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NEWS
UNIVERSITY
Zimbardo donates collection to University archives
By ELAINA KOROS
INTERN
Social psychologist and professor emeritus of psychol-
ogy Philip Zimbardo, world renowned for the Stanford
Prison Experiment, has gifted an extensive set of files,
tapes and paraphernalia to the Stanford University
Archives.
Zimbardos gift, announced in June, will be accessible
to the public; certain materials will also be digitized and
made available in the archives online database by the
end of 2011. The materials showcase over 40 years of re-
search, with files and letters related to Zimbardos stud-
ies, including the Stanford Prison Experiment, and notes
and materials from the classes he taught at Stanford.
Its a very wide-ranging selection, Zimbardo said.
LOCAL
University set to
study high-speed
rail proposal
By KRISTIAN DAVIS BAILEY
Stanford Overseas Seminars are returning to
the University for the 2011-12 academic year.
The program, which is run by the Bing
Overseas Studies Program (BOSP), will ac-
commodate between 60 and 75 students in five
three-week long seminars during summer
2012. The program should then expand to its
peak size of 10 seminars for 150 students in
2013. Specific details on the programs offered
have not yet been announced.
We are spending the summer identifying
the locations for the seminars and the faculty
associated with them, said BOSP director
Bob Sinclair. Well be making an announce-
ment about them once everything has been
finalized.
It is confirmed that some changes to trip
planning will be implemented.
We are putting much more investment of
our funds into hiring local companies to set up
the logistical aspects of the programlike the
housing and local transportation, Sinclair said.
In the past, it was largely a burden for the fac-
ulty members. We want the faculty . . . to focus
more on the academic aspects and the interac-
tions with students.
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Harry Elam commented on the benefits Over-
seas Seminars will bring to undergraduate stu-
dents.
The Overseas Seminars offer the potential
for students who cannot go abroad during the
regular academic year to have this important
experience, wrote Elam in an email to The
Daily. It offers students the chance to explore
sites and learn in locations where Stanford
does not have existent overseas campuses.
Sinclair explained BOSPs emphasis on pro-
gram sites.
Theres an increasing need to look at more
globalized locations, Sinclair said. The major-
ity will be outside of Europe.
Sinclair also reiterated the effect the semi-
nars might have on students studying abroad.
I particularly know the difficulties engi-
neering students have in fitting study abroad
into their schedules, though many engineers
and athletes do, he said. [Overseas Seminars]
are a way to help their situation.
Overseas Seminars began after the 2002
school year and ran until a hiatus after the
2008-
09 year, when the
programs were cut due to bud-
getary constraints. There were
seminars in 25 countries over that time, with
some courses repeated over the programs eight
years.
Overseas Seminars is the only program cut at
the time to be reinstated so far.
We were very unhappy to have to cut the
overseas seminars, and so as soon as the finan-
cial situation improved, they were one of the
highest priorities to reinstate, wrote Provost
Etchemendy in an email to The Daily.
We received incremental funding to re-
launch the program, explained Irene
Kennedy, Bing Overseas Studies executive di-
rector. We cover all the in-country costs, the
faculty salary, for housing and food, in-country
transportation and any entry fees.
Students will pay for their own airfare and a
$600 fee to participate in the seminars. Finan-
By HAELIN CHO
INTERN
Construction on the 140-mile-long,
220-mile-per-hour high-speed rail from
Sacramento to San Diego has met both
encouragement and resistance in Stan-
ford and its surrounding Bay Area com-
munity.
Michael Cunningham, vice president
of public policy for the Bay Area Coun-
cil, said that both state and federal gov-
ernment have approved the high-speed
rail projects environmental document.
Its progress to date is it has an im-
proved project-level environmental doc-
ument certified by the state of California
and the federal government, he said. It
has a partially completed design engi-
neering design for the entire system,
and it has underway details, design stud-
ies and environmental clearance for all of
the segments between San Francisco and
Los Angeles.
Construction will begin next year and
is projected to finish by 2020, according
to California High-Speed Rail Authority
spokesman Rachel Wall.
Stanford is planning to participate in
the study and planning of the high-speed
rail project, which so far has $6.3 billion
with which to begin construction.
Stanford owns 36 acres of land adja-
cent to the Caltrain corridor in Menlo
Park and Palo Alto and owns the Univer-
sity Avenue Train Depot, wrote Stan-
ford Director of Community Relations
Jean McCown in an email to The Daily.
Like many other property owners, Stan-
ford is concerned that potentially nega-
tive impacts of the HSR [high-speed rail]
system on these properties be adequate-
ly addressed, and when the necessary
studies begin they are apparently not
being pursued at this time expects to
be an active participant.
Although the University sees the po-
tential benefits of the high-speed rail, Mc-
Cown added that Stanford has found a
few issues with the high-speed rail, includ-
ing inadequate analysis of future HSR
ridership; continued lack of full-cost infor-
mation on all elements of HSR, including
land takings and impacts on businesses;
Collection includes papers and
tapes from Prison Experiment
Three-week abroad programs
begin after two-summer hiatus
STEPHNANIE ENGLE/The Stanford Daily
Professor emeritus of psychology Philip Zimbardo donated his personal collection of
files, videos, audio tapes and other collected materials to the librarys archives. Please see RAIL, page 15 Please see ARCHIVES, page 3
Please see SEMINARS, page 15
ERIC KOFMAN/
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UNIVERSITY
Stanford will respond to NYC Request for Proposals
By BILLY GALLAGHER
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The quest to build a Stanford hub
on the East Coast continues as the
University announced that it will re-
spond to New York City Mayor
Michael Bloombergs Request for
Proposals (RFP) for a new or ex-
panded graduate engineering and
applied sciences campus in the city.
Our offer is straightforward,
Bloomberg said in a July 19 speech.
We will provide prime New York
City real estate at virtually no
cost, plus up to $100 million in infra-
structure upgrades in exchange
for a universitys commitment to
build or expand a world-class sci-
ence and engineering campus here
in our city.
The initiative, called Applied
Sciences NYC, was announced in
December by Mayor Bloomberg
and the New York City Economic
Development Corp. (NYCEDC).
After discussing the idea in Faculty
Senate meetings, President John
Hennessy led Stanford in submit-
ting a formal expression of inter-
est in March. Applied Sciences
NYC was the focus of Aprils Acad-
emic Council meeting as well.
View from the Farm
University officials are opti-
mistic about the opportunities NYC
will provide and confident in Stan-
fords ability to overcome potential
challenges. William Dally, profes-
sor of computer science and electri-
cal engineering, is leading a faculty
advisory committee tasked with
evaluating Applied Sciences NYC
and advising the University.
Theres a number of synergies
available with various local indus-
tries ranging from the financial
community to media to opportuni-
ties to get involved in sustainable
urban studies that dont exist here,
Dally said. Everybodys really ex-
cited about using this to prototype
what the university of the future is
I gave [the archives] access to vir-
tually everything I had, and the
archivist selected a set of materials
that he thought would be of most
value to people interested in my
work, or me or the Stanford facul-
ty in general.
The gift includes papers from
Zimbardos research on shyness,
deindividualization, terrorism,
cults and obedience. Additionally,
Zimbardo included many videos
and handwritten lesson plans.
There are all these video tapes
that he used in class or for experi-
mental techniques, Daniel
Hartwig, a Stanford archivist, said.
Its not just Zimbardo the re-
searcher or the prison experi-
menter, but theres also Zimbardo
the teacher.
Zimbardo chose to gift his pa-
pers to benefit future scholars,
who will be able to easily access the
digitized forms of his materials.
Scholars will soon have the re-
sources to do in-depth research
into Zimbardos work.
After many years of students
asking us for primary resources
pertaining to the Stanford Prison
Experiment, now we can provide
them the documents related to this
compelling study, said Mattie
Taormina, head of public services
and a processing manuscripts li-
brarian for Stanfords Special Col-
lections and University Archives.
Im particularly excited by the
prospect of our undergraduates
being able to consult these materi-
als for their term papers.
Having never digitized much of
his work, Zimbardo appreciates
the archives service of transform-
ing the materials into a more acces-
sible format.
There are hundreds of videos
and boxes of files and letters and
manuscripts, many in my original
handwriting, so [digitizing the ma-
terials] was something I couldnt
do myself, Zimbardo said. For
me, its a great service that the
University will be doing that hard
work in transforming, for example,
VHS or video tapes into a digital
format or transforming many,
many boxes of original materials
into a digitized form that other
people can use.
Over the course of about a
month, the team of archivists collect-
ed at least 50 boxes from Zimbardos
office, which held most of the Prison
Experiment materials, and trans-
ferred them to the archives. In the
upcoming months, the archivists will
collect the remaining materials from
Zimbardos home in San Francisco
and finish processing the audiovisual
materials.
The University Archives
serves not only as the long-term
memory of the campus; as part of
the libraries, it has a mandate to
collect and preserve unique mate-
rials that can provide the substance
of future study and research, said
Andrew Herkovic, Stanford Li-
braries director of communica-
tions. The Zimbardo papers pro-
vide a fine example demonstrating
these dual roles of the archives,
and these papers will doubtless be
the subject of much investigation
in years and decades to come.
Zimbardo himself found gath-
ering the materials from his files an
interesting process.
I was simply surprised when I
went through my file cabinets, full
of material that I have long since
forgotten that I even had, he said.
Zimbardos papers and other
materials will be fully available to
the public by the middle of 2012.
