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MONDAY February 6, 2012

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Volume 241 Issue 4

Happiness within reach

Stanford apps outpace Ivy rivals

Harvard, Yale applications drop, Farm experiences record numbers
By JORDAN SHAPIRO
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Vaden Health Center hosted a Feb. 4 conference featuring speakers who have published books and authored studies on human emotion. The conference, entitled Happiness Within Reach, sold out.

UNIVERSITY

Freshmen to reflect in pilot seminars

By CATHERINE ZAW
STAFF WRITER

Next week, Stanford leaders will pilot Reflections Seminars, a new initiative offering freshmen the opportunity to reflect on their lives, identities and time at Stanford. The project, spearheaded by the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) and the Vice Provost for Student Affairs (VPSA), is a collaboration of faculty, administrators and ASSU leaders. The initiative has been something that the different administrators in [Undergraduate Advising and Research] and other departments around the University have been thinking about for a number of years, said Stewart Macgregor-Dennis 13, ASSU vice president.

Over the past 18 months, more than three dozen faculty, staff and students from across the University have been in dialogue about the need to create a Stanford 101 in order to better help students take full advantage of all that Stanford offers both academically and in terms of support and resources. These meetings have been led by Dean of Freshman and Undergraduate Advising Julie LythcottHaims 89 and Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs and Dean of Residential Education Deborah Golder, with Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Harry Elam and Vice Provost for Student Affairs Greg Boardman also jointly overseeing the effort. The committee concluded that a Stanford 101

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Stanford set a University record when it received 36,744 applications before the Jan. 1 deadline this year, while Harvard, Yale and Princeton all experienced a slight dip in applications compared to the previous year. Stanfords Class of 2016 admissions pool represents a seven percent increase from the 34,348 applications for the Class of 2015. You know, I expected this year actually that [the number of applicants] might hit a ceiling, and it didnt, Dean of Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid Richard Shaw said. It kept moving up and . . . I think thats a compliment to the university. When asked why he thought Stanford continued to see more applications this year than ever, Shaw pointed to the Universitys five Rhodes Scholars of 32 total for 2012. Thats not bad in one year, he said. Additionally, Shaw attributed some of Stanfords popularity to the ease of the Common Application, national news articles and even the success of Stanfords football and womens soccer teams. Shaw noted he expects to eventually see a plateau in the size of Stanfords applicant pool given the national high school demographics. But right now, the trend is up-

ward, Shaw said. Its been upward for the last five years or so. While Stanford received 49 fewer early action applications this year (5,880) as compared to last year (5,929), its early admission rate was still marginally lower than that of Harvard, Yale or Princeton. Stanford admitted 12.8 percent of its early applicants whereas Yale, Harvard and Princeton accepted 15.7, 18.2 and 21.0 percent, respectively. Both Harvard and Princeton reinstated their restrictive early action programs this past year after a four-year hiatus. We expected theyd impact us, but they didnt. They may be sharing common candidates in the Northeast. They probably are sharing them with us, but we have other people interested, so . . . we went up more precipitously than they did in terms of applications, Shaw said. In our case, Princeton and Harvard joining Yale in our restrictive early action to me, that creates even a level of greater sanity, he added. Young people applying early to those programs should be doing so because its their first choice or close to it, and they get out of the applicant pools of everybody else. Indeed, Harvard saw a record amount of applications for the Class of 2015 last year, reaching 34,950 interested students, and received fewer applications this year,

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STUDENT LIFE

Police issue more tickets to cut crashes

By MARSHALL WATKINS
DESK EDITOR

NEWS BRIEFS

MONEY

GSB, State Department host Rio+2.0 conference

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF The State Department and the Graduate School of Business (GSB) jointly hosted the Rio+2.0 conference last week to discuss the use of technology and social media in advancing sustainable development solutions, according to the Stanford Center for Social Innovation. The conference, held Feb. 2 to Feb. 4, was in preparation for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development that will be held in Rio de Janeiro June 20 to 22. We will explore existing and proposed technologies and the opportunities as well as attributes of the innovation culture, and the role of governments and civil society in fostering broader innovation, the U.N. web page on the

Board of Trustees worried about bicycle crashes, injuries

Bill Larson, spokesman for the Stanford Department of Public Safety (SUDPS), confirmed that the Stanford police department has recently increased its efforts regarding bicycle safety and education in an effort to reduce the number of collisions on campus. Larson noted, however, that bike enforcement is [an ongoing] part of our education of the Stanford community to obey traffic laws, and that enforcement efforts periodically increase throughout the year, especially during times such as New Student Orientation (NSO). SUDPS Chief Laura Wilson said an in email to The Daily that the increased patrols by Stanford sheriffs are in response to concerns raised by, among others, members of the Board of Trustees and the University Cabinet. According to Wilson, education-based bike safety programs had previously failed to change the actual behavior of bikers around campus. Enforcement has increased around the intersections of Campus Drive and Escondido Road, Lomita Drive and Santa Teresa Street and Serra Street and Galvez Street. Larson emphasized that the increased time spent on bicycle safety has not necessitated redeployment of deputies from other tasks a particularly salient point following two assaults reported on campus this past weekend. Larson said that enforcement

Stanford conference states. The event will be interactive, combining talks and panels with audience participation through breakout sessions and a final unconference session. More than 400 global policymakers, development professionals and technology innovators attended the conference, according to the State Department website. Government representatives from the Department of Agriculture, the Department of State, the Environmental Protection Agency, the White House and the Governments of Kenya and Indonesia spoke at the conference in the Knight Management Center. Executives from CMEA Capital, eParachute.com, ESRI, goBalto, Google, Guidewire Group, Intel, Omidyar Network, OpenIDEO, OReilly Media, Mightybell, Noventi Quick Eagle Networks, Yola, Inc. and Yonja Media

Lobbyists disclose 2011 expenditures

By JOSEE SMITH Stanford University spent $420,000 on lobbying in 2011, according to the quarterly lobbying reports filed by Larry Horton 62 M.A. 66, director of government and community relations at Stanford. In comparison, the University of Southern California reported spending $580,000 last year lobbying the local, state and federal government. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the University of California system spent $770,000 last year on lobbying. Horton is one of two registered lobbyists for Stanford, along with Ryan Adesnik. According to Horton, he and Adesnik lobby the federal government on behalf of Stanfords interests. All the things we work on are all the things that Stanford University as an institution has an interest in and is qualified to speak on, Horton said, adding that he and Adesnik do not lobby on individual projects. Instead, Horton said, he and Adesnik lobby on issues such as education, intellectual property and federally sponsored research. In the case of federally sponsored research, Stanford representatives lobby to ensure that there is adequate funding for University research. According to the quarterly reports, Stanford also lobbied on issues such as student financial aid, immigration and stem cell research. These lobbying reports record both the expenses related to lobbying and the lobbying activity. Horton must report what was lobbied and how the money was spent. Reporting incorrectly is a criminal offense, he noted. When asked how the lobbying expenses for 2011 compared with previous years, Horton said that the expenses were about the same.

