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April 5, 2011 Issue 34

UNIVERSITY Meet and Greet

Digital town hall
connects Egypt
to scholars
By MARWA FARAG
DESK EDITOR

The Center on Democracy, Development

and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), in partner-
ship with the Cloud to Street Initiative, held a
digital town hall from Cairo on Monday morn-
ing. CDDRL visiting scholar Ben Rowswell
discussed the recent Egyptian uprising with
three Egyptian activists at Tahrir Lounge in
Cairo,while members of the Stanford commu-
nity watched through a live stream and partic-
ipated in a chat and polls.
The Egyptian activists, Sabah Hamamou,
Mona Shahien and Abdel Rahman Faris,were
leaders in the youth-led movement that start-
ed Jan. 25 in Tahrir Square, Cairo. The move-
ment resulted in the resignation of 30-year
President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11. They
have since been involved in rebuilding Egypt’s
political system in anticipation of parliamen-
tary and presidential elections later this year.
The discussion aimed to connect the ac-
tivists with researchers at Stanford, Harvard
and the University of British Columbia. Ac-
cording to Sarina Beges, CDDRL program
manager, the discussion had 35 online partici-
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pants, including academics and CDDRL
members. Beckie Yanovsky, Alex Walker and Shilpa Apte, all class of 2013, meet with voters at a meet and greet. Yanovsky, Walker and Apte are part of the Le-
Participants posted questions through a land Stanford Juniors, one of two slates running for junior class president. Elections for this race and others will be held April 7 through April 8.
live chat,which Rowswell then posed to the ac-
tivists.Topics included the impact of technolo-

University rejects Kappa Sigma appeal

gy, citizen journalism, the future of Egyptian
politics, women’s roles and the ways in which
outsiders can contribute.
“We largely refuse any support from any
[foreign] government whatsoever, because
governments have their own calculations,”
said Faris, a member of the Revolutionary
Youth Council that planned the initial
protests.“But we count on popular support.”
Shahien held a similar opinion.
“I think there can be an exchange of infor-
mation between us and people abroad,” she
said.
“[But] say to your governments:‘hands off
the Arab world,’” Shahien said.
Hamamou, Shahien and Faris emphasized
their desire for a secular, democratic Egypt.
“Most of the people who are working in the
political sphere don’t want a religious country;
we want a civil [secular] country,” said
Hamamou, a deputy editor at leading state
newspaper Al-Ahram, which extensively re-
ported on the protests.
The town hall idea emerged from Blogs
and Bullets,a conference held by the Freeman
Spogli Institute for International Studies at
Stanford (FSI) in February on social media
and the struggle for political change.
“[Rowswell] decided to deploy to Cairo 10
Please see EGYPT, page 2
Vacated house to be used as upperclassman residence in 2011-12
! By AN LE NGUYEN and
ZACH ZIMMERMAN
EDITORS
Vice Provost for Student Affairs Greg
Boardman declined Kappa Sigma’s appeal
on Monday, upholding Residential Educa-
tion’s decision to revoke the fraternity’s
housing for the coming academic year. The
chapter will have a chance to apply for rein-
statement in January 2012 as part of a for-
mal relevancy presentation to a review
panel.
Following Dean of Residential Educa-
tion Deborah Golder’s March 11 decision to
strip Kappa Sigma of its housing, fraternity
members were given approximately a
week’s time to present their case for an ap-
peal. Boardman stressed that the appeal
was not intended to reintroduce specific in-
cidents that led to Golder’s ruling, but to re-
view the process as a whole.
“The grounds for appeal were based on
whether the process was unfair or if there
were new facts to consider that weren’t pre-
sented earlier,” he said. “They did not pro-
vide that evidence to me to overrule Dean
Golder’s decision.”
Boardman did make one amendment to
ResEd’s initial ruling. Instead of applying
for housing as part of a larger pool of un-
housed organizations, Kappa Sigma will be
given priority, allowing the chapter to make
the necessary changes with an elevated pos-
sibility of reclaiming its residence.
“If they make the progress we expect
them to make, they should be given the first
opportunity to move back into their house,”
Boardman said. “It’s going to take a lot of
hard work. It also requires strong leader-
ship and strong support.”
“When we ask them what Kappa Sig
stands for, we want them to have an answer
that is robust and complex,” Golder added.
The University is slated to specify the
conditions on April 22.
“Everyone would have liked to see a dif-
ferent outcome, and we have worked
tremendously hard for another one to take
place,” wrote Kappa Sigma President Brian
Barnes ‘12 in an email to The Daily. “Unfor-
tunately, the University felt it was in all par-
ties’ best interest for this hiatus to occur.”
Boardman’s decision came as a particu-
larly strong disappointment to the younger
crop of Kappa Sigma members.
“Our house has been working very hard
for the past several months to better the cul-
ture of the fraternity and to take steps to
create the house that both the University
and the Kappa Sigma members want,” said
Malcolm McGregor ‘13.
While members “may disagree” with the
University’s ruling, they are committed to
Please see KSIG, page 7

Homeless and Hungry LOCAL

Committee created for

Searsville Dam decision
By JULIA BROWNELL
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Stanford has started assem-
bling a committee for the compre-
hensive study of Searsville Dam,
the contentious landmark in
Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
whose future has remained unde-
cided for decades. According to
Jasper Ridge Director Philippe
Cohen, the committee will decide
the fate of the dam within two
years.
“We’re in the process of putting
together a team,” Cohen said.
“This is the first time the Universi-
ty is really trying to take a compre-
hensive approach to the issue.”
Searsville Dam has blocked
Corte Madera Creek since its con-
struction in 1891, creating the
Searsville Reservoir. Initially used
for recreation, the reservoir is now
a part of Jasper Ridge, where it is
used in research and teaching.
The dam also blocked off his-
torical steelhead trout habitat in
the creeks upstream. Steelhead
ZACK HOBERG/The Stanford Daily trout are a nationally threatened
A student dressed as a homeless person carries on a demonstration in White Plaza to bring issues of hunger and species whose preservation Stan-
homelessness to light. This demonstration was sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, SPOON, STAMP and other groups. ford had to address in its Habitat
Conservation Plan (HCP). As The
Daily reported last May, the HCP
did not take a stance on the dam’s
fate, saying it was too complex an
issue and that addressing it would
hold up the rest of the elements of
HCP plans.
Not addressing the Searsville
dam issue means that “Stanford is
going to be causing unpermitted
[harm] of endangered species at
the dam,” said Matt Stoecker, di-
rector of the non-profit Beyond
Searsville Dam Coalition.
This puts the University in vio-
lation of state water regulations
and the Endangered Species Act.
Now, the committee will attempt
to finally address this issue apart
from the total HCP.
“Any decision about significant
changes at Searsville is going to
take a long time. If the University
waited to finish its HCP until after
we decided what to do at
Searsville, there would be this long
period of suspense over managing
all the other habitats on campus,”
said professor David Freyberg,
who studies sedimentation at the
Please see DAM, page 7

