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May 11, 2009
STUDENT GROUPS
North Korean
defector relays
experiences
Event highlights human rights,
political issues in North Korea
By EMILY FINLEY
The only North Korean defector to have
both been born in and escaped from a North
Korean gulag came to Stanford this Saturday
to share his story.
The Stanford Korean Students Association
(KSA) brought Dong-Hyuk Shin to campus
this Saturday as part of a panel that focused on
human rights and ongoing tensions in the
Korean peninsula.
Born in a concentration camp thirty miles
outside of Pyongyang, Shin grew up under Kim
Jong-il’s socialist regime. He stressed that the
laws of North Korea are not observed inside
the regime’s 22 camps, which are spread across
the country.
Shin said prisoners inside the gulags have
no contact with the outside world, and in gen-
eral do not question their living conditions.
“People cannot even imagine running
away,” Shin said through a KSA translator.
“They think it is a normal and obvious life.”
Shin also emphasized there is a limit to the
aid the South Korean government and inde-
pendent NGOs can provide to defectors. He
spoke about the economic difficulties that
many defectors face when they arrive in South
Korea, as well as the barrier that still exists
between North Korean and South Korean citi-
zens.
While he does not support Kim Jong-il’s
government, Shin argued that for the sake of
the North Korean people, he hopes North
Korea does not collapse soon.
Christine Ahn and Christine Hong, both
from the Korea Policy Institute, were members
of the panel and discussed the complexity of
the situation on the Korean peninsula.
Hong emphasized a nuanced view of the
current Korean political situation is necessary,
claiming that demonizing North Korea as evil
is overly simplistic. Both Hong and Ahn also
reminded the audience that a Cold War mind-
set still affects relations in the peninsula.
KSA leaders were pleased with the event.
“Everyone was intensely focused on Mr.
Shin,” said Chang Kim ‘09, KSA’s campus liai-
son director. “The people who came cared
about human rights issues in general. We
reached out to an audience that had the poten-
tial to do something with this information.”
Sean Holbert ‘09 felt he was able to gain
new knowledge from the event.
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The Shorenstein APARC held a panel on the 60th anniversay of the founding of the People’s
Republic of China that discussed U.S.-China relations in light of the economic crisis.
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Profs.debate China’s
role in economic crisis
By GERRY SHIH
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Cautious optimism was the dominant
tone struck last Friday by the host of U.S.-
China experts gathered at Encina Hall.
The group discussed the economic and
political futures of two countries rapidly
becoming the most important couple on the
international stage in a workshop titled
“China’s New Role in a Turbulent World.”
“The global economic crisis has suddenly
thrust ‘The U.S. and China’ into the forefront
of thinking in both this country and China,”
said J. Stapleton Roy, a career ambassador
once posted to China under the Clinton
administration. “It’s desirable in a way but
also has major dangers built into it. Perhaps
it has too quickly thrust China into a leader-
ship role in the global economic sense.”
Although the increasingly symbiotic rela-
tionship across the Pacific has been noted for
years, in recent months the idea of the
“Group of Two” — the United States and
China as the world’s predominant drivers of
policy — has rapidly gained currency relative
to traditional conceptions of agglomerated
economic clout, such as the G8.
The panelists, all China specialists in
either the fields of international finance or
politics, operated within that emerging
framework at the Encina event, a half-day
conference sponsored by the Shorenstein
Asia-Pacific Research Center. They agreed
that China has played a stabilizing role in the
recent economic crisis, and that as a result its
rise in world status has greatly accelerated.
The comments were echoes of the recent
G20 summit in London, when international
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leaders stressed that a globally concerted
effort to reverse the downturn would depend
on collaboration between both the financial-
ly paralyzed developed countries and the
savings-rich emerging economies, of which
China is the leader.
But the panelists warned of pitfalls. The
Chinese belief in open,Western-style capital-
ism of past years has now been rattled by the
devastation wrought by excesses that began
in America, and speakers warned that
Beijing could revert to greater state control
of the economy and roll back liberalization.
“The model which they adopted was the
Anglo-Saxon financial market-consumer
business model and now they see it as a false
god,” said Carl Walter Ph.D. ‘81, the CEO of
JPMorgan Chase Bank China. Walter’s was
the first Western bank allowed to incorpo-
rate within China, in 2007.
Years of work put in by Western investors
in the banking industry to make their
Chinese counterparts more “international,”
he said, “has probably been washed away.”
Lyric Hughes Hale, the founder of a
China-related business news provider, said
that with the wave of fiscal stimulus and rise
of central direction in bank lending, “any
kind of new financial reforms now are off the
table; institutional reforms are off the table.”
Stapleton, the former ambassador,
warned that a “leftist backlash” could surface
in the upper echelons of the Chinese
Communist Party after those who “were true
believers that the U.S. had mastered financial
services” had been discredited.
“Are we going to find ourselves drifting
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WOMEN’S LACROSSE SPECIAL
LA-CROSSED OUT OF TOURNEY FIELD
Stanford women
passed over by NCAA
selection committee
By SARAH OHR
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Stanford’s season came to a shocking
end last weekend,as the women’s lacrosse
team was not awarded an NCAA tourna-
ment bid.The Cardinal knew it was on the
bubble, but after upsetting the third-
ranked University of Pennsylvania team
in Stanford’s biggest lacrosse upset of all
time, on top of dominating conference
play, the odds were believed to be in its
favor.Rumors were flying on the Stanford
campus, sparked by a spontaneous, cele-
bratory rally thrown for the players upon
arriving from Penn last Saturday night, as
well as projections on national lacrosse
Web sites such as Laxpower.com that
placed Stanford in the NCAA field.
Even first-year head coach Amy
Bokker was fairly confident about her
team’s postseason future.
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Issue 55
McConnell joins
Law School faculty
FEDERAL JUDGE BECOMES CLC
DIRECTOR;SULLIVAN STEPS DOWN
By ERIC MESSINGER realize I love being in an academic
DESK EDITOR environment. I just find the level of
conversation, and engaging with the
Stanford’s Law School and faculty, to be great.”
Constitutional Law Center (CLC) “My work at the court is good, but
will trade one nationally respected it’s very monastic,” McConnell
legal voice as its director for another added. “You have to be very cau-
with the addition of federal Judge tious. I’m excited to be able to speak
Michael McConnell.
McConnell will join the Law
School faculty and serve as the
new director for the CLC, begin-
my mind, and to be with people
engaged in thinking about the
issues.”
McConnell was also optimistic
ning in the upcoming academic
year. CLC founder Kathleen
Sullivan will step down as director
but continue her involvement.
McConnell had previously served
about the prospects offered by
work at the CLC, where he will be
the first new director since its
founding under Sullivan in 2006.
“To me, it’s one of the great
as a judge on the 10th Circuit attractions of coming to
Stanford,” McConnell said, “to
of the United
be a focal point of national dis-
States Court of
cussion at such an interesting
Appeals. Law
time in our national
School Dean
history.”
Larry Kramer
spoke positively
McConnell, who
about what McConnell
has previously taught
would bring to the
two courses at Stanford,
University.
emphasized that he will
“Prior to becoming a judge, he
immediately begin a
was already one of the top
full teaching load.
