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THURSDAY July 28, 2011
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
Volume 240A Issue 5
News 2
Opinions 5
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Cantor installs sculpture; Palo Alto Art Air quality still needs a regulatory boost; Alternative summer break: undergrads Capcoms lack of strategy dilutes Mega Center breaks ground on renovation The identity of a Third-Culture Kid who choose to do research over vacation Man potential; Ash meets the families
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The $7.9 million renovation of the Palo Alto Art Center, which has been closed since April, broke ground July 18. The project is funded by the City of Palo Alto and the Centers foundation.
Palo Alto Art Center starts $7.9M renovation project

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The Palo Alto Art Center, a facility that has provided public events, art exhibitions and art instruction to the community since 1971, broke ground on a $7.9 million renovation project July 16. The center has been closed since April, and the renovation is scheduled to be completed next summer. It was an incredible celebration of moving forward on this project, said Karen Kienzle, the centers director. So many people have worked so hard to make this possible, and it was just a wonderful way to celebrate with the community. The funding for the renovation will come from both the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation, a private nonprofit organization, and the City of Palo Alto. Its kind of roughly a split of the costs, Kienzle said. We look at this as a wonderful example of individuals in the private sector coming together to make a difference in the community. Some of the major changes include a new childrens wing, upgrades for visitors with disabilities, new flooring, new landscaping
and transformed exhibition spaces and classrooms. Were also doing mechanical, electrical and HVAC upgrades throughout the building, Kienzle said. That will be a really wonderful benefit for community members, because we did not have any air conditioning in the facility, so on [a warm day] it would often be really oppressive in the Art Center, and it was really difficult. We were constantly apologizing to visitors that there is nothing we can do about the ventilation or how hot it is because we just dont have air conditioning. Not a good situation for visitors and not a good situation for artwork. The current Art Center was built in the 1950s as the Palo Alto City Hall and was later converted into the Art Center when the City Hall was moved downtown. The architecture firm Mark Cavagnero and Associates is conducting the renovation. Architect Mark Cavagnero found that the unique part of designing the Art Center was transforming the interior to make it feel more like an art gallery and less like an administrative building while maintaining the old exterior. [We had] to convert office spaces to gal-
The Cantor Arts Center recently received on loan from the Fisher Foundation a 235-ton sheet-metal sculpture entitled Sequence. The piece, by American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra, was installed last week. Sequence is 67 feet long, 42 feet wide and 13 feet tall. The museum had previously displayed another of Serras sculptures entitled Call Me Ishmael, which had also been loaned by the Fisher Foundation. Considered one of Serras most distinguished works, Sequence was made out of solid steel in 2006. Before coming to Stanford, it had been showcased at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and at the New York Museum of Modern Art. However, this is the first time that visitors will be able to view the sculpture outdoors. Cantor Arts Center director Thomas Seligman expressed positive feelings about Stanfords opportunity to showcase this work. What Richard Serra does he creates space that has never been created before, Seligman said. He creates sculptures that are made from very obvious material, its about two-inch-thick steel. So you can see exactly what it is, but when you get into this space, you feel strange sometimes. He creates vertigo, he creates these canyon-like
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The undergraduate matriculation rate for the class of 2015 is 70.5 percent reflecting acceptances from 1,717 of 2,436 admitted students according to Director of Undergraduate Admission Bob Patterson. The number reflects a slight decrease from the last years 71.5 percent matriculation rate but a slight jump from 2009s 69.8 percent. The University also admitted 96 more undergraduate students than it did in 2010, but only 10 more than 2009. We are very proud to have a strong matriculation rate at Stanford, Patterson wrote in an email to The Daily. When students receive their admit letter from Dean Shaw, they generally want to attend. It is our responsibility to present clear, accurate and truthful information to admitted
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RESEARCH
Binge drinking hurts girls more, study says

By HAELIN CHO
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A study on teenagers has shown that binge drinking in this age group negatively affects girls more than it does boys, especially in tests on working spatial memory. The study is a joint endeavor between UCSan Diego and Stanford. It included 95 teenagers ranging in age from 16 to 19, 40 of whom were binge drinkers, and defined binge drinking as four or more drinks for a
girl or five or more drinks for a boy. The adolescents were given a series of spatial working memory tests, which they performed in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine so researchers could examine the cognitive effects of the binge drinking on the brain. Spatial working memory, UC-San Diego graduate student and lead author Lindsay Squeglia explained, is the ability to remember where things are in
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spaces, and whats wonderful here is the shadow patterns, because its the first time that its been seen outdoors. A vast majority of the costs of installing, maintaining and displaying the sculpture are being paid for by the Fisher Foundation. Officials declined to disclose exact financial numbers but hinted that bringing the sculpture to the museum has been quite expensive. Regardless, Seligman cited the ancillary benefits of exposing an audience that would have otherwise been unable to enjoy the sculptures beauty and architectural design. You can think of the engineers here [at Stanford] and you could think of people who are involved in design and architecture; its not just for people who are interested in the arts, he said. How its made theres apparently two places in the world who can do this kind of steel work. Sequence will also be instrumental in teaching art at the University and in the community, according to Patience Young, curator for education at the museum. She highlighted the beauty of having something of this magnitude by somebody who is well documented, who has a career of ac-
complishment, of controversy a work by Richard Serra was the subject of a major lawsuit concerning art, I think in the 1980s and somebody who has gone through the ringer with issues of authorship and of intention is right for studying and discussion. Serra cited the piece as a vessel for instigating different emotions in different people, as it doesnt have one concrete meaning. In an interview with The New Yorker, Serra said that his sculpture evokes a variety of feelings.
Whatever the work is evoking in people, I dont dictate that, so I dont know how to account for it, he said of the piece. The museum also has one of Serras drawings in its collection. It will be displaying Sequence until 2016, when it will then be moved to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in line with that museums estimated completion date for its expansion. Contact Abha Sharma at abhas350 @gmail.com.
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Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine published a study earlier this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that revealed alpha-Bcrystallin, a naturally occurring protein, significantly shrank the size of stroke-induced lesions in the brains of laboratory mice and mitigated the destructiveness of the inflammatory response that follows the stroke. The study, conducted by Dr. Gary Steinberg PhD. 79 M.D. 80, director of Stanfords Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences and neurology professor Dr. Lawrence Steinman, is a follow-up on an earlier study published in Nature in 2007 that showed how alpha-B-crystallin reduces brain damage caused by multiple sclerosis, a chronic autoimmune brain disease. Alpha-B-crystallin is an important structural protein found in the eyes lens. It is regularly produced in the heart. When other tissues undergo stress for example, when a stroke deprives the brain of oxygen this triggers alpha-Bcrystallin production, the bodys natural defense to limit the inflammatory activity. The brain, when its injured, doesnt roll over and play dead, Steinman said. It fights back by producing protective molecules; one of those molecules is alpha-Bcrystallin. Since weve seen how the presence of alpha-B-crystallin plays an active role in the brains healing response to a stroke, we wanted to see if administering more of it could increase its effect. Senior authors Steinberg and Steinman, along with postdoctoral scholar Ahmet Arac and Sara Brownwell M.A. 11 Ph.D. 13, employed knockouts mice bioengi-
Cantor received Sequence on a loan from the Fisher Art Foundation. It will remain at Stanford until 2016, when it moves to San Francisco.
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students so that they can make an informed and thoughtful decision. According to Patterson, the office was expecting a yield of 70 percent. The University placed approximately 1,000 students on the wait list this year, 800 of whom accepted their places on the list. Of those, 13 were offered admission and 12 accepted, reflecting a 92 percent matriculation rate for students accept-
ed off the wait list. Stanford employs a Restrictive Early Action process as well as a Regular Decision cycle. The former group must apply by Nov. 1 and is notified of a decision by Dec. 15, while the latter applies by Jan. 1 and hears back by April 1; the deadline for both groups to notify the University of their decisions is May 1. Early applicants make up 40 percent of the class of 2015 and reflect a yield of approximately 80 percent. Regular decision applicants had a yield of 63 percent.
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Alum nominated to state Supreme Court

Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu 91 has been nominated to the California Supreme Court to replace outgoing Justice Carlos Moreno, who announced his plans to retire earlier this year. Several months ago, President Barack Obama nominated him to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He eventually withdrew his candidacy after several Republicans objected to his written positions and called him inexperienced. Lius confirmation hearing in front of the state Commission on Judicial Appointments is set for Aug. 31 in San Francisco. If his nomination is approved, Liu will join Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye and Associate Justices Ming Chin and Joyce Kennard to form the states first Asian-American majority Supreme Court.
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Use Permit agreement with Santa Clara County, which allows Stanford to construct five million square feet of buildings over a 10-year period. The proposed bicycle and pedestrian path would replace the current trail along Alpine Road, connecting Menlo Park at Santa Cruz Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard with Portola Valleys own portion of the path. Stanford also funds construction on that section under this deal. Public response at Tuesdays meeting was mixed. While some residents called for the county to take advantage of Stanfords offer to fix what they said was an unsafe trail, others expressed concern that the trail would increase traffic to a dangerous level. As part of the agreement, the University is required to offer the $10 million dollar deal through the end of the year, although it has said it would be willing to extend the deadline to 2013. Should San Mateo County reject the deal, the money would go to Santa Clara County.
