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WEDNESDAY
May 6, 2009
The Stanford Daily An Independent Publication
www.stanforddaily.com Volume 235
Issue 52

43rd annual McClatchy Symposium

Reporting in the red
Journalists discuss media portrayal of the downturn
By ALAN GUO
STAFF WRITER
At the 43rd annual McClatchy Symposium on
Tuesday night, a panel of journalists discussed the
particular challenges that the mainstream media
faces in covering the current economic crisis.
The panel featured Diana Henriques, senior
financial writer for The New York Times; Alan
Murray, deputy managing editor for The Wall
Street Journal; Steven Pearlstein, business colum-
nist for The Washington Post; and Stephen
Shepard, former editor in chief of Business Week
and current dean of the CUNY Graduate School
of Journalism at City College of New York.
The symposium, moderated by Prof. James
Fishkin, chair of the communications department,
examined the difficulty of exposing this crisis
through the perspective of a reporter, columnist
and editor, all represented on the panel.
While each of the four panelists is actively
involved in covering the economic crisis, they
offered, at times, competing explanations of the
JIN ZHU/The Stanford Daily origin of the downturn and, subsequently, differ-
Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein (left) makes a point at the 43rd annual McClatchy Symposium, which also fea- ent views of the challenges that the media faces in
tured New York Times financial writer Diana Henriques (right). Last night’s panel focused on reporting in the economic crisis. accurately informing the public.
“One facet that makes the crisis unusual and
challenging is the complexity,” Henriques noted.
“Translating the complexity for a broad audience
is the most significant challenge for the media.”
She quickly pointed out that mainstream
media, including The New York Times, reported
on many alarming aspects of the finance industry
as early as 2000. Yet, she admitted that the cover-
age was not persistent and convincing enough to
produce significant impact.
“We should keep a sense of humility about the
media’s ability to turn a powerful tide of public
opinion,” Henriques said, noting the limitation of
the newspaper.
“The pen is mightier than the sword, but it is
not mightier than a yawn,” she joked.
Murray begged to differ on delineating the
complexity of the crisis to the public.
“There were some pieces [of this crisis] that are
very simple, and we watched it because we had
hope and greed,” Murray said, referring to prac-
tices such as the prevalent offerings of zero-down-
payment mortgages, a break from the leading
practices of banks for over 100 years.
Please see REPORTING, page 6

STUDENT GOV’T

Senate makes plans

UNLIKELY STARS for policy summit
Freshman Hansen becomes Former football recruit Kiilsgaard now a key slugger By ZOE RICHARDS seen notable growth from the 10th
Undergraduate Senate — with five
Cardinal spark in first season BY DENIS GRIFFIN [Sean] Ratliff and [Cord] Phelps and guys like
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
members this term, it is up from
that . . . we obviously lost some home runs and New senators have already three members in the last.The shift
SENIOR STAFF WRITER begun digging their heels in, as reflects an increased emphasis on
BY NATE ADAMS some RBIs and some things like that. So, to have
they prepared for the ASSU’s first accountability and transparency to
CONTRIBUTING WRITER him really come out of nowhere and just have
“Policy Forum” and discussed a the student body at large in this

C
ardinal outfielder Kellen Kiilsgaard such a great year has really just been huge.”
Still, according to August, that’s not to say handful of proposed bills regarding Senate.
is no stranger to pressure situations, Vaden and sustainability at The upcoming Policy Forum

A
brief glance at the Stanford softball team’s
statistics chart reveals plenty of stunning
numbers and talented players, from Missy
Penna — who ranks among the nation’s
top 10 in three pitching categories — to
some of Stanford’s best power hitters of all time in
Alissa Haber, Rosey Neill and Shannon Koplitz.
Perhaps most impressive of them all, though, is a
young player posting nearly team-best numbers in
almost every offensive category in her first year with the
team — shortstop Ashley Hansen.
Just a freshman, Hansen leads her team in triples and
RBI, has the fewest strikeouts and most at-bats of any
regular starter and is on pace to be just the second
Cardinal player to ever bat over .400 on a season.
So where did this phenom come from?
For Hansen, a ver-
satile athlete, the road
to college softball was
one of many options.
The Arizona-native “She’s an
and not only at the plate. From bat-
ting in the heart of the Stanford order
to coming to the rescue of a father
and daughter in the waters off the coast of Maui,
tense situations, it seems, have a way of finding
the Cardinal slugger and testing his ability to
respond.
During winter break of 2007, Kiilsgaard and
some close friends were vacationing in Hawaii
when he spotted a man and his daughter just off
the shore, struggling to stay afloat. A testament
to the good timing that seems to have followed
Kiilsgaard throughout his athletic career, the
current Stanford sophomore was in the right
place at the right time, and had, luckily, just
learned the skills he needed to help.
“I was in the middle of taking a life-sav-
ing class that my dad taught at my high
school, actually, and so I knew a thing
or two about pulling people from the
water,” Kiilsgaard explained. “I
that the team didn’t see Kiilsgaard’s emergence
coming.
“He worked his butt off this summer and in
the fall,” August said. “You just knew when he
showed up in the fall that he was going to have
a great year because he’s just such a hard work-
er and won’t settle for failure.”
But to the average Cardinal fan, Kiilsgaard
perhaps entered this season more famous for his
exploits on the gridiron than on the diamond.
The Auburn, Wash.-native was a two-sport star
in high school and was the Cardinal’s most high-
ly touted football recruit in 2006-2007. A four-
star quarterback prospect according to
Rivals.com, Kiilsgaard displayed a rare blend of
running and passing ability in high school that
led some to wonder whether he could per-
haps be groomed to eventually take the
starting job by then-new Stanford head
coach Jim Harbaugh.
But the high school star was
switched to safety and then full-
Tuesday night’s meeting.
ASSU Vice President Jay de la
Torre ‘10 announced that the two
chiefs of staff for the Executive
Cabinet have been selected.
Bennett Hauser ‘10, who ran for
Executive in this year’s election,
and Andy Parker ‘11 will be work-
ing closely with the Executives.
Although the other positions have
not been filled yet, interviews are
being conducted for other cabinet
positions this week.
The senators have also con-
firmed their committee positions,
and will assign chair and deputy
chair positions for these commit-
tees in the upcoming week. The
Communications Committee has
will have nine policy sessions: sus-
tainability, student wellness and
health, diversity, Office of Student
Activities (OSA), housing, dining,
student life and two academic ses-
sions. The policy sessions are
intended to bring student leaders,
administrators and the ASSU
together to talk at the same table
about their respective objectives
and how they can work together to
reach shared goals in the upcoming
academic year.
Senator Alex Katz ‘12, who is
heading up the project, addressed
the mission of the summit.
“We’re trying to get policymak-
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was practically raised

