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July 7, 2011 Issue 2
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
Opinions 6
Moeller on the balancing act between man
and nature; Kureishi on saving face
Sports 7
Earthquakes MLS game moves to
Stanford, brings in record crowd
Features 10
Aerial fabrics classes at Arrillaga Center
for Sports & Rec soar in popularity
Entertainment 12
Humans a dull shadow of Transformer
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2 NTHE STANFORD DAILY N SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2011
NEWS
ACADEMICS
GSB professor Gerald Meier dies at age 88
By ELAINA KOROS
INTERN
Graduate School of Business (GSB) pro-
fessor emeritus Gerald Meier J.D. 66, an
early expert in development economics and
advocate for attention to developing coun-
tries, died June 21 from complications related
to a malignant brain tumor. He was 88.
Meier, who taught at the GSB from 1962
to 2005, co-authored Leading Issues in Eco-
nomic Development, one of the first books
about economic development in America
and introduced Stanfords first course on the
economics of less-developed countries, after
then-GSB dean Ernie Arbuckle 33 MBA 36
recruited him to strengthen the program.
Through teaching undergraduates as well
as students in the GSB and Stanford Law
School, Meier became a prominent professor
and mentor to young people. From checking
in with former students to hosting reggae par-
ties at his home, Meier connected with his stu-
dents on a unique level.
The main thing is . . . how much he loved
students, said his son Andrew Meier. He
taught generations of Stanford students and
he really enjoyed both his undergraduate and
graduates. I dont know how many GSB pro-
fessors taught undergrads, but one thing he
loved doing was his sophomore seminar.
Meier wrote 34 books and over 50 articles
in scholarly journals. He often spoke over-
seas, presenting to leaders of less-developed
countries and participating in global conven-
tions. He also served as a consultant to the
World Bank.
A prolific writer, Jerry was also a creative
teacher who encouraged me to spread my
wings in the classroom and bring globaliza-
tion to life for GSB students, said former
GSB professor Peter Henry, in a statement
Andrew Meier provided to The Daily. I am
sorry to see him go, but his legacy of intellec-
tual curiosity, kindness and good humor will
stay with me always.
Meier, who was also a former Rhodes
Scholar, received his B.A. from Reed Col-
lege, a B. Litt. from Oxford University and his
Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1953. Be-
fore joining the Stanford community, Meier
taught at Harvard, Oxford, Williams College,
Yale University, the University of West In-
dies, the University of Sussex and Wesleyan
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STUDENT LIFE
79 students still
without housing
RESEARCH
Cigarettes target black youths, study says
By HARINI JAGANATHAN
INTERN
The leading menthol cigarette manufacturer
in the United States may be targeting its adver-
tisement campaigns toward African American
youths, according to a School of Medicine study
recently published in the Nicotine and
Tobacco Research journal.
The study found that Newport, the leading
menthol cigarette, is also the most popular
brand among African-American smokers and
the second most popular brand among young
smokers. Author Lisa Henriksen, a senior re-
searcher at the Stanford Prevention Research
Center, said she conducted the study in order to
supplement a body of studies that examine cig-
arette-marketing techniques directed toward
certain demographics but do not include re-
search on African Americans or youths.
I worked on the FDA report about menthol
and noticed that there were few studies about
price, strategic marketing and price-vulnerable
groups who smoke menthol cigarettes, so that
was the reason for going back and looking at the
data, she said in a phone interview with The
Daily.
The study found evidence contradicting
claims made by Lorillard, Inc., the manufactur-
er of Newport cigarettes, to the Food and Drug
Administration that it does not base availabili-
ty of promotions on race or ethnicity.
This evidence contradicts the manufactur-
ers claims that the availability of its promotions
is not based on race/ethnicity, the study said.
The study examined data about advertise-
By HAELIN CHO
INTERN
79 undergraduates who entered the Draw still
do not have housing for fall quarter ahead of the
waiting-list assignments that will come out July
23.
According to statistics on the Stanford Hous-
ing Department website, there have historically
been students unassigned every year. The num-
ber is down from 89 undergraduates in 2009 and
122 in 2010.
Nevertheless, some unassigned undergradu-
ates are still finding the process frustrating.
According to Aaron Peterson 13, being left
without a housing assignment hinders some as-
pects of his summer before junior year.
I think it [the waiting-list process] absolutely
disadvantages us because were starting off with-
out the security of knowing where were living,
and we just have to go through a whole, arduous
process that we werent expecting or told about,
Peterson said.
He added that he would rather be worrying
about classes and internships than his housing sit-
uation.
According to Executive Director of Student
Housing Rodger Whitney, the consistent group
of unassigned students is a product of the balanc-
ing act between meeting the four years of guaran-
teed housing for all undergraduates as well as ac-
commodating the significant number of cancel-
UNIVERSITY
VPUE launches Faculty College
By HIROKO SUNAMARA
INTERN
Six teams of Stanford professors will focus on
creating innovative, team-taught curricula as part
of the 2012 Faculty College, unveiled by Vice
Provost for Undergraduate Education Harry
Elam at the Faculty Senates June 9 meeting.
By providing the space, time and resources for
multidisciplinary education, Elam said he hopes to
revolutionize the concept of teaching itself at Stan-
ford in a response to globalization.
Twenty-first century education means re-
sponding to the fact that students have changed
and we need new methodologies for reaching
them; that the world has changed and we need new
methodologies for connecting our students to it,
he wrote in an email to The Daily. Stanford needs
to keep evolving, to teach in ways that our stu-
dents, and the global community, relate to.
The six main initiatives include the Ethics of
War Project; the Division of Literatures, Cultures
and Languages Project; the Electrical and Envi-
ronmental Engineering Track Project; the Net-
works Project; the Bioengineering Undergraduate
Design Project and the Arts Structured Liberal
Education Project.
Elam stressed collaboration as integral to each
initiative.
What were doing here is providing a different
and potentially unique platform for such projects,
he said. Were allowing faculty from across disci-
plines to work collaboratively, to bounce ideas off
of each other and put the emphasis on undergrad-
uate education.
As we developed the idea of Faculty College,
certain projects surfaced as ones that would be
ideal for the first Faculty College class, he wrote.
He added that the projects chosen are reflections
of the individuals in the Faculty College class,
stretching across schools from Law to Humani-
ties and Sciences.
French and Italian associate professor Dan
Edelstein will work with biology Deborah Gordon
M.S. 77 and computer science professor Eric
Roberts on the Networks Project,
entitled Social Animals, Social Revolutions and
Social Networks.
Rather than simply trying to get students to
take more humanities classes, we tried to come up
with classes that already address some of the more
scientific issues that students are interested in [and
to] show how there is an important humanistic di-
mension to those classes or topics, Edelstein said.
One of the ideas we came up with was social
network, which at the beginning we were going to
call From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg . . . the idea
being that theres a long history to judicial network
and that it didnt just all start with Facebook, he
added.
Each team leads an initiative and is to meet col-
lectively with its affiliates a minimum of two or
three times per quarter.
Col. Joseph Felter Ph.D. 05, senior research
scholar at the Center for International Security
and Cooperation, will work on the Ethics of War
project. His teammates include political science
professor Scott Sagan, philosophy professor
Debra Satz, senior Law School lecturer Allen
Weiner J.D. 89 and School of Medicine professor
Paul Wise.
Felter suggested there is a need for a broad
grasp of topics in the undergraduate community.
So many of this centurys greatest challenges
will require interdisciplinary approaches to under-
stand and address, he said. Todays students will
be better prepared to contribute to these efforts if
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Initiative intended to foster
multidisciplinary courses
BLOTTER
University, where he introduced the first
university-level course in development
economics.
Not many business schools are con-
cerned with poverty and the reduction of
poverty, Meier said during the GSBs
75th anniversary celebration. Stanford,
Id say, is one of the few.
Jerry will be missed by a huge num-
ber of his admirers like me, said Harvard
economics professor Amartya Sen, in the
statement Andrew Meier provided to
The Daily.
Raised on the West Coast, near Seattle
and Tacoma, Washington, Meier devel-
oped a love for the outdoors from an early
age. He enjoyed biking, swimming, being
near the beach, visiting the track shop and
working out at the gym, where he knew
all of the football coaches by their first
names.
A father of four sons David,
Daniel, Jeremy and Andrew and hus-
band of 57 years to Gretl Slote, Meier
made his family, which saw his passion
firsthand and enjoyed hiking and spend-
ing family summers abroad with him,
first.
Contant Elaina Koros at ekoros@stanford.
edu.
MEIER
Continued from page 2
By ELLORA ISRANI
NEWS EDITOR
This report covers a selection of in-
cidents from June 30 to July 7 as
recorded in the Stanford University
Department of Public Safety bulletin.
During this period, there were sev-
eral bike thefts and citations for public
intoxication around campus. Howev-
er, no incidents whatsoever were re-
ported on the Fourth of July.
