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Exec candidates face off

All slates defend compensation for student leaders
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By SARAH MOORE This years ASSU Executive candidates sparred Monday night during a debate at the CoHo co-sponsored by The Daily and The Stanford Review. Slates ZimbroffWagstaff, Open Source Candidates and Macgregor-Dennis & Druthi participated, while a fourth and fifth slate, Family Matters and Mwaura-Mbatia, dropped out of the presidential race fewer than 24 hours before the event. Slates had one minute to respond to each of 12 questions. Robbie Zimbroff 12 and William Wagstaff 12 emphasized that they did not wish to reinvent the wheel of ASSU if elected. The Open Source Candidates slate, Daniel Koning 14 and Kian Ameli 13, representing the Chaparral, stressed their accessibility through their campaign

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Law School Dean to leave for Hewlett

By ANTONIO RAMIREZ

Kramer led curriculum overhaul and shift to quarterly academic calendar

Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer announced Wednesday of spring break that he will be leaving the University to serve as president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a philanthropy organization that issues grants to solve social and environmental problems. Kramer will succeed current Hewlett Foundation President Paul Brest, who took the role upon leaving the Stanford Law School Dean position in 1999. Kramer leaves behind a legacy of reforms to the law school curriculum, including developing clinics that allow law students to represent clients, moving the law school to the quarter system and overseeing expansion of the law campus. When Dean Kramer arrived, he made the buildup of the legal clinic one of his priorities, said Lawrence C. Marshall, director of the Mills Legal Clinic, which operates as a

wiki site, while Stewart Macgregor-Dennis 13, current ASSU vice president, and his running mate Druthi Ghanta 14 highlighted that they offer a slate with an ASSU insider and outsider. Macgregor-Denniss work as ASSU vice president and his nearly $10,000 salary were the topic of much debate, but none of the slates said they would take a wage-cut or refuse payment altogether if elected. Its not right to view the presidency as a leadership position in a student group, Macgregor-Dennis said. Its more like a job that should be compensated that way. Macgregor-Dennis added that he reduced his course load in order to be able to commit more time to ASSU work this year. Wagstaff commented that as a first-generation student who would not be able to continue his work as a resident assistant (RA) or maintain another job if elected, he would not refuse monetary compensation

from the ASSU. Koning said he would not turn away the money either. We think theres nothing wrong with taking the money and running, Koning said. Its actually part of our agenda. Another recurring issue at the debate was a textbook exchange program advocated by Zimbroff and Wagstaff. The textbook exchange could go a long way, and the ASSU could be a conduit for that, Zimbroff said. Its an example of what we would use money on, and we feel that would be an effective use of funds. Macgregor-Dennis countered by saying there is no need for the exchange, pointing to Book Bazaar, a student-initiated website that organizes student textbook trades without cost to the ASSU. MacgregorDennis noted that the program was started

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Class president slates cite unity as goal

By SARAH MOORE
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Next years senior and sophomore classes have some competition for class president with three and two slates running for office, respectively. One slate is running uncontested for the junior class presidency. This turnout is a significant decrease for the sophomore class, as the past two elections each had four slates campaigning for sophomore class president. For at least the past seven years, there have been no fewer than three sophomore slates. The number of slates for junior class president is down to one, a more common

occurrence for junior elections. The drop in sophomore slates does not necessarily indicate that the class of 2015 is less engaged than freshman classes of the past, wrote Alicia Hamar 15 of the slate Sophomores: Order of the Cardinal in an email to The Daily. Although there are less slates running this year, it just may mean that freshmen are as involved in other pursuits, Hamar said. Although there are only two slates running, we are confident that both slates are committed and interested in serving the class. Class presidency isnt everyones cup of tea. The other sophomore slate is The Incredibles, who agreed that their class is

very involved and accomplished on campus. We know that students in our class are extremely accomplished, but we dont always hear about it, said Costner McKenzie 15 of The Incredibles. The group said that, if elected, it hopes to create a sophomore tracker that would inform students of their classs achievements. Both slates for sophomore class president recognize that the transition out of the freshmen experience can make students more independent and even less intune with the rest of their class.

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Challenging stereotypes

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Rep. Issa discusses SOPA/PIPA

Vocal critic of failed Internet regulations outlines future legislation
By AARON SEKHRI Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) engaged in a public conversation Monday evening with Anthony Falzone, director of the Fair Use Project at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS), on the broad subject of Internet freedoms and intellectual property. The event, entitled SOPA, PIPA and Internet Freedom: Where Do We Go From Here? was held at the Law School in front of a crowd of mostly graduate students and faculty. Honing in on the heavily opposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), which failed in the U.S. Senate and House, respectively, Issa discussed the need for unambiguous laws in this domain. Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, weighed in on SOPA and PIPA, both of which he vocally opposed. Articulating his primary concerns against the laws, Issa claimed that the legislation was too loosely written and exhibited an unreasonable expansion of individual and judicial power. When asked by Falzone about the introduction of the bills in Congress, Issa said that many thought the law would pass, and the defeat was a surprise to many in Congress. The legislations conception, he said, was lacking in intelligence, transparency and precision. Issa detailed the strategy against the law as stalling for time, and making it radioactive, citing the work of a number of legislators, most significantly Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). Explaining the key factors that derailed SOPA and PIPA, Issa reflected on what he saw as the most important criti-

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Disability justice activist Mia Mingus, center, speaks on a panel of disability and queer rights activists Monday evening in Roble Theater. The event was part of Transgender Awareness Week, which kicked off Monday afternoon and will continue throughout the week.

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Searsville committee to evaluate impact

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The newly formed Searsville Alternatives Study Steering Committee is now directing planning efforts for potentially major changes to the Stanford-owned Searsville Dam and Reservoir. Because the dam controls water flow to Stanfords Jasper Biological Preserve and has a controversial environmental impact on surrounding areas, the committee formed to conduct thorough studies over the next two years to precede any action, according to Philippe Cohen, administrative director of Jasper Ridge and a member of the Searsville Alternatives Study Steering Committee.

