Daily 10.07.11

By JACK BLANCHAT
DESK EDITOR
After extending its win streak
to 12 games last week, the Stanford
football team hosts Colorado this
Saturday with a chance to stretch
the streak to lucky number 13.
With a win, the No. 7 Cardinal
(4-0, 2-0 Pac-12) would tie the
school record for consecutive wins
and redshirt junior quarterback
Andrew Luck would become the
schools all-time leader in career
wins as a starter, as he and Steve
Stenstrom are currently tied for
first with 24 career victories.
The Buffaloes (1-4, 0-1) dont
appear to pose much of a threat to
the Cardinals win streak after
struggling through the first five
games of the season, with their
only win coming against rival Col-
orado State. Additionally, head
coach Jon Embree suspended five
defensive players earlier this week
for an unspecified violation of
team rules more unfortunate
trouble for a team that already al-
lows 30.4 points per game.
But the Buffaloes do present a
distinct challenge that the Cardi-
nal has yet to tangle with so far this
season: a devastating pass rush.
Colorado averages more than 3.5
sacks per game, registering 18 total
sacks already, a stat that puts the
Buffaloes at sixth overall in the na-
tion.
Linebackers Josh Hartigan
(four sacks), Douglas Rippy
(three) and Jon Major (two) have
the bulk of the tackles for loss in
the Buffs 3-4 defensive scheme,
and defensive end Chidera Uzo-
Diribe has also contributed 3.5
sacks, presenting a new challenge
for the Cardinal offensive line,
which has only allowed two sacks
so far this season.
Of course, one of the best ways
to prevent your superstar quarter-
back from being hit is not to pass at
all something the Cardinal has
done very well lately, and will most
likely lean on heavily against Col-
orado, which gives up the second-
fewest yards through the air in the
Pac-12.
For the past two games, the Car-
dinal has leaned on a quartet of
runners to pile up 444 yards on the
ground, mostly behind junior Step-
fan Taylor, who head coach David
Shaw called one of the most un-
derrated backs in the nation after
he ran for 112 yards against
UCLA.
For a team that scores 45.3
points per game and boasts Lucks
superstar passing ability, Shaw
gave credit to the offensive line,
saying that 90 percentof the run-
ning backs success was due to the
outstanding play of the guys up
front.
Running backs are good if
they can get to the line. If they get
hit behind the line, outside of
Barry Sanders, every back is going
to struggle, Shaw said. So when
our line can block the line and get
our guys to the line of scrimmage,
[the running backs] get a chance to
do what they do best.
Junior running back Tyler
Gaffney also pointed out how the
offensive line which was forced
to replace three starters from last
season has been instrumental
to the dominant running game.
Its a great morale booster be-
cause when each back comes in,
the line can feel the tendencies of
each back, Gaffney said. Its just
an awesome competition to bring
out everybodys best.
Shaw says that the various tal-
ents of his backfield foursome also
give him options as a play caller
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NOTES: The No. 7 Cardinal faces a beat-up
secondary for the second week in a row,
with several Colorado players either
injured or suspended. Redshirt junior
quarterback Andrew Luck will try to repeat
his stellar performance last Saturday.
Please see FOOTBALL, page 6
WOMENS SOCCER
Win 200
likely for
Ratcliffe
By JOSEPH BEYDA
DESK EDITOR
It has been less than a week
since the Stanford womens soccer
team set a record for the longest
conference win streak in Pac-12
history, but the milestones keep on
coming.
The No. 1 Cardinal (11-0-1, 3-0
Pac-12) can earn head coach Paul
Ratcliffe his 200th career win
tonight against USC before Stan-
ford faces No. 2 UCLA in its tough-
est test of the season, where a win
would make Stanford the only
team to beat the Bruins three years
in a row in the programs 18-year
history.To top it all off, the Cardinal
looks to extend its 52-game regular-
season unbeaten streak and its per-
fect stretch of 41 consecutive home
victories, not to mention the 23
straight conference wins it has com-
piled over the last two and a half
seasons.
You know, honestly, I dont
even think about the streaks, Rat-
cliffe said. Im thinking game-to-
game and how I can make the team
play to the best of its abilities and
try to win each game.Thats how far
ahead I think.
In a tightly matched Pac-12,
Stanford simply cant afford to get
ahead of itself, as the squad nearly
learned the hard way last weekend.
After destroying Arizona 7-0 to
start conference play, the Pac-12 fa-
vorite Cardinal was almost upend-
ed not once but twice against
a pair of middle-of-the-pack Wash-
ington schools. In each case, Stan-
ford failed to score before the 85th
Please see WSOCCER, page 6
Stanford, the Silicon Valley com-
munity and the world reacted to
the loss of Steve Jobs, who died
Wednesday. Stanford University
President John Hennessy said in
a statement, Steve Jobs was an
extraordinary man, and I am
deeply saddened to learn of his
death. A pioneer in the comput-
er industry, his creativity and vi-
sion are legend. But he was also
a great communicator, who was
able to cultivate innovation in
others.
Please see a recent graduates
response in a Guest Column in
Opinions, page 4
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2 NFriday, October 7, 2011 The Stanford Daily
NEWS
STUDENT GOVT
ASSU initiates Gov
Doc reform process
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Internet unregulated,vulnerable to
attack,McLaughlin says in lecture
By JOSH HOYT
STAFF WRITER
It can be hard to know what to believe on the Internet.
Andrew McLaughlin, former Deputy Chief Technolo-
gy Officer for the Obama Administration, gave the first
lecture in a series hosted by the Center on Democracy,De-
velopment and the Rule of Law (CDDRL).
In the talk, he outlined several vulnerabilities of the in-
frastructure of the Internet and the difficulties in over-
coming them.
There are three particular global infrastructure secu-
rity issues,McLaughlin said.What they all have in com-
mon is that they present a model of diffuse, decentralized
responsibility and broad coordination and implementa-
tion where essentially nobody is in charge.
The first problem he outlined is the issue of the name
server,part of the system that tells your browser where to
go when you type in an Internet address.
If someone can get between you and one of the name
servers and act like one of the name servers, they can send
back responses that your computer will trust but that are
false, McLaughlin said. So they can send you to some-
thing that theyve set up that looks like Gmail, and when
you type your password into [it], they have your pass-
word.
Surprisingly,acting as a name server is remarkably easy
to accomplish. The conversation between you and the
name serveris often in plain text out over the Internet.
This protocol was built for the Internet when security
was just not a big consideration,McLaughlin continued.
The Internet was just a network of universities linked to-
gether, trusting each other, basically.
The trust inherent in the Internet architecture is appar-
ent in the trust -basedcommunications between ISPs as
well. Different ISPs are responsible for different IP ad-
dresses. To locate specific sites, ISPs around the world an-
nounce which IP addresses they have using route an-
nouncements.
The problem is that these announcements are not ver-
ified by anyone. It is up to the ISPs to do it correctly, which
can lead to problems. In 2006 a small Pakistani ISP an-
nounced YouTube, accidentally shutting down both
YouTube and the Internet in Pakistan.
In more sinister hands, this weakness can be exploited
to selectively turn websites off.
There was an incident in 2009 where China Telecom-
munications Corporation (China Telecom) suddenly start-
ed announcing about 15 percent of the worlds routes which
they were not, in fact, responsible for, McLaughlin said.
China Telecom has now been sort of caught red-handed
both hijacking routes on a temporary basis and also occa-
RESEARCH
Physics prof. Lev wins
national career award
By JOHN BURKE
Assistant professor of applied
physics Benjamin Lev, who moved
to Stanford last month from the
physics department at the Universi-
ty of Illinois, has been named by
President Barack Obama to receive
the Presidential Early Career
Award for Scientists and Engineers.
He will be honored at the White
House Oct. 14, along with 94 other
recipients of the award.
Lev was nominated in recogni-
tion of breakthroughs he and his re-
search group made in laser-cooling
techniques and cold-temperature
quantum physics. His research fo-
cused on the study of strongly cor-
related quantum systems, a class of
matter that exhibits very strange
and interesting properties but is
often very hard to study in detail.
Specifically his team managed to
cool dysprosium, the most magnetic
element on the periodic table, to the
necessary level in order to study it, a
breakthrough that successfully
earned him the award.
Lev said that while he did not
know about the award before any-
one else did, he did see a warning
sign.
I heard about it pretty much
when everyone else did, but I had an
inkling when the FBI contacted me
about a background check a week
or so earlier, Lev said.
According to the U.S. Depart-
ment of Health and Human Ser-
vices website, the Presidential
Award is the highest honor be-
stowed by the U.S. government on
outstanding scientists and engi-
neers beginning their independent
careers.
Since this breakthrough, Lev
and his research group have been
using their novel laser-cooling tech-
niques to create new, exotic states of
matter from ultra-cold dysprosium
gases. This past summer, they creat-
ed the first dysprosium Bose-Ein-
stein condensate, a state of matter
in which the matter waves of all of
the atoms in the system synchro-
nize, creating strange quantum ef-
fects.
They have also used dysprosium
to create quantum liquid crystals, a
state of matter sharing many of the
properties of the liquid crystals
used in LCD screens, but with addi-
tional quantum effects arising from
the tiny scale and temperature of
the system.
Lev said the goal of his research
was to understand underlying or-
ganizing principles of complex
quantum matter to use them to de-
sign useful materials or make useful
devices for quantum computing
memory.
I think the most important ben-
efit [of the award] will be garnering
recognition for the work done by
my grad students, and helping me
recruit bright young students in the
future.
In addition to his study of strong-
ly correlated systems and exotic
quantum matter, Lev has been
working recently on two other re-
lated projects. The first involves
using dysprosium, and his research
teams innovative techniques for
cooling and controlling it, to create
the worlds most precise magnetic
microscope.
The other ongoing project con-
sists of attempts to create true crys-
tals out of atoms and light, using
complex patterns of laser interfer-
ence to create three-dimensional
lattices out of light and hold the
atoms into a crystalline structure.
Contact John Burke jcburke@stan-
ford.edu.