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Jerry Michalski, founder of the Relationship Economy eXpedition, spoke Saturday at Rio+2.0. The three-day conference attracted technology innovators and international policymakers.

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We are a very small staff, Horton said. We have five professional people to handle all of Stanfords community, state and federal relations. Stanford lobbyists do not have a Washington, D.C., office, something that many other, bigger schools, such as the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan, do have. According to the Political Activities section of the Administrative Guide Memo, approved by President Hennessy and applicable to all members of the University community, all members are free to express their political opinions and engage in political activities to whatever extent they wish. However, they must avoid even the appearance that they are speaking or acting for the University in political matters. The memo lists the officials who can lobby on behalf of the University without specific authorization: the President, Provost, Deans of the Seven Schools, Vice Provost and Dean of Research, Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Human Resources, Director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Director of the Hoover Institute, General Counsel and the Vice President for Public Affairs. Any faculty member who wishes to lobby on behalf of the University for specific purposes must be granted permission from the Vice Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Policy. The Vice President for Public Affairs may grant permission to staff members to lobby on behalf of the University, and all lobbying on behalf of the University must be coordinated with the Vice President for Public Affairs, according to the guide memo. Most of the money recorded in the quarterly reports is a percentage of the salary of the person who did the lobbying and any related expenses, such as travel and hotel costs. From time to time, Stanford

does hire resources from Washington or from Sacramento to help us, Horton said. The amounts we pay for them would be included in our reports. According to Horton, Stanford mostly lobbies on federal government issues primarily issues before Congress. Lobbying at the local or state level involves a different type of reporting requirements. For instance, no one at Stanford, not even Horton, is a registered lobbyist in Sacramento because nobody meets the threshold required to be a lobbyist in Sacramento politics. When it comes to local government, county government, city government . . . there is a different set of rules, Horton said. Occasionally Stanford does get involved in issues in Palo Alto if they have the potential for a significant effect on students and faculty at Stanford. For instance, Stanford takes interest in transportation and school board issues if they involve the interests of the school. There is only one restriction on the kind of lobbying in which Stanford is allowed to participate: partisan politics. We cannot support a candidate or partisan activity, Horton said. He added that Stanford never takes positions on popular interests of the day, instead focusing on issues that concern the school. Stanford can permit individuals to speak on campus, but campaign speeches are off limits, according to Horton. The Center for Responsive Politics reported that Stanford University individuals contributed $595,716 to then-Senator Barack Obamas campaign in 2008. These contributions did not come from the school directly; instead, they came from individual members who support a particular candidate and contribute their own money to campaigns. This number was the sum of money contributed by individual faculty and students, but not money donated on behalf of the school. When we take positions, we take positions on behalf of the University, Horton said.We only involve ourselves on issues that affect education and research. Contact Josee Smith at jsmith11@ stanford.edu.

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curriculum should have two components to it, which LythcottHaims described as Reflection and Navigation. Newly formed task forces composed of faculty, staff and students are currently exploring programming for these two components. Each task force will run a process of prototype and iteration which will last two to three quarters, Lythcott-Haims said. By Jan. 2013, we hope to have a clear sense of how to integrate these concepts of Reflection and Navigation into the undergraduate experience for offering in the 2013-14 school year. Lythcott-Haims said that the Reflection idea originated from the notion that students should have the chance to pause and reflect upon big questions: Who am I? What are my ideals and dreams? What is important to me? How am I going to spend my time? What do I want to do with my life? Students will be encouraged to think about how to integrate their answers to those questions with the myriad of opportunities offered by a Stanford education. Students will be encouraged to think further about their Stanford experience, not just the four years they have on campus, but also the years afterward, Macgregor-Dennis said. Its to reflect on their current involvement on campus, not to add more on their plate. The goal would be that students would end up having a clearer sense of self as they make their way through their undergraduate experience and would more intentionally and more thoughtfully make choices about course selection, major declaration and the types of activities they pursue here as a result, Lythcott-Haims said. This winters Stanford Reflections Seminar is only open to current freshmen. At the moment, 75 freshmen have signed up to be placed into small groups, each of which will be led by two people from either the faculty or administration and one upperclassman mentor. Each student group will consist of approximately eight to 12 students and will host three 90minute sessions over the course of the quarter. The small group experience was designed to foster trust and community and to benefit students mental health and wellness. Involved faculty members hope to continue to test the program to see whether or not sophomores would benefit from the experience as well.

Our counterparts at Harvard have been running a program like this for three to four years, and we are excited to compare notes with them once our pilot gets underway, Lythcott-Haims said. The later Navigation piece of the project stems from one of the major concerns that was brought up over the committee meetings namely that students often dont seem to know about or know how to utilize the numerous resources that already exist on our campus, she said. According to Lythcott-Haims, Navigation will likely be a 10week course attempting to demystify the Universitys structure and introduce students to some of its key resources, opportunities and support. The program will include teaching students how to find good places to study, manage time effectively, take advantage of faculty office hours, gain awareness of mental health and wellness resources, get involved in research, write a resume and cover letter, get advice from upperclassmen and use Axess, CourseRank and ExploreCourses. Courses of this sort are currently offered to different degrees at the University, such as through UARs Expanded Advising Program, with partners in the community centers and in athletics, and through a student-initiated course on Navigating the University, taught by Maya Amoils 12 and Alex Wittenberg 12 this fall. A course taught by former Arroyo Resident Fellow Todd Davies to his freshmen last spring also addressed the topic. The job of the Navigation Task Force will be to design a 10-week curriculum drawing upon the best that is already offered, in order to scale current offerings up to hundreds of students, Lythcott-Haims said. While it is too soon to draw conclusions, our hope is that both the Reflections and Navigation pieces will prove to be exciting new offerings on the Stanford undergraduate landscape. We envision that they will be voluntary and perhaps credit-bearing, Lythcott-Haims said. Ive been blown away by all the faculty and how much care and effort theyve put into the program, Macgregor-Dennis said. The work of the administrators and faculty members who Ive seen working to put on the Stanford Reflection project makes me proud to be working with them. They have total commitment for making this a breakthrough project and Im really excited to see their efforts come to realization. Contact Catherine Zaw at czaw13 @stanford.edu.

