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May 16, 2011 Issue 63

SHOTS FIRED
NEAR LAG
Two suspects released after
questioning; investigation into
motive still ongoing,police say
By AN LE NGUYEN
MANAGING EDITOR
According to the Stanford
University Department of Pub-
lic Safety (SUDPS), multiple
shots were fired in the Lagunita
parking lot at 7:17 p.m. on the
evening of Saturday, May 14.
The authorities have since de-
tained and questioned possible
Courtesy of Stanford Athletics suspects and reported that no
The No. 1 women’s water polo team brought home a national championship on Sunday after defeating Cal in the one was injured.
The Stanford police alerted
final of the NCAA Tournament, 9-5. The team avenged a loss in last year’s final with Stanford’s 101st team title. students via email and text a lit-
brought two individuals found
in that vicinity into custody for
questioning.
“The suspects were de-
tained, questioned, then re-
leased,” said Stanford police
sergeant Chris Cohendet. The
authorities are currently trying
to locate the firearm, he added.
A second vehicle involved in
the incident is described as an
older car with two scissor doors
and large rims.The car is said to
be burnt orange, brown or gold
in color. According to Cohen-

CHAMPS AT LAST
AFTER FALLING SHORT LAST YEAR, CARD TAKES NCAA TITLE
By KEVIN ZHANG
DAILY SPORTS INTERN
Stanford’s No. 1 women’s water
polo team went into Sunday with
thirty straight victories against Cal,
going undefeated against the cross-
bay rival since 2000. The Cardinal
(28-1) continued that streak when it
mattered most yesterday, earning an
emphatic 9-5 win over the No. 2
Bears (24-4) in the National Colle-
giate Championship final.
WOMEN’S WATER POLO
CAL 5 several gunshots into the park-
STANFORD 9
5/15, Ann Arbor, Mich.
After the third-place MPSF
Tournament finish that failed to give
Stanford an automatic berth, the
Cardinal still managed to earn an at-
large bid and the No. 1 seed of the
NCAA Tournament that took place
last weekend in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Stanford’s first opponent in the
eight-team tournament was Iona
College on Friday. The Cardinal
started the tournament on the right
foot, scoring a season-high 22 goals
while holding Iona to just seven. Ju-
nior two-meter Melissa Seidemann
led all scorers with five, while junior
driver Alyssa Lo and freshmen
driver Kaitlyn Lo both had hat-
tricks.
Please see WPOLO, page 8
tle after 8 p.m., stating that one
“outstanding suspect”is a black
male,aged 18 to 20,“with a slen-
der build and long dreadlocks.”
The suspect may have been
armed with a silver handgun.
In a subsequent announce-
ment to the campus, the Stan-
ford police said, “it is unknown
if any of the gunshots were di-
rected at an individual.” Wit-
nesses saw an individual firing
ing lot asphalt before fleeing
the scene in a vehicle, said to be
a white Lexus.
An officer responding to the
incident identified and pursued
the vehicle in question. During
the police chase, the vehicle’s
two passengers exited and made
a run for the wooded area bor-
dered by Campus Drive,Quarry
Road, Palm Drive and El
Camino Real. Police later
det, that vehicle’s driver is still
at large, and the police are still
trying to follow up on this lead.
“The driver of the second
vehicle was observed waving a
handgun, possibly silver in
color, out of the open window
on the driver’s side of the vehi-
cle as he left the scene on Santa
Teresa Street,” read an alert by
the Stanford police. “One wit-
ness described the driver wav-
ing the handgun as a black male
wearing a baseball cap with a
red brim.”
At present, the investigation
is still ongoing, and a motiva-
tion for the incident has not yet
been determined.
“We’re still actively investi-
gating it,” Cohendet said.
He noted that “there were a
couple of events on campus”
Please see SHOTS, page 5

UNIVERSITY Musical at Manzanita STUDENT GOV’T

Stanford clarifies
policy on student
right to protest
By MATT BETTONVILLE
STAFF WRITER
The last three weeks have brought a slew of protests
to campus, including the April 29 protest of the Faculty
Senate’s decision to recognize ROTC and last Wednes-
day’s rally for janitors set to lose their jobs. However,
some students have regarded the University’s policy on
campus disruptions with confusion.
Protestors in two rallies organized by the student
group Stanford Says No To War (SSNW) were frustrat-
ed after being interrupted on two separate occasions at
the Law School.The students sought to rally against ap-
pearances by UC-Berkeley professor John Yoo on
April 22 and political science professor and former U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on May 6.
“We’re trying to create an open forum of discussion
in a non-disruptive, non-hostile way,” said Josh Schott
‘14.
By not allowing students to do so, Stanford is “not
living up to that policy,” he added.
In an email to The Daily, University spokesperson
Lisa Lapin clarified Stanford’s policy toward on-cam-
pus protests.The University officially designates White
Plaza as its free speech area and forbids disruptions
elsewhere that disturb University events or officials.
In addition, Stanford asks to be notified about for-
mal protests and gives approval for some protests to
occur outside of White Plaza. Students were given per-
mission to stage the ROTC protest in front of the Law
School, but the University did not receive any other
registrations for protests in that location.
The SSNW-organized protests opposed the appear-
ances of Yoo and Rice because of both speakers’ rela-
tionship with torture.
“We were protesting that the University was invit-
ing individuals who have legalized torture and there-
fore are war criminals,” said Schott, who participated in
both protests. “By doing this, the University is legit-
imizing torture.”
In order to convey this point to event attendees,
Schott and others posted and distributed flyers at the
door to the Law School auditorium, where the speech-
es took place. They were all escorted out of the build-
ing and were asked to join a protest outside, where oth-
Please see PROTESTS, page 2
Yearly refund rate
sees little change
Number of requests up from fall quarter,
but total dollar amount refunded drops
By JANELLE WOLAK
STAFF WRITER
Compared to last spring, this quarter’s special fees refund re-
quests have remained consistent.The total dollar amount request-
ed, however, has dropped by half from spring quarter 2010, ac-
cording to data provided by Stanford Student Enterprises (SSE).
In the first two weeks of every quarter, students have the op-
tion to request a refund of special fees paid to volunteer student
organizations (VSO) through their University bills; The Daily is
one group that receives special fees. Requests are logged through
a Stanford-hosted page, where students can pick and choose those
groups from which they wish to receive a refund. Alternatively,
they can opt out completely from paying special fees, which total
$111 per quarter in the current academic year.
In this spring’s two-week refund period, 957 undergraduates
requested refunds, and 356 of these were full refund requests.The
total amount refunded from all groups was $51,957.67, with the
average refund asking for $54.29.
These numbers are similar to the refund rate in spring quarter
MEHMET INONU/The Stanford Daily
2010, which saw 959 requests and 322 full refunds. However, a
The musical “Pawn” finished its run of four on-campus perform- much higher amount was refunded then — $99,776 was returned
ances on Sunday night. The show, which was written by Karmia
Chan Cao ‘11, is set for an international tour this summer. Please see REFUNDS, page 2
STUDENT LIFE
KZSU retains rights to football, men’s basketball
By KURT CHIRBAS was reading the press releases by KNBR. and men’s basketball games next year.
SENIOR STAFF WRITER Some of the language they used, I wouldn’t “When we saw the news about the po-
say concerned me, but confused me about tential contract, we weren’t informed
When news first broke that a new radio what it meant for us.” ahead of time,” she said. “So we were con-
station, KNBR 1050 AM, had won exclu- The station first heard about the change cerned.”
sive rights to broadcast the Cardinal’s foot- in the sports’ broadcasting home when stu- But last Wednesday, KZSU announced
ball and men’s basketball games starting dents at KZSU came across online reports that it would retain its ability to broadcast
this fall, officials at KZSU 90.1 FM, the stu- and brought them to Haddon’s attention. these two sports next year and that the con-
dent-run radio station on campus, started KZSU business manager Abra Jeffers, a tract with KNBR would have no impact on
asking where the deal left them. graduate student in Management Science its current sports coverage. The station is
“I wasn’t concerned when I heard about & Engineering, said this caused the station also the exclusive broadcaster for Cardinal
a deal being made,” said KZSU sports di- to question whether it would be able to
rector J.D. Haddon ‘13. “It’s more when I continue carrying the Cardinal’s football Please see KZSU, page 5

