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Report critiques Union

Working group set to examine student space
By ALICE PHILLIPS The ASSU and the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Affairs (VPSA) are forming a working group to review use of the Old Union complex following a preliminary report that stated Old Union is not serving the Stanford community to its full potential. The working group, which is still forming, will include VPSA administrators, ASSU leadership and interested students who will join through an application process, according to ASSU Vice President Stewart Macgregor-Dennis 13. The group will spend fall quarter researching and hopes to implement changes starting winter quarter, he said. Were not trying to make [the working group] too big because we want to be effective and get things done, student space researcher Aaron Konigsberg 14 said. Wellness Room repurposed One space that has already been repurposed is the Wellness Room. The first floor room in Old Union, which used to boast relaxation and art resources, now matches any other student study room in the complex, with standard Old Union couches. Konigsberg said Jeanette Smith-Laws,director of operations and students unions, decided it would be best to incorporate wellness into all aspects of Old Union as opposed to dedicating a room to the theme.
UNIVERSITY
Applications to GSB dip 8.13 percent

Decrease seen at other top business schools
By SANDY HUANG Application numbers decreased this year for most of the top business schools in the country, including Stanfords Graduate School of Business (GSB),which saw its application volume decrease by 8.13 percent during the most recent application cycle. Peer schools such as the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School also experienced drops in applications, according to data presented by Bloomberg Businessweek. The report found that Stanford experienced the largest drop among top 10 business schools. Were down from a kind of alltime high, said Derrick Bolton, assistant dean and director of MBA Admissions at the Stanford GSB. The context is important. Bolton said a look at the last 10 years reveals that, unlike undergraduate applications,business school applications have historically gone through cycles of growth and decline. In 2002, the number of GSB applications was 5,864. In 2005, the figure dropped to 4,582. The most competitive years for those applying to the GSB were in 2009 and 2010 when applications reached 7,536 and 7,204 respectively, according to Bolton. Despite the drop from last year, this year was still the third most competitive year in the past 10 the GSB received 6,618 applications. To me, theres kind of a national ebb and flow to the admissions cycle, Bolton said. He said when applications to business school rise, admission rates concurrently decrease, often deterring potential candidates from applying the following year because they perceive minimal chance of success. According to Bolton, the result is that application numbers fall the next time around, and admission rates eventually go back up, encouraging people to apply again. Bolton said the GSBs highly selective admissions process also affects this cycle in application volume. Last year, the GSB had an admit rate of 6.8 percent well below that of peer schools, partly due to the GSBs small class size. Selectivity is a dual-edged sword in that it gives you the luxury of selecting a class,but it does have the unintended effect of scaring away some highly talented applicants that should be considering the program that maybe get a little daunted by the admissions rate, he said. According to Bolton, there has not been a strong correlation between application numbers and the current economic climate.
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Student space researcher Aaron Konigsberg 14 completed a report over the summer on the Old Union complex. He found the space was not meeting student needs and requires renovations.
The Wellness Room was initially created by ASSU Executives Johnny Dorsey 09 and Fagan Harris 09 in February 2009, with strong support by former ASSU President Angelina Cardona 11. Cardona was ASSU Mental Health Chair at the time the space was created. The Wellness Room faced criticism throughout its existence about its level of use and ability to cater to the entire student body. Student space report recommends website, programming The student space report, which was commissioned by the ASSU and released to the student body over the summer, was a condensed version of a several hundred-page report that Konigsberg wrote over three weeks. Konigsberg said he was
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SPEAKERS & EVENTS
STUDENT GOVT
Posner talks human rights and democracy

Asst. Secretary of State shares Obama administration outlook
By ERIN INMAN
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ASSU increases discretionary spending

By JAMES LANCASTER The ASSU recently approved its budget for the 2011-2012 academic year, with major changes occurring in its appropriations for discretionary funding. Presidential discretionary spending rose by 31 percent and Graduate Student Council (GSC) discretionary spending swelled by 83 percent under the new budget. Drafted by the ASSU Executive team and financial managers, this years budget included a shift from line item appropriations funding pre-appropriated for specific ASSU initiatives to general discretionary spending, which can be spent on any ASSU project. ASSU Vice
Michael Posner,Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy,Human Rights and Labor,spoke Tuesday night at the Schwab Residential Center about the Obama administrations approach to democracy and human rights. Stanford in Government (SIG) and the Freeman Spogli Institutes Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) cosponsored the talk. The Obama administration has a principled engagement in the world, Posner said, implying that human rights issues are incorporated into conversations involving international interests. We are going to be there. We are going to engage, Posner said. But were going to ensure that human rights are part of that equation. On a macro level, the administration seeks to engage with multilateral institutions such as the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council, Posner said.On a micro level,it seeks to support development projects where human rights issues are inherent. Three common themes for development projects include the need for economic empowerment, political participation and building opportunities, Posner said. He added that a human rights-oriented approach to development gives recipients a stake in the projects,ensures transparency and promotes the strengthening of effective democratic and rights-based institutions such as open courts or the police system. Posner cited Internet freedom as a necessity to ensuring international human rights. The Internet open, neutral and capable of traversing borders
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Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, said changes regarding democracy and human rights often come from civilians, not governments.
serves as a platform for commerce, education, innovation and political discussion, according to Posner; it supports freedom of speech, association and assembly. Continuing to focus on civil society, Posner said human rights organizations should be able to operate outside of current constraints, including the ability to organize or receive foreign funding. According to Posner, it is important to target civilians instead of governments because,as he said, change does not come from the outside. Change occurs within societies when people see their own destiny and power for change, Posner said. Tempting as it is to think that we [the United States] can force change,what we really can do is reinforce peoples best aspirations, amplify their voices and support them. While the United States may not force change,it often inspires it, according to Posner. We are going to lead by example universal standards apply to all, including ourselves, he said. The power of the idea of human rights and democracy, the power of the United States exam-
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SPEAKERS & EVENTS
PayPal founder Peter Thiel speaks to innovation at BASES kickoff

