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THURSDAY
May 26, 2011
Global Media Relations director Matt Ceniceros (far left) and Stanford scholar Rafiq Dossani (far
right) were two among a host of speakers at yesterday’s conference on social media and business.
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Social media moves to academia
Conference examines role of social
media, business globalization
By MARWA FARAG
DESK EDITOR
The Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) hosted a
conference on social media and the globalization
of business on Wednesday. The conference fea-
tured two main presentations on social media
and the workplace, which focused on trends in
using social media platforms (SMPs) for various
business functions.
The Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Cen-
ter (APARC) and the Stanford Program on Re-
gions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(SPRIE) co-hosted the event.
“Social media is such a new field that compa-
nies are really confused about where it’s going . .
. they don’t have a clear idea of return on invest-
ment, they don’t understand which SMP to use
for which kind of corporate activity,” said Rafiq
Dossani, APARC senior research scholar, in an
interview with The Daily.
But experts are starting to detangle the com-
plexities of social media.
Philip and Stephen Jordan of Green LMI Con-
sulting,a strategic consulting firm presented their
paper on “Social Media Trends with Silicon Val-
ley employers,”studying how social media is used
for professional development and recruitment in
the Valley.
Their research found that 52 percent of firms
“use social media for . . . finding and recruiting
NEWS BRIEFS
Scholars delve into mental states
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Researchers at the School of Medicine are one step
closer to unlocking the secrets of the brain. Michael
Greicius, assistant professor of neurology, and his col-
leagues say that mental states can be identified using
patterns of activity in the human brain’s coordinated
“networks.”
Their findings, published today in Cerebral Cortex,
may advance the effort to create diagnostic tests for var-
ious brain disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Gre-
icius and his team used brain-imaging data to figure out
which of four mental states their subjects were engaged
in — remembering events of the day, doing mental
math,relaxing or singing silently to themselves.
Unlike other studies that use time-controlled tech-
niques, the Stanford study allowed experimental sub-
jects to carry out the mental activities at their own nat-
ural pace.This new method is the standard fMRI proce-
dure with a twist and enables researchers to understand
what the human brain does in free-flowing mental
states.
“With standard fMRI, you need to know just when
your subjects start focusing on a mental task and just
when they stop,” Greicius said in a press release. “But
that isn’t how real people in the day-to-day world
think.”
Using fMRI scans from 14 men and women, Gre-
icius’ team concentrated on networks of brain regions
that activate together during a given mental state.The
team made maps of coordinated brain activity for each
state, examining 90 brain regions that constituted most
of the brain’s gray matter.
With this mental mapping complete,the researchers
attempted to identify which among the four mental
tasks subjects were performing and correctly predicted
them with 80-percent accuracy.
The Stanford investigators hope that this advance
will be helpful in determining cognitive disorders.Gre-
icius and his peers previously demonstrated that differ-
ent disorders show up on fMRI scans with deficiencies
specific to different brain networks.
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new candidates.” Despite the buzz around social
media the writers emphasized that “core skills”
are still the most essential element in a resume
and social media tools should only be used to
augment these skills.
Following brief presentations by Tuomo
Nikulainen, a researcher at ETLA, the Research
Institute of the Finnish Economy, and Rahim
Fazal, CEO and co-founder of Involver, an SMP,
Dossani presented his paper on “Social Media in
the Workplace.”
Dossani’s research examined corporate social
media policy and practices. Dossani set two con-
ditions to decide the value of an SMP to a busi-
ness organization — namely, whether it im-
proves the reliability of existing information or
enables the generation of new information. His
research found that SMPs were more valuable
for interaction between people with weaker ties
to each other.
Using a small sample of firms, Dossani found
marked differences between corporate use of in-
ternal and external SMPs.In fact,45 percent of all
firms use internal SMPs, or social media for re-
cruitment within the firm. Additionally, 90 per-
cent of all firms use external SMPs for recruit-
ment and marketing and business development.
Social media platform LinkedIn, a profes-
sional networking website came up as preferred
for recruitment, and Wiki “came out as the star
across all possible uses,” Dossani said.
In response to Dossani’s presentation,
APARC Director-emeritus Henry Rowen noted
the study’s lack of citations, which indicates the
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Journalism meets innovation
Al-Jazeera reporter Josh Redding discussed his outlet’s new show, “The Stream,” at Wednesday’s
Conference on Innovation Journalism. The conference, now in its eighth iteration, is premised on
the idea that the news business needs to innovate to survive in a highly competitive economy.
STRONG START
Women’s tennis sends 3 of 5 to
second round of singles tourney
Stanford weighs
in on speed rail
Trains draw criticism,praise
By MATT BETTONVILLE
STAFF WRITER
The California high-speed rail project
has been a hotly contested issue at the
state level since voters passed the nearly
$10 billion California Proposition 1A in
2008. As the California High Speed Rail
Authority (CHSRA) moves closer to be-
ginning construction on the project, mem-
bers of the Stanford community, students
and experts alike, are weighing in on the
prospects and perils the high-speed rail
could face.
The rail line, if constructed, will shuttle
riders from downtown San Francisco to
the Los Angeles/Anaheim area in two
hours and 40 minutes, taking a route
through California’s Central Valley. Fu-
ture plans aim to expand the line, allowing
it run from Sacramento to San Diego.
High-speed rail has had great success in
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
U.S.tech chief enlightens
Farm’s students and staff
By SARAH FLAMM
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Aneesh Chopra, the U.S. Chief Tech-
nology Officer (CTO), gave an overview
of the government’s efforts to encourage
entrepreneurship yesterday. His talk was
the last session of the DFJ Entrepreneur-
ial Thought Leaders Seminar Series.
Chopra reports directly to President
Barack Obama and is responsible for ad-
vancing “the president’s technology agen-
da by fostering new ideas and encouraging
government-wide coordination,” accord-
ing to the White House website.
“If I am successful, I will convince you
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Europe, but no lines yet exist in the Unit-
ed States.
Funding for the project has trickled in
slowly and is being matched by the state
of California. According to CHSRA
media contact Rachel Wall, the rail au-
thority received $3.5 billion in federal
funds, which will enable the construction
of a segment of rail in the Central Valley.
Following the government’s invest-
ment in infrastructure, currently under-
way with the CHSRA, the line will be li-
censed to a private operator who will be
required to run trains at profit. Wall said
there is significant demand from various
parties to run the line.
“The high-speed rail industry and sup-
pliers and operators have been literally
knocking on our doors weekly to stay ap-
prised of what is the United States’ only
Please see RAIL, page 2
that there has never been a better time to
be an innovator,” Chopra said to an audi-
ence of Stanford students, professors, en-
trepreneurs and community members.