on the game, follow-
went over and the dad actually
grabbed onto a rock and I back with the Cardinal, and SCIENCE & TECH
ing in the footsteps of helped pull the girl in and eventually decided that it was
her three softball-
playing sisters, from
tee ball at age three to
outstanding made sure she was ok, and
then I helped pull the dad in.
“I just helped some people
time to make a choice that
would shape the remainder of
his athletic career.
Students pursue energy
a traveling club team “I gave it a try, and I
at just six. She went
on to dabble in vari-
ous sports, but was young player.”
in need . . . I didn’t really feel
like I was a hero or anything,” he
continued. “They were struggling out
there, so I thought I might be able to
did my best to become
a fullback my fresh-
man year, but by the
monitor system in Donner
ultimately drawn to help.” end of the year, I The installation of this important
the softball diamond That perfect timing has carried over into realized that my Project develops out technical part of the program
above all else. — JOHN RITTMAN, Kiilsgaard’s baseball career on the Farm.The dream was to be marks a critical step for what
“In middle school,
head coach Cardinal found itself in need of a heart-of- the best base-
ball player I
of IntroSem began as an introductory seminar
I played volleyball the-order batter, and Kiilsgaard was ready to project.
and basketball and step into that role. c o u l d ,” “The goal is to make energy
continued to play vol- And he has produced. The sophomore By ELIZABETH TITUS something to be excited about,”
leyball through my senior year in high school,” Hansen outfielder is hitting .313 on the year, just one CONTRIBUTING WRITER Kallman said.
said. “Softball has always been my calling, though. I just point behind team-leading sophomore sec- Now that the technical piece is
love how it’s a combination of a team and individual ond baseman Colin Walsh, with nine home For residents of Donner’s third in place, said the freshmen, they
sport. You get your moment in the spotlight every time runs and a team-leading 12 doubles. His power Kiilsgaard floor, a new pilot program meas- will begin designing a way to
you come up to the plate, but you also know that your and production have made him a key cog of said. “Talking uring energy use in their dorm explain to residents what their
teammates will always be there to pick you up, too. the Cardinal offense this year, all the more con- with my parents and rooms will begin to change their energy use means. That could
Hansen’s commitment to the game paid off in a big sidering the shoes he’s had to fill. people close with me, energy habits — that is, if pro- take the form of a Facebook
way early in her high school career, giving her some “Obviously, he’s been huge because he’s we decided that playing gram designers Kevin Mori ‘12, application, an inter-room com-
once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Hansen led the Worth filled a big void in terms of what we lost last baseball was going to be Matt Crowley ‘12 and Ben petition or a desk lamp that
Firecrackers club team to two ASA national champi- year,” senior outfielder Joey August said of his a better decision for me Kallman ‘12 have anything to say changes colors to show energy
onship games and was a key member of a U.S. Junior teammate. “Talk about [Jason] Castro and than trying to become a about it. use, they said.
National Team that won the Pan American The trio, with the help of half a “We want to make sure we
Championship in Puerto Rico in 2006. Just a year later, Please see dozen other students, oversaw the design this for humans, for
she batted .483 for the gold-medal U.S. team at the BASEBALL, page 5 installation of a circuit breaker Stanford freshmen,” Mori said.
World Championships in Enschede, Holland. panel two weeks ago that sends “This is all from product design
AGUSTIN RAMIREZ/ and receives real-time informa-
The Stanford Daily
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2 N Wednesday, May 6, 2009
FEATURES
A LEGISTORM OF CONTROVERSY
Jock Friedly ‘90 creates Web
site promoting government
transparency, faces criticism
By CAROLINE STOKES
S
hould making public records avail-
able to the public be a crime? Some
public officials think that LegiStorm,
a Web site created by Jock Friedly
‘90, crosses the line. The site publish-
es salary information, details of privately
financed trips, financial disclosure forms and
other publicly available records from sena-
tors, representatives and Congressional
staffers.
The site has drawn attention and criti-
cism since its 2006 launch. Last year, finan-
cial disclosure forms outlining all financial
holdings of Congressional staffers and
spouses were released on LegiStorm.
“It generated a firestorm at the time on
Capitol Hill because staffers were outraged
that we would actually make public infor-
mation public,” Friedly explained.
All this information has long been avail-
able to the public deep within the basements
of government archives, but Friedly has
made the effort to dig up these files and
enter the data by hand onto a freely accessi-
ble, user-friendly Web site.
And he’s certainly getting a lot of flack
for it.
Three years ago, Rep. Roger Wicker (R-
Mass) tried to pass a law banning the Web
site. According to an article in Roll Call, a
Capitol Hill newspaper, he claimed that
while it’s “a matter of public record” for the
public to know House members’ salaries,
“it’s taking it too far for rank-and-file
Congressional staffers to have their individ-
ual salaries bandied about in the public
domain.”
But Ryan Calo, a fellow at the Center for
Internet & Society at Stanford Law School,
explained that it will be hard to ban the site
due to protection from the First Amendment.
“First, the information is public . . . So
far, courts have been reticent to recognize a
legal violation stemming from just organiz-
ing information you already have a right to
access,” Calo wrote in an email to the Daily.
“Second, these records are arguably a mat-
ter of public concern, which means that
LegiStorm will likely get heavy cover from
the First Amendment, which, as you know,
protects the right to free speech.”
“They’d practically have to know that
they were publishing bad data, for instance,
to face liability for defamation or a privacy
violation,” he added.
While Friedly concedes that the public
does not have a right to know all sensitive
government information, he believes tax-
payers have the right to view the salaries
they’re paying for.
“The public’s right to know vastly out-
weighs the right to privacy,” Friedly said.
But many Congressional staffers who
now have all their personal finances from
mortgages to mutual funds published online
beg to differ. A recent Washington Post arti-
cle described Friedly as “the Devil incar-
nate” in the minds of Congressional staffers.
Blogs also constantly attack the Stanford
alum — FamousDC.com, a political gossip
blog, even calls him “the neighborhood
bully.”
But Friedly seems entirely unfazed by the
name-calling.
“I believe in what I’m doing,” he said
calmly and assuredly. “I know that what I’m
doing is for the public good, and that people
express their appreciation for what we’re
doing.”
Making political processes more trans-
parent is nothing new for Friedly. After
Photo courtesy Jock Friedly
Jock Friedly ‘90 created LegiStorm to
make the salaries and expenditures of
the members of Congress and their
staffers available to the public. The Web
site has since stirred up controversy sur-
rounding freedom of speech versus gov-
ernment privacy, especially concerning
the privacy the staffers feel entitled to.
deciding he wasn’t cut out for the lab, the
physics major joined The Stanford Daily
after his sophomore year on the Farm.
“I found that I quite enjoyed the inves-
tigative stories,” he said. “You know, the
ones where you were digging something out,
where people didn’t necessarily want the
information to be out there.”
He also found his physics background