We in the archives have a few
collections of Stanford psycholo-
gists, but [Zimbardos collection] is
clearly the most eminent of our col-
lections at the moment, so it creates
the field for us in special collections
in the archives, Hartwig said.
Contact Elaina Koros at ekoros@
stanford.edu.
ARCHIVES
Continued from page 2
STEPHANIE ENGLE/The Stanford Daily
Zimbardos donation includes a
range of material from his career,
including the Prison Experiment.
The collection includes Zimbardos
work on deindividualization, cults,
terrorism, obedience and others.
Stanford archivists will continue to organize and digitize the collection, which
will be accessible to the University community by the middle of next year.
Please see NYC, page 7
By MICHAEL TUSCHMAN
INTERN
The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor
Center for Visual Arts has ap-
pointed Connie Wolf 81 its new
director; she will replace current
director Thomas Seligman when
he retires Dec. 31 after 20 years at
the helm of the museum.
Wolf left Stanford with a bach-
elors degree in East Asian studies
with a focus in art history and has
been working in the arts ever
since. For the past 13 years, she led
the San Francisco Contemporary
Jewish Museum, which grew from
a 2,500-square-foot building to a
63,000-square-foot museum
under her leadership.
The Daily spoke with Wolf
about her new position at Cantor.
The Stanford Daily (TSD): How
has your time at the Contempo-
rary Jewish Museum prepared
you for your upcoming role at the
Cantor Arts Center?
Connie Wolf (CW):: I really feel
like the past 13 years have given
me great insight into thinking
about the role that museums
play in this community. I look
forward to going to the Cantor,
where I can bring some of my
experiences working with
artists, working with the broad-
er community, developing pro-
jects with scholars and find new
ways of thinking about that ex-
traordinary collection and the
legacy of the Cantor. I take an
interdisciplinary approach to
art, and its something that I feel
is really exciting and dynamic
for an audience in thinking
about the way in which different
disciplines can be, can provide
new lenses into thinking about
art and ideas.
TSD: What do you see as Can-
tors greatest strengths?
CW: Well, I think some of the
greatest strengths is that it is real-
ly an extraordinary museum with
a very strong reputation. Its got
great collections, and it has a very
dedicated and loyal group of
members and volunteers that I
find really impressive and exciting
to work with. Youve got this in-
credible facility, youve got this
amazing collection and youve got
this great group of people who are
loyal and dedicated and commit-
ted to the arts through the Cantor.
Thats a great combination.
TSD: Are there some weak-
nesses you think need to be ad-
dressed?
CW: I wouldnt call them weak-
nesses. I think there are a couple
of opportunities looking forward,
because I think whats exciting to
me is the way in which there is
going to be sort of a new arts cor-
ridor . . . So, the way in which the
Cantor can be a centerpiece and
provide linkages to all of these
and be a real meeting point, I
think that is something that is re-
ally exciting and something that
can really be a centerpiece to how
the arts are accessed and used on
campus and beyond.
TSD: Do you have any favorite
exhibits or pieces at Cantor?
CW:Ive always been so moved
by the work of Eadweard Muy-
bridge, the photographer that Le-
land Stanford was really a big sup-
porter of, and I know that Cantor
really has a very strong collection.
Museums can never show every-
thing that is in their collection. So,
what Im excited about is learning
from the curators about what
treasures there are that we dont
often get to see, dont often get to
be seen by the public.
TSD: Are there any new artistic
directions you would hope to see
the museum take over the next
years?
CW:Well, I think that its going
on a great path. But, for exam-
ple, I want to be thinking more
innovatively about technology
and figuring out ways to connect
whats happening in the museum
to other departments around
campus and other ways of think-
ing. Im looking forward to just
learning more about whats
going differently on campus now
than when I was a student and
really just finding ways [to ex-
plore] the values of Stanford
University: innovation, bold-
ness, creativity, entrepreneur-
ship. Those characteristics will
be embodied by the Cantor in its
next chapter.
Contact Michael Tuschman at
mvt2412@stanford.edu.
Q&A: Incoming Cantor Arts
Center Director Connie Wolf
RESEARCH
Online tracking report prompts scrutiny
of online advertising industrys promises
By KRISTIAN DAVIS BAILEY
Two recent reports from Stanford Security Lab
(SSL) researchers have fueled an ongoing debate over
privacy issues in the largely self-regulated online adver-
tising industry.
The findings, released June 12 and June 19, respec-
tively stated that some online advertising companies
contradict their privacy policies after consumers choose
to opt-out of tracking and that Epic Marketplace, an-
other online advertising firm, was history stealing
from users. All the agencies involved participate in the
Network Advertising Initiative, a cooperative of online
advertisers that has self-regulated the industry since
1999.
[One] reason I think self-regulation is falling apart
is that we identified eight companies with privacy poli-
cies that might be interpreted to be in conflict with their
current business practices, said Jonathan Mayer, a sec-
ond-year graduate student in computer science and law,
who is on the SSL research team and authored the two
reports. Its important to note that these are privacy
representations that the companies chose to make
themselves beyond what NAI requires.
Epic Marketplace did not respond to requests for
comment but decried the bias of the term history steal-
ing in a blog post, writing, this type of data collection
occurs in virtually every web transaction.
According to Mayers report, Epic Marketplace uses
a number of quick and complex algorithms that deter-
mine whether users have visited specific sites, like
Groupon and Starbucks. It even searches for specific
history, like viewing pages about pregnancy and fertili-
ty at the Mayo Clinic or bad credit and debt relief at the
Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
NIA, which also did not respond to requests for com-
ment, requires its members to stop delivering ads target-
ed to the consumer based on his browsing patterns when
he opts out; it does not require them to cease third-
party tracking, which involves collecting information
like the quantitative effectiveness of the ad or whether
agencies delivered the number of ads their clients
Please see TRACKING, page 15
SERENITY NGUYEN/
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W
hen you think of a mythological beast,
it is almost inevitable that your mind
will wander to the serpentine form and
the chilly scales of the dragon. Dragons have
long been portrayed in the West as ruthless and
evil creatures from the Earth, often referred to
as the personification of Satan himself.
Lewis Carrolls fearsome Jabberwocky is
described as having jaws that bite, claws
that catch and eyes of flame in his poem
The Jabberwocky. J.R.R. Tolkeins Smaug
from The Hobbit is a loathsome monster,
symbolizing greed as he guards his expansive,
treasure-filled cave. Eustace Scrubb from C.S.
Lewiss The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is
magically turned into a dragon for his misbe-
havior, and everyone trembles at the thought of
the Hungarian Horntail that Harry so bravely
defeats in Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire. Throughout the tapestry of storytelling,
courageous knights have boldly turned up at
the dens of dragons, demanding the release of
fair maidens (who all seem to coincidentally be
single). Confrontations with dragons have al-
ways tested the worthiness of heroes.
But in Asian folklore and mythology, the
dragon rises far above evil and malice. The
dragon is a sign from the gods, a benevolent
spirit who advises those in the darkest of times
and lost in the darkest of places. Dragons pull
the chariots of the gods, control the winds and
waters and guard treasure underneath the
Earths surface. A volcanic eruption is an awe-
some event it means that an underworld
dragon (a fucanglong) has surged forth from
the realms below to report to the gods in the
sky. Underworld dragons look wizened and
old; they are sages that rule the natural world.
They are full to bursting with magical powers,
but they have full control over how and when
these powers are used. They are truly amazing
creatures, and it is almost impossible to believe
they are the cousins of the Western malevolent
and carnivorous brutes that attack villages and
eat poor damsels.
The dragon is also one of the 12 signs of the
Chinese zodiac. If you are a dragon, you are
bold and ambitious, willing to take risks and
very passionate. To be born in the year of the
dragon is an auspicious occurrence and surely
worthy of honor, and as such, many Chinese
parents will try to have children of the dragon.
As a symbol of ethnic identity, the Chinese con-
sider themselves long de chuan ren (descen-
dents of the dragon). To wang zi cheng long
(hope ones child turns into a dragon) actual-
ly means to hope that your child grows up to
lead an auspicious and prestigious life. Chinese
parents proudly name their child xiao long (lit-
tle dragon), whereas the nickname dragon is
more appropriate in the West for a mother in
law. In Germany, gifts to appease ones wife
after a late night out with the guys are known as
drachenfutter (literally dragon-fodder).
The Chinese dragon and the Western drag-
on are clearly different in their ambitions and
folkloric representation. However, they have
something striking in common they are both
symbols of the natural world. The Western
dragon, a cave-dwelling, monstrous beast, is
born from the metals and fire of the deep Earth,
whereas the Chinese dragon is the harbinger of
wind and water. Thus, the treatment of dragons
in their respective mythological stories is an in-
dication of how each respective culture views
the natural world.
Compare the classic bloody tales of dragons
in the West to this well-known story from
China:
Long ago, there were four dragons that lived
in the Eastern Sea. The land was suffering from
a drought and people were starving, so the four
dragons begged the Jade Emperor (the ruler of
Heaven, Hell and the realm of man) to send
down rain to save the people. The Jade Emper-
or, preoccupied with the pleasures of court life,
promised emptily to do so. After 10 days of still
no rain, the dragons decided to take matters into
their own claws. They took water from the East-
ern Sea, held it in their mouths and flew over the
land, spraying everything with water and thus
saving the people from mass starvation. The
Jade Emperor, furious that the dragons had
brought rain without his permission, ordered
them to be crushed and trapped beneath four
large mountains. The dragons did not regret
their actions, so they created a kingdom out of
which flowed four rivers that would forever
bring water to the people. According to folk-
lore, these are the four rivers of China the
Heilongjiang(the Amur River, directly translat-
ed as black dragon river), the Huanghe (the
Yellow River), the Changjiang (the Yangtze
River) and the Zhujiang (the Pearl River).
