not exactly a fan of casual and made her feel awful the next
being. I’m at my last quarter, and I sex.One of the complaints I get from morning. But that’s just me, and I un-
have yet to have any sort of sexual my female friends is that I’m way too derstand that doing it the old-fash-
experience. I figured that maybe if I respectful towards women (now ioned way might be a bit self-destruc-
wrote about it, then I’d feel more please tell me, how is that a prob- tive, since basically nobody does that
comfortable approaching sexual sit- lem?). But I guess that’s how I am, anymore, but I don’t know, I can’t re-
uations. Maybe. Here it goes. and I can’t really change it (I sincere- ally see myself doing anything else.
You see, sex is a strange concept ly apologize, ladies). So as I approach my last quarter at
for transmen — or at least, it is for I see sex as something that needs Stanford, I feel pressured to finally
me. How exactly is a transman sup- to be done with consent and respect, have sex. It does embarrass me to
posed to have sex? We don’t exactly and I don’t think I can handle that if
have, you know, the right equipment I’m drunk, and I would hate to be Please see BAUTISTA, page 8
The Stanford Daily Monday, March 28, 2011 ! 7
O P-E DS
Student government as
social entrepreneurship
S
tudents can now change the
world with a computer and a
healthy supply of junk food.
We live in a time of exponential
technological growth where peo-
ple in our generation are the
knowledge leaders. So, you may
ask, “What has this got to do with
student government?” The answer
is everything — and here’s why.
Talk to Travis Kieffer, a Stan-
ford student who took a leave of
absence this year to run the non-
profit Gumball Capital. Earlier in
the year, he ran a marathon on
every continent to raise funds for
Gumball, and when I talked to him
recently, he’d been coding for ten
hours the day before and was
working on expanding Gumball
throughout the country. On a shoe-
string budget, Travis can potential-
ly have global impact. Travis is one
inspiring example of many.
So, let’s look at the question —
“Where have students had the
largest positive impact on the world
in recent times?” That’s a question
Chip and Dan Heath would ask. In
their recent book titled “Switch,”
the idea is put forward that when
you want to create a change, you
should look around for the “bright
spots,” where it’s working above
and beyond expectations.
My personal belief is that a
“bright spot” for student impact is
through entrepreneurship, particu-
larly when using technology. When
you look at how a sophomore can
start a company that reaches 500
million users (and growing) or how
a couple of grad students can
change the world with a search en-
gine, and at the many other less fa-
mous examples, the answer is pret-
ty clear: one of the most powerful
vehicles for people of our age to
change the world is through tech-
nology start-ups and social-entre-
preneurship.
The issues tackled by many so-
cial entrepreneurship organiza-
tions are the same ones as those
worked on by student government:
e.g. Mark Goldenson’s Break-
through.com works on mental
health and wellness though online
counseling technology, Kiva works
on empowering others to do social
good and cleantech start-up Amer-
icanEfficient works on sustainabil-
ity. What if student government
How you can help Japan,
and why you should
L
ast week’s earthquake off the
coast of northeastern Japan
was the worst in the nation’s
recorded history. Houses crumbled
in the shaking, an ensuing tsunami
ravaged everything in its wake and
the projected death toll has risen
into the thousands. The devastation
has yet to be fully grasped.
It is easier than ever to donate to
disaster relief and reconstruction
organizations, especially through
the Internet and mobile phones, but
with that increased ease comes an
increased need to fully understand
how these groups distribute funds or
provide services. Without this un-
derstanding, it is impossible to de-
cide which organizations deserve
your generosity. As a Japan-based
anthropologist and law student with
experience researching disaster re-
lief efforts, respectively, our many
friends, family and colleagues have
reached out to us asking how to
help.
For the majority of Americans,
donating cash is the best way to go.
This is especially the case today,
while the plight of the Japanese peo-
ple is fresh. When donating money
to an industrialized nation like
Japan, where doctors are highly
skilled, medicine is plentiful and
food is readily available from within
the country, it is best to send money
to local organizations. Donating ‘lo-
cally’ means minimizing fuel costs
associated with sending people and
materials from abroad. People on
the ground will best know how to
maximize the power of your dollar.