Chopra described three sectors that are
ripe for technological innovation and in-
vestment: healthcare, education and clean
energy.
“Can you imagine being a billionaire
and solving the healthcare system at the
same time?” Chopra said.
He continued to describe the “huge po-
tential for entrepreneurship” in health-
care, such as digitizing the system and
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CRIME & SAFETY
Police,leaders
rethink safety
after shooting
Blackfest organizers stress
need for additional measures
By MIKE WHEET
In response to the shooting that
occurred in the Lagunita parking
lot on the evening of Saturday, May
14, campus police and student lead-
ers are considering changes to secu-
rity measures at large events.
The incident happened across
the street from Roble Field, where
Blackfest had ended approximate-
ly 30 minutes earlier. According to
some witnesses at the shooting, an
argument broke out and multiple
shots were subsequently fired at
the ground.
Student leaders involved with
Blackfest anticipate that the inci-
dent will lead to increased security
in future years.
The most recent Blackfest was
much more crowded than expect-
ed. In 2010, approximately 700 peo-
ple attended. This year, Blackfest
artists Big Sean and Travis Porter
rapidly gained popularity and drew
a larger crowd, which included a
sizable number of students from
other universities and community
members unaffiliated with Stan-
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TECH
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moving hospitals and doctors from
paper to record-based systems.
Chopra also pointed to new market
opportunities that will result from
shifting the payment system from
one that focuses on volume to one
that focuses on value.
On the education front, Chopra
described a need to move from
print to digital learning. For exam-
ple, he spoke about the develop-
ment of digital tutors, a machine
learning system that determines
student’s needs and then presents
materials in a way that best match-
es individual’s level and learning
style.
The third field Chopra men-
tioned was clean energy, which
shows great potential for invest-
ment. He touched upon the need to
modernize the smart grid and im-
prove energy efficiency through
better monitoring systems.
The government plays an impor-
tant role in encouraging innovation
in these fields, Chopra said. He
highlighted a range of initiatives
that the Obama administration has
undertaken, such as investing in
wireless connectivity and human
capital, as well as shaping good
market conditions for innovation
through cyber policy, patents and
regulatory barriers reductions.
He also mentioned Obama’s
Open Government Directive,which
makes data universally available to
the public through websites like
data.gov. Chopra said that making
more data public and available for
entrepreneurs to explore would fuel
new products and services.
“I appreciated hearing about ef-
forts to make data more accessible
to the public and the opportunities
that arise when given access to
data,” said Pat Kuehnle ‘11, who in-
terned at the Department of Edu-
cation right after the Open Govern-
ment initiative was launched.
Chopra also underscored the
need to fix the current broken im-
migration system in order to retain
the “best and brightest innovators.”
Chopra, who was born in Trenton,
New Jersey, and is a second-genera-
tion immigrant from India, said this
issue deeply resonates with him. He
mentioned that a comprehensive
immigration overhaul could in-
clude granting green cards to doc-
toral and master’s students upon
graduation or issuing “startup
visas” to entrepreneurs.
According to Chopra, the equiv-
alent of bottom-up change as ap-
plied to the technology sector is en-
trepreneurship. By tapping into
places like the Silicon Valley, one
can overcome the political stale-
mate in Washington and bring
change.
Chopra’s visit served not only to
inform people about government
initiatives that build infrastructure
that supports entrepreneurs, but
also to encourage entrepreneurs to
serve their country by entering
healthcare, education and clean
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Aneesh Chopra,U.S. Chief Technology Officer, was the final speaker for this
Contact Sarah Flamm at sflamm@ year’s DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar Series. Chopra
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true high-speed rail system,” she
said.
The plan to begin in the Central
Valley has met several criticisms,
most prominently the idea that the
state is building a rail to nowhere.
The first rail line will cover a 150-
mile segment from Merced, Calif.,
to Bakersfield, Calif., with the ob-
jective of targeting riders in the
Madera and Fresno areas along the
way.
Graduate School of Business
professor Alain Enthoven co-au-
thored a study titled “The Financial
Risks of California’s High-Speed
Rail Project,” which points to mis-
calculations in the CHSRA plan,
including incorrectly estimated in-
frastructure cost and rider de-
mand.
“Both our state and federal gov-
ernments are suffering from dan-
gerously large and intractable
deficits, and we shouldn’t be look-
ing for new ways to spend money
unless they are clearly good invest-
ments. CHSR is a loser,” Enthoven
wrote in email to The Daily.
Another key concern is what
would happen if rail revenue can-
not meet costs. Many critics fear
that the state will end up subsidiz-
ing the train, a measure forbidden
by Prop 1A. Citing experts from
Amtrak and around the world, En-
thoven’s study concludes, “the pro-
posed project cannot financially
function without a legally forbid-
den operating subsidy.”
Still, CHSRA insists that the
law will be upheld.
“The bond measure authorized
$9 billion for high-speed rail infra-
structure construction in Califor-
nia,” Wall said. “That is it. That is
the only state money that is going
to go toward this project.”
Other supporters insist that
precedent indicates the demand
will be there. High-speed rail pro-
ponent Daniel Jacobson ‘12, along
with CHSRA, pointed to Euro-
pean high-speed trains as support-
ing evidence. The populations
there depend on rails like the AVE
line from Madrid to Barcelona,
which is similar to the one from San
Francisco to Los Angeles.
Before Prop 1A, the state gov-
ernment conducted feasibility
studies to determine whether the
high-speed rail was the best option
to alleviate growing population
transportation demand. Many sup-
porters of the project agree with
the state’s decision that high-speed
rail is a more economic option than
building additional freeways and
airports.
“When you look at the econom-
ic future of the state, I don’t think
there’s a project that’s more cru-
cial,” Jacobson said.
He noted that the economic
stimulus from the project’s con-
struction, transportation and job
creation made the project a must
for the state. He also pointed to the
minimized environmental impact
of trains relative to cars or planes.
CHSRA hopes to reduce depend-
ence on roads and airways as well.
“We do anticipate making it an
enticing, competitive option to pull
cars off the freeways,” Wall said.
She added that “California has
hundreds if not thousands of flights
every day” from Northern Califor-
nia to Southern California.
Enthoven, however, saw the
project as a poor way to invest in
the state’s future.
“It is being and will be paid for
by cuts in support for education,”
he said. “As to which is more im-
portant for our future, there is no
contest, not even close.
“Maybe in the 1960s we could
afford a moon shot, but not now
with health care over 17 percent of
the GDP and growing,” he added.
Jacobson, on the other hand, in-
sisted that the state needs trans-
portation infrastructure and can-
not wait much longer.
“Yes, it’s tough to fund some-
thing that big right now, but the
cost of doing nothing is not zero,”
he said. “To expand highways and
airports to handle the same capaci-
ty when California hits 60 million
people by 2050 is going to be two,
three, four times the cost.”