surprisingly useful.
“Science is very much a process of trying
to figure out the world and asking a lot of
questions and probing, testing theories,” he
explained. “And that’s exactly what inves-
tigative reporting at its best is.”
While at Stanford, he wrote a series of
articles about the student government and
how hidden its finances and legislative
processes were to everyday students. He
began his career in journalism at the Palo
Alto Weekly, where he claims his persistent
demand for public records spurred the city
attorney to press for changes to the
California Public Records Act in order to
make the law more explicit.
Ever since, Friedly has been a staunch
advocate for making public records avail-
able, which is exactly why he created
LegiStorm. The payroll and financial data
conveniently displayed on LegiStorm has
helped reveal several possible abuses of
Congressional power and taxpayer dollars.
One salary record, for instance, pointed
out that Sen. Ted Stevens’ (R-Alaska) per-
sonal accountant was listed on his payroll.
The raw facts of the data raised another red
flag when this accountant’s salary —
financed by taxpayers — increased signifi-
cantly just as the FBI was beginning to
investigate Sen. Stevens on charges of possi-
ble corruption related to his finances.
“Washington dirties people,” Friedly told
The Washington Post in April. So he’s on a
mission to clean it up.
But it’s not easy. He describes it as a
“long, hard slog” digging up the hard-to-find
books containing the approximately 700,000
public records now viewable on LegiStorm,
scanning them, entering all the data by hand
and checking for accuracy. Since LegiStorm
began, Congress has made some records
more electronically available.
Still, Friedly has found that it’s easy for
government offices to hide data in “a little
obscure corner” of a Web site in a difficult to
use format.
So who’s funding this lengthy and labor-
intensive extraction and organization
process? For now, Friedly himself. The site is
currently operating at a profit loss, but
Friedly channels profits from two of his
other revenue-generating sites, which pro-
vide government documents and patent
information, to help support LegiStorm.
These other sites host records that are also
publicly available, but Friedly says clients
are willing to pay for the convenience his
sites provide instead of searching through
government archives themselves.
Interestingly, Friedly plans to introduce a
paid subscription feature on LegiStorm. He
insists that all the current data will remain
free for browsing, but that additional fea-
tures for more in-depth searches will require
a subscription.
How can Friedly advocate for trans-
parency of public records when he himself is
charging others to see these records?
“It’s got to be a sustainable thing,” he
said. “So the question is, where does the
money come from? It’s really the govern-
ment’s job to provide the information in the
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ways citizens need it. It doesn’t really do the
public any good if we came about this with
the idea of making all this information for
free, and then we didn’t have a way to actu-
ally pay to make it continue.”
Friedly envisions LegiStorm as a newspa-
per model, charging a relatively low sub-
scription fee to make information easily
accessible to everyday people. But instead of
providing stories as newspapers do, he
hopes unearthing the nonpartisan facts of
government expenditures will help others
shape their own stories.
Since releasing the personal financial dis-
closure forms of Congressional staffers
online last year, Friedly cites that at least
half a dozen Congressional chiefs of staff
have been accused of wrongdoing related to
these statements.
“I think that says it all,” he explained.
“[LegiStorm] has had an effect on things,
and people have used this to make a differ-
ence and to try to clean up Washington. So I
feel good about how it’s been used and what
kind of influence we’ve had.”
And with the declining media business —
an industry most invested in revealing pub-
lic records — Friedly stresses the impor-
tance of sustaining a demanding investiga-
tive reporting industry.
“If there aren’t reporters there to find it,
I’m afraid there’s going to be a lot more
shenanigans going on in Washington,” he
predicted.
Stanford may be over 2,800 miles from
the nation’s capitol, but Friedly still believes
Stanford students can get involved in advo-
cating for a cleaner, more transparent gov-
ernment. He recommends that students cap-
italize on their unique skills — from writing
to organizing to technical abilities and so on
— in order to bring public awareness to
their passions and interests.
And what if people start calling you “the
Devil incarnate” in response to your blog
post or your student protest?
“Students should feel comfortable in
their own skin,” Friedly advised. “They
shouldn’t shy away from controversy. They
should stand up for what’s right and not
worry about the consequences. Frankly,
Stanford students are bright enough to not
have to worry about [feeling] like they have
to get along with everyone.”
Contact Caroline Stokes at cstokes@stan-
ford.edu.
The Stanford Daily
OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
New ASSU Execs must get
to work
ow that the previous ASSU Execu-
N Gobaud and de la Torre should
tives, Jonny Dorsey ‘09 and Fagan
Harris ‘09, have passed on the reins of
power, the Stanford community can reflect
on how much has been accomplished in the
2008-2009 term, and also look forward with
confidence to the 2009-2010 academic year.
The incoming ASSU Executive slate, David
Gobaud ‘08 M.S. ‘10 and Jay de la Torre ‘10,
has pledged not only to further several
Dorsey/Harris initiatives — including anti-
bystander education and campus wellness
— but also to launch a few of their own.
Over the next several months, we can expect
to see an array of new programs aimed at
promoting ASSU transparency, addressing
cost-of-living matters, encouraging diversity
and tolerance, and emphasizing public serv-
ice and academic excellence.
The editorial board acknowledges that
the Dorsey/Harris team leaves the new
ASSU Executive team with big shoes to fill
after a remarkable and widely praised year
of ASSU leadership. Gobaud and de la Torre
will face their own set of challenges, and
should take full advantage of the momen-
tum Dorsey and Harris generated last year
by fostering even more interaction and en-
gagement among students, faculty and ad-
ministrators. For the coming year, Gobaud
and de la Torre should divide their efforts
between ensuring that pilot projects such as
the Wellness Room do not lose steam, and
focusing on those elements of campus life to
which Dorsey and Harris had less time to de-
vote effort.
In particular, the ASSU Executive should
look to make sustainability a top priority.
The editorial board commends Gobaud/de
la Torre’s extensive green platform, which
includes plans to make Tresidder and Old
Union waste-free, eliminate wasteful prod-
ucts such as Styrofoam from food service lo-
cations, expand the ASSU Green Store and
reduce paper towel usage. These are good
ideas that should be acted on immediately. It
is often difficult to get the ball rolling on en-
vironmental initiatives, so Gobaud and de la
Torre should start talking with Stanford’s
food service providers as soon as possible to
ensure that there are more compost bins and
fewer paper towel dispensers as soon as we
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L ETTER TO THE
The April 17 editorial, “Draw revamp as
opaque as Draw itself,” had many state-
ments that were erroneous and do not accu-
rately reflect the work of the Draw Review
Task Force. Students have been asking for
revisions to the Draw for many years, and
we believe that the changes made have been
positively received. The Draw Review Task
Force was convened and charged by Shirley
Everett, senior associate vice provost for
Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE),
