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March 29, 2011
The Stanford women’s basketball team hoists the West Regional trophy after vanquishing Gonzaga to advance to its fourth
consecutive Final Four. The Cardinal will head to Indianapolis this coming weekend, where it will face either Baylor or Texas A&M.
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The Cardinal, the winner of the west regional,
will play either Baylor or Texas A&M in their Final
Four matchup.
By JACK BLANCHAT and
NATE ADAMS
Four straight Final Fours.
With a dominant 83-60 victory over
the 11th-seeded Gonzaga Bulldogs in
Spokane, Wash., the Stanford women’s
basketball team advanced to its fourth
Final Four in as many years.
“Yeah, I’m so excited, I really can’t
even put it into words right now,” said
senior guard Jeanette Pohlen, who will
leave Stanford having never missed the
Final Four. “Going to the Final Four
every year, I mean it’s a dream for peo-
ple, some people don’t even get that
close.”
The emphatic victory that punched
the top-seeded Cardinal’s ticket to Indi-
anapolis was the best game Stanford
(33-2) had played all tournament, and
the win was particularly impressive con-
sidering that Stanford faced a sold-out,
hostile crowd that was silenced by hot
shooting — particularly from the domi-
nant Ogwumike sisters.
“Before the game, I told our team,
‘history will be made tonight,’” said
Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer.
“Let’s be on the good side of it.”
Junior forward Nnemkadi Ogwu-
mike made sure of that, leading the Car-
dinal with 23 points and 11 rebounds,
while freshman forward Chiney Ogwu-
mike added another double-double
with 18 points and 15 rebounds.
The Cardinal shot 65 percent from
the field in the first period en route to a
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Junior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike (front) and younger sister Chiney (No. 13)
combined for 41 points and 26 rebounds en route to an 83-60 win over Gonzaga.
The sisters from Cypress, Texas, have been dominant so far in the NCAA Tourna-
ment, as both have averaged a double-double in the four tournament games so far.
47-38 lead thanks to powerful play from
the Ogwumike sisters, who combined
for 23 points in the first half.
Gonzaga (31-5) did manage to keep
within shouting distance thanks to sen-
ior guard Courtney Vandersloot, who
once had 18 points in a row for the
Zags, and during one nine-minute
stretch in the first half, was the only
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Bulldog to score.
Vandersloot, the only player in Divi-
sion I basketball history (men’s and
women’s) with 2,000 points and 1,000
assists, finished with 25 points to lead all
scorers in an emotional farewell game in
front of the pro-Gonzaga crowd.
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Volume 239
Issue 29
STUDENT GOV’T
Candidates face
campaign
spending cap
ASSU Senate members disagree on
effectiveness of cap legislation
By BILLY GALLAGHER
STAFF WRITER
On Nov. 2, 2010, the 12th Undergraduate Sen-
ate passed legislation capping the amount of
money any slate seeking executive office may
spend on their campaign at $1,000.
The bill came in response to the 2008 election,
in which Jonny Dorsey ‘09 and Fagan Harris ‘09
spent $3,597.31 and defeated David Gobaud ‘10
and Greg Goldgof ‘08, who spent $3,768.55. The
10th and 11th Undergraduate Senates failed to
pass bills containing caps.
ASSU President Angelina Cardona ‘11, who
co-authored the bill with then-Vice President
Kelsei Wharton ‘12, said that the problem wasn’t
an uneven financial playing field between slates,
but a concern that some slates didn’t declare
their intent to run because of financial con-
straints.
“I don’t necessarily think that money equaled
success in the past,” Cardona said. “But I do
think that money equaled even being able to run
in the first place.”
Zachary Warma ‘11, a member of the 11th Un-
dergraduate Senate and former Daily columnist,
felt that the amount of money was not as signifi-
cant as Cardona and others made it out to be.
“To say money isn’t important in politics is in-
sane,” Warma said. “There’s a way in which
money helps, but at the end of the day, you have
to run a smarter campaign and a better cam-
paign. People can outspend you, but you can win
as long as you do a couple of things really, really
well.”
Current ASSU Vice President Michael Cruz
‘12, who is running for executive this year with
Stewart Macgregor-Dennis ‘13, says his slate
“simply would not have the financial capability”
to run without the spending cap and the option
of public financing.
Joe Vasquez ‘11 said he and Tenzin Seldon ‘12,
Please see CAP, page 3
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Maggiano
talks Afghan
corruption
State Dept. official explored many
facets of corruption in Afghanistan
By NARDOS GIRMA
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Grey Maggiano, justice program manager at
the State Department, addressed the challenges of
international legal reform and rule of law in
Afghanistan on Monday at the Law School. Mag-
giano focused on the prevalence of corruption in
Afghanistan and possible ways to address it.
The talk covered the varying definitions of and
opinions about corruption, particularly the differ-
ences between American and Afghan perception
of it.
Although the United States government is
deeply concerned about corruption, it draws a dis-
tinction between forms of corruption that directly
impact the U.S. and those that affect the Afghan
people, Maggiano said. Corruption exists in
Afghanistan on a broad scope and in daily encoun-
ters that the Afghan people have with their gov-
ernment.
The U.S. does not have the means to address the
problem on all of these levels, he noted.
“We as the U.S. government can only focus on
areas that are most critical,” Maggiano said. “We
try to focus on areas of corruption that impact
Afghan national security and also the fight against
the insurgency.”
While addressing corruption on a broader
scope may be highly important to the U.S., the
Please see MAGGIANO, page 2
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UNIVERSITY NEWS BRIEFS

