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November 16, 2011 Issue 39
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NEWS BRIEF
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Pearson analyzes international student data
By MARWA FARAG
DESK EDITOR
John Pearson, assistant vice
provost and director of Bechtel
International Center, spoke on
Tuesday about the trends, chal-
lenges and experiences of inter-
national students at Stanford.
The talk came in the wake of
recent and upcoming changes in
the visa policies affecting inter-
national students. Pearson pro-
vided a historical overview of
the composition and situation of
the international student body,
drawing from data and qualita-
tive accounts published previ-
ously in The Daily.
The 1960s and 1990s saw a
tremendous increase in interna-
tional students these were
replicated nationally, Pearson
said. Stanford has never been
that different in increases over
the years compared to the na-
tional levels.
Pearson did, however, note
one exception.
One of the distinct differ-
ences between Stanford and
many other schools in the coun-
try is that we have more gradu-
ate [students] than undergrads
from overseas, he said. It was
only in 2001 that that was true
nationally.
Of these graduate students,
most enroll at the School of En-
gineering, where internationals
make up 44 percent of the stu-
dent body.
Before presenting data on
international student enroll-
ment trends, Pearson men-
tioned one caveat. Stanford has
not always categorized interna-
tional students consistently
permanent residents, for exam-
ple, were included in the data
until 1987, but not since.This can
affect the numbers in the data as
well as comparative analysis.
There are currently 3,747 de-
gree-seeking undergraduate
and graduate students making
up the international student
body at Stanford, a number that
has gradually risen from the 32
international students in 1910.
UC-Berkeley police
dept. shoots suspect at
Berkeley Haas School of
Business
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
A shooting occurred at UC-Berke-
ley yesterday at the Haas School of
Business at approximately 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday, according to Berkeley officials
at a press conference.
The Berkeley Police Department
(UCPD) shot the suspect, a white, 33-
year-old male, who was brandishing a
firearm. Four students were present at
the time of the shooting, which occurred
in a computer lab on the third floor, ac-
cording to an ABC East Bay News re-
port. It has not been confirmed whether
or not the suspect is a student.
A Haas staff member saw the sus-
pect carrying a backpack and a gun,
prompting the staff member to notify a
supervisor who called the UCPD.
At least one UCPD officer shot and
wounded the suspect, although the
number of shots fired remains uncon-
firmed. The victim was transported to
Highland Hospital.
The business school was evacuated
after the shooting, and classes in the
building were canceled for the rest of
the day. According to an email sent to
Haas students by Jay Stowksky, senior
dean for instruction at the school, no
one other than the suspect was harmed.
By EDWARD NGAI
Occupy Stanford continues to
plan protests and rallies despite
challenges it has faced in igniting the
student body, according to Joshua
Loftus, an active member of the or-
ganization.
Loftus, a first-year Ph.D. student
in statistics, said the group is trying
to build momentum from two major
events in the past few weeks: a cam-
pus-wide walkout on Nov. 2 and a
protest at a Goldman Sachs recruit-
ment presentation on Nov. 8. The
group hopes these events will in-
spire more people to join the
protest.
[Goldman Sachs] has been at
the center of some of the main prob-
lems of Wall Street in the crash that
happened, Loftus said. You can
see Goldman Sachs hand at work in
pretty much any big financial prob-
lem in recent history. It goes back as
far as the Great Depression.
To protest, Occupy Stanford
members could R.S.V.P. to the re-
cruitment event through the Career
Development Center (CDC), hand
out pamphlets to those in atten-
dance and prepare questions for
Goldman Sachs representatives.
But not all went according to plan.
They didnt have a question-
and-answer session, Loftus said.
That just killed the plans of the
people who were going to ask
[provocative] questions.
But then some of the students
stayed afterwards at the networking
reception and went around to some
of the different [Goldman Sachs]
employees,he added.
The disappointment at the re-
cruitment event wasnt the only
challenge the Occupy Stanford
movement has had to overcome.
The week of the alumni re-
union, I wanted to do something vis-
ible,Loftus said.I tried to organize
a protest march by the Alumni Cen-
ter, and it basically failed because
only two people showed up. So that
was kind of a low point.
Of all the problems Occupy
Stanford has had to deal with, low
turnout seems to be most promi-
nent, according to Zach OKeeffe
13, a member of Occupy Stanford.
Im a bit disappointed, OKe-
effe said. I cant say that I judge a
lot of students [for not showing up to
events] because I understand that
its hard. Its been difficult academi-
cally for me, too . . . but ultimately it
is disappointing and Id really like
more people to get involved.
STUDENT LIFE
Crowding
decreases at
Arrillaga
By ALICE PHILLIPS
Arrillaga Family Dining Com-
mons crowding issues have sub-
sided considerably since the new
dining facility opened this fall.
Smaller crowds came after a plea
Stanford Dining made in October
that students who are not residents
of Toyon or Crothers eat elsewhere.
Recently, we have started to see
students eating in their home dining
halls, Administrative Program
Manager of Stanford Dining Cyn-
thia Liu wrote in an email to The
Daily. We are monitoring and re-
viewing transactions to determine
student dining patterns.
Arrillaga was initially over-
whelmed by the sheer number of
students eating there, despite a
greater-than-average seating capac-
ity that was intended to accommo-
date an influx as students opted to
try the new venue. The 675 seats in
Arrillaga Family Dining Commons
exceed the over-530 associated resi-
dents of Crothers Hall and Toyon
Hall.
Although we expected students
would be thrilled to eat in the new
dining hall, the overwhelming vol-
ume of enthusiastic responses
Students return to
home dining halls
STUDENT
GOVERNMENT
Proposed bill
admonishes
ASSU Pres.
By BRENDAN OBYRNE
DESK EDITOR
Elections Commissioner Adam
Adler 12 submitted a bill titled, A Bill
to Encourage People to Do What They
Should Already Be Doing at the 13th
meeting of the ASSU Undergraduate
Senate Tuesday evening.
Adler, whose presence dominated
the meeting as long discussions arose
surrounding several bills he presented,
sought to admonishASSU Executive
President Michael Cruz 12 to appoint
members to the Constitutional Coun-
cil, in addition to admonishing the
Nominations Committee to appoint so-
licitor generals and Senator Alex
Kindel 14 to make a current version of
the ASSU governing documents avail-
able.
Legislation pressures
Cruz to nominate reps
IAN DOTY-GARCIA/The Stanford Daily
John Pearson, assistant vice provost and director of Bechtel International
Center, presented data on historical trends involving the international student
body on campus, which grew from 32 students in 1910 to 3,747 this year.
Occupy movement takes root at Stanford
Please see OCCUPY, page 7
Members face challenges in mobilizing largely unresponsive student body
Please see DINING, page 2
Please see BRIEFS, page 2
Please see PEARSON, page 2
Please see SENATE, page 2
Seeing into Jasper Ridge
ALISA ROYER/The Stanford Daily
Artists spoke Monday evening at a panel entitled, Seeing Into the Life of Things, about how Jasper Ridge
Biological Preserve acts as a gateway into exploring and appreciating the complexity of the larger world.
The first international student to
obtain a degree graduated in 1894 as
part of the first class,majoring in zool-
ogy.The Stanford Observer reflected
in 1991 that in Stanfords first year,
foreign students particularly
Japanese students outnumbered
American-born minorities.