By ISAAC GATENO Speaking Tuesday evening at The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) kickoff event for this year, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel B.A. 89 JD 92 compared video games to pharmaceuticals and referred to the higher education system as the only bubble thats left. If video games were held to the same standards as drugs, the founder of PayPal said, referring to the rigorous clinical trials required for FDA approval of pharmaceuticals, we would have no video games. The theme of Monday evenings discussion was, Has innovation stalled? Thiel, an early angel investor in Facebook, also spoke at last years BASES event once before, last years kickoff. This time around, the organization aimed to make the event more interactive, said BASES co-president Charles
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financially compensated for his work. The ASSU initially advertised the student space position as including a $1,250 stipend and consisting of 80 hours of work.Konigsberg said the position ended up requiring more work than expected around 100 to 120 hours in total and he was additionally compensated for this time. The report made four recommendations for the Old Union complex which consists of Old Union, the Nitery and the Clubhouse to establish the Union as a hub of campus life. The four recommendations are to create a website unifying online resources related to student life, better utilize the existing space, host original programming to give Old Union a personality and market the Union to the student body. The report included results of a survey administered to Stanford students last year. According to the report, Old Union received a score of 5/5 in Variety, 3/5 in Usefulness, 4/5 in Availability, 3/5 in Utilization, 2/5 in Desirability, 1/5 in Online Presence and 3/5 in Community Feel. Konigsberg said the lowest score, Online Presence, could be attributed to the multitude of student-aimed web pages, such as the activity calendar and the room reservation system. Web pages are also separate among the ASSU, the CoHo and the Axe and Palm, which operate separately. If the Old Union is to be the center of campus life and activity, the Old Union website has to support this claim, Konigsberg wrote in the report. In its current state, there is simply no way that the Old Union can promote the type of events that the Old Union will have to host if it wants to be successful. There has to be a redesign. Konigsberg said he researched student unions at other universities while compiling the report,considering at three main factors: personality of each university, school location and the average distance of dorms from the student union. He said he interviewed the directors of student life or student unions at all of the schools he researched. Each [of the universities student unions] had a really unique feature about it that made it great,
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The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students hosted Peter Thiel, an initial Facebook angel investor, at its kickoff event Tuesday night, which led students to debate the question, Has innovation stalled?
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Naut 12. The student group structured the talk as a debate and crowd sourced the panel. In the weeks leading up to the event, attendees had the opportunity to post their questions to Thiel online. From those who submitted questions, three panelists were selected to meet Thiel personally and join him onstage for a debate moderated by Naut. The topics discussed by the panel included the slowing pace of innovation, the role of traditional education and the fostering of innovation in the developing world. Thiel is known for often presenting controversial ideas relating to these topics. Thiels comment on the education bubble was inspired his observations of tuition prices spiraling out of control and a pervasive social pressure to funnel children through the credentialing process of traditional higher education. When asked what he thought education might look like after the bubble breaks, he said that it will become less important. [People will realize] maybe they didnt need quite as much as they thought. Thiel, a fervent libertarian, also
spoke about how the most regulated industries aerospace, agriculture and pharmacology have seen the least innovation, while the unregulated Internet has been booming. Thiel left the audience with a parting message: Humans can think about and affect the future. He encouraged attendees to stop thinking about where they will be in the next six months to three years. Instead, he encouraged the audience to think 30 to 60 years ahead and beyond. Comparing this years event to last years, Naut said audience members were more familiar with Thiel. They were more used to his ideas, he said. Naut said the unconventionality of Thiels ideas led BASES to bring the speaker back for a second round. With this event, the BASES calendar is officially under way for the school year. Other BASES events for the year will include the weekly Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) speaker series, a collaboration with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) that has in the past brought the likes of Jack Dorsey and Aneesh Chopra to campus and Y Combinator Startup School, a one day seminar aimed at encouraging potential founders. Contact Isaac Gateno at igateno @stanford.edu. telling you about the value of that money spent and whether it was a good use. Satija also noted the importance of transparent spending, stressing the value of ASSU financial analytics and publicly available spending reports. Our financial manager audits ASSU spending, providing detailed analysis of where funds went and why they were spent, Satija said. This independent review is a powerful check on discretionary funding because we get a detailed breakdown of ASSU spending. Macgregor-Dennis was also optimistic about the potential of the Division of Internal Review (DIR) to ensure efficient spending and address student concerns. Unanimously passed last Tuesday, the bill establishing the DIR called for the creation of an independent body to evaluate spending on ASSU Executive and Senate initiatives, in addition to monitoring other groups that receive ASSU funding. I think its going to be unbelievably effective, Macgregor-Dennis said of the DIR.Its clearly going to be a great asset to the ASSU, as it will allow us to understand which initiatives add value and enable us to quantify their impact. According to Macgregor-Dennis, the passage of the DIR, ASSU financial auditing and open communication with the student body are all key in ensuring the proper spending of discretionary spending. He said many of these initiatives are directly aligned with the goals of the 2011-2012 ASSU Executive team. One of our primary objectives this year is transparency, Macgregor-Dennis said.We want students actively involved in student government, and the budget is no exception. Were optimistic about our ability to have a big impact, and the active review and evaluation of discretionary funding allows us to bolster that goal. Contact James Lancaster at jamesl2@stanford.edu. Posner said CEDAW is still a priority of the administration, but lacks Senate support for possible ratification. The administration is ready to go, Posner said. But we have work to do in domestic politics [to get it passed]. SIG was eager to co-sponsor the event,according to one of the organizations members, Patrick Kennedy 13. Stanford students are well-connected with current events, so SIG was eager to have representatives from government who are fighting political issues from the trenches, in addition to our academic faculty, Kennedy said. Contact Erin Inman at einman@stanford.edu.
Konigsberg said. At Princeton, the union is really specifically tailored to the community and serves the community well. The [University of] Maryland student union was exemplary at marketing to students. The report also asked students what first came to mind when they thought of Old Union, Konigsberg said.According to the report, 51 percent of responding students selected The Axe and Palm, 42 percent selected A place to do group work, 3 percent selected A quiet place to study and 4 percent selected None of the above. When asked which changes would make Old Union more appealing, 55 percent of respondents requested more dining options, 46.9 percent wanted more spaces to work individually, 45.6 percent requested longer hours, 35.7 percent of respondents asked for more spaces to work with a group,35.4 percent desired a more relaxed and lounge focused atmosphere and 24.5 percent requested a more upbeat and lively atmosphere. Id like us to come up with a plan for how wed like each room in the facilities to be used and make changes that reflect that and come up with programming that allows us to make those changes, MacgregorDennis said. According to Konigsberg,one option that would help Old Union better serve Stanford students as a cam-
pus hub would be renovating the first floor into a place where students could interact with each other and watch away football games, compared to one current use of the area as a space to study. While the second floor of Old Union will likely remain as is, the question of how to allocate the remaining space to students and whether or not to allow certain groups to inhabit some rooms permanently is up for discussion, Konigsberg said. We have to strike that delicate balance between giving resources to everyone and honoring groups who have shown that they do use the space well, Konigsberg said. Even with the prospect of a revamped space, Old Union faces the challenge of drawing students to the building, Konigsberg said. The student space report cited programming as a key component of reforming Old Unions image. There is currently no formal system of events programming at Old Union. [The programming] shouldnt be events planned by old people for young people, Konigsberg said. It should be events that I personally would be excited to go to. [Old Union] shouldnt be a building; it should be a destination. Contact Alice Phillips at alicep1@stanford.edu. of business unlike medicine and law. According to Bolton, the recent drop in applications does not concern the GSB. Its not a very important metric in the grand scheme of things, Bolton said. So when applications are up, thats fine.When applications are down, thats fine. My real concern is whats the quality of the class, he said.As long as we have 396 really bright, really energized, really thoughtful, really committed students, then we feel good. He said that a success of an application cycle for the GSB does not rely solely on what he called fluctuating numbers like application volume. We dont define success based on number of applications, Bolton said.We define success based on the quality of the class,and then later,the impact the students have once they go out into the world. Contact Sandy Huang sunhuang@stanford.edu. at
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You often hear people say, Oh its the economy, Bolton said. I dont believe this . . . People apply to business school when the economy is bad. Bolton added that there were better indicators to explain why application numbers fluctuate. Applications correlate better with census data than with economic data, he said. Over the last few years, there have been population decreases in areas of the United States and abroad where the GSB has typically seen large numbers of applicants in the past, according to Bolton. Business schools do not like to compare their numbers of applicants to other kinds of professional schools like medical and law schools, Bolton said.He said business schools should be judged separately since no degree is required to enter the field
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President Stewart Macgregor-Dennis 13 said that these changes were implemented to allow the ASSU greater flexibility in meeting the needs of the student body. I think that the increase comes from the realization that its incredibly hard to predict the exact line items that will be needed in the next year, Macgregor-Dennis said. People realize that there needs to be flexibility in the budget for ASSU leadership teams to implement their initiatives, and discretionary funding allows us that flexibility. A number of line items from last years budget were consolidated into general discretionary spending in order to emphasize flexibility, according to GSC Chair Aaditya Satija, a graduate student in electrical engineering and energy resources engineering. Satija said this shift represents a more efficient and strategic use of ASSU funding. We merged advertising, communications and public relations line items into discretionary spending, as these expenses can be difficult to predict ahead of time, Satija said.With a greater flexibility in the way we spend funds, we can ensure that the budget meets the evolving needs of the Stanford student body. Responding to concerns about the potential for misuse of unallocated funds, both Macgregor-Dennis and Satija said that there are numerous safeguards to prevent inappropriate spending. The key to addressing these concerns is total transparency, Macgregor-Dennis said. Sure, were obligated by the Constitution to release our quarterly spending reports, but were going above and beyond that to involve the student body. Before we spend discretionary funds, were telling you about it, and after we spend it, were
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ple on human rights and democracy, resonates around the world, he added. Its amazing and reassuring how much people aspire to the kinds of freedom and openness that we take for granted. Although Americans may take domestic human rights for granted, the U.S. government still has yet to ratify these rights in an international setting, Posner said. One such example is the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which was adopted by the U.N. in 1979.
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tanfords campus is a place for many activities: learning, socializing, partying and advertising? Companies ranging from small startups to industry leaders employ student brand ambassadors to promote their brands on campus, whether this means wearing their brands t-shirt, handing out free products or organizing events on campus. Ashley Lyle 13 is one of two brand ambassadors for Victorias Secrets sub-brand, PINK. What was very appealing to me about PINK was that the brand wasnt only promoting clothes and lingerie, but it was promoting a lifestyle, Lyle said. Their marketing efforts are all about getting people excited about PINK and creating this PINK girl: Who is she? What does she do? Where are the places that she goes to? As a campus representative, one of her main responsibilities is to wear the free clothes that she receives around campus. Lyle was flown to the Victo-
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rias Secret headquarters for training by the company. They gave us four or five outfits, pretty expensive outfits. They were just handing us stuff, Lyle said. We personally get a lot of stuff because of course you want to be promoting PINK all the time. Lyle, however, isnt the only student who benefits from her PINK ambassadorship at Stanford. Earlier this year, she helped the sorority Alpha Epsilon Phi work with Victorias Secret PINK to put on a Zumba event and raffle off PINK attire, where she gave away pieces of eight yoga outfits. Winners of the grand prize received full yoga outfits. She also gives away make up bags, pens and fake tattoos to promote the brand. Pedro Gardete, marketing professor at the Graduate School of Business (GSB), cited several reasons why companies would like to target universities like Stanford. Colleges have concentrations of people of a certain demographic, so if you want to target them . . . you have this campus [where] its easy to do that, he said. If youre trying to
make some impact in the market, you can get consumers to get used to your brand early so that you can have future benefits. Gardete noted that although many students dont have personal incomes, companies rely on the parents giving their college-age students disposable income. We see the embodiment of the brand in the person, and the person shares a lot of the same characteristics as the rest of the students, Gardete said. Theyre the same age, at the same campus . . . so what the person says about a brand will be much more credible than if it were coming from a stranger. Kian Torabian 13, brand ambassador for startup car-sharing company Wheelz, tries to lend his brand that credibility, in return for gaining the work experience. When Torabian found out about Wheelz, he contacted the company to ask if they needed a brand ambassador, which he committed in exchange for guidance on designing websites and learning the programming language.
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Philosophy of a prize-winning procrastinator