THURSDAY, JUNE 30
IAt 2:58 p.m., a non-injury, vehicle-
versus-fixed-object collision oc-
curred at the corner of Via Pueblo
and Via Ortega.
FRIDAY, JULY 1
IAt 8:00 a.m., a woman was cited and
released at Escondido School for
misusing a disabled permit.
SATURDAY, JULY 2
IAt 12:20 a.m., a man at Theta Delta
Chi was transported to the San Jose
Mail Jail and booked for public in-
toxication.
IAt 9:00 a.m., a woman was cited and
released for driving unlicensed at
the corner of Arboretum and Palm
Drive.
IAt 9:25 a.m., a man was cited and re-
leased on an outstanding warrant
out of Santa Clara county, also at the
corner of Arboretum and Palm
Drive.
IBetween 10:15 p.m. and 10:20 p.m.,
an unknown suspect was seen at-
tempting to light a fire near the base
of a tree at the corner of Galvez
Street and Nelson Street but was
scared away. The same suspect was
seen lighting a fire a short time later.
TUESDAY, JULY 5
IAt 2:30 p.m., a man was transported
from the corner of Bowdoin Street
and Campus Drive to the San Jose
Main Jail and booked for public in-
toxication.
IBetween 6:00 p.m. and 7:26 p.m., a
suspect ordered food from the Tree-
house restaurant, then walked out
with the items without paying for
them. The suspect was detained out-
side the establishment.
IAt 6:25 p.m., two individuals were
involved in a verbal altercation that
escalated to one suspect slapping the
other. The incident occurred in Es-
condido Village.
Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stanford.
edu.
By HENRY ZHU
Stanford is one of six universi-
ties involved in the federal gov-
ernments Advanced Manufac-
turing Partnership, an initiative
that aims to help create high-tech
manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
and boost the development of ad-
vanced technologies. With assis-
tance from the government, mem-
bers of the group, which also in-
cludes a group of U.S. companies,
are set to invest more than $500
million is research, development
and education over the next year.
President Barack Obama an-
nounced the partnership June 24
at Carnegie Mellon Universitys
National Robotics Engineering
Center, located in Pittsburgh,
Penn., in front of representatives
from the six involved universities
Carnegie Mellon University,
UC-Berkeley, Georgia Institute
of Technology, MIT, University
of Michigan and Stanford.
The initiative is derived from a
recommendation by the Presi-
dents Council of Advisors on Sci-
ence and Technology (PCAST),
which focuses on investment in
new and advanced technologies.
In the last five months, the
PCAST has studied administra-
tive actions to promote advanced
manufacturing, said Professor
Thomas Kenny, who represented
Stanford at the event, in a phone
interview with The Daily. It pub-
lished a report a few weeks ago;
the recommendation was that the
administration should have a new,
funded initiative that will consist
of partnerships between universi-
ties and industries to promote
technologies, new design method-
ologies and educational tools.
Obama also invited to the an-
nouncement various government
agencies including the Depart-
ment of Defense, the National
Science Foundation, the National
Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology and the Department of
Energy as well as top execu-
tives from large private-sector
manufacturing companies
among them Intel, Ford Motor
Co., Procter & Gamble, Johnson
& Johnson, Honeywell and Dow
Chemical.
Universities such as Stanford
were included in the initiative to
settle concerns that efficient prac-
tices favored by corporations
could lower the demand for work-
ers, decrease wages and worsen
the unemployment rate. The uni-
versities role is to foster an innov-
ative environment and produce
both the tools and the skilled
workers to revolutionize manu-
facturing.
Stanford was pleased to par-
ticipate [in the partnership] be-
cause President Obamas initia-
tive matches the mission of the
University, which is to advance in-
novation through research and
education, wrote Stanford
spokeswoman Lisa Lapin in an
email to The Daily.
Part of that, Kenny said, is be-
cause of the people on campus.
Stanford is comprised of edu-
cators, researchers, innovators
and leaders, he added.
Stanfords participation in
Obamas initiative will not re-
quire a direct investment on the
Universitys part in the short
term. Already-existing facilities
dedicated to innovative manufac-
turing, such as the Center for Inte-
grated Systems, will wait for a se-
ries of program-funding an-
nouncements from government
agencies.
It can also write proposals to
organizations such as the Depart-
ment of Energy, the Department
of Commerce, the Department of
Defense and the National Science
Foundation, in order to bring
UNIVERSITY
Obama chooses Stanford for high-tech initiative
University one of six in
Manufacturing Partnership
Courtesy of Andrew Meier
GSB professor emeritus Gerald Meier, an expert on economics in developing countries, taught at
Stanford from 1962 to 2005. He died June 21 at the age of 88 in his Stanford home.
Please see OBAMA, page 5
STUDENT LIFE
GSC discusses
funds, management
By HAELIN CHO
INTERN
The Graduate Student Council
discussed funding, equipment man-
agement and future event planning
in their meeting Wednesday at the
Graduate Community Center.
The meeting kicked off with a
discussion over four different
events needing funding. Nandita
Garud, a third-year graduate stu-
dent in genetics, represented the
Cross Disciplinary Healthcare In-
novation Partnership at Stanford
and asked for funding for the
health care happy hour event
planned in August.
This [event] is a new idea that
were having, Garud said. Its
something less formal.
A $300 food budget was recom-
mended for the event, which was
projected to bring in 80 people. The
vote, however, failed to pass with
four in favor of funding the event,
one abstaining and two voting
members asking to table the issue
until the next meeting so they could
better understand the scope of the
event.
The remaining funding mea-
sures, $75 for the Stanford Brewing
Clubs beer judging class, $280 for
the Russian Student Associations
dinner event and $200 for a cultural
festival in August organized by
Bengalis at Stanford, all passed
unanimously with little discussion.
The meeting continued onto the
topic of equipment and an equip-
ment master.
Justin Brown, a fifth-year geo-
physics graduate student, intro-
duced the issue.
The old equipment master
hes done, Brown said. Whos
going to be responsible for the
equipment?
The issue came to a quick con-
clusion when Addy Satija, GSC
housing co-chair, announced that
there was an equipment master
ready to take over in the fall and an
interim equipment master in the
summer.
The last matter for the council
was the July 4 barbeque. GSC co-
Chair Marine Denolle started the
conversation by praising the job
done by the Graduate Student
Council.
I think it went very well, De-
nolle said. It was very intense be-
cause it was actually hard to define
what was supposed to be done.
Due to a problem with leftover
lations over the summer.
Student Housing is charged with
allocating enough housing to under-
graduate students to meet this guar-
antee while still keeping our housing
fully occupied, he wrote in an email
to The Daily. Doing so makes the
best use of our facilities and allows
Stanford to accept the maximum
number of freshmen and transfer
students.
Vacancies come from students
who decide to take a leave of ab-
sence, are suspended or get accept-
ed late to overseas-studies pro-
grams, he added. If we assigned
all students during the Draw, we
would open autumn quarter with a
significant number of vacancies,
and fewer students would be able to
attend the University.
Will Monroe 13, who is also
unassigned, is optimistic that the sit-
uation will work itself out, despite
complaints about the wait list.
The main thing that was disap-
pointing was the news that we
couldnt keep our Draw group to-
gether, Monroe said. Even if we
get our bottom choice, itd still be
cool as long as we [the Draw group]
can stay together. But since we cant
stay together, were a bit worried
about what our housing situation is
going to be like next year.
The housing-assignment process
involves three different rounds:
the Draw, the waiting list and con-
tinuous assignments. If unassigned
after the first draw, students go on
the waiting list to wait for housing. If
they are still unassigned after the
second round, students go into con-
tinuous assignments.
Shortly before the July 3 waiting-
list-ranking deadline, Housing an-
nounced that it had added Oak
Creek Apartments, which abuts
Stanford campus, to the list of resi-
dences students may rank. Howev-
er, Housing is also currently con-
sidering some additional projects to
build new undergraduate housing,
Whitney said.
There will probably be no addi-
tional housing ready for occupancy
for at least two years, he wrote.
We will meet our obligation to the
guarantee and have all undergradu-
ate students with guaranteed years
remaining assigned by the end of
the first week of autumn quarter, if
not before.
Both Monroe and Peterson men-
tioned that more clarity on the
Housing Department website could
help students on the waiting list fig-
ure out the application process. Ac-
cording to Monroe, the Housing
Department website could be more
helpful if the information were pre-
sented more explicitly.
Its a nightmare trying to find
the dates, the deadlines, Monroe
said. Theyre hidden within, like,
three layers of pages that I have to
see when Ive got to submit these
forms and stuff.
Housing, however, disputes
those claims about the website.
We are in the process of revis-
ing our site at this time, but the feed-
back we generally receive is differ-
ent from what you have heard,
Whitney wrote. What we have
found is that we have extensive in-
formation on the website, but that
students do not always successfully
navigate deep enough into the of-
ferings, causing them to sometimes
miss important details.
Ellora Israni contributed to this re-
port.