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

2 ! Monday, May 16, 2011
NEWS BRIEFS
GSB hosts TEDx
Silicon Valley
conference
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
A large number of luminaries
and entrepreneurs descended on the
Graduate School of Business (GSB)
on Saturday for the TEDx Silicon
Valley conference. The theme of the
event was “Living by Numbers,”
which was described by conference
organizers as “numbers transformed
into information and then morphed
into wisdom and eventually action.”
The conference was hosted in
partnership with the GSB’s Center
for Social Innovation.
While held under the aegis of the
TED organization, which hosts the
popular TED Conference and
TEDTalks, TEDx events are inde-
PROTESTS
Continued from front page
ers were holding a rally.
Schott said his group had offi-
cially registered to attend the
speeches and believed that it had a
right to be inside the building.
Judicial Affairs policy states that
students cannot “prevent or disrupt
the effective carrying out of a Uni-
versity function or approved activi-
ty,” like the Law School events.
However, Schott said he made a
point not to disturb the event,
claiming that he and his colleagues
only sought to inform speech atten-
dees.
“Any [student] can go out and
start handing out flyers in any
building they want to; that’s not a
violation of the rules,” he said.
Schott did note that, after talk-
ing to building managers, the
group’s flyers were put back up on
Law School walls. Still, the group
was forced to leave the building.
Lapin said the ban on unregis-
tered protests extends to the events
themselves but mentioned that she
was unaware of the recent SSNW
protests.
“No one [is] allowed to protest
inside an event,” Lapin said.
Barriers to free speech at Stan-
ford have been challenged several
times. In late January, a report by
the Foundation for Individual
Rights in Education (FIRE), a non-
profit dedicated to free speech,
named Stanford a “red-light”
school for its free speech restric-
tions. The report cited limited ac-
cess to free speech policies, includ-
ing a password barrier that only al-
lowed full access to individuals with
a SUNet ID.
Following FIRE’s ranking, the
password protection on these poli-
cies was removed, and FIRE now
REFUNDS
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to students, with the average refund
totaling $104.
These statistics are still “fright-
eningly high,” according to Senate
Appropriations Chair Brianna
Pang ‘13, who is also a current Daily
staff member.
Past years have shown an up-
ward trend in refund requests over
the course of the academic year.Ac-
cording to Pang,this trend is due to a
rising awareness of the refunds
process.
Indeed, fall quarter 2010’s statis-
tics are much lower, with 559 refund
requests and 429 full refunds. In the
fall, $56,245 was requested back,
making the average refund request
$100.
The Appropriations Committee,
which is responsible for running the
special fees process, is working on
figuring out why students are re-
questing special fees refunds from
student groups and why certain
groups are targeted over others.
“That’s the flaw in the refund sys-
tem that should be fixed,” said Pang.
“We have no data why some groups
are getting more money refunded
than others.”
Pang posited three reasons why
students might request refunds from
a group: the fees are a financial bur-
den, students are morally and ethi-
cally opposed to the group or stu-
dents do not see themselves using
the group’s services.
“I don’t think that most students
here want to hurt a group’s function-
ality,” said Senate Chair Rafael
Vazquez ‘12.
Rather,he continued,students are
attracted by “free money.”According
to Pang, when students on financial
aid request refunds, the money actu-
ally returns to their pockets instead
of the Financial Aid Office.
Another problem is that students
may still take advantage of a group’s
services after refunding that group;
groups only receive a list of the
SUID numbers of students who de-
The Stanford Daily
pendently organized and held
around the world. Last Saturday’s
conference was the second hosted by
TEDx Silicon Valley — its first con-
ference was in Dec. 2009, also at the
GSB.
The main attraction of the confer-
ence was presentations by 26 differ-
ent speakers,drawn from a variety of
backgrounds. Silicon Valley entre-
preneurs and academics from a
number of universities were fea-
tured, with several other speakers
hailing from nonprofit organiza-
tions.
Prominent presenters included
Ron Gutman, the founder and CEO
of health-information company
HealthTap, Chris Anderson, the edi-
tor in chief of Wired magazine, sym-
bolic systems Prof. Bernardo Huber-
man and Kriss Deiglmeier, the
founder and executive director of
the Center for Social Innovation.
— Kabir Sawhney
lists Stanford as a “yellow-light”
school. Still, this ranking describes
Stanford as having “at least one am-
biguous policy that too easily en-
courages administrative abuse and
arbitrary application,” according to
the FIRE website. The policy on
free speech in White Plaza is cited
as one such ambiguous policy.
Students have also taken action
by starting “Free Speech Fridays,”
an hour-long open microphone ses-
sion to allow students to publicly
share their ideas every Friday from
noon to 1 p.m. in White Plaza. That
period is the only hour on week-
days in which the University per-
mits amplified sound in White
Plaza, as long as students make a
prior reservation with Student Ac-
tivities and Leadership.
University policy is written to
protect these free speech rights.
“The university setting is exactly
the place for the exchange of ideas
and open discourse,” Lapin said.
“To censor debate or exclude view-
points would be contrary to the
mission of the University, which
values freedom of expression and
upholds freedom of speech.”
Schott contended this view-
point, citing an earlier incident
where protestors passed out flyers
about Rice in front of the Stanford
Bookstore and were told to leave,
because the University is private
property.
By definitions from Student Ac-
tivities and Leadership, the Book-
store opens onto White Plaza.
“It’s a climate of trying to keep
the students quiet,” Schott said.
“The students aren’t trying to dis-
rupt; the students aren’t trying to
create a hostile environment. The
students are just trying to dissemi-
nate information on who the per-
son is who is signing the books or
giving the lecture.”
Contact Matt Bettonville at mbet-
tonville@stanford.edu.
cline to pay their fees.
In order to combat this trend,
Pang, Vazquez and ASSU President
Michael Cruz ‘12 are currently fo-
cused on passing a bill through the
Senate to reform the special fees re-
fund process.
“This is something that has been
pushed by the VSO leaders, basical-
ly, for the past three years,”Vazquez
said.
The bill would require students
to provide a rationale for requesting
refunds. It would also make avail-
able their names and SUID num-
bers to the president and financial
officer of the specific groups from
which they demand refunds.
“It’s then up to the president and
financial officer to figure out
whether or not they want to bar the
individual from their services,” Pang
said.
“It gives the group more owner-
ship to give their services to the peo-
ple who pay for the services,”
Vazquez added.
Pang and Vazquez have also at-
tempted to address concerns about
privacy by including a consequences
clause in the bill. If the president or
financial officer publicly releases
the names of the students who re-
quested refunds, then those stu-
dents have a right to file a case
against them with Judicial Affairs.
Pang added that releasing the
list of students who refunded would
not solve all of the problems with
enforcement.
In order to help alleviate some
of those issues, Vazquez is in sup-
port of an initiative to require stu-
dents to appear in person to the
ASSU offices in Old Union to re-
quest special fees refunds.
The reform bill will be up for de-
bate this Tuesday and will be put to
a vote next Tuesday.
Vazquez and Pang shared high
hopes for the bill but expressed
doubts that they would ever see a
zero refund rate.
“We’re in a recession,” Vazquez
said, “Whatever money people can
get, they will [try to] get.”
Contact Janelle Wolak at jwolak@
stanford.edu.
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FEATURES
Vineet Singal takes the stage in Tampa Bay to promote patient empowerment through education
By JANE YOON
S
quinting at the lights which masked
the large audience in the darkness be-
yond, Vineet Singal took his place in
front of the crowd. Sweaty palms be-
trayed his nerves. “Don’t stare, but
don’t look at your feet. Don’t slouch, but don’t
be stiff. Don’t speak quickly, but not too slow-
ly.And remember. Breathe.”
So began the TEDx talk by Singal ‘12, on
April 22 in Tampa Bay, Fla.TEDx was created
as part of TED, a nonprofit devoted to sharing
“ideas worth spreading” through conferences