By BRENDAN OBYRNE
DESK EDITOR
The first meeting of the newly
created ASSU Governing Docu-
ments committee met Thursday
night in Old Union. The initiative,
spearheaded by ASSU Executive
President Michael Cruz 12 and
Vice President Stewart Macgre-
gor-Dennis 13, aims to examine
the basic structure of the ASSU
and improve the organization by
potentially changing the ASSU by-
laws and constitution.
The thrust of it [the committee]
should be the re-examination of the
structure of the ASSU compared to
its effectiveness of serving stu-
dents, Macgregor-Dennis said.
The meeting lasted 50 minutes
and covered what role the ASSU
should play in serving the Univer-
sity, as well how it should be struc-
tured as an organization.
Only four of the 10 voting mem-
bers on the committee were at the
meeting, though by acting as prox-
ies, the group was able to reach
quorum and continue the meeting.
The constitutionality of that
move was the subject of several
jokes from former Elections Com-
missioner and non-voting member
of the Governing Documents
committee, Stephen Trusheim 13,
who suggested that the sub-com-
mittee that examines rules and
best practices should consider
making rules that can be followed
practically.
Cruz decided to begin by dis-
cussing the structure of the ASSU
because it would be easier to ar-
rive at a consensus. However this
proved difficult, as even the basic
assumption that the ASSU should
be a tri-cameral government with
executive, legislative and judicial
branches, was met with questions.
Trusheim pointed out that some
aspects of the ASSU, such as the
Nominations Commission (Nom-
Com) and Executive committee,
are independent and do not truly
report to any other group. For ex-
ample, the students appointed to
various University boards by the
NomCom do not report back to
any department of the ASSU, a
problem that Trusheim noted and
Cruz agreed with.
An example of one of these
groups is the newly-created De-
partment of Internal Review
(DIR), which is intended to be in-
dependent of any branch of the
ASSU. However members of the
committee expressed that they did
not clearly understand its purpose.
Cruz described it as a hybrid of
what the Congressional Budget
Office (CBO) and Government
Accountability Office (GAO) do
for the U.S. government, prompt-
ing Constitutional Chair Samir
Siddhanti 12 to ask, What does
that mean?
Another issue was whether or
not the ASSU should be responsi-
ble for putting on student events
or initiating events students enjoy.
Cruz decided on the phrasing, im-
plement and support events,
which led current Elections Com-
missioner and non-voting member
Adam Adler 12 to quip, Thats
vague enough.
Even meeting attendees ques-
tioned the structure of the Gov-
erning Documents committee dur-
ing the meeting. Voting member
and Senate Parliamentarian Alex
Kindel 14 said, Im worried about
having 10 members and 11 sub-
committees, expressing concern
over the large number of subcom-
mittees that Cruz set up within the
committee.
The committee plans to contin-
ue to meet and discuss ideas on
how to reform the ASSU and have
a clearer mission, with the ultimate
goal of improving efficacy.
Contact Brendan OByrne at
bobyrne@stanford.edu.
Bylaws, constitution
may change over
course of school year
Presidential Early
Career Award to go to
Stanford researcher
Former Deputy Chief Technology Officer for the White House Andrew McLaughlin gave a lecture in Wallenberg
Theater on Thursday about the difficulties associated with gathering international support to secure the Internet.
Please see INTERNET, page 5
The Stanford Daily Friday, October 7, 2011 N3
Marijuana Initiative
secures spot on ballot
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
After successfully garnering
enough signatures on a petition in
September, medical marijuana pro-
ponents in Palo Alto succeeded in
securing a spot on the November
2012 ballot to determine voter sup-
port for medical marijuana dispen-
saries in the city.
The Palo Alto city council decid-
ed on Tuesday to send the issue to
voters during the 2012 elections,
rather than to approve the measure
NEWS BRIEFS
Job Hunting at Stanford
MEHMET INONU/The Stanford Daily
Students gather at the Fall Career Fair on Thursday in White Plaza. The fair, which was sponsored by the Career De-
velopment Center (CDC), lasted four hours and featured over 300 organizations recruiting Stanford students.
Please see BRIEFS, page 5
OPINIONS
T
he ASSU has never seemed to
be a very serious organization; a
close look at this years version
(2.0? really?) reveals an inauspicious
picture. Unless you feel that an ASSU
Twitter feed and Facebook account
amount to much, the new team seems
to have little in store for us other than
a stock of cliches about entrepreneur-
ship. I assume this is par for the
course. Most student governments
have few duties outside of party plan-
ning, and the depth of their rhetoric
often matches the depth of their re-
sponsibility.Anytime someone prom-
ises to use entrepreneurial culture,
your academic expertise, Silicon Val-
leys technology and the grassroots
leadership styleto improve my qual-
ity of life, I am naturally skeptical of
their ability to do so and, very honest-
ly, I would not care.
It would not bother me in the
slightest that their platform uses the
word entrepreneurship five times in
as many paragraphs, and references
both Silicon Valley and innovation
twice. It would not bother me that the
student government an enormously
silly and undefined chair of entrepre-
neurship. It would not bother me that
90 percent of the things discussed on
Stanford 2.0s website are outside of
the power of the ASSU and extreme-
ly unlikely to be affected at all. None
of this would even cross my mind as an
issue of substance were it not for the
fact the Executive and its cabinet are
going to cost the student body a com-
bined $36,000 in stipends.Considering
the wealth of other and better things
that funds could be spent on and the
apparent wrongheadedness of the
current Executive, I am seriously dis-
inclined to give my support or even
my silence. Also, keep in mind that
Senators are entirely unpaid. While
the compensation budget for cabinet
consultants balloons (why?), they are
left behind.
The TUSB article was right to call
out the current Executive on its
hubris, but after a certain point hubris
goes beyond arrogance into the realm
of the entirely stupid.Its blueprints for
improving campus are little more
than startup jargon and unsubstanti-
ated word vomit. Precious little of it is
actionable, most of it is way beyond
the scope of the ASSU and all of it is
worded in such a manner as to mis-
represent distant possibilities as
probable outcomes. Entrepreneur-
ship and innovation are both catch-
phrases for the creation and imple-
mentation of new ideas. This, howev-
er, is not a plan or a strategy, but a
broad philosophy that speaks of
openness. We can have openness to
ideas,but as yet we have no ideas.Pre-
cious little real planning has been
done, but innovation has been
trumped to ridiculous heights. Per-
haps you could say it is too early to
judge. When I saw this morning that
the ASSU Executives received a
combined summer stipend of nearly
$2,700, and then looked at their blue-
prints (presumably the product of a
summer of hard work), I was legiti-
mately appalled. Add this to the fact
that the Executive has the largest
amount of discretionary funding
ever, and there is much reason to
worry.
It further shocked me when I
opened The Daily on Wednesday
morning to see that what the ASSU
had accomplished last night was to
pass resolutions regarding the Cali-
fornia DREAM Act and a letter to
Jerry Brown about SB185. It seems to
me that this is indicative of an execu-
tive with endless ambition and no
sense of what it can or should do. No
one is deluded enough to believe that
the ASSU has political clout, but
there is extreme hubris in claiming to
represent the political views of a cam-
pus that has elected you to improve
their quality of life not pursue
your own crusades against leader X,
for cause Y or demanding measure Z.
Who wouldve thought that we were
electing a representative to the state
and federal government when we
ticked a ballot box? I say this as not as
someone who is angered by the views
taken, but only by the taking of views.
The ASSU has real issues to ad-
dress and important goals to strive for.
We are one of few undergraduate stu-
dent bodies without any substantive
power in the Faculty Senate. With
campaigning and effort, the ASSU
could actually become a significant
force on campus.There have been no-
ticeable declines in the quality of din-
ing halls since the introduction of Ar-
rillaga Dining Commons. There is a
sexual assault judicial system on cam-
pus that, in its jury advice, says that
acting persuasive and logical is a
sign of guilt. But lo, its concentration
lies in designing apps, improving the
sleekness of its website banners and
making sure we have an ample num-
ber of Twitter updates to keep our
feeds flowing. Senators and students
alike should demand more of the Ex-
ecutive, because we currently have a
shambolic array of cliches arranged
on a sleek Apple-esque background
to guide us.
Many thanks to the surname-less
Kristi of The Unofficial Stanford Blog
for bringing these issues to the fore.
Want to share your thoughts with
Spencer? Then email him at
dsnelson@stanford.edu.
ASSUyoure doing it wrong
W
hen I was little, I really
wanted to go to Prudhoe
Bay, on Alaskas northern
shoreline. Not because I wanted to
see pristine coastline or frolicking
wildlife, but because I wanted to see
the place that could destroy all of it.
In 1989, a tanker accident in
Prince William Sound spilled 11 mil-
lion gallons of oil into Alaskas
coastal waters, creating a slick the
size of Massachusetts and a toxic
legacy still felt today, more than two
decades later. The oil originated in
Prudhoe Bay, where it began an 800-
mile journey through the TransAlas-
ka Pipeline to the hold of the Exxon
Valdez, the vessel that would go on
to create the largest spill in Ameri-
can history. (Of course, the record
was bested last year by BPs Deep-
water Horizon escapade.)
The 1989 spill was the result of a
shipping error, but not all oil trans-
port mishaps happen afloat. Five
years ago, in Prudhoe Bay itself, a
dime-sized hole in one of BPs
pipelines spilled 269,000 gallons of
oil before it could be controlled.That
2006 spill became infamous not just
for its damage to a pristine land-
scape, but also because it highlighted
glaring shortfalls in equipment
maintenance and preparedness on
the part of BP and other companies
operating on Alaskas slopes.
This year, there have been dozens
of spills from pipelines criss-crossing
American soil. Among the more
noteworthy: a 42,000 gallon release
into Montanas Yellowstone River in
July (courtesy, once again, of Exxon
Mobil), and a May spill of 21,000 gal-
lons in southeast North Dakota.
While smaller in volume, the lat-
ter might be more troubling. Its one
of 14 spills from TransCanadas
brand-new Keystone I line, all within
the first year of operations.
Keystone carries highly viscous
bitumen, forced from Albertas infa-
mous tar sands and diluted with
kerosene to pump-able consistency,
to U.S. refineries.And despite heated
debate over Albertas extraction
methods (mowing down boreal for-
est and pumping steaming water
deep underground, all to the tune of
massive carbon emissions), Tran-
sCanada has spent the last two years
aggressively lobbying to expand.