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MAN OF MATHEMATICS I
By JUSTINE ZHANG
n Stanfords math corner, a building housing hundreds of years of mathematical progress, Professor Kannan Soundararajan is in his element. On any given day, his blackboard quickly fills with expressions and equations, detailing material from the classes he teaches and his research interests. His bookshelf displays several groundbreaking publications by famous mathematicians, all members of the great tradition of unearthing new mathematical insights. Soundararajans track record indicates his own role in continuing this tradition. He recently received the 2011 Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his work in proving a significant result called the Quantum Unique Ergodicity Conjecture. Soundararajans mathematical inclinations were evident even in his childhood. In middle school, his teachers identified his talent for the subject and put him in touch with a research institute in the city of Madras (now Chennai), India. He employed his mathematical talent to represent India at the 1991 International Math Olympiad, winning a silver medal. Soundararajans teachers encouraged him throughout high school to pursue mathematics, and it was in this environment that his specific mathematic focus emerged: analytic number theory. Analytic number theory is the study of integers using the techniques of calculus and analysis a field of mathematics pursued by many of Soundararajans mentors. One of Soundararajans most influential instructors, Ramachandran Balasubramanian proved in 1992 that every sufficiently large integer can be written as the sum of 19 fourth powers. Soundararajans mentorship by leading mathematicians, combined with his own affinity for analysis, steered him toward analytic number theory. According to Soundararajan, the guiding problem in modern number theory is the notoriously unresolved Riemann hypothesis, and much of his mathematical effort is devoted toward developing the tools needed to prove or disprove the hypothesis. Filling much of Soundararajans blackboard, for instance, are L-functions, which are closely related to the key players in the Riemann hypothesis. For distilling the characteristics of these functions, and providing insight into how prime numbers are distributed, Soundararajan received the 2003 Salem Prize and the 2005 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. For the most part, Soundararajan describes his mathematical approach as relatively streamlined. My own strengths lie in attacking the problem itself and developing tools unique to solving the particular problem, he said. Nevertheless, he characterized eureka moments as the almost serendipitous instances when two disparate conjectures connect to form a proof. This idea of looking beyond the immediate scope of a problem to make incisive connections played a key role in Soundararajans most recent award-winning advancement. To the seasoned academic, the Quantum Unique Ergodicity Conjecture might sound like more of a physics problem. In fact, quantum ergodicity is a branch of physics that aims to apply quantum mechanical laws to the macroscopic scale of classical mechanics, another famous but unresolved problem. This conjecture in particular examines how the shape of their enclosures influences waves. In place of waves, Soundararajan offered the example of pool balls enclosed on a frictionless pool table. If a pool

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Kannan Soundararajan won the 2011 Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his groundbreaking work.
ball is hit in certain directions, it will bounce in one consistent, limited path around the pool table. Hitting it in other directions, however, will cause the ball to bounce in a more disorderly manner, covering paths that span more of the pool table. While Soundararajan is not a physicist, he was exposed to this problem as a graduate student at Princeton University. The experience eventually caused him to realize that a major portion of this idea could be equated to properties of shapes derived from L-functions, a subject squarely in his area of mathematical expertise. With Roman Holowinsky of the University of Toronto, he was able to prove that for a large class of enclosure shapes, the pool ball never gets stuck in one track, and its path evenly spans the area of the pool table. In an email to The Daily, Soundararajan noted the surprising nature of this melding of physics and abstract mathematics. The connection with quantum chaos is a feature that has made this problem attractive to many people, he said. Its a little unusual to find such a connection which has genuine interest for people working in very different areas. The groundbreaking nature of such results runs parallel to his continued enjoyment of the mathematical process. Soundararajans crucial and counterintuitive realization that the Quantum Unique Ergodicity Conjecture could be reformulated to a problem involving L-functions exemplifies his favorite aspect of mathematics. In working on math problems, often one starts out in the dark, Soundararajan said. For me, the most fun is when there is a key piece to be found, and once one finds the rest, the proof falls easily into place. Contact Justine Zhang at justinez @stanford.edu.

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PROFILE
By ETHAN KESSINGER

t started with just a couple of guys in the 90s, and has grown into what it is today. This statement could describe many legacies of the 90s, from bands such as The Wallflowers to dot-com start-ups and the first MP3 players. It also happens to be how Emily Song 13 describes the beginning of the Stanford Cardinal Broadcasting Network (SCBN). SCBN, Stanfords only television station, has made big strides since those couple of guys back in the day. On the surface, SCBN seems like many other college television stations. Viewership is not high, and the station focuses more on the experience of making television programs than the commercial success of the finished product, but the similarities end there. SCBN is an entirely studentrun organization. While this creates challenges in student commitment and campus-wide advertisement, it allows motivated students the opportunity to experience all aspects of running a television station. Song, the current station manager, knows firsthand how difficult it is to get students committed to the group, whether they are group members or recruits.

There was one moment when I was tabling at White Plaza for four hours yelling at people about SCBN by myself, she said. But I got a lot of people to sign up and got amazing interns from that day. Fortunately for Song, this year SCBN has gained significantly more student involvement. There are eight student executives who cater to administrative needs, in addition to determining and editing show content. This work would be in vain without the hundreds of other students affiliated with the station, which include show producers, actors, hosts and cameramen. The station broadcasts panels from the Career and Development Center, student-led talk shows and, in the past, comedy sitcoms. There are never really any strict requirements or quotas, said Victoria Shantrell Asbury 11. If you have some interesting content and want to put it on, you could. Asbury has hosted The Dialogue for the past two years. The program is a talk show that tries to initiate conversations throughout campus on subjects ranging from dating to homophobia. Asbury made it clear that to her, it matters more what her guests have to say than who they are. The Dialogue is about having regular, everyday people get together and have a conversation, she said. It was never about

having just the popular or famous people on. SCBN works with students who want experience in the entertainment industry through the media of television and opens its doors to nearly everyone on campus. All Stanford students are welcome to submit material to be placed on SCBN, even if just an idea. Those more interested in behind-the-scenes work can also find their niches. For instance, students can intern with the executive team, work as cameramen, stagehands, editors or producers. SCBN also gives back to the Stanford community by offering equipment for rental to students. As long as they credit the station, anyone with a vision or an impending class project has access to professional quality equipment. Beyond students, SCBN teams up with on-campus groups to promote their activities. This past fall the station featured a video by the Stanford juggling troupe, Down with Gravity, titled, Juggling Revolution. These features allow students to get a closer look at the variety of activities that they may never have an opportunity to experience firsthand, in addition to fulfilling one of SCBNs greatest responsibilities: broadcasting the unique voices and talents of the Stanford community. Contact Ethan Kessinger at ekessing@stanford.edu.