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oining the elite company of the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania (who rolled a tank over a parked car in an attempt to deter illegal parking) and a group of doomsday forecasters (who have all incorrectly predicted the end of the world), professor emeritus of
philosophy John Perry was awarded a 2011 Ig Nobel Prize. Well its about as prestigious as a Nobel Prize, but much rarer, Perry joked. Its just like the Nobel Prize except the cash isnt quite as much as a matter of fact, its zero. Perry won the award for an essay published 15 years ago titled, How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done. The essay explains how procrastinators can exploit their procrastinating tendencies, delaying
seemingly more important tasks by doing less important ones, to make themselves effective human beings, respected and admired for all that they can accomplish and the good use they make of time. For some reason the essay seems to have been liked by a lot of people, many of whom write me every week and say it has helped them, Perry said. I didnt write it to help people, I just wrote it to get through a dark and depressing afternoon when I was
down about being a procrastinator . . . so thats nice that people like it. While the Ig Nobel Prize is Perrys latest claim to fame, Perry is well known in philosophy circles as an influential, widely published author. He has published over 100 books and articles on topics ranging from philosophy of language to philosophy of mind to metaphysics. His work is so well respected that in 2007, other authors
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sial. The central proposals include tax cuts for small businesses and hiring veterans, which Republicans have long supported, payroll tax cuts supported by both parties several times in the past decade and infrastructure investments co-sponsored by Democrat John Kerry of Massachusetts and Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas. Experts estimate that just maintaining the condition of Americas deteriorating infrastructure will require $2.2 trillion. With over a million construction workers are looking for work and the cost of borrowing at an all-time low, there is no better time to fix our roads and bridges. The American Jobs Act would have done that,put money in the pockets of consumers, stemmed the tide of laid-off teachers and firefighters, and much more if it had not stalled in the United States Congress. Republicans, who unanimously killed the bill, have presented no alternative. Their so-called jobs plan contains arguably sensible long-run policies, but according to independent, nonpartisan analysts such as Moodys and the Congressional Budget Office will have no impact on short-run employment. Ostensibly, opponents of supporting job creation do so in deference to the threat of long-run deficits. But when they had their chance to rectify Americas fiscal excesses, Congress refused to solve that problem as well. When President Obama offered Speaker Boehner a plan to reduce future deficits by $4 trillion over the next decade through 83 percent spending cuts and 17 percent revenue increases,his offer almost exactly mirrored the original Republican proposal of 85 percent spending cuts and 15 percent tax increases. That would seem like a promising circumstance for a resolution, but when opposition to the President manifested itself as opposition to compromise on even the most favorable terms, we ended up instead with meager deficit reduction, a haphazardly constructed supercommittee and a downgrade of Americas credit rating. EconoPlease see EDITORIAL, page 7
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e have commended the Occupy Wall Street protesters for directing attention to imprudent financial sector risk-taking and economic inequality.But more than highlighting problems, we like protests that press for solutions. For this, we suggest the protesters add a new target: Capitol Hill. For one thing, while the financial firms that caused this crisis could certainly improve their risk-management practices, it is the governments responsibility to reform the incentive system that failed so spectacularly. Obstinate lawmakers blocking reform, not those who work on Wall Street,are culpable for future threats to economic stability. Moreover, with millions of Americans looking for work in this recession, it is Congress, not Wall Street, refusing to enact sensible,politically moderate policies that would help address the nations most urgent problem. Protesters have a variety of complaints, but it seems clear that the unemployment crisis is a significant source of their motivation.Fourteen million Americans have been unemployed for an average of 40.8 weeks, nearly twice as long as the previous post-World War II high.As the 6.2 million who have been out of work for more than six months struggle to make ends meet, research indicates that their mental and physical health deteriorates, as will their prospects for future earnings and employment. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has called this situation a national crisis and urged politicians to act. But politicians have failed to take any action,emphatically rejecting President Barack Obamas push to combat unemployment with a series of bipartisan initiatives outlined in the American Jobs Act. The bill would not completely fix the economy, but its impact would be real. Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moodys Analytics and former adviser to John McCain,estimates that passing it would create 1.9 million extra jobs next year, enough to cut the unemployment rate by a full percentage point. Furthermore, the ideas in this jobs bill ought to be uncontrover-
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an incredibly stressful time, and those crazy consulting people didnt make things any easier.But Ive now realized, thanks to the wonderful people at the CDC, that its okay to not have some great life plan right now. There will never be a better time in our lives to do things like travel and live abroad, and with the economy as it is, there might not be a worse time to enter the job market. What that means is that maybe we shouldnt be searching tirelessly for future careers, but instead for short-term solutions.And as appeal-
or those of you currently on the (hot) prowl for jobs, Im sure youve heard of a little slice of on-campus heaven called the Career Development Center (CDC). If you havent, the CDC is a magical place where all your worries disappear and your post-Stanford future is no longer a scary black hole of worry and uncertainty. I had an appointment in this fairytale land last week, and I left a changed woman. As someone who has literally no idea what I want to do when I grow up, this past month had been
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ing as that one-year, unpaid internship may sound, we all agree a job that pays would be even better.And a job that pays and lets you travel abroad? Well, thats a dream come true, and its also this weeks topic: the accent-reduction specialist. If you want a job thats more obscure and unique than say, a mediator, you might enjoy this (also, you might be just a little bit hipster.) Basically, an accent-reduction specialist works with foreigners learning English as a second language to make their accents more like those of native speakers. This means that, as an accent-reduction specialist, most of your time is spent abroad although to be fair, a handful of accent-reduction specialists work with southerners in America to make their accents more understandable (no offense, southerners I think your drawls are great). Not only does this job let you travel around and live in foreign places, but it pays enough that you dont have to go into debt to do it. The average annual salary for an accent-reduction specialist is $63,000, and while you wont be eating off gold plates,thats more than enough to allow you to experience living abroad without starving. So as appealing as that old cliche of traveling around Europe eating only bread and taking odd jobs to sur-
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t has been just over seven years since I wrote my very first piece for The Stanford Daily, an op-ed entitled, Cheerleaders deserve spot on field, where I vigorously argued for Stanfords club cheerleading team to have equal claim to sideline space in the interests of validating the football teams performance with equally impressive sideline entertainment. In the intervening time, I also took on the continuously underwhelming Stanford Band and Stanford fans (i.e. student section), but after attending my first cheer reunion, noted the surprisingly skilled (or at least well-intended) modern incarnations of these previous abominations. However, after watching three Stanford cheerleaders abortively bungle a basiclevel skill on a nationally-televised game this past weekend, the time has come to revoke that sideline license and take Stanford Cheer off the field once and for all. Stanford is a world class institution both academically and athletically, and it advertises each with equal vigor and aplomb. The name of the University has become as synonymous with excellence as it has with a tireless work ethic, uncommon effort and enduring sportsmanship. But what Ive seen of Stanford Cheer in the past few years, and culminating in the nationally televised embarrassment from this weekend, embody precisely none of those things, and enough is enough. After 10 years of competitive cheerleading, I can tell you just how hard it is; how much effort, practice and focus it takes and the toughness required to continue to give all of that in the face of so many who tell you its not a real sport and that youre not a real athlete. I can also tell you that Stanford Cheer isnt giving any real effort, engaging in any real practice and couldnt have less focus if they just stood there watching the game. While their skill level is deplorable, its nothing compared to their obvious lack of training and effort. Stanford proudly flies a Pac-12 flag, but cant come close to meeting the Pac-12 standard for game day entertainment. The cheer teams from Oregon, Washington and Arizona State are nationally competitive. The squads from Washington State and Oregon State acquit themselves well, and UCLA always seems to have a good-looking and hard-working team on the field. While USC doesnt field a coed team, at least it has a band that can march. In fact, I cant think of any of
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tanfords viewbook states that we believe that a student body that is both highly qualified and diverse in terms of culture, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, background, work and life experiences, skills and interests is essential to the educational process. Stanfords undergraduate student body is amazingly diverse, showing that this statement is more than just words on a website, and this diversity is enriching to the education of Stanford students in both formal and informal ways. However, I want to question the way our school defines diversity and if we truly are as inclusive of all kinds of diversity with regards to admissions as we say we are. Although I think our Office of Undergraduate Admission does a wonderful job in admitting a wide range of students, there are areas that should be examined to see if they could be improved. There are three statistics about diversity that our Admissions Office published on the website:race,financial aid and first generation college status. These clearly do not encompass all of the factors that an admissions officer uses to make decisions, but through publicly declaring our diversity solely through these few categories we may be doing ourselves a disservice and limiting our definition of diversity.Race becomes the dominant measurement and way to evaluate Stanfords diversity, shortchanging those that bring other experiences to our school. Many elite schools have low representation of those whose families are involved with the military, are farmers, conservatives, students with children and students older than 25. Additionally,a Princeton study shows that in elite college admissions, white students from poor backgrounds have a disproportionately harder time getting accepted than whites with more money or students of color with similar socioeconomic status levels, meaning that college admissions place a greater emphasis on racial diversity than class, disadvantaging certain students who dont increase statistical diversity. These published statistics use standard racial categories, which can obfuscate important distinctions that enrich our student body. For example, in this classification system, Middle Eastern students are considered white, even though they are a group that experiences strong discrimination in the United States. Given current events, it is more important than ever to have well-educated Americans with Middle Eastern cultural knowledge and for students to have Middle Eastern classmates so their cultural understandings are not just based on negative media portrayals. Although we do seem to have a healthy population of students of Middle Eastern decent,it is important that distinctions like this do not get ignored because they are not visible in the statistics we publish. Last but not least, these statistics can be unintentionally misleading, making a school appear to serve populations it does not. A recent article on the website for Applause Africa highlighted the fact that, among Ivy League schools, the racial category of Black or African-
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American is still being used as a subtle way to exclude those who come from a legacy of slavery in this country.Almost half of the black student populations are recent African immigrants, even though first- and second-generation Africans immigrants make up less than 1 percent of Americas population. This group is disproportionately wealthy and equally likely to attend and graduate from college as Americans of other races with similar socioeconomic status profiles. The fact that they are categorized in the same way as historically African-American groups allows the universities to appear to be serving those that have been historically excluded from higher education better than they are. Recent African immigrants are not less valuable than historically African-American people in adding to a schools diversity, but lumping the two categories together makes admissions statistics easy to misread and covers up the fact that historically AfricanAmerican high school students are still not being admitted to top universities in a representative way.The students for whom a system of increasing diversity was designed to help are being shut out in favor of more privileged students. So, although I love both the diversity at our school and that this is something that Stanford values
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Jacoby is my Homeboy
Its Tebow time in Denver