The proposed Keystone XL ex-
pansion would double existing ca-
pacity (adding another 510,000
SEEING GREEN
GUEST COLUMN
XL-size me: pipelines, pinholes and
ethical spillover
Holly
Moeller
D.S.
Nelson
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EDITORIAL
Time for a
concerted effort
A
s most students would like-
ly agree, life at Stanford is
generally a satisfying expe-
rience. One common complaint,
however, is the lack of big-name
concerts. Students with friends at
our peer institutions hear about
Penns annual Spring Fling festivi-
ties or Princetons Lawn Parties.
Cornell manages to attract big
names such as Lupe Fiasco, Kid
Cudi and The Decemberists, while
Northwesterns Mayfest roars with
success each year.
The Stanford Concert Network
(SCN) does an admirable job of
bringing artists to campus, but the
fact remains that none of the artists
in the past few years have had any-
thing close to the universal name
recognition of a Top-40 artist. Nev-
ertheless, events with popular
artists like Third Eye Blind last
year or this years NSO Cataracs
performance boasted high atten-
dance,suggesting that Stanford stu-
dents are eager to come out to sup-
port artists and enjoy their music.
While an entire music event,like
Spring Fling or Mayfest, may be
impractical, even a single big-name
artists performance would have
benefits for Stanford. For one, it
would allow for the showcasing of
student groups and artists. This al-
ready happens with the artists who
do come to campus, but the impact
of opening for someone more fa-
mous would have an even larger
halo effect.A performance would
also build school spirit and pride
and cement Stanfords fun-loving
reputation.
The main problem with hosting
such an event is cost, as artists are
generally expensive. Although
SCN receives a considerable
amount in special fees ($8 per stu-
dent per quarter this year), its at-
tempts to bring a variety of smaller
groups to campus in order to ap-
peal to a multitude of students has
value. Instead, perhaps SCN could
look to slightly trim the existing
schedule and pay for a bigger event
through other methods. North-
western, for example, seeks corpo-
rate sponsors for its Mayfest, while
at Penn, students help foot the bill
for the concert. Stanford students
already spend time and money at-
tending performances across the
Bay Area. The convenience and
value of having a big name on cam-
pus would be something that many
students would pay for. Along
these lines, it is doubtful that atten-
dance would be a problem. Atten-
dance at well-publicized events for
reasonably well-known artists like
Third Eye Blind last year or The
Cataracs last month is generally
high and the novelty and cama-
raderie of attending a big-name
concert on campus would likely
draw even some people who would
not otherwise go out of their way to
attend the same artists concert
elsewhere. Working with other
schools on the West Coast to land
the same artist or working Stanford
into an artists pre-existing West
Coast tour might also reduce costs.
Another big concern is the lack
of a suitable venue. Frost Am-
phitheater is an undervalued loca-
tion, but its lack of facilities, includ-
ing bathrooms and practical power
access, makes it an expensive
proposition. Charging or seeking
co-sponsors might go some way to
defraying these costs, but again,
more creative solutions might
work. Penn hosts the Spring Fling
headliner in its 50,000-seat football
stadium and opens the event to
community members, whose tick-
ets are not subsidized. Hosting the
event in a less conventional area,
like Stanford Stadium or Sandhill
Fields or even across some of the
larger parking lots, might be an un-
usual but workable solution.
SCN and Stanford are likely
quite aware of the issues raised
here. There are indeed other prob-
lems, like Santa Clara Countys
noise ordinance. Nevertheless,
making a concerted effort to attract
a big-name artist to campus would
be well worth the expense and or-
ganizational challenge.
Managing Editors
The Stanford Daily
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Nate Adams
Deputy Editor
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THE MIXED MESSAGES OF MODERNISM
What Steve Jobs meant to me
H
aving just learned about his
death, Im mustering some-
thing together to try to articu-
late Steve Jobs impact on my life.
Unlike many people here in the Val-
ley, I wasnt much of a geek, let alone
an Apple fanboy. I came to Stanford
because it offered me a great finan-
cial aid package and because it was
an elite institution close enough to
home in Los Angeles in case I ever
needed to go back.That was 06. I had
no idea Steve Jobs just made a Com-
mencement speech one year before
that Id discover later and would
change my life.
Going to school at Stanford was a
huge culture shock. I couldnt fit in. In
dorm activities, I learned about my
peers amazing backgrounds and felt
sorry for myself for not having any of
their experiences in life. I walked
around the dorm asking every person
if he/she played an instrument, and I
couldnt find anyone who didnt. I did
not have the study skills necessary to
succeed, and got a C during my first
quarter while others marched on to
great academic performance. On
campus, iPods and other Apple prod-
ucts were pervasive, and that only
added to the perception this was a
school for privileged kids, not me.
I felt that way until my first spring
break. I didnt want to go home since
there wasnt much to return to. I de-
cided to stay and went on a trip led by
some upperclassmen called Social
Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area.A
little context, I hated business.That
was a dirty word. My father was in the
stock market and he was pretty much
bankrupt by the time I turned four.
Growing up, he tried to give me what
he knew while trying to turn himself
around with no capital,to no avail.I al-
ways rejected him. My mother left
around then, and I struggled to grow
up like a normal kid when nothing
was normal about my environment.
At 14,I started working so I could help
pay for things around the household.
It wasnt much,but it helped.Business,
more precisely, buying and selling
stocks, was the reason why all this had
to happen.
On this trip, we visited companies
like Kiva,World of Good, Papilia and
Benetech. I realized where I was. I am
not just at Stanford, but at Silicon Val-
ley, where there are businesses that
actually did good things and made the
world a better place. That was ex-
tremely eye-opening. By the time
spring quarter rolled around, I knew
what I needed to do. My perspective
was completely transformed.
By bringing me here, Stanford was
lifting me up and putting me on equal
footing as everyone else because for
once in my life, I did not have to worry
about money, at least not here. The
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barrels of flowthrough per day),
and extend it to Gulf Coast refiner-
ies hungry for crude after recent
shutdowns of offshore drilling. It
would, according to TransCanada,
add 120,000 American jobs, and
stimulate $20 billion in economic
growth. And (although the refined
oil is already earmarked to fill for-
eign contracts), processing fossil
fuels from our friendly Northern
neighbor would, according to some
politicians, increase national secu-
rity and relieve dependence on
OPEC.
The economic argument is usu-
ally a good one to hang your politi-
cal hat on these days, so I was sur-
prised at how few people were buy-
ing it. The Sierra Club and Natural
Resources Defense Council, of
course, objected to further devel-
opment of fossil fuels. The New
York Times ran a scathing editorial.
But this time, environmental
groups and the so-called Liberal
media have been joined by the
conservative heart of the Midwest.
One by one, local news agencies,
community leaders and politicians
are voicing their objections.
You see, the Keystone XL
would traverse Nebraskas pre-
cious Sandhill region (20,000
square miles of utterly unique wet-
lands) and sprawl above the Ogal-
lala Aquifer (drinking water for
two million residents; irrigation for
$20 billion-worth of crops). And
with TransCanadas leaky track
record, the locals arent too sure
they want to take a chance with the
high levels of carcinogens and
other toxins flowing alongside Al-
bertas bitumen.
Its amazing what close-to-
home dangers will do. No one
breathes a word about Nigeria,
which has experienced the equiva-
lent of an Exxon Valdez spill every
year for the last 50 years, all in the
course of supplying oil to first-
world nations. And a year after
Deepwater Horizon, those of us
who dont own Gulf shrimp boats
are filling our gas tanks as fre-
quently as ever. Today, the State
Department predicts no signifi-
cant impact from the Keystone
XL project, and our national gov-
ernment is likely to approve con-
struction by the end of the year.
It seems well have to wait for
economics to force us to have an
environmental conscience. Fears of
climate change, images of disaster
all of these have had no effect.
But the recent global recession
produced the steepest drop in
greenhouse gas emissions in 40
years.
On Monday night, as my room-
mate accelerated down Palm
Drive, we felt the car slip briefly
into a skid. The roads were slick
with oil residues brought to the sur-
face by the first good rain weve
seen in months. Id been telling my
friend Luke about the Keystone
XL pipeline, venting my frustration
with the political system and the
short memories of our social con-
sciousness. As we regained traction
I remembered that every eight
months we create another Valdez
spill on our own streets little
dribs and drabs that, across Ameri-
ca, add up to 260,000 barrels of oil.
I could suggest that you call
your politicians and demand they
oppose Keystone XL. I could rec-
ommend that you join a protest or
donate to cleanup efforts. Instead, I
think Ill just ask you not to spill gas
at the pump and to dispose of your
oil changes properly.
Waste not, want not.
Holly welcomes reader questions,
comments and leak-proof contain-
ment devices at hollyvm@stanford.
edu.
MOELLER
Continued from page 4
sionally spoofing certificate authori-
ties.
McLaughlin believes this may
have been a test to see if China was
capable of quickly turning off por-
tions of the Internet and replacing
them with fake sites. China would be
able to spy on people around the
world with this capability.
The third weakness in Internet
authentication has been used to gath-
er information about citizens of Iran.
The system that browsers use to veri-
fy that websites are authentic that
the site is who or what it claims to be
often have built-in authorities des-
ignating acceptable certificates.
When you go to a website and your
browser warns you about visiting, it is
relying on this system of authenticat-
ing.However there is little oversight of
these authorities, and nobody has a
clear mandate to oversee them.
One such authority, a Dutch com-
pany, was hacked recently. The hack-
er was able to issue a certificate for
Google, meaning they could imper-
sonate Google and look at peoples
personal information. The target of
the attack was mainly people in Iran,
and the attacker left the message, I
will sacrifice my soul for my leader
in Farsi.
While these issues are widely rec-
ognized, the solutions are complex.
One problem is the issue of sover-
eignty.A group of concerned experts
has come up with a solution to the
issue of name servers, but nobody
has the authority to implement it.
Imagine youre Kenya and you
are being told anything that is not
signed off on, on an operational level,
by this California organization, is not
going to exist as far as the Internet is
concerned, McLaughlin said. Who
are these people? How were they
chosen?