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ewt Gingrich has gotten a lot of flak recently for aggressively promoting his vision of a permanent U.S. base on the moon, populated by a sufficient number of citizens to make it Americas 51st state. Politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle seemed to find the idea more loony than lunar. Republicans lamented the high costs such a big government program would inevitably entail, arguing that Leviathan had grown large enough on Earth without spreading its nefarious tentacles into outer space. Mitt Romney, ever the costcutting businessman, snorted that, If I had a business executive come to me and say, I wanted to spend a few hundred billion dollars to put a colony on the moon, Id say, Youre fired. A satellite radio ad by the Santorum campaign called Gingrichs moon base idea fiscal insanity and another reason true conservatives are uniting behind Rick Santorum. In a separate op-ed, Mr. Santorum again appealed to the Tea Party shibboleth of fiscal austerity, declaring its hard to take the Speaker seriously as a fiscal conservative when he puts these extravagant expensive ideas over the economic well-being of the next generation. Liberals, wary about the diversion of valuable federal funds away from the fraying threads of the social safety net, also took pains to ensure that Mr. Gingrichs scheme never leaves the launch pad. In the New York Times, Charles Blow lambasted the former Speakers plan to launch billions of dollars into space at the expense of muchneeded social programs here at home, calling Gingrich a virtual supernova of megalomaniacal madness. Mr. Blow spoke for many space-skeptical liberals when he opined that the last thing that people who cant hold on to their jobs and houses here on Earth want to hear about is a colony on the Moon . . . Earth to Newt: phone home. But Im with Mr. Gingrich on this one. A collective, national venture of grandiose ambition, in which we accomplish something great together, may be exactly what this country needs right now. Everywhere one looks, especially this campaign season, one sees an America riven by partisan bickering, squabbling viciously over entitlement cuts and tax reform and furiously dividing and subdividing itself into percentage points and classes. We fight over, in the parlance of political science, who gets what, when and how. But lost in all this is any sense of collective purpose a sense that the country can accomplish great things through the sustained application of determined national will. In some regard, this is simply a loss of faith conditioned by time and wearying experience. For the last half-century, nearly all of Americas great national projects have concerned either guns and ammo wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan or exhausting, enervating battles of another sort in programs like Lyndon Johnsons failed War on Poverty. But it doesnt have to be that way. National pride can be harnessed for good, as it was with the interstate highway system, the

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I look forward to the day America regains its civil courage.

Peace Corps and the planting of an American flag on the moon. As early as June 1978, when he delivered his now-famous commencement speech at Harvard, Soviet dissident and writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn diagnosed the fundamental problems of the West as hyper-individualism, a paralyzing narrowness of vision and the decline and fall of civil courage the willingness of individuals to sacrifice for the greater good. By persistent recourse to an uninspired legalism, he declared, Americans had precluded the opportunity to urge self-restraint, sacrifice and selfless risk: it would sound simply absurd. He concluded with a passage that sounds as if it could have easily come directly from a description of the Gingrich space campaign: A statesman who wants to achieve something important and highly constructive for his country has to move cautiously and even timidly; there are thousands of hasty and irresponsible critics around him, parliament and the press keep rebuffing him . . . Actually an outstanding and particularly gifted person who has unusual and unexpected initiatives in mind hardly gets a chance to assert himself; from the very beginning, dozens of traps will be set out for him. Thus mediocrity triumphs with the excuse of restrictions imposed by democracy. As mercurial, unstable, lecherous and wholly unfit for the presidency as Mr. Gingrich may be, I admire him for his unparalleled courage to dream and dare, to think big and to transcend the confines of mediocrity . . . with the excuse of restrictions imposed by democracy. America could use a symbolic victory to unite us behind something constructive to be confident, as we once were, that this country can get something done besides drop bombs and squabble. I look forward to the day when America regains its civil courage the audacity to reach literally for the stars and to individually sacrifice for the achievement of something we do together. Dream big anytime by emailing Miles at milesu1@stanford.edu.

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Skepticism and simple stories

Nina Chung
books and binders in high school. And, until recently, I hate romantic comedies. (But, seriously When Harry Met Sally?! How could I think I wouldnt like When Harry Met Sally?!) At least in part, this self-branding campaign was an effort to prove I was more complex than any easy movie montage or oft-stated song line. I thought I was sufficiently old and jaded enough to conquer simplicity, pish-tosh. Skepticism was sophisticated, sophisticated was cool and, in this world, being cool is really important even if the words exact definition is in constant flux. But, oh, the irony of thinking I could hate a clich like love, when I soon learned how much of a gift it actually is. My default setting to general skepticism caused and causes problems. Its a tiresome position that has forced me to play devils advocate and say things simply because another person didnt. Its useless controversy in casual conversation, poison for so many of my family relationships. Skepticism is what keeps me from a particular relationship, a future I might reject, my trust in someone. And the fact is, for all of the ways we say were not hopeless romantics, we are. Every time we ask a new acquaintance if they by chance know another friend of ours, or take a chance on someone we keep thinking about that is us permitting, finally, belief in something pure and simple, without letting reason or logic interfere. In a skeptical world, slow afternoons are clich, the elderly couple is picturesque, the soundtrack is completely coincidental in this column. In a skeptical world, my day was all of those things. But, if my day was going to stay my day, I would have to choose otherwise. So I would choose to believe in something simpler. This is the first column of the new volume. Ninas hopeful for it, but wants to hear you first. Shes waiting literally! for a thought or two, which you can send straight to ninamc@stanford.edu.

ou know that one elderly couple sitting together on the bench by the waterfront in that one chick flick that you swear youre never going to see? I would rather have gone to the quad, I think, he said. Yes, well have to do that next time, she responded. Oh, I got those cherry muffins we wanted, but theyre a bit dry . . . I was sitting on the light brown bench at Lake Lag with that couple yesterday. My friend beside me was reading a book with a protagonist named Hiro Protagonist. Two separate students I knew strolled by, each holding the hand of a significant other I had no idea they had. The elderly couple continued on about someones kids, after leaving once and returning to the bench. The woman turned to me then, with a very happy face: Excuse me do you know when the Superbowl is playing today? And the playlist of that one fraternity house went from Hakuna Matata to Dont Stop Believin.