Cohen gave a presentation Monday night at the Stanford National Accelerator Center outlining the issues the committee faces. Jasper Ridge presents a particularly challenging situation for the committee. According to Cohen, the reserve tries to maintain a hands-off policy as a biological field station, leaving the terrain untouched by humans. This policy allows for important field research projects, including the Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment, which has been collecting climate change data since 1992. The preserve also protects several native and endangered species, including the steelheaded trout and California red-legged frog. The idea of the hands-off policy is to remove the human influence factor from natu-

ral environments. However, the manmade Searsville Dam has had a major influence on the local environment since its construction in 1892 and the Jasper Ridge area is starting to feel its long-term consequences, Cohen said. In particular, a 1998 study showed that the dam trapped huge amounts of sediment in Searsville Lake. The study recorded 207,000 tons of sediment flowing into the dam and only 15,000 tons flowing out. Searsville Lake was a public recreation area until Stanford closed it to the public in 1975. Over the last decade, the once-popular lake has diminished in size and become over-

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SHARE connects low-income students with mentors

By NITHYA VIJAYAKUMAR from those who dont know what they want and would like to explore to those who do know what they want and have specific questions, said Sonoo Thadaney, a leader for SHARE at the Diversity and First Generation Office. Each alumnus mentor hosts a small group of two to four undergraduates, with the goal of giving students the opportunity to experience the workplace, ask questions and begin networking. Stanford called upon alumni who identified as first-generation, low-income or supporters to host students. According to Thadaney, many alumni said they appreciated the support they received at Stanford as first-generation or low-income students and were eager to pass the baton forward through the SHARE program. [Alumni] commented that what may seem commonplace to most Stanford students certainly was not to them as first-gen, Thadaney said. And thus they were happy to see the Universitys focus on the needs of this student community. While alumni from many companies offered to host students, the SHARE program has decided to stay small for the pilot year. Companies hosting students include Intuit; Bailard; VMware, Inc.; Tarana Wireless; Farella Braun+Martel LLP; and the KIPP Foundation. Each new student member of the program creates an ePortfolio, an online platform for each student to document academic work such as papers, projects and audio files of presentations. The Office of the Registrar has spearheaded the ePortfolio pilot program throughout campus to explore how online learning portfolios can be used in the future. Unlike Facebook, which represents a students social identity, the Stanford ePortfolio is intended to help students document various aspects of their intellectual identity as a learner, Thadaney said. The ePortfolio also serves as a means of introducing students in SHARE to alumni mentors and helping them build a professional network. According to Thadaney, the ePortfolios will provide a valuable source of feedback about SHARE, since it encourages alumni and students to reflect on their experiences. She said the qualitative data from these reflections, combined with staff opinions and ideas, will be used to improve and further develop SHARE. Student and alumni participation in SHARE have been finalized for the month of April, but there are still a few spots available, Thadaney added. Contact Nithya Vijayakumar at nithyapv@stanford.edu.

Launched at the beginning of the month, the SHadow Alums in the REal World (SHARE) pilot program aims to increase exploration of career options for first-generation college students by taking them into the workplaces of Stanford alumni. The program is the result of a partnership between the First-Generation Low Income Partnership (FLIP), the Career Development Center (CDC), Stanford Alumni Mentoring (SAM) and the ePortfolio project. Applications to the program to the program closed April 1, and selected students participated in an orientation last Tuesday in Old Union. While the program encouraged all interested Stanford students to apply, it placed priority on those who identify as firstgeneration or low-income. SHARE is ideal for a range of interests:

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cisms levied against the bills: Domain Name System (DNS) blocking and a stifling effect on innovation. The law would have basically shut off the innovation created in a 20-square mile radius of right here, said Issa, referring to Silicon Valley. On Jan. 18, more than 7,000 websites issued blackouts in protest of the two bills. Issa credited the multitude of websites that protested the bills as sounding their death knell. He proceeded to discuss his own alternative, the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act, which he

claimed would more effectively address the online piracy debate. We have to make legislation as surgical and as minimal as possible to diminish the unintended consequences and the excesses large, loose laws create, Issa said. Issa also described his Madison program, a crowdsourcing platform that integrates comments and suggestions from the people at each step of the legislative process. He described his vision for the legislative process as one in which laws are presented as working documents to be transparently viewed and critiqued as they evolve, although he admitted the difficulties of achieving such a goal. Issa maintained that the significant challenges we face in the area of Internet legislation are the result of a tax structure that

balances legitimate ends against the arbitrary creation of taxes by government to raise funds, stifling innovative businesses. In response to audience questions, Issa continued to assert his support for minimal, but effective government regulation. He also stressed the importance of reaching a consensus, conducting gradual change and creating transparent, open government. The talk left me less cynical about the nature of politics, said Josh Horowitz, a first-year Ph.D. student who attended the event. Hearing a congressperson speaking for the first time was a humanizing experience and removed quite a few prejudices I had about legislators and the process as a whole. Contact Aaron Sekhri at asekhri@ stanford.edu.