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gressman from Oregon said that he will not leave office until the debtceiling debate is resolved. The teenaged girl, whose family has been described as close to Wu, has filed no official complaint. While Wu maintains that the encounter was consensual, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has called on the Ethics Committee to begin an investigation.
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Fragmented sleep linked to forgetful mice

Fragmented sleep is linked to memory impairment in mice, according to a new study by Stanford sleep researchers. The paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to isolate the effects of interrupted sleep on memory and was inspired in part by another study linking shorter sleep to hyperactive children. The researchers behind the study stimulated mini-awakenings in mice by injecting a virus containing a red fluorescent protein, targeting brain cells in the hypothalamus that are involved in waking. They then used a laser that the proteins were responsive to in order to stimulate that area of the brain and briefly awaken the mouses brain. The procedure did not disrupt the amount of restorative sleep the mice experienced.
San Mateo County to hold hearings on trails

After twice rejecting Stanfords bid to build a path connecting Menlo Park and Portola Valley trail systems, San Mateo County will attempt to gauge public opinion on the issue in the coming months. The trail project is part of the Universitys efforts to meet the terms of its General
Wu to leave 8ouse over sex scandal

Congressman David Wu 77 announced his resignation from the House of Representatives today after allegations that he had an unwanted sexual encounter with a minor. Despite calls from many of his peers to step down immediately, the seven-term Democratic con-
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space around you. UC-San Diego psychiatry professor and co-author Susan Tapert said that the tests the students performed were similar to IQ tests, citing attention-testing tasks like crossing out a specified letter, a visual constructional task that involves redrawing a given picture, a puzzle-like task where adolescents would recreate a design shown in a picture with blocks and a working memory test which examines your ability to manipulate information that you hold in your mind. Tapert added that the adolescents were purposefully examined after
the initial effects of alcohol disappeared, giving them around three or more days to recuperate. What we found was that the kids who were binge drinking have less brain activation when they were doing a spatial working memory test, Squeglia said. The effect was strongest for the female binge drinkers, so female binge drinkers did much worse than female controls and then for male binge drinkers, they did worse, but it wasnt as strong of an effect for males. Despite the gender discrepancy found by the study, Squeglia said that the results of the study are not unexpected. It didnt [surprise me] actually, because some of the adult literature has shown alcohol more negatively affects females, and so we purposefully were trying to look at the gen-
der in this study to see if that was the same case for adolescent females, she said. Squeglia said the difference is correlated with the difference in the male and female brains during adolescence, in that different hormones affect them. She also mentioned that there is a difference in the acute effects of drinking, explaining that more typically female characteristics like lower body weight, slower metabolism and higher body fat content make them more vulnerable to alcohol. Both Squeglia and Tapert noted that the recently published study is cross-sectional in that it examines the students in just one moment of their lives. However, both also added that longitudinal data that followed the studied adolescents over time
was being used to make sure that the effects found on both the male and female binge drinkers was a consequence of the alcohol itself. The same kids who were in this study, were following over time to see if increases in drinking follows with a greater degree of these abnormalities, and the flip side of that is to see if the kids who stopped drinking show improvements in these abnormalities, Tapert said. Squeglia added that the study is in its eighth year. According to Tapert, the study did have its challenges. She explained that they had to be careful with the selection of subjects. You cant put somebody who had braces in the MRI, and a lot of young people have braces, she said. Theres also a lot of young people who binge drink who also use a lot of
other drugs, and we couldnt really include them in this study since were really trying to just look at the effects of binge drinking in this particular study. Squeglia said that she hopes that exposure to the results of the study will discourage teenage binge drinking. She added that parents should talk to their kids about drinking instead of drinking with them to teach them how to drink. The study that Lindsay [Squeglia] did here is larger than most published fMRI studies, so the results are fairly robust, and I think it gives us a reason to be concerned for teenage girls who are drinking four or more drinks in an occasion, Tapert said. Contact Haelin Cho at haelin.cho @gmail.com.
OPINIONS
S EEING G REEN O-H-oh-no: Catching my breath in Americas most toxic air?
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the making. The EPA would also like to tighten restrictions on nitrous oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions in 28 states and the District of Columbia, where power plants emissions are spilling across state borders into their neighbors backyards. As Texas Governor Rick Perry rails against the proposed limits (announced in early July), members of Congress are drawing up bills to delay their implementation. Now, as it attempts to establish the first nationwide regulations for mercury, chromium and acid emissions from power plants, the EPA faces additional anti-regulation, pro-industry rhetoric and more rounds of fear mongering about rising energy costs. The problem is no one spares a breath for healthcare savings (or quality of life) when ranting about the horrors extra expenditures will bring to American families in this time of economic crisis. The nice thing about air pollution, though, is that we can cite lots of studies linking it to health issues. We can write out balance sheets, crunch numbers and show the savings produced. For example, the EPA expects its new regulations to create 40,000 jobs (admittedly, the majority of them will be temporary, as plants upgrade their hardware) and produce $140 billion annually in health and economic benefits. For every dollar spent to keep a plant within the new limits, the EPA calculates a return of $13 to the American people. So why havent we jumped at the chance to clean up our act? Well, lets not forget that, to a large extent, we already have. Things have improved dramatically since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1963. Initial payoffs were phenomenal: people noticed jumps in lake pH and fish stocks as rainwater acidity decreased; businessmen could walk through a city without doubling up in a coughing fit; you could see the sun again where there were once clouds of smog. Now comes the hard part: buckling down to address the less tangible, less visible effects by lowering emissions limits still further. Will our belief in scientific and medical evidence motivate us to finish the job, accepting nothing less than clean air for ourselves and our children? I should note that California, at least, made neither the EPAs list of 29 upwind bad
Confessions of a Third-Culture Kid
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fter a full day in and out of airplanes and airports, theres really nothing like stepping out of the terminal and taking your first breath of unfiltered, unconditioned, unpressurized air. Sure, the curbside may be polluted with exhaust fumes and filled with the noise of honking taxi drivers, but its still undeniably fresh. Too bad that, last Sunday, I took that breath in the state with the worst air pollution record in the country. In reality, my first taste of Columbus, Ohio was probably not detectably different from in any other state. But the back of my mind was filled with a recently released joint report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR): the Buckeye State topped their list of toxin emitters, releasing almost 70 million pounds in 2009 (the latest data that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released). By contrast, runner-up Pennsylvania produced nearly 30 percent less. And so I found myself producing one small, involuntary cough. The NRDC/PSR report emphasized the role of coal- and oil-fired electricity plants in the release of aerial toxins. In the United States, 49 percent of toxic air pollution including hydrochloric acid emissions, a hearty sprinkle of heavy metals and three quarters of mercury emissions comes from electricity generation. In Ohio, that percentage is 65. Besides mercurys well-known mental health dangers, air pollution contributes to cancer, may produce birth defects and exacerbates a wide array of respiratory ailments. Thats why the EPA believes that its proposed Mercury and Air Toxics limits will save 17,000 lives within three years of implementation in January 2012. In that same period, it predicts 120,000 cases of childhood asthma will be avoided, and insurance companies wont have to fork out payments for 12,000 emergency room visits and 850,000 missed workdays each year. That is, if the EPAs proposal is carried out. Last February, courtesy of a Republicanled House of Representatives vote, the EPA received a blow to its regulation of cementplant pollution. (The manufacture of cement releases mercury, particulates and sulfur dioxide.) More objections and stalling tactics are sure to interfere with these new regulations, which have been more than 20 years in
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here is a remarkable phenomenon in the new generation of children: in the past decade, with improved technological developments, greater opportunities for travel and rapidly progressing globalization, moving from country to country has gone from unusual to usual. For children of parents whose job moves the whole family, growing up in multiple countries and being exposed to multiple cultures has offered them a different outlook on life and opportunities that were considered scarce in previous generations. These children have now been recognized as different from others in their generation and been given a special name Third-Culture Kids. The most difficult question for a TCK (Third-Culture Kid) to answer is, Where are you from? Should you dare to innocently ask this of a TCK, be prepared for a long-winded, complex answer involving multiple countries, histories and then a simple conclusion: but I actually consider myself Earthian. TCKs will often have multiple passports, be fluent in multiple languages and have lived and studied on multiple continents. TCKs can navigate airports and train stations with their eyes closed and instinctively guess correctly where someone is from based on their accent and their manner of expression. I am a TCK. Although a Canadian passport permits me to travel around the globe, I cannot with sincerity call Canada my homeland. Canada is my birthplace, but my homeland is across the Pacific Ocean. You cannot change your birthplace; it is one of the most fundamental elements of your identity. It is where you were brought into the world, where you first started to breathe and where you made your first mark upon the world with your first tiny laugh. But your birthplace is not your homeland. The choices you make in life and the different paths you walk lead you to form your own identity. And part of forming that identity is determining to which place in the world your soul is bonded and which voice calls you home. This is one of the many challenges that TCKs have to undertake. As part of an ethic minority in Singapore (Caucasian) and surrounded by a sea of jetblack hair and almond-shaped dark eyes, I cannot pass as a local. My facial features, my hair color and my skin tone define me as an outsider. But in my mind, my appearance has morphed to blend in with society and make me another Singaporean face in the crowd. So much so that when I now go back to my birthplace, I turn up my collar and shy away from passing strangers, falsely conscious that I must stick out because I look so foreign. When I return to Asia, I am instinctively relieved to be surrounded by others like me. In reality, this is a false notion. Its a