Index Features/3 • Opinions/4 • Sports/6 • Classifieds/7 Recycle Me

2 ! Tuesday, April 5, 2011 The Stanford Daily
SPEAKERS & EVENTS UNIVERSITY

Guericke shares startup experience FACES unites Chinese,

LinkedIn co-founder discusses U.S.student delegates
professional networking
By ISAAC GATENO
Konstantin Guericke, co-founder of the profession-
al networking site LinkedIn, kicked off the Asia-Pacif-
ic Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES) Stanford
Summit with a keynote presentation entitled “Leverag-
ing Networks for Startup Success: Using LinkedIn Be-
yond Hiring, Getting a Job and Reconnecting.”
Guericke said he started LinkedIn to address two
problems: the inefficiency of the labor market as a
whole and the lack of a personal “agent” to manage
each individual’s brand in the new marketplace.
Guericke explained that before the Industrial Revo-
lution, each person was a business.After the revolution,
however, people became more oriented toward finding
a stable job in a large corporation and moving up the hi-
erarchy.
“For 20 years or so now, we’re into the Information
Revolution,” Guericke said.
He explained that each professional is becoming less
a part of a large corporation and more akin to an actor
in Hollywood. Individual actors now market “their own
brands and direct their own careers.”
“LinkedIn was envisioned as being every profes-
sional’s agent,” Guericke said.
But these developments have their own disadvan-
tages.Though the Internet has made it easier for people
to submit their resume to a large number of companies,
recruiters must now to spend a lot more time sifting
through the “noise,” he said.
He pointed out that people are more likely to suc-
ceed in getting hired when someone within the compa-
ny refers them. For this reason, Guericke wanted to find
a way to make it easier to find those connections and
make referrals.
“We are your agent for your whole working, produc-
tive lives, and that way, we make the job market more
efficient,” he said.
In the second part of his talk, Guericke spoke about
the lessons learned from his experience as an entrepre-
neur.
He emphasized, in particular, the importance of
teaching and learning entrepreneurship by example
and encouraged attendees to critically question each
lesson.
Guericke rejected the notion that the success of a
company depends on the idea behind it. He was
adamant that execution and distribution are more im-
portant.
“Companies just look like overnight successes, but
people forget about who was there before,” Guericke
said.
He noted that when LinkedIn first launched, jour-
nalists compared it to Friendster. They later drew com-
parisons to MySpace and now liken LinkedIn to Face-
book.
Guericke argued that the reason that LinkedIn has
continued growing,despite competition from other suc-
cessful social networks, is that the company is “clearly
differentiated.”
ZACK HOBERG/The Stanford Daily
Konstantin Guericke, co-founder of LinkedIn.com,
opens the Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society
(ASES) Stanford Summit Monday evening with a talk
about his company’s success.
He talked about the importance of distribution and
attributed success to having exposure to consumers
who won’t often seek out a better product after they
have seen or used the first one of its class.
“It’s not so much first to market but first to contact,”
Guericke said. “Most consumers don’t say, ‘Here’s a
product, let me see what the top competitors are and
choose which is best.’”
“You can add features later, but there is one product
that your friends use,” he added.
That fact generates value for the product.
Guericke also stressed the value of relationships, es-
pecially in a social media world where companies such
as LinkedIn enable people search.
“Behave like you’re going to have multiple [interac-
tions],” he said, pointing out that search makes it easy
for potential employers to seek out past co-workers, not
just people on a list of references.
He also spoke of the competitive advantage that can
be had by finding information that is not in the public
domain.
“You have to find the person that has that informa-
tion in their head,” he said.
Other lessons that Guericke discussed were the im-
portance of creating a brand, having a good team and
having a little bit of luck.
Tonight, the ASES summit will feature Gordon Eu-
banks, co-founder of Symantec, and Jennifer Morris,
senior vice president of Conservation International.
Contact Isaac Gateno at igateno@stanford.edu.
By IVY NGUYEN
DESK EDITOR
Delegates from China and the
U.S. will meet next week to attend a
five-day conference sponsored by
Forum for American/Chinese Ex-
change at Stanford (FACES) to dis-
cuss issues in U.S. and China rela-
tions. Many events during the week,
which runs from Apr. 8 through
Apr. 15, feature experts on U.S.-
China relations from across the
country, from fellows of the Free-
man Spogli Institute to Silicon Val-
ley entrepreneurs.
Twenty Chinese delegates are
chosen from FACES chapters in
Peking, Fudan, Remin and Zhe-
jiang University, while another
twenty come from all over the Unit-
ed States,according to FACES pres-
ident Daniel Braswell ‘11.These ap-
plicants were chosen from about
500 applicants in fields ranging
from engineering to international
relations. Although not all of the
students have extensive knowledge
in U.S.-China relations, Braswell
said that the conference is intended
to expose more future leaders to
this topic.
“We’re looking for people
whose interests are more tangen-
tial, and they’ll take from this a
greater appreciation of this rela-
tionship to whatever it is they
choose to do,” Braswell said. “We
look for a passion in issues — we
have people who are engineers, Ful-
bright scholars, Marshall scholars,
and so we look for peo-
ple who have a dedica-
tion to their passion
and who we think
will be leaders in
their field.”
During the con-
ference, delegates
will participate in
seminars, panels, so-
ERIC KOFMAN/
The Stanford Daily
cial events and diplomacy simula-
tions, according to Autumn Carter
‘11, vice president of programming.
This year’s events will focus on en-
trepreneurship between the U.S.
and China, international security is-
sues over U.S. and Chinese strategic
interests in Iran, food security and
models of democracy in the Chi-
nese world and featured speakers
include Iranian studies professor
Abbas Milani and Silicon Valley en-
trepreneur Jack Jia.
This upcoming conference will
be the first of two — in October, the
same group of 40 delegates will re-
convene at one of FACES’s Chi-
nese chapters for another round of
discussion and debate, Carter said.
FACES was founded in 2001
after an incident in which a U.S. sur-
veillance plane crashed into a Chi-
nese plane and the U.S.crew was de-
tained on China’s Hainan island,
heightening tensions between the
two countries. Following talk of a
possible outbreak of war, several
Stanford students founded the
group in an effort to establish better
ties between the two countries.
“These two countries will have
the most important relationship in
the coming years, so we’d like that
relationship to be based on commu-
nication and dialogue, rather than
suspicion and mistrust,” Carter said.
“If we can get dialogue going at this
level, then that relationship down
the road is going to look a lot more
positive than it has in the past.”
While the topic of democracy in
China is particularly sen-
sitive — several Chi-
nese pro-democracy
activists have been
censored and arrest-
ed — Carter and
Braswell feel that
such the conference
can still cover these
themes, at least for
their conference on
Please see FACES, page 7

NEWS BRIEFS

Four students named the cradle-to-prison pipeline.” Tubbs

Truman scholars
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Four juniors are part of the 2011
class of Truman scholars,according to
a release in the Stanford Report.The
foundation grants $30,000 graduate
school scholarships to students who
pursue careers in public service. Fel-
lows also receive leadership training,
career and graduate school counsel-
ing and internship opportunities
within the federal government.
One fellow, Ishan Nath ‘12, is dou-
ble majoring in economics and Earth
systems with a focus on energy. Nath
taught environmental science to sev-
enth graders in Cambridge, Mass.,
through the Breakthrough Collabo-
rative and served as a senior consult-
ant on the National Commission on
the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and
Offshore Drilling.
Teryn Norris ‘11, who studies pub-
lic policy,leads Americans for Energy
Leadership, an organization that lob-
bies for federal investment in clean
energy research. Norris served for
two years at the Breakthrough Insti-
tute, where he collaborated on a pro-
posal that the Obama campaign
adapted as part of its $150 billion
clean energy platform.
Tenzin Seldon ‘12,an activist on Ti-
betan issues, served as regional coor-
dinator for Students for a Free Tibet.
She is currently a fellow at the Center
for Compassion and Altruism Re-
search and Education and was a key
organizer of the Dalai Lama’s visit
last October.
Michael Tubbs ‘12, who is major-
ing in comparative studies in race and
ethnicity, is passionate about “ending
co-founded Save Our Stockton, a
youth advocacy group, and the Sum-
mer Success and Leadership Acade-
my at the University of the Pacific.He
also works for the Cradle-to-Prison
Pipeline Campaign and travels
throughout the nation as a motiva-
tional speaker.
Stanford boasts the largest num-
ber of Truman scholars of any univer-
sity this year.
— Ivy Nguyen
Senior named Hertz
fellow
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Max Schulaker ‘11 has been
named a 2011-2012 Hertz Fellow, ac-
cording to a press release from the
Hertz Foundation.
The Hertz Foundation recognizes
students in applied physical, biologi-
cal and engineering sciences, and the
fellowship provides $250,000 of sup-
port over five years. The goal of the
fellowship is to make fellows “finan-
cially independent and free from tra-
ditional restrictions of their academ-
ic departments in order to promote
innovation in collaboration with
leading professors in the field.”
At Stanford, Schulaker studies
electrical engineering and has ex-
plored alternatives to traditional sil-
icon transistors, concentrating on
carbon nanotube-based transistors
and nano-electro-mechanical
switches. He plans to continue pur-
suing these and other alternatives to
current silicon transistors in his grad-
uate studies at Stanford.
— Ivy Nguyen