At this time, Chinese and Japan-
ese communities were the largest. In
1900, 19 Japanese students, with the
support of then-president John
Casper Branner, formed a Japanese
student association. Yet these stu-
dents experiences at Stanford were
not all positive.
According to Pearson, up to
World War II, Asian students were
not allowed to live in dorms with
other students. In the early 1920s, a
Chinese student living in Encina Hall
was expelled by Caucasian students,
which led to the creation of the Chi-
nese Club House,which existed in the
1920s and 1930s.
In 1942, 24 Japanese-American
Stanford students were sent to in-
ternment camps.
These problems disproportion-
ately affected students of Asian ori-
gin, but broader challenges were si-
multaneously affecting the interna-
tional student body at large, accord-
ing to Pearson, who cited a 1949
School of Education masters thesis
on trends in international student en-
rollment.
The thesis concluded that issues
facing international students includ-
ed language difficulties, exchange
rates, social adjustment, discrimina-
tion and difficulty in achieving intel-
lectual exchange with American stu-
dents and concerns over different ap-
proaches to academic work.
All of those issues we still deal
with,Pearson said.
He highlighted problems under-
standing and dealing with the Honor
Code and the fact that Stanfords ad-
mission for international students is
not need-blind.
As of fall 2011, the majority of in-
ternational students 59 percent
are from Asia. From higher to lower
representation follows Europe, the
Americas,the Middle East and North
Africa, the Pacific Basin and Africa.
Two students are politically stateless.
The regional proportions of inter-
national students represent a signifi-
cant change over the past five
decades. Following the 1949 estab-
lishment of the Peoples Republic of
China, no students from mainland
China came to Stanford for 30 years.
By far the biggest number of stu-
dents now is from mainland China,
Pearson said. Its very hard to imag-
ine a campus where there were no
mainland Chinese students.
China going red was not the
only political happening to affect
Stanford internationals. The 1979
Iranian revolution reduced the num-
ber of Iranian students immediately
and drastically,Pearson said.
Two Iranian students from Stan-
ford were involved in the takeover of
the Iranian consulate in San Francisco.
Prior to the revolution, the largest stu-
dent population in the United States
was from Iran, but from 1979 onward,
the baton was passed to China.
Since Tiananmen Square in 1989,
the political incident that has most af-
fected internationals has been the
Sept. 11 attacks.
9/11 completely altered every-
bodys world, but certainly altered
the world of international students,
Pearson said. We now have moved
from really being advisors to being
data analysts.
We report to the government
every day on students,Pearson con-
tinued. Last year we sent 47,000
alerts to the federal government
about international students at Stan-
ford, mostly benign.
Pearson mentioned changes in
address and major as examples of
alerts that must be sent to the federal
government.
Students now have to tell us, and
we tell the government, not their ad-
dress, but their room number in their
dorm,he added.
Despite these difficulties, Pearson
noted the services Bechtel Interna-
tional Center provides to interna-
tional students, including an annual
orientation and a half-day workshop
on learning styles to help students
adapt to the American educational
system.
He ended on a piece of legislation
soon-to-be before Congress to help
international students in science,
technology, engineering and math
(STEM) fields remain in the country
post-graduation.
Attendees posed questions on the
problem posed by cultural back-
grounds in understanding the Honor
Code, need-blind admissions and the
international student admission pool.
Contact Marwa Farag at mfarag@
stanford.edu.
PEARSON
Continued from front page
2 NWednesday, November 16, 2011 The Stanford Daily
HEALTH
Lucile Packard takes data in STRIDE
By JOSEE SMITH
A team at the Lucile Packard
Childrens Hospital has adopted a
new approach to storing patients
electronic medical records (EMR)
called the Stanford Translational
Research Integrated Database En-
vironment (STRIDE), according to
a perspective paper published in the
New England Journal of Medicine.
This new method allows doctors
to compare their current patients
with previous patients with similar
symptoms and factors, and helps to
determine the best step to take
when issuing a treatment, according
to the team. Physicians are no
longer solely reliant on past experi-
ences or forced to sift through the
hundreds of pages contained in a
chart for a single patient, said
Christopher Longhurst, chief med-
ical information officer at the Chil-
drens hospital and a co-author of
the paper.
Wouldnt it be great if comput-
ers stored the data and helped you
understand how to help other pa-
tients? said Longhurst, who is also
an architect of the Childrens hospi-
tal EMR system. He added that
doctors are now able to help current
patients by looking at other patients
that have been admitted with simi-
lar symptoms.
Longhurst said that a current
challenge for doctors is that pub-
lished evidence is available for
fewer than 20 percent of decisions
made, which forces doctors to rely
instead on their own experience
and anecdotal advice from their
peers. This is especially true in pedi-
atrics because less information is
published in medical research liter-
ature in that area, he added.
According to the paper, this new
method of storing and accessing in-
formation was put to the test when
a 13-year-old girl was admitted to
the hospital with inflammation of
both the kidneys and pancreas as a
result of lupus a rare condition
that did not have any clinical trials
or medical literature to offer up a
best course of action.
Jennifer Frankovich, who led the
medical team, said that because of
the girls risk for thrombosis a
formation of a blood clot inside a
blood vessel that obstructs the flow
of blood the team realized that
the girl would require anticoagula-
tion drugs to prevent blood clots.
She added, however, that the team
thought the use of drugs could lead
to internal bleeding, and was unable
to find studies pertaining to the girls
situation and related risks.
The team then turned to
STRIDE and the hospitals elec-
tronic medical record to view a co-
hort of pediatric patients with the
girls condition that had been treat-
ed by clinicians at the Childrens
hospital between Oct. 2004 and July
2009, according to Frankovich. Of
the 98 patients in the cohort, 10 de-
veloped thrombosis.
After a statistical analysis of the
data which took less than four
hours the team was able to deter-
mine that the risk for blood clots was
much higher in patients with inflam-
mation in the kidneys and pancreas,
and decided to give the patient anti-
coagulants within 24 hours of admis-
sion, according to the paper.
I envision that this is going to be
the future of all medicine that
most institutions are going to use
electronic records, Frankovich
said. We are working toward mak-
ing these records accessible for clin-
ical research. It is a major change in
how we process medicine.
Frankovich also said that be-
cause a doctor cannot look at a pa-
tients chart without permission, the
new platform is working to
anonymize patient records by re-
moving all personal information
such as names and birthdates
with the hope of increasing the num-
ber of records that can be refer-
enced in patient care.
However, [STRIDE] doesnt
supplement the need for medical tri-
als, she said. Obtaining the infor-
mation doesnt tell you if a certain
treatment is better or worse. You
still have to interpret the informa-
tion with caution.
Longhurst also referenced Pa-
tients Like Me, a social networking
health site founded in Silicon Valley,
which enables patients with unusual
diseases to log in and share their
data and outcomes with other pa-
tients. He said systems like STRIDE
and Patients Like Me help to gener-
ate a large warehouse of data and
req anduire the active participation
of patients, but allow everyone to
better understand medical informa-
tion.
Shouldnt data act like that?he
asked.
Contact Josee Smith at jsmith11
@stanford.edu.
