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By ALLY ARRIETA
A team of Stanford earth science
researchers has pioneered the amor-
phous diamond,a new carbon mate-
rial that is as hard as diamond but
lacks its crystalline structure.
The group, led by assistant pro-
fessor of geological and environ-
mental sciences Wendy Mao, is part
of the Stanford Extreme Environ-
ments Laboratory and collaborat-
ed with the Carnegie Institution of
Washington to discover this new
material.
The team began by investigating
how increased pressure on materi-
als changes their structure, bonding
and, ultimately, their properties.
After testing other crystalline
structures, such as graphite and dia-
mandoids, they decided to examine
glassy carbon, an amorphous car-
bon material.
In order to put the glassy carbon
under high pressure, it was placed
in a device called a diamond-anvil
cell.
We compressed a sample be-
tween the tips of two diamonds, and
since pressure is force times unit
area, we could apply a pretty mod-
est force between the tips of these
small diamonds and get really high
pressures, Mao said. At really
high pressures, you can then change
from one phase to another.
Using techniques called X-ray
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Roundtable examines
American education
By MARY HARRISON
Over 1,000 attendees gathered Sat-
urday morning in Maples Pavilion for
the sixth annual Reunion Homecoming
Roundtable at Stanford, titled this year
Education Nation 2.0: Redefining K-
12 education in America before it rede-
fines us.
Topics explored included charter
schools, finding and training good
teachers, the role of teachers unions, the
role of technology in the classroom and
creating cultures of success in low-
achieving districts.
The panel included six experts in the
field of education: President John Hen-
nessy, School of Education Dean
Claude M. Steele, cofounder of Bell-
wether Education Partners and Teach
for America Kim Smith M.B.A. 98,
Khan Academy founder Salman Khan,
mayor of Newark, N.J. Cory Booker
B.A. 91 M.A. 92, and Reed Hastings,
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Reported numbers comparable to UC-Santa Barbara, UC-Davis
By KURT CHIRBAS
DESK EDITOR
Bike theft was the number-one reported
crime on campus last year, with a total of 329
bikes reported stolen, according to the Stanford
Department of Public Safetys (SDPS) annual
Stanford safety report released last month.
The number represents a modest decrease
from the 375 reported bike thefts in 2009 and the
353 in 2008.The decline in reported bike thefts is
a good sign,according to Stanford bicycle pro-
gram coordinator Ariadne Scott.
However, the frequency of bike thefts has not
changed too much since past years, according
to SDPS public information officer Bill Larson
in an email to The Daily. Larson noted that
SDPS believes an undetermined number of bi-
cycle thefts go unreported by students each year,
which could make this number even higher.
Scott said the number represents around one
bike theft per day at a time when there are
approximately 13,000 bikes on campus daily, be-
longing to both students and staff members.
The number of reported bike thefts at Stan-
ford is comparable to the figure reported at
other California universities with large bike-rid-
ing populations. Around 300 bike thefts are re-
ported stolen each year at UC-Santa Barbara,
according to the universitys bicycle program of-
ficer Matt Stern. And 500 to 600 are reported
stolen annually at UC-Davis, according its bicy-
cle coordinator David Takemoto-Weerts.
There are 14,000 bicycles on UC-Santa Bar-
baras campus each day, according to Stern, and
15,000 to 20,000 at UC-Davis, according to Take-
moto-Weerts.
In the case of Davis, and I think in other big
cycling campuses like Stanford and Santa Bar-
bara, you have a high concentration of bikes in a
By EDWARD NGAI
Over 6,000 Stanford alumni re-
turned to campus this past week-
end to celebrate their fifth through
70th class reunions.
Nearly 10,000 individuals, in-
cluding alumni and their guests,
gathered Thursday to reacquaint
themselves with former classmates
and developments on campus.
After commencing with a formal
dinner on the Quad Thursday
evening, this years Homecoming
featured alumni traditions such as
class panels and the sixth annual
Roundtable discussion, themed
this year on education.
The weekend also incorporated
new events such as a singles mixer
and an Amazing Race scavenger
hunt for alums with kids. Special
guests and honorees included
Susan Rice 86, U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations, and Cory
Booker B.A. 91 M.S. 92, mayor of
Newark, N.J.
The mission of the Alumni As-
sociation is to serve and engage all
the alumni in an attempt to create
lifelong intellectual and emotional
connections between the Universi-
ty and its graduates, said Howard
Wolf 80, president of the Stanford
Alumni Association. Nothing
comes close to doing that better
than Reunion Homecoming. It
nourishes them both intellectually
and emotionally. Its just a wonder-
ful way to reconnect with each
other and the institution.
Reunion Homecoming attract-
ed a range of guests, from months-
old babies traveling with their par-
ents to alums celebrating their 77th
reunions, such as Marcus Krupp
34. Returnees came from 37 states
and countries such as Australia,
Singapore and Peru.
I just look forward to recon-
necting with old friends, reac-
quainting myself and just enjoying
Stanford as a significant part of my
life once again, said Ben Stolpa
66.
Alumni found a vareity of the
400 events to be worthwhile.
Ill never miss the Saturday
morning Roundtable . . . whatever
the topic, I [am] just flabbergasted
Bike thefts remain top campus crime
LOCAL
Palo Alto to vote on binding arbitration Nov. 8
By SARAH MOORE
Palo Alto citizens are set to
vote Nov. 8 on Measure D, which
proposes ending the mandatory
binding arbitration for debates
between public safety workers
and management, which has been
in place for 33 years.
This bargaining tool, in which a
neutral third party settles dis-
agreements with management,
binds both parties to the decisions
of the arbitrator. In more than
three decades, binding arbitration
has only been used in Palo Alto six
times.
Advocates of Measure D argue
that the city, not a third party,
should have control of matters
such as pensions and long-term
benefits for city workers, while
dissenters state that the measure
will take away the collective bar-
gaining rights of public safety
workers.
Tues., Oct. 11, council members
and the public assembled for a
forum about the measure at City
Hall. The city council voted 5-4 to
put the issue on the ballot.
[Binding arbitration] has
been harmful in the past, said
councilman Greg Scharff.The ar-
RESEARCH
Reunion Homecoming attracts 6,000 alumni
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RESEARCH
Research
makes new
diamond
Team creates similar
carbon-based material
Panelists discussinflection
point in education
ALISA ROYER/The Stanford Daily
Alumni attending this years Reunion Homecoming enjoyed several traditional events such as class panels and
the sixth annual roundtable discussion, as well as a football game against the University of Washington.
ALISA ROYER/The Stanford Daily
The sixth annual roundtable at Stanford featured panelists John Hennessy, Claude Steele, Kim Smith, Salman
Khan, Cory Booker and Reed Hastings and moderator Charlie Rose discussing education in America.
Please see ALUMNI, page 5
Please see BIKES, page 5
Please see PANEL, page 2
Please see MEASURE, page 2
2 NMonday, October 24, 2011 The Stanford Daily
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
LGBT Community ResourcesCenter celebrates 40th anniversary
By KATIE MURPHY
The LGBT alumni network
Stanford pride hosted a 40 and Fab-
ulous anniversary celebration for
the LGBT Community Resources
Center on Saturday as part of Re-
union Homecoming weekend, hon-
oring U.S. ambassador to the United
States Susan Rice 86 as well as key
members of the organization.
The event had over 150 people in
attendance. In addition to Rice,
Stanford Pride honored some of its
pioneer members including Maud
Nerman 71, founder of Stanfords
Gay Peoples Union, who spoke on
the accomplishments of the past 40
years.
I never in my wildest dreams
thought if I lived another 30 years
that there would be the changes we
have seen in America, Nerman
said. Now we have to fight for
changes in the rest of the world.
Founder of Stanford Pride Jim
Haas 63 and founder of the Les-
bian Equality Foundation Kathy
Levinson 77, among others, were
also honored for their contributions
to Stanford Pride and the LGBT
community. Levinson, founder of
the annual event, said she started it
to allow Stanford alumni who
werent necessarily public with their
sexual identities while at the Farm
to return and connect.
Stanford Pride is an alumni
group with 2,000 members. It con-
nects Stanford students, faculty and
alumni through newsletters and
events, such as panel discussions on
LGBT issues.
The vast majority of our alums
connect through common life expe-
riences, said Alumni Association
President Howard Wolf 80, who
added that the Alumni Association
firmly supports the group.
The group itself has three mis-
sions: engage the community, be a
model club and help Stanford be a
model institution for other univer-
sities.To accomplish these, Stanford
Pride is starting a mentoring pro-
gram to connect graduate and un-
dergraduate students to alumni.
The organization also provides the
opportunity for students to intern
with an LGBT-related organiza-
tion through their Huffington Pride
Fellowship.