EGYPT
Continued from front page
days ago to interview activists on the
ground,” Beges said. “He’s had over
50 conversations with activists and
was particularly taken by these
three.”
Rowswell,a Canadian diplomat,is
exploring launching projects about
“building democratic practices” in
Egypt. The use and impact of social
media in this sphere is of particular in-
terest.
Hamamou, Shahien and Faris all
used social media,in some capacity,to
carry their voices.While they credited
video footage of the protests with
moving people from their computer
screens to Tahrir Square, they also
gave traditional social mobilization
strategies their due.
“The idea itself is not a solution,”
Faris said,acknowledging the value of
social media in spreading ideas.
“There must be planning on Earth.”
Shahien concluded the discussion
with a strong appeal to the U.S., in
light of the current unrest in Syria,
Bahrain,Yemen and Libya.
“If you [America] want freedom
for all people, you must accept free-
dom for the Arab world,” Shahien
said.
Contact Marwa Farag mfarag@stan-
ford.edu.
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FEATURES

Charity Fashion Show 2011 ventures into

San Francisco
By ERIKA ALVERO KOSKI the Oak Room at Tresidder with only
STAFF WRITER a small group of Stanford-affiliated
models and designers. Courtesy of Henry Navarro
Current Producer and Director of

T
he lights dim and the sea
of gaily and outlandishly
clad audience members
seated in the rows on ei-
ther side of a sprawling
runway looks expectantly toward the
giant screen.
They are not disappointed: a mo-
ment later,a tall,willowy model in a tie-
dye, batik, robe-like dress struts out
from behind the scenes. She does not
break pace as she emerges from the
backstage haven, but steps forward
briskly with confidence, only pausing
to pose for the conglomerate of pho-
tographers clustered at the end of the
runway before she glides back up the
aisle.
She disappears backstage again,
where a gaggle of makeup artists and
hairstylists speedily adapt her “Disco
Glamour” look into “Ladylike 50s” or
perhaps “Traveling Nomad.”
“We work to create a cohesive
story with our makeup,” said Meg
Wehe,a makeup artist from the Blush
School of Makeup, the organization
responsible for coloring and painting
the faces of the models present. The
artists move quickly to circulate
through all the models and present
them on time, and backstage is a hec-
tic scramble of people.
Charity Fashion Show (CFS) has
not always been such a mega event.
Just three years ago,CFS took place in
Public Relations Thom Scher ‘11 re-
calls the original CFS, in 2007, as a
completely different performance.
“I came up here, and I met Wayne
Hwang,”Scher recalled.“He was pro-
ducing this really small event called
the Charity Fashion Show, which had
been around since the 90s but in a
completely different form.”
“I met Wayne through a mutual
friend, and we really hit it off. And it
became really clear that if I was man-
aging all of the business and he was
managing all of the creative side, we
could make Charity Fashion Show
huge,” he added.
The charity component of the
show was one of the founding princi-
ples, implemented by the Asian
American Student Association
(AASA) at Stanford, and carried
through to make CFS what it is today.
“Charity Fashion Show evolved
from AASA’s Sweat-Free Labor
Show, so the idea of benefitting the
community came somewhat natural-
ly,” CFS Director of Development
Stephanie Werner ‘11 wrote in an
email to The Daily.
“Especially because we don’t rep-
resent a particular design house, we
feel that it is of the utmost importance
to have a social cause,to use our brand
recognition to benefit those who per-
haps couldn’t afford a ticket to CFS,”
Werner said.
From Tresidder,the show migrated
to a tent in Roble Field, which was a
step of grand proportions.
“It was actually a huge improve-
ment,” said Ariana Afshan ‘11, who
has modeled for CFS since her fresh-
man year. “I was so excited, so
shocked. And then now, San Francis-
co.”
Charity Fashion Show 2010 made
it apparent that a different venue
would be necessary if the show was to
follow the trajectory it had set for it-
self. Last year, CFS faced serious eco-
nomic problems, simply because the
scope of the show had exceeded that
of most other student groups on the
Stanford campus.
“These troubles were largely tied to
fundraising policies enforced by the
University that are set forth for good
reason,”Scher said.
These policies, outlined in the Vice
Provost for Student Affairs (VPSA)
regulations on student group funding,
made it difficult for CFS to capitalize
on sponsorships.CFS therefore faced a
tough decision this year: either main-
tain its Stanford connections and
downsize considerably or officially dis-
connect from the University. They
chose the latter.
“As that’s changed, I think we’ve
brought on some way larger names,”
Scher said.“We’ve got Verizon Wireless
presenting as a sponsor and key spon-
sors of Pigment Cosmetics, Umbrella
Salon and Vitamin Water Zero.”
This year’s charity was the Princess
Project, an organization that donates
prom dresses to underprivileged girls.
The Princess Project also emphasizes
diversity of all types, a vital compo-
nent of Charity Fashion Show — au-
dience members could not help but
notice the aesthetic variety of models.
“Charity Fashion Show puts mod-
els of all different colors, shapes and
sizes on our runway,because we value
ethnic diversity and a positive body
image,” Werner said. “By showing
girls in attendance that you don’t have
to fit in a mold to be beautiful, we aim
to increase their self-confidence and
self-worth, counteracting negative in-
dustry stereotypes.”
Diversity not only includes differ-
ent body types and ethnicities,but also
experience levels and ages. Models
ranged from a Hillsdale High School
student, Cora Kammeyer, who had
never modeled before, to Jessica
Havlak ‘10, who had previously par-
ticipated in Charity Fashion Show, to
Ty Olsen’14, a model signed with an
agency in San Francisco.
They all shared the same nervous
energy before going on the runway,
and they all went through the process
Courtesy of Ed Jay
of learning how to “walk” and devel-
op their own style.
“You’re allowed to have your own
unique style, as long as it’s not really
strange,”Afshar said.
And unique walking styles there
were, as models jauntily shimmied to
Katy Perry, sauntered languidly and
marched stiffly down the runway.
Their expressions varied as well, with
smoky glares from some, subtle pouts
from others and traces of smiles play-
ing on the lips of a few.The works of 40
designers were displayed in sets or
“pockets,” — each themed after a cer-
tain decade as the show traveled
through time from the 50s to the mod-
ern day.
“I think that our move to San Fran-
cisco means that we have been able to
capitalize on a really huge community
— the arts community in San Francis-
co is amazing,” Scher said, smiling.
“That’s something that I personally
cherish, and I love working there.”
Contact Erika Alvero Koski at erikaa1
@stanford.edu.

COURAGE IN EGYPT ined courage from a lot of different viewpoints.”