Constitutional law scholars and CRIS BAUTISTA/
“I want to jump
lawyers in the country,” Kramer The Stanford Daily
right in,” he said.
wrote in an email to the Daily. “He
“Teaching is for me one of the
now adds the experience of seven
years as a judge on the second high- great benefits,” McConnell added.
est court in the country. He thus “I’m not someone who will be look-
brings unique experience alongside ing to get out of doing that.”
McConnell said that his prior
his already formidable knowledge
experience with Stanford students
and creativity as a scholar.”
“Adding Judge McConnell to the made him enthusiastic to work with
mix certainly raises the overall pro- them again.
“They were exceptionally curious,
file of the Center,” he added.
Kramer noted that he had been interesting and engaging,”
working to bring McConnell to the McConnell said. “They were the
University’s best ambassadors.”
Stanford faculty for some time.
McConnell said that he plans to
“Mike visited us here three years
ago, and that started the conversa- teach a course in the fall on religion
tion,” Kramer said in an interview and the first amendment, as well as
with the Daily. “It’s been a long other parts of the Constitutional law
curriculum. He also said that he has
process of wooing on our part.”
McConnell had previously taught tentative plans to teach a course for
at both the University of Utah and “law students and non-law students”
the University of Chicago. He said alike, focused around Alexis de
the opportunity to immerse himself Tocqueville’s 19th-century classic
again in legal academia was the “Democracy in America.”
underlying reason for his decision. “It is a work that speaks even
“There was no one epiphany,”
McConnell said, “but I just came to Please see LAW, page 3
“I told the players after the game
[against Penn] — we can’t say with 100
“It is frustrating that other conferences
get automatic bids so teams way below us
percent certainty that we’re in,but it was a
quality win for us and I hope the commit-
will get in ahead of us,” lamented junior
defender Eleanor Foote.
tee recognizes that,”Bokker said just after
the victory.“I think we have a really good
However, D’Ann Keller, the NCAA
liaison for women’s lacrosse, explained
chance.” that the selection committee does its best
It is not surprising, then, that when to eliminate bias when selecting at-large
Sunday evening’s selection announce- bids.
ment did not include Stanford as one of “The selection committee is comprised
the sixteen teams vying for the national of appointed coaches and administrators
title, the women were in disbelief. from the Division I membership,” Keller
“Before the [selection] show started, said. “It is a rotational regional appoint-
the room [at Jimmy V’s Sports Café] was ment made by various conference offices
full of nervous energy and excitement,” and then approved by the NCAA
said senior Bess Siegfried. “And then, Division I Sport Management/
when we didn’t get in, there was just Championships Cabinet — appointments
silence.” are based on four-year terms, and many
In women’s lacrosse, 16 teams are are the same each year.”
invited to compete in the NCAA tourna- This year, the committee included
ment,eight by automatic bid after winning Vanderbilt’s Associate Director of
their conferences outright.After the auto- Student Athletics, Candice Storey Lee.
matic bids are given for conference play, Vanderbilt was also viewed as a bubble
eight at-large bids are given to teams team, but found its way into the tourna-
selected by committee. The Cardinal ment with an at-large bid. Keller,
hoped to qualify with one of these at-large though, defended the committee’s
bids,as the champion of its conference,the
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, does
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not yet receive an automatic bid.
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FEATURES
The Power of Powwow
Native-American cultural festival draws 30,000 to the Farm
By EMILY RIALS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
O
n April 21, 1971, a small
ad was placed in The
Stanford Daily, announc-
ing a “May Day Pow
Wow” to be held in Frost
Amphitheater.
“The Native American students of
the Stanford American Indian
Organization are sponsoring the
event,” the ad read. “Its purpose is to
stress American Indian culture to the
local community, both Indian and
Non-Indian.”
Thirty-eight years later, the
Stanford Powwow has swelled to an
event that fills Eucalyptus Grove to
capacity and draws more than 30,000
people to Stanford’s campus over the
course of three days.
Denni Woodward, associate direc-
tor at the Native American Cultural
Center, has been affiliated with the
Stanford Powwow since 1990 and said
that Powwow is truly a community
event.
“A Powwow is something that
started out in the plains, with the
plains tribes, and it’s really a coming
together — in this case a celebration
of native dance and music and cul-
tures and art,” Woodward explained.
Political Correctness: A Cardinal Rule
While Stanford’s Powwow is now
an established tradition, Woodward
said that the celebration “came on the
heels of civil rights.” In 1970, the newly
founded Stanford American Indian
Organization (SAIO) circulated a
petition for the removal of Stanford’s
Indian mascot, arguing that the single
image perpetuated by the mascot was
“inaccurate and disrespectful.”
In response to the University’s
decision to ditch the Indian in favor of
the more politically correct Cardinal,
students decided to bring “more of a
native presence to campus” by hosting
a Powwow that spring.
“It started very small, as you might
imagine, and now, in its 38th year . . . I
can’t even tell you how much bigger it
is,” Woodward said. The Powwow is
now Stanford’s largest on-campus
multicultural event.
A Trans-National Event
“[The Powwow] is an event that
gives you a chance to showcase a cul-
ture that a lot of people think isn’t in
existence anymore,” said Joe
Cartwright ‘09, one of this year’s
Powwow co-chairs.
“Many of the Indian participants
will arrive from as far as Montana,
Oklahoma and New Mexico,”
explained that first Daily ad in 1971.
This year was no different, with com-
petitive drum groups and dancers
hailing anywhere from Nevada to
Ontario, Canada.
“We try to bring in California
Indian tribes, just because this is their
land,” Cartwright explained. “A lot of
the tribes and our head staff will be
Cherokee, or Navajo, or Cree or
Kiowa,” with representation of
Northwest and Canadian tribes as
well. The head dancers “act as model
citizens and model dancers. They’ll go
out and perform their dance of choice,
and then it’ll lead off the competitive
dancing.”
“There’s a tremendous family
quality [to the Stanford Powwow],”
Woodward said.“Every year the head
dancers and drums that the students
invite reflect where our own students
come from. So the personality of it
changes every year, and the tribal mix
changes every year.”
Held during Mothers’ Day week-
end every year, Stanford’s Powwow is
one of the first of the summer pow-
wow season. The Powwow is not only
a large event relative to Stanford’s
standards; the Stanford Powwow is
also the largest student-run powwow
in the country.
“We figure that most undergrads
attend the Powwow at least once
while they’re here [at Stanford],”
Woodward said.
The attendees of the Powwow are
often not just one-time visitors,
though.
“People really kind of fall in love
with it when they come for the first
time,” Cartwright said. He’s heard tell
of a couple who fly to California from
Germany every year for the purpose
of attending the Powwow.
Ruben Eagle Feather is an Apache
man from Menlo Park and has attend-
ed the Stanford Powwow for the last
10 years.
“This is right up there with the big
powwows,” he said. “It’s one of the
easiest powwows to go to — people
are watching your back, you don’t
have to worry about anything happen-
ing to you . . . everyone’s so nice
here.”
Powwows organized by individual
tribes are often planned by profes-
sional event planners, according to
Woodward.
“Our Powwow is so large, it chal-
lenges some of those professionally
run powwows,” he said.
An Expanding Tradition
This year, around 250 dancers were
expected to register for the weekend’s
competitions, which included divisions
for all ages in a wide variety of dance
traditions. This weekend’s Powwow
also welcomed a Raven Dancer, Gene
Tagaban from Washington, as a spe-
cial third head dancer.