UC officials said Tuesday afternoon
that there was no remaining threat
to students.
A link between the suspects ac-
tivity and the Occupy Cal protests
currently happening on Berkeleys
campus and in the surrounding
area has not been confirmed,
Berkeleys Chancellor Robert Bir-
geneau and UCPD Police Chief
Mitchell Celaya said at the press
conference.
Berkeley and Stanford students
will come together for a student-or-
ganized Occupy march on Stan-
fords campus this Saturday after-
noon, starting at the Arrillaga Cen-
ter for Sports and Recreation. Sev-
eral hundred students have regis-
tered for the Facebook event.
Kathleen Chaykowski
Summer science
program receives
White House award
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
President Barack Obama named
the Stanford Medical Youth Science
Program (SMYSP) a recipient of the
2011 Presidential Award for Excel-
lence in the category of Science,
Mathematics and Engineering Men-
toring Tuesday, according to a press
release.
SMYSP, founded in 1988 by Mar-
ilyn Winkleby, a professor in the
School of Medicine, and two under-
graduates, is a five-week summer
residential program for low-income
and minority high school students.
The 500 students selected to attend
learn about the health and science
professions, in addition to receiving
advice on the college application
process.
Evaluation results posted on the
programs website say that 100 per-
cent of the students who attend the
program graduate from high school,
99 percent are admitted to college,
84 percent graduate from four-year
colleges and 47 percent attend med-
ical or graduate school.
We are thrilled that Stanford
and the School of Medicine
whose students, faculty and staff
have been instrumental to our suc-
cess are being recognized by this
wonderful award, Winkleby said
in an article on the School of Medi-
cine website.
The White House gave the
award to nine individuals and eight
organizations, recognizing mentors
who help prepare the next gener-
ation of scientists and engineers
while ensuring that tomorrows in-
novators reflect and benefit from
the diverse talent of the United
States, according to the press re-
lease.
Colleagues, administrations or
students nominated all of the can-
didates. Recipients will receive a
$25,000 award from the National
Science Foundation and be recog-
nized at a White House ceremony
later this year.
Through their commitment to
education and innovation, these in-
dividuals and organizations are play-
ing a crucial role in the development
of our 21st century workforce,
Obama said in the press release.
Our nation owes them a debt of
gratitude for helping ensure that
America remains the global leader
in science and engineering for years
to come.
Other organizations recognized
in 2011 included Camp Reach from
the Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Diversity Programs in Engineering
from Cornell University, the Mathe-
matical and Theoretical Biology In-
stitute from Arizona State Universi-
ty and the University of California
San Francisco Science & Health Ed-
ucation Partnership High School In-
ternship Program.
Kurt Chirbas
BRIEFS
Continued from front page
SERENITY NGUYEN/The Stanford Daily
I cant enforce the regulations if
I dont know what the regulations
are,Adler said to the Senate.
Senator Janani Ramachandran
14 objected to using the word ad-
monish, noting it was rude.
Its not that theyre not doing
their job. Its just one part of their
job, Ramachandran said.
Adler rejoined that he felt the
word was justified.
The bill would be voted upon in
two weeks as a result of Thanksgiv-
ing Break, but both Adler and Sen-
ator Ben Laufer 12 said the Senate
would not have to pass the bill if
these positions were filled during
that time, rendering the point moot.
Adler also presented a bill seek-
ing the Senates help in clarifying
multiple sections of the governing
documents.
When you look at the joint by-
laws, theyre an incoherent mess,
Adler said. Theres a general sense
of carelessness in the documents I
have.
The bill seeks to address several
inconsistencies and vague language,
as well as an apparent violation of
current law.
The bylaws prohibit groups that
apply for special fees from having
money in different, non-ASSU ac-
counts unless a special exemption is
granted every year, and an inde-
pendent auditor must review those
accounts.
For instance, Adler said The
Daily receives special fees, but that
there is no independent auditor or
exemption issued every year. Cruz
said that a previous University pres-
ident amended the constitution to
specifically exempt The Daily from
a yearly check.
Adler responded that he was
simply raising the issue to the atten-
tion of the Senate, and that it was up
to the governing body to determine
the legitimacy of the apparent in-
consistency.
In addition to these updates, the
Senate briefly discussed various ad-
vocacy groups the senators are in-
volved in personally, though not di-
rectly related to official Senate busi-
ness. Senate Chair Rafael Vazquez
12 encouraged all senators, espe-
cially Queer Coalition candidates,
to attend Intersections Week at
Stanford.
Senator Shawn Dye 14 dis-
cussed a program to promote social
justice and stand in solidarity with
UC-Berkeley students against po-
lice brutality. A march of Stanford
and Berkeley students is scheduled
to take place on the Saturday of Big
Game and is currently being mar-
keted with the slogan, Social Jus-
tice is bigger than Big Game.
More time was spent discussing
this topic than the others, as senators
questioned how to best address var-
ious issues, including whether Satur-
days march will serve as an endorse-
ment of the Occupy movement. Dis-
cussion was cut short by Senate
Deputy Chair Dan Ashton 14.
I dont think we should be wast-
ing our time discussing it when its
an individual thing,Ashton said.
Senator Dan Delong 13 dis-
agreed, but Vazquez moved discus-
sion forward and told senators to
contact Dye later for more informa-
tion.
Laufer updated the Senate on
the conclusion to the University of
Southern California (USC) football
game ticket reimbursement pro-
gram, reporting that 242 students
sought reimbursement, nearly fill-
ing the allotted 250 spots. Checks
will likely be processed and distrib-
uted in the Stanford Student Enter-
prises (SSE) offices in the coming
weeks, Laufer said.
Contact Brendan OByrne at
bobyrne@stanford.edu.
SENATE
Continued from front page
amazed us, Liu said.
Students have become less en-
thusiastic about Arrillaga as the
quarter wears on, citing its novelty
as the source of its popularity
among students.
I was definitely surprised about
how popular it became, especially
among my residents who really did-
nt have anything to compare it to,
Larkin Resident Assistant Carlo
Pasco 13 wrote in an email to The
Daily. They would say how much
better it is than Stern [dining], when
Sterns food has stepped up.
Henry Patterson 15, a Wilbur
resident, said that crowding has
served to counteract Arrillagas ini-
tial popularity.
Its overrated, Patterson said.
I mean, its good; but its not that
great. Its also too crowded.
Pasco said he has noticed many
of his freshman residents eschew-
ing Arrillaga for dining options
closer to home, suggesting that stu-
dents are no longer favoring the
newer dining hall.
Ive been so touched to see
Stern filled with Larkinites, espe-
cially after the first two or three
weeks, when I would eat with
maybe four other people, he said.
Theyre slowly coming back.
In early October, Stanford Din-
ing mounted a campaign to drive
students back to their own dining
halls, as announced by ASSU Presi-
dent Michael Cruz 12 during an
Oct. 11 meeting of the ASSU Sen-
ate.
Arrillaga Dining, the first dining
hall to be built on campus in nearly
20 years, is unique among campus
dining halls in that it serves food to
students on the meal plan outside
of the traditional meal hours, which
can be advantageous to athletes
and students who take classes dur-
ing normal meal times.