Students examine role of courage Others’ questions included the role of the am-
biguous concept of “courage,” courage as a catalyst
in Egyptian uprising and the idea of a broken “fear barrier.”
“Our aim was not to answer these questions so
much as to raise them,” said Tyrone McGraw ‘11.
By MARWA FARAG The point of the project, however, was not simply
DESK EDITOR intellectual hypothesizing.The students were able to
construct for themselves a tangible example of

“G
o out and raise hell” may seem courage.
like unlikely parting advice from “The students looked at what their counterparts,
a Stanford professor, but it is kids the same age, were doing in Egypt and . . . why
how consulting professor in was that courageous? Would they do things similar
human biology William Abrams here? Would they speak out? Would they put them-
concluded his winter quarter sophomore Introduc- selves at risk?” Abrams said.
tory Seminar, “Injustice, Advocacy and Courage: The students were responsive to this goal, finding
The Path of Everyday Heroes.” inspiration in the acts of the protestors they studied.
Students in the class grappled with the idea of Many students were struck by the variety of forms
courage throughout the course of the quarter, consid- courage could take.
ering figures from Obama to a man who killed a doc- Although this is the first year this seminar has
tor who performed abortions to protest the practice. been taught, some of Abrams’ past students have
“The idea was to consider courage and how peo- started projects such as FACE AIDS and the Glob-
ple do things that are courageous,” Abrams said. “It al Health Corps, as well as a cell phone network in
goes beyond bravery . . . It’s the notion of a person Africa that enabled physicians in rural areas to com-
taking a stand, extending themselves, putting them- municate with hospitals.
selves at risk and doing that because of a belief that “I want students to dare to do things . . . whether
something is right.” it’s challenge a corrupt dictator or challenge an un-
Studying real-life situations was critical to this ex- just policy or improve the health care system, we
ploration of courage. Professor Abrams saw value in want people to be daring, and that’s what I mean by
having students personally connect with the people raising hell,” he said.
involved in the topics they were studying.
A few weeks into the quarter, an opportunity Contact Marwa Farag at
arose for students to do exactly that when protests mfarag@stanford.edu.
broke out in Egypt on Jan. 25. Young Egyptians
called for the fall of then-President Hosni
Mubarak’s regime, practicing nonviolent resist-
ance, sometimes at great personal costs.
Abrams assigned a presentation in which all
the students in the seminar would work to-
gether to explore how Egyptians demon-
strated courage.
“You don’t have to study this in a histo-
ry book,” Abrams said. “You don’t have to
read about it in a newspaper; you can get in
direct contact with the people involved.”
The IntroSem students interviewed Egyptian
students at Stanford and conducted a live Skype in-
terview with an Egyptian protestor who claimed he
was pelted with tear gas in the initial days of the up-
rising.
“What we had in mind was to build a better Egypt
. . . to stand up for our rights,” he said when asked
what motivated his group to risk protesting.
Though some demonstrations of courage, such as
braving physical attack, are easy to identify, the pre-
senters delved into more complex questions, asking
if the use of social media, for example, was coura-
geous.
“A lot of times, maybe from the media, you get
only one side of courage, and it’s kind of one-dimen- ANASTASIA YEE/
sional,” said Karl Kumodzi ‘14. “This class reexam- The Stanford Daily
4 ! Tuesday, April 5, 2011
OPINIONS
E DITORIAL
Editorial Board endorses
Tenzin-Vasquez
for ASSU Executive
D
isplaying poise,passion and
a platform as inspiring as
the diverse backgrounds
from which they hail, Tenzin Sel-
don ‘12 and Joe Vasquez ‘11 have
earned The Stanford Daily Editor-
ial Board’s endorsement for ASSU
Executive. They represent a wide
swath of campus and blend insider
experience with newcomer enthu-
siasm; they are also well attuned to
the unique levers at the command
of the Executive position and
demonstrated their resolve to bro-
ker compromise between students,
faculty and administrators.
The Board drew three conclu-
sions from the interview process.
First, Tenzin-Vasquez hold the
greatest promise to broaden the
appeal of the ASSU and advocate
effectively for students at all levels
of University governance. Second,
despite ASSU Vice President and
Presidential candidate Michael
Cruz’s extensive ASSU experi-
ence,his underwhelming responses
to basic inquiries from this Board
raised serious doubts about his
ability to fully leverage the influ-
ence of the Executive. Third, and
most importantly, both Tenzin-
Vasquez and Cruz & Macgregor-
Dennis would benefit from adopt-
ing the strengths of the other slate,
a testament to the caliber of all can-
didates and to the educational po-
tential of election season.
Tenzin-Vasquez shone when
discussing their central platform
points of diversity, transparency,
wellness and mental health. While
we cautioned voters yesterday to
push candidates to provide well-
conceived implementation plans
for popular platitudes, Tenzin-
Vasquez proactively offered de-
tails. They intend to broaden class
selection offerings on mental
health, pursue concerted aware-
ness campaigns for the Acts of In-
tolerance Protocol and physically
interface with their constituency
house by house, door by door, to
engage a general audience on tradi-
tionally niche issues.
This last point resonated partic-
ularly with the Board, which found
compelling the assertion that a
Town Hall on an issue like ROTC
reinstatement only mobilizes stu-
dents already invested in the issue.
The dedication implicit in Tenzin-
Vasquez’s promise to educate and
galvanize uninvolved students to
participate in the campus dialogue
was backed by their strong record
of community involvement both
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O P-E D
To Build Coalition:
The Cause of SOCC
H
ow many times have you
heard these words uttered
on campus:“I feel like we’re
disjointed!” or “There’s just not
enough unity on campus?” Despite
all the efforts of student groups and
their leaders, there remains an un-
derlying feeling that we are not the
united Stanford that we want to be.
It is daunting to hear how often this
sentiment is expressed.
There is something each and
every one of us can do, though.
Blessed with the opportunity to at-
tend a university rich with diversity,
we should make our Stanford expe-
rience whole by learning from the
lives of our fellow students. To not
do so is to squander the rare oppor-
tunity to revel in true diversity. The
Students of Color Coalition
(SOCC) sees this challenge and or-
ganizes around it.
Comprised of the Asian Ameri-
can Students’ Association (AASA),
through and independently of the
ASSU.Vasquez, a versatile student
group leader, demonstrated his
ability to merge disparate commu-
nities just earlier that day by spear-
heading the Kappa Sigma Field of
Dreams event for disabled chil-
dren. Seldon, the ASSU Diversity
Chair, has proven her ability to
sample a wide assortment of stu-
dent views on diversity and intoler-
ance and translate that data into
tangible progress through collabo-
ration with the Administration.
The Board felt that Tenzin-
Vasquez truly appreciated the
unique role that the Executive
plays as the preferred representa-
tive of the student body to the Ad-
ministration. The candidates re-
peatedly cited constructive rela-
tionships and compromise with ad-
ministrators as the most powerful
aspects of the ASSU executive arse-
nal, allowing the Exec to transcend
the limited scope of influence that
ASSU Senators and other students
have on student life and academic
policy. While Stewart Macgregor-
Dennis ‘13 recited a laundry list of
six potential levers that the Exec
had at its disposal,none invoked the
powerful stature that successful
Execs have parlayed into advocacy
on University finances, academic
policy and student life.
The Board was gravely disap-
pointed by the interview perform-
ance of Michael Cruz ‘12, who ap-
peared to defer to Macgregor-
Dennis on most issues, did not cor-
rectly match his statements to the
platform points listed on the slate’s
website, and gave indirect answers
to straightforward questions. His
personal growth in the ASSU —
