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WEDNESDAY October 19, 2011

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Volume 240 Issue 19

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

ASSU passes DIR,talks USC travel

By BRENDAN OBYRNE
DESK EDITOR

Senate unanimously approves Division of Internal Review

The ASSU Undergraduate Senate meeting on Tuesday night started off with unanimous passage of the bill establishing the Division of Internal Review (DIR), a bill that failed at last weeks Senate meeting. The remainder of the meeting focused on different aspects of facilitating student travel to the Oct. 29 Stanford-USC football game, as well as addressing the resignation of the two cochairs of entrepreneurship. The modified bill establishes the DIR as an oversight committee within the ASSU, intended to issue unbiased qualitative and quantitative analyses of financial data for Voluntary Student Organizations (VSOs) and ASSU spending. Controversial language, which was discussed at last weeks meeting and stated that DIR members had to sign confidentially agreements even though all the information they will access comes from publicly available information, was included in the final bill. The bill clarified that the DIR will keep the names of officers and members of VSOs confidential, but does not specify if this is the only item being kept confidential. Earlier language in the bill said that the DIR issues unbiased, non-judgmental reports about the spending of student groups who receive money from the ASSU by the fifth week of

Guns cost county $50M

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Violence has economic impact on San Mateo County

By MARY HARRISON A recent study published by San Mateo County officials found that gun violence costs county taxpayers $50 million per year. The study was conducted by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and presented by supervisor Rose Jacobs-Gibson at a public forum held on Sept. 29. Charisse Lebron-Cannon, who staffed the project from beginning to end, said Jacobs-Gibson hopes to create a continuing dialogue with community leaders to find solutions to alleviate the gun violence. Between 2004 and 2009, the county experienced 133 nonfatal gun violence injuries and 36 fatal injuries. According to the report, each non-fatal injury cost taxpayers $46,000 and each fatal injury cost $6.4 million. The costs included criminal proceedings, lost wages, medical care and long-term negative effects on the victims quality of life, the report said.The report also accounted for businesses located in dangerous neighborhoods that suffer economic costs due to the violence. According to the study, almost 40 percent of adults surveyed avoid shopping in areas they consider to be risky. Over the past 20 years, the pattern of gun violence in the region has changed noticeably, the report said. Supervisor JacobsGibsons office reported a peak in youth gun violence in the 1990s. Rebecca Irwin, an aide for Jacobs-Gibson, said this was followed by a surge of community action, including the formation of a Crime Reduction Taskforce in East Palo Alto, that curbed the rise of gang violence. However, Irwin added that

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these numbers have been slowly creeping up for the past six or seven years, prompting the ABAG to commission the survey on youth gun violence in San Mateo County. The report gave county officers points of comparison between the rates of gun violence in San Mateo County and other areas. For example, while the countys number of gun deaths per capita is approximately 40 percent lower than the national average, this statistic is also 55 percent higher than the rate in San Jose, a much larger urban area. According to the report, gun violence in San Mateo County is not evenly spread. Four cities East Palo Alto, Redwood City, Daly City and South San Francisco which account for only 37 percent of the countys total population, account for 57 percent of the instances of non-fatal gun violence and 74 percent of gun violence fatalities. The particularly pronounced levels of gang violence [in these areas] can be attributed to a myriad of factors like high unemployment as high as 18

percent in East Palo Alto and multigenerational incarceration, Lebron-Cannon said. In addition to showing that gun violence is not distributed evenly geographically, the study reported that different races are more likely to be involved in gun violence to different degrees. According to the countys gun violence data from 2004 to 2009, young black men are more than three and a half times more likely to be shot and killed than other youths, and Latinos are 14 percent more likely to be killed than youths of other races in San Mateo County. Jacobs-Gibson said the survey also revealed how easy it was for youth to access firearms. A majority of those surveyed, all under the age of 18, reported that they thought they could get a gun with one phone call. According to Lebron-Cannon, the supervisor has a wish list of programs that she would like to enact to help curb gun violence in the county if she had unlimited funds, but for now, the emphasis will be placed on grassroots community solutions. Contact Mary Harrison at maryhari@stanford.edu.

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RESEARCH

Study finds sites leak user information

Report attracts media attention nationally
By SANDY HUANG Privacy leaks occur on 185 of the Internets top visited websites, according to a recent study by Stanford Law Schools Center for Internet and Society (CIS). The report was authored by Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student in computer science and at the School of Law. The report was released last Tuesday at a conference in Washington, D.C. hosted by the National Press Club. Since its release, the report has attracted the attention of national media. Mayer wrote in an email to The Daily that he was not expecting the amount of press coverage the study has received. We announced our results at the National Press Club, so we certainly expected some coverage. Mayer said.But what we were presenting was already conventional wisdom among computer security researchers. If anything, I find the coverage greatly concerning, he continued. It reaffirms that there is a sizable disconnect between business practices and consumer understanding. In the study, Mayer used a methodology that was similar to one developed in a recent paper coauthored by professors at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, which also showed that online information leakage was a common occurrence. According to Mayer, the new study decided to focus on the identification of the information leakage and included a greater number of websites.

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Students spoke with community food advocates including individuals from the Ecumenical Hunger Program, Collective Roots, Veggielution, Pie Ranch, The Food Empowerment Project and La Mesa Verde on Tuesday night at Lagunita Dining. The event was part of Stanford Dinings Food Day.

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Cornell,Technion join forces in NYC applied-sciences bid

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Cornell University announced Tuesday morning that it is partnering with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to submit a proposal to build an applied sciences graduate campus in New York City.