Stanford Pride is also undertak-
ing a proposition for a Center for
the Study of Sexual Orientation
and Gender Identity. The center
would cross disciplines to provide a
unified approach to LGBT re-
search.
Stanford is unique and excep-
tional when it comes to interdiscipli-
nary research, teaching and learn-
ing. It is the Stanford culture, said
Stanford Pride board president Jim
Farah 86.Its our feeling that there
is an opportunity for Stanford to
bring its unique approach to inter-
disciplinary work to our community
and our lives and our issues.
Although the center is still early
in the planning stages, the hope is
that it would cross over all seven of
Stanfords schools and work to re-
duce the risk of teen suicide. Ac-
cording to Farah, the idea itself is
unusual in that alumni associations
dont typically propose academic
programs. Faculty would have to
decide ultimately whether to make
the program a reality.
When you define part of your
mission to change the world, which
is Stanfords mission, and then you
take an alumni club like Stanford
Pride that defines its mission as
helping Stanford be a model insti-
tution, this [the Center] makes per-
fect sense, Farah said.
At the event itself, Rice spoke
about the U.N.s work to promote
LGBT rights.
Under Rices leadership, the
United States is now a member of
the U.N. LGBT core group. On Jun.
17, the U.N. Human Rights Council,
with the United States in the lead,
adopted a resolution advancing the
fundamental human rights of
LGBT persons. A U.N. report has
been commissioned to investigate
the challenges that LGBT people
face, she said.
At the U.N., countries are final-
ly beginning to codify and enshrine
the promise of equality for LGBT
persons, and as they do so the world
will become a safer, more respect-
ful and a more humane place for
everybody, Rice said.
She spoke of the many steps to-
ward LGBT rights by the United
Nations and President Barack
Obama, including the repeal of
Dont Ask Dont Tell and the rever-
sal of the Bush administrations de-
cision not to sign the U.N. General
Assembly statement on sexual ori-
entation and gender identity.
Quite frankly we couldnt fig-
ure out why it was that the United
States had not been an original sig-
natory, Rice said.
She is our representative to the
world,said Gautam Raghavan 04,
current White House liaison to the
LGBT community and organizer
of the event.
Contact Katie Murphy at kmur-
phy3@stanford.edu.
diffraction and X-ray raman mi-
croscopy, the team was able to
probe what was going on within
the sample at high pressure and
conrmed that it had not become
crystalline. Instead of taking on
the diamonds long-range struc-
ture as expected, the material
transformed from an amorphous,
sheet-like substance to a super
hard, amorphous, diamond-like
material.
The next step was to test the
hardness of the material by detect-
ing the stress it could withstand
and comparing it to the level the
diamond could handle.
The diamond can withstand
stress of 100 gigapascals or over,
said Yu Lin, a graduate student in
geological and environmental sci-
ences who contributed to the re-
search. Here, with our nal prod-
uct, it can withstand a stress differ-
ence of 70 gigapascals. No other
material except diamond can reach
this kind of stress difference.
Because the diamond is only
hard in certain directions and has
planes of weakness inherent in its
structure, it is easily cleavable. Ac-
cording to Mao and Lin, the amor-
phous diamond may not have the
same limitations.
If something is amorphous,
you can imagine that in all direc-
tions the hardness might be very
similar, so it could have more uni-
form hardness, Mao said. The
amorphous diamond has that very
attractive potential property.
Currently, amorphous diamond
only maintains its form at high
pressure and regresses to glassy
carbon when pressure is released.
However, the knowledge that the
materials hardness is tuned by
pressure change can be incorpo-
rated into creating a stronger anvil
cell.
With further research to discov-
er methods that preserve the
amorphous diamond in ambient
conditions or create it at lower
pressures, the uniformly hard ma-
terial could have important appli-
cations. Because of the materials
hardness and light weight, for ex-
ample, it could potentially be used
for coding and cutting tools.
Most of what we do is funda-
mental research for the Depart-
ment of Energy which funds our
research, Mao said. Thinking 20
years down the road, we do dis-
covery science to nd these inter-
esting properties that people can
eventually use.
According to Mao, the material
may eventually generate a multi-
billion-dollar industry similar to
that of the synthetic diamond,
which is valued for its use in jewel-
ry and for cutting tools.
Its a matter of how much peo-
ple will want to make it, she said.
We are many steps behind the di-
amond, but the idea is that once
you nd a material with a special
property, the industry may develop
around it.
Contact Ally Arrieta at aarrieta@
stanford.edu.
DIAMOND
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bitrators are pretty pro-union, and
its very difficult to make needed
structural change.
Scharff is joined by four other
council members in supporting
Measure D, while two oppose it and
two more remain neutral on the
subject.
Those individuals opposed to
the measure believe that the main
concern is not the ease with which
the city makes structural change
but the protection of the rights of
public safety workers.
Without this special form of
binding arbitration, they end up
having no bargaining power, said
Palo Alto community member and
attorney Richard Alexander. So
without Measure D on the books,
they can be forced to work under
the terms and conditions dictated
by the city. That includes not only
hours and pay but working condi-
tions, grievances and a whole range
of labor issues.
The Palo Alto Fire Fighters and
groups such as the Dean Democra-
tic Club of Silicon Valley and the
Santa Clara Democratic Party join
Scharff in opposition to the meas-
ure.
We dont like it because it takes
away the collective bargaining
rights of the fire fighters and the po-
lice officers, said Palo Alto Fire
Fighters Union President Tony Spi-
taleri. Were working with the city
council members and community
resources to get the message out.
Nonetheless, proponents of the
measure argue that the removal of
binding arbitration will not leave
public safety workers without rep-
resentation.
The public safety workers will
have all of their collective bargain-
ing rights, Scharff said. Theres a
new bill that the governor just
signed, that when you have a dis-
agreement with . . . unionized em-
ployees in the public sector, you
have to go through basically a non-
binding arbitration process.
Scharff also noted that 95 per-
cent of cities in California do not
have binding arbitration.
As for other Palo Alto city
unions, binding arbitration is not
used because workers are allowed
to strike in order to negotiate with
management. Public safety workers
are not permitted to use this type of
protest.
One main divide between pro-
ponents and opponents of Measure
D is a disagreement on what the
fundamental issue of the measure
itself is. Those on one side of the ar-
gument believe the main concern
that voters should consider is the
ability of the city to make key
changes in the public safety system.
Groups on the other side consider
the issue at stake to be the entitle-
ment of fire fighters and police to
hold collective negotiations.
Furthermore, as Stanford pays
for a third of the Palo Alto fire
fighters payroll and a quarter of
their costs for fire engines and other
capital equipment, the decision that
Palo Alto voters make on Measure
D will dictate the process that de-
cides how University money is
spent.
Voters will see Measure D on
their special election ballots Nov. 8,
accompanied by the more highly
publicized Measure E, which would
allow 10 acres of Byxbee Park to be
designated for the establishment of
a waste-to-energy facility.
Contact Sarah Moore at smoore6
@stanford.edu.
MEASURE
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CEO of Netflix and former president
of the California State Board of Edu-
cation. PBS talk show host Charlie
Rose moderated the discussion.
When asked about the current
state of K-12 education in the United
States,panelists agreed that it is out of
date and that the system needs to
change. However, they all also ex-
pressed optimism about increased at-
tention to the plights of the educa-
tional system.
We have been doing things the
same way for 100 years, Smith said.
This is a real inflection point for
American education.
All our assumptions [about edu-
cation] will be rethought in a positive
way,Khan said.
Several models for rethinking the
education system were brought up
during the discussion. Hastings sug-
gested that the biggest problem in
American schools is the system of
elected school boards and predicted
that,one day,all schools will be run by
nonprofit charter organizations.
Booker also praised charter
schools.
Charter schools have challenged
the pernicious bigotry that says that
not all kids are capable of learning,
he stated.
Steele added that he sees the fact
that charter schools are open to inno-
vation and willing to explore new
teaching and learning styles as their
primary significance. President Hen-
nessy, meanwhile, expressed that be-
cause charter schools compete with
public schools, they push public
schools to be better.
Panelists also expressed technolo-
gy as another solution to the educa-
tion crisis. All the speakers stressed
that introducing technology into the
classroom does not make teachers
obsolete; in fact, it can make teachers
more effective by allowing them to
personalize lessons for each individ-
ual student.
Hastings cited the example of
Rocketship Education, a charter
school system founded by John Dan-
ner 88 that is strongly rooted in tech-
nology-based education.
Right now, Rocketship [schools]
have test scores that are even slightly
higher than Palo Alto and they are
doing it at lower costs,he said.
The conversation also focused on
how to support and foster good
teachers.
Hennessy stated that in order to
attract more college graduates to the
teaching profession, we need to pay
[teachers] and treat them as profes-
sionals.