while admirable — is not an ap-
propriate response to an inquiry
about the policy levers at the
Exec’s disposal under all but the
most strained interpretation of the
question. When the next clash be-
tween the best interests of students
and administrators arises, and the
time comes for the ASSU Presi-
dent to confront the University bu-
reaucracy — as has been the case
every year in recent memory —
this Board is not confident that
Cruz would acquit himself and his
constituents well. Similarly, his
bland promises to extend the
ASSU’s reach ring hollow consid-
ering students’ persistent disinter-
est in the ASSU over his three
years of service.
Please see EDITORIAL, page 5
the Black Student Union (BSU),
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano
de Aztlan (MEChA), the Muslim
Student Awareness Network
(MSAN), the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) and the Stanford
American Indian Organization
(SAIO), the leaders of our groups
know what it means to learn from
and through diversity. To us, the
strength and sovereignty of our
communities is essential, as diversi-
ty is impossible to have if every par-
ticipant forfeits his or her own ideas.
But we not only maintain our indi-
vidual identities, promoting under-
standing and unity from within each
of our communities — we also
work together to combat injustices
and advocate for social change.
SOCC realizes the strength and
value of unity. Originally founded
Please see SOCC, page 5
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I H AVE T WO H EADS
Me, Myself and Stanford
A
pril is here, and with it, one Moreover, I find myself questioning
season has ended and an- the relationship that our admission Rachel
other has begun. No, I’m not
talking about spring. On its way out
has to our future success. If we
achieve milestones in our future
Kolb
is admission season, along with its lives, is it because we are the types of
pell-mell uncertainty for those who people who would have succeeded
once visualized the word “Stan- anyway? Or is it because the good
ford” as part of their futures. On its
way in is the triumphal procession,
fortune we had of getting into Stan-
ford opened up those horizons for
Once we’ve gotten into
or the newly admitted members of us? Most troublesomely, does the
the class of 2015, many of whom will
visit campus in a few weeks for
fact that I find myself dwelling on
such questions reflect the depth of
Stanford,it is time to
Admit Weekend.The analogy, how- my Stanford-indoctrinated elitism?
ever, goes a bit further: depending I suspect that many of us, once stop speculating about
on specific admission outcomes for we’ve gotten into Stanford, stop
these current high school seniors,
this time is either the closing of one
questioning the factors that went
into our admission. And with good why we made it and
door or the opening of another. reason.Once we’ve gotten into Stan-
As someone with a sibling who
applied to Stanford this year, I find
ford, it is time to stop speculating
about which factors could have influ-
other people didn’t.
the end of this admissions cycle more enced that outcome, about why we
thought-provoking than it has been made it and other people didn’t.
doubts I encountered about whether
since I emerged from it three years Even University administrators em-
ago. I find myself once again ques- phasize this outlook during the be- I belonged at Stanford. You got in,
tioning, this time on a more philo- ginning weeks of freshman year.I re- that says it all was the message I got.
sophical than personal level, exactly member being told, in those first Now move on and take advantage of
what entitles our inclusion into a gatherings full of shouting and
school like Stanford in the first place. school spirit, to dismiss whatever Please see KOLB, page 5
F RESHLY B AKED
Chicken McNuggets
S
ome of you have probably seen contain any mechanically separated
that photo of a thick, python- chicken anymore. Crisis averted.
like, Pepto Bismol-tinted coil I was reminded by this almost
of mechanically separated meat disastrous episode when I went out
being scraped off into a cardboard Tim to dinner with a friend last quarter.
box. It’s some freaky stuff, and Moon I was trying to convince her that we
when I first saw it, attached to the don’t want to know everything
title “Pre-Chicken Nugget Meat about our friends, but after wrap-
Paste, a.k.a. Mechanically Separat- ping up one last point,my friend just
ed Poultry,” any cravings I had for there’s no substitute for the real sort of “mm-hmm”ed and went
Chicken McNuggets disappeared. thing. That crispy coating that’s not back to her duck.
Understandably. like any other breading in the My friend may have been more
This was distressing, because I world, the smooth and juicy white interested in her duck (it was pretty
like Chicken McNuggets. Chicken meat inside (although I think we tasty) than in my amateur social
McNuggets remind me of being a can all agree that they used to be theorizing, but that duck itself
kid, of stopping at McDonald’s on better when they had dark meat), demonstrates why we really don’t
road trips with my family, of only following each bite with one or two want to know everything about
ever getting sweet and sour sauce to of those bangin’ fries . . . everything in our lives. My friend
dip the McNuggets in, because Thinking that I’d ruined Chicken probably didn’t want to know
that’s what my parents always got. McNuggets for myself forever by where her duck had come from or
They’re also just plain good, from seeing that box of pink meat slurry, how it had gotten to her plate for
time to time. Don’t get me wrong; I instantly regretted caving to my the same reasons that I was almost
I’m all for eating fresh, seasonal, curiosity and clicking on the link. put off Chicken McNuggets by that
local and all that other good stuff, Luckily, I stayed calm enough to do awful picture. And for those same
but the couple of times a year I get a a little sleuthing and found that
craving for a Chicken McNugget, Chicken McNuggets don’t actually Please see MOON, page 5
The Stanford Daily
KOLB
Continued from page 4
the experience.
In many ways, this advice is wise.
Life moves on, and whether or not
Stanford is part of the equation, we
need to make the most of the oppor-
tunities we do have. Regardless of
whether we are the lucky ones or
not. With an admission rate now
hovering at around 7 percent,
though, how could we not be a little
bit lucky? Believing otherwise, be-
lieving that there wasn’t some unex-
plained factor that made each of us
stand out on our applications, would
just be conceited. We already live in
an academic environment that seeks
to assure us that we are exceptional,
sometimes to troublesome levels,
but we cannot lose sight of the fact
that we are not the only ones who
could succeed in a University like
this. So what has brought us, and not
others, here?
Before I go any further, let me
backtrack and clarify: I do not mean
that any one of us survived the ad-
mission process based on luck alone.
That certainly isn’t true,for the more
I interact with other Stanford stu-
dents, the more I marvel at the
uniqueness, passion and promise
that each of them has. This sense of
appreciation seems to increase in
proportion with my own maturity,
suggesting that perhaps I am grow-
ing into Stanford more than Stan-
ford is growing into me.The qualities
I brought to the table three years
ago, combined with Stanford’s aca-
demic and extracurricular opportu-
nities, have led me not only to this
maturity but also to a heightened re-
alization of how fortunate I am.
The question over which I’m
pondering seems to be a variant of
the old nature-versus-nurture,
chicken-versus-egg debate. In life
beyond Stanford, which makes the
most difference — internal qualities
or environmental factors? As al-
ways, there’s no way to place one ir-
revocably over the other. It’s proba-
bly a little bit of both, and this real-
ization should be both empowering
and humbling. Empowering be-
cause we recognize that we march
forth into the world equipped with
the inner qualities to overcome ob-
stacles more daunting than an
IHUM paper.Humbling because we
should never lose sight of the fact
that our circumstances have allowed
us to become the person who can do
exactly that.
Education is a peculiar combina-
tion of these internal and external
factors, and I don’t think we should
lose sight of either. The old adage
says that “education is one thing
they can’t take away from you,” but