to simplify the Draw and room assignment
policies and processes, to achieve a greater
sense of fairness and to allocate the increas-
ing supply of premier housing for upper-
class students in support of the Housing
Master Plan. She placed a very high priority
on being inclusive by seeking broad student
faculty and staff input. Shirley also selected
a cross-section of the Stanford community
as committee members, including represen-
tatives from R&DE — Student Housing,
VPUE — Freshman Dean’s Office, VPSA
— Residential Education and other senior
administrators. The ASSU Nominating
Committee was also asked to select students
that represented a cross-section of the un-
dergraduate population. The Task Force,
chaired by Rodger Whitney, executive di-
rector for Student Housing, met for 10
months to gather input to formulate recom-
mended changes to the Draw.
Student input began early in the process.
Every undergraduate student was surveyed
as part of the Student Housing Annual Sur-
vey in January 2008, and information was
posted on the Student Housing Web site re-
garding the purpose of the committee and
asking students to contact us if they had
input. On Jan. 1, we went public, sharing the
proposed changes, and met with the ASSU
council to seek information in a session
which was covered by The Daily (“Senate
hears new Housing, Draw plans,” Jan. 28).
We also met with the resident assistants, res-
ident fellows, resident deans and Ujamaa
House staff.
At every one of these public meetings
and up until now, there has been broad sup-
port for the changes being recommended.
The task force chose to have a town hall
meeting for students, which was very well
publicized, including sending every under-
graduate student living in housing an invita-
tion, distributing posters throughout cam-
pus and running an ad in your newspaper
take full advantage of the
momentum Dorsey and Harris
generated last year by fostering
even more interaction and
engagement [...]
return to campus in the fall.
The editorial board also urges the ASSU
Executive to follow through on the “Cost of
Living and Equality” platform plank it ad-
vertised during the campaign. The concept
of equalizing the cost of living for houses on
the Row and other dorms on campus is novel
and worth pursuing. In tough economic
times, it makes sense to work toward equal-
izing the cost of living on campus, especially
when students face so much uncertainty as
to where they will end up in the Housing
Draw. Making the cost of campus living con-
sistent across all campus housing options
and more affordable in general should be at
the top of the Executive’s list, both as a
short-term and long-term goal. On a related
note, Gobaud and de la Torre should also
focus on promoting the ASSU Executive
election spending cap that was hotly contest-
ed this year, in an effort to limit the amount
of money that is spent during the election
cycle and level the playing field for all
would-be campaigners.
Aside from campus health, sustainability
and cost of living issues, the editorial board
welcomes Gobaud and de la Torre’s ambi-
tious goals for the coming year. The board is
confident that the 2009-2010 year will bring
quality of life improvements for both gradu-
ate and undergraduate students, and contin-
ue growing the young but vital tradition of
open and transparent governance.
E DITOR
asking students to attend. In an editorial, the
previous Daily editorial board even encour-
aged students to attend the town hall meet-
ing, “We call on students to attend the town
hall Housing officials have in the works and
voice their opinions about changes coming
to residential life at Stanford. This is your
chance to have a real influence on impor-
tant decisions at Stanford. Recently dis-
cussed revisions are truly promising and we
hope each and every student who so desires
will play a role in providing feedback”
(“Housing un-stuffing a welcome change,”
Jan. 30). Student Housing and Residential
Education have met with co-ops, have seri-
ously considered their input and have
reached agreement on how assignments to
the co-ops will be made for this year. Your
own poll with results, published April 16,
showed significant support for the Draw
changes.
We also invited members from The Daily
to meet with us on several occasions. In Jan-
uary, The Daily met with Greg Boardman,
John Bravman, Shirley Everett and Rodger
Whitney to hear the changes for the Draw
and Master Plan (see resulting Daily story
“Housing to expand,” Jan. 30). We also met
with Daily editors and reporters for two
hours, explaining the changes, but much of
that information is yet to be published (see
resulting Daily story “Draw changes yield
concern,” April 14). Like all new initiatives,
we will continue to work on improving the
Draw based on the outcome from this year.
We are concerned that the April 17 editori-
al, which represented a very small minority
of students, was not helpful to the majority
of students on campus, who very much want
to learn about and make the most of the
newly updated Draw system. The April 22
article, “Draw opens today,” also provided
very little concrete information about the
Draw.
We would like to request that you write
an article explaining the Draw changes, and
in so doing provide your readership with
critical information so that they can make
informed decisions when applying for hous-
ing this year (draw2009.stanford.edu).
RODGER WHITNEY
Executive Director of Student Housing/CHO
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T HE V OICE
Angry conservatives
y last column, which ran two weeks
M ago, provoked some interesting
emails and comments, mostly from
truly upset conservatives who disagreed with
my assertion that paying taxes is patriotic.
Apparently, they don’t feel that way. Their
objections fell into two main categories.
Before I address those objections, I do
need to apologize for one thing, though. I
used the derogatory term “teabagging party”
instead of “Tea Party” protests. I was too flip-
pant in my language. That being said, let me
state that I completely disagree with the
protests. First, while they purported to be
grass-roots efforts, they were heavily pro-
moted by Fox News and conservative heavy-
weights like Newt Gingrich. According to
MediaMatters, during one of Glenn Beck’s
programs, he even listed the location of vari-
ous Tea Party events and labeled them “FNC
Tax Day Tea Parties.”
More importantly, the parties smack of
dishonesty. While many of the participants
are genuinely angry at government spending,
I wonder where they were the past eight
years. During the Bush Administration, ac-
cording to the U.S.Treasury Department, the
national debt rose from $5.727 trillion on Jan.
20, 2001 to $10.626 trillion on Jan. 20, 2009.
But now that Obama is spending money
on useless things like, say, trying to keep the
U.S. and global economy from collapsing, in-
stead of, say, massive geopolitical blunders
and corporate welfare, apparently it’s time to
invoke the spirit of the Founding Fathers.
Which leads to the first main objection I
received from my correspondents. That ob-
jection was that taxes are bad because there’s
lots of wasteful government spending. Exam-
ples ranged from ACORN funding to the
stimulus bill. I really don’t want to argue spe-
cific programs, because in my previous col-
umn, I never claimed that there is no waste-
Rejection, ejection, dejection
Terrified readers,
oday, there is a little over a month left
T before that glorious beacon of hope
formally known as summer begins. If
you are anything like my parents, you are
concerned. The economy has reared its ugly,
downward-sloping head here in the form of
fewer department office supplies and fewer
unique, useful classes (e.g. Drama 104), but
until we started just now looking for jobs, this
nebulous economy thing didn’t seem like
that big a deal. How naive we were.
Here is a frightening statistic that actually
exists: in March 2009, literally 8.5 percent of
