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ACADEMICS
UARseeks
feedback
on advising
STUDENT GOVT
Elec Comm
nominee
confirmed
By IVY NGUYEN
MANAGING EDITOR
The 13th Undergraduate Senate
convened for its first meeting of the
2011-12 academic year Tuesday,
confirming Adam Adler 12 as its
new Elections Commissioner and
discussing several upcoming bills.
Former Elections Commissioner
Stephen Trusheim 13 nominated
Adler at the Senates final meeting
of the 2010-11 school year, but the
Senate postponed taking action
amid concerns that Adler then
the ASSU solicitors general (SG)
misused his discretionary power
as SG. After filing a complaint
against former ASSU Publications
Board co-director Alice Nam 11
and former Senate Chair Madeline
Hawes 13 in response to their deci-
sion to nominate Zachary Warma
11 to the position of publications
board co-director, Adler offered his
services as SG to the respondents, a
move to which Nam objected at last
years final meeting.
Prior to his confirmation, Adler
fielded questions from the Senate,
which focused on his platform and
his involvement in the Flipsides
satirical request for a Segway in its
special fees budget proposal.
In his brief outline of his plans as
commissioner, Adler spoke of
working with the Constitutional
Council to redraft the election poli-
cies to make them more tight and
to create an elections handbook de-
tailing all election policies in one
By LAURYN WILLIAMS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Undergraduate Advising and
Research (UAR) reinstated manda-
tory quarterly check-ins with pre-
major advisors (PMAs) beginning
with the Class of 2014. With a year
under the programs belt, UAR is fa-
cilitating feedback to try to further
improve the pre-major advising ex-
perience at Stanford.
While the check-in program is
not completely new, it is a revision to
a past policy. Under the revision, stu-
dents who have not declared a major
are now required to meet with
PMAs before they can enroll in
courses for the following quarter.
Due to adjustments to the Universi-
tys enrollment program, UAR is
now able to ensure that undeclared
students meet with their advisors by
placing a hold on their Axess ac-
counts until they attend the meet-
ings.
According to the 2010-11 UAR
Annual Report, the hold on enroll-
ment was originally instated to rein-
force [UARs] commitment that
every undeclared undergraduate
should have the benefit of regular
advice and guidance from an advi-
sor.
Because incoming freshmen and
sophomores are now required to
meet with advisors quarterly, UAR
has prioritized matching students to
PMAs with whom they share a com-
mon interest.
The Approaching Stanford
questionnaire translates into groups
of possible majors, and the Academ-
ic Director matches these descrip-
tions with a PMA, said Julie Lyth-
cott-Haims, dean of freshmen and
undergraduate advising.
Kirsti Copeland, director of Resi-
dentially-Based Advising, oversees
the process as Academic Directors
coordinate students with their advi-
sors.
Unlike the all-volunteer PMA
By JOSH HOYT
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
In Tuesdays talk titled A
Constitutional Conversation with
Dan Farber: Why Rick Perry is
Wrong About Secession and
What the Answers Imply About
Federal Power, Farber, professor
of law at the University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley, gave a definitive
answer to the question, Does
any state have the right to se-
cede?.
The lecture, sponsored by the
Stanford Constitutional Law
Center, addresses a question that
has been revisited in recent
months because of the presiden-
tial campaign of Governor Perry,
who said in a 2009 speech at a Tea
Party rally, Texas is a unique
place. When we came in the union
in 1845, one of the issues was that
we would be able to leave if we de-
cided to do that.
He continued by saying,
Weve got a great union . . . but if
Washington continues to thumb
their [sic] nose at the American
people, who knows what may
come out of that?
The answer, according to Far-
ber, is definitely not a legal seces-
sion from the United States. Far-
ber believes that the founders of
the Constitution did not intend for
the union to be so loose as to allow
for a legal right to secede, a right
the South claimed during the Civil
War, if only because they gave the
federal government too much
power to assume the states were
sovereign. In his mind, however,
the issue wasnt made completely
clear until the Fourteenth Amend-
ment to the Constitution was es-
tablished.
In his paper, The 14th
Amendment and the Unconstitu-
tionality of Secession, on which
his talk was based, Farber wrote
that the 14th Amendment means
no state can deprive any Ameri-
can citizen of the privileges or im-
munities of citizenship which
means that a state, for example,
cannot deprive a citizen of U.S. cit-
izenship by seceding.
Farber also briefly addressed
another popular claim that Texas
has the special right to break itself
into five different states. In fact,
Texas does have this right, but Far-
ber doubted it would ever happen
because they would all want to be
called Texas. He also doubted
that the Constitutional equal
footing doctrine, stating that the
states must have equal legal rights,
would allow for a split, but admit-
ted it is possible.
Rick Perry has since backed
away from any talk of secession,
going so far as to address it specif-
ically on Fox News last week.
While not an issue of national im-
mediacy, the potential for seces-
sion has been something of a rally-
ing cry for the Tea Party in Texas.
Farber, who was introduced as
a big-D democrat, joked that
perhaps this outcome is not so
bad.
After all if you can secede you
can also be expelled, he conclud-
ed.
Contact Joshua Hoyt at jwghoyt@
stanford.edu.
By BILLY GALLAGHER
DESK EDITOR
ASSU Senator Daniel DeLong 13 has been eval-
uating students desire for extended Green library
hours since he was elected this past spring. With help
from Deputy Chair Dan Ashton 14 and several stat-
isticians, DeLong said he hopes to accurately gauge
students interest and lobby on their behalf.
DeLong reached out to students before and after
he was elected, seeking to evaluate their needs and
concerns. He said one of the major responses he re-
ceived concerned Green Library.
Students didnt feel there was a safe 24-hour or
safe late night study space for students outside of their
dormitories,he said.
DeLong noted that librarians will make no capital
investments in Meyer, which currently includes a 24-
hour study room, because of its planned destruction.
DeLong sent out requests for students to join a
task force to examine this topic. He received 17 re-
sponses three of whom were from ASSU mem-
bers. He said they resisted the initial temptation to
send out a petition, claiming that University officials
do not take them as seriously.
The last thing they want to see is a petition, De-
Long said. Because its very easy to sign a petition.
And whos not going to sign a petition saying, I want
lower taxes and I want better education for my chil-
dren? Everyones going to sign both of those.
They also ruled out sending a mass email, citing
participation bias and bias from those who are con-
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ASSU Senator Daniel DeLong 13 is heading a task force on extending Green Librarys operational hours.
Green, the main undergraduate library, saw its hours reduced in the 2009 University-wide budget cuts.