We will be offering continuous
meal service as part of a pilot pro-
gram at Arrillaga Family Dining
Commons on weekdays, serving
meals between breakfast and
lunch, and lunch and dinner, Liu
said. This will allow students who
are not able to make the traditional
meal times due to class schedules,
etc., the ability to eat a full meal.
Arrillaga is also the host of the
Performance Dining Initiative,
which serves food in six categories:
enhanced immunity, anti-inflam-
matory components, food synergy,
brain performance, sports perform-
ance and antioxidants.
Liu emphasized that every din-
ing hall has unique features analo-
gous to Arrillagas Performance
Dining Initiative, which has been
promoted by Stanford Dining for
its synergistic food and nutrient
combinations and performance
themes that help students per-
form at their mental and physical
peak. Stern hosts Stanford Din-
ings collaboration with Mark
Miller of Cardinal Sage, while
Wilbur and Lakeside Latenite both
feature menu items associate with
the Star Ginger@Stanford Viet-
namese and Thai program. Man-
zanita Dining has a new chef this
year and Lakeside Dining is dis-
playing student art in collaboration
with the Stanford University Arts
Initiative.
All the dining halls share a ro-
tating menu, supplemented by
characteristics and concepts that
highlight each dining halls unique
characteristics, Liu said.
Contact Alice Phillips at alicep1
@stanford.edu.
DINING
Continued from front page
I was
definitely
surprised
about how
popular it
became.
CARLO PASCO,
junior
The Stanford Daily Wednesday, November 16, 2011 N3
FEATURES
S
omehow I convinced myself to roll out
two hours before the rest of the cam-
pus. It was 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, and
for the first time in its 18 years broad-
casting live from college campuses,
ESPN College GameDay was hosting its na-
tional pre-game show at Stanford.
Mitch Sherman, an ESPN blogger, feared a
mediocre turnout.
Theres talk that the crowd Saturday for
ESPNs College GameDay may actually set a
record low for attendance, what with the early
morning start and apathetic nature toward
football of the Stanford students,he wrote in a
Nov. 10 blog post.
Maybe it was because Stanford students
dont necessarily live and die with the football
teams successes and failures. Maybe it was be-
cause Stanford has such a small student fan
base. Or maybe it was because GameDay starts
at 6 a.m. on the West Coast.
But despite the medias doubts, I walked
over to the Oval with a few dorm mates eager
to grab a spot in the front row, only to run into
a long line of people with the same idea.
There was still hours to go before dawn, so
the stage lights were on at full force.As we wait-
ed for the gates to open, I looked around at the
signs students held.
Some were random.
SMU beat Navy.
I Hate LeBron.
A cutout of a random mans face blown up
to 10 times life-size.
Some were original:
Tim Tebow - God + Talent = Andrew
Luck.
LaMichael James Cant Smoke This Tree.
Before I knew what was happening,my group
started entering a section closed off from the rest
of the crowd near the stage. Chris Fowler,
Desmond Howard and Kirk Herbstreit came
and went from the stage. Erin Andrews stood on
a stage to the side while the live ESPN telecast
was broadcast on a JumboTron behind her.
Students were densely packed near the
stage. Cameras ran on wires overhead, filming
the crowd. Stanford males yelled out catcalls to
Andrews. Between all the signs, the students
hoisted on each others shoulders and the sheer
enormity of the crowd, I felt much farther from
the stage than I actually was.
Mitch Sherman could not have been more
wrong.
At 5:30, I was at the front of the pit, and a
guy from ESPN turned around and told me,
You guys have already exceeded our atten-
dance expectations, said Julie Lythcott-
Haims 89, dean of freshmen and undergradu-
ate advising. About half of the crowd had yet
to come.
Lisa Lapin, assistant vice president of uni-
versity communications, echoed these senti-
ments.
ESPN loved being at Stanford, Lapin
said.They were incredibly impressed with the
turnout and the behavior of everybody in the
crowd.
After Fowlers brief admonition to the stu-
dent crowd not to yell obscenities, the Hoover
Towers appearance on the JumboTron sig-
naled the beginning of the telecast. The crowd
roared.
The majority of the crowd was made up of
students, but there were also Oregon students,
fans and families from the Bay Area.
The truly incomparable Leland Stanford
Junior University Marching Band stood in jux-
taposition to its uniformed and precise Oregon
counterpart. Both bands started to play at
around 6:30 a.m., shortly after the sun finally
came up.
By PEPITO ESCARCE
NARRATIVE
Please see GAMEDAY, page 4
NICK SALAZAR/
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4 NWednesday, November 16, 2011 The Stanford Daily
OPINIONS
ON THE MARGINS, BETWEEN THE LINES
M
ost people at Stanford
would agree that that the
issues of rape and sexual
assault are serious matters. Howev-
er, that doesnt mean they are above
becoming punch lines for jokes on
campus. Similarly, jokes involving
the Holocaust, dead babies and
Helen Keller are made all the time.
They are funny precisely because
they are matters that should not be
joked about.
But people making jokes about
rape bother me in a way that jokes
about other taboo topics rarely do.
This is because rape is a problem
that our community on campus
faces every day. Jokes about rape
also become more personal they
are often about a certain person
getting assaulted, or position the
people making the jokes as rapists.
Additionally, although not always a
joke, the word rape has become a
general colloquialism used to de-
scribe all manner of situations that
have nothing to do with sex. So al-
though I know that just using the
word rape casually does not mean
that someone condones it, and I do
find humor in joking about things I
would never actually do, using this
kind of language in a college envi-
ronment like Stanford is dangerous.
I mean that in a literal sense. One in
four women will get raped or as-
saulted during her time in college,
often by men. (Men are sexually as-
saulted as well, but in much lower
proportions.) This means that you
undoubtedly know someone who
has been or will be raped while at
Stanford. Because its not some-
thing thats talked about often, it
can be impossible to know which of
your friends has been personally af-
fected by this. Hearing a joke about
rape may be incredibly painful or
triggering to them, even if you cant
see it and they are laughing along
with everyone else. By making
jokes and using language that turns
rape into a lighthearted or funny
subject, a climate is created that
downplays the seriousness of rape
and makes it harder for victims to
speak out about their experiences
or to get help. Having a space where
there can be open discourse about
rape is important for working to-
wards eliminating rape on campus;
making light of it inhibits open dia-
logue and prevents people from
feeling safe enough to engage in
these conversations.
It is consistently shown that men
who are rapists believe that most
other men also rape, but they just
hide it better. One in 20 college-
aged men will admit to having
raped someone on anonymous sur-
veys. So it is likely that in addition to
knowing someone who has been
deeply affected by a rape, you prob-
ably know people who are raping
others. If you are making jokes in-
volving rape and casually using the
word to describe that test you just
failed, rapists hear this as validation
that they are not alone. By normal-
izing the word, it suggests to them
that raping others is a common ex-
perience and that their behavior is
acceptable.