Construction is set to begin on
the Central Valley line in Septem-
ber 2012.
Contact Matt Bettonville at mbet-
tonville@stanford.edu.

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ford.
Blackfest co-chair Lexi Butler
‘11 said her group “organized the
event based on last year’s atten-
dance.”
“No one knew it was going to
get that big,” she added, referring
to this year’s estimated 4,000 atten-
dees.
While planning this year’s event,
Blackfest organizers requested
enough security for a 1,000-person
crowd. Butler claimed additional
security might not have prevented
the incident and stressed that other
measures are needed to keep future
events safe.
“I think heads of the University,
security and students who plan big
events now realize that ‘Hey, peo-
ple will come to our campus.’ We
need to think about how to protect
it,” Bulter said.
Following the incident, the
Stanford Concert Network (SCN)
is reconsidering how it will work
with other student groups in the fu-
ture. SCN provided $3,000 in fund-
ing and technical support for
Blackfest, but was not involved in
organizing the event’s security.
“[The shooting] might affect
how we run things on our end,” said
Alberto Aroeste ‘13, financial man-
ager for SCN.“We don’t want to be
outsourcing our work. We work
very closely with the deputies.”
Aroeste could not comment on
the concert network’s involvement
in next year’s Blackfest as the SCN
board had not discussed it yet.
The Stanford University De-
partment of Public Safety
(SUDPS) is continuing to actively
investigate the case. After the
shooting, SUDPS officers detained
and questioned two suspects who
attempted to flee the scene.The po-
lice released the suspects because
there was not sufficient evidence to
make an arrest.
Officers also found a handgun
near the area where the suspects
were apprehended. Detectives in-
vestigated the registered owner of
the handgun and whether the
owner could legally possess a
firearm. To date, both questions re-
main unanswered and charges
have not been made.
“Nothing has been brought to
the D.A. at this time, the detectives
are still doing fact-finding,” said
Sergeant Chris Cohendet.
He added that SUDPS hopes
that charges can be brought for-
ward soon.
Cohendet also acknowledged
that large events will require
greater security in future.
“We have to look at these
events in a new way,” he said.
“Someone could’ve seriously been
hurt or killed.”
Blackfest organizers and police
say that the shooting, combined
with other security incidents this
past year, should remind everyone
of campus’s vulnerability.
“This year, our safe little bubble
has been shaken,” Butler said.
“The Stanford community is a
very safe community, but it’s not in-
vincible to outsiders,” Cohendet
said. “Students and community
members need to be aware of their
surroundings.”
Contact Mike Wheet at mwheet@
stanford.edu.
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FEATURES
INNOVENTIONS
How the university
brings inventions
to the market
By ZAHRA TAJI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

U
niversity news reports seem con-
stantly flooded with research
findings and inventions devel-
oped year round. In fact, accord-
ing to the Association of Ameri-
can Universities, universities brought on av-
erage more than one new product to market
every day between 1998 and 2006. But while
the product is usually described with vivid de-
tail, the behind-the-scenes process that makes
these new inventions official is rarely ex-
plored.
Professors like James S. Harris, professor
of electrical engineering, who have issued
nearly 30 patents and have even more pend-
ing, are no strangers to Stanford’s Office of
Technology Licensing (OTL), which manages
the University’s intellectual property.
For example, when Harris founded Solar the product should be licensed to the industry.
Junction, a company he developed with his If the product is licensed, an administra-
lab that manufactures super high-efficiency tive fee is paid to the OTL before profit is di-
solar cells, he worked closely with the OTL to vided into thirds between the inventor, the in-
protect the product of his lab’s innovation. ventor’s department and the University. But
Just last month, it broke the world record with if the product is not licensed, the OTL releas-
its solar cell efficiency of 43.5 percent. es the inventor from the University’s patent
As stated on its website, the OTL’s mission policy, which gives the inventor freedom to
is to “promote the transfer of Stanford tech- try to patent the invention on his or her own.
nology for society’s use and benefit while gen- “As part of our charter [we] try and make
erating unrestricted income to support re- our research publicly accessible [so] that it
search and education.” does something for society,” Harris said. “It’s
The implication of Stanford’s patent poli- important to have exclusive licensing and to
cy is that any patentable invention imple- do it in a right way. And I think the OTL has
mented “in whole or in part by members of found a good way to do that, and I think very
the faculty or staff of the University”will have few other institutions have done so.”
to be licensed through the OTL. This holds Harris stressed the importance of granting
true for research supported by any funding exclusive licenses. Courtesy of James S. Harris
source — University or otherwise. “You can imagine if Google didn’t have an
exclusive license as things were starting to ABOVE One Solar Junction wafer contains about 25 solar cells.
Whenever a student, faculty or staff devel-
ops an invention, they must submit a disclo- BELOW The founders of Solar Junction gather in the Quad for a photoshoot.
sure form to OTL, who will evaluate whether Please see OTL, page 5
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OPINIONS
S EEING G REEN
How Tree-Hugging Became
a Competitive Sport
I
n 2007, I wrote my first “Seeing
Green” piece while stranded in
Princeton’s student center (I
went to the public rival-down-the-
road, Rutgers) as my boyfriend
coached swim practice. The column,
“Oil for Breakfast,” detailed the
myriad invisible ways fossil fuels
support our daily lives — fueling the
machine to fix the nitrogen to fertil-
ize the corn to feed the pig to make
the sausage, for example.
I recently read back over that first
essay with some amusement. First, I
had listed the price of gas at $1.95 per
gallon. Second, the final copy suf-
fered from several grammatical mis-
steps introduced by an overzealous
editor (which reminds me of how
grateful I am for Kristian’s patience
with me this year).
Four years later, the numbers cer-
tainly need updating, but the col-
umn’s message is as disturbingly true
as ever. But is it as shocking?
Maybe I’m just enrobing myself
in thicker and thicker bubbles, but it
seems to me that we’re far more en-
vironmentally aware than we used to
be. As the price of oil steadily rises
and global warming predictions
swirl around our shared conscious-
ness, we’re constantly alerted to the
many ways we depend on emitting
carbon dioxide. And environmental
catastrophes — like the Gulf of
Mexico oil spill last year or this
year’s threat of radiation leakage —
keep ecological issues on the news
docket.
We’ve come a long way in the
150-plus years that separate us from
transcendentalists like Emerson and
Thoreau, whose writings are some-
times identified as the origin of the
environmental movement. The au-
thors introduced a foreign concept
to America’s Puritan tame-the-
wilderness roots when they suggest-
ed that,perhaps,that very wilderness
might have some spiritual value.