The announcement of this partnership comes one week after Stanford unveiled Stanford@CCNY, a collaboration with City College of New York (CCNY) which would serve as a launching pad for the University to build the potential campus if it wins the bid. A New York Times article published Oct. 16 named Cornell as Stanfords top rival in the bid to build the new science campus. While Stanford will submit its proposal independently of CCNY,Cornell and Technion will submit a joint bid for the Technion-Cornell Inno-

vation Institute. Technion, located in Haifa, is heavily focused on computer sciences and electrical engineering. The university, home to the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Daniel Shechtman, is considered an incubator for Israels recent hightech boom and was one of the 18 international universities that expressed interest in the competition when it submitted an outline of its plans for the campus in March. With over 4,000 tech startups in Israel, the nation ranks only behind Silicon Valley in tech innovation,ac-

cording to Technion President Peretz Lavie in the announcement. The Institutes success has led bigname companies such as Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm to build outposts near its Haifa campus in order to lure new graduates, Lavie added. Despite its strong tech background, Technions status as a public university makes it unable to meet the capital demands of building a campus from scratch, Lavie said in the announcement.

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entific-imaging centers in the United States and in the world, according to Hedvig Hricak, former president of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), in a 2009 University statement when Glazer was a recipient of the organizations Gold Medal. RSNA gives the award annually to no more than three individuals who have strongly contributed to the field of radiology. Glazer also won the Gold Medal from the Association of University Radiologists in 2011, making him one of only 21 radiologists ever to achieve both distinctions. During his term as chair, Glazer oversaw many of the Department of Radiologys expansions, such as the completion of the Richard M. Lucas Center for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging in 1992 and the expansion of the Lucas Center in 2005. He also saw the departments faculty grow from 20 members when he arrived in 1989 to more than 400 in 2009. He pushed the department to take a more patient-centered approach to radiology,according to the University statement. This goal manifested itself physically when he helped to supervise the design of the Stanford Medicine Imaging Center, which opened in Palo Alto in 2008 and was designed to help facilitate radiologist-patient interactions. Glazer was born in 1950 in Cleveland, where his father was also a radiologist and his mother was a nurse. He attributed his parents professors to part of the reason why he decided to pursue a career in health care in the 2009 statement. He earned his bachelors degree at the University of Michigan and medical degree at Case Western Reserve University. He was a faculty member at University of CaliforniaSan Francisco and the University of Michigan before coming to Stanford. Gary worked relentlessly to build a great department by lobbying for significant resources from the hospitals, the medical school and from industry,said Sanjiv Gambhir, the current chair of Department of Radiology, in the University statement. He was known for his great passion for the field, extremely strong negotiation skills and for rarely giving up on any issue he championed. He would never take no for an answer. A funeral service was held in honor of Glazer on Tuesday.
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We had to find an American partner,Lavie said to the New York Times. We didnt believe that we can do it alone. According to a joint CornellTechnion announcement, if its joint bid for a campus is accepted, a fullscale institute would open in 2012 in either leased space or existing Cornell facilities in New York. Though its main campus is located in upstate New York, the university operates its medical school campus in NYC. Eventually, the so-called NYC Tech campus would grow to over 2 million square feet on Roosevelt Island also the site of Stanfords proposed campus serving nearly 2,000 graduate students and 250 faculty. The project has been estimated to cost $1 billion, rivaling Stanfords projected $1 to $2 billion plans. The new campus, which the announcement noted would be a fullfledged campus and not a satellite of either school, would initially offer Cornell degrees. The new institute would offer duel degrees from Technion and Cornell after New York State grants its approval of the degree programs. Bids are due Oct. 28, and a decision from the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is expected by the end of the calendar year.
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winter quarter. These reports will be available to the public upon request.The DIR is also mandated to provide at least three reports to the ASSU legislative bodies and to the Executive each quarter. The ASSU Executive will also conduct weekly reviews of the DIRs work. The senate unanimously confirmed Andrew Aguilar 14 as the DIRs executive director. In addition to passing the bills establishing the DIR, the Undergraduate Senate also unanimously approved a renewal of the Vaden Advisory Committee, which was enacted two years ago in a bill authored by current ASSU president and then-senator Michael Cruz 12. Cruz briefly addressed the recent resignation of Dan Thompson 13 and Jonathan Manzi 13. After stating that E2.0 would be separated from the ASSU, Cruz fielded questions from Senator Alon Elhanan 14, who wanted to know how Thompson and Manzi got access to the campus-wide email list. For those particular emails, I have no knowledge of how they were able to get those emails or those names, Cruz said. He also said that at the ASSU Executive retreat last weekend, they discussed updated measures to ensure that similar incidents would be prevented in the future. Discussion then turned to the USC-Stanford football game,