it is a gift rather than a birthright. In
the future, our Stanford educations
may pull us through some rough
spots, but why should we and not
other, equally qualified students be
the ones to receive that education in
the first place? Luck, opportunity,
blessings, good fortune? I don’t
know, but it’s something outside of
our control — and the sense of per-
spective that comes with that real-
ization is something no amount of
elitism can penetrate.
Which came first: the chicken or the
egg? Send Rachel your thoughts at
rkolb@stanford.edu.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 ! 5
MOON
Continued from page 4
reasons, we probably don’t want to
know about all the skeletons in our
friends’ closets, about how many
people our significant other has
been with, about what people have
said about us.
I have another friend, “Britta,”
who’s pretty much a walking,talking
mechanically separated meat photo
— every time we catch up and I
mention someone that we both hap-
pen to know, Britta drops some
bomb about that person that jolts
my image of them. Thankfully, it’s
never quite as dramatic as the
Chicken McNugget episode, but it’s
still remarkable how her image-jolt-
ing bomb dropping is like clock-
work. Heck, just last week, even
though I’ve stopped bringing people
up in our conversations out of fear of
her “talent,” Britta somehow me-
chanically separated meat photo-ed
someone who I didn’t even bring up.
Unstoppable, that one.
We may not want to know every-
thing about everyone in our lives or
about everything that we eat, but
things seem to be changing. Food-
wise, there’s an increasing push to
know the provenance of our food,
whether animals have been hu-
manely treated, whether fair labor
practices are being used, and
there’s even the new trend of being
an “ethical” carnivore by con-
fronting where one’s meat comes
from. And in our interpersonal re-
lations, we’re sharing more and
EDITORIAL
Continued from page 4
Macgregor-Dennis dominated
the interview, giving several well
thought out and technically im-
pressive initiatives. However, he
could not answer why fundamen-
tally the Executive position was
the right position for him to trot
out his iPhone apps and web ana-
lytic data analysis. As ASSU Tech-
nology Chair, Macgregor-Dennis
would have similar latitude to in-
novate and build the ASSU’s tech
presence; this Board urges him to
consider that alternative, noting
that his recommendations are
strong. On balance, however, Mac-
gregor-Dennis alone cannot run
the Executive office.
The position of Exec should be
filled by visionary individuals who
represent the full range of Stan-
ford’s talent and will broaden the
appeal of the ASSU to the alarm-
ingly large apathetic segment of
students and advocate on behalf of
SOCC
Continued from page 4
as the Rainbow Coalition in 1987,
during a time when cultural and
ethnic diversity seemed a low prior-
ity, SOCC has worked to protect
and promote the values of students
of color on campus. Since then, we
have naturally expanded our mis-
sion to advocate for campus diver-
sity of every nature — diversity of
thought, socioeconomic back-
ground, sexual orientation, political
ideology, geographic origins and re-
ligious beliefs. SOCC represents
the continuation of a long tradition
of student leaders and their com-
munities fighting for systematic
changes that allow all student
groups to provide the program-
ming and support they need to con-
tinually strengthen our vibrant
communities.
In the larger scheme of things,
ASSU elections seem like an ob-
scure way to effect such a change,
but year after year, we engage with
the ASSU, the elections and its
leaders because these are the most
direct ways of strengthening Stan-
ford’s diversity and protecting the
interests of student organizations
across campus.Who better than our
elected leaders to forge a voice for
all voices, give a face to all peoples
and make a space for everyone at
the table? SOCC understands the
value in bringing people together
not to exclude, but to edify all asso-
ciated students of our dear alma
mater.
There is strength in peoples
united. There is value in student
Chicken McNuggets
don’t actually contain
any mechanically
separated chicken
anymore.Crisis averted.
more online, telling people who
we’re dating and letting everyone
know when we break up, telling
everyone where we are now, post-
ing pictures of what we’ve done.
This is good, right? If you learn
something awful about
someone/about Chicken Mc-
Nuggets and you still love them just
the same, that means the relation-
ship’s stronger, no? I suppose the
idea’s good, but . . . I don’t know. I
still think there’s something to be
said for pulling back and not dig-
ging too deep all the time. Some-
times, you just have to enjoy people
or things for how they are to you,
not for what they’ve been or where
they’ve come from.
Especially Chicken McNuggets.
You really don’t want to think too
hard about those.
Tim feels good to have gotten his
Chicken McNuggets guilty pleasure
off his chest. Tell him one of yours at
timmoon@stanford.edu.
students with passion. Tenzin and
Vasquez, a Tibetan refugee and a
first-generation, low-income serv-
ice advocate, meet all of these re-
quirements. They exude natural
leadership and represent distinct
communities. Their platform
would benefit from the detail of
the prolific Cruz & Macgregor-
Dennis platform, but we are fully
confident that Tenzin-Vasquez will
choose an experienced cabinet.
This Board urges you to vote for
Tenzin-Vasquez to guarantee
strong ASSU leadership.
The Stanford Daily Editorial
Board is chaired by Adam Creas-
man ‘11. He is joined by seven
members: Stephanie Garrett ‘12,
Nick Baldo ‘12,Ada Kulenovic ‘11,
Cyrus Navabi ‘11, Varun Sivaram
‘11, Tiq Chapa ‘11 and Andy Park-
er ‘11. Members Chapa and Parker
recused themselves from the
Board’s endorsement process be-
cause of their affiliations with the
endorsements of Students of Color
Coalition and Stanford Democrats,
respectively.
leaders thinking critically about
how to truly engage the incredibly
diverse life experiences and sources
of wisdom that exist within us all.
This is why we build coalitions.This
is why we invite you to join in our
coalition. This year, SOCC endors-
es 15 Senate candidates and one ex-
ecutive slate who we believe
demonstrate the greatest commit-
ment, knowledge and passion
about student body issues and will
fully represent the richness of Stan-
ford.
This election cycle, let us do
away with sayings like “our campus
is fragmented.” As you look to-
wards the upcoming April 7 and 8
elections, please recall SOCC’s
commitment to service, leadership,
student advocacy and community.
A vote for SOCC is a vote for you.
TINA DUONG,ASIAN AMERICAN
STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION COM-
MUNITY LIAISON; JUSTIN LAM,
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDENTS’ AS-
SOCIATION COMMUNITY LIAISON;
VAN ANH TRAN,ASIAN AMERICAN
STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION FINAN-
CIAL OFFICER;YVORN ASWAD-
THOMAS, BLACK STUDENT UNION
CO-PRESIDENT;ALRYL KOROMA,
BLACK STUDENT UNION CO-PRES-
IDENT; INGRID HERNANDEZ,
MOVIMIENTO ESTUDIANTIL CHI-
CANO DE AZTLAN CO-CHAIR;
ARACELY MONDRAGON,
MOVIMIENTO ESTUDIANTIL CHI-
CANO DE AZTLAN CO-CHAIR; MAI
EL-SADANY, MUSLIM STUDENT
AWARENESS NETWORK PRESI-
DENT; NAVID CHOWDHURY, MUS-
LIM STUDENT AWARENESS NET-
WORK VICE PRESIDENT; MATT
MILLER, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COL-
ORED PEOPLE CO-PRESIDENT;AU-
TUMN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL ASSO-
CIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
OF COLORED PEOPLE CO-PRESI-
DENT; LIA ABEITA-SANCHEZ,
STANFORD AMERICAN INDIAN
ORGANIZATION CO-CHAIR; JANET
BILL, STANFORD AMERICAN INDI-
AN ORGANIZATION CO-CHAIR;
MILTON ACHELPOHL, STUDENTS
OF COLOR COALITION LIAISON;
TIQ CHAPA, STUDENTS OF COLOR
COALITION LIAISON; MINH DAN
VUONG, STUDENTS OF COLOR
COALITION LIAISON
6 ! Tuesday, April 5, 2011
SPORTS
Senior attacker Sarah Flynn set a school record with seven goals in Stanford’s 20-7 rout of Saint Mary’s. The Cardinal led 12-4 at halftime and never
looked back, overmatching the Gaels on both offense and defense, despite playing on the Gaels’ home field. Stanford is now 3-0 in MPSF play.
Stanford softball had a weekend to forget, losing all three of its games against No. 7
Arizona to open Pac-10 play. The Cardinal managed only one run in the series.
Softball swept by Arizona
The Stanford softball team didn’t
start Pac-10 play the way it wanted to,