all Americans, or one in every 11 and three-
quarters of a person, were unemployed. (IM-
PORTANT NOTE: Dicking around with a
guitar does not, according to the Bureau of
Labor, qualify as employed.) More alarming-
ly for those of us here, I did a little research
(which, yes, is itself alarming, but please stay
with me here) and found out that nearly 100
percent of full-time students at Stanford
don’t have full-time jobs. That is a big per-
centage, and frankly, I am surprised and a lit-
tle disappointed that President Obama has
not immediately resolved this as he has with
global warming and not owning a dog.
Moreover, of students intending to work
this summer, only, I don’t know, 60 percent
have jobs “locked down,” and of those jobs,
probably only 30 percent are “good.” It must
be the economy, right? Surely, if we can get
into one of the most elite universities in the
world, we can certainly work as temps,
cashiers or telemarketers or something,
right?
Wrong. Well, kind of. I have friends —
bear in mind, these are people who are train-
ing to be lawyers, doctors, businesspeople —
who can’t lock down jobs as house sitters, let
alone receptionists. I was starting to get wor-
ried, and so, as I only do when necessity ab-
solutely demands it, I did more research.This
is why my editor is inevitably upset at the ex-
treme tardiness of this column — I have
never been particularly good at facts.
I consulted perhaps the best resource on
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ful government spending. Of course there is.
And it’s our responsibility as citizens to
vote for legislators who will spend responsi-
bly, sponsor effective programs and elimi-
nate ineffective ones. The answer to govern-
ment waste is to work harder at good govern-
ment, not to destroy government by simply
“starving the beast.” And some waste will al-
ways be inevitable, since we live in an imper-
fect world; but that waste is the price we pay
for the good that government does.
For example, consider school lunches. In
2003, the Bush administration proposed new
eligibility requirements that would make it
more difficult for students to qualify for free
school lunches. But having worked as a
teacher in a public school and seen kids rely
on those meals, I personally would much
rather have some money get wasted rather
than have truly needy kids get cut off because
of overly-stringent requirements.
The second main objection I received was
more fundamental. One individual wrote
that “a government’s role in its citizen’s lives
is simply to keep a military, provide infra-
structure and water and maintain an honest
justice system.” By this definition, almost
every government program that exists today
is wasteful!
Well, I have to stand by my guns and re-
mind my correspondents that we are a coun-
try of 300 million vastly heterogeneous peo-
ple living in the most complicated age in
human history. Without the federal govern-
ment providing competent regulation of in-
dustry, the environment, health and a myriad
of other factors, we would quickly descend
into anarchy.
Does any of you really want to eliminate,
say, the National Institutes of Health or the
Centers for Disease Control and just take
your chance with the swine flu? Or how
about we ax the EPA and its pesky regula-
T OO B IG T O FAIL
Kevin
Webb
[...] it’s time we eat our pride
and give up on the dream job
[...] and settle for the available
job with two figures and a free
hamburger every third shift.
low-paying jobs — Craigslist — and al-
though no jobs I found specifically said
“Stanford grads need not apply,” I didn’t see
any that said “Stanford students ONLY,” ei-
ther. In fact, most jobs I found on Craigslist
didn’t even mention a need for college de-
grees. Several had major typos.
But it’s getting late, our parents are start-
ing to get worried and, damn it, we need the
money to pay for gas and our growing online
shopping addictions.As such, I’ve compiled a
list of some of the best jobs Craigslist has to
offer.
First up: “Private Investigations Under-
cover Decoys Needed.” I didn’t even need to
read the rest — this is a job that lets you get
closer to your long-held dream of being a
professional spy. Read this:“The ability to re-
Incorporated 1973
Tonight’s Desk Editors
Julia Brownell
News Editor
Sam Svoboda
Sports Editor
Chelsea Ma
Features Editor
Chris Seewald
Photo Editor
Jane LePham
Copy Editor
Laura Chang
Graphics Editor
David
Goldbrenner
tions that keep lead out of gas, paint and chil-
dren’s toys?
One person even wrote me claiming that
there has never been a single successful gov-
ernment program. I don’t even know where
to begin with that one. How about Social Se-
curity, which has been a major factor in re-
ducing the devastating effects of poverty
among the elderly? The National Bureau of
Economic Research reports,“In fact, there is
a striking association between the rise in So-
cial Security expenditures per capita and the
decline in elderly poverty.”
Or how about Head Start, a program run
by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services that provides education and
health programs for low-income children?
According to a report done in 2005 by the
American Psychological Association, “Re-
gression-adjusted impact analyses showed
that [three]-year-old program children per-
formed better than did control children in
cognitive and language development, dis-
played higher emotional engagement of the
parent and sustained attention with play ob-
jects, and were lower in aggressive behavior.
Compared with controls, Early Head Start
parents were more emotionally supportive,
provided more language and learning stimu-
lation, read to their children more and
spanked less.”
God, what a waste of taxpayer money!
We live in a great country, and if we wish
to keep it that way, we must pay our dues.
Taxes, wisely levied and wisely spent, are a
patriotic duty.
Conservatives, have at it. Contact David Gold-
brenner at goldbren@stanford.edu.
main calm under duress; the ability to act ac-
cording to the assigned undercover character
profile; the ability to perform the above tasks
while possibly wearing/carrying a body-wire
or a hidden camera; $25/hour.” I have no
doubt that this is how James Bond got start-
ed.
Next:“Grocery Sales Assistant/Broker.” I
have no idea what this means, but with the re-
sponsibilities of a grocery store worker, you
get to tell your friends you’re a broker.
Sweet.
Up next: “CASTING CALL for The Bad
Girls Club!!!” I don’t know about you, but to
me, this sounds like a huge win; had I listed
this, I probably would have used at least five
exclamation marks. And while being “inde-
pendent, spirited, opinionated, outspoken or
endlessly entertaining” doesn’t necessitate a
Stanford degree, it couldn’t hurt, right?
Right?
Next: “Users to try Spain’s Hottest Work-
out DVDs!” They may have only used one
exclamation mark, but don’t be deceived —
this job is awesome. If you like being paid to
work out to the angry commands of spandex-
clad Spaniards, you should contact this com-
pany as soon as possible.
And finally: “Pain-in-the-butt boss needs
tough-as-nails personal/admin assistant.”
This job might not sound great, but if you can
save up material for the inevitable lawsuit,
you might just end up bagging six figures
after all.
Now, maybe none of these apply. Maybe
you’re saying to yourself, “these suggestions
are great, Kevin, but even if I wanted to work
out to Spanish videos, I just can’t afford a leo-
tard anymore.” Fair. But maybe, Stanford, it’s
time we eat our pride and give up on the
dream job with seven figures and a desk, and
settle for the available job with two figures
and a free hamburger every third shift. Well,
at least until Obama fixes the economy.
Kevin is still searching for jobs, and if you want
to consult him for his expertise in spying or for-
eign workout tapes, contact him at
ktwebb@stanford.edu.
4 N Wednesday, May 6, 2009 The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
CARD TAKES FOURTH Daniel
Bohm
On My Mind