Recent Ph.D.grad dies
in accident
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Daniel Strickland, M.A. 09 Ph.D.
10, died last Friday from injuries sus-
tained in a car crash on Interstate
Highway 280. He was 27.
According to a California High-
way Patrol report, Strickland hit a
deer in his gray Volkswagen near
Alpine Road at 8:10 p.m. on Thurs-
day. Shortly after, a red Audi driven
by a Mountain View resident collided
with the rear of Stricklands vehicle.
Strickland suffered major head
trauma and was transported to Stan-
ford Hospital, where he passed away
the next day.According to a police re-
port, Strickland was not wearing a
seat belt at the time of the second col-
lision.
After graduating from Stanford,
Strickland became a junior professor
at Santa Clara University, where he
focused on researching affordable
energy conversion.
Kurt Chirbas
Undeclared required
to meet with advisors
Senate approves Adler
as new elections chair
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Farber talks Texas-
secession plan
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
Berkeley law professor Dan Farber speaks about the constitutionality and
likelihood of secession at a presentation at the Law School. The event was
hosted by the Stanfod Constitutional Law Center Tuesday night.
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Please see PMA, page 6
Please see BRIEFS, page 6
Please see GREEN, page 6
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SIG Fellow experiences student
protests in Chile
FEATURES
Protesting 101
By THOMAS HENDEE
S
ome experiences are expected on a
Stanford in Government International
Fellowship practicing the local lan-
guage, eating new kinds of food, be-
friending locals and being introduced
to a new sector of work. But in Santiago, Chile,
I found myself thrown into Protesting 101: An
Introduction to Revolution.
Santiago on your average day is one of the
most orderly cities in South America. Drivers
follow the road signs, pedestrians have the right
of way and crime rates are the lowest in the re-
gion. The late June day I arrived in my down-
town apartment was not to be an average day.
The once orderly downtown area was chaos in
amid the ongoing student protests that had con-
sumed Chiles public education system for over
a month.Tear gas, water-spraying military tanks
and thousands of military police descended on
areas with congregating groups.
A month before my arrival, high school and
university students started to take over their
schools and went on strike. The students had
last rallied together demanding comprehensive
education reform in 2006, but the scale of
protests in this Chilean winter had never be-
fore been seen. The movements key demands
were quality public education, profit-free pri-
vate schools and a revised system for students
to receive education loans.
Walking through the streets of downtown
Santiago, I saw and heard the peoples
thoughts. At one protest, a man on stilts
dressed as Augusto Pinochet, the former
Chilean general and dictator, carried puppet
strings connected to another man dressed as
the current president, Sebastian Piera. I saw
hundreds of students fake a mass suicide, rep-
resenting the nihilism they claimed to en-
counter in their educational aspirations. I saw
an elderly couple holding hands and a sign that
read, Students, know that your grandparents
support you. The songs of the protesters of-
fered me a glimpse of their views:
Educate the children and you will not need
to punish the adults.
I have two children, which one do I educate?
If you want to study in Chile, go buy yourself
a lottery ticket.
Piera why dont you talk so we know you
exist!
At night I participated in the cacerolazos, a
way to protest the governments policy by
banging pots and pans. I stood on my balcony
banging on a pot, hearing thousands of others
doing the same. The first week I was in Chile I
heard a similar rallying cry when the Chilean
National soccer team won a game in the Copa
Amrica, but the cacerolazos brought the noise
to another level.
Everything around me proved that the
movement came from all parts of society, but
the media consistently focused on the vandal-
ism and delinquents who took the streets along
with protesters. Watching the news at night, I
would not hear about the hundreds of thou-
sands of people I saw singing and cheering for a
better future, but rather about the police con-
frontations with a small group of violent citizens
who had no connection to the student leaders.
The movement hit a rough patch on Aug. 5,
when the government declined to let the stu-
dents protest on Santiagos main avenue. Con-
frontations between the police and the enca-
puchados, groups of hooded protesters, ensued.
I witnessed park benches ripped out of their
place and moved to blockade the streets, rocks
thrown at police officers and graffiti.The police
detained 800 people, and more than 40 were in-
jured. The media highlighted the destruction
and blamed the students for damaging the state
of the country.
Nevertheless, the student protesters came
together and stood up for their demands. Nego-
tiations with the government on education re-
forms are set to begin soon, although the at-
mosphere in Chile is still tense.
Contact Thomas Hendee at hendee@stanford.
edu.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
The Bita Daryabari Endowment for Persian Literature
at Stanford University at the Iranian Studies Program is
proud to introduce, Women Poets of Iran: 1797-1967,
through the Department of Comparative Literature. The
course will be taught by Assistant Professor Dominic Parviz
Brookshaw.
COURSE TITLE:
WOMEN POETS OF IRAN: 1797-1967
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
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in Qajar Iran. The focus will then shift to the emergence of
liberalist, modernist and proto-feminist poets in the early 20th
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of Simin Behbahani and Forugh Farrokhzad. The course will
trace the emergence of a female voice in Persian poetry in the
19th and 20th centuries and, although focused on women, it
will discuss the place within and contribution to the wider poetic
scene in Iran by women in some of the most turbulent years in
modern Iranian history.
COURSE INFORMATION:
COMPLIT 118
MW from 11:00am -12:30pm
Room #: 160-315
For more information: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DLCL/cgi-bin/web/
Courtesy of Thomas Hendee
Police stand guard in streets of Santiago, Chile in response to student protests demanding
comprehensive education reform in universities and secondary schools in the country.
Courtesy of Thomas Hendee
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OPINIONS
T
his summer, I had jury duty
for the first time. I spent three
days waiting in the back of a
courtroom I missed my mas-
sage appointment to uphold my
civic duty, so I was not pleased
and when the judge finally called
me forward to state the informa-
tion, the first question the de-
fense attorney asked me was, So,
youre a senior? And what do you
plan to do when you graduate?
Like so many of you, I have no
idea what Im going to do when
June rolls around and Im released
into the wild. Ive considered
everything from graduate school
to running off with the circus, but
nothing seems quite right for me.
Growing up in a Jewish family, I
believed from a young age that my
only two options were becoming a
lawyer or a doctor, but recent
Googling has proved that this is
not the case there are in fact
other jobs out there, and some of
them are even interesting. Though
I still havent found exactly what
Im looking for, I plan to share my
search with you by presenting a job
each week that you might not have
thought of or known about other-
wise.We have great career counsel-
ing resources on campus and I
am not one of them but Im
going to write about some slightly
less conventional career paths that
I think are worth considering.
This week: the green auditor.