Contant Haelin Cho at haelin.cho@
gmail.com.
HOUSING
ments, promotions and pack prices
for Newport and for Marlboro, the
leading non-menthol cigarette.
Trained observers and researchers
looked at these factors in 407 stores
within walking distance from 91
high schools across California.
Henriksen said the most chal-
lenging part of completing the
study was data collection and ob-
taining cigarette pack prices.
The study found that advertise-
ments and promotions for New-
port cigarettes were more likely to
be found in neighborhoods with a
higher proportion of African-
American students. The advertised
pack prices for Newport cigarettes
were also lower in those same
areas. These patterns did not ap-
pear for non-menthol cigarettes.
Henriksen emphasized that the
study found that cigarette manu-
facturers target not only African
Americans, but also youths. She
called Lorillards marketing
predatory in a statement to
Reuters.
I hope [the research] will call
attention to the tobacco industrys
use of advertising and promotion
to target vulnerable groups and en-
courage the FDA to consider that
evidence in banning menthol, she
said to The Daily.
Congress passed The Family
Smoking Prevention and Tobacco
Control Act in 2009, which per-
mits states and communities to de-
velop restrictions on the time,
place and manner of tobacco mar-
keting. This act also banned a
number of cigarette additives in-
cluding candy, fruit and spice be-
cause of their possible appeal to
youth, but the question of a men-
thol ban fell to the FDA, which
has the power to ban menthol cig-
arettes under The Family Smok-
ing Prevention and Tobacco Con-
trol Act.
Stanford Law professor Robert
L. Rabin felt that the results of this
study could influence a future men-
thol ban.
The principal manufacturer of
menthol cigarettes, I think some-
thing like 85 percent of their busi-
ness is in menthol cigarettes, [is]
going to continue to lobby very
hard not to have a menthol ban,
Rabin said. Theres lots of pres-
sure on the other side. Stuff of this
kind is likely to increase pressure to
get menthol banned as an additive
in cigarettes.
Rabin also added that limiting
the ways that cigarette manufactur-
ers can market is more complicat-
ed.
Henriksen said that she plans to
continue researching similar issues
on a broader scale. She recently re-
ceived a grant from the National
Cancer Institute to examine tobac-
co industry marketing in a sample
of stores across the nation.
I hope Ill have some opportu-
nity to look at this problem in a
larger, more representative sam-
ple, she said.
Contact Harini Jaganathan at harini-
jagan07@gmail.com.
CIGARETTES
Meeting focuses on upcoming
initiatives and events
Its a nightmare trying to find the
dates, the deadlines.
WILL MONROE 13
long-term funding to Stanford.
Following [Obamas] an-
nouncement, we have been work-
ing on recommendations and plans
for education (shared manufactur-
ing curriculum, manufacturing de-
gree programs, outreach, examples
of industry/academic infrastructure
and curriculum) and research (uni-
versity/industry partnerships on
manufacturing, infrastructure net-
works, roadmaps), Kenny wrote
in a separate email to The Daily.
As this moves along, there will
be ideas and opportunities for pro-
grams and activities at Stanford,
he added. The Product Realiza-
tion Lab led by [mechanical engi-
neering] professor Dave Beach is
an excellent example, in that it pro-
vides access for more than 1000 stu-
dents each year to get their hands
on modern manufacturing tools
and learn how to design and make
things.
Stanford cites its own history of
practical innovation as a qualifica-
tion for its participation in the pro-
gram.
The areas of focus are particu-
lar strengths of Stanford, including
information technology, nanotech-
nology and biotechnology, wrote
Lapin. We believe partnerships
such as the manufacturing initiative
are key to the transfer of knowl-
edge, and we are proud to join with
the federal government and indus-
try leaders in this effort.
Contact Henry Zhu at hz2014@stan-
ford.edu.
OBAMA
Please see GSC, page 16
I
never go outside without sunscreen. When
you move to the tropics and suffer horrible
equatorial sunburn a week later, you learn
immediately that a red, peeling face is not an at-
tractive one. Its not particularly comfortable ei-
ther. Every health and beauty magazine re-
leased endorses sunscreen as the miracle prod-
uct to protect ones face. Celebrities swear
thats how they maintain their doll-like looks
while lines of age inevitably show through the
cracks in their skin. Heck, you cant even buy
makeup without a saleslady waving an SPF
(sun-protection factor) number in your face.
Nowadays, its all about preserving the youth in
your skin and saving face.
But in Asia, saving face goes much deeper
than sunscreens, hats and SPF ratings. Your
face is the most important element of your ap-
pearance. In Asia, your face is much more than
the part of your body that contains your nose,
lips and eyes. To save face actually means to up-
hold your social dignity and prestige. Your face
is your honor and respect. Loosing face is not
something that society easily forgives. A sun-
burn can be healed in a week, but if you loose
face, it takes ages to climb back up the social and
business ladder if you can get a hand on a
rung at all.
Saving face is not a new concept in Asia. In
feudal Japan, Samurai warriors were expected
to choose death over losing social honor and fre-
quently committed the honorable rite of sui-
cide known as seppuku, which was essentially
self-disembowelment (this can be seen at the
end of Puccinis tragic opera Madame Butter-
fly). In China, a disobedient woman who
shook the foundations of the Confucian chain of
command could be exiled from her home for
dishonoring her family. As you move farther
east to India, Pakistan and the Middle East, the
face and honor of a family in some religious and
ethnic groups becomes much more significant,
even worthy of murder. The honor of a family is
embodied completely within the sexual purity
of its female members, so much so that murder-
ing a daughter or sister who is rumored to be
impure is deemed an act of honor, eu-
phemistically known as honor killing.
In everyday life in Southeast Asia, though, you
dont encounter Samurai warriors vowing to com-
mit seppuku and other tragedies of the sort. Sav-
ing face happens on a more superficial level that
simply causes inconveniences in daily life. For ex-
ample, if you walk into a store asking for a
camisole, instead of clarifying what a camisole is
to better help you, the shopkeeper will either turn
you away or enthusiastically show you a lovely
pair of pants. If you are lost and you stop and ask
someone for directions, rather than admitting
that they dont know where your destination is
and thus lose face for their ignorance, he or she
will point confidently in a random direction and
send you off on a wild goose chase. Once when I
grumbled about this to a Chinese friend, he
laughed and said never to trust anyone who gives
you directions in Asia, because its inevitable that
youll end up getting wrong instructions. Also, if
you need to know one thing about saving face, its
to never say no in Asia. That denotes inflexibil-
ity, impatience and rudeness. Instead, a passive
maybe or Ill look into it does the trick. So
does a one-word yes.
Just recently, I went to the Chinese embassy in
Singapore to get a visa for an upcoming trip. I told
the guard at the gate that I was here to submit my
visa application documents. He pulled out a pam-
phlet titled How to Apply for a Chinese Visa
and gave it to me. I explained that I had all my
documents done and needed to submit them to
the embassy for approval. He said, yes. I asked
if I could go in. He said, yes. We stared at each
other blankly for a few minutes as I waited for him
to open the gate. When it was clear that he wasnt
going to move, I then asked if I was at the right
place. He said, yes. I asked if I was at the wrong
place. He said, yes. Then I asked if he under-
stood what I was saying. He said, yes.
Saving face is taken so seriously in Asia that
the Chinese even have a hand motion for saying
someone has lost face. Slide your index finger
down across your face from your ear to the corner
of your lips in one quick, brushing motion. But
never, ever do this to an adult. Why not? Because,
of course, both you and he will lose face. You, be-
cause you openly criticized someone and bluntly
accused him of losing face in a childish way, and
he, because someone publically called him out for
losing face. Its a lose-lose situation.
The way to maintain your face in Asia is tanta-
mount to being polite in North America or Eu-
rope. Simply, dont lose your cool in public and
dont put someone down. Also, paradoxically, if
you point out someone elses mistake, not only do
you make that person lose face, but you also lose
face for your social blunder. Just follow that age-
old rule we all learned in kindergarten: if you cant
say something nice, dont say anything at all.
So when you venture onto the streets of South-
east Asia, dont forget your map, your sunscreen,
your hat and your SPF (Self Preservation of
Face). A sunburned face isnt an attractive one.
Neither is a lost one.
Worried about losing your face? Ask Aysha
Kureishi for tips at ayshak@stanford.edu.
L
ast week, the United Nations added 18
sites around the globe to its list of bios-
phere reserves, bringing the total number
of sites so designated under its Man and the
Biosphere Program to 581.
Most of us are probably more familiar with
another U.N. collection: World Heritage Sites,
which identify universally valued spots for
conservation and awareness efforts. Indeed,
some particularly special locales receive both
designations.
But the purpose of biosphere reserves tran-
scends basic conservation. The reserves are in-
tended to showcase ways that humans can rec-
oncile our needs and activities with those of na-
tive flora and fauna. They highlight unique and
innovative strategies that are working right
now.