“[Raven Dancing] isn’t something
that’s traditionally performed at the
Stanford Powwow,” Cartwright said,
“and a lot of us, including myself, have
The Stanford Daily
never seen it done.” arena and frequenting the booths in
As the event has grown, so have the grove beyond. A middle-aged
the opportunities it presents to visi- man named Mark explained, “I play
tors. The fifth annual Powwow, fea- Native American flute, so I like to see
tured in The Daily on May 17, 1976, the makers here.” This was Mark’s
had relocated to “a powwow ground fifth or sixth visit to the Stanford
constructed on the intramural fields”
and featured the sale of Native
Powwow, he estimated.
American food, crafts and clothing in The Power of Powwow
booths around the central dance For many, the
arena. In more recent years, a Fun attraction of the
Run/Walk has been added to the Stanford Powwow
agenda, and the schedule for this seems to involve more
weekend included the Second than specific dancers or
Annual Maurice Morsette 3-on-3 vendors. The event is an
Basketball Tournament. In addition, end in itself — the power
about 112 booths circled the dance of the overall experience
arena at this year’s Powwow, offering is what keeps them com-
everything from information to cloth- ing back. For Teddy
ing, pottery and jewelry to Indian Butler, the power of the
Tacos and fry bread. Powwow is a restorative
Despite an expansion in activities one.
offered, from the organizers’ perspec- Butler, a man of
tive, the Powwow is still focused pri- Pottawatomi, Sauk and
marily on education. Fox descent, explained
“It’s all about education and bring- that he has been com-
ing these cultures to campus,” ing to the Stanford
Woodward said. Powwow since
“I think people really like it around 1990.
because it is put on just by students, “I have mem-
and it’s a huge event,” Cartwright ories here,” he
added. said, from danc-
“My favorite part is, of course, the ing to being
dancing and the drumming,” said introduced to a
Alani Many Star, of the Blackfeet later girlfriend.
tribe. This weekend marked her first Butler is a traditional drum AGUSTIN RAMIREZ/The Stanford Daiily
visit to the Stanford Powwow, though dancer.
she explained that she has previously “[Now,] I don’t compete,” he said.
attended powwows across the United “I just carry on.”
States and Canada. When asked what brings him back
The vendors have also become a to the Powwow, Butler sighed.
main attraction. Many student visitors “I’m a recovering alcoholic and
to the Powwow divide their time
between watching the dancers in the Please see POWWOW, page 3
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“I didn’t know a lot about North
Korea,” he said. “I definitely catego-
rized the regime more as the Axis of
Evil, and this event showed me the
complexity of the situation.”
Kim added that the two speakers
from the Korea Policy Institute cer-
tainly enhanced the panel, but ques-
tioned whether there was an audi-
ence for a more complex message.
“The testimony of defectors can
be done in a sound bite,” Kim said.
“It’s something that people can
relate to and understand. Once
Christine Hong went up there and
started talking, once she started get-
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“It made me realize how many
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tion,” Kim added, “such as U.S. mil-
itary and political involvement in
the Korean peninsula.”
Shin arrived two days before the
event, spending time in San
Francisco with the KSA. Kim said
Shin found his time in the Bay Area
relaxing.
“Mr. Shin has gone through hell,
and he’s still doing fine — he still
hasn’t lost his mind or anything,”
Kim said. “I feel like it makes me
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more to our time than to its own,”
McConnell said. Kathleen Sullivan
could not be reached by The Daily
for comment, but in a press release
by the Law School, she also
remarked positively on the change.
“To have Judge McConnell join
our faculty and carry on the work
of our Constitutional Law Center
is an academic coup of the first
order,” Sullivan said, “and I look
forward with great excitement to
having him as my colleague.”
Sullivan has drawn national
attention recently as a possible
choice for a Supreme Court nomi-
nation from President Obama.
Dean Kramer emphasized that the
move from the director position
had no relation to this speculation.
McConnell himself was consid-
ered a possible Supreme Court
nominee during the George W.
Bush administration. He empha-
sized, however, that he will seek to
steer academic discourse away
from partisan affiliations.
“I’ve been worried over the last
10-15 years, maybe longer, that a
lot of academic discourse in the
public law field has really been a
lot of cheerleading and
partisan[ship],” McConnell said. “I
want to make it clear that scholars
can make a contribution to issues
that are important and pressing
and be engaged, yet engaged not in
a political sense, but engaged in the
actual debates and merits.”
“That’s what the public needs,”
he added.
Contact Eric Messinger at messinger
@stanford.edu.
Continued from page 2
addict,” he said. “This is one of the
things that saved my life — this
Powwow, the carrying on. I go to pow-
wows wherever I can.”
The purpose of this weekend,
then, is ultimately about something
deeper than watching individual
dancers or shopping at individual
booths.The Powwow has a restorative
power, a power to widen the horizons
of those attending their 20th such
event as well as those attending their
first. The Powwow is an event that
both affirms native cultures and
shares them, celebrates their past and
acknowledges the possibilities of their
future.
“[The Powwow] is a chance for
people of all sorts of tribes, and all
other ethnicities and cultures, to come
and see all sorts of native cultures put
on in one venue,” Cartwright said.
“Once those people get here and see
that it’s not just Stanford benefiting,
but that the whole country can bene-
fit . . . I think that’s the power of it.”
Contact Emily Rials at ekrials@stan-
ford.edu.
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ideologically apart because of this
global crisis?” he said, suggesting
some uncertainty in the orientation
of China’s future leaders, while cast-
ing a watchful eye toward the CCP’s
18th National Congress in 2012.
China’s current top leaders are
due to step down then, and the Party
will likely elect leaders from a
younger generation that reached
political maturity after the wane of
the Cultural Revolution — and its
stiff Maoist ideology — in the mid-
1970s.
With dramatic monetary expan-
sion now underway in the United
States, China is also expected to think
twice about adding dollar-denomi-
nated assets to its reserves, according
to the Chicago-based pair. The dol-
lar’s tenability was deteriorating in
the face of massive U.S. spending as
the cost of the economic bailout
mounts, warned Hughes Hale and
David Hale, a Chicago-based econo-
mist with extensive Washington ties.
In what was viewed as a conces-
sion of China’s dilemma in holding
roughly $1.9 trillion in reserves of
uncertain long-term value, central
banker Zhou Xiaochuan recently
suggested a shift away from the dol-
lar as the world’s reserve currency.
“What Zhou was saying was
please don’t monetize these Obama
budget deficits,” Hale said. “If the
dollar were to lose its role as the
world reserve currency, it would have
catastrophic effects on the U.S.”
Still, China’s GDP in 2010 is
expected to rebound to roughly 7.5
percent, with some analysts’ esti-
mates as high as 10 percent, the pan-
elists said. Despite the falloff in
exports, domestic consumption with-
in China appears relatively robust.
“We might look back 10 years
from now and see how this was a sign
of how a developing country could
play a leading role,” Hale said.
The tone was largely conciliatory
on political issues. Stapleton urged
against a “military balance” approach
to thinking about U.S. involvement in
the Taiwan Strait. That was only pos-
sible “when China was weak,” he
said.