In Western folklore, if a dragon flew over a
village like that, he would not be bringing water
he would be bringing death and destruction.
Dragons in Western mythology were forces
Y
ou know things are getting bad when
your country starts acting like Derek
Zoolander.
And, as demonstrated by last weeks com-
ical congressional break-dance fighting over
raising the debt ceiling, thats precisely what
were doing. Like everyones favorite direc-
tionally challenged male model, our nation
just cant turn left because every time we
reach a crucial political corner, we seem to
substitute three 90-degree turns to the right in-
stead.
So Earth to Matil, er, America: it might fi-
nally be time to switch things up, because Con-
gress barely averting fiscal Armageddon this
week was only the opening scene in whats
looking increasingly like a horrendously bad
remake of the movie we all used to love.
Take, for example, the energy sector,
where Americans continue to burn through
terrorist-funding foreign oil as enthusiastical-
ly as if President Barack Obama had proposed
a national gasoline fight. Absurd government
subsidies to Big Oil, Americas addiction to
colossal, definitely-compensating-for-some-
thing cars and our apparent desire to prop up
repeat Worst-Country-in-the-World-Award-
Winner Saudi Arabia all add up to us going up
in spectacular flames faster than a bunch of
male models sipping orange mocha Frappuc-
cinos.
Or take a quick look at education, where
our schools are rapidly degenerating into
Centers for Kids Who Cant Read Good
(note to Secretary of Education Arne Dun-
can: our education budget should be at least .
. . three times this big). Once a world leader in
education, America is now faltering as up-
and-coming Hansels all over the world happi-
ly compete for the Model-Nation-of-the-Year
crown we seem to be leaving behind. Depress-
ingly, for instance, American 15 year olds
scored just about average in reading and sci-
ence (and below average in math) among
their OECD peers on 2009s Program for In-
ternational Student Assessment (PISA).
Crushed by Shanghai (so hot right now), out-
performed by Finland and soundly trounced
by South Korea, the United States did at least
outscore Kyrgyzstan and Albania not real-
ly an achievement to write home about.
Meanwhile, as China feverishly extends
transcontinental high-speed rail lines from
Tibet to Beijing, our transportation infrastruc-
ture is looking increasingly like something out
of a Derelicte catalogue. Discouragingly, the
American Society of Civil Engineers gave us
an abysmal overall grade of D on its most re-
cent Report Card for Americas Infrastruc-
ture, with subscores as low as D- in drinking-
water quality and wastewater disposal. (Note:
Water is the essence of life!) The ASCE es-
timates that an astonishing $2.2 trillion would
be required to bring the nation up to speed
$2.2 trillion we clearly dont have. One partic-
ularly painful example: thanks to budget
shortfalls in several states, many state-main-
tained roads were actually unpaved this year
to save on maintenance costs, converted from
expensive asphalt into cheaper gravel or dirt.
For perhaps the first time ever, we are actual-
ly un-building America.
And as if energy, education and infrastruc-
ture werent depressing enough, the national
debt is currently really, really, ridiculously bad
looking to the tune of $14.3 trillion. At this
rate, even Speaker of the House John Boehn-
er and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
miraculously managing to pull Congress un-
derwear out of its pants during this weeks par-
tisan walk-off may not be enough to save So-
cial Security, Medicare, military salaries or the
national park system in the long run.
But instead of one simple turn to the left
raising taxes on the super-rich, along with
painful but necessary cuts in discretionary
spending to help pay for long-term investment
in education, infrastructure and energy
hard-line Republicans have been insisting on
three spins to the right: no tax increases; sharp
cuts in programs for the poor, old and sick; and
nearly risking a catastrophic default in the
name of doctrinaire ideology.
Ultimately, its going to take decisive, com-
mitted, ambi-turning leadership to fix our
nations problems which is why we origi-
nally elected you, Obama.
But since that glorious acceptance speech
in Grant Park, honestly, Ive been a little dis-
appointed with that new look you promised to
bring to America. Sure, we saw a little bit of Le
Tigre when you took out Osama Bin Laden
but where was the hardened, presidential
voice of Blue Steel during the Ground Zero
Mosque debacle or last weeks debate on the
debt? And where was Ferrari when we need-
ed to get health care fixed fast?
So when 2012 shows up, Mr. President,
wed all love it if youd finally break out Mag-
num and freeze the insidious Republican
ninja star in midair. It would save a lot more
than the prime minister of Malaysia; it would
save our country from itself.
LETTERS FROM THE DRAGONLANDS I DO CHOOSE TO RUN
One Dragon, Two Dragon, Red
Dragon, Blue Dragon
Aysha
Kureishi
Miles
Unterreiner
OPINIONS
America: A Model,
Idiot?
Please see DRAGON, page 7 Please see AMERICA, page 15
STUDENT LIFE
University Press launches
online e-book rental service
By MICHAEL TUSCHMAN
INTERN
Following in the footsteps of
several successful textbook-rental
programs, Stanford University
Press is now launching a similar
rental program with its online e-
book service.
While a full license to an e-
book from the University Press is
the same price as the paperback
edition, students can rent e-books
for a 14-day period for a fourth of
the cost of the full license or for 60
days for 50 percent of the cost of
the original. Physical textbook
rentals have become a significant
part of sales for the Stanford
Bookstore as well as university
bookstores across the country;
however, e-book rentals have not
seen the same financial success.
Janet Gawley, director of the
Stanford Bookstore, said she does
not believe the e-book-rental ser-
vice has had a significant effect on
the bookstores physical rental
service, which has continued to
grow.
We experienced tremendous
success with our text-rental pro-
gram last year, she said. Stu-
dents rented approximately five
percent of their textbooks from
the bookstore last year. The im-
pact of the Stanford University
Press e-book rental is minimal, as
not many titles from the Stanford
University Press are adopted as re-
quired textbooks.
While the digital nature of e-
book rentals does not lend itself to
specific data collection, Alan Har-
vey, deputy director of Stanford
University Press, believes there is
a growing market for University
Press e-book rentals.
Weve got a pretty even split
between the number of books
being bought permanently, and
the number being bought for 60
days and the number being bought
for 14 days, Harvey said. Its
fairly evenly divided between the
three. That tells me that there are
markets for each of them.
My belief about who is buying
the rental periods is that its some-
one working on a particular pro-
ject and needs a section of a
book, he said. And that could be
a student who is doing a paper or a
professor who is doing a research
project. It could be an individual
who just wants to read a portion of
a book.
The Stanford Bookstore re-
centl y starti ng offeri ng
CafScribe, a web-based e-book
platform with prices 40 to 60 per-
cent lower than physical textbook
rentals.
The benefit of the CafScribe
platform is the ability to access
your book either online or of-
fline, Gawley said. Some titles
within the CafScribe database
are currently rentable.
In addition to e-book rentals,
Stanford University Press pro-
vides electronic access to print
books purchased onl i ne and
shipped to the consumer.
If you buy a book from our
website, a print book, you get 14-
day access to that print book as an
e-book for free, Harvey said.
The incentive there being you
would buy books from our website
over somewhere like Amazon be-
cause while it will take time for
both of us to ship it to you, youll
be able to begin reading it online
from the moment you buy it.
While Harvey noted that the
University Press does not specifi-
cally cater to student textbooks,
other university presses have
made strides in making e-text-
books available to students.
Our goal is to get the book
into the hands of the students in
some way that meets their needs,
Karen Hill, associate director of
the Michigan Press, told Inside
Higher Ed.
Harvey said Stanford Universi-
ty Press has taken a different ap-
proach.
For us, were really just rent-
ing books to anyone who wants to
rent them, he said. We do it for
every book that we publish, re-
gardless of whether its a textbook
or a monograph or a reference
book.
Its really just one of the side ben-
efits that it can be used for text-
books for students, he added.
Contact Michael Tuschman at
mvt2412@stanford.edu.
Model draws on success
of bookstores rentals
of nature that needed to be over-
come for goodness and harmony to
reign. They destroyed crops, ruined
lives and obliterated villages with
one fiery roar. They needed to be
defeated for man to reign supreme.
They were foes to man, foes that
needed to be slaughtered. In many
cases, this was how natural land was
also perceived. A lush landscape
was there for man to conquer. That
which was uncultivated was a wild
and dangerous enemy capable of
killing a man with its inhabitants
and sheer forces of nature.
On the other hand, Emperors
sought advice from the all-knowing
and ever-wise Eastern dragons and
wore robes delicately yet profound-
ly embroidered with dragons a
symbol of power and eminence. Ac-
cording to the legend, dragons pre-
vented mass starvation and saved
hundreds of people. Their self-sacri-
fice was forever carved into the land
in the form of life-giving rivers so
that the myth would be passed down
generation to generation. The envi-
ronmental view that arises from this
concept is not one of antagonism
but one of gratitude and recognition
of human dependence on nature.
Strands of this concept persist
today; dragons primarily controlled
the winds and water, and the con-
cept of fengshui (literally wind-
water) is a central part of Chinese
life that advises how one can attain
harmony with the surrounding envi-
ronment.