For Stanford students in atten-
dance, McLaughlins talk was both
sobering and suggested opportuni-
ties for students.
I think cyberlaw is going to be
the most interesting form of law in
the future, said Marcheta Marshall
14.How do you put laws around the
Internet?
Contact Josh Hoyt at jwghoyt@stan-
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outright. The council could have immediately enacted
the measure, similarly to how it outright banned the dis-
pensaries in 1997, but instead chose to leave the decision
to voters in a unanimous 7-0 decision.
The decision means that voters will decide whether to
approve the establishment of up to three marijuana-dis-
pensary locations in the city. Palo Alto voters have voted
favorably on similar measures; over half of Palo Alto
voters approved of Proposition 19, which sought to le-
galize marijuana in the state of California.
Restrictions would apply to dispensaries if they were
set up; some requirement include that the dispensaries
to be located far away from parks, schools and daycare
centers, as well as to only be open from 9 a.m. and 10 p.m.
They would also be subject to a four-percent tax on all
sales, as well as a $10,000 permit fee to establish business.
If passed, the measure would make Palo Alto the 49th
city in California to allow and regulate medical marijua-
na dispensaries within city limits.
Brendan OByrne
Stanford football joins Med
School study
Researchers equipped Stanford football players with
hi-tech mouthpieces capable of registering the force of im-
pact as part of a study conducted by the School of Medi-
cine.The research hopes to provide more data on concus-
sions, including what type of plays or hits are more likely
to cause concussions in athletes who play contact sports.
Dr. Daniel Garza, assistant professor of orthopedic
surgery and the head researcher, hopes that the data will
help diagnose concussions in the future.
We need to get a better understanding of the epi-
demiology of these injuries, Garza said in a School of
Medicine statement. That will involve correlating the
magnitude of impacts with associated morbidities, like
the number of days lost to injury, as well as looking at
players head trauma histories to determine possible cu-
mulative effects.
In the same statement Earl Koberlein, senior associ-
ate athletic director, said,Its a great opportunity for our
student athletes, many of whom conduct scientific re-
search in their academic studies, to contribute to the lead-
ing-edge research being done in sports medicine here.
Concerns over concussions have grown in recent
years for both professional and collegiate athletes. Stud-
ies have shown that players who suffer concussions re-
port more problems later in life, including symptoms
such as slurred speech and nausea.
Researchers plan to expand the test group to include
womens lacrosse and field hockey teams soon.
Brendan OByrne
Study finds U.S.
toxoplasmosis screening lacking
A new study by Stanford researchers found that there is
a serious lack of testing for toxoplasmosis infections in the
United States, which causes more infections and complica-
tions to occur than in other parts of the world, such as Eu-
rope, where screening is more prevalent.
Toxoplasmosis infections occur when a pregnant
mother gets the parasite Toxoplasma gondii and passes
it on to her unborn child. Though the mother may not
even feel symptoms, severe complications can arise in
the baby including calcium deposits in the brain and per-
manent visual impairment.
The study found that 84 percent of infants in the Unit-
ed States who have the infection develop serious symp-
toms; however, the rate is drastically lower in parts of
Europe. In France, for example, only 17 percent of affect-
ed children have serious symptoms.
The study claims this is partially due to routine
screening that occurs in many parts of Europe but not in
the United States. Awareness campaigns that teach
mothers to stay away from risky activities, as well as
drugs that hinder transmissions between the mother and
the fetus, could also be effective ways to lower the sever-
ity of the infection.
There is a tragedy out there that can be prevented
through thoughtful, low-cost
serological screening of one of our most vulnerable pop-
ulations the mother-baby pair,said the author of the
study, Dr. Jose Montoya, in a press release.
Brendan OByrne
BRIEFS
minute and needed a late tally to
come away with a win.
Midfielder Teresa Noyola, a re-
cent nominee for the Lowes Senior
CLASS Award who got the Cardi-
nal its win over Washington with
her header goal in sudden-death
overtime, believes that the team
needs to improve its execution
after last weekends close calls.
We definitely had chances in
those games, she said. I think its
just a matter of getting the timing
right with our runs, penetrating
more into dangerous areas and
being even more efficient with our
attack.
Stanford will need all the of-
fense it can get against a UCLA
team that ranks second in the con-
ference (behind only the Cardinal)
in every major defensive statistical
category. The squads have nearly
identical goals-against averages,
.326 for the Cardinal and .356 for
the Bruins; both teams rank in the
top 20 nationally in that regard, as
well as for shutout and save per-
centages.
Behind it all are two young goal-
tenders sophomore Emily Oliv-
er for Stanford and freshman Kate-
lyn Rowland for UCLA who
have each allowed three or fewer
goals in over 750 minutes of playing
time. Oliver does have a year as a
starter under her belt, though much
like her Stanford counterpart,
Rowland racked up extensive ex-
perience as a member of U.S. Na-
tional Teams as a teenager.
The Cardinal has scored nearly
twice as many goals as the Bruins
have, but for a Stanford group
which apart from the blowout
against Arizona hasnt won by
more than two tallies in over a
month, facing a dominant goal-
tender will be all the more diffi-
cult. Those challenges are only ex-
acerbated by the continued ab-
sence of junior forward Courtney
Verloo, who is still out with a left
meniscus tear suffered before the
season. While Ratcliffe admitted
that Verloos recovery got off to a
slow start, he is still hoping that
she can return to game action this
season.
Given these obstacles, the Car-
dinal cant afford to overlook its
opponent tonight. USC may not
sport Stanfords elite record, but
the Trojans have been competitive
in six straight games many
times, against tough opponents
only to lose each by a single goal. If
the offensive struggles continue,
the storylines could look much the
same tonight as they did last week-
end.
Its tough; were playing hard
opponents, and the hardest part of
the game is scoring goals,Ratcliffe
said.So were going to have to be a
little bit sharper . . . hopefully well
get some early goals against both
USC and UCLA, and that will real-
ly help our confidence.
Stanford hopes to get Ratcliffe
to 200 wins tonight at 7 p.m.
against USC before the power-
house Bruins roll into town for a 1
p.m. Sunday matchup that could
be a significant challenge to the
Cardinals impressive home, con-
ference and regular-season win
streaks.
Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda
@stanford.edu.
MENS WATER POLO
Squad enters
Pac-12 play;
title in mind
By DAVID PEREZ
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Stanford mens water polo, fresh off of its first
place finish at the SoCal Tournament last week,
hopes to carry that momentum into conference
play this weekend in an MPSF conference that in-
cludes the eight of the top-ranked teams in the
country.
For the No. 1 Cardinal (7-2), just about every
season without a national championship will be
framed as a disappointment,and this year is no ex-
ception. To get to the four-team postseason, Stan-
ford will need to clinch either the conference or
at-large bid which is all but assured to come
out of the dominant MPSF.
Our goal is to win MPSF or get an at-large
bid, said head coach John Vargas. Those are al-
ways our expectations.
In the context of these standards, Stanford had
a down year in 2010. The team lost a heartbreak-
ing overtime game against USC in the MPSF final
and finished the season with a 15-9 record not
enough for the Cardinal to receive the at-large
bid, which went to Cal.
The disappointing thing was that we were so
close. We were only a goal or two away, Vargas
said.
Coming into this season, most critics did not
expect a lot from a Stanford team that lost Second
Team All-Americans Sage Wright and Jeffrey
Schwimer to graduation. Wright and Schwimer,
along with classmate Alex Pulido, had been cen-
that many teams would be envious of.
[Taylor] is a Steady Eddie. He just
does everything right, he has uncanny bal-
ance and quickness and vision, and hes a
guy thats our leader, Shaw said. Gaffney
can be a bit more physical because hes a
bigger guy, but hes got speed in space also,
he runs through arm tackles and has great
hands to catch the ball out of the backfield.
[Sophomore Anthony Wilkerson] is the
fastest of the group . . . and then [senior] Je-
remy Stewart is probably our most physical
back between the tackles.
However, Shaw did mention that there
are some challenges that come with having
four backs as solid as Mount Rushmore.
I tell these guys all the time, every week
somebodys going to get slighted and its not
intentional, its just kind of happens with the
flow of the game, Shaw said.
Like against Arizona, Wilkerson didnt
get any touches at all, and this past week he
had seven. Its something that we battle
through and we try to keep those guys into
the game, not because we just like them, but
because theyve earned it and theyre good
players, he added.
Conversely, Colorado cannot brag much
about its offense, as the teams first cam-
paign in the Pac-12 has been a tough one so
far. The Buffs rank second-to-last in both
scoring offense and total offense in the con-
ference, and their task does not get much
easier this week against a Stanford defense
that is first in both scoring defense and total
defense.
The Buffaloes lone bright spot on of-
fense is wide receiver Paul Richardson, who
has 474 yards receiving and five touch-
downs, and absolutely torched the Cal de-
fense for 284 yards and two touchdowns
four weeks ago in a 36-33 overtime loss to
the Bears.
Richardson poses a challenge mostly be-
cause the Cardinal defensive backs were in
a shuffle last weekend against UCLA after
starting sophomore cornerback Barry
Browning was held out with back spasms.
Junior corner Terrence Brown filled in ad-
mirably in Brownings absence, but all indi-
cations are that Browning will play this Sat-
urday.
The Cardinal and Buffaloes will kick off
at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8.
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@stan-
ford.edu.
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FOOTBALL
|Protecting Luck may prove a tall order
Continued from front page
WSOCCER
|Bruins to challenge streaks
SPORTS
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Senior midfielder Teresa Noyola scored the game-winning goal in overtime last Sunday at Washington to keep
Stanford unbeaten. Tonight, she and the Cardinal will try to get head coach Paul Ratcliffe his 200th career win.
Senior left tackle Jonathan Martin (No. 55) will have his hands full on Saturday protecting
quarterback Andrew Lucks blindside. Colorados pass rush is one of the best in the nation
and will present the toughest challenge yet for an O-line that has allowed just two sacks so far.
Zach
Zimmerman
Dishing the Rock
Ticket
shortage no
surprise
I
f Andrew Luck makes a one-
handed catch in 2008 and only
34,258 fans witness it, does his
miraculous toe tap make a
sound?