If you like the environment and
telling people theyre wrong while
not sacrificing your love of the finer
things in life (read: eating), this one
might be for you. A green auditor is
like a tax auditor, only with a soul.
Companies hire green auditors to
evaluate their business practices
against an environmental code, find
where they fall short and help de-
sign solutions to bring them to this
standard. Green auditors will also
sometimes evaluate the energy effi-
ciency of building structures, both
corporate and private. In a world
where companies are desperate to
project a greenimage, green audi-
tors are increasingly in demand.
As a green auditor, you would
likely be employed by a sustain-
ability consulting firm, though
self-employment is another op-
tion. You will also get the opportu-
nity to do some local traveling, vis-
i ti ng compani es and pri vate
homes for on-site evaluations. As
much as I love a good road trip,
there are aspects of the job that
are even better. First and fore-
most, you will be cutting emissions
and helping the environment,
which is incredibly rewarding. It is
much steadier employment than,
say, protesting, and you actually
get to make a difference. Because
it is a relatively new field, salary is
highly variable, but Internet re-
ports place the average annual in-
come of a green auditor some-
where between $60, 000 and
$102,000. Side note: If you do be-
come a green auditor, it might be
nice to use some of that substantial
salary to take this columnist out
for a nice thank you dinner.
Now that you are thoroughly
excited about green auditing
and the chance to have dinner with
me well go over exactly how
someone gets into the field of sus-
tainability consulting. Though the
qualifications for becoming a
green auditor are variable de-
pending on the employer, the In-
ternet and I recommend having a
background in environmental sci-
ence, engineering, public policy,
energy-resource management or
any similar field. In addition, green
auditors must go through a certifi-
cation process before they can
start laying down the green law.
There are several different types
of certification, each of which fo-
cuses on different aspects of the
field some qualify you for eval-
uating building structure, some for
analyzing electrical appliances
and others for examining business
practices. Regardless of which
type of certification you intend to
pursue, the best way to break into
the business is still with an intern-
ship (surprise!), which can also
help you narrow down your inter-
ests within the field.
Most jokes aside, sustainability
consulting is a great place to be
right now. In this difficult economy,
jobs that are on the rise are hard to
come by, and this one pays well too.
Oh, and theres the minor detail of
helping to save planet Earth.
Do you have other career plans but
still want to take Amanda out to din-
ner? Try to charm her with an email
to aach@stanford.edu.
JOBBERISH
The Green Auditor
Amanda
Ach
T
here has been a conspiracy to
prevent me from ever taking
an art class at Stanford; Im
sure of it. For the most part, its not
that hard to get into classes you
want here, a fact Im blessedly re-
minded of every time I see friends
from home. The one exception Ive
found to this is our Studio Art De-
partment. This is one of my eternal
frustrations at this school: I love
art, but it seems that the Depart-
ment of Art & Art History wants
nothing to do with me.
In high school, the art room was
my second home. When I got to
Stanford, I seriously considered
being a studio art major or minor. I
was forced to drop that idea be-
cause I could not manage to get my
foot in the door to take even one
art class. Its actually quite impres-
sive; I believe I have been turned
away from art classes for every
possible reason.
At the start of freshman year, I
signed up for Painting I and Draw-
ing I. I was in on Axess, so I
shopped another class during
Drawing I, only to find out later
that you have to show up to the
first class to get in. Lesson learned.
Then I went to Painting I; it was
honestly a little frightening. Thirty-
five kids were crowded into a
paint-covered studio, and when the
professor announced he could only
take 12, everyone instantly became
unspoken enemies. Sideways
glances flew around the room as
everyone tried to assess if they
were more deserving than the rest.
This teacher gave priority to sen-
iors, then juniors, then sopho-
mores. As a freshman, I was given
an automatic goodbye.
Sophomore year, I was pumped
that I would have a better chance.
The third times the charm, right? I
walked into Drawing I and was met
with the most ironic of all an-
nouncements: this class was taught
by a different teacher who wanted
to make sure freshmen got oppor-
tunities to try out the Art Depart-
ment. He gave priority to freshmen
and seniors with sophomores at
the bottom of the list. I was out. So
I picked up my backpack, left and
put aside my hopes for majoring in
art. Although disillusioned, I was
still determined to try again.
However, in my one quarter on
campus junior year, I decided not
to waste Axess space on a class I
might not get into anyway. I walked
into the classroom for Painting I.
This teacher began by reading off
the list of those signed up on Axess
and asked everyone else to leave
immediately.
I just gave up. After three years
and four attempts, I could not get
into a single class. However sad or
pitiful this story may be, I do have a
point. From my experience and
from the estimated 90 other kids
who were also turned away from
the four classes I tried to get into,
its clear that when it comes to art
instruction at Stanford, the de-
mand is far outpacing the supply.
However, there is good news on
the horizon: the Stanford Arts Ini-
tiative. The Studio Art and Art De-
partments are gaining a new build-
ing that will include studios and
classrooms, and construction is
slated to begin next year. I hope
that in the future, there will never
be another student like me at Stan-
ford that feels shut out from a de-
partment that he or she desperate-
ly wants to participate in.
So my message to the heads of
the Institute for Creativity in the
Arts, professors John Berger and
Bryan Wolf, is this: please for
me and for the hundreds of other
kids that have also been turned
away from art classes make sure
to allocate enough money to the
needs of the students and not just
to raise the esteem of Stanford in
the eyes of the art world. Give your
students the space and the instruc-
tors they need allow us to in-
dulge our creativity. Give us stu-
dios, rehearsal rooms, performance
spaces for student groups; give us
places with floors that you can
dance on and mirrors on the walls;
give us theaters with wings and
lights. Because if all a student is
doing is desperately trying to take
classes, no one should feel like an
entire department hates them
again.
The Art Department might hate
Jamie, but you dont, right? Let her
know by sending her an email at
jamiesol@stanford.edu.
Y
ou have no idea where you
are, who is around you or
why youre there. You have
no money, you cant do anything
quickly and you dont have any-
where to go. Sounds like a bad
dream, right?
That about describes the first
couple hours of being abroad in a
foreign city. But I only need two
words to describe how I felt in Flo-
rence: abroad and confused.
Even if youve taken the lan-
guage for a few quarters or have
visited the country before, that
first moment when your host
family is talking to you quickly
and youre grasping onto words
you recognize as if youre reach-
ing for life jackets tossed from a
sinking ship is overwhelming.
For me, stepping through the
front door and into the home of
Giuliana Calamandrei-Santini, an
80-year-old widow, was exactly
like that. Here was a woman a foot
and a half shorter, four lifetimes
older and much louder than I was.