in which a range of speakers give talks on top-
ics they are passionate about. TEDx was
specifically designed to give communities, or-
ganizations and individuals the opportunity to
present ideas through conferences at the local
level. As the executive director of Anjna Pa-
tient Education, Singal attended this confer-
ence to give a talk about this nonprofit organi-
zation, which he co-founded with Donovan
Barfield ‘12.
Singal and Barfield founded Anjna Patient
Education in 2010 in order to break the cycle of
preventable chronic disease. The organization
aims to increase access to quality health educa-
tion programs for underserved populations at
free clinics. Anjna develops and distributes
health education material to patients that is
translated into 15 different languages. It also
trains clinic volunteers and health educators
with a health curriculum through local Anjna
chapters at universities.
At the TEDx conference, Singal spoke
about the inspiration for Anjna and its goals.
The idea for Anjna came to Singal when he
took a leave of absence in the fall of 2009 to
work full time at St.Vincent’s House Free Clin-
ic in Galveston,Tx.
At that time, Galveston was a community
ravaged by Hurricane Ike and the failing econ-
omy. St.Vincent’s lacked the resources to keep
up with the demand. Here, Singal worked in
close contact with patients by taking vitals,
doing case histories and performing physical
exams.
“Every day, I saw patients suffering from
obesity and stress-related diseases,” he said.
“There are terrible consequences, leading to
amputation, blindness and heart failure. What
I found in speaking with these patients was
that most of them had a poor diet and did not
do any exercise, which contributed to the
chronic diseases.”
Singal realized that what was missing at the
clinic was the education component of patient
counseling. Singal successfully sought permis-
sion to launch a health education program
within the clinic.
In the summer of 2010, Singal expanded
upon the St. Vincent’s health education pro-
gram by starting Anjna Patient Education with
Barfield at Stanford.
“The issue of quality healthcare for med-
ically underserved populations resonated
deeply with me, and I wanted to help improve
the existing health education infrastructure for
free clinic patients,” Barfield said.“Vineet and
I started Anjna Patient Education working as
just us two in a one-room double at Crothers
Memorial. Now it has grown to well over 100
volunteers with support from highly regarded
organizations.”
Anjna is currently in the process of branch-
ing out to other universities. The first chapter
was formed by Chis Itoh at UC-Berkeley, and
the next chapter will be started at San Jose
State University in the upcoming months,
Barfield said.
In the future, the organization plans to uti-
lize new methods — including Short Messag-
ing Service (SMS) and iPad technology — to
improve health education by harnessing the
technology and expertise available at Stanford
Monday, May 16, 2011 ! 3
Courtesy of Vineet Singal
and in the Silicon Valley, according to Singal.
Megan Winkelman ‘13 currently leads the
interactive health module project by building
interactive iPad apps for health education,
specifically designed for low-literacy popula-
tions.
“I’m interested in using education of the
health care system to empower patients, in the
hopes that education will help them see their
health as within their own control,” Winkel-
man said.“This tool is empowering for the pa-
tient, efficient for the health care practitioner
and cost-effective for the health care provider
as it leads to more accurate diagnosis and more
effective treatment.”
After spending nearly 150 hours preparing,
refining and rehearsing the talk for TEDx, Sin-
gal said that he hoped he conveyed a message
that people could take home regardless of
their background and that this talk might in-
spire audience members to take action.
“I wanted to . . . do justice to the cause that
I am representing,”he said.“I felt like I was the
messenger. I wasn’t Vineet Singal at the talk. I
was someone talking about the issues sur-
rounding chronic disease in America, especial-
ly from a student perspective.”
Contact Jane Yoon at janeyoon@stanford.edu.
4 ! Monday, May 16, 2011
OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
Higher Education
is Not a Bubble
T
he rising cost of higher edu-
cation is one of the few fea-
tures of American economic
life to remain constant over the last
few decades. Since 1978, the infla-
tion-adjusted cost of college tu-
ition has increased 650 percent;
here at Stanford, the cost of tuition
and room and board now stands at
$52,341 per year. Despite many
universities’ (including Stanford’s)
efforts to increase need-based fi-
nancial aid, the dramatic rise in the
cost of education has left the aver-
age college senior with nearly
$25,000 in debt. While skyrocket-
ing student debt is cause for seri-
ous concern, investment in tuition
should not be viewed as a bubble
destined to pop. The bubble hy-
pothesis implies that the costs of
education now dwarf the benefits,
a premise that the facts do not sup-
port. Higher education is a good
investment for most students, es-
pecially those lucky enough to find
themselves at Stanford.
The most recent data show that
buying a college education still
yields a consistently good return
on investment. According to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, people
aged 25 years or older with a bach-
elor’s degree made $412 more
each week and were half as likely
to be unemployed in 2010 than
those with only a high school diplo-
ma. Recipients of professional de-
grees did even better, making $984
more each week than people with
only diplomas. On average, then, it
only takes several years of work
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T HE T RANSITIVE P ROPERTY
Led from behind
I
have had a fraught relationship
with religion. As a queer person,
I’ve always felt that I had to
choose one or the other, that either I
could be religious or queer. I could
never be both.
I grew up Catholic. My family in-
stilled in me a deep-rooted faith in
some higher power. I went to
Catholic school for most of my life. I
went to church every Sunday. But I
struggled with my faith when I first
came out as gay and even more
when I came out as transgender. For
years I have had to put up with ho-
mophobic statements from all levels
of my religious community — from
the members and priests of my local
church all the way up to the Pope. I
quickly became cynical of religion
— a cynicism that only increased
when I came out as transgender.
I questioned God, questioned
why He made me this way, if He had
made a mistake, if I was a mistake. I
hated my body and the God who put
me in it. And since that moment, I
admit that my faith has not been the
same.
But last Tuesday I attended a
prayer service led by Victoria Rue,
an ordained Roman Catholic fe-
male priest — this was mind-blow-
ing for me, because in all my life I
had never met a female Roman
Catholic priest.According to the law
of the Roman Catholic Church,
women are barred from priesthood.
She also happened to be lesbian-
identified. (And her partner is a
Presbyterian. How cool is that?) I
could not have imagined that a
woman like her would exist.
Her sermon was about how God
leads us all from behind, that God
isn’t the type to lead you through life
by the hand, but blows a gentle wind
on our backs. Oftentimes we go on a
roundabout, time-consuming way,
but we do end up where we need to
go and learn more about ourselves
on the way.
I could have heard the same ser-
mon from a priest at my home
parish, but listening to Victoria, lis-
tening to this priest, listening to
someone like me, someone I could
relate to — someone who I could
tell probably dealt with the same
for an education to pay for itself in
pure dollar terms.
To compare the bubble in high-
er education to the bubble in hous-
ing prices, then, you must believe
that aggregate investment in col-
lege education does not confer eco-
nomic value equivalent to tuition.
Some have asserted that college
degrees promise prestige or con-
tacts, which only influence the dis-
tribution of wealth between those
with degrees and those without,not
the aggregate amount of wealth
across society. With each college
student convinced that her degree
will entitle her to an inside track in
the American economy, bubble
proponents argue that college
loans end up financing an expen-
sive arms race for prestige,granting
individual benefits at the cost of ag-
gregate economic productivity.
Yet, this argument is also un-
convincing. In a globalized labor
market, American workers with-
out degrees will continue to see
their wages drop. As a society, we
have pinned our hopes on a
smarter economy, driven by brain-
power rather than elbow grease.
Until bubble theorists can explain
how to train engineers, program-
mers, doctors, lawyers and other