Although the U.N.s Program has existed for
more than 30 years, in some ways, these conser-
vation ideas merging man with nature, rather
than separating man from it are really just
catching on.
For decades, weve tried strategies like the in-
famous fortress conservation, in which a par-
cel of land is hermetically sealed off from human
access. In some cases, this has smacked of neo-
colonialism, as the big, bad NGO swoops in to
buy up land and intimidate or bribe indigenous
people into exile.
In the United States, when an endangered
species is critically threatened, were also willing
to cordon off plots of land, post signage and bar
entry. And in our national parks, where we want
people to enjoy and experience wild nature, we
must still somehow quantify and maintain
wildness. In Maines crowded Acadia Nation-
al Park, for example, no backcountry hiking is
permitted because there simply isnt enough
backcountry to go around.
Most of us would probably agree that some
if not most closures are for the best. Amid
the extremes of the United States-landscape ma-
trix, our preserves stand in stark contrast to the
great homogeneity of corn and soy fields, for ex-
ample. And because conventional wisdom dic-
tates that planetary biodiversity is best preserved
by setting land aside, we have hard goals, like the
Convention on Biological Diversitys aim to
protect 17 percent of terrestrial systems and 10
percent of seascapes.
Simultaneously, our planet faces pressures
from a growing human population with shrink-
ing resources. As our numbers swell and our oil-
supported capacity for intensive crop produc-
tion dwindles, well doubtless press more land
into agricultural service. Could you look pover-
ty in the eye and demand its land for pristine
rainforest? Could you look hunger in the eye
and close its coral reef for biodiversity protec-
tion? I couldnt.
If we could meet our conservation area goals,
though, would that be enough? A decade ago,
Ana Rodrigues and Kevin Gaston reviewed a
score of studies on the land area needed to meet
conservation goals. Their work, published in
Ecology Letters in 2001, found that areal re-
quirements could skyrocket up to 66 percent in
some systems. If getting a sixth of an ecosystem
into protection is unlikely, two thirds is probably
impossible.
Since were not going to secure everything in
the fortress, what else can we do?
Time to remind ourselves that scarcely any
part of the planet exists without human modifi-
cation. In fact, some of our most iconic land-
scapes were maintained by human activity. The
eastern North American Great Plains, for exam-
ple, required periodic burning by Native Amer-
icans to retain their native grass cover. And
humans evolved in Africa, where weve spent
millennia alongside wildlife.
So wheres the boundary between us and
nature, between wilderness and human-
modified? The extremes are obvious: compare
a distant Pacific atoll to an effluent-packed har-
bor. Contrast the drones of pumps in Prudhoe
Bay with the deep silence of an aurora-lit tundra.
But then compare a California rice paddy
with a coastal salt marsh. Given that 90 percent
of Californias wetlands have been lost to human
activity, professor Chris Elphick of the Universi-
ty of Connecticut has found that rice farms can
make up some of the missing ground. Indeed,
these farms have proved exceptionally speciose:
after some wildlife-friendly management
changes, you can now spot about one in every
five California bird species in a rice field.
And thats where we turn to the U.N.s Pro-
gram and to research around the globe where
humanity is still living or learning to live in
step with nature.
We know that its possible to overload the
natural system: intensive agriculture, other-
worldly minescapes and other settings pro-
vide evidence of that. But we also know from our
evolutionary history, from our recent past and
from the evidence of our contemporary eyes,
that humans are fundamentally a part of the bal-
ance of nature.
And so we come to the ultimate challenge:
the environmental version of Buddhisms mid-
dle way. If we want to protect biodiversity on a
grand scale, we have to do more than protect it
in discrete, firmly outlined patches. We have to
LETTERS FROM THE DRAGONLANDS SEEING GREEN
Saving Face
Aysha
Kureishi
Holly
Moeller
OPINIONS
Please see MOELLER, page 16
Into the Matrix
SPORTS
By KEVIN ZHANGand
RACHEL WOLFARD
School may be out for the Cardinal faith-
ful, but the teams usual home of Stanford
Stadium was buzzing with activity last Satur-
day. It wasnt for a football game, the venues
main event, and there were no national teams
or popular European squads in sight. Instead,
fans in the Stanford area came out in droves to
see the San Jose Earthquakes (5-5-6) play the
New York Red Bulls (5-3-10) in a nationally
televised Major League Soccer contest over
Independence Day weekend. San Jose squan-
dered a late lead and settled for a 2-2 tie.
The match, which the Earthquakes relo-
cated from the traditional Buck Shaw Stadi-
um in Santa Clara, saw a crowd of 41,208
the largest ever for a non-doubleheader in the
Earthquakes history.
The stadium change surprised many fans
when it was announced last April, but the
added exposure and publicity of the Stanford-
hosted event seems to have paid off, accord-
ing to the team.
With more people, there was more elec-
tricity, said San Jose Earthquakes President
Dave Kaval 98 MBA 03. Being at Stanford
also enables us to have fireworks after the
game and is an opportunity for fans all over
the Bay Area to watch the Earthquakes.
Given Kavals background, the decision to
move the game to Stanford may have been as
much about loyalty as business. Besides being
a Stanford alumnus, Kaval is a Cardinal foot-
ball season ticket holder and says he enjoyed
working with the Stanford staff to make the
transition possible.
As a season ticket holder, I believe that
Stanford Stadium is a hidden gem in the Bay
Area, Kaval said. Having this marquee
matchup here is an opportunity for people to
see this. The Stanford staff has been tremen-
dous to work with, and we would love to come
back.
Kaval has memories of Stanfords role in
the 1994 FIFA World Cup, when a then-larg-
er Stanford Stadium was one of nine venues to
host the event in the U.S. and one of only
two on the West Coast.
As an alumnus, I want to create new his-
tory as Stanford did 17 years ago with the
World Cup, Kaval said. That is why we
[honored] 94 World Cup players at half-
time.
Former Team USA players Tab Ramos,
Thomas Dooley, Marcelo Balboa, Paul
Caligiuri, Fernando Clavijo, Mike Sorber,
Juergen Sommer, Cobi Jones and John
Harkes were on site Saturday evening, almost
17 years after their 1-0 loss to Brazil in the
Round of 16 at Stanford on July 4, 1994.
When the pregame festivities outside Stan-
ford Stadium concluded and the game got un-
derway, the large crowd quieted early. In just
the seventh minute, Red Bull forward Joel
Lindpere put in the first goal of the game from
the outskirts of the 6-yard box.
It wasnt until the 37th minute that the
Earthquakes leveled the playing field with
midfielder Khari Stephensons unassisted
goal. The Red Bulls and the Earthquakes en-
tered halftime with a 1-1 tie.
In the 68th minute, San Jose took the lead
after forward Steven Lenhart split two Red
Bull defenders and hammered in a header
goal off of an assist from teammate Steven
Beitashour.
Toward the end of the game, the Red Bulls
picked up the intensity with back-to-back at-
tempted shots on goal. San Jose goalkeeper
Jon Busch saved the first attempt and ener-
gized the crowd as he blocked the second in
order to hold onto the lead. His efforts would-
nt hold up, however, as Lindpere took con-
trol of an assist from Red Bull forward Mehdi
S.J. EARTHQUAKES VISIT STANFORD STADIUM
SOCCER SHOWCASE
Kevin Tsukii/The Stanford Daily
Earthquakes defender Ramiro Corales, right, tries to slide-tackle attacking Red Bull forward Dane
Richards. San Jose took a 2-1 lead late in the match but was unable to stop the New York on-
slaught, as they surrendered a late goal and the game ended 2-2.
Joseph Beyda
DONT PAY
PLAYERS
W
e all know about Stan-
fords 34 varsity sports,
101 NCAA champi-
onships and 17 Direc-
tors Cups. But maybe
the most impressive way to describe Car-
dinal athletics is with a big fat zero.
According to a Wall Street Journal
(WSJ) report late last month, Stanford is
one of only four schools in an Automatic
Qualifying Conference and the only
one west of the Mississippi that has
never recorded a major NCAA rules vio-
lation.
Thats something to be proud of, espe-
cially in an athletic environment thats
hearing increasing calls for an end to colle-
giate amateurism. In early June, South
Carolina coach Steve Spurrier, with the
backing of several other big-name SEC
coaches, introduced a pay-for-play pro-
posal for football players that would in-
clude a moderate $300 stipend per game.
It would also break NCAA rules.
But lets not kid ourselves. Benefits are
already being doled out albeit improp-
erly to star players nationwide; just ask
USC or Ohio State, or 62 of the 66 AQ
teams for that matter.
So whats the point of stemming the
Tide (Alabama: five infractions)? Is pay-
ing college athletes something that should
have happened Sooner (Oklahoma:
seven infractions)? If almost everyones
breaking the rules, shouldnt we join in the
fun too, and just grin and Bear (Cal: seven
infractions) the immorality of it all?
Or is pay-for-play even immoral in the
first place?