She attempted to explain to me
how to lock the triple-locked front
door with a six-inch key, how
never to use more than one light in
the house at a time and how to
never (ever) touch anything in the
kitchen (ever!).
After getting whacked with my
general incompetence, I was
forced to take a brief walk around
the neighborhood to clear my
head and keep my sanity. Howev-
er, it is remarkable how quickly
the language comes to you. I write
this five full days after I arrived in
Florence, and I just finished hav-
ing a full and rewarding conversa-
tion about Berlusconi (a nightly
topic at the dinner table and an
impressively disliked man).
Ive spent many hours on the
Farm struggling to absorb (by os-
mosis) some last-minute textbook
materials for class, with my head
just resting on pages trying to soak
it all in. Only now does simply
being around the Italian language
finally allow me to learn it. Before,
it would take me a week to learn a
simple list of kitchen vocabulary,
but here it takes me one or two
repetitions and the word is seared
into my memory.
One morning during orienta-
tion, the program directors ex-
plained to us some cultural differ-
ences about Florence that we
should understand. For instance,
strangers on the street will never
say a word to each other but will
make eye contact for an insanely
ON THE MARGINS, BETWEEN THE LINES
NOTES FROM ABROAD
The Art Department hates me
Abroad and confused
Jamie
Solomon
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EDITORIAL
New York campus
brings promise, risk
A
mid its wide avenues and
towering skyscrapers, its
easy to forget that New
York City began as a small collec-
tion of homes outside an unimpos-
ing Dutch fort nearly four cen-
turies ago. Though New Yorks as-
cension to world city status might
seem inevitable to modern ob-
servers, its present success is, in
large part, the result of many con-
scious historical decisions.
Whether this meant the building of
harbors, the financing of canals or
the laying of railroads, New York
took the necessary steps to remain
at the cutting edge while compara-
ble cities like Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and Boston fell behind. One
decade into the 21st century, how-
ever, New Yorks preeminence is
threatened. The firms that have
dominated the digital age are over-
whelmingly anchored elsewhere,
particularly in Silicon Valley. As
Stanford bids against other univer-
sities for the right to operate a New
York campus, Stanfords appeal
rests largely on the idea that it can
create a hub of engineering inno-
vation in the Big Apple in the mold
of the Universitys Silicon Valley
milieu.
Likewise, a New York campus
has a great deal of appeal for Stan-
ford. Stanfords symbiotic relation-
ship with Silicon Valley has worked
well for it in the past, yet future suc-
cess often requires bold action in
the face of opportunity. Many peo-
ple thought that Leland Stanford
was crazy when he announced his
intention to build a first-class uni-
versity on the West Coast. But Mr.
Stanford knew that he had only
one chance, and today the entire
Stanford community benefits from
his decision. The chance to build a
campus in Americas largest city is
another such opportunity. Stanford
has made no secret of its enthusi-
asm for the expansion, but it must,
if selected, see to it that the campus
is designed with the best interests
of the University in mind.
To simply build a miniature
replica of Stanford in a new setting
would be the wrong approach and
potentially an expensive distrac-
tion from the main campus. Stan-
ford has succeeded largely because
of the powerful network effects
that accompany its concentration
and diversity of talent, and it would
be a shame to see this dynamism di-
minished because of potential di-
version of faculty and resources to
New York. These non-financial
costs of the expansion are neces-
sarily speculative and nebulous,
but they should be seriously stud-
ied and weighed before any final
decisions are made.
If a New York campus is to suc-
ceed, it must complement Stan-
fords current offerings, not com-
pete with them. Stanfords Hop-
kins Marine Station, though much
smaller than the proposed New
York expansion, demonstrates the
concept quite well. Hopkins Ma-
rine Station takes advantage of its
location on the Monterey Bay and
adjacent to Montereys world fa-
mous aquarium to play a leading
role in research that it would other-
wise have no part in. Hopkins also
provides opportunities for gradu-
ate students, recent graduates and
even undergraduates to study the
ecology of the California coast. In
New York, Stanford must take a
similar approach,identifying which
unique firms, institutions and Uni-
versity constituencies stand to ben-
efit most from partnerships in New
York, and building the new campus
around those prospects. Though
the focus of the campus should and
will be on graduate education, it
would be a shame to neglect under-
graduates entirely. Since engineer-
ing students often have trouble
studying abroad due to the heavy,
linear nature of their coursework,it
would be wonderful if such stu-
dents were given an opportunity to
study at the New York campus for
a quarter if they so choose.
Whatever the outcome of the
bidding process, New York will
gain a prominent center of gradu-
ate engineering education, and
perhaps sow the seeds of future
economic success. By participating,
Stanford has positioned itself for a
rare opportunity to bolster its place
in the world of higher education.
Whether the opportunity will en-
hance Stanfords goals to advance
learning and public service or dis-
tract from them remains to be seen.
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SPORTS
A Sox
fan is
sweating
I
t seems unfair to call it a collapse,
because what the Boston Red
Sox have managed to do in the
month of September going 7-
19 and squandering a nine-game lead
over the Tampa Bay Rays in the race
for the American League Wild Card
has been an utter meltdown. A
Mona Lisa of choking, if you will.
Now, as a card-carrying member
of Red Sox Nation, I have still been
sporting my Pedroia Destroy-ah
shirt and wearing my Jacoby Ellsbury
jersey with pride (I will save Ells-
burys MVP argument for a later, less
stressful date). And for the last week
or so, I walked around campus late at
night trying to convince myself that if
the Sox could just get into the play-
offs,everything would be all right and
Terry Franconas club would stop
doing its best 2007 Mets impression.
Its not too late, as the Rays and
Red Sox are now tied with identical
90-71 records with one game left to
play in the regular season.And if Jon
Lester can make mincemeat of the
Orioles tomorrow night and the New
York Yankees stop letting the Rays
win (and yes,the Bombers are indeed
trying their best to lose these last few
games and keep the Sox out of the
playoffs), I could rest easy for a few
days.
But I dont see that happening.
The 2011 Red Sox are too much ma-
chine and not enough man. The
championship teams from 2004 and
2007 both had distinctive team per-
sonalities Kevin Millars Cowboy
Up was the rallying cry in 2004 and
2007 featured the Bash Brothers,
David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez,
with a dash of rookies, Pedroia and
Ellsbury. But this year has been a
struggle to find a team identity, as
newcomers Adrian Gonzalez and
Carl Crawford dont appear to have
any emotion if they hit .340 or .250,
respectively.