Synchronized swimming finishes season at U.S. National Championships Women’s

By CLAUDIA PRECIADO U.S. Olympic team’s Beijing routine.
CONTRIBUTING WRITER Stanford placed second in the technical

The Stanford synchronized swimming team

ended its season with a strong fourth place fin-
team routines at 92.333, finishing behind
Santa Clara with 93.333. Ohio State rounded
out the top three at 92.167.
lacrosse got
ish after hosting the 64th annual U.S. National The only difference in the team lineup for
contest, where both collegiate and club teams
compete. Although Ohio State University took
the overall championship, Stanford’s strong
Stanford is that freshman Alex Bollaidlaw
swam in place of Fuller.
“My proudest moment would be when we
snubbed
performances placed the Cardinal high in every finished competing in the technical routine

competition.
Ohio State placed first with 43 points, fol-
lowed by last year’s co-national champions, the
Santa Clara Aquamaids, with 37 points. To
round out the top three, Walnut Creek
Aquanuts concluded with 19 points. Stanford’s
17 points finished in fourth. Canisius College,
University of Incarnate Word and Arizona
Aquastars placed fifth, sixth and seventh over-
all, respectively.
“We came into this meet simply looking for
our best swims of the season,” said junior Deb-
bie Chen. “Even though we did not win the
championship this year like we did last year, we
achieved our goals, and that’s really all you can
ask for.”
In the final free team competition, Stanford
swam among the top eight teams in the nation
to place a strong third with a 93.833.The judges
ranked the team — comprised of senior Erin
Bell, Chen, junior Taylor Durand, sophomores
Michelle Moore and Corinne Smith, and fresh-
men Morgan Fuller, Maria Koroleva and Olivia
Morgan — based on artistic impression and
technical merit. Stanford’s chorus theme music
for their routine displayed high energy and es-
pecially high flips as Smith and Morgan took air
multiple times.
“Walking out on deck for our final swim,
with the crowd cheering and being announced
as Stanford University, was the best feeling in
the world,” Fuller said.“The whole team was so
excited, and we just knew that we were going to
have a fantastic swim. It was one of my best syn-
chro experiences of all time.”
Ohio State scored 95.500 and Santa Clara
scored 94.833 for first and second, respectively.
In the final free duet competition, both of
Stanford’s routines contended for a national
championship. Stanford’s stellar freshmen duo
of Koroleva and Morgan tied for third with
Canisius College at 93.000. Stanford’s impres-
sive double act of Chen and Durand ranked
Continued from front page
The Stanford synchronized swimming team ended its season last weekend, earning fourth place at
U.S. Nationals, where it competed against the nation’s best teams — both collegiate and club.
sixth at 91.333.
Once more,Ohio State and Santa Clara took
the top two spots with 95.500 and 94.167, re-
spectively.
In the final free solo competition, Stanford’s
soloist Morgan missed the finals by a hair and
pre-swam the competition for a score of 88.667,
placing ninth in the nation. The top three plac-
ers for the solo competition were Ohio State,
Canisius College and Santa Clara at 93.750,
93.583 and 93.000, respectively.
“Learning and improving on this past year
VIVIAN WONG/The Stanford Daily
will only make us stronger and more in-tune
with one another,” Durand said. “That being
said, our team had a very successful season, and
we had nothing but great swims at our biggest
meets.”
Although each day led up to the final com-
petition on Saturday, Friday’s competition con-
sisted of technical routines. Technical routines
are required of every team with athletes com-
peting in the national team trials. Each team
must swim the same routine to the same
music, which, in this year’s case, was the 2008
competition on Friday,” Chen said. “I could
feel the energy and excitement from each per-
son on the team. We had worked really hard
on our technical program since coming back
from NCAA Collegiate Nationals, and every-
thing paid off that day.”
In duet technical routines, Koroleva and
Morgan ranked fifth at 90.500, while team-
mates Chen and Durand placed seventh at
89.333. The top three were teams from Cani-
sius College, Santa Clara and Ohio State.
“It was really great to compete at our home
pool. The energy of the home crowd was truly
amazing and made competing that much
more fun,” Koroleva said. “Being a part of the
Stanford family definitely made the competi-
tion really enjoyable, and I am once again so
glad that I have the opportunity to swim
here.”
For the solo technical routines, Morgan
tied for seventh at 90.167. Once again leading
the pack were Canisius College, Santa Clara
and Ohio State.
Thursday simply included preliminary free
routines in which Stanford ranked third and,
with the technical scores, continued to com-
pete in the finals on Saturday.
U.S. Nationals marks the end of the Stan-
ford synchronized swimming season. Howev-
er, four of the swimmers — Chen, Koroleva,
Morgan and Smith — continue on to national
team trials phase three at Ohio State Universi-
ty in Columbus, Ohio on May 19.
“I’m really looking forward to transitioning
into next year as a more experienced team,”
Durand said. “Our Class of 2012 will be expe-
rienced sophomores next year, our sopho-
mores and juniors will have that extra year and
personally, I’ll have a year of being team cap-
tain under my belt.”
Contact Claudia Preciado at claudiap@stan-
ford.edu.
L
et me preface this by saying
that by no means am I a
lacrosse expert. I grew up
in New York, so I have an
inherent knowledge of the game,
but I have never played it. I have
been to very few games, and I have
read very little about it.
That being said, it does not take
an expert to realize that the Stan-
ford women’s lacrosse team got ab-
solutely shafted on Sunday when it
was not given a bid to the 16-team
NCAA Tournament field.
There is an
underlying
problem [...]
East Coast bias
The outcome of Stanford’s most
successful lacrosse season still left
the team wondering what it could
have done differently to make the
postseason.
The Cardinal finished 14-4 on
the season. All four of its losses
came at the hands of highly ranked
teams — teams that are in the
NCAA Tournament. Only one of
these losses — an early-season
road match with No. 12 Notre
Dame — was particularly lopsided.
Stanford won its conference —

SOFTBALL|Hansen putting up big numbers in first season
Grateful for such unique opportu-
nities, Hansen cites them as a major
catalyst for her growth as a player.
“I have been surrounded with some
of the best softball players in the coun-
try on both club and national teams,
and my coaches there taught me much
more than the fundamentals of the
game,” Hansen recalled. “They made
me more mentally tough. Any oppor-
tunity to play in that type of big game
gives you the experience to grow and
develop as a player and prepares you
for the next step: college.”
When the time came for Hansen to
take that step and commit to a particu-
lar school,her choice was easy to make.
Stanford, she said, is the perfect place
for her.
“I knew it was the right fit for me,”
Hansen said.“The campus is absolute-
ly beautiful,the weather is much better
than the scorching heat in Arizona and
it has the academics and the athletic
department that I have dreamed
about.Why wouldn’t it be Stanford?”
Hansen’s impact on the Cardinal
team was immediate and profound.
She belted a three-run home run in her
first at-bat as a college player,and con-
tinued to put up solid numbers even in
clutch situations, including a bases-
clearing double to defeat Cal on April
9. Her coach, John Rittman, couldn’t
be more pleased with her contribu-
tions to the team.
“She understands the game,”
Rittman emphasized. “She under-
stands defenses, coverages; she knows
how to cater her play to a certain hitter
and get in position,and knows when to
be on the move and where.And offen-
sively, she leads the team in triples and
almost in doubles.Just look at the stats.
She’s an outstanding young player.”
Beyond the numbers, though,
Hansen’s impact can be seen in her
sense of camaraderie and her mature
approach to the game. Junior catcher
Rosey Neill, who had a chance to play
with Hansen before her career with
the Cardinal, had nothing but praise
for her integrity and character.
“I was teamed up with her in Puer-
to Rico and then later in Holland, so I
had a chance to play with her before
we even put on a Stanford uniform to-
gether,” Neill explained. “I could tell
from the start that she was a good kid,
so when I knew she was committing [to
Stanford], I was definitely really excit-
ed. She’s a hard worker, and always
puts in the effort at practice. She’s just
a good kid, a great teammate.”
Rittman, considering himself fortu-
nate to coach Hansen, has been very
impressed by her poise and determina-
tion.
“She’s very mature for her age, and
she’s a team player and a great com-
municator,” Rittman said.“We’re very
blessed to have her in our program.As
a coach, you couldn’t ask for a better
player to work with, on and off the
field.”
Hansen,in return,is just as thankful
to have teammates that she thinks are
fantastic, and looks forward to closing
out the season with them.
“I couldn’t have asked for a better
group of girls,” Hansen explained.
“Our team’s camaraderie is amazing,
and it makes the sport that much more
enjoyable to play every day.We’ve had
a fantastic season, and we are still on a
mission as it wraps up. Our main focus
is to take things one game at a time and
play our best game on any given day.If
we do that, we have the tools to beat
any opponent in this country.”
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@stan-
ford.edu.
the Mountain Pacific Sports Feder-
ation (MPSF) — and its confer-
ence tournament handily. Neither,
however, provided the team with
an automatic bid to the NCAA
Tournament.
The Cardinal played close
games with top teams and ended
the season with a shocking 8-6 win
over third-ranked University of
Pennsylvania. Given that the Car-
dinal spent much of the latter half
of the season ranked in the top 15,
this win would seem to be icing on
Stanford’s proverbial cake when it
came to making the tournament.
But, alas, the team was left out.
There is an underlying problem
with Stanford being left out of the
tournament. It is something I don’t
normally give much weight to,
again, being from New York, and
that is an East Coast bias.
Please see BOHM, page 5