Probably not.
But this aint 2008, baby. I can no
longer walk through the parking lots
outside of Stanford Stadium and find
people begging fans to buy their tickets
for five dollars. In fact, scalpers are ac-
tually scalping. Its like I went to sleep
after the mysterious clipping call at
Wake Forest and woke up, two years
later,in some sort of twisted football di-
mension where a Stanford sellout
wouldnt necessarily stem from a char-
itable donation of 10,000 tickets.
I guess thats just a logical conse-
quence of the nations longest winning
streak.
This past week, the Cardinal pre-
pared to take on the UCLA Bruins in
the first home game since students re-
turned to the Farm. Despite earning
the label of an expected blowout (Stan-
ford was favored by three touch-
downs), the game drew the fourth-
largest crowd in the history of the new
stadium, attracting 50,360 fans to one
of the more underappreciated venues
in the country.
As a football school still desperate
to shed its pretender image, this is ex-
actly what we need. The Department
of Athletics has been tasked with draw-
ing a professional-sports-oriented
crowd to what used to be considered
the fourth-best football option in the
Bay Area. Fourth best. Behind the
Raiders. It was that bad.
Think times arent changing? In
2008, average attendance at Stanford
home games came in at a crisp 34,258,
well below Stanford Stadiums capaci-
ty of 50,000. That number climbed to
41,436 in 2009, and then, for reasons
unknown, dipped to 40,042 in 2010. I
will repeat that: attendance numbers
declined during the best season in
school history. Still, nearly 6,000 more
people came to each game in 2010 than
in 2008.
Whats more incredible is that near-
ly 48,000 people were on hand to see
the Card demolish San Jose State in the
2011 home opener.This was before stu-
dents had even sniffed the end of sum-
mer vacation. Thats what happens
when you win demand for tickets
rises. Crazy!
Do you know what else happens?
Demand for student tickets increases.
WOMENS SOCCER
10/2 vs. WASHINGTON
W 1-0 (OT)
UP NEXT
USC
(3-9, 0-3 Pac-12)
10/7 Cagan Stadium
7 P.M.
GAME NOTES: Stanford head coach Paul
Ratcliffe has the chance to earn his 200th
career win tonight, while the Cardinal
hopes to extend its conference-record 23
straight wins in Pac-12 play. USC, mean-
while, is reeling after six one-goal losses in
a row. The Cardinal wants to avoid getting
off to a slow start, as was the case in both
close victories last weekend.
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Mens Golfer of the Month
It didnt take long for Patrick
Rodgers to make an impact with the
mens golf team, as the freshman
from Avon, Ill., won the individual
title at the Olympia Fields/Fighting
Illini Invitational before classes had
even started. On Wednesday, his ef-
forts were rewarded once again, as
commissioner Larry Scott an-
nounced Rodgers was named the
Pac-12 Mens Golfer of the Month
for September.
Rodgers beat out four other
nominees to win the award after be-
coming the first Cardinal golfer to
win his first collegiate tournament
since a man by the name of Tiger
Woods accomplished the feat in
1996. He played bogey-free golf in
the final round under rainy condi-
tions to steal the lead from team-
mate Cameron Wilson, finishing the
event with a 54-hole total of 206.
Thanks to the teams overall stel-
lar play at Olympia Fields the
Cardinal placed three golfers in the
top-four against a stacked field that
included 10 top-25 schools Stan-
ford is now the No. 1 team in the
country and will look to continue its
recent string of success this week-
end at The Prestige at PGA West In-
vitational.
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tral pieces of the Cardinal attack for
the last few years.
But freshman utility Alex Bowen
has been huge so far this season in
filling the scoring void left by the
strong graduating class. While Var-
gas acknowledges that he knew
[Bowen] was good, few could have
expected just how good Bowen
would turn out, a sentiment echoed
by his teammates.
For a true freshman to have
something like 22 goals in eight
games, thats impressive, almost un-
heard of, said junior driver Paul
Rudolph, who is no stranger to scor-
ing goals early in his career
Rudolphs 33 goals were tied for sec-
ond on the team last season.
Stanford made huge strides at
this past weekends SoCal Tourna-
ment, going 4-0 and earning a spot of
revenge by upsetting rival Cal and
then-No. 1 USC. Two weeks earlier,
Stanford had lost to both of those
teams at the NorCal Invitational.
Vargas attributes the two early
losses to the fact that four key play-
ers Bowen, Rudolph, senior utili-
ty Peter Sefton and redshirt fresh-
man utility Nick Hoversten
joined the team late into the presea-
son due to various national team
commitments.
We werent quite organized
yet,Vargas said, and I knew going
forward we could improve a lot.
Although Stanford has already
played against several MPSF oppo-
nents (including Cal and USC), this
weekends games against Pepper-
dine and UC-Santa Barbara mark
the start of official conference play.
Neither of these teams are tradition-
al powerhouses, but Stanford has
stressed the importance that comes
with every conference game.
Obviously our goal is to win the
NCAA championship, Rudolph
said. But to do that we have to also
take care of the smaller steps on the
way, and that means taking every
MPSF game very seriously.
Pepperdine, which the Cardinal
will host in its home opener at 7 p.m.
this Friday, is a perfect example of a
conference team that Stanford can-
not take for granted. Losing any
games can severely hurt the teams
chances of getting the at-large bid to
the NCAA Tournament, but losing
to a team outside of the top four can
be devastating. And the Waves are
no pushover, as Stanford discovered
firsthand this past weekend in a nar-
row 7-6 victory in the quarterfinals
of the SoCal Tournament.
Pepperdine has a balanced offen-
sive attack with a lot of good shoot-
ers. Its two left-handed players give
the squad the diversity to shoot and
score from just about every position.
Fans who go to the game should ex-
pect a tough, intense match that
could include a lot of goals.
With the No. 1 ranking already in
hand, Stanford has a chance for a
breakout season in 2011.The biggest
thing to look out for will be how the
team performs defensively Its
all about the defense, Rudolf put it
bluntly. The Cardinal is relying on
fifth-year senior goalie Brian Pin-
gree to anchor a team that has had its
fair share of inconsistent play on the
offensive end.
We have great team chemistry
and a lot of depth,Rudolph said.If
we can stay focused and not get com-
placent . . . we have the necessary
tools to do something great.
Contact David Perez at davidp3
@stanford.edu.
MWPOLO
Hence the new online ticket claiming
system for which Stanford Athletics
has absorbed a bevy of complaints.
Ive had several classmates approach
me, swearing at the school for selling
out. Change is hard, and not being
able to just casually decide midway
through a homework assignment on
a Saturday afternoon that you want
to check out the second quarter of a
nationally televised game may really
throw a few wrenches into your
weekend plans.
A week ago, the school was abuzz
with news that student tickets lasted
only five hours.The first rule of being
a football fan and turning this institu-
tion into a football school: dont wait
five hours to claim your free tickets
and then gripe about having to wait in
a standby line.
At the University of Florida, stu-
dent tickets are decided by lottery. If
you arent selected, tough. Kids go
four years without receiving dis-
counted tickets, instead settling for
entry to the game at an insanely
marked-up price.At Oregon,a school
that also uses an online method for
student-ticket release, reaction time
is of the utmost importance. If you
dont click at the exact moment of
distribution, its over for you. The
things those kids would do for five
hours of leniency.
Instead of knocking the Athletics
Department for slightly inconve-
niencing your lives, take a moment to
realize just how unbelievable this
transformation has been.This season,
there are legitimate national-cham-
pionship aspirations. By taking two
minutes to claim a ticket near the time
of release,you get to see one of the best
teams in the nation, led by one of the
best players in the history of college
football play in one of the most mod-
ern collegiate stadiums in one of the
best football climates in the world.Typ-
ing that sentence made me giddy. It
should have the same effect on you.
I grew up surrounded by SEC foot-
ball, so this backlash against athletics
probably offends me more than most.
But unless youve experienced or at
least heard stories of true college-foot-
ball culture, you cant possibly under-
stand how fortunate you are to be in
this situation as a fan.Theres no need
to sleep on concrete for three nights
before a game. And although half of
you probably could, theres no reason
to create a bot that perfectly times the
online ticket release.
Just dont wait five hours, you
filthy procrastinators. See you on Sat-
urday.
Zach Zimmerman didnt get the
memo about the new ticketing sys-
tem, so he camped out in front of
Stanford Stadium for three days at
Camp Luck before the UCLA game.
Send him notes from all the classes he
must have missed at zachz
@stanford.edu,or follow him on Twitter
@zach_zimmerman.
ZIMMER
Stanford Daily File Photo
Junior driver Paul Rudolph looks to be one of the Cardinals top scorers this year on a team that lost two Second Team All-Americans to graduation. The
squad enters conference play in the ever-challenging MPSF with hopes to earn one of two postseason bids for which it is eligible at the seasons end.
SPORTS BRIEF
school also gave me everything I
needed to succeed, with resources
like the alternative spring break
trip, and incredible peers I can team
up with to achieve dreams. I wanted
to change the world the way that
people in the Silicon Valley were
doing it, with massive impact. As I
learned more about startups and
entrepreneurship, I found myself in-
creasingly drawn to it. In school, I
made it a point to utilize the re-
sources available to me and, more
importantly, I tried to learn as much
as I could from my peers.
Over time, I found out what I was
good at. Im good with people. My
upbringing had ingrained in me spe-
cial sensitivities that helped me nav-
igate teams to work better together
and eventually achieve success. I
was never the smartest in the room,
but I didnt need to be. I found a
niche in school as someone who
championed the cause of entrepre-
neurship, bringing the startup spirit
and the message of empowerment
to every part of campus. I also start-
ed dabbling in startups by first
working for them, and later, with the
right teammates, built products that
would eventually become Crowd-
booster.
So what did all this have to do
with Steve Jobs? Well, in college, I
discovered his Commencement
speech. I found myself watching it
over and over again. Even though I
am a fanboy now, it wasnt about his
products. It was his story. Like me,
he came from a low-income, immi-
grant family. He had to do things
like pick up cans so he could sell
them to buy a meal. When he found
out what he needed to do, he went
after it, without fear. He took the
leap, and he assured me in his
speech that you cant connect the
dots going forward, so you just have
to have faith. That encouraged me
to go from a kid who didnt fit in to
one who dared to pursue his
dreams, despite economic circum-
stances and allures of elite jobs that
pay. I knew what I needed to do. He
told me to jump, and I did. I jumped.