Instead of donating to the American
Red Cross, for example, please con-
sider donating directly to the Japan-
ese Red Cross.
Three other local organizations
stand out for their excellence.JEN is
a Japanese NGO that has much ex-
perience in disaster relief both in
Japan and abroad. Their teams are
already on the scene in the areas
most affected. They work coopera-
tively with the Red Cross.AMDA is
a medical NGO that has also dis-
patched medical teams to Tohoku.
Peace Winds Japan is considered to
be among the best in emergency re-
lief and reconstruction.
These smaller NGOs are ex-
tremely skilled and experienced.
were to become more entrepre-
neurial?
What do we mean by social en-
trepreneurship? Well, it’s not just
about starting new ventures. Steve
Jobs says that Apple is the “the
biggest startup on the planet” and
Google leadership still publicly
states that it considers its organiza-
tion to be a startup. Entrepreneur-
ship is about a set of principles for
decision-making and execution
that have arisen from the pressure
cooker of creating something new
with no safety net. It’s a set of prin-
ciples developed out of necessity
that is made for making a differ-
ence as effectively as possible. To
paraphrase Saul Alinsky’s com-
ment on democracy, entrepreneur-
ship is not an end, but the best
means towards achieving these val-
ues.
How does student government
become social entrepreneurship?
You adopt the principles.
Here are three of these key princi-
ples in a nutshell. One: staying
agile and reacting to changes.Two:
refining your initiatives by finding
out what people want, with an em-
phasis on data analysis. This prin-
ciple can be shown by the bur-
geoning success of Hadoop and by
techniques such as what Steve
Blank calls the “Customer Devel-
opment Methodology,” where the
development of initiatives loops
through trying something, testing
it out with users, collecting feed-
back and refining the previous at-
tempt. And three: using strategy
and understanding your competi-
tive advantage. These are just
some of the principles of startups,
and I firmly believe they’ll under-
lie the governance model of the
future.
We are in Silicon Valley. We
have some of the best minds and
hearts on the planet here alongside
our position as the world’s epicen-
ter for technology innovation and
entrepreneurship. Stanford is
uniquely positioned with incredible
infrastructure and resources to lead
the way with this new model for the
future. Bringing this together, the
sky is the limit — and it tends to-
ward infinity. Let’s do it.
STEWART MACGREGOR-DENNIS ‘13
They are attentive to local needs.
They respond according to each sit-
uation, even in isolated areas, work
flexibly in response to fast changing
post-disaster conditions, and are
often free of the large overhead
costs or major bureaucratic con-
straints that may plague larger
groups. Many such local NGOs re-
main in the region to help with re-
construction long after larger inter-
national organizations leave.
Today, relief efforts are focused
on food, shelter and evacuation of
those most acutely affected by nu-
clear radiation. Japan will have
other needs in the coming months. If
you cannot afford to donate now,
please consider sending money to
organizations that respond to these
future needs. For example, the Japan
Center for International Exchange
has partnered with the Center for
Public Resources Development in
Tokyo to launch the Japan NGO
Earthquake Relief and Recovery
Fund. Half of all funds raised will be
used to support Japanese NGOs
that are engaged in long-term re-
construction efforts. These will in-
clude rebuilding hospitals, schools
and retirement homes.
We must continue to monitor the
situation even after the media and
large aid organizations have left
Japan. The psychological effects of
the quake will undoubtedly be se-
vere, especially for orphaned and
homeless children. Save the Chil-
dren Japan will be setting up play
areas for children in the Tohoku re-
gion, attempting to give such chil-
dren a sense of normalcy.They have
pledged to remain in the region for
several months.
Japan’s reconstruction effort will
take months, if not years.The Japan-
ese need your help now, and they
will need your help tomorrow, too.