Princeton Professor Thomas
Christensen said a move away from
bilateral issues to coordinating activi-
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ties in third areas would strengthen
relations by “selling” the relationship
to the public in both countries. Such a
policy could increase “room” for
Chinese national pride as well as
assuage fears here that “the rise of
Chinese influence will come at
America’s expense,” he said.
“But to collaborate, China needs
to soften its strict adherence to a pol-
icy of non-intervention,” Christensen
said, without making explicit refer-
ences. He made only a brief mention
of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur
earlier in his speech as an example of
areas where China and the U.S. could
coordinate actions.
The event was held in honor of
the late Professor Michel Oksenberg,
a key member of the Shorenstein
Center and a highly distinguished fig-
ure credited with advocating
improvement in U.S.-China relations
to every U.S. President until his death
in 2001.
Contact Gerry Shih at gcash@stan-
ford.edu.
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OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
GSB cafe dispute partly result
of miscommunication
n ongoing controversy at the Gradu-
A
ate School of Business’ (GSB) Ar-
buckle Cafe has pitted cafe workers
against managers from the Bon Appetit
Management Company, which runs the es-
tablishment. The workers have complained
of harassment and retaliation for participat-
ing in protected union activities, while the
management has emphasized the situation is
primarily the product of a few misunder-
standings and reduced worker hours due to
the economic downturn.
While the situation is murky and both
sides likely have valid grievances, what’s
clear is that communication between parties
has been lacking. Stanford’s hard-working
support staff is unequivocally deserving of
respectful treatment. The management’s ef-
forts to continue providing quality service to
the University community despite difficult
economic times should also be recognized
and appreciated.Also commendable are the
students — notably those members of the
student group Stanford Labor Action Coali-
tion (SLAC) — who have attempted to as-
sist workers in airing their grievances.
What’s most important to remember in situ-
ations like this, however, is that communica-
tion is key. We would like to encourage the
workers, management and students involved
to sit down and discuss at length the griev-
ances in question so that all may better un-
derstand the underlying issues involved.
Some workers have claimed that they
have been falsely accused of stealing food,
been dressed down in front of customers and
temporarily laid off for two weeks in retalia-
tion for circulating a petition demanding a
more respectful work environment. The
management, on the other hand, contends
that the temporary layoffs were not directed
at particular employees, but instead were
furloughs that are typically utilized during
the spring break period, which is slow for
business. They also state that the petition in
question — the circulation of which is indis-
putably a protected union activity — was
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S TU ’ S V IEWS
Reconsidering the co-ed
dorm room debate
he National Review Online recently
T featured a piece written by Karen Ven-
able Morin, a mother of a Stanford stu-
dent who was residing in a co-ed room in one
of our co-ops. Following one of the media’s
favorite — and oldest — themes about col-
lege, the “OMG! Look at what those
naughty college kids are doing with their sex
and alcohol!” it was picked up by The New
York Times’ “The Choice” blog about col-
lege admissions.
Despite the fact that college students
have been having sex, doing drugs and drink-
ing since the 1960s, the media never ceases to
be shocked! just shocked! at this occurrence.
There is a sense of voyeurism in this — that
college students are doing inappropriate, im-
moral things at college — which obviously
interests a lot of people.Tom Wolfe’s book “I
Am Charlotte Simmons” sold thousands of
copies for this reason — it purported to tell
what life at an elite university was really like.
The daughter, luckily, was given a chance to
respond, and it went back and forth — a par-
ent and child debating the merits of her
mixed-gender rooming situation on the
pages of The Times.
Leaving aside the weird family drama —
the fact that the mother embarrassed her
daughter on a widely read Web site — the
mother also exhibited a grossly distorted
sense of gender relations. She insinuated
that her daughter was at a high risk for sexu-
al assault simply due to the fact that one of
her daughter’s male roommates drank, be-
cause Ms. Morin knows “how closely related
inappropriate sexual behavior and sub-
stance abuse are.” One would think that in
college, students can form their own judg-
ment about what is and what is not a safe sit-
uation.
Ms. Morin does not mention at all in her
article that the gender-neutral policy was
created partially to make gay and lesbian
students more comfortable. The question is
to what extent, if at all, religious, politically
conservative conceptions of morality should
determine Stanford’s housing policies.
Ms. Morin clearly thinks it has gone too
far. The issue most potentially damaging to
Stanford, and of elite, tolerant colleges in
general, is Ms. Morin’s point later in her Na-
tional Review piece: “Stanford and many
other colleges and universities do not re-
passed around during work hours, which is
prohibited on the basis that it may con-
tribute to a “hostile work environment.”
These allegations and disagreements
have led to the involvement of SLAC, which
has admirably attempted to protect workers’
rights in light of these alleged violations.This
culminated in several emails and a rally at
the GSB on April 21.
About the only clear-cut aspect of this
whole dispute is the lack of effective com-
munication. Until last week, the Arbuckle
Cafe did not even have an official shop stew-
ard, the union-appointed worker who would
be responsible for arbitrating this type of
dispute and who would likely have been able
to resolve any differences before the issue
became publicized campus-wide. And while
we would not want to put the onus entirely
on the workers to enhance communication,
language barriers, without question, con-
tribute to misunderstandings over these
matters. Programs such as “Habla” and
groups like SLAC are extremely valuable in
helping workers navigate workplace diffi-
culties, whether due to language or other
barriers, and incidents like these remind us
of their usefulness.
We do not want to point fingers at anyone
in this instance without a more thorough un-
derstanding of the facts. Stanford’s workers
deserve respect and dignity both as friends
and integral members of the Stanford com-
munity. If worker harassment is becoming a
serious problem, it must stop immediately.
Yet, at the same time, there is often a tenden-
cy to jump to conclusions on many campus
issues without interfacing clearly with the
administration and other authorities. Thus,
we should also strive to understand the situ-
ation from the point of view of the manage-
ment, which is as affected by economic diffi-
culties as other University programs. Ulti-
mately, both workers and management
should sit down and have a clear airing of
grievances so that every faction feels its con-
cerns are heard and can be addressed.
Stuart Baimel
spect their common-sense values. The uni-
versity seeks to undermine those values.”
Ms. Morin’s values, which I certainly respect,
may not be “common sense” to everyone.
Many who commented on The Times’ Web
site pointed out that parents cannot expect
to exert the same level of control on their
(now adult) children as they did during high
school. Daisy Morin, the daughter, is 22.
While maybe at 16 that level of parental con-
trol is fair and reasonable, Daisy is now an
adult.
My parents sent me off to college confi-
dent in the knowledge that they raised me
well enough to make smart choices — my
own choices, even if I chose options they did
not necessarily agree with. (Hi Mom and
Dad!) College is the appropriate time for
that transition to effective independence to
happen.
Ms. Morin could not quite wrap her head
around the fact that her daughter chose to
live in a gender-neutral room, instead choos-
ing to spend much time pointing out how the
co-ops are technically not in the University’s
gender-neutral housing program. Fact of the
matter is, her daughter made a choice that
was clearly not an impulsive, irrational deci-
sion, and it demonstrates a sincere disagree-
ment with her mother’s opinion and world-
view.
Ms. Morin should be confident that she
equipped her 22-year-old daughter to make
the right choice, even if she personally dis-
agrees with it.This is something that happens
between adult children and their parents all
the time, and is perfectly acceptable. Parents
cannot expect to make choices for their chil-
dren forever.
