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May 25, 2011 Issue 70

It’s a small world

Police chief expands
on crime trends
SUDPS says this year’s trends show little change
By MARIANNE LeVINE
STAFF WRITER
Though an increase in commu-
nity alerts from the Stanford Uni-
versity Department of Public Safe-
ty (SUDPS) may have given the
impression crimes were on the rise
in the 2010-11 academic year, Po-
lice Chief Laura Wilson said cam-
pus crime trends remain similar to
those of past years.
“I believe that awareness has
been increased as a result of the in-
creased number of community
ALEX LIN/The Stanford Daily alerts that have been issued, not
necessarily [due to] an increase in
Robert Iger, president and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, spoke at the the amount or type of crime,” Wil-
Graduate School of Business on Tuesday. Iger, who was appointed as CEO son wrote in an email to The Daily.
in 2005, is the sixth person to hold this title in Disney’s 86-year history. “My hope is that increasing aware-
ness will result in people taking ap-
propriate precautions to safeguard
their property and themselves.”
Wilson noted that the increase
in community alerts helps fulfill
the intent of the Clery Act, a law
requiring higher education institu-
tions to issue alerts about certain
types of crimes.
While crime rates overall did
not spike this year, Wilson re-
vealed that three particular inci-
dents that took place this year
were unusual for campus crime ac-
tivity. These incidents were the
“stranger assault” at Manzanita
Field on January 3, the attempted
sexual assault in Escondido Village
on April 9 and the recent shots
fired in the Lagunita parking lot on
May 14.
Wilson also stated that there
was a noticeable increase in the
number of sexual misconduct
cases reported to both the police
and campus security authorities.
“My opinion is that the in-
creased reporting does not reflect
an increase in the actual number of
sexual assaults,” Wilson said.
In addition, there was also a no-
table increase in the number of al-
cohol transports. Wilson attributes
this increase in transports to im-
provements in the staff-training
program.
“I attribute the increased num-
ber of transports to the continued
Please see CRIME, page 5

STUDENT GOV’T

ASSU talks
refunds,
CHAMPIONS NO MORE
janitors
Senators pass new bill
allowing release of names
By BRENDAN O’BYRNE
STAFF WRITER

The ASSU Undergraduate Sen-

ate opened Tuesday night’s meet-
ing with a discussion featuring
Jeanette Smith-Laws, director of
operations and student unions.
After talking about how to better
utilize spaces in Old Union and
Tresidder, funding bills for various
student groups were all passed
unanimously, with only a few ab-
stentions due to conflicts of inter-
est with senators.

Please see ASSU, page 2

NEWS BRIEFS MIKE KHEIR/The Stanford Daily

A year after winning the clinching match in the title showdown, Stanford sophomore Mallory Burdette, above, dropped the decisive match in
this year’s championship to Florida’s Lauren Embree. Burdette won the first set and had a 4-0 lead in the third, but was unable to hold on.
Device could reduce
surgical scarring
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Stanford researchers have devel-
oped a wound dressing that could
significantly reduce scar tissue
caused by incisions.
“This work actually started 20
years ago when I was an intern at
Massachusetts General Hospital,”
lead author Geoffrey Gurtner said
in a press release.“I realized early on
that we were not going to solve the
problem of scarring with current sur-
gical tools and techniques.”
Gurtner is professor and associ-
ate chair of surgery at Stanford.
After surgery, when sutures are
removed, the surrounding skin pulls
the edges of incisions in different di-
rections, causing scar tissue to thick-
en and spread. The new dressing
eliminates this tension and reduces a
considerable amount of scarring.
Co-author Reinhold Dauskardt,
professor of materials science and
engineering, and his peers devel-
oped the dressing in his lab. It is
made of a thin and elastic silicone
plastic, which is stretched over
wounds after sutures are removed.
An adhesive is added to the dressing
to help it stick to the patient’s skin.
The dressing contracts and provides
uniform compression on the wound.
Scar tissue is less flexible than
Please see BRIEFS, page 2
MIKE KHEIR/The Stanford Daily
Stanford’s three seniors, from left to right, Jennifer
Yen, Carolyn McVeigh and Hilary Barte, hold up the
runner-up trophy. Barte won her No. 1 singles match
while McVeigh lost at No. 6. Yen didn’t compete.
CARD UNABLE TO DEFEND
NATIONAL TITLE
By WILL SEATON
STAFF WRITER
Last year, sophomore Mallory Burdette
was the heroine of the Stanford Cardinal,
clinching the 4-3 victory over the Florida
Gators to win the 2010 Women’s Tennis Na-
tional Championship.This year was a differ-
ent story. With the match score tied at 3-3,
the pressure of victory once again fell on
Burdette’s shoulders. Despite saving four
match points, Burdette lost to Gator sopho-
more Lauren Embree 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6), and
the 2011 national championship went to
Florida with a final score of 4-3.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
FLORIDA 4 and Li,moving up from her usual spot at No.
STANFORD 3
5/24, Taube Tennis Center
“Obviously it’s not as fun being on this
side,” Burdette said, fighting back tears.
“But I had my game plan when I went out
there today, and I executed pretty well for
most of the match . . . I’m pretty proud of
the way I played, but obviously I came up a
little short”
Stanford’s loss ended a 184-match win-
ning streak at the Taube Tennis Center that
began in February 1999.
The title came down to Burdette’s roller-
coaster match after Stanford relinquished a
3-1 lead. After dropping the doubles point,
the Cardinal quickly won five first sets in
singles at the No. 1, No. 3 and No. 4 matches
and looked poised to win its 17th national
title. Instead, junior Veronica Li and senior
Carolyn McVeigh each lost three-setters,
meaning the match came down to Burdette
vs. Embree on court two.
Missing from Stanford’s lineup was Pac-
10 champion Kristie Ahn, sidelined from
the championship match with an ankle in-
jury that was re-tweaked in her semifinal
match against Baylor.With her on the side-
lines, the doubles lineup was almost entirely
new. There was still Hilary Barte and Bur-
dette teaming up at the top, but the second
team consisted of freshman Nicole Gibbs
3 doubles.Carolyn McVeigh,Li’s usual part-
ner,was paired with sophomore Stacey Tan.
“It’s hard to lose an impact player like
[Ahn],” said Stanford head coach Lele
Forood. “But we felt comfortable with the
lineup we were putting out today.There was
no question [Ahn] was going to take up
space. We were going to play with six
healthy players for a chance to win . . . we
felt good about that, and we came pretty
close.”
The new pairings combined with the
Gators’ mastery of doubles play meant the
Please see WTENNIS, page 8