Although such ideas have long
been appreciated by those of us who
find solace in pristine landscapes and
silent forests, the environmental
movement didn’t really catch on
until it became obvious that hurting
the planet also hurts us.That’s why so
many of us have heard of Rachel
Carson: her 1962 book, “Silent
Spring,” outlined clear linkages be-
tween pesticide use, environmental
degradation and human health.
Suddenly, the country was up in
arms. Spurred on by Carson’s words
and environmental disasters like the
1969 Cuyahoga River Fire, America
founded the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency, passed the Clean Air
Act and vowed to protect endan-
gered species. The effects were as-
tounding. Despite industry protests,
we cleaned our waterways, filtered
our smokestacks and blocked major
construction projects in National
Parks.
America was Beautiful again.
But once the immediately appar-
ent dangers were addressed, many
Americans lost interest. A radical
few operated on the outskirts, chain-
ing themselves to trees or calling for
voluntary human extinction. Their
antics garnered attention, but little
sympathy. As far as most Americans
were concerned, the environmental
crisis was over.
LETTER
Do Not Soap
Fountains!
Dear Editor,
In the last two days, four of Stan-
ford’s decorative fountains were
soaped. Although soaping foun-
tains is not a new prank, as the cam-
Holly
Moeller
Of course, they were wrong. At
the same time that we were celebrat-
ing our grand environmental
cleanup, the phrase “climate
change”was making its rounds in sci-
entific circles. It is this latest crisis
that has reawakened the environ-
mental movement — or, at least, a
modern version of it.
The carbon dioxide problem is a
harder sell than its predecessors. We
can’t flash photos of sick seabirds
like we do after major oil spills. We
can’t highlight elevated skin cancer
rates like we did to close the ozone
hole. But what the issue lacks in
charisma, we’ve made up for with
marketing.
Depending upon whether you
believe that the ends justify the
means — and what ends you find ac-
ceptable — you may or may not ap-
prove of the current popularization
of environmentalism. Sure, there are
plenty of people who are curbing
their carbon footprints because they
understand the global ramifications
of their actions. Some of them prob-
ably started after they watched Al
Gore’s movie or listened to a scien-
tist’s testimony.Many still respond to
the call of the wild or feel an ethical
duty to protect nature.But most peo-
ple who have gone green did it be-
cause it was trendy.
“Greenwashing”is America’s lat-
est fad. Corporations use environ-
mentalism — often coupled with
personal health benefits — to move
products. Just as we had to have
those colorful sunglasses or coveted
the latest Apple product, we’ve
made following the ecotrends de
rigueur in many social circles. De-
pending on which marketing survey
you read (i.e., whether it’s one that’s
trying to inflate the earth-friendly
market share or not), up to 83 per-
cent of Americans have gone green
with their pocketbooks in some way
for a variety of reasons.
This modern commercialization
of environmentalism is at once both
restrictive and expansive. Its mes-
sages are none too scientific, and its
motivation is, frankly, profit. But it’s
also engaged a growing swath of
Americans,some of whom will even-
tually graduate from buying recycled
toilet paper, to biking to work, to
backyard composting. And as eco-
nomic downturns transform us from
spendthrifts to penny pinchers, the
old mantras of “waste not, want not”
and “every little bit helps” apply
equally well to environmental goals
as to financial ones.
So maybe that’s the message for
the seasoned tree-hugger and for the
environmental neophyte. Keep
going green.And when you’re there,
go greener.
What was the last “green” thing you
bought? Why? Tell Holly — and send
comments and criticism — to hol-
lyvm@stanford.edu. Thanks for your
readership this year!
TO THE EDITOR
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drained and flushed, wasting water,
and staff have to be taken off other
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ay 23 must be a day con-
nected with loss in my life.
Just a year ago, I gathered
with a group in Yost to watch the
final episode of “Lost,” arguably the
greatest television series of all time.
And it was also the day that I fin-
ished writing this final edition of
“This Column Is Ironic.” (You don’t
get to read it for another three days,
but that’s the miracles of publish-
ing!) For those of you keeping
count, this is column #26 for me —
the culmination of an entire aca-
demic year’s worth of my inane
musings and ramblings. Whether
this is your first time reading or
many beautiful fountains for all to
enjoy, but when they are soaped
they have to be turned off for drain-
ing and cleaning. Please spread the
message: “Do not soap fountains!”
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T HIS C OLUMN I S I RONIC
your twenty-sixth, I cannot thank
you enough for wasting a few min-
utes of your day with my bad jokes
and Ke$ha references. It means
more than you know. Shane
Mostly, I’ve tried to be funny.
Sometimes, I’ve even tried to get
Savitsky
real. We’ve gone on quite a journey
together. I started things off by pok-
ing fun at Stanford events and insti-
tutions. I even tried to make fun of
myself a little bit. Then, this crazy
transatlantic adventure of mine
I’ve already admitted to
happened, which I hope gave you
an amusing insight into the Stan-
ford in Oxford program. This col-
liking Hugh Grant
umn has been my creative outlet of
sorts while abroad, so I hope you’ve
enjoyed the new twist on my con- movies in print,so I don’t
tent. Writing an academic paper is
hard enough when you know that
just your professor or TA will grade think this could really
you on it, but writing a column that
can potentially reach thousands of
really smart people forces you to at- damage my non-existent
tempt to produce something worth-
while every week.
Speaking of the “Lost” finale, I
think this final column has a lot in
street cred any further.
common with a lot of the same
themes (spoiler alert for the rest of
my non-existent street cred any fur-
this column . . . but really, it’s been a
ther.While the end of “This Column
year). Christian Shephard would
probably say that it’s meant to help Is Ironic” might not necessarily pre-
“to remember — and to let go.” cipitate the pop culture maelstrom
This whole experience at The Daily that preceded the end of “Lost,” if I
has allowed me to create a kind of can succeed in making one person
lasting chronicle of my junior year tear up — even out of happiness
at Stanford. Through good times that this column has finally ended
and bad this year, I’ve tried to write — then I’ll have done my job.
something that connects to my Maybe, like “Lost,” I can even force
Stanford experience. And maybe, if my readers to ponder the deepest
I was able to do things the way I philosophic questions of life. For ex-
hoped, my columns every week ample, maybe the next time you get
somehow connected to your Stan- in your car, you can ponder,“Which
ford experience, too. seat can I take?” (You didn’t think I
My apologies for being so overt- could finish off this column without
ly sentimental both this week and an already-outdated pop culture
last.You can blame it on being away reference, did you?)
from the Farm, but you can also And indeed, perhaps last week’s
blame it on Damon Lindelof and declaration of missing Stanford was
Carlton Cuse. As research for this a bit preemptive. Maybe I should
column, I’ve watched the final scene have saved the sentimentality for
of “Lost” like five times and it al- the obvious reflection that this final
ways makes me weepy. I’m a sap, I’ll column would bring. But you know
admit. I’ve already admitted to lik- what? I think it provides a great
ing Hugh Grant movies in print, so I
don’t think this could really damage Please see SAVITSKY, page 5
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novelty of the field and the lack of
literature available on the subject.