Faculty recruitment remains strong Stanford tops list of

By JANELLE WOLAK
The University has experienced
“very high retention rates and high
recruitment success” in hiring of
junior faculty, according to Vice
Provost for Faculty Development
and Diversity Karen Cook. Faculty,
however, have cited several excep-
tions to Stanford’s overall success in
this area.
In fact, the goal of the Faculty
Development and Diversity Office
in recent years has been twofold: to
increase the number of women and
minority faculty members and to ad-
dress the reasons why a faculty
member might choose to leave Stan-
ford. Only 11 percent of Stanford
faculty members are minorities, and
25 percent are women.
According to the “Guide to Re-
cruiting and Retaining an Excellent
and Diverse Faculty at Stanford,”
faculty recruitment searches are re-
quired to make an extra effort to
find qualified women and minority
candidates, and one member of each
departmental search committee
must serve as a diversity officer.Fur-
thermore, if the search committee
identifies a minority or female can-
didate who is qualified but not the
top candidate, the committee is en-
couraged to explore the possibility
of recruiting this candidate along
with the top candidate. Depart-
ments and schools may capitalize on
opportunities to hire “equally quali-
fied candidates from underrepre-
sented groups.”
Apart from these issues,Stanford
faculty report very high satisfaction
rates. Eighty percent of faculty re-
spondents in a 2008 quality of life
survey described themselves as
“very” or “somewhat satisfied” at
Stanford. In a similar Harvard study,
85 percent of faculty members de-
scribed themselves as “somewhat
satisfied.”
And yet professors at all stages of
the tenure track cited the same rea-
son that might push them to leave
the Farm: a desire for a more sup-
portive work environment.
For assistant professor of music
Anna Schultz, who was hired in
2010, the University offers advan-
tages and disadvantages in this re-
spect.
“I came here because I felt a real
sense of support for research and
teaching,” she said. “If I get a big
idea for a conference or a creative
idea for teaching, I know that there
is the support to make it happen
here.”
But sometimes that’s not
enough.
“There is a lot of support for indi-
vidual projects, but there are fewer
projects in which people come to-
gether collaboratively, “ Schultz ex-
plained. “It is possible that there is
less of a sense of community here.”
The University tries to address
these problems by periodically as-
sessing quality of life through sur-
veys and focus groups as well as
counseling and mentoring young
faculty. It also rewards faculty for
productivity via salary incentives
and other forms of compensation.
However, potential hires face
other deterrents, notably the prob-
lem of dual careers. The quality of
life survey reported that 41.7 percent
of incoming professors had trouble
finding appropriate employment in
the area for their partner or spouse.
At Stanford, the Office of Faculty
Development and Diversity ad-
dresses the dual-career problem.
Law professor Robert Weisberg
works directly with young faculty in
assisting their spouses or partners in
finding academic or other profes-
sional positions at Stanford and the
surrounding area.
Yet another obstacle is the Bay
Area’s high cost of living. The medi-
an sale price of an on-campus home
is $1.5 million, according to the Fac-
ulty Staff Housing Office.The quali-
ty of life survey found that 25.5 per-
cent of Stanford faculty reported
cost of living as a significant source
of stress,compared with 12.4 percent
of faculty at peer institutions.
Stanford has tried to address high
living costs by offering mortgage as-
sistance and allowance programs to
young faculty and by providing more
Please see FACULTY, page 3
“dream schools”
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Stanford is the No. 1 “dream
school” for students, according to a
Princeton Review survey released on
Thursday.The University took second
place among parents,trailing Harvard.
Students ranked Harvard, New
York University and Princeton behind
Stanford. Princeton ranked behind
Stanford among parents, followed by
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology.
In the same survey, 69 percent of
high school respondents reported
stress levels of “high” or “very high,”
an increase of 13 percent since 2003.
Moreover, 72 percent of respondents
reported that the economy affected
their college choices, and 86 percent
said that financial aid is “very neces-
sary.”
This year, 8,219 students and 3,966
parents participated in the survey,
which the Princeton Review has con-
ducted annually since 2003.
— Joshua Falk

MAGGIANO
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Afghan people are much more con-
cerned with the corruption they
witness and experience on a day-to-
day basis.
“This is where it gets really hard
for both the Afghan government
and the U.S. government to deal
with corruption, because the things
that most deflate people’s public
opinion are the everyday local cor-
ruption,” Maggiano said.
In addition to legal definitions, a
variety of other factors, including
religious and cultural issues, make
defining corruption particularly dif-
ficult in Afghanistan, he said. As a
result, it becomes even more chal-
lenging to apply those definitions to
government transactions between
the U.S. and Afghanistan.Addition-
ally, U.S. actions to fight corruption
in Afghanistan raise the issue of
how much international pressure is
acceptable.
While Maggiano focused on
Afghanistan specifically, he also
touched on the existence of corrup-
tion in other countries around the
world and cited Singapore as a na-
tion that has effectively decreased
corruption. Looking at the way
countries have successfully handled
ZACK HOBERG/The Stanford Daily
Greg Maggiano, justice program
manager for the U.S. State Depart-
ment, discussed the prevalence of
corruption in Afghanistan.
corruption could also help in find- These branches “don’t always work
ing solutions to the situation in hand in hand,” he said.
Afghanistan, he said. Lewis also acknowledged the
All things considered, great strides that have been made.
Afghanistan has made many “It’s reassuring to know people
strides, among them the creation of are dedicated and working to solve
the High Office of Oversight, Mag- corruption,” he said.
giano said. But he added that a lack
of transparency and mistrust of the Contact Nardos Girma at ngirma@
office still present significant prob- stanford.edu.
lems.
Christina Luu J.D. ‘13 saw simi-
larities between Afghan corruption
and her parents’ accounts of the
corruption they witnessed in their
native Vietnam. Luu’s recent trip to
Mexico, which opened her eyes to
other cases of corruption, sparked
her interested in the talk.
“It was interesting to hear the at-
titudes of the people in
Afghanistan,” Luu said.
Daniel Lewis J.D. ‘12 is co-exec-
utive director of the Afghanistan
Legal Education Project, an organ-
ization made up of Stanford law
students who write and distribute
legal textbooks about Afghan law.
Lewis thought it was particularly
interesting to hear about the differ-
ent definitions of corruption and
the clash between the different
branches of the Afghan govern-
ment in addressing this problem.

RESEARCH

Blood test could replace biopsy

tine said.
When Valantine read Quake’s
publication on detecting fetal ab-
normalities by examining fetal cells
in the mother’s blood, she noticed
parallels with organ transplant,
since both involve the presence of a
foreign protein in the blood.
The researchers’ approach,
which they call genome transplant
dynamics (GTD), can be applied to
other organ transplants, reducing
the need for invasive techniques,
Valantine said.
“There has been very little
progress in reducing chronic rejec-
tion,” Valantine said. “We now have
the potential to pick up early mark-
ers of chronic rejection and thereby
intervene and reduce chronic rejec-
tion and organ lapse.”

Contact Joshua Falk at jsfalk@stan-

ford.edu.

ANASTASIA YEE/The Stanford Daily

By JOSHUA FALK place these surgical biopsies.

