By KABIR SAWHNEY
MANAGING EDITOR
The greatest season in Stanfordfootball history is complete.The Cardinal capped its his-toric run with a 40-12 dismantlingof No.13 Virginia Tech (11-3,8-0ACC) in last night’s Discover Or-ange Bowl in Miami Gardens,Fla.No.4 Stanford (12-1,8-1 Pac-10)will finish the season with the mostwins in program history,a far cryfrom its 1-11 record in 2006.“Very few times in life doesanybody get a chance to be achampion at something and be anOrange Bowl champion,”Stan-ford head coach Jim Harbaughsaid.“That’s going to down in thehistory of college football.Westarted the season wanting to bechampions.”Stanford won the game in thesecond half,when it outplayed theHokies on both sides of the ball.Entering the locker room at half-time,the score stood at 13-12 infavor of Stanford,and the gamelooked destined for a close finish.However,the Cardinal began topull away with its first drive of thesecond half,when it scored on aone-yard touchdown run fromsenior fullback/linebacker OwenMarecic,and never looked back.“The second half had a pointexplosion,”Harbaugh said.“Therewere no mistakes from there onout,from halftime until the end of the game.Everybody was just onpoint and executed extremelywell.”“We just went back to the fun-damentals,”said redshirt juniortight end Coby Fleener.“We keptplugging away and we started tomake some plays.”The offensive highlight of Stan-ford’s second half was a drive witharound six minutes left in the thirdquarter.After junior safety De-lano Howell intercepted a passfrom Virginia Tech quarterbackTyrod Taylor on the Stanfordthree-yard line,Stanford’s offensewent 97 yards down the field for atouchdown in exactly two playsand 29 seconds.Sophomore run-ning back Stepfan Taylor,theteam’s leading rusher,broke a 56-yard run from the three-yard lineon the drive’s first play,and red-shirt sophomore quarterbackLuck threw a deep 41-yard bombto a wide-open Fleener in the cen-ter of the field for a touchdown.The score put Stanford up,26-12,and put all the momentum square-ly on the Cardinal sideline.“I thought it was huge,”Lucksaid,speaking about the drive.“Any time backed up in your ownend zone as an offense,you’ve gota little bit of the hairs on the backof your neck standing up becauseyou know how precarious that po-sition can be.And to go from oneend zone to the other end zone intwo plays,it’s huge.”Luck,who won the OrangeBowl MVP award,finished with287 yards and four touchdowns on18-of-23 passing.Fleener was byfar his favorite target for the game;Luck found him for six receptions,173 yards and three touchdowncatches.The tight ends as a unitwere huge for Stanford as theycomprised three of Luck’s top fivetargets.Stanford’s running game wasalso instrumental in winning theOrange Bowl.The Cardinalamassed 247 yards on the ground,including 118 yards from StepfanTaylor and another 99 yards fromsenior Jeremy Stewart,who hadbeen sidelined for much of the sea-son by an injury sustained in Stan-ford’s opener.The Cardinal offen-sive line opened up big holes for itsrunning backs,leading to severallong runs.“I think the O-line plays with alot of pride,”Luck said.“They sortof kept at it,chipped away,keptgrinding and holes really startedopening up.”As the offense rolled up pointsin the second half,the defense didan impressive job of containing
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At an 11:35 p.m.EST press con-ference on Sunday night,PresidentBarack Obama confirmed the deathof al Qaeda leader Osama binLaden.The president’s announce-ment came nearly 10 years after theSept.11,2001 attacks on the TwinTowers and the Pentagon.“I can report to the Americanpeople and to the world that theUnited States has conducted an op-eration that killed Osama binLaden,”Obama said.This development is the latest in adecade-long endeavor to track theperpetrators of 9/11 and stymie ter-rorist attacks against the UnitedStates and its allies.Soon after as-suming the presidency,Obamatasked CIA director Leon Panettawith capturing or killing bin Laden.A promising break came last August,when the intelligence community re-ceived information indicating thatthe al Qaeda leader had taken cover“within a compound deep inside of Pakistan,”Obama said.