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trick of mirrors and sunlight. I am a stranger in my own skin. This is not an unusual experience for TCKs. When they travel around the world, it is inevitable that they will come into contact with different cultures and ethnically different people. The physical differences between a TCK and the rest of the society can create a barrier between the two. For a child growing up in a foreign place, the only way to overcome that barrier and to assimilate into the surrounding society is to believe and pretend your appearance is not so different. And thats what our wonderful subconscious mind does. Humans are social creatures. We have the instinctive need to befriend others, form communities and become a part of a society in which we can go about our daily affairs and comfort ourselves with the notion that someone like us is never more than a few minutes away. Studies have shown that we are attracted to people that look like we do and question why this is the case. But the real question should be deeper than the one expounded by scientists: how do I see physically myself and how accurate is that picture? Other foreigners in Singapore I have spoken to admit that they too subconsciously believe they have taken on an Asian appearance. A blonde friend of mine once told me she was in a shopping mall and walked by a mirror. She turned, wondering who the non-local was and was surprised to find her reflection staring inquisitively back at her. School friends from Russia and England have told me they feel self-conscious returning to their countries, where they are no longer the ethnic minority. On the other hand, an Asian friend explained to me that frequent trips to the U.K. made him believe he had taken on a European appearance. The way we believe we look is definitely not always the truth. In an amazing psychological reversal, we subconsciously alter our self-image to fit in with our surrounding community. Our surroundings and our desire to fit in trick us into believing we are something other than what we are. We form beliefs about ourselves that have been created on false assumptions and often act on those beliefs. The best part? We often dont even realize it. This can be a very good thing for TCKs because it means they have adapted so perfectly to
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STROKES
neered to lack the ability to produce alpha-b-crystallin to investigate the level of efficacy the protein has in reducing stroke lesions. We temporarily blocked off one of the arteries, Steinberg said. We do it by opening the carotid artery, inserting a thread thats about the size of the artery and temporarily block the blood flow to induce a stroke. There were two groups of mice: the knockouts and the wild types, mice that contained the gene to produce alpha-B-crystallin. After inducing the strokes, the mice from both groups were monitored for up to a week, their recovery time measured with the use of a neurologic scale, which ranges from zero to 28. Zero is a full recovery and 28 is the lowest level of neurologic functioning. For seven categories, we score them from zero to four, Steinberg said. We test for lots of things. We test for body symmetry is it asymmetric in that its favoring one side more than the other? We test for its gait see if theres any limping or staggering. We measure their ability to climb 45 degrees and also test circling behavior whether or not its swaying and whisker response. Twelve hours after the stroke, the wild types scored around 12 while the knockouts were at 14. The results, according to Steinberg, were not statistically significant. However, seven days later, the wild types scored around four while the knockouts scored around eight, a statistically significant difference
that sheds light on the bodys natural recovery. The stroke evolves, but neurologic function actually improves, Steinberg said. This is because theres some natural recovery the body performs. In this case, the wild types recovered quicker than the knockouts. The study presents a promising start to finding a drug that will treat not only the stroke but the post-stress inflammatory response. TPA, the current government-approved stroke drug, is limited in its effectiveness in that while it breaks up clots, it does not treat the inflammatory aftershock caused by dead tissue and toxins. There is still much work to be
done including further investigation into the efficacy and safety of alpha-B-crystallin administration before the protein can eventually be brought into clinical trials. Wed like to have [the experiment] reproduced and verified, Steinberg said. Some other questions we want to look at are whether or not theres benefit from the protein after 24 hours as well as figuring out the level of dosage necessary to achieve efficacy. Youd be surprised how many therapeutic treatments, while successful in the lab, may not be successful in clinical trials. Contact Jenny Thai at jthai1@stanford.edu. I think outside the University, its probably the most visible art center in Palo Alto, Chagoya said. Its a very important community resource. Cantor Arts Center director Thomas Seligman has also admired the work of the Palo Alto Art Center. Their exhibition program has been first rate, Seligman said. They focused on a number of very interesting artists who tend to be re-
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Before the mice slept, the researchers introduced them to two new areas of a cage; after the night of mini-awakenings, the mice were reintroduced to one of those areas and a newer area. If the mice remembered the familiar area, they would spend more time exploring the new area. All the sleepy mice, however, explored the two areas as if both were new, suggesting that they had forgotten the familiar space. While interrupted sleep has gional, and often theyve had very interesting thematic exhibitions, so Ive been quite a fan of their exhibition program. Although the Art Center has been closed since April, its staff is still continuing to serve the community with its On the Road programs. The Art Centers Art Truck has been traveling to various community festivals, and the Art Center has offered classes at various locations throughout the city and has
long been linked to poor memory, researchers were previously unclear as to what other problems associated with interrupted sleep poor overall sleep quality, interference with some specific part of the sleep cycle or annoyance from constantly being woken up might be the actual issue. A wide range of human disorders can similarly interrupt sleep, including Alzheimers disease, alcoholism and sleep apnea, and have long been associated with memory problems. That poor memory then negatively affects learning ability, as new skills and information are not as strongly retained.
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leries, to classrooms, to workshops and have them feel like galleries, classrooms and workshops, Cavagnero said. Thats what we really wanted: the energy and the vibrancy and the excitement that an Art Center should have, because the things that go on in there are exciting. Cavagnero felt that changes to the gallery space will be significant. Within the confines of the existing structure, were making a great deal more volume, he said. They could start to display larger scale art, they could have better lighting angles because the lighting can be further removed from the art. Its just going to change the feel of it dramatically. Art professor Enrique Chagoya has had his work exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center several times.
set up temporary art installations. Its our intention to really retain our current audiences and to grow our audiences during On the Road, because we have this wonderful ability to reach more people and to reach new people, so that when the Art Center reopens, well have a whole new audience to serve, Kienzle said. Contact Harini Jaganathan at harinijagan07@gmail.com.
SPORTS
CARDINAL FALL EARLY AT BOTW
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Rising sophomore Kristie Ahn fell 7-5, 6-0 in the early rounds of the Bank of the West Classic to Abigail Spears. Ahn is battling back from an ankle injury she sustained in the NCAA Finals.
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Jan. 3 was a great day for Stanford Football. It was an even better day for the Cardinal front seven. The ACCs highest-scoring team, Virginia Tech, was held to a dozen points. Flashy Hokie quarterback Tyrod Taylor was sacked eight times. A triple-threat, top-20 rushing attack gained just a third of its average yardage on the ground. But since that 40-12 Orange Bowl victory, four members of Stanfords dominant 3-4 along with its primary architect have departed, leaving skeptics to wonder if one of the nations most improved defenses will be able to build on the progress it made last year. And with the Cardinal hoping to wrestle the inaugural Pac-12 title from the grasp of defending conference champion Oregon and the other
potent offenses it will face, the questions surrounding the defensive line and linebackers are all the more pertinent. A year ago, those questions were even stronger. To contend for the conference title, major improvements would be needed from a Cardinal defense that ranked in the bottom half of Division I in both points allowed and sacks per game. The story of Stanfords defensive turnaround in 2010 began in February, when 24year NFL coaching veteran Vic Fangio was named the Cardinals new defensive coordinator. He quickly instituted a 3-4 defense to highlight the talents of linebackers, such as thensophomore Shayne Skov, junior Chase Thomas and senior Owen Marecic. The 3-4 gave us a great opportunity to be more creative with our pressure schemes,
The Bank of the West (BotW) Classic, hosted at Stanfords Taube Family Tennis Stadium, puts some of Stanfords finest on display against the worlds top professional female tennis players. One of the greatest advantages of BotW is its relaxed environment and close proximity to the stars. The tournament frequently attracts some fantastic talent, this year bringing in Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Kimiko Date-Krumm and defending champion Victoria Azarenka. The tournaments presence itself signifies the importance Stanford University places on its womens athletics programs, particularly tennis. The Cardinal has the most successful womens tennis program in the NCAA. By inviting the 32-player BotW to campus, the University is supporting womens initiatives in sports the world and highlighting its success. BotW also helps increase Stanfords athletic presence in the Bay Area community, something the school struggles with occasionally. Many sportswriters touched on the schools failure during the 2010 football season to reach out to local residents and cater the fan environment to them. The BotW annually invites the community to engage in Stanford Athletics and see the schools top players compete and engage with world-class athletes in the communitys backyard. Tournament organizers do a great job of making these players accessible while they are playing, practicing or signing autographs. Its easy for players to interact with their fans and show their appreciation. As tennis becomes more popular, the gap between player and fan increases. At Stanford, this gap is largely eliminated, and having a close interaction with your favorite star is likely. Seeing Cardinal Five Cardinal players participated in the tournament, including recent graduate Hilary Barte and incoming freshman Ellen Tsay. Barte recently finished up her career at Stanford as a four-time All-American in both singles and doubles and a two-time NCAA doubles champion. She graduated as one of the finest college players in the nation and a