Stuart Baimel can’t wait until the next time Fox
News posts embarrassing Facebook photos of
a female they want to shame. Let him know
when it happens at sbaimel@stanford.edu.
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Say yes
ith about three years down and less
W
than five weeks to go, it’s over-
whelming and a little bit scary to
think back on everything I’ve learned here,
everyone who taught me (professors and
friends alike) and everything I’m going to
leave behind. Coming toward the end of
something that’s wildly transformative and
profound, it’s only natural to reflect not only
on all the great memories. All the times you
lost whole nights laughing with friends or
pulled off something so romantic that it
should have had a Snow Patrol soundtrack in
the background, or looked out at AT&T field
at Senior Formal and wondered how you
could have been lucky enough in life to be
there at that moment.
Natural too, then, is to reflect on the bad
times, the mistakes, the ones you wish you
could have back. While introspection is
something I normally try to avoid like the
plague, particularly when my quarter’s M.O.
has been to have as much fun as possible at
all costs and invariably deny the onslaught of
grocery check-out lines and conference calls
that comes along with the real world, lately,
when really thinking back on the things I re-
gret, they all have one basic thing in common.
They all involve me, in some way, saying
no.
No is probably the easiest thing in the
world to say, because it almost always in-
volves protecting ourselves from a risk or
chance that makes us scared or uncomfort-
able. “Do you want to go out tonight?” “No,
I’d rather recheck my homework.” “Do you
want to try this super interesting looking
class even though you don’t have the pre-
reqs?”“No, I’m not about to screw my GPA.”
“Do you want to tell me how you’re feeling?”
“No, I don’t.”
No is how we cut ourselves off from op-
portunity and challenge and cling to what is
expected of us and what we expect of our-
selves, and these expectations almost always
come from a dull and bleak kind of place
that’s rooted in nothing but external meas-
ures of worth and value that are in no way
original.
Thinking about my own regrets, what I
wish I got another shot at, I basically have
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P ITH AND P LEONASM
never done anything in a summer that I can
Matt
Gillespie
remember fondly or really be proud of, and
no is absolutely what got me there. No is what
made me not travel abroad for a summer to
fulfill the language requirement (meaning
that no is also what landed me with a 9 a.m.
Monday-Friday Spanish class my last quarter
of college). No is what made me not apply for
No is the kind of thing
journalism internships. No is what made me
turn down three different offers to travel
with family members to Europe. that makes us scared
Where no did get me was a 60-hour-per-
week, unpaid internship in a San Francisco
hospital, where I made myself a doormat for
various medical egos in the hopes of some-
to like the wrong
day becoming a very serious and very similar
medical ego myself. No also got me to take
summer school last year instead of doing one movies,write the
of the roughly 3,949,924 more interesting
things I could have done with my time. No is
what made me tell myself I had to be a doc-
tor when even my family wasn’t telling me
wrong poems,love the
that.
No was a small box, a ball, a chain, a shal-
low and narrow way of looking at the world
wrong people.
that consisted of me trying to imagine other
people’s expectations of me and then turning
down every interesting thing that came my bag and nothing but a complete confidence
way if it meant deviating from that very silly that it was all going to work out (also, it was
path. No is the kind of thing that makes us immediately after Pub Night, if that changes
scared to like the wrong movies, write the anything). Yes got me to read David Foster
wrong poems, love the wrong people. No is Wallace even though most people whose lit-
what gets us putting ridiculous assessments erary opinions I take seriously call him a
of value onto things that, universally speak- hack, and by virtue of this, saying yes got me
ing, could not possibly matter in any way to read a writer who gets me more excited
(God willing, I’ll forget which fraternity I was about writing than anyone I have ever read.
in by the time I’m 30 and just remember the I hope that when I leave here, I’ll remem-
friends I made). ber how to say yes for much longer than I’ll
I don’t know if it’s Stanford that taught me remember glycolysis or the prisoner’s dilem-
to say no so much, or if I, like I did with every ma, and that I’ll remember saying yes has
other expectation I used to think was on me, everything to do with a life that’s full of free-
just taught it to myself. But this year in partic- dom and compassion and generosity, and
ular, I’ve really worked hard at saying yes. that no, really, just gets you nowhere you ac-
Yes, so far, has turned my life at Stanford into tually want to be.
so much more than I thought it could be. Yes
got me to give up the medicine idea and leave Matt Gillespie got the idea from Dave Eggers,
it to people who will actually be brilliant and who says this all much better than he does (and
passionate about it and not just force them- who also frequently swears to get his point
selves in without thinking about it. across and keep things interesting). Email
Yes got me the last seat in a carpool to mattg3@stanford.edu and he’ll send you a
Coachella at 3 a.m. with no ticket, no sleeping transcript.
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SPORTS
CRASHING
THE WAVES
Men defeat Pepperdine to
advance to Elite Eight
By ALYSSA AHLUWALIA
Stanford men’s tennis dominated Sacra-
mento State and Pepperdine University in the
first round of the NCAA Championships this
weekend. The victories advance the Cardinal
to the Round of 16 in College Station,Texas on
May 14.
The road to Texas began on Friday with No.
9 Stanford’s 4-0 victory over the Hornets of
Sacramento State.
In doubles, Stanford’s senior Matt Bruch
and sophomore Ted Kelly beat out Hornets
players Jason Smith and Artur Klimenka, 8-4.
The match evened out an earlier Cardinal de-
feat, in which senior Blake Muller and junior
Richard Wire lost to Sacramento State’s
Marko Starcevic and Holden Ching, 8-5.
Freshmen Bradley Klahn and Ryan Thacher
then stepped in to ensure the Cardinal doubles
point with an 8-5 victory over Anton Stryhas
and Kiryl Harbatsiuk.
In singles, Thacher further advanced the
Cardinal lead with a win over Smith, 6-3, 6-1.
Stanford sophomore Greg Hirshman too, suc-
cessfully beat Klimenka,6-4,6-1,after stepping
in for sophomore Alex Clayton. Finally, Klahn
capped off the Cardinal victory, outlasting
Harbatsiuk, 7-5, 6-3.
The anticipated Cardinal win over Sacra-
mento State led to Saturday’s exciting match-
up with Pepperdine University, a school that
put Stanford away 4-2 in a second round match
during last year’s NCAA in Malibu, Califor-
nia.
In doubles,Wire and Muller defeated Pep-
perdine’s Mahmoud Kamel and Hugh Clarke,
8-3, and Bruch and Kelly capped off the win
with another victory over Alex Llompart and
Stuart Keplar, 8-3.The Cardinal dealt with the
Waves handily,achieving both wins in less than
an hour’s time.
The teams’ combative history brought out
tensions in Saturday’s rowdy crowds, and fans
appreciated Stanford’s quick domination over
Pepperdine in doubles. Playing this time on
Stanford turf, the Cardinal players took in all
of the emotion of the crowd.
“We knew going into the match with Pep-
Milleville
bats off
Lobos
By JACK SALISBURY
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
First baseman Brent Milleville still has
nine games left in his Stanford career,but late-
ly, he’s been playing like there’s no tomorrow.