Study shows gastric bypass surgery may have spillover effects

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF The health benefits to gastric bypass surgery may extend beyond those who undergo the procedure, according to a recent School of Medicine study. A report published on Monday in the Archives of Surgery showed that family members of gastric bypass surgery patients were more likely to lose weight, eat healthier and exercise more. The study followed 35 patients who were about to have the most common form of gastric bypass surgery, called Roux-en-Y, and their families for a year after the operation. These family members who included everyone from spouses to children to extended relatives accompanied the patient to all clinical visits, three before the surgery and five after. During these visits, professionals talked to the entire family about healthy lifestyle and dietary habits and helped them set daily goals. According the study, obese adult family members weighed on average eight pounds less than at the beginning of the study, dropping from 234 to 226 pounds and losing almost three percent of their starting body weight. The effect was less noticeable among non-obese family members, who dropped on average from 180 to 176 pounds. The report compared these numbers to obese women on medically supervised diets, such as Atkins or Ornish, whose participants demonstrate an average loss of 2 to 5 percent of their body weight over a year period. Authors of study included associate professor of surgery John Morton, assistant professor of surgery Tina Hernandez-Boussard and former Stanford medical students Gavitt Woodard, Tina HernandezBoussard and Joe Peraza. Morton said in a Medical School statement that the study emphasizes that social forces can be responsible for changes in lifestyle behavior. Can you imagine if every one of these bariatric [or weight-loss] patients were an ambassador for good health? Morton said. You would have a huge, grassroots movement with bariatric surgery providing a vehicle for healthy change for patient and family alike.
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which Senators Ben Laufer 12 and Nate Garcia 14 have been working to organize. Under the advisement of Nanci Howe, director of Student Activities and Leadership (SAL), the ASSU will no longer be sponsoring the event. Laufer and Garcia informed the Senate of Howes advice. The company organizing the event did sign a document indemnifying the University and the ASSU from all liability stemming from the trip. However, Howe still advised members of the ASSU to avoid direct endorsement. Though they will not officially sponsor the trip, the Senate decided to spend a large amount of their remaining funding to subsidize student tickets. Of their remaining $2,400 in their traditions fund, the Senate approved $1,400, as well as $600 from their general discretionary fund, which is left with $1,400 dollars. The Senate is hoping that this $2,000 will be matched by the ASSU Executive discretionary fund as well as the Axe Committees budget. Laufer estimated 400 students would be interested in tickets and set a goal of raising $8,000 to subsidize tickets by $20. Election Commissioner Adam Adler 12 also gave an update near the end of the meeting. Besides setting the date for the election for the Thursday and Friday during the second week of Spring Quarter, Adler also said he is still having trouble filling the position of Assistant Elections Commissioner. Contact Brendan OByrne at bobyrne@stanford.edu. tures. The study did not observe how companies used leaked information or when explicitly the leakage was observed. The results of the study showed that the top five recipients of leaked information were comScore, Google Analytics, Quantcast, Google Advertising and Facebook. It also discovered that the top three sites that leaked information were Rotten Tomatoes, CafeMom and LyricsMode. The websites iVillage, LiveJournal and National Geographic were tied for fourth in leaking the most user information. Contact Sandy Huang at sunhuang@stanford.edu.

Three School of Med professors elected to Institute of Medicine

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF The Institute of Medicine (IOM) announced 65 new members last Monday, including three faculty members from the School of Medicine: Margaret Fuller, professor of genetics, David Relman, professor of microbiology and immunology and Abraham Verghese,professor of medicine. According to the School of Medicine announcement, being elected as a member of the organization is one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. With the new additions,IOM has a total of 1,688 active members. Existing members elect new members based on criteria that include personal contributions to the medical and health fields as well as commitment to public service. All of the newly-elected members from Stanford are pursuing different projects. Fuller is studying the mechanisms that regulate adult stem cells, Relman is focused on investigating the changes in microbial communities over time and space, and Verghese is exploring patientphysician relationships and has written several books and articles on the subject. His latest book, Cutting for Stone, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 83 weeks. IOM, which was established in 1970 as a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, is both an advisory and honorary organization. The elected members make a commitment to participate in IOM boards, committees and activities. Each of these new members stands out as a professional whose research, knowledge and skills have significantly advanced health and medicine, and their achievements are an inspiration, said IOM President Harvey V. Fineberg in a statement on the IOM website. The In-

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He looked at the top 250 mostvisited websites and signed up as a member of 185 of those sites. Of those 185 sites, 113 leaked a username or user ID. In order to reduce false positives, the study used fictional personas with unique biographical characteristics. Mayer added that the only websites that the report analyzed were ones that offered sign-ups, did not require purchase or qualifications to join and did not have an impractical amount of fea-

Former chair of radiology dies at 61

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Gary Glazer, professor of diagnostic radiology, died on Oct. 16 after a long battle with prostate cancer, according to a statement on the School of Medicines website. He was 61. Glazer had been the chair of the School of Medicines Department of Radiology for more than 20 years before stepping down last August. He joined Stanfords faculty in 1989 to head up the newly formed department, which had been separated from the Department of Radiology Oncology three years earlier. His leadership resulted in the department becoming one of the most innovative and influential sci-

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It Gets Better
Stanford faculty and staff contribute their stories to LGBT support project
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PROFILE

mid Stanfords sunny and scenic campus, Arnold Zwicky,a consulting professor of linguistics,poured his heart into a camera.

One of my youngest childhood friends was a wonderful, sweet kid, Zwicky said in a segment that is featured in Stanfords contribution to the It Gets

Better project. A classic, sissy boy . . . was rejected by his father in the worst possible way. His life went downhill and he killed himself in high school. After seven youth who had been bullied for identifying as LGBT committed suicide last October, Dan Savage and his partner, founders of the It Gets Better project,spurred worldwide attention by posting a video on YouTube. Speaking candidly into a camera, they encouraged young adults to stick out the bullying, the pain and the despair of high school because living life was the best revenge. With YouTube as its medium, the It Gets Better project aims to reach suffering LGBT youth and remind them that they are not alone in their struggles. With more than 40 million views from around the world, the project has worked to drive home its

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File Sharing: Dont Risk It

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copyrighted material (e.g., TV shows, movies or songs) is not legal ? Copyright owners can and do pursue legal action against infringers ? Stanford students have paid over $150,000 to the RIAA since 2007 ? suits are easily found by employer Civil background checks ? Stanfords Judicial Affairs Board also metes out sanctions ? Copyright complaints often result in loss of network connection privileges
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Sensitivities in survivor discourse