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2 ! Wednesday, May 25, 2011
ASSU
Continued from front page
The first bill discussed among
the senators dealt with the special
fees refund process — specifical-
ly, how the identities of students
who request refunds are distrib-
uted to various groups.
Sebastain Gould ‘12, an Iraq
War veteran, spoke to the Under-
graduate Senate about the bill and
strongly opposed the idea of re-
leasing student names to groups,
calling such a move a violation of
privacy.
“I don’t think student groups
should have a list of students who
are poor or morally opposed [to a
group],” Gould said.
Senators Dan DeLong ‘13 and
Ben Laufer ‘12 said Gould’s point
was valid. However, other senators
noted that the ASSU Constitution
specifically allows for student
groups to deny services to those
students who request refunds.
Senator Dan Ashton ‘14 re-
sponded to concerns about group
leaders abusing these lists and said
people should trust student lead-
ers to handle the lists.
“We need to have faith in stu-
dents,” Ashton said.
“The very reason you’re pass-
ing this bill is because you don’t
trust students,” Gould said in re-
sponse.
A motion was passed to end the
debate after 30 minutes, but the
conversation continued outside of
the meeting between ASSU Presi-
dent Michael Cruz ‘12, bill sponsor
Brianna Pang ‘13 and Gould.
Further discussion about the
issue occurred near the end of the
meeting. Following an initial 5-5
split vote, the bill kept its original
form and the senators approved
the release of both names and
SUID numbers.
The bill passed 11-1, with only
Laufer in opposition. Laufer ex-
pressed lingering concerns over
giving student groups the names
of people who asked for special
fees refunds. He added that if
groups use the list, it would make
BRIEFS
Continued from front page
normal skin and can cause problems
like limited motion. According to
the study’s authors, current meth-
ods of removing scars — for in-
stance, surgical excision, steroid in-
jections and laser therapy — are
generally expensive, painful or inef-
fective.
The device was tested in pigs,
which have similar skin to that of
humans. The device reduced the
area of scars caused by one inch in-
cisions by six-fold compared to pigs
in a control group with the same
sized incisions. The study said the
stress-shielded wounds showed al-
most scarless closures eight weeks
after sutures were removed.
The wound dressing has also
been tested on nine female patients
who had undergone abdominoplas-
ties, or tummy tucks. The authors
noted that some of these wounds
demonstrated varying degrees of
improvement. They speculate this
may have been due to differences in
the amount of tension present in the
dressings when they were applied to
the wounds. The researchers cau-
tioned that this was a preliminary
clinical study.
The authors have indicated that
larger clinical trials are being
planned, with the dual objectives of
including greater ethnic diversity
among the patient population and
identifying the ideal range of stress-
shielding forces for wounds.
— Billy Gallagher
Stanford’s Google
CANCELLED Apps for Education
see changes
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
IT Services announced two
changes to the stanford.edu frame-
work of Google Apps for Educa-
tion, effective Friday, May 27.
The first change entails authenti-
cation to the new system.
“Authentication to this environ-
ment will be tied to our central au-
thentication system,”read an IT Ser-
vices email to students. “When you
sign in you will be directed to a Stan-
ford-controlled login page and will
login with your SUNetID and pass-
word.”
Students who do not have an ac-
tive, full service SUNetID will no
longer be able to use the
stanford.edu Google Apps environ-
ment after the change is implement-
ed. They only have until May 27 to
save and/or download their current
data to a personal Google account.
The second change is an upgrade
to the newest edition of Google
Apps. Students who have created
The Stanford Daily
for long lines and a huge hassle for
events.
“I wanted to defend as many
privacy issues as possible,” Laufer
said, while acknowledging that
groups should have the ability to
enforce regulations.
The next bill under discussion
involved the controversy regard-
ing the impending layoffs of jani-
tors at Stanford. Representatives
from the Stanford Labor Action
Coalition (SLAC) encouraged the
ASSU to pass a resolution of sup-
port in an attempt pressure the
University to keep these janitors
employed.
Several senators expressed hesi-
tation in encouraging the Universi-
ty to engage in actions where it may
not have a legal basis. Jeff Wachtel,
senior assistant to University Presi-
dent John Hennessy, has previously
said that the University “will not in-
terfere in the agreement and has no
right to do so.”
“I don’t think this is the respon-
sibility of the Undergraduate Sen-
ate,” Laufer said. “I don’t think we
necessarily have enough informa-
tion to make a decision yet. I don’t
know if what we do will have any
impact on the University either.”
Senator Tara Trujillo ‘14 argued
that this was an opportunity to
show that the student body cares
about the issue and to give the
University a larger reason to act.
The bill was later amended to
encourage the University based
on its moral — rather than legal
— obligation to act. Language
that implied the termination of
the janitors would be ‘unfair’ was
removed; the bill simply states
that the janitors’ jobs are being
terminated. The bill was passed
unanimously after these amend-
ments.
The meeting concluded with
Cruz giving his executive report to
the Senate, which included details
on a meeting with Vice Provost
Greg Boardman about the role of
the ASSU. Boardman and Cruz
also discussed plans to establish a
committee to look help work with
community centers on campus.
Contact Brendan O’Byrne at bobyrne
@stanford.edu.
personal accounts with any of
Google’s services using their @stan-
ford.edu accounts will be asked to
rename their personal accounts.Stu-
dents are also required to agree to
and abide by Google’s terms and
conditions.
According to IT Services,“A proj-
ect is actively underway to explore
how Stanford can make broader use
of these tools in a supported and con-
tractually protected way.”
— An Le Nguyen
Cardona wins
Sterling Award
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Angelina Cardona ‘11 was
awarded the Stanford Alumni Asso-
ciation’s 2011 J. E. Wallace Sterling
Award for outstanding service to the
University.
Cardona is a former ASSU presi-
dent and was previously the chair of
health and wellness for the ASSU
Executive Cabinet. She has also
served as a resident assistant and will
graduate in June with a bachelor’s
degree in international relations.
Howard Wolf ‘80, president of
the Alumni Association and vice
president for alumni affairs,present-
ed the award to Cardona at a private
reception.
The award is named for the late J.
E. Wallace Sterling, who served as
Stanford’s president from 1949 to
1968.The Alumni Association annu-
ally presents the honor to a graduat-
ing senior whose undergraduate ac-
tivities have made a significant im-
pact on campus and demonstrate
the strong potential for continued
service to the University and the
alumni community.
— Billy Gallagher
Seniors to maintain
class email post-
graduation
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
The Class of 2011 will be the first
in Stanford’s history to retain a
class email list post-graduation.
When the current seniors leave the
Farm on June 12,they will be able to
keep in the contact through the
class-2011@lists.stanford.edu mail-
ing list.
Apart from alumni email ad-
dresses, this development marks
the first time non-enrolled gradu-
ates will retain access to a Stanford
account. Former ASSU President
David Gobaud ‘10 previously at-
tempted to allow alumni to retain
their @stanford.edu email address-
es. Gobaud’s measure was not suc-
cessful.
— An Le Nguyen
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K
I
By OLIVIA SIMONE JEW
INGOF THE
ITCHEN
RUE ROYALE TO FRENCH HOUSE ROYALTY
magine you’re a chef. One day,
while preparing dinner, you hear a
knock on the door to your kitchen,
and there stands Nelson Mandela,
excitedly awaiting your food.
Not many chefs have had an experi-
ence like this one, but Juan Jose, the chef
for French House and Phi Psi, has had
many extraordinary culinary and life ex-
periences. For the past five years, every
weekday, from morning until night, Jose
creates delicious food for the residents of
both houses.
Juan Jose, or “J.J.,” as he is fondly re-
ferred to by house residents, has gone
through quite an interesting journey to
end up at Stanford.
Born in Majorca, an island off the
Mediterranean coast of Spain, Jose
trained at Le Cordon Bleu culinary acad-
emy. But he didn’t always know that he
wanted to become a chef. He originally
was headed for a career as a lawyer and
attended the University of Salamanca for
a short time before realizing that it wasn’t
for him.
“I was the black sheep,” Jose said. “I
was at the University for one year and
said ‘I don’t like it, I don’t want to do this.’
My girlfriend and I were both rebellious,
so we both left for France. And we slept
by the beautiful river under the bridges,
with all the hippies, painters at the time.”
In need of money, he got a job in the
kitchen of Maxim’s, a world-famous, land-
mark restaurant on the rue Royale.
Jose had no previous cooking knowl-
edge, so he began with peeling potatoes
and other menial tasks. After his first
month, his supervisor told him he had the
ability to become something more in the
kitchen. He recommended Jose for Le
Cordon Bleu, the world’s largest hospital-
ity education institution,where renowned
chefs such as Mario Batali and Julia Child
have trained in the art of cooking.
Jose spent five years training at Le
Cordon Bleu. He was initially to learn the
craft of making sauces as a saucier. Find-
ing that working as a saucier was not to his
liking, Jose then trained as a pastry chef,
and, after not enjoying either of the two
positions, he finally spent three years
training in cooking.
After Le Cordon Bleu, Jose returned
home to Majorca and worked for a yacht
company as a private chef, cooking for
various important figures visiting Major-
ca. He met an ambassador who asked him
to come to New York and work as a chef
for the United Nations.
At the U.N., each ambassador has his