dropping three straight at home to Ari-
zona. The No. 7 Wildcats (32-6, 3-0 Pac-
10) completely stifled the Cardinal of-
fense, holding Stanford to one run all
weekend while tallying 16 against Cardi-
nal pitching.
On Friday night, No. 12 Stanford (24-
7, 0-3) sent sophomore pitcher Teagan
Gerhart to the hill to take on Arizona’s
Kenzie Fowler.The Wildcats got to Ger-
hart immediately, scoring three runs in
the first inning on a hit batter, a walk and
a passed ball after loading the bases.Ari-
zona added a run each in the second and
third innings and three more in the
fourth to make the score 8-0. Mean-
while, Stanford mustered just a hit and a
walk with Fowler on the mound before
the game was called due to the run rule
after five innings.
Senior pitcher Ashley Chinn started
the second game of the series for Stan-
ford and picked up her first loss of the
season despite a strong outing. Chinn,
who came into the game with a perfect
11-0 record, went the distance and al-
lowed only two earned runs to Arizona.
However, the Stanford defense commit-
ted two costly errors that led to four un-
earned runs for the Wildcats, and the six
runs were more than enough for Ari-
SPORTS BRIEFS
JIN ZHU/The Stanford Daily
zona’s starter Shelby Babcock. After al-
lowing a run on two singles and two
walks in the first inning, Babcock settled
down to hold Stanford scoreless through
the next 2.2 innings. Fowler then came in
and closed out the 6-1 win for Arizona
with 3.1 shutout frames.
Sunday’s series finale saw the best
pitching performance of the weekend
for Stanford, but yet again, Gerhart was
outdueled by Fowler.With the game still
scoreless in the fourth, Arizona manu-
factured an unearned run following an
error by sophomore first baseman Alix
Van Zandt.A home run by Wildcat third
baseman Brigette Del Ponte to lead off
the sixth inning was the only other run
Gerhart allowed, but Fowler once again
shut the door on the Cardinal offense.
Stanford could only manage leadoff sin-
gles in the fourth and fifth by junior cen-
ter fielder Sarah Hassman and freshman
pinch hitter Jamie Millwood, respective-
ly, while Fowler fanned 10 Cardinal bat-
ters en route to her second shutout of the
weekend and her 20th win of the season.
After the disappointing series, Stan-
ford will hit the road for the first time in
conference play with a three-game set in
Los Angeles against No.13 UCLA (26-5,
3-0), which is coming off a three-game
sweep of Oregon State. The games will
take place Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 6
p.m. and Sunday at noon.
— Jacob Jaffe
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
Still no parity in
women’s basketball
F
or the first time since 1994, the women’s
basketball championship game will be
between two non-No. 1 seeds. Tonight’s
game features a pair of No. 2 teams that
each had to knock off back-to-back No. 1
squads in order to reach the final. Impressive. Far
more so than the general reaction to the outcome of
the semifinals: namely, that these results prove that
there is (finally!) parity in women’s basketball.
No, no they do not.
Having seven of the top eight seeds reach the
quarterfinals is not parity. It’s the status quo, and it
fits with what we have seen for much of the past
decade: the cream of the crop can knock each other
off, but outside of the top schools, few have much of
a chance.This year’s lone exception — No. 11 Gon-
zaga — was a low-seeded team whose run everyone
and their mother saw coming.Three of ESPN’s four
women’s basketball experts picked the Zags as
their Cinderella choice; Tara VanDerveer pointed
them out in her pre-tournament press conference.
And with good reason: if you have a superstar
(Courtney Vandersloot) surrounded by a crop of
above-average starters, you are generally going to
find success.It’s a basic formula that works through-
out all levels of basketball and for both men and
women; the distinction is that such a compilation is
harder to come by in the women’s game.There is a
more limited pool of talent to choose from, and the
HALL OF FAMER
Stanford women’s basketball head coach Tara VanDerveer (in stripes) was named to the Naismith
Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Monday as part of the Class of 2011, which also includes NBA
standouts Dennis Rodman and Chris Mullin. VanDerveer has a career record of 826-198 in 32 years.
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Flynn sets record in lacrosse rout
Stanford lacrosse tightened its grasp of
the conference lead last Sunday, cruising
past Saint Mary’s in a 20-7 road win. Se-
nior attacker Sarah Flynn matched the en-
tire Gaels squad with a school-record
seven goals in the victory,which continued
an undefeated season for Stanford (11-1,
3-0 MPSF) in the Mountain Pacific Sports
Federation.
Flynn and the Cardinal jumped on
Saint Mary’s (2-8, 1-3) right out of the
gate, going up 6-1 barely 10 minutes into
the game. Just eight minutes in, Flynn al-
ready had a hat trick. Stanford outshot the
Gaels in the half, 28-10, and went into the
break with a comfortable 12-4 lead.
Senior goalkeeper Annie Read
stepped out for freshman Lyndsey Munoz
after making three saves in the half. Read
got the win for her contributions, her 11th
of the season.
Flynn’s historic second goal was no doubt
the highlight of the second half, but that ac-
complishment overshadowed another,
smaller one in the game’s final minutes:
freshman attacker Annie Anton, earning
extra playing time with the sizeable Stanford
lead, knocked in her first collegiate goal.
The Cardinal tallied 46 shots on the
game and won 19 of 27 draw controls. Five
of those came from senior midfielder
Leslie Foard.
Stanford will return home this week-
end to face conference rival Denver on
Friday at 6 p.m.The Pioneers beat the Car-
dinal last year to cost Stanford the MPSF
regular season title, but fell to Stanford in
the MPSF tournament.
—Nate Adams
Wyndam
Makowsky
Between the lines
Having seven of the
top eight seeds reach
the quarterfinals is
not parity.
big schools are pretty good at hoarding the best
players. Whereas the men have excellent talent at
the mid-major level — Shelvin Mack, Jimmer Fre-
dette, Kawhi Leonard, Justin Harper and so on —
their female counterparts are left looking for nee-
dles in the haystacks. Simply put, there aren’t
enough Vandersloots to go around, and when you
have one, it’s not hard to predict accomplishment,
which the Zags had both before and after their run.
Gonzaga’s low ranking was a result of being crimi-
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“working wholeheartedly” to
prove that the fraternity should
eventually return to its house, Mc-
Gregor said.
Kappa Sigma’s current resi-
dence will be used as a Row house
in the 2011-12 academic year,
opening up approximately 55 new
spaces for upperclassmen, the ma-
jority of which will be considered
“preferred” slots. According to
Golder, members of Kappa Sigma
will be prohibited from drawing
into the facility.
The converted house will take
on the name “1025 Campus
Drive,” indicative of its street ad-
dress. Staffing positions will be
filled using this year’s unmatched
applicants.
“We have vacancies that pop up
all the time, so we’ll go back to the
list of folks that applied, and we’ll
use that to drive and define our
process,” Golder said. “We have
tons and tons of people that are
great applicants, but there just
weren’t enough jobs to go
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Even with short-term plans in
place following Kappa Sigma’s re-
moval, members of the fraternity
are optimistic they will return after
a one-year hiatus. Barnes said he
was “confident” that the chapter
could successfully “work with Res-
idential Education to meet their
proposed criteria” to regain their
house in the fall of 2012.
The beginnings of such an effort
have already been in the works.
“As part of the appeal that we
submitted, we laid out several
things that we’ve already done to
improve the culture of the house,”
McGregor said.
Moving forward, Kappa Sigma
will look to foster a sense of com-
mon identity.
“In our Kappa Sigma chapter
bylaws, we have a mission state-
ment and part of that mission
statement is to further scholarship,
leadership, community service, the
development of social graces and
the development of cultural
awareness,” McGregor said.
“That’s something that has always
been there, but in recent years, we
may have lost sight of that.”
“I think in our future actions
next year, the things that we’re