BY JOSEPH BEYDA
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ust call him the Mile-High Messiah. The Big Tebowski. The Docile Apostle. Throw whichever moniker you prefer on him, but Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow is serving up dinner at tables across America this week (in spirit,of course),and the main entree is a healthy helping of crow. On Sunday,the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner got his first start of the season and fourth of his young career and led the Broncos to a stunning 18-15 comeback victory over the Miami Dolphins in overtime. Trailing by 15 points with just over five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter on the road (although it was Tim Tebow Day at Sun Life Stadium),Tebow rallied the troops with an 80-yard touchdown drive. But Touchdown Jesus was just getting started. With the help of the Dolphins Marion Moore,who couldnt help but bobble the onside kick with God pulling the strings from above,Tebow got the ball,and a short field,with 2:43 to go. Down by eight, Tebow sliced and diced his way down the field, scrambling around in the pocket and completing passes like he was the next coming of John Elway in Denver. Except after Tebow had finished running for his two-point conversion to send the game into overtime, and Matt Prater split the uprights from 52 yards, the boy who spends his summers helping orphans in the Philippines did in his first four games what Elway took 15 years to accomplish rally from at least 13 points down in the fourth quarter.Twice. Dont get me wrong, the Tebow worshippers need to take a step back and slow down with the signs (they also might want to consider how much they really want a mans sweaty pair of pants) because they ought to be supporting the real hero of the game, Mr. Anthony Sparano III.I know he doesnt need me to tell him, but he really shouldnt have gone for two when an extra point would have worked just fine. And even though Im no offensive coordinator although I may be calling plays soon enough at the annual Stanford Daily vs.Daily Californian touch football showdown, the Ink Bowl I dont think that running the ball three straight times with a starting tailback who was averaging 2.8 yards per carry was the best option to get a critical first down. And of course,there is the fact that Tebow was God-awful for the first 55 minutes of the game. You dont need to be Jon Gruden to know that 4-14 for 40 yards without a third-down conversion in 10 attempts is bad. Really, really bad. Before Timmy got his groove back, the Broncos were in danger of being shut out for the first time in 20 years. And a lot of it wasTebows fault. His mechanics were shaky at best, he held on to the ball too long, he was sacked seven times and plenty of his throws were in danger of being unintentional intentional groundings.That gives those who love to hate Tims religious antics and goody two-shoes act (which, for the record, I dont think is an act) plenty of fuel for the fire. But until he starts to lose, lets give him some props. Because I love cliches, and Tebow fulfills about a million of them, chief among them #winning ugly.But who cares,because as soon as Sparano decided he didnt want to stay employed, and the Miami defense figured letting Tebow part their secondary like the Red Sea was the best way to get on SportsCenter,it was #Tebow time. There are plenty of noble campaigns going on around the NFL to land our own savior, Mr. Luck, in the Draft this spring. Seattle is doing its damndest to lose out after somehow losing track of who it was and knocking off the G-Men. And Minnesota, Indianapolis and St. Louis are all fighting hard to prove they dont like winning either. (I will give the Rams a pass,however,as they already have their quarterback of the future in Sam Bradford.) But the Broncos have so many other problems that quarterback is actually not the highest priority on their list. Plenty of people slammed
e pulled off the greatest statistical upset in college football history over four years ago, became a significant contributor to the turnaround of the Stanford program and has already spent a full season as a volunteer assistant for the squad. But believe it or not, Tavita Pritchard still has a lot to learn about football. And hell admit it as quickly as anybody. Thats because, despite having thrown for 2,865 yards and 15 touchdowns in 31 career appearances wearing Cardinal, Pritchard has now set his sights on defense. Right now Im really just trying to be a sponge and trying to be a student of the game, Pritchard said. And it worked out staff-wise for me to be able to be a defensive staff assistant, and I jumped at the opportunity to be on this staff and get to work with [Co-Defensive Coordinators] Derek Mason and Jason Tarver. Its a tremendous
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CARD SETTLES FOR 7TH