Crowdbooster is the first of many
businesses I will build to maximize
the impact I have in this world.Thank
you, Steve.
RICKY YEAN 09
Co-Founder of the Business Association of
Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES)
JOBS
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PRIMETIME
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analyzing the fall TV season
GAMES 2
An examination of the unlikely popular-
ity of Apples iOS games.
MOVIES 3
Reviews of Ides of March, Dream
House and Whats Your Number?
TELEVISION 4
Remote Nomad returns with his
thoughts on season four of Fringe.
TELEVISION 5
Intermission takes a look at the
estrogen-fueled television season.
MUSIC 7
Intermission reviews Jacks Mannequins
latest effort, People and Things.
ADVICE 8
Roxy Sass on tailgates, football and
hiking up her skirt.
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BRUNO MARS AVERAGE DAY
Bruno Mars isnt shy. If the man has something to say, hell
tell you, your sister and anyone else who cares to listen to
him sing over the same three chords. There are some days
when he doesnt feel like doing anything, but more often
than not he lives a life full of romantic promises and end-
less excitement. In a life so complex, Intermission attempts
to condense an average day for Bruno into five activities.
Do P90X
In order to have some really nice sex and make the ladies
scream out this is great, Bruno has to get his swell on.
What better way than turning his living room into a
body-sculpting wonderland?
Throw his hand on a blade
Although graphic (and probably intended as a hyperbolic
statement meant to seduce women), we assume that Bruno,
like the rest of us, has his fair share of shaving accidents.
Chill in his Snuggie
Bruno was raised in Honolulu and now resides in LA, so were
not exactly sure why he would need to stay warm. But who
are we to judge? Snuggies are the clothes of the angels.
Catch a grenade
No, not a real grenade. That would hurt like a bitch. Bruno is
just an avid paintballer who uses state-of-the-art tools for
wiping out multiple enemies at once.
Strut in his birthday suit
Normally Intermission advises against nudity (not really). But
as tomorrow is his 26th birthday, well give him a free pass.
Happy Birthday, Bruno!
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n 2008, Steve Jobs wasnt a
very popular man among
gamers. Faulting him for
what they considered a colos-
sal waste of opportunity, a
vocal horde of developers,
pundits and gamers alike lam-
basted the former Apple CEO
for keeping games out of the
spotlight on the wildly popular
iPhone and iPod Touch. When
the turtlenecked executive held
TIME
Magazines
Invention of
the Year aloft, they saw an ele-
gant interface, an accelerome-
ter and a gorgeous screen.
With the debut of the App
Store, developers salivated at
the idea of distributing unique,
budget-priced games to an
exploding install base.
Jobs, though, saw a pro-
ductivity booster. A Web
browser, pocketbook and
phone all rolled into one. In
his iOS utopia of mobile
business and chic leisure,
gaming was a second-class
citizen, an image-sullying
embarrassment.
As far as game-makers
were concerned, Jobs hyper-
regulated App Store was a hos-
tile place for business. At the
time, Apple controlled a non-
negotiable portion of sales rev-
enue over the service, didnt
support patching or updates
and failed to give developers a
proper avenue for distributing
pre-release games to critics.
As one of those iPhone-
wielding skeptics back in 08, I
cracked a smile on Tuesday
reading through coverage of
Apples first Jobs-less keynote.
Fresh off Jobs departure from
the role, Apple boss Tim Cook
was widely expected to open
his reign with a showstopper;
namely, the iPhone 5. He did-
nt. The only ace or maybe
jack or queen, depending on
who you ask up Cooks
sleeve was the somewhat
underwhelming iPhone 4S.
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D
o boyfriends improve with age? Is it possible to have too
many sexual partners? What exactly does it mean to go
full Borat? Such insightful questions are explored in
Hollywoods latest entry in a string of uninspiring romantic
comedies, Whats Your Number?
The film stars Anna Faris as Ally Darling, a scatterbrained
and quirky 20-something who, despite her best efforts, cannot
keep a boyfriend. In the midst of her messy love life, she has to
deal with soon-to-be-married sister Daisy (Ari Graynor), her
nosy mother (Blythe Danner) and her ladies man of a neighbor,
Colin (Chris Evans).
Her life gets more complicated when shes fired from her job
and reads an article in Marie Claire that claims women with over
20 sexual partners are much
less likely to get married.
Horrified, she realizes
she has had 19 partners
and decides to track
down all her past lovers
to see if any of them have
gotten better with age,
rather than search for new men. Standard romantic comedy
antics, from awkward dates to drunken montages and bad brides-
maids dresses, ensue.
Ally enlists Colins help to track down her past boyfriends.
Of course, as the pair work to piece together Allys old love life,
they grow closer to each other.
It was hard to enjoy the movie given the offensive premise
that after a certain amount of partners women become unde-
sirable and that marriage is inherently more important than a
career. Ally, who reads the Marie Claire article and gets fired at
about the same time, immediately sets to work on finding love
and getting married rather than, say, fixing her sudden unem-
ployment problem. In addition, everyone around Ally her sis-
ter, her mother and her friends support her in this quest rather
than urging her to find a new job. In fact, her mother seems less
offended by the fact that Ally has gotten fired than by the fact that
her boyfriend of two months dumps her. Even though its 2011,
the films values seem to come straight from the 1950s.
However, Anna Faris presence makes Whats Your
Number?bearable. With her signature raspy voice and impecca-
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s the Halloween season begins, the time has come to cozy
up in the movie theater with a big box of popcorn and a
hand to hold during the scary parts of the thrillers that
have become a seasonal treat. Fortunately, there is a new horror
movie each weekend to frighten and delight. Sadly, Dream
Houseis not one of those delightful flicks.
Advertised as a psychological horror thriller in the paranor-
mal identity footsteps of Shutter Island,Dream Houseinves-
tigates the story of Will Atenton (played by the ever-shirtless
Daniel Craig) and his family. Will decides to quit his unimpor-
tant, cosmopolitan job to spend more time in the suburbs with
his family. After moving into his new dream home, which looks
like every other home in the world because Will apparently
dreams of mediocrity, he begins to notice strange things: his
neighbors wont speak to his family, his daughter sees a man out-
side and a cliched group of misguided punk teenagers clandes-
tinely hold a seance in his base-
ment. When Will and his
wife Libby (Rachel
Weisz) learn that the
previous father of the
house gruesomely mur-
dered his entire family,
they finally decide that
maybe Will should ask around.
Throughout the first half of the movie, paranoia lingers over
the house with just a wisp of mysticism. Wills detective work
takes him from a neighboring house all the way to the insane
asylum. There, he learns the shocking twist (one that was given
away in the trailer, but mind the spoiler alert, just in case): Will is
not really Will he is the murdering father and has just been
paroled from the asylum. His family exists only as his hallucina-
tions, and he has been imagining the house in its former state of
glory. The dreamhouse is now revealed to be a decrepit shell,
and Will has either suddenly aged five years or instantaneously
developed a receding hairline, whichever seems more plausible.
The latter half devolves from a sub-standard hallucinatory
horror film to a Lifetime criminal investigation movie. The
melodrama is both overbearing and unexciting; a lecherous hus-
band is brought into the fray, and the character of Libby just
hangs around in the background (because even though Will has-
nt admitted shes fictitious, the movie certainly has accepted her
B
ased on Beau Willimons play Farragut North, George
Clooneys latest directorial effort The Ides of Marchis a
sharp and timely drama, whose allusions to the ruthless
ambition and corruption that run rampant in the game of
American politics hit all too close to home.
Campaigning on behalf of Governor Mike Morris
(Clooney), a blatantly Obama-inspired Democratic candidate
and presidential hopeful, political genius Stephen Meyers (Ryan
Gosling) finds his meteoric rise through the governors camp on
the verge of collapse in a mere matter of days leading up to the
Ohio primary. Idealistic yet ambitious, Stephen starts out firmly
believing that Mike is the one who can make a difference in peo-
ples lives, even as others, including the teams campaign manager
Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman), remain cynical.
Unsettled when the opposing candidates seedy campaign
manager Tom Duffy (Paul
Giamatti) suddenly tries
to get him to switch
sides, Stephen remains
convinced that he has
everything under con-
trol right up until the
moment that he loses it. In the
meantime, he must process a surprising secret that forces him to
look at his idol and mentor, Mike, in an entirely new light. As the
crucial primary election approaches, Stephen and Mikes political
fates become ever more intertwined.
Gosling is vibrant as always, capturing Stephens gradual tran-
sition from the passionate optimism that characterized his initial
work ethic to the formidable coldness that later becomes his
defense mechanism. Hoffman, Giamatti and Clooney, despite hav-
ing comparatively less screen time, still carry a strong presence that
resonates with authority. The heavyweight cast is rounded out by
solid performances from Marisa Tomei as a manipulative New
York Times reporter and Evan Rachel Wood as a seductive intern.
The smart script, co-written by Clooney, Willimon and
Grant Heslov, fits contemporary culture and politics like a glove.
While this is due, in part, to the fact that the original play was
inspired by events surrounding Howard Dean in 2004, there is no
denying that the visuals bear uncanny resemblance to Obamas
presidential campaign, and that the story takes bits and pieces
from the current national dialogue. The sex scandal that erupts
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T
he lipstick feminism that
characterized empowerment
narratives of 70s-era
American television, from Wonder
Woman to Police Woman, had
obvious shortcomings. The catch
about these faux-feminist tales was
that the women were powerful only
when they were sexual. They were
operating within typical female sexu-
al codes assigned to them by patriar-
chal power structures before really
transcending them.
Looking at this falls television
schedule, it seems weve reverted to
this retrograde sensibility. Female
characters dominate primetime nar-
ratives, yet they exist only in the
world of Jiggle TV. Charlie is still
instructing his Angels, rescuing them
from the drear of their dead-end
lives so we can see them running
around in spandex. Hugh Hefners
puppy-eyed playmates strut around
bars in their twee bunny suits in
The Playboy Club. The stewardess-
es of Pan Am fulfill every vintage
mile-high club fantasy.