or her own chef who accompanies the am-
bassador on trips around the world and
prepares meals for dignitaries, heads of
state, monarchs and even actors. During
his 27 years at the U.N., Jose met a range
of prominent figures, such as Nelson
Mandela, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon,
Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg.
The life of a chef in the U.N. is exciting
but also demanding. Jose described
spending 24 hours a day, seven days a
week with the ambassadors. The chefs
would spend months with the ambassa-
dors while the U.N. was in session, and
then spend a month of each year volun-
teering their services for a non-profit
cause, such as UNICEF or Doctors With-
out Borders, as was Jose’s case.
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OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
Make the Stanford
Dream Need-Blind
for All
W
e see them in our class-
rooms and cultural
shows, in our labs and on
our sports teams. They are often
distinguished by a strange accent, a
distinct garb, a new perspective in a
classroom discussion, or even by a
modest “eh” at the end of a sen-
tence. Stanford’s international un-
dergraduate students add ines-
timably to campus culture, talent
and diversity. These exceptional
men and women often travel far
from everything they have known
to experience the benefits of a
Stanford education, and, as a con-
sequence, enrich the undergradu-
ate experience of all students. Nev-
ertheless, systemic inequity in the
Stanford admission process bars
many talented students from entry
into our classrooms, and prohibits
the best applications from ever
reaching our school.
Stanford proudly touts the fact
that 80 percent of its undergradu-
ates are on some form of financial
assistance. The University further
advertises that for all domestic ap-
plicants, admission is need-blind,
meaning that students are consid-
ered based solely on merit and not
on ability to pay tuition. However,
for 7 percent of the class of 2011,the
admission process did not depend
so much on meritocracy. Interna-
tional students are forced to let the
University know, on their applica-
tions,whether they will ever require
financial aid. Those who tick the
box face an additional level of
screening, which, in the case of the
class of 2010, cut their acceptance
rate down to 3 percent. This bias is
well known among international
applicants, who often choose not to
apply at all, or who foreclose on the
opportunity to ever take aid and
later face severe financial hardship.
In its treatment of international
students, Stanford is far behind its
peer institutions. Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Dartmouth and MIT
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OP-ED
Free Speech?
Editor’s Note: This is a response to
the Editorial Board’s piece, “Free
Speech Rules — Still Illegal,” which
ran on Monday, May 23, 2011.
“The pen is mightier than the
sword,” Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
How does this bear on the ques-
tion of free speech? My formulation
is simple: if we cannot trust students
with the Second Amendment, why
should they have access to the First?
Because misuse of the Second
Amendment has deadly conse-
quences, we have limitations on the
extent to which we can exercise our
right to bear arms — at schools, or
in bars, or at sporting events and
government buildings. Beyond that,
it is pretty much free reign, as long
as those few laws that do exist are
respected. We accept the unques-
tioningly paternalistic guidance of
those who created the laws because
we believe that men are fallible and
some places are safer and better off
without firearms there. The benefit,
if one exists at all, is far outweighed
by the potential for harm (especial-
ly in the case of the bar).
What this means for Stanford
students, though, is that they are not
responsible enough to have
firearms. Because we cannot be
trusted to handle firearms safely,
they have been removed from cam-
puses. Instruments of potential
harm are too great of a temptation
for those who lack a strong moral
compass.
Why, then, do we allow those
same individuals the right to a good
education? What will stop them
from writing editorials to papers,
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tenets of fairness and meritocracy.
Jane Stanford directed the Univer-
sity to “open an avenue whereby
the deserving and exceptional may
rise through their own efforts from
the lowest to the highest station in
life.” The notion that applicants
from one country should be judged
on a lower academic scale due to
wealthy donors from that country
is as absurd as applicants from
Texas being favored to those from
other states if wealthy Texans spon-
sor the University.Our peer institu-
tions have long forsaken such clas-
sist, inequitable and aristocratic
policies in shaping their admission
departments. Yet, Stanford has
seen fit to continue judging inter-
national applicants by different
standards than all other students.
Stanford administrators have
nearly uniformly expressed desire
for need-blind admission. Karen
Cooper, the Director of Financial
Aid, said she would “love to be
need-blind for international stu-
dents.” John Pearson, Director of
the Bechtel International Center,
said that,“ideally, it would be won-
derful to be at the same state as
[our] peer schools,” and that we
would likely see increased diversi-
ty on campus were we to imple-
ment need-blind financial aid. In WANDERLUST
the past, President Hennessy has
Bon Voyage!
also expressed a desire to make
Stanford need-blind for all stu-
dents. There has also been no Johnny
shortage of student outcry against
the current policy;since 2006,there Bartz
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have been six Daily articles citing s we finish up the year, it’s about the United States when I am
the need for more international fi- time for me to bid my in rural areas of Brazil, promoting
nancial aid. farewells to column writing others to think differently about
and to Stanford. It’s been a great how the international media may are a time to explore with new
Please see EDITORIAL, page 5 five-year fun, er, I mean run. I’ll portray our country. I consider it a friends, surroundings and classes,
start off by saying it was a pleasure form of diplomacy. but you shouldn’t just stop there.
to write for you, dear reader, and I And the kicker is that if you buy Now is your opportunity to start ex-
thank you for your ongoing reader- a dirt-cheap fare while you’re at it, ploring the world. Not to mention,
ship. you’re not really helping out the air- there is nothing more relaxing than
I’ve taken you along with me to line industry — in that the plane is forgetting all of your Stanford
Stockholm, Venice, Rio de Janeiro, going anyway and fleet utilization stresses and problems with a week-
Muscat, Brisbane, Buenos Aires, does not depend on low-yielding end on Waikiki beach. Maybe the
given you a crash course on flying customers like us. So unless you’re Stanford ducks can’t go south for
politesse, divulged my spring break buying full-fare business class tick- the entire winter, but a week is defi-
picks, given you the low-down on ets on your trip to Europe, you’re nitely within reason.
ecotourism and discussed current not having much of a ‘consumer im- So go ahead: visit your friends at
and future problems in the environ- pact’ on your flight — you’re just other schools. Take a risk (within
mental sustainability of aviation. filling up the plane. (Hey — I think reason!) and stay with an acquain-
Most importantly, I’ve admitted to it’s a much better argument than my tance from abroad. Take a quarter
my double life as a Stanford student vegetarian friends that only eat to study at a Bing program, using
from creating leaflets to scatter, and world traveler. meat that ‘would be wasted other- your location as a platform to ex-
from causing violent protest and Being an ardent environmental- wise.’) plore Europe or South America.
open rioting? One can do more ist of the naturalist kind, some of my I’m not saying that you should Write a research grant for that
harm with the power of persuasion friends and colleagues have certain- travel abroad every other weekend short-term field research project
than they can ever do by them- ly raised eyebrows at my travel like I’ve been doing lately, but that you’ve always dreamed of (we
selves.If we accept laws that keep us habits. Though flying is probably maybe you should consider adding are a research university after all!).
from harming ourselves, why the most carbon intensive activity a bit more panache to your Stanford You’ll be refreshed, more worldly
should we not allow them to decide that one can perform, short of burn- life with a trip once in a while. Con- and all-around a better person. (Ok,
when and where we get to use our ing large swaths of tropical rainfor- sider it an educational expense. so I can’t guarantee that last point,
freedom of speech? Karl Marx est, I’ve legitimized it to myself in (You can save a lot of money on but you get the picture).
started a hundred revolutions, al- terms of the value of cultural ex- booze if you buy it in Argentina!)
beit a while after his death; presi- change. That is, dispelling myths Remember, your college years Please see BARTZ, page 5
dents of our own country, more than
once, have led us into wars we
should not have fought.
I will ask again, one last time: if
we cannot trust a person to not
harm themselves and others with a
firearm,why can we trust them to be
safe with words? One can do even
more damage with words, a crowd
and no weapons, than one ever
could with a weapon by him or her-
self. Some of us may be senators,
justices or presidents one day —
can we trust them with a nation if
we cannot trust them with a cam-
pus?
I left Stanford to learn the ways
of war.I could not learn about war at
Stanford, nor could I start a Stan-
ford Gun Club — my application
was denied — so I looked elsewhere
for that activity. Quite analogously,
if your application for a protest is
turned down, maybe you should
look elsewhere for an outlet. On
campus you are limited by tradition
and paternalistic forms of authority.
While they may seem too conserva-
tive with their approach to permis-
sions to run activities, they may be
right — they have created a top-tier
University in only one century.
SEBASTAIN GOULD,‘12
The Stanford Daily Wednesday, May 25, 2011 ! 5