He cited the fact that currently the
majority of teachers come from the
bottom quartile of college graduates.
Great teachers have something
amazing called learned optimism,
and they pass that on to their stu-
dents,Smith said.
She also said that through her
work with Teach for America, she has
seen that great teachers share a few
traits: knowledge of the subject area,
passion for teaching and energy to
share that passion with others.
Nonetheless, panelists expressed
that there is no singular solution that
will solve all of Americas education
woes.
Lots of people have this mistak-
en belief that everyone should want
the same thing or that the same thing
works for everyone,Smith said.
Dennis Arch 66, who came for
exposure to the panelists and to the
problem of education reform, said
he found the discussion very inform-
ative.
Furthermore, Annie Davids 87, a
middle school math teacher at a char-
ter school, reviewed the event posi-
tively.
All the panelists were fantastic,
she said.Cory Booker was amazing.
He is really in the trenches, so it was
interesting to hear his take on every-
thing.
Contact Mary Harrison at maryhari@
stanford.edu.
PANEL
Continued from front page
All our
assumptions will
be rethought.
SALMAN KHAN,
Khan Academy founder
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NOTES FROM ABROAD
Language
lessons in
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hen in Madrid, do
as the madrileos
do. After about a
month in Spain, Im
starting to see why so
many Stanford students are in love with
this program.
One of the reasons is that we are re-
ally lucky to be able to live with host
families and get three home-cooked
meals a day. So far, studying abroad in
Madrid has been a very hands-on way
to learn about Spanish culture.
My roommate and I live with a very
loving single mom who spoils us in
every way imaginable. She offers loads
of advice on where to party, how to
dress, what to eat you name it. My
favorite advice so far: eating lettuce
and salad can make us gain weight, but
a little bit of chocolate everyday is to-
tally acceptable. After all, it has kept
her figure slim and her friends jealous
over the years.
As informative as her witticisms
are, its also been exciting to share our
own cultures with our host mom. My
roommate is part Mexican and Im
a native Californian, have a Mexican
boyfriend
and, consequently,
have lots of happy memo-
ries associated with Mexican culture.
However, the Spanish spoken in
Spain is very different from the Span-
ish spoken in Mexico. Thus, we are
constantly being introduced to new
slang or are reminded to pronounce
the Spanish lisp and say opthin in-
stead of opcin.
Our greatest surprise thus far has
been the word coger. Everyone in
Spain, including our host mom, has
been telling us to coger un taxi, el
libro, etc. We were a little bewildered
and uncomfortable. For the non-
Spanish speakers out there, to Castel-
lano speakers, the word coger is short
for recoger, which means to pick up or
get. In Mexican slang, however, coger
essentially means to have sex with,
but in cruder terms. Needless to say,
we got a good laugh out of explaining
our confusion to our host mother and
learning a little bit more about Span-
ish culture.
Sonya Chaudhry
Madrid Madrid
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Courtesy of The Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Artist in His Museum, (1822) an oil painting by Charles Willson Peale,
is one of the works curator Claire Perry features in her exhibit, The Great Hall
of American Wonders, currently in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
PROFILE: CLAIRE PERRY
Art as an American wonder
By AMRITA RAO
I
ts easy to dismiss museum exhibits as
dry, academic montages to traverse on
a rainy day, or during a class field trip.
But in reality, countless hours are de-
voted to selecting exactly which arti-
facts come together to display the exhibi-
tions cohesive narrative.
At Stanford, the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor
Center for Visual Arts owes the selection and
organization of its artwork to the knowl-
edgeable and diligent group of professionals
who plan these exhibits the curators.
Claire Perry M.A. 88 Ph.D. 93, the for-
mer coordinator of American art at Cantor
for nearly a decade, is one such individual.
This past year, Perry had the opportunity
to organize an exhibit at the Smithsonian
American Art Museum and is now co-teach-
ing an undergraduate class with art history
professor Bryan Wolf that provides students
with an in-depth analysis of her exhibition.
The exhibit, titled The Great American Hall
of Wonders, dbuted this past summer and
examines 19th-century America through the
lens of technological innovations that took
place during that time of rapid change.
Perry never expected to become a curator
when she dropped out of college to travel
around Europe during her early twenties, but
perhaps this career move was not so surpris-
ing when one considers the artistic master-
pieces that span the continent. After her ex-
tensive traveling, she returned to school and
earned her bachelors degree in internation-
al economics at Georgetown Universitys
School of Foreign Service and later attended
Stanford where she received her doctorate in
art history.
Perry considers curating to be her true
calling, a career that is much more than sim-
ply throwing an amalgam of art together in a
room.
Its a really thoughtful process about
considering what audiences might want to
look at, what might inspire but also challenge
them, Perry said.
Her inspiration for the Wonders exhib-
it rose out of the Stanford Arts Initiative, a
program started in 2006 to increase the pres-
ence of the arts on a campus that is now also
well known for its programs in science and
technology. Perry appealed to Cantor to plan
a show that intertwined the two fields but did
not receive a slot on the exhibition schedule.
Instead, Perrys proposal was accepted at the
Smithsonian, where she became a guest cura-
tor at the American Art Museum.
Props to her, said Greg Gorraiz 12, a
student in her American Wonders class.
She met the institutional roadblocks [at
Stanford], took it across the country and
probably reached a wider audience.
Relocating to Washington, D.C., she took
the concept for her exhibit and the means
with which to fund it to a whole new level.
With the powerful Smithsonian name behind
her, Perry was able to procure objects she
had only dreamed of using works by
Audubon, Thomas Moran, Winslow Homer
and other eminent artists.To complement the
exhibit, she compiled a companion book in
the form of a series of essays linking techno-
logical advances of the time to themes visited
in contemporary artistic renderings.
The book is also the cornerstone of Wolf
and Perrys American Wondersclass, cross-
listed in the American Studies and Art Histo-
ry Departments.
The exhibition is a unifying force be-
tween all the things we read, said Sophi
Newman 13, a class member and American
studies major with a focus on American art.
But the class itself is interdisciplinary, fo-
cused on the art of presentation viewed
through different approaches in art and his-
tory. By co-teaching the small, seminar-style
class, Perry receives immediate feedback
from her students about the exhibit rather
than waiting for newspaper reviews or visitor
comments. The intimate size of the class also
allows Perrys students to more closely inter-
pret these works of art for themselves.
Gorraiz, for instance, already feels its in-
fluence after a few weeks.
[The class] gives me an appreciation of
another world, one where people spend so
much time and energy trying to portray so
many complexities as a singular thing, he
said.
Both Gorraiz and Newman stressed the
importance of not taking a painting, or an ex-
hibit for that matter, merely at surface value.
And this December, when the class travels to
D.C. to visit The Great American Hall of
Wonders,they can view it from an informed
perspective after having learned all about the
subtleties of the objects in class.
Perry hopes for the opportunity to work
with the Smithsonian again in the future, per-
haps after her next burst of inspiration
strikes. In the meantime, shes excited to
show the fruits of her labor to her class this
winter, at which point they can further ex-
plore the exhibits cohesive American narra-
tive firsthand as curators of especially in-
formed opinions.
Contact Amrita Rao at arao15@stanford.edu.
Its really a thoughtful process about
considering what audiences might
want to look at, what might inspire
but also challenge them.
CLAIRE PERRY
I
ve been a Stanford student for
well over a month now.And yet, I
still wake up every morning not
quite believing that I actually go to
school here. It feels like the token
happy scene in every teen movie
the one where the sun is shining
and the breeze is blowing while the
upbeat pop song plays in the back-
ground. Its during these happy mo-
ments when I remember how lucky
we all are to be attending college, let
alone one of the top universities in
the world. I know thats easy to forget
when you have midterms, five differ-
ent club meetings to attend and like,
three essays due on Tuesday, but its
so true. I mean, did you see all the old
folks that came to Homecoming?
Theyre from the class of 61, and
they still love this place enough to
come back. Thats how awesome
Stanford is; people keep returning
five decades after they graduate.
Actually, last weekend was a per-
fect example of Stanfords awesome-
ness. All of Twain took a free!
trip to San Francisco for our frosh
scavenger hunt.
Naturally, my team was the best.
But Ill admit that I wasnt super ex-
cited when I first heard who my
group mates were. Our RAs had
used a random algorithm to form
our groups (read: purposely put to-
gether teams that they thought
would be the most awkward and
thus, the most hilarious) so that we
would be forced to branch out.
May I just take a moment to say that
I absolutely hate being the first to
branch out? I know it builds charac-
ter and all, but its just plain uncom-
fortable sometimes. And the begin-
ning of our scavenger hunt certainly
was. None of us really knew what to
say to each other, and it really didnt
help that the tasks on the scavenger
hunt list required us to be very phys-
ically close. (Task #7: form a human
pyramid on a street corner.)