hometown favorite at the Bank of the West Classic. She was greeted as such in her first round match, earning applause from those who had watched her during her Stanford days. It feels different, Barte said when asked to describe the feeling of coming back to Stanford as a professional. The atmosphere is way different. Even though its Stanford and Ive played there for four years, it still feels a little bit foreign. Barte says that the transition from playing
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BALLGIRL WORK MAKES MEMORIES

By ANGEL WANG
INTERN
Its 6:25 a.m. on Saturday, July 23. Ive never hated my alarm clock more than I do right now. Snooze button, youre a lifesaver. 6:30 a.m. Lets try snooze again. 6:32 a.m. I stare absentmindedly at the ceiling, unable to fall back asleep. Annoyed, I abandon my efforts and turn on the radio instead. Bruno Mars Lazy Song comes on. How fitting. 6:36 a.m. More mindless staring and frustrated thoughts. Its just wrong to wake up this early on a Saturday morning, especially in the summer. Why am I awake again? Then I remember. I jump out of bed, and excitement rushes through me as I race through my morning routine, suddenly eager to begin my day. Its my first day as a ballgirl in the Bank of the West Classic. Two hours later, I find myself in
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Skov said. It just allowed us to attack offenses and dictate the tempo at times. It was a much more aggressive scheme, and we enjoyed that. The move soon paid dividends, converting a struggling defense into a unit that would give up the 10thfewest points in the nation and rank 15th in sacks. In just the second game of the season, Stanford pitched a shutout on the road for the first time in 36 years, dominating UCLA 35-0. The feat would be pulled off twice more once at home, once on the road making for the first season since 1969 in which Stanford held three opponents scoreless. Its an accomplishment that the Cardinal is looking to repeat. I wont give any guarantees, Skov said, but hopefully we can get a few, and if not match that number, then get better. This time around, though, they wont do it under the watchful eye of Fangio, who left with head coach Jim Harbaugh to the San Francisco 49ers. He has since been replaced by former 49ers outside linebackers coach Jason Tarver, who will share defensive coordinator duties with Derek Mason. [Fangio] did a great job installing the blueprints and the foundation of this defense that we want to build, Thomas said. But the coaches werent out there making the plays. The players were the ones out there making stops and coming up with big-time plays when they needed to. I feel like we have a great amount of talent coming back to build on that and even improve on last season. Although the defensive schemes arent expected to change heading into this year, the players themselves are another story. Holes remain at both outside and inside linebacker, as well as defensive end and nose tackle. All four starting spots are up for grabs. Among the notable graduating seniors was Marecic, a two-way starter and eventual fourth-round draft pick by the Cleveland Browns. Despite the fatigue from the 110 snaps Marecic averaged per game, his fellow inside linebacker Skov doesnt recall many mistakes. The great thing about [Marecic] was that he was consistent, play-in and play-out, Skov said. You never had to worry about where he was; he was always doing the right thing. Honestly, he was one of the
f you have glanced at the New York Times, ESPN or even The Stanford Daily, you have most definitely seen sports and athletes grabbing attention in the headlines. Football. Basketball. Soccer. Andrew Luck. They have each had their share of inspirational stories and quotes plastered all over the front pages. As you skim through those papers or begin changing the channel to catch SportsCenter, you may realize one of your favorite childhood memories has faded away to the periphery of the sports spectrum. Some people may argue that Ultimate Frisbee, an obscure yet physically demanding sport, does not receive the magnitude of recognition it deserves. Ive come to agree. Growing up, I never put much thought into Frisbee beyond the backyard. Ill admit, I thought a flick of the wrist and a buddy to pass the disk around with was all it took. I never thought about Frisbee as a competitive sport. I laughed when I heard the team here at Stanford conditioned more than teams back home. Little did I know, the members of the Stanford Ultimate team have dedicated their lives and bodies to the rigors of Frisbee. I had seen it as nothing more than a cherished pastime. Memories of tossing around a disk as a child led me to Roble Field to immerse myself into the true Frisbee culture for the first time. As a part of Stanfords High School Summer College program, I and other students frequently have the chance to participate in pick-up games of ultimate. I arrived at Roble for the first Tuesday night session in my jean shorts and flip-flops, prepared for some old-fashioned, relatively stationary fun. As I looked around, I saw nothing less than athletic apparel and a couple pairs of cleats. Needless to say, I felt a little unprepared. I had officially experienced an ultimate culture shock. Although I was a little underdressed for the occasion, I picked up a Frisbee and gave it a toss. When I turned around, the rest of the group was already splitting up into teams and began running up and down the length of the grass field. As a favor to my delegated team, I sat the first half out. I finally had the concepts and rules of the game explained to me as I sat
Linebackers Chase Thomas (left) and Shayne Skov (center) were both dominant in the Cardinals 40-12 Orange Bowl. They are two of the three returning members of Stanfords front seven, which loses Owen Marecic (right).
hardest workers on the team. Its huge, and its been showing for the past four years. Its a great opportunity for someone to step up and take the spot, Skov added. Just as significant are the losses at outside linebacker and on the defensive line, which returns only senior defensive end Matt Masifilo. Stanford does retain its top four tacklers among them, Skov and Thomas, who tied for the team lead in sacks last year with 7.5 each. But the Cardinal loses a combined 94 career starts between Marecic, outside linebacker Thomas Keiser, defensive end Brian Bulcke and nose tackle Sione Fua. The experience could be sorely missed. A lot of leadership from this past year will have to step up, and hopefully be better than the year before, Skov said. [We need to] hold each other accountable and come out motivated and fired up. Both the returning starters and the players competing for spots do have one advantage over the graduated seniors: a year of the 3-4 under their belt. I think its going to be real beneficial, Thomas said. I noticed this past spring ball, I wasnt thinking as much, I knew all of my assignments, knew the playbook. That just allowed me to play faster, react to what I saw and attack the ball more aggressively and with more confidence than a year ago. In fact, several non-starters have already had their fair share of playing time under the 3-4; fifth-year senior Max Bergen and senior Alex Debniak both linebackers each played in all 13 games last season, primarily as substitutes. Once assembled, the new front seven will work to avoid repeating the lone defensive blemish on last years 12-1 season: the 52-31 loss at Oregon. The normally dominant Stanford run defense, which allowed fewer than 75 yards on the ground on five occasions, surrendered 388 rushing yards to the likes of LaMichael James and Darron Thomas in Eugene. It was also the Cardinals only game without a sack. Even before fall practice gets into full swing, preparations have already begun in the weight room. I think it started this offseason, right now, getting into the condition you need to play against Oregons no-huddle, high-tempo offense, Thomas said. Our strength and conditioning staff has really gotten us in the right condition and state. I just think we need to focus on our assignments and trust the guy next to you to do his job, he added. That will allow us to play faster and do what Auburn did [in the national championship game against Oregon] and just attack the quarterback and running back. Stanford wont host the Ducks until Nov. 12 in what is sure to be the Pac-12 Norths marquee matchup. The late-season game, along with a schedule that many analysts consider backloaded, might just give the linebackers and defensive line the time they need to adjust to the new personnel. And if that adjustment is smooth enough, the front seven may have another shot at big-stage heroics in early January. Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@ stanford.edu.
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BALLGIRL The animated

the ballpersons lounge in the basement of the Taube Family Tennis Stadium. I pick up my credentials and change into a rather expensive uniform: a navy blue Essenza insert skirt ($44), a red and blue Fila visor ($15.99), a black and white polyester jacket ($65) and a lime green T-shirt marked with the BotW insignia. Thrilled with the classy attire, I stroll back into the lounge in a cheery mood. Suddenly, something on the back wall catches my eye. My stomach drops. On the wall, our team assignments have been posted. All of the ballpersons mob around the little paper to check the team, court and captain to which theyve been assigned for the day. In the back, I stand on my tiptoes and strain to see over the crowd. Am I mistaken? I check once. Twice. Three times. No, Im not wrong. I have been made captain of Team 6-B. The rush of adrenaline, originally excitement, now flashes to nervousness. I have never worked as a ballperson for a real match in my life, but now Im expected to lead an entire team? Why me? Why was I chosen? As if on cue, the ballperson coordinator walks over with a grin and tells me he wants to try something new. He proceeds to relay the information necessary for me as captain, but Im feebly aware of the directions; only with his reassuring pat on the back do I break out of my trance. I stand stunned. While my incredulity builds, my team assembles in front of me; five young, bright-eyed faces stare eagerly at me, awaiting my orders. Shakily, I put on a smiling facade and go through the motions of my role as a captain; I introduce myself, assign positions, line up the ballpersons and begin the walk up the stairs to our assigned court. Yet with each step, I feel the tension growing in my gut; a parasitic nervousness eats away at my confidence. I am responsible for this team. I am responsible for the flow of the match. If we mess up and break a players concentration, we will destroy hours of grueling training and hard work. And it will all be my fault. With these thoughts in mind, the walk up the steps feels like a trudge to the gallows. At the top of the staircase, I instinctively close my eyes as if flinching away from a fatal blow. With my eyes still closed, I take a deep breath and step into the sunlight.
environment envelops me, embraces me.