DESK EDITOR
Researchers at the School of
Medicine have found that an in-
crease in the presence of a heart
donor’s DNA in a recipient’s blood
is an early indicator of organ rejec-
tion.
“In the patients who never re-
jected, we saw a very constant low
level of donor DNA in the recipi-
ents’ blood, in marked contrast to
patients who rejected,” said Hannah
Valantine, professor of cardiovascu-
lar medicine.
Valantine co-authored the study
with professor of bioengineering
Stephen Quake.Their findings were
published Monday in the Proceed-
ings of the National Academy of Sci-
ences.
Over the last 40 years, rejection
in heart transplant patients has been
monitored by taking small heart
biopsies and analyzing them for evi-
dence that the body is attacking the
heart,Valantine said.This procedure
is performed up to 12 times in the
year following the transplant and is
quite uncomfortable for the patient.
The study implies that an ordi-
nary blood test could eventually re-
“The beauty of this new test is
that it bypasses the need to monitor
the immune response,” Valantine
said.
The team discovered that the
level of a donor’s DNA rises consid-
erably before a heart biopsy shows
evidence of a problem.
“We think we can pick up the re-
jection a lot earlier, and we can see
how it improves after a patient has
been treated for rejection,” Valan-
tine said.
“This has huge implications for
the patient,” she said, noting that
treating heart rejection has many
side effects. “If we were to pick this
up early, we would not need to treat
the patient with such heavy anti-re-
jection therapy.”
The research team also included
Thomas Snyder, a research associ-
ate in Quake’s lab, and Kiran
Khush, an instructor in cardiovascu-
lar medicine.
Stanford’s collaborative atmos-
phere played an important role in
Valantine and Quake’s research.
“This is a very interesting
demonstration of the huge advan-
tage of being at Stanford with the
opportunity to collaborate,” Valan-
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When the the line blurs between reality and your online avatar
By ZOE LEAVITT use after noticing an increase in pa-
SENIOR STAFF WRITER tients whose Internet use had “up-
ended” their lives.
“We know how the Internet is
that your rudeness has no conse- requires nothing more than typ-
quences could stay with you forever. ing a number into a text box,
The more time people spend on- there is more than enough time
line, the more accustomed they be- to drain a bank account before

T
he snarky comment on
YouTube you dashed out
and promptly forgot
about last week may have
lasting implications for us
all. In his recent book, “Virtually
You: The Dangerous Powers of the
E-Personality,” clinical associate
professor of psychiatry and behav-
ioral sciences Elias Aboujaoude
postulates that society has only
begun to see the disheartening way
online behavior can affect individu-
als’ offline selves.
Aboujaoude, a practicing psychi-
atrist in Silicon Valley, became inter-
ested in studying the long-term psy-
chological consequences of Internet
transforming the world but not how
it’s transforming our psychology,”
he said.“We need to assess the virtu-
al world in an objective way, not just
look at the obvious positives.”
Based on his study of problemat-
ic Internet use in America, the
largest study of its kind so far,Abou-
jaoude found that the anonymity of
the Internet and the distance it cre-
ates between actions and their ef-
fects have the potential to exacer-
bate people’s worst tendencies in
the real world. In other words, that
user whose video you slammed may
not show up at your door with a
baseball bat and demand revenge
any time soon, but the impression
come to falling into certain behav-
ioral patterns — patterns that too
often involve talking without think-
ing or judging without empathy.
“The personality traits that often
come out online, unfortunately, are
often negative traits:grandiosity,im-
pulsivity, the tendency to regress to
less mature states, the tendency to
be angrier and less moral than in
real life,”Aboujaoude said.
“We’re not as good at compart-
mentalizing as we think we are.
More and more, society is going to
resemble a chat room,” he added.
The anonymity that we take for
granted on the Internet gives us the
opportunity to construct online
identities that we see as separate
from our “real life selves.” However
according to Tessa Price ‘12, a re-
search assistant at the Virtual
Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) of
associate professor of communica-
tion Jeremy Bailenson, the separa-
tion between these lives is becoming
less clear.
“Individuals are building their
physical identities into digital em-
bodiments and vice versa . . . we see
this on Facebook, World of War-
craft, Second Life,” Price said. “The
interaction between the physical
self and the digital self is so strong
there is little distinction between
what is ‘you’ and what is ‘not you.’”
In his book, Aboujaoude argues
that the endless stream of “Click
Here’s” and “Buy Now’s” and
“Meet Sexy Locals Tonight’s”
erodes individuals’ impulse control
and makes it easier to destroy one’s
offline life than ever before.
He draws a connection between
the recent recession and the atti-
tudes toward spending that Ameri-
cans have developed online. When
dropping $500 on Roberto Cavalli
carpal tunnel syndrome kicks
in.
“Money became a fic-
tion,”Aboujaoude said.“The
way we were spending in the
years up to the recession was
more like the way people
spend in Second Life, the
same kind of lack of
concern about conse-
quence.”
The Internet
can also foster se-
rious problems in
relationship for-
mation, and not
just because of cent
the possibility of — a num-
misplaced “sexts” and ber Abou-
Facebook relationship sta- jaoude
tus gaffes. For example, the calls “stag-
prevalence of dating sites may en- gering.”
courage suitors to make Integral
superficial judgments, ERIC KOFMAN/ to the problem, of
searching endlessly for The Stanford Daily course, is that inher-
perfection while being lured into an ent in the Internet is also un-
inescapable loop of dissatisfaction. precedented access to information,
Even if you hit it off with some- news, culture and communication
one on your first date — or even if platforms.So how will the balance of
you are married — the idea that the objective gains and psychological
Internet might offer someone better detriments play out? It’s too early to
can seem endlessly alluring. know, according to Aboujaoude.
These issues affect most of the “To some degree this is a big so-
country equally, according to Abou- cial experiment, so it’s hard to pre-
jaoude’s data.While he expected the dict,” he said. However, he added,
Silicon Valley and other higher-tech society needs to be more aware of
areas to show higher rates of Inter- the problem and make it easier to
net-related real-life problems, the confront.
rates proved similar across geo- “This is not just an issue for rich
graphic areas. people; it can come up in each and
So-called “digital natives,” those every one of us,” he said. “As a cul-
who grew up using the Internet ture, we should be aware of the
daily, did display higher rates of in- problems and not make them some-
ternet-affected behaviors such as thing you just deal with in the office
compulsive buying. While rates of of a psychotherapist.”
compulsive buying had long been
steady at six to eight percent, digital Contact Zoe Leavitt at zleavitt@stan-
natives now display rates of 40 per- ford.edu.