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Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) spoke about his opposition to the SOPA and PIPA acts that recently failed in Congress. Issa proposes an alternative bill called the OPEN Act to address online piracy.
school not just as a center for research but as a way of better preparing students for the legal profession and for work in public policy, Brest added. Over the years, Kramer has also held periodic, open town hall meetings. At each meeting, Kramer made a small presentation about the schools current policies and opened the floor to questions. He would be very straightforward with the students, said Adam Sieff, a first-year Stanford law student, referring to his impression of Kramer at one of the town hall meetings. He would go step-by-step and be very transparent and very honest. I know as a student I appreciated that. Kramers new occupation as the president of the Hewlett Foundation has significant worldly implications, according to Susan Bell, vice president of the Hewlett Foundation and the deputy chair of the search committee for the foundations new president To conduct the process to search for the next president of the Hewlett Foundation, we decided to take the time to talk to people from all over the country and outside the country about the world in which this president would be operating the foundation over the next decade, Bell said. [We discussed] what are some of the issues that will be arising that will impact the work we do in education, global development and in the environment. Larry has all the things we were looking for in terms of a bright and lively mind, a hunger and curiosity to make a difference in the world about the big issues that vex our socSHARE program targets first-gen., low-income studentsety, she added. He has a wonderful way of going about his work, as has been demonstrated at the law school. Kramer also expressed his excitement for the new role. The role of the foundation is to deploy resources not just financial, but human and intellectual to make the world a better place, Kramer said. The opportunity to head such an organization was exciting to me, and Hewlett in particular focuses on issues that I care about and does so in ways that make sense to me. Contact Antonio Ramirez at ajram741@stanford.edu.

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single law firm and encapsulates the Law Schools assortment of litigation clinics, including ones devoted to international human rights, environmental law, community law and Supreme Court litigation. Since Dean Kramer has arrived in 2004, the law school has developed the capacity for every student to take a legal clinic, Marshall said. Weve transformed the program from a parttime to a full-time program, expanded the range of opportunities across subject areas for students to study and engage in clinical work, and went from two to 10 clinics. Later this year, another new clinic will be open at the Law School the Stanford Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic.

It is a further testament to the diversification of kinds of experiences that are available through the program, Marshall said in reference to the new clinic. At a time, clinics were almost exclusively engaged in litigation. Now, we have clinics that work on transactions for nonprofit organizations, clinics that do fact-finding in the international human rights arena and, now, the Juelsgaard clinic, which will be engaged in policy-oriented work on behalf of clients. With the intention of facilitating interdisciplinary education with the rest of the University, the law school switched its academic calendar from a semester to a quarter system in the 2009-10 school year, under Kramers leadership. Professors are used to thinking about criminal law or contracts as a semester course, Brest said. Changing the course to the more intensive period of a quarter requires retooling and working with faculty to overcome resistance. To

help them change requires political and personal skills and persuasion. Stanford is now among only a handful of law schools to use the quarter system. Joint degree programs also saw a rise under Kramers leadership. Currently, the number of formal joint degree programs stands at 28. In addition to reforms to the curriculum, Kramer oversaw the construction of the William H. Neukom Building and the Munger Residences. Mr. Neukom was a graduate of the law school, and I had begun getting to know him when I was dean, said Brest in reference to the process of constructing the Neukom Building. He seemed well-disposed to the law school, but it took Larry Kramer to build the trust, the confidence, and to develop the common interest to make the deal for Mr. Neukom to put as much money as he did into this beautiful new building. Underlying everything is a vision of the importance of the law

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without any ASSU funding. Book Bazaar is currently not being maintained, but the programs website says it will return in winter 2012. Macgregor-Dennis and Ghanta emphasized the value of their slates combined experience, both from within and outside of student government. Ive been a critic of the ASSU and the ASSU not being connected with the student body, which I think will give us an advantage next year because Ill have that perspective, Ghanta said. She also commented that MacgregorDenniss extensive past work with the ASSU would allow the pair to start work with different groups from day one instead of having to learn the inner-workings of student government. Zimbroff and Wagstaff stressed their other student group involvement, including their work as RAs, in club sports and in various other student organizations. ASSU experience doesnt prepare you better to be ASSU president, Zimbroff said. We know students day-to-day lives, so our experiences prepare us better. The Open Source Candidates also did not feel that their lack of experience in student government hurts their qualifications. I dont have a whole lot of experience, but I know what Im doing, Ameli said. To which Koning added, We may not be smart, but were both street smart. All slates were asked to describe one action item from their platform. Macgregor-Dennis & Druthi spoke about creating an ASSU Civic Action Unit, which Ghanta described as the leveraging platform for students to pursue nonprofit experiences next year. Wagstaff and Zimbroff commented on campus tutoring programs. There are 47 different groups that go to tutor in [East Palo Alto] EPA, and we think thats a great thing, but we want to consolidate, Wagstaff said. We want to condense our service efforts and also monitor the great work there. During a question-and-answer session with the audience, the slates were asked how they would discern which comments and concerns from students merit serious attention and which are submitted as jokes. If I caught my son smoking a cigarette, I would make him smoke the whole pack, Koning said. If I caught my son smoking a joint, I would make him smoke an ounce blunt. If someone posted a joke to our wiki, you better believe, boy howdy, that we would implement it. Contact Sarah Moore at smoore6 @stanford.edu.

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Law School Dean Larry Kramer leaves behind a legacy of significant reforms to the Law School curriculum, including expanding interdisciplinary education options and moving the Law School to the quarter system.

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can apply to business more broadly, he added. It allows them to get a crosssectional view of many different industries. Bloomberg View columnist Ezra Klein argued in a Feb. 2012 column that this promise to give graduates the skills their [liberal arts] university education didnt is a structural problem of U.S. higher education titled Harvards liberal arts failure is Wall Streets gain.