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hen she was 13, she ran away from home. A year later, she gave birth to a child that died in infancy. Living in poverty,Winfrey wore clothes made of potato sacks. She was made fun of relentlessly at school.Her childhood was replete with tragedy. Despite this, Oprah advanced from crisis to crisis with unfettered resolve. She never stopped dancing. She never lost her soul... It is messages like these, sent by E2.0, the former entrepreneurship arm of the ASSU, which has now separated from the student government, to students affiliated with business/entrepreneurship on campus, that reiterate the fact that Stanford can still be plagued by insensitivity concerning sexual violence against both men and women. For starters, the message fetishizes a deeply traumatic and violent event as nothing more than a stepping-stone for career and life success, as the E2.0 message indicates was the case for Oprah Winfrey. Secondly, it names the violence without analyzing its roots or its after-effects. In fact, the message assumes that survivors, like Oprah Winfrey, should shrug off the assault, pull themselves up from the bootstraps and aspire to entrepreneurial greatness. However, those sensitized to sexual violence know that survivors of sexual assault and relationship abuse are likely to experience severe feelings of anxiety and fear, known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), withdrawal, guilt, nervousness and distrust of others. And while this says nothing of the fact that most survivors show an extraordinary degree of resiliency after their assault or abuse, it does indicate that the effects of sexual violence are pronounced, can last a considerable amount of time and catalyze a variety of emotional, psychological and physical effects. Moreover, because the message was written in the spirit of self-reliance and autonomy, it obscures the fact that many survivors do not adequately heal without wide community support from organizations, advocates and counseling services. As such, the message would suggest that survivors not exhibiting entrepreneurial self-sufficiency are undeserving of career and personal fulfillment or seen as lazy and some-

how deficient. Instead, Oprah Winfreys sexual abuse is normalized in the message, which one can posit as being an extension of the wider societal normalization of patriarchal norms. And while I dont negate the fact that we are all subjects within a patriarchal and sexist society, and are thereby affected by ideals and policies that contribute to its continued existence, I am also deeply disappointed that the ASSU Executive team, led by Michael Cruz 12 and Stewart Macgregor-Dennis 13, did not critically interrogate both the messaging of the email that was sent out on their administrations behalf as well as the societal conceptions of

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It is vital that all in the Stanford community take sexual and domestic violence seriously.
victimhood, victim-blaming and the effects of sexual and intimate partner violence, on both men and women. And considering it is estimated that one in three women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime and one in four will experience domestic abuse, it is vital that all in the Stanford community take sexual and domestic violence seriously. Lastly, the messaging of the E2.0 email reveals one of the follies of American entrepreneurship and the trailblazing spirit we at Stanford pride ourselves on. Rather than questioning the systemic and structural inequalities and barriers that had caused Winfreys poverty-stricken roots, the messaging instead celebrates that most capitalistic of notions: that we are all the masters of our destiny and any failure to achieve monetary success or significant social

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people, companies, organizations and even countries are seeking out mediation as a way to resolve problems without going bankrupt in the process.As a professional mediator, you would provide a less expensive and arguably more effective method of conflict resolution than the American legal system allows. A mediator also offers a different type of resolution than a judge whereas a judge will hear lawyers present the two sides of a conflict and deliver a verdict, a mediator works in a more hands-on style, interacting with the parties directly to help them reach a conclusion that will make everyone happy. And as an added bonus, you can mediate in your regular clothes, instead of having to wear one of those shapeless black robes that do nothing for your figure. Becoming a mediator isnt as difficult as you might think the only real requirement is the completion of a training program in mediation, as well as the ability to listen, problem-solve creatively and remain un-

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veryone reading this column has had a dispute with another person. Some of them are serious maybe your ex wont pay child support while some are slightly less so, such as a confrontation with a roommate who whistles constantly or a housemate who hoards the Doritos (you know who you are). Unfortunately for us, conflicts are everywhere. Although some people myself excluded can apparently resolve these conflicts in mature, calm ways, even the most level-headed people sometimes need outside intervention to deal with the big stuff. In this lawsuit-happy culture, our first instinct when things dont go our way is often to take legal action. But lawsuits are expensive and require the kind of time and money most Americans simply dont have in this economy. And that is where this weeks topic, the professional mediator, steps in. With the legal system as overloaded and inefficient as it is, more

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biased through the course of a negotiation. A successful mediator also tends to come from an educational background in public policy, law or another related field.A legal degree is not necessary, but depending on the type of mediation work you will be doing, it might be useful. Basically, this means you could have a job right after graduation, no graduate school necessary.Youre welcome. One of the best aspects of Alternative Dispute Resolution a fancy umbrella term for mediation is that as a mediator, you can choose what type of conflicts you want to mediate. Some mediators focus on international relations issues, working closely with politicians and diplomats to help effect change on an international scale. Not surprisingly,studies show this is the least effective form of mediation (hello, Israeli-Palestinian conflict). Other