A striking example of this is a
video that resulted from an improv
show in New York City. An audi-
ence member stands up to recount a
humorous story from his life to in-
spire an improv scene. Unfortu-
nately the story he tells is one in
which he enters the room of a drunk
woman against her will and has sex
with her even though she repeated-
ly tells him to leave. The shocking
thing about this video is not that he
is admitting to raping someone
(without using that terminology
and understanding of his actions),
but that he is telling this as a humor-
ous anecdote, one that he has told
many times before. To him and his
friends, this is a funny story about
him getting laid against all odds. To
this man, coercing someone into sex
becomes a punch line and it is clear,
through watching his reactions dur-
ing the video, that he hears the
laughter of others as validation of
his actions. The fact that he has
grown up in an environment where
people around him make jokes
about rape, even if they would
never rape anyone, has contributed
to him seeing his actions as fully ac-
ceptable and not morally question-
able and allowed him to stand up in
front of a room of hundreds of
strangers and tell this story without
a second thought.
Chances are, you know someone
like him who has coerced someone
into having sex. In fact, the person
that you know is probably more so-
cially aware than the audience
member is and not stupid enough to
tell a whole room about his con-
quests. So dont contribute to him
normalizing rape. And dont con-
tribute to furthering the trauma of
rape victims. Even though theyre
oh-so-tempting and can be funny, if
you dont condone rape, dont con-
done people making jokes about it.
Let Jamie know your thoughts on the
subject by emailing her at jamiesol
@stanford.edu.
Joking about rape
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JOBBERISH
A
s youve no doubt gathered
from the fact that I mention
food in almost every column
I write, I love food. Its one of my fa-
vorite things. I love to bake and
cook, but more than anything, I re-
ally love to eat. I think having a ca-
reer in food would be just about the
most fun thing a person could do
with his or her life whether as a
chef, baker, restaurant manager
the list goes on. But all of these are
so obvious, and they dont make use
of your hard-earned Stanford de-
gree, which (as much as we all hate
to admit it) matters. While its only
natural to get hung up on that de-
tail, Im going to be holier-than-
thou for a minute and advise you
against it. Your lifes passion might
be something that requires a college
education, but it might not. You
should pursue it regardless as
long as it makes you happy and pays
the bills, its worth your time. If my
hypocritical lecture didnt work and
you still want to do something with
food that also validates all your
hard work here at Stanford, Ive got
an idea: become a flavor chemist,
also known as a flavorist. Its the
perfect job for those of you who are
both foodies and chemists, and its
this weeks topic.
A flavorist creates the artificial
flavoring found in basically any
packaged food you can buy. Its not
just a bunch of lotions and potions
flavorists use highly technical
chemical processes to create these
artificial flavors, with the same stan-
dards of precision as any research
lab in the country.As a flavorist, you
will get to apply your many hours of
work on those chem p-sets to creat-
ing delicious new flavors that peo-
ple like me will eat and enjoy.
While the flavor industry is actu-
ally quite large, there are only about
1,000 flavorists worldwide. These
flavorists are therefore highly val-
ued and by highly valued, I mean
a six-figure annual income. Most of
the worlds flavor companies are
American, so as a flavorist, several
of your clients will likely be interna-
tional. Of course, this means that in
order to understand the local flavor
profiles, you will have to do a lot of
traveling and sampling of different
exotic cuisines. Poor you.
There is, however, one part of be-
coming a flavorist that I dont envy
beyond getting a degree in
chemistry, hopeful flavorists must
also complete a seven-year training
program to become fully certified.
You can start the training program
right after getting your Bachelors
degree, and its basically just work-
ing in a laboratory to gain experi-
ence kind of like a very long in-
ternship.
But being a flavorist isnt all bor-
ing lab work in a white coat; there is
a certain amount of creativity in-
volved in the job as well. While you
will sometimes be creating standard
flavors, you will also get to be inven-
tive with your flavor creation. For
example, one flavorist was tasked
with creating the flavor erotic for
a Japanese candy company. Anoth-
er flavor: virgin. Im serious. As a
flavorist, you will be turning ab-
stract (if somewhat perverted)
ideas into accessible tastes, and
even though its hard work, it can
also be a lot of fun.
Although flavorists primarily
create flavors for food products,
they arent limited to just the food
industry. Cosmetic companies will
hire flavorists to make their prod-
ucts smell (or, in some cases, taste)
good. Flavorists are also often hired
by pharmaceutical companies to
make medications taste better, al-
though from personal experience, I
can say those flavorists arent doing
such a great job. That is, except for
Childrens Tylenol purple never
tasted so good.
Becoming a flavorist is a fun way
to combine your interests in food
and chemistry into a successful ca-
reer.Also, given the highly technical
nature of the job, a career as a fla-
vorist will no doubt put that Stan-
ford diploma to good use. Lastly, as
a frequent consumer of food, I will
greatly appreciate the work that
you do. And really, thats the most
important thing.
Want to be Amandas flavor of the
week? Send her an email at aach@
stanford.edu.
Flavor of the week
Jamie
Solomon
Amanda
Ach
As a flavorist,you will
get to apply your many
hours ofwork on those
chem p-sets to create
delicious new flavors
that people like me
will eat and enjoy.
As it became light outside, time
became insignificant. Lost in the
huge crowd and white noise of the
raucous students, I took it all in while
hardly processing it at any level.
Maybe it was just sleep deprivation,
but it was a surreal experience.
The two most memorable mo-
ments involved the venerable to
college football fans, anyway Lee
Corso. During a commercial break,
he held up a Stanford helmet,
prompting a deafening roar.Then he
held up the Oregon helmet, bringing
on boos. At the end of the show, he
predicted the winner by putting on a
tree hat and dancing with the Tree,
thrusting a fake musket in the air and
saying he was going duck hunting.
I walked back to my dorm in des-
perate need of a nap before the
game.
Although the team lost the game
and, most likely, its shot at a national
championship, GameDay went so
smoothly that producers of the show
suggested returning again in two
weeks.
They had called me before the
end of the show, saying they were so
impressed that if we won, they were
considering coming back for the
Notre Dame game,Lapin said.
Although now that scenario is
very unlikely, perhaps the turnout on
Saturday estimated at around
3,000 might change the percep-
tion that Stanford does not care
about football.
Contact Pepito Escarce at pescarce
@stanford.edu.
GAMEDAY
Continued from page 3
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SPORTS BRIEFS
Mens soccer coach
Bret Simon resigns
After 11 seasons at the helm
of Stanfords mens soccer pro-
gram, Bret Simon announced his
resignation on Tuesday, effective
immediately. Simon led the team
to three NCAA Tournament ap-
pearances, as well as two trips to
the College Cup since taking
over for Bobby Clark as head
coach in 2001.
I have been truly blessed to
have worked at Stanford for the
past 11 seasons, Simon said in a
statement released Tuesday.
Stanford University is the best
environment in the world to de-
velop young people to their
fullest potential.
It has been a privilege for me
and my family to be a part of this
great educational endeavor. I ap-
preciate the opportunity to work
with so many exceptional stu-
dent-athletes, talented coaches,
and dedicated administrators
and staff, he added.
Simons best seasons came
during his first two on the Farm,
in 2001 and 2002. Those teams
went a combined 36-7-4 and both
played in the College Cup the
2002 team lost 1-0 to UCLA in
the National Championship.
But Stanford went 58-82-26 in
the last nine seasons and made
FOOTBALL
Cardinal copes with
unfamiliar feeling
By JACK BLANCHAT
DESK EDITOR
Its not a normal feeling for the
Stanford football team.