AGUSTIN RAMIREZ/The Stanford Daily

Freshman Ashley Hansen connects on a pitch for the Stanford softball team.
The shortstop has had a stellar debut season, hitting .406 with four home runs
and leading the team in RBIs, with 48 in 50 games.
6 N Wednesday, May 6, 2009 The Stanford Daily
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
NEWS BRIEFS DONNER
Students live off food stamps for a day Research:Narcolepsy is Continued from front page

with food stamps is just to get cally involved by

Challenge gives just
four dollars for meals
By JULIA BROWNELL
DESK EDITOR
At lunch and dinner today outside
Old Union, students lined up to try to
pay for a day’s meals with a four-dol-
lar food stamp as part of Students
Taking On Poverty’s (STOP) Food
Stamp Challenge.
“It’s a reality check when you
compare it to what you eat every day
in the dining hall,” said Anton
Zietsman ‘12, a member of STOP
who participated in the lunch portion
of the challenge.
Approximately 140 people
showed up for the event, though 280
had registered; the majority came at
lunchtime. The event featured an
abundance of food spread out on a
table in front of Old Union with the
prices laid out per serving. For exam-
ple, a slice of bread cost 20 cents.
“We had a number of options try-
ing to represent what is inexpensive
and easy to prepare without a
kitchen, and also the food that might
be available in low-income neighbor-
hoods; it’s not farmers market fresh,”
said Lucy Litvak ‘11, a director of
STOP.
Part of the Challenge was to alert
people to the food choices that have
to be made on such a limited budget.
“The cheapest foods are the least
healthy — two Oreos were 25 cents,
but an apple was 50 cents; that’s real-
ly how it is when you go to a grocery
store,” said Christina Guros, ‘09, who
participated in the event for lunch
and dinner.“The tendency for people
autoimmue disorder perspective.”
what fills you up.” writing letters to your By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
“You can access the raw data if
you want to,” Crowley added. “We
In addition to senator,” Litvak
the types of food said. She added Stanford researchers believe they
want to make this as open-source as
possible.”
available, STOP that they also have determined that narcolepsy is, With a stack of 150 Post-It notes
tried to present the urged participants in fact, an autoimmune disease. full of ideas, their work is cut out for
difficulties of shopping to “pay attention to Narcolepsy is a disease affecting them. But, Mori said, finding the
on such a tight LAURA CHANG/ how you vote on policies approximately one in every 2,000 best, least-intrusive design to show
budget. The Stanford Daily involving food.” people, characterized by extreme people their energy use “fits with the
“I don’t think STOP also included infor- drowsiness often to the point of ran- whole idea of respecting people.”
there was anything shocking . . . so mation on how to get involved with dom, uncontrollable bursts of sleep A similar program exists in
much as going through the motions other groups fighting hunger on throughout the day. Storey, but only measures energy
of having to budget every 25 cents of campus, such as the Stanford Emmanuel Mignot, professor of use floor-by-floor, explained Mori.
food,” Litvak said. “With a limited Project on Hunger (SPOON), sleep medicine at the School of Storey residents must visit a Web
budget, you make decisions about which serves food to the homeless Medicine, and his colleagues conduct- site to get information about their
what’s going to fill me up.” at the opportunity center, and ed a genetic study on 1,800 people with energy use, which is provided in
Even after buying food, Guros Challah for Hunger, which raises the same variation of the Human terms of watts, pounds of carbon,
was faced with the realities of money for many hunger-related Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) gene, dollars and hamburgers. But the
hunger. non-profits. which is involved in the body’s immune freshmen hope to improve on that
“I think of dinner as having a veg- In addition to this event, STOP response. It has long been known that design. CHRIS SEEWALD/The Stanford Daily
etable and meat and some kind of put on a panel Monday night, fea- HLA had a link to narcolepsy, and 800 “Who cares if it’s 5.3 watts? The energy monitor pictured above
starch — I ended up just eating a cup turing Leo O’Farrell, food stamp of the 1,800 subjects had the disease. That’s two cents,” Mori said. was installed on the third floor of
of noodles and a banana; I’m a little program director for the City and The aim of the study, which was Associate Professor of
hungry right now,” Guros said a few County of San Francisco; Colleen Donner as part of a project which
published online Monday in Nature Mechanical Engineering Shilajeet
hours after the event. “Especially Rivecca, advocacy coordinator for Genetics, was to determine what “Banny” Banerjee is advising the began as an idea for an IntroSem.
having a family, I think coming up the St. Anthony’s Foundation; among those with the HLA variant project, called PlugVIEW The project aims to monitor how
with a meal at the end of the day David Kane, food system change pushed some to develop narcolepsy. (Visualizing Individual Energy much energy Donner residents use.
would be very difficult.” coordinator for Collective Roots; Mignot found that those with nar- Waste) by the students. He first met
Zietsman felt that the event and Matthew Stoltz ‘08, a Stanford colepsy also presented a variant of a Mori, Crowley and Kallman in his “It doesn’t bother us at all,” said
forced the truth of the larger world graduate currently on food stamps. gene related to T-cells, another com- fall-quarter introductory seminar, Anne Warner ‘12, another resident.
upon those in the Stanford Bubble. “[Stoltz] is currently on food ponent of the immune system. “Think Like a Designer.” Since Mori presented the project at
“[The Food Stamp Challenge] stamps because of unemployment, Mignot postulates that the combi- “We have a huge crisis in the a house meeting, she said, “I’ve defi-
made you come to terms with the fact and that hit home for me because I nation of the HLA and T-cell vari- energy sector,” Banerjee said. “We nitely been thinking of turning off
that we do live a privileged life,” he don’t have a job,” Guro said. “It was ants creates an immune response have huge targets to thwart climate my lights more.”
said. “We lose touch with what things kind of a reality check.The stakes are that attacks cells that secrete change. Supply-side efficiency meas- Funds for the project came from
actually cost — a lot is hidden behind a little bit higher if you run out of hypocretin, the hormone for wake- ures are very important, but we need two sources: a $5,200 grant from
our dining hall cards.” food.” fulness that narcoleptics lack. to modify the consumption side as Green Fund and a sponsorship from
After taking the Food Stamp The food stamps situation is wors- In addition to its relevancy to nar- well.” Veris Industries, who installed the
Challenge, participants were encour- ening because of the economic crisis, colepsy treatment and research, the That means combining behav- components of the circuit breaker
aged to write letters to their senators as more people turn to them to sus- findings could have implications for ioral science with design, an effort panel for free. That left $14 in ship-
calling for the expansion of the tain their diet. According to other autoimmune diseases. This that has only begun to address ener- ping for the students to cover, plus
Childhood Nutrition Act to preserve O’Farrell, the number of cases taken study is one of the first that was able gy, he said. the cost of the server. The rest of the
free lunches for students who need on by San Francisco has gone up by to isolate a specific gene involved, “Kevin and gang are doing exact- grant will go toward developing
them in public schools. At the event, 1,500 in the past year. and such findings could lead to more ly that,” Banerjee said. “Energy feedback devices for residents to
80 letters were collected. information on other autoimmune companies are interested in seeing use.
“[The purpose was] also making Contact Julia Brownell at juliabr@ diseases such as multiple sclerosis these [sensors] deployed in every Banerjee said he is confident
people aware that they can be politi- stanford.edu. and juvenile diabetes. home, in every building.” about the future of the Donner proj-
Donner Resident Fellow Linda ect.
Paulson said residents seemed “For 100 years, we’ve plugged
receptive to the project. things into the wall and had it come

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ers, student leaders and administra-
tors in the same room so we can just
talk about their views on these issues,”
Katz said.“So for us, it’s kind of a way
of getting student input on what our
agenda should be.”
Senator Zachary Warma ‘11
agreed, noting the importance of
these sessions to give students an
opportunity to interact with relevant
administrators in a cooperative
“brainstorming session.”
“[The Policy Forum is] giving a
chance for us to interact with the pub-
lic, but also to really begin to craft
these sort of broad-ranging kind of
incentives and agendas that can push
all aspects of the ASSU forward
through the year,” Warma said.
The Senate also discussed last
night a new party level that was pro-
posed by the OSA. Senator Adam
Creasman ‘11 explained that the pro-
posed change was a response to the
significant distinction between party
levels two and three, and the new “I think it’ll work for people who to us,” he said. “It’s not precious to
party level is intended to serve as an are already ecological; I think it us. The challenge is in the hands of
intermediary that will allow students could work,” said Josh Falk ‘12, a folks like Kevin, Ben and Matt.”
third-floor resident. He said he
to invite an infinite number of guests,
but not serve hard alcohol. would be willing to have some sort Contact Elizabeth Titus at etitus@
“The problem in the past is that of energy monitor in his room. stanford.edu.
the rules haven’t always lined up with
how parties are actually run, which
means that when group leaders apply
for parties, they don’t follow the