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Learning to fail through improv

one of the best things that has happened to me at Stanford. It has given me an all-too-brief respite from the Stanford grind a few days each week in which anything and everything I do is wonderful, there are no standards to measure up to and I get to both fail and embrace my failure. The lessons Ive learned in Drama 103 and with the SImps cant help but seep into the rest of my life. Improv teachers from Stanford deliberately set up environments with as little pressure as possible, which is such a gift to students. You dont have to do anything you dont want to and you can do no wrong. In practice and class, everyone will sit on one side of the room and a few kids will stand up at a time in front of the group and improvise scenes or play games. If Im having a bad day and dont feel like doing anything, I have the ability just to sit on the floor and watch everyone for two hours and laugh. However,I also know that if I decide to get up and be in a scene, I have full permission to be terrible. Without this understanding, improvisation doesnt work. When doing improv, you cant try to be funny and you cant try to be good. Often, the harder you try to be funny, the less interesting the audience finds your performance. The comedy comes much more frequently from the surprising or bizarre moments, or when theres a strong grain of truth. Lines delivered to make the audience laugh will often fall flat. Pressuring yourself to try to make a good scene is also almost guaranteed to backfire doing so inflicts a form of paralysis. If you can only do things that you know ahead of time will be good, then you cease to do anything, and a scene immediately dies. The only thing to do is embrace the fact that you will fail. Every time you stand up to perform, you accept the possibility that you may be awful, and that it is perfectly okay. You dont try to be the best improviser; you just try to be average (which, for a Stanford student, is a mind-boggling point of view to take).All you have to do is just show up and do something. Just be present in the scene, listen to others and react. There are no lines to forget. There are no critics in the audience. You cant do anything wrong because to do good improv, you have to do bad improv. And at Stanford, this is the most refreshing mindset. Its one of the things that has kept me sane in the past year. Its a space where I dont have to do anything well. I just have

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to do it, and that alone is enough to bring me joy. So much of the rest of my time is spent stressing out about trying to write a great paper, impressing my professor (especially salient because Im at the point where letters of recommendation become important) or keeping my grades at the high standard Ive set for myself. I want to excel in everything else at Stanford. In fact, there have been numerous times where Ive looked around at all my friends and acquaintances and thought about how much of an underachiever I seem to be considering that everyone here seemingly spends all their time making the impossible happen. But then I go to SImps practice and am reminded that its

his weekend was the Stanford Improvisors (SImps) 20th reunion. I spent the whole weekend doing improv with alumni, getting to know them and hearing them reflect on the role that improv and the ideas behind it have had on their lives. As one alumnus said, Improv is so much more than improv, and it has truly affected many of the alumnis lives in more profound ways than simply being the focus of a group they were part of in college. In many ways, improv is a philosophy for life, and the tenets behind it can be paradigmshifting for students in an environment like Stanfords. Living at Stanford can be taxing at times because everyone is always running around, theres so much to do and everyone you know is amazing at everything. Because of this, joining our improv group has been

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garnered more than 3,000 views on YouTube. I had my own experiences as a child of being despised and bullied as a sissy, said Zwicky. Later, having gotten through this, I determined to be very open about my experiences, to identify myself publicly as gay, to work for gay causes and to make myself available for young people. Production started when Hugo Soskin,a former Knight Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Journalism and a QUEST member, offered to donate his video expertise. Prior to the project, Soskin, a documentary producer, had only produced history films for television,but he was more than willing to play a vital role in a grassroots cause he had long admired. Anything we can do to help diminish bullying, and hate is good, Soskin said. I think positive images in video can really help, and make a small contribution to creating a better atmosphere. Theres still a lot of hate out there, and clearly its driving some people to want to end their lives.We have to change that. Reaction from the LGBT student community was overwhelmingly positive. After the videos rapidly spread through Facebook and email in September, many students felt their prospects rise for both their

message with entries from the likes of President Barack Obama, a Marine sergeant, an openly gay Unitarian minister and even Jersey Shores Vinny Guadagnino. Last year, LGBT staff and faculty at Stanford were inspired by the 25,000 user-created videos and soon decided to contribute their own personal struggles and triumphs to the It Gets Better project. After receiving support from the University and the Queer University Employees at Stanford (QUEST) organization, Noah Abrahamson, a system administrator in information technology services, quickly became the vision behind the videos. After watching Googles It Gets Better video, I identified with these LGBT technology workers and wanted to put something together from Stanford,Abrahamson said.I wanted to make the point that being LBGT isnt an impediment to reaching great heights in your career on campus and in academia. In a seven-minute video, five staff and faculty members reflect on past heartaches and pain from their childhood including the suicide of a high school friend, harassment by classmates and rejection by loved ones.A 10-minute video featuring students from the Graduate School of Business was also filmed. Together they

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years at Stanford and their futures after graduation. One of the best things about it was seeing faculty who were willing to be out,said Leanna Keyes 14,CoPresident of the Stanford Students For Queer Liberation (SSQL). There is kind of a perception in a lot of fields that if youre out,its going to hinder your chances at being successful. And yet we have very successful and notable world-class professors who are willing to be out and make a

video thats for anyone in the world to see. Buoyed by his own stressful encounters with bullying and prejudice, Ben Barres, professor of neurobiology, also participated in the It Gets Better project.He now serves a mentor to his LGBT students and hopes that the video will not only benefit LGBT students, but also the larger community. People . . . are not always aware of the stress that LGBT people face, Barres said. I hope it helps them to grow as human beings, to be able to think about maybe for the first time how difficult and stressful it is for LGBT people, and to teach them to be more supportive, rather than bullies. The It Gets Better videos extend in reach beyond Stanfords boundaries, sending a message of tolerance to potential students as well as the greater public. Its really important to me that this video reaches an audience broader than the Stanford community, because its reaching out to prospective students still in high school who are looking for a safe and accepting university, said Elizabeth Matus 14, a member of the Stanford LGBT community. It allows the community here not only to exist in a safe space, but also to thrive and fulfilling career,professional mediation can also function as a steppingstone to other fields. Some people choose to work in mediation for a year or two before going to law school, while others use it as a way to get into a career as a diplomat or politician. Regardless of what career path you take, the ability to successfully mediate a conflict is an im-