By knowing as much as you can
about the organizations to which
you donate, you can ensure that
your money will be sent to those
with the greatest need and with the
greatest efficiency. The people of
Japan are depending on you.
AARON L. MILLER, PH.D., VISITING
SCHOLAR, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL ON ADOLESCENCE, and
Erin B. Sedloff, J.D. Candidate, UC Hastings
8 ! Monday, March 28, 2011
BAUTISTA
Continued from page 6
know that a lot of my freshmen have
more sexual experience than I do,
and I feel like I haven’t fully taken ad-
vantage of the experimental nature
when it comes to sex in college. It
feels like, you know, now or nothing.
But I know I shouldn’t make myself
do something I’m not ready for. I
would never have sex for the sake of
having sex. That would be unfair to
both my potential partner and me.
But there is hope. During finals
week to procrastinate, I managed to
do some research on this great place
called the Internet. To keep things
short and relatively PG-13, I did dis-
The Stanford Daily
cover that transmen can have suc-
cessful sex lives (If you’ve got time,
look up a transman named Billy Cas-
tro. He is my new hero). I’ve realized
that my feelings now, though con-
flicting and complicated, are feelings
that are only temporary,feelings that
are not a testament to my own man-
hood or masculinity but to my own
insecurities about my body. Hell, I’m
a pretty good-looking guy — on the
short side,perhaps,but cute nonethe-
less. I shouldn’t have to worry about
the way I look. But I do. And it’s
something I need to work on.
Who knows, maybe I’m fabulous
in bed. I guess we’ll find out eventu-
ally.We’ll see.
Have some advice for this confused little
transboy? E-mail Cristopher at
cmsb@stanford.edu.
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WBBALL
Continued from front page
Four. Stanford will round out the
Spokane Regional on Monday
night against 11th-seeded Gonza-
ga, which defeated No. 7 seed
Louisville, 76-69, to reach its first-
ever Elite Eight.
Following her lackluster per-
formance against UNC, some ques-
tions linger around one of the Car-
dinal’s top players heading into that
game. Senior forward Jeanette
Pohlen, despite making a critical
trio of free throws in the final mo-
ments, missed eight of her nine field
goal attempts against the Tar Heels
and finished with just six points.
Stanford head coach Tara Van-
Derveer said she isn’t particularly
worried about the veteran’s unusu-
ally sloppy performance.
“Honestly, a lot of times I’m not
really concerned about her confi-
dence; I have a hundred percent
confidence in her,” she said. “We
are going with Jeanette. She is the
person we brought to the dance,
Monday, March 28, 2011 ! 9
and that’s who we’re dancing with.
She is a great player; she has had a
fabulous year, and the thing I said
to Jeanette was, ‘I’m glad that was-
n’t your last game.’”
VanDerveer’s feelings about the
UNC game as a whole were more
mixed.
“What we did very well [was]
not give them easy shots,” she said.
“We got back on defense. We did
not rebound as well as we needed
to, nor did we shoot as well as we
needed to, but to have seven
turnovers against them, we took
care of the ball, which was a great
thing.”
The Tar Heels outboarded Stan-
ford, 50-47, but the Cardinal com-
mitted only seven turnovers to
UNC’s 13.
The win extends Stanford’s win-
ning streak to 26 games, the second-
longest stretch in program history.
With a win against Gonzaga tomor-
row night, the Cardinal would tie
the mark for the school record.
Stanford faces Gonzaga in
Spokane at 6 p.m.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@
stanford.edu.
10 ! Monday, March 28, 2011 The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
SERIES
SAVED
Baseball takes two straight after loss
By JOSEPH BEYDA
DAILY SPORTS INTERN
An up-and-down weekend se-
ries at Sunken Diamond left Stan-
ford baseball with two wins over
Long Beach State,as the No.12 Car-
dinal bounced back after a frustrat-
ing Friday loss and take the three-
game set.
Stanford moved to 10-6 on the
season, with only a home game on
Tuesday against St. Mary’s remain-
ing before the Pac-10 season kicks
into full swing.