All I could think was how while I sometimes convince myself that life is excruciatingly dramatic, I forget how it can be so timelessly simple. I got thirsty, so we ventured into the ceramics building behind us for a water fountain. We ran into a mutual friend who was spending the afternoon sketching with two other girls at a table on the porch. Does it help? Drawing something so simple? one of them asked, as her friend shaded in a three-dimensional shape. Yeah, I dont have to draw complicated arms for once. I thought it was funny that I was hearing this dialogue in the midst of thinking about why this day seemed so effortless, so I interrupted no better word for it their conversation to ask for permission to reprint their words, as Ive done just now. Then my friend and I headed back to our original bench, passing that elderly couple as they left the lake. The woman smiled broadly at me. The interesting thing about writing is its ability to condense life into digestible stories. And we often resent it. Did this pleasant story seem real to you? Or did it seem removed and thus unreal? Because in some stories, couples do stay married until theyre old. Characters run into each other in unexpected, out-of-context situations. Strangers meet strangers that voice the thoughts they were literally just thinking. In the movies, these things happen, and oh, do we scoff. Life is complicated. Dont be nave. But my mom is right, as she usually is, though I dont know how much so until later: Those things do happen in real life!!! (My mom has recently taken to great repetition of this statement.) The fact, though, that the statement exists at all, often with incredulity and an exclamation point, says something: namely, we dont believe it. Indeed, history courses have taught me that a good dose of skepticism is healthy. But more and more Im realizing how easily I can overdose. Love is clich and I hate clichs were the catch phrases I used to stamp all over my note-

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program] distributes the students if these are the institutions theyre interested in. If it takes them out of the pool, and theyre not collecting trophies of admissions, then thats a good thing. The reinstitution of early programs might mean that there is more space for other applicants after several trophy-collectors are taken out of the pool by an acceptance from their top choice school, Shaw said. With application numbers increasing and additional students vying for a place in the Stanford student body, Shaw encouraged high school seniors to take their applications seriously by making sure that they can be competitive among the rest of the applicant pool. Students should really be clear about and know that they are competitive for a place in the class, Shaw said. They should pay attention in all these institutions in terms of . . . the competitive characteristics of those places, the grade point averages, and pay attention to what they read in their applications, the application instructions and so forth. Despite his warning, Shaw does not discourage interested applicants from applying to Stanford. Were really excited about the fact that theres a lot of interest, he said. Its very extraordinary. Weve been discovered. Contact Jordan Shapiro at jordansh@stanford.edu.

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even after reinstating its early action program. Of the 34,285 applications submitted by the regular decision deadline, only the 772 students who were accepted early action have been guaranteed their spot in the Class of 2016, potentially drawing them out of the applicant pool for other elite universities. Princeton released statistics confirming the same trend as Harvard. Last year, Princeton received 27,189 applications for the Class of 2015, as compared to 26,663 applications this year for the Class of 2016. While this applicant pool is still the second largest in the schools history, the increase may be reflective of Princetons 2005 initiative to swell its student body from 4,700 to 5,200. On Dec. 15, 2011, Princeton accepted the first 726 students into its Class of 2016. When we were by ourselves in the restrictive program, and Princeton and Harvard were out, their candidates might have applied to us, and then they would apply to them later and have to wait until the spring. But wed lose some of those kids. Wed also gained some [from early programs] and [Princeton and Harvard] knew that, Shaw said, reflecting on the effect Ivy League admissions might have on Stanfords yield. But I think [the early

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Group were among the private sector attendees.
Alice Phillips

Two assaults reported Sunday morning

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Two campus-wide emails alerted Stanford students and faculty to two violent crimes that occurred within 15 minutes of each other early Sunday morning. A female victim reported being assaulted at 1:45 a.m. Sunday morning near Kennedy Grove, between the Faculty Club and the Humanities Center.The victim was walking back to her residence at the time. The suspect approached the victim from behind and tackled the victim to the ground, according to the Stanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS). A male in the vicinity saw the incident and yelled at the suspect. The suspect subsequently fled the scene. The victim described the suspect who is still at large according to an email sent via the AlertSU mass notification system as a white male in his 20s, approximately 6 feet tall and 180 pounds. He was wearing a dark shirt and We have always enforced cycling laws on campus, said Deputy Allen James, the programs coordinator and developer.We hope that by enforcing the laws and educating the community, we can change the whole bicycling environment. The hour-long class, which is offered twice a month, is a collaboration between the SUDPS and Parking & Transportation and was created in 2011. The program is free and open to all students, but repeat offenders are barred from attending the class again within 18 months. John Burke 14 was at the most recent class in the Parking and Transportation building, along with

baseball cap and smelled strongly of alcohol. At 2 a.m. Sunday morning, a man entered an unlocked room at 1018 Campus Drive and climbed into a female students bed while the victim was asleep. He attempted to remove her clothing, but the victim woke up and was able to get out of bed and exit the room. The victim described the man, whom she did not know, as a male of Hispanic ethnicity, in his 20s, approximately 5-foot-11 and of average build, according to SUDPS. She said that he was wearing a buttoned-up red flannel shirt, blue jeans and a grey baseball cap at the time. She reported the suspect smelled of cigarette smoke.
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Researchers investigate how humor activates kids brains

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that parts of the brain network that react to humor in an adult are already present in children ages six to 12. These neural circuits, while present in children, develop into more sophisticated networks as children mature, according to a statement on the School of Medicines website. The research team studied the about 50 other students. They talked a bunch about various rules involving lane changes and what to do at intersections, said Burke, who received a ticket for not having a bike light. The instructor told a couple stories of bad accidents hed seen, and told us its not that uncommon to have bike accidents and get hurt in them. Burke noted that the class didnt teach him anything new, however it did serve to remind him that biking is not as safe as students sometimes think it is. The bike diversion program offers an opportunity, James said, to change a punitive endeavor into an

functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans of six- to 12-year-old children who watched short video clips. The children in the study were of average intelligence or higher and did not have any psychiatric or developmental problems. The researchers used videos in three categories to evaluate the brain activity: funny, positive and neutral. According to the School of Medicines statement, the funny videos were intended to be rewarding and positive to watch while the positive videos were only intended to be rewarding. The neutral videos were intended to be neither funny nor rewarding. The researchers found that the funny videos activated two regions in the childrens brains that are also activated in adults brains when they view funny material. However, an area of the brain known as the temporal-occipital-parietal junction, which processes perceived incongruities, was activated in both the left and right hemispheres of the childrens brains. This area is only activated on the left side of the brain in adult subjects reacting to similar material. Humor also activated the brains mesolimbic regions, which process rewards. The research team included Allan Reiss, director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research at Stanford, and Michelle Neely 11, currently a Cornell medical student. The study was published in the Feb. 1 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
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efforts have been predominantly situated in response to observations and complaints from the community. While cycling violations, the most common of which are stopsign infringements, can be penalized by fines ranging from $100 to $200, students are often offered a choice between paying a monetary fine and attending a bike diversion program intended to educate students about bike safety.

educational situation. James noted that a significant majority of students cited on campus choose to attend the class rather than pay a fine. He added that, while there is no data to suggest conclusively that ticketing levels have fallen, feedback for the program has been almost entirely positive. The programs been very successful for the University, James said. Its good for our community, and were very proud of it.

Brendan OByrne contributed to this report.