“thinking” professionals without
sending them to places like Stan-
ford, higher education will remain
an excellent social investment. Be-
yond the individual benefits, there
is something about Stanford that
Please see EDITORIAL, page 5
Cristopher
Bautista
struggles I did — it felt different.
More empowering.This was the first
time I conceived that I could possi-
bly be both a Catholic and transgen-
der, that perhaps being made trans-
gender is not as much a mistake or a
curse and more a blessing and a new,
more interesting way to perceive the
world.
Common rhetoric used today is
that people like me were “born in
the wrong body.” When I first came
out to myself, I felt that way. But
after a lot of reflection, experiencing
life in this body has led to a lot of in-
sights and realizations about my
identity. I’ve always believed that
everything happens for a reason. I
don’t think it’s a coincidence that I
ended up at Stanford, one of the
most transgender-friendly schools
in the nation.I don’t think it’s a coin-
cidence that I dreamed of writing a
column since my days doing graph-
ics for The Stanford Daily as a lowly
freshman.And I don’t think it’s a co-
incidence I gained an amazing read-
ership both inside and outside the
Stanford community. I have come to
realize that if there is a God, He has
been leading me from behind, espe-
cially when it comes to my transi-
tion. I have reached my masculinity
in an unconventional, roundabout
way. And I admit I was resentful to
God at first, but my journey to man-
hood has taught me a lot about my-
self. Looking at it that way, being
transgender can be seen as a gift, as
a means to a level of introspection
and appreciation that I don’t think I
could have reached as a non-trans-
gender person.
Religion will always be a part of
my life. Being a Roman Catholic
isn’t just going to church every Sun-
day. It’s part of my culture. It’s part
of me as much as my identity as a
transgender person, as much as
Please see BAUTISTA, page 5
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N O F REE LUNCH
The Price of Presidency
T
he ASSU Senate recently imposed a $400 spend-
ing cap on class president campaigns in response
to big spending from slates during election season.
The money spent on the campaigns was, appropriately,
seen as ridiculous and prohibitive to some potential can- Zack Hoberg
didates, and this spending cap is certainly a good start.
But it’s only a start. & Dave Grundfest
First off, it only covers class president slate elections,
and while ASSU exec slates’ spending is already capped
at $1,000, ASSU Senate campaigns have no constraints.
The bill passed apparently tried to limit this but ran into people in dining halls, to stand out in White Plaza and
some confusion and abandoned that side of the issue, yell at/debate with passers-by about campaign issues.
leaving Senate campaigns a spending free for all. Maybe allow a universal public finance option where
More interesting though is where we as a student everyone gets 100 flyers and a uniform box of chalk
body choose to draw the line between “appropriate” courtesy of the ASSU — it would allow campaigns to
spending levels and prohibitive excess. Campaigns get the name out — but why does anything more extrav-
spending hundreds of dollars on free tanks and plastic agant than that benefit anyone?
sunglasses have an advantage simply from name recog- Stanford just isn’t that big.A presidential slate of four
nition, and not every Stanford student has the means to people could, if they put the effort in, easily speak per-
finance that. sonally with a huge proportion of the student body.Add
The Daily article regarding the matter reported that in volunteer representatives (a.k.a. friends guilted into
the specific cap of $400 tried to balance the requirement making announcements at dorm meetings), and most
for publicity with that excessive cost and quotes Dan students could easily be addressed by a campaign, for
Ashton ‘14, a member of the new ASSU Senate, as say- free. This year 800 votes would have won you a senate
ing that, “The point of the campaign is to get you to ac- seat — the numbers involved simply don’t require any-
tually engage with people one on one, so that you aren’t thing more than face to face interactions. The point is
just buying really extravagant parties or merchandise.” that the elections could go on without 10,000 more fly-
It seems very hard to strike that balance — what’s ers and slate-branded t-shirts.Voters would be just as in-
prohibitive? How much money does a candidate realis- formed about what really matters — potentially even
tically need to spend on their campaign? There has ap- more informed, if they were forced to base their deci-
parently even been talk in the Senate about providing sions on actually talking to candidates or their represen-
assistance in campaigns to those on financial aid. You tatives instead of the relative prevalence of each slate’s
can argue about the number and whatever it is people logo gear on campus.The only reason spending on elec-
will spend right up to it (and, let’s be honest, over it — tions is necessary now is because everyone else does it.
who is really going to audit a student election that thor- The real question is — what does all the spending ac-
oughly?), and it will still be a disproportionate burden tually get us? Yes, everyone needs more frat shades, but
on less affluent students.
So maybe the extreme solution is the best one — no
beyond that, the student body actually doesn’t really
benefit from higher budget campaigns. If you allowed
spending at all. It costs nothing to send out emails to a
billion different lists, to publicize on Facebook, to talk to Please see LUNCH, page 5
LETTER EDITOR
TO THE
To the Stanford Community, these events on campus. Just in my and should be.
We are all 110-percent engrossed own special area of athletics alone, I Unfortunately, not all these great
at this great University in our own have been privileged to watch on performances receive the support
worlds with little time to venture be- campus the USA-USSR track and they merit. Specifically, I refer to our
yond. But every once in a while, field spectacle during the height of men’s and women’s tennis teams. Of
something so special occurs in our the Cold War, a Super Bowl, World the 100 national team championships
universe here at Stanford that it de- Cup soccer games, dual match inter- won by Stanford (Thank you, men’s
serves special attention and consid- collegiate tennis matches played be- gymnastics,for getting us to this mile-
eration.This can happen in the class- fore more than 7,000 in Maples Pavil- stone last month!),34 have been won
room, in a lecture series, in perform- ion and the Fed Cup tennis finals be- by the storied men’s and women’s
ing arts or in a multitude of other tween the United States and Russia. tennis teams — 17 by each program.
areas. The incredible 12-1 football sea- The tradition continues this year,
In my 50 years at Stanford — five son and yet another Final Four ap- headed by our defending national
as a student-athlete, and 45 as an em- pearance by our women’s basketball champion women’s team and 2010
ployee, 38 of which were served as team this year are sterling examples NCAA doubles champ and singles
the men’s tennis coach — I have had of the fantastic performances of our
the opportunity to witness many of student athletes. How proud we can Please see LETTER, page 5
The Stanford Daily
EDITORIAL
Continued from page 4
has consistently generated the
exact kinds of economic jugger-
nauts we need to thrive as a nation.
To students and to Americans,
the last decade has shown that col-
lege is worth its price.Nonetheless,it
is perfectly reasonable to inquire as
to why that price has climbed so
high. One theory holds that the ris-
ing cost of tuition simply reflects
high demand for education running
up against limited supply. To take
this a step further,it is not the supply
of education per se that is limited,
but rather the supply of prestige.
Prestigious schools such as
Stanford can maintain their pres-
tige in only one way: by attracting
the best students and faculty mem-
bers. It is they who secure research
grants, make donations and raise
the pedigree of a university. Like-
wise, top students and brilliant re-
searchers have a much greater in-
centive to attend or work for pres-
tigious schools. Only in those envi-
ronments can they mingle with the
best minds in their respective
fields and feel confident that they
will have the resources they need
to conduct their work.
Unfortunately for tuition-pay-
ing families, prestige is not free.To
stay ahead of their competition,
universities are forced to build
more state-of-the art labs and
recreation centers, which in-
evitably drive up administrative
costs.This effect applies not just to
top-flight universities like Stan-
ford, but also to 2nd and 3rd tier
schools with nowhere near the