Hoping to rebound from a loss.
Trying to piece together what went
wrong. Working to make it all right
in just a week, with another impor-
tant game coming up.
But after watching its perfect
season and the nations longest
win streak fall apart on Saturday
against Oregon, the No. 9 Cardinal
(9-1, 7-1 Pac-12) has to find a way to
deal with the unfamiliar letter L
on its record.
Redshirt senior tight end Coby
Fleener came up empty when
grasping for any positives to take
away from a tough weekend.
I dont know. Honestly, I dont
know how to answer that ques-
tion, Fleener said. I dont know if
theres too much good. Were not
looking for moral victories.
Defensive coordinator Derek
Mason was able to find a few more
words, but he acknowledged that
the Cardinal wasnt going to find
much to be happy about.
Its a feeling of disappoint-
ment. [The players] understood
what this game was about, he said.
When you dont play your best
ball, theres nothing to be excited
about, theres nothing to be happy
about, theres nothing to be over-
joyed about.
But even though it was the Car-
dinals first loss in over a year and
its second to the Ducks in as many
years, there is a little bit of prece-
dent for Stanfords ability to re-
bound in fine fashion.
Its hard to tell how well deal
with [the Oregon game] right now
because we havent played anyone
FINISH LINE IN SIGHT
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR
Running in front of a home crowd for the final time
in their careers, the mens cross country senior trio of
Chris Derrick, Jake Riley and Brendan Gregg all
cruised to top-10 finishes at the NCAA West Region-
al Championships on Saturday.
Their efforts, combined with strong finishes from
freshman Joe Rosa and sophomore Erik Olson, gave
the Cardinal the win and a spot in next weeks NCAA
Championships.
Just a few hours later on the same course, junior
Kathy Kroeger led the womens squad to an at-large
bid in the NCAAs after her seventh-place effort
helped No. 13 Stanford finish third behind No. 3 Wash-
ington and No. 8 Arizona.
It was a nice rebound from the mens performance
at the Pac-12 Championships two weeks ago, when
Colorado snuck past the No. 5 Cardinal down the
stretch to grab the conference crown, a fact that was
not lost on Gregg.
It was nice to go out with a win, he said after the
race.Regionals is all about qualifying, but its good to
get a W. And it was fun finishing in front of a home
crowd for the last time on the golf course.
Derrick, Riley, Gregg and Rosa ran together for
much of the race, with Derrick eventually breaking off
to try and run down leader Lawi Lalang in the final
kilometers. Riley hung with the lead chase pack, fin-
ishing fifth and covering the 10-kilometer course in
28:59, while Gregg was content to take a spot at the
head of the second pack, 27 seconds back of Riley.
Rosa and Olson couldnt sustain the pace over the
full distance, but both held on to break 30 minutes and
help stave off a late charge by Portland, which had two
runners sandwiched between Derrick and Riley but
finished just three points back of Stanford.
Mens coach Jason Dunn said before the race that
he was hoping the team would be able to shut out the
distractions that came with being on campus for ESPN
GameDays arrival and the festivities early that morn-
ing. After the race, he was optimistic that his team
might be peaking at the right time this year, as op-
posed to previous seasons that saw dominant regular
season efforts followed by difficult defeats at the
NCAA Championships.
Brendan ran really well and I thought Joe Rosa
did great in his first 10k,Dunn told GoStanford.com.
He is really coming around well and I am excited
where he is at. We still need to shore up a few of our
guys. I still dont feel like we have had a great day all
year long. I am hoping that great day is going to be
nine days from now.
Womens coach PattiSue Plumer shared some of
Dunns slight disappointment, as she had hoped the
team would bounce back from its third-place finish at
the Pac-12 Championships and run better on its home
course.
I thought it was a solid race for us,Plumer said.I
was a little disappointed that we did not get second,
but I was happy with the effort.
While Kroeger ran her usual top-10 caliber race,
redshirt senior Stephanie Marcy, freshman Aisling
Cuffe and sophomore Jessica Tonn all turned in very
nice efforts as well Marcy, Cuffe and Tonn finished
in 11th, 22nd and 29th places respectively.
But from there it was 13 spots back to the teams
fifth and final scorer, junior Claire Durkin in 42nd
place. Meanwhile, the Huskies slipped all five of their
top runners into the top 15, running away with the title
by 48 points over the Wildcats and 61 points better
than the Cardinal.
After the race, Stanford slipped out of the top 10 in
the rankings, moving down five spots from No. 8 to No.
13. It will be a tough task for anyone to take down No.
1 Florida State, the favorite on the womens side with
just one race remaining.
The Cardinal is among the group of about six
schools considered to be contenders for the NCAA
NEW YORK BOUND
By ZACH ZIMMERMAN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Junior guard Gabe Harris col-
lected the loose ball, took two drib-
bles and launched a 65-foot shot
that hit nothing but net as time ex-
pired in the first half. The perfect
miracle heave was exactly what an
ice-cold Stanford squad needed to
right the ship.
The Cardinal (3-0) advanced to
the semifinals of the NIT Season
Tip-Off on Tuesday night, beating
Colorado State 64-52 in Maples
Pavilion. Redshirt senior forward
Josh Owens led the way for Stan-
ford with 15 points, with Harris and
sophomore guard Aaron Bright
contributing 12 apiece in what was
a classic tale of two halves.
The first period of play was not
so kind to Stanfords shooting, with
the Cardinal firing 12 fewer shots
than the Rams and connecting on
just 42 percent of those looks. Free-
throw shooting once again kept the
game tight, with Stanford going 8-
for-12 and CSU splitting its only
two attempts.
Colorado State streaked out to
an eight-point lead early, with red-
shirt junior guard Wes Eikmeier
and junior forward Pierce Hor-
nung hitting back-to-back three-
pointers to extend the score to 12-
4. Stanford couldnt answer, start-
ing 3-for-13 from the field before
sophomore center Stefan Nastic
buried a three from the top of the
arc, cutting the lead back to eight at
23-15. But Eikmeier responded
with one of his four first-half field
goals to give the Rams the biggest
lead of the opening period at 31-20
with 4:57 remaining.
Stanford then went on a scoring
spree of its own, ending the half on
an 11-2 run that culminated in the
three-quarter-court buzzer-beater
by Harris, bringing the game back
to 33-31 at intermission.
We didnt come out necessari-
ly how we wanted to play in the
first half. [The buzzer-beater] was
definitely a pick-me-up going into
halftime, Owens said. To close it
off with that just gave us all kinds of
energy going into halftime.
Harris, Owens and freshman
guard Chasson Randle led the Car-
dinal in scoring in the opening peri-
od with six points apiece. Harris,
who missed significant time due to
injury last season, is just one of
many unlikely Stanford players to
make an impact early in the season.
Its about the players being
worthy enough to be out there,
said Stanford head coach Johnny
Verlander
for MVP?
Child,please
T
here comes a time in a
mans life when he must
stand up for what he be-
lieves.After hearing yet an-
other wave of talk about
how Justin Verlander ought to win the
American League MVP award, today
is that day. I say no.