Advocates for plans such as Spurriers
claim that players arent getting their fair
share of the profits they help create. A six-
figure scholarship over four years is nice,
yet it pales in comparison to the $70 mil-
lion that a school like Texas makes on
football alone each season.
Lets clear up one thing, right off the
bat. Rule-breaking institutions have al-
ways had their own interests in mind, not
those of the recruits. USC didnt want to
improve the financial situation of Reggie
Please see BEYDA, page 9 Please see QUAKES, page 11
I
m a better person than you.
Or at least, if youre an arts
student, my undergrad de-
gree counts for more than
yours. When I compare the
successes of classmates, I see my fel-
low science or technology friends
have landed well-paying jobs in fi-
nance or consultancy whereas the
more socially oriented are stuck
working for NGOs. Based purely on
future monetary success, art degrees
are a waste of your time, your parents
money and perhaps even your univer-
sitys resources.
I hasten to add, before I get a land-
slide of abuse, that I dont actually
agree with the above statement, but
its the best way I could sum up in an
academic context my interpretation
of what is becoming an easy target for
abuse by Daily columnists: the Capi-
tal One Cup. I do see some of the ar-
guments behind an alternative to the
Directors Cup; since Stanford basi-
cally has the largest college athletics
program in the country, it is almost a
shoo-in.
But be careful what you wish for.
Patriotic friends of mine stand by
the argument that America is a class-
less society, and while the raw statis-
tics contradict this assertion, I have to
admit that the underlying intention is
good. The statement all men are cre-
ated equal from the Declaration of
Independence is not just a memorable
phrase but should be a guiding princi-
ple behind any system of government.
The Capital One Cups version of
this quote is every championship
counts, but though the words might
sound a little similar, the raw ideology
is very different. Glossing over the
fact that the statement is not true
some NCAA championships actually
dont count it reminds me much
more of a quote from George Or-
wells satirical book about the Russ-
ian Revolution, Animal Farm: All
animals are equal, but some animals
are more equal than others.
Its not quite as catchy, but in the
interest of honesty, perhaps the Capi-
tal One Cups organizers should try:
Most championships count, though
some count more than others.
The changes in the ranking system
H
ere we go again. An-
other month, another
story about the illegal
exploits of a college
football program.
This time, its the Oregon Ducks,
who apparently used a recruiter
named Will Lyles to funnel top
prospects to Eugene in exchange for
$25,000.
And while its not particularly
shocking to find out that a top pro-
gram may have been bending the
rules in order to win football games
Ohio State, Auburn and USC come
to mind the recent allegations
levied against Oregon could be a dis-
aster for a program that appears to be
on the cusp of national prominence
for the next decade or more.
For the last 10 years, the Ducks
have been steadily climbing up the na-
tional rankings thanks to some good
coaching, great recruiting and the
deep pockets of Nikes Phil Knight, an
Oregon alumnus. The Ducks got just
one Pac-10 title between 1957 and
1999, but they have captured four
conference championships since 2000
and made their way to three BCS
bowls in that time, including last
years national championship game.
But now the Ducks have to deal
with the fact that their rise to success
may have been augmented by some il-
legitimate recruiting, and Oregon
Tom Taylor
Jack Blanchat
Fleener selected for Mackey Award watch list
Fifth-year senior Coby Fleener was named to the
preseason watch list for the John Mackey Award,
which recognizes the top collegiate tight end at the
end of each season.
Given since 2000, the honor will be awarded at
the Home Depot ESPN College Football Awards
Red Carpet Show on Dec. 8.
Fleener set personal bests in all major offensive
categories for the Cardinal this season as the teams
third-leading receiver, with 28 catches for 434 yards
and seven touchdowns. He crossed the goal line
three times in a 14:44 span in the Orange Bowl to
help Stanford break ahead of Virginia Tech in the
second half of a 40-12 win. In doing so, he set career
highs in touchdowns (3), receiving yards (178) and
receptions (6). All three touchdowns were from at
least 38 yards out, with the second one Fleeners
longest at Stanford going for 58.
An All-Pac-10 second-team selection after last
season, he will join juniors Zach Ertz and Levine
Toilolo to fill out a strong tight end corps this year.
Joseph Beyda
Dawkins signs two-year extension
Stanford announced yesterday that mens bas-
ketball head coach Johnny Dawkins had signed a
contract extension through the 2015-16 season. His
previous contract, a six-year deal, was set to expire
before the 2013-14 season.
Entering his fourth year at the helm of the Cardi-
nal program, Dawkins has a 49-48 record, including
a 20-win season in 2008-09 that saw Stanford reach
the semifinals of the College Basketball Invitation-
al. He brought in a top-20 recruiting class last season
to help fill the void left by the departures of the
Lopez twins in 2008 and Landry Fields in 2010.
Dawkins helped develop Fields into a second-round
pick and starter for the New York Knicks and looks
to do the same with Pac-10 All-Freshmen honorees
Anthony Brown and Dwight Powell during their
sophomore seasons.
His successes off the Farm include a 2008
Olympic gold-medal run, serving as Player Person-
nel Director, and an 11-year stint at Duke under
world-renowned coach Mike Krzyzewski. Dawkins
was also Dukes all-time leading scorer with 2,556
points from 1986 until 2006, when J.J. Redick, a
player of his, beat that record.
Joseph Beyda
Womens water polo players chosen
for national team
The U.S. Womens Junior National Team will in-
clude four Cardinal water polo players two of
them incoming freshmen when it heads to the
FINA Junior World Championships in Italy this
SPORTS BRIEFS
Please see JACK, page 11
Please see TAYLOR, page 9
Stanford Daily File Photo
Coby Fleener, left, side-steps an Arizona State defender down the sideline. Fleener was an instrumental partt
of the Cardinal offense last season, especially in the Orange Bowl, where he scored three late touchdowns.
NEW CUP NOT AS
PERFECT AS OTHERS
MISTAKES WILL COST
THE DUCKS
Please see BRIEFS, page 11
Bushs family; it wanted to win football
games.
But even from an altruistic, give-
players-what-they-deserve stand-
point, what about the athletes that
arent pulling in any money? Its well
documented that the overwhelming
majority of NCAA revenue comes
from football and mens basketball;
other sports are lucky to profit at all.
And if the goal is to align player pay
with the revenues they generate, then
athletes in the so-called country-
club or Olympic sports which
are much harder to make a living in
post-graduation would be hung out
to dry. In a way, the problem has al-
ready manifested itself in major
NCAA violations, which surround
football 55 percent of the time, accord-
ing to the WSJ report.
Whats more, paying players would
present a host of logistical issues. One
of the best things about college athlet-
ics is that its completely devoid of all of
the revenue-sharing drama thats com-
monplace in professional leagues. But
if they paid players, schools would
have to decide how big a slice of the
revenue pie they would be willing to
give up. And the possibility of dare
I say it an NCAA lockout just isnt
fair to young players looking to devel-
op their skills.
With the players under contract
and open bidding wars breaking out
for top recruits, the NCAA would be
forced to again mimic professional
leagues with a salary cap. Though it
would sure be fun to watch certain
cash-strapped, Division-I state schools
(particularly one in the East Bay)
struggle to keep up with the growing fi-
nancial burdens that would be placed
on legitimate big-sport contenders, a
salary cap would be the only hope of
maintaining any parity in college ath-
letics. But then, athletes would be
turned away from schools which had
so many other things going for them
just because their payroll exceeded
NCAA limits. By leveling the playing
field, the necessary salary-cap step
would neglect the one thing that truly
separates college and pro sports: the
college part.
And thats where Stanford comes
in. Coaches and administrators here
always talk about how Stanford sells it-
self, how recruits are drawn to the
school by its world-class education.
Learning would have no value in a sys-
tem that sold 18-year-old athletes to
the school that writes the biggest
check. So if youre concerned by sto-
ries of top-tier athletes failing classes,
abandoning their education after two
years or ending up on the wrong side of
the law, then pay-for-play is not for
you.
Stanfords clean record doesnt just
indicate that the athletic department
can follow rules. Its also a reflection of
the value we place on a wide variety of
sports and the important role we give
education, even for student-athletes.
Theres no need to institute pay-
for-play to legitimize the misbehavior
of all but four major institutions in this
country. Theres a right way to play
and win the game of college sports,
and Stanford knows just how.
Joseph Beyda wants a $300 stipend to
go watch football games. Offer him
some fundraising tips at jbeyda@stan-
ford.edu.
BEYDA
from the Directors Cup might seem
relatively benign, but before throw-
ing your support behind this new
award, it is worth considering what its
long-term impact could be. Universi-
ties are generally ideological bubbles
where equality rules far more than it
does in the outside world. You study
what you study because of raw inter-
est rather than monetary greed, and
students from all backgrounds and
subjects mix freely as equals. College
athletes, regardless of the future job
prospects in their chosen discipline,
should be treated the same.