But as the day continued and
the tasks on the list got progressively
more ridiculous I began to discov-
er that I had more in common with
my teammates than I had anticipat-
ed. One girl who I had initially
pegged as quiet and shy turned out to
share my same obsession with wed-
dings! We had a great time trying to
accomplish #24 on our list: try on a
bridal gown at Neiman Marcus. (In
case, you were wondering, we totally
failed this mission. Apparently you
need to make an appointment about
six weeks in advance to try on gowns
at a luxury bridal salon. Who knew?)
Even though our attempt to play
Say Yes to the Dress was loads of
fun, it was not one of the trips high-
lights.The craziest moment was when
my next-door neighbor, Garseng, de-
cided to accomplish #8 on the list: get
a tattoo. He gave it absolutely no
thought either, just waltzed into a tat-
too parlor in Haight-Ashbury,
plopped down in a chair and decided
what to get in a period of about three
minutes. (He settled on getting Lady
Gagas phrase Born This Way
scrawled on his foot. It only came out
slightly crooked.)
And the trips best moment?
When four of my dormmates jumped
off a pier into San Francisco Bay.
Sure, it was illegal and moderately
terrifying to watch. But as I watched
them frolic in the visibly dirty water,
I could not help but think, this is what
college is supposed to be about: tak-
ing leaps of faith.
Why not take a leap of faith and email
Bianca at blchavez@stanford.edu?
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EDITORIAL
A free solution
to Stanfords waste
problem
A
lthough relatively few stu-
dents have ventured into
the basement of Old
Union, those that do encounter an
innovative example of social entre-
preneurship applied to our very
own Stanford campus. Union Un-
derground, a free store and student
art gallery, offers a creative stab at
a partial solution to the problem of
waste at Stanford.
The store is open Friday
through Sunday from 12 p.m. to 2
p.m. and is staffed by volunteers.
The store operates on a donations
model whereby students and
groups donate used clothing or
other items,and visitors to the store
can take up to three items per day.
Thus far, because of space con-
straints, the store is unable to ac-
cept larger donations like couches
or TVs,but it hopes to be able to ex-
pand.
Union Underground is impres-
sive for a number of reasons. First-
ly, the free store is an excellent ex-
ample of innovation applied to our
very own campus. Numerous stu-
dents, groups and classes at Stan-
ford are involved in addressing
some of the biggest challenges fac-
ing society today in new ways. Ef-
forts like Union Underground re-
mind us that these projects can
and should start closer to
home, addressing real issues on
Stanfords campus.
For that reason, another major
reason to applaud Union Under-
ground is for taking a small step
against the very real problem of
waste.The transient nature of life at
Stanford means students regularly
dispose of items like clothing or
room furnishings, many of which
are perfectly serviceable. For some
things, resale is an option, and stu-
dents can always take items for do-
nation to centers that are a little
farther away.Many items,however,
are simply just thrown away. Union
Underground offers a convenient
alternative to contributing to land-
fills and one that more directly en-
gages the Stanford community.
The free store is also a great ex-
ample of making change happen.
The founders had an idea for a stu-
dent thrift store and in consultation
with other interested students, the
administration and similar initia-
tives elsewhere, they worked to
quickly make their vision a reality,
including the choice to switch to a
free store model due to zoning re-
strictions. Furthermore, the stores
founding as a collaborative effort
between the Green Living Council
and Students for a Sustainable
Stanford, along with recent part-
nership with the ASSU, is encour-
aging. Although partnership is not
easy, there are real benefits to
working together to tackle what
are ultimately common problems
including greater visibility and po-
tentially higher effectiveness.
Union Underground cannot by
itself solve the problem of waste at
Stanford. The store has its own set
of concerns to deal with, some of
which are self-reinforcing.The lack
of space for larger donations
means that the store cannot offer
some items that Stanford students
would avail of and would like to
donate, such as couches, and there
is a certain stigma against used
items. This, and the stores location
and newness, feed into the lack of
awareness and publicity of the
store among the student body. The
store must avoid becoming a
dumping ground for anything
and everything students should
maybe otherwise (legitimately)
throw away. Lastly, although the
Spring Quarter trial was a success,
it remains to be seen whether Stan-
ford students can indeed be trusted
to maintain the balance of giving
and taking that is necessary to
make a free store work.
On the whole, however, the
store and the idea behind it are
promising.The collaborative effort
to provide a useful service to stu-
dents and, at the same time, engage
them with the issue of sustainabili-
ty is laudable and sets a great
example for others on this campus.
OPINIONS
N
ames, like the people who
give them, can be terrific
liars.
Take, for example, the Democrat-
ic Peoples Republic of North Korea,
which is not remotely democratic,
run by the people or anything like a
republic. (One almost longs for the
days of the Austro-Hungarians and
the Ottomans, when big, mean em-
pires, while admittedly big and mean,
were at least honest about being em-
pires). Or consider the PATRIOT
Act, whose provisions for spying on
American citizens and trampling all
over our basic civil liberties were
anything but patriotic.
Ditto for Alabamas recent Tax-
payer and Citizen Protection Act,a
far-reaching bill recently passed by
the state legislature and intended to
clamp down on illegal immigration.
A more appropriate title, it seems,
might be,An Act to Raise Prices on
Consumer Goods by Increasing the
Cost of Labor, or perhaps, A Bill
to Terrorize Anyone Who Looks
Hispanic, Especially Kids or even
The Alabama Racial Profiling and
Mass Exclusion Act.
In the time since the acts pas-
sage, thousands of undocumented
children have ceased showing up for
school, workers have fled menial
jobs in droves and valuable infra-
structure construction has slowed
for lack of willing labor. The ACLU
and the Department of Justice have
both filed suit against a law with per-
nicious effects that, according to the
Southern Poverty Law Center,
amount to a humanitarian crisis.
Perhaps we shouldnt be too sur-
prised, given the current tenor of the
national debate on immigration. Al-
abamas bill looks positively friend-
ly, for example, when compared with
the rhetoric of Republican presi-
dential candidate Herman Cain,
who suggested at a campaign stop in
Tennessee on Oct. 15 that he
planned on building a 20-foot-high
electrified fence along the Mexico
border designed to kill would-be il-
legal immigrants.
Its going to be 20 feet high. Its
going to have barbed wire on the
top. Its going to be electrified. And
theres going to be a sign on the
other side saying, It will kill you
Warning, explained Mr. Cain, ap-
parently still upset about the failure
of his previous attempts to kill peo-
ple by serving them millions of terri-
ble pizzas. (Its not as bad as it
sounds, insisted the former Godfa-
thers CEO; the welcoming all-
American sign advertising your im-
pending death by electric shock will
be helpfully translated into Span-
ish.)
But it gets better. Cain joked that
his wall would feature a medieval-
style moat complete with hungry al-
ligators, though its not clear where
precisely they would come from. (Id
start by looking in the same circus
they must have found the Republi-
can elephant this year, and then
checking to see if they can be im-
ported from Uz-beki-beki-beki-
beki-stan-stan). Taking a cue from
Antoine Dodson, Cain has pro-
claimed that just in case those darn
illegals got past the moat, the alliga-
tors and the 20-foot-high electrocu-
tion zone, he would secure the bor-
der for realby sending in brigades
of soldiers with real guns and real
bullets.
According to the New York
Times, Cains remarks were deliv-
ered at a pair of campaign rallies in
Tennessee and drew thunderous ap-
plause from crowds of several hun-
dred. This is not at all surprising,
given the fact that attendees at pre-
vious Republican events have
booed a gay soldier serving in Iraq
and cheered enthusiastically at the
thought of an uninsured man dying
without medical care.
Cains words are also near-stan-
dard fare for a Republican field
whose crazed enthusiasm for com-
petition apparently extends to the
tightly fought contest for Most Big-
oted Candidate. Currently in the
lead, though not by much, is former
Massachusetts Governor Mitt
Romney, whose rousing anti-immi-
grant campaign ad recently vaulted
him into first place over former yel-
low-jersey-holder Rick Santorum.
The ad opens with a clip of an
unusually empathetic Governor
Rick Perry defending his decision
to provide in-state tuition to the
children of illegal immigrants. If
you say that we should not educate
children who come into our state . .
. by no fault of their own, I dont
think you have a heart, said Perry,
which momentarily raised the like-
lihood of me voting for him from
zero to one in a million.
MITT ROMNEY HAS A DIF-
FERENT VIEW, blares the ad in
all caps, just in case we were wonder-
ing, before closing with a slide ex-
horting us to BELIEVE IN
AMERICA by voting for Mitt this
November.
Well, I believe in America, Mr.
Romney. But its not an America
that prides itself on the body count it
can rack up by electrocuting its
neighbors. My America is better
than that.