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who are also running for exec this
year, would not be able to afford
to put on a more expensive cam-
paign similar to some of those run
in the past.
Vasquez said the ASSU office
“is definitely a lot more accessible
for people of lower-income back-
grounds like Tenzin and I.”
Cardona also believes that the
bill is consistent with expectations
in other facets of Stanford life.
“If you look at the heart of the
bill, it’s very much in line with the
Stanford culture of taking respon-
sibility for your actions,” she said.
“Just the way that our alcohol pol-
icy works, the same way that our
honor code works. Stanford really
gives you a sense of agency as an
individual, and we’re expecting
the same thing in the ASSU from
our potential leaders.”
Rebecca Sachs ‘13 was one of
two senators who voted against
the bill. She feels that the spending
cap doesn’t address the main
problems with ASSU elections.
“The cap doesn’t actually
change the way the elections work,
it just shifts it to being more digital,
which it was already doing,” Sachs
said. “It’s no longer about t-shirts
and fliers, and that still doesn’t
make it about the issues.”
Will Seaton ‘13 also voted
against the bill, citing skepticism
of the feasibility of enforcing such
a rule.
Cardona noted that the cap
number of $1,000 could be
changed in future years.
“This year is very much a pilot
year,” Cardona said.“We do want to
see how it plays out in practice, not
just in theory. There is definitely
room for flexibility in the future, but
we thought $1,000 was a good start-
ing point.We looked at a lot of peer
institutions, and it was the highest
number that any other school had
for spending caps, and it’s on par
with what Berkeley uses.”
Warma argued, however, that
some language of the bill is too
vague and could lead to issues.
“I see loopholes miles wide that
if you read through this and you’re
paying enough attention, you
could do a lot of damage to cam-
paigns,” Warma said. “You could
throw what was otherwise an en-
tirely reputable campaign into a
legislative mess . . . some of these
are the most cynical scenarios out
there. But these are real possibili-
ties. And that’s scary.”
Cardona said she doesn’t antic-
ipate any problems with the
spending caps this year.
“I know every slate, and I fully
believe that they will do their best
to abide by the new guidelines,”
she said.
“You’ve made elections hard-
er,” Warma said. “You’ve conceiv-
ably lowered the threshold for
people to get involved financially .
. . but what you have done is
you’ve increased the threshold of
difficulty for what is already a hor-
rifically messy process. This was a
well-intended, horrifically imple-
mented bill.”
There are, nonetheless, some
things the sides could agree on.
“I’m really happy in the end
that they evened out the public fi-
nancing and the non-public fi-
nancing to $1,000 each,” Sachs
said. “I think that that makes it
more fair.”
Elections Commissioner
Stephen Trusheim ‘13 said he will
begin working closely with the ex-
ecutive slates to educate them
about the new campaign finance
rules and procedures now that
they have officially been approved.
Contact Billy Gallagher at
wmg2014@stanford.edu.
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affordable on-campus housing. The
University finished building a facul-
ty-housing complex last year on
Stanford Avenue, called Olmsted
Terrace, with starting prices be-
tween $700,000 and $900,000.
Faculty can buy a three- or four-
bedroom house with a 51-year re-
strictive ground lease, after which
time they must sell the home back to
Stanford. Despite the University’s
efforts, the high cost of living re-
mains a significant problem for as-
sistant professors, especially for
those recently out of graduate
school without any money to spare.
Contact Janelle Wolak at
jwolak@stanford.edu.
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Tonight’s Desk Editors
Joshua Falk

L
ike many other students, I
spent this past week travel-
ling with friends. But instead
of going on a cruise or relaxing in
some other warm, sunny region of
the world,we ended up in Greece.A
cold, windy, closed-for-off-season
Greece. Not quite what we had en-
visioned when we made the impulse
decision to buy tickets after watch-
ing a certain movie with Meryl
Streep singing and dancing on
Greek islands.
Despite the slightly uncoopera-
tive weather, it was a good trip. We
rented cars and puttered around
Santorini for a day, lazily exploring
what was one of the most beautiful
places I’ve seen in my life. We sam-
pled the Athens nightlife, where
Sunday nights are apparently more
hoppin’ than Friday nights.We rode
donkeys, OD’ed on puff pastries,
saw some pretty sweet ruins and I
bought three big bags of Crispy
M&Ms.
Oh, and we also heard lots of
Chinese. Six out of the eight of us
were Asian, so given that the
Greece that we saw was about as
white as the tasty, tasty tzatziki I
kept having on my gyros, you might
say we stood out a little. When we
would pass by souvenir shops or
tourist-trap restaurants, storeown-
ers would yell “ni hao!” in their at-
tempts to get us to enter. Some went
above and beyond, knowing they
had to differentiate themselves
from everyone else yelling “ni hao”
to get our business. “Kung fu!”
earned one shop an extra second of
consideration, another got points
for showing off knowledge of other
languages with a “konichiwa,
sushi!” and one even broke out a
classic “ching-chong.”
Now, many of the people walk-
ing around either just ignored us or
gave us just one or two extra
glances, and almost all of the shop-
keepers and waiters we interacted
with were friendly and helpful, so I
don’t want to give the impression
that Greece is overflowing with
xenophobes or anything like that.
Nor do I want to blow this out of
proportion — if the worst experi-
ence I ever have with racism is a
couple of errant “ni hao”s and
“ching-chong”s, I’ll take it.
That said, it did start wearing on
me by the end of the week. Al-
though the lack of real malice be-
hind the comments meant we just
laughed at them instead of throw-
ing down in fisticuffs, toward the
end of the week, I was just about up
to here with the whole thing and
was comparing it unfavorably to the
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components sometimes don’t come
together like they should. Heck, just
look at the ugliness on both sides of
the recent “Asians in the library”
controversy, which a) shouldn’t
have happened and b) needn’t have
become so overblown.
But even though our soup might
not be perfect, it’s still pretty darn
awesome. It’s always easy to look to
other countries and imagine every-
thing there to be better than here,
and in all my travels and stays
abroad, I’ve always been tempted
to think that I would prefer to stay
there rather than return home, but
as soon as I get hungry again, I re-
member why America’s soup is
pretty darn awesome.
Think about where we are.
We’ve got pretty tasty Mexican
food and legit Korean in Santa
Clara. We’ve got Chinese in Cuper-
tino and Ethiopian and Vietnamese
in San Jose. There’s a bangin’
Caribbean place in Menlo Park and
some great Indian restaurants in
Sunnyvale. And we haven’t even
mentioned SF yet. We’ve got all
these different places nearby mak-
ing authentic, delicious food be-
cause they’re catering to people
wanting a reminder of home. And,
obviously, the benefits of our multi-
culturalism extend far beyond hav-
ing more awesome restaurants to
eat at — I think it’ll be a while be-
fore I hear another “ni hao.”
Walking towards baggage claim
at the end of an 18-hour day of trav-
el, I was pretty happy to be back
home and dreaming about my bed
when an airport employee inter-
cepted us on our way to our
carousel and helpfully explained
that the carousel for the flight from
Tokyo was a different one.
. . . sigh.
Well, on the bright side, at least
she didn’t say “ni hao”.
F OREIGN C ORRESPONDENCE BlairMatsuura, '11

Stanford Asians: What’s it all about?

diversity of home. Tim is fighting a terrible case of jet
If America’s multiculturalism is a lag. Send him tips to get over it at tim-
soup (a much better metaphor than moon@stanford.edu.