Led by the bat of the senior, the Cardinal
(25-21, 10-11 Pacific-10 Conference) bounced
back from a 7-1 decision this past Friday to
take two of three from New Mexico, the sec-
ond-place team in the Mountain West Confer-
ence (33-18 overall).
Milleville recorded an astronomical 11
RBI in Stanford’s two victories over the
Lobos this past weekend — he hit two home
runs during Saturday’s 17-5 victory before
serving up an encore performance on Sunday,
hitting a second-inning grand slam (his 14th
home run on the year) to give the Cardinal a
lead it would never relinquish. The 17-run
total was the largest of the season so far for
Stanford.
“I’m seeing the ball well,” Milleville said.
“My swing feels good.”
Milleville’s bat wasn’t the only one making
noise this past weekend, though.The Cardinal
hit as many homers as the Lobos scored on
Saturday in a 17-5 victory; Milleville’s effort
Card drops third straight
Stanford’s offensive struggles
lead to end-of-season trouble
By CHRIS FITZGERALD
DAILY SPORTS INTERN
The Stanford softball team failed to score a
run, and produced only nine hits over three
conference games at Washington and No. 3
UCLA (41-9, 16-5 Pacific-10 Conference) this
past weekend.
The No. 4 Huskies (41-10, 14-7) were per-
fect at home when the No.2 Cardinal (44-9,13-
8 Pac-10) came to play on Thursday.Washing-
ton stayed unbeaten in their home state and
pounded Stanford,7-0.The Cardinal managed
only three hits against the Huskies’ junior
Junior Richard Wire teamed up with senior Blake Muller to defeat Pepperdine’s Mahmoud
Kamel and Hugh Clarke, 8-3. Wire also won his singles match against Alex Moreno, 6-3, 6-
2, to help Stanford advance past the Waves in the NCAA Championships.
perdine that we had to be ready for a battle,”
Klahn said. “They always come out with a lot
of energy and fire, but we were able to get a
quick start in the doubles and take the energy
out of them. The crowd also played a big part
in the doubles, creating an incredible atmos-
phere,and really helped us jump on them from
the start.”
The Cardinal continued to build on its suc-
cess during the singles matches, where Wire
bet Pepperdine’s Alejandro Moreno, and
Thacher bested Wave Alex Llompart, 6-2, 7-
6(2). With these wins, Stanford made up for a
rare singles loss by Klahn against opponent
Omar Altmann, 6-3, 6-3.
“The team really stepped up against Pep-
perdine, and it was a complete team effort,”
Klahn said.“One of the great things about this
team is that it is always a different person each
match that has the ability to raise their level
and provide a clutch win when another person
Freshman Brett Mooneyham didn’t walk a single batter in Stanford’s 17-5 victory over New Mex-
ico on Saturday. The left-hander also posted eight strikeouts to help the Card secure the win.
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was buoyed by sophomore Ben Clowe, junior
Toby Gerhart and senior Jeff Whitlow.
“Everyone is comfortable right now,”
Milleville said.“Hitting is contagious, too.You
see guys getting home runs, and getting hits,
pitcher, All-American Danielle Lawrie. The
British Columbia-native fanned 10 Cardinal
hitters and improved to 31-5 on the year.
Meanwhile, Husky sophomore Morgan
Stuart was 2-for-3 and added five RBIs to
Lawrie’s cause. Senior Ashley Charters regis-
tered two hits and scored twice for Washing-
ton.Four runs scored in the bottom of the sixth
helped cement a shutout win and avoid a sea-
son sweep by Stanford.
What little offense Cardinal bats mustered
came from juniors Alissa Haber and Brittany
Minder as well as freshman Ashley Hansen,
each of whom had one hit apiece.
Stanford head coach John Rittman praised
Haber’s ability to be an all-around contribu-
tor.
“She does a great job of making adjust-
ments, stolen bases, great glove work; she does
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has an off day.”
Stanford will continue its NCAA battle
against No. 8 USC on Thursday. The Cardinal
split meetings with the Trojans earlier in the
seasons, winning 4-3 in February and falling by
the same score in March.
Although the Cardinal will no longer have
the home court advantage that the first and
second rounds brought, this weekend offered
the team some momentum, and Stanford be-
lieves it will be ready for the Trojans in College
Station.
“We have another great opportunity ahead
of us against USC on Thursday,and are expect-
ing another hard-fought match,” Klahn said.
“Everyone will be looking for revenge after
losing a tough 4-3 match here at the end of
March.”
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and your confidence goes up.”
Boosted by the run support, freshman left-
hander Brett Mooneyham pitched seven and
a third solid innings, earning the win and im-
proving his record to 5-2 on the year. Though
he gave up four runs to New Mexico in the
fourth inning, Mooneyham only gave up
seven hits while striking out eight batters.
And, of particular importance for the young
hurler, he did not issue a single walk.
“No walks — I was pretty excited about
that,” Mooneyham said.
“It was a very good day for Brett, very
good for anyone,” said coach Mark Marquess.
“It’s just one of those days. It was a good of-
fensive day, just kind of funny that way.”
Stanford carried much of Saturday’s mo-
mentum into Sunday’s game, breaking the
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the little things,” Rittman said.
Stanford took a flight to Los Angeles for
play on Friday, where the Cardinal lost 1-0 in a
battle to the finish. The loss ensured a Pac-10
title for the Bruins, who shared the conference
lead with the Cardinal before weekend play.
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CARDINAL HITS
THE SWEET SPOT
W. Tennis serves nothing
but shutouts in Sweet 16s
By ANTHONY NGUYEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
With two 4-0 shutouts over the weekend,
the Stanford women’s tennis team will join the
men’s team in the NCAA Championship
round of 16 in search of its 16th national title.
Hosting the first and second rounds of
the “Big Dance,” the No. 13 Cardinal drew
Wichita State in the opening round. Like
every other first round opponent on the
Farm for the last decade, the Shockers were
quickly turned away.
“We played two really good opponents,”
said head coach Lele Forood.“Wichita was a
really strong team for a first round match
that we’ve seen in the past.They really got us
up to speed with our play with a competitive
team in the first round.”
In the match, the Cardinal quickly se-
cured the doubles point at the No.1 and 2 po-
sitions. With the early lead, Stanford picked
up two easy wins in singles by senior Jessica
Nguyen and sophomore Hilary Barte.
Sophomore Carolyn McVeigh clinched
the match with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Lenore
Lazaroiu.
On Sunday, Stanford squared off against
No. 25 Louisiana State University in the
Round of 32. Again, the doubles teams set
the tone of the match with two decisive vic-
tories, including one by Barte and junior
Lindsay Burdette.
“In both matches, we got up 2-0, lost the
next two games and then won pretty handily
after that,” Burdette said. “It just goes to
show that even when we’re struggling, we’re
close to playing well.”
In singles, Burdette demolished her op-
ponent 6-1, 6-1 in perhaps her strongest
match of the season at No. 2.
“I haven’t played a lot of matches lately,
with only one at Ojai,” Burdette said. “The
two dual-matches before that were a little
rough. Today and yesterday, I knew I was
getting back on my horse a little bit. Today
was where I want to be.”
Nguyen picked up her second win of the
weekend in a 6-1, 6-4 decision for the 3-0
Cardinal lead. The match eventually came
down to freshman Veronica Li and
McVeigh, who had also clinched Saturday’s
match.