flourish. Throughout the videos creation, Abrahamson envisioned a young, new Stanford student struggling with identity. He believes the videos added to the dialogue of creating safer and more inclusive spaces in education for LGBT community members. Keyes believes Stanford is one such inclusive space. Students may be coming from a home background thats not as accepting or isnt safe. But at least at Stanford, theyre doing what they can to make sure that you can live your life authentically, she said. Abrahamson said he sees the videos as a means to relay a message of solidarity with LGBT youth, especially those entering their transition to college, at Stanford and beyond. We need not wait, but sometimes we have to,Abrahamson said. If youre a young person driven to succeed by attending a top-notch university,you may have put off dealing with lifes issues while focusing on academics. And once you get here,it can get all jumbled up and unmanageable. Its in that dark moment that we need to be reminded that it does get better. Contact Leslie Nguyen-Okwu at leslie.nguyen-okwu@stanford.edu. portant skill to have and will serve anyone well throughout life. And who knows? You just might be the person to solve all of the worlds problems. Amanda really hates it when people hoard the Doritos. If you want to share your Doritos with her, let her know at aach@stanford.edu apology from the ASSU Exec to those offended,will serve as nothing more than an example of the steps that have yet to be made in terms of changing Stanfords cultural attitudes towards sexual and domestic violence. I recommend that students, staff and administration take advantage of the many educational and counseling resources already provided on campus relating to the issue, including Assistant Dean for Sexual Assault and Relationship Prevention & Response Angela Exson, the Womens Community Center and the CAPS support group for female survivors. Most of all, I hope that we all become more conscious of the ways our own position and privileges within society can affect the way we view the world and how it can potentially invalidate the experiences of others.
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mediators choose to work on environmental issues or business disputes, but the most common form of mediation is in interpersonal conflicts, such as custody battles and divorce cases. Lastly, celebrities are turning to professional mediators more and more as a way of avoiding negative publicity, so if you dont really care about helping people but you do want to meet Charlie Sheen, you could always focus your career on this subset. Excluding those mediators who are just in it for the famous people, it takes a very specific kind of person to want to spend their life making stubborn people agree, but in the end it can be incredibly rewarding. You will get to meet people from all walks of life and, especially if you work in international mediation, you will get to travel a lot most often on someone elses dime. In addition to being a lifelong,

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standing is only the result of individual inadequacy rather than social, political and economic barriers. It should come as no surprise,then,that those in localities of power continue to be primarily white, middle-class, middle-aged, cisgendered, able-bodied men (rather than women of color from impoverished backgrounds like Winfrey). I hope that this experience, which did catch the attention of many students and led to a resulting

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okay to be average.All I need to do is just show up. I can both look forward to failure and celebrate it. Jamie didnt improvise this column. She spent a lot of time writing it! You should reward her with an email to jamiesol@stanford.edu.

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Wopat twins balance each other on and off the volleyball court
BY BILLY GALLAGHER

DESK EDITOR

or years, the wide world of sports sibling rivalries has filled our television screens and newspaper pages. Peyton and Eli. Venus and Serena. Ronde and Tiki. But for two Stanford volleyball stars, bloodlines disappear once they hit the court. To be honest, when Im on the court I dont even think of her as my sister, sophomore outside hitter Sam Wopat said.When were in the volleyball zone, everybody around us is just another player.Were competing and trying to win. It is kind of fun when we get a block right next to each other, sophomore middle blocker Carly Wopat chips in. Its like a twin block. The Wopat twins have been a major

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RED ZONE PERFECTION

Offense clicking inside opponents 20-yard line
By JACK BLANCHAT
DESK EDITOR

After six weeks of games, the Stanford football team has a lot of impressive statistics that would make other teams envious. The Cardinal has the nations longest winning streak and a perfect record to start the season, and has beaten nine straight opponents by more than 25 points. And perhaps one of the biggest reasons for Stanfords spotless record is a simple fact the Cardinal is perfect inside the red zone so far this season. The No. 7 Cardinal (6-0, 4-0 Pac12) has yet to make a mistake offensively in the red zone, scoring on all 31 of its drives inside the opponents 20-yard line. Stanfords 100percent conversion rate makes it just one of three teams in the nation that has yet to be stopped inside the 20-yard line on offense this season, along with Mid-American Conference rivals Western Michigan and Ball State.

The Cardinal offense attributes its success deep in opponents territory to three things: frame of mind, creativity and conditioning. I think its the mentality. We want to finish the drives, junior running back Stepfan Taylor said. It shows greatness if you can drive the ball 99 yards, and thats what a teams all about, but once youre down there, youre just like Ive got to get it in. I think the coaches do a great job of putting us in position to be successful [in the red zone], junior tight end Zach Ertz said.[Offensive coordinator] Pep Hamiltons in charge of that and he comes up with some pretty unique plays. After those long drives, the defense is usually pretty tired, we do a lot of conditioning over the summer to keep us in shape, and we know the defense is tired so that gives us an advantage, Ertz continued. Inside the red zone this season, the Cardinal has scored 13 rushing touchdowns, 12 passing touchdowns and six field goals, a stat that nicely shows off the Cardinals offensive versatility,Taylor said. I think it goes both ways, we run the ball so it opens up the pass and we have the wide receivers and tight

ends down there making big plays, he said. So thats helping us out because all the running backs are getting big holes. Once were in the goal line, we have big receivers and big tight ends,so its hard for the defense to guard the run and the pass. Both Taylor and Ertz did mention that those six field goals were nagging on the offenses record, although Taylor did allow that scoring touchdowns 80 percent of the time was a more realistic goalfor the offense. We never want to settle for a field goal, Ertz said.The goal is always touchdowns every time were down there. With all that success down near the end zone, there are plenty of touchdowns to be had and plenty of players who are capable of scoring, as 12 Cardinal players have already found the paint this season. Ertz says that having so much talent on the field means theres a little extra motivation to cross the goal line when the ball is in your hands. I would say its more of a friendly competition, you know? None of us really talk about [scoring touchdowns], were always happy for an-

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Junior running back Stepfan Taylor (with ball, above) is one of 12 Cardinal players who have found the end zone this season. The Cardinal has a 100-percent conversion rate inside the 20-yard line this year, scoring on all 31 drives.