It is possible, of course, that in the
words of people like Mr. Cain and
Mr. Romney we are seeing little
more than overblown primary-sea-
son rhetoric, calculated to appeal to
party extremes and soon to disap-
pear under the glare of the national
spotlight. We can only hope.
Miles knows we need comprehensive
immigration reform; he just thinks an
electric fence isnt the way to do it.
Shoot him your ideas at milesu1@
stanford.edu.
I DO CHOOSE TO RUN
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really small area, Takemoto-
Weerts said. You can practically, as
a bike thief, take orders of certain
makes and colors and frame sizes . .
. and find that bike just looking
around for 10 to 15 minutes.
The League of American Bicy-
clists recognized all three of these
universities last year for their com-
mitment to bike friendliness. Stan-
ford received the organizations top
platinum award, while both UC-
Davis and UC-Santa Barbara won
the gold award.
Focusing on prevention
Last spring quarter, Stanford
Parking and Transportation Ser-
vices (PT&S) conducted a study of
the 18,000 bike rack spaces on cam-
pus, Scott said.
According to Scott, the purpose
of the study was to find out where
the highest density of parked bikes
was and where on campus there
werent enough racks to meet the
needs of students. She said PT&S
discovered that there was a demand
for parking spaces at areas such as
Tresidder Memorial Union, the En-
gineering Quad and the new Arrilla-
ga Family Dining Commons.
Theres a demand for parking,
but all of these will be addressed,
she said.
Scott said that PT&S is currently
working with Stanfords planning
office to put new racks in these spots
and that this may help to curb the
number of bike thefts in the future.
According to Larson, most of the
bikes that are reported stolen on
campus were either not locked or
not properly secured to a bike rack.
According to Scott, one of the
biggest ways the University at-
tempts to fight bike theft is by edu-
cating students on how to best pro-
tect their bikes, especially during
New Student Orientation (NSO)
week at the beginning of each year.
During the new school year, we
obviously do focus on new students
coming, because a lot of them
havent been on a bike in awhile,
Scott said. I hear comments, The
last time I rode a bike, I was in grade
school. So its an easy target to
focus on those new students coming
in, because we want to change their
behavior while theyre here.
At NSO, PT&S emphasizes the
importance of registering ones
bike, according to Scott. She said 85
to 90 percent of this years incoming
freshman class registered their
bikes during NSO week, which she
said is representative of the percent-
age of bikes registered in other
classes. Bike registration costs $3.50
and is valid for three years.
The key thing when you register
your bike is that you have legal
proof that the bike belongs to you,
Scott said. Say if the bike is lost or
stolen, and the bike is returned to
Public Safety, then theres a way to
reunite you with the bike, and they
can prove that the bike belongs to
you.
Both Larson and Scott said they
also recommend students lock their
bikes to a bike rack with a U-lock as
opposed to a cable lock.
However, a plurality of bikes that
were reported stolen between June
1 and Oct. 9 were also reported to be
U-locked at the time the crime oc-
curred. Of the 136 bikes reported
stolen during this time frame, 48
were reported to be U-locked, 43
were cable-locked, 23 were un-
locked, seven were chain-locked
and 15 were categorized as locked in
a miscellaneous manner.
Stern said a similar trend has
been seen at UC-Santa Barbara.
I think that makes sense, be-
cause a U-lock is probably the most
widely used lock, Stern said. Its
probably the best way to secure
your bike provided that you se-
cure it properly.
Reporting bike thefts
UC-Davis conducts a campus-
wide survey every year to collect
data about the travel habits of those
affiliated with the university. Last
year,Takemoto-Weerts said the sur-
vey included two new questions:
have you ever had your bike stolen,
and did you report the theft?
The results of those two ques-
tions indicated that if 500-600 bike
thefts were reported annually on
campus, then in reality, there might
be as many as 2000-3000 bike thefts
taking place, because most people
do not report bike thefts, he said.
Larson said that bike thefts do go
unreported at Stanford as well, but
that the department is unable to
determine or estimate these per-
centages.
According to Larson, students
who do not report a bike theft most
likely do so either because they
dont feel they have the time or be-
cause they feel the chances of re-
covery are slim to none. At Stan-
ford, very few stolen bikes are
ever reclaimed, Larson said. He did
not give numerical data.
He said that the department still
encourages the reporting of a theft
because it may result in the recovery
of the bike, as well as serving statis-
tical purposes that could lead to tar-
geted surveillance of certain areas.
One third of stolen bicycles are
recovered at UC-Santa Barbara, ac-
cording to Stern. Stern said that this
number was six times the national
average. He attributed the high re-
covery rate to the fact that the
schools police department heavily
enforces bike violations, and be-
cause it has 90 employees who are
dedicated to bike enforcement.
Because we have so many bicy-
cles, we have a lot of bicycle enforce-
ment issues, as youd expect in a city
with cars,Stern said.So we do a lot
of traffic enforcement, and we do a
lot of parking enforcement . . . and
every time an officer stops and en-
forces a bicycle violation, the bikes
are checked [to see if they are
stolen].
Bikes are recovered in a similar
way at Stanford, Larson said. He
said the main ways bicycles are re-
covered is during a violation stop,
during the investigation of a similar
or unrelated crime or if the bicycle
has been abandoned.
The serial numbers of these
bikes are checked against a
statewide database of stolen prop-
erty, called the Automated Property
System (APS).
Even without a bicycle license,
we can still enter the serial or frame
number and bicycle description into
the shared stolen-property data-
base, Larson said. However, a bi-
cycle license is much preferred since
it would allow us to search the li-
cense number for owner informa-
tion.
Analysis of thefts
175 bike thefts occurred at stu-
dent residences last year, according
to the Stanford safety report. This
accounts for more than 50 percent
of the total number of bike thefts
that occurred on campus.
We believe the main reason is
because there is usually a higher
concentration of bicycles parked at
residences rather than at other
buildings on campus, especially at
night, Larson said.
According to Larson, Student
Housing has hired a private security
contractor to patrol student resi-
dences at night, and this group re-
ports any suspicious activity in-
cluding any possible bike theft to
the SDPS.
He said, however, that a majority
of bikes are stolen during the day.
More bikes are stolen during
the day than at night, since there are
more bicyclists from on and off cam-
pus who attend class, work [and]
special events, Larson said.
Larson said the SDPS believes
that individuals from outside of the
community, working in pairs or
groups, commit the majority of bike
thefts, but students have also been
occasionally arrested for bike theft.
Takemoto-Weerts said that
those outside of the community
commit a majority of the bike thefts
at UC-Davis as well.
In the occasional instances
where somebodys arrested, its
often somebody from out of town.
And they catch them in the middle
of night driving through campus
with a couple of old bikes, Take-
moto-Weerts said. In those cases,
[the suspects] often have a prior
record for drug violations. And we
think a lot of people are stealing
bikes with the idea of stealing a
$300 bike, and then you can turn
around and sell it for $50 on
Craigslist to get your next hit.
However, Stern said that he be-
lieves students commit a majority of
the bike thefts at UC-Santa Bar-
bara. He said students steal bikes ei-
ther to get extra income, because
they are frustrated that their own
bike got stolen or because they are
intoxicated.
Theres no free ride when it
comes to bicycle safety, Scott said.
We want people to ride. Safety is our
number-one priority, and deterring
bike theft is a part of bike safety.
Contact Kurt Chirbas at kchirbas
@stanford.edu.
BIKES
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by some of the issues I hadnt even
thought about, Stolpa said.
Valerie Seymour B.A. 01 M.S. 03
cited the class parties, for sure, and
some of the classes without quizzes,
maybe.
Meanwhile, Hilary Link 91 high-
lighted Saturdays football game
against the University of Washington.
Saturday nights game against
Washington drew over 4,500 alum-
ni, seated together by class.
The classes of 66 to 86 are in the
northwest corner, and the classes of
91 to 06 are in the southeast cor-
ner, said Richard Muschell, assis-
tant director of athletics and director
of ticket sales. It carves out about a
quarter of the [general] seating, the
older classes.
An estimated 9,000 people at-
tended the tailgates on Saturday, ac-
cording to Leslie Winick, director of
alumni class outreach and one of
the architects of Homecoming Re-
union.And you will see two people
who havent seen each other in five
or 15 or 40 years, and theyll go run-
ning towards each other screaming,
I know you; you know me! even
though they havent seen each other
in 20 years. Its my favorite thing.
Each Homecoming Reunion op-
eration takes a full year to plan and
relies upon hundreds of people.
We have a team of 30 people
who work on this all year long, an
extended team of 400 staff across
campus who volunteer: faculty, staff,
athletics, ethnic community centers
there are so many partnerships,
Winick said. The secret is that we
all move in the same direction. Its
about connecting [the alumni] back
to each other. I see people who are
celebrating their 70th reunion, and
theyre still talking about when they
were freshmen. Its amazing.