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aybe its because Im finally starting to get the hang of American sports,or that Im mellowing in my old age, but it seems like a while since I received any good hate mail in response to my columns. I used to get about one complaint every week, mostly attacking me for being a foreigner and informing me that I have no place daring to have an opinion about U.S. sports. Admittedly, that opinion was often that football games take far too long (like the Super Bowl) and that the catchers mitt in baseball is a comically-giant hand, but now five of my last six columns have been firmly centered on things this side of the Atlantic . . . and nothing. In fact, the most insulting thing anyone said to me last week was when a friend asked very much mistakenly I hasten to add why I wasnt a big soccer fan because I apparently only talk about football and basketball anymore. So lets talk about soccer even though I might be upsetting people. It came out recently that the English Football Association may be considering none other than Jos Mrio dos Santos Flix Mourinho as the replacement for England manager Fabio Capello after the European Football Championship this summer. In case you know nothing about Mourinho, he is a controversial figure.Though clearly a talented manager, he has done little to win the hearts and minds of opposing fans or the authorities, and is a walking definition of the words arrogant and outspoken. If I need any pointers in upsetting people, I should turn to the selfdeclared special one, a man who once boasted he had no equals,saying the worlds hierarchy was God, and after God, me. As an England soccer fan, it has been frustrating how the English Football Association has picked foreigners over English managers in recent years, and worse because the experiment so far doesnt appear to be working. We certainly dont look like a team worthy of winning another World Cup anytime soon. It is also hard to believe that a non-English boss, even with all the credentials in the world, will really care enough

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Junior Joslyn Tinkle had a career-high 22 points at Arizona Saturday and was one of two Cardinal players with double-doubles in the 91-51 rout of the Wildcats. Stanford improved to 20-1 and a perfect 11-0 in the Pac-12 and will host the L.A. schools at Maples Pavilion this week.

ROUTING THE CATS

TINKLES DOUBLE-DOUBLE KEEPS CARD ROLLING
By DEAN McARDLE
STAFF WRITER

After struggling to a win against a tough Arizona State team on Thursday, the Stanford womens basketball team completed its sweep of the Arizona schools with a 91-51 blowout over Arizona on Saturday. The superstar of Saturdays game surprisingly was not one of the Ogwumike sisters, but instead junior Joslyn Tinkle, who led the Cardinal with a career-high 22 points along with 11 rebounds. Tinkle was one of five players in double-digits for Stanford (20-1, 11-0 Pac-12), which picked up its 17th win in a row and 21st straight victory over Arizona (13-10, 2-9). Stanfords starting forwards made their inside presence felt, accounting for 55 points and 27 rebounds enough to outscore Arizona on their own. Sophomore Chiney Ogwumike poured in 18 points, and her sister, senior Nnemkadi Ogwumike, added 15 for the Cardinal. The 40-point margin stands in stark contrast to Stanfords pair of previous down-to-

the-wire contests. Cal pushed the Cardinal to overtime on Jan. 28, and Arizona State had Stanford knotted at 40 apiece in the second half on Thursday before Stanford pulled away. Weve kind of been playing people closer than we wanted to, Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer said of the squads previous games. On Saturday, though, Stanford was clicking on all cylinders offensively, shooting just over 50 percent from the field. The Cardinal also started to find its stroke from behind the arc, hitting eight three-pointers. The team had struggled recently from three-point land, shooting just 24 percent from deep in its last three contests. When Stanford was off the mark it cleaned up its misses, accumulating 22 second-chance points, mostly due to the fact that the Cardinal out-rebounded the Wildcats by a margin of 48-33. Arizona can look to its youth as a sign of better things to come. Freshman center Aley Rohde scored nine points and grabbed 11 rebounds, while sophomore guard Candice

Warthen came off the bench for 13 points to pace the Wildcats. Stanford came out swinging and leaped to a 10-0 lead in the opening three minutes. Arizona responded with seven straight points before the Cardinal went on an 18-2 run to make the score 31-9 with 9:46 left in the first half. From there, the outcome was never in doubt. Stanford capitalized on Wildcat mistakes with 12 points off turnovers in the first half, and the Cardinals lead was 20 points at the break. The second half would prove to be more of the same. Sophomore Toni Kokenis splashed in a three on an assist from freshman Amber Orrange on Stanfords first possession of the half and finished the game with 11 points, going 4-8 on field goals. Meanwhile, Orrange was perfect from the floor, gathering 10 points on 5-5 shooting. Rohde sunk a free throw at the 15:45 mark to cut the Stanford lead to 27. The Cardinal responded by racking up 16 unanswered points

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MENS VOLLEYBALL

Card upsets No. 1 BYU two times

By DANIEL E. LUPIN
STAFF WRITER

SHOOTING BLANKS
By ANDERS MIKKELSEN
STAFF WRITER

Its not often you get a chance to knock off number one. Its even more rare to get a chance to knock off number one twice in the same weekend. But that was no problem for the Stanford mens volleyball team. The No. 7 Cardinal (7-2, 4-1 MPSF) rode a wave of brilliant performances from several different players over the weekend to knock off top-ranked BYU (6-3, 4-2) in consecutive nights, 25-21, 20-25, 25-20, 25-18 and 35-33, 25-23, 2522, resulting in Stanfords first-ever road sweep of BYU. We played well, and it was fun in front of 4,500 people, head coach John Kosty replied when asked to sum up the weekend. On Friday, a pair of career-best nights from sophomores Steven Irvin and Brian Cook propelled the Cardinal to victory. The emergence of Stanfords supremely talented sophomores has been a theme this season, and against the Cougars, it was no different. Irvin finished with a double-double of 14 kills and 12 digs, hitting at an impressive .476 clip, while Cook went for a careerhigh 20 kills at a .390 hitting percentage, adding seven digs and two solo blocks. The sophomores have to play well, Kosty said. I thought Steven Irvin had an incredible Friday match. He played some of the best volleyball he has played as a Stanford Cardinal. Senior setter Evan Barry also set the Cardinal up for success in his return from injury, as he finished with 54 assists to go along with seven digs and three kills. Stanford hit .358 as a team, a reflection of Barrys outstanding per-

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Senior forward Josh Owens was one of the lone bright spots for the Cardinal on both sides of the court against Arizona on Saturday, coming up with 10 points, five offensive rebounds and three blocks on the afternoon.