BASEBALL
STANFORD 6 moved to 5:30 p.m. due to expected
LONG BEACH STATE 5
3/27, Long Beach, Calif.
Each game against the Dirtbags
(12-11) became a race for six runs,
the final mark for the winner of all
three matchups.
“Clutch hitting was huge,” said
Stanford head coach Mark Mar-
quess.“We were able to get hits with
two outs and with two strikes, and
that’s exactly what [Long Beach
State] did on Friday.”
Stanford fell behind early in the
opener and couldn’t recover,
stranding 12 baserunners and leav-
ing the bases loaded twice. Mark
Appel gave up six runs in the first
four innings, moving to 1-3 on a
night in which seven starting field-
ers for the Dirtbags recorded a hit.
Appel and the bullpen held
Long Beach State scoreless for the
final five innings, but the Cardinal
could only muster two runs in six in-
nings off righthander Andrew
Gagnon (3-3) in the 6-3 loss.
Saturday’s game time was
rain in the early afternoon, giving
Stanford an extra four and a half
hours to prepare after a 5:30 p.m.
Friday start.
“It helped our guys get some
rest, because there was going to be a
really quick turnaround,” Marquess
said. Stanford Daily File Photo
The Cardinal got off to a much
The Cardinal baseball team came back from a tough Friday loss at Long Beach State to take two out of three games
Please see BASEBALL, page 11 from the Dirtbags and win the series. Closer Chris Reed, above, retired eight straight in a key save on Sunday.

La Tourette and Bollier runner-ups

as men’s swimming finishes third
in NCAAs
Stanford’s men’s swimming
rode solid performances from jun-
iors Chad La Tourette in the 1650
free and Bobby Bollier in the 200
SPORTS BRIEFS
butterfly in Minneapolis last week-
end, finishing third in the NCAA
Championships. Tourette and Bol-
lier were both national runner-ups
in their respective events.
Stanford ended the competition
with 403 points, falling to champion
California’s 493. The Bears’ title
was the program’s first since 1980.
Texas finished in second with 470.5
Men’s Tennis 1-2
in tough week
points.
La Tourette, last year’s champi-
on in the 1650 free, tied for second
with Georgia’s Martin Grodzki at
14:34.80. Texas Longhorn Michael
By ALEX ECKERT
Please see BRIEFS, page 11
The Stanford men’s tennis team
had a busy spring break, going 1-2
against three top-20 teams and
rounding out the toughest stretch of
its regular season schedule with a
resounding win against No. 15
UCLA.
MEN’S TENNIS
UCLA 1 ranked Bradley Klahn in a second-
STANFORD 6 set tiebreaker, 7-4.
3/26, Taube Tennis Stadium
On Tuesday, Stanford (9-5, 1-1
Pac-10) traveled to Waco, Texas to
play No. 16 Baylor (12-3, 1-0 Big-
12), a team that had defeated the
Cardinal in all eleven previous
matches between the two squads.
Unfortunately for the Cardinal,
Baylor’s streak remained intact on
a hot Texas afternoon as Baylor
grabbed a quick 3-0 lead and never
relinquished it.
In its first team match in almost a
month, Stanford got off to a slow
start and seemed to lose every close
set of the day. The Bears took the
doubles point and the first two sin-
gles matches in close, but ultimately
quick victories as the Card played
catch-up all afternoon. A 6-3, 7-5
victory by Ryan Thacher at the No.
3 spot kept the match competitive
at 3-1, but the match ended in a 5-2
victory for Baylor. The result be-
came official when Baylor’s 27th-
ranked John Peers held off tenth-
After returning from Texas,
Stanford opened conference play at
home against a surging USC squad
(16-2, 2-0), now ranked third in the
country. The Cardinal had a split
season series against the Trojans, 1-
1, but USC tipped the scale in its
favor with a hard-fought 4-2 victory.
With rain in the forecast, the
doubles point was canceled to get
straight to the singles.