Students discuss pursuing Wall Street careers in context of nationwide debate

By NEHAN CHATOOR

s Stanford students frantically try to secure summer internships and jobs upon graduation, the popularity and presence of prominent Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley has led to a University- and nation-wide debate concerning the recruiting presence of these firms on campus. There are three things that draw students into finance: money, procedures and prestige, said Sanjay Saraf 12, a pre-med student. Teryn Norris 12 and Eli Pollak 12 brought the debate to Stanford when they penned an Oct. 2011 op-ed in The Daily titled, Stop the Wall Street Recruitment, in which they claimed that over 15 percent of Stanford graduates continue to join Wall Street firms annually. The op-ed inspired the launch of the Stop the Brain Drain campaign, which aims to promote the public service industry as an alternative to finance. Director of the Career Development Center (CDC) Lance Choy contested the 15 percent figure. According to him, only approximately 30 percent of the student body responds to the CDC career surveys from which Norris and Pollak extrapolated their information. Pollak, however, argued that a 30 percent response rate should be more than sufficient to yield a statistically significant sample. Norris expressed opposition toward the magnitude of influence finance industries exercised over the U.S higher education system, and particularly on recruitment advantages. Choy, however, stated that the num-

ber of technical firms far outweighs that of finance firms at career fairs, citing that Google is by far the largest employer of Stanford students and has been for a number of years. He also stated that 160 firms participated in campus Cardinal Recruiting, out of which only 23 percent were finance firms. While to most students Wall Street and money are closely tied, Norris said he does not believe money is the key

There are three things that draw students into finance: money, procedures and prestige.
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reason Wall Street jobs appeal to students. Money is not primarily the issue, Norris said. It is really more about what is promoted by the CDC and the recruitment process. A part of it is cultural and what people call a good career. Many students also believe that a Wall Street job can provide them with valuable skills and tools for future endeavors in other fields. Few students going the investment banking or consulting route plan to build a career in these fields, said Shahryar Malik 12, who plans to pursue a consulting career himself. Rather they see their first two years out of college as a way to learn practical skills and a professional work ethic they There is uncertainty about what one will do after graduation, Norris said. Due to the weakness of alternative career tracks, which are not as clear, and [the fact that they] do not have as much skill-based training, students end up opting for a finance job. Emma Pierson 13, president of the Stanford Debate Society, noted that a large portion of her fellow debaters tend to opt for a finance job. You can definitely do good for the world through finance and consulting, but more so through other paths, she said. I have met some of the smartest people in debates, and they could do so much more good for the world by going into something like research. Saraf echoed this point.

I am not saying that finance is bad, but if you make a start-up that helps out even a hundred people, I think that will make more of a global impact than working in investment banking or consulting, she said. Students who choose finance as a career path disagree. Otis Reid 12, president of Stanford In Government (SIG), plans to work for consulting firm McKinsey & Company. When asked what he would say to people who believe consulting careers dont contribute to social good, he asked, What else would these people want me to do? Other students say they feel that the entire issue is not as problematic as presented, arguing that Stanford graduates are less inclined toward Wall Street than their East Coat counterparts. According to The New York Times, 14 percent of Yale graduates, 17 percent of Harvard graduates and 35.9 percent of Princeton graduates pursue finance careers. At Stanford, students hoping to pursue such careers are among a minority, Saraf said. In some sense, I think the Occupy Movement has taken Wall Street recruiting at Stanford out of proportion. And for some, a career is finance is no less legitimate than any other. I believe that if you are really interested in entrepreneurship or tech, go do it. If you are really interested in going directly into government or nonprofit, go do it, Reid said. If you are interested in finance . . . it will be hard for me to . . . say I know you are interested in finance, but you should go and work in a nonprofit. Contact Nehan Chatoor at nchatoor@ stanford.edu.

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The campaign:
Stranger times in ASSU history

n the spirit of the upcoming ASSU elections on April 12 and 13, The Daily took a look back on some of the more humorous ASSU Executive slates and one ASSU Senate proposal of the past. Although the Stanford Chaparral has traditionally run a joke slate in elections, we assure you that these slates except for one were no joke. ASSU presidential slate for 1971-72 On April 13, 1971, The Daily reported on a slate that proposed to eliminate the ASSU entirely. The ticket of Chris Hocker 73 and Robin Friedman 73 have campaigned on a platform of dismantling the ASSU and ending its influence on student organizations. They support a program fee of $0, The Daily reported. This is an unusually important election. It has come to rest on whether the ASSU should continue to exist. [A fee of $0 will] emasculate or destroy a lot of important campus organizations, said Larry Diamond 73 M.A. 78 Ph.D. 80, current director of the Center for Democracy, Development and The Rule of Law (CDDRL), then a Stanford sophomore and member of the competing slate. Diamonds slate won the election.

ASSU presidential slate for 1985-86 On April 10, 1985, The Dailys ASSU Elections handbook, where platforms and budget requests were published before the Internet, published presidential slate Hammer and Coffins official statement. H & C, made up of Andrew Frisch 87, Michael Collins 86, Leslie Leland 86 M.S. 86 and Tim Quirk 86, was the Chaparral joke slate that year. Fuck the Associated Students of Stanford University. Something is wrong when we really mean that. The time has come to change, even to replace, this government that once at least pretended to serve the student interest. No longer. Even that pretense is a thing of the past, the statement read. The slate went on to call for the elimination of the ASSU Senate. We say that we would like to disband the student senate and its true. Its the least we could do. Disband the ASSU. Now. Before every student organization on campus is destroyed or disenfranchised. The Daily Editorial Board endorsed the slate one day later, deciding to take H & C seriously. The slate won, and on April 19, stated plans to individually meet with all the senators, and try to find out exactly what kind of beer they like.