Im most proud that there is
momentum, she said. The fifth,
10th, 15th and 20th reunions [are]
growing every year. Even with Face-
book, people are coming across the
country, leaving early from their
jobs and coming to Stanford.
Wolf commented on what con-
tinues to draw years of Stanford
history back to the Farm.
We all have something in com-
mon, he said. Were all a part of
Stanford, and we always will be.
Contact Edward Ngai at edngai
@stanford.edu.
By IVY NGUYEN
SENIORSTAFF WRITER
This report covers a selection
of incidents from Oct. 13 through
Oct. 17 as recorded in the Stan-
ford Department of Public Safety
bulletin. During this period, sev-
eral car burglaries occurred
around Pearce Mitchell Place.
Several DUI arrests were also
made over the weekend.
THURSDAY, OCT. 13
IBetween 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. some-
one stole an unattended cell
phone from the top of a desk in a
lab at the Center for Clinical Sci-
ences Research. The lab is kept
open and is accessible to the pub-
lic.
IBetween 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. a U-
locked bike was stolen from the
outside of Tresidder Union.
FRIDAY, OCT. 14
IBetween 4 p.m. the previous day
and 9 a.m. today someone stole
an unlocked bike from the bike
racks outside of Griffin.
IBetween 11 a.m. Oct. 12 and 10
a.m. today someone entered
Wallenberg Hall room 232 and
stole a laptop computer from a
suitcase.
IAt 12 p.m. someone discovered
a rope suspended in a tree in
White Plaza. The individual ini-
tially thought it was a noose but
upon further investigation it
turned out to be nylon twine
tangled around a branch.
I Between 8 p.m. the previous
night and 1 p.m. today someone
stole an unlocked bike from the
bike racks outside of Cedro.
I Between 10:14 p.m. and 10:35
p.m. a man outside of Oak Mod-
ular Building B on Panama
Street was transported to the
San Jose Main Jail and booked
for being in possession of stolen
property and prowling. He was
held on a warrant out of Red-
wood City.
IAt 11:15 p.m. someone entered a
womans apartment uninvited at
6 Comstock Circle. He ran out
and was not located.
SATURDAY, OCT. 15
IAt 9:35 a.m. a vehicle parked in
the Tow Awayzone in Lot 9 was
towed and moved to the other
side of the lot so that construction
work could be completed.
SUNDAY, OCT. 16
ISomeone reported that another
person stole $1,500 from a dorm
room in Casa Zapata. The re-
porting party was allegedly in a
relationship with the suspect.
IBetween 2:30 a.m. and 12 p.m.
someone stole a U-locked bike
parked outside of Larkin.
IBetween 1:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
someone entered an unlocked
classroom in Jordan Hall and
stole an unattended camera.
IBetween 4 p.m. Oct. 14 and 11
p.m. today someone stole a U-
locked bike from outside Bran-
ner Hall.
IAt 8:08 p.m. a man at the intersec-
tion of Lomita Drive and Muse-
um Way was transported to the
San Jose Main Jail and booked
for public intoxication, resisting
arrest and battery to a peace offi-
cer.
MONDAY, OCT. 17
IBetween 6 p.m. the previous day
and 8 a.m. today someone en-
tered an unlocked vehicle at 21
Pearce Mitchell Place and re-
moved all the papers from the
glove box. No valuables were
taken, and two sets of prints
were removed from the scene.
IBetween 7 a.m. Oct. 15 and 12:30
p.m. today someone stole an un-
locked bike from a residence out-
side of the carport at 29 Pearce
Mitchell Place.
IBetween 8 p.m. the previous day
and 4 p.m. today someone en-
tered another unlocked vehicle
at Pearce Mitchell Place and
stole money and an audio
adapter. Two prints were lifted
from the scene.
IBetween 7 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. in
the same area someone stole a
GPS from a vehicle.
IAt 1 p.m. a woman at the corner
of Campus Drive and Jordan
Way was transported to the San
Jose Main Jail, where she was
booked for driving under the in-
fluence.
IBetween 4:15 p.m. and 4:25 p.m.
someone stole an unattended
iPhone from an open study desk
on the fourth floor of Green Li-
brary.
Contact Ivy Nguyen at iknguyen@
stanford.edu.
ALUMNI
Continued from front page
POLICE BLOTTER
Theres no free ride
when it comes to
bicycle safety.
ARIADNE SCOTT,
bicycle program
coordinator
6 NMonday, October 24, 2011 The Stanford Daily
WOMENS VOLLEYBALL
Stanford wins
ugly in Arizona
By MIKE SCHWARTZ
Of the many adjectives that can be used to de-
scribe the Stanford womens volleyball teams
play this weekend, pretty is not one of them.
However, sometimes it is just about getting the
victories, and that is exactly what the No. 5 Cardi-
nal did.
Stanford (16-3, 9-3 Pac-12) went into its
matches against Arizona (13-7, 5-6) and Arizona
State (5-16, 1-11) as hot as any team in the Pac-12
and maybe even the country. The Card was look-
ing to build on its six-game winning streak and
continue climbing up the conference standings.
WOMENS VOLLEYBALL
STANFORD 3
ARIZONA STATE 1
10/22, Tempe, Ariz.
Starting the weekend off in Arizona on Friday
night, it looked as if the teams momentum from
the previous weekend was carrying over, and
Stanford jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead. But
things got ugly fast for the Cardinal, as the Wild-
cats came back to take a 23-19 lead. On the verge
of dropping the first set, Stanford turned it
around quickly, closing out the game with six
straight points to take the set, 25-23.
The Cardinal kept Arizona on its heels, taking
the second set as well, 25-22. However, Stanford
would be denied another sweep, as Arizona came
roaring back to win the third set, 25-22. The Card
began to show flashes of its former self in game
four, burying the Wildcats offensively Stan-
ford closed out the match in style, taking the
fourth set, 25-17.
Leading the way for the Cardinal was sopho-
more outside hitter Rachel Williams, who led all
players with 18 kills. Junior setter Karissa Cook
showed everyone why she had just been named
Pac-12 and National Player of the Week, posting
yet another double-double with 39 assists and 17
digs.The dynamic duo has been a major factor for
Stanford this year.
Saturdays game against the second-to-last-
place Sun Devils could not have started off any
worse. Stanford dropped the first set in miserable
fashion, losing 25-22. But the Card charged back
in the second set, stifling the Arizona State attack
to even the match at one set apiece.
That was when Stanford got its groove back.
Despite a subpar effort against Arizona and an
early slip-up against Arizona State, the momen-
tum shifted back to the Cardinal. Stanford pro-
ceeded to bury the Sun Devils, taking game three
25-20. The Card ended the weekend well, playing
its best volleyball in the fourth set to win 25-18,
capped by junior outside hitter Hayley Spelmans
kill.
Sophomore middle blocker Carly Wopat had a
huge night, posting a career-best 18 kills and lead-
ing all players with 22 points.The young guns were
certainly carrying Stanford, as redshirt freshman
SPORTS
Card sets school rushing
record in rout of Huskies
By JACK BLANCHAT
DESK EDITOR
In a game featuring two of the
nations top passers, the anticipat-
ed air war instead turned into the
Stanford Cardinal doing its best
Forrest Gump impersonation.
After passing for 702 yards in its
last two games, the Stanford foot-
ball team ran, ran and ran some
more in Saturdays 65-21 blowout
of the Washington Huskies.
FOOTBALL
WASHINGTON 21
STANFORD 65
10/22, Stanford Stadium
The No. 6 Cardinal rushed for a
school-record 446 yards on 44 car-
ries, riding a strong offensive line
to shred the then-No. 25 Huskies
run defense, which had only al-
lowed an average of 97 yards per
game rushing coming into Satur-
days contest, a fact that made the
Cardinal players beam at their
own efforts.
We were very aware of it when
we broke [the school rushing
record]. What a testament to the
O-line, to the coach, the tight ends,
to the fullbacks and wide re-
ceivers, said redshirt junior quar-
terback Andrew Luck. It was a
total team effort on the ground
today, but first of all, to the backs
making it happen with unbeliev-
able plays.Theyre special athletes,
and its fun to have four of them,
four really good ones.
The running back foursome of
juniors Stepfan Taylor and Tyler
Gaffney, redshirt senior Jeremy
Stewart and sophomore Anthony
Wilkerson contributed 368 yards
and five touchdowns to the Cardi-
nal attack, with Taylor tallying 138
yards and Gaffney running for 117
of his own.