CHEF
Continued from page 3

The most unusual circumstances

Jose has cooked in were while
working with Doctors Without Bor-
ders in Kosovo during the war with
Serbia.
“We had bombs all over us,” Jose
recalled.“The doctors were still op-
erating like it was nothing, and they
were asking me for food, and I was
like ‘Wow!’”
Jose has almost met countless
world leaders. His meeting with
Nelson Mandela stands out in his
mind.
“I was in the ambassador house
and Mr. Mandela was coming to
have dinner,” he said. “The wife of
the ambassador asked me to do
African food, because he thought it
would impress him. I went to go buy
the things in Brooklyn, and we had
everything ready; the dinner was
supposed to be at six o’clock. Mr.
Mandela came to the kitchen office
where you put the food through.”
Mandela had wanted to come
and meet the chef, expressing how
much he loved Spanish food while
the ambassador stood behind Man-
dela whispering “Spanish, Spanish
food!” leaving Jose to change the
entire dinner from African to Span-
ish food in an hour.
“But the surprise to see Mr.
Mandela in front of you was one of
the beautiful days of my life.”
Jose described travelling to all
parts of the world with the principal
ambassadors he worked with, and
occasionally travelling on his own
abroad in search of recipes at the
request of the ambassadors.
“All of the ambassadors had
their own private planes. My fa-
vorite ambassador asked me to find
out the recipe of a dish that he liked
in Brazil. So I had to get the plane,
go to Brazil, eat at that restaurant, ISAAC GATENO/The Stanford Daily
give $500 to the chef to give me the
recipe, and make that recipe for the
ambassador. You have to under-
stand, they already have every-
thing. You cannot cook classics, so “You have to understand,they already have everything.
you have to improve, you have to
improvise every time.”
“Food is very important for
some ambassadors,” Jose said in re-
flecting on the importance of food
You cannot cook classics,so you have to improve,you have to
within the scope of the U.N. and in-
ternational relations. “I mean,
sometimes food is religion. And
they’re out of their own country, so
improvise every time.”
they want the food from their own
country.”
When his daughter was born,
— JUAN JOSE
however, Jose retired from the
U.N., leaving with full benefits. He side of his home. The students in French House to which the residents responded by Eventually, Jose and his wife
and his wife, who also works in the Though Google wanted to hire speak highly of Jose, praising his putting up posters of Obama all hope to move back to Majorca or
hospitality business, moved to the him, Jose came to Stanford to look homemade baguettes and scrump- around the kitchen. Portugal. But for now, he likes Cali-
Bay Area. After a short term of into working in one of the houses, tious special dinners, which most re- “J.J.’s a really interesting guy,” fornia, which he says reminds him
staying at home as a retired father, eventually deciding that he liked cently featured Kobe beef and lob- said Charlie Janac ‘13. “He has of Majorca in some ways. He also
however, Jose needed to get out of French House. Jose explained that ster surf ‘n’ turf. some great stories to tell, and it’s seems to have developed a taste for
the house. working on the school year calen- Beyond getting to consistently pretty cool he’s our chef, because, American food. Despite his high-
“I retired, I really didn’t need to dar suits him and his family, as he is taste his world-class cooking skills, well, the food’s always great.” brow culinary education and back-
work. But I was in the house, and I able to travel to Europe during the the residents enjoy their relation- “I have a lot of fun with the stu- ground, Jose’s favorite food is Ken-
noticed there was more work to be summer and see his family in Spain. ship with the chef. dents, it’s a very fun house,” Jose tucky Fried Chicken wings. Jose
done in the house, and I was the “I came for one year, maybe two. “He has a really funny sense of said. “The most rewarding thing for joked, “It may be junk food, but I
maid of the house . . . I just wanted Well, now, this is my fifth year. I love humor,” said Eduard Negiar ‘13. me is to see people happy with my love it.”
to get out of the house. It’s not my to work here with the students. It’s “Since he knows that French House food. Food is one of the most diffi-
natural ambiance.” Jose started not a job, it’s having fun.That’s why in general is pretty liberal, he pre- cult things as a profession, to make Contact Olivia Simone Jew at osjew
looking for a way to fill his time out- I come back every year.” tends to like Sarah Palin and stuff,” everyone happy in the house.” @stanford.edu.