O P-E D
C
onsidering the immense con- with the Asian American “Big Sib”
troversy that UCLA student program and the Asian American
Alexandra Wallace’s diatribe fraternity and sororities. These

Diary of a Frat Bro about Asian people has elicited, I

think it is necessary and appropri-
ate to address the role and the cur-
rent standing of the Asian Ameri-
I take pride groups are not only the most social-
ly visible groups on campus, but
their focus is technically just being
Asian American.

W in being Asian
ith the news of Kappa
Sigma losing their house
being received by the cam-
pus with an excitement usually re-
served for stories about oppressive
dictators being removed from
power, I thought it would be benefi-
cial to write this op-ed. Let me be
clear, Kappa Sig made mistakes, and
they were at the mercy of a Universi-
ty board that did not wish to grant
them another chance. Yet, too many
times on this campus I’ve seen peo-
ple view the fraternity system
through a binary lens: frats are com-
posed of depraved, rude and insensi-
tive people, while other places are
composed of upstanding citizens.
The problem is people who have this
incorrect theory embedded in their
consciousness tend to find facts that
reinforce this “logic” instead of the
other way around, which would be
using information to formulate unbi-
ased opinions. While a common ar-
gument is that we bring this reputa-
tion upon ourselves, I wish to chal-
lenge this assessment. For example,
SAE has not had a sexual assault
case levied against the house in the
three years I have been a member;
yet, somehow we’re the “Sexual As-
sault Expected” dorm. My freshman
RAs used to “warn” me about how
fraternity guys were rude and disre-
spectful towards women. For this
reason, I, like many others, initially
viewed the frat system negatively;
that was until I came to the realiza-
tion that a junior who chooses to live
with all freshman and hopes to pos-
sess a strange paternalistic influence
over them is probably less reliable
than an actual member of the Greek
community when it comes to dis-
cussing the intricacies of the commu-
nity.[SW1]
This is not to say that I don’t en-
gage in what some would call frater-
nal activities. I often drink heavily,
only perform exercises in the gym
that enhance aesthetics and refer to
anything Charlie Sheen does as
“bro.” However, in my spare time,
I’ve written two plays, I love spend-
ing Tuesday nights alone in my room
watching “Glee” (Santana is my fa-
vorite character) and I lecture a te-
chinical communications course
through the Engineering Depart-
ment. Don’t think that because
you’ve heard hearsay over the years,
come to an SAE party and had a bad
experience or watched “Animal
House” that you know the first thing
about me, who I am, what I do with
my time or my opinion and attitude
regarding anything. Additionally,
there are generally 300 men in the
house when we have an all-campus
party, and usually 50 of them are
SAE’s. Therefore, there is only a 16
percent chance that a male you came
in contact with lives in our house.
Every dorm on campus has a few
bad apples, and frats are no excep-
tion. I’ve often heard, from various
campus representatives, that mem-
bers of a fraternity should be moni-
tored by the notion of collective re-
sponsibility. This is a valid point; al-
though, if one truly believes that you
cannot judge an entire group by a
few bad apples, then it’s necessary to
be consistent. The day I hear some-
one state that Kappa Sig as a whole
should be punished because of the
behavior of a few bad apples is the
day I would like to hear that same
person argue that the mosque at
Ground Zero should not be built be-
cause a few bad apples ruined the
party for everyone.
I hope by now you’ve realized
that the title “Diary of a Frat Bro” is
a moronic sentiment. There is no
Please see FRAT, page 5
can community at Stanford.
The term “Asian American” was
coined in the late 60s, during the
Civil Rights Movement, as an alter-
native to the racial slur “Oriental.”
The Asian American community
arose as a product of the movement
on the basis of social and political
representation in American society.
Due to similar physical appear-
ances, society classifies all Japanese,
Koreans, Vietnamese, Chinese, Fil-
ipinos, etc. as “Asians” and projects
their stereotypes on us as a whole.
The Asian American community
was founded because society looks
at us a certain way, that is all.
The Asian American communi-
ty’s biggest problem at Stanford
and in America is general apathy.
For one, unlike ethnic communities
such as the Latino community, the
Asian American community does-
n’t have a common cultural or his-
torical heritage at its core.The Lati-
no community has cultural com-
monality in language, religion and
immigration history, while the
Asian American community is root-
ed only in social and political jus-
tice.
The role of the Asian American
community is to bring together the
Asians on campus and to be a re-
source for us to explore our Asian
American identity. In the bigger
picture, it should also present our
beliefs to the greater community
and empower us to combat the big
issues such as the “exotification” of
Asian women or the perception of
Asians as the model minority. Since
the community was founded in so-
cial and political justice, the top pri-
orities should be to educate society
about the issues and foster an envi-
ronment that addresses these is-
sues. If education and justice are not
the focus, there is nothing that actu-
American and it
is important to
me that people
understand
that
ally binds our community together,
making it essentially a glorified so-
cial club where people look the
same. I am not saying that Asians
should not be friends with other
Asians, but if an organization pro-
motes Asian American community
building, but does not have the
same focus on the identity of the
community, the development of the
community is stunted due to the ig-
norance of its members.
The Asian American Student
Association (AASA) represents a
wide array of culture and arts
groups,which in turn represent indi-
vidual ethnicities. I think that these
groups are great: they provide a tan-
gible contribution to the Asian
American community.
Conversely, I have a problem
Last quarter, I attended the
Asian Pacific Islander Leaders Re-
treat where leaders from the groups
sponsored by AASA attended to
discuss issues that affect the Asian
American community. There
seemed to be a general lack of in-
sight in issues regarding identity
and community significance, even
though the Big Sib and the Greek
leaders were in attendance. I see
them repping their Asian American
organizations with flat billed hats
and letterman’s jackets, but yet they
have little idea of what being Asian
American is about and why it is im-
portant, which really disappoints
me. Many students do not know
what it means to be Asian Ameri-
can. They know what it means to be
Japanese American, Filipino Amer-
ican and Korean American, but not
Asian American
To me, being Asian American is
being comfortable in my own skin.
It is appreciating my Japanese
American culture and also valuing
other Asian cultures. It is empathiz-
ing and caring about the struggles
and celebrating the successes of
other Asian Americans. It also has
to do with our battle with stereo-
types and false perception. I take
pride in being Asian American, and
it is important to me that people un-
derstand that.
This is the attitude that the
Asian American community at
Stanford should exude. The com-
munity needs to educate itself and
educate the campus, and I think
that it starts with the Greeks and
the Big Sibs.
Why do I care? I don’t want to be
judged based on the color of my skin,
and if the UCLA student offended
you, then this is your fight, too.
BLAIR MATSUURA,‘11
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FRAT
Continued from page 4