The Stanford mens basketball team entered its Saturday matchup with the Arizona Wildcats knowing it needed a win to stay on the bubble for next months NCAA tournament. The Cardinal put up a great fight in front of an energetic home crowd, but ultimately the Wildcats proved to be too much, pulling away at the end for a 56-43 victory. Stanford (16-7, 6-5 Pac-12) had its worst shooting performance of the season, shooting just 25.4 percent from the field and scoring its fewest points in a home game in over 25 years. Despite the offensive woes, the Cardinal kept the game close through tremendous defense. The Wildcats (168, 7-4) were held to just 38.3 percent shooting and only put up 56 points, their second-lowest total of the season. At the start of the game, an Arizona blowout seemed likely, as the Wildcats stormed to an early lead. However, down 20-12 with six minutes left in the half, Stanford redshirt senior forward Josh Owens took over. The captain recorded a massive block, then got an offensive rebound on the other end and converted the jumper. On the very next possession, Owens blocked another shot, which led to a three by freshman guard Chasson Randle. With the Wildcats lead down to just three, the momentum had clearly shifted Stanfords way. The Cardinal eventually tied the game at 23 and found itself down only 24-23 at the half. Stanfords attack continued after the break, as sophomore guard Aaron Brights incredible dart into the lane for a layup gave the Cardinal its first lead of the game since the early first half. The two teams traded buckets until the nine-minute mark, when an Owens offensive board and putback gave Stanford a 37-35 lead although it would prove to be the Cardinals final lead of the game. At this point, Stanford began to struggle from the field. The Cardinal did not hit another field goal until Brights layup at the 2:36 mark, a drought that lasted long enough for the Wildcats to grab the lead for good. With just two minutes left, the Cardinal was down eight, and Randle attempted to lead a dramatic comeback. The freshman had proven himself to be utterly fearless throughout the game, constantly slashing into the paint and using his superior speed and acrobatic moves to get to the rim. Randle cut to the hoop again, just missing what would

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DUCKS DOMINATED
EASY WIN OPENS PAC-12 PLAY
By JACK BLANCHAT
MANAGING EDITOR

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Senior Veronica Li had a near-perfect trip to Oregon, winning her singles match 6-0, 6-0 after earning the Cardinals first doubles win alongside sophomore Kristie Ahn.

It may have been just its second match of the year, but the Stanford womens tennis team was in midseason form against the Oregon Ducks on Saturday. The No. 2 Cardinal (2-0, 1-0 Pac12) had little trouble dusting off the Ducks (3-2, 0-1) in Eugene, cruising to a 6-1 victory in its first Pac-12 conference matchup of the season. The Stanford victory was punctuated by especially strong performances from sophomore Nicole Gibbs, junior Stacey Tan and senior Veronica Li. The Cardinal won all three doubles matches to take the early lead, and Gibbs, who paired with junior Mallory Burdette for the doubles

matchup, authored a particularly dominant 8-1 victory over the Duck duo of Sofia Hager and Patricia Skowronski. Stanfords dominant play carried over into the singles matchups, as the Cardinal had little trouble in any of its first five matches. Tan was the first off the courts with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Hager, followed closely by compatriot Li, who also recorded a 6-0, 6-0 win over Haley Driver. Gibbs was next off the courts with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Julia Metzger in the number one spot, putting a bow on the Cardinal victory as early as possible. With the win already in tow, freshman Ellen Tsay cleaned up a victory by taking down Trudie DuToit, 6-4, 61, followed by Burdette, who managed her second victory of the day against Skowronski, 6-3, 6-3. The only blemish on the Cardinals score came from junior Natalie Dillon, who split the first two sets, 6-3, 3-6, before

falling 10-8 in a third set tiebreaker. After hitting the road to Eugene for its first conference matchup, the Cardinal now returns home for five consecutive matches at the Taube Family Tennis Center. The biggest matchup of the five is undoubtedly a showdown with No. 1 Florida on Sunday, Feb. 12. Not only is the match a huge showdown between the top two teams in the country, but the Cardinal will also be seeking revenge against the same Gator team that took home the national championship last season by beating the Cardinal on its home court with a 4-3 comeback victory. But before Stanford gets its show at revenge on Sunday, the Cardinal must go through Pepperdine, which comes to the Farm on Saturday. The Waves and Cardinal face off on Saturday at noon. Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@ stanford.edu.

RUDE AWAKENING AT TAUBE

TROJANS, BRUINS THRASH CARDINAL
By DASH DAVIDSON
STAFF WRITER

The Stanford mens tennis team suffered its first losses of the young dual-match season this past weekend as Stanford was clobbered by visiting No. 1 USC and No. 9 UCLA. The two losses 7-0 against USC on Friday and 6-1 against UCLA on Saturday were Stanfords most lopsided defeats over the past two years. Luckily for the No. 6 Cardinal (4-2, 0-0 Pac-12), however, these matches will not count towards Pac-12 standings; the conference matches will take place in mid-April at the Southern California homes of the two rival schools. The match against USC started out badly and then went from bad to worse. The Trojans, three-time defending national champions, locked up the initial doubles point with ease, winning eight games to two on courts one and three. The No. 1-ranked Trojans then summarily dismantled their Cardinal opponent, winning the four singles matches in straight sets and

clinching the contest before the Cardinal could even take a single set off them. The single bright spot for Stanford was the final and most exciting match of the day: a firepower-filled showdown between USCs Steve Johnson and Stanfords Ryan Thacher on the No. 1 court. Johnson, the No. 1 ranked player in the country, is the defending NCAA singles champion and a main rival of Stanford senior (and fellow NCAA singles champion) Bradley Klahn, the man Thacher was filling in for on the No. 1 court. Thacher, a bona fide top player in his own right, battled tooth and nail in a fierce and serve-dominated match against Johnson before ultimately falling in a third-set tiebreaker. Saturday afternoons match against UCLA proved just as disappointing as Fridays. Stanford actually got off to a fine start in this one, winning the doubles point behind strong play from Thacher and freshman John Morrissey. But, just like the day before, the singles play was just not quite good enough as the Cardinal was defeated in all six matches. The match was closer than the lopsided score would suggest, as four of the six singles matches went the dis-

tance to three sets, but the Cardinal consistently could not come up big on the most crucial points. The season is still very young and Stanford is playing without its best player in Klahn but there is surely little doubt that these two losses hurt for head coach John Whitlingers squad. The Trojans and Bruins will be two of the teams that Stanford will have to get through in Aprils Pac-12 Championships and then in Mays NCAA Championships if the Cardinal is to realize its annual goals of winning the conference and national titles. Though the losses hurt, the Cardinal players refuse to let it get them down. Were not going to dwell on the losses but try and move forward from them, said sophomore Jamin Ball. If anything, we were exposed to some of the best competition in the country and realized where we need to get to in order to compete at the highest level. The Cardinal will have ample opportunity to prove its resilience and resolve immediately as the team has a match on Tuesday against unranked Hawaii and another on Saturday against No. 36 BYU. Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@stanford.edu.

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Even in defeat, junior Matt Klandath put up one of Stanfords best efforts on the weekend against UCLA, battling Clay Thompson to a three-set loss on Saturday.