Sorry Justin, but while I believe
you and all of your supporters could
make a great argument for why you
are one of the most valuable players
on your team and in the league, it is
not possible to compare the impact a
position player has on the team to the
impact a pitcher has.And most impor-
tantly, pitchers have their own damn
award the Cy Young which Ver-
lander won unanimously on Tuesday.
Now,you could say I am slightly bi-
ased Jacoby Ellsbury is indeed my
homeboy but just hear me out.
The last time a pitcher won the
MVP was in 1992, when Hall of Fame
reliever Dennis Eckersley saved 51
games with a 1.91 ERA for the Oak-
land Athletics.The last time a starting
pitcher won the award was when
Roger Clemens went 24-4 with 238
strikeouts and a 2.48 ERA in 1986.
So there is some historical prece-
dent for the Baseball Writers Associ-
ation of America to give the men on
the mound some love. But Im going
to be honest those days are over,
and I have to believe its because they
eventually came to their senses and
realized that as great a season as a
pitcher has, the times they are a-
changin.
And this is not to knock Verlan-
ders contribution to the team, be-
cause he certainly was a valuable asset
for Jim Leylands ballclub.
Not only did the flame-throwing
right-hander lead the league in wins,
but he was also first in winning per-
centage (.828), ERA (2.40), innings
(251), strikeouts (250) and WHIP
(0.920).
Those are Clemens-esque num-
bers, and behind Verlander, the Tigers
won 95 games and the AL Central di-
vision title for the first time in 24 years.
But I will not stand idly by while
Verlander, a great and humble guy by
most accounts, butters the media up
with his aw, shuckscharm.
Hall of Fame hitters already fail
two-thirds of the time.They have to go
out and play nine innings of defense,
162 games a year. Sure, they get to
take plays off, while pitchers are sub-
jected to scrutiny on every pitch for six
innings. But to make position players
have to compete with a guy who has a
direct impact on the game just once
every five days is simply unfair.
You cannot tell me that Justin Ver-
lander deserves the MVP more than
even his own teammate,Miguel Cabr-
era, who hit .344 with 30 home runs
and 105 RBI while playing an under-
rated first base for the Tigers. The dif-
ference between Verlander and a
pretty good starting pitcher, as com-
pared to the difference between
Miguel Cabrera and a pretty good
first baseman is not comparable.
One of the biggest arguments I
SPORTS
Please see B-SMITH, page 7
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Redshirt senior Josh Owens spearheaded a streaky Cardinal offense on Tuesday, contributing 15 points in a win
over Colorado State. Stanford will now head to New York to play in the semifinals of the NIT Season Tip-Off. Please see MBBALL, page 7
Miles
Bennett-Smith
Jacoby is my Homeboy
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Kathy Kroeger (above) and the Cardinal cross country
teams will look to continue their strong showing at the
NCAA west regional this Monday at the NCAA
Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. The mens team is
ranked sixth and the women are ranked 13th.
Please see BRIEFS, page 7
Please see FOOTBALL, page 6
Men, women qualify for
NCAA Championships
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Junior running back Stepfan Taylor (No. 33) and the Stanford football team, whose 17-game win streak snapped
on Saturday, will have to rebound from a loss for the first time in over a year this weekend against Cal.
yet, redshirt junior guard David
DeCastro said. Last year obvious-
ly we took it pretty well, winning
every game afterwards.
Indeed, after the Cardinal fell to
the Ducks up in Autzen Stadium
last season in week five, it rolled to
eight straight wins and an Orange
Bowl victory. Should the Cardinal
respond the same way this season
with wins against California and
Notre Dame, it might find itself in a
BCS Bowl for the second time in as
many years.
And even though the team
wont find any positives in the Ore-
gon game film, Mason said that the
coaching staff and the defense in
particular was going to have to
draw on this game a lot if it wants to
finish strong down the stretch.
I think coming out of this game,
at the end of the day, you cant play
at 65 percent and go beat a team
that gives you 100 percent like Ore-
gon did, Mason said. It had noth-
ing to do with injuries, it had more
to do with execution. Were about
getting guys to the football, tackling
the guy with the ball, and making
sure we play a certain style of de-
fense. And we didnt do that.
We gave up three explosive
plays defensively and we gave up
three red zone opportunities where
we didnt get stops.Thats 42 points.
And you cant do that. I dont care
where the ball is set down, he con-
tinued.
DeCastro echoed his coach
when he said the Cardinal could
draw on its experienced leaders in
order to get back in the swing of
things with the Big Game coming
up this weekend.
I think its trying to be mature
and realize that you cant get down
on yourself, he said. You cant be
freaking out, youve got to be like,
what did we do wrong? Lets fix it
and move on to Cal.
Altogether, Mason said the
team had done a good job of keep-
ing the loss and the fact that the
season isnt over yet in perspec-
tive, but he was fully aware that the
Cardinal couldnt coast into this
game still licking its wounds.
At the end of the day, give all
the credit to Oregon. No excuses,
no explanations. Theyre a good
team and so are we, he said. We
cant let Oregon beat us twice. We
lost to Oregon, and now weve got
to go beat Cal.
The Cardinal kicks off against
Cal this Saturday in the 114th Big
Game at 7:15 p.m. at Stanford Sta-
dium.
Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@
stanford.edu.
FOOTBALL
Continued from page 5
Dawkins, And the competition has
been healthy for them.
Two quick turnovers by Stanford
after the break made it look like the
momentum from the Harris heave
had ended, as Colorado State quick-
ly brought the lead back to five.
The teams went back and forth
before a three-pointer by sopho-
more guard Aaron Bright catalyzed
the best offensive stretch of the
night for the Card. Bright accounted
for 11 points in a 13-2 run that also
included a steal and emphatic dunk
by Owens, giving Stanford its
biggest lead of the game at 49-43.
Bright, who led Stanford in scoring
in the first two games of the season,
came to life in the second half, tally-
ing eight of his 12 points after the
break.
But when it looked like the
Card was beginning to pull ahead,
Colorado State began chipping at
the lead. Dawkins made the deci-
sion to give Bright and Owens a
breather, a move that stagnated the
Stanford offense and allowed the
Rams to pull the game within four.
A controversial tip-slam by Will
Bell followed by an Andrew Zim-
mermann goaltend brought the
game to 54-52 with nearly three
minutes remaining.
Josh Owens ended a 6-0 run by
Colorado State by muscling his way
into position and banking home an
easy two, bringing the lead back to
four. Dawkins, who once again
looked unsure of his rotation by
playing 11 men in the first 11 min-
utes, finally seemed to find the line-
up he was looking for in Bright,
Harris, Mann, sophomore forward
Huestis and Owens. The five, who
recorded the most minutes on the
squad with at least 24 apiece, ac-
counted for 53 of Stanfords 64
points and secured the win for the
Card down the stretch with lock-
down defense that held Colorado
State scoreless for the final three
minutes of the game.
We would like to narrow it
down if we possibly could,Dawkins
said. We have depth this year. You
have different guys stepping up and
that provides us some flexibility with
our personnel at times.
Eikmeier, redshirt junior guard
Jesse Carr and junior forward Greg
Smith, who led the Rams in scoring
in the first half, combined to shoot
just 4-for-18 in the second period
after opening the game 10-for-21.