doing are upholding those goals,”
he added.
CO-GYMNAST OF THE YEAR
Stanford senior Tim Gentry was named the MPSF Co-Gymnast of the Year after leading the Cardinal to the
MPSF title over the weekend. Gentry is a four-time All-American and the current national leader in the still rings
after winning the individual MPSF title in the event. He will share his award with Oklahoma’s Steven Legendre.
Barnes echoed these senti-
ments, stating that current frater-
nity members “look forward to ex-
ceeding” the University’s expecta-
tions as they strive to regain their
house.
Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen@
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“There’s a question of whether
the Chinese delegates would be
comfortable, but in our experience,
we’ve discussed these issues before
and we’ve found that Chinese dele-
gates are more than willing to ex-
press their opinions on how they
feel about this issue,” Braswell said.
“The reason why this organiza-
tion exists is for us to engage in crit-
ical, thoughtful, engaging dialogue,
dialogue that is going to push peo-
ple’s assumption from both coun-
tries,” Carter added.
“As much as it is that there will
be disagreements, you might find
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site and sits on the Jasper Ridge
Advisory Committee.
The committee will be com-
prised of Stanford faculty and ad-
ministrators familiar with the issue.
Cohen hopes that they will come up
with one or two preferred options
and some clear, strategic plans for
the site.
“We’re taking a very multidisci-
plinary perspective,” Cohen said.
“We’re going to be looking at eco-
logical, hydrological, economic and
political — all of the different is-
sues that come to bear on what we
do with the dam . . . at this point, no
issues have been removed from the
table.”
A position paper put out by the
committee in Oct. 2007 outlines
many of those options including al-
lowing the lake to naturally fill with
sediment, dredging some of the
sediment from the lake but keeping
the dam, dredging and lowering the
dam, or removing the dam alto-
gether. Other considerations in-
clude adding a fish ladder for steel-
head trout or creating an off-stream
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reserve for Stanford to maintain its
water supply.
A collection of community in-
terests have pushed for removal of
the dam for many years. “While I
applaud Stanford for forming a
committee, American Rivers and
Beyond Searsville Dam coalition
have been asking Stanford to ad-
dress the Searsville problem for a
decade,” said Steve Rothert, Cali-
fornia director of American Rivers.
Cohen outlined that the com-
mittee will be a largely internal af-
fair made up of faculty members
and Stanford administrators. Public
negotiation will take place after
they come up with preferred op-
tions in the best interest of the Uni-
versity. “I’m not sure how [the Uni-
versity is] going to engage the com-
munity, but I know they’re commit-
ted to doing that. There has to be
some internal clarity about where
we would like to go before we start
negotiating with other groups,” he
said.
Stoecker expressed regret that
the committee will be purely inter-
nal and not address stakeholder
concerns.
“Stanford can’t on its own de-
cide what to do in a process that in-
volves people upstream and down-
stream as well. It’s a very complex
project that’s going to need to in-
volve all these different stakehold-
ers,” Stoeker said. “Just because
they’re going to form a committee
doesn’t mean that anything’s going
to come of it.”
A number of issues beyond
steelhead trout complicate the dis-
cussion, including sediment
buildup and water use.
Over its 120-year life, Searsville
has also filled to between 90 and 95
percent of its capacity with sedi-
ment, according to Freyberg. On
dard dump trucks per day accumu-
late in the reservoir, with most com-
ing in severe weather or geological
events. The variable deposition
means that it could completely fill
up with sediment next year if there
was a large earthquake and heavy
rainfall, or take up to 50 years at a
slower rate.
When the reservoir fills, the en-
tire ecosystem will change, creating
wetlands above the dam with a
Searsville waterfall as opposed to a
Searsville dam. The sediment will
also begin to move downstream
and will affect the channel of San
Francisquito Creek to the bay.
Searsville Dam also provides
water to irrigate Stanford grounds.
Tom Zigterman, associate director
and civil infrastructure manager at
Facilities Operations, who handles
the hydraulic aspects of the dam,
said that the water source is impor-
tant to Stanford, providing hun-
dreds of acre-feet of water per year.
“We take a sustainable water
management approach at Stan-
ford,” he said. “It’s in Stanford’s in-
terests to preserve all its water sup-
plies.”
“I want to be as open minded as
possible about what makes the
most sense. I think there’s a really
great opportunity here for Stanford
to make a really important land use
and research contribution, because
this is an issue whose going to re-
peat itself many thousands of times
across the country in the coming
decades,” Cohen said. “I’m hoping
that whatever we do provides a real
template for how to successfully ap-
proach the issue.”
Contact Julia Brownell at juliabr@
stanford.edu.
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nally underrated solely because it
played in a weaker conference. It
wasn’t because the team was lacklus-
ter until the tournament — the Zags
entered March Madness with just
four losses, two of which were to
Final Four teams (Stanford and
Notre Dame).
This, again, is not parity, even
from a historical perspective.
Though it’s been nearly 20 years
since two non-No. 1s played for the
title, it is routine to have teams
without top billing reach the cham-
pionship game. Last year was the
first since 2003 to feature two No. 1s
playing in the finals — during that
six-season stretch, it was always a
No. 1 against a lower-ranked squad.
We were seven seconds away from
seeing a similar scenario unfold in
2011.
Perhaps it is relative. Connecticut
has had such a stranglehold on the
sport for the past few seasons that
seeing anyone, even a two-seed, in
the championship game instead of
the Huskies is reason enough to re-
joice at the leveling of the playing
field. It’s not an absurd idea, but it’s
also no secret that the Huskies
weren’t as strong this year as they
were in their past campaigns — after
losing to Stanford in December,
their cloak of invincibility seemingly
vanished. Geno Auriemma’s state-
ments in light of that defeat said as
much. And besides, even if UConn
was as strong as it was in 2010, a de-
FROSH ON FIRE
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four games against Saint Mary’s and Washington State. Kauppila had
eight runs, six RBI and no strikeouts during the four-game stretch.
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feat, particularly in the Final Four,
does not demonstrate a seismic shift.
It shows what we already know
about March Madness:that even in a
sport with clear divisions in talent,
nearly anything can happen in a sin-
gle game.
This is not a criticism of the sport
— frankly, because there is such a di-
vision between the top-tier teams
and everybody else, when two good-
but-not-great squads match up,it can
generally be counted on to be pretty
even, which makes for more exciting
games. It’s only when those squads
come into contact with the top dogs
that the underdog’s chances drop
significantly. Women’s basketball is
not at a place where it can replicate
the bedlam seen in the men’s tourna-
ment. And that’s okay: it can get
there. Gary Blair, coach of Texas
A&M, recognized these ideas after
downing Stanford on Sunday.
“Sometimes, you have to go
through growing pains to get to
where we want to be, parity, where
people would be excited where a
Butler and a VCU are playing for the
national championship on the men’s
side. We need that on the women’s
side as well,” he said.
It’s no secret that women’s basket-
ball is growing as a youth sport, and
that talent pools are increasing as a re-
sult. Noting and continuing that
progress is a worthwhile endeavor,
one far better than preemptively de-
claring the arrival of parity to the
game when that’s simply not the case.
Wyndam Makowsky thinks parity is
great, but he’d still rather have a cer-
tain No. 1 team in the final. Commis-
erate at makowsky@stanford.edu.
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