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From right: Larry Diamond 73 M.A. 78 Ph.D. 80, Ann Kimball 72, Diane Fields 72 J.D. 75, Doug McHenry 73. The four-person ASSU presidential slate won in 1971 with aims to support the general quest for self-determination among minority students.
ASSU Executive slate for 2002-03 On April 11, 2002, The Daily covered the slate of Kellea Miller 04 and Malavika Monahan 04 who ran an unconventional campaign by refusing to distribute flyers or express a concrete message. Monahan and Miller and the rest of the group said they merely wish to get students to examine themselves and their world instead of the campus during the time of the ASSU elections, The Daily reported. Someone asked me when the election was, and I was like, Uh . . . Monahan said, laughing. To elect people based on how much paper they can spend is a little disheartening to me, Miller said, adding that she had approached candidates about using recycled paper for the traditional White Plaza-flyering mayhem. Tradition to kill trees! she said. The slate, although sincere, did not win. An absurd Senate proposal On April 6, 1994, The Daily reported on a proposed bill Constitutional Amendment: Senate Bill XXIV-A&R20 to require ASSU senators to don uniforms on the daysMinion Condensed of Senate meetings. ASSU senators could be walking around campus clad in official uniforms next year if students approve an amendment placed on the spring general election ballot last night by the ASSU Senate, The Daily reported. The official Senate uniform will consist of an oatmeal-colored sweatshirt that reads on the front, What is an ASSU senator? and on the back, Im an ASSU senator, silly! The sweatshirt will also display the time and location of meetings as set by the Senate at the beginning of the year. The Daily Editorial Board supported the amendment as a means of improving the accountability and visibility of ASSU senators.The amendment passed.
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oming in at more than 600 pages, the federal farm bill is an elaborate and convoluted piece of legislation that lays out most federal food and farm policies. Members of Congress renegotiate this bill every five years, and it governs everything from farm subsidies to biofuels to international food aid. The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, our most recent farm bill, is in effect through September, meaning Congress is currently working to broker a new farm bill. Current estimates suggest we have spent more than $400 billion on farm bill programs over the past five years. That is a lot of federal funding, and a slash-happy Republican House noticed. Congressman Paul Ryans Path to Prosperity FY2013 budget proposes removing over $180 billion from farm bill programs over the next 10 years, including a $134 billion cut to the federal nutrition program formerly known as food stamps. By targeting nutrition assistance for cuts, Ryan and the 228 Republican representatives who voted for his plan told the nation that we should let millions of Americans go hungry to balance the budget. Before automatically criticizing these budget-cutting efforts, it is important to review what the farm bill actually funds. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that nine percent of farm bill spending goes to conservation programs, 10 percent goes to crop insurance and 12 percent goes to commodity crop subsidies for corn, cotton, rice, wheat and soybeans. Almost 70 percent of 20082017 funding is allocated for nutrition assistance, largely through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which succeeded food stamps. Considering that the majority of farm bill spending now goes to nutrition assistance, perhaps we should rebrand this piece of legislation as the food and farm bill, or even just the food bill. This would better align the bills title with its current funding goals. And it would send an important message to legislators and voters: The bill is not meant to be an archaic, confusing piece of legislation that benefits only a small subset of farmers and perpetuates an unjust food system. In some ways, budget cuts and rebranding may be just what we need to realign federal funding with Americans growing desire to increase access to healthy, sustainably grown food. Currently, farmers receive commodity crop subsidies whether they produce a crop or not. We spend eight times more farm bill funding on commodity crops than we do on fruits, nuts and vegetables, but the economic returns on commodity crops are only twice those of these other specialty crops, giving our current subsidy system a relatively poor return on investment. Commodity crop subsidies are relics of early efforts to avoid violations of international trade laws, and these commodity payments, which were intended to phase out decades ago, currently benefit a very small portion of farmers. In fact, 62 percent of U.S. farms do not collect any subsidy payments, and in California, less than 10 percent of farms receive government subsidies.

Jenny Rempel

Voting with our forks is not enough to change our food system.
Given the current budget-cutting climate in Washington, reducing commodity crop subsidies may finally be politically feasible. This is an opportunity to strategically restructure the food and farm bill, but we must be careful to ensure that cuts do not expand to include crucial farm bill funding for conservation and nutrition assistance programs. Congress could go beyond budget cuts and encourage more sustainable food systems by endorsing the Local Farms, Food and Jobs bill introduced by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), an organic farmer. Among many useful reforms, the Pingree-Brown bill would increase funding for local processing and distribution centers, promote the incorporation of local produce into school lunches, facilitate fruit and vegetable access for food stamp recipients and seniors and increase funding for specialty crops, organic producers, diversified operations, small-scale farms and beginning farmers. The projected price tag is $100 million per year, which is less than 0.2 percent of average annual spending on the last farm bill. When coupled with reductions to commodity crop subsidies, this could represent an important opportunity to help reshape agriculture policy and scale up local and regional food systems. Too often, sustainable food activists are content with buying local and choosing organic. These actions, though laudable, are not enough. Many activists bemoan subsidies in blog posts and casual conversations, but these forms of activism rarely make it to policymakers ears. It is time for us to get political. Join me in calling your Congressional representatives and telling them your taxpayer dollars should be spent creating more sustainable and accessible food systems. The message I shared with Rep. Anna Eshoo (DCA), who represents the Stanford community, was simple: no cuts for nutrition programs, no cuts for conservation programs and support for the Local Farms, Food and Jobs bill. I hope youll join me and send a strong message to Washington, because voting with our forks is not enough to change our food systems. Nervous about dialing your congressional representatives? Email Jenny at jrempel@stanford.edu for some confidence-boosting tips.

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never wanted to go to Stanford for college. I never wanted to go anywhere in particular. Of course I wanted to go to college, but I never had my heart set on a specific college. This, however, was not the case for the girl sitting next to me in the outfield bleacher seats at the Coliseum in Oakland nearly two years ago. She had finished spring quarter finals early, so we decided to catch the Angels vs. As game to celebrate. I had a final the next day, but it was an IHUM final, so I accepted the inevitable B and drove up to Oakland. Stanford University was her lifelong dream. It was where her parents met. It was her motivation to ace tests and join clubs in high school. It was the only future shed ever imagined. And it was the cause of great despair and even greater joy as she endured the long, torturous months between having been waitlisted and eventually accepted. She was glowing just talking about it. But the glow eventually wore off as I began to