such thing. This is my diary, and this

is my opinion. I am just one person
who makes up a greater community,
and that community is far richer
than most people would like to
admit. If you want to get to know us,
email me personally and come visit
(in broad daylight, with a chaper-
one, and you can pour your own
drinks if you still have anxieties). I’ll
be glad to give you a tour and intro-
duce you to 50 unique people hail-
ing from 15 states and seven coun-
tries who decided to live together
for the most basic of reasons: be-
cause we enjoy it. I’m not saying all
criticism is unwarranted; I’m simply
saying come figure it out for your-
self.

DREW KARIMLOU ‘11

6 ! Tuesday, March 29, 2011
SPORTS
WEEKEND SPLIT
Card unable to
double up on
MPSF opponents
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
DESK EDITOR
The Stanford’s men’s volleyball team
struggled to shake off the rust as it returned
to league play last weekend for the first
time since March 6, earning a weekend split
against Cal State Northridge and Long
Beach State at Maples Pavilion.
The last-place Matadors pushed the
Card to the brink in five sets before senior
outside hitter Spencer McLachlin iced the
hard-fought, 3-2 victory with two straight
kills on Friday night, but the team could not
overcome the athleticism of No. 9 Long
Beach and the nearly perfect play of
Antwain Aguillard, who had 24 kills with a
.686 hitting percentage in the 49ers’ 3-2 vic-
tory.
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
LONG BEACH ST. 3 son rankings though, even though
STANFORD 2 people look forward to them. Pre-
3/26, Maples Pavilion
The No. 2 Cardinal (15-5, 12-4 MPSF)
lost a non-conference match against NAIA
champion California Baptist two weekends
ago, but that game saw three of Stanford’s
starters (freshman Brian Cook, juniors
Brad Lawson and Gus Ellis) sitting in order
to give some of the younger players an op-
portunity to play in a competitive environ-
ment.
Freshman outside hitter Steven Irvin
made the most of his third start of the year,
tallying a career-high 13 kills as Stanford
nearly pulled out the victory, dropping the
fifth and final set in extra frames 16-14.
On Saturday night against Long Beach
(12-10, 10-7), Stanford played its third con-
secutive five-set match, and second of the
weekend, and looked tired in front of a
Please see VOLLEYBALL, page 7
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
3/25 vs. CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE
W 3-2
UP NEXT
UC-SANTA CRUZ
(7-12, 5-5 Division III)
3/30 Maples Pavilion 7 P.M.
GAME NOTES: After splitting last weekend’s matches
against two MPSF foes, the Cardinal look to grab a
mid-week victory against UC-Santa Cruz on
Wednesday before it welcomes USC and Pepperdine
Junior outside hitter Brad Lawson (above) continued his solid play this past weekend, but the Cardinal
to Maples Pavilion this weekend.
split a weekend series by beating Cal State Northridge before falling to Long Beach State on Saturday.
Crook joins football
coaching staff
The Stanford football program completed its
coaching overhaul Monday with the announce-
ment of Ron Crook as the Cardinal’s new offen-
sive tackles and tight ends coach.The move had
been rumored since the end of last week but was
confirmed just before the beginning of Stan-
ford’s second session of spring practice.
Crook comes from the FCS level, where he
was most recently Harvard’s offensive line
coach. He served on the Crimson’s staff for
eight seasons and has experience at major pro-
grams such as Virginia Tech and Illinois.As a po-
sition coach, he replaces Greg Roman, who left
to be the San Francisco 49ers’ offensive coordi-
nator.
“He has over 20 years of coaching experi-
ence at various levels and is well respected as a
teacher and a motivator of young men. He also
shares our vision for the physical style of play in
which we believe,” said head coach David Shaw
in a press release.
Crook, Shaw and the rest of the Stanford
team have seven practices over the next two
weeks before the annual spring game at Kezar
Stadium. The scrimmage is set for Saturday,
April 9 at 2:00 p.m. and will be broadcasted live
on ESPN3.
— Wyndam Makowsky
Chinn tosses perfect game as softball wins three
of four in Stanford Invitational
The 12th-ranked Stanford softball team put
on a strong showing as host last weekend, going
3-1 in an abbreviated Stanford Invitational at
Smith Family Stadium. The Cardinal defeated
Sacramento State 9-1 in five innings and beat
Coastal Carolina 10-2 in six innings to open the
tournament on Friday, then had its 14-game
winning streak snapped in an eight-inning, 3-2
loss to San Diego State on Sunday.The Cardinal
wrapped up the weekend with another win over
SPORTS BRIEFS
Coastal Carolina, a 10-0 shellacking that saw
senior pitcher Ashley Chinn toss a perfect game
for the Cardinal. Saturday’s games were can-
celled due to rain.
Stanford Daily File Photo
The Stanford softball team extended its record to
an impressive 23-4 by bashing Coastal Caroli-
na and Sacramento State before having its 13-
game win streak snapped by San Diego State.
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Sophomore pitcher Teagan Gerhart opened
the tournament by giving Stanford (23-4) a win
over Sacramento State (8-14), improving her
season record to 13-3 in the process. Chinn,
meanwhile, got her first of two wins against
Coastal Carolina (14-17) on the weekend, as she
tallied eight strikeouts and held the Chanti-
cleers to just one run in her ninth win of the
year.
On the day overall, junior catcher Maya
Burns led Stanford at the plate, going 4-6 with
four RBI. Junior shortstop Ashley Hansen was
also 4-6 and scored three runs, while sophomore
first baseman Alix Van Zandt notched a pair of
hits and three RBI across both games.
The Cardinal’s momentum might have suf-
fered with the day away from the field, as
Stanford came out a bit sluggish against San
Diego State (20-13) on Sunday. The host Car-
dinal didn’t get on the board until the sixth in-
ning, when Hansen hit a solo home run to pull
the score to 2-1. Stanford would go on to even
the score at 2-2, but fell in the tiebreaking
eighth inning.
Chinn gave her team a big pick-me-up in the
nightcap, throwing the second perfect game of
her career as she struck out four Chanticleers in
a 10-0 win. The Cardinal knocked in eight runs
in the first inning alone, led by Hansen’s two
doubles and three RBI.
Stanford will play host to St. Mary’s tomor-
row at 6 p.m. at Smith Family Stadium and then
begin Pac-10 play this weekend as Arizona vis-
its the Farm for a three-game series.
—Nate Adams
Commodores put a dent in lacrosse’s perfect
season
The Stanford women’s lacrosse team
dropped its first game of the season on Sunday,
as the Vanderbilt Commodores pulled out a 15-
10 victory to spoil the Cardinal’s previously un-
defeated record.
Please see BRIEFS, page 8
The Stanford Daily
Daniel
Bohm
On My Mind
Final Four
exposes
‘experts’
W
ith four teams left in
the NCAA tourna-
ment, I think now is
as appropriate a
time as any to revis-
it preseason predictions.
In doing so, I came across the pre-
season rankings and got to thinking
— why do we have preseason rank-
ings in the first place?
Why is probably the wrong ques-
tion, however, because it is easy to an-
swer. People love lists. They love