EDITORIAL
Continued from page 4
Of course, the principal obstacle
to need-blind international admis-
sion is cost.The University estimates
that such a policy would cost an ad-
ditional $25-$30 million a year, re-
quiring a $250-$300 million addition
to our endowment to be sustainable.
The University has stated that it
would be difficult to secure dona-
tions dedicated solely to interna-
tional financial aid, and further that
domestic financial aid can be subsi-
dized by federal and state grants,
whereas international aid cannot re-
ceive such subsidies. Furthermore,
donations to international financial
aid are often given with the caveat
that they be applied only to appli-
cants of a particular nationality,
while international students are in-
eligible for government grants and
loans.
These difficulties, while substan-
tial, should not keep Stanford from
throwing its full weight behind uni-
versal need-blind admission. After
all, the University holds most of the
chips; federal and state grants con-
tributed only $8 million to domestic
financial aid this year, compared to
$118 million from Stanford.
At present, Stanford’s admission
department suffers from a funda-
mental inefficiency. Students are
being judged eligible for a Stanford
education by different standards de-
pending on their country of citizen-
ship, meaning that more deserving
students are either denied admission
in favor of less deserving ones, or
don’t even apply, reducing the com-
petitiveness of every class to gradu-
ate from our University. U.S. citizens
and international students alike
should cry out against a policy that
denies them the opportunity to col-
laborate with and learn from the
best that the world has to offer. The
world should lament the loss of fu-
ture leaders that may have emerged,
had they had access to a Stanford ed-
ucation.
It is difficult to believe that this
University, which has recently fin-
ished construction of gorgeous new
business, law and engineering facili-
ties,cannot now apply its astounding
wherewithal towards opening the
American Dream — the Stanford
Dream — to any deserving student
regardless of geographic origin.
While we recognize the challenges
associated with this proposition, this
Editorial Board urges the Universi-
ty to adopt need-blind admission for
all students. In a flat world, we sim-
ply can no longer afford to keep
turning away the world’s most
promising young men and women
CRIME
Continued from front page
education of students who hold staff
positions, such as RAs, that is slowly
changing the culture and expecta-
tions around seeking assistance for
students who have made poor deci-
sions that result in their needing
medical attention,”Wilson said.
The main concerns for SUDPS in
the 2010-11 academic year included
non-stranger sexual assault, risky al-
cohol use by students and people
visiting campus, bicycle/pedestrian
safety and student mental health.
SUDPS launched a series of new
initiatives this year to reduce cam-
pus crime. Among these initiatives
was the implementation of the
Building Manager Liaison Program,
which deals with University person-
nel managing the approximate 800
buildings on campus.
SUDPS is also working with the
ASSU to produce a training video
for SUDPS personnel,which “focus-
es on the perceptions students, par-
ticularly students of color and the
LGBT community, have when con-
tacted by the police, in an effort to
continue to build community and
enhance trust between police offi-
cers and the community,” Wilson
said.
Wilson plans to continue to fos-
ter a more trusting relationship be-
tween students and campus police
next year with the implementation
of a Police Advisory Committee.
The committee will provide feed-
back to SUDPS on how to best en-
hance its services to the community.
According to Wilson, the committee
will include representatives from
the student body, faculty, staff and
parents.
SUDPS also intends to continue
its Community Police Academy, a
one-unit class offered to faculty,staff
and students through the Law
School. The class gives students the
opportunity to observe situations
from a police officer’s point of view
and aims to develop a stronger rela-
tionship between the police depart-
ment and the Stanford community.
“I continue to advocate that
crime prevention is a community ef-
fort and that everyone must play a
role in creating and maintaining a
safe campus,”Wilson said.
Contact Marianne Levine at mlevine2
@stanford.edu.