name recognition we enjoy here
on the Farm.
The ascendancy of prestige at
the expense of tuition-paying stu-
dents and parents has not been
without benefits. Many of the in-
tellectual and technological devel-
opments of our age would have
been impossible were it not for the
improvement and expansion of re-
search and education facilities.
Some universities have already re-
alized that families can only be
squeezed so far. The expansion of
need-based financial aid at Stan-
ford in recent years is a prime ex-
ample of the University’s recogni-
tion of the need to enhance equity
and access on campus.
As students, as alumni and as
citizens, we must realize that rising
tuition is not a burden imposed by
some unseen nemesis, nor is it a
bubble.So rest easy,Stanford:your
education here has real and meas-
urable benefits, both to you and to
society as a whole.
Monday, May 16, 2011 ! 5
LUNCH
Continued from page 4
everyone to spend what they want-
ed,you might be able to claim some-
thing about fundraising, but who is
really going to give money to some-
one else to run for student govern-
ment (other than the campus spe-
cial interest groups that hardly need
more representing).The simple fact
is that campaigns will be self fi-
nanced, which means income dis-
parities present in the student body
will matter.
Once you set a budget cap with
the intention that everyone is only
able to spend up to the cap, effec-
tively everyone will. At that point,
LETTER
Continued from page 4
semi-finalist, senior Hilary Barte.
Our women have not lost at home in
over 12 years, winning 179 matches
in a row, a national record in any
sport. Our men also have a legiti-
mate shot at the title as well and are
led by 2010 NCAA singles champi-
on, junior Bradley Klahn.
And yet, despite the presence of
these two great teams and all of the
exciting individuals that comprise
them, our student attendance this
year has been subpar.There is an in-
credible home court advantage in
tennis if there is a large and boister-
ous crowd supporting its players.We
BAUTISTA
Continued from page 4
being a Stanford student,an English
major, a human being.And I’m glad
that I met Victoria. I think I was
meant to meet her, so I could finally
come to terms with my faith after
years and years of battling with my-
self. And for the first time, and I
never thought I’d say this, I’m
thankful to God for making me this
way and giving me this life.
What I learned from reflecting
KZSU
Continued from front page
baseball and women’s basketball
games, among other sports.
Haddon said KZSU received
confirmation of its broadcast rights
from Eric Kwait,the general manag-
er of Cardinal Sports LLC. Cardinal
Sports LLC, a property of Learfield
Sports, is the exclusive multimedia
rights holder for Stanford Athletics.
Kwait did not respond to re-
quests for comment from The Daily.
Haddon said that KZSU would
be able to continue its coverage be-
cause of its status as a student-run
non-profit station.
“We don’t go through the same
process that a commercial station
would go through,” he said. “I’m
sure KNBR has exclusive rights in
terms of the fact that no other com-
mercial station would be able to
cover those sports, but I think why
we don’t conflict is because we are
considered a different entity as a
whole.”
There remains, however, some
confusion over how KZSU receives
its rights to broadcast Stanford ath-
letics. Both Haddon and Jeffers said
they were not aware of any written
contracts with the University that
delineates these rights.
“If there are contracts with
KZSU, I’ve never seen them,” Had-
don said. “From my understanding,
it’s much more of an assumed rela-
tionship.”
Haddon said he is currently
working on trying to find out how
these rights are given to the station.
He believes it might be tied to the
fact that the station’s FM license is
owned by Stanford’s Board of
Trustees and given to KZSU’s
Board of Directors to oversee the
station’s operations. The Board of
Directors consists of University fac-
ulty and staff members, two KZSU
staff members, one student and the
general manager of a local public
television and radio station, all of
whom are appointed by the Univer-
sity’s president.
“It would be kind of circular logic
for them to draw up some sort of
contract,” Haddon said. “Stanford
gives the right to broadcast Stanford
sports to KZSU, which in turn
means they gave it to the Board of
Trustees, which in turn means they
just gave it to Stanford.That kind of
makes no sense.”
But Haddon said that while there
may not be an official contract,
KZSU has always been on good
terms with the University and that
this announcement only serves as a
confirmation of their relationship.
“I’ve always felt respected by
Stanford Athletics,” he said.“I never
felt at all that they were trying to do
anything behind our backs.”
success in the election becomes a
combination of how creatively can
you spend the money, how many
people you can actually speak to
and (most importantly either way)
how many people you know. There
is no reason then not to cut the
spending altogether. We’ll still have
elections, for better or for worse, we
will still have presidents and sena-
tors and execs and the playing field
will be completely leveled.
There’s no downside to seeing
just how creative our candidates can
be with a hundred fliers and a box of
chalk . . .
If you would like to recommend the
manufacturer/specifications of chalk
provided to candidates, contact Dave
or Zack at daveg4@stanford.edu and
zhoberg@stanford.edu.
have a unique and rare opportunity
to tangibly contribute to the final
success of these teams this year, as
we host the 2011 NCAA Men’s and
Women’s Tennis Championships at
the beautiful Taube Family Tennis
Stadium.
I trust we can rise to the challenge
of giving our teams the support they
merit and in turn give them that boost
to make a real difference in results.
The 12-day NCAA Tennis Champi-
onships,hosted from May 19 to 30,are
comparable to the Orange Bowl or
the Final Four being held at Stanford,
with the Cardinal as a legitimate con-
tender for both titles.We hope to see
you there.
DICK GOULD
The John L. Hinds Director of Tennis
Stanford University
on my life and reflecting on Victo-
ria’s sermon is this: what I’m doing
now is the groundwork for some-
thing better.And I don’t know what
that “something” is quite yet, but I
know it will be great. The quality of
my life and my self-esteem has im-
proved since my dark, frightened
days as a child, and I could only
imagine that as I look out into the
blank and terrifying future — that
good things are coming. I know they
will.
Want to talk about God? Email
Cristopher Bautista at cmsb@stan-
ford.edu.
He called men’s basketball and
football the “pillars” of the sports
department and said the loss of
these sports would have been
“tremendous on many levels.” He
cited the fact that football is the sta-
tion’s most listened to program.
“To lose two of the major sports
on campus, that would have been a
huge blow in terms of building a re-
lationship with the Stanford com-
munity and in terms of what we can
cover,” Haddon said.“It would have
also been a financial blow.”
KZSU, in fact, receives outside
contributions. Haddon said many of
these come from listeners of the sta-
tion’s football and men’s basketball
coverage. Jeffers confirmed that
these sports fans help with KZSU’s
operating expenses and allow the
station to cover away games, giving
it funding for airfare and hotel
rooms.
She also said the loss of these
sports would have had a huge im-
pact on the station.
“We were really concerned
about what we perceived as a poten-
tial loss of two of our most important
sports,” Jeffers said. “But we were
just hoping that our good relation-
ship with the University wasn’t
going to change, and we are thrilled
that’s the case.”
Contact Kurt Chirbas at kchirbas@
stanford.edu.
SHOTS
Continued from front page
happening around the time of the
shooting, one of which was Black-
fest, a concert that took place at
Roble Field, across the street from
the Lagunita parking lot.
“I don’t know if this was associ-
ated with that event, but the shoot-
ing happened right after,” Cohen-
det said.
“It is unclear whether the appre-
hended suspects have any Universi-
ty affiliation,” said University
spokeswoman Lisa Lapin. “At the
moment, it appears that they
don’t.”
While suspects have been de-
tained and questioned, the investi-
gation is still an open case and more
information will be available in the
days to come.
“We don’t believe there is any
threat or danger to the campus,”
Lapin said.
“I think that it is an isolated inci-
dent,” Cohendet concurred.
“It is concerning when someone
is carrying a firearm on campus,” he
said. “But I don’t think the motive
of this was to hurt anyone.”
Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen@
stanford.edu.
6 ! Monday, May 16, 2011 The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
SETTING THE TONE Daniel
Bohm
On My Mind