Stanford took an early lead with
Senior Greg Hirshman’s 6-1, 6-3
victory over Emilio Gomez at the
Please see MTENNIS, page 11

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily

Sophomore Mallory Burdette, above, along with senior doubles partner Hilary Barte, led the Cardinal to
victories over No. 8 UCLA and No. 13 USC this weekend. Combined along with victories over Utah and
Pepperdine, the two key wins made the Card undefeated in four tough games over spring break.

Continued from front page

WTENNIS|Card perfect in tough week

tough. I had hurt my back and then
I got really sick during finals. I was
basically out for 2-3 weeks.[Coach]
Lele [Forood] said it though —
‘We got 20 percent better each day
we played on spring break.’”
The Cardinal then traveled to
Southern California for a three-
game road trip. Again, the team
couldn’t escape the rain while play-
ing Pepperdine (7-6). Every singles
player won her first set before the
match was delayed a day due to
rain. Upon resuming play, only
Kristie Ahn and Stacey Tan were
forced to go to three sets. Veronica
Li recorded a double shutout vic-
tory, 6-0, 6-0 over her opponent,
highlighting the day. Stanford
swept the doubles after that.
“Pepperdine is loud and always
really emotional at home, so that
adds to the competition,” de-
scribed Barte.
An anticipated matchup with a
tough and highly ranked UCLA
squad (11-5, 1-1) was next. UCLA
delivered Stanford a one-sided 6-1
loss last season that helped moti-
vate the team for its championship
run.The team didn’t want to repeat
that loss this year.
Stanford gained momentum
early with three convincing wins in
doubles. The nation’s second-
ranked team of Barte and Mallory
Burdette defeated the nation’s No.
17 team of Dolehide/Remynse,9-7,
while the freshman duo of Ahn and
Nicole Gibbs defeated the No. 16
team of Hickey/Jones, 9-8 (5), in a
tiebreaker. In singles, Stanford’s
only loss came at the No. 6 spot,
when Maya Johansson defeated Li
in three sets, 2-6, 7-5, 6-2, for
UCLA’s only point on the day.
“The scoreboard doesn’t show
it, but UCLA was a pretty tough
match,” Barte said.“We almost lost
the doubles point, but we hung
tough and grinded it out.That’s the
most impressive part, that none of
us were playing our best tennis, but
we all fought and found a way to
get it done.”
With one rival dispatched, the
team only had No. 13 USC separat-
ing it from a sweep of its first non-
tournament road trip of the sea-
son. The sole lead in the Pac-10
standings was also at stake, as
UCLA had edged Berkeley 4-3 for
its first loss in league play earlier
that day.
Despite the Cardinal’s top dou-
bles team getting upset 8-5, Stan-
ford took wins at No. 2 and No. 3
doubles to earn the first point.Now
up 1-0, the two teams went into sin-
gles. At the top of the lineup was a
matchup of the nation’s top-
ranked player, Maria Sanchez of
USC, versus the nation’s second-
ranked player, Stanford’s Barte.
Sanchez edged Barte, 6-3, 6-3, to
earn USC’s only point on the day.
Gibbs closed her match out in a
tiebreaker in the second set for the
6-3, 7-6 (3) win. Ahn lost her first
set 4-6 and won her second set 6-0
before her opponent retired with
an injury. Carolyn McVeigh, play-
ing at the No. 6 spot instead of Li,
won her match, 4-6, 7-5, 1-0 (6), in
the third-set tiebreaker and was
last off the courts.
Stanford returns home next
weekend to continue Pac-10 play
against Arizona State on Friday and SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Arizona on Saturday.
Senior Alex Clayton, above, scored Stanford’s first point in a 4-2 loss to
Contact Will Seaton at wseaton@ USC. The Cardinal dropped two out of three matches to top-20 teams over
stanford.edu. spring break, including a loss to Baylor and a win over UCLA.
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BRIEFS
Continued from page 10
McBroom won the event, leading
the field with a time of 14:32.86.