BARTZ
Continued from page 4
Wherever you end up going,
near or far, remember to travel and
responsibly. Whether you like it or
not,you are a representative of your
school, hometown, country, etc. So
don’t get intoxicated in the street
and play the ‘ugly American.’ Pay
fair prices for the knick-knacks and
souvenirs you pick up.Try to engage
in conversation with locals of wher-
ever it is you are traveling. Bring lit-
tle gifts from your hometown.Don’t
scoff at things for being dirty, unciv-
ilized or just dislike them for being
different than what you are used to.
Travel with an open mind.Ask peo-
ple why they do this, what is the
meaning behind that. St. Augustine
said,“The world is a book,and those
who do not travel read only one
page.” Go out and explore.
Travel and you will come back
changed, with a broader under-
standing of the differences in the
way people view the world around
you. They say that Stanford is expe-
riencing the whole world at once,
but why not make the most of Stan-
ford and travel a bit while you’re at
it? You can have your cake and trav-
el too.
May your travels be pleasant and
your horizons limitless.
Happy travels!
Don’t be a stranger — keep Johnny
up to date on your exotic travel lo-
cales at jbartz@stanford.edu.
6 ! Wednesday, May 25, 2011
SPORTS
LOSS ENDS HOME SLATE
UP NEXT
CAL
(31-18, 13-11 Pac-10)
5/27 Berkeley, Calif. 5:30 P.M.
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(kzsu.stanford.edu)
GAME NOTES: Stanford travels to No. 23
Cal for its final regular-season series the
weekend. The Golden Bears sit in fourth
place in the Pac-10, a game ahead of the
Cardinal. Stanford beat Cal twice earlier in
the season in non-conference clashes.
By DANIEL E. LUPIN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Playing in its final home game of
the 2011 season, the Stanford base-
ball team took on the giant-slaying
Cal Poly Mustangs, owners of a 6-4
record against top-25 competition
this season. That record now stands
at 7-4.
BASEBALL
CAL POLY 3
STANFORD 1
5/24, Sunken Diamond
The Cardinal (30-20, 12-12 Pac-
10), ranked No. 25 in the USA Today
Coaches’ poll,had won nine of its past
12 contests and 46 of 51 all-time
games against the Mustangs (27-23,
15-9 Big West) before Tuesday. But
Stanford’s offense was not able to fig-
ure out Cal Poly’s pitchers last night,
falling 3-1.
Sophomore third baseman
Stephen Piscotty was one of just a
handful of highlights for Stanford,
going 3-for-3 to improve his Stanford-
best batting average to .364. Sopho-
more outfielder Tyler Gaffney’s sin-
gle in the sixth extended his hit streak
to 15 games, the second-longest
streak by a Cardinal hitter this sea-
son. Sophomore shortstop Kenny
Diekroeger ended an 0-for-11 slump
when he led off the second with an in-
field single,inching his average to .299
after playing most of the season close
to .400.
Things didn’t go as well on
the mound, at least in the early in-
nings. Sophomore starter Dean
McArdle went just four innings for
Defending his crown
By DASH DAVIDSON
STAFF WRITER
After seeing its dual-match season come to an
end on Saturday afternoon in a thriller against
the University of Virginia, the Stanford men’s
tennis team sends its delegation of players back
to the Taube Tennis Center today to kick off the
NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships.
Stanford will be represented by the team of
juniors Bradley Klahn and Ryan Thacher in the
32-team doubles draw, with the same pair of
teammates participating in the 64-man singles
draw as well. Klahn and Thacher will be the No. 8
seed in the doubles tournament and Klahn will
For the second straight year Bradley Klahn is the No. 13 seed in the NCAA individual tournament. Last season Klahn rode lucky number 13 to an NCAA
title. This year, he will try to defend his championship on his home courts at Stanford. Klahn’s first match is today at noon at the Taube Tennis Center.
The Stanford Daily
JOHN SCHOECH/The Stanford Daily
Sophomore starter Dean McArdle, above, took the loss in Tuesday’s game. McArdle went four-plus innings and allowed all three Cal Poly runs. With the
loss, McArdle fell to 7-4 on the season. Stanford’s home schedule is now complete. The Cardinal plays a three-game set at No. 23 Cal this weekend.
Stanford, giving up four hits and all Cardinal mustered just one run. McArdle struggled a little bit in through the third and fourth innings
three runs while striking out three.Ju- The Cardinal started the game the second,as Jensen drove home D.J. before McArdle ran into all kinds of
nior Brian Busick pitched three out- promisingly enough, with McArdle Gentile to plate Cal Poly’s first run. problems in the fifth. Jensen contin-
standing innings in relief for the Car- retiring the side in order in the top of On offense,the Cardinal was not able ued his strong performance with a
dinal, striking out three while giving the first. Senior catcher Zach Jones to capitalize on its opportunities, leadoff homer, his first home run of
up only two hits. then led off the bottom half of the in- stranding two runners in scoring posi- the season. He then surrendered an
The Stanford offense couldn’t ning with his team-leading 15th dou- tion. That would be a continued infield hit to Chris Hoo after falling
capitalize on Busick’s strong effort,as ble of the season, eventually scoring theme throughout the game for the behind 3-0, and again found himself
Cal Poly first baseman Matt Jensen on Gaffney’s RBI groundout. That offense. behind 3-0 to Jimmy Allen and was
went 3-for-4 with a home run and two double by Jones was Stanford’s only Both pitchers, McArdle and Cal
RBI — enough for the win, as the extra-base hit of the game. Poly’s Kyle Anderson, cruised Please see BASEBALL, page 7
be the No. 13 seed in the singles event. Thacher tournaments will proceed quickly, with a round
Kabir
Sawhney
Follow the Money
received an at-large bid. being played in its entirety every day, setting up
The field this year is deep, with USC’s Steve
Johnson coming in as the overall No. 1 seed. Out
of his past 17 matches, Klahn’s only loss was to
Johnson in the Pac-10 Singles Championships.
the two finals to be played on Monday, May 30.
Klahn will be in the unique position of de-
fending his 2010 title in the singles tournament.
A year ago at the University of Georgia, Klahn
Get rid of
The singles tournament kicks off with all
first-round matches Wednesday staggered be-
tween the 12 courts that comprise the Taube
Tennis Center.The doubles tournament is set to
— seeded 13th, as he is this year — blitzed the
field and impressively claimed the NCAA sin-
gles title. He has been working all season to
reach that summit again — for him, the biggest
preseason
start on Thursday, when the first-round traffic of