While the dragons of the West
breathe fire, the dragons of the East
bring wind and water. Legendary
cousins, they represent two diver-
gent views of the natural world. Yet
at the same time, just like fire and
water, the two views interact in a
perfect yin-yang balance that seems
to define the very interaction of East
and West.
Are you, too, tired of stereotypes
about our fire-breathing friends? Let
Aysha know at ayshak@stanford.edu.
DRAGON
really about. As the world becomes
a more global place, its clear that
universities cant be so tied to one
physical location.
The biggest challenge is likely
to be making the faculty, students
and staff located in NYC be fully
part of the Stanford community,
School of Engineering Dean James
Plummer wrote in an email to The
Daily. We do not want to create a
separate entity. We want to create a
place that is part of Stanford in
every sense of that word.
Neither Plummer nor Dally were
concerned about the quality of facul-
ty or students declining. Both noted
their programs could grow in num-
bers without lowering standards
though they said hiring qualified fac-
ulty would take longer.
Were limited by the number of
students we can handle, not by tal-
ent, Dally said.
University spokesperson Lisa
Lapin said departments around
campus have been working on the
final proposal, which she antici-
pates will be over 100 pages.
In the Big Apple
NYCEDC said it received 18
proposals from 27 institutions in
March (many proposals are from
consortia).
According to the July 19 RFP,
NYCEDC prefers that any institu-
tion based outside the United
States partner with an institution
inside the U.S. Seven of the 18 pro-
posals were from non-U.S. institu-
tions.
Additionally, institutions do not
need to have responded in March in
order to reply to the RFP provided
that they rank highly enough in aca-
demically relevant fields, have an
endowment greater than $1 billion
or comparable financial backing
from a government and spend more
than $75 million annually on re-
search in the applicable fields.
Formal proposals are due Oct.
28. NYCEDC will lead a committee
to select the winner based on crite-
ria outlined in the RFP.
Forty percent of the decision is
dependent on the proposals eco-
nomic impact and feasibility, in-
cluding the quality of the proposal
and the estimated economic impact
on New York City. Stanfords
March proposal, Stanford Univer-
sity and New York City: Silicon
Valley II, appears to align closely
with the citys demands.
A key goal for the NYC campus
would be to have a program to men-
tor and assist faculty and students in
forming new ventures, the Stan-
ford proposal reads. To that end,
Stanford proposes to have in resi-
dence on the NYC campus at least
one faculty member who has been
intimately involved as a
founder, early-stage advisor and
board member, or investor in
the creation of a more than $500
million startup.
An additional 40 percent will be
based on respondents qualifica-
tions and track record, including
institutional quality and track
record in fundraising and on similar
projects.
Lapin stated that no one has
raised more money than Stanford
in the past eight years.
Theres nobody in the running
thats better than us, she said. On
every measure, were out ahead
there.
The final 20 percent is institu-
tional connections to the city,
based on the proposals potential
ties to the community, sustainabili-
ty and hiring/workforce develop-
ment.
We have very active communi-
ty partnerships here and would ex-
pect the same in New York, Lapin
wrote in an email to The Daily. We
already have numerous connec-
tions in NYC. And our preliminary
designs call for an open campus and
a park-like setting that would inte-
grate the university with the com-
munity.
The Competition
Several of the respondents have
experience with multiple campuses.
New York City Deputy Mayor
for Economics Robert Steel has
cited Cornell Universitys $630 mil-
lion Manhattan medical school as a
precedent for Applied Sciences
NYC. The New York school has
been one of the most aggressive re-
spondents in lobbying for
Bloombergs selection. They have
reportedly hired a lobbyist and a
public relations firm for their pitch,
and university President David
Skorton made his own sales pitch in
a July 11th YouTube video.
New York University has estab-
lished a campus in Abu Dhabi that
NYU Vice President for Public Af-
fairs John Beckman called enor-
mously successful. Beckman
added that our relevant experi-
ence is not limited to NYU Abu
Dhabi and that NYU and its con-
sortium partners have experience
at how to get things done here.
NYU is also in the process of es-
tablishing a new campus in Shang-
hai.
However, not all multiple-cam-
pus endeavors have been success-
ful. Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU) has a Silicon Valley campus
that some at Stanford heed as a
warning.
One real danger is that Stan-
ford will do something and it will be
like the CMU effort in Silicon Val-
ley, which I regard as a complete
failure, Dally said. Maybe they
make some money off of it, but its
not a replication of the excellent
computer science program CMU
has in Pittsburgh. Its a third-rate
educational establishment, and it
takes in people who couldnt get
into anywhere better. We dont
want that to happen.
Despite Stanfords lack of a de-
gree-granting campus away from
the Farm, the University believes
its proposal does have credibility.
What we would be doing in New
York isnt anywhere near the magni-
tude of the construction weve had,
Lapin said. Were just about to re-
place our hospital. We do big pro-
jects. And we do them well, and we
can absolutely execute.
Race to October
Many insiders have pegged Cor-
nell and Stanford as the leaders for
the selection.
Multiple references by
Bloomberg and the media to Sili-
con Valley as the template for Ap-
plied Sciences NYC bode well for
Stanfords chances.
During the 1980s and 90s, Silicon
Valley not New York be-
came the world capitol of technolo-
gy start-ups, Bloomberg said in his
July 19 speech. And that is still
true today. But if I am right and
if we succeed in this mission it
wont be true forever.
Contct Billy Gallagher at wmg2014
@stanford.edu.
NYC
CAROLINE MARKS/The Stanford Daily
By JOSEPH BEYDA
SPORTS EDITOR
It put an explosive finishing
touch on one of Stanfords best de-
fensive performances in recent
memory. It marked the start of a
season that would nearly double
the number of turnovers that went
in Stanfords favor. It demonstrat-
ed definitively that the Cardinal
secondary would be a force to be
reckoned with.
And it almost didnt happen.
After the Cardinal went up 21-
0 against UCLA in the waning mo-
ments of the third quarter last Sep-
tember, junior free safety Michael
Thomas wasnt ready when Bruin
quarterback Kevin Prince took
the field.
It was the first play of the se-
ries, so honestly, I wasnt even
strapped up and ready to play,
Thomas remembered. As soon
as the play happened, I was run-
ning out and just trying to get a hit
on the quarterback even though I
wasnt strapped up . . . I realized
the quarterback had the ball and
the defensive linemen were com-
ing up to tackle him. He wasnt
turning his feet, and he was giving
up ground.
Thomas thought back to the
work the secondary had done with
new defensive backs coach Derek
Mason in training camp. When
Prince bobbled the snap, Thomas
already having forced a fumble
on the night didnt give him any
time to regroup.
That was something we had
been practicing all camp long, get-
ting strip attempts on offensive
players when they werent paying
attention, and I saw an opportuni-
ty right there, he said. We had
just talked about it that week. The
first thing that was going through
my mind when I stripped the ball
was, Please do not get caught.
Twenty-one yards later he was
in the end zone, putting a dramat-
ic flair on a 35-0 shutout win in
Pasadena that included two inter-
ceptions and two fumble recover-
ies for Stanford. The Cardinal
would go on to force 30 turnovers
last season, jumping to 12th in Di-
vision I after ranking 99th in the
category with 17 in 2009. The sec-
ondary alone forced seven fum-
bles, up from three the year be-
fore. And with three of four start-
ing defensive backs returning this
season, things are looking up for a
secondary that is possibly Stan-
fords most experienced unit on
the field.
Just as with the front seven, the
Cardinals revitalization in the sec-
ondary was sparked in part by a
new member of the coaching staff.
When Derek Mason took on
the secondary, he basically restart-
ed from ground zero in terms of
the basics of defense and how to
play the position of defensive
back, Thomas said. Instead of in
2009, when it was [cornerback
Richard] Shermans first year
playing defense, it was [strong
safety] Delano Howells first year
starting, and I wasnt even in a
starting role yet . . . the chemistry
was just there. It showed out on
the field the way we play togeth-
er.
It certainly did, with Stanfords
pass defense improving by over 60
yards per game and forcing more
interceptions (18) than any Cardi-
nal team in the last 15 years. Rising
seniors Thomas, Howell and cor-
nerback Johnson Bademosi have
gotten used to playing together in
their combined 47 career starts.
The great thing about our
team is that we mesh really well,
Howell said. Weve got good re-
lationships on and off the field, so
we have confidence when we get
on the field. Our leadership is
something that we have confi-
dence in, and I feel like were
going to take advantage of our sit-
uation. In game situations, having
a composed and mature group is
important.
The secondary does lose its
most experienced player on paper,
Sherman, who made 37 starts over
five years. But over half of his time
on the Farm was spent on the of-
fensive side of the ball, before the
flashy receiver made the transition
to cornerback leading up to his
redshirt junior season.
Shoot, Sherman was just an
athlete, Howell said. When you
gave him the football, he just knew
how to play ball, whether you put
him on offense or defense. Its
kind of amazing how quickly he
was able to transition without hav-
ing played the position before.
He was phenomenal in his
confidence and his willingness to
learn. I mean, you dont really see
that too much in many athletes, es-
pecially at this level, but he did
something thats really hard to
do, Howell added.
Sherman was hardly the only
Stanford player to move to sec-
ondary from the offensive side of
the ball over the past few seasons.
Howell himself made the switch
after playing running back his
freshman year; Thomas, recruited
as a speedy quarterback out of
high school, became a safety dur-
ing his first training camp.