The win advances Stanford to
Madison Square Garden for the
semifinal round, where it will take
on the winner of todays game be-
tween Oklahoma State and Texas-
San Antonio. However, the team
first travels to UC-Davis this Friday
for a matchup with the Aggies.
Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Contact Zach Zimmerman at zachz
@stanford.edu.
MBBALL
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have heard for Verlander is that this
year was specialfor him.But while I
agree with that description, that does-
nt make him an MVP,that makes him
the Cy Young. Pedro Martinez had
perhaps the greatest single season
ever by a starting pitcher in 1999
going 23-4 with a 2.07 ERA with an
unreal 313 strikeouts and 0.92 WHIP.
Thats stupid good.
And yet, he fell 13 points shy of
Ivan Rodriguez in the MVP race. (To
be honest, Manny Ramirez should
have won that MVP because his 44
HRs, .333 BA and 165 RBI was really
stupid good.) Which is why I feel safe
saying that the history of the award
tells us that pitchers should stick to the
thing they do best pitching.
They have a wonderful award for
this very reason, and Verlander won it
in a landslide rather deservedly this
year.
Coming from your peers makes it
all the more special, Verlander said
of that honor.I think with all the talk
about,Should a pitcher be able to win
MVP or a top player award? I think it
shows a lot of support for my fellow
players to be able to vote me for that.
I think it means a lot. When it comes
from your peers, the guys youre play-
ing with, the guys youre playing
against its special.
But those guys deserve to have
their day, because this was no down
year for several hitters. All Ellsbury
did was put together a breakthrough
season that was as impressive as that
of any position player in the game.
Bostons leadoff man hit .321 with
212 hits, 32 homers, 105 RBIs and a
league-leading 364 total bases. He
also stole 39 bases all while playing
Gold Glove defense in centerfield.
Though the Red Sox had a histori-
cally poor finish, becoming the first
team to blow a nine-game lead in Sep-
tember, Ellsbury was the reason his
team still had a chance to make it to
the postseason in Game No. 162. He
hit .358 with eight homers and 21
RBIs during a time his team needed
him most.
That is what an MVP should do,
not just be the stopper every five
days you get the ball. The Tigers also
had Doug Fister, who was actually
more impressive than Verlander
down the stretch with a 1.79 ERA,
0.84 WHIP and an 8-1 record after
coming over via a trade with the
Mariners.
If you dont like Ellsbury, why
dont you try a helping of the Grandy
Man, or take a look at Mr. Bautista in
Toronto, or A-Gon in Beantown?
Any of them has had a great enough
season to overcome doubts.
Im ready for the angry hordes
who say that the award shouldnt be
exclusive to position players and that
the words most and valuableapply
to Verlander like Tim Tebow and
winner.
But I sincerely hope that Mr. Ver-
lander can sit back and applaud for
whomever it is that does win when the
award is announced on Monday, just
like he did for the 129 games in which
he did not throw a pitch this season.
Miles also believes that defensive
players should not be able to win the
Heisman, but thats just because hes
still bitter about Charles Woodson
beating out Peyton Manning. Send
him your thoughts at milesbs@
stanford.edu and check him out on
Twitter @smilesbsmith.
B-SMITH
Continued from page 5
team title on the mens side, along
with defending champion No. 2 Ok-
lahoma State, No. 4 Oklahoma, No. 1
Wisconsin, No. 3 BYU and No. 6
Colorado. Derrick and Riley ought
to also be in serious competition for
individual honors, but it remains to
be seen if anyone will be able to
chase down Lalang, who is undefeat-
ed in his first cross country season.
Riley put it simply when asked
what the teams goal was.
Win, we just want to win, he
said. Weve been beaten in a cou-
ple of really tough races, and we
need to make up for that. And I
think if we all run like were capa-
ble of, we will definitely be in that
mix.
Indiana State is this years host
for the NCAA Championships,
which will take place on Monday at
the LaVern Gibson Championship
Course in Terre Haute, Ind. The
mens 10-kilometer race is sched-
uled to begin just after 9 a.m PST,
with the women to follow shortly
on the six-kilometer course just be-
fore 10 a.m. PST.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at
milesbs@stanford.edu.
XCOUNTRY
Continued from page 5
only one NCAA Tournament ap-
pearance in 2009, when the Car-
dinal was led by All-American
Bobby Warshaw and finished 12-6-
2. That year, Stanford won two
games in the NCAA Tournament
before eventually losing to top-
seeded Akron in the Round of 16.
In 2010, the Cardinal was
ranked as one of the top teams in
the country before losing four
straight matches to open the year
and fall out of contention. This past
season, Stanford again suffered
through a difficult preseason
schedule, finishing 6-10-2, fourth in
the Pac-12.
A graduate of the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, Simon
is one of only two coaches in
NCAA history to take two differ-
ent programs to the NCAA Col-
lege Cup, compiling a 273-160-54
record in 22 seasons as a collegiate
head coach. He has also been
named Coach of the Year in both
the Pac-10 and Missouri Valley
Conferences.
Fifteen of his players have ad-
vanced to Major League Soccer, in-
cluding two last season War-
shaw and Ryan Thomas. Overall,
six former Stanford stars Todd
Dunivant, Taylor Graham, Roger
Levesque, Chad Marshall, Thomas
and Warshaw are currently playing
in MLS.
The University announced that
a nationwide search for Simons re-
placement will begin immediately.
Miles Bennett-Smith
BRIEFS
Continued from page 5
OKeeffe said Occupy Stanford
faces many unique challenges in ral-
lying support, but a large part of the
groups difficulty has had to do with
its fundamental structure as an anti-
hierarchical, grassroots movement.
A lot of people who are working
on [Occupy Stanford] arent experi-
enced in the way that more institu-
tionalized groups who have organ-
ized structures are, OKeeffe said.
Were just kind of getting together
and starting from scratch.
Occupy Stanfords meetings, the
forum in which members decide
what and when to protest, may seem
difficult to navigate for those inter-
ested in the Occupy movement, ac-
cording to OKeeffe.These meetings
use a general assembly format,
where there is no leader and no
agenda.
Both Loftus and OKeeffe com-
mented that none of the members
carry titles within the organization.
It can be frustrating, especially
for newcomers who arent used to
it, OKeeffe said. It may have
turned some people off, actually, but
as the movements been growing, I
think its gotten a lot more efficient.
Every time I go I feel like weve ac-
complished something.
The Occupiers have also faced
questions about the relative wealth
of Stanford students.
But what use is it to be at the top
of a pyramid thats crumbling?Lof-
tus said. In the long run, the entire
world is going to be worse off if we
dont fix [the problem of the weak
middle class].
Despite the challenges and stu-
dent skepticism, Occupy Stanford
activists said they are finding mean-
ing in the protests despite their orga-
nizational difficulties. In particular,
OKeeffe said he felt this larger
meaning during a camp-out the or-
ganization held in White Plaza last
Monday.
I really got a sense of what these
people occupying [at Occupy camps]
are really going through, OKeeffe
said. I felt for the first time, This is
probably what its like to be home-
less.
Chris Herries 15, another
camper, agreed.
Even though we didnt evoke
immediate social change on the spot,
strangers came up to me to discuss
the movement, Herries said. I
think discussion is the most impor-
tant step towards social change.
Contact Edward Ngai at edngai@
stanford.edu.
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