Altogether, it was an effort that
was good enough to continue two
impressive streaks for Stanford
the Cardinal has now won 15
straight games and has defeated its
last 10 opponents by more than 25
points. Both stats were in doubt
early on, though, as the Huskies
were the ones showing off their
speed on the ground.
After Stanford took its first two
drives in for a touchdown and a
field goal to jump out to a 10-0
lead, Washington responded to
early defensive pressure from
Stanford by feeding running back
Chris Polk, who dashed 46 yards
for a touchdown to make the score
10-7 with 3:46 left in the first quar-
ter.
After Luck led the offense to
another score with a one-yard
touchdown toss to redshirt senior
tight end Coby Fleener, Polk again
ripped off another touchdown run,
shucking missed tackles en route
to a 61-yard score that made it 17-
14 early in the second quarter.
Stanfords run game responded
right away, though, as Taylor went
untouched on a 70-yard touch-
down run on the first play of the
next drive to make it 24-14.
After the Huskies missed a
field goal, Luck tossed another
touchdown pass, this time to junior
wide receiver Drew Terrell. The
first touchdown catch of Terrells
career extended the Cardinal lead
to 31-14.
Stanford then struck its knock-
out blow moments later when sen-
ior safety Michael Thomas inter-
RUNNING RAMPANT
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Junior running back Tyler Gaffney ran for a career-high 117 yards in No. 6 Stanfords 65-21 thrashing of Washington.
Gaffney did not even lead the team in rushing, though, as fellow junior running back Stepfan Taylor racked up 138 yards
on the ground. Sophomore running back Anthony Wilkerson added 93 to fuel the 446-yard Cardinal rushing attack.
Cardinal beats White in mens
basketball scrimmage
Following the Cardinals first Midday Madness an af-
ternoon that featured meet-and-greets with players and
coaches, skills contests, player-led karaoke and a dunk com-
petition the Stanford mens basketball team made its sea-
son debut in the annual intrasquad Cardinal-White Scrim-
mage.
Playing two 12-minute halves, the Cardinal squad bested
the White squad, 35-25. Sophomore forward Dwight Powell
registered the first points of the game on a dunk while fellow
sophomore forward Stefan Nastic sank two free throws on
the other end of the floor. The Cardinal squad controlled the
remainder of the scrimmage, going into the half with a 17-10
advantage and leading by as much as 33-16 following a three-
pointer from sophomore guard Robbie Lemons with just
over four minutes remaining.
Nastic and sophomore forward Josh Huestis, the winner
of the afternoons dunk competition, led the Cardinal team
with six points apiece, while Nastic went 4-for-4 from the line
and Huestis grabbed five rebounds. True freshman point
guard Chasson Randle also picked up six points for the Car-
FOOTBALL
WASHINGTON . . . . . . .21
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .65
10/22, Stanford Stadium
WOMENS VOLLEYBALL
STANFORD . . .3 (22-25, 25-21, 25-20, 25-18)
ARIZONA STATE . . . . . . .1
10/22, Tempe, Ariz.
WOMENS SOCCER
COLORADO . . . . . . . . .1
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .4
10/23, Laird Q. Cagan Stadium
MENS SOCCER
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .0
OREGON STATE . . . . . . .1
10/23, Corvallis, Ore.
MENS WATER POLO
AIR FORCE . . . . . . . . . .3
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .16
10/23, Santa Clara, Calif.
FIELD HOCKEY
UC-DAVIS . . . . . . . . . . .0
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .5
10/21, Varsity Turf
SOFTBALL
SAINT MARYS . . . . . . . .1
STANFORD . . . . . . . . . .6
10/21, Smith Family Stadium
STANFORD
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cepted a Keith Price pass and re-
turned it 61 yards for a touchdown
ahead of a trailing Price to make the
score 38-14 and put the Huskies a lit-
tle too far behind.
That was a play wed been work-
ing on for about three weeks, so I
knew it was coming, and the quarter-
back finally threw it, Thomas said.
When I caught it, that was the first
thing going through my mind, you
know, I see the angle, and if this guy
catches me, everybody in my locker
room is going to mess with me and all
my boys from back home are going
to mess with me. So I had to kick it
into second gear.
The Cardinal took the 38-14 mar-
gin into the half and dedicated the
second half to grinding the clock
with the run game along with
extra effort to stop Polk from ripping
off any more long runs of his own.
Basically, we got a second half
not-pep talk from [defensive coor-
dinator Derek] Mason, he let us
know real quick that we cant play
like that,Thomas said. And every-
body just did their job, we didnt real-
ly make adjustments, he just told us
that if we continue to play like this,
the offense is going to have to win
this game for us.
The not-pep talk led the de-
fense to a dominant second half.
After Polk tallied 143 yards rushing
in the first half, the Cardinal defense
clamped down and held the junior
runner to one yard in the second half.
Polks poor second half came in es-
pecially stark contrast to the Stan-
ford offense, which added 199 yards
rushing after eating up 247 yards on
the ground in the first half.
As the clock wound closer to the
end of the game, the Cardinal run-
ners could feel the pressure to break
another school record.
It was exciting to see everybody
go out there and have fun, Taylor
said.When we came back in at half-
time, I told Gaffney, Lets try to get
500 (yards) out here.
While Stanford didnt quite
eclipse that high mark, the record fi-
nally fell with 1:25 left in the game, as
Wilkerson took a draw play up the
left side and broke free for a 38-yard
touchdown, his second of the day.
While the new record left head
coach David Shaw all smiles, he in-
sisted that he wasnt trying to pile on
the points in order to rewrite history
or impress BCS voters.
I had no idea [about the record]
until right at the end, and to be per-
fectly honest, I was not trying to get
it, Shaw said. That last run for a
touchdown by Wilkerson, I was hop-
ing hed get the first down and then
wed kill the clock. We were not try-
ing to set records; we were not trying
to score more points. I wanted to end
the game.
The biggest pitfall in this profes-
sion and Ive lived in this profes-
sion my entire life the biggest pit-
fall in this profession is to a) worry
about things that you shouldnt
worry about or b) worry about things
you cant control anyway, Shaw
continued when pressed about wow-
ing BCS voters. The only thing we
control is how we work during the
week and how we play on Satur-
days.
Shaw of course credited the of-
fensive line and running backs for
the dominant ground performance,
but he also made sure to give his
quarterback a little recognition after
an efficient but not eye-popping
passing performance, completing 16
of 21 passes for 169 yards and two
touchdowns.
I give Andrew and [offensive
line coach Mike] Bloomgren a lot of
credit as far as making sure we got to
the right play every single time,
Shaw said. On every single play,
[Luck] can audible to a fourth or fifth
play, he has it all at his fingertips, and
every single play tonight he got us to
the right play.
And even though his star quarter-
back didnt amass gaudy stats, Shaw
said that those tuning into the prime-
time game most likely learned a little
something about a team thats more
than just one Heisman-caliber play-
er.
Were more than just Andrew
Luck,Shaw said.Weve got a good
team. Weve got a physical team. . .
We can play both styles of football.
Andrews thrown for over 300
[yards] a couple times this year, now
we rushed for a bunch tonight. The
fact that we can be a complete of-
fense is what we strive for.
Stanford will travel to Los Ange-
les to take on USC on Saturday at 5
p.m.
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat
@stanford.
FOOTBALL
Continued from page 6
outside hitter Lydia Bai chipped in
with 16 kills of her own.The pair an-
chored the Stanford offense on a
night when the Card desperately
needed someone to step up.
The Cardinal did not look like
the team that had dismantled
Washington in straight sets the
week before, but it is tough to be
disappointed with eight straight
wins. Stanford is now sitting only a
game out of second place in the
Pac-12 and has a very real possibili-
ty of moving into first place by the
end of next week. First-place USC
and third-place UCLA, the last two
teams to beat the Cardinal, are
coming to town in what looks to be
a pair of critical weekend matches
on Friday and Saturday.
First serve for both matches will
be at 7 p.m. at Maples Pavilion.
Contact Mike Schwartz at mikes23@
stanford.edu.
WVBALL
Continued from page 6
8 NMonday, October 24, 2011 The Stanford Daily
Jacob
Jaffe
Stat on the Back
Cardinals huge win is a
statistical field day
S
aturdays 65-21 win over
Washington was a dream
game for Stat on the Back.
Heres a look at how Stan-
ford got it done.
Number of the game: 446
What it means: Stanford had 446
rushing yards against Washington.
Yep, thats really a four in the hun-
dreds place.
Why it matters: Finishing with
146 rushing yards is a decent game
(about the average output in a col-
lege football game), 246 is a great
game (better than any of Stanfords
first six games this year) and 346 is
an incredible game.
But 446? Thats historically good.
In the 1,176 games Stanford played
before Saturday, the Cardinal had
never run for that many yards. The
previous best was 439, a record that
had stood for 30 years. Stanford had
only reached the 400-yard mark
twice in its history.