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have been an unbelievable layup, getting his own rebound and converting the bucket to cut the lead to six. Despite his height disadvantage, Randle finished with six rebounds to go along with 10 points. The Cardinal controlled the offensive boards the entire game, with 15 offensive rebounds to the Wildcats six. Owens had five offensive rebounds, while sophomore forward Josh Huestis added three. As was the story for much of the game, the Cardinal was simply unable to convert the putbacks and take advantage of its numerous opportunities. In fact, Stanford took 16 more shots than the Wildcats, yet made two fewer baskets. With time winding down, the Cardinal frantically pushed the ball down the court, but committed two straight turnovers as it tried to create a miracle. Randle fouled out with 48 seconds left in the game, but at that point Stanford was down nine points and out of the contest. Arizona capped the game with two thunderous dunks from fresh-

man guard Nick Johnson, who had been harassed the entire game with chants of air ball after an embarrassing first half miss. With the loss, Stanford fell to a tie for sixth in the Pac-12, three games behind leader Washington with just seven regular season games left. The Cardinal will head back on the road this week to face underachieving preseason favorite UCLA and Pac-12 bottomdweller USC, needing wins badly as the Cardinal struggles to stay relevant in the conference and keep in the hunt for a berth in the Big Dance this March. Contact Anders Mikkelsen at amikk @stanford.edu.

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to make the score 79-36 and put the game out of reach. The Cardinal stepped up its defense in the second half as well. A swarm of Stanford jerseys greeted Arizona on every possession, holding the Wildcats to 21 percent shooting and just 20 points in the second half. The Ogwumike sisters walled off the paint and combined to block six Arizona shots on the day. Fresh legs contributed to the stifling defense as well. The bench saw significant time for Stanford with 10 players getting more than 10 minutes in the game. I like the fact we were able to get everybody in and everyone contributed, VanDerveer said. Freshman forwards Erica

Payne and Taylor Greenfield both tallied six points for Stanford off the bench, and senior guard Lindy La Rocque dished out four assists. Despite the margin of victory, Arizona coach Niya Butts saw progress from her squad. I didnt like the outcome, but the team did a lot of things this weekend that we really improved on, Butts said. Tinkle described the win as a statement game for the Cardinal. We really knew coming into this game what we had to do to prove to everyone to prove to ourselves that we are more capable, and we can reach to a higher level, she said The Cardinal returns home this week to face the L.A. schools at Maples Pavilion, tangling with USC on Thursday night and UCLA Sunday. Contact Dean McArdle at dmcardle @stanford.edu. shunned; when we complain, we get ostracized. I dont think England is going to be winning any trophies for a long time due to a critical lack of investment and development of young talent, so the chance of getting our own back on FIFA and UEFA on the field is practically non-existent. As good as Mourinho or any of his English counterparts may be, Im not expecting any miracles. Ive been down that route again and again, and had my heart crushed every time. But, on the bright side, if we are going to go down in flames, at least with Mourinho well go down fighting. He would take no prisoners, and I think many England fans would enjoy seeing him tear into the opposition, the authorities and even the press.He would whine and moan and complain, but always for us. His enthusiasm would spill over he once stepped across the sideline to pass a ball back to his team and he would occasionally get banned. He might even flaunt that ban by hiding in a laundry cart so he could still give talk to his team at the halftime (allegedly). If we cant beat them on the field and we wont join them in their shady and corrupt deals, lets be the thorn in their side and just do whatever we can to annoy the hell out of world soccer. Like all the greatest English kings, Tom Taylor welcomes your hatred for his work. Threaten to do off with his head at tom.taylor@stanford. edu.

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when push comes to shove. But maybe, just maybe, Mourinho could be the elusive case that proves history wrong. While in charge of Chelsea he made enough enemies in the world of English soccer to last a lifetime including my hometown, Reading, after alleging that the local medical services did not do all they could to care for goalkeeper Petr Cech after a serious head injury. Its no secret that everyone hates the English, particularly on the pitch. Soccer rivalries, history and attempts to draw attention to the serious corruption at the heart of the soccer world have created enemies everywhere. From countries like Scotland and Argentina to key figures like FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini, everyone delights in our downfall. So deep does the dislike go that some have even attempted to cast doubt on the indisputable fact that soccer was born in England. Already, then, Mourinho has something in common with us: he knows what its like to be the bad guy. He wouldnt be a diplomatic figure on the world stage, and hes not going to make us any friends, but Im not sure if I care about that anymore.Apparently, nothing England does is appreciated. When we play by the (flawed and corrupt) system we get

Sophomore Steve Irvins Friday night double-double got the Cardinals weekend off to a good start, as Stanford went on to upend No. 1 BYU twice on the road, and moved to second place in the MPSF standings.

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formance. To be honest, I didnt know about the career high, Cook said. The matches flowed very easily for us because Evan Barry ran such a balanced offense. Our hitters all had confidence because we knew the opposing blockers couldnt focus in on any one of us. Not to be forgotten in the excitement of the career-best nights were the always-consistent seniors Brad Lawson and Erik Shoji. Lawson finished with a solid 15 kills, five digs and an ace while Shoji had 10 digs. Saturday proved to be just as exciting for this improving Stanford squad, which outlasted the Cougars in a marathon first set before holding them off in the final two. The Cardinal once more featured a balanced attack that resulted in four players finishing with double-digit kills: Lawson (14), Irvin (12), sophomore Eric Mochalski (11) and

Cook (10). Stanford was once more extremely efficient on the attack, hitting .337 as a team behind 47 assists from Barry. Despite missing sophomore outside hitter Taylor Sander the Cougars leading hitter this season with nearly five kills per set BYU did not go down without a fight. The first set featured an unusually high point total (68) and saw the two teams fight off a combined 10 set points, including seven by BYU. Stanford was finally able to finish off the Cougars thanks to a combined block by Lawson and senior Gus Ellis. The momentum of winning the first set carried the Cardinal through the second and third sets. Our bench had so much energy, it was amazing, Mochalski said. You could hear them over 4,000-plus fans. Unreal. Was playing the No. 1 team in the country extra motivation for Stanford? Of course, Mochalski said. Playing the No. 1 team is one thing. Playing them on their home court in front of that many people is another. It is so easy to get motivated for a match like

that. Kosty was slightly more analytical in his assessment. We play in such a tough league, and we understand that No. 1 could be there for anywhere between a week and the whole season, he said. BYU is a very good team, and we knew we had to play at a really high level to beat them, especially when they are at home. While the results of these two matches are obviously big for the Cardinal, Kosty is hoping that the turnaround actually came last weekend in the squads loss to Penn State. The Penn State loss may have kicked us into gear, allowing us to win twice at BYU, especially because not many people are going to be able to do that this year, Kosty said. These two wins are going to be huge for us down the stretch. The Cardinal continues its grueling 10-game road stretch this weekend in Southern California against Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge. Contact Daniel E. Lupin at delupin @stanford.edu.