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The effects of Harbaugh live on

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transparent as a baggie. Theres nothing deep. You cant peel back the onion. Which is why he didnt really apologize after giving Schwartz a tight squeeze and back-slap in the traditional postgame exchange on Sunday, instead bordering on the sarcastic in the press conference and making fun of Schwartz by saying that he just gave him a little too hard of a handshake. But that is what Harbaugh brought to the Farm, and although he has moved on without looking back,the attitude remains.Look at the defense:led by senior linebacker Chase Thomas, a Harbaugh recruit, its among the best in the country and plays with a ferocity that Harbaugh would love. And most of all, look to the future, because while Harbaugh gave Stanford fans a couple of excellent years and an amazing Orange Bowl victory last season, his legacy will continue. Stanford football is back, and while LAL (Life after Luck) might seem like the apocalypse,the world will not end in 2012 (unless 2012 is correct). I imagine the Harbaugh effect will last for at least five years, during which fans will continue to come to Stanford Stadium because the product on the field is worth it, and David Shaw incidentally a hell of a coach in his own right, and definitely one of the quickest wits in all of college football will continue to reap the benefits in the recruiting wars waged all year long. By then we might not have found another Toby or another Luck, because those are once-in-a-blue-moon kind of players. But we could easily have gotten our hands on two or three Skovs, a Fleener or two and maybe a David DeCastro if were lucky. That is something to be hopeful about, and Jim Harbaugh succeeded where plenty of others failed on the Farm he brought in a culture of winning and an attitude that had lasting roots. The man can coach how else do you explain the Alex Smith-led Niners sitting at 5-1 and its hard not to miss his fiery exploits and skirmishes with Pete Carroll. Whats his deal? Its hard to say,but Im glad to see Harbaugh trucking right along because what he has planted at Stanford will continue to keep Cardinal fans happy for years to come. Miles can respect a good handshake, and he can definitely sympathize with Harbaughs uncontrollable desire to de-shirt himself in moments of joy. If you feel so bold, request some photos on Twitter @smilesbsmith or at milesbs@stanford.edu. opponents from scoring. Stanford is one of just three teams to allow points on fewer than 60 percent of opponents drives inside the 20, with the other two being No. 3 Oklahoma and Rutgers. But maybe it shouldnt be such a surprise that Stanford succeeds where it matters most on both sides of the ball after all, red is its most flattering color. Stanford will put its perfect red zone record and 14-game win streak on the line this Saturday against No. 22 Washington,the first time the Cardinal will be tested against a ranked opponent so far this season. Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat @stanford.edu

im Harbaugh might be a brash,abrasive and fiery son of a bitch, but dont say that he doesnt give a damn good handshake. Jim Schwartz found that out the hard way on Sunday, right after Harbaughs 49ers turned Schwartzs Detroit Lions into house cats. But while Harbaughs untucked shirt from that very same fracas may now rival Jets coach Rex Ryans longstanding foot fetish as the best bodypart-related controversy to discuss around the office, dont let that stop us from realizing just what James Joseph Harbaugh has meant to the Stanford football program. There are many who doubted that Harbaugh would be the one to resurrect a team that went 1-11 in 2006, the year before the then-42-year old took over for Walt Harris. Harbaugh had previously been the head coach at the University of San Diego,a I-AA school that doesnt offer scholarships. He had never coached in I-A, had no experience recruiting I-A players and was turned down from the coaching gig at Tulane a program that has averaged three wins over the past four seasons. But those who doubted Harbaugh then (and yes Im talking to you, Jon Wilner) overlooked how big of an asshole Harbaugh can be, particularly when it comes to the gridiron. As the son of a college football coach, Harbaugh has been immersed in the game since birth,and according to those who know him best,is totally consumed and driven by it. He was a hell of a quarterback himself he led the Wolverines to a No.2 finish in 1985-86 and led the nation in efficiency in the same season making it to the NFL and coming inches away from playing in Super Bowl XXX. More importantly, over the course of his career, Harbaugh suited up for coaches like Bo To hell with Notre Dame Schembechler and Mike Get your mouth shut Ditka.Al Just win, baby Davis gave him his first shot at coaching in the NFL, and Harbaugh freely admits that his only true passions in life are football and his family nobody else matters. At last years Orange Bowl,he told the New York Times that for all the complexities in his offensive schemes on the field,he is a pretty simple guy. I just concentrate on doing a good job at what Im doing,he said.Im just very superficial in that way. Im as

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The womens golf team sat in fourth place after the first day of play at the Stanford Intercollegiate last weekend, but fell into 10th place on the second and final day. Junior Kristina Wong (above) tied for the Cards lowest score, 218.

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Cardinal stumbles at Stanford Intercollegiate
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR

Riding high after a second place finish at the Cougar Invitational last month, the womens golf team got off to a solid start as host of the Stanford Intercollegiate this past weekend,shooting a combined two-under to sit in fourth place after the first round of play. But trouble struck on the second day of competition, and the Card couldnt make up much of the large gap in the third round either, finishing the 16-team event in a tie for 10th place.