Its easy to contextualize this
trend in recent television. In an age
when were more obsessed with
Mad Men than ever, we can excuse
television as the opiate of the masses.
It satisfies our thirst for an escapist
fix. Providing eye candy by way of
scantily-clad femmes makes the pre-
Nixon era look benign and romantic.
Perhaps this is what we need in a
time like ours with Occupy Wall
Street, when were forced to treat
optimism with caution.
To oversimplify this falls rea-
sonably intelligent new shows to a
simple case of misogyny is, however,
to do a great disservice to their sub-
tleties. Id like to suggest that these
shows when pulled off with
aplomb, at least offer a more
poignant feminist message than wed
initially be willing to give them credit
for.
While its true that the risible
new Charlies Angels, for example,
is deserving of this kind of distinc-
tion, thats mainly because it fails to
create female characters of any con-
sequence or depth. Whereas the orig-
inal angels had a modicum of per-
sonality most of all Kate Jacksons
refreshing, intelligent presence
these angels come across as soulless
automatons.
Contrast this with NBCs The
Playboy Club, unfortunately nipped
in the bud too early, and ABCs Pan
Am. Both shows take a retrograde
archetype that of the hyper-sexu-
alized naf and, placing her in a
pre-feminist era, turn the stereotype
on its head. These heroines arent
centerfolds immune to the exploita-
tive venom with which theyre treat-
ed. They are sharp. These women
understand that the men around
them reduce them to bodies and,
accordingly, they navigate their
worlds with an acute sense of self-
awareness.
This kind of tongue-
in-cheek rendering of the
pre-feminist era is exactly
what television needs. Both
shows project a subtle fem-
inistic subtext without
seeming anachronistic. Its
an especially far cry from
the contrived hipster drivel
of New Girl, for example,
where kewpie doll Zooey
Deschanel immediately
enlists the help of three
male roommates after she
finds her boyfriend in bed
with another woman.
Something like Deschanels
gee golly persona, or, say,
the self-effacing abrasiveness of
WhitneysWhitney Cummings, is
an archetype that forgoes presenting
women who are intellectually stimu-
lating or capable of taking care of
themselves.
Television doesnt seem to be
well-adjusted to the idea of a woman
feeling in control of heroine identity
as a sexual being. That The Playboy
Clubmet its premature demise
speaks volumes about our collective
inability, as a television-watching
nation, to digest more nuanced por-
traits of sexually independent women.
The most intriguing heroines of this
season, no matter what the most loyal
She & Him fans tell you, arent the
dorky klutzes who dont know what
to do after their boyfriends leave.
Rather, theyre the ones who radiate
quiet, unassuming intelligence and
resolve in the face of exploitation.
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LIFE ON
THE FRINGE
F
ans of Fringe know that
its days are numbered.
Despite the fervent fandom
that seems to gather around this
kind of show, the Fox series
never managed to pull in serious
numbers, and its move to the
Friday night death-slot only con-
firms what people have suspect-
ed. The writings on the wall:
unless something spectacular
happens, this year is the last well
see the Fringe Division of either
parallel Earth.
Its interesting, then, that
with a finite number of episodes
left, the writers are spending time
reinventing the show. Peter
Bishop, one of the main charac-
ters and the unintentional cata-
lyst for the war between Earth-1
and Earth-2, was erased from
time in the Season 3 finale and
the first two episodes of the new
season spend considerable time
(including an exposition-heavy
rant from Walter Bishop)
explaining the historical differ-
ences now that hes no longer
around. Olivia Dunham is as
cold as she was in season one,
and Walter Bishop is even less
stable. But these changes feel like
wasted space; the writers have
already sown the seeds of Peters
return (as if there was any other
doubt), and its somewhat diffi-
cult to care about the altered
timeline when it could snap back
at any moment.
However, this part of the
mythology has mostly been dealt
with on the fringes (no pun
intended) of the episodes so far.
The premiere was a formulaic
Charlies Angels
Frustratingly self-important, this reboot of the 1970s camp
classic is relentlessly dreary its like Charlies Angels in need
of Prozac. Where the original teemed with cheery, gleeful self-
awareness, this new one is dull, dark and serious. The actresses,
ranging from the nondescript to downright unappealing, lack
the charisma needed to sustain this morose storyline theyre
no Farrah Fawcett.
mayukh SEN
The Playboy Club
Though NBC cancelled the show this week after three episodes,
the style, something of a hybrid between Scorsese and soft
porn, couldve potentially given way to a fascinating weekly for-
mat. Amber Heard is one of Hollywoods more interesting
young actresses, and her intelligent, mature presence here was
exciting. Though the scripts sensibilities were a bit too contem-
porary to fall in line with the exquisite period settings, its filled
with visual opulence that is, at times, arresting.
MS
New Girl
The cutesy Zooey Deschanel showcase maintains the same level
of good-but-not-greatness it debuted at three weeks ago. Its
definitely still smarting from the loss of Damon Wayans Jr.s
Coach though Lamorne Morriss Winston isnt entirely unlike-
able. Now that the show is officially not going anywhere (at
least for this season), the bare minimum it can do is tone down
that awful Schmidt character.
l auren WI LSON
Whitney
Whitney is a halfhearted NBC series about an annoying bois-
terous painter (Whitney Cummings) and her attempts to bring
her life with boyfriend Alex (Chris DElia) out of a rut after
three years together. The show includes a cliched supporting
cast of the thrice-divorced mother, alcoholic best friend (also
divorced) and hopelessly romantic and clingy best friend
(whipped boyfriend included!). Though Whitney has its
moments, you may be left wondering if the show wouldnt ben-
efit from stronger actors and a more inspired plot.
andrea HI NTON
Prime Suspect
Visibly world-weary,
wrinkled and hard-
ened, Maria Bello is
astonishingly unin-
hibited in this
remake of the origi-
nal British smash hit
starring Helen
Mirren. Though the
show seems to take
an overly doctrinaire
approach to femi-
nism, each episode
seems incredibly fas-
cinated with Bellos
character. This sensitivity is incredibly affecting, and Bello, a
gifted performer, delivers in spades.
MS
Pan Am
Glossy and nostalgic, the show doesnt apologize for taking a
contrarian, overly soigne view of the past. Though the script
itself is often overly simplistic in its rendering of female charac-
ters, the actresses particularly Christina Ricci communi-
cate an intelligence beyond these cardboard caricatures. An
enjoyable trifle.
MS
2 Broke Girls
Kat Dennings deliv-
ery can wring laughs
out of the lamest
jokes, and Beth
Behrs manages to
find the likable side
of what could be
another ditzy blonde
cliche, so why cant
2 Broke Girls get
its act together? The
other Whitney
Cummings sitcom of
the fall started off
funny, nosedived its
second week then
floated back up to
mediocre. Good thing
CBS just gave the show a full-season order to figure it all out.
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ble comic timing, she manages to
earn a few laughs from an otherwise
cliched and uninspiring script. This is
apparent from one of the films earli-
est scenes, when her character stum-
bles into a wedding toast barefoot,
wielding a bottle of champagne. As
she struggles drunkenly through the
toast, Ally comes off as both helpless
and oddly charming a likeable
heroine trapped in a mediocre movie.
Faris and Evans have believable
chemistry, even during moments
when the film shoves this fact down
the audiences throat like during a
game of strip basketball. The pair
shines in their more laid-back scenes
in Allys apartment as they trade barbs
and jokes, making their growing rela-
tionship more convincing.
Still, Whats Your Number?
amounts to little more than a stan-
dard yet slightly offensive romantic
comedy and another waste of Faris
enjoyable comedic talent.
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and unmemorable freak of the
week episode to showcase the new
dynamic of the team, but it ignored
whats most exciting about this new
season: the joining of Earths-1 and 2.
This was something the second
episode, One Night in October
handled with aplomb. Acting as both
Olivia and Fauxlivia (the Olivia of
Earth-2), Anna Torv managed to
show off some mean acting chops.
Since we first met Fauxlivia, Torv has
impressed me with her ability to pull
off two variations of the same char-
acter, but until I saw them acting
alongside each other for an entire
episode I didnt appreciate the subtle
nuance used to distinguish them.
The differences extend beyond their
hair color and personality quirks to
the way they style and carry them-
selves. Several actors on the show
play alternate versions of themselves,
of course, but none are as nuanced as
Torvs performances.
This was echoed by the primary
mystery of October, when John
McClennan, a criminal profiler from
Earth-1, was brought in to investi-
gate himself, a serial killer on Earth-
2. Bringing an outsider in on the
madness that is Fringe Division was
a fantastic and much needed refram-
ing of the situation. The best stories
about the parallel worlds have always
involved how slight changes in our
history can radically change who we
are; while I felt that McClennans
serendipitous encounter with the
woman who changed his life wasnt
particularly subtle, the episode is still
one of my favorite stories the show
has told using the two worlds.
Theres no question that
Fringe is on its way out. But for the
first time, its not too upsetting that a
show I enjoy is getting canceled. Its
not that its a worse showI mean,
even Dollhouse upset me more
than this. But Fringe didnt live past
its prime, nor did it never reach its
full potential. Its a show with three
years of solid storytelling thats
reaching a natural conclusion. Its
true; Im not sold on this season of
Fringe yet. The writers are playing
their long game a bit too close to the
chest for me to be invested in the arc
just yet. But when you look back at
older Fringe stories, its fascinating
to see how the show has evolved.
Unlike certain other J.J. Abrams
shows, mysteries arent used to lead
the audience on, but to push the
story forward. Solving one, like the
Pattern, motivates another, like the
parallel worlds. Olivia put it best in
the premiere: Sometimes answers
lead to more questions. Its practi-
cally the shows mission statement.
Fringe may not be long for this (or
any) world, but its clear that in the
meantime it has plenty of tricks up
its sleeve.
aaron BRODER
cont act aaron:
abroder @st anf ord. edu
What piqued my interest,
though, was a less explicit trend
behind the headlines. Without the
nuclear mojo of a truly new iPhone to
usher in his term atop the Mac-
maker, Cook leaned on another of
Apples pillars to show that he meant
business. You guessed it: Cook was
hardly shy Tuesday about champi-
oning the success and advancement of
games on iOS.