Sure, the lineup is a threat to
score 10 runs every night, but they
dont seem to know how to win the
games that matter the most. Against
the Rays, Boston has struggled
mightily, going 6-12 on the season
and 1-6 against Tampa in the final
month. Gonzalez has hit well below
the Mendoza Line against the Rays
all season, and Ellsbury and short-
stop Marco Scutaro have seemingly
been the only ones able to hit any-
thing when it counts.
In a city that eats, drinks and
breathes sports, the fans have had to
swallow the kind of pain that they
havent experienced in a decade, the
kind of pain only inflicted by the
likes of Bucky F****** Dent, Bill
F****** Buckner and Aaron
F****** Boone.
And the players arent immune to
the pain and anger flowing from the
hallowed stands at Fenway Park.
If I was a fan, Id be frustrated,
too, slugger David Ortiz said fol-
lowing last Wednesdays 6-4 loss to
the Orioles. Ive been here, what,
nine years? Ive never seen a col-
lapse this bad.
I pray that the Red Sox can find
some way to dismiss the losses as a
fluke, a combination of misfortune
and a tiny pitching slump. But there
is no manual on how to survive a
late-season collapse, and when ru-
mors are flying about which starting
pitcher your club is looking to trade
for just to start the 162nd game of the
season, its probably not a good sign.
(For the record, I would have been
just fine if General Manager Theo
Epstein picked up Pedro Martinez
and threw him out on the mound to
face the Orioles tonight.)
Thankfully, the Stanford bubble
seems to keep most of the Red Sox
haters away, so I have not had to en-
dure much more than the occasional
chuckle from a passerby in a Yan-
kees hat, or some good-natured rib-
bing from my roommate, a Dodgers
fan who is still counting his blessings
that this story is bumping the Frank
McCourt saga from the limelight.
But if you happen to bump into
me on the steps of Hoover Tower
and its after 7 p.m. tomorrow, dont
hesitate to call the police because it
will mean that the Red Sox have lost,
even after having the second-best
record in baseball for three months.
Im going to need some serious talk-
ing down.
If the fate of the Red Sox is anything
like that of his fantasy baseball team,
Miles is cruisin for a bruisin. Send
Miles Bennett-Smith clips of Buckners
blunder at milesbs@stanford.edu.
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
After losing standout junior linebacker Shayne Skov (above) to a season-ending knee injury, the Cardinal will look to sophomore AJ Tarpley and
junior Jarek Lancaster to fill in on defense. Stanford will face its first test this weekend, with a home matchup against UCLA on Saturday night.
Miles Bennett-Smith
By JACK BLANCHAT
DESK EDITOR
After a bye week to rest up and
prepare for the heart of the Pac-12
schedule, the Stanford football
team is echoing the same mantras
that facilitated the longest winning
streak in the country, even though
the team is now missing one of its
biggest stars.
The No. 6 Cardinal (3-0, 1-0 Pac-
12) suffered a major blow last week-
end when junior linebacker Shayne
Skov, the teams leading tackler, was
ruled out for the rest of the season
due to a knee injury suffered in the
first half of the Arizona game. How-
ever, the Cardinal players dont ex-
pect to see any serious setbacks
without their starting middle line-
backer.
I know our defense has other
linebackers that are ready and will-
ing to step up and step in where
theyre needed on defense, said
junior tight end Levine Toilolo.
The whole defense is ready to put
in the work to fill in any slack that
there might be, but I think we have
a good rotation and our linebackers
are well prepared to step in.
Sophomore AJ Tarpley and jun-
ior Jarek Lancaster will be asked to
step in and are expected to split du-
ties in order to fill Skovs spot. Both
players have yet to see the field
much in their Stanford careers, with
Lancaster contributing mostly on
special teams last year and Tarpley
not seeing the field in his freshman
season.
But even though neither player
has notched a significant amount of
playing time so far, the linebacker
corps has faith that both players can
contribute right away, mostly be-
cause of the open competition for
Owen Marecics inside linebacker
job this past spring.
It just kept everyone competi-
tive, it meant that everyones stay-
ing sharp, said redshirt senior line-
backer Max Bergen. Its better if
you dont know whos starting so
everyones on top of their play at all
times.
That experience, coupled with a
few small changes, should keep the
Stanford defense strong, Bergen
said.
Youve got to get more vocal,
just get used to communicating with
each other, which we already were
through camp, but I think well be
just fine,he said.Tarpley and Lan-
caster are great players, and Skovs
still around to help us out.
Skovs nose for the football
made the Stanford defense a deadly
adversary on the ground, allowing
only 36 yards per game rushing
the best in the entire country so
any replacements certainly have big
shoes to fill.They will be challenged
early and often as Stanfords sched-
ule now turns to a bevy of teams
that love to keep the ball out of the
air.
This weeks test will be the
UCLA Bruins (2-2, 1-2), who, de-
spite their lackluster record, can still
move the football effectively on the
ground. The Bruins rush for 214
yards a game thanks to their duo of
Johnathan Franklin and Derrick
Coleman, who have combined for
602 yards rushing and six touch-
downs already. Last year, Franklin
rushed for 1,127 yards the 10th
most in UCLA history and was
second team All-Pac-10.
The Bruins strong rushing at-
tack means that the new lineback-
ers will have to prove right away
that they can continue the outstand-
ing level of play that Skov started in
the first three games of the season.
Tarpley and Lancaster will no doubt
be critical to the Cardinals success
for the rest of the season as well,
particularly because the toughest
test remaining on Stanfords sched-
ule is No. 9 Oregon (3-1, 1-0), which
rushes for 299.5 yards per game, cur-
rently sixth-best in the nation.
Of course, the new defenders
will have an opportunity to mesh
with the starters before that Oregon
test on Nov. 12, and the Cardinal is
Young linebackers crucial to defenses continued success
LIFE AFTER SKOV
MENS GOLF
Talented squad shines
in team, individual wins
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR
With three of its top four scor-
ing leaders back from last season,
the mens golf team felt confident it
could improve on its loss in the
NCAA Central Regional last year.
Coach Conrad Rays recruiting
class was one of the best in the
country, and the Cardinal was con-
tent to fly under the radar until it
counted.
MENS GOLF
STANFORD 584
09/18, Olympia Fields, Ill.
But after a huge win over 10
top-25 teams in the Olympia
Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational
two weekends ago, and the indi-
vidual title won by freshman
Patrick Rodgers at the same
event, it looks like Stanford wont
be able to sneak up on anyone
anytime soon.