This utopia isnt perfect, because
there isnt an endless supply of re-
sources and money, and so not all
sports can receive either varsity status
or NCAA recognition. But the inten-
tion is good.
Or at least it was. There have al-
ways been motives for concentrating
solely on the big sports not least,
the TV revenue they bring in but
the Capital One Cup turns the screw
even further on the little sports. The
Cardinal might be well-advised to
drop the six mens and six womens
varsity teams absent from the cups
rankings in favor of creating new
teams to better suit this competition,
or perhaps to simply pour the savings
into the football program. Maybe that
is what other schools have been doing
for years, shirking sporting diversity
in search of success in just one big-
money discipline, and maybe this ex-
plains why Stanford traditionally has
struggled to compete at the very top
of the football hierarchy.
Even smaller sports actually in-
cluded in the Capital One Cup might
be at risk. Mens lacrosse is worth
twice as much as golf, and so it would
make competitive sense to sacrifice
the latter in order to make space for a
new varsity team of the former. Can
you imagine if that had happened a
few years ago? Whatever you think of
either his sport or his private life, it is
hard not to feel some kind of respect
for the achievements of Tiger Woods
and a little bit of pride that one of his-
torys most iconic sportsmen went to
Stanford.
Smaller colleges whose athletics
programs are limited to a football or
basketball program may find a signif-
icant advantage in this new ranking
system, but the larger and more var-
ied athletics departments will almost
certainly lose out. Many student-ath-
letes may find their sports disappear-
ing before their very eyes as attention
shifts to the more important, i.e. high-
er point-scoring, disciplines. The
breadth of the college sporting world
will surely narrow.
On its website, the NCAA claims
that it was formed to protect stu-
dent-athletes, but through its affilia-
tion with this new championship
Capital One is an official Corporate
Champion of the NCAA it
seems to be doing the very opposite.
Tom Taylor is more equal than you.
Disagree at tom.taylor@stanford.
edu.
TAYLOR
Most
championships
count, though
some count more
than others.
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SWINGING
ON
Silk
Students flip for
aerial fabrics classes
Silk
By STEPHANIE YOUNG
T
ucked away in a back room of
the Arrillaga Center for
Sports and Recreation, the
rock climbing wall exists, un-
beknownst to many students.
But for students in the aerial fabrics
class, this rock wall is their home base, a
place where they twist, twirl, pull, stretch
and hang upside down multiple times a
week.
Aerial fabrics, described as equal
parts grace, strength and adrenaline, and
100 percent Cirque Du Soleil, on the
Stanford Athletics Physical Education,
Recreation and Wellness website, is nei-
ther an official Stanford varsity nor a
club team. Rather, the troupe holds of-
fice hours, hosts aerial fabrics classes at a
variety of skill levels and performs in
shows the groups most recent expo-
sition, the Aerial Fabrics Showcase
2011, took place in early June at the rock
climbing wall.
Also called aerial tissue or aerial
skills, aerial fabrics is a more recent phe-
nomenon in the aerial arts and has
steadily grown in exposure and popular-
Please see FABRICS, page 11
fans should be considering just how
damaging the consequences might be
if they get slapped with several years
of probation and scholarship restric-
tions from the NCAA.
When big football schools like
USC, Ohio State, Oklahoma or Al-
abama are penalized for their wrong-
doing, everybody in the college
sports world knows that the program
will be right back at the top when the
restrictions are lifted because, well,
theyre USC (or Ohio State or Okla-
homa or Alabama). These big pro-
grams always succeed not only be-
cause they can always lure in top re-
cruits with a 100,000-seat stadium
and a trophy room filled with Heis-
man statuettes and national titles, but
also because they can count on their
boosters to support them through
thick and thin.
But Oregon doesnt have that
same legacy of success to support it,
and that means that the punishment
that may be awaiting the Ducks could
be much more problematic than it
would be for a more established pro-
gram.
Sure, the Ducks will still have their
swimming pool full of gold coins
courtesy of Phil Knight to help them
continue to upgrade their already-
ridiculous facilities and attract top-
tier recruits, but that doesnt mean
that Oregon wont suddenly become
old news after a couple of years out of
the spotlight. Consider the example
of new Pac-12 member Colorado.
The Buffaloes were a perennial con-
tender for the Big-12 title during the
90s and early 2000s, but the Buffaloes
have had just one winning season
since a major recruiting scandal sur-
faced in 2004.
Another factor that could nega-
tively affect the Ducks is that the top
program in the Pac-12, USC, will be
coming off probation at the same
time. Because the Ducks have been
on their steady uptick for the last few
years, they now compete for a lot of
recruits against the Trojans, but if
Oregon is facing serious penalties
from the NCAA while USC is unfet-
tered, the Trojans could quickly re-
gain their dominant position in the
Pac-12.
Although its probably too early
to speculate about the conferences
future power structure considering
that Oregon hasnt even been pun-
ished for its recruiting malfeasances,
a world where USC is perched firm-
ly atop the Pac-12 is just the picture
that the Ducks (and everyone else in
the conference, for that matter)
have been trying to overcome for
years. But thanks to USCs national
prominence and on-field success
over the past decade, its well
equipped to rebound and fill any
void that the Ducks would leave
atop the Pac-12 the hallmark of a
powerhouse program.
So while Oregon has worked hard
and recruited well (maybe a little too
well) to reach this point, the potential
ramifications of its actions could
leave the Ducks where they started
over a decade ago looking up the
standings in the Pac-12 but with a
new set of questions to answer. In-
stead of asking themselves what it
would take to get to the top, head
coach Chip Kelly and the Ducks
might be wondering what could have
been and that could be the most
bitter pill to swallow.
Jack Blanchat has been recruiting
readers a little too well. Help him
gain a following at blanchat@stanford.
edu.
JACK
September.
Goalie Kate Baldoni and driver
Kaley Dodson were both instru-
mental in capturing Stanfords
101st NCAA championship in May
as freshmen. Baldoni posted the
Mountain Pacific Sports Federa-
tions best goals-against average
with a 4.04, while Dodson scored 27
goals and had two hat tricks.
Joining them will be Ashley
Grossman and Kiley Neushul, part
of Stanfords six-member incoming
freshman class. Dodson, Grossman
and Baldoni were all members of
the bronze-medal-winning Team
USA at the Junior World Champi-
onships in Russia in 2009.
Joseph Beyda
BRIEFS
Ballouchy and scored his second
goal of the game in the 85th minute
to put the score where it would end,
at 2-2.
Going into the match, one of the
other draws of the contest was
French national team player and
Red Bull forward Thierry Henry.
However, Henry was not present
during the match due to a red card
suspension.
Taking his place was Ballouchy,
a graduate of both Palo Altos
Henry Gunn High School and
Santa Clara University.
It was awesome, Ballouchy
said. I went to school five minutes
from here. I went to college 20 min-
utes from here. Its a special place
to play soccer.
Members of the Earthquakes
were also pleased with the atmos-
phere and crowd at Stanford.
It was fantastic [to be at Stan-
ford], said San Jose head coach
Frank Yallop. I think the players
warmed up to the crowd a bit after
seeming a bit nervous in the begin-
ning of the game. It is always tough
to play in a new stadium, because it
doesnt feel like home. But toward
the end of the game, it felt like home
and it was a great for everybody.
Lenhart noticed several differ-
ences between Stanford Stadium
and Buck Shaw, the current home
for the Earthquakes.
[The roar of the crowd at Buck
Shaw compared to Stanford] is like
a double-double at In-N-Out ver-
sus a Big Mac, he said. It was fun.
I wish I went to school here.
Contact Kevin Zhang at kevinz
hangle@gmail.com and Rachel
Wolfard at wolfard@stanford.edu.
QUAKES
ity in mainstream culture per-
formance artist, Pink, featured
these aerial silk skills in her 2010
Grammy performance. Rooted in
the circus arts, aerial fabrics has
been adapted from a highly special-
ized skill to one that complete be-
ginners can attempt with relative
ease. The once extremely stretchy
materials the type that the Stan-
ford group still uses have be-
come more rigid and less stretchy,
making the fabric much more ac-
cessible to beginners and more eas-
ily adapted for yoga and condition-
al training.
Professionals usually know the
basics of static trapeze, aerial hoop
and rope in addition to aerial fab-
rics but chooses to specialize in one
of the disciplines. Artists usually
have at least some previous dance
training or gymnastics on their re-
sume, however, the group at Stan-
ford hosts classes that assume no
background whatsoever.
For Sommer Panage 08 M.S.
09, an instructor for both the aeri-
al fabrics class at Stanford and at
the San Francisco Circus Center, a
class she took at Stanford as an un-
dergraduate sparked her interest in
the art. Currently working at
Apple as a programmer, she still
trains and teaches almost every
day.
Aerial arts has gotten me into
the best shape of my life, Panage
said, noting that theres nothing I
love doing more than hanging up-
side down 30 feet in the air getting
ready for a big drop or dancing my
way up and down a rope to my fa-
vorite song.