In the last panel of the confer-
ence,presenters spoke on the uses of
social media in different fields.
“Things are changing and social
media has helped ERICSSON
change its culture,” said Don Mc-
Cullough, ERICSSON’s head of
marketing and communications for
IP and broadband.
“There are certainly costs there,
but in a corporate environment, so
far, at least in my experience, social
media is so easy to use and so easy
to set up that it happens fairly
quickly and not very expensively,”
he added.
Addressing how social media fits
within the traditional information
and communication technology
JIN ZHU/The Stanford Daily framework, McCullough identified
a trade-off between control and
Connie Begg’s photography is on exhibit at the Clayman Institute. Her work is driven by themes of childhood mem- community.
ory and the human body. Begg’s photos are the product of old technologies, such as tintype and pinhole cameras. “Different people are rising up
and doing something within the so-
BRIEFS
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Identifying Alzheimer’s disease
stands out as one possible application.
The brain network associated with
memory is impaired among people
with Alzheimer’s disease, a fact that
could prove using in conjunction with
the findings by Greicius and his col-
leagues.
— An Le Nguyen
Mixing drugs causes
adverse blood glucose
effect
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
A relatively common drug combi-
nation — the antidepressant Paxil and
the cholesterol-lowering Pravachol —
may cause rises in blood glucose levels.
These findings, published Wednesday,
result from a collaboration between
investigators at the School of Medi-
cine, Vanderbilt University and Har-
vard Medical School.
The discovery comes as a surprise
since neither of the drugs produces the
same blood glucose effect when taken
independently. According to re-
searchers, the increase is more severe
OTL
Continued from page 3
look attractive, Microsoft, with
about 100,000 times the resources
to a startup company, could just
come in, license the patent and just
destroy them,” Harris said.
Dean of Research Ann Arvin
described the important role the
OTL and its counterparts at other
universities play in translating ideas
into something with tangible public
benefit.
“We want faculty and students
to be engaged in inventing things,
and that’s part of the way in which
ideas become products and useful
for the public good,” Arvin said.
To Harris, licensing inventions is
a critical step to attracting investors
who are willing to support the
idea’s development. Investors
often have less interest in publicly
owned patents, which makes the
OTL critical to researchers on cam-
pus.
Shan Wang, professor of materi-
al science and engineering and elec-
trical engineering, licensed an in-
vention he produced with his lab to
the startup MagArray.
MagArray was created in 2005
by Wang and Robert White, profes-
sor of electrical engineering, to im-
prove molecular diagnostics. The
startup uses nanotechnology to re-
fine methods for diagnosing com-
plex diseases such as cancer.
Despite the many intricacies of
the licensing process,Wang said the
patent process would be “much
more difficult . . . and complicat-
ed” to navigate without OTL.
Jeffrey Schox, consulting associ-
ate professor and founding mem-
ber of Schox Patent Group, also de-
scribed the licensing process as ex-
tensively nuanced. According to
SAVITSKY
Continued from page 4
bridge between the two. I’ll make
one final connection to “Lost” —
another quote from the finale, in
fact: “The most important part of
your life was the time that you spent
with these people. That’s why all of
you are here. Nobody does it alone.
You needed all of them, and they
needed you.” Now, I’m not (again:
spoiler alert!) Christian Shephard
cial media tools . . . and you’ve got
to be able to give people the free-
dom to use these tools,” he said.
The conference ended with a
focus on the consumer as the corner-
stone. Saurabh Mittal, head of cus-
tomer experience practice Wipro,
highlighted social media’s ability to
engage consumers as its unique
value.
“Every consumer today is a pub-
lisher, is a DJ, is an expert, is a broad-
caster, is an editor, is a critic and a
network,” Mittal said.
He presented the plethora of in-
formation customers now share as
an opportunity for integrated ana-
lytics that personalize services and
herald a new type of business-con-
sumer interaction.
“Social media is there and large
firms are embracing it more and
more,” Dossani said, emphasizing
the value of research into social
media given the lack of literature
on the field. “What we tried to dis-
cover is what were the reasons
some platforms are more valuable
than others.”
Contact Marwa Farag at mfarag@
stanford.edu.
among diabetics for whom blood glu-
cose control is crucial. The investiga-
tors also examined pre-diabetic lab
mice examined to both drugs.
Data from the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration and electronic medical
records provided the backbone for the
findings.
“These kinds of drug interactions
are almost certainly occurring all of the
time, but, because they are not part of
the approval process by the Food and
Drug Administration, we can only
learn about them after the drugs are on
the market,” said bioengineering pro-
fessor Russ Altman in a press release.
It is not uncommon for drugs to
produce adverse effects when used in
combination. But since drugs are test-
ed and approved individually, render-
ing predictions of combined effects im-
possible.
Studies of mice showed the same
effect when the two medications were
used in conjunction; the mice demon-
strated a spike in fasting glucose levels
when treated with Paxil and Pravachol
together for three weeks. But the im-
pact isn’t limited to mice.
“Between 13 and 15 million people
in this country have prescriptions for
these drugs,” said Altman, who is the
study’s senior author. “By extrapolat-
ing from the electronic medical
records at Stanford and elsewhere, we
can predict that between 500,000 and
one million people are taking them si-
multaneously.”
— An Le Nguyen
Schox, there are three pillars for
dealing with patent rights: scientific
understanding of the technology,
legal understanding of intellectual
property and, of course, business
consultation.
He said that there is often ten-
sion between the inventor’s ten-
dency to downplay the potential of
his invention and the OTL’s inter-
est in showcasing its commerciality.
After all, Schox said the OTL “does
not want to get this wrong” and
“miss the next Google.”
Another obstacle can be the am-
biguity of a product’s ownership. In
many cases, it may be unclear
whether the product belongs to
Stanford or to the inventor.
“This confusion could restrain
the inventions here on campus and
it could also restrain the funding of
those startups,” Schox said, adding
that the inventor’s uncertainty can
be a deterrent and make investing
seem less attractive.
For example, in Stanford v.
Roche, an intellectual property
case that recently reached the U.S.
Supreme Court, the University
challenged professor of medicine
Mark Holodniy’s right to give the
rights of his patent for a method of
HIV detection to Roche, a biotech
company not affiliated with the
University.
Yet, despite the potential ambi-
guities that have arisen and contin-
ue to plague the licensing process,
director of OTL Katharine Ku em-
phasized that Stanford’s policy is
“very similar to most universities’
policies.”