With a 6-3, 5-2 lead, Li went back and
forth against Nicole Kantor on multiple set
points.
“It was really hard at the end because I
MLB ‘roids in the
hands of fans
F
or MLB in the modern era,the story,it
seems, is never a simple one, and the
street is never one-way.
As word broke on Thursday that Los Ange-
les Dodgers leftfielder Manny Ramirez would
serve a 50-game suspension for testing positive
for banned performance enhancing drugs, the
pall of the steroids scandal that has engulfed
baseball for nearly a decade now grew darker
over the West Coast. Back east, meanwhile,
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Ro-
driguez returned to action the very next night,
after missing the first month of the season with
a hip injury amid new allegations of steroid use
by another of baseball’s brightest stars.
Whether or not you think the Dodgers,cur-
rently in possession of a 4.5-game lead in the
NL West, will still be OK without their star
slugger, there’s no doubt they will miss him.
And by the same token,regardless of what you
think A-Rod may have done, the Yankees are,
doubtless, glad to have him back in the lineup.
A team can’t help but miss its best hitter and a
once-in-a-generation talent.These stories have
more relevance than that, though, because to-
gether they are even more nails in the coffin of
the notion that the steroid era was the case of a
few bad eggs stealing the records of past leg-
ends.
On the contrary, it has become increasingly
obvious that there was not an innocent fran-
chise in baseball. And while some players,
doubtless,did play clean,we the fans will never,
definitively, know who they were. It’s unfortu-
nate, but it’s reality. When everyone from
scrubs to superstars, nice guys to malcontents,
gets caught, it’s safe to say we don’t know any-
thing about it anymore.
But in the infamous words of one famous
steroid user, “I’m not here to talk about the
past.”But,unlike Mr.McGwire on Captiol Hill
years ago, I think I have a follow-up to that
comment.
The question now isn’t how the game can
catch the cheaters and right the record books;
it’s too late for that.And indeed,maybe I’m off
base here, but I’m starting to get the feeling
that the majority of the game’s fans are getting
tired of the same old calls for players to come
clean and admit their mistakes every time one
of these stories breaks.
And that’s a good thing,because it’s time to
Monday, May 11, 2009 N 5
was really nervous,” Li said. “Carolyn was
catching up to me, and we both had match
point at the same time. I felt like I can’t miss
and that I had to win the point because yes-
terday Carolyn beat me to it.”
With the crowd captivated on every
point, Li eventually won the match as Kan-
tor threw down her racket in anger.
“I ended up clinching it, and it felt really
amazing,” Li said.
On Court No. 1, Barte also had a defining
match of her own against No. 17 Megan Fal-
con. After being broken in her first service
game, Barte battled back for the 6-3, 3-4 lead
before play was suspended.
“Megan is a really quality opponent —
she’s had a really strong record throughout
college,”Forood said.“Hilary was doing very
well, and I’d like to think that she would
come through that match as well.Coming off
Ojai when it was a disappointment for her,
she played very strong yesterday and really
got her game back together today.”
With the win, Stanford will face No. 4
Baylor on Friday in a rematch of last year’s
quarterfinal matchup. While Stanford de-
feated them at the Indoor Championships,
the Lady Bears got the last laugh in a 4-1 de-
feat of the Cardinal last year.
“We’re a different team, they’re a slightly
different team and it’s going to be a totally
different experience this time around, quite
frankly,” Forood said. “We’re going to do
what we’ve been doing, and we’ll see what
happens on Friday.”
While the team that played last weekend
seemed to be a finely tuned machine, that
wasn’t always the case at the beginning of
the season. After much work, Stanford is
now confident in the lineup it will send to
College Station.
“This has been, more than any other, a re-
ally growth year for us,” Forood said. “We
have a really young group. We’ve been tin-
kering with doubles teams well into the dual
match season. It’s been a season of coming
together.”
“We’ve done a good job from where we
were in February to where we are now,”
Forood added.
Two convincing wins aside, Stanford
knows it still has quite a battle ahead of it to
end its title drought.
“You can’t guarantee anything, especial-
ly at this tournament,” Burdette said. “But
we’re in a great place where we’re not used
to being, which is the underdog.We’re peak-
ing, and a lot of teams are out of school,
doing two-a-days, while we’re right in our
regular rhythm.”
Contact Anthony Nguyen at anguyen9@stan-
ford.edu.
Denis
Griffin
Rants and Raves
direct that angst in another direction — that of
Bud Selig and the league itself.And, by exten-
sion, to ourselves as fans.
If we look at the whole steroids era in an-
other way,it shouldn’t really be surprising at all
that we find ourselves in this situation.In an en-
vironment with millions of dollars at stake and
hardly any testing or repercussions facing play-
ers who juiced up, no one should be shocked
that players decided to cheat in any or every
era. Now, no one’s saying that Hank Aaron or
Babe Ruth or any other great slugger of the
past would have used ‘roids,but you can be cer-
tain that some of their contemporaries would
have. People just don’t change that much over
time, especially when there’s money at stake
— and lots of it.
So what was the problem? Simply this:new
technologies were introduced and no effort
was made to control them. Baseball turned a
blind eye,and to a large extent,is still turning a
blind eye — using urine testing rather than
more reliable blood testing and not testing in
the offseason, giving players time to ramp up
their usage of a drug before a season to bulk up,
then tone it down before the season starts so as
not to get caught.
The question with baseball is no longer
who’s innocent and who’s guilty; it’s what are
we going to do with it? And I say “we”for a rea-
son.As fans,it’s incumbent upon us to demand
a level playing field if that’s what we really
want to see.Certain players are always going to
do what they can to get an edge,and others will
always try to keep up with them.Owners,team
management and league officials won’t step in
to fight the union and right the ship until their
bottom line is affected.
And that’s where we come in. Your ulti-
mate recourse as a fan, if you don’t like what
you see on the field and want to see it change,
is to stop buying so many tickets, foam fingers,
hot dogs and beers.And when you do, be sure
you let your favorite franchise know just why
you’re doing it.
So the demise of Manny Ramirez’s reputa-
tion while Alex Rodriguez seeks to rebuild his
is nothing new, but what fans choose to do
about it can be.That is, if you really care.
Denis Griffin isn’t calling for a boycott of base-
ball — he’s just saying it’s time to put your money
where your mouth is, one way or the other. Con-
tact him at djgriff@stanford.edu.
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SOFTBALL
UCLA’s bats helped out with a
dozen hits, half of which came in the
fifth inning.
LACROSSE Continued from front page

Continued from page 5 The Bruins scored an unearned

senior ace Missy Penna allowed only
five hits and one run, while her team
committed two errors. But, the of-
fense could not return the favor
against one of the nation’s best pitch-
ers in Bruin junior Megan Langen-
feld. Langenfeld allowed only four
hits, two of which came off the bat of
senior Maddy Coon.
In the loss, Rittman recognized his
team’s comparative success.
“Our best chance was on Saturday;
we had opportunities and we didn’t
do it,” he noted. “We learned a lot
from that experience.”
Junior Bruin catcher Kaila Schull
reached on all three trips to the plate,
and scored a run,to help her team pull
out a win on Friday.Sophomore Katie
Schroeder went 2-for-3 and knocked
in Schull from second base with one
out in the fourth inning at Easton Sta-
run and leaped ahead for the second
consecutive day, but went quietly
from the home half of the second
through the fourth. In the fifth,
UCLA produced six runs on six hits,
capped off by Schull’s two-run blast
over the fence at Easton Stadium.