Putting up enormous totals is
great, and treating the alumni to a
spectacle at the Homecoming game
helps to energize the fan base. More
importantly, though, Stanford
proved to the entire country that it
can dominate any team it faces in
any way it wants.
Pundits across the country have
acted like Stanford football is An-
drew Luck, and some have gone so
far as to say that without Luck, Stan-
ford wouldnt even be a .500 team.
Those expertscan eat Stepfan Tay-
lors dust. And Tyler Gaffneys. And
Anthony Wilkersons.And the whole
offensive lines. Lets just say that
theres a lot of dust to go around.
Luck is great, and there have
been countless articles deservedly
ogling his saintliness on and off the
football field. He had an efficient
game through the air and his best
game of the season on the ground,
and his play-calling was perfectly ex-
ecuted. But for once, this wasnt
about Luck. This wasnt even a see,
other people can do things too
game.
This was a statement. Stanford is
a great team with a great coach,
great defense, great offense, great
running backs, great quarterback,
great receivers, great fullbacks, great
tight ends and great lineman. Luck is
just one of the many pieces to the
Stanford puzzle.
Other notable numbers:
17: While looking at all these
stats, dont forget that Stanford was-
nt playing Directional State. This
was supposed to be the toughest test
of the season for the Cardinal, and
Washington came in with a BCS
ranking. Further, the Huskies came
in ranked 17th in the country in run
defense.Washington had allowed 62
yards or fewer on the ground in four
of its six games this season. For the
year, the Huskies had only given up
582 yards on the season before giv-
ing up 446 to Stanford.This one per-
formance dropped Washington 40
spots from 17th in the country to
57th.
348: The trio of Taylor, Gaffney
and Wilkerson combined for 348
rushing yards and four touchdowns
on just 33 carries. Each had his own
highlights, including a run of at least
34 yards for each. Wilkerson was
just seven yards from being Stan-
fords third 100-yard rusher of the
game, which has never happened in
Cardinal history. Washington had
allowed just one 100-yard rusher in
its first six games.
65: Stanford didnt waste its
yards, racking up 65 points on Wash-
ington. That is the second-most
points the Cardinal has ever scored
in conference play, trailing only the
82 scored by Pop Warners 1925
Stanford team against UCLA.
Overall, the 65 points are the sev-
enth most in Stanford history and
second most in the past 35 years.
21: Even while scoring all these
points, Luck threw the ball just 21
times. He was efficient with his pass-
es, completing 16 for 169 yards and
two touchdowns, but he did not have
to do much. In the post-Toby Ger-
hart era, the 21 attempts were the
second fewest by Luck, trailing only
the 20 from last years Big Game.
Combined score of those two
games: 113-35 Stanford.
107: After allowing just 59.5 rush-
ing yards per game, Stanford gave
up 107 yards on two long runs by
Chris Polk in the first half. The ab-
sence of injured safety Delano
Howell was all too evident in the
tackling problems faced by Stan-
fords secondary.
1: Polks 143 first-half rushing
yards were followed by just a single
rushing yard in the second half. As it
has all season, Stanfords defense
buckled down in the second half,
helping the Cardinal to outscore the
Huskies 48-7 after Polks second
touchdown.
20: Once the ball gets to the 20-
yard line, Stanford goes from being
one of the nations best teams to the
undisputed best in the country. The
Cardinal scored on all seven of its red
zone possessions on Saturday, keep-
ing Stanford perfect on the season at
38-for-38. No other team has scored
on every trip to the red zone. On the
other side of the ball, the Cardinal is
second in the nation at keeping op-
ponents off the scoreboard inside the
20. One of the biggest reasons is . . .
2-for-11: One of the silliest stats
youll ever see is opponent field-goal
percentage. But in the case of Stan-
ford, it has gotten absurd. For the
season, the Cardinals opponents
have made just two of their 11 at-
tempts, good for an 18-percent suc-
cess rate. This is especially surprising
considering those same kickers have
combined to make 26 of their 32 at-
tempts against everyone else, good
for an 81-percent success rate.
0: In what might be Stanfords
most impressive stat, the Cardinal
has trailed a grand total of zero times
this season. Zero is also the number
of other FBS teams that can say that.
10: Okay, maybe this is Stanfords
most impressive stat. The Cardinal
has now won 10 straight games by 25
points or more. No team has ever
done that in the 75-year history of
college footballs poll system.
6: More important than any of
these stats is Stanfords standing in
the BCS. The Cardinal currently
ranks sixth, and with the upsets of
Oklahoma and Wisconsin, Stan-
fords path to the BCS National
Championship Game is getting in-
creasingly simple.At this point, if the
Cardinal wins its next six games (a
tall order to be sure), Stanford
would likely need just one upset of
Oklahoma State to earn a spot in the
title game, because the Cardinals
computer ranking should improve
enough in the coming weeks to pass
Boise State and Clemson.
2005: Stanford will travel to the
L.A. Coliseum to take on USC this
Saturday. The last time the Trojans
beat the Cardinal in Los Angeles
was 2005, marking the longest home
drought USC has against any of the
former Pac-10 teams. With ESPNs
College GameDay on campus, Sat-
urday will prove if the Coliseum re-
ally has become a second home for
the Cardinal.
Jacob Jaffe will be heading down to
the friendly confines of the Coliseum
on Saturday when Stanford takes on
USC. He firmly believes that ESPN
GameDays Lee Corso will be suiting
up in Trojan armor, but wants to
know what other foolish things Corso
will do on set. Let him know at jw-
jaffe@stanford.edu or on Twitter
@Jacob_Jaffe.
NICK SALAZAR/The Stanford Daily
The Stanford womens volleyball
team struggled at times against
both Arizona and Arizona State, but
the No. 5 Cardinal still came away
with two four-set road victories on
the weekend.
dinal in his Maples Pavilion debut,
and junior guard Gabriel Harris
dished three assists.
For the White squad, Powell and
sophomore forward John Gage led
with six points, and classmate An-
thony Brown had three points and
eight rebounds.
It was a good chance for the
players to play in a real game with
refs and for the crowd to be able to
watch us, said redshirt freshman
Andy Brown, who did not play in
the scrimmage but suited up and is
expected to return from multiple
ACL injuries this season.
Stanford will play its first exhibi-
tion game on Nov. 5 against Ryer-
son at Maples Pavilion.
Caroline Caselli
Softball starts season off with 6-1
win over St. Marys
The Stanford softball team kicked
off its fall schedule in style, riding
plenty of bench support to a 6-1 victo-
ry over visiting St. Marys on Friday
night.
Although last season ended with a
tough defeat one win away from the
Womens College World Series
Stanford lost on the road at Alabama
in the NCAA Super Regional the
Cardinal returns 17 players from a
team that went 42-17, finished the
season with a No. 10 national ranking
and made its 14th consecutive trip to
the NCAA Tournament.
Among the returners is three-
time All-American Ashley Hansen.
The senior shortstop was the first
Stanford player named USA Softball
National Player of the Year after set-
ting school records for batting aver-
age (.495), hits (95) and slugging per-
centage (.797) last year.
She didnt show any rust on Fri-
day, smoking a double in her first at-
bat to score senior center fielder
Sarah Hassman for the teams first
run of the year. Junior pitcher Teagan
Gerhart also looked good, not allow-
ing a run in the circle during her first
action of the season. After her fresh-
man campaign was cut short by an
arm injury, the Norco, Calif. native
went 26-13 with a 1.74 ERA and a
whopping 250 strikeouts last year in
her first full season on the Farm.
Although the team will likely suit
up veterans at most positions, the
game against the Gaels was a chance
to see some of the Cards young play-
ers in their college debuts.The class of
2015 has eight new players Leah
White, Cassandra Roulund, Hanna
Winter, Lauren Donovan, Alyssa
Lombardo, Erin Ashby, Tylyn Wells
and Nyree White, who made her first
trip to the circle at Smith Family Sta-
dium on Friday, giving up just one
run.
White, Gerhart and junior Jenna
Rich are currently the only pitchers
on the squad, and with Rich likely
locked into her spot at second base,
White will likely see the bulk of the
action behind Gerhart as she picks up
much of the slack left by the gradua-
tion of pitcher Ashley Chinn.
The Cardinal has five more exhi-
bition games before a 2012 season
that will provide a grueling gauntlet
of 20 teams that finished last year in
the top 25. Stanford will play host to
San Jose State on Friday at 6 p.m. be-
fore playing a pair of doubleheaders
against San Francisco State and
Santa Clara in early November.
Miles Bennett-Smith
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Sophomore forward Josh Huestis won
the dunk competition at the Stanford
mens basketball teams Midday
Madness, an event that included the
annual Cardinal-White scrimmage.