Despite this, the OTL and other
licensing centers are key to making
projects like Harris’ super-efficient
solar cells a reality and to changing
the way people live today and in the
future.
Contact Zahra Taji at ztaji@stan-
ford.edu.
referring to some constructed after-
life.Rather,I hope you can use those
words to make some connection to
your Stanford experience thus far.
Our time on our own island — that
beautiful little bubble we call the
Farm — is too short.Most of us have
far less than six seasons to make the
most of it. Don’t let it pass you by;
otherwise, you’ll find yourself
screaming,“We have to go back!”
This may be the end, but Shane isn’t
going anywhere — for another year,
at least. Email him at savitsky@stan-
ford.edu.
6 ! Thursday, May 26, 2011
SPORTS
SOLID SINGLES START
Three of five Cardinal players advance to round two
Freshman Nicole Gibbs (above) was one of three Cardinal players to advance to the next round with a
victory in the first round of the NCAA Women’s Singles Championship.
Thacher out in first round
Klahn cruises in
straight-set victory
By ALEX ECKERT
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
After itching to get back on the
court since Stanford’s heartbreak-
ing loss to Virginia in the team quar-
terfinals last weekend, No. 9-seeded
junior Bradley Klahn began his de-
fense of last year’s NCAA singles
title against No. 55 Jason Jung of
Michigan yesterday afternoon.
Meanwhile, his doubles counterpart
— junior Ryan Thacher — nearly
beat his second top-five opponent
in as many matches.
After USC defeated Virginia in a
thrilling team championship final
on Tuesday, the tournament
switched gears to individual play —
a 64-player singles tournament and
a 32-team doubles tournament.
Last season, then-sophomore
Klahn surprised the field en route
to his first NCAA singles champi-
onship. Now ranked No. 9 in the
country, Klahn has a target on his
back.
The day started with a three-
hour rain delay, pushing all of the
matches back and threatening to
cancel all 64 of the day’s scheduled
matches. Luckily, by 3 p.m., the sky
had cleared and championship ten-
nis was in full swing on all seventeen
of the courts at the Taube Tennis
Center.
Klahn started slow. Coming off a
decisive 6-4, 6-2 victory over No. 5
Michael Shabaz of Virginia in the
team tourney, Klahn seemed unable
to get the upper hand on Wednes-
day.When Jung broke Klahn’s serve
in the seventh game of the first set
to take a 5-3 advantage, it seemed
increasingly likely that Klahn
would fall behind a set. Klahn’s
frustration was apparent as he re-
peatedly tried to pick it up, but Jung
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SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Junior Ryan Thacher (above) was eliminated in the first round of the NCAA
Men’s Singles Championships on Wednesday, but he and fellow junior
Bradley Klahn still have a chance at the doubles title.
By WILL SEATON
STAFF WRITER
On its first day of individual tourna-
ment play, the Stanford women’s tennis
team advanced three of its five players —
senior Hilary Barte, freshman Nicole
Gibbs and sophomore Stacey Tan — into
the second round. It was an injury-filled
day, with two of Stanford’s players ham-
pered by injuries and one Cardinal player
benefiting from an opponent’s ailment.
Before play had even begun, the Cardi-
nal had already lost one of its best players.
Freshman and 2011 Pac-10 singles cham-
pion Kristie Ahn was forced to pull out
with a recurring ankle problem. She also
was on the sideline for Stanford’s champi-
onship matchup against Florida on Tues-
day evening.
“Obviously it’s frustrating because I re-
ally looked forward to playing both team
and individuals,” Ahn said. “There’s noth-
ing I can really do though so now I’m just
focusing on recovering and playing tour-
naments for the summer. It was a little sad
watching some of my teammates play
today and watching again from the side-
lines.”
Despite Ahn missing out, Stanford still
had plenty of talent on display in the first
round of the NCAA tournament. Barte,
Gibbs, Tan and sophomore Mallory all
participated in singles play.
For Tan, the second round came easy.
Up 2-0 in the first set, her opponent de-
faulted due to injury.
Gibbs proved dominant again, running
off to a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Anastasia
Putilina of Utah. Putilina was 14-8 at
Utah’s No. 1 spot, with a seven-game win
streak and a 6-1 conference score.
Barte played on court one again, this
time as the third seed in the tournament.
She came up against Natalie Pluskota of
Tennessee, who was 15-10 in the regular
season for the Vols, including 7-3 in SEC
play.
Continuing her impressive run of late,
Barte blew by Pluskota for a 6-1, 6-1 victo-
ry. Her movement into the net was what
separated her from her opponent, as a
powerful forehand and net-charges to get
the finishing volley catapulted Barte into
the next round.
“They were very composed, especially
after a tough loss, to come back the next
day,” Ahn said. “People say the hardest
day is the day after a loss. I think they
played very composed and they did work.
They got off the court as fast as they
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SPORTS BRIEFS
Cardinal and
Crimson Tide
contend for trip to
College World Series
The Stanford softball
team heads to Tuscaloosa,
Ala., this weekend to clash
with the Alabama Crimson
Tide in a best-of-three series
with a trip to the Women’s
College World Series on the
line.
After sweeping its way
through the regional with vic-
tories over Pacific, Fresno
State and Nebraska, Stanford
(41-15) looks to punch its
ticket to its first College
World Series since 2004.
The Cardinal will, once
again, lean heavily on junior
shortstop Ashley Hansen,
who hit .400 this past week-
end, scored three runs and
drove in three RBI. She was
named one of the three final-
ists for the Amateur Softball
Association of America’s Na-
tional Player of the Year
award on Wednesday.
Hansen leads the nation in
doubles per game (0.45),
ranks second in batting aver-
age (.500) and eighth in on-
base percentage (.562).
Hansen leads the Pac-10 in
batting average, on-base per-
centage, hits and doubles. She
is the first Cardinal player
ever to be named one of the
three finalists for the award.
Stanford also got solid
weekends in the regional from
sophomore Jenna Rich, who
had four of the team’s nine
RBI, and sophomore pitcher
Teagan Gerhart, who shut
down the opposing offenses
all weekend while posting a
0.67 ERA and going 3-0.
The No. 2 seed Crimson
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The Stanford Daily
Jacob
Jaffe
Fields of Failure
An ode to
Mariano
Rivera
I
hate the Yankees. I should just
start by getting that out of the
way. If you’ve read any of my
columns over the past couple
years, I’ve probably made a
reference to how evil they are in al-
most every one.Which is what makes
this column that much more ridicu-
lous. I can’t believe I’m doing it, but
I’m going to talk about how great one
of the Yankees is.
Why? Because Mariano Rivera is
really, really, really good, and if even I
can admit it,I can’t see who would dis-
agree.