Stanford’s hits came from Haber
and Hansen — each had a double —
and the pair has combined for 40 in
the two-base category this season.
Chinn fell to 13-3 with the loss, and
Stanford dropped to second in the
Pac-10 standings.
The Cardinal, a team which was
shutout just once this season before
the last three road games, was
outscored 16-0 on the trip. Stanford
provided only nine hits over three
games to aid the pitching staff.
Rittman shed some positive light
on the weekend series.
“It’s going to help prepare us for
where we want to be,” he said.“We’ve
selection, reiterating that the NCAA
does its best to ensure an unbiased selec-
tion.
“The committee also works with re-
gional advisory committees,[which are],
again, coaches/administrators from the
D1 membership, to conduct weekly
ranking and discussions of regional
teams,” Keller said. “The committee
takes into account a variety of criteria.”
No matter the selection criteria, it
seems the Cardinal could not have done
much more. Stanford hard arguably the
best season in school history, tying the
record for victories, surpassing the
record for total goals scored and domi-
nating the MPSF conference tourna-
ment for the fifth consecutive year.
Additionally, the win against Penn
marked the highest ranked team Stan-
ford has beaten in program history. In
the end, though, selection likely came
down to overall strength of schedule.As
a West Coast team, Stanford has fewer
opportunities to play top-ranked teams.
needed to do,”Bokker added.
After a few moments, and tears
around the room,Bokker addressed the
team.
“You obviously have a lot to be
proud of,” she said. “You seniors have
made a mark on what we’ve been able
to do as a program. I don’t know what
else to say.”
“We certainly feel like there is a bias
against West Coast teams in the lacrosse
world and no one seems to take us that
seriously,” Foote said. “Unfortunately
our win over Penn has been seen by
some people as a minor falter on their
part instead of a recognition that we are
actually a top team that legitimately out-
played them for the whole 60 minutes.”
Still, the players are not letting this
disappointing decision overshadow
how proud they are of their season as a
whole. The 8-6 decision against Penn
capped off an incredible run for the Car-
dinal.
“We believed we could win from the
women’s lacrosse Player of the Week, be proud of,” Read said. “We made
the first such honor for Nesbitt, who many great strides and accomplish-
played in every game (73) during her ments over the season which have creat-
four-year Stanford career. ed a great foundation for the future of
Read and MPSF Player of the Year our program.”
Lauren Schmidt also contributed to
what could be the biggest win of their Contact Sarah Ohr at sohr@stanford.edu.
Stanford.Schmidt capped off an impres-
sive season by scoring three goals and
adding one assist, while Read made
eleven saves.
With the season now complete, the
returning players intend to take the mo-
mentum from the big win along with
their NCAA vendetta into next season.
The Cardinal returns the majority of its
starting line-up next year, and Bokker
will no longer be new to the Farm.
“Though we are disappointed with
the decision of the NCAA committee,
there are obviously a lot of things we can

dium.
The Bruins turned Sunday’s game
into a track meet, as they topped the
Cardinal, 8-0, completing a season
sweep of the Card.
The loss for Stanford matched its
second-largest margin of defeat this
season, and just the fourth time it has
been shutout all season.
Sophomores Ashley Chinn and
Donna Kerr faced off in the circle,and
it was Kerr who responded to a home
crowd. She allowed just two hits and
as many walks over six innings of
work in the run-rule shortened game.
learned a lot.”
A scoreless weekend marks the
first time Stanford has lost three
straight games this season.
Stanford begins regional action
against Portland State on Friday. Cov-
erage will stream live on
gostanford.com, and on KZSU-2.
Other teams in the Palo Alto regional
are Nevada and Cal Poly. The Mus-
tangs lost a 10-inning, 2-1 game at
Stanford on March 23.
Contact Chris Fitzgerald at chrishfitz@
gmail.com.
Vanderbilt’s proximity to East Coast
powerhouses,on the other hand,afford-
ed more opportunities for upsets, and
the Commodores capitalized on those
opportunities — Vanderbilt had four
“big”wins to Stanford’s one.
“It’s frustrating that we didn’t make
it — not just because we all really want-
ed to go,but because we really,really de-
served to go,” Foote said. “We’d just
upset the number three team in the
country, and our only four losses out of
19 games were to teams in the top eight.”
“We really thought we did what we
start and wanted to leave everything on
the field. We played our hardest for 60
minutes and never gave up.It was a great
team effort,”said sophomore goalkeep-
er Annie Read.
Individually, Stanford players were
also hugely successful.Senior midfielder
Jamie Nesbitt had four draw controls in
the victory over Penn, and helped hold
the Quakers to their lowest goal total of
the season. As a result of her outstand-
ing performances during the Cardinal’s
last two games against Penn and
Louisville, Nesbitt was named MPSF
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game open early on with a seven-run
second inning. After catcher Zach
Jones was retired, junior Adam Gay-
lord singled to start a streak of eight
Cardinal players reaching base.
Sophomore shortstop Jake Sch-
lander immediately doubled Gaylord
in, and the scoring parade was under-
way. Leadoff hitter Colin Walsh sin-
gled, putting two runners on base.
Then, senior centerfielder Joey Au-
gust scored Schlander with an RBI
single, making the score 4-1. After a
wild pitch, a walk drawn by leftfielder
Gerhart and a single by sophomore
Kellen Kiilsgard, Milleville came to
the plate with the bases loaded, and
his bat did the rest of the work.
Milleville’s slam made it 9-1, and
the Cardinal effectively cruised the
rest of the way behind the pitching of
senior right-hander Max Fearnow,
who went five and two thirds innings
to move his record to 4-3 on the year.
Fearnow entered the game when jun-
ior starter Jeffrey Inman was taken
out after facing just one batter — no
official explanation was given for
Inman’s short outing.
“Max did great, we have a lot of
guys that can throw,” Milleville said.
“It’s good to see him fill that role —
he was basically a starter today.”
Though Saturday and Sunday’s
games were an offensive awakening
of sorts for the Cardinal, the start to
the series on Friday had been just the
opposite. The Lobos shut Stanford
down after the first inning, not allow-
ing a run for the final eight innings in
a 7-1 victory.
Junior centerfielder Joey August
started things off strong for Stanford,
hitting a solo shot in the first inning to
give the team a 1-0 lead. It was all
New Mexico after that, though, as the
Lobos scored two runs in the second
inning and scattered five more
throughout the night. The pitching
duo of John Hesketh and Will Kerr
stifled Stanford — Hesketh went
four innings and only gave up a single
earned run, while Kerr closed the
door on the Cardinal with five score-
less innings. He only gave up three
hits in the process.
“Timely hitting — they had it, we
didn’t,”Marquess said.“We had bases
loaded twice and didn’t score; and
every time they had a runner in scor-
ing position, they got a hit.”
Overall, though, it was a positive
weekend for Stanford, as the team
may finally be hitting its stride down
the stretch. After starting off 4-10,
Stanford is 21-11 since March 25 and
a postseason run isn’t completely out
of the question. Crazier things have
happened,after all:one has to look no
further than the results of last season
when the team made its improbable
run to Omaha.
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