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share the completely underwhelming story of how I only applied to Stanford because my mom wanted to see if I could get in, and how, before applying to any colleges, I had decided to go wherever I got the most financial aid. Thankfully, Stanford is very generous with their money. In one of my classes, we discussed how it is a very common tendency, especially at this school, to analyze situations rather than react emotionally because we feel more comfortable on intellectual grounds. This became evident as a conversation intentionally geared toward emotional reactions to a recent, tragic event morphed into an intellectual discussion on depression, complete with statistics and psychological theories. Ive often been teased and labeled as an Emo Kid (because I listen to awesome music), but I still direct problems to my intellect rather than my emotion because emotions are scary. It is safer to think than to feel. Objectivity keeps us distant and removed, an arms length from situations and possible failure. It cleanses us of responsibility by placing decisions purely into the hands of cold reason and logic. By choosing my college based on numbers, I didnt bear the responsibility of choosing wrong, and by keeping the gravity of the situation away from my desires, I insulated myself from the pain of possible rejection. However, removing myself from the emotional experience consequentially meant removing myself from experiencing the full joy of being accepted. This intellectual default also allows us to maintain the image of being composed, mature adults. (I promised myself I wouldnt use the Duck Syndrome here because everyone uses the duck metaphor.) It restrains our expression of emotion to only what is justified and considered rational and acceptable. But emotions are hardly ever rational, and we end up disguising how we really feel and consequently who we really are for the sake of looking composed. Part of the appeal of getting wasted is the freedom to reveal these dangerously vulnerable feelings and emotions through the newly provided justification of just being a little tipsy. Its as if we need the excuse of not being our normal selves in

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Its as if we need the excuse of not being our normal selves in order to be our real selves.
order to be our real selves. Im not suggesting we completely throw out rationality and intellect and become slaves to our impulses and emotions. Im merely giving the postmodern nudge to the significance of emotion by stating that there are limitations to rationality and intellect, and that living purely in your head is not living at all. Analytical judgments allow you to calculate risks, but it doesnt necessarily help you take those risks. Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World (an awesome emo band) writes, Youll sit alone forever if you wait for the right time. What are you hoping for? Theres hardly ever that perfect moment when chasing your dreams and desires is also the most sensible and rational choice. Yet, even as the head shakes sideto-side, the heart continues to beat feverishly. Dustin Kensrue of Thrice (not an emo band, but an awesome band nonetheless) wrote in the liner notes of a record, Nothing worth loving is safe to love. Great rewards are preceded by great risks, leaps of faith over chasms far too vast and unpredictable for logic and sensibility to dare tread. While both intellect and emotion have limitations, they compliment each other in their weaknesses. By denying either when considering our actions, convictions and overall worldview, we are denying ourselves. If your head kept saying No! but your heart (or body) kept saying Yes! while reading this, let Chase know by emailing him at ninjaish@stanford.edu.

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SPORTS
The baseball bubble

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Tom Taylor

HELLO, OFFENSE!

oseph Stalin once famously declared, One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. Perhaps he wasnt just talking about people. The bigger a number becomes, the less personal it feels, and when it becomes truly enormous, it is sometimes hard for us to even attempt to comprehend it. Suddenly its just a cold statistic that we journalists can use to pad out a story, but which really doesnt add much meaning. When you pay an average of $26.92 to get into a ballpark, and, once inside, get fleeced for around $5 just to buy a bottle of water let alone a luxury item like a hot dog or even a beer it hurts. Maybe the beer can take some of that pain away, but knowing that your team, in your house, is clearly taking advantage of your support and your wallet isnt a nice feeling. Sure, youre grown up now, and you cant crash at Mom and Dads without contributing something toward the bills, but you dont quite expect them to be taking you for a ride. But when you see someone just walk in and throw $2 billion on the table to purchase an MLB franchise, as just happened with the Los Angeles Dodgers, it just doesnt seem to register the same way. First, lets get this straight: $2 billion is not a lot of money. Its far more than that. Its an incomprehensible amount of money. Try and think of it this way: If it turned out the price tag was actually $2.01 billion, would you be significantly more impressed? No. But that is an extra $10 million, a quantity on its own that few of us, even Stanford graduates, will get to see in our lifetimes. And what could $2 billion buy you? A struggling baseball team, obviously, but also around eight million tons of ballpark hot dogs, 1.6 million barrels of ballpark beer or an entire stadiums worth of MLB tickets for 10 consecutive seasons. The biggest question, though, about this quantity of money is whether it is really worth it. What is the Guggenheim Baseball Management group really getting for the price tag? Bought by Frank McCourt in 2004 for $355 million, the Dodgers were valued at $727 million by Forbes in 2010, less than half of the aforementioned purchase. Remember, too, that we are talking about a team struggling with bankruptcy the existing debt is greater than the price paid in 2004 and without a World Series appearance for more than 20 years. If the Dodgers are worth this much, what would a team like the Yankees cost? And can the new owners really make this investment pay off? Television rights and real estate development may go a long way toward that goal, but the physical price of the franchise must at least remain at the same level to make this work. Arguably the biggest soccer club in the United Kingdom, Manchester United was bought for nearly $1.5 billion by the Glazer family in 2005. Even that was a significantly smaller sum than we are talking about right now, for a team and a sport that have far greater global appeal than the Dodgers or baseball. And has it worked? Although the team looks certain to win the Premier League yet again this year, it is now saddled with around the $1 billion in debt. Right now we are still trying to pull ourselves out of a deep hole created in part by the hyperinflation of house prices. Has baseball not been paying attention? I honestly dont understand how this valuation can be correct, or in fact good, for either the sport or the fans. This $2 billion isnt going to provide new facilities, train new players or even make the game-day experience more enjoyable or affordable. There is, really, just one small group that benefits: the other 29 MLB franchise owners. If the going rate of a team keeps rising, then they can feel certain that, win or lose, invest in the team or not, their perceived assets will continue to grow. At least, that is, until the music finally stops. When the baseball bubble bursts, someone is set to lose an inconceivable amount of money.