Rivera just pitched in his 1,000th
game for the Yankees. That’s right,
there are three zeros in that number.
That’s the equivalent of pitching in
every game for over six full seasons,
which is almost unheard of. In fact,
pitching in 1,000 games for one team
was unheard of until Rivera notched a
scoreless ninth inning yesterday. And
that’s not even counting another 100
games of postseason and All-Star
Games.
Longevity is great and all,but what
makes the 41-year-old Rivera special
is how successful he’s been over that
span. His 572 saves are second all-
time, but even that number doesn’t
tell the whole story. His career ERA
of 2.22 and WHIP of 1.00 would both
be considered exceptional for a single
season, but as career numbers they
are mindboggling. Excluding his
rookie season,he’s allowed one home
run every 21.65 innings.
Consider a guy like Sandy Koufax,
known as one of the best pitchers in
history. He played in an era where
pitchers dominated overall, which
made the league lower the mound
and shrink the strike zone after Ko-
ufax retired. Even so, Koufax’s career
ERA is over half a run higher than
Rivera’s, his WHIP is higher, his
strikeout-to-walk ratio is substantially
worse and he gave up home runs
roughly twice as often.Yep,one of the
best pitchers ever playing in an era
where the rules and the game favored
the pitcher still gave up more gopher
balls than Rivera did to all those
juicers.
And it’s not just Koufax. Look at
any of the all-time greats. Cy Young
himself can’t compare to Rivera in
any of these categories except home
runs, but home runs had hardly been
invented yet in the pre-Ruth era.
Since then, even the best pitchers —
Warren Spahn, Greg Maddux, Randy
Johnson, you name it — can’t match
Rivera in any of these categories.
Stats not enough for you? How
about clutch situations? Rivera pitch-
es the most important inning in base-
ball, the ninth, better than anyone in
history. How about the playoffs?
Rivera’s playoff ERA of 0.71 is the
best in history. His K/BB ratio is over
five, his WHIP is under 0.8 and he’s
given up just two home runs in 139.2
postseason innings.And his 42 playoff
saves are the most in history.
Yeah, but he’s getting old, right?
As a lifetime Yankee hater,my answer
is “if only.” Since 2006, his ERA and
WHIP are even lower,1.98 and .90,re-
spectively. In that span, he’s allowed
only one run in 28 postseason innings.
If you’ve watched Rivera at any
point over the last 15 years, you’re
probably screaming one thing right
about now: “And he only throws one
pitch!”
That cutter,which might as well be
named after Rivera at this point, has
got to be the best pitch in baseball his-
tory. For the past decade and a half,
Rivera has thrown this one pitch over
90 percent of the time, and it still baf-
fles hitters. It’s not that fast (low-90s),
it doesn’t have that much movement,
but the timing of the movement and
the location are just good enough that
the best players in baseball haven’t
been able to figure him out. Even for
someone that’s rooted against him
during every one of his 17 Major
League seasons, there’s something in-
credibly impressive about a guy that
can walk to the mound a thousand
times and tell the hitter exactly what
he’s going to see and still be able to get
him out.
With this resume behind him,
Rivera is clearly a Hall of Famer.That
much is not in doubt. He’s now made
a fairly irrefutable case as the best re-
liever of all time as well.
Frankly, I don’t think that’s strong
enough. The Yankees have been, as
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Continued from page 6
Tide (49-8) pounded its way
through the Tuscaloosa Regional,
dominating Jackson State, Mem-
phis and Chattanooga with 8-0, 7-1
and 11-2 victories.
The win was the seventh
straight regional victory for the
Tide. The program has advanced
to the College World Series four
times in the last six years.
Senior Whitney Larsen leads Al-
abama offensively, as she batted
.700 with four runs, a double, triple
and nine RBI in the NCAA Re-
gional. The Tide also impresses on
the mound, as freshman pitcher
Jackie Traina pitched a no-hitter
against Jackson State in the first
game of the regional, allowing just
one runner to reach base on an in-
field error.
The Cardinal and Crimson Tide
play the first game of a best-of-
three series Thursday at 5 p.m.
PST in Tuscaloosa.
—Jack Blanchat
The Stanford softball team heads south to Tuscaloosa, Ala. this weekend to
tangle with the Alabama Crimson Tide in the NCAA Super Regionals. The
winner of the best-of-three series goes on to the Women’s College World
Series in Oklahoma City.
Women’s basketball names Trina
Patterson as assistant coach
The Stanford women’s basket-
ball team has a new assistant coach,
as the program announced yester-
day that Trina Patterson will be
joining the Cardinal staff.
Patterson was most recently the
head coach at the University of Al-
bany, SUNY, where she served from
2002-10. Her first head-coaching
job was with the College of William
& Mary (1991-99), and she also
spent two years at the helm of the
University of Maryland Eastern
Shore (1999-2000).
As a head coach for a combined
17 seasons, Patterson had 18 players
earn conference honors in the Amer-
ica East Conference and the Colo-
nial Athletic Association. With Al-
bany, she was named America East
Coach of the Year in 2007-08 after
her Great Danes got a school-record
10 conference wins. Albany went on
to reach the semifinals in the Ameri-
ca East Tournament that season.
Patterson and the Cardinal will
begin their first season together this
November.
—Nate Adams
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Stanford excels in Academic
Progress Ratings
The NCAA released its annual
Academic Progress Rate (APR)
numbers on Wednesday, and all 35
Stanford athletics programs exceed-
ed the national average, with five
teams earning perfect scores of 1,000.
The APR is a compilation of data
from the previous four years measur-
ing eligibility, retention and gradua-
tion of student-athletes on Division I
sports teams. Teams that finish with
scores under 925 are at risk for losing
up to 10 percent of their scholarships.
This year, men’s golf, men’s tennis,
men’s water polo, women’s cross
country, and women’s gymnastics
scored perfect 1,000s, and 11 other
teams scored 989 or higher, led by
women’s lacrosse (997) and women’s
soccer (994) — nine teams ranked in
the top 10 percent of their respective
sports.
The football program received a
rating of 977, which was best in the
Pac-10 and ranked 11th in the coun-
try among Football Bowl Subdivision
schools.
Overall, the four-year Division I
APR for all schools and all sports is at
970 — nationwide the football aver-
age moved up two points to 946,
men’s basketball jumped five points
to 945 and baseball also picked up
five points to 959.
—Miles Bennett-Smith
Wrestling brings in top-25
recruiting class
After finishing with a school-
record 11th-place finish in last year’s
NCAA Championships, the Stan-
ford wrestling team looks to get even
better next year, as it will bring in
seven freshmen in a recruiting class
that was rated 24th-best in the na-
tion.