By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
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WOMENS GOLF
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After two straight days of team scores below 300, the No. 2 mens golf team found itself in great position at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational in Windermere, Fla. The Card was in fourth place just behind LSU and North Florida and within shouting distance of No. 1 Texas. While Stanford slipped up down the stretch on day three, ultimately settling for seventh place in one of the more competitive fields this fall, there were plenty of bright spots and reasons to believe that this years Card might have a shot at the programs ninth NCAA Championship. Much of the optimism stems from Stanfords newest freshman phenom, Patrick Rodgers. Playing in just his third collegiate tournament, the Avon, Ind. native made his third-straight top-10, shooting an even-par 216 over 54 holes to finish in fourth place. Texas has a pretty good freshman of its own in Jordan Spieth, who finished 32nd at the PGA Tours HP Byron Nelson Championship in May. He ran away from the field last weekend to win by eight strokes. That could mean that the battle for a title could potentially come down to how the two freshmen handle the pressure of postseason golf. But if this weeks results were any indication, the play further down the ladder will be just as important to the team title. Stanfords top three players all finished in the top 10, quite an accomplishment in a stacked field. Rodgers was fourth, junior Andrew Yun (218, two-over par) finished in a tie for sixth and sophomore Cameron Wilson tied for 10th with a four-under 220. But the drop-off to the Cardinals fourth scorer was steep senior David Chung shot three consecutive 79s to finish in 59th place at 21 over par. And junior Steve Kearney had a final round 82 to drop him into a tie for 68th at +26. The Longhorns, who won the tournament by a whopping 26 strokes over second-place LSU, had the top two scorers in Spieth and Dylan Frittelli, but also had two players finish in 20th and 42nd place, signaling that there is definitely a chance for other teams to go toe-to-toe if they can string together three solid rounds. Both Chung and Kearney have plenty of experience Chung was a First Team All-Pac-
Holston Hills proves to be tough test