And then something weird happens. The animated tennis environment envelops me, embraces me. I hear the squeak of rubber soles on the plexipave acrylic surface; I smell the chemical scent of newly opened ball cans; I feel the powerful vibrations of tennis balls against strings. Im home. Tennis is my life, and the court is my haven, a blanket of familiarity. Slowly, the overwhelming weight on my shoulders is lifted. I smile at my team mem-
bers, and they flash their goofy grins back at me. We have a job to do, and were ready to do it. It was a fantastic experience. I was so proud of my team: they were alert, quick when necessary, yet motionless when not. Sure, we all made some mistakes, but overall, we successfully allowed the match to flow without interruption. We proceeded to work three more 25minute shifts, and before we knew it, 2 p.m. had arrived. With the conclusion of my session, I reflected on my day. In my panic, I had forgotten the enthusiasm I had for my job as a ballgirl and the exhilaration of working with the top tennis players in the world. My geeky love for tennis reminded me to keep a positive outlook on life; because of it, I enjoyed an incredible day filled with strong teamwork, unwavering dedication and fantastic memories. And I couldnt wait to wake up at 6:30 the next morning to do it all over again. Contact Angel Wang at angelwang94@gmail.com.
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LUCKS FAME COULD MAKE HIM DIVISIVE

on Stanford football but because of it. It would be wrong to attribute all of the programs recent success to a single player, since, as the sports cliche goes, you win or lose as a team. But its undeniable that he is by far the most famous college athlete on our campus. He caught national attention last year with a season that would have earned him the top pick in the NFL Draft that is, until he brushed the chance aside in favor of earning his degree and when he returns for that final year of college football, all eyes on and off the Farm will be turned his way, scrutinizing his every move. Opposing fans will be looking for weaknesses; the Red Zone will be praying for another
was recently asked who was the most polarizing athlete on the Farm. My answer: star quarterback Andrew Luck. I admit that might seem a little surprising given last years recordbreaking season, his decision to honor us with one more year instead of immediately cashing in at the NFL Draft and his numerous fans both on campus and within the ranks of the media and pros. I also should probably own up to the fact that having been away from Stanford for a while, my knowledge of current athletes is a little rusty. But this was more than just picking one of the few names I know: Luck might just turn out to be the most divisive person on campus this year, not despite the positive effect he has had
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FEATURES
E"ALUATING E"IDEN+E
Undergraduates and the research projects that occupy their summers
By ABHA SHARMA
INTERN
By the end of the summer,it would be nice to have the answer to the problem,but I know thats not going to happen.
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hough summer vacation may evoke fond memories of tanning at the beach, playing volleyball in the lawn or getting up at 11 a.m., others are hard at work developing a thesis or a summer philanthropy project. Every summer, many Stanford students choose the latter vacation plan, electing to spend their free months working on various types of research, with different motivations. Some students link up with professors or graduate students with whom they have had classes in the past, others are working on projects within their departments or have been inspired by personal experiences. Ayna Agarwal 14 became more interested in philanthropy and social impact after taking political science professor Rob Reichs class, Ethics of Philanthropy, Civil Society and NonProfits. I learned that approximately $300 billion are contributed to nonprofits every year, yet too often the measure of that impact is not quantifiable and remains unclear, she wrote in an email to The Daily. She searched different Stanford departments for a project that matched this curiosity and was led to economics professor Woody Powell, with whom she is currently working on a summer project concerning evaluation and metrics in the nonprofit sector. For 20 hours a week, over 10 weeks of the summer, she is documenting different sources and types of nonprofit evaluation and using that information to explain its effect on the United States and abroad. I am exploring over 250 websites to collect data which will eventually be sorted into a larger networking scheme to understand relationships between these different measurement factors, Agarwal said. I want to become a better researcher within the social sciences and continue pursuing this project until its completion, she added. Other students choose projects that place them in Stanfords innumerable labs.
Calvin Fernandez 13 is working on a combined project with Billington and Frank Labs called the Bioinsulation Foam Project. He is working with a foam that contains PHBV (poly-3hydroxy butyrate-co-valerate), which is a type of bio-plastic that currently isnt foaming properly. His job is to create a process in which silk can be turned into powder so that this powder can be combined with the foam the idea being that the powder will help the PHBV foam better by producing larger bubbles. Devoting about 40 hours a week to the project, Fernandez says the main reason he chose to work on it was that it sparked his interest. I might pursue something similar later for a thesis, but this summer is simply because I was interested in the project, he said. Despite his efforts, he recognizes that the daunting task that he faces may go unfinished. By the end of the summer, it would be nice to have the answer to the problem, but I know thats not going to happen so Ill just settle with some intriguing results that I can write an interesting paper about, he said. Still other students use summer as a time to work on their honors theses, like Anna Robertson 12, a double major in psychology and English. Robertson first became interested in psychology after taking Introduction to Psychology her freshman year, and she spent the summer after that doing psychology research though a psychology summer internship program. This fall, she will be working in a lab and is spending a large chunk of her summer planning her thesis research project. I began to dedicate much more time to planning my thesis during the spring and, after spending a little over a month working on my thesis on campus this summer, I think I will be in good standing to begin running subjects in the fall, she explained. Because psychology theses typically involve human subjects, which in turn requires an extensive review by the Institutional Review Board (IRB), my time this summer has been devoted to preparing my thesis. This involves writing the computer program I will use, selecting relevant measures, outlining protocols and doing literature searches,
she added. For other students like Natalie Cox 12, this summer involves simultaneously balancing theses and independent research projects. Cox is working with Michael Klausner, a professor of business at Stanford Law School. She spends 20 hours a week working with him and an additional 20 doing independent research for her thesis. Potentially interested in pursuing a joint degree in economics and law, she is able to explore both fields while furthering her capstone project. I wanted to get firsthand experience in research and get some work done on my thesis, she explained. I do a lot of work with securities class action data with professor Michael Klausner at the Stanford Law School. [My] tasks include cleaning, sorting though it and figuring out how to best turn raw information from law dockets or complaints into uniform data that is actually usable in an empirical study. For instance, I might go through a set of cases and map the different stages at which they settle. But among those aiming for publication or in pursuit of a cure for cancer, some students doing research over the vacation simply wanted some work experience. Moses Gonzales 13 is working 10 hours a week as a lab assistant through the Office of Accessible Education. Gonzales has been researching uranium contamination in ground water since May of this year and plans to continue to do so until the end of next year. My ultimate goal for this position is essentially to gain as much handson experience as possible, he said. While I definitely hope to help the lab make some cool discoveries, my focus is not on the research but on the skills I am gaining. He does, however, plan to stick with the job for the foreseeable future and potentially through the remainder of his Stanford career. I plan to continue working in this lab at least through the end of next year, he said. And then depending on my plans when the year ends, I may continue working in the lab through next summer and my senior year as well. Contact Abha Sharma at abhas350 @gmail.com.
SPORTS BRIEFS
By THE DAILY SPORTS STAFF
Highlights from football media day

Head football coach David Shaw and star quarterback Andrew Luck both spoke on Tuesday in Los Angeles as Stanfords delegation to the Pac-12 Media Day. Each team in the conference sent a head coach and one player to the event. While most teams had to address questions about roster building or potential NCAA rules violations, most of the Stanford discussion centered on the transition from former head coach Jim Harbaugh to Shaw. Luck, who had worked closely with Harbaugh to develop as a quarterback, expand-
ed on the strong relationship with his new head coach. Shaws been huge [in my career]; he recruited me here, Luck said. My redshirt year, when I wasnt playing, it always seemed like it would be coach Shaw that would take me aside every now and then during practice and say, Remember, youre preparing yourself to play, dont just take the scout team reps like theyre nothing. . . . He was instrumental in teaching me the West Coast system and everything with this offense. Despite Shaws experience as a Cardinal player and coach, many fear that he lacks the fiery personality that worked so well for Harbaugh. Shaw agreed with this eval-
TAYLOR
for weaknesses; the Red Zone will be praying for another record-breaking season; NFL scouts will be analyzing his natural skills and physical condition. Commentators and pundits aside from delighting in the obvious headline puns provided by his name will be watching slow-motion repeat after slow-motion repeat of his every play. Perhaps he will have that ultimate season, leading the Cardinal undefeated to the inaugural Pac-12 title, capturing an improbable for Stanford national championship, winning the Heisman Trophy, justifying a No. 1 draft pick again and, of course, graduating from the Farm in June. But life isnt normally that perfect. There are a million things that could go wrong: a moment of indecision, a misplaced pass, even the threatening specter of injury. Hollywood ending or not, though, there will be innumerable moments to discuss and argue about. And that is exactly why he will be so divisive. Freshmen will arrive on campus not only already knowing his name, but with all sorts of opinions about his strengths and weaknesses. Foreigners like me who may know practically nothing about football will at least know what a quarterback is. And as for the rest of you, seasoned Stanford fans or hardened enemies, dont try to tell me you wont have an opinion. Simply put, the more people who watch, the more theyll disagree. The typical idea of a polarizing athlete is one who breaks the rules, legal or athletic. But I disagree. Take,
for example, soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo: he clearly has phenomenal ability, but he infuriates fans with his blatant cheating. He should be polarizing, but hes not. Everyone Ive ever chatted to about him including a fair share of fans of his former club, Manchester United, and current team, Real Madrid has basically had the same opinion: hed be great without the attitude. There isnt a black and white difference of opinion; those who cheer for him only do so only as a result of team loyalty. Where Ronaldo becomes divisive is in the fact that he is a player who can win or lose games. Everyone watching knows who he is, and everyone knows who to blame when things go wrong. For another soccer example, just see how Argentinian fans treated Lionel Messi, unequivocally the best player in the world today, during their teams less-than-stellar performance in the Copa America. The quarterback position in football is the same, if not even more critical. Most soccer players can play in different roles, but it would be unthinkable to switch a lineman to quarterback. Because Luck has brought so much attention to himself, because he has set the bar so high and because his position on the field is so critical, his mistakes and he will make mistakes will stand out more than those of perhaps any other college athlete this year. And because it is always easy to do so from the sidelines, we will blame him, we will criticize him and we will have easily enough material to endlessly argue amongst ourselves. With any Luck, you find Tom Taylor the most polarizing columnist on this staff. Air your grievances at tom.taylor@stanford.edu.