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Stanford first baseman Brian Ragira (above) helped lead Stanford to a 19-6 victory over Cal on Monday. The sophomore exploded at the plate, going 5-for-6 with three runs and five RBI. Junior pitcher Sahil Bloom threw five innings of three-hit ball to earn his first win of the season.

CARD BATS COME TO LIFE, BEAT CAL 19-6

By JOSEPH BEYDA
DESK EDITOR

Bad news, Bears. The No. 6 Stanford baseball team walloped Cal 19-6 in a nonconference showdown at Berkeley on Monday afternoon, pulling out the big bats to reach double digits for the sixth time this year and set a new season-high in runs. The Cardinals three best hitters junior third baseman Stephen Piscotty, junior second baseman Kenny Diekroeger and sophomore first baseman Brian Ragira came together for 11 hits, two homers and an absurd 16 RBI to overcome the struggling Bears (17-13, 2-7 Pac-12). Having averaged fewer than five runs per game since March 31, the offensive explosion

couldnt come at a better time for Stanford (20-7), which has conclusively pulled out of its early-conference season slump by winning four of five since last Monday. Cal, on the other hand, is still mired in difficulties of its own, now having lost three in a row after promising series wins against No. 21 Arizona State and No. 23 Texas. Junior righthander Sahil Bloom pitched five stellar innings in relief for Stanford, allowing just three hits and retiring 11 straight batters to get his first decision of the season, a decisive win. The Cardinal swept the season series against its Bay Area rival in 2011, winning all four games before the fifth was rained out with Stanford in the lead. But three of those four victories were low-scoring nail-biters, as Stanford escaped with 3-2, 3-2 and 4-2 decisions. That wasnt the case yesterday, with the Cardinal jumping on freshman righthander Keaton Siomkin for four first-inning runs. Sophomore rightfielder Austin Wilson had a

one-out double and came home on a Ragira single. Junior catcher Eric Smith added a single of his own before a two-RBI double from Diekroeger, who scored on a single by freshman designated hitter Alex Blandino. Piscotty quickly made it 7-0 in the second with a three-run homer, his fourth big fly of the year, and then brought home two more runs with a bases-loaded single in the third. Groundouts by Ragira and Smith brought home two more runs to cap Stanfords 11-hit, 11-run onslaught over the first three innings. Cal whittled away at the lead with three runs of its own in the third to oust Cardinal freshman John Hochstatter making his first start since a 6-2 loss to Arizona on April 1 and made it 11-4 with a pair of sacrifices in the bottom of the fourth. But Bloom kept things under control and blanked the Bears in the fifth, sixth and seventh frames. Singles by junior leftfielder Tyler Gaffney

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The great thing about sports is that you never know whats going to happen. In a match that appeared headed for a routine sweep, the Stanford mens volleyball team suddenly found itself with its back up against the wall on Saturday night, forced to fight off two match points in the final set. Much to the relief of the raucous home crowd, the No. 5 Cardinal (18-6, 15-5 MPSF) prevailed against the ever-resilient No. 12 Cal State-Northridge Matadors (11-16, 7-13) in five epic sets, 25-19, 25-21, 22-25, 2225, 19-17. The victory pushed Stanfords winning streak to three, and more importantly, kept the team in contention for the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament. For much of the match, the Cardinal appeared to be in firm control. Sophomore Brian Cook set the tone with his match-high 23 kills, senior setter Evan Barry kept the offense cruising and Northridge never led in either of the first two sets. With star freshman Julius Hoefer struggling to the tune of a .148 hitting percentage and after a series of verbal exchanges between Northridge players and the Stanford student section, it did not look as though the Matadors were long for the match. Enter 6-foot-4 junior John Baker, who completely changed the dynamic of the match. Baker tallied 20 kills in the final three sets to lead a furious Matador charge that saw the visitors rally from 16-14 deficits in both the third and fourth sets to force the final game. The fifth set was a back-andforth affair in which neither team seemed to be able to gain any separation, until a kill by sophomore Brandon Lebrock gave the

Matadors a 12-10 advantage. Suddenly, the match that had looked all but clinched for the Cardinal nearly an hour earlier was in serious jeopardy of slipping away. Luckily for Stanford, there

would be multiple heroes on the night. Senior libero Erik Shoji showed why he is a three time All-American and the soon-tobe MPSF Player of the Week, as the veteran racked up 16 digs and prolonged numerous rallies.

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Senior middle blocker Gus Ellis (No. 3) was part of a game-winning block that stifled a valiant comeback attempt by visiting Cal StateNorthridge. The Card escaped on Saturday with a five-set victory.

With the score at 12-11 following a Lebrock service error, Stanford sophomore Steven Irvin hit a booming ace to even the set at 12 apiece. With the set even at 13, Baker came through with his 20th kill of the match, bringing the Matadors to the brink of completing the comeback. Stanford fought back once more, extending the match on senior Brad Lawsons 18th kill of the evening. The Cardinal immediately found itself on the edge of defeat following an errant swing by Cook. But losing was not in the cards for Stanford, as Barry, who played a flawless fifth set, came up with the kill on the fake set to give the Cardinal another shot at 15-15. After an attack error by Baker, it was Northridges turn to stave off defeat. Lebrock again came up with the kill Northridge needed to even the match at 16. Stanford was able to side out once again, this time on an emphatic kill by sophomore Eric Mochalski, before Lebrock once again responded, registering his 21st and final kill of the match. Stanford was finally able to break through thanks to another beautiful set by Barry and the kill by Irvin before closing the Matadors on a block of Baker by senior Gus Ellis and Cook. For the match, Lawson, Irvin and Mochalski joined Cook in recording double-digit kills with 18, 16 and 13, respectively, while Barry tallied 66 assists. That was such a fun match to be part of, said Mochalski, who at one point dove into the stands in an attempt to prolong a point. Northridge did a great job bouncing back after the first two games. But towards the end of the fifth, Barry took his game to another level and willed us to the end. Contact Daniel E. Lupin at delupin@stanford.edu.