The Cardinal had a 54-hole
total of 849, a whopping 16 strokes
better than No. 2 Oklahoma State
and No. 9 Auburn, who tied for
second. No. 3 Alabama carded the
final days lowest score (+4) to fin-
ish fourth at the Olympia Fields
Country Club North Course, but it
was the steady play of Rodgers
that turned heads in rainy condi-
tions.
Entering the final round, the
Avon, Ind. native was eight
strokes back of the leader, Stan-
ford sophomore Cameron Wilson.
But with the help of a calm,
steady putter, Rodgers made two
birdies and no bogeys to storm up
the leader board and run away
with a three-stroke victory (206, -
4) over Texas Dylan Frittelli.
The last Stanford golfer to win
his first collegiate tournament was
Tiger Woods, who accomplished
the feat 17 years ago at the William
Tucker Invitational.
It was a good steady round,
Rodgers said of the final round 68.
I made a lot of pars and I missed
a few birdie opportunities early,
but I made a few coming in. Some-
thing I took from that round and
the tournament was that I could
win without playing my best golf.
Coming off the Walker Cup I
didnt have my A game, and I did-
nt have much time to prepare,he
added. I was really proud of the
way I was able to scrap it around
and score my golf ball without hit-
ting it great.
The Cardinal put on quite a
show in its first team win since the
Mauna Lani Invitational in Febru-
ary 2010. Junior Andrew Yun fin-
ished in third place, and Wilson
posted a career-best fourth-place
finish (despite shooting a final
round 76) as Stanford occupied
three of the top four slots.
This was one of the largest
winning margins in my career,
Ray told GoStanford.com. It
takes five guys to win and all the
guys played well. Steve Kearney
LEADER OF THE PAC
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Stanford junior midfielder Adam Jahn was named the Bank of the West Pac-
12 Mens Soccer Player of the Week after leading the Card to wins over
Harvard and Vermont. He had a goal and an assist in the victories.
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team, Academic Directors are full
time, Ph.D.-level staff who might
also teach on campus, Copeland
said. These staff members have resi-
dential offices and oversee the aca-
demic progress of nearly 450 fresh-
men and sophomores who live close
by.
Matching is a really fun, in-
tractable problem, Copeland said.
We get to know the advisors and
what types of students they like.
Then, we read the students respons-
es and try to think of which advisor
the student would have a productive
conversation with.
The advisor selection process is
meticulous, as the eight Academic
Directors look at the academic and
personal interests of the advisors
and of all freshmen and finally hand-
pair the two groups.
In a change that will make the
PMA role more manageable, 80
new PMAs have joined the pro-
gram for the 2011-12 school year,
bringing the total to 310 advisors
from 230 a year ago. This increase
allows for each PMA to meet ad-
visee groups of only six students in-
stead of eight in 2010.
One common misconception is
that PMAs should reflect the stu-
dents prospective majors. Accord-
ing to Copeland, this commonality
alone does not ensure a good rela-
tionship.
In their forms, students often
mention a number of different inter-
ests,she said.Sometimes, [students
and advisors] share a language,
sometimes a home town. It could be
anything.
Copeland said UAR understands
that academic interests of freshmen
are very likely to change within the
course of a year, so matches are
sometimes made based on a side in-
terest. She challenges the freshman
class to try to get to know enough
about their PMA to figure out why
they are paired even if the connec-
tion is not readily apparent.
As for the PMAs themselves,
Lythcott-Haims said the breakdown
of advisors is roughly one-third fac-
ulty, one-third academic staff whose
primary role is to research and one-
third non-academic staff, including
staff in student affairs and athletics
and alumni. All advisors must have
an advanced degree.
If you have an advanced degree,
you are able to appreciate the under-
graduate experience that much
more,Lythcott-Haims said.
UAR continues to adjust the pro-
gram to fit students needs and has
solicited the feedback of the Class of
2014 through a recent survey as
well as by listening to the advising
experiences of ASSU Undergradu-
ate Senators Janani Ramachandran
14 and Karl Kumodzi 14.
Both students volunteered to
speak at a PMA training session and
expect their contributions to be con-
sidered in future years. The commit-
tee Ramachandran heads on the
Senate, Academic Affairs, also plans
to approach UAR about increasing
peer-to-peer mentoring within aca-
demic departments.
While the program seeks contin-
ued improvement, the promise of
the mandatory advising program is
evident in the fact that UAR saw an
increase in sophomores who recon-
nected with their PMAs, Copeland
said. She believes this is due to the
fact that freshmen were required to
meet with their advisors.
[Sophomores] got back in touch
and really took advantage of the re-
source,Copeland said.
These PMAs are not compensat-
ed any more than an occasional free
lunch at the Faculty Club. Lythcott-
Haims said they advise simply for a
reason that she labels psychic cur-
rency or the reward of hearing a
freshman or sophomore advisee say,
you made a difference in my lifeor
I appreciate you.
Feedback indicates that advisors
often reap as much from the pro-
gram as their advisees do.
Serving as a Pre-Major Advisor
has been extremely enjoyable and
rewarding, Jennifer Dionne, assis-
tant professor of material science
and engineering, said. I have en-
joyed reconnecting with my 18-year-
old self through the experiences of
my advisees. They are a joy to work
with.
Contact Lauryn Williams at lauryn-
dw@stanford.edu.
PMA
Continued from front page
spot. He also spoke of plans to in-
crease voter turnout and reach out
to the graduate student population,
a group that traditionally sees low
participation in the elections.
The last commissioner was by
the book, but I want to build the
elections, Adler said. I want to
make Stanford elections something
to be proud of.
Adler is the managing editor of
the Flipside, a position that he also
held at the time of the publications
controversial Segway request. Al-
though Adlers said the stunt was
not his idea, he said he supported it
wholeheartedly as a criticism of
the current special fees system.
Quoting Adlers comment in a
post by the Unofficial Stanford
Blog on the debate, Senator Ben
Laufer 12 expressed concerns that
Adler would misuse his position.
You think that the special fees
process was ridiculous, and the way
you went about exposing that was
kind of, in my opinion, snake-like,
Laufer said. You went through the
process by exploiting the system in
and of itself. If youre in the position
of Elections Commissioner, my
concern is what youre going to do
to the process to exploit the sys-
tem.
Adler stressed that he would en-
sure to avoid conflicts of interest
during his term and said he would
appoint a neutralsubstitute to re-
view cases where his involvement
might prompt accusations of
wrongdoing.
Im not Robert Mugabe I
want to avoid that,he said. I man-
age the elections; I dont want to
control them.
The Senate confirmed Adlers
nomination, with Senators Dan De-
long 13 and Laufer abstaining. As
the Elections Commission is al-
ready violating bylaws by falling
short of the required four members
to serve on the commission, the
Senate urged Adler to make filling
the position of assistant commis-
sioner his highest priority.