uation while stressing the similarities between himself and his predecessor. My job is to maintain the competitive spirit, he said. Thats one of the main things that Harbaugh and I have in common. Were going to compete; were going to fight. [Harbaugh and I] have different personalities, but at the same time and you can ask the guys when somebody crosses a line, Ill be nose to nose with them. I might not be yelling at them, but theres a standard that we need to play up to, and its my job to make sure we do that. Shaw also explained that he planned to use that standard to determine personnel and schemes for the season to come, especially among the generally inexperienced wide receivers. The best thing weve got hanging over our heads is that weve got a very talented tight-end group, he said. If the receivers dont step up, well throw the ball to the tight ends. We dont care, its all about competition. Theres another change in the works that Stanford fans probably hadnt been anticipating, and its
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Redshirt junior quarterback Andrew Luck confirmed the common belief that he would go pro after the 2011 season at Pac-12 Media Day on Tuesday.
taking place on Lucks face, which has sprouted a beard in recent weeks. While the facial hair added some humor to Media Day, it might not be permanent. I honestly havent thought past tomorrow about what to do with it, Luck said. Ive never had a beard Im hesitant to call it a beard, I dont think its quite there yet but I dont know. Ive never done it before, so why not try? Well see if it lasts. When I get annoyed of it, Ill shave it. I just hope his helmet fits, Shaw added.
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CAPCOMS CONFUSION DAMAGES MEGA MAN FRANCHISE
m used to game cancellations. They happen all the time, and without them, developers would get mired in unproductive efforts. But when word got to me last week that Capcom had cancelled Mega Man Legends 3, my gut reaction was just a hint of despair and befuddlement on top my usual, pragmatic acceptance of well, I suppose theyd know if their game sucked. With a bit of reflection, I can see why the headline hit me that way. The Legends 3 cancellation caps off a couple years worth of Capcom mishandling the Mega Man franchise as whole, and Im starting to wonder if an awkward, transitional phase could stretch into the series long, slow death.
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TV RECAP
Ash takes the family tour
Legends and its offbeat sequel became cult hits in the truest sense just take a look at the user score on the otherwise abysmal Metacritic page for Megaman 64. The third game continued that legacy with a wink-wink, nudge-nudge announcement from creator Keiji Inafune and a ton of ways for gamers to give input on the direction for the game, from voting on character designs to a (never-released) prototype version of the game. Ive never seen fan service quite like that. But Ive also never seen such a poorly handled cancellation. Capcom somehow figured that the best time to shatter fans dreams of a 3DS threequel was at the start of last weeks Comic-Con in San Diego, one of the planets biggest gatherings of geekdom and a hub for Capcom faithful. Talk about a buzz kill. After inviting fans to take part
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in the process like never before, it felt like a stab in the back. Then they twisted the knife. Rumors went around that Capcom was denying Mega Man cosplayers entrance to its Comic-Con booth, and a tweet from Capcom Europe explained the cancellation by blaming fans for not participating enough in development. An awkward and roundabout retraction of the statement a day later did little but suggest the companys growing misunderstanding of its fans. The explanation should have clear and unified; it was anything but. Capcom USAs Vice President of Strategic Planning and Business Development Christian Svensson essentially shrugged his shoulders at the Capcom Europe comment, and as far as I know, Capcom Japan has said nothing. I realize | MEGA MAN continued on page 14 |
his weeks episode was a big deal for two reasons: one, because Ashley got to meet her boyfriends families, and two, because it made me cry. Like, several times. We were down to the final four Harvardboy Ames, irresistible sexpot JP and the Neanderthal Twins (Constantine and Ben) and the first hometown date was with the large and generally uninteresting Constantard. Traditionally, Constantine has been a giant, empty space for me, a bulky, unattractive, awkward space-waster, but for some reason, in the context of his hometown he was kind of compelling, and he and Ash were almost sort of cute. Sure, hes still a big, boring lump, but hes real and kind of goofy. His family, one Big Fat Greek Stereotype, was tremendously endearing. Oh, and he had one of those stupid white puffball dogs that wandered around ignored by everyone despite its magical ability to make everyone | ASHLEY continued on page 13 |
BOOK REVIEW
Dragons world dazzles with realism
eorge R. R. Martin has been dubbed the American Tolkien. Hes been on every bestseller list out there. His first book recently became the new HBO series Game of Thrones. And, of course, hes had fans alternately salivating for and cursing every missed deadline as they waited six long years for A Dance with Dragons. Hes that good. Dance does not disappoint. It is the sister book to A Feast for Crows, featuring events from parts of Martins world left out of Feast and some of the narrative thereafter. He seamlessly shuttles readers between such locations as The Wall in the north, which stands as a barrier against Westeross long winters and the otherworldly terrors such winters bring; the decadent
continental cities where a young queen survives revolution by playing her suitors as deftly as did Elizabeth I; and the Red Keep, the royal palace where a child kings puppet masters attempt to secure his throne against the many rival kings that threaten to rend Westeros once more into its ancient Seven Kingdoms. The politics are Byzantine, the stakes enormous and the characters liable to die in droves. Westeros is at war, and Martin never lets us forget it. Martin excels at realism; he writes the horrors of battle, disease and death as well as, if not better than, he does pageantry and splendor. His characters are equally complex: there are no heroes, no Dark Lords, no idealistic | DRAGONS continued on page 14 | Courtesy Bantam Spectra THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011
CONTINUED FROM ASHLEY PAGE 12 impossible to take seriously simply by standing vaguely in their vicinity. Final Score: B-, extra points for his one-liners but points redacted for his stupid little rat-dog. The second date was with Ames, who was looking uncharacteristically attractive (though he immediately ruined the effect by trotting over to Ash when she showed up; as it turns out, he runs like a girl). Ames is from an extremely old-money NewEnglander sort of family, complete with horses and a freaking indoor pool, and his family wasvery dignified, but in a likeable way. While interacting with Ash, he was confident, smarmy, optimistic and adorable. I was even able to (briefly) take him seriously when his mother explained to Ashley that his father died when he was 10 and that his stepfather had been a genuine father figure before dying only years after stepping in (author cry count: one). Final Score: C+, because he spent about 10 minutes talking about sprezzatura (an old Castiglione term for feigned nonchalance) and pretending that it meant spontaneity and romance. Come on, Ames, you might be able to fool your dim little dentist, but Im an English major. You can do better. Third date was with Ben, who get ready for awesome called her Ash when he saw her! Thats my thing! Ive been doing that since day one, you guys, and now its catching on and I was the one who started it. High point of the date: they were Moving on: for the last date, the producers finally gave the audience what they wanted, and let us gaze upon JP. God, that man is attractive; every time hes onscreen, every single girl that I watch this show with screams and squeals. Were all going to marry him. For his date, JP reserved a roller rink and the two of them skated around with a disco ball and goofy 80s tunes playing in the background; its like a middle school dance but with a whole lot more sex appeal. The guy knows the absolute most romantic thing to say to everything its sensational. Hes the perfect man strong and sexy yet willing to show vulnerability. The worst part is I dont think Ashleys going to choose him, because she seems more excited about stupid, boring, Homo erectus Ben. JP spent some time telling the camera that hes afraid shell break his heart but that hes still going to make himself vulnerable, because if he didnt try, hed never forgive himself, and the potential tragedy of the moment is more than I can handle (author cry count: three). I dont think Im emotionally mature enough to watch The Bachelorette. Final Score: A++++++. At the end of the day, she sent home Ames, and nobody was surprised, but everyone was sad. The poor guy looked like a puppy thats been kicked: not mad, not even sad, just . . . puzzled: itll take a minute to set in, he wont even attribute the pain to his owner but he knows that something just happened and that it was terrible. When he left, he told her that he was lucky to have met her and smiled even as his eyes reddened. There were tears in my eyes as I said Shut up, Ames to the unresponsive TV screen for the last time in my life (author cry count: four). Im going to miss him.
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Courtesy ABC getting hot and heavy on top of a case of wine, and Ash broke away to say, I wish my mother was here, she would love this. Again, a dead relative was unveiled. Ben actually showed emotions and shed real tears when talking to the camera about having stepped up as head of the family when his father passed away; the show is really fond of dead relatives (author cry count: two). Final score: B, because Ash was clearly into it, even though he is utterly lifeless in my eyes. On a side note, it was at this point in the show that I realized Ashley is 23 years old (thats me in three years) and wants to get married this desperately. My theory is that shes tired of being so thin and hot and wants to get fat, but needs to lock a guy down first. Regardless of whether or not she ends up getting fat in the next few years, I will still believe in this theory.