Thats not to say that Cooks
ascent signals a new age of pro-game
policy from Apple at least, not on
its own. Rather, its a subtle sign of an
extensive, quiet transformation. I give
some credit to Jobs for slowly chang-
ing his tune toward gaming over the
years, but Cook is well aware that
even without Apples encouragement,
the iPhone has become an absolute
monster of modern video games. In
that sense, hes inherited an accidental
empire.
Cook started off the keynote, of
course, with some chest-pumping
over Macs, iTunes and the upcoming
iOS 5. But games were right there in
the mix.
Cook made it clear that one area
you really see [the iPhone 4S] scream
is in gamesand took time to boast
about cloud saves and persistent pro-
file support with the upcoming iOS 5,
launching this Wednesday. He even
welcomed developer Chair
Entertainment, a subsidiary of Epic
Games, to show off an Infinity Blade
II trailer that looked excellent by any
standard.
It was no E3 presentation to be
sure, but Apple gave games more time
and attention in yesterdays keynote
than most of those 08 skeptics would
ever have guessed. Jobs would likely
have done so in his own time anyway
its hard not to with games bring-
ing in so much cash but Cook
seems to have made a small but
important paradigm shift in the com-
panys outlook. Apple isnt just stand-
ing by as small developers flourish
despite roadblocks in the iOS infra-
structure; its actively promoting
games, pouring money into advertise-
ments and new features and gasp
catering to the same core gamers
that it so rapidly distanced itself from
several years ago.
Apples little turnaround is more
cold capitalism than a warm and
fuzzy embrace of gamers, but its
remarkable nonetheless. Three years
ago, few would have predicted the
place of games in Tuesdays address,
much less their overall place on the
iOS platform. Entire companies are
built around iOS development, from
colossi like Gameloft to one-man
heartwarmers like Andreas Illiger
(Tiny Wings). Franchises like Angry
Birds have already outsold Mario,
innovation thrives with simple devel-
opment tools and traditional third -
party devs like Epic and id
Carmacks id, lets remember flex
their graphical muscles on iOS in
ways normally reserved for HD con-
soles. Its also the first successful
game-player with an exclusively digi-
tal distribution infrastructure, and
perhaps most impressively has
Nintendo and Sonys portable divi-
sions spending a bit more time at the
drawing board.
UPDATE: As you are no doubt
aware, Steve Jobs passed away earlier
this week. I want to extend my sincerest
condolences to his friends and family
and make it clear to readers that this
article was written in its entirety, as you
see it above, before I learned of Jobs
passing. It is in no way an obituary or
retrospective on his life.
nate ADAMS
contact nate:
nbadams@stanf ord. edu
late in the film will seem all too famil-
iar, like something that could easily
have been in the news just yesterday,
and the portrayal of the politicians
and their behind-the-scenes pup-
peteers is spot-on.
While the direction may be a bit
heavy-handed at times (for example,
when the camera lingers moments
too long on obvious icons like the
American flag), The Ides of March
still packs a powerful punch. A popu-
lar criticism lobbied against the film is
that it does not go far enough in its
criticism, but that may actually be one
of its greatest assets. Rather than being
explicitly didactic, Clooney has craft-
ed a story world so very similar to our
own that, in becoming immersed in
it, we are empowered to see for our-
selves what ought to change.
mi sa SHI KUMA
contact mi sa:
mshi kuma@stanf ord. edu
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F
or a band that began as a mere side
project of the wildly successful
Something Corporate, Jacks
Mannequin composed of singer/song-
writer Andrew McMahon, guitarist Bobby
Anderson, bassist Mikey The Kid Wagner
and drummer Jay McMillan has proven
to have remarkable staying power, accruing
an impressive following over the years.
Their newest release, People and Things,
may seem like a fairly innocuously titled
album, but for Jacks Mannequins Andrew
McMahon, it is loaded with meaning.
While fans of Something Corporate or
Jacks Mannequin will be well-versed in
McMahons biographical details, particular-
ly his victorious battle against leukemia, the
untrained ear will detect no evidence on
this album of any setbacks or struggles that
may have marred the singers recent life. In
fact, McMahons illness and subsequent
recovery seem to have only made him
stronger, both as a person and as a musi-
cian. As the third Jacks Mannequin studio
album, People and Things speaks vol-
umes about McMahons musical depth and
versatility.
While he was fighting to stay alive and
combat his disease, McMahon allegedly let
many people fall by the wayside. This album
seems to be his way of making up for lost
time and proving to the world that he is more
than just okay. The musician has remained
humble about his great accomplishments and
does not want his hard-earned recovery to be
the focus of this release.
In the innovative trailerthe band cre-
ated for People and Things,Andrew
McMahon gives insight into his thoughts on
the album.
I love this album,he said. For what it
says, and for
what it took
to get there.
And it may not
be life-or-death,
but its life.McMahon is not just being poet-
ic here, as People and Thingsreally is a
compilation of songs about life and the peo-
ple and things that make it beautiful.
In recent interviews, McMahon stated
that he never intended to do more than one
album with Jacks Mannequin, and that this
latest release may be his last with the band.
The album would certainly serve as a fitting
finale, as it combines elements of its preced-
ing albums (Everything in Transitand
The Glass Passenger) with McMahons
new outlook on life to create a finished prod-
uct that is both aesthetically appealing and
emotionally compelling. The rich, almost lilt-
ing piano melodies that typified the music of
Something Corporate are still here in force,
as are the uplifting drum beats. But People
and Thingsboasts a new sense of maturity
that separates it from the bands previous
works. McMahon still croons about love and
relationships in his crystalline voice, but this
is love of a different sort not a teenage
dream but an adult actuality.
The sophisticated subject matter is
accompanied by a clear musical progression.
The album opens with the sunny-sounding
My Racing Thoughts,which sees
McMahon singing about his marital life
against a backdrop of intertwining piano and
drums. A couple tracks later, Amy, Iis the
most stereotypically popsong on the
album, and its catchy chorus is sure to make
the track a radio favorite. Next, Hey Hey
Hey (Were All Gonna Die)is lyrically the
darkest track on the album, blatantly
acknowledging McMahons close call with
death while managing to sound melodically
moving. Other tracks reveal the bands musi-
cal influences, such as Amelia Jean,which
channels Billy Joels piano-driven melodies
and syncopated drums. The albums penulti-
mate song, Restless Dream,sports Bob
Dylan-esque guitar chords and is full of raw
emotion, marking a brief foray into folk-rock
sound. Finally, Casting Linesbrings the
album full-circle as McMahon sings about
going home in what could easily be a track
off of Something Corporates Ready . . .
Break.Though there will always be some-
thing of Something Corporate in the music
of Jacks Mannequin, People and Thingsis
a completely original work that highlights the
talents of the band and will have you hanging
on to every note from start to finish.
ashl ey RHOADES
contact ashl ey:
arhoades@stanf ord. edu
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A list of songs - new and old - that
Intermission staffers are jamming to this week.
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music
Courtesy FOX
ghostly state) while Will talks with the mostly
unnecessary neighbor Ann (Naomi Watts).
The lazy candor of the film is finally
relinquished in the last 15 minutes. This is
not for the better. Director Jim Sheridan,
famous for helming ambitious Daniel Day-
Lewis projects circa 1993, abandons his typi-
cal style of restrained melodrama for a fren-
zied melange of nonsense that results in the
most perplexing and unemotional climax
seen in theaters this year.
While the film is by no means a success,
it isnt a total failure. There are brief
moments of legitimate albeit completely
cliche tension in the first half: small chil-
dren singing normal songs meant to seem
scary, shots of people at the top of basement
stairs, car attacks from an unseen driver, etc.
Unfortunately, Daniel Craigs hulky and
capable presence, Rachel Weiszs constantly
watery eyes and the ephemeral moments of
horror are nowhere near enough to save this
misguided movie from its uneven tone and
all-around lack of thrills, chills and blood
spills.
Heres looking forward to this coming
weekends selection of horror: The Human
Centipede 2.
brady HAMED
contact brady:
bhamed@stanf ord. edu
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R
oxy is always looking to score,
and theres no better time to
get LUCK-y than during
football season. This year, Roxy has
never been more excited to watch
guys running around in tight pants.
While she usually eschews full-con-
tact sports outside the bedroom,
shes willing to make an exception
for everyones favorite fall pastime.
And what better reason to get out of
bed on a Saturday morning than to
make some big plays on (and off)
the field?
Pre-game
Want to get close to that cutie
youve been eyeing? The best way to
get physical is with some group
body-painting. When spelling out
GO STANFORD, Roxy always gets
the O; follow her lead and lift up
your shirt for the same effect.
Because the University moved
all of the student tailgates to outside
of Arrillaga this year, Roxy has start-
ed networking with young alumni
by checking out the parties in the
Eucalyptus grove before a game.
Although some people complain
about how early in the day the tail-
gates start, Roxy always appreciates
that they last for hours.
Showdown
Roxy likes the game itself more
than you might expect, and shes
always happy to chat up the hottie
standing nearby about long . . . pass-
es and the importance of going deep.
Though she hates unsportsman-like
conduct on the field, in the stands,
Roxy plays by her own rules. But
Roxy tends to play rough, so it might
be best to wear a little padding.
Another strategy: always avoid
incompletions.
When the game starts to wear
thin, Roxy starts planning ways to
wear nothing. Ultimately, shes all
about stamina, and will prolong her
screaming until the home team fin-
ishes.
Post-game celebrations
Once all the touchdowns are
completed, Roxy is ready to get
sacked. Now that Stanford is a foot-
ball school, it seems like nothing gets
people going more than the adrena-
line rush of a game. Excited after a
big win? Roxy knows just where to
channel that energy. Dejected after a
tough loss? Roxys here to console
you (just kidding. Roxy knows the
only things that will be lost at the
end of a football game are her
clothes).
Roxy hates a delay of game.
Make sure you come ready to play.
Need to practice some plays? Roxys
pro with her hands. Request a one-on-
one training session at
intermission@stanforddaily.com.
advice
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