And the Cardinal was at it
again this spring, converting an-
other talented player out of the
backfield into a defensive back.
With all five members of Stan-
fords generally young running-
back tandem returning, Usua
Amanam was switched to corner-
back after playing in 11 games as a
redshirt freshman in 2010.
Thomas speaks highly of his
SPORTS
SECONDARY LOOKS TO KEEP UP PROGRESS
STANFORD FOOT)ALL
POSITION PRE/IEW 2011
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Senior Michael Thomas (right), shown returning a kickoff in 2009, doesnt play special teams anymore, but he
still sees his fair share of the ball. He forced four turnovers last year and had a touchdown on a fumble return.
Please see FOOTBALL, page 11
WILLIAMS
WINS BOTW
By KEVIN ZHANG
INTERN
Its often hard to tell when a
comeback trail will finish, but Serena
Williams is certainly well on her way.
Competing in only her third tour-
nament since winning the 13th
Grand Slam title of her career at
Wimbledon in 2010, Williams won
the 2011 Bank of the West (BotW)
Classic, which took place at Stan-
fords Taube Family Tennis Stadium
this past week.
Im really excited to have won
here, Williams said. I havent won
a tournament in forever. I put a lot of
work into this week, and it has paid
off.
The title marks the first time
Williams has won BotW, which is the
oldest female-only professional tour-
nament in the world. She did so in a
convincing fashion, beating No. 9
Marion Bartoli 7-5, 6-1 in the Sunday
final. This match was nothing like the
last one between the two, when Bar-
toli knocked Williams out of Wim-
bledon in the fourth round 6-3, 7-6
(6).
The match only lasted an hour
and 22 minutes. Williams quickly
GOOD CHANCE FOR COMEBACK
T
he idea of sportsman-
ship, as opposed to
gamesmanship, often
seems like a nostalgic
dream from the early
days of amateur sports not really
relevant to todays win-at-all-costs
professional mentality. Most players
in most sports would want to win fair-
ly if they could, but the winning part is
far more important to them than the
ethical bit. If you have to resort to
dirty tactics and Im not specifical-
ly talking about cheating, but about
playing tricks on the opposition and
bending the rules to secure victory,
then so be it.
But perhaps there is still hope for
fair play. Events last Sunday in the in-
ternational cricket test match be-
tween current world No. 1 India and
heir-ascendant England were an ideal
example of why cricket, though now
very professional and subject to the
same capitalist pressures as other
major sports, is still regarded as a gen-
tlemans game. Theres even a phrase
for it: Its just not cricket refers to an
action that, though not expressly ille-
gal, is still simply wrong.
The story started with England
fighting back into contention after a
pretty abysmal start and looking in-
creasingly likely to win the match.
Batsman Ian Bell was leading the
charge with well over a hundred runs,
and India badly needed to get him
out. And thats when it played its
trump card, an astounding piece of
gamesmanship that saw Bell walk
from the field believing the ball had
gone dead and that it was time for tea
yes, cricket really does have tea
breaks when in fact the game was
still live. Practically off the pitch, he
was easily run out, though even the
umpires didnt realize this when India
first appealed.
After several replays, the horrible
truth dawned on the England camp
and its assembled fans: according to
the regulations, Bell was out. But it
didnt feel right. That sort of trickery
just wasnt cricket, and as the players
headed off for their break, the throng
in the stands vented its anger at both
the officials and the Indian team. And
they werent alone in their thoughts;
even the Indian players didnt feel
comfortable with what had happened,
and during the pause, they unani-
Tom Taylor
CRICKETS
FAIR PLAY
Please see TAYLOR, page 11
Please see BOTW, page 16
G
o ahead and take a seat,
said sociology professor Ce-
cilia Ridgeway, motioning to
a vacant seat in her office in
McClatchy Hall. The room
was stereotypically professorial, cramped and
dimly lit, shelves filled to the brim with books.
Every available surface was stacked with papers
and files a hint at how busy Ridgeways life
had been even before being elected president of
the American Sociological Association (ASA).
President of the ASA, a non-profit mem-
bership association dedicated to advancing soci-
ology as a scientific discipline and profession
serving the public good, according to its web-
site, is only the capstone of a long list of acco-
lades that Ridgeway has accumulated over the
course of her career. She currently serves as the
Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences in the
Sociology Department at Stanford, and in 2008,
she was the winner of the Distinguished Femi-
nist Lecturer Award, given to her by Sociolo-
gists for Women in Society for her contributions
to feminist research.
Years ago as an undergraduate, like many
of her peers, Ridgeways plans were not always
so directed, and she initially did not know
which subject she would like to major in. How-
ever, she cites a class she took her sophomore
year as getting her into sociology.
I just found the sociologist convincing, she
explained.
She would go on to graduate from the Uni-
versity of Michigan in 1967 with a bachelors de-
gree in sociology, followed by a stint at Cornell
University where she earned a masters in sociol-
ogy in 1969 and Ph.D. in sociology and social psy-
chology in 1972. She went on to teach at the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Univer-
sity of Iowa before finding a home at Stanford in
1991 where she has remained ever since.
Ridgeway is acknowledges that some of her
most recognized material has to do with gender
and its influence upon social interactions. How-
ever, she is also visibly excited to discuss her
work with interpersonal relations and the
structures of power and influence that develop
RISING TO T)E TOP
Cecilia Ridgeways path to the presidency of the American Sociological Association
FEATURES
By JASMYNE KEIMIG
INTERN
Courtesy of Cecilia Ridgeway
Cecilia Ridgeway, the Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences, was recently elected to be the president of the American Sociological Association. Please see RIDGEWAY, page 16
mously agreed to ask the umpires to
reinstate Bell. What looked like a
dark day in the relations between the
two countries became a shining ex-
ample of sportsmanship by India.
Giving up perhaps the one chance
to turn the tables in the game it duly
lost, India won a lot of respect. The
game wont be remembered for the
result, but for this odd little episode.
The man of the match award went to
England bowler Stuart Broad for first
scoring crucial runs to keep his team in
the game and then taking vital wickets
that reversed Indias fortunes, but the
honor could just as easily have gone to
Indian captain Mahendra Singh
Dhoni. Not for any on-field success
his statistics were far from impressive
but for the truly honorable decision
to hand a reprieve to Bell.
It would be a lie to claim there is no
gamesmanship in cricket; in fact, some
players are renowned for the practice
of sledging, attempting to distract
opposing players by verbally abusing
them. But Im not sure many athletes
in other sports would give up a legally
obtained advantage on the basis that it
just wasnt fair. I dont know if a foot-
ball player would ever be able to con-
vince his opposition that a ball had
gone dead when in fact play was still
alive, but if he did, would he then turn
to a referee and ask for the play to be
reset on the basis that his actions
werent within the spirit of the game?
Maybe other teams in other sports
could learn something from all this.
Just as taking illegal substances or
cheating detracts from any success
you might achieve, the way you play
the game isnt just an afterthought. I
might be crazy, but I would rather
play honestly and lose than win un-
fairly. The top athletes usually have
supreme confidence in their abilities,
in how they got where they are and
how they can beat anyone. If thats re-
ally true, they shouldnt need to find
any other way to win.
Its time to read The Daily while you
sit down to your afternoon tea . . .
just kidding, Tom Taylor has tricked
you into reading another column of
his. File a complaint at tom.taylor@
stanford.edu.
By THE DAILY SPORTS STAFF
Stanford has strong early showing at
Swimming National Championships
Through two days at the 2011
ConocoPhillips U.S. National
Championships, Stanford Swim-
ming, a team of current and former
Cardinal stars, is 16 points behind
Tucson Ford Dealers Aquatics for
first place, while three Stanford
swimmers have won events in the
first two days of the meet.
Junior Bobby Bolliers 1:56.64 in
the 200-meter butterfly yesterday
gave the Cardinal its only A Final
win so far, as he edged out two
teammates that have played on both
sides of the ball at the college level.
Those guys are like animals, he
said of Howell and Amanam. Its
kind of natural for them. Its the
same foundation you go through,
out there trying to make somebody
miss.
But while Sherman and Howell
were thrust into starting roles imme-
diately due to deep holes in the sec-
ondary, the coaching staff likely con-
verted Amanam in anticipation of
the departure of all three senior de-
fensive backs following this season.
He may see light action this year at
right cornerback behind Bademosi.
Instead, the open left cornerback
spot is expected to be filled by rising
sophomore Barry Browning, who
saw action in all 13 games last sea-
son.
He is athletically incredible, but
[were also impressed by] his atti-
tude, his confidence and his willing-
ness to constantly get better, How-
ell said. Hes got high expectations
for himself, and the thing about him
is that hes very good at keeping a
level head. He realizes that theres a
lot of growth thats needed in terms
of where he wants to go.
Hes faster than anyone Ive
played with in a long time, other
than [senior wide receiver] Chris
Owusu, Thomas remarked.
Despite the Cardinals experi-
ence in the secondary, the defen-
sive backs will have their fair share
of tough tests in the year to come.
Five Pac-12 quarterbacks were
named to the Davey OBrien watch
list for the best passer in the country
earlier this summer, and Stanford
will face three of them: Oregons
Darron Thomas, USCs Matt
Barkley and Arizonas Nick Foles.
All three passers threw over 230
yards against the Cardinal last year,
with Barkley going for 390 in a close
Stanford win.
Adjustments need to be made on
a week-by-week basis due to these
quarterbacks varied styles.