By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR
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The Stanford mens golf team finished in seventh place at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational but showed its national title potential yet again. Stanfords top three players all placed in the top 10, while junior Steve Kearney (above) finished fifth-best for the Cardinal and 68th overall.
10 selection as a sophomore and Kearney performed well last season at both the Pac-10 Championships and NCAA Central Regional. The Cardinal will need solid performances from both if it wants to challenge Texas for the title and hold off challenges from No. 3 Oregon, No. 7 California and No. 10 Washington in the conference chase. Yun, too, could have done even better than his final position indicated. A final-round 76 cost the 2011 PING First Team AllAmerican, who slipped from a tie for second with Rodgers before the round into sixth place.A double bogey on the par-four 14th slowed his late charge after he bogeyed two of the first four holes and played the front-nine in three over par. If he can channel the energy that saw him make five birdies without a bogey on the back-nine in round one, as well as an eagle on the par-5 seventh hole, the Cardinal can be a very dangerous beast on the course, especially if Wilson can continue a stellar sophomore campaign. The fall season continues for Stanford on Monday, as the team will play at The Gifford Collegiate Championship at CordeValle, right down the road in San Martin, Calif. Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@stanford.edu.
The womens golf team came out strong at last weekends Stanford Intercollegiate, shooting an opening round 282 to hang with several of the favorites at two under par. With the Cardinal ranked just No. 43 in Golfweeks collegiate rankings, the impressive showing was a pleasant surprise to many. But a tough day of competition in the second round sank Stanfords title hopes, and the Card finished the tournament in 14th place in the 18-team competition. This weekend, the MercedesBenz SEC/Pac-12 Challenge was a little like deja vu, and Stanford finished 18th out of 23 teams. Freshman Mariko Tumangan came out firing at pins all over the course, making four birdies over her last seven holes to overcome some early slip-ups and finishing the round with a two-under-par 70.That left her tied for fourth place, just two strokes behind the co-leaders. And junior Sally Watson who won the Cougar Invitational in Stanfords first event of the season last month had a very solid round of even-par 72, which left her in a tie for 15th at the end of the first day. But the rest of the team struggled a bit at the Holston Hills Country Club in Knoxville, Tenn. Junior Kristina Wong and sophomore Danielle Frasier shot matching 78s although Frasier was competing as an individual playing the back nine in a combined nine over par. Junior Marissa Mar and senior Lila Barton also had their share of troubles, with Mar shooting an 82 and Barton an 80. Mar unfortunately ran into big-time trouble at the par-3 14th. The Sacramento native settled for an 11 on the hole, taking a big chunk out of the Cards day without that one hole, Stanford would have been in third place. Watson said that the whole group couldnt quite ever get their game together. I think as a team we struggled, she said. I think we put too much pressure on ourselves and just need to trust in our ability and relax. We are,however,gaining a lot of valuable experience right now, which is going to serve us well in the spring. We know what we need to work on this winter to be successful,and I fully believe that come spring we are going
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opportunity for me to learn football and defensive philosophy from them. Im just trying to take as much in as I can, learn as much as I can, for when I do coach down the road be it on offense or defense Ill be the best prepared that I can be, he added. Early returns indicate that Pritchard is headed in the right direction. Well, we got lucky enough that they were going to let us have Tavita, number one, because hes excellent: He has work ethic, he has intelligence and hes a Stanford guy so hes got to be pretty smart, Tarver said. You tell him something, he gets it done. And as the Cardinal heads back into the L.A. Coliseum this weekend riding a two-game road winning streak against USC, Stanford fans will be remembering Oct. 6, 2007, when Pritchard got something quite memorable done. Coming in as a 41-point underdog against the No. 1 team in the country and with then-backup Pritchard making his first career start in one of the largest stadiums in college football, nobody was surprised when Stanford failed to score an offensive touchdown in the first three quarters. But the Cardinal hung around behind a stifling defensive performance, and a 37-yard pass to redshirt senior Mark Bradford to the Trojan 1-yard line helped put Stanford within just two points of USC early in the fourth quarter. After the Trojans added a touchdown and Stanford made a field goal to make the score 23-17, an interception set the Cardinal up at the USC 45 with three minutes to play in the half.Then the madness really began. A pass-interference penalty moved the ball up 15 yards. A botched halfback pass was salvaged by freshman running back Jeremy Stewart, who turned the play into a 4-yard gain.(I still give him a hard time for not throwing me the ball, Pritchard said of the current redshirt-senior.) A call lost in translation between Pritchard and head coach Jim Harbaugh on fourth-and-20 turned into a tightwindow pass for the first down on a play chosen by Pritchard, no less. And a perfect floater from the then-sophomore found a leaping Bradford in the end zone for the game-winning touchdown, sending the college football world into convulsions, ending the Trojans title hopes and reviving the spirits of the downtrodden Stanford faithful. All that, and Pritchard still doesnt own a Biggest Upset Ever tshirt. I think somebody told me they were going to give me one, but they never followed through, so Ive yet to see that come to fruition, he joked. That doesnt mean Pritchard is oblivious to the significance of the USC game, however. Absolutely, Im very proud of what my class and the classes above and below me did, Pritchard said.I know that game really serves as a marker, but it was just a manifestation of a bigger change in this program . . . Guys just saying, Hey, we can be good at football. We can be great at football here, if we just start doing things right. So Id say a lot of people look at that game as a marker of this program righting the ship,but thats all it really is: a marker, he added. Because the work is done out here on the practice field, and in the building. And despite the historic win over USC, Pritchard still had his work cut out for him as a Stanford quarterback. After sharing time with T.C. Ostrander in 2007, Pritchard took over the starting job the following season and led the Cardinal within a win of its first bowl game since 2001. Even when his playing days seemed to be shortened as a senior by the emergence of one Andrew Luck, Pritchard was called upon again on a big stage when Luck broke his finger before the Sun Bowl much like he stepped in against USC after Ostrander had suffered a seizure less than a week beforehand. When the Cardinal fell short in a tight 31-27 game, it looked as if Pritchards time on the Farm would end on a losing note. But he had something else in mind. I told [then-head coach Jim] Harbaugh before the next season that I wanted to get into coaching, that I thought I owed it to myself to at least try it out, Pritchard remembers. And coach Harbaugh said, Great. Come on. I dont have any staff positions open, but you can come volunteer. And I did everything from filling up coach Harbaughs refrigerator with Diet Pepsi to breaking down film. Harbaugh moved on to coach the San Francisco 49ers this season, but Pritchard still has fond memories of the man he cites as instrumental to both his own development and the Stanford programs. And as the David Shaw era began on the Farm, Pritchard reached a turning point of his own. Taking up his first-ever paid coaching position on the defensive side of the ball, he spent the offseason learning from Tarver, Mason and perhaps just as importantly the players. Now Im starting to see the game from the other side,how they actually teach it and all the adjustments and techniques they teach, Pritchard said. So its a little bit of give-andtake. Im able to relay some of my knowledge as a quarterback to the defensive backs,and at the same time, Im able to learn stuff I wasnt really able to learn on the offensive side. A long-time quarterback who hasnt played defense since high school coached by his father David, the offensive coordinator at Clover Park High in Washington, he was inserted only to defend against Hail Mary passes Pritchard was a natural fit to work with the Cardinal secondary. Whats great is that you get to know the ball through different eyes, Tarver said. Right now, hes throwing deep balls to the DBs, but he knows where the quarterbacks going to put it, so hes got knowledge to teach them as to where the quarterbacks going to throw the ball. So you see it from a different set, because everybody comes into football and sees it the way that they were raised in it . . . it broadens your perspective as a coach. Who better to oversee Pritchards transition than Tarver? He was a defensive back by training who served in various defensive assistant roles at the college level from 1996-2000, worked on the 49ers offensive staff for the four subsequent seasons and then went back to the defensive side of the ball, coaching San Franciscos outside linebackers between 2005 and 2010 before coming to Stanford this season. And working with a Stanford backfield that has its fair share of players that started on offense, Pritchard has run into some familiar faces. Senior strong safety Delano Howell took handoffs from
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In 2007, former Stanford quarterback Tavita Pritchard (above) led the Card to an unlikely upset over then-No. 1 USC in Los Angeles. Four years later, he is back on the Stanford sideline, although this time as a defensive coach.
Pritchard in 2008 as a freshman running back and caught nine passes for 94 yards that year. It didnt take him too long to master the whole defense, Howell said. He puts time into it, hes very passionate about everything he does just like when he was a quarterback . . . Hes put himself in a position where we can respect him, we can look up to him; not only is he a coach, but hes a friend as well. Those sentiments are echoed emphatically by Tarver. Tavitas doing great, he said. Hes the best, hes already a great coach and hes going to be whatever he wants to be. Hes that good. But even though Pritchard seems to have a knack for coaching, hes not quite sure what he wants to do next. He just hasnt had time to think about it. Our goal is to play in the Rose Bowl, and I cant see beyond that, Pritchard said.The season,man,it is a grind and its a lot of fun hours up in the office, but I cant see beyond that. Im coaching for now, Im going 100 miles an hour and doing the best I can, and well see when I come up for air in the winter and in the spring. Well see what happens. So this week, Pritchard has his sights set back on USC (6-1, 3-1 Pac12), which is unranked due to NCAA sanctions but clearly one of the top teams in the Pac-12. And when No. 6 Stanford (7-0, 4-0) returns to the Coliseum for just the second time since the Biggest Upset Ever, its bound to be favored over the once-powerhouse Trojans for the second consecutive year. Well all look back on that game with fond memories, Pritchard said of that fateful night in 2007.And Im great with that. I love being a part of the Stanford community and being a part of this football program, because its what we always wanted, what you see now: us competing on a national stage. Its what we all had envisioned and we knew it wasnt going to happen overnight. So if thats a marker for the change in the times here, great. And Im proud to be a part of it, for sure, he added. However a small part that I played, Im very proud of that. Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda @stanford.edu.
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Torabian arrived on campus two weeks early to start working for Wheelz. He started programming for its website as well as drawing up a plan to attack NSO with a bunch of little strategies, including handing out Wheelz coupons to freshmen in their dorms and driving freshmen up the hill to President John Hennessys home. As a brand ambassador for a smaller startup instead of a wellknown company, Torabian has to deal with obstacles that ambassadors of bigger brands like PINK dont have to be as concerned about. He claims administrators rebuffed Wheelz when it attempted to expand its presence on campus. Wheelz . . . asked how involved we can be on campus, like setting up tables at fairs, Torabian said. They basically said since youre so young and we already have Zipcar, its kind of a risk to take you on. So establish yourself and well talk later. Lyle wasnt faced with the same opposition as Torabian when approaching Stanford about representing PINK, but she still has guidelines to follow. Being a brand ambassador has shown me how cautious Stanford is when it comes to who it allows its name to be associated with, Lyle said. Susan Weinstein, assistant vice provost for business development, described the Universitys approach to student brand ambassadors. Students are welcome to engage in any employment activity they wish so long as these activities are consistent with Stanfords policies . . . No one should be using Stanfords name or resources without University approval, she wrote in an email to The Daily. Regardless of restrictions, however, student brand representatives said they enjoyed free wares, perks and a sense of making a tangible difference. I feel like weve gotten people more excited and curious about [Victorias Secret], Lyle said. Its like a frenzy! And were definitely happy to participate in that frenzy. Contact Nicole Kofman at nkofman @stanford.edu.
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freely? Thats what the book will be about, he said. Additionally, Perry is preparing the second edition of his book Reference and Reflexivity for publication and researching the properties of questions with linguist Daniel Flickinger Ph.D. 88. He plans to teach weekly graduate seminars at UC-Riverside in the winter and spring and continues to co-host Philosophy Talk, a radio show in which he and fellow philosophy professor Kenneth Taylor discuss a wide array of philosophical issues. Weve discussed free will, Confucius, Buddha, Plato, Descartes, skepticism, the existence of God everything, Perry said. Were working on a show . . . called Thinking Inside the Box which is to try to discover if theres anything philosophically interesting on television . . . so far were looking at House, Terra Nova . . . thats a lot of fun and we really appreciate Stanford for supporting our endeavor to do it. As extensive as Perrys philosophical work is, his participation in the Stanford community has gone and continues to go beyond his papers and books. Perry was a resident fellow in the Wilbur dorm Soto in the late 1980s and early 90s. He served on a freshman education committee in the late 1970s that started the Western Cultures program, a precursor to the Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) program. He encouraged senior research scholar Edward Zalta to take on a project that became the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and he continues to advise graduate students. He has also served as director of CSLI and chair of the philosophy department. Probably people have told you that Perry is really entertaining, hes really funny . . . but also on the other side hes a really serious and dedicated teacher and advisor, said Wes Holliday, a fifth year Ph.D. student who took many of Perrys classes and was his undergraduate thesis advisee. Hell read your work in full, give really thoughtful comments, be really supportive and encouraging even if youre arguing against his views. Holliday also praised Perry for the way his views on individual philosophical subjects fit together into a comprehensive general philosophy that complements the findings of science. He said Situating Semantics explains the way Perrys philosophy forms into a conever will be. But the corollary of this basic cheer rule is: if you cant do a stunt safely, you cant do it.The basic-level skill Stanfords team was trying to execute is almost impossible to do dangerously, and yet, two girls still managed to let their teammate fall on her head. Theres only one explanation for that kind of performance: they just dont care. The team looks visibly out of shape, and only minimally interested in increasing crowd involvement. It is cheerleading teams like Stanfords which make the sport look farcical, when its anything but. The men and women I worked with were some of the finest athletes Ive known. The football and basketball programs deserve sideline performers that are as committed as they are when it comes to ordinated whole. [The books essays] describe in some broad way this idea that Perry has talked about all these different philosophical issues, but his views fit together, Holliday said. Hes trying to make sense of these concepts like consciousness, free will [and] identity, in a way that jives with what science tells us. Associate professor of philosophy R. Lanier Anderson called Perry a leader in the philosophy department, praising his amazing talent for bringing philosophical ways of thinking to the wider public. Despite his many contributions to philosophy and to the Stanford community, some know him only as the humorous author of Structured Procrastination. Does this bother Perry? No, he said.It neither rankles nor pleases me. Its just kind of intriguing.Would I love for something I wrote in philosophy to suddenly become a cult item and make me incredibly famous? Well, yes, that would be sort of a blast, but it would probably get old quick. But no, I dont think it demeans my more serious work. I have a sense of humor. Contact Austin Block at aeblock @stanford.edu. game day, and this team doesnt even come close. After seven years, if you havent put together a team that can appear on national television without embarrassing the school, youre not ever going to. After seven years, Ive taken off my Stanford Cheer t-shirt for the last time and hope no one remembers seeing me wear it. After seven years, the only place to watch real cheerleaders at a Stanford game is on the other sideline, and its time to stop pretending otherwise. After seven years, enough is enough take this team off the field before they really hurt something besides the schools reputation.
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published a compilation of essays about his work. In the introduction to the book, Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry, the editors praise Perry as one of the few modern philosophers who has bridged the gap between the modern approach to philosophy, which emphasizes highly specialized study over larger syntheses of ideas into a unified worldview, and the broader approach to philosophy used by philosophers like Immanuel Kant, John Locke and Martin Heidegger. After 37 years of teaching at Stanford, Perry recently retired, but he is still working on several projects and plans to keep an office at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). He co-wrote a book about the philosophy of language, entitled Critical Pragmatics: An Inquiry into Reference and Communication, which was published in September. He is now working on a book in which he argues that freedom and determinism are compatible. If the laws of nature say if you have a strong desire to do something and cant see any reason not to do it, you will probably do it. Does that mean you didnt do it
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highly, I still wonder if we are truly admitting a student body that is diverse in terms of culture, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, background, work and life experiences, skills and interests. I suspect that our allegiance to racial statistics creates a system of buckets that diminishes important distinctions within categories. Although racial diversity is key, touting only that statistic publicly to demonstrate our diversity shortchanges the other areas that we purportedly value, which in turn deprives our students of valuable learning experiences while in college. Jamie would love to hear your thoughts on this issue, so email her at jamiesol@stanford.edu.
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the other 11 schools that would allow a team as poor as Stanford Cheer on its home sidelines and I cant see any reason why Stanford would continue to. The very first thing any cheerleader learns is safety, or to put a finer point on it: not letting your teammates hit the ground. Every team outside of Stanfords that I have been on has required pushups or laps any time someone gets dropped at practice; and a game day drop can mean suspension or removal from the team. Its clear these policies havent been implemented on the Farm, and likely
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Continued from page 4 mists, including conservative Republicans like Bernanke, have long emphasized that reducing long-run deficits can and should be coupled with continuing to support a weak economy in the near term. Instead, our Congress produced the worst of both worlds,damaging the recovery now and doing nothing to improve our financial health in the future. Our list of complaints about Congress could easily keep going. It almost seems too hopeful to criticize the utterly miserable failures to address long-run issues such as climate change or education. If they cant
Continued from page 4 walk and chew gum at the same time, we dont expect to see cartwheels. But if the Occupy Wall Street protesters care about jobs and we believe that this concern has provided fuel to their fire then they ought to focus their anger at the lawmakers who ignore this issue.At best, congressional inaction is condemning American workers to unprecedented levels of protracted suffering. And at worst, if it allows the current payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits to expire at the end of the year,it could well drag the economy back into recession. Firms on Wall Street have created major problems for America, but have very little power to solve them. The people hurting America now are the ones on Capitol Hill.
vive sounds, this might be a more comfortable option. The most common path to take as an accent-reduction specialist is to work for an American company that has outsourced its customer service department overseas. In this role, you will work with newly hired customer service representatives on reducing their accents. This means you will probably stay in one place (and that place will more than likely be India), and you will get to work closely with a range of people from different cultures and walks of life. The other, perhaps more adventurous and definitely more unsteady option is to work as an independent contractor, finding employment with wealthy foreign families who want their not-at-all-
spoiled children to speak perfect English. This often involves assuming a sort of au pair and/or tutor role as well, but allows much more flexibility in terms of where you want to live and work. Obviously the life of an accent reduction specialist is too sweet of a deal for just anybody to be allowed to do this.All accent-reduction specialists are required to complete a training program, and experience in teaching English as a second language is a must. A background in linguistics, English, education or a similarly relevant field is also helpful. However, after you finish the course and assuming you have the right credentials to get hired, you can start work basically straight out of the program.
There are many great things about being an accent reduction specialist you get to live internationally, meet new people and learn about different cultures but what makes it particularly appealing for a college student preparing to graduate is the flexibility.A job in accent reduction has the potential to be either a career or a short-term way to live abroad and explore before you figure out what you want to do with your life. Because we all will have to find a career eventually, but in the meantime, we might as well have a little fun. Do any of yall have a southern drawl? Amanda would love to correct your accent over dinner. Send her an email at aach@stanford.edu.
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With Barton, Wong, Mar and Frasier all finishing at least 14 over par with Mar and Barton at +21 and +29, respectively the whole team is struggling with its consistency on the course.If Stanford hopes to compete for its first conference title since 1999 this spring and it does appear to have the talent necessary to take a shot at favorite UCLA it will need to find a solution to the inconsistencies. The Cardinal will take another crack at a tournament crown next Tuesday and Wednesday at the Kent Youel Invitational in Kapolei, Hawaii. Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@stanford.edu.
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to be ready to compete with the best in the country. The teams up-and-down play continued on day two, as Tumangan took a triple-bogey halfway through her round and couldnt quite bounce back,shooting a 77.Watson also couldnt capitalize on her first-round success, carding a 78 that saw her bogey four straight holes on the back nine. My putting was really good the first and last day, Watson said, but unfortunately on the second day I made a few mental errors and missed
four or five putts in a row from inside seven feet.Had I just converted a few of them my score would have been a lot better. Like many of her teammates, she did indeed bounce back in the third round, shooting a one-over 73 that left her in 39th place. And save for a lone double-bogey, Tumangan showed why she has impressed many, including her teammates, in her short time on the Farm the San Jose native shot a final-round 74 to tie for 30th overall. Mariko is doing a great job as a freshman,Watson said.She is playing great and doing a good job balancing all of the traveling with school. I believe she is going to be a key factor in our teams success this year.
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Cardinal captures singles, doubles titles at ITA Northwest Regional Championships
It was an all-Stanford final in the ITA Northwest Regional Championships at the Taube Family Tennis Stadium yesterday,with sophomore Nicole Gibbs defeating junior teammate Mallory Burdette, 6-4, 36, 7-6 (3). It was the first singles title of Gibbs Stanford career. The fourth-seeded Gibbs upended two higher-ranked opponents on her road to the win, taking down the tournaments top seed, Jana Juricova of California (4-6, 6-2, 6-2), on Monday, followed by second seed Burdette. Burdette defeated third-seeded Denise Dy of Washington (6-4, 6-1) to advance to the final match. Junior Stacey Tan also played in the singles quarterfinals, but fell to Dy (6-2, 6-2) on Sunday. However, she and doubles partner freshman Ellen Tsay won five straight matches to capture the doubles championship, beating Sacramento States Clarisse Baca and Maria Meliuk (84). Both Gibbs and Burdette, in addition to the other singles finalists and doubles champions from the other regions, have earned berths to the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships to compete in two 32-person fields (32 singles and 16 doubles pairs). The event will be held from Nov. 4 to Nov. 7 in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.
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Google co-founders support Stanfords NYC bid