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oss Stone exploded onto the music scene in 2003, wowing audiences with her sultry, soulful vibrato and free-spirited melodies. Her first album, The Soul Sessions, went multi-platinum just as the young singer neared 18. Since then, shes lulled listeners with blues ballads and rocked us with up-tempo tunes harkening back to the Motown era. In less than a decade, Stone has released five records. Its been only two years since the release of Colour Me Free! but Stones latest album LP1 is not only a new chapter in her recording career but the first on her own record label, Stoned Records, in partner with Surfdog Records. Stones previous albums rely on a funkadelic baseline and soulful love stories uninhibited by worry and most heavily on the inspiration of other artists. The Soul Sessions was a compilation of covers of soul singers that came before her including Aretha Franklin (All the Kings Horses) and the Isley Brothers (For the Love of You Pts. 1 & 2). Since then, Stone has worked hard to forge her own path in the music industry. This new album not only solidifies her place as a creative and multi-talented artist but veers
away from the Motown mimicry that some of her earlier singles relied on. LP1 was recorded in six days with the help of super-producer Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame in Nashville, Tenn. The record is a completely new sound that represents a huge step on Stones path to establishing her own style. Rather than use the bass-driven Motown riffs that powered her old music, this album is a piano-driven rock/blues fusion that compliments Stones soulful voice. Though the first single, Somehow, is yet another love story from Stone, its redeeming qualities come in the fact that its a more personal story and showcases Stones vocals while still retaining simplicity. Though it was disappointing to hear another romantic ode from her, she makes up for it in the rest of the album by incorporating new stories into her work scorning love, embracing life and declaring her own strength. Newborn emphasizes the rawness and power in Stones voice and is lyrically more mature than some of her previous work. The words are a testament to the fragility of each day and remind us to savor every moment while remembering the time as it passes. | LP1 continued on page 15 |
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CONTINUED FROM MEGA MAN PAGE 12 that community managers and not developers run Capcoms Twitter accounts, but thats not an excuse for a botched breakup from fans unfulfilled love affair with Legends 3. To be frank, it looks like the company doesnt have it together. That brings me back to the befuddlement I mentioned earlier: since at least when Inafune left the company in a huff last October, Capcom has pushed Mega Man in all kinds of directions while ultimately going nowhere but into a downward spiral. When I list out all the ideas Capcom has flaunted, scrapped and missed, I can almost distill it to a single, metaphorical board meeting that represents the Inafune-less companys panic. Should they move Mega Man further into the downloadable space and champion user-generated content? Maybe, one bigwig says. They seemed awfully keen on the LittleBigPlanetesque Mega Man Universe before sweeping it aside under various circumstances last March. Then another suit wonders: should they return to the series roots? Nope. After rebooting the original 8-bit games with Mega Man 9 and 10 in the last two years, the company has kept mum about a possible 11th entry. Hmm. What about expanding their fan-favorite side story and taking advantage of 3D hardware? We know the answer to that already they delayed Legends 3s prototype version and, of course, awkwardly scrapped the full game on Comic-Con eve. If only Inafune-san were here, Im sure they were thinking. The latest head-scratcher is more subtle, but no less concerning. Capcom left Mega Man fans in the cold when it didnt include the Blue Bomber in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (McC3) last year, and most assumed the company was priming its most beloved character for a money-grubbing downloadable-content pack some months later. Irritating, but acceptable. Imagine the Courtesy Capcom confusion, then, as fans pored over the recently leaked roster for an updated version of MvC3. No Mega Man to be seen. Really? 12 new fighters and no Mega Man? Thats a major snub, like Nintendo releasing a Smash Bros. game without Mario. As much as Id like to, Ill never be privy to exactly whats happening in Capcoms boardrooms right now. For a moment, it seemed like Mega Mans resurgence was spearheading the companys iterative and innovative efforts, staying true to its roots, its fans and its legacy of excellence. But just as quickly, Capcom swept Mega Man under the rug. The easy explanation is probably the right one: with Inafune gone, the company doesnt have a clue what to do with his old cash cow. The franchise is adrift in the ocean and caught in a storm of ideas from people who werent around when the series started, not unlike Leno or Lost during a writers strike. Inafunes departure may have left Mega Mans inheritors in the dark, but theyre only dimming the lights by neglecting their fans and over-regulating the blue boys appearances in games he belongs in. With the cancellation of fan-centric titles like Legends 3 and Universe, I wonder if Capcom has concluded that Mega Mans future should come from the top down, even without Inafune. Im okay with that, but I hope they dont keep acting like the best decision is to stop making Mega Man games altogether.
nate ADAMS contact nate: nbadams@stanford.edu
World Town brings party to SF
hough electronic dance music has experienced a recent surge in popularity Junes Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas reported some 85,000 attendees on one day alone, and artists like Tiesto and David Guetta are practically household names this was hardly the case just a few years back, when local DJ Trevor Simpson was trying to get his foot in the door. About three and a half years ago, I found myself in a place where even though I pretty much considered myself one of the biggest DJs in San Francisco, I would just not have bookings, Simpson explained. And it was because the climate of the house music scene was not the way it is today. House music definitely wasnt the most popular music, and it was kind of before there were hipsters and before there was electro and dubstep and all this cool stuff. Around the same time, Simpson, who was then the music director at the now-defunct radio station Energy 92.7, heard about M.I.A. from a record representative friend on the East Coast and became obsessed with her groundbreaking, different vibe. Simpson also made multiple visits to his brother in Brazil, opening him up to baile funk music. The genre, also popular with Diplo, both a DJ and M.I.A.s former producer, quickly became incorporated into the emerging hipster movement. And so, from both his own career goals and these external artistic influences, World Town Inc. (or what he and fiance Mariam Shojaee refer to as The Party) was born. I started The Party because I wanted to have a way that I could take my brand and incorporate it with world music and world cultures and still have it be house music, Simpson said. Inspired by M.I.A.s self-prepared concert visuals he still recalls the African patterns and a hand playing Congo drums on the beat from the first M.I.A. concert that he attended Simpsons original concept for World
Courtesy Mariam Shojaee Town (incidentally, a name also drawn from an M.I.A. song) was that the video and VJ were just as important as the music. The Party, anchored by DJ Simpson as well as other hired talent, would soon find a permanent home in San Francisco venue Ruby Skye, where initially World Town continued to incorporate lots of visuals and live dancers with the music. Before long, the World Town party became Ruby Skyes largest monthly event. We were really lucky to do that, he said of World Towns delicate relationship with Ruby Skye. And honestly, its because it was working and low budget. We were local DJs, we hired some dancers and for a couple thousand dollars, we were doing a Saturday night main event party that was selling out. Around this time, the music climate began to change, with house music rising in popularity. Having experienced early success, the company was now able to book bigger and bigger names. Additionally, Simpsons radio relationships he currently DJs a show called Clubbers Commute from 1:50 to 2:35 a.m on 99.7 and Bay Area ties helped strengthen World Towns bookings even more. His roommate from college grew up in a commune-style home in Berkeley along with Niles Cyrano HollowellDhar, who represents half of electro-hiphop group The Cataracs, and was acting as the duos manager while living at Simpsons home. We were around this energy of amazing talent that was just growing with The Party, Shojaee, who co-runs World Town with Simpson, said. This entire | WORLD TOWN continued on page 15 |
CONTINUED FROM DRAGONS PAGE 12 teenagers who save the world. Some of his most beloved characters include a dwarf who kills his father, a knight who has sired children by his sister and a highborn tomboy who recites a list of the people she intends to assassinate every night. By the same token, he is ruthlessly true to his narrative when it comes to killing off his characters, especially those beloved by fans. In just about every book in the series, there is at least one death that tears at readers heartstrings, the death of a character so sympathetic, so real that it kills the reader to see him slain. (Yes, it happens in this one, too.) And yet we cant help coming back for more. It comes down to Martins skill as a storyteller: like Tolkien, he writes the history of the world he has created (one loosely analogous to Britain and the Continent during the War of the Roses) in such a way that readers are invested in the lives of the characters theyve known for thousands of pages. Rather than naming him the Tolkien of our country, we should perhaps call him the Tolkien of our generation instead. Martins A Song of Ice and Fire is not a grand struggle of good and evil, of valiant and shining knights against the massed forces of darkness, of the English fighting the Germans in the two World Wars that Tolkien knew. It is a murkier tale of many sides fighting for land, for power and for their own survival a story where little girls learn to kill, queens sell their maidenhood to buy armies and even the noblest and bravest of knights stain their hands and souls with the blood of innocents. Dont say we didnt warn you. Welcome to the Dance.
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CONTINUED FROM LP1 PAGE 13 The track Karma is by far the funkiest of all the songs on the new album, with that familiar funky bass, but the new rock element of this song brings it to another level. Stone is an absolute powerhouse in this song and radiates strength in the scornful lyrics about a relationships end. Similarly, in Last One to Know and Landlord, Stone declares that she is done with love, done with taking care of someone else before herself. The drawback of Stones album comes in the overuse of that free spirit she exudes so much. Some of CONTINUED FROM WORLD TOWN PAGE 14 party is part of a community that grew together. It was this unique sound that came out of Berkeley and San Francisco that is influencing the world now, this sound that nobody knew about or how to produce. And it was very innocently done kids were working on it for years, and as soon as music started changing, everyone around us just made it all at the same time. Its crazy to see, because only a couple years ago, they were literally crashing on couches, she added. After moving to Los Angeles, Simpsons former roommate called Shojaee and him one day to discuss the possibility of World Town booking a tour that The Cataracs were doing along with Hyper Crush and Far East Movement, a relative unknown in March when the August 2010 show date was set at Ruby Skye. We thought, great Hyper Crush was really the only established band on the bill Simpson recalled. But then during that six-month period, G6 hit, and by the time we got to the date of the tour, we were telling the managers, Far East Movement has to headline the show. After that point, it was less about
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her lyrics try a little too hard to break away from love, like in Karma: Come as your master and youre the bitch. Some of the analogies border on tacky as well Dont wanna be your landlord anymore. But lyrical nit-picking aside, LP1 is an important step into new territory for Stone. She lets loose vocally and shows the world that she can thrive in a style thats all her own.