Its cliche, but we take every-
thing one game at a time, Thomas
said. Each quarterback is different.
You get Darron Thomas, hes going
to be a running quarterback . . . its a
full-team effort, everyone is putting
their all into it, just trying to make
sure we do our job to stop them.
Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@
stanford.edu.
TAYLOR
FOOTBALL
|
Unit has experience
SPORTS BRIEFS
Please see BRIEFS, page 16
KEVIN TSUKII/The Stanford Daily
Junior Bobby Bollier won his first national championship yesterday in the
200-meter butterfly, beating one competitor by less than a tenth of a sec-
ond. Stanford is 16 points out of first place after the meets second day.
Brownings
faster than
anyone Ive
played with in
a long time.
MICHAEL THOMAS
senior free safety
G
ame devel-
opers are a
unique
breed. Their craft
takes an odd com-
bination of artistic, technical and managerial
chops. They might be as pretentious or entitled
as some of Hollywoods biggest directors or as
impetuous and juvenile as teenage pop stars.
Or, of course, they could just be unabashedly
geeky.
Its a rare treat when we can get inside the
heads of these visionaries, taking just a few
steps down whatever rabbit hole they might
get their ideas from. Interviews are great, but
theyre infrequent and overly scripted and
however cooperative a developer may be,
theyre usually held in check by a PR rep lurk-
ing in the shadows nearby. Developer diaries,
documentaries and making-of features are
typically just as stilted, interesting in their own
right but confined to a predictable, media-
friendly cadence.
If actors and athletes are any indication,
Twitter can be a great way to cut out the mid-
dleman and get an unfiltered window into
celebrities lives. Some developer accounts are
totally freewheeling Metal Gear creator
Hideo Kojima tweeted 20 times about
Papillon and Planet of the Apes the other
day, not mentioning games even once. Other
accounts, like Epic Games Cliff Bleszinskis,
give a healthier mix of travel updates, pictures
of pets and, of course, pimping for in-house
projects like Gears of War 3.
Dozens of other developers, though, dont
turn up with a casual search. I admit the fol-
lowing is a bit fantastical some of these guys
dont speak the best English or have PR
I
ts not unusual for avid audience members
to have trouble separating the actor from
the character hes playing. Theyll gaze at
John Krasinski and pray that hes just as witty
and charming as Jim Halpert or build elabo-
rate fantasies about befriending Tina Fey with
the hope that shes half as hilarious as her
onscreen counterpart. Ultimately, these hopes
are almost always dashed. Actors get famous
because theyre capable of becoming some-
thing theyre not, and so the chance that their
personalities in the real world would match
their onscreen personas are fairly dismal.
Fortunately, Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari
may be the worlds best exceptions to that rule:
theyre every fans fantasy theyre living,
breathing manifestations of every character
theyve ever played.
The two make an improbable pair: Ansari
has that same kind of cartoonish surrealism
even in person, all exaggerated expressions and
wild gesticulation. His twitchy counterpart sat
still and gnawed absentmindedly on a napkin
in the moments he wasnt speaking. They were
visibly comfortable surrounded by strangers
and assaulted by questions, happily bantering
back and forth with their assailants. At one
point, I confessed to having never seen Point
Break, which prompted Ansari to stare me
dead in the eyes.
You know, do me a favor: get out, he
deadpanned.
It was the first time that I have ever been
shot down by a celebrity, but it was certainly
not the last time that Ansari would playfully
mock one of his questioners.
The two were united by director Ruben
Fleischer for the movie 30 Minutes or Less,
in which they play a couple of small-town
nobodies forced to rob a bank by a pair of
similarly pathetic villains. Jesse, who worked
with Fleischer before on Zombieland, mar-
veled at the directors ability to make these
kinds of very funny, broad, visually arresting
movies but never compromise on the authen-
ticity of the characters . . . this movie is brand-
ed in a bit more realistic situation [than
Zombieland] but is still broad and extreme,
and he never once compromised the kind of
ind
ames
MUSIC REVIEW
Here I Am passable with production teams help
I
n the process of producing an album, it seems
that all the credit goes to the featured artist.
They do, after all, provide the main vocal per-
formance, and if they can slap their names on a
couple songs as a songwriter, they are blindly
(and often, misguidedly) seen as a major threat in
the music industry. However, Here I Am, the
latest work by R&B singer Kelly Rowland, is the
perfect example of how crucial a role the produc-
ers, not the artist, play. Here I Am is an album
riddled with cliches and perhaps one too many
collaborations but was at least engineered careful-
ly enough to slide by as a passable effort.
Rowland, best known as a founding mem-
ber of Destinys Child, successfully began her solo
career in 2002 (if anyone remembers Dilemma
with Nelly, that was a product of her first album),
followed by a disappointing second album, Ms.
Kelly, in 2007. Rowland is certainly a talented
singer, but her individual work, especially Here I
Am, is still unspectacular.
This latest album contains a couple hits,
most notably Motivation, the second single
and the sultriest song of the album. But its hard
to tell whether Motivation succeeds because of
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his week, Ashley took her three
boyfriends out on the long-awaited
overnight dates, a.k.a. the sex dates. She
celebrated this momentous occasion by show-
ing sensational amounts of skin and informing
her audience that yes, again she had been
misinformed all the previous times and that
Fiji is the ultimate place for falling in love.
Im really glad she cleared that up for us.
Her first date was with Ben, and the two
of them were kind of cute together: their ban-
ter was endearing, if not altogether intelligent.
I dont love Ben, but its very apparent that she
digs him, and I can respect that, though I spent
the majority of the date throwing popcorn at
the TV screen and shouting you gonna make
out? In my defense, they were practically hav-
ing sex in front of us: Ash spent an inordinate
amount of time straddling him while slather-
ing his chest with sunscreen, and then I had to
watch with increasing discomfort as Ben
rubbed sunscreen all over her barely covered
chest. At the end of it, she told him, Thanks
for all your . . . hard work Im 90 percent
certain that she was making a joke about him
having a boner. Ben also kept up his tradition
of using creepily outdated slang, referring to
the two of them as, and I swear Im not mak-
ing this up, a pair of giddy little schoolchild-
ren. Honestly, I dont know why I even both-
er to make fun of this show; it does such a
good job parodying itself.
At their dinner together, Ben was dressed
as some kind of awkward Elizabethan man,
decked out in a weird, stupid, poofy-as-hell
pirate shirt that was tucked into khakis (really,
Ben?). At the end of the date, she decided to let
him spend the night in her bed, which I
thought was actually pretty cool of her - Ive
never watched a season of The Bachelorette
in which the girl slept with her suitors before
the proposal; Id always assumed that the show
must subscribe to the outdated and misogynis-
tic assumption that if a girl isnt chaste, shes
somehow less valuable, and I appreciated the
fact that apparently this was not the case. I
mean, feminism aside, I still cant stand the
girl, but I was happy for her and her ability to
get laid.
The date with Constantine was fairly bor-
ing, though my respect for him really has been
growing in the past few weeks. Hes become
funny and likeable, though hes still vaguely
uninteresting. I always thought he was funda-
mentally a nice guy, and my respect for him
peaked today: he told her that he respected Ben
and JP, that he didnt think he was as head-
over-heels for her as they were and that he was
essentially pulling out of the running to main-
tain good relationships with his friends. In the
end, it turned out that big, goofy Constantard
is a pretty rad guy after all.
This episode also featured a big surprise:
goofy optimist Ryan, whod been sent home
two episodes ago and who never had any sort
of chemistry with our dear little dentist,
returned with the hope of a second chance.
Ryans whole tearful I just want somebody to
love! bit was cute the first time, and it was
even sad the second time, but honestly, guy,
its been like four times now. Quit your crying
and move on with your life; you went on like
one date with this girl. Ash dealt with things
fairly maturely: she gave him a hug, told him
how much she respected him and then sent
him home.
As per usual, the producers ensured that
their viewers would stick around for the whole
show by saving JP for last. Honestly, that boy is
perfection; hes this exquisite combination of
departments that keep them away from
Twitter with a 10-foot pole. Others may
already have blogs or journals, but those still
arent as sporadic, unfiltered or casual as a
humble tweet. So with that in mind and
impracticalities neatly swept under the rug,
heres my list a guy can dream, right?
Shigeru Miyamoto
Famous for: Mario, Zelda, Donkey
Kong
Miyamotos position at Nintendo goes
beyond a traditional title. The man is a gold
mine of ideas, and hes been cranking out
classics since Nintendo kick-started the
industry after the market crashed in 1983.
His games, while revered, are utterly bizarre
on the surface but incredibly, almost all
his inspirations come from his daily life.
Mario was his landlord, Pikmin came
from a day in the garden, Zelda is a
reimagining of his trips to rural Japan and
Nintendogs, of course, comes from time
with his Shetland Shepard, Pikku. At age 58,
hes only getting quirkier, and Id love to see
more of life through his eyes.
Richard Garriott
Famous for: Ultima . . . and something awe-
some.
So, Richard Garriott. Never heard of
him? Then you mustve been born in the
90s or owned a crappy computer until the
last decade. Garriott made a name for him-
self with the Ultima series of PC RPGs,
which he developed nonstop from 1980 to
2000. His games might seem dry to younger
audiences, but even at 50, his personality is
one of a kind. Exhibit A: his rat tail-esque
hair (you kind of have to see it). And B: hes
been to freaking space. Really: Garriott, the
sun of an astronaut, funded his own 12-day
journey aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket to
the International Space Station in 2008.