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13. The Incredibles were in White Plaza on Friday, April 6 talking to students about their campaign goals and listening to feedback. We feel as if White Plaza is a central point on campus, and its important for us to be visible to the entire student body, McKenzie said. Other class president slates will be tabling on April 11. Order of the Cardinal has a different approach to reaching its peers. While we do appreciate people going around and actively speaking to students as a form of campaigning, the reality is that we get most of our information from . . . the Internet, so our campaign is focused on grabbing peoples attention online, Hamar said. In a generation and era where communication happens quickest through the Internet, we are showcasing our ability to use our resources to get the word out. Voting for class presidents, ASSU offices and specials fees begins Thursday, April 12. Contact Sarah Moore at smoore6 @stanford.edu. Another midweek contest awaits the Cardinal, which hosts Pacific tonight at 5:30 p.m. at Sunken Diamond before it returns to Pac-12 play. This weekend the squad will host Arizona State, picked by Stanford head coach Mark Marquess as the preseason conference favorite in the coaches poll; unable to vote for his own squad, Marquess was the only skipper that did not choose the Cardinal. The Friday opener against the Sun Devils is set for 5:30 p.m. as well, with a pair of 1 p.m. starts scheduled for the weekend. Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@ stanford.edu.

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Many times, moving out of a freshman dorm often destroys class spirit and unity as classmates are more scattered across campus, Hamar said. As freshmen, we are privileged to have such amazing class activities and events that help us bond. However, many of those events disappear as the years go by. We want to keep our class united through different events that allow sophomores to meet other sophomores. Unlike the freshmen running for class presidency for the first time, this years upperclassmen presidential elections feature seasoned members of student government. Foster the Juniors, the lone junior class slate, has two current class presidents on its slate, and The Senior Experience includes one current and one former class president. Ive had an incredible experience as a junior class president and think that being elected as senior class president would yield even more opportunities, said Christine Kim 13 of The Senior Experience. I love being part of a group that gets to work with various Stanford departments and the administration, in addition to planning a wide range of events. Senior year is the last hoorah, and I want to do everything I can to make sure its the best possible experience for 2013. Class presidents work as a liaison between students, administration and alumni to plan campus-wide events and address student needs. I think the greatest accomplishment that a class president can achieve is when you successfully bring your class together, Kim said. One way of enriching the Stanford experience for our entire class is planning academic and social events. Daniel Hosltein 13 of the slate Senior Moments agreed that the primary role of the class president is social. Were not going to aggrandize senior class president into some lofty, university policymaking position, Holstein wrote in an email to The Daily We want to foster moments you remember as some of the best in your life, he added. For most of us, this is the last year of

our college careers, and if its anything like high school, a lot of these memory-ingrained moments will be during this year. Each slate has specific goals to address the concerns and desires of its class. In order to make these plans a reality, candidates must first garner the support of their peers. The slates methods for attracting students to their campaigns are varied. The Best Party slate running for senior class president was inspired by a documentary of Jon Gnarr, the mayor of the capital of Iceland. The world has always been run by the wealthy, educated people, but they really dont know what the people want, said George Malkin 13. [His campaign] started as a joke, but he actually ended up winning the whole thing. Some of The Best Partys goals include not treating sober people like second-class citizens and Pub Nights to which students can invite professors as a way to bridge the student-faculty divide. We want to have fun, but we are serious about being class presidents, said Savannah Gonzales

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grown as it fills with sediment. Stanfords Searsville Alternatives Study Steering Committee formed in order to find the best way to address this growing problem, while mitigating effects on Jasper Ridge and surrounding areas. Cohen said that as a result of the dams impact over the last century, preserving the area requires action. The status quo is the only option not on the table, Cohen said. If you want to keep it the way it is, you have to do something. Cohen said that the committee has hundreds of options to explore for action. The major options he outlined included targeting the dam by either raising, lowering or removing it; targeting the reservoir by either removing sediment or allowing the lake to fill in; and exploring outside options such as adding a bypass channel or diverting water. Part of the recovery process for the lake, according to Cohen, is

coming to terms with human impact on the environment in light of the hands-off policy. The human fingerprint is everywhere, Cohen said. The challenge now, he said, is to counteract the Dams impact with as little unintended effect as possible on the surrounding San Francisquito Creek and Corte Madera Creek watersheds. This goal proves particularly difficult because the ecological factors of the area interact in unpredictable ways. For example, rising carbon dioxide levels, which would intuitively seem positive for plant growth, in reality, can inhibit plant growth through various effects on soil conditions and temperature. Because of the complexity of the ecosystem, the committee is commissioning two years of studies to determine the right course to recommend to Provost John Etchemendy Ph.D. 82. Cohen said that funding conversations will take place after the studies, but Stanford will fund any changes to the area. Contact Matt Bettonville at mbettonville@stanford.edu.

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and Wilson led off the top of the fifth for Stanford, and they each came around to score on a Piscotty flyout and a Ragira single. The squad put up another twospot to make it 15-4 in the seventh inning. Ragira got his third home run of the year, a solo shot, and Smith followed with his ninth double, both good for third on the squad in their respective categories. The Cardinal added its final four runs with a two-out rally in the eighth, consisting of a Wilson single, a Piscotty RBI double, a Ragira RBI single, a Smith walk and a two-RBI single from Diekroeger. Freshman Garrett Hughes and redshirt sophomore Spenser Linney gave up a run in each of their late innings, though, as each lefty needed to face six batters to get out of his respective frame. When the dust settled, Stanford had totaled 23 hits, with every Cardinal starter getting a base knock and the two-through-six hitters each tallying at least three.

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