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will decrease the level of alcohol inci- Continued from front page
not decades.
dents on campus.” “The media followed the same
Two bills including the “The core [of this problem] was trend with the economy,” Shepard
Sustainability Bill and the Vaden simple, transparent and clear — we said. “Good stories [that reveal the
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nel to improve Vaden as a resource, by ing bad decisions,” he added. lications to tailor toward cyberspace.
including more student feedback and Pearlstein and Shepard attacked Their concerns about this trans-
act as an intermediary relaying infor- the problem of reporting on the cri- formation were evident throughout
mation to students. sis by explaining the crisis on a the talk.
The Senate also discussed how it macro level. “There is a de-funding of media
intends to organize itself to be more Pearlstein saw the current prob- as we search for a new business
effective and to hold individual sena- lem as a manifestation of years of model,” Shepard said. “Our problem
tors more accountable. Americans living beyond their is to figure out ways to sustain qual-
Returning Senator and previous means, consuming more than they ity journalism, not fragmenting it.”
Senate Chair Shelley Gao ‘11 suggest- were producing and having easily Envisioning the future of the
ed that the Senate ought to form com- available credit. media, he added, “A publication
mittees that are dedicated to address- In alerting the reader to this “irra- should do what it does best and link
ing specific issues, such as academic tional exuberance,” Pearlstein said to the rest.”
advising or gender-neutral housing. the challenge is that “the press is sup-
“I think there is a lot of tendency posed to speak truth to the readers Contact Alan Guo at alguo@stan-
from my experience last year for peo- about their own shortcomings.” ford.edu.
ple to just escape under a big, large
heading of advocacy or not really
[maintain] substantial progress on
their particular issue,” Gao said. “I
think that [issue-focused subcommit-
tees] really encourages accountability
on our part and makes progressing
evident and clear.”
Senator Lee Jackson ‘12, while not-
ing that he felt sub-committees could
be a good idea, stressed the impor-
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tomatic bid to the NCAA Tourna-
ment next year. With Stanford re-
turning its nine leading scorers
from this season, as well as goalie
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onship, and that is a shame.
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not, and the Stanford lacrosse play-
ers can begin their season with a
chip on their shoulders, wanting to
prove to the country that they be-
longed in the NCAA Tournament
this year.
Dan Bohm is not happy with the
NCAA. Let him know if you feel the
same at bohmd@stanford.edu.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Baseball rallies for win over San
Jose State
The Stanford baseball team rallied
from an early 7-1 deficit to defeat San
Jose State 9-8 at the Sunken Diamond
last night. Sophomore second base-
man Colin Walsh went 3-5 and drove
in four runs, including a two-run sin-
gle to give the Cardinal (23-19) its first
lead in the bottom of the eighth in-
ning, and fellow sophomore Drew
Storen picked up the win despite let-
ting up a run in his one and one third
innings pitched.
The Cardinal fell behind 7-1 after
two and a half innings, with its lone
run coming from a Ben Clowe solo
shot — the sophomore’s second of
the season and second in his last two
games. However, junior outfielder
Toby Gerhart knocked in fellow out-
fielder Joey August with a single in the
bottom of the third, and the Cardinal
exploded for five runs on the Spartans
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 N 5
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BASEBALL|Kiilsgaard
fullback for the football team.So really,
it was kind of the position change and
just the fact that I knew I had the poten-
tial to become a really effective base-
ball player that just helped me decide
that it was the right time to make that
call.”
With his football career behind him,
suddenly Kiilsgaard could devote all of
his efforts to improving on the baseball
diamond, and that work has shown
through so far in 2009. Kiilsgaard has
taken, perhaps, the biggest step for-
ward of any of last year’s freshmen,
going from just three at-bats in 2008 to
144 so far this year. Recently, his left-
handed bat has slotted in nicely with
right-handed hitting senior Brent
Milleville to give the Cardinal a power-
ful one-two punch in the heart of its
order.Milleville and Kiilsgaard togeth-
er have accounted for 19 of Stanford’s
38 home runs on the season, with no
other player hitting more than five.
“Probably all the way back to sixth
or seventh grade, I’ve been playing
football in the fall and baseball in the
spring,”Kiilsgaard said.“This is the first
time I’ve ever had a full year only to
practice baseball, and it’s really helped
(32-16) in the next two innings to tie
the game at 7-7. The score remained
the same until Walsh put the Cardinal
ahead in the bottom of the eight, driv-
ing in sophomore Jake Schlander and
senior Jeff Whitlow from second and
third, respectively. Storen allowed a
home run from San Jose State’s Corey
Valine to lead off the ninth; but after
walking the next Spartan hitter, the
Stanford sophomore got three
straight outs to close out the game.
The Cardinal will now travel a few
miles down the bay to take on Santa
Clara tonight at 6:00 p.m.
Women’s golf to compete in Central
Regional
Stanford will head to Columbus,
Ohio, to take on 21 teams in the
NCAA Central Regional, starting
Thursday.The Cardinal will attempt to
place in the top eight in the field,which
will assure them a spot in the NCAA
Championships later this month.
me to turn into a much more polished
baseball player, I think.”
With the team’s back to the wall in
the 14 games remaining in the season
and plenty of work left to do if the Car-
dinal is to make another trip to the
postseason in 2009, Kiilsgaard was
adamant that the team’s primary focus
had to be on not letting up and focusing
on each game “like it’s the one that
means the most.”In that race to the fin-
ish, August and Kiilsgaard’s other
teammates are certainly glad the slug-
ging outfielder is on their side, both in
the dugout and on the field.
“He’s an awesome team guy — he’s
someone that you know is going to give
everything he has and it’s contagious;
you want to do the same for him,”Au-
gust said.“Just to have a guy like that in
the locker room and in the dugout, a
guy that you know has your back, I
think helps a lot and brings the team to-
gether because people can rally around
a guy like that.He’s been awesome — I
can’t say enough about what he’s
meant for our team this year.”
Contact Denis Griffin at djgriff@stan-
ford.edu.
Stanford is slotted in at No. 9 in the
Regional, and will have to face known
foes like UCLA and Washington, and
powers such as Wake Forest and Pur-
due.
The Cardinal is coming off of a
sixth place finish at the Pac-10 tourna-
ment, but due to the strength of the
conference, remains ranked in the top
25 in the nation. Stanford will be lead
over the three-day tournament by
senior Mari Chun, freshmen Sydney
Burlison and Lila Barton, junior An-
gela King and sophomore Rebecca
Durham.
Durham had the top score among
Cardinal golfers at Pac-10s,shooting +7
on the weekend.In the individual rank-
ings, she is No. 91 in the country, while
Chun is No. 64 and Burlison is No. 97.
Play will run at the Scarlet Golf
Course through Saturday.
— By Wyndam Makowsky and
Sam Svoboda