Keiji Inafune
Famous for: Mega Man, Onimusha,
Dead Rising
More than anyone on this list, Inafune
has always been about the fans. He makes
video messages for them, takes their opin-
ions to heart and, in his time with the com-
pany, wasnt afraid to lobby Capcom for
entire projects based on fan demand. That
attitude won him plenty of admiration from
gamers, but caused enough friction with
Capcom for him to leave the company
where he had become a legend over 23 years.
Theres a great personality and a bit of mys-
tery to Inafune, and Id love to see more
snippets of his personal side and his new
game, of course.
Tomonobu Itagaki
Famous for: Dead or Alive, Ninja
Gaiden, sketchiness
Tomonobu Itagaki is a creep. Hes a
misogynistic, crude man who hides behind
sunglasses and gets in trouble for sexual
harassment. His Dead or Alive and Ninja
Gaiden games were generally well received
(including by this writer) before his dramatic
departure from Team Ninja. But they were
also crammed with enough busty women
and organ-spewing carnage to land 20-
minute specials on Fox. Hes twisted and
eccentric, but hes also a visionary. In short,
hes a perfect candidate for Twitter.
Gabe Newell
Famous for: Running the house that built
Half-Life, Portal and Steam
To put it one way, Gabe Newell is in
charge of what might be the most badass
game company I know of. Valve is privately
owned, operates largely in secret and some-
how toes the line between rainbow-coated
dream factory and underground money-
printing operation with enough grace to
command respect. It doesnt hurt to control
nearly three quarters of the downloadable
PC game market via Steam, either. Its not
going to happen anytime soon, but having
some insight into Valves inner workings
with an active Twitter feed from Newell
would lend some personality to the secretive
company. And as a man, Newell himself
provides an intriguing object of study; hes
got a collection of 600 knives in his office
and talks smack about other companies
whenever he wants. Valve is a one-in-a-mil-
lion sort of company, and no one embodies
its mystique, talent and attitude more than
Newell.
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feral feline sexuality and stable,
reliable maturity. He also looks
like hes a really good kisser, which
is so important and (in my experi-
ence) really, really rare.
Conclusion: Ashley doesnt deserve
him. If she doesnt choose him in
the end, so help me, I am going to
cut someone. Their date is
uneventful but perfect, and at the
end of it, (thank god) she sexes
him up, and Id bet big money that
he was better in bed than Ben.
At the end of the day, I think
she really is technically more com-
patible with Ben, but shed be an
idiot if she passed up the chance of
living out her life with Perfect Man
JP. I have no idea how this is going
to end; it could very plausibly go
either way, and to be honest, Im a
little bit scared.
Tune in next week, when It
All Ends.
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reality of the characters. Oh, and for anyone wonder-
ing: yes, Jesse Eisenberg really does talk that quickly in
real life.
The pacing of the movies dialogue felt extremely
natural, so the fact that a good deal of it was invented
on the spot was not terribly surprising.
Its hard to say a percentage or anything, Ansari
explained, but on set there were a lot of little moments
we found and a lot of great lines we came up with that
did end up in the movies . . . You know, when youre
actually there wearing the costumes, youre in the set,
youre doing the scenes, certain things come to your
head that you just cant come up with when you read it
in the room.
One of these certain things was the entirety of
the banter from the bank robbery scene (one of the
most hilarious scenes in the movie), which leads to the
conclusion that the entire film probably would have
gone over swimmingly if the director had just placed
Jesse and Ansari in front of a camera without a script
for an hour and sent it straight to production.
Ansari also gave a glimpse into an actors psyche,
despite his refusal to give straight answers. Elaborating
on his funnier improvised decisions, he explained that
much of his behavior was influenced by decisions that
hed made about his character without any direction
from the script or from his directors.
I made a choice somewhat early on that [his
character Chet] was hungry the whole day. This was-
nt particularly significant to the movie, of course, but
it did partially explain Chets short fuse.
Jesse was asked what he would do in his charac-
ters situation if he were not a super-rich celebrity.
But, like Ansari, he shot back a characteristically cheeky
answer.
Wait, sorry, Im just Im having trouble just
figuring out what its like to not be a super-rich celebri-
ty, he said. So, what, hed just email his assistant? Jesse
laughed: Oh, I dont have to email her, she knows.
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cont act el i ana: car mona@st anf or d. edu
Rowland herself, the grinding beat or
Lil Waynes star power. The same
goes with Commander, an exces-
sively auto-tuned song that, at least, is
a club thumper (and of course it is,
because it was produced by David
Guetta).
Besides these two efforts, Here I
Am is marred by poorly done generic
fillers. The album opens with Im Dat
Chick, a flimsy attempt at a female
empowerment song (Im not tacky/I
just love myself), especially when com-
pared to the rest of the more fawning
album. Lay It on Me (featuring Big
Sean), for instance, is an off-putting
combination of happy pop beat with
the pleading lyrics of a slow jam, while
Down for Whatever (featuring The
Wavs) brings yet another meaningless
song, this time with a thick electro
rhythm entirely out of place on an
R&B album.
Here I Am may at least catch
up to the sales success of Beyonces lat-
est, 4, if not garner the same critical
reception. And the comparison is
inevitable, if not regrettable, after the
two spent over a decade singing
together. Though Rowland shouldnt
have to spend her career in the shadow
of Beyonce, she will. Here I Am does
not help Rowlands case, lacking the
individuality and punch of an excellent
solo album.
In the end, the success stories of
Here I Am lie with a couple singles
and several high-flying producers.
Without this duo, the album would fall
flat; as is, Rowland might think to keep
her production team nearby for a
while.
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AMERICA
inadequate or incomplete respons-
es to community input on HSR
track alternatives and deleterious
traffic effects from any at-grade
track alternatives which impede ve-
hicle, pedestrian or bike move-
ments.
However, as an entity, Stanford
has no official view of the high-
speed rail but hopes to keep a
working transportation system at
their service.
Several thousand employees
of Stanford use Caltrain, and we
have emphasized Stanfords inter-
est in seeing that a viable com-
muter rail service continues, what-
ever may happen with HSR, Mc-
Cown said.
Contact Haelin Cho at haelin.cho@
gmail.com.
RAIL
cial aid will be available toward the
seminar fee.
Kennedy remarked that the loca-
tions of the seminars have been used
for purposes beyond providing a trip
for students.
Weve used [locations] for a lot
of our own research purposes to
explore locations where we might
consider a center; to go to locations
where we knew we would never have
a center; and occasionally we inten-
tionally located them at places where
we had a center and infrastructure in
place to support them, she said. I
think that will be true again.
The program has manifested in
follow-up visits to seminar countries
for some current students and recent
alumni.
Manny Fassihi 11 went to
Bhutan with history professor Mark
Mancall on a seminar called Ti-
betan Buddhism in Bhutan and
Gross National Happiness in June
2008. Fassihi detailed what he wit-
nessed on the trip.
Bhutan had just made the tran-
sition from monarchy to democra-
cy, with their inaugural elections in
April of that year, wrote Fassihi in
an email to The Daily. As a result,
there were tons of big events com-
memorating the shift, not least of
which was the signing of the consti-
tution.
Fassihi stayed in Bhutan during a
gap year before the 2010-11 school
year, moved there after graduation
is and is working at the Centre for
Media and Democracy.
I dont think its an overstate-
ment to call the program life-
changing it opened up a whole
new world for me that I wouldnt
have had the opportunity to experi-
ence otherwise.
Contact Kristian Bailey at kbailey@
stanford.edu.
SEMINARS
agreed upon. There is no clear con-
sensus between ad agencies, privacy
watchdogs or regulators about what
tracking means or what opting out
entails.
Tracking refers to recording in-
formation so that somebody can
link together activities by the same
user over time, said Edward Fel-
ten, chief technologist at the FTC.
Peter Eckersley, senior staff
technologist at the Electronic Fron-
tier Foundation, a watchdog group
that campaigns for public rights in
the digital arena, explained the ad
industrys conflict about opting out.
The industry has two radically
different notions of what opt out
means, Eckersley said. One no-
tion is that it means, Well stop col-
lecting records about you that we
can use to track you the other
definition is Well just stop target-
ing ads based on the tracking weve
done.
It would be a mistake to write a
piece of legislation that defines
third-party tracking, Eckersley
added. The better way would be to
have an ongoing process for revis-
ing the definition. We know tech-
nology will evolve.
As for current legislation, there
is no existing law at the federal level
that relates to online advertising or
third-party tracking, Felton said.
Legislation has been introduced
in California and at the federal level
that would respectively give the
state Attorney Generals office and
FTC rule-making responsibilities,
but nothing has been enacted.
If the federal government were
going to play a constructive role, [it
should] create incentives for re-
specting consumer choice and for
developing and respecting privacy-
enhancing technologies, Eckersley
said.
Omar Tawakol, CEO of
BlueKai, an online advertising com-
pany and NAI member that took
overt steps to honor consumer opt
out requests, illustrated the dilem-
ma the industry faces.
If you asked the consumer,
Do you want to get rid of advertis-
ing in your content? Theyd say
yes. If you asked them, Do you
want to pay for the content?
Theyd say no. Eighty percent [of
content] is funded by some use of
third-party cookie.
Felten, Mayer, Tawakol and oth-
ers representing online advertising
and privacy interests attended
WiTap, Workshop on Internet
Tracking, Advertising and Priva-
cy, hosted at Stanford by SSL on
July 22.