the singles event has died down, and will also be
held at the various Taube courts. Stanford’s
difference this year will be playing on the home
court.
Stanford tennis fans have been more of a polls
A
matches are scheduled exclusively in the after-
noon, as chosen by the host Cardinal. The two Please see MTENNIS, page 7 s I scrolled through my
Twitter feed this morn-
ing on my way to class,I
noticed the latest itera-
tion of what has be-
come a spring rite among college foot-
ball writers:the “way too early”top 25.
This morning’s rankings from Sports
Illustrated’s Andy Staples looked well
thought-out and thoroughly re-
searched, with a significant explana-
tion of each team’s current status and
the number of returning players,
alongside other factoids.
College football junkies like myself
comb over these rankings — and
every other tidbit of football news that
crosses the wire — but the rankings
remain an extremely flawed science.
The only reason they are so popular is
because fans can’t wait for football
season to start.It’s not like there’s any-
thing else interesting to watch — the
Miami Heat’s “Big Three”is dominat-
ing the postseason to everyone’s cha-
grin and the Stanley Cup Playoffs are
in the cable netherworld of Versus.
Even so,I still think it’s time to junk
preseason rankings altogether. For
starters,they are almost always proved
wrong — it is simply impossible to
predict the season’s results before it
even starts. They warp perceptions
among fans and the all-important poll
voters, who are reluctant to drop a
team that doesn’t lose, even if it is
clearly inferior to teams below it.
Through this mechanism, the presea-
son rankings deprive deserving teams
with low rankings from getting to big-
time bowl games at season’s end.
The bigger problem with presea-
son rankings is that they’re often
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily based as much on fact as they are on
Please see SAWHNEY, page 7
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MTENNIS BASEBALL
extra pressure has barely affected first baseman Brian Ragira grounded CAL POLY 3 STANFORD 1
him, if at all. into a double play and Diekroeger 05/25/11
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tournament, but I’m just going to The double play continued to Crocker, B. cf 4
Busby, E. 2b 3
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Jones, Z. c
Clowe, B. dh
4
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approach it the same way I do any plague the Cardinal in the seventh. Miller, M. ss 4 0 0 0 Gaffney, T. lf 4 0 1 1
presence at Taube recently, marking other tournament — by being fo- pulled in favor of Busick,who walked Lonnie Kauppila was the culprit this Gentile, D. dh 4
Thompson, J. 3b 4
1
0
2
0
0
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Piscotty, S. 3b
Ragira, B. 1b
3
4
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0
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a noticeable change from much of cused from the first round on, going Allen on the next pitch.After a well- time, after fellow freshman Austin Janiger, M. rf 4 0 1 0 Diekroeger, K. ss 3 0 1 0
the regular season. out there, taking care of business executed sac bunt by Bobby Crocker, Wilson led off with a single.It was the Jensen, M. 1b 4
Hoo, C. c 3
1
1
3
2
2
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Wilson, A. rf
Kauppila, L. 2b
3
4
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1
0
0
0
“The crowd at the NCAAs has and trying to play smart tennis.” Evan Busby laid down the squeeze, third time Stanford had grounded Allen, J. lf 2 0 0 0 Stewart, J. cf 2 0 0 0
been unbelievable, it’s something After such a bitter and close de- scoring Hoo. Busick struck out Mike into a double play in the game. Totals 32 3 8 3 30 1 8 1
that I’ve never experienced before feat, Klahn is motivated to defend Miller to retire the side, ending the The Cardinal continued to strand R H E
— people coming out in bunches his home court and take care of threat for the Mustangs. runners in the bottom of the eighth, Cal Poly
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and bunches,” Klahn said. “The business. In the top of the sixth, Stanford as Stanford could not convert on a Tyler Gaffney extended his hitting streak to 15 games.
support has really just been incred- “I couldn’t be more excited to get caught a break from the baseball pair of singles by Ben Clowe and Pis- DP—Cal Poly 4; Stanford 1. LOB—Cal Poly 7; Stanford 7. 2B—Jones
ible, providing such an electric at- back out on the court,” he said. “To rulebook. With two outs and a run- cotty. In the ninth, Stanford’s rally (15); Jensen (3). HR—Jensen (1) HBP—Piscotty. SH—Clowe (5);
Crocker (5); Busby (14); Allen (8).
mosphere for us, I’ve never played get back into that competitive at- ner on first, Matt Jensen’s great day was again snuffed out by the double- Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO
in anything like it, the stadium mosphere and to try and defend my continued as he laced a ball to deep play ball. After Diekoroeger led off Cal Poly
rocking so much that it’s basically title on my home court — it’s going right-center. Luckily for the Cardi- the ninth with a walk, Wilson joined Anderson, K. W(3-5)
Johnson, C.
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shaking with excitement. It juices to be pretty cool. I definitely feel nal, the ball bounced over the fence, the double-play brigade, the fourth Reed, F. S(3) 2.0 2 0 0 1 0
us players up, it really gets us going ready to go, I can’t wait.” forcing the runner to halt at third. and final double play hit into by Stan- Stanford
McArdle, D. L(7-4) 4.0 4 3 3 2 3
and provides us with that little bit of Both Thacher and Klahn hit the Busick was able to retire Hoo to end ford. Lonnie Kappuila flew out to Busick, B. 3.0 2 0 0 0 3
extra effort that is so important to courts this afternoon for their first- the inning. end it. Bloom, S.
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have in a close match.” round singles action, and then start Unfortunately, the Cardinal’s The Cardinal is back in action this Snodgress, S. 0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Heading into the NCAA Singles doubles play with the rest of the field lucky break wouldn’t matter. Stan- weekend for its final regular-season WP— McArdle (3). HBP— Anderson (Piscotty). Pitches/strikes:
Anderson 75/47; Johnson 9/6; Reed 37/24; McArdle 68/41; Busick
Championship as the defending tomorrow afternoon. ford again threatened in the bottom series at Cal.First pitch on Friday is at 44/33; Bloom 11/7; Vanegas 12/9; Snodgress 5/3. Mcardle faced 3
champion gives Klahn the prover- of the inning, as Gaffney led off with 2:30 p.m. batters in the 5th.