The Senate also heard from pub-
lications board chair Kate Abbott
12, who announced that the board
will hold its first all-editorial meet-
ing next Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. and a
publications open house on Oct. 6
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., both in Old
Union.The board is currently work-
ing with Student Activities and
Leadership to determine better dis-
tribution strategies for the publica-
tions it oversees.
Appropriations Committee
Chair Brianna Pang 13 then pre-
sented funding bills for the evening,
noting that Barrio Assistance, a tu-
toring service group, asked for $700
to pay for unspecified damages to a
rental car.
President Michael Cruz 12
joined several senators in express-
ing concern over the fact that many
student groups often use similarly
vague statements when requesting
budget modifications from the Ap-
propriations Committee. The Sen-
ate voted to table the bill until the
financial officer of Barrio Assis-
tance could meet with the commit-
tee to further explain its request.
The Senate approved all other
funding bills for the evening.
Contact Ivy Nguyen at iknguyen
@stanford.edu.
SENATE
Continued from front page
cerned about student life and li-
brary hours. After Ashton worked
with professor of statistics Susan
Holmes with the goal of making
the survey statistically valid, they
decided to poll students through
random selection.
Delong said the survey will not
only be about library hours, as that
might introduce biases. Rather, it
will ask students to prioritize needs.
If we find out students really
dont want hours at Green Library
extended, this is not an issue were
going to pursue,he said.
DeLong said one complication to
the issue is that it may not be afford-
able to keep Green Library open
longer. Because of the way the build-
ing is designed, it cannot be closed
off in sections or fire safety codes
will be broken.
Prior to 2003, Green Library
hours were 8 a.m. to midnight on
Sundays though Thursdays, 8 a.m.
to 6 p.m. on Fridays and 8 a.m. to 9
p.m. on Saturdays. The hours were
extended for the 2008-2009 school
year to keep the library open until 2
a.m. Sunday through Thursday and
until 10 p.m. on Fridays. Because of
budget cuts, the hours were reduced
for the 2009-2010 school year, caus-
ing the library to close an hour ear-
lier at 1 a.m. Sunday to Thursday.
We try to use available funds to
our advantage, and reducing hours
is one among a large number of
ways to preserve our core functions,
such as building collections, An-
drew Herkovic, University Librari-
ans Office director of communica-
tions and development, wrote in an
email to The Daily. Back in the
grim summer of 2009, we were
forced to eliminate more than 60
jobs, across all the library units and
functions, and it should come as no
surprise that services and hours, in-
cluding Greens, were pared as a re-
sult. Note specifically that the last
cutback in hours was purely a budg-
etary decision.
Budgetary discussions for the
next school year begin in mid-late
fall quarter. DeLong, Ashton and
others are currently working to
build-in funding for extended hours
for the 2012-2013 school year. Al-
tered hours not necessarily ex-
tended is also a possibility.
According to DeLong, both
Provost John Etchemendy and
University Librarian Michael
Keller have discretionary funds
that could be used for this school
year to finance extended hours.
Contact Billy Gallagher at wmg2014
@stanford.edu.
GREEN
Continued from front page
Forcible sex offenses
double,alcohol arrests
down in 2011 safety
report
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Sexual crimes increased signifi-
cantly from 2009 to 2010, while alco-
hol and drug-related offenses de-
clined, according to the 2011 Annual
Security and Fire Safety Report re-
leased to the Stanford community
Tuesday. The number of reported
thefts and robberies also decreased.
According to the report, which
was released by the Stanford De-
partment of Public Safety, 21
forcible sexual offenses were re-
ported in 2010, compared to 2008
and 2009, which each saw 10 cases.
The report describes forcible sexu-
al offenses as any sexual act di-
rected against another person,
forcibly or against that persons
will. Forcible rape, listed as a sub-
category of forcible sexual offens-
es, saw the biggest increase, jump-
ing to 13 reports in 2010 from three
in 2008 and five in 2009. Eleven of
the 2010 reported offenses occurred
in student residences.
Liquor law violations, which in-
cludes laws prohibiting the manu-
facture, sale, purchase, transporta-
tion, possession or use of alcoholic
beverages but excludes driving
under the influence and drunkenness
violations, saw the biggest drop, with
31 arrests in 2010 compared to 113 in
2009.
2010 also saw an increase in bur-
glary reports. Vehicle burglaries rose
to 78 cases in 2010 from 48 cases in
2009, while structural burglaries rose
to 180 cases from 146 in 2009.
Ivy Nguyen
BRIEFS
Continued from front page
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR
Junior golfer Sally Watson kicked
off her year with a bang, scoring
birdies on four of her last 12 shots
and sinking a 40-foot putt to capture
a come-from-behind individual title
and second place team finish at the
Cougar Cup hosted by Washington
State.The Daily had a chance to chat
with Watson about her passion for
the game of golf, living so far from
home and dreams for the future.
The Stanford Daily (TSD): What
made you chose Stanford among all
the different schools that were re-
cruiting you?
Sally Watson (SW): I think ultimate-
ly I decided to come here because it
had the best combination of aca-
demics and athletics. Stanford has a
fantastic athletics program, and the
golf range here is unbelievable. I
might be biased, but I think its the
best in the country. And then obvi-
ously the academic prestige of com-
ing to Stanford was definitely a
strong pull as well. I feel like not only
does Stanford give me a great oppor-
tunity to be successful in golf, but if I
decide after university that I dont
want to pursue a career as a profes-
sional golfer, then a lot of other
doors have been opened, and I have
a lot of other opportunities in other
areas of my life.
TSD: How have you been able to
make the transition to living on the
West Coast and adjusting to being so
far from home in Scotland?
SW: Its probably tougher on my par-
ents than on me. Im so busy that
time seems to just fly by, but I miss
home. My sister used to be on the
East Coast playing golf at the Uni-
versity of Tennessee, which was nice
because it was a smaller time differ-
ence, and I could call her at night-
time. But now shes graduated and
back home, so its pretty much just
me over here. But ultimately I want-
ed to play anywhere in America and
with the opportunities that I get at
Stanford, I wasnt going to turn any
of that down just because its farther
away from home. My parents have
always encouraged us to travel, and
Im pretty comfortable living
abroad.
TSD: How did you first get into the
game of golf? What was it that
sparked your love for the sport?
SW: I was about four years old when
I first started playing golf. We have a
house in a small village in Scotland,
and theres a little nine-hole golf
course, and all the kids just kind of
hack it around there. And they did
summer lessons, and it was like a
pound for a half-hour group lesson.