Both Felten and Mayer spoke at
the event, which was planned eight
months before Mayers reports and
addressed technical challenges in
the industry and promoted research
in the field. About 150 hundred
people attended.
The main consensus [reached
was] that privacy on the web . . .
needs more research on both the
technical and policy fronts, wrote
Dan Boneh, professor of computer
science and electrical engineering
and one of the workshops organiz-
ers, in an email to The Daily.
With regard to action resulting
from the two reports, Felten said the
FTC never reveals whether it is per-
forming investigations but did ad-
dress the technical ambiguities sur-
rounding Mayers charge of history
stealing by Epic Marketplace.
[Epic] has objected to the term
history stealing, but the question is
whether theres a dispute about the
technical details of whats happen-
ing or not, Felten said.
Eckersley thought the issue was
clear regardless of technicalities.
People are interested in
whether these companies theyve
never heard of are sucking up all
their reading habits like a giant vac-
uum cleaner or a creepy guy in the li-
brary looking over your shoulder at
everything youre reading, he said.
Contact Kristian Davis Bailey at
kbailey@stanford.edu.
TRACKING
overpowered Bartoli, who has made
it to the final three of the last four
years and won only once, in 2009,
against Serenas sister Venus. Bar-
toli did keep things close in the first
set, taking a 4-2 lead before she suf-
fered a bruised bone in her hand.
The 29-year-old Williams flashed
her signature powerful serves,
recording 11 aces. At times serving
straight into the sun, she was often
forced to alter her first serve.
In a tournament that was filled
with unexpected upsets, Williams
looked strong throughout. In front
of a packed house Friday evening,
the much-anticipated quarterfinal
matchup between Williams and No.
5 Maria Sharapova only took two
sets with Serena winning 6-1, 6-3.
It was a bad day, and I didnt feel
good on many parts of the game,
Sharapova said. But I also need to
step up and keep on going.
The following day, Williams post-
ed a 6-1, 6-2 victory against No. 26
Sabine Lisicki of Germany. The
match took less than an hour as
Williams recorded three aces and
four break points.
The tournament victory had
added emotion for Williams, espe-
cially after an 11-month layoff from
tennis because of complications that
resulted from a cut on her foot last
July. The break dropped Williams
ranking down to No. 169 in the
world, but winning the BotW
brought her back into the double
digits at No. 79.
[These smaller tournaments]
absolutely mean a lot more than they
did, Williams said. I am so grateful
to have an opportunity to be healthy
and be here.
Other notable tennis players on
campus were No. 18 Ana Ivanokic of
Russia, No. 14 Agnieska Radwanska
of Poland and last years winner, Vic-
toria Azarenka of Belarus.
Ivanokic was upset in the first
round by Ayumi Morita of Japan 6-
3, 7-5. Radwanska lost to Lisicki in
the quarterfinals 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2.
Azarenka, ranked No. 4 in the
world and hoping to repeat after beat-
ing Sharapova in the 2010 final, was
upset in the singles tournament 4-6, 7-
5, 6-2 by New Zealander Marina Er-
akovic. The victory was Erakovics
first against a top-10 player.
Although she was unable to de-
fend her singles title, Azarenka built
upon her semifinal finish in last
years doubles tournament, winning
the title with her partner Maria Kir-
ilenko.
In an exciting week of family
events and autograph sessions, the
fun was capped off with the audience
singing happy birthday to Azarenka,
whose birthday is July 31.
The Bank of the West Classic was
the first stop on the 2011 Olympus
U.S. Open Series, which will lead up
to the U.S. Open in New York from
Aug. 29 to Sept. 11.
Contact Kevin Zhang at kevinzhangle
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Serena Williams potentially launched a comeback from injury with her win
at the Bank of the West Classic, taking the final in straight sets.
other swimmers by less than 15
hundredths of a second. Two other
Stanford swimmers have won
freestyle events, with incoming
freshman Drew Cosgareas win in
the 400 C Final on Tuesday and se-
nior Kate Dwelleys victory in the
200 B Final on Wednesday.
Sophomore Maya DiRado fin-
ished high on the leaderboard in
two events, placing third in the 200
IM and second in the 200 Free at
the B level. Also performing well
was alumna Elaine Breeden, who
finished third in the 100 fly after
winning the NCAA Championship
in the event in 2010.
Joseph Beyda
Morton named Track Scholar-Athlete
of the Year
Eleven Cardinal track athletes
earned spots on the U.S. Track and
Field and Cross Country Coaches
Association (USTFCCCA) All-
Academic Team, while junior
Amaechi Morton was named the
Outdoor Track Scholar-Athlete of
the Year for Division I.
Morton, a four-time All-Ameri-
can, holds Stanford records in both
the 400 meters and 400-meter hur-
dles. He finished second in the latter
race at the NCAA Outdoor Cham-
pionships in June with a season-best
time of 49.08, and is ranked 18th in
the world in the event.
Among the other Cardinal
members are juniors Chris Derrick
and Benjamin Johnson and senior
Elliot Heath, all three-time selec-
tions. Derrick won a similar Schol-
ar-Athlete of the Year award for
the cross country season.
Joseph Beyda
Ogwumikes selected to Team USA
A pair of Stanford sisters will
represent USA Basketball at the
World University Games in China
in mid-August.
Nnemkadi and Chiney Ogwu-
mike were both named to the 12-
woman roster on Wednesday. The
duo averaged a combined 29.2
points per game last season.
En route to her third Final Four
appearance in as many years,
Nnemkadi led the Pac-10 in scoring
and was a finalist for the Wade Tro-
phy, Naismith Trophy and Wooden
Award. The rising senior also made
her mark in the postseason, earning
Most Outstanding Player honors at
both the Pac-10 tournament and
the Spokane Regional.
As a freshman, Chiney was
named the Pac-10 Freshman of the
Year, averaging double-digits in
points per game while posting a
57.4 shooting percentage.
Team USA won gold at the
World University Games two years
ago, when former Cardinal players
Jeanette Pohlen and Kayla Peder-
sen were on the squad.
Joseph Beyda
Stanford volleyball players off to
international tourneys
Cardinal volleyball players will
be busy this August, as six will par-
ticipate in two major tournaments
representing the United States.
Three of Stanfords top six hit-
ters from last season have headed
to Brazil to play in the FIVB Junior
World Championships, which run
from Aug. 1 to 10. Sophomores
Brian Cook, Eric Mochalski and
Steven Irwin were all named to the
squad, which won the tournament
opener against Bulgaria before
falling to host Brazil. Mochalski
had seven kills, two blocks and an
ace in the teams four-set victory
over Japan to end pool play on
Wednesday, as the team advanced
to the second round of pool play to
take place later this week. Sopho-
more Carly Wopat finished fourth
with the womens team on Sunday.
After a week of tryouts, seniors
Brad Lawson and Erik Shoji
along with former Cardinal setter
and 2010 Collegiate Player of the
Year Kawika Shoji were chosen
to play in the Junior Worlds. The
squad will play from Aug. 12 to 23
in China.
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BRIEFS
in interpersonal relations.
Its interesting because its be-
tween people in the same family,
between intimates, she said. And
a lot of the important things that
happen with gender happen inter-
personally, not just institutionally.
This is in your face in some ways.
As president of the ASAa po-
sition that begins as president-elect
on Aug. 23 of this year and as presi-
dent on Aug. 20, 2012 Ridgeway
will organize programs for sociolo-
gists to submit papers for presenta-
tion and invite panels that discuss dif-
ferent themes. She will also give a
presidential address to an audience
of sociologists at each meeting. De-
spite the added responsibility, she is
not worried that the position will in-
terfere with her teaching or current
research pursuits.
Its a lot of work but it isnt a
conflict with your job, she said.
The positions flexibility will
allow her academic research, which
builds upon a 30-year body of work
and innumerable publications, to
continue full steam ahead. In addi-
tion to publishing a book that focus-
es on the persistence of gender in-
equalities in the modern world enti-
tled Framed by Gender (2011),
Ridgeway has been busy doing a
lot of studies on how beliefs develop
that change social differences into
status differences.
Additionally, in collaboration
with two other professors, Ridge-
way is working on a paper that deals
with the face to face aspects of so-
cial class and how that can act as bar-
riers for people. She excitedly talks
about the areas in society where
race, class, and gender collide.
At Stanford, Ridgeways courses
touch squarely on those themes. For
undergraduates, she teaches two
classes, Interpersonal Relations
and Sociology of Gender. At the
graduate level, she teaches a class
called Foundations of Social Psy-
chology, an advanced workshop
on the same topic.
Yet despite all of her accom-
plishments in the field of gender
studies and interpersonal relations,
Ridgeway remains a down-to-earth,
and her waist-length hair and cat-
eye glasses exude a kind of vintage
sixties-style cool. Students who
have worked closely with Ridgeway
share their enthusiasm about her as
an educator, mentor and leader
within the discipline.
Working with Cecilia has been
a wonderful experience, said
Karen Powroznik Ph.D. 14, who
knows Ridgeway as an adviser.
[She] is extremely insightful and
offers a nice balance of encourage-
ment and constructive criticism. She
doesnt just explain complicated
ideas, she helps students work
through them.
I am excited for her to serve as
ASA president because I believe
the qualities that make her such an
excellent mentor will benefit the
organization as a whole, she
added.
Contact Jasmyne Keimig at jkeimig@
stanford.edu.
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