Bollier’s time of 1:40.76 in the
200 butterfly was second only to
Mark Dylla, whose mark of 1:40.60
set an NCAA and pool record.
—Nate Adams
Men’s gymnastics closes out
regular season with
dominant victory over Cal
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
The Cardinal men’s gymnastic
Junior Bobby Bollier, above, earned his way to national runner-up in the 200 team scored a dominant dual-meet
butterfly in Minneapolis last weekend. Bollier helped Stanford to a third- victory over rival California, scoring
place finish at the NCAA Championships 360.950 to Cal’s 354.525. After the
Monday, March 28, 2011 ! 11
pommel horse and floor exercise,
Stanford trailed the Golden Bears
by over two points. But after every
Cardinal gymnast scored better
than a 15 in the vault, led by senior
Alex Buscaglia’s score of 16.050,
Stanford held control of the meet.
Senior Josh Dixon won the all-
around for the meet with an overall
score of 87.650. Stanford’s team
score of 61.300 on the rings was also
the team’s best score on the season,
and its continued dominance on the
horizontal bar — where the team is
ranked first in the country — con-
tinued, led by Buscaglia’s impres-
sive score of 16.300.
The win against Cal closes out
the Cardinal’s regular season. Stan-
ford will compete next in the Moun-
tain Pacific Sports Federation
championship at the U.S. Air Force
Academy on Apr. 2.
— Matt Bettonville
BASEBALL
Continued from page 10
better start than the night prior
with two quick first-inning runs on
singles by shortstop Kenny
Diekroeger and first baseman
Brian Ragira.
Stanford starter Jordan Pries
came out strong but made a throw-
ing error after being hit by a
Michael Hill comebacker in the
fourth, and he threw a wild pitch
two batters later to bring Hill
around to score. It would prove to
be the Dirtbags’ only run.
“It was all reaction,” Pries said.
“I tried to reach out and couldn’t
catch it, and I got flustered and
threw it away, which was a terrible
decision.”
The righthander made up for it,
however, giving up no earned runs,
striking out the side in the sixth and
recording seven total punchouts in
as many innings. Diekroeger
backed him up by recording six outs
at short and grabbing a liner over
his head and several tough
grounders up the middle — an im-
pressive feat on a field that was still
slippery from the rain.
And on this night, the Cardinal
came through with enough run sup-
port to hold its early lead, winning
6-1. Diekroeger and leftfielder
Tyler Gaffney — who had stun-
ningly leaped into the bullpen the
night before in pursuit of a foul ball
without success — each knocked in
two runs, while Ragira followed up
a hitless Friday with three singles
on Saturday.
Following a short turnaround
for the 1 p.m. Sunday matchup,
Long Beach State roughed up Stan-
ford starter Dean McArdle early in
the rubber game. McArdle, who
had given up just two earned runs
on the season, allowed four in an
outing that lasted only 0.2 innings.
“After the first inning, we had to
kind of do a gut check,” said third
baseman Stephen Piscotty.“We had
to get guys on base.That’s the name
of the game — baserunners.”
The Cardinal did get baserun-
ners in the second, and came close
to making up the deficit. With the
bases loaded and no outs, a fly ball
by Austin Wilson came just within a
few feet of clearing the fence, but
was caught by Long Beach left
fielder Jeff McNeil. One runner
came around to score, but the next
batter, second baseman Lonnie
Kauppila, grounded into a double
MTENNIS
Continued from page 10
No. 5 spot. The Trojans then won
three straight matches until senior
Alex Clayton overcame a 3-0
deficit in the second set to win 6-3,
7-5 over USC’s Daniel Nguyen.
With the Cardinal trailing 3-2,
the meet came down to a three-set
thriller between USC’s Jaak Pold-
ma and Stanford’s Ryan Thacher.
The Cardinal junior had leads of 3-
1, 5-4 ad 6-5 in the third frame, but
Poldma stayed strong, winning the
third-set tiebreaker 7-2 and clinch-
ing victory for USC.