Though she doubts that shell
ever pursue the circus arts profes-
sionally, Panage plans to continue
training, practicing and performing
in the foreseeable future.
Though safety is a concern for
many Panage does acknowl-
edge that there isnt much in terms
of harnesses and lines because they
get tangled in the silk careful
habits and training, such as practic-
ing low to the ground and the use of
mats, can make the art of aerial fab-
rics a relatively secure hobby.
The various aerial fabrics classes
at Stanford, particularly the intro-
ductory class, are designed for a two-
fold purpose, according to Panage.
The first goal is to introduce stu-
dents to the circus arts, the most fa-
mous example being Cirque du
Soleil. The second is to encourage
students to pursue aerial fabrics as a
way to improve strength and flexibil-
ity a typical aerialist can whip out
10 to 20 pull-ups, 50 v-ups and 50 to
100 pushups in addition to perform-
ing the splits and a backbend and
to engage the muscles in the body in
a dynamic manner.
The beginning class teaches stu-
dents how to climb and perform
tricks on the silk, but couples those
more awe-inspiring features with
the importance of stretching,
ground conditioning and safety. In
the intermediate level, students are
taught the basics of routine choreo-
graphing with music. For the more
advanced students, students who
have trained outside of Stanford,
the silks at Arrillaga offer an av-
enue to practice their skills on cam-
pus. All of the classes have grown
in popularity and interest.
And according to Erica Lieber-
man 14, one of the teaching assis-
tants for the beginning aerial fab-
rics class, the training comes with
an additional bonus.
Youre pretty much guaran-
teed a six-pack, she said.
Contact Stephanie Young at sryoung
@stanford.edu.
FABRICS
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Earthquakes forward Steven Lenhart, right, jostles for position with Red Bull
defender Carlos Mendes. Lenharts 68th-minute goal captured a temporary
lead for San Jose, but the Earthquakes couldnt hold on.
I
always knew that Shigeru Miyamoto, the
video game luminary behind Mario and
Zelda, drew his inspiration from unusual
sources. No, not giant mushrooms Shigs is
famous for turning banal facets of his everyday
life into some of the most fantastical experi-
ences in gaming. Mario was the name of his
landlord, Pikmin came from working in his
garden and Zelda was inspired by his child-
hood trips to rural Japan.
Zelda fans like myself, however, owe credit
to an even less-predictable source of inspira-
tion.
It turns out the TV drama Twin Peaks
played a small but important role in Zeldas
development as Miyamoto guided the series to
its golden age in the midst of the Clinton years.
According to interviews leading up to E3 and
the 25th anniversary of the series, Miyamoto
made David Lynchs anti-
quated serial drama such a
water-cooler topic at the
office that he and long-
time series creators
Takashi Tezuka and
Eiji Aonuma could hard-
ly help its influence from
creeping into their games.
Even by Shiggys standards, that revelation
warrants a few head scratches or raised eye-
brows. Ive seen a few reruns of Twin Peaks
myself, and Im not sure how schoolyard mur-
ders, campy humor and creepy one-armed
dudes translate into the bright and quirky land
of Hyrule.
But if we zoom out a bit and take these
gentlemens words at face value theres a
reasonable justification, both vague and specif-
ic, for Twin Peaks having a right-
ful place in the Zelda-verse.
At the time [we made
Links Awakening], Twin
Peaks was rather popular,
Tezuka explained at a recent
Iwata Asks discussion. The drama was all
about a small number of characters in a small
town . . . I wanted to make something that,
while it would be small enough in scope to eas-
ily understand, it would have deep and distinc-
tive characteristics.
I thought, You really want to make
Zelda like that?! Aonuma said in response.
Now the mystery is solved (laughs). When I
was reading Tanabe-sans comments in the
strategy guide, I saw, Tezuka-san suggested we
make all the characters suspicious types like in
the then-popular Twin Peaks.
If youve played Links Awakening, youll
know it as a major turning point for the series
that took Link out of Hyrule, ditched Ganon
and the Triforce, and broke the fourth wall
whenever it could. Characters like Marin and
the shopkeeper arent what they seem, and the
secrets hinted at by the Owl and the Ocarina
keep players guessing at what mysteries may be
lurking just under the surface. The isolated,
quirky setting of Koholint Island suspends the
players disbelief; this isnt Hyrule, anything
could happen here. The main draw of Links
Awakening and the legacy thats earned it a
couple remakes and re-releases isnt so dif-
ferent from the sense of wonder that kept
viewers coming back for the next episode of
Twin Peaks.
But thats an exceptional example, isnt it?
Links Awakening is remembered fondly, but it
falls outside what many gamers consider the
core of the Zelda series. Surely the anchors of
the entire franchise games like Ocarina of
Time are immune to such outlandish
influences.
Nope.
It took a bit of a paradigm shift, but Im
actually surprised at how natural it feels to view
Ocarina through this new lens. Most of its pre-
sentation is basic, and its compelling material
comes more from the players imagination
than the game itself. Mysterious characters fit
right in with that dynamic, and their low-res
textures and voiceless dialogue only add to the
players personal concept of who they are.
And ultimately, the series is better for it.
We think of Zelda as an epic experience, but in
so many ways its really not its a simple
story with classic setup. Its not the clash of
nations or Patrick Stewart voiceovers that
bring us back again and again, but our own
sense of wonder and imagination. A game like
Zelda gives us just enough backstory to send
our childish dreams downstream and just
enough freedom to flesh them out with eddies
of our own design, emergent byproducts of an
interactive medium that feel epic for their con-
text and intimate for their detail.
Given how much we cling to great games
as beacons of true originality, its funny to see
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ind
ames
A
big, bold and brave performer, Beyonce
Knowles is known for her over-the-top
vocals, incredible stage presence and, most
of all, her ability to seemingly produce a hit on
command, whether it be in collaboration with oth-
ers (see Destinys Child, or, more recently, her
2010 hit Telephone with Lady Gaga) or on her
own (Single Ladies, etc.) However, Queen B lays
quiescent in 4, the artists fourth solo studio
album. Instead, Beyonce seems to take the road
less traveled, masterfully exploring the themes of
both individualism and romance in what proves to
be a more nuanced and sophisticated collection
than her previous work.
Beyonces last two albums BDay,
released in 2006 and the two-part 2008 album, I
Am. . . Sasha Fierce solidified her status as a
powerhouse, stocked with chart-topping, club-
dominating hits that had Beyonce all over the
radio and wowing crowds with her energetic live
performances. However, 4 reflects the strategic
move of a woman who already has a strong fan
base and uses this certainty to give her the freedom
to try something a bit different.
In fact, as far as commercialism is concerned,
4 doesnt begin to compare to Beyonces previ-
ous albums. Frankly, there might be two Top-20
hits in the dozen songs 4 is composed of, but
Beyonce very clearly did not entirely write the
album for the profits it would bring in. Instead,
MUSIC REVIEW
4 sophisticated
TV RECAP
Bentleys back
MOVIE REVIEW
Humans, plot take back seat in Transformers
D
irector Michael Bays conclusion to the iconic robot trilogy
Transformers lives up to summer-blockbuster expecta-
tions, using stylized special effects to mask a thinly devel-
oped plot that, while much more understandable than its predeces-
sor, is unable to surpass the 2007 hit that started it all.
Like the previous summer hit X-Men: First Class,
Transformers: Dark of the Moon features a clever appropriation
of American history, asserting that the true intention of Apollo 11s
mission to the moon was to investigate the crash site of what turns
out to be former Autobot leader Sentinel Prime (voiced by Leonard
Nimoy), who fled the robots home planet Cybertron in order to
protect a valuable new technology from the antagonistic
Decepticons. The findings of Apollo 11 disappeared into the recesses
of classified government intelligence, only to reemerge in the present
day when the Decepticons begin searching for the long-lost ruins,
which may hold the key to restoring Cybertron. Human protagonist
Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), now a job-hunting college graduate
we can all relate to, gets sucked back into global conflict when his
J
ust in case any (read: all) of you readers
havent been faithfully watching The
Bachelorette for two hours a week, let me
introduce you to the man whose absolute scum-
baggery has defined this season: a fine young
lump of human slime by the name of Bentley.
Bentley is that guy your mom warned you about
when you went off to college, telling Ashley to
her face that he had real feelings for her and then
turning to the camera and laughing about how
she was ugly, stupid and haha, oh man, totally
falling for it! He confounded me for every
episode that he showed up in, because his levels
of cruelty were so ridiculously, unrealistically evil;
at first, I thought the show had put him up to
playing with her mind, but if that were the case,
they wouldnt have had him leave the show early.
It remains a mystery.
Anyway, this episode was a big deal because
Bentley, after leaving the show three episodes ago,
returned for more screen time. We all assumed
that the producers had made him come back to
confess to Ashley that he didnt actually have feel-
ings for her so she could stop freaking talking
about him every second of every episode, but to
my surprise, Bentley kept up his lies but for
the first time, Ash saw through them! I very, very,
very briefly felt a flicker of respect for her.