Men start NCAA Tournament with back-to-back wins

By DASH DAVIDSON
Grow up,
Jorge
STAFF WRITER

The Stanford men’s tennis team

started the NCAA Tournament in

Posada
style this past weekend, dispatching
of Army and Washington to clinch
its spot amongst the final 16 teams.
The match against Army was a
blowout from the very start — with

the Cardinal easily winning 4-0 —
and the match against Washington
was deceptively close, with the Car-
dinal still managing a resounding 4-
1 victory. With the two wins, Stan-
ford has now won 12 straight match-
es and is on its longest winning
streak since taking 18 matches in a
row back in 2001.
MEN’S TENNIS
WASHINGTON 1
STANFORD 4 the No. 9 spot in the lineup, has been
5/14, Taube Tennis Center
Army, making its fifth appear-
ance in the NCAA Tournament,
was blitzed early and often on Fri-
day afternoon by the No. 7 Cardi-
nal. Experience and depth clearly
showed, as Stanford dominated
every match of the day. The tone
was set with the doubles point,
when the teams of Bradley
Klahn/Ryan Thacher and Alex
Clayton/Jamin Ball both quickly
disposed their opponents by scores
of 8-3.Those victories left the Cardi-
nal needing only three points to
clinch the match. Juniors Bradley
Klahn and Ryan Thacher and soph-
omore Dennis Lin were more than
ready for the task, as they were the
quickest of the six Stanford singles
players to win.
Klahn, out of the No. 1 spot, de-
feated Asika Isoh, 6-1, 6-2.Thacher,
out of the No. 2 spot, took out Gary
Kushnirovic, 6-0, 6-1, and Lin, out of
the No. 4 spot, beat Tripp Johnson,
6-0, 6-1. If either of those three had
faltered, seniors Alex Clayton and
Ted Hirshmann and sophomore
Matt Kandath would have been
more than capable of providing
Stanford with one of the requisite
four points, as each was solidly
Junior Bradley Klahn, above, led the attack on Army with a doubles win on Friday and helped defeat Washington
in singles play on Saturday. The NCAA Tournament heads into the round of 16 on May 19 at Stanford.
ahead when the Cardinal clinched
the match with its fourth team
point.
On Saturday afternoon, the Car-
dinal had the task of facing a famil-
iar and pesky opponent, the No. 25
Washington Huskies. The last time
these two teams had faced off — on
April 8 in Seattle — the match had
been a close one, which Stanford
had managed to win 4-3. The stage
was set for Saturday’s playoff match
to be just as exciting, with a berth in
the sweet sixteen on the line.
After locking up the doubles
point, the Cardinal quickly found it-
self locked in several closely con-
tested singles matches, with the ex-
ception coming from an unlikely
source.
Freshman Daniel Ho had been
fairly quiet all season, competing in
just three matches, but on Saturday
he burst onto the scene in spectacu-
lar fashion, rewarding his entry into
the lineup with a tidy 6-2, 6-1 win
over his opponent, Max Manthou,
out of the No. 6 position. Ho’s victo-
ry was followed up by No. 1 player
Bradley Klahn’s 6-4, 6-4 triumph
over his familiar Husky foe, Jeevan
Nedunchezhiyan, putting Stanford
on the brink of victory. After a de-
feat out of the No. 2 position for
Ryan Thacher, senior Alex Clayton
clinched the victory for Stanford
when he lost after a sloppy first set,
taking the match 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
The atmosphere those two days
at the Taube Family Tennis Center
was lively, with fans coming to sup-
port both teams.
“Taube Family Tennis Stadium is
definitely one of the best venues to
play at when there is a good crowd,”
said senior Ted Kelly. “College ten-
nis is all about playing in front of
your best friends.”
The Cardinal now will rest and
prepare for Thursday, May 19, when
the NCAA Tournament heads into
the round of 16. Stanford, seeded
eighth, will be taking on ninth-seed-
ed Texas A&M at 6 p.m.
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@
stanford.edu.
L
ast week I talked about end-
ings in sports — and lo and
behold, the difficulty of end-
ings reared its ugly head yet
again this week.
I am,of course,talking about the cat
fight between Jorge Posada and the New
York Yankees on Saturday.As many of
you loyal readers know,I grew up a Yan-
kees fan, so the drama in the Bronx on
Saturday, when Posada refused to play
for the Yankees when he was slotted in
chief on my mind ever since. (Some of
you might not care about Posada or the
Yankees, but I would venture a guess
that theYankees have more fans at Stan-
ford than any baseball team other than
the San Francisco Giants — this would
be great information to collect, Depart-
ment of Admission).
Posada’s frustration over his lacklus-
ter start to the season — he is hitting just
.165,and the switch-hitter is hitless from
the right side of the plate — and his sub-
sequent relegation to the bottom of the
lineup is not just the a symbol of the wan-
ing of a former star’s career. Posada’s
struggles,and his reaction to them,repre-
sent a crossroads for sports’ most-storied
franchise.
In 2009,when the Yankees won their
27th World Series Championship, they
were led by the so-called “core four” —
Derek Jeter,Jorge Posada,Andy Pettitte
and Mariano Rivera. Just a year and a
half later, Rivera is the only member of
the group still performing well.Pettitte is
retired, Posada was told to pack up his
catcher’s gear in spring training and will
only be a DH (a change he is clearly
struggling with) and Jeter seems to have
lost his ability to lift the ball — there
have been loud calls for him to be
Please see BOHM, page 8