The weekend ended with a Sat-
urday match against 13th-ranked
UCLA (11-5, 0-2) and a chance for
the Cardinal to get back on the win-
ning path.
UCLA started the season in im-
pressive fashion, garnering a 9-1
record and a national No. 5 ranking.
However,the Bruins had lost five of
their last seven matches and had
consequently dropped in the rank-
ings.With the bitter taste of a loss to
Cal suffered the day before, the
Bruins were also looking to re-
bound come Saturday afternoon.
It was Stanford who seized the op-
portunity, winning impressively, 6-1.
“We started much better than
we have in our last few matches,”
said head coach John Whitlinger.
“We got off to a good start both in
doubles and especially in singles.
We didn’t get a good start against
Baylor or USC, but we did get one
Saturday, and it made the differ-
ence.”
The momentum clearly shifted
NADIA MUFTI/The Stanford Daily
Senior Tim Gentry, above, salutes
after completing a routine. Stanford
finished its regular season on Friday
with a solid 360.950 to 354.525
victory over rival California.
play to end the inning.
With the score at 4-1, Stanford
loaded the bases again in the third
frame and took full advantage of
the opportunity. A Piscotty single
drove in two runners, and two more
came around to score on consecu-
tive errors by the Dirtbags.
Long Beach State tied the game
in the sixth, but the Cardinal took a
6-5 lead off another Dirtbag error
in the bottom half of the inning.
We had to get
guys on base.
That’s the name
of the game —
baserunners.
—STEPHEN PISCOTTY
The Dirtbags only had one more
opportunity to draw even. But with
runners at the corners and only one
out, the Cardinal brought in closer
Chris Reed, who retired eight
straight batters and struck out four
en route to his third save of the sea-
son.
Piscotty led Stanford with two
hits, two runs and two RBI on the
afternoon.
The Cardinal will now prepare
to host St. Mary’s (9-11) on Tuesday
at 5:30 p.m., but more important,
Stanford is the quickly approaching
Pac-10 season. The Cardinal is
picked to finish second in the con-
ference by Pac-10 coaches and will
face Washington State (9-10, 0-3
Pac-10) to open conference play.
The Cougars were chosen seventh
by the coaches but still pose a chal-
lenge.
“Every Pac-10 series is a big se-
ries,” Piscotty said. “Every team in
the Pac-10 is good. But we can’t
worry about our opponents much;
we just have to focus on ourselves
and play to our capabilities.”
The Cardinal has already played
one game against a Pac-10 oppo-
nent — a 3-2 win over Cal — but
the victory did not count towards
Pac-10 rankings.
Contact Joseph Beyda at josephbey-
da@comcast.net.
in Stanford’s favor after Bradley
Klahn and Ryan Thacher, the sixth-
ranked doubles team in the coun-
try, clinched the doubles point by
defeating their seventh-ranked
UCLA counterparts in an exciting
match, 9-8 (6), that went to a
tiebreaker. Stanford never let
UCLA back into the match after
taking that early point.
“Right at the beginning of the
match you look up at our score-
board, and both matches are up 2-0
on serve,”Whitlinger continued.“It
was great for us to get that start, be-
cause that’s what we’ve been lack-
ing in some of the matches.”
Sophomore Matt Kandath
clinched the match at the No.6 spot,
winning 6-4, 7-5.
The weekend’s matches mark
the beginning of the Pac-10 regular
season but also punctuated an ex-
tremely difficult stretch of games
for Stanford. The Card has played
eight top-15 teams in the past
month and a half.
The matches have not been easy,
and the Cardinal has lost some
close ones, but Whitlinger is confi-
dent going forward.
“I think we were in every match
in this stretch. We came up a little
short in a few of these matches, but
we learned that we can compete
with anyone. This was a good
stretch for us — a tough one — but
a learning stretch as well.”
Whitlinger often says to the
team that the most important
match is the next one and the Car-
dinal’s next match is Friday at 5
p.m. against a vastly improved Tulsa
squad.
Contact Alex Eckert at aeckert@stan-
ford.edu.
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