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reputation and perceptions. Tradi-
tional football powerhouses always
get the benefit of the doubt and end
up highly ranked,even if there are few
empirical reasons to believe they de-
serve such a ranking.As you might ex-
pect with such an exercise,teams with
a record of recent successes get
ranked pretty highly as well, even if
they lose their entire defensive front
and top offensive playmakers to the
draft or (if it’s an SEC school or Ohio
State) some sort of violation-induced
ineligibility.
To illustrate my point, let’s look at
Staples’ rankings from last season and
compare them with how the season
actually shook out. His top team, Al-
abama, underperformed expecta-
tions,going 10-3 with a win in the Cap-
ital One Bowl over Michigan State.
His No. 2, Boise State, almost finished
the season undefeated once again,but
lost in overtime to Nevada to lose the
WAC title and any shot at a BCS bowl.
No.3 Ohio State was actually about on
the mark — the Buckeyes finished 12-
1 after beating Arkansas in the Sugar
Bowl. No. 4 Texas was a colossal flop,
going 5-7 and 2-6 in the Big 12 to miss
out on a bowl berth (not to mention a
season-ending loss to archrival Texas
A&M).No.5 Iowa didn’t do so hot ei-
ther, going 8-5 after eking out a 27-24
win over Missouri in the Insight Bowl.
Meanwhile,that list has some pret-
ty glaring omissions as well. The
biggest one was the failure to include
our very own Stanford Cardinal,
which (as some of you may recall) fin-
ished 12-1 with a No. 4 ranking and a
romp of Virginia Tech in the Orange
Bowl. Slightly less significant was the
fact that Auburn, the eventual nation-
al title winner,was also not on the list.
The best alternative is to hold off
on ranking teams at all until the sixth
week of the season, when the sports-
writers and coaches who vote in the
polls have a much better idea of which
teams actually deserve a chance at a
marquee bowl game. Tradition and
perception will still undoubtedly play
a role,but teams will be unable to get a
leg up on the competition solely by
virtue of their reputation.
Of course,the worst part of moving
away from ranking teams in the pre-
season is the inability of passionate
college football followers — like
yours truly — to get their fix before
the season starts. I guess I’ll just have
to go back to my remote, doomed to
an endless channel surf in search of
Versus (which I’m starting to suspect
doesn’t really exist).
Kabir Sawhney projected Stanford to
have three losses, including one to
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8 ! Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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WTENNIS|184-match home winning streak snapped
day started poorly for the Cardinal
(28-1).All Stanford pairs struggled to
get points despite regularly getting to
deuce or earning advantage points.
The team appeared timid initially,
letting Florida (31-1) run out to early
leads. The match was eventually
clinched when the Gators won the
No. 3 doubles.
In singles, the Cardinal came out
reinvigorated and grabbed momen-
tum early. On court one, Barte — in
her final dual match in a Cardinal
uniform — channeled four years of
energy into a truly dominant per-
formance. Her opponent, Allie Will,
rarely gained momentum in the
match and as Will’s shrieks echoed
around the stadium, Barte, the na-
tion’s No. 3 player, rode the crowd’s
energy to a 6-2, 6-4 victory and Stan-
ford’s first point of the day.
Over on court two, Burdette ran
into early trouble. In a difficult
matchup,Burdette’s hard-hitting and
accurate baseline game was matched
against the defensive- and move-
ment-focused game of Embree. Her
Gator opponent frequently returned
consecutive balls and continued to
force Burdette to hit extra shots. De-
spite winning the first game, Bur-
dette found herself in a 1-5 hole.
Gibbs quickly got the crowd be-
hind her on court three with loud,
demonstrative celebrations. She
struggled in her semifinal match
against Baylor, but in this match, she
was back to her winning ways. She
was second off the court with a 6-4, 7-
5 score, putting Stanford ahead 2-1.
With five of Stanford’s players win-
ning their first set, the day was look-
ing positive for the Cardinal.
Back on court two, Burdette
found her top game and orchestrated
an incredible rally back from 1-5
down. Reeling off six games in a row,
Burdette used good net play to take
the first set 7-5.
Meanwhile, McVeigh was locked
in a tight first set at No. 6. She and
Florida’s Olivia Janowicz played to a
tiebreaker in the first set and
McVeigh staved off a set point and
eventually pulled out the set to a loud
cheer from the crowd.
Tan, also on the outside courts,
was already in the third set of her
match, having lost the first and dom-
inated in the second when McVeigh
wrapped up her first set. The crucial
game came at 4-4 for Tan. Her oppo-
MIKE KHEIR/The Stanford Daily
Stanford senior Hilary Barte got the
Cardinal on the board with a 6-2,
6-4 victory at the No. 1 spot. Barte,
the No. 3 player in the nation, start-
ed a run of three consecutive Stan-
ford singles victories giving the Card
a 3-1 lead.
nent, the Gators’ Joanna Mather,
called a ball out. After the umpire
overturned the ball, Tan had a game
point instead of a break point. De-
spite losing the next point, Mather
botched an overhead to give Tan a
second game point. Mather again
dug in and won the next point, but
Tan hit a massive swinging volley
from the service line to win her third
game point. She capitalized on this
one to gain the 5-4 lead and all mo-
mentum was hers.
Tan earned four match points in
the next game, taking the match 3-6,
6-2, 6-4.The win also gave Stanford a
3-1 lead, putting the Cardinal one
point away from its second national
title in as many years.
After Tan’s win, though, it was all
downhill for the Cardinal. Burdette
dropped the second set 6-3 on court
two,and Li,after winning the first set,
lost the next two to Florida’s Alex
Cercone. That narrowed the Cardi-
nal lead to 3-2.
Burdette started the third set on
fire, giving Stanford fans a glimpse of
the end line and the national title. Up
4-0 and showing no signs of slowing
down until a sudden hiccup occurred,
Burdette lost control of her ground-
strokes and was broken at love. Sud-
denly, Embree was there to pounce.
As Burdette’s energy waned, Em-
bree fought all the way back to take a
5-4 lead before Burdette won anoth-
er game — but only after fighting off
two match points.
Janowicz proved too tough in the
third set, and outlasted McVeigh, 6-
7(8-6), 6-3, 6-1 and all eyes in the sta-
dium turned to Burdette and Em-
bree. With both players exhausted
from long rallies at the baseline, the
match was tied 6-6 and headed to a
tiebreaker with the NCAA Champi-
onship on the line.
Burdette went up 2-0 on a power-
ful forehand and a brilliant low pick-
up volley. A few unforced errors
later,and all of a sudden Embree had
a 4-2 lead. Again, Burdette fought
back using two volleys to tie the score
at 4-4. After failing to return a fast
serve to the body and sending a tired
forehand long, Embree had two
championship points.Burdette saved
both again, bringing the score to 6-6,
with both players needing to win by
two to earn the championship.
Burdette controlled the next
point and had an overhead to give
her the lead and a championship
point. However the overhead caught
the frame of her racket and went into
Stanford freshman Nicole Gibbs, above, did her part in Stanford’s 4-3 loss to
Florida yesterday. Gibbs cruised to a two-set victory in her No. 3 singles match.
Gibbs begins her first NCAA Singles Championship tournament today.
the net. Ultimately, Burdette lost the
final point of the season on a fore-
hand that sailed long. As Stanford
fans leaned back in shock, the few
Gator fans who made the trip began
their cheering.
Stanford’s record-breaking streak
ended in fittingly dramatic fashion
for a team with such an impressive
winning streak. The bar remains at
184 undefeated home wins dating
back to February 12, 1999 — over a
decade of dominance at Taube Ten-
nis Center.
Forood says she’s pleased with the
way her players battled through in-
jury and adversity, and enjoyed the
home support.
“It was an incredible match,” she
said.“It was the most electric atmos-
phere I think I’ve experienced in a
college tennis match. It was an amaz-
ing day, and we just came up a little
short today.”
When asked about the streak,
Forood believed it wasn’t the most
important thing the team lost today.
“We know it’s not going to go on
to infinity,” she said. “At some point
we’re going to take a loss here, and
we’ll just start over again. It hap-
pened to be today.The streak doesn’t
mean a lot to us. It’s interesting, but
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The Stanford Daily
MIKE KHEIR/The Stanford Daily
Sophomore Mallory Burdette will be
back in action in the women’s invi-
didual tournament beginning
today. She and Barte will also try for
the women’s doubles title together
starting tomorrow.
it’s not a motivating thing.”
For Barte, the match stands as the
last team competition of her illustri-
ous career.
“With this team especially,we had
a lot of mountains to climb, and we
climbed them,”she said.“The memo-
ries that I’m going to take away from
the team, I’m going to have them for
the rest of my life.”
Despite the loss in the finals,Stan-
ford still brought home a few acco-
lades for the night. Barte was named
to the top spot of the All-Tourna-
ment Team, Gibbs earned the third
spot and McVeigh earned the sixth
spot. In doubles, Barte and Burdette
earned first spot All-Tournament
Team.
Stanford’s season isn’t completely
over. No. 3 Barte, Gibbs, Ahn, Bur-
dette and Tan are all slated to play in
the NCAA Individual Champi-
onships beginning today — though
Ahn may not compete because of her
injury. Barte and Burdette, the No. 4
doubles team in the nation, and Ahn
and Gibbs are scheduled to compete
in doubles starting Thursday.
— Nate Adams contributed to this re-
port.
Contact Will Seaton at wseaton@stan-
ford.edu.