Baseball takes a hit, DOWN AND DIRTY

drops two in Eugene

By JOSEPH BEYDA
DAILY SPORTS INTERN
Stanford baseball slipped back below .500 in
Pac-10 play in rainy Eugene this weekend, losing
twice to Oregon in a three-game series that could
have turned out much worse for the Cardinal.
BASEBALL
STANFORD 5 er on Friday fell short in a 6-2 loss.
OREGON 6 Fewer than half of Oregon’s batters were able
5/15, Eugene, Ore.
Coming off a six-game winning streak, No. 25
Stanford (28-18, 10-11 Pac-10) was outscored 14-3
by the Ducks in the first game and a half before
rallying for a dramatic Saturday victory behind
freshman hitting. But ninth-place Oregon (26-24-
1, 7-14) came up with enough defensive gems on
Sunday to halt another late rally from the Cardi-
nal,taking the series and pushing Stanford back to
sixth in the conference.
Stanford came into Eugene with a 4-6 record in
the series opener, and the unsettling trend contin-
ued with another slow Cardinal start to the three-
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
Freshman right fielder Austin Wilson, above, was
part of a Cardinal line that was inconsistent over
the weekend, leading to a 2-1 series loss to
Oregon and snapping a six-game win streak.
game set.Oregon lefthander Tyler Anderson (7-2)
was impressive in seven innings of work, yielding
just four hits and holding Stanford to one un-
earned run.The Cardinal’s only other tally came in
the ninth — when freshman right fielder Austin
Wilson scored after a leadoff double that extend-
ed his 12-game hit streak — but after a five-day,
five-game stretch last week that saw Stanford
score six or more runs in each contest,the firepow-
to figure out Cardinal starter Mark Appel; never-
theless, of the four Ducks that had hits, a trio —
second baseman Danny Pulfer, designated hitter
Kyle Garlick and shortstop KC Serna — recorded
three each.Four Stanford errors and a season-high
five walks by Appel proved costly, with the sopho-
more righthander falling to 4-6 on the season.
Matters were looking even worse for the Car-
dinal on Saturday. After chasing senior Danny
Sandbrink with four runs in 1.1 innings, the Ducks
scored in each of the first five frames to build an 8-
1 lead. Juniors A.J.Talt and Chris Reed were final-
ly able put a stopper to the Oregon onslaught and
give Stanford a chance to come back. The duo
combined for five spotless innings of relief and
gave up no hits to a Duck squad that had 23 base-
knocks in the first 14 frames of the series.
Stanford loaded the bases with three singles to
start the sixth, and a pair of freshman bats sparked
the beginnings of a rally. One run came around on
a sacrifice fly by designated hitter Danny
Diekroeger, followed by a clutch, two-out double
by second baseman Lonnie Kauppila that cut the
Oregon lead to four.
To shut down Stanford in the seventh, the
Ducks brought in senior Kellen Moen, who led
Oregon pitchers in opposing batting average and
ERA coming into the contest. The move quickly
backfired.
In 34.1 innings this season, Moen had allowed
only six earned runs, yet it took Stanford just two
thirds of an inning to bridge the four-run gap. Se-
nior catcher Zach Jones and sophomore center-
fielder Tyler Gaffney battled from two-strike
counts to get on base with consecutive singles be-
fore sophomore third baseman Stephen Piscotty
doubled on his first pitch to bring them both home.
Moen never had a chance to settle down, and
freshman first baseman Brian Ragira ripped a
triple on the next at-bat to cut the lead to one.
Moen was pulled, but sophomore shortstop
Kenny Diekroeger came through again for the
Cardinal with a game-tying single. An eighth-in-
ning single by Jones made for a 9-8 lead, which
Stanford held for the victory.
Jones picked up where he left off in the rubber
game, leading off the game with a triple and com-
Please see BASEBALL, page 7
Freshman Kevin Cardey, above, was part of Stanford’s success on Saturday at the Pac-
10 Championships, where the women placed fifth and the men placed sixth.
SOFTBALL
No. 1 ASU overpowers
Cardinal in Tempe
By WILL DOOLEY
STAFF WRITER
Stanford softball ended a strong regu-
lar season on a bit of a downer last week-
end, dropping two of three at No. 1 Ari-
zona State. With the series loss, Stanford
ends its 2011 season at No. 11, finishing
with a very respectable 38-15 overall
record.
SOFTBALL
STANFORD 1 batting an astounding .506 with a .568 on-
ARIZONA STATE 4 base percentage, 24 doubles and nine
5/15, Tempe, Ariz.
The Cardinal finished its brutal confer-
ence schedule just under .500, with 10 wins
and 11 losses. That means Stanford closes
the year fifth in the eight-team conference,
one game behind Arizona and Oregon and
one ahead of both Washington and
UCLA. Seven of the eight Pac-10 teams
are ranked nationally in the top 15,making
it arguably the toughest and deepest con-
ference in the country.Arizona State (50-6,
17-4 Pac-10) entered the series as the
unanimous number one in the polls, riding
a 12-game conference winning streak after
sweeping its last three series.
Thursday’s 3-1 loss was a close game,
as the Card failed to convert despite op-
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portunities. Sun Devil Katelyn Boyd led
off the game with a solo home run to left,
putting the Cardinal in an early hole.
Stanford loaded the bases in the first and
third innings but didn’t tally until the
fifth, when junior shortstop Ashley
Hansen tied the game with her eighth
home run of the year.
Hansen was recently named one of ten
finalists for USA Softball’s Player of the
Year, putting up career offensive numbers
for the Cardinal. She finished the season
home runs. She went 7-for-11 with three
runs, two RBI and two home runs in the
ASU series.
Arizona State responded in the bottom
of the fifth, scoring twice on Krista Don-
nenwirth’s shallow single to center.Sopho-
more pitcher Teagan Gerhart took the loss,
giving up six hits and an unusually high five
walks. Arizona State’s rookie pitcher Dal-
las Escobedo got the win.
On Friday,the Cardinal offense explod-
ed for six runs to break Arizona State’s 12-
game winning streak. Stanford starter
Ashley Chinn and Gerhart combined to
limit the opposition to just one run on five
hits. Gerhart was credited with the win
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after she took over in the third for
Chinn. ASU’s Mackenzie Popescue
got tagged with the loss after giving
up four runs in just two and a third
innings of work.
Stanford relied heavily on the
long ball, with three players going
yard for the Cardinal. Junior center
fielder Sarah Hassman started the
scoring with a two-run shot in the
third, plating junior Jenna Becerra.
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Sophomore second baseman
Jenna Rich, above, was one of three
Stanford players to hit a home run
on Friday. That game was Stanford’s
only win of the series.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Women’s tennis opens tournament
with pair of 4-0 wins
The Stanford women made the
most of their home-court advantage
last weekend, easily taking their
first two matches in the NCAA
Tournament at Taube Family Tennis
Center. The No. 2 Cardinal (25-0, 8-
0 Pac-10) blanked unranked Illi-
nois-Chicago 4-0 on Saturday be-
fore easily handling No. 27 Pepper-
dine, winning by the same score.
Despite removing the freshman-
sophomore duo of Kristie Ahn and
Stacey Tan from the lineup, the Car-
dinal cruised to a comfortable win
against Illinois-Chicago, taking two
doubles matches and winning the
third on a forfeit. Freshman Nicole
Gibbs, the No. 18 player in the coun-
try, was dominant in her postseason
debut as she defeated the Flames’
Ilinca Cristescu 6-0, 6-1. Sophomore
Mallory Burdette and senior
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ing home on a Gaffney sacrifice. But
as the Cardinal had demonstrated on
Saturday afternoon, no lead was safe
in this series, and Oregon promptly
knotted the game up in the second.
Another Stanford lead was erased
by the Ducks, who reversed the mo-
mentum with a two-run double by
outfielder Brett Thomas to make it
4-3 in favor of Oregon.
The Cardinal chipped away in
turn, tying the game in the fifth and
again in the seventh before the
Ducks took another one-run lead in
the bottom half of the frame. Stan-
ford seemed poised to come back for
a third time in the eighth inning
when Jones singled with two runners
on, but Oregon right fielder Aaron
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maintain the Duck lead. Serna shut
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It was Hassman’s first collegiate