Rounding out the class are
Dahlton Brown (Jackson,
Calif./Argonaut), Josh Lauderdale
(Nine Mile Falls, Wash./Lakeside),
Alex Manley (Chattanooga,
Tenn./The Baylor School), Alex
Paraschuk (Fort Myers,
Fla./Riverdale), Evan Silver (Chevy
Chase, Md./Blair Academy),
Michael Sojka (Winnebago,
Ill./Winnebago) and Brendan Ter
Wee (Larchwood,Iowa/West Lyon).
Silver is listed as the No. 25 overall
recruit in 2011, and Sojka is ranked as
the 5th-best recruit at 215 pounds.The
group has combined to win 10 state
championships, two runner-up finish-
es and five third-place marks.
— Jack Blanchat
EXCELLENT OGWUMIKES
Nnemkadi Ogwumike (above) and sister Chiney were named as final-
ists for the USA Basketball World University Games team Wednesday.
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hard as it is for me to say, the class of
the Major Leagues for the period of
time Rivera has been there. More
than anyone other person — more
than Joe Torre, George Steinbrenner
and definitely more than Derek Jeter
(don’t get me started), Rivera has
been responsible for the Yankees’
modern dynasty.
At this point, Yankee fans and
Yankee haters alike have to come to
terms with the fact that Mariano
Rivera is one of the best pitchers in
baseball history. Period.
I’ll leave you with one final statis-
tic, and like many in baseball, it re-
quires some explaining. Because
players from different eras are so
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could.”
Burdette struggled on the day
with a stomach problem as well as
last-minute changes in the draw.
Her initial opponent was meant to
be Nazari Urbina of Texas A&M,
but Urbina failed to earn a seed for
the tournament coming out of a
weaker Big-12 Conference. In-
stead, Burdette was put up against
the University of North Carolina’s
number one, Zoe De Bruycker. De
Bruycker earned a 9-16 seed and
came from a team ranked fourth in
the nation playing in a very compet-
itive ACC league. De Bruycker is
29-16 this year, including 7-4 in
ACC play. Even so, Burdette insists
it didn’t affect her game.
“I’m kind of a don’t-look-at-the-
draw girl,” Burdette said. “I only
knew who my opponent was that
morning.When we talk about other
players, we pretty much just say
play your own game.”
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seemed to return every shot.
With his back against the wall
and down 5-3, Klahn found a sec-
ond gear. He held serve, broke Jung
and then held serve again to take a
6-5 lead. Jung was able to force a
first-set tiebreak, but Klahn out-
lasted the Michigan senior 7-5 in
the tiebreak to take control of the
match. Jung was clearly deflated in
the second set and Klahn con-
trolled play the rest of the way,
claiming a 7-6 (5), 6-2 victory.
“Jason is a tough out,” Klahn
said.“He is solid and going to make
you work.There’s always those first
round jitters coming into a tourna-
ment like this. I started to find my
game toward the end of the first
and start of the second, and I was
able to work my way back into the
match.”
Klahn said he doesn’t want to
rest on his title from last year and is
treating this year’s tournament no
differently than any other year’s,
taking everything one match at a
time.
“I’m trying not to think about
last year,” Klahn continued.“This is
a new year and there are a lot of
good players out here. I have confi-
dence in winning this tourney
knowing I have done it before, but I
just need to go out there, compete
hard and stick to my game plan. It’s
nice being at home with the crowd
so hopefully that will help out a
lot.”
As Klahn won the first set and
took control of his match, Thacher
had begun his own battle against
No. 4 Blaz Rola of Ohio State. On
paper, the 46th-ranked Thacher
was a heavy underdog, but the
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hard to compare, baseball stat freaks
have found a way to control for era
and ballpark, and the result is a statis-
tic called ERA+. For ERA+, higher
numbers are better than lower num-
bers,and the average is set at 100.The
second-best ERA+ in history is Pedro
Martinez’s 154. In total, 767 players
have an ERA+ between 100 and 154.
Rivera? 205.
I will always hate the Yankees and
I think everyone else should, too. But
when your team is losing to the Evil
Empire in the ninth inning,don’t turn
off the television in frustration. Yes,
your team will lose, but at least you
can watch one of the best pitchers in
baseball history.
Jacob Jaffe disregards the fact that
“Moneyball” says it’s statistically
much easier to be a closer than a
starter. Discuss the differences with
him at jwjaffe@stanford.edu.
With her new opponent, Bur-
dette went on to drop her first-
round match despite dominating
the first set 6-1. Ultimately, Bur-
dette would lose her second set
tiebreaker and go on to lose the
third set, ending her singles play for
the season.
“I’m definitely struggling with a
stomach pull and I was not serving
at 100 percent,” Burdette said. “I
think at the beginning of the match
it didn’t really affect me, because
she was struggling with my weird
soft serves. As the match went on,
she started to adjust and so my serv-
ice games became much more diffi-
cult.
“I just hope that I’m able to
serve 80 or 90 percent tomorrow,”
Burdette continued. “Hilary and I
are playing great doubles. I really
want this stomach thing to get bet-
ter so we can get out there and com-
pete.”
Singles play continues at tomor-
row Taube Tennis Center, followed
by the first round of doubles.
Contact Will Seaton at wseaton@
stanford.edu.
Stanford junior was coming in with
plenty of confidence from unlikely
victory over second-ranked Alex
Domijan of Virginia in the team
play. Domijan had won the Nation-
al Indoor Championships earlier in
the season and was undefeated in
dual match play before Thacher
dismantled him 6-4, 6-3 on Satur-
day afternoon.
Thacher took the early lead in
yesterday’s match — winning the
first set 7-5 — and it looked like he
would pull of his second major
upset of the tournament. However,
Rola bounced back to win the sec-
ond set 6-3. Thacher threatened
again in the third, breaking Rola’s
serve early to take a 3-1 lead, but
Rola responded by winning five
straight games to secure victory —
5-7, 6-3. 6-3.After the match, Rola
expressed his respect for Thacher.
“I knew it was going to be a
tough match,”he said.“Ryan is a re-
ally good player and has done great
things at Stanford. I came in fully
prepared for today’s match. We ex-
changed a lot of breaks, played a
good match and had good points.
I’m really happy that I came
through.”
Despite the loss in singles play,
Thacher will compete later today in
the doubles tournament alongside
Klahn. Thacher and Klahn are the
No. 3 doubles squad in the country,
but are coming off two straight loss-
es in duals play.
Klahn next faces No. 17 Austin
Krajicek in a rematch of the decid-
ing match between Stanford and
Texas A&M in last week’s round of
16. Klahn won that match 6-4, 6-3 to
put Stanford into the quarterfinals.
Klahn faces off with Krajicek at
10 a.m. today and will join Thacher
in doubles sometime after 2 p.m.
Contact Alex Eckert at aeckert@stan-
ford.edu.