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Google co-founders Larry Page M.S.98 and Sergey Brin M.S.95 publicly supported Stanfords bid for a New York City (NYC) applied science campus on Tuesday in an online video posted on a new University tumblr site. The announcement comes as Stanford is preparing to submit its formal proposal to the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) committee on Friday,the deadline for universities to respond to Mayor Michael Bloombergs request for proposals to create an applied-sciences center for teaching and research. I think this is a pretty great opportunity for both the city as well as for Stanford University to broaden its horizon, Brin said. The video, titled Stanfords Tradition of Innovation, lasts three and a half minutes,and does not mention the NYC campus until the last 30 seconds. During the rest of video,Page and Brin discuss starting Google at Stanford and the Universitys reputation for being a launching ground for major technology companies. I think Stanford is a really unique place, Page said in the video. Looking at Hewlett-Packard, Sun-Microsystems,Cisco,Yahoo,Excite,its really bred an enormous number of very important companies in the technolo-
gy world.And I dont think its an accident. I think theres a culture of entrepreneurship at Stanford on a scale I havent seen elsewhere. Brin then said while he love[s] New York, he feels one of the things that it is missing is this top-notch university-industry symbiosis. I dont think Ive seen this same kind of scale in research and commercialization,pretty much anywhere outside of Stanford,he continued. Last Tuesday, Cornell University announced a partnership with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to submit a dual proposal for a NYC applied science campus, causing many in the media to peg Cornells bid as Stanfords top rival. NYCEDC expects to announce a decision by the end of the calendar year.
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Former computer science prof dies at 84