home run. Hansen kept the inning
alive with an infield single, and jun-
ior second baseman Jenna Rich
gave Stanford a 4-0 lead with a two-
run home run of her own.
ASU would get its only run of the
game in the bottom of the third,
when catcher Katelyn Castillo drew
a walk, stole second and then pro-
ceeded to score on two wild pitches
by Chinn.
In the fifth, Stanford picked up
another run as Rich singled in Hass-
man for her third RBI of the game.
Hansen then capped off the scoring
for the Cardinal with a solo home
run in the top of the seventh.
Saturday’s rubber match saw Es-
cobedo dominate the Cardinal line-
up.The Cardinal registered just four
hits — two each by Hassman and
Hansen — and only scored when
Escobedo pitched a four-walk third.
Gerhart also allowed just four hits,
but surrendered seven walks in al-
lowing four earned runs.
All four ASU runs came in the
fifth. Boyd doubled in the first run,
and Stanford then intentionally
walked catcher Kaylyn Castillo,
which backfired when right fielder
Annie Lockwood lined a home run
to left. The one win and two losses
over the weekend push Gerhart to
22-11 on the year, while Escobedo’s
two wins moved her to 27-3 on the
year.
With the regular season finished,
the Cardinal now turns its focus to
the playoffs, which start this week-
end. Stanford earned a No. 15 seed
and will be hosting its regional,
which includes Nebraska, Pacific
and Fresno State. The Cardinal’s
first postseason matchup is against
Pacific (37-17) on May 20.
Contact Will Dooley at wdooley@
stanford.edu.
Hillary Barte won both of their
matches next, clinching the Stan-
ford win.
Stanford was still in control on
Sunday against Pepperdine, secur-
ing the doubles point as the Barte-
Burdette duo joined Tan and senior
Carolyn McVeigh in earning 8-5
wins. The singles portion was more
of the same,as Barte,Gibbs and jun-
ior Veronica Li lost a combined 10
sets as they each swept their oppo-
nents.
The Cardinal, which extended its
streak of consecutive dual-match
victories to 181 yesterday, now pre-
pares for the round of 16. Stanford
will continue its defense of the 2010
title against Northwestern on Fri-
day, May 20 at 6 p.m.
See tomorrow’s edition of The
Daily for more coverage of the first
and second rounds of the NCAA
Tournament.
— Nate Adams
the second out of the inning on a
sharply hit ball that had struck him in
the groin.
Oregon’s strong defensive play
was stifling in the 6-5 loss for Stan-
ford, which benefited from three
strong innings of relief from sopho-
more Dean McArdle. An unearned
run meant a loss for McArdle (7-3),
who stranded four Ducks in scoring
position to make up for as many
walks.
Regaining offensive consistency
will be a concern for the Cardinal,
which is missing one of its key hitters
in sophomore outfielder Jake Stew-
art due to appendicitis. Freshmen
batters have begun to fill that void,
combining for six of Stanford’s 13
RBI over the weekend.
The Cardinal hosts San Francisco
at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday before a cru-
cial three-game series against Ari-
zona at home next weekend. The
Wildcats are a half game ahead of
Stanford with a 10-11 record in Pac-
10 play.
Contact Joseph Beyda at josephbey-
da@comcast.net.
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“We passed the ball really well,”
said head coach John Tanner. “We
had good spacing in our frontcourt
offense and made some good deci-
sions in front of the goal, giving us a
comfortable margin early. Every-
one looked solid on the offensive
end.”
The following day, Stanford
faced fourth-seeded USC in a re-
match of last year’s national cham-
pionship game — which Stanford
painfully lost, 10-9. The two squads
were quite familiar with each other,
as the semifinal matchup marked
their fourth meeting this season.
Two of the meetings this season
involved overtimes, including a 10-9
triple overtime game when Stan-
ford and USC were ranked No. 1
and No. 2, respectively.
This time around, the Cardinal
made things a little less dramatic,
doubling up the Women of Troy 8-4.
Strong performances by senior
leaders were the theme of this game
and the weekend as a whole —
against USC, senior driver Kim
Krueger led all scorers with three
goals.
“We work so hard in practice to
make practice just like the game,”
Krueger said. “I went out there and
did what I knew I could do. It really
helps when I know I have all my
teammates behind me.”
Senior goalie Amber Oland,
meanwhile, had ten saves in the
cage and held USC to one goal in
the first half.
“We really focused on stopping
BOHM
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dropped from the leadoff spot. One
has to think that the 41-year-old
Rivera will eventually slow down as
well (but perhaps not).
The Yankees will always have the
ability to spend money to bring in good
players, but they won’t necessarily
have the continuity and the leadership
that the core four previously provided.
Put more bluntly — there seems to be
trouble in paradise.
Posada’s tantrum wasn’t the first
noteworthy show of frustration.There
were Jeter’s all-too-public contract ne-
gotiations last offseason. There have
also been the calls for Jeter to move
down in the lineup and questions as to
why Posada was moved and not Jeter.
The great Yankees teams of the ‘90s
and ‘00s had their fair shares of internal
drama,but I’m not sure there was any-
thing as dramatic as the winding down
of the careers of four Hall of Fame- or
borderline Hall of Fame-caliber stars.
There are so many layers to this
Posada rift, like the fact that Posada
and manager Joe Girardi clearly
weren’t on the same page when it
came to Posada’s alleged back stiffness
and general manager Brian Cash-
man’s midgame announcement of
Posada’s insubordination. These are
not the sorts of relationships and
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[USC’s] 6-on-5,” Oland said. “We
knew where they were shooting.
We’ve scouted them a ton and went
out there and executed.”
Oland equaled USC’s first-half
offensive production before the
match was over, scoring a goal of
her own on a pool-length toss with
1:05 left in the game.
The win over USC put Stanford
into the final against Cal. MPSF
Player of the Year and sophomore
two-meter Annika Dries led the of-
fensive attack against the Bears
with a game-high five goals, avoid-
ing any drama as she scored three
goals in the first half to give Stan-
ford a comfortable 4-1 lead.
“We planned to give [Dries] the
ball,”Tanner said.“They don’t have
defenders that can match up with
her. She was unreal — so explosive
and determined. Our whole team
did a great job of setting her up.”
On the defensive end, Oland had
another stellar performance with
eleven stops. She stopped a penalty
shot that led to an offensive run by
the Cardinal, padding its lead to 6-1
early into the second half.
“Between [Krueger] and
[Oland], they had their two best
games each in their four-year ca-
reers,”Tanner said.
Stanford defeated Cal for the
second time this season by a final
score of 9-5 to claim the national
title. Oland, Dries, Seidemann and
Krueger were named to the NCAA
All-Tournament First Team with
Dries named as the Most Valuable
Player.
“It was a wonderful day,”Tanner
said.
Contact Kevin Zhang at kev-
inzhangle@gmail.com.
chasms that characterize a champi-
onship organization. Is a major over-
haul coming? Perhaps.
The question of whether Posada
would be forgiven, however, was
quickly answered by Yankees fans be-
fore Sunday’s 7-5 loss to the rival
Boston Red Sox.The fabled “Bleacher
Creatures” included Posada, who was
out of the starting lineup, in their
game-opening roll call. Still, if Posada
continues to struggle at the plate, he
will have no way to help the Yankee
team, even though he is making $13
million this season.He doesn’t play de-
fense anymore,and when he is on base,
he clogs up the base paths. This situa-
tion may have come to a head Satur-
day, but it could get downright ugly if
things get worse.
Maybe this is all an overreaction.
Maybe if the Yankees hadn’t entered
Sunday’s game having lost eight of
their last 11,this wouldn’t be a big deal.
History says Posada and Jeter will
begin to hit better than they have,and
Jeter has already shown some signs of
life. The Yankees’ issues extend be-
yond Posada, but if they are going to
continue to compete for World Series
titles, then the elder statesmen like
Posada can’t be involving themselves
in little spats like Saturday’s.
Daniel Bohm has a history of “little
spats”when the sandwich artists at Sub-
way don’t arrange his cheese the way he
likes.Discuss the perfect sub with him at
bohmd@stanford.edu.