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their new homes that their minds believe they are locals. Adapting in such a complete way that even your subconscious believes you are physically different from what you actually are is a skill that takes time to develop. TCKs often experience reverse culture shock upon returning to their passport country. But at the same time, adapting in such a way means that you lose part of your fundamental identity. This leads you to question exactly
what your fundamental identity is and what it means. What does it mean to say that you are Canadian and not American? German and not Swiss? Argentinean and not Chilean? How can you feel patriotic toward one and not another? What do these invisible borders between cultures and people mean? Exactly what you thought: nothing at all. You and I were both born in the same birthplace and share the same homeland Earth. Are you a TCK suffering from reverse culture shock? Join the support group and drop Aysha a line at ayshak@stanford.edu. compared to the whopping 772 million pounds emitted nationally (382 million of that total comes from electricity generation; the remaining 51 percent comes from chemical manufacture (15 percent), paper products (13 percent) and a hodgepodge of other industries compelled to report emissions to the EPA. Of course, that doesnt mean my lungs will be happy to return home
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the audiovisual experience and more about setting the trend by our bookings, he added. Following what he now calls the Far East Movement show, World Towns success has continued to snowball as they introduce new talent to the Bay Area. The duo next brought Dutch DJ Chuckie to Ruby Skye his first show in the United States at which Lil Jon made an unexpected appearance followed by Afrojack in his first San Francisco performance. To have the artists weve had is craziness, Shejaee [SW1]noted. Because as soon as they left us, its impossible to get them back. Theyre at the point where theyre in their own jets and theyre flying all over the world. With electronic dance music now infiltrating mainstream radio for example, Afrojack produced radio mainstay Give Me Everything while Diplo produced Chris Browns Look at Me Now Simpson and Shojaee hope to use the styles popularity to continue educating the Bay Area public about up-and-coming artists while fighting to maintain San Franciscos role as a priority musical city. This entire [concept of] educating people is so important, Shojaee said. The main point of the event is for these artists to come and expose their music to the crowd before they break or while theyre breaking and for San Francisco not to lose those relationships with those particular artists. We literally are third when it comes to Vegas and San Diego right now with the music
and these artists. At one point, Europeans especially thought San Francisco was it, she added. There was no other city like it. Of course, World Town faces other difficulties as well the tens of thousands of dollar fees that some DJs demand, the criticism that they have gotten too big and the somewhat tainted rave image so often associated with electronic music. After the scene of tutus and kids overdosing on drugs, someone has to clean up that image, Shojaee said. And it is this party and Ruby Skye doing that. The thing is, raves or ravers, there is a place for that, but this is not it, Simpson added. World Town is also about expressing yourself, embracing all different cultures, helping out charities and being a wild, totally fun, let-your-hair-down party, but not a rave. Never wanted to be, never claimed to be, never will be. But on Thursday, Aug. 4, Shojaee and Simpsons years of toil will come to fruition as they host one of the artists who started it all: Diplo. Its so important, Shojaee said. One of the reasons we started The Party and work so hard to this day is because we wanted Diplo and M.I.A. to be part of the show. Diplo was part of the inspiration, Simpson added. So it sort of came completely full circle.
caroline CASELLI contact caroline: carolinecaselli@stanford.edu
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as an amateur was surprisingly easy. Turning pro, it was a little anticlimactic, she said. I just wrote a little p next to my name, and that was it. It was more of an attitude to take tennis very seriously and be more disciplined with everything I did, off the court especially. After playing her first WTA tournament as a professional last week in Lexington, Ky., losing in the first round to Ahsha Rolle (6-4, 2-6, 6-4), Barte earned a wild card into the main draw, Stanfords only main draw competitor. She faced Chang Kai-Chen of Chinese Taipei in the first round. Chang used her powerful serve to full effect throughout the night. After shaking off early nerves, Chang came back from 2-5 down in the first set to beat Barte 7-5, 6-4. I was having a really tough time reading her toss, Barte said. She changed it up, and I think even the speed of the courts, she did a great job playing that up. I physically didnt feel that tight, but I think mentally I started thinking about the future a bit too much. Many people argue about
whether it is good for a player to attend a college tennis program or not. In some circles, it is an experience that increases mental fortitude and emotional stability once a player does go pro. For others, it is time wasted in class that should be spent competing against the best. Barte is a member of the former camp. I was actually deciding between trying to play professional right out of high school and coming here [to Stanford], she said. I think coming here was the best decision of my life. Perhaps it wasnt the best thing for my tennis development, but it did unbelievable things for my life, my mentality. Tsay, in a brave display of future performances on Stanfords center court, fought through three tough sets before succumbing 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 to Seng-Nan Sun of China. Rising sophomore Nicole Gibbs, in her first qualifying match at the BotW, earned a measure of revenge for Barte, defeating Rolle in a dominating 6-3, 6-1 performance. Rolle was unable to muster much of anything as Gibbs return game put her into the next round against qualifyings fifth seed Ajla Tomljanovic. Tomljanovic came in with a powerful groundstroke game that was overpowering for the smaller Gibbs. Ever the fighter, Gibbs capitalized on her
opponents mistakes to take the second set but lost 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 in the end. Rising junior Stacey Tan upset qualifyings sixth seed Heidi El Tabakh of Canada in her first match back at Stanford. A close first set was followed by a blowout final set by Tan for a 7-5, 6-1 victory. Her great play didnt last long before she lost 60, 6-0 in the next round to another Canadian, Marie-Eve Pelletier. With her loss, the last of the Stanford girls was out of the tournament. Rising sophomore Kristie Ahn was back for her first match since her season-ending ankle injury in the finals of the NCAA tournament. The injury prevented her, one of Stanfords best players, from competing against the Gators and may have been a deciding factor in their narrow victory. Her return to competition was hopeful. It felt great, Ahn said about returning. Not physically great, but emotionally, just to be able to step out on the court and be able to play a match or as much of a match as I could, it was great. It was a decently close match, well at least in the first set it was. It was my first match competing again, and it was at Stanford, so obviously you cant get too much better than that. Ahn fought tough the entire first set against the 30-year-old veteran
Rising sophomore Nicole Gibbs got past the first qualifying round with a 63, 6-1 win, but fell in three sets against fifth seed Ajla Tomljanovic in her next match. Gibbs was one of five Stanford players eliminated at the tournament.
Abigail Spears of the United States. The injury began to sting, and in the second game of the second set, Ahn pulled up, clearly in pain. She went to her seat and called her coach. I guess you could call it a small tweak, she explained. At that point, it was just bombarding my head with worries and concerns. I couldnt put much pressure on it, and stepping into the ball, I kind of just froze. Ahn clearly was unwell but finished the match, ultimately unable to muster much in the last four games and losing 7-5, 6-0. She says her ankle is still healing and simply needs more time. For the most part its fine and just needs more time to recover, Ahn said. Most of its in the head, just because you start thinking and then you start freaking out, essentially. Then you cant focus on the match, then you dont want to focus on the match because youre so focused on your ankle. BotW will conclude this weekend, with both singles and doubles semifinals being played on Saturday and both finals on Sunday. Contact Will Seaton at wseaton@stanford.edu. and they arent responsible for its lowprofile fan base. It has more to do, perhaps, with human infatuation. Its a difficult game for bystanders, because the players have a partial role as referees. In other words, they can help call their own shots. The lack of such a simple aspect of other popular sports can cause the viewer to be disappointed. This unofficial side of ultimate may be the cause of little publicity for the sport, but its relaxed touch can be entrancing, too. I experienced this exact feeling at my first and only pro ultimate game held in San Francisco a few weeks ago. Although ultimate often struggles for fan and media support, there is definitely room for growth. The game is all about having a good time and getting some fresh air. It certainly caught my attention, and I know ultimate has a bright future. Rachel Wolfard hopes to become the first-ever ultimate referee when the sport gets more popular acclaim. Help her invent new hand signals at wolfard@stanford.edu.
ULTIMATE
impressed on the sidelines. What I took from the brief conversation changed what I saw before me a combination of three of the most common sports: football, basketball and soccer had been combined to create an ultimate sport, one that required the fundamental skills of each. I gave the game a try in the second half. I loved it. I wondered to myself why a physically demanding and unique sport such as ultimate doesnt have a professional team or fans lined up to buy tickets at games, just like the three other sports it evolved from. As I learned more about the technicalities, the answer became simple: ultimate simply lacks the capacity to gain fan support in the same ways that the majority of other commonplace sports do. The excitement and physical action arent lacking in ultimate,

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