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other mans success, he said. With [junior tight end Levine Toilolo] scoring two last week and [redshirt senior tight end Coby Fleener], that kind of set the ante for this week. Hopefully well have some more. In addition to being flawless in the red zone on offense, Stanford isnt too shabby on defense inside the 20 either. The Cardinal has allowed only 59 percent of opponents drives inside the red zone to end with points so far, a stat that makes them the best in the Pac-12 at preventing

WOMENS GOLF UCLA 842 (-10) STANFORD 874 (+22) 10/14-16, Stanford Golf Course
Junior Kristina Wong and freshman Mariko Tumangan were the low scoring individuals for Stanford after shooting identical 218s to tie for 39th place overall Washingtons SooBin Kim took the tournament title with a three-round total of 200, 13-under par. On Friday, it appeared as though the Cardinal would again threaten for a team title, despite being just No. 42 in Golfweeks national rankings and not having an individual golfer inside the top-100. Junior Sally Watson, who won the individual title at the Cougar Invitational, put together a very solid round of 70, tying classmate Marissa Mar for 13th place overall at oneunder. And with Tumangan and Wong coming in just a stroke back after even par 71s, the Cardinal had

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four players inside the top 25. (Sophomore Danielle Frasier shot an 84, but only the top-four scorers per team count in collegiate golf.) But the teams play took a turn for the worse on Day 2. All four of Stanfords top scorers from the previous day finished at least three strokes worse than they did on Day 1 Watson shot a 77, Wong shot a 74 and Mar and Tumangan shot 75s, while senior Lila Barton competed as an individual and was the lone bright spot with a one-under 70. Weather conditions never really came into play, and Watson said it wasnt easy to pinpoint any one problem that the team struggled with. I think our varied performance had many reasons, she said, but thats just golf. Some days its easy and other days you have to fight for everything. It might not have mattered all that much, as No. 1 UCLA ran away from the field despite finishing the final round at +2. The Bruins finished with a 54-hole total of 842 (10), and placed six golfers in the top 25 overall. And if Stephanie Kono had not been playing as an individual and had counted for the UCLAs team score, the Bruins would actually have finished 23under par and won by 16 strokes. However, Stanford did manage to battle back in Round 3 and, although not playing as well as it had in the first round, the Card moved up three places in the standings. Wong and Tumangan shot rounds of 73 and 72, respectively, to slide into the top 50 overall, and Watson and Mar finished just behind in ties for 62nd and 53rd, respectively. Watson was encouraged by the way the team responded competitively. Individually, everyone is looking good, she said. I feel like all of the returners have done a

good job of improving their games over the summer and our freshman is also doing a great job contributing towards the team. And Wong pointed out that struggling in Round 2 actually provided the team with an opportunity to work on some aspects of the game that it wouldnt have been able to otherwise. We had a rough second day so we really didnt have anything to lose, she said. Our main goal for the final round of the tournament was to play fearless golf. I think from now on we have to take that mentality to every tournament. We need to stop playing defensive golf and start playing more aggressive. In addition, Tumangan proved that she will be a very valuable contributor throughout the upcoming season, and there will likely be a very healthy competition for the teams final few spots. And if the tournament was any indication, the Pac-12 will be a very difficult conference to navigate when the season begins in February three schools finished at even par or better, and there are eight Pac-12 teams in the top 21 of Golfweeks rankings. None of that is in the forefront of the teams mind, however, according to Watson.I think right now it is so early in the season that it is just important that as a team and as individuals we learn from every tournament and every experience so that come springtime we are prepared to compete with the best teams in the country, Watson said after the tournament. We have a lot of potential. We just need to learn how to perform more consistently under pressure. Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@stanford.edu. can be found painting, hiking the Dish, shopping and visiting family friends in the area. Carly, a prospective human biology major,is working her way through the subjects core classes, a difficult task that she loves. Sam recently decided to major in English with a creative writing focus, and is dabbling in a variety of courses from Hawaiian language to poetry. Sam enjoys the teams road trips, where she can focus on schoolwork without distractions, while Carly spoke half-fondly of reading and studying in airports and hotel rooms. With their academics under control, the duo must turn their attention back to the court. In a week and a half,they will face USC and UCLA at home in Maples Pavilion on Oct. 28 and 29. The Cardinal lost to both squads 3-2 to UCLA and 3-0 to USC in Los Angeles earlier this season. Both Wopats said the revenge factor is giant for the two games. Were going to crush them, Carly said. We feel more prepared this time, Sam added. We hope we can get lots of students and supporters out here to see the slaughterhouse on the court. Both will get their shot in a little over a week. But before then, they must handle a weekend road trip to the desert to face Arizona and Arizona State. Contact Billy Gallagher at wmg2014 @stanford.edu.

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force this season in helping the No. 5 Cardinal reach 14-3 (8-3 Pac-12). Carly was named the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week for Sep. 26Oct. 2 as well as the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week on Sep. 12 making her the only player ever to win Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week awards in Pac-12 volleyball. Not too shabby for sisters who began playing volleyball in middle school because a PE teacher started an after-school program. We would just pick up the ball and throw it over the net,Carly said. Soon after, they started club volleyball,and the twins have been playing ever since. As seniors, they won myriad honors and were ranked No. 4 (Carly) and No.40 (Sam) in Prep Volleyballs Senior Aces national rankings. They also led their team to the CIF Division 1A Southern California title, an experience the duo said has helped them here on the Farm. Our team had a lot of energy and we would get after it, so I think we brought that energy and effort with us to Stanford, Carly said. We also learned some leadership skills. I also learned how important team chemistry is because our high school team was great, Sam said. I loved everyone on that team.Its sort

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