“Finally,last week,I determinedthat we had enough intelligence totake action and authorized an oper-ation to get Osama bin Laden andbring him to justice,”he said.“At my direction,the UnitedStates launched a targeted operationagainst that compound in Abbot-tabad,Pakistan,”Obama said.“Asmall team of Americans carried outthe operation with extraordinarycourage and capability.No Ameri-cans were harmed.They took care toavoid civilian casualties.After a fire-fight,they killed Osama bin Ladenand took custody of his body.”The news of bin Laden’s deathprompted widespread reactionsacross the country,with crowds of people congregating in TimesSquare in New York City and infront of the White House in Wash-ington,D.C.Among members of the Stanfordcommunity,the news also carriedgreat significance.“The demise of Osama bin Ladenis a tremendous victory for theAmerican people,”professor of po-litical science Condoleezza Rice saidin a statement.Rice served as secre-tary of state under former PresidentGeorge W.Bush and is a formerprovost of the University.“We are all indebted to theAmerican military and intelligencecommunity for their skill and dedica-tion,”she said.Political science professor ScottSagan said bin Laden’s demise sig-naled a major breakthrough in theeffort to dismantle the al Qaeda net-work,but urged for caution.“I think this is a major step in re-ducing al Qaeda’s effectiveness,”Sagan said.“This is a great victory forthe United States and for all coun-tries that have been in conflict with alQaeda.”The fear now,however,is that binLaden’s death could precipitate re-taliatory acts by the al Qaeda net-work.“I think at the same time that vig-ilance is something we will have tohave in the short run to be sure thatremaining units of al Qaeda aroundthe world do not lash out at us in des-peration,”Sagan said.Students across campus exhibit-ed spontaneous displays of patriot-ism.Chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!”were heard in the areas near Meyerand Green libraries and aroundHoover Tower and Old Union.Nu-merous individuals posted celebra-tory status updates on Facebook andTwitter.Though many rejoiced at thenews of bin Laden’s demise,somestudents expressed dismay at themanner in which their peers chose tocelebrate his death.“I was very uncomfortable withthe way people are glorifying thedeath of another human being,”saidLaura Groenendaal ‘14,who is origi-nally from New York.“It remindedme of after 9/11—all those imageson TV of people celebrating theTwin Towers falling...it just re-minded me of a version of that exactsame dehumanization.It was dis-comforting.”Nathan Golshan ‘13 had similarsentiments.“While Osama bin Laden was avery detestable person and did hor-rific things,I don’t think celebratinga man’s death is ever an appropriatereaction,”he said.“People need tostop and think about the atrocitiesthe U.S.has committed in theprocess of searching for Osama binLaden and in the process of trying toeliminate al Qaeda.”Both students commented onObama’s address to the nation.“The gist of the speech came off as the greatest achievement of America’s foreign policy in the lastdecade has been killing a man,which just sounds very,very negative tome,”Golshan said.Groenendaal also criticized theoverall tone of Obama’s rhetoric.“It’s so easy to forget our com-mon humanity and the fact that ahuman being has died,”she said.“The reason people are celebratinghis death is that he trivialized humanlife.Aren’t we doing the exact samething?”Alex Alvarado ‘12,who is cur-rently studying at Stanford in Wash-ington,offered a differing opinion.He noted that there was “a lot of pa-triotic sentiment”and “a lot of hap-piness”at the nation’s capital.“It was just really awesome,”Al-varado said.“We all saw it on televi-sion and ran over to the White Houseto be in the middle of the vibe.”For the families of 9/11 victims,bin Laden’s death may also bring ameasure of closure.“We can say to those families whohave lost loved ones to al Qaeda’sterror:justice has been done,”Obama said.
Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen@stanford.edu and Kabir Sawhney at ksawhney@stanford.edu.
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