You just went, had a quick lesson and
then played nine holes. They had a
competition every Friday, and youd
win like a golf ball if you came in
first. Ive always been really compet-
itive, so I started playing at a young
age.When I tore my ACL in my right
knee, it stopped me playing basket-
ball, and I started playing more golf
and had some success in it. Just being
a competitive person, anything
youre successful at seems to make
you want to do more of it and contin-
ue playing. The more success Ive
had, the harder it makes me want to
work. Whats tough about golf is it
just is a really tough game, and it
pushes you mentally to be super
strong and super tough. And I think
that stanchion can stand in other
areas of your life. I enjoy the chal-
lenge and trying to overcome it. Its
kind of a never-ending quest trying
to get better.
TSD: What are your goals this sea-
son with the Cardinal?
SW: I would like us to win a tourna-
ment in each the fall and spring sea-
sons. I think were perfectly capable
of doing that. Obviously, in golf more
than other sports, it really does have
to be your week.With so many teams
in each tournament and everyone
these days playing at such a high
level, you need a few good breaks
here and there, and everyone has to
be really solid to win. Golf is very
much a day-to-day sport. Some days
you play fantastic, the next you go
out and feel like a 20-handicapper.
You even see it in the professionals
who go out and shoot a 69 one day
and 76 the next. By the end of the
year, I want us to be ranked in the
top five in the country.We all need to
keep getting better at performing
under pressure and performing as a
team. We need everyone to be firing
on all cylinders at the same time,
which can be tough.
TSD: Speaking of pressure, you sank
a pretty clutch putt recently. What
was it like to go out and win the indi-
vidual title two weeks ago at the
Cougar Cup?
SW: The last day I was really focused
on the team. But I was really im-
pressed with my performance on the
back nine. I kept hanging in there,
made some good birdie putts and
made some really clutch putts for
par. I stayed patient enough and
birdied the last two holes. And the
birdie on the last, that was a little
lucky. That [putt] was like 54 feet or
something. I paced it off to try and
get a better feel. Im not going to say
theres that much skill in something
like that. You have to read it right
and hope you put the right pace on it,
but you need things to go your way
for the ball to drop. Im very fortu-
nate, but it was kind of nice to win the
outright title.
TSD: What are your aspirations in
golf after you graduate? Do you
have a goal in mind, or a dream you
want to realize?
SW: Yes, ultimately I want to become
the best golfer in the world, get that
No. 1 ranking. Obviously thats very
high aspirations and a tough goal.
But even some of the women playing
in the Solheim Cup last year, Ive
played with them before in junior
events and beat them in tourna-
ments. At this point, its not that I
dont think I have the right game, its
just learning how to do things more
consistently especially the good
things when it counts under pres-
sure. I had a solid summer, working
on a lot of things and I think I defi-
nitely want to turn professional after
school, not to just be a professional
and make the cut here and there. I
really want to try and compete and
get as high up the world rankings as
possible.
TSD: What is your favorite thing to
do on campus that is not golfing?
SW: I really love hanging out with
my team. There are only seven of us,
were a small, wee team, but I really
love the girls. Relaxing with them
outside of a serious atmosphere
when were at practice, its pretty se-
rious. I love the team golf aspect at
Stanford, I must say. Its an individ-
ual sport and youre used to doing
that. But the team dynamic offers
just a different way of playing.Weve
got a great team and its fun to be out
here.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-
bs@stanford.edu.
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determined to maintain the busi-
ness-as-usual attitude that has it sit-
ting as the only remaining undefeat-
ed team in the Pac-12.
Honestly, into the season we just
focused on worrying about our-
selves every game, weve got to focus
on what we have to do regardless of
who were playing, Toilolo said. I
dont really know what [Stanford
being the only undefeated Pac-12
team] says about the rest of the con-
ference; we just have to worry about
what were doing in practice and
every Saturday.
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@
stanford.edu.
SKOV
Continued from page 5
WOMENS GOLF
Catching up with junior golfer Sally Watson
had a solid round,Andrew Yun hung
in there. It was a great team win.
Kearney tied for 33rd with a 12-
over-par 222 and freshman Patrick
Grimes finish tied for 46th at 15
over par.
Next up for the Cardinal is The
Prestige at PGA West, co-hosted
by Stanford and UC-Davis in La
Quinta, Calif., which will take place
Oct. 9 to 11. It will be a good test for
the Card to see if it can follow up
the victory at Olympia on the Greg
Norman course, particularly since
there are just three remaining tour-
naments in the shortened fall sea-
son.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-
bs@stanford.edu.
MGOLF
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long period of time. Italians never
drink cappuccino after lunch, and
youll most likely be refused if
you ask for it. Buses run on what-
ever schedule they feel like.
One of the most famous differ-
ences, as everyone knows, is that
Italy has a much slower pace of
life. This can take the form of
waiting 30 minutes in a line for a
taxi when there are clearly more
taxis than people lined up, or it
can mean family dinners that last
two hours instead of two minutes.
But my favorite example of how
slow-moving it has been here oc-
curred at a TIM store (a cellular
provider).
The time from my buon-
giorno at the beginning of my
conversation with the sales lady
to my ciao at the end was a re-
sounding one hour and 18 min-
utes. I wanted to purchase some-
thing that cost less than 10 euros.
Instead, I witnessed one of the
finest masters of procrastination I
shall ever see. My sales person
managed to have a cup of coffee,
two phone calls with friends, mul-
tiple text conversations and a
brief chat with her coworker. She
even helped another customer
all while holding the tiny card I
needed for my phone the entire
time. By the time I ran out of the
store, I desperately needed a gela-
to pick-me-up.
Being abroad is a lot to experi-
ence, especially when you lose
most of the people you know,
places you recognize and posses-
sions you have.
But despite it all, there are still
those moments you hoped for
when you first picked up your
plane tickets for that nine-hour
flight across the globe in tight,
dark, back-of-the-plane-near-the-
bathroom seats.
Hiking up to Piazza Michelan-
gelo today, I looked over the en-
tire city of Florence at sunset,
soaking in the power and history
of one of the great jewels of West-
ern civilization and seeing reflect-
ed back my own hopes and aspira-
tions for greatness. It is one of
those moments that will remain
with me and inspire me for a life-
time and more. The daily mo-
ments of respite are what make
me grateful for the opportunities
I have and the things I will experi-
ence while away from my beloved
Stanford.
So after a few days, Im ready
to add another word to my de-
scription: abroad, confused and
happy.
Want to give Will a little dose of
America? Then email him at
wseaton@stanford.edu.
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