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF John McCarthy,professor emeritus in computer science and founder of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), died on Monday in his Stanford home,according to a University statement.He was 84. Whitfield Diffie, a researcher at SAIL, told the New York Times that no one is more influential than McCarthy in the field of artificial intelligence. In fact, McCarthy has even been credited for the first use of the termartificial intelligencein print when it ap-
peared in a proposal he had written in 1956 for a summer research conference while teaching mathematics at Dartmouth. From there, he would go on to become a leader in the area of computer science moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1958, creating the worlds second-oldest computer programming language, LISP, that same year and developing garage collectors,a way to automatically remove superfluous lines of code from a computers random access memory,in 1959. While McCarthy briefly served as an assistant professor at Stanford in 1953, he made the Farm his permanent home when he returned in 1962. Two years later, he founded SAIL, which was funded in part by the Pentagon. Scientists have yet to accomplish the labs initial goal to build a functional artificial intelligence system in 10 years but the lab has been responsible for advancements in robotics, computer vision and natural language. McCarthy was recognized for his contributions to computer science, having been awarded the A.M. Turning Award in 1971, the Kyoto Prize in 1988 and the National Medal of Science in 1990. He retired from Stanford in 2001. He could be blunt,but John was always kind and generous with his time, especially with students. And he was sharp until the end, Edward Feigenbaum,professor emeritus of computer science, told the Stanford Report.He was always focused on the future. Always inventing, inventing, inventing. That was John.
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Tebows comebackas irrelevant because of how bad the Dolphins are, combined with his terrible performance for most of the game. Perhaps they forget that Denver is pretty damn bad. No offense, but right now the Rocky Mountains would be a much better defense than anything Dennis Allen can put on the field.And speaking of offense,its usually not a good sign when your leading receiver averages fewer than 50 yards a game.Actually, thats a really bad sign. So perhaps the Broncos ought to
look to shore up their defensive and offensive line,which is very much like a sieve, and let the young man do his scrambling, twisting, erratic-throw thing. And when you need miracles every Sunday on the field, I sure as hell think there are worse characters to be under center. (Umm, Michael Vick and Ben Roethlisberger, anyone?) So maybe the Broncos dont need Luck. After all, theyve got Timmaayyyyy. Miles has worn only Jockey since Timmy became the companys spokesperson. Share your love for Tim-endorsed cotton (and your favorite Bible passage) at milesbs @stanford.edu and check him out on Twitter @smilesbsmith.
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Volume 240 Issue 24

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Applications to GSB dip 8.13 percent

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SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Posner talks human rights and democracy

ASSU increases discretionary spending

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PayPal founder Peter Thiel speaks to innovation at BASES kickoff

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Philosophy of a prize-winning procrastinator

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Holston Hills proves to be tough test

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