After Bentley, the episode was mostly forget-
table and involved a lot of the Borings (the suit-
ors whose names and faces are unremarkable to
the point that Ive had to come up with
mnemonic devices to remember them). The first
one-on-one date was with Southern Gent; the
group date involved Dragon Racing and paired
up Constantine and Ben F., which was inconve-
nient because I have never been able to tell them
apart. Blake, the festering sack of turds that loves
to badmouth the others behind their backs, was
finally sent home. He was confused; I was tri-
umphant. People complained about things that
werent worth complaining about. Ash got inse-
cure and cried. Yawn.
Since nothing much happened this episode,
Ive decided that I need to spend some time on
Ames, because I find him infinitely and uninten-
tionally hilarious. Ames is intended to be the
token intellectual, the manifestation of all that
smart is sexy jargon, and yes, hes charming,
| BEYONCE continued on page 14 |
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the vulnerability first introduced in the slower, impassioned I
Am. . . half of her third album reemerges in 4. Beyonce is
all grown up now and takes the time to reflect more on what
shes experienced than what she has yet to do.
Ironically, where Beyonce falls flat is in attempts at her
previous style. The first single of 4, Run the World (Girls),
features uninspired lyrics albeit an empowering message
haphazardly thrown over the popular electro-hit Pon de
Floor by Major Lazer. Another upbeat attempt, Party, also
disappoints; though the addition of Andre 3000 adds to the
song, Beyonce simply doesnt bring enough of the raw vocal
energy she usually delivers to her more popular tracks, leaving
Party strangely suspended between her upbeat and slower
songs.
Unexpectedly for many, her exploration with deeper top-
ics comes with remarkable success. Though the songs are
more sentimental, Beyonce generally brings power to each and
every one of them, creating an album full of successfully varied
sound and thoughtful songwriting. One of the best songs of
the album is the first, 1+1, a slow ballad very obviously writ-
ten about her hubby, rapper and music mogul Jay-Z. Beyonce
expresses some lyrical poeticism, singing, I dont know much
about algebra/But I know 1+1=2/And its me and you/Thats all
well have when the world is through. The best by far, though, of
4 is I Was Here, the second-to-last song and final ballad, in
which she contemplates the power and humanity of the individ-
ual, simultaneously delivering a particularly fantastic vocal per-
formance.
4 might not feature Beyonces traditional barrage of hits,
but its a wise album, expressing a more thoughtful side of a
woman usually seen as a larger-than-life personality.
andrea HI NTON
contact andrea: anhi nton@stanford. edu
Autobot friends become locked in battle against the
Decepticons with the fate of the Earth at stake.
Reprising his role as the neurotic, accidental mediator
between humans and robots, LaBeouf flaunts his fast-talking
comedic ability like a frat-boy version of Jesse Eisenberg, but
compared to the other films in the franchise, has relatively
less material to work with. Surprising and often humorous
cameos include John Malkovich, Frances McDormand,
Patrick Dempsey and Ken Jeong, but in the end, most of the
human characters feel unnecessary. Going back to its Hasbro
roots, Transformers is, at heart, a story about robots in dis-
guise and, whether intentionally or not, Bays latest film
reflects this. For despite the efforts made at interweaving the
human and robot narratives, by the end of the climactic bat-
tle sequence, it seems quite clear that the real star is Optimus
Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen).
While many have been panning model Rosie
Huntington-Whiteleys acting chops as the Sexy Girlfriend, a
franchise staple, I found her comparable to Megan Fox, who
starred in the first two films. But whereas Foxs tomboyish
Mikaela was semi-plausible as a romantic interest for the
socially awkward Witwicky, Huntingon-Whiteley perpetually
looks like she stepped out of a Victorias Secret ad, thus ren-
dering the relationship almost farcical. And if rumors about
Foxs departure in conjunction with Bays demands for an
overtly sexual performance are true, then I dont blame her.
Huntington-Whiteley is consistently objectified and exploit-
ed, being leered at not only by the camera but also by every
single male character including the Decepticons.
In true Michael Bay fashion, quick-cutting action and
grand explosions abound, which I would argue make the 3D
viewing experience worth the extra cost. While the humans
and their world still look slightly less than perfectly realistic,
the CGI and the transformers themselves are simply stun-
ning. Live-action, 3D cinema technology may not have quite
hit its stride yet, but Bay makes highly effective use of it.
An instructor once told me that sequels rarely trump
the original and are almost always made for financial gain.
While this is almost certainly true of Transformers, the
film never pretends to be more than what it is. Just sit back,
relax and let the high-budget, fast-paced action wash over
you.
mi sa SHI KUMA
cont act mi sa: mshi kuma@st anf or d. edu
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2:00, 4:45, 7:20
THURS 7/14
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BENTLEY PAGE 13
but oh my god he is impossible to
take seriously. Everyone knows and
loves an Ames; hes that guy in
your friend group that everyone
loves to give a hard time. Any
attempt at seriousness or charm will
be met with a resounding SHUT
UP, AMES from the crowd. Hes
the guy who, when the suitors all
had to fight each other, got saddled
with the hot pink uniform and then
proceeded to get the living hell
kicked out of him and had to go to
a hospital in that same little pink
uniform. You love him in the same
way you would love a particularly
ugly pug: with affection, with pro-
tectiveness and with not a hint of
romance. Unfortunately, nobody
seems to have told him that,
because in this episode, he tried to
be suave. He pulls Ashley into the
elevator, winks knowingly and
presses the button for the highest
floor (shut up, Ames). He goes in
for a tremendously awkward kiss;
she giggles and he hushes her (shut
up, Ames). The elevator doors
open and someone goes to enter;
Ames sort of herds them away while
still trying to maintain James Bond
status (for the love of God shut up,
Ames). I literally could not breathe
for laughing.
Tune in next week, when
Ashley will be crying about boys in
Taiwan.
el i ana CARMONA
contact el i ana:
carmona@stanf ord. edu
some of the biggest names in the
industry talk candidly about their
inspirations from obscure or unre-
markable parts of everyday life. But
if youre willing to accept that
games, like anything else, are part
of a back-and-forth exchange of
creative ideas, it makes the devel-
opment process itself that much
more inspiring: men like
Miyamoto, of course, have no
communion with gaming gods that
spark billion-dollar ideas into their
minds. Theyre not crazy people,
drug addicts or geniuses. Theyre
normal people like you and me,
and the fact that they can deftly
translate a family vacation or a day
in the garden into a moving, engag-
ing experience is damned impres-
sive.
nat e ADAMS
cont act nat e:
nbadams@st anf or d. edu
CONTINUED FROM GAMES PAGE 12
Complete the grid so
each row, column and
3-by-3 box (in bold
borders) contains
every digit, 1 to 9. For
strategies on how to
solve Sudoku, visit
www.sudoku.org.uk
SOLUTION
Level:
1 2
3 4
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they are educated in environments
that expose them to multiple disci-
plines regardless of their chosen
course of study and encouraged to
engage in collaborative problem-
solving approaches and harnessing
emerging technologies effectively.
Elam also touched on the pro-
grams place within broader Univer-
sity ventures.
We have the changes that are
currently being considered by SUES,
the Study of Undergraduate Educa-
tion at Stanford, Elam wrote. Cer-
tainly, one of the major things that
will come out of that study is the need
for integration of what we consider
general education and major require-
ments each needs to inform the
other.
Despite the variety of projects,
Elam stressed that each one will be
based on a common tenet: team-
work.
The goals of Faculty College are
simple: to provide faculty with the
space to develop an idea for innova-
tive curricula, change or exciting new
courses, he said.
Contact Hiroko Sunamara at sunamu-
ra@stanford.edu.
COLLEGE
do it in our own backyards by forgoing
pesticides and growing native plants.
We have to note which species require
human absence, which tolerate some
degree of disturbance and which thrive
in our presence. And we have to create
and maintain a patchwork landscape
allowing for these differences, while
still providing for human needs.
So gather up your ones and zeros,
because the future of conservation is
out in that landscape matrix.
Or, if you prefer traditional uses of bina-
ry, send your coded questions, com-
ments and critiques to Holly at hol-
lyvm@stanford.edu.
MOELLER
buns and a few complications with
the barbecue, the council proposed
another barbecue event for Bastille
Day, a French national holiday on
July 14.
The bigger issue was about bet-
ter planning the next event. Due to
a few complaints that all the mem-
bers of the Graduate Student
Council should contribute to orga-
nize a better barbecue, Cathy Jan, a
second-year graduate student in
electrical engineering, asked to
plan shifts for the next meeting.
If we have all these tasks to do,
its great that all of you showed up,
Jan said. Showing up for an hour
isnt going to cut it.
The next meeting of the Gradu-
ate Student Council will be in two
weeks.
Contact Haelin Cho at haelin.cho@
gmail.com.
GSC
Concert hall construction
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