numbers. They are easy to under-
stand, easy to order. When I don’t
know what to a write a column
about, I make a list.
There is a problem with presea-
season rankings aren’t grounded in
much of anything concrete, only last
year’s results, players lost to the pros
and graduation,and expectations for
recruits (which are often far off).
Consequently, the rankings often
impact teams’ public perceptions.
That last part is worst in football,
where if a team is ranked No. 1 in the
preseason, it will go to the National
Championship Game if it doesn’t
lose; even if two other teams don’t
lose and are better than that No. 1,
numero uno is going to the title
game.
I’ve never been shy about voicing
my dislike for rankings. Preseason
rankings, though, are the worst. You
simply cannot place values on
groups of players that have not
played a single game together. Let’s
take a look at some of this year’s pre-
season rankings.
No. 2 Michigan State: went 19-15,
9-9 in the Big Ten. The Spartans
squeaked into the NCAA tourna-
ment as a No. 10 seed and promptly
lost to UCLA. Sure, they lost a few
players over the course of the season,
but this was not the second best team
in the nation at any point in the year.
No. 3 Kansas State: went 23-11,
10-6 in the Big 12. The Wildcats
needed a late-season run to guaran-
tee a berth in the NCAA tourna-
ment.They were a No.5 seed and lost
in the second round.
No. 6 Villanova: went 21-12, 9-9 in
the Big East. The Wildcats lost their
last six games of the season and 11 of
the last 15, including a first round
exit as a No. 9 seed against George
Mason.
No. 12 Gonzaga: went 25-10, 11-3
in the WAC. The Bulldogs likely
would have missed the NCAA tour-
nament altogether had they not won
the WAC tournament title.
No. 14 Baylor and No. 23 Virginia
Tech: went 18-13, 7-9 in the Big 12
and 22-12, 9-7 in the ACC, respec-
tively. Both of these teams missed
the NCAA tournament. Sure, the
Hokies can say they were snubbed,
but neither team deserved its presea-
son ranking.
Meanwhile, two of this year’s
Final Four teams, including the high-
est seed remaining (Connecticut),
weren’t ranked and didn’t even re-
ceive a single vote in the preseason
rankings.Virginia Commonwealth is
the other team that didn’t receive a
single vote.
Do I think rankings affect the
NCAA tournament field? Probably
not. Virginia Commonwealth didn’t
receive a single vote in the last rank-
ings of the year either, neither did
USC, and Alabama-Birmingham
only received four votes.Yet all three
got controversial bids to the NCAA
tournament. Tournament snubs St.
Mary’s,Boston College and Harvard
did get votes in that last poll (11,
three and one respectively).
A team like Utah State, on the
other hand, only lost two games all
season, but had absolutely zero pre-
season hype and only received a No.
12 seed, indicating the Aggies may
not have made the tournament had
they not won their conference tour-
nament.
Maybe the preseason rankings
don’t do a ton of damage (at least in
basketball), or maybe they do, but it
really is astonishing how off base
they are. Which brings me back to
my original question: are they really
necessary?
Daniel forgot to tell you that these
rules only apply when Kansas isn’t
ranked No. 1. Send him your favorite
VCU joke at bohmd@stanford.edu
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small crowd of just 767 at Maples.
The Cardinal’s outside hitters —
McLachlin and Lawson — stepped
up with 21 kills apiece, and the duo
hit a combined .364 even though
the team hit .291 overall and just
.245 in the final two sets. It didn’t
help that Long Beach was pound-
ing the ball by the end of the match,
hitting a ridiculous .658 with no at-
tacking errors in the final two sets.
McLachlin said he thought Stan-
ford could build off the fact that it
even had a chance to win the match
in the face of such an efficient at-
tack.
“[A few breakdowns in the
serve-receive game] is the differ-
ence in this league,” he said. “We
can be right there, even if a team’s
hitting .400. But a mental break-
down late in the game is all it takes.”
Junior libero Erik Shoji added
16 digs, but the Cardinal struggled
to find an offensive flow through-
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 ! 7
out the match.After McLachlin and
Lawson, the rest of the offense
combined for just 17 kills with 10 er-
rors, not enough to take down a
49ers team that sits in the middle of
the MPSF standings.
But while Saturday’s loss was
disappointing, it was not very
shocking given the team’s struggles
the previous night against North-
ridge and the general parity in the
MPSF.
Friday’s match followed a script
almost identical to Saturday’s, ex-
cept that Stanford’s offense man-
aged to pick it up in the final two
sets instead of falling off.As a team,
the Cardinal was still below its sea-
son average with a .250 hitting per-
centage, but hit .308 and .421 in the
fourth and fifth games.
Lawson and McLachlin had 23
and 24 kills respectively, accounting
for most of Stanford’s output, but
the duo got some much-needed
help from freshmen Eric Mochalski
and Brian Cook. Middle blocker
Mochalski and outside hitter Cook
had a combined 17 kills despite to-
taling 11 errors and hitting just .146.
However, the man of the match
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for the Cardinal might have been
little-used middle blocker Charley
Henrikson. The redshirt junior
from Lafayette, Calif., stands at 6-
foot-7 and has an impressive verti-
cal leap but has struggled to crack
the rotation in his career with just
30 appearances and 12 starts.
But with the Cardinal unable to
pull away in the fifth set, Henrikson
pounded a nice set from Barry in-
side the 10-foot line and notched his
third kill of the match. The point
gave a jolt to Stanford’s game and
started a three-point surge that car-
ried the Card to a 15-11 game win
and the match victory.
With classes back in session this
week, Stanford looks to jump back
into the swing of things and regain
the momentum it had before the
long layoff, when it won five consec-
utive matches.
Stanford hosts a midweek non-
conference match against UC-
Santa Cruz on Wednesday before
No. 1 USC and Pepperdine come to
town for two weekend showdowns.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at
milesbs@stanford.edu.
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BRIEFS
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The No. 15 Commodores were
just a shade better in the second
half after taking a 7-6 lead in the
first, scoring seven consecutive
goals to stop any attempt at a Car-
dinal comeback.
Stanford had played five
straight road games, including three
in the last week — a factor that un-
doubtedly contributed to the lack-
luster second half effort.
Senior midfielder Karen Nesbitt
was the Card’s leading scorer with
three goals, and redshirt senior
midfielder Lauren Schmidt added
two.
The Commodores were the
third top-15 team Stanford has
faced so far this season, and as the
calendar crosses into April, the
Cardinal will transition from non-
conference play to Mountain Pacif-
ic Sports Federation (MPSF)
games.
The Cardinal now returns to the
Farm for the first time in almost a
month, and it will take on Brown on
Tuesday afternoon then tangle with
rival Cal on Friday night to open up
the MPSF season.
— Jack Blanchat

SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily

Redshirt senior Lauren Schmidt (above) had two goals against Vanderbilt on
Sunday, but the effort was not strong enough to overcome seven straight
goals in the second half that put the game away for the Commodores.

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RUN, STANFORD, RUN

WBBALL|Speeding towards Indianapolis
However, the strength of Stan-
ford this season has been its ability to
make a run in the second half. By
forcing its way into the paint, getting
to the free throw line and shutting
down Vandersloot, the Cardinal had
extended its lead to 21 points after
just seven minutes of play in the sec-
ond half.
By switching to a 2-3 zone de-
fense, Stanford held Vandersloot to
just four points in the second half.
Gonzaga was the number one scor-
ing team in the nation through the
regular season, but the powerful
Card defense held the Zags a whop-
ping 26 points below their season av-
erage of 86 points per game.
“I think we did a great job in the
second half; it was a great decision to
go to zone, because they have that
pick and roll play,” Pohlen said. “I
didn’t know if it was the best
matchups for us or I don’t know what
it was, but I think our zone really
came through big for us tonight.”
A balanced effort from the Stan-
ford starting lineup also helped, with
senior guard Jeanette Pohlen scoring
17 points, junior guard Lindy La
Rocque knocking in three threes to
score 11 and senior forward Kayla
Pedersen scoring eight points and
grabbing 12 rebounds.
Stanford’s solid team chemistry
came in the midst of a Spokane
crowd that heavily favored nearby
Gonzaga.
“I think that that type of environ-
ment gets us really excited,” Peder-
sen said. “I think it gets our blood
pumping, when everybody’s rooting
against you.”
The trip to Indy marks the first
time that the Cardinal has been to four
straight Final Fours, and Stanford is
just the seventh team to reach four
consecutive Final Fours in history.
Head coach Tara Vanderveer said
the packed Spokane Arena made for
an exciting challenge.
“Gonzaga has so much to be
proud of, what a great atmosphere,”
VanDerveer said. “I’m really proud
of our seniors and our whole team . .
. we’re very excited to get the win
here, and we’re going to Indy.”
Nnemkadi Ogwumike said the
Card’s ability to keep Vandersloot
quiet in the second half was the dif-
ference-maker against a motivated
Gonzaga squad.
“Vandersloot is amazing; she was
killing us, so we just said ‘Lets zone it
up and be as aggressive as we can,’”
she said.“When they stopped scoring
and we kept scoring, it got really ex-
citing.”
The Cardinal now awaits the win-
ner of Baylor and Texas A&M, who
play Tuesday night in Dallas. Stan-
ford’s Final Four game will take
place on Sunday, April 3 at Conseco
Fieldhouse.
Contact Jack Blanchat at
blanchat@stanford.edu and Nate
Adams at nbadams@stanford.edu.

WBCA honors VanDerveer as Coach

Courtesy Stanford Athletics
After guiding her team to another perfect Pac-10 season
and upsetting No.1 UConn, head coach Tara VanDerveer
was honored as the 2011 WCBA Coach of the Year for the
first time in her coaching career at Stanford.
of the Year
As her Pac-10 Champion women’s basket-
ball team seeks immortality in the ongoing
NCAA Tournament, head coach Tara Van-
Derveer received an honor of her own yester-
day. The Women’s Basketball Coaches Associa-
tion (WBCA) announced VanDerveer as the
2011 NCAA Division I Head Coach of the Year.
VanDerveer has received several national
coach of the year awards in her career, but never
from the prestigious WBCA. She was the
Women’s Basketball News Service Coach of the
Year in 1988, the Converse Coach of the Year in
1989 and the James Naismith Coach of the Year
in 1990, when she lead the Cardinal to its first
national championship.
“It is very humbling to be recognized by the
WBCA and by my peers with this honor,” Van-
Derveer said. “I am very fortunate to get to
work with such a smart, hard-working and dedi-
cated team of coaches and players. The dedica-
tion that they bring every day both on and off
the court is the reason for this program’s suc-
cess.”
VanDerveer has won a pair of national cham-
pionships in her 25 years with Stanford (1990,
1992), and has led her team to nine Final Fours. Stanford Daily File Photo
She was named one of 12 finalists for the Nai- In the past weekend’s Stanford Invitiational, two athletes snapped
smith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame last Stanford records, as Katerina Stefanidi broke her own record in the
month; the announcements for the Hall’s 2011 pole vault and Kori Carter set a new record in the 100-meter hurdles.
class